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

6 months to
18 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 64 48 75
Rank change year-on-year -16 +27 -30
Permanent jobs citing Microservices 870 961 907
As % of all permanent jobs with remote/hybrid work options 3.80% 5.81% 3.68%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 4.61% 6.25% 4.20%
Number of salaries quoted 630 438 723
10th Percentile £45,000 £47,500 £40,000
25th Percentile £50,000 £57,500 £49,066
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 £83,750 £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 18,872 15,371 21,572
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 82.41% 92.94% 87.56%
Number of salaries quoted 13,617 8,911 15,260
10th Percentile £35,000 £29,750 £35,000
25th Percentile £44,972 £40,500 £43,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £57,500 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year +4.35% -4.17% -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 18 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 9 (1.03%) 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%) Apache
6 1 (0.11%) Apache Spark
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 (55.86%) AWS
2 415 (47.70%) Azure
3 148 (17.01%) GCP
4 143 (16.44%) SaaS
5 100 (11.49%) Serverless
6 93 (10.69%) GitHub
7 80 (9.20%) Azure DevOps
8 70 (8.05%) GitHub Copilot
9 64 (7.36%) AWS Lambda
10 53 (6.09%) Amazon EKS
11 51 (5.86%) Azure Service Bus
12 46 (5.29%) Amazon S3
13 43 (4.94%) Amazon SQS
14 39 (4.48%) Amazon ECS
15 37 (4.25%) Azure AKS
16 33 (3.79%) Amazon EC2
17 32 (3.68%) Azure Cosmos DB
18 26 (2.99%) PaaS
19 23 (2.64%) Azure Monitor
20 20 (2.30%) Snowflake
Communications & Networking
1 46 (5.29%) 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
5 2 (0.23%) MQTT
Database & Business Intelligence
1 219 (25.17%) MongoDB
2 150 (17.24%) Azure SQL Database
3 133 (15.29%) Elasticsearch
4 104 (11.95%) PostgreSQL
5 73 (8.39%) SQL Server
6 50 (5.75%) NoSQL
7 44 (5.06%) MySQL
8 32 (3.68%) Relational Database
9 31 (3.56%) Redis
10 21 (2.41%) Amazon RDS
11 11 (1.26%) 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%) DuckDB
15 2 (0.23%) Oracle Database
Development Applications
1 78 (8.97%) Git
2 42 (4.83%) TeamCity
3 34 (3.91%) GitLab
4 25 (2.87%) Cypress.io
5 21 (2.41%) 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 (20.80%) Finance
2 152 (17.47%) Social Skills
3 95 (10.92%) Law
4 90 (10.34%) Public Sector
5 79 (9.08%) Retail
6 73 (8.39%) Legal
7 69 (7.93%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 60 (6.90%) Banking
9 39 (4.48%) Back Office
10 38 (4.37%) Analytical Skills
10 38 (4.37%) Financial Institution
11 28 (3.22%) Legal Technology
12 24 (2.76%) Games
13 19 (2.18%) Marketing
14 17 (1.95%) Aerospace
15 9 (1.03%) Local Government
16 8 (0.92%) Advertising
16 8 (0.92%) Manufacturing
16 8 (0.92%) Telecoms
17 6 (0.69%) French Language
Job Titles
1 414 (47.59%) Developer
2 190 (21.84%) .NET Developer
3 187 (21.49%) Senior
4 179 (20.57%) Software Engineer
5 170 (19.54%) Lead
6 103 (11.84%) Architect
6 103 (11.84%) Full-Stack Developer
7 90 (10.34%) Senior Developer
8 53 (6.09%) Lead Developer
9 48 (5.52%) Senior Software Engineer
