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

6 months to
25 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 71 36 42
Rank change year-on-year -35 +6 -4
Permanent jobs citing Microservices 650 1,105 1,816
As % of all permanent jobs with remote/hybrid work options 3.45% 7.56% 5.54%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 4.16% 7.97% 6.12%
Number of salaries quoted 464 550 1,649
10th Percentile £47,500 £50,000 £42,500
25th Percentile £52,500 £57,500 £48,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £69,310 £70,000 £62,500
Median % change year-on-year -0.99% +12.00% -16.67%
75th Percentile £88,148 £93,778 £82,500
90th Percentile £105,000 £115,000 £96,539
UK median annual salary £75,000 £74,870 £65,000
% change year-on-year +0.17% +15.18% -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 15,628 13,867 29,674
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 82.84% 94.93% 90.50%
Number of salaries quoted 11,147 8,130 23,403
10th Percentile £35,000 £30,500 £33,750
25th Percentile £45,000 £43,500 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £60,000 £57,500
Median % change year-on-year - +4.35% -8.00%
75th Percentile £80,000 £80,000 £75,000
90th Percentile £100,000 £106,250 £95,000
UK median annual salary £60,000 £59,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year +1.69% +7.27% -9.84%

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 25 May 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 8 (1.23%) JBoss
2 7 (1.08%) Oracle SOA Suite
3 5 (0.77%) WebSphere
4 4 (0.62%) CMS
5 3 (0.46%) Confluence
5 3 (0.46%) OpenStack
6 2 (0.31%) Apache
6 2 (0.31%) Apache Airflow
6 2 (0.31%) Camunda
6 2 (0.31%) nginx
6 2 (0.31%) NServiceBus
6 2 (0.31%) SharePoint
7 1 (0.15%) Apache Pulsar
7 1 (0.15%) Apache Spark
7 1 (0.15%) Cloud Foundry
7 1 (0.15%) Red Hat Fuse
7 1 (0.15%) WordPress
Business Applications
1 5 (0.77%) Dynamics CRM
1 5 (0.77%) Oracle ERP
2 4 (0.62%) Dynamics AX
3 2 (0.31%) Shopify
4 1 (0.15%) Actimize
4 1 (0.15%) Oracle EBS
4 1 (0.15%) Payment Gateway
Cloud Services
1 412 (63.38%) AWS
2 293 (45.08%) Azure
3 160 (24.62%) GCP
4 119 (18.31%) SaaS
5 110 (16.92%) Serverless
6 63 (9.69%) Azure DevOps
7 55 (8.46%) GitHub
8 52 (8.00%) AWS Lambda
9 47 (7.23%) Amazon EKS
10 44 (6.77%) Amazon SQS
11 38 (5.85%) Amazon S3
12 35 (5.38%) Amazon ECS
13 32 (4.92%) Amazon EC2
14 31 (4.77%) Azure AKS
15 29 (4.46%) Azure Service Bus
16 27 (4.15%) GitHub Copilot
17 25 (3.85%) PaaS
18 20 (3.08%) Power Platform
19 18 (2.77%) Azure Event Grid
20 15 (2.31%) Azure Cosmos DB
Communications & Networking
1 60 (9.23%) Broadband
2 6 (0.92%) Cisco ASA
2 6 (0.92%) DNS
2 6 (0.92%) Firewall
3 5 (0.77%) DHCP
4 4 (0.62%) MQTT
4 4 (0.62%) TCP/IP
5 3 (0.46%) Hyperconnected
5 3 (0.46%) Internet
5 3 (0.46%) Modbus
5 3 (0.46%) Network Security
6 2 (0.31%) AMQP
7 1 (0.15%) HTTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 125 (19.23%) MongoDB
2 103 (15.85%) PostgreSQL
3 77 (11.85%) NoSQL
4 42 (6.46%) MySQL
5 39 (6.00%) Azure SQL Database
6 37 (5.69%) Elasticsearch
7 36 (5.54%) SQL Server
