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 18 June 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
18 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 66 37 46
Rank change year-on-year -29 +9 -9
Permanent jobs citing Microservices 719 1,112 1,792
As % of all permanent jobs with remote/hybrid work options 3.59% 7.22% 5.17%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 4.39% 7.63% 5.81%
Number of salaries quoted 529 553 1,598
10th Percentile £45,000 £48,165 £42,500
25th Percentile £50,000 £57,500 £48,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £67,500 £71,991 £61,206
Median % change year-on-year -6.24% +17.62% -18.39%
75th Percentile £88,148 £93,778 £82,188
90th Percentile £100,000 £115,000 £97,500
UK median annual salary £75,000 £74,870 £65,000
% change year-on-year +0.17% +15.18% -13.97%

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 16,378 14,566 30,818
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 81.83% 94.52% 88.95%
Number of salaries quoted 11,822 8,457 23,835
10th Percentile £35,000 £29,750 £33,750
25th Percentile £45,000 £42,500 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £60,000 £57,500
Median % change year-on-year - +4.35% -8.00%
75th Percentile £80,000 £80,000 £75,000
90th Percentile £100,000 £105,000 £95,000
UK median annual salary £60,000 £57,500 £55,000
% change year-on-year +4.35% +4.55% -9.54%

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 18 June 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 7 (0.97%) JBoss
2 5 (0.70%) CMS
3 4 (0.56%) WebSphere
4 3 (0.42%) Apache Airflow
4 3 (0.42%) Oracle SOA Suite
5 2 (0.28%) Apache
5 2 (0.28%) Camunda
5 2 (0.28%) Confluence
5 2 (0.28%) NServiceBus
5 2 (0.28%) SharePoint
6 1 (0.14%) DNN
6 1 (0.14%) EPiServer
6 1 (0.14%) IIS
6 1 (0.14%) Immediacy CMS
6 1 (0.14%) nginx
6 1 (0.14%) OpenStack
6 1 (0.14%) Oracle Coherence
6 1 (0.14%) Sitecore CMS
6 1 (0.14%) Umbraco
6 1 (0.14%) WordPress
Applications
1 2 (0.28%) Chatbot
Business Applications
1 5 (0.70%) Dynamics CRM
2 4 (0.56%) Dynamics AX
3 2 (0.28%) Shopify
4 1 (0.14%) Oracle EBS
4 1 (0.14%) Oracle ERP
4 1 (0.14%) Payment Gateway
Cloud Services
1 446 (62.03%) AWS
2 338 (47.01%) Azure
3 154 (21.42%) GCP
4 130 (18.08%) SaaS
5 105 (14.60%) Serverless
6 67 (9.32%) Azure DevOps
7 63 (8.76%) GitHub
8 56 (7.79%) AWS Lambda
9 50 (6.95%) Amazon EKS
10 44 (6.12%) Amazon SQS
11 42 (5.84%) Amazon S3
12 41 (5.70%) GitHub Copilot
13 37 (5.15%) Amazon ECS
14 36 (5.01%) Azure AKS
15 35 (4.87%) Azure Service Bus
16 33 (4.59%) Amazon EC2
17 26 (3.62%) PaaS
18 22 (3.06%) Azure Cosmos DB
19 18 (2.50%) Azure Event Grid
20 17 (2.36%) Power Platform
Communications & Networking
1 63 (8.76%) Broadband
2 6 (0.83%) Cisco ASA
2 6 (0.83%) DNS
2 6 (0.83%) Firewall
2 6 (0.83%) Hyperconnected
2 6 (0.83%) Internet
3 5 (0.70%) DHCP
3 5 (0.70%) MQTT
4 4 (0.56%) TCP/IP
5 3 (0.42%) Modbus
5 3 (0.42%) Network Security
6 2 (0.28%) AMQP
7 1 (0.14%) HTTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 162 (22.53%) MongoDB
2 105 (14.60%) PostgreSQL
3 82 (11.40%) Azure SQL Database
4 72 (10.01%) Elasticsearch
4 72 (10.01%) NoSQL
