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 13 February 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
13 Feb 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 73 52 32
Rank change year-on-year -21 -20 +5
Permanent jobs citing Microservices 556 888 1,849
As % of all permanent jobs with remote/hybrid work options 3.44% 5.66% 6.69%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 3.99% 5.97% 7.22%
Number of salaries quoted 415 594 1,624
10th Percentile £52,400 £47,500 £42,500
25th Percentile £57,625 £55,000 £50,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £75,000 £71,991 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year +4.18% +10.76% -13.33%
75th Percentile £95,000 £93,778 £83,750
90th Percentile £117,500 £113,200 £97,500
UK median annual salary £77,500 £72,500 £67,500
% change year-on-year +6.90% +7.41% -14.01%

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 13,929 14,866 25,619
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 86.27% 94.76% 92.68%
Number of salaries quoted 9,007 8,893 21,194
10th Percentile £30,500 £36,250 £34,760
25th Percentile £42,500 £47,500 £43,329
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £62,779 £57,549
Median % change year-on-year -4.43% +9.09% -7.92%
75th Percentile £80,000 £82,500 £77,500
90th Percentile £100,000 £102,700 £95,000
UK median annual salary £55,000 £60,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year -8.33% +9.09% -12.00%

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 13 February 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 17 (3.06%) Oracle SOA Suite
2 13 (2.34%) JBoss
3 11 (1.98%) WebSphere
4 5 (0.90%) Apache Airflow
4 5 (0.90%) Apache Pulsar
5 4 (0.72%) Confluence
6 3 (0.54%) CMS
6 3 (0.54%) nginx
6 3 (0.54%) OpenStack
6 3 (0.54%) Oracle Workflow
7 2 (0.36%) Apache
7 2 (0.36%) NServiceBus
7 2 (0.36%) SharePoint
8 1 (0.18%) Apache Spark
8 1 (0.18%) ArcGIS
8 1 (0.18%) Camunda
8 1 (0.18%) Ethereum
8 1 (0.18%) Hyperledger
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
2 1 (0.18%) PlantUML
Business Applications
1 17 (3.06%) Oracle ERP
2 3 (0.54%) Dynamics CRM
3 1 (0.18%) Actimize
3 1 (0.18%) Distributed Ledger
3 1 (0.18%) Quorum
3 1 (0.18%) R3 Corda
Cloud Services
1 335 (60.25%) AWS
2 292 (52.52%) Azure
3 142 (25.54%) GCP
4 128 (23.02%) SaaS
5 111 (19.96%) Serverless
6 77 (13.85%) GitHub
7 67 (12.05%) Azure DevOps
8 44 (7.91%) Amazon EKS
9 41 (7.37%) AWS Lambda
10 33 (5.94%) Amazon S3
11 31 (5.58%) Amazon SQS
11 31 (5.58%) Power Platform
12 27 (4.86%) Amazon ECS
12 27 (4.86%) GitHub Actions
13 26 (4.68%) Azure Service Bus
13 26 (4.68%) PaaS
14 20 (3.60%) OCI
15 18 (3.24%) Azure App Service
15 18 (3.24%) GitHub Copilot
16 16 (2.88%) Amazon EC2
Communications & Networking
1 20 (3.60%) Broadband
2 2 (0.36%) AMQP
2 2 (0.36%) Cisco ASA
2 2 (0.36%) Firewall
2 2 (0.36%) MQTT
3 1 (0.18%) DHCP
3 1 (0.18%) DNS
3 1 (0.18%) Hyperconnected
3 1 (0.18%) Internet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 83 (14.93%) MongoDB
2 82 (14.75%) PostgreSQL
3 73 (13.13%) NoSQL
4 62 (11.15%) SQL Server
5 28 (5.04%) MySQL
