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 9 March 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
9 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 75 45 32
Rank change year-on-year -30 -13 +4
Permanent jobs citing Microservices 557 839 1,955
As % of all permanent jobs with remote/hybrid work options 3.36% 5.97% 6.54%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 3.95% 6.26% 7.09%
Number of salaries quoted 400 614 1,730
10th Percentile £50,468 £47,500 £42,500
25th Percentile £56,631 £56,250 £50,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £73,750 £71,991 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year +2.44% +10.76% -13.33%
75th Percentile £95,000 £93,778 £83,750
90th Percentile £113,750 £114,775 £97,500
UK median annual salary £77,500 £74,870 £67,500
% change year-on-year +3.51% +10.92% -13.62%

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 14,111 13,408 27,557
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 85.24% 95.41% 92.21%
Number of salaries quoted 9,199 8,890 22,844
10th Percentile £31,250 £34,750 £34,000
25th Percentile £42,500 £46,250 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £62,500 £57,500
Median % change year-on-year -4.00% +8.70% -8.00%
75th Percentile £80,000 £81,250 £75,772
90th Percentile £100,000 £102,500 £95,000
UK median annual salary £55,000 £60,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year -8.33% +9.09% -11.78%

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 9 March 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 13 (2.33%) JBoss
1 13 (2.33%) Oracle SOA Suite
2 11 (1.97%) WebSphere
3 5 (0.90%) Apache Pulsar
4 4 (0.72%) CMS
5 3 (0.54%) Apache Airflow
5 3 (0.54%) Confluence
5 3 (0.54%) nginx
5 3 (0.54%) NServiceBus
5 3 (0.54%) OpenStack
5 3 (0.54%) Oracle Workflow
6 1 (0.18%) Apache
6 1 (0.18%) Apache Spark
6 1 (0.18%) Camunda
6 1 (0.18%) Ethereum
6 1 (0.18%) Hyperledger
6 1 (0.18%) SharePoint
6 1 (0.18%) WordPress
Applications
1 3 (0.54%) Microsoft Excel
1 3 (0.54%) Microsoft Office
1 3 (0.54%) Microsoft PowerPoint
1 3 (0.54%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 13 (2.33%) Oracle ERP
2 4 (0.72%) Dynamics AX
3 2 (0.36%) Dynamics CRM
4 1 (0.18%) Actimize
4 1 (0.18%) Distributed Ledger
4 1 (0.18%) Payment Gateway
4 1 (0.18%) Quorum
4 1 (0.18%) R3 Corda
4 1 (0.18%) Shopify
Cloud Services
1 342 (61.40%) AWS
2 285 (51.17%) Azure
3 159 (28.55%) GCP
4 132 (23.70%) SaaS
5 109 (19.57%) Serverless
6 70 (12.57%) GitHub
7 58 (10.41%) Azure DevOps
8 44 (7.90%) Amazon EKS
9 43 (7.72%) AWS Lambda
10 36 (6.46%) Amazon S3
11 34 (6.10%) Amazon SQS
12 31 (5.57%) Azure Service Bus
13 27 (4.85%) Power Platform
14 26 (4.67%) Amazon ECS
15 25 (4.49%) GitHub Actions
16 22 (3.95%) PaaS
17 21 (3.77%) Amazon EC2
18 20 (3.59%) Azure Event Grid
19 17 (3.05%) Azure Cosmos DB
20 16 (2.87%) Azure App Service
Communications & Networking
1 30 (5.39%) Broadband
2 4 (0.72%) Cisco ASA
2 4 (0.72%) DHCP
2 4 (0.72%) DNS
2 4 (0.72%) Firewall
2 4 (0.72%) MQTT
3 2 (0.36%) AMQP
3 2 (0.36%) Modbus
3 2 (0.36%) TCP/IP
4 1 (0.18%) Hyperconnected
4 1 (0.18%) Internet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 87 (15.62%) PostgreSQL
