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

6 months to
15 Oct 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 69 51 68
Rank change year-on-year -18 +17 -18
Permanent jobs citing Microservices 851 909 824
As % of all permanent jobs with remote/hybrid work options 3.38% 5.50% 3.96%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 4.20% 5.86% 4.50%
Number of salaries quoted 582 395 492
10th Percentile £44,037 £48,165 £40,000
25th Percentile £50,000 £57,500 £48,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £69,305 £70,000 £62,500
Median % change year-on-year -0.99% +12.00% -16.67%
75th Percentile £88,148 £85,000 £82,813
90th Percentile £100,000 £100,000 £96,250
UK median annual salary £72,500 £75,000 £67,500
% change year-on-year -3.33% +11.11% -10.00%

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 20,270 15,511 18,315
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 80.62% 93.82% 87.95%
Number of salaries quoted 14,399 8,394 11,074
10th Percentile £34,000 £29,750 £35,700
25th Percentile £44,447 £40,000 £45,000
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 £81,250
90th Percentile £100,000 £100,000 £102,500
UK median annual salary £60,000 £55,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year +9.09% -8.33% -

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 October 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 11 (1.29%) CMS
2 8 (0.94%) nginx
3 7 (0.82%) Oracle SOA Suite
3 7 (0.82%) WebLogic
4 6 (0.71%) Camunda
5 5 (0.59%) IIS
6 3 (0.35%) DNN
6 3 (0.35%) EPiServer
6 3 (0.35%) Headless CMS
6 3 (0.35%) Immediacy CMS
6 3 (0.35%) Kentico
6 3 (0.35%) Sitecore CMS
6 3 (0.35%) Sitefinity
6 3 (0.35%) Umbraco
7 2 (0.24%) Apache Spark
7 2 (0.24%) OpenStack
7 2 (0.24%) WordPress
8 1 (0.12%) Confluence
8 1 (0.12%) JBoss
8 1 (0.12%) Oracle Coherence
Applications
1 7 (0.82%) Chatbot
Business Applications
1 4 (0.47%) Dynamics CRM
2 3 (0.35%) Oracle EBS
Cloud Services
1 477 (56.05%) AWS
2 392 (46.06%) Azure
3 168 (19.74%) SaaS
4 141 (16.57%) GCP
5 100 (11.75%) Serverless
6 98 (11.52%) GitHub
7 85 (9.99%) Amazon EKS
8 72 (8.46%) GitHub Copilot
9 66 (7.76%) AWS Lambda
10 64 (7.52%) Azure DevOps
11 49 (5.76%) Amazon S3
12 44 (5.17%) Azure Service Bus
13 38 (4.47%) Amazon SQS
14 37 (4.35%) Amazon ECS
15 31 (3.64%) Azure Cosmos DB
16 29 (3.41%) Azure AKS
17 28 (3.29%) Amazon EC2
17 28 (3.29%) Azure Monitor
17 28 (3.29%) PaaS
18 25 (2.94%) Azure Functions
Communications & Networking
1 15 (1.76%) Broadband
2 14 (1.65%) VPN
3 12 (1.41%) Network Security
4 11 (1.29%) Firewall
5 9 (1.06%) TCP/IP
6 8 (0.94%) BGP
7 7 (0.82%) Hyperconnected
7 7 (0.82%) Internet
8 5 (0.59%) HTTP
9 3 (0.35%) DNS
9 3 (0.35%) OpenVPN
10 1 (0.12%) MQTT
10 1 (0.12%) SSL
10 1 (0.12%) X.509
Database & Business Intelligence
1 218 (25.62%) MongoDB
2 151 (17.74%) Azure SQL Database
3 133 (15.63%) Elasticsearch
4 113 (13.28%) PostgreSQL
5 64 (7.52%) SQL Server
6 47 (5.52%) MySQL
7 37 (4.35%) NoSQL
7 37 (4.35%) Redis
8 32 (3.76%) Relational Database
