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

6 months to
26 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 78 53 32
Rank change year-on-year -25 -21 +5
Permanent jobs citing Microservices 510 876 1,708
As % of all permanent jobs with remote/hybrid work options 3.27% 5.37% 6.67%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 3.77% 5.70% 7.17%
Number of salaries quoted 396 546 1,461
10th Percentile £52,500 £47,500 £42,500
25th Percentile £57,750 £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 £92,625 £87,500 £83,750
90th Percentile £113,750 £105,000 £97,500
UK median annual salary £77,500 £72,000 £70,000
% change year-on-year +7.64% +2.86% -10.83%

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 13,531 15,358 23,812
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 86.74% 94.12% 92.96%
Number of salaries quoted 8,591 9,036 19,564
10th Percentile £30,000 £36,250 £35,000
25th Percentile £42,500 £47,500 £43,750
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 £77,500
90th Percentile £100,000 £102,500 £96,250
UK median annual salary £55,000 £60,000 £57,500
% change year-on-year -8.33% +4.35% -8.00%

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 26 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 (3.33%) Oracle SOA Suite
2 12 (2.35%) JBoss
3 11 (2.16%) WebSphere
4 5 (0.98%) Apache Airflow
4 5 (0.98%) Apache Pulsar
5 4 (0.78%) Confluence
6 3 (0.59%) Apache
6 3 (0.59%) nginx
6 3 (0.59%) OpenStack
6 3 (0.59%) Oracle Workflow
7 2 (0.39%) CMS
8 1 (0.20%) Apache Spark
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 (0.59%) Microsoft Excel
1 3 (0.59%) Microsoft Office
1 3 (0.59%) Microsoft PowerPoint
1 3 (0.59%) MS Visio
2 1 (0.20%) PlantUML
Business Applications
1 17 (3.33%) Oracle ERP
2 3 (0.59%) Dynamics CRM
3 1 (0.20%) Actimize
3 1 (0.20%) Distributed Ledger
3 1 (0.20%) Quorum
3 1 (0.20%) R3 Corda
Cloud Services
1 299 (58.63%) AWS
2 276 (54.12%) Azure
3 119 (23.33%) SaaS
4 113 (22.16%) GCP
5 110 (21.57%) Serverless
6 78 (15.29%) GitHub
7 68 (13.33%) Azure DevOps
8 40 (7.84%) AWS Lambda
9 37 (7.25%) Amazon EKS
10 33 (6.47%) Amazon S3
11 31 (6.08%) Amazon SQS
11 31 (6.08%) Power Platform
12 29 (5.69%) GitHub Actions
13 27 (5.29%) Amazon ECS
13 27 (5.29%) Azure Service Bus
14 26 (5.10%) PaaS
15 20 (3.92%) Azure App Service
15 20 (3.92%) OCI
16 17 (3.33%) GitHub Copilot
17 16 (3.14%) Amazon EC2
Communications & Networking
1 2 (0.39%) Broadband
2 1 (0.20%) AMQP
2 1 (0.20%) DHCP
2 1 (0.20%) DNS
2 1 (0.20%) Hyperconnected
2 1 (0.20%) Internet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 82 (16.08%) MongoDB
2 74 (14.51%) PostgreSQL
3 69 (13.53%) NoSQL
4 63 (12.35%) SQL Server
5 32 (6.27%) Azure SQL Database
6 26 (5.10%) Elasticsearch
7 23 (4.51%) MySQL
8 22 (4.31%) Power BI
9 17 (3.33%) DynamoDB
9 17 (3.33%) Tableau
10 13 (2.55%) Redis
11 12 (2.35%) BigQuery
11 12 (2.35%) Relational Database
12 9 (1.76%) Data Warehouse
13 8 (1.57%) Amazon RDS
14 5 (0.98%) NonStop SQL
15 4 (0.78%) Data Lake
