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

6 months to
9 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 57 37 57
Rank change year-on-year -20 +20 -16
Permanent jobs citing Microservices 857 1,112 1,432
As % of all permanent jobs with remote/hybrid work options 4.04% 6.78% 4.39%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 4.88% 7.25% 4.94%
Number of salaries quoted 636 551 1,250
10th Percentile £44,375 £47,500 £42,500
25th Percentile £50,000 £57,500 £50,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,500 £70,000 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year -6.43% +7.69% -13.33%
75th Percentile £88,148 £93,778 £83,759
90th Percentile £100,000 £115,000 £100,000
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 17,569 15,347 29,009
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 82.87% 93.54% 89.03%
Number of salaries quoted 12,813 9,109 22,187
10th Percentile £35,000 £30,000 £33,250
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 9 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 8 (0.93%) CMS
2 6 (0.70%) JBoss
3 4 (0.47%) IIS
3 4 (0.47%) nginx
4 3 (0.35%) Apache Airflow
4 3 (0.35%) Camunda
4 3 (0.35%) Confluence
4 3 (0.35%) DNN
4 3 (0.35%) EPiServer
4 3 (0.35%) Immediacy CMS
4 3 (0.35%) Kentico
4 3 (0.35%) Sitecore CMS
4 3 (0.35%) Sitefinity
4 3 (0.35%) Umbraco
4 3 (0.35%) WebSphere
5 2 (0.23%) Apache
5 2 (0.23%) NServiceBus
5 2 (0.23%) OpenStack
5 2 (0.23%) Oracle SOA Suite
5 2 (0.23%) SharePoint
Applications
1 4 (0.47%) Chatbot
Business Applications
1 8 (0.93%) Dynamics CRM
2 4 (0.47%) Dynamics AX
2 4 (0.47%) Oracle EBS
3 2 (0.23%) Shopify
4 1 (0.12%) Payment Gateway
Cloud Services
1 503 (58.69%) AWS
2 419 (48.89%) Azure
3 167 (19.49%) GCP
4 146 (17.04%) SaaS
5 106 (12.37%) Serverless
6 92 (10.74%) GitHub
7 76 (8.87%) Azure DevOps
8 68 (7.93%) GitHub Copilot
9 58 (6.77%) Amazon EKS
10 56 (6.53%) AWS Lambda
11 45 (5.25%) Azure Service Bus
12 42 (4.90%) Amazon S3
13 40 (4.67%) Amazon SQS
14 39 (4.55%) Azure AKS
15 35 (4.08%) Amazon ECS
16 31 (3.62%) Amazon EC2
17 30 (3.50%) Azure Cosmos DB
17 30 (3.50%) PaaS
18 19 (2.22%) Azure Functions
18 19 (2.22%) Power Platform
Communications & Networking
1 64 (7.47%) Broadband
2 7 (0.82%) Hyperconnected
2 7 (0.82%) Internet
3 6 (0.70%) Cisco ASA
3 6 (0.70%) DNS
3 6 (0.70%) Firewall
4 5 (0.58%) DHCP
4 5 (0.58%) MQTT
5 4 (0.47%) Network Security
5 4 (0.47%) TCP/IP
6 3 (0.35%) Modbus
7 2 (0.23%) AMQP
8 1 (0.12%) HTTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 225 (26.25%) MongoDB
2 149 (17.39%) Azure SQL Database
3 127 (14.82%) Elasticsearch
4 116 (13.54%) PostgreSQL
5 67 (7.82%) NoSQL
6 58 (6.77%) SQL Server
7 52 (6.07%) MySQL
8 31 (3.62%) Relational Database
9 26 (3.03%) Redis
10 20 (2.33%) Amazon RDS
11 8 (0.93%) Metadata
12 7 (0.82%) Data Lake
12 7 (0.82%) DynamoDB
12 7 (0.82%) RDBMS
13 5 (0.58%) MariaDB
14 4 (0.47%) Data Warehouse
14 4 (0.47%) Delta Lake
15 3 (0.35%) BigQuery