2 79 (14.18%) NoSQL
3 74 (13.29%) MongoDB
4 61 (10.95%) SQL Server
5 31 (5.57%) MySQL
6 17 (3.05%) Power BI
6 17 (3.05%) Redis
7 16 (2.87%) Elasticsearch
8 15 (2.69%) Azure SQL Database
9 13 (2.33%) Tableau
10 12 (2.15%) BigQuery
10 12 (2.15%) DynamoDB
11 11 (1.97%) Relational Database
12 9 (1.62%) Amazon RDS
13 6 (1.08%) Data Lake
14 5 (0.90%) Data Warehouse
15 2 (0.36%) Electronic Patient Records
15 2 (0.36%) NonStop SQL
15 2 (0.36%) Oracle Database
15 2 (0.36%) PostHog
Development Applications
1 78 (14.00%) Git
2 44 (7.90%) Jenkins
3 34 (6.10%) TeamCity
4 27 (4.85%) GitLab
5 22 (3.95%) Cypress.io
6 21 (3.77%) JIRA
7 13 (2.33%) Oracle Forms
8 10 (1.80%) Cucumber
9 9 (1.62%) Selenium
10 8 (1.44%) CircleCI
10 8 (1.44%) git-flow
11 7 (1.26%) JUnit
12 6 (1.08%) Visual Studio
13 4 (0.72%) Claude Code
13 4 (0.72%) REST Assured
14 3 (0.54%) JMeter
14 3 (0.54%) SpecFlow
15 2 (0.36%) Maven
15 2 (0.36%) NUnit
15 2 (0.36%) WebDriver
General
1 164 (29.44%) Social Skills
2 150 (26.93%) Finance
3 66 (11.85%) Law
4 62 (11.13%) Banking
5 49 (8.80%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 47 (8.44%) Retail
7 43 (7.72%) Financial Institution
8 41 (7.36%) Public Sector
9 39 (7.00%) Back Office
10 25 (4.49%) Analytical Skills
11 24 (4.31%) Telecoms
12 12 (2.15%) Legal
12 12 (2.15%) Marketing
13 10 (1.80%) Influencing Skills
13 10 (1.80%) Manufacturing
14 7 (1.26%) Health Technology
15 6 (1.08%) Advertising
15 6 (1.08%) Billing
15 6 (1.08%) Presentation Skills
16 5 (0.90%) Publishing
Job Titles
1 186 (33.39%) Developer
2 164 (29.44%) Senior
3 153 (27.47%) Software Engineer
4 85 (15.26%) Architect
5 80 (14.36%) Lead
6 61 (10.95%) Senior Software Engineer
7 50 (8.98%) Java Engineer
8 49 (8.80%) Full-Stack Developer
9 48 (8.62%) .NET Developer
9 48 (8.62%) Senior Developer
10 35 (6.28%) Java Software Engineer
10 35 (6.28%) Lead Developer
11 27 (4.85%) Full-Stack Engineer
12 25 (4.49%) C# Developer
13 24 (4.31%) Java Developer
13 24 (4.31%) Software Developer
14 22 (3.95%) Senior Java Engineer
14 22 (3.95%) Solutions Architect
15 20 (3.59%) Principal Engineer
16 18 (3.23%) Applications Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 176 (31.60%) .NET
2 143 (25.67%) React
3 122 (21.90%) RESTful
4 80 (14.36%) Spring
5 79 (14.18%) Node.js
6 72 (12.93%) Kafka
7 62 (11.13%) Spring Boot
8 60 (10.77%) REST
9 57 (10.23%) .NET Core
10 51 (9.16%) gRPC
11 46 (8.26%) AngularJS
12 42 (7.54%) .NET Framework
13 37 (6.64%) ASP.NET Web API
14 36 (6.46%) ASP.NET
15 32 (5.75%) HTML
16 29 (5.21%) CSS
16 29 (5.21%) RabbitMQ
17 28 (5.03%) Entity Framework
17 28 (5.03%) OAuth
18 24 (4.31%) Jest
Miscellaneous
1 183 (32.85%) Cloud Native
2 98 (17.59%) Distributed Systems
3 67 (12.03%) Product Ownership
4 57 (10.23%) Enterprise Software
5 27 (4.85%) Over-the-Top Content
5 27 (4.85%) Video\Live Streaming
6 16 (2.87%) Virtual Team
7 15 (2.69%) Greenfield Project
8 13 (2.33%) Legacy Systems
9 11 (1.97%) Algorithms
9 11 (1.97%) DataPower
9 11 (1.97%) Self-Motivation
10 10 (1.80%) AI Agents
10 10 (1.80%) Data Structures
11 9 (1.62%) Distributed Architecture
12 8 (1.44%) Legacy Applications
13 7 (1.26%) IoT
13 7 (1.26%) PKI
14 6 (1.08%) Onboarding
15 5 (0.90%) Mobile App