16 2 (0.39%) Electronic Patient Records
16 2 (0.39%) Hadoop
16 2 (0.39%) PostHog
Development Applications
1 82 (16.08%) Git
2 44 (8.63%) Jenkins
3 24 (4.71%) JIRA
3 24 (4.71%) TeamCity
4 21 (4.12%) GitLab
5 19 (3.73%) Cypress.io
6 17 (3.33%) Oracle Forms
7 11 (2.16%) Selenium
8 10 (1.96%) Cucumber
9 9 (1.76%) CircleCI
10 8 (1.57%) git-flow
10 8 (1.57%) JUnit
10 8 (1.57%) Visual Studio
11 5 (0.98%) JMeter
12 4 (0.78%) Postman
12 4 (0.78%) REST Assured
13 3 (0.59%) Mockito
13 3 (0.59%) SpecFlow
13 3 (0.59%) Storybook
14 2 (0.39%) Visual Studio Code
General
1 166 (32.55%) Social Skills
2 140 (27.45%) Finance
3 50 (9.80%) Law
4 49 (9.61%) Banking
5 35 (6.86%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 35 (6.86%) Retail
6 33 (6.47%) Financial Institution
7 31 (6.08%) Back Office
8 28 (5.49%) Public Sector
9 20 (3.92%) Telecoms
10 19 (3.73%) Analytical Skills
11 12 (2.35%) Legal
12 11 (2.16%) Influencing Skills
13 10 (1.96%) Billing
14 8 (1.57%) Advertising
15 7 (1.37%) Marketing
16 6 (1.18%) Presentation Skills
17 5 (0.98%) Esports
17 5 (0.98%) Front Office
17 5 (0.98%) Health Technology
Job Titles
1 182 (35.69%) Developer
2 153 (30.00%) Senior
3 114 (22.35%) Software Engineer
4 85 (16.67%) Architect
5 78 (15.29%) Lead
6 63 (12.35%) .NET Developer
7 51 (10.00%) Senior Software Engineer
8 45 (8.82%) Senior Developer
9 37 (7.25%) Full-Stack Developer
10 33 (6.47%) Java Engineer
10 33 (6.47%) Lead Developer
11 24 (4.71%) Applications Engineer
11 24 (4.71%) Principal Engineer
12 23 (4.51%) Cloud Engineer
12 23 (4.51%) Full-Stack Engineer
12 23 (4.51%) Software Developer
13 22 (4.31%) Java Developer
13 22 (4.31%) Solutions Architect
14 20 (3.92%) C# Developer
15 19 (3.73%) Azure Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 185 (36.27%) .NET
2 154 (30.20%) React
3 125 (24.51%) RESTful
4 85 (16.67%) Node.js
5 73 (14.31%) Spring
6 71 (13.92%) Kafka
7 69 (13.53%) .NET Core
8 65 (12.75%) AngularJS
9 57 (11.18%) ASP.NET Web API
9 57 (11.18%) Spring Boot
10 54 (10.59%) REST
11 47 (9.22%) .NET Framework
12 46 (9.02%) ASP.NET
13 38 (7.45%) Entity Framework
14 33 (6.47%) HTML
15 29 (5.69%) ASP.NET MVC
15 29 (5.69%) OAuth
15 29 (5.69%) RabbitMQ
16 27 (5.29%) Vue
17 26 (5.10%) OAuth2
Miscellaneous
1 155 (30.39%) Cloud Native
2 70 (13.73%) Distributed Systems
3 61 (11.96%) Enterprise Software
4 54 (10.59%) Product Ownership
5 15 (2.94%) Virtual Team
6 14 (2.75%) Data Structures
6 14 (2.75%) Greenfield Project
7 13 (2.55%) Algorithms
8 12 (2.35%) Legacy Systems
9 11 (2.16%) DataPower
9 11 (2.16%) Onboarding
10 10 (1.96%) AI Agents
11 9 (1.76%) Distributed Architecture
12 8 (1.57%) Mobile App
13 7 (1.37%) PKI
13 7 (1.37%) Self-Motivation
14 6 (1.18%) IoT
15 5 (0.98%) Derivative
15 5 (0.98%) Legacy Applications
16 4 (0.78%) Blog
Operating Systems
1 16 (3.14%) Android
2 15 (2.94%) Linux
3 8 (1.57%) Windows
4 7 (1.37%) Apple iOS
5 2 (0.39%) VMS
6 1 (0.20%) CentOS
6 1 (0.20%) Debian
6 1 (0.20%) Fedora