15 3 (0.35%) Oracle Database
15 3 (0.35%) SQL Server Integration Services
Development Applications
1 61 (7.12%) Git
2 46 (5.37%) TeamCity
3 41 (4.78%) GitLab
4 22 (2.57%) Cypress.io
5 20 (2.33%) Jenkins
6 18 (2.10%) Claude Code
7 12 (1.40%) Maven
8 11 (1.28%) JIRA
8 11 (1.28%) JUnit
9 9 (1.05%) Mockito
10 7 (0.82%) Selenium
11 6 (0.70%) NUnit
11 6 (0.70%) Visual Studio
12 5 (0.58%) Atlassian Bamboo
12 5 (0.58%) Bitbucket
13 4 (0.47%) Cucumber
13 4 (0.47%) Octopus Deploy
14 3 (0.35%) Jasmine
14 3 (0.35%) JMeter
14 3 (0.35%) SpecFlow
General
1 196 (22.87%) Finance
2 134 (15.64%) Social Skills
3 100 (11.67%) Law
4 87 (10.15%) Public Sector
5 84 (9.80%) Retail
6 73 (8.52%) Banking
7 64 (7.47%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 44 (5.13%) Back Office
8 44 (5.13%) Financial Institution
9 41 (4.78%) Legal
10 35 (4.08%) Analytical Skills
11 28 (3.27%) Legal Technology
12 17 (1.98%) Aerospace
13 16 (1.87%) Games
13 16 (1.87%) Marketing
14 10 (1.17%) Telecoms
15 9 (1.05%) Influencing Skills
15 9 (1.05%) Manufacturing
16 5 (0.58%) Aviation
17 4 (0.47%) Health Technology
Job Titles
1 381 (44.46%) Developer
2 204 (23.80%) Software Engineer
3 187 (21.82%) .NET Developer
4 170 (19.84%) Senior
5 163 (19.02%) Lead
6 104 (12.14%) Architect
7 91 (10.62%) Full-Stack Developer
8 64 (7.47%) Senior Developer
9 59 (6.88%) Senior Software Engineer
10 49 (5.72%) Lead Developer
11 46 (5.37%) Java Engineer
12 40 (4.67%) Lead Software Engineer
13 39 (4.55%) Full-Stack Engineer
14 35 (4.08%) C# Developer
15 33 (3.85%) .NET Software Engineer
15 33 (3.85%) Java Software Engineer
16 32 (3.73%) Solutions Architect
17 31 (3.62%) Software Developer
18 30 (3.50%) C# Software Engineer
18 30 (3.50%) Scala Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 327 (38.16%) .NET
2 247 (28.82%) Node.js
3 232 (27.07%) React
4 177 (20.65%) .NET Core
5 170 (19.84%) ASP.NET
6 151 (17.62%) ASP.NET Core
7 145 (16.92%) Vue
8 117 (13.65%) AngularJS
9 97 (11.32%) ASP.NET Web API
10 88 (10.27%) RESTful
11 85 (9.92%) Blazor
12 76 (8.87%) .NET Framework
12 76 (8.87%) REST
13 71 (8.28%) Spring
14 54 (6.30%) gRPC
15 51 (5.95%) Spring Boot
16 41 (4.78%) CSS
16 41 (4.78%) Kafka
17 39 (4.55%) HTML
18 24 (2.80%) Middleware
Miscellaneous
1 236 (27.54%) Cloud Native
2 133 (15.52%) Distributed Systems
3 75 (8.75%) Product Ownership
4 46 (5.37%) Video\Live Streaming
5 45 (5.25%) Over-the-Top Content
6 29 (3.38%) Greenfield Project
6 29 (3.38%) Legacy Systems
7 19 (2.22%) Enterprise Software
8 15 (1.75%) Virtual Team
9 12 (1.40%) AI Agents
9 12 (1.40%) Legacy Applications
9 12 (1.40%) Self-Motivation
10 9 (1.05%) Mobile App
11 7 (0.82%) Blog
11 7 (0.82%) Hybrid Cloud
11 7 (0.82%) Management Information System
11 7 (0.82%) Onboarding
12 6 (0.70%) Distributed Architecture
12 6 (0.70%) IoT
13 5 (0.58%) Data Structures
Operating Systems
1 48 (5.60%) Linux
2 21 (2.45%) Windows
3 20 (2.33%) Unix
4 3 (0.35%) Android
4 3 (0.35%) 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