5 45 (6.26%) SQL Server
6 43 (5.98%) MySQL
7 26 (3.62%) Relational Database
8 21 (2.92%) Redis
9 19 (2.64%) Amazon RDS
10 7 (0.97%) RDBMS
11 6 (0.83%) BigQuery
11 6 (0.83%) DynamoDB
11 6 (0.83%) Metadata
12 4 (0.56%) Data Lake
12 4 (0.56%) MariaDB
13 3 (0.42%) Data Warehouse
13 3 (0.42%) Delta Lake
13 3 (0.42%) Oracle Database
13 3 (0.42%) SQL Server Integration Services
Development Applications
1 58 (8.07%) Git
2 43 (5.98%) GitLab
3 40 (5.56%) TeamCity
4 25 (3.48%) Cypress.io
5 20 (2.78%) Jenkins
6 15 (2.09%) Claude Code
7 11 (1.53%) JUnit
7 11 (1.53%) Maven
8 10 (1.39%) JIRA
9 9 (1.25%) Mockito
10 8 (1.11%) Visual Studio
11 7 (0.97%) Selenium
12 6 (0.83%) NUnit
13 5 (0.70%) REST Assured
14 4 (0.56%) Atlassian Bamboo
14 4 (0.56%) Bitbucket
14 4 (0.56%) Cucumber
15 3 (0.42%) Jasmine
15 3 (0.42%) JMeter
15 3 (0.42%) SpecFlow
General
1 180 (25.03%) Finance
2 122 (16.97%) Social Skills
3 82 (11.40%) Public Sector
4 72 (10.01%) Banking
5 66 (9.18%) Law
6 63 (8.76%) Retail
7 50 (6.95%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 41 (5.70%) Financial Institution
9 39 (5.42%) Back Office
10 36 (5.01%) Analytical Skills
11 14 (1.95%) Marketing
12 10 (1.39%) Aerospace
12 10 (1.39%) Legal
13 9 (1.25%) Games
13 9 (1.25%) Influencing Skills
13 9 (1.25%) Manufacturing
13 9 (1.25%) Telecoms
14 5 (0.70%) Aviation
14 5 (0.70%) Publishing
15 4 (0.56%) Local Government
Job Titles
1 283 (39.36%) Developer
2 192 (26.70%) Software Engineer
3 143 (19.89%) Senior
4 142 (19.75%) Lead
5 119 (16.55%) .NET Developer
6 95 (13.21%) Architect
7 87 (12.10%) Full-Stack Developer
8 63 (8.76%) Senior Software Engineer
9 46 (6.40%) Java Engineer
10 43 (5.98%) Lead Developer
11 35 (4.87%) .NET Software Engineer
12 34 (4.73%) C# Developer
12 34 (4.73%) Senior Developer
13 32 (4.45%) Java Software Engineer
14 31 (4.31%) C# Software Engineer
14 31 (4.31%) Lead Software Engineer
15 30 (4.17%) Full-Stack Engineer
15 30 (4.17%) Scala Engineer
16 28 (3.89%) C# .NET Developer
17 27 (3.76%) Java Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 229 (31.85%) .NET
2 188 (26.15%) React
3 183 (25.45%) Node.js
4 115 (15.99%) .NET Core
5 101 (14.05%) ASP.NET
6 100 (13.91%) Vue
7 90 (12.52%) RESTful
8 86 (11.96%) ASP.NET Core
9 77 (10.71%) AngularJS
10 70 (9.74%) REST
11 69 (9.60%) Spring
12 61 (8.48%) ASP.NET Web API
13 51 (7.09%) gRPC
14 49 (6.82%) .NET Framework
14 49 (6.82%) Blazor
15 48 (6.68%) Spring Boot
16 40 (5.56%) Kafka
17 38 (5.29%) CSS
17 38 (5.29%) HTML
18 27 (3.76%) Jest
Miscellaneous
1 216 (30.04%) Cloud Native
2 120 (16.69%) Distributed Systems
3 67 (9.32%) Product Ownership
4 46 (6.40%) Video\Live Streaming
5 45 (6.26%) Over-the-Top Content
6 25 (3.48%) Legacy Systems
7 24 (3.34%) Enterprise Software
8 19 (2.64%) Greenfield Project
9 13 (1.81%) Legacy Applications
9 13 (1.81%) Virtual Team
10 12 (1.67%) Self-Motivation
11 9 (1.25%) Mobile App
12 8 (1.11%) AI Agents
13 7 (0.97%) Data Structures
13 7 (0.97%) Onboarding
13 7 (0.97%) PKI
14 6 (0.83%) Algorithms
14 6 (0.83%) Hybrid Cloud
15 5 (0.70%) Cyberattack
15 5 (0.70%) Distributed Architecture
Operating Systems
1 44 (6.12%) Linux
2 20 (2.78%) Unix
3 15 (2.09%) Windows