8 19 (2.92%) Amazon RDS
9 16 (2.46%) Relational Database
10 15 (2.31%) Redis
11 9 (1.38%) BigQuery
12 8 (1.23%) DynamoDB
13 6 (0.92%) Metadata
14 5 (0.77%) Power BI
14 5 (0.77%) Tableau
15 4 (0.62%) MariaDB
15 4 (0.62%) SQL Server Integration Services
16 3 (0.46%) Data Lake
16 3 (0.46%) Oracle Database
17 2 (0.31%) Looker
Development Applications
1 68 (10.46%) Git
2 41 (6.31%) TeamCity
3 39 (6.00%) GitLab
4 25 (3.85%) Jenkins
5 24 (3.69%) Cypress.io
6 11 (1.69%) Claude Code
6 11 (1.69%) JIRA
7 10 (1.54%) Maven
8 9 (1.38%) JUnit
9 8 (1.23%) Mockito
9 8 (1.23%) Visual Studio
10 7 (1.08%) Selenium
11 5 (0.77%) CircleCI
11 5 (0.77%) Oracle Forms
11 5 (0.77%) REST Assured
12 4 (0.62%) Cucumber
12 4 (0.62%) NUnit
13 3 (0.46%) Atlassian Bamboo
13 3 (0.46%) JMeter
13 3 (0.46%) SpecFlow
General
1 166 (25.54%) Finance
2 109 (16.77%) Social Skills
3 80 (12.31%) Public Sector
4 73 (11.23%) Banking
5 71 (10.92%) Law
6 56 (8.62%) Retail
7 49 (7.54%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 44 (6.77%) Financial Institution
9 40 (6.15%) Back Office
10 33 (5.08%) Analytical Skills
11 13 (2.00%) Legal
12 10 (1.54%) Telecoms
13 9 (1.38%) Marketing
14 8 (1.23%) Influencing Skills
14 8 (1.23%) Manufacturing
15 6 (0.92%) Aerospace
16 5 (0.77%) Games
16 5 (0.77%) Health Technology
16 5 (0.77%) Publishing
17 4 (0.62%) Local Government
Job Titles
1 234 (36.00%) Developer
2 184 (28.31%) Software Engineer
3 148 (22.77%) Senior
4 129 (19.85%) Lead
5 95 (14.62%) Architect
6 79 (12.15%) .NET Developer
7 72 (11.08%) Full-Stack Developer
8 58 (8.92%) Senior Software Engineer
9 46 (7.08%) Java Engineer
10 38 (5.85%) Lead Developer
11 36 (5.54%) .NET Software Engineer
12 35 (5.38%) C# Developer
13 33 (5.08%) Senior Developer
14 32 (4.92%) Java Software Engineer
15 31 (4.77%) C# Software Engineer
15 31 (4.77%) Lead Software Engineer
16 30 (4.62%) Scala Engineer
17 29 (4.46%) Full-Stack Engineer
18 28 (4.31%) C# .NET Developer
18 28 (4.31%) Java Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 176 (27.08%) .NET
2 152 (23.38%) React
3 141 (21.69%) Node.js
4 100 (15.38%) RESTful
5 71 (10.92%) .NET Core
6 66 (10.15%) Spring
7 65 (10.00%) REST
7 65 (10.00%) Vue
8 58 (8.92%) ASP.NET
9 56 (8.62%) gRPC
10 52 (8.00%) AngularJS
11 47 (7.23%) ASP.NET Core
12 46 (7.08%) Spring Boot
13 40 (6.15%) .NET Framework
13 40 (6.15%) CSS
13 40 (6.15%) HTML
13 40 (6.15%) Kafka
14 35 (5.38%) ASP.NET Web API
15 27 (4.15%) Middleware
16 26 (4.00%) Jest
Miscellaneous
1 197 (30.31%) Cloud Native
2 101 (15.54%) Distributed Systems
3 70 (10.77%) Product Ownership
4 46 (7.08%) Video\Live Streaming
5 45 (6.92%) Over-the-Top Content
6 33 (5.08%) Enterprise Software
7 20 (3.08%) Legacy Systems
8 13 (2.00%) Greenfield Project
8 13 (2.00%) Legacy Applications
8 13 (2.00%) Self-Motivation
9 12 (1.85%) Virtual Team
10 10 (1.54%) Mobile App
11 9 (1.38%) Data Structures
12 8 (1.23%) Algorithms
13 7 (1.08%) PKI
14 6 (0.92%) IoT
15 5 (0.77%) AI Agents
15 5 (0.77%) Cyberattack
15 5 (0.77%) Distributed Architecture
15 5 (0.77%) Onboarding
Operating Systems