1 452 (52.74%) Agile
2 423 (49.36%) CI/CD
3 362 (42.24%) Software Engineering
4 339 (39.56%) Full-Stack Development
5 263 (30.69%) DevOps
6 231 (26.95%) Mentoring
7 184 (21.47%) Continuous Improvement
8 181 (21.12%) Problem-Solving
9 169 (19.72%) Scrum
10 167 (19.49%) Coaching
11 163 (19.02%) Test Automation
12 162 (18.90%) Containerisation
13 158 (18.44%) Event-Driven
14 145 (16.92%) Clean Code
15 144 (16.80%) AI
15 144 (16.80%) TDD
16 126 (14.70%) Technical Leadership
17 124 (14.47%) Infrastructure as Code
18 110 (12.84%) Event-Driven Architecture
19 90 (10.50%) Roadmaps
Programming Languages
1 327 (38.16%) C#
2 279 (32.56%) SQL
3 254 (29.64%) JavaScript
4 214 (24.97%) Java
5 202 (23.57%) TypeScript
6 157 (18.32%) Python
7 53 (6.18%) Go
8 47 (5.48%) Scala
9 26 (3.03%) Ruby
10 16 (1.87%) PHP
11 15 (1.75%) Bash
11 15 (1.75%) PowerShell
12 14 (1.63%) Bicep
13 10 (1.17%) PL/SQL
14 8 (0.93%) Rust
15 5 (0.58%) Kotlin
16 3 (0.35%) C++
17 2 (0.23%) T-SQL
18 1 (0.12%) Perl
18 1 (0.12%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 75 (8.75%) Security Cleared
2 69 (8.05%) Degree
3 55 (6.42%) SC Cleared
4 26 (3.03%) Computer Science Degree
5 14 (1.63%) Azure Certification
6 13 (1.52%) AWS Certification
6 13 (1.52%) CISSP
6 13 (1.52%) DBS Check
7 8 (0.93%) CISM
7 8 (0.93%) DV Cleared
8 6 (0.70%) Microsoft Certification
8 6 (0.70%) TOGAF Certification
9 5 (0.58%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
9 5 (0.58%) GIAC
9 5 (0.58%) ISACA
9 5 (0.58%) SANS
10 4 (0.47%) AWS Certified Developer
11 3 (0.35%) (ISC)2 CCSP
11 3 (0.35%) BPSS Clearance
11 3 (0.35%) Master's Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 82 (9.57%) QA
2 22 (2.57%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 21 (2.45%) GDPR
4 14 (1.63%) Accessibility
5 13 (1.52%) NIST
6 10 (1.17%) Actionable Recommendations
7 6 (0.70%) HMG Security Policy Framework
8 5 (0.58%) NCSC
8 5 (0.58%) PCI DSS
9 4 (0.47%) California Consumer Privacy Act
10 3 (0.35%) IFRS
10 3 (0.35%) ISO 9001
10 3 (0.35%) Sarbanes-Oxley
10 3 (0.35%) SEPA
10 3 (0.35%) WCAG
11 2 (0.23%) Data Quality
11 2 (0.23%) GRC
12 1 (0.12%) PSD2
System Software
1 249 (29.05%) Docker
2 13 (1.52%) Active Directory
3 4 (0.47%) Virtual Machines
4 3 (0.35%) Firmware
Systems Management
1 240 (28.00%) Kubernetes
2 115 (13.42%) Terraform
3 61 (7.12%) Grafana
4 28 (3.27%) Ansible
5 17 (1.98%) Argo
6 15 (1.75%) Prometheus
7 3 (0.35%) Kibana
8 2 (0.23%) MIIS
8 2 (0.23%) Opsgenie
8 2 (0.23%) Puppet
9 1 (0.12%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 224 (26.14%) Microsoft
2 45 (5.25%) Typelevel
3 32 (3.73%) Google
4 25 (2.92%) Oracle
5 15 (1.75%) OpenAI
6 9 (1.05%) Databricks
7 7 (0.82%) Red Hat
8 6 (0.70%) Cisco
8 6 (0.70%) F5
8 6 (0.70%) Juniper
8 6 (0.70%) Palo Alto
8 6 (0.70%) SAP
9 5 (0.58%) ForgeRock
9 5 (0.58%) HubSpot
9 5 (0.58%) Okta
9 5 (0.58%) Splunk
10 4 (0.47%) Epicor
10 4 (0.47%) Infor
10 4 (0.47%) Salesforce
10 4 (0.47%) ServiceNow