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 15 January 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
15 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 81 53 35
Rank change year-on-year -28 -18 +3
Permanent jobs citing Microservices 499 870 1,470
As % of all permanent jobs with remote/hybrid work options 3.28% 5.28% 6.83%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 3.75% 5.63% 7.30%
Number of salaries quoted 399 544 1,215
10th Percentile £52,500 £47,500 £43,750
25th Percentile £57,625 £52,500 £51,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £75,000 £70,000 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year +7.14% +7.69% -13.33%
75th Percentile £90,000 £86,000 £83,750
90th Percentile £114,500 £105,000 £97,500
UK median annual salary £77,500 £70,000 £70,000
% change year-on-year +10.71% - -9.68%

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 13,292 15,442 20,133
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 87.37% 93.78% 93.53%
Number of salaries quoted 8,469 9,092 16,280
10th Percentile £30,000 £36,250 £36,250
25th Percentile £41,925 £47,500 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £62,500 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -4.00% +4.17% -4.00%
75th Percentile £80,000 £82,500 £78,750
90th Percentile £100,000 £100,000 £97,500
UK median annual salary £55,000 £60,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year -8.33% - -4.00%

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 15 January 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 (3.41%) Oracle SOA Suite
2 10 (2.00%) JBoss
3 9 (1.80%) WebSphere
4 6 (1.20%) Confluence
5 5 (1.00%) Apache Airflow
5 5 (1.00%) Apache Pulsar
6 3 (0.60%) nginx
6 3 (0.60%) OpenStack
6 3 (0.60%) Oracle Workflow
7 2 (0.40%) Apache
7 2 (0.40%) CMS
8 1 (0.20%) ArcGIS
8 1 (0.20%) Camunda
8 1 (0.20%) Ethereum
8 1 (0.20%) Hyperledger
8 1 (0.20%) NServiceBus
8 1 (0.20%) SharePoint
Applications
1 3 (0.60%) Microsoft Excel
1 3 (0.60%) Microsoft Office
1 3 (0.60%) Microsoft PowerPoint
1 3 (0.60%) MS Visio
2 1 (0.20%) PlantUML
Business Applications
1 17 (3.41%) Oracle ERP
2 1 (0.20%) Actimize
2 1 (0.20%) Distributed Ledger
2 1 (0.20%) Dynamics CRM
2 1 (0.20%) Quorum
2 1 (0.20%) R3 Corda
Cloud Services
1 291 (58.32%) AWS
2 273 (54.71%) Azure
3 107 (21.44%) Serverless
4 104 (20.84%) SaaS
5 103 (20.64%) GCP
6 77 (15.43%) GitHub
7 67 (13.43%) Azure DevOps
8 39 (7.82%) AWS Lambda
9 32 (6.41%) Amazon S3
10 30 (6.01%) Power Platform
11 29 (5.81%) Amazon SQS
12 28 (5.61%) Amazon EKS
12 28 (5.61%) GitHub Actions
13 26 (5.21%) Amazon ECS
13 26 (5.21%) Azure Service Bus
14 25 (5.01%) PaaS
15 20 (4.01%) Azure App Service
15 20 (4.01%) OCI
16 17 (3.41%) GitHub Copilot
17 15 (3.01%) Amazon EC2
Communications & Networking
1 2 (0.40%) AMQP
1 2 (0.40%) Broadband
2 1 (0.20%) Hyperconnected
2 1 (0.20%) Internet
2 1 (0.20%) Network Security
Database & Business Intelligence
1 82 (16.43%) MongoDB
2 75 (15.03%) NoSQL
3 73 (14.63%) PostgreSQL
4 62 (12.42%) SQL Server
5 33 (6.61%) Azure SQL Database
