Hybrid/Remote Microservices Job Trends

Microservices
UK > Work from Home

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for remote or hybrid work requiring Microservices skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 23 September 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
23 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 71 50 67
Rank change year-on-year -21 +17 -18
Permanent jobs citing Microservices 864 921 856
As % of all permanent jobs with remote/hybrid work options 3.51% 5.70% 3.80%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 4.32% 6.11% 4.33%
Number of salaries quoted 617 407 540
10th Percentile £45,000 £47,500 £40,000
25th Percentile £50,000 £57,500 £48,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £68,368 £70,000 £61,206
Median % change year-on-year -2.33% +14.37% -18.39%
75th Percentile £90,000 £85,000 £82,500
90th Percentile £100,000 £101,000 £96,375
UK median annual salary £73,500 £72,500 £65,000
% change year-on-year +1.38% +11.54% -13.33%

All Process & Methodology Skills
Work from Home

Microservices falls under the Processes and Methodologies category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent job vacancies with remote or hybrid options requiring process or methodology skills.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 19,997 15,081 19,774
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 81.30% 93.33% 87.70%
Number of salaries quoted 14,323 8,517 12,096
10th Percentile £34,250 £30,000 £35,500
25th Percentile £44,972 £40,750 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £60,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year - - -4.00%
75th Percentile £80,000 £78,750 £80,000
90th Percentile £100,000 £100,000 £100,000
UK median annual salary £60,000 £55,000 £57,500
% change year-on-year +9.09% -4.35% -4.17%

Microservices
Job Vacancy Trend for Remote/Hybrid Jobs

Historical trend showing the proportion of permanent IT job postings citing Microservices and offering remote or hybrid work options relative to all permanent IT jobs advertised.

Microservices job vacancy trend for remote/hybrid jobs

Microservices
Salary Trend for Remote/Hybrid Jobs

Salary distribution trend for jobs with remote/hybrid work options citing Microservices.

Salary distribution trend for jobs with remote/hybrid work options citing Microservices

Microservices
Salary Histogram for Remote/Hybrid Jobs

Salary distribution for jobs with remote/hybrid work options citing Microservices over the 6 months to 23 September 2026.

Microservices salary histogram for jobs with remote/hybrid work options

Microservices
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Remote/Hybrid Jobs by Category

The following tables expand on the one above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. They cover the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each category:

Application Platforms
1 9 (1.04%) CMS
2 7 (0.81%) Oracle SOA Suite
3 6 (0.69%) nginx
4 5 (0.58%) Camunda
4 5 (0.58%) IIS
5 3 (0.35%) DNN
5 3 (0.35%) EPiServer
5 3 (0.35%) Immediacy CMS
5 3 (0.35%) Kentico
5 3 (0.35%) Sitecore CMS
5 3 (0.35%) Sitefinity
5 3 (0.35%) Umbraco
6 2 (0.23%) Apache Spark
6 2 (0.23%) Confluence
6 2 (0.23%) OpenStack
6 2 (0.23%) WordPress
7 1 (0.12%) Apache Airflow
7 1 (0.12%) Cloud Foundry
7 1 (0.12%) Headless CMS
7 1 (0.12%) Red Hat Fuse
Applications
1 7 (0.81%) Chatbot
Business Applications
1 7 (0.81%) Dynamics CRM
2 4 (0.46%) Oracle EBS
Cloud Services
1 483 (55.90%) AWS
2 398 (46.06%) Azure
3 156 (18.06%) SaaS
4 143 (16.55%) GCP
5 104 (12.04%) Serverless
6 97 (11.23%) GitHub
7 75 (8.68%) Amazon EKS
8 74 (8.56%) Azure DevOps
9 71 (8.22%) GitHub Copilot
10 70 (8.10%) AWS Lambda
11 54 (6.25%) Amazon S3
12 48 (5.56%) Azure Service Bus
13 43 (4.98%) Amazon ECS
13 43 (4.98%) Amazon SQS
14 32 (3.70%) Amazon EC2
14 32 (3.70%) Azure AKS
15 31 (3.59%) Azure Cosmos DB
16 27 (3.13%) Azure Monitor
16 27 (3.13%) PaaS
17 22 (2.55%) Azure Functions
Communications & Networking
1 24 (2.78%) Broadband
2 6 (0.69%) Hyperconnected
2 6 (0.69%) Internet
2 6 (0.69%) Network Security
3 5 (0.58%) HTTP
4 3 (0.35%) VPN
5 2 (0.23%) DNS
5 2 (0.23%) Firewall
5 2 (0.23%) TCP/IP
6 1 (0.12%) BGP
6 1 (0.12%) MQTT
6 1 (0.12%) OpenVPN
6 1 (0.12%) SSL
6 1 (0.12%) X.509
Database & Business Intelligence
1 220 (25.46%) MongoDB
2 148 (17.13%) Azure SQL Database
3 131 (15.16%) Elasticsearch
4 106 (12.27%) PostgreSQL
5 64 (7.41%) SQL Server
6 44 (5.09%) MySQL
7 36 (4.17%) NoSQL
7 36 (4.17%) Relational Database
8 30 (3.47%) Redis
9 20 (2.31%) Amazon RDS
10 15 (1.74%) DynamoDB
11 12 (1.39%) Data Lake
12 8 (0.93%) Amazon Redshift
12 8 (0.93%) Metadata
13 7 (0.81%) Amazon Athena
13 7 (0.81%) RDBMS
14 6 (0.69%) Parquet
15 4 (0.46%) Data Warehouse
15 4 (0.46%) Delta Lake
15 4 (0.46%) MariaDB
Development Applications
1 78 (9.03%) Git
2 62 (7.18%) TeamCity
3 30 (3.47%) GitLab
4 26 (3.01%) Cypress.io
5 20 (2.31%) JUnit
6 18 (2.08%) Maven
6 18 (2.08%) Mockito
7 17 (1.97%) Claude Code
8 15 (1.74%) Jenkins
9 9 (1.04%) JIRA
10 8 (0.93%) Selenium
11 5 (0.58%) Atlassian Bamboo
11 5 (0.58%) Octopus Deploy
12 4 (0.46%) Bitbucket
13 3 (0.35%) Visual Studio
14 2 (0.23%) Mocha
14 2 (0.23%) MSTest
14 2 (0.23%) NUnit
14 2 (0.23%) SonarQube
15 1 (0.12%) Visual Studio Code
General
1 203 (23.50%) Finance
2 159 (18.40%) Social Skills
3 111 (12.85%) Law
4 96 (11.11%) Retail
5 95 (11.00%) Public Sector
6 88 (10.19%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 81 (9.38%) Banking
8 70 (8.10%) Legal
9 62 (7.18%) Back Office
10 60 (6.94%) Financial Institution
11 40 (4.63%) Analytical Skills
12 28 (3.24%) Legal Technology
13 26 (3.01%) Games
14 18 (2.08%) Aerospace
15 14 (1.62%) Marketing
16 9 (1.04%) French Language
17 8 (0.93%) Influencing Skills
18 7 (0.81%) Advertising
18 7 (0.81%) Local Government
19 5 (0.58%) Front Office
Job Titles
1 397 (45.95%) Developer
2 185 (21.41%) Senior
3 181 (20.95%) .NET Developer
3 181 (20.95%) Lead
4 175 (20.25%) Software Engineer
5 111 (12.85%) Architect
6 100 (11.57%) Full-Stack Developer
7 91 (10.53%) Senior Developer
8 50 (5.79%) Lead Developer
9 45 (5.21%) Lead Software Engineer
10 42 (4.86%) Full-Stack Engineer
11 41 (4.75%) Senior Software Engineer
12 38 (4.40%) Technical Leader
13 32 (3.70%) Software Developer
13 32 (3.70%) Team Leader
14 31 (3.59%) Java Developer
14 31 (3.59%) Technical Architect
15 27 (3.13%) Lead Architect
16 26 (3.01%) Solutions Architect
17 24 (2.78%) C# Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 338 (39.12%) .NET
2 263 (30.44%) Node.js
3 242 (28.01%) React
4 180 (20.83%) .NET Core
5 172 (19.91%) ASP.NET
6 150 (17.36%) ASP.NET Core
7 148 (17.13%) Vue
8 142 (16.44%) Terraform
9 118 (13.66%) AngularJS
10 99 (11.46%) Blazor