1 38 (5.85%) Linux
2 20 (3.08%) Unix
3 14 (2.15%) Windows
4 8 (1.23%) Android
5 5 (0.77%) Apple iOS
6 1 (0.15%) CentOS
6 1 (0.15%) Debian
6 1 (0.15%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 1 (0.15%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 332 (51.08%) CI/CD
2 289 (44.46%) Software Engineering
3 278 (42.77%) Agile
4 233 (35.85%) DevOps
5 204 (31.38%) Full-Stack Development
6 197 (30.31%) Mentoring
7 160 (24.62%) Containerisation
8 157 (24.15%) Coaching
9 155 (23.85%) Test Automation
10 137 (21.08%) Problem-Solving
11 134 (20.62%) Event-Driven
12 131 (20.15%) Continuous Improvement
13 123 (18.92%) Clean Code
14 100 (15.38%) AI
15 99 (15.23%) Scrum
16 95 (14.62%) Event-Driven Architecture
17 93 (14.31%) Technical Leadership
18 92 (14.15%) Infrastructure as Code
19 86 (13.23%) TDD
20 82 (12.62%) Machine Learning
Programming Languages
1 208 (32.00%) Java
2 176 (27.08%) JavaScript
3 171 (26.31%) C#
4 159 (24.46%) SQL
5 147 (22.62%) Python
6 117 (18.00%) TypeScript
7 60 (9.23%) Go
8 47 (7.23%) Scala
9 25 (3.85%) Ruby
10 15 (2.31%) PHP
11 14 (2.15%) PL/SQL
12 11 (1.69%) Bash
13 8 (1.23%) Kotlin
13 8 (1.23%) PowerShell
13 8 (1.23%) Rust
13 8 (1.23%) Shell Script
14 7 (1.08%) Bicep
15 6 (0.92%) C++
16 1 (0.15%) Korn
16 1 (0.15%) Perl
Qualifications
1 70 (10.77%) Degree
2 65 (10.00%) Security Cleared
3 49 (7.54%) SC Cleared
4 35 (5.38%) Computer Science Degree
5 25 (3.85%) Azure Certification
6 21 (3.23%) AWS Certification
7 19 (2.92%) TOGAF Certification
8 16 (2.46%) Microsoft Certification
9 15 (2.31%) CISSP
10 14 (2.15%) DBS Check
11 12 (1.85%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
12 10 (1.54%) CISM
13 5 (0.77%) GIAC
13 5 (0.77%) ISACA
13 5 (0.77%) Master's Degree
13 5 (0.77%) SANS
14 4 (0.62%) AWS Certified Developer
14 4 (0.62%) ISTQB
14 4 (0.62%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
15 3 (0.46%) DV Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 45 (6.92%) QA
2 20 (3.08%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 17 (2.62%) Accessibility
4 15 (2.31%) NIST
5 14 (2.15%) GDPR
6 10 (1.54%) Actionable Recommendations
7 7 (1.08%) NCSC
7 7 (1.08%) PCI DSS
8 4 (0.62%) WCAG
9 3 (0.46%) HMG Security Policy Framework
9 3 (0.46%) IFRS
9 3 (0.46%) ISO 9001
9 3 (0.46%) Sarbanes-Oxley
10 2 (0.31%) GRC
10 2 (0.31%) SEPA
11 1 (0.15%) Data Quality
System Software
1 190 (29.23%) Docker
2 9 (1.38%) Active Directory
3 3 (0.46%) Firmware
Systems Management
1 187 (28.77%) Kubernetes
2 114 (17.54%) Terraform
3 52 (8.00%) Grafana
4 28 (4.31%) Ansible
5 18 (2.77%) Argo
6 9 (1.38%) Prometheus
7 6 (0.92%) Single Sign-On
8 3 (0.46%) Kibana
9 2 (0.31%) MIIS
9 2 (0.31%) Opsgenie
9 2 (0.31%) Puppet
Vendors
1 106 (16.31%) Microsoft
2 45 (6.92%) Typelevel
3 24 (3.69%) Google
4 21 (3.23%) Oracle
5 7 (1.08%) Red Hat
6 6 (0.92%) Cisco
6 6 (0.92%) F5
6 6 (0.92%) Juniper
6 6 (0.92%) OpenAI
6 6 (0.92%) Palo Alto
7 5 (0.77%) ForgeRock
7 5 (0.77%) HubSpot
7 5 (0.77%) Okta
8 4 (0.62%) Salesforce
9 3 (0.46%) Dynatrace
9 3 (0.46%) Foundry
9 3 (0.46%) Revolut
9 3 (0.46%) Splunk
10 2 (0.31