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 6 July 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
6 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 61 38 50
Rank change year-on-year -23 +12 -10
Permanent jobs citing Microservices 824 1,105 1,522
As % of all permanent jobs with remote/hybrid work options 3.92% 6.81% 4.62%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 4.76% 7.28% 5.19%
Number of salaries quoted 622 546 1,343
10th Percentile £45,000 £47,500 £42,500
25th Percentile £50,000 £57,500 £48,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £70,000 £62,500
Median % change year-on-year -7.14% +12.00% -16.67%
75th Percentile £88,148 £93,778 £83,750
90th Percentile £100,000 £115,000 £97,500
UK median annual salary £72,500 £72,500 £65,000
% change year-on-year - +11.54% -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 17,307 15,183 29,306
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 82.42% 93.63% 88.89%
Number of salaries quoted 12,659 8,999 22,465
10th Percentile £35,000 £29,913 £33,750
25th Percentile £45,000 £41,250 £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 £78,750 £75,772
90th Percentile £100,000 £102,500 £95,000
UK median annual salary £60,000 £57,500 £55,000
% change year-on-year +4.35% +4.55% -8.71%

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 6 July 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 (0.85%) CMS
2 6 (0.73%) JBoss
3 4 (0.49%) IIS
3 4 (0.49%) nginx
4 3 (0.36%) Apache Airflow
4 3 (0.36%) Camunda
4 3 (0.36%) Confluence
4 3 (0.36%) DNN
4 3 (0.36%) EPiServer
4 3 (0.36%) Immediacy CMS
4 3 (0.36%) Kentico
4 3 (0.36%) Sitecore CMS
4 3 (0.36%) Sitefinity
4 3 (0.36%) Umbraco
4 3 (0.36%) WebSphere
5 2 (0.24%) Apache
5 2 (0.24%) NServiceBus
5 2 (0.24%) OpenStack
5 2 (0.24%) Oracle SOA Suite
5 2 (0.24%) SharePoint
Applications
1 4 (0.49%) Chatbot
Business Applications
1 8 (0.97%) Dynamics CRM
2 4 (0.49%) Dynamics AX
2 4 (0.49%) Oracle EBS
3 2 (0.24%) Shopify
4 1 (0.12%) Payment Gateway
Cloud Services
1 496 (60.19%) AWS
2 412 (50.00%) Azure
3 162 (19.66%) GCP
4 142 (17.23%) SaaS
5 105 (12.74%) Serverless
6 88 (10.68%) GitHub
7 76 (9.22%) Azure DevOps
8 65 (7.89%) GitHub Copilot
9 57 (6.92%) Amazon EKS
10 56 (6.80%) AWS Lambda
11 44 (5.34%) Azure Service Bus
12 43 (5.22%) Amazon S3
13 41 (4.98%) Amazon SQS
14 40 (4.85%) Azure AKS
15 36 (4.37%) Amazon ECS
16 32 (3.88%) Amazon EC2
17 31 (3.76%) Azure Cosmos DB
18 30 (3.64%) PaaS
19 19 (2.31%) Azure Functions
19 19 (2.31%) Power Platform
Communications & Networking
1 64 (7.77%) Broadband
2 8 (0.97%) Hyperconnected
2 8 (0.97%) Internet
3 6 (0.73%) Cisco ASA
3 6 (0.73%) DNS
3 6 (0.73%) Firewall
4 5 (0.61%) DHCP
4 5 (0.61%) MQTT
5 4 (0.49%) Network Security
5 4 (0.49%) TCP/IP
6 3 (0.36%) Modbus
7 2 (0.24%) AMQP
8 1 (0.12%) HTTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 220 (26.70%) MongoDB
2 144 (17.48%) Azure SQL Database
3 124 (15.05%) Elasticsearch
4 117 (14.20%) PostgreSQL
5 67 (8.13%) NoSQL
6 57 (6.92%) SQL Server
7 52 (6.31%) MySQL
8 30 (3.64%) Relational Database
9 25 (3.03%) Redis
10 20 (2.43%) Amazon RDS