11 92 (10.65%) ASP.NET Web API
12 85 (9.84%) REST
13 81 (9.38%) Spring
14 74 (8.56%) RESTful
15 63 (7.29%) .NET Framework
16 54 (6.25%) Spring Boot
17 47 (5.44%) Kafka
18 32 (3.70%) CSS
18 32 (3.70%) WPF
19 29 (3.36%) Jest
Miscellaneous
1 226 (26.16%) Cloud Native
2 116 (13.43%) Distributed Systems
3 82 (9.49%) Product Ownership
4 35 (4.05%) Legacy Systems
5 30 (3.47%) Greenfield Project
6 20 (2.31%) Enterprise Software
7 18 (2.08%) Self-Motivation
8 15 (1.74%) AI Agents
8 15 (1.74%) Virtual Team
9 14 (1.62%) Video\Live Streaming
10 11 (1.27%) Management Information System
11 10 (1.16%) Blog
11 10 (1.16%) Mobile App
12 9 (1.04%) Legacy Applications
12 9 (1.04%) Over-the-Top Content
13 8 (0.93%) Data Structures
14 7 (0.81%) Hybrid Cloud
14 7 (0.81%) IoT
15 6 (0.69%) Onboarding
16 5 (0.58%) Public Cloud
Operating Systems
1 46 (5.32%) Linux
2 26 (3.01%) Windows
3 14 (1.62%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 476 (55.09%) Agile
2 447 (51.74%) CI/CD
3 334 (38.66%) Full-Stack Development
4 318 (36.81%) Software Engineering
5 275 (31.83%) Mentoring
6 258 (29.86%) DevOps
7 203 (23.50%) Continuous Improvement
8 185 (21.41%) Problem-Solving
9 172 (19.91%) Event-Driven
10 161 (18.63%) AI
11 160 (18.52%) Scrum
12 150 (17.36%) Coaching
13 146 (16.90%) Test Automation
14 145 (16.78%) Technical Leadership
15 137 (15.86%) TDD
16 123 (14.24%) Clean Code
17 115 (13.31%) Event-Driven Architecture
17 115 (13.31%) Infrastructure as Code
18 114 (13.19%) Architectural Patterns
19 109 (12.62%) Enterprise Architecture
Programming Languages
1 359 (41.55%) C#
2 261 (30.21%) SQL
3 251 (29.05%) JavaScript
4 231 (26.74%) Java
5 208 (24.07%) TypeScript
6 118 (13.66%) Python
7 33 (3.82%) Ruby
8 21 (2.43%) Go
9 19 (2.20%) Bash
10 15 (1.74%) PL/SQL
10 15 (1.74%) PowerShell
11 14 (1.62%) Bicep
11 14 (1.62%) Scala
12 8 (0.93%) Kotlin
12 8 (0.93%) PHP
13 6 (0.69%) C++
14 3 (0.35%) VB.NET
15 2 (0.23%) Groovy
15 2 (0.23%) T-SQL
16 1 (0.12%) C
Qualifications
1 97 (11.23%) Security Cleared
2 78 (9.03%) SC Cleared
3 67 (7.75%) Degree
4 31 (3.59%) Computer Science Degree
5 14 (1.62%) Azure Certification
6 12 (1.39%) AWS Certification
7 10 (1.16%) DV Cleared
8 8 (0.93%) CISM
8 8 (0.93%) CISSP
8 8 (0.93%) DBS Check
9 5 (0.58%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
9 5 (0.58%) Cisco Certification
9 5 (0.58%) Microsoft Certification
9 5 (0.58%) TOGAF Certification
10 4 (0.46%) (ISC)2 CCSP
10 4 (0.46%) BPSS Clearance
10 4 (0.46%) CCSP
11 2 (0.23%) AWS Certified Developer
11 2 (0.23%) ITIL Certification
11 2 (0.23%) PhD
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 105 (12.15%) QA
2 23 (2.66%) Accessibility
3 22 (2.55%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 18 (2.08%) GDPR
5 9 (1.04%) Actionable Recommendations
5 9 (1.04%) Data Quality
5 9 (1.04%) HMG Security Policy Framework
5 9 (1.04%) NIST
6 5 (0.58%) PCI DSS
7 4 (0.46%) California Consumer Privacy Act
7 4 (0.46%) NCSC
7 4 (0.46%) WCAG
8 3 (0.35%) IFRS
8 3 (0.35%) Sarbanes-Oxley
8 3 (0.35%) SLA
9 1 (0.12%) PSD2
9 1 (0.12%) SEPA
9 1 (0.12%) SOC 2
System Software
1 228 (26.39%) Docker
2 9 (1.04%) Active Directory
3 6 (0.69%) Virtual Machines
4 1 (0.12%) HDFS
4 1 (0.12%) Virtual Desktop
Systems Management
1 261 (30.21%) Kubernetes
2 75 (8.68%) Grafana
3 17 (1.97%) Argo
4 15 (1.74%) Ansible
5 13 (1.50%) Prometheus
6 2 (0.23%) Kibana
6 2 (0.23%) Single Sign-On
7 1 (0.12%) Cilium
7 1 (0.12%) Consul
7 1 (0.12%) Control-M
Vendors
1 227 (26.27%) Microsoft
2 31 (3.59%) Google
3 27 (3.13%) Oracle
4 15 (1.74%) OpenAI
5 13 (1.50%) SAP
6 9 (1.04%) Databricks
6 9 (1.04%) Typelevel
7 7 (0.81%) Dynatrace
8 5 (0.58%) HubSpot
8 5 (0.58%) Splunk
9 4 (0.46%) Epicor
9 4 (0.46%) Facebook
9 4 (0.46%) ForgeRock
9 4 (0.46%) IFS
9 4 (0.46%) Infor
9 4 (0.46%) Instagram
9 4 (0.46%) ServiceNow
9 4 (0.46%) TikTok
10 3 (0.35%) Optimizely
10 3 (0.35%) Solace