6 26 (5.21%) Elasticsearch
7 25 (5.01%) MySQL
8 22 (4.41%) Power BI
9 18 (3.61%) DynamoDB
10 17 (3.41%) Tableau
11 13 (2.61%) Redis
12 12 (2.40%) BigQuery
13 10 (2.00%) Relational Database
14 9 (1.80%) Amazon RDS
14 9 (1.80%) Data Warehouse
15 5 (1.00%) NonStop SQL
16 4 (0.80%) Data Lake
17 2 (0.40%) Amazon Redshift
17 2 (0.40%) PostHog
17 2 (0.40%) Snowflake Schema
Development Applications
1 84 (16.83%) Git
2 45 (9.02%) Jenkins
3 26 (5.21%) JIRA
4 20 (4.01%) GitLab
5 18 (3.61%) Cypress.io
6 17 (3.41%) Oracle Forms
7 16 (3.21%) TeamCity
8 13 (2.61%) Selenium
9 10 (2.00%) CircleCI
10 9 (1.80%) Cucumber
10 9 (1.80%) Visual Studio
11 8 (1.60%) git-flow
11 8 (1.60%) JUnit
12 6 (1.20%) JMeter
13 5 (1.00%) Postman
14 4 (0.80%) REST Assured
15 3 (0.60%) Mockito
15 3 (0.60%) Storybook
15 3 (0.60%) Visual Studio Code
16 2 (0.40%) SpecFlow
General
1 164 (32.87%) Social Skills
2 125 (25.05%) Finance
3 42 (8.42%) Law
4 37 (7.41%) Banking
5 27 (5.41%) Public Sector
6 26 (5.21%) Retail
7 25 (5.01%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 23 (4.61%) Financial Institution
9 20 (4.01%) Back Office
9 20 (4.01%) Telecoms
10 19 (3.81%) Analytical Skills
11 13 (2.61%) Billing
11 13 (2.61%) Legal
12 11 (2.20%) Influencing Skills
13 8 (1.60%) Advertising
14 7 (1.40%) Marketing
15 6 (1.20%) Presentation Skills
16 5 (1.00%) Esports
16 5 (1.00%) Front Office
17 4 (0.80%) Publishing
Job Titles
1 182 (36.47%) Developer
2 145 (29.06%) Senior
3 105 (21.04%) Software Engineer
4 79 (15.83%) Architect
5 77 (15.43%) Lead
6 63 (12.63%) .NET Developer
7 48 (9.62%) Senior Software Engineer
8 43 (8.62%) Senior Developer
9 36 (7.21%) Full-Stack Developer
10 32 (6.41%) Lead Developer
11 27 (5.41%) Java Engineer
12 24 (4.81%) Applications Engineer
12 24 (4.81%) Principal Engineer
12 24 (4.81%) Software Developer
13 23 (4.61%) Cloud Engineer
14 22 (4.41%) Full-Stack Engineer
15 20 (4.01%) C# Developer
15 20 (4.01%) Java Developer
15 20 (4.01%) Solutions Architect
16 19 (3.81%) Azure Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 187 (37.47%) .NET
2 153 (30.66%) React
3 129 (25.85%) RESTful
4 82 (16.43%) Node.js
5 73 (14.63%) Kafka
6 69 (13.83%) .NET Core
6 69 (13.83%) Spring
7 64 (12.83%) AngularJS
8 57 (11.42%) Spring Boot
9 56 (11.22%) ASP.NET Web API
10 52 (10.42%) REST
11 47 (9.42%) .NET Framework
12 45 (9.02%) ASP.NET
13 37 (7.41%) Entity Framework
14 34 (6.81%) HTML
15 29 (5.81%) RabbitMQ
16 28 (5.61%) ASP.NET MVC
16 28 (5.61%) OAuth
17 26 (5.21%) CSS
17 26 (5.21%) OAuth2
Miscellaneous
1 150 (30.06%) Cloud Native
2 75 (15.03%) Distributed Systems
3 61 (12.22%) Enterprise Software
4 48 (9.62%) Product Ownership
5 16 (3.21%) Greenfield Project
6 15 (3.01%) Data Structures
6 15 (3.01%) Onboarding
7 14 (2.81%) Algorithms
7 14 (2.81%) Virtual Team
8 12 (2.40%) Legacy Systems
9 10 (2.00%) AI Agents
10 9 (1.80%) DataPower
10 9 (1.80%) Distributed Architecture
10 9 (1.80%) Mobile App
11 6 (1.20%) IoT
11 6 (1.20%) Legacy Applications
12 5 (1.00%) Derivative
12 5 (1.00%) PKI
13 4 (0.80%) Low-Code