11 8 (0.97%) Metadata
12 7 (0.85%) RDBMS
13 6 (0.73%) Data Lake
13 6 (0.73%) DynamoDB
14 5 (0.61%) MariaDB
15 4 (0.49%) BigQuery
15 4 (0.49%) Data Warehouse
15 4 (0.49%) Delta Lake
16 3 (0.36%) Oracle Database
16 3 (0.36%) SQL Server Integration Services
Development Applications
1 59 (7.16%) Git
2 45 (5.46%) TeamCity
3 41 (4.98%) GitLab
4 23 (2.79%) Cypress.io
5 19 (2.31%) Jenkins
6 18 (2.18%) Claude Code
7 11 (1.33%) JIRA
7 11 (1.33%) JUnit
7 11 (1.33%) Maven
8 9 (1.09%) Mockito
9 7 (0.85%) Selenium
9 7 (0.85%) Visual Studio
10 6 (0.73%) NUnit
11 5 (0.61%) Atlassian Bamboo
11 5 (0.61%) Bitbucket
12 4 (0.49%) Cucumber
12 4 (0.49%) Octopus Deploy
13 3 (0.36%) Jasmine
13 3 (0.36%) JMeter
13 3 (0.36%) SpecFlow
General
1 193 (23.42%) Finance
2 127 (15.41%) Social Skills
3 87 (10.56%) Public Sector
4 83 (10.07%) Law
5 81 (9.83%) Retail
6 72 (8.74%) Banking
7 60 (7.28%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 43 (5.22%) Back Office
8 43 (5.22%) Financial Institution
9 35 (4.25%) Analytical Skills
10 25 (3.03%) Legal
11 16 (1.94%) Aerospace
12 15 (1.82%) Games
13 13 (1.58%) Marketing
14 12 (1.46%) Legal Technology
15 10 (1.21%) Telecoms
16 9 (1.09%) Influencing Skills
16 9 (1.09%) Manufacturing
17 5 (0.61%) Aviation
18 4 (0.49%) Health Technology
Job Titles
1 360 (43.69%) Developer
2 202 (24.51%) Software Engineer
3 182 (22.09%) .NET Developer
4 157 (19.05%) Lead
5 155 (18.81%) Senior
6 99 (12.01%) Architect
7 91 (11.04%) Full-Stack Developer
8 60 (7.28%) Senior Software Engineer
9 49 (5.95%) Lead Developer
10 48 (5.83%) Senior Developer
11 46 (5.58%) Java Engineer
12 38 (4.61%) Lead Software Engineer
13 36 (4.37%) Full-Stack Engineer
14 35 (4.25%) C# Developer
15 34 (4.13%) .NET Software Engineer
16 33 (4.00%) Java Software Engineer
17 31 (3.76%) Software Developer
18 30 (3.64%) C# .NET Developer
18 30 (3.64%) C# Software Engineer
18 30 (3.64%) Scala Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 308 (37.38%) .NET
2 242 (29.37%) Node.js
3 230 (27.91%) React
4 173 (21.00%) .NET Core
5 165 (20.02%) ASP.NET
6 146 (17.72%) ASP.NET Core
7 141 (17.11%) Vue
8 114 (13.83%) AngularJS
9 96 (11.65%) ASP.NET Web API
10 88 (10.68%) RESTful
11 83 (10.07%) Blazor
12 75 (9.10%) REST
13 74 (8.98%) .NET Framework
14 68 (8.25%) Spring
15 54 (6.55%) gRPC
16 49 (5.95%) Spring Boot
17 41 (4.98%) CSS
18 40 (4.85%) Kafka
19 39 (4.73%) HTML
20 25 (3.03%) Jest
Miscellaneous
1 230 (27.91%) Cloud Native
2 132 (16.02%) Distributed Systems
3 71 (8.62%) Product Ownership
4 46 (5.58%) Video\Live Streaming
5 45 (5.46%) Over-the-Top Content
6 29 (3.52%) Greenfield Project
7 28 (3.40%) Legacy Systems
8 19 (2.31%) Enterprise Software
9 14 (1.70%) Virtual Team
10 12 (1.46%) AI Agents
10 12 (1.46%) Legacy Applications
10 12 (1.46%) Self-Motivation
11 9 (1.09%) Mobile App
12 7 (0.85%) Blog
12 7 (0.85%) Hybrid Cloud
12 7 (0.85%) Management Information System
12 7 (0.85%) Onboarding
13 6 (0.73%) Data Structures
13 6 (0.73%) Distributed Architecture
14 5 (0.61%) IoT
Operating Systems
1 48 (5.83%) Linux
2 21 (2.55%) Windows
3 20 (2.43%) Unix
4 3 (0.36%) Android
