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

6 months to
10 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 66 42 39
Rank change year-on-year -24 -3 -3
Permanent jobs citing Microservices 606 769 1,940
As % of all permanent jobs with remote/hybrid work options 3.50% 5.92% 6.13%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 4.20% 6.25% 6.70%
Number of salaries quoted 428 616 1,725
10th Percentile £48,612 £47,500 £42,500
25th Percentile £55,750 £56,250 £50,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £70,000 £72,000 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year -2.78% +10.77% -13.33%
75th Percentile £95,000 £93,778 £83,250
90th Percentile £114,125 £115,000 £96,539
UK median annual salary £77,500 £75,000 £65,000
% change year-on-year +3.33% +15.38% -16.13%

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 14,438 12,307 28,972
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 83.43% 94.78% 91.53%
Number of salaries quoted 10,082 8,885 23,509
10th Percentile £32,000 £32,500 £33,800
25th Percentile £44,447 £46,000 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £62,500 £57,500
Median % change year-on-year -4.00% +8.70% -8.00%
75th Percentile £80,000 £80,000 £75,000
90th Percentile £100,000 £105,000 £95,000
UK median annual salary £57,500 £60,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year -4.17% +9.09% -10.57%

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 10 April 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 13 (2.15%) JBoss
2 11 (1.82%) WebSphere
3 8 (1.32%) Oracle SOA Suite
4 5 (0.83%) Apache Pulsar
4 5 (0.83%) CMS
5 4 (0.66%) Apache Airflow
6 3 (0.50%) Confluence
6 3 (0.50%) NServiceBus
6 3 (0.50%) OpenStack
6 3 (0.50%) Oracle Workflow
7 2 (0.33%) Apache
7 2 (0.33%) Camunda
7 2 (0.33%) nginx
7 2 (0.33%) SharePoint
8 1 (0.17%) Apache Spark
8 1 (0.17%) Cloud Foundry
8 1 (0.17%) Ethereum
8 1 (0.17%) Hyperledger
8 1 (0.17%) WordPress
Applications
1 3 (0.50%) Microsoft Excel
1 3 (0.50%) Microsoft Office
1 3 (0.50%) Microsoft PowerPoint
1 3 (0.50%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 8 (1.32%) Oracle ERP
2 5 (0.83%) Dynamics CRM
3 4 (0.66%) Dynamics AX
4 2 (0.33%) Shopify
5 1 (0.17%) Actimize
5 1 (0.17%) Distributed Ledger
5 1 (0.17%) Oracle EBS
5 1 (0.17%) Payment Gateway
5 1 (0.17%) Quorum
5 1 (0.17%) R3 Corda
Cloud Services
1 379 (62.54%) AWS
2 283 (46.70%) Azure
3 185 (30.53%) GCP
4 126 (20.79%) SaaS
5 109 (17.99%) Serverless
6 62 (10.23%) Azure DevOps
6 62 (10.23%) GitHub
7 48 (7.92%) Amazon EKS
8 46 (7.59%) AWS Lambda
9 39 (6.44%) Amazon S3
9 39 (6.44%) Amazon SQS
10 33 (5.45%) Azure Service Bus
11 29 (4.79%) Amazon ECS
12 28 (4.62%) Amazon EC2
13 25 (4.13%) Power Platform
14 21 (3.47%) GitHub Actions
15 20 (3.30%) Azure AKS
15 20 (3.30%) Azure Event Grid
16 19 (3.14%) PaaS
17 17 (2.81%) OpenShift
Communications & Networking
1 51 (8.42%) Broadband
2 6 (0.99%) Cisco ASA
2 6 (0.99%) Firewall
3 5 (0.83%) DHCP
3 5 (0.83%) DNS
4 4 (0.66%) MQTT
5 3 (0.50%) Modbus
5 3 (0.50%) TCP/IP
6 2 (0.33%) AMQP
6 2 (0.33%) Hyperconnected
6 2 (0.33%) Internet
7 1 (0.17%) Network Security
Database & Business Intelligence
1 91 (15.02%) PostgreSQL
