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

6 months to
15 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 64 48 72
Rank change year-on-year -16 +24 -29
Permanent jobs citing Microservices 871 970 917
As % of all permanent jobs with remote/hybrid work options 3.82% 5.85% 3.71%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 4.63% 6.30% 4.23%
Number of salaries quoted 633 446 732
10th Percentile £45,000 £47,500 £40,000
25th Percentile £50,000 £57,500 £49,846
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £67,500 £70,000 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year -3.57% +7.69% -13.33%
75th Percentile £88,148 £84,688 £82,500
90th Percentile £100,000 £105,000 £97,500
UK median annual salary £72,500 £72,500 £65,000
% change year-on-year - +11.54% -13.33%

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 18,830 15,402 21,672
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 82.54% 92.96% 87.66%
Number of salaries quoted 13,568 8,927 15,410
10th Percentile £35,000 £29,750 £35,000
25th Percentile £44,972 £40,584 £43,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £58,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year +3.45% -3.33% -4.00%
75th Percentile £80,000 £77,500 £78,750
90th Percentile £100,000 £100,000 £97,500
UK median annual salary £60,000 £55,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year +9.09% - -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 15 August 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 8 (0.92%) CMS
2 7 (0.80%) Oracle SOA Suite
3 5 (0.57%) Camunda
3 5 (0.57%) IIS
3 5 (0.57%) nginx
4 3 (0.34%) DNN
4 3 (0.34%) EPiServer
4 3 (0.34%) Immediacy CMS
4 3 (0.34%) Kentico
4 3 (0.34%) Sitecore CMS
4 3 (0.34%) Sitefinity
4 3 (0.34%) Umbraco
4 3 (0.34%) WordPress
5 2 (0.23%) Apache Airflow
5 2 (0.23%) Confluence
5 2 (0.23%) JBoss
5 2 (0.23%) OpenStack
6 1 (0.11%) Cloud Foundry
6 1 (0.11%) NServiceBus
6 1 (0.11%) Red Hat Fuse
Applications
1 7 (0.80%) Chatbot
Business Applications
1 7 (0.80%) Dynamics CRM
2 4 (0.46%) Oracle EBS
3 3 (0.34%) Dynamics AX
4 2 (0.23%) Shopify
5 1 (0.11%) Payment Gateway
Cloud Services
1 486 (55.80%) AWS
2 418 (47.99%) Azure
3 148 (16.99%) GCP
4 143 (16.42%) SaaS
5 101 (11.60%) Serverless
6 92 (10.56%) GitHub
7 80 (9.18%) Azure DevOps
8 70 (8.04%) GitHub Copilot
9 65 (7.46%) AWS Lambda
10 52 (5.97%) Amazon EKS
11 51 (5.86%) Azure Service Bus
12 47 (5.40%) Amazon S3
13 44 (5.05%) Amazon SQS
14 40 (4.59%) Amazon ECS
15 37 (4.25%) Azure AKS
16 34 (3.90%) Amazon EC2
17 33 (3.79%) Azure Cosmos DB
18 26 (2.99%) PaaS
19 23 (2.64%) Azure Monitor
20 20 (2.30%) Snowflake
Communications & Networking
1 46 (5.28%) Broadband
2 7 (0.80%) Hyperconnected
2 7 (0.80%) Internet
3 4 (0.46%) Cisco ASA
3 4 (0.46%) DNS
3 4 (0.46%) Firewall
3 4 (0.46%) HTTP
3 4 (0.46%) Network Security
3 4 (0.46%) TCP/IP
4 3 (0.34%) DHCP
4 3 (0.34%) Modbus
4 3 (0.34%) MQTT
Database & Business Intelligence
1 218 (25.03%) MongoDB
2 150 (17.22%) Azure SQL Database
3 133 (15.27%) Elasticsearch
4 104 (11.94%) PostgreSQL
