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

6 months to
2 Feb 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 78 54 30
Rank change year-on-year -24 -24 +7
Permanent jobs citing Microservices 524 879 1,876
As % of all permanent jobs with remote/hybrid work options 3.32% 5.47% 6.83%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 3.84% 5.79% 7.35%
Number of salaries quoted 401 556 1,630
10th Percentile £52,500 £47,500 £42,500
25th Percentile £57,750 £52,500 £50,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £75,000 £70,000 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year +7.14% +7.69% -13.33%
75th Percentile £93,750 £87,500 £83,750
90th Percentile £113,750 £111,250 £97,500
UK median annual salary £77,500 £71,991 £69,447
% change year-on-year +7.65% +3.66% -12.79%

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 13,657 15,174 25,524
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 86.56% 94.51% 92.89%
Number of salaries quoted 8,670 8,919 21,083
10th Percentile £30,000 £36,250 £35,000
25th Percentile £42,500 £47,500 £43,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £62,779 £59,000
Median % change year-on-year -4.43% +6.40% -5.60%
75th Percentile £80,000 £82,500 £77,500
90th Percentile £100,000 £102,500 £95,000
UK median annual salary £55,000 £60,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year -8.33% +9.09% -12.00%

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 2 February 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 (3.24%) Oracle SOA Suite
2 12 (2.29%) JBoss
3 11 (2.10%) WebSphere
4 5 (0.95%) Apache Pulsar
5 4 (0.76%) Apache Airflow
6 3 (0.57%) CMS
6 3 (0.57%) Confluence
6 3 (0.57%) nginx
6 3 (0.57%) OpenStack
6 3 (0.57%) Oracle Workflow
7 2 (0.38%) Apache
7 2 (0.38%) NServiceBus
7 2 (0.38%) SharePoint
8 1 (0.19%) Apache Spark
8 1 (0.19%) ArcGIS
8 1 (0.19%) Camunda
8 1 (0.19%) Ethereum
8 1 (0.19%) Hyperledger
Applications
1 3 (0.57%) Microsoft Excel
1 3 (0.57%) Microsoft Office
1 3 (0.57%) Microsoft PowerPoint
1 3 (0.57%) MS Visio
2 1 (0.19%) PlantUML
Business Applications
1 17 (3.24%) Oracle ERP
2 3 (0.57%) Dynamics CRM
3 1 (0.19%) Actimize
3 1 (0.19%) Distributed Ledger
3 1 (0.19%) Quorum
3 1 (0.19%) R3 Corda
Cloud Services
1 310 (59.16%) AWS
2 278 (53.05%) Azure
3 123 (23.47%) GCP
4 119 (22.71%) SaaS
5 110 (20.99%) Serverless
6 77 (14.69%) GitHub
7 67 (12.79%) Azure DevOps
8 41 (7.82%) AWS Lambda
9 38 (7.25%) Amazon EKS
10 33 (6.30%) Amazon S3
11 32 (6.11%) Amazon SQS
12 31 (5.92%) Power Platform
13 28 (5.34%) GitHub Actions
14 27 (5.15%) Amazon ECS
15 26 (4.96%) Azure Service Bus
15 26 (4.96%) PaaS
16 20 (3.82%) OCI
17 18 (3.44%) Azure App Service
18 17 (3.24%) GitHub Copilot
19 16 (3.05%) Amazon EC2
Communications & Networking
1 11 (2.10%) Broadband
2 2 (0.38%) AMQP
3 1 (0.19%) DHCP
3 1 (0.19%) DNS
3 1 (0.19%) Hyperconnected
3 1 (0.19%) Internet
3 1 (0.19%) MQTT
Database & Business Intelligence
1 81 (15.46%) MongoDB
2 74 (14.12%) PostgreSQL
3 69 (13.17%) NoSQL
4 63 (12.02%) SQL Server
5 31 (5.92%) Azure SQL Database
6 26 (4.96%) Elasticsearch
7 22 (4.20%) MySQL