6 26 (4.68%) Azure SQL Database
7 24 (4.32%) Elasticsearch
8 22 (3.96%) Power BI
9 17 (3.06%) Tableau
10 15 (2.70%) DynamoDB
11 14 (2.52%) Redis
12 12 (2.16%) BigQuery
13 11 (1.98%) Relational Database
14 7 (1.26%) Amazon RDS
14 7 (1.26%) Data Warehouse
15 4 (0.72%) Data Lake
15 4 (0.72%) NonStop SQL
16 2 (0.36%) Electronic Patient Records
16 2 (0.36%) MariaDB
16 2 (0.36%) PostHog
Development Applications
1 80 (14.39%) Git
2 41 (7.37%) Jenkins
3 31 (5.58%) TeamCity
4 24 (4.32%) GitLab
4 24 (4.32%) JIRA
5 19 (3.42%) Cypress.io
6 17 (3.06%) Oracle Forms
7 10 (1.80%) Cucumber
7 10 (1.80%) Selenium
8 8 (1.44%) CircleCI
8 8 (1.44%) git-flow
9 7 (1.26%) JUnit
9 7 (1.26%) Visual Studio
10 4 (0.72%) JMeter
10 4 (0.72%) REST Assured
11 3 (0.54%) Claude Code
11 3 (0.54%) Postman
11 3 (0.54%) SpecFlow
12 2 (0.36%) Mockito
12 2 (0.36%) WebDriver
General
1 168 (30.22%) Social Skills
2 150 (26.98%) Finance
3 57 (10.25%) Banking
4 56 (10.07%) Law
5 44 (7.91%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 41 (7.37%) Financial Institution
6 41 (7.37%) Retail
7 37 (6.65%) Back Office
8 36 (6.47%) Public Sector
9 23 (4.14%) Analytical Skills
10 22 (3.96%) Telecoms
11 12 (2.16%) Influencing Skills
12 11 (1.98%) Legal
13 9 (1.62%) Billing
14 8 (1.44%) Marketing
15 7 (1.26%) Advertising
15 7 (1.26%) Health Technology
16 6 (1.08%) Presentation Skills
17 5 (0.90%) Esports
17 5 (0.90%) Front Office
Job Titles
1 190 (34.17%) Developer
2 163 (29.32%) Senior
3 140 (25.18%) Software Engineer
4 84 (15.11%) Architect
5 80 (14.39%) Lead
6 60 (10.79%) Senior Software Engineer
7 58 (10.43%) .NET Developer
8 48 (8.63%) Senior Developer
9 46 (8.27%) Java Engineer
10 42 (7.55%) Full-Stack Developer
11 35 (6.29%) Lead Developer
12 29 (5.22%) Java Software Engineer
13 25 (4.50%) C# Developer
13 25 (4.50%) Java Developer
14 24 (4.32%) Applications Engineer
14 24 (4.32%) Full-Stack Engineer
14 24 (4.32%) Principal Engineer
14 24 (4.32%) Software Developer
15 23 (4.14%) Cloud Engineer
16 22 (3.96%) Solutions Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 185 (33.27%) .NET
2 153 (27.52%) React
3 128 (23.02%) RESTful
4 85 (15.29%) Node.js
5 81 (14.57%) Spring
6 75 (13.49%) Kafka
7 65 (11.69%) .NET Core
8 63 (11.33%) Spring Boot
9 62 (11.15%) REST
10 61 (10.97%) AngularJS
11 50 (8.99%) ASP.NET Web API
12 46 (8.27%) .NET Framework
13 44 (7.91%) ASP.NET
14 42 (7.55%) gRPC
15 35 (6.29%) Entity Framework
16 31 (5.58%) HTML
16 31 (5.58%) RabbitMQ
17 29 (5.22%) OAuth
18 26 (4.68%) OAuth2
19 25 (4.50%) Middleware
Miscellaneous
1 174 (31.29%) Cloud Native
2 91 (16.37%) Distributed Systems
3 61 (10.97%) Enterprise Software
3 61 (10.97%) Product Ownership
4 18 (3.24%) Over-the-Top Content
4 18 (3.24%) Video\Live Streaming
5 16 (2.88%) Virtual Team
6 15 (2.70%) Greenfield Project
7 12 (2.16%) Algorithms
7 12 (2.16%) Data Structures
7 12 (2.16%) Legacy Systems
8 11 (1.98%) DataPower
9 10 (1.80%) AI Agents
9 10 (1.80%) Onboarding
10 9 (1.62%) Distributed Architecture
10 9 (1.62%) Self-Motivation
11 8 (1.44%) PKI
12 7 (1.26%) Mobile App
13 5 (0.90%) Derivative
14 4 (0.72%) Blog
Operating Systems