9 28 (3.29%) Amazon RDS
10 15 (1.76%) DynamoDB
11 13 (1.53%) Data Lake
12 10 (1.18%) Amazon Redshift
13 8 (0.94%) Metadata
14 7 (0.82%) Amazon Athena
15 6 (0.71%) Parquet
15 6 (0.71%) RDBMS
16 4 (0.47%) Data Warehouse
16 4 (0.47%) Delta Lake
16 4 (0.47%) MariaDB
Development Applications
1 74 (8.70%) TeamCity
2 72 (8.46%) Git
3 29 (3.41%) GitLab
4 27 (3.17%) JUnit
5 25 (2.94%) Mockito
6 22 (2.59%) Cypress.io
7 18 (2.12%) Maven
8 17 (2.00%) Claude Code
9 15 (1.76%) Jenkins
10 9 (1.06%) JIRA
11 6 (0.71%) Selenium
12 5 (0.59%) Octopus Deploy
13 3 (0.35%) Atlassian Bamboo
13 3 (0.35%) Bitbucket
13 3 (0.35%) MLflow
13 3 (0.35%) Mocha
13 3 (0.35%) Visual Studio
14 2 (0.24%) NUnit
14 2 (0.24%) Visual Studio Code
15 1 (0.12%) IntelliJ
General
1 212 (24.91%) Finance
2 165 (19.39%) Social Skills
3 117 (13.75%) Law
4 108 (12.69%) Retail
5 95 (11.16%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 87 (10.22%) Public Sector
7 81 (9.52%) Banking
8 74 (8.70%) Back Office
9 72 (8.46%) Financial Institution
10 68 (7.99%) Legal
11 43 (5.05%) Analytical Skills
12 28 (3.29%) Legal Technology
13 26 (3.06%) Games
14 16 (1.88%) Aerospace
15 14 (1.65%) Marketing
16 9 (1.06%) French Language
17 6 (0.71%) Advertising
17 6 (0.71%) Presentation Skills
18 5 (0.59%) Influencing Skills
18 5 (0.59%) Police
Job Titles
1 381 (44.77%) Developer
2 203 (23.85%) Senior
3 178 (20.92%) Software Engineer
4 176 (20.68%) .NET Developer
5 167 (19.62%) Lead
6 97 (11.40%) Senior Developer
7 95 (11.16%) Architect
8 94 (11.05%) Full-Stack Developer
9 48 (5.64%) Lead Developer
10 45 (5.29%) Lead Software Engineer
10 45 (5.29%) Senior Software Engineer
11 40 (4.70%) Full-Stack Engineer
12 36 (4.23%) Java Engineer
12 36 (4.23%) Technical Leader
13 33 (3.88%) Software Developer
14 31 (3.64%) Team Leader
15 28 (3.29%) Java Developer
16 27 (3.17%) Solutions Architect
17 25 (2.94%) Technical Architect
18 23 (2.70%) Lead Software Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 333 (39.13%) .NET
2 258 (30.32%) Node.js
3 228 (26.79%) React
4 185 (21.74%) .NET Core
5 174 (20.45%) ASP.NET
6 154 (18.10%) Terraform
7 152 (17.86%) ASP.NET Core
8 141 (16.57%) Vue
9 113 (13.28%) AngularJS
10 103 (12.10%) Blazor
11 96 (11.28%) REST
12 93 (10.93%) ASP.NET Web API
13 87 (10.22%) Spring
14 74 (8.70%) RESTful
15 61 (7.17%) .NET Framework
15 61 (7.17%) Spring Boot
16 52 (6.11%) Kafka
17 31 (3.64%) WPF
18 27 (3.17%) Jest
19 26 (3.06%) CSS
Miscellaneous
1 246 (28.91%) Cloud Native
2 117 (13.75%) Distributed Systems
3 78 (9.17%) Product Ownership
4 31 (3.64%) Greenfield Project
4 31 (3.64%) Legacy Systems
5 24 (2.82%) Enterprise Software
6 19 (2.23%) Management Information System
7 18 (2.12%) Self-Motivation
8 17 (2.00%) Blog
9 15 (1.76%) AI Agents
10 13 (1.53%) Virtual Team
11 11 (1.29%) Security Posture
12 9 (1.06%) Data Structures
12 9 (1.06%) Legacy Applications
13 7 (0.82%) Hybrid Cloud
13 7 (0.82%) IoT
13 7 (0.82%) Onboarding
14 6 (0.71%) Mobile App
14 6 (0.71%) Public Cloud