4 3 (0.42%) Android
4 3 (0.42%) Apple iOS
5 1 (0.14%) CentOS
5 1 (0.14%) Debian
5 1 (0.14%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 1 (0.14%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 364 (50.63%) CI/CD
2 336 (46.73%) Agile
3 306 (42.56%) Software Engineering
4 262 (36.44%) Full-Stack Development
5 242 (33.66%) DevOps
6 203 (28.23%) Mentoring
7 160 (22.25%) Containerisation
8 156 (21.70%) Coaching
9 150 (20.86%) Test Automation
10 146 (20.31%) Problem-Solving
11 145 (20.17%) Continuous Improvement
12 141 (19.61%) Event-Driven
13 131 (18.22%) Clean Code
14 124 (17.25%) AI
15 123 (17.11%) Scrum
16 112 (15.58%) Infrastructure as Code
17 108 (15.02%) Technical Leadership
18 106 (14.74%) TDD
19 101 (14.05%) Event-Driven Architecture
20 82 (11.40%) Roadmaps
Programming Languages
1 224 (31.15%) C#
2 205 (28.51%) SQL
3 201 (27.96%) JavaScript
4 200 (27.82%) Java
5 155 (21.56%) TypeScript
6 150 (20.86%) Python
7 52 (7.23%) Go
8 47 (6.54%) Scala
9 26 (3.62%) Ruby
10 14 (1.95%) Bash
10 14 (1.95%) PHP
11 13 (1.81%) Bicep
12 11 (1.53%) PL/SQL
12 11 (1.53%) PowerShell
13 8 (1.11%) Rust
14 7 (0.97%) Kotlin
15 3 (0.42%) C++
15 3 (0.42%) Shell Script
16 2 (0.28%) T-SQL
17 1 (0.14%) Perl
Qualifications
1 68 (9.46%) Security Cleared
2 66 (9.18%) Degree
3 49 (6.82%) SC Cleared
4 28 (3.89%) Computer Science Degree
5 20 (2.78%) Azure Certification
6 16 (2.23%) AWS Certification
7 15 (2.09%) CISSP
8 14 (1.95%) DBS Check
9 12 (1.67%) TOGAF Certification
10 10 (1.39%) CISM
10 10 (1.39%) Microsoft Certification
11 6 (0.83%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
12 5 (0.70%) GIAC
12 5 (0.70%) ISACA
12 5 (0.70%) SANS
13 4 (0.56%) AWS Certified Developer
13 4 (0.56%) ISTQB
13 4 (0.56%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
14 3 (0.42%) (ISC)2 CCSP
14 3 (0.42%) Master's Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 45 (6.26%) QA
2 20 (2.78%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 18 (2.50%) GDPR
4 17 (2.36%) Accessibility
5 15 (2.09%) NIST
6 10 (1.39%) Actionable Recommendations
7 7 (0.97%) NCSC
7 7 (0.97%) PCI DSS
8 3 (0.42%) HMG Security Policy Framework
8 3 (0.42%) IFRS
8 3 (0.42%) ISO 9001
8 3 (0.42%) Sarbanes-Oxley
8 3 (0.42%) WCAG
9 2 (0.28%) GRC
9 2 (0.28%) SEPA
10 1 (0.14%) California Consumer Privacy Act
System Software
1 212 (29.49%) Docker
2 12 (1.67%) Active Directory
3 3 (0.42%) Firmware
4 1 (0.14%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 202 (28.09%) Kubernetes
2 113 (15.72%) Terraform
3 51 (7.09%) Grafana
4 27 (3.76%) Ansible
5 16 (2.23%) Argo
6 11 (1.53%) Prometheus
7 3 (0.42%) Kibana
8 2 (0.28%) MIIS
8 2 (0.28%) Opsgenie
8 2 (0.28%) Puppet
8 2 (0.28%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 148 (20.58%) Microsoft
2 45 (6.26%) Typelevel
3 26 (3.62%) Google
4 19 (2.64%) Oracle
5 12 (1.67%) OpenAI
6 7 (0.97%) Databricks
6 7 (0.97%) Red Hat
7 6 (0.83%) Cisco
7 6 (0.83%) F5
7 6 (0.83%) Juniper
7 6 (0.83%) Palo Alto
8 5 (0.70%) ForgeRock
8 5 (0.70%) HubSpot
8 5 (0.70%) Okta
9 4 (0.56%) Salesforce
9 4 (0.56%) Splunk
10 3 (0.42%) Dynatrace
10 3 (0.42%) Foundry
10 3 (0.42%) SAP
10 3 (0.42%) ServiceNow