2 81 (13.37%) NoSQL
3 72 (11.88%) MongoDB
4 54 (8.91%) SQL Server
5 28 (4.62%) MySQL
6 17 (2.81%) Redis
7 13 (2.15%) Amazon RDS
7 13 (2.15%) Azure SQL Database
7 13 (2.15%) Elasticsearch
7 13 (2.15%) Relational Database
8 12 (1.98%) BigQuery
9 11 (1.82%) Power BI
10 10 (1.65%) DynamoDB
11 8 (1.32%) Tableau
12 7 (1.16%) Data Lake
13 4 (0.66%) SQL Server Integration Services
14 3 (0.50%) Data Warehouse
14 3 (0.50%) Oracle Database
15 2 (0.33%) CouchDB
15 2 (0.33%) MariaDB
Development Applications
1 78 (12.87%) Git
2 40 (6.60%) TeamCity
3 38 (6.27%) Jenkins
4 29 (4.79%) GitLab
5 24 (3.96%) Cypress.io
6 15 (2.48%) JIRA
7 13 (2.15%) Selenium
8 10 (1.65%) Cucumber
9 8 (1.32%) CircleCI
9 8 (1.32%) Oracle Forms
9 8 (1.32%) Visual Studio
10 7 (1.16%) JUnit
11 6 (0.99%) Claude Code
12 5 (0.83%) git-flow
13 4 (0.66%) NUnit
13 4 (0.66%) REST Assured
14 3 (0.50%) Jasmine
14 3 (0.50%) JMeter
14 3 (0.50%) SpecFlow
15 2 (0.33%) Bitbucket
General
1 160 (26.40%) Finance
2 154 (25.41%) Social Skills
3 71 (11.72%) Banking
4 70 (11.55%) Law
5 57 (9.41%) Public Sector
6 54 (8.91%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 52 (8.58%) Retail
8 47 (7.76%) Financial Institution
9 42 (6.93%) Back Office
10 30 (4.95%) Analytical Skills
11 26 (4.29%) Telecoms
12 14 (2.31%) Legal
13 12 (1.98%) Marketing
14 11 (1.82%) Manufacturing
15 10 (1.65%) Influencing Skills
16 6 (0.99%) Advertising
17 5 (0.83%) Esports
17 5 (0.83%) Health Technology
17 5 (0.83%) Presentation Skills
17 5 (0.83%) Publishing
Job Titles
1 201 (33.17%) Developer
2 174 (28.71%) Senior
3 172 (28.38%) Software Engineer
4 94 (15.51%) Architect
5 91 (15.02%) Lead
6 68 (11.22%) Senior Software Engineer
7 54 (8.91%) Full-Stack Developer
8 52 (8.58%) Java Engineer
9 48 (7.92%) .NET Developer
10 46 (7.59%) Senior Developer
11 36 (5.94%) Java Software Engineer
12 31 (5.12%) C# Developer
12 31 (5.12%) Lead Developer
13 30 (4.95%) Scala Engineer
14 28 (4.62%) Full-Stack Engineer
15 27 (4.46%) Software Developer
16 26 (4.29%) .NET Software Engineer
17 24 (3.96%) Senior Java Engineer
18 23 (3.80%) Solutions Architect
19 22 (3.63%) Java Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 175 (28.88%) .NET
2 143 (23.60%) React
3 114 (18.81%) RESTful
4 94 (15.51%) Node.js
5 74 (12.21%) Spring
6 70 (11.55%) REST
7 69 (11.39%) gRPC
8 58 (9.57%) Kafka
9 52 (8.58%) Spring Boot
10 48 (7.92%) .NET Core
11 43 (7.10%) AngularJS
12 40 (6.60%) .NET Framework
13 37 (6.11%) HTML
14 36 (5.94%) ASP.NET
15 35 (5.78%) CSS
16 31 (5.12%) Vue
17 27 (4.46%) Middleware
18 26 (4.29%) OAuth
18 26 (4.29%) RabbitMQ
19 25 (4.13%) ASP.NET Web API
Miscellaneous
1 193 (31.85%) Cloud Native
2 112 (18.48%) Distributed Systems
3 69 (11.39%) Product Ownership
4 47 (7.76%) Enterprise Software
5 45 (7.43%) Over-the-Top Content
5 45 (7.43%) Video\Live Streaming
6 18 (2.97%) Legacy Systems
7 15 (2.48%) Virtual Team
8 13 (2.15%) Mobile App
8 13 (2.15%) Self-Motivation
9 11 (1.82%) AI Agents
9 11 (1.82%) DataPower
9 11 (1.82%) Greenfield Project
10 9 (1.49%) Algorithms
10 9 (1.49%) Distributed Architecture
10 9 (1.49%) Legacy Applications
11 8 (1.32%) Data Structures
12 7 (1.16%) IoT
12 7 (1.16%) PKI
13 5 (0.83%) Mobile Payment