6 1 (0.20%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 1 (0.20%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 249 (48.82%) CI/CD
2 239 (46.86%) Agile
3 210 (41.18%) DevOps
4 191 (37.45%) Software Engineering
5 163 (31.96%) Full-Stack Development
6 140 (27.45%) Mentoring
7 114 (22.35%) Event-Driven
8 110 (21.57%) Test Automation
9 103 (20.20%) Continuous Improvement
10 100 (19.61%) Containerisation
11 97 (19.02%) AI
12 94 (18.43%) Problem-Solving
13 87 (17.06%) Computer Science
14 78 (15.29%) Architectural Patterns
15 75 (14.71%) Clean Code
16 73 (14.31%) TDD
17 72 (14.12%) Event-Driven Architecture
18 70 (13.73%) Coaching
19 69 (13.53%) Technical Leadership
20 65 (12.75%) Scrum
Programming Languages
1 188 (36.86%) Java
2 183 (35.88%) C#
3 138 (27.06%) SQL
4 125 (24.51%) JavaScript
5 114 (22.35%) TypeScript
6 106 (20.78%) Python
7 35 (6.86%) Go
8 19 (3.73%) Shell Script
9 17 (3.33%) PL/SQL
10 15 (2.94%) Ruby
11 9 (1.76%) C++
12 7 (1.37%) PHP
13 6 (1.18%) Delphi
13 6 (1.18%) Kotlin
14 4 (0.78%) Bicep
14 4 (0.78%) C
14 4 (0.78%) PowerShell
15 3 (0.59%) Erlang
16 2 (0.39%) Bash
16 2 (0.39%) Rust
Qualifications
1 93 (18.24%) Degree
2 73 (14.31%) Computer Science Degree
3 44 (8.63%) AWS Certification
4 43 (8.43%) Security Cleared
5 40 (7.84%) Azure Certification
6 39 (7.65%) SC Cleared
7 36 (7.06%) TOGAF Certification
8 31 (6.08%) Microsoft Certification
9 27 (5.29%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
10 17 (3.33%) Master's Degree
11 9 (1.76%) CISSP
12 8 (1.57%) CISM
13 5 (0.98%) ISTQB
13 5 (0.98%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
14 4 (0.78%) AWS Certified Developer
14 4 (0.78%) DBS Check
15 3 (0.59%) DV Cleared
16 2 (0.39%) BPSS Clearance
16 2 (0.39%) ISTQB Advanced Certification
16 2 (0.39%) SnowPro
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 51 (10.00%) QA
2 15 (2.94%) GDPR
3 14 (2.75%) Accessibility
3 14 (2.75%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 10 (1.96%) PCI DSS
5 9 (1.76%) NIST
6 8 (1.57%) NCSC
7 4 (0.78%) WCAG
8 3 (0.59%) Data Quality
9 2 (0.39%) HMG Security Policy Framework
9 2 (0.39%) SOC 2
10 1 (0.20%) ISO/IEC 42001
10 1 (0.20%) JSP 440
10 1 (0.20%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 111 (21.76%) Docker
2 15 (2.94%) Active Directory
3 2 (0.39%) VMware NSX
3 2 (0.39%) vSphere
4 1 (0.20%) Firmware
4 1 (0.20%) HDFS
Systems Management
1 142 (27.84%) Kubernetes
2 91 (17.84%) Terraform
3 39 (7.65%) Grafana
4 17 (3.33%) Single Sign-On
5 15 (2.94%) Ansible
6 9 (1.76%) Argo
7 6 (1.18%) Kibana
8 5 (0.98%) Prometheus
9 3 (0.59%) Puppet
10 2 (0.39%) Progress Chef
11 1 (0.20%) Istio
Vendors
1 115 (22.55%) Microsoft
2 30 (5.88%) Oracle
3 14 (2.75%) Google
4 10 (1.96%) Guidewire
5 6 (1.18%) Databricks
6 5 (0.98%) Ericsson
6 5 (0.98%) Facebook
6 5 (0.98%) Mavenir
6 5 (0.98%) Nokia
6 5 (0.98%) YouTube
7 4 (0.78%) BiZZdesign
7 4 (0.78%) Red Hat
8 3 (0.59%) OpenAI
9 2 (0.39%) Dynatrace
9 2 (0.39%) Revolut
9 2 (0.39%) Salesforce
9 2 (0.39%) SendGrid
9 2 (0.39%) Solarflare
9 2 (0.39%) Sparx
9 2 (0.39%) VMware