7 22 (4.20%) Power BI
8 17 (3.24%) Tableau
9 16 (3.05%) DynamoDB
10 13 (2.48%) Redis
11 12 (2.29%) BigQuery
12 11 (2.10%) Relational Database
13 7 (1.34%) Amazon RDS
13 7 (1.34%) Data Warehouse
14 5 (0.95%) NonStop SQL
15 4 (0.76%) Data Lake
16 2 (0.38%) Electronic Patient Records
16 2 (0.38%) MariaDB
16 2 (0.38%) PostHog
Development Applications
1 78 (14.89%) Git
2 42 (8.02%) Jenkins
3 25 (4.77%) TeamCity
4 23 (4.39%) JIRA
5 21 (4.01%) GitLab
6 19 (3.63%) Cypress.io
7 17 (3.24%) Oracle Forms
8 10 (1.91%) Cucumber
8 10 (1.91%) Selenium
9 9 (1.72%) CircleCI
10 8 (1.53%) git-flow
11 7 (1.34%) JUnit
11 7 (1.34%) Visual Studio
12 4 (0.76%) JMeter
12 4 (0.76%) REST Assured
13 3 (0.57%) Postman
13 3 (0.57%) SpecFlow
14 2 (0.38%) Mockito
14 2 (0.38%) NUnit
14 2 (0.38%) WebDriver
General
1 165 (31.49%) Social Skills
2 141 (26.91%) Finance
3 50 (9.54%) Banking
4 48 (9.16%) Law
5 36 (6.87%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 35 (6.68%) Retail
7 34 (6.49%) Financial Institution
8 32 (6.11%) Back Office
9 29 (5.53%) Public Sector
10 20 (3.82%) Telecoms
11 19 (3.63%) Analytical Skills
12 12 (2.29%) Influencing Skills
13 11 (2.10%) Legal
14 9 (1.72%) Billing
15 8 (1.53%) Advertising
15 8 (1.53%) Marketing
16 6 (1.15%) Presentation Skills
17 5 (0.95%) Esports
17 5 (0.95%) Front Office
17 5 (0.95%) Health Technology
Job Titles
1 186 (35.50%) Developer
2 159 (30.34%) Senior
3 122 (23.28%) Software Engineer
4 85 (16.22%) Architect
5 78 (14.89%) Lead
6 62 (11.83%) .NET Developer
7 56 (10.69%) Senior Software Engineer
8 48 (9.16%) Senior Developer
9 38 (7.25%) Full-Stack Developer
10 35 (6.68%) Java Engineer
11 33 (6.30%) Lead Developer
12 24 (4.58%) Applications Engineer
12 24 (4.58%) Principal Engineer
12 24 (4.58%) Software Developer
13 23 (4.39%) Cloud Engineer
13 23 (4.39%) Solutions Architect
14 22 (4.20%) C# Developer
14 22 (4.20%) Full-Stack Engineer
14 22 (4.20%) Java Developer
15 20 (3.82%) Java Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 187 (35.69%) .NET
2 153 (29.20%) React
3 123 (23.47%) RESTful
4 88 (16.79%) Node.js
5 75 (14.31%) Spring
6 72 (13.74%) Kafka
7 70 (13.36%) .NET Core
8 64 (12.21%) AngularJS
9 59 (11.26%) Spring Boot
10 58 (11.07%) REST
11 56 (10.69%) ASP.NET Web API
12 47 (8.97%) .NET Framework
12 47 (8.97%) ASP.NET
13 37 (7.06%) Entity Framework
14 34 (6.49%) gRPC
15 31 (5.92%) HTML
16 29 (5.53%) ASP.NET MVC
16 29 (5.53%) OAuth
16 29 (5.53%) RabbitMQ
17 26 (4.96%) OAuth2
Miscellaneous
1 157 (29.96%) Cloud Native
2 80 (15.27%) Distributed Systems
3 61 (11.64%) Enterprise Software
4 56 (10.69%) Product Ownership
5 15 (2.86%) Virtual Team
6 14 (2.67%) Greenfield Project
7 13 (2.48%) Algorithms
7 13 (2.48%) Data Structures
8 11 (2.10%) DataPower
8 11 (2.10%) Legacy Systems
9 10 (1.91%) AI Agents
9 10 (1.91%) Onboarding
10 9 (1.72%) Distributed Architecture
10 9 (1.72%) Over-the-Top Content
10 9 (1.72%) Video\Live Streaming
11 7 (1.34%) Mobile App
11 7 (1.34%) PKI
11 7 (1.34%) Self-Motivation
12 5 (0.95%) Derivative
12 5 (0.95%) IoT
Operating Systems
1 16 (3.05%) Android
2 15 (2.86%) Linux
3 7 (1.34%) Apple iOS
3 7 (1.34%) Windows