Operating Systems
1 20 (3.30%) Linux
2 16 (2.64%) Android
3 9 (1.49%) Unix
4 7 (1.16%) Apple iOS
5 6 (0.99%) Windows
6 1 (0.17%) CentOS
6 1 (0.17%) Debian
6 1 (0.17%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 1 (0.17%) Ubuntu
6 1 (0.17%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 318 (52.48%) CI/CD
2 281 (46.37%) Software Engineering
3 234 (38.61%) DevOps
4 233 (38.45%) Agile
5 170 (28.05%) Containerisation
6 166 (27.39%) Full-Stack Development
7 162 (26.73%) Mentoring
8 155 (25.58%) Test Automation
9 144 (23.76%) Problem-Solving
10 137 (22.61%) Event-Driven
11 126 (20.79%) Coaching
12 123 (20.30%) Continuous Improvement
13 118 (19.47%) Clean Code
14 108 (17.82%) AI
15 88 (14.52%) Machine Learning
16 85 (14.03%) Event-Driven Architecture
17 75 (12.38%) Computer Science
17 75 (12.38%) Roadmaps
18 72 (11.88%) TDD
18 72 (11.88%) Technical Leadership
Programming Languages
1 201 (33.17%) Java
2 157 (25.91%) C#
2 157 (25.91%) Python
3 133 (21.95%) JavaScript
4 127 (20.96%) SQL
5 105 (17.33%) TypeScript
6 77 (12.71%) Go
7 45 (7.43%) Scala
8 23 (3.80%) Ruby
9 14 (2.31%) PHP
10 11 (1.82%) Shell Script
11 9 (1.49%) PL/SQL
12 8 (1.32%) C++
12 8 (1.32%) Kotlin
12 8 (1.32%) Rust
13 6 (0.99%) Bicep
13 6 (0.99%) Delphi
14 5 (0.83%) PowerShell
15 2 (0.33%) Bash
15 2 (0.33%) C
Qualifications
1 94 (15.51%) Degree
2 58 (9.57%) Computer Science Degree
3 51 (8.42%) Security Cleared
4 44 (7.26%) SC Cleared
5 33 (5.45%) Azure Certification
6 31 (5.12%) AWS Certification
7 27 (4.46%) TOGAF Certification
8 25 (4.13%) Microsoft Certification
9 20 (3.30%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
10 13 (2.15%) CISSP
11 9 (1.49%) DBS Check
11 9 (1.49%) Master's Degree
12 8 (1.32%) CISM
13 6 (0.99%) AWS Certified Developer
14 5 (0.83%) GIAC
14 5 (0.83%) ISACA
14 5 (0.83%) ISTQB
14 5 (0.83%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
14 5 (0.83%) SANS
15 2 (0.33%) ISTQB Advanced Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 45 (7.43%) QA
2 18 (2.97%) Accessibility
3 16 (2.64%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 15 (2.48%) GDPR
5 13 (2.15%) NIST
6 7 (1.16%) Actionable Recommendations
6 7 (1.16%) NCSC
6 7 (1.16%) PCI DSS
7 4 (0.66%) WCAG
8 3 (0.50%) HMG Security Policy Framework
8 3 (0.50%) IFRS
8 3 (0.50%) ISO 9001
8 3 (0.50%) Sarbanes-Oxley
9 2 (0.33%) Data Quality
9 2 (0.33%) GRC
9 2 (0.33%) SEPA
System Software
1 181 (29.87%) Docker
2 12 (1.98%) Active Directory
3 4 (0.66%) Firmware
4 1 (0.17%) VMware NSX
4 1 (0.17%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 175 (28.88%) Kubernetes
2 98 (16.17%) Terraform
3 61 (10.07%) Grafana
4 26 (4.29%) Ansible
5 11 (1.82%) Argo
6 10 (1.65%) Prometheus
7 8 (1.32%) Single Sign-On
8 6 (0.99%) Kibana
9 2 (0.33%) MIIS
9 2 (0.33%) Opsgenie
9 2 (0.33%) Puppet
Vendors
1 85 (14.03%) Microsoft
2 45 (7.43%) Typelevel
3 26 (4.29%) Oracle
4 25 (4.13%) Google
5 9 (1.49%) Red Hat
6 6 (0.99%) Cisco
6 6 (0.99%) F5
6 6 (0.99%) Juniper
6 6 (0.99%) Palo Alto
7 5 (0.83%) Databricks
7 5 (0.83%) Ericsson
7 5 (0.83%) ForgeRock
7 5 (0.83%) Mavenir
7 5 (0.83%) Nokia
7 5 (0.83%) Okta
8 4 (0.66%) Revolut
8 4 (0.66%) Salesforce
8 4 (0.66%) SAP
9 3 (0.50%) Guidewire
9 3 (0.50%) OpenAI