1 16 (2.88%) Android
1 16 (2.88%) Linux
2 7 (1.26%) Apple iOS
3 5 (0.90%) Windows
4 2 (0.36%) Unix
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 (51.62%) CI/CD
2 242 (43.53%) Agile
3 236 (42.45%) Software Engineering
4 218 (39.21%) DevOps
5 167 (30.04%) Full-Stack Development
6 153 (27.52%) Mentoring
7 131 (23.56%) Containerisation
8 130 (23.38%) Test Automation
9 117 (21.04%) Event-Driven
10 112 (20.14%) Problem-Solving
11 107 (19.24%) Continuous Improvement
12 98 (17.63%) AI
12 98 (17.63%) Clean Code
12 98 (17.63%) Coaching
13 88 (15.83%) Computer Science
14 81 (14.57%) Architectural Patterns
15 79 (14.21%) TDD
16 74 (13.31%) Event-Driven Architecture
17 67 (12.05%) Technical Leadership
18 64 (11.51%) Scrum
Programming Languages
1 211 (37.95%) Java
2 181 (32.55%) C#
3 137 (24.64%) SQL
4 129 (23.20%) Python
5 122 (21.94%) JavaScript
6 112 (20.14%) TypeScript
7 51 (9.17%) Go
8 19 (3.42%) Scala
8 19 (3.42%) Shell Script
9 17 (3.06%) PL/SQL
10 14 (2.52%) Ruby
11 9 (1.62%) PHP
12 8 (1.44%) C++
13 6 (1.08%) Delphi
13 6 (1.08%) Kotlin
14 5 (0.90%) PowerShell
15 4 (0.72%) Bicep
15 4 (0.72%) Rust
16 3 (0.54%) C
16 3 (0.54%) Erlang
Qualifications
1 97 (17.45%) Degree
2 73 (13.13%) Computer Science Degree
3 49 (8.81%) Security Cleared
4 46 (8.27%) SC Cleared
5 44 (7.91%) AWS Certification
6 41 (7.37%) Azure Certification
7 36 (6.47%) TOGAF Certification
8 31 (5.58%) Microsoft Certification
9 27 (4.86%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
10 16 (2.88%) Master's Degree
11 10 (1.80%) CISSP
12 9 (1.62%) CISM
13 5 (0.90%) ISTQB
13 5 (0.90%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
14 4 (0.72%) AWS Certified Developer
14 4 (0.72%) DBS Check
15 2 (0.36%) BPSS Clearance
15 2 (0.36%) DV Cleared
15 2 (0.36%) ISTQB Advanced Certification
16 1 (0.18%) ISACA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 50 (8.99%) QA
2 17 (3.06%) GDPR
3 16 (2.88%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 14 (2.52%) Accessibility
5 11 (1.98%) PCI DSS
6 10 (1.80%) NIST
7 9 (1.62%) NCSC
8 3 (0.54%) WCAG
9 2 (0.36%) Data Quality
9 2 (0.36%) HMG Security Policy Framework
9 2 (0.36%) SOC 2
10 1 (0.18%) GRC
10 1 (0.18%) ISO/IEC 42001
10 1 (0.18%) JSP 440
10 1 (0.18%) Sarbanes-Oxley
10 1 (0.18%) SEPA
System Software
1 137 (24.64%) Docker
2 13 (2.34%) Active Directory
3 2 (0.36%) VMware NSX
3 2 (0.36%) vSphere
4 1 (0.18%) Firmware
4 1 (0.18%) HDFS
Systems Management
1 161 (28.96%) Kubernetes
2 97 (17.45%) Terraform
3 50 (8.99%) Grafana
4 17 (3.06%) Ansible
4 17 (3.06%) Single Sign-On
5 9 (1.62%) Argo
6 8 (1.44%) Prometheus
7 7 (1.26%) Kibana
8 4 (0.72%) Puppet
9 2 (0.36%) Progress Chef
10 1 (0.18%) Istio
10 1 (0.18%) Opsgenie
Vendors
1 108 (19.42%) Microsoft
2 32 (5.76%) Oracle
3 18 (3.24%) Typelevel
4 16 (2.88%) Google
5 8 (1.44%) Guidewire
6 7 (1.26%) Databricks
7 6 (1.08%) Red Hat
8 5 (0.90%) Ericsson
8 5 (0.90%) Mavenir
8 5 (0.90%) Nokia
8 5 (0.90%) OpenAI
9 4 (0.72%) BiZZdesign
9 4 (0.72%) Facebook
9 4 (0.72%) Revolut
9 4 (0.72%) YouTube
10 3 (0.54%) Salesforce
11 2 (0.36%) Cisco
11 2 (0.36%) Juniper
11 2 (0.36%) SAP
11 2 (0.36%) VMware