4 2 (0.38%) VMS
5 1 (0.19%) CentOS
5 1 (0.19%) Debian
5 1 (0.19%) Fedora
5 1 (0.19%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 1 (0.19%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 264 (50.38%) CI/CD
2 238 (45.42%) Agile
3 209 (39.89%) DevOps
3 209 (39.89%) Software Engineering
4 166 (31.68%) Full-Stack Development
5 144 (27.48%) Mentoring
6 116 (22.14%) Test Automation
7 114 (21.76%) Event-Driven
8 111 (21.18%) Containerisation
9 103 (19.66%) Problem-Solving
10 102 (19.47%) Continuous Improvement
11 97 (18.51%) AI
12 87 (16.60%) Computer Science
13 82 (15.65%) Clean Code
14 80 (15.27%) Architectural Patterns
14 80 (15.27%) Coaching
15 75 (14.31%) TDD
16 72 (13.74%) Event-Driven Architecture
17 68 (12.98%) Technical Leadership
18 63 (12.02%) Scrum
Programming Languages
1 190 (36.26%) Java
2 184 (35.11%) C#
3 137 (26.15%) SQL
4 124 (23.66%) JavaScript
5 116 (22.14%) Python
6 113 (21.56%) TypeScript
7 43 (8.21%) Go
8 19 (3.63%) Shell Script
9 17 (3.24%) PL/SQL
10 15 (2.86%) Ruby
11 10 (1.91%) Scala
12 9 (1.72%) C++
13 8 (1.53%) PHP
14 6 (1.15%) Delphi
14 6 (1.15%) Kotlin
15 5 (0.95%) PowerShell
16 4 (0.76%) Bicep
16 4 (0.76%) C
17 3 (0.57%) Erlang
17 3 (0.57%) Rust
Qualifications
1 94 (17.94%) Degree
2 73 (13.93%) Computer Science Degree
3 45 (8.59%) Security Cleared
4 43 (8.21%) AWS Certification
5 41 (7.82%) SC Cleared
6 40 (7.63%) Azure Certification
7 35 (6.68%) TOGAF Certification
8 31 (5.92%) Microsoft Certification
9 27 (5.15%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
10 16 (3.05%) Master's Degree
11 9 (1.72%) CISSP
12 8 (1.53%) CISM
13 5 (0.95%) ISTQB
13 5 (0.95%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
14 4 (0.76%) AWS Certified Developer
14 4 (0.76%) DBS Check
15 3 (0.57%) DV Cleared
16 2 (0.38%) BPSS Clearance
16 2 (0.38%) ISTQB Advanced Certification
17 1 (0.19%) SANS
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 50 (9.54%) QA
2 16 (3.05%) GDPR
3 15 (2.86%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 13 (2.48%) Accessibility
5 10 (1.91%) PCI DSS
6 9 (1.72%) NIST
7 8 (1.53%) NCSC
8 3 (0.57%) WCAG
9 2 (0.38%) Data Quality
9 2 (0.38%) HMG Security Policy Framework
9 2 (0.38%) SOC 2
10 1 (0.19%) ISO/IEC 42001
10 1 (0.19%) JSP 440
10 1 (0.19%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 123 (23.47%) Docker
2 13 (2.48%) Active Directory
3 2 (0.38%) VMware NSX
3 2 (0.38%) vSphere
4 1 (0.19%) Firmware
4 1 (0.19%) HDFS
Systems Management
1 146 (27.86%) Kubernetes
2 92 (17.56%) Terraform
3 41 (7.82%) Grafana
4 17 (3.24%) Single Sign-On
5 16 (3.05%) Ansible
6 9 (1.72%) Argo
7 6 (1.15%) Kibana
7 6 (1.15%) Prometheus
8 3 (0.57%) Puppet
9 2 (0.38%) Progress Chef
10 1 (0.19%) Istio
Vendors
1 112 (21.37%) Microsoft
2 31 (5.92%) Oracle
3 14 (2.67%) Google
4 9 (1.72%) Guidewire
4 9 (1.72%) Typelevel
5 6 (1.15%) Databricks
6 5 (0.95%) Ericsson
6 5 (0.95%) Facebook
6 5 (0.95%) Mavenir
6 5 (0.95%) Nokia
6 5 (0.95%) YouTube
7 4 (0.76%) BiZZdesign
7 4 (0.76%) Red Hat
8 3 (0.57%) OpenAI
8 3 (0.57%) Salesforce
9 2 (0.38%) SAP
9 2 (0.38%) SendGrid
9 2 (0.38%) Solarflare
9 2 (0.38%) Sparx
9 2 (0.38%) VMware