5 74 (8.50%) SQL Server
6 49 (5.63%) NoSQL
7 43 (4.94%) MySQL
8 32 (3.67%) Relational Database
9 31 (3.56%) Redis
10 21 (2.41%) Amazon RDS
11 10 (1.15%) DynamoDB
12 8 (0.92%) Metadata
13 7 (0.80%) Data Lake
13 7 (0.80%) RDBMS
14 4 (0.46%) Data Warehouse
14 4 (0.46%) Delta Lake
14 4 (0.46%) MariaDB
14 4 (0.46%) SQL Server Integration Services
15 2 (0.23%) Amazon Redshift
15 2 (0.23%) Oracle Database
Development Applications
1 79 (9.07%) Git
2 41 (4.71%) TeamCity
3 35 (4.02%) GitLab
4 26 (2.99%) Cypress.io
5 20 (2.30%) Jenkins
6 18 (2.07%) JUnit
7 17 (1.95%) Maven
8 16 (1.84%) Claude Code
8 16 (1.84%) Mockito
9 10 (1.15%) JIRA
10 9 (1.03%) Selenium
11 5 (0.57%) Atlassian Bamboo
11 5 (0.57%) Octopus Deploy
12 4 (0.46%) Bitbucket
12 4 (0.46%) NUnit
13 3 (0.34%) Jasmine
13 3 (0.34%) Visual Studio
13 3 (0.34%) Visual Studio Code
14 2 (0.23%) MLflow
14 2 (0.23%) SonarQube
General
1 181 (20.78%) Finance
2 149 (17.11%) Social Skills
3 94 (10.79%) Law
4 89 (10.22%) Public Sector
5 78 (8.96%) Retail
6 73 (8.38%) Legal
7 66 (7.58%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 60 (6.89%) Banking
9 38 (4.36%) Back Office
10 37 (4.25%) Financial Institution
11 36 (4.13%) Analytical Skills
12 28 (3.21%) Legal Technology
13 23 (2.64%) Games
14 18 (2.07%) Marketing
15 17 (1.95%) Aerospace
16 8 (0.92%) Advertising
16 8 (0.92%) Local Government
16 8 (0.92%) Manufacturing
16 8 (0.92%) Telecoms
17 6 (0.69%) French Language
Job Titles
1 414 (47.53%) Developer
2 190 (21.81%) .NET Developer
3 187 (21.47%) Senior
4 180 (20.67%) Software Engineer
5 169 (19.40%) Lead
6 103 (11.83%) Full-Stack Developer
7 102 (11.71%) Architect
8 90 (10.33%) Senior Developer
9 53 (6.08%) Lead Developer
10 48 (5.51%) Senior Software Engineer
11 44 (5.05%) Full-Stack Engineer
12 40 (4.59%) Lead Software Engineer
13 36 (4.13%) Software Developer
14 30 (3.44%) Java Developer
15 28 (3.21%) .NET Software Engineer
15 28 (3.21%) C# Developer
15 28 (3.21%) Technical Leader
16 27 (3.10%) C# .NET Developer
16 27 (3.10%) Java Engineer
16 27 (3.10%) Solutions Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 363 (41.68%) .NET
2 263 (30.20%) Node.js
3 242 (27.78%) React
4 185 (21.24%) .NET Core
5 179 (20.55%) ASP.NET
6 154 (17.68%) ASP.NET Core
7 152 (17.45%) Vue
8 119 (13.66%) AngularJS
9 98 (11.25%) Blazor
10 94 (10.79%) ASP.NET Web API
11 89 (10.22%) REST
12 78 (8.96%) RESTful
13 72 (8.27%) .NET Framework
13 72 (8.27%) Spring
14 48 (5.51%) Spring Boot
15 43 (4.94%) Kafka
16 41 (4.71%) CSS
16 41 (4.71%) gRPC
17 35 (4.02%) HTML
18 31 (3.56%) WPF
Miscellaneous
1 218 (25.03%) Cloud Native
2 126 (14.47%) Distributed Systems
3 71 (8.15%) Product Ownership
4 37 (4.25%) Legacy Systems
5 31 (3.56%) Video\Live Streaming
6 29 (3.33%) Greenfield Project
7 27 (3.10%) Over-the-Top Content
8 20 (2.30%) Enterprise Software
9 19 (2.18%) Self-Motivation
10 15 (1.72%) AI Agents
11 14 (1.61%) Virtual Team
12 10 (1.15%) Legacy Applications
12 10 (1.15%) Mobile App
13 9 (1.03%) Blog
13 9 (1.03%) IoT
13 9 (1.03%) Management Information System
14 7 (0.80%) Hybrid Cloud
15 6 (0.69%) Data Structures