13 4 (0.80%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 15 (3.01%) Android
2 14 (2.81%) Linux
3 9 (1.80%) Windows
4 6 (1.20%) Apple iOS
5 2 (0.40%) VMS
6 1 (0.20%) Fedora
Processes & Methodologies
1 247 (49.50%) Agile
2 246 (49.30%) CI/CD
3 210 (42.08%) DevOps
4 182 (36.47%) Software Engineering
5 159 (31.86%) Full-Stack Development
6 140 (28.06%) Mentoring
7 114 (22.85%) Event-Driven
8 104 (20.84%) Continuous Improvement
9 103 (20.64%) Containerisation
10 98 (19.64%) Test Automation
11 95 (19.04%) AI
12 93 (18.64%) Problem-Solving
13 83 (16.63%) Computer Science
14 76 (15.23%) Architectural Patterns
15 75 (15.03%) Clean Code
15 75 (15.03%) TDD
16 72 (14.43%) Event-Driven Architecture
17 66 (13.23%) Coaching
18 65 (13.03%) Technical Leadership
19 63 (12.63%) Scrum
Programming Languages
1 191 (38.28%) C#
2 177 (35.47%) Java
3 137 (27.45%) SQL
4 123 (24.65%) JavaScript
5 115 (23.05%) TypeScript
6 106 (21.24%) Python
7 36 (7.21%) Go
8 19 (3.81%) Shell Script
9 17 (3.41%) PL/SQL
10 14 (2.81%) Ruby
11 9 (1.80%) C++
12 8 (1.60%) PHP
13 6 (1.20%) Delphi
14 5 (1.00%) Kotlin
15 4 (0.80%) Bicep
15 4 (0.80%) C
15 4 (0.80%) PowerShell
16 3 (0.60%) Elixir
16 3 (0.60%) Erlang
17 2 (0.40%) VB
Qualifications
1 88 (17.64%) Degree
2 72 (14.43%) Computer Science Degree
3 43 (8.62%) AWS Certification
4 41 (8.22%) Security Cleared
5 39 (7.82%) Azure Certification
6 37 (7.41%) SC Cleared
7 34 (6.81%) TOGAF Certification
8 31 (6.21%) Microsoft Certification
9 28 (5.61%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
10 17 (3.41%) Master's Degree
11 6 (1.20%) CISM
11 6 (1.20%) CISSP
11 6 (1.20%) ISTQB
11 6 (1.20%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
12 4 (0.80%) AWS Certified Developer
12 4 (0.80%) DBS Check
12 4 (0.80%) DV Cleared
13 2 (0.40%) BPSS Clearance
13 2 (0.40%) ISTQB Advanced Certification
13 2 (0.40%) SnowPro
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 54 (10.82%) QA
2 15 (3.01%) Accessibility
3 14 (2.81%) GDPR
4 10 (2.00%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 8 (1.60%) PCI DSS
6 7 (1.40%) NIST
7 6 (1.20%) NCSC
8 5 (1.00%) WCAG
9 3 (0.60%) Data Quality
10 2 (0.40%) Sarbanes-Oxley
10 2 (0.40%) SOC 2
11 1 (0.20%) HIPAA
11 1 (0.20%) ISO/IEC 42001
11 1 (0.20%) JSP 440
System Software
1 113 (22.65%) Docker
2 13 (2.61%) Active Directory
3 2 (0.40%) VMware NSX
3 2 (0.40%) vSphere
4 1 (0.20%) Firmware
4 1 (0.20%) HDFS
Systems Management
1 136 (27.25%) Kubernetes
2 80 (16.03%) Terraform
3 33 (6.61%) Grafana
4 17 (3.41%) Single Sign-On
5 13 (2.61%) Ansible
6 10 (2.00%) Argo
7 7 (1.40%) Prometheus
8 6 (1.20%) Kibana
9 2 (0.40%) Progress Chef
9 2 (0.40%) Puppet
10 1 (0.20%) Istio
Vendors
1 112 (22.44%) Microsoft
2 30 (6.01%) Oracle
3 13 (2.61%) Guidewire
4 12 (2.40%) Google
5 6 (1.20%) Databricks
6 5 (1.00%) Ericsson
6 5 (1.00%) Facebook
6 5 (1.00%) Mavenir
6 5 (1.00%) Nokia
6 5 (1.00%) YouTube
7 4 (0.80%) BiZZdesign
8 3 (0.60%) Dynatrace
8 3 (0.60%) Red Hat
9 2 (0.40%) OpenAI
9 2 (0.40%) Salesforce
9 2 (0.40%) SAP
9 2 (0.40%) SendGrid
9 2 (0.40%) Solarflare
9 2 (0.40%) Sparx
9 2 (0.40%) VMware