4 3 (0.36%) Apple iOS
5 1 (0.12%) CentOS
5 1 (0.12%) Debian
5 1 (0.12%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 1 (0.12%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 425 (51.58%) Agile
2 397 (48.18%) CI/CD
3 340 (41.26%) Software Engineering
4 331 (40.17%) Full-Stack Development
5 261 (31.67%) DevOps
6 223 (27.06%) Mentoring
7 166 (20.15%) Continuous Improvement
8 165 (20.02%) Coaching
8 165 (20.02%) Problem-Solving
9 164 (19.90%) Scrum
10 159 (19.30%) Containerisation
11 158 (19.17%) Test Automation
12 152 (18.45%) Event-Driven
13 144 (17.48%) Clean Code
14 142 (17.23%) AI
15 140 (16.99%) TDD
16 120 (14.56%) Technical Leadership
17 118 (14.32%) Infrastructure as Code
18 107 (12.99%) Event-Driven Architecture
19 87 (10.56%) Roadmaps
Programming Languages
1 305 (37.01%) C#
2 273 (33.13%) SQL
3 249 (30.22%) JavaScript
4 210 (25.49%) Java
5 198 (24.03%) TypeScript
6 156 (18.93%) Python
7 51 (6.19%) Go
8 47 (5.70%) Scala
9 27 (3.28%) Ruby
10 15 (1.82%) Bash
10 15 (1.82%) Bicep
10 15 (1.82%) PowerShell
11 14 (1.70%) PHP
12 10 (1.21%) PL/SQL
13 8 (0.97%) Rust
14 5 (0.61%) Kotlin
15 3 (0.36%) C++
16 2 (0.24%) T-SQL
17 1 (0.12%) Perl
17 1 (0.12%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 73 (8.86%) Security Cleared
2 68 (8.25%) Degree
3 53 (6.43%) SC Cleared
4 27 (3.28%) Computer Science Degree
5 14 (1.70%) Azure Certification
6 13 (1.58%) CISSP
6 13 (1.58%) DBS Check
7 12 (1.46%) AWS Certification
8 8 (0.97%) CISM
9 6 (0.73%) DV Cleared
9 6 (0.73%) Microsoft Certification
9 6 (0.73%) TOGAF Certification
10 5 (0.61%) GIAC
10 5 (0.61%) ISACA
10 5 (0.61%) SANS
11 4 (0.49%) AWS Certified Developer
11 4 (0.49%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
12 3 (0.36%) (ISC)2 CCSP
12 3 (0.36%) Cisco Certification
12 3 (0.36%) Master's Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 66 (8.01%) QA
2 22 (2.67%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 20 (2.43%) GDPR
4 14 (1.70%) Accessibility
5 13 (1.58%) NIST
6 10 (1.21%) Actionable Recommendations
7 6 (0.73%) HMG Security Policy Framework
8 5 (0.61%) NCSC
8 5 (0.61%) PCI DSS
9 3 (0.36%) California Consumer Privacy Act
9 3 (0.36%) IFRS
9 3 (0.36%) ISO 9001
9 3 (0.36%) Sarbanes-Oxley
9 3 (0.36%) WCAG
10 2 (0.24%) Data Quality
10 2 (0.24%) GRC
10 2 (0.24%) SEPA
System Software
1 243 (29.49%) Docker
2 13 (1.58%) Active Directory
3 4 (0.49%) Virtual Machines
4 3 (0.36%) Firmware
Systems Management
1 234 (28.40%) Kubernetes
2 114 (13.83%) Terraform
3 60 (7.28%) Grafana
4 28 (3.40%) Ansible
5 16 (1.94%) Argo
6 15 (1.82%) Prometheus
7 3 (0.36%) Kibana
8 2 (0.24%) MIIS
8 2 (0.24%) Opsgenie
8 2 (0.24%) Puppet
9 1 (0.12%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 215 (26.09%) Microsoft
2 45 (5.46%) Typelevel
3 30 (3.64%) Google
4 24 (2.91%) Oracle
5 15 (1.82%) OpenAI
6 9 (1.09%) Databricks
7 7 (0.85%) Red Hat
8 6 (0.73%) Cisco
8 6 (0.73%) F5
8 6 (0.73%) Juniper
8 6 (0.73%) Palo Alto
9 5 (0.61%) ForgeRock
9 5 (0.61%) HubSpot
9 5 (0.61%) Okta
9 5 (0.61%) SAP
9 5 (0.61%) Splunk
10 4 (0.49%) Salesforce
10 4 (0.49%) ServiceNow
11 3 (0.36%) Infor
11 3 (0.36%) Sitecore