Operating Systems
1 16 (2.87%) Android
1 16 (2.87%) Linux
2 7 (1.26%) Apple iOS
3 4 (0.72%) Unix
3 4 (0.72%) Windows
4 2 (0.36%) VMS
5 1 (0.18%) CentOS
5 1 (0.18%) Debian
5 1 (0.18%) Fedora
5 1 (0.18%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 1 (0.18%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 287 (51.53%) CI/CD
2 250 (44.88%) Software Engineering
3 229 (41.11%) Agile
4 220 (39.50%) DevOps
5 158 (28.37%) Full-Stack Development
6 150 (26.93%) Mentoring
7 145 (26.03%) Containerisation
8 137 (24.60%) Test Automation
9 125 (22.44%) Problem-Solving
10 124 (22.26%) Event-Driven
11 112 (20.11%) Continuous Improvement
12 109 (19.57%) Coaching
13 102 (18.31%) Clean Code
14 100 (17.95%) AI
15 83 (14.90%) Computer Science
16 81 (14.54%) Event-Driven Architecture
17 78 (14.00%) Architectural Patterns
18 71 (12.75%) TDD
19 68 (12.21%) Technical Leadership
20 63 (11.31%) Scrum
Programming Languages
1 203 (36.45%) Java
2 165 (29.62%) C#
3 135 (24.24%) Python
4 125 (22.44%) SQL
5 119 (21.36%) JavaScript
6 104 (18.67%) TypeScript
7 61 (10.95%) Go
8 27 (4.85%) Scala
9 17 (3.05%) Ruby
10 15 (2.69%) Shell Script
11 13 (2.33%) PL/SQL
12 11 (1.97%) PHP
13 8 (1.44%) Kotlin
14 7 (1.26%) C++
15 6 (1.08%) Delphi
15 6 (1.08%) Rust
16 4 (0.72%) Bicep
16 4 (0.72%) PowerShell
17 3 (0.54%) Erlang
18 2 (0.36%) Bash
Qualifications
1 98 (17.59%) Degree
2 66 (11.85%) Computer Science Degree
3 51 (9.16%) Security Cleared
4 45 (8.08%) SC Cleared
5 37 (6.64%) AWS Certification
5 37 (6.64%) Azure Certification
6 32 (5.75%) TOGAF Certification
7 29 (5.21%) Microsoft Certification
8 24 (4.31%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
9 12 (2.15%) CISSP
10 11 (1.97%) Master's Degree
11 8 (1.44%) CISM
11 8 (1.44%) DBS Check
12 5 (0.90%) ISTQB
12 5 (0.90%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
13 4 (0.72%) GIAC
13 4 (0.72%) ISACA
13 4 (0.72%) SANS
14 2 (0.36%) DV Cleared
14 2 (0.36%) ISTQB Advanced Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 49 (8.80%) QA
2 15 (2.69%) Accessibility
3 13 (2.33%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 12 (2.15%) NIST
5 11 (1.97%) GDPR
6 8 (1.44%) NCSC
7 7 (1.26%) PCI DSS
8 2 (0.36%) Data Quality
8 2 (0.36%) GRC
8 2 (0.36%) HMG Security Policy Framework
8 2 (0.36%) ISO 9001
8 2 (0.36%) SEPA
8 2 (0.36%) WCAG
9 1 (0.18%) ISO/IEC 42001
9 1 (0.18%) JSP 440
System Software
1 153 (27.47%) Docker
2 14 (2.51%) Active Directory
3 3 (0.54%) Firmware
4 2 (0.36%) VMware NSX
4 2 (0.36%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 166 (29.80%) Kubernetes
2 93 (16.70%) Terraform
3 56 (10.05%) Grafana
4 24 (4.31%) Ansible
5 13 (2.33%) Single Sign-On
6 10 (1.80%) Prometheus
7 9 (1.62%) Argo
8 8 (1.44%) Kibana
9 2 (0.36%) Opsgenie
9 2 (0.36%) Puppet
10 1 (0.18%) Istio
Vendors
1 91 (16.34%) Microsoft
2 28 (5.03%) Oracle
3 27 (4.85%) Typelevel
4 20 (3.59%) Google
5 8 (1.44%) Red Hat
6 6 (1.08%) Databricks
7 5 (0.90%) Ericsson
7 5 (0.90%) Guidewire
7 5 (0.90%) Mavenir
7 5 (0.90%) Nokia
8 4 (0.72%) BiZZdesign
8 4 (0.72%) Cisco
8 4 (0.72%) F5
8 4 (0.72%) ForgeRock
8 4 (0.72%) Juniper
8 4 (0.72%) Okta
8 4 (0.72%) Palo Alto
8 4 (0.72%) Revolut
9 3 (0.54%) OpenAI
9 3 (0.54%) SAP