10 44 (5.06%) Full-Stack Engineer
11 41 (4.71%) Lead Software Engineer
12 37 (4.25%) Software Developer
13 30 (3.45%) Java Developer
14 28 (3.22%) .NET Software Engineer
14 28 (3.22%) C# Developer
14 28 (3.22%) Solutions Architect
14 28 (3.22%) Technical Leader
15 27 (3.10%) C# .NET Developer
15 27 (3.10%) Java Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 361 (41.49%) .NET
2 264 (30.34%) Node.js
3 240 (27.59%) React
4 183 (21.03%) .NET Core
5 178 (20.46%) ASP.NET
6 154 (17.70%) ASP.NET Core
7 151 (17.36%) Vue
8 118 (13.56%) AngularJS
9 98 (11.26%) Blazor
10 94 (10.80%) ASP.NET Web API
11 88 (10.11%) REST
12 80 (9.20%) RESTful
13 73 (8.39%) Spring
14 71 (8.16%) .NET Framework
15 49 (5.63%) Spring Boot
16 43 (4.94%) Kafka
17 41 (4.71%) CSS
17 41 (4.71%) gRPC
18 35 (4.02%) HTML
19 31 (3.56%) WPF
Miscellaneous
1 218 (25.06%) Cloud Native
2 128 (14.71%) Distributed Systems
3 71 (8.16%) 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
10 15 (1.72%) Virtual Team
11 10 (1.15%) Legacy Applications
11 10 (1.15%) Mobile App
12 9 (1.03%) Blog
12 9 (1.03%) IoT
12 9 (1.03%) Management Information System
13 7 (0.80%) Hybrid Cloud
14 6 (0.69%) Data Structures
14 6 (0.69%) Marketing Technology
14 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 (55.40%) Agile
2 449 (51.61%) CI/CD
3 344 (39.54%) Full-Stack Development
4 332 (38.16%) Software Engineering
5 265 (30.46%) DevOps
6 249 (28.62%) Mentoring
7 203 (23.33%) Continuous Improvement
8 191 (21.95%) Problem-Solving
9 170 (19.54%) Event-Driven
10 169 (19.43%) Scrum
11 164 (18.85%) AI
12 148 (17.01%) Coaching
13 141 (16.21%) TDD
14 137 (15.75%) Technical Leadership
14 137 (15.75%) Test Automation
15 136 (15.63%) Containerisation
16 131 (15.06%) Clean Code
17 127 (14.60%) Infrastructure as Code
18 117 (13.45%) Event-Driven Architecture
19 115 (13.22%) Enterprise Architecture
Programming Languages
1 376 (43.22%) C#
2 265 (30.46%) SQL
3 263 (30.23%) JavaScript
4 213 (24.48%) TypeScript
5 202 (23.22%) Java
6 140 (16.09%) Python
7 38 (4.37%) Go
8 32 (3.68%) Ruby
8 32 (3.68%) Scala
9 20 (2.30%) Bash
10 15 (1.72%) PHP
10 15 (1.72%) PL/SQL
10 15 (1.72%) PowerShell
11 14 (1.61%) Bicep
12 4 (0.46%) C++
12 4 (0.46%) Kotlin
12 4 (0.46%) Rust
13 3 (0.34%) VB.NET
14 2 (0.23%) T-SQL
15 1 (0.11%) Perl
Qualifications
1 85 (9.77%) Security Cleared
2 69 (7.93%) Degree
3 65 (7.47%) SC Cleared
4 32 (3.68%) 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
1 111 (12.76%) 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 2 (0.23%) SLA
10 1 (0.11%) PSD2
10 1 (0.11%) SEPA
System Software
1 244 (28.05%) Docker
2 10 (1.15%) Active Directory
3 5 (0.57%) Virtual Machines
4 3 (0.34%) Firmware
Systems Management
1 240 (27.59%) Kubernetes
2 118 (13.56%) Terraform
3 53 (6.09%) Grafana
4 22 (2.53%) Ansible
5 17 (1.95%) Argo
6 14 (1.61%) Prometheus
7 2 (0.23%) Kibana
7 2 (0.23%) MIIS
8 1 (0.11%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 233 (26.78%) Microsoft
2 36 (4.14%) Google
3 28 (3.22%) 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%) Epicor
9 4 (0.46%) F5
9 4 (0.46%) Facebook
9 4 (0.46%) Infor
9 4 (0.46%) Instagram
9 4 (0.46%) Juniper
9 4 (0.46%) Red Hat
9 4 (0.46%) ServiceNow