14 6 (0.71%) Robotics
Operating Systems
1 47 (5.52%) Linux
2 26 (3.06%) Windows
3 11 (1.29%) Unix
4 1 (0.12%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 479 (56.29%) Agile
2 456 (53.58%) CI/CD
3 315 (37.02%) Full-Stack Development
4 314 (36.90%) Software Engineering
5 272 (31.96%) Mentoring
6 251 (29.49%) DevOps
7 204 (23.97%) Continuous Improvement
8 189 (22.21%) Problem-Solving
9 165 (19.39%) AI
10 159 (18.68%) Event-Driven
11 158 (18.57%) Scrum
12 154 (18.10%) Test Automation
13 153 (17.98%) Technical Leadership
14 142 (16.69%) TDD
15 139 (16.33%) Coaching
16 129 (15.16%) Clean Code
17 124 (14.57%) Architectural Patterns
18 118 (13.87%) Infrastructure as Code
19 115 (13.51%) Event-Driven Architecture
20 100 (11.75%) Enterprise Architecture
Programming Languages
1 354 (41.60%) C#
2 273 (32.08%) SQL
3 248 (29.14%) Java
4 238 (27.97%) JavaScript
5 196 (23.03%) TypeScript
6 120 (14.10%) Python
7 28 (3.29%) Ruby
8 26 (3.06%) Go
9 18 (2.12%) Bash
10 15 (1.76%) Bicep
10 15 (1.76%) PowerShell
11 14 (1.65%) PL/SQL
12 7 (0.82%) Kotlin
12 7 (0.82%) PHP
13 5 (0.59%) C++
13 5 (0.59%) Scala
14 3 (0.35%) VB.NET
15 2 (0.24%) C
15 2 (0.24%) Groovy
15 2 (0.24%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 105 (12.34%) Security Cleared
2 85 (9.99%) SC Cleared
3 67 (7.87%) Degree
4 31 (3.64%) Computer Science Degree
5 15 (1.76%) Azure Certification
6 13 (1.53%) CISM
6 13 (1.53%) CISSP
7 11 (1.29%) AWS Certification
7 11 (1.29%) DV Cleared
8 10 (1.18%) Cisco Certification
9 9 (1.06%) (ISC)2 CCSP
9 9 (1.06%) CCSP
10 8 (0.94%) DBS Check
11 6 (0.71%) TOGAF Certification
12 5 (0.59%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
12 5 (0.59%) BPSS Clearance
12 5 (0.59%) Microsoft Certification
13 2 (0.24%) CISA
13 2 (0.24%) CSSLP
13 2 (0.24%) PhD
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 104 (12.22%) QA
2 28 (3.29%) Accessibility
3 27 (3.17%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 15 (1.76%) GDPR
4 15 (1.76%) NIST
5 12 (1.41%) PCI DSS
6 9 (1.06%) Data Quality
7 8 (0.94%) HMG Security Policy Framework
7 8 (0.94%) SOC 2
8 4 (0.47%) California Consumer Privacy Act
8 4 (0.47%) NCSC
9 3 (0.35%) SLA
10 2 (0.24%) WCAG
11 1 (0.12%) PSD2
11 1 (0.12%) SEPA
System Software
1 240 (28.20%) Docker
2 9 (1.06%) Active Directory
3 7 (0.82%) Virtual Machines
4 2 (0.24%) Virtual Desktop
5 1 (0.12%) HDFS
Systems Management
1 292 (34.31%) Kubernetes
2 87 (10.22%) Grafana
3 14 (1.65%) Argo
4 12 (1.41%) Ansible
4 12 (1.41%) Prometheus
5 8 (0.94%) Cilium
6 3 (0.35%) Kibana
7 2 (0.24%) Single Sign-On
8 1 (0.12%) Consul
8 1 (0.12%) Control-M
Vendors
1 230 (27.03%) Microsoft
2 43 (5.05%) Google
3 31 (3.64%) Oracle
4 16 (1.88%) OpenAI
5 13 (1.53%) SAP
6 11 (1.29%) Databricks
7 10 (1.18%) Splunk
8 8 (0.94%) Dynatrace
9 4 (0.47%) Epicor
9 4 (0.47%) Facebook
9 4 (0.47%) ForgeRock
9 4 (0.47%) HubSpot
9 4 (0.47%) IFS
9 4 (0.47%) Infor
9 4 (0.47%) Instagram
9 4 (0.47%) TikTok
10 3 (0.35%) Alterian
10 3 (0.35%) CyberArk
10 3 (0.35%) OpenText
10 3 (0.35%) Sitecore