15 6 (0.69%) Marketing Technology
15 6 (0.69%) Onboarding
Operating Systems
1 51 (5.86%) Linux
2 24 (2.76%) Windows
3 18 (2.07%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 482 (55.34%) Agile
2 447 (51.32%) CI/CD
3 345 (39.61%) Full-Stack Development
4 333 (38.23%) Software Engineering
5 263 (30.20%) DevOps
6 247 (28.36%) Mentoring
7 203 (23.31%) Continuous Improvement
8 191 (21.93%) Problem-Solving
9 170 (19.52%) Scrum
10 167 (19.17%) Event-Driven
11 162 (18.60%) AI
12 147 (16.88%) Coaching
13 142 (16.30%) TDD
14 137 (15.73%) Test Automation
15 136 (15.61%) Containerisation
15 136 (15.61%) Technical Leadership
16 130 (14.93%) Clean Code
17 125 (14.35%) Infrastructure as Code
18 115 (13.20%) Event-Driven Architecture
19 114 (13.09%) Enterprise Architecture
Programming Languages
1 377 (43.28%) C#
2 266 (30.54%) SQL
3 265 (30.42%) JavaScript
4 212 (24.34%) TypeScript
5 198 (22.73%) Java
6 140 (16.07%) Python
7 38 (4.36%) Go
8 33 (3.79%) Ruby
9 32 (3.67%) Scala
10 20 (2.30%) Bash
11 15 (1.72%) PHP
11 15 (1.72%) PL/SQL
11 15 (1.72%) PowerShell
12 14 (1.61%) Bicep
13 5 (0.57%) Kotlin
13 5 (0.57%) Rust
14 4 (0.46%) C++
15 3 (0.34%) VB.NET
16 2 (0.23%) T-SQL
17 1 (0.11%) Groovy
Qualifications
1 86 (9.87%) Security Cleared
2 70 (8.04%) Degree
3 66 (7.58%) SC Cleared
4 32 (3.67%) Computer Science Degree
5 11 (1.26%) AWS Certification
5 11 (1.26%) DV Cleared
6 10 (1.15%) Azure Certification
7 9 (1.03%) CISSP
8 8 (0.92%) DBS Check
9 6 (0.69%) CISM
10 5 (0.57%) Microsoft Certification
11 4 (0.46%) AWS Certified Developer
11 4 (0.46%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
12 3 (0.34%) (ISC)2 CCSP
12 3 (0.34%) BPSS Clearance
12 3 (0.34%) CCSP
12 3 (0.34%) Cisco Certification
12 3 (0.34%) GIAC
12 3 (0.34%) SANS
12 3 (0.34%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 112 (12.86%) QA
2 22 (2.53%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 18 (2.07%) GDPR
4 16 (1.84%) Accessibility
5 10 (1.15%) Actionable Recommendations
6 9 (1.03%) HMG Security Policy Framework
6 9 (1.03%) NIST
7 4 (0.46%) California Consumer Privacy Act
7 4 (0.46%) WCAG
8 3 (0.34%) Data Quality
8 3 (0.34%) IFRS
8 3 (0.34%) ISO 9001
8 3 (0.34%) NCSC
8 3 (0.34%) PCI DSS
8 3 (0.34%) Sarbanes-Oxley
9 1 (0.11%) PSD2
9 1 (0.11%) SEPA
9 1 (0.11%) SLA
System Software
1 244 (28.01%) Docker
2 10 (1.15%) Active Directory
3 5 (0.57%) Virtual Machines
4 3 (0.34%) Firmware
Systems Management
1 240 (27.55%) Kubernetes
2 117 (13.43%) Terraform
3 53 (6.08%) Grafana
4 23 (2.64%) Ansible
5 17 (1.95%) Argo
6 15 (1.72%) Prometheus
7 2 (0.23%) Kibana
7 2 (0.23%) MIIS
8 1 (0.11%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 234 (26.87%) Microsoft
2 35 (4.02%) Google
3 28 (3.21%) Oracle
4 27 (3.10%) Typelevel
5 13 (1.49%) OpenAI
6 12 (1.38%) SAP
7 9 (1.03%) Databricks
8 5 (0.57%) ForgeRock
8 5 (0.57%) HubSpot
8 5 (0.57%) Okta
8 5 (0.57%) Splunk
9 4 (0.46%) Cisco
9 4 (0.46%) Dynatrace
9 4 (0.46%) F5
9 4 (0.46%) Facebook
9 4 (0.46%) IFS
9 4 (0.46%) Infor
9 4 (0.46%) Instagram
9 4 (0.46%) Palo Alto
9 4 (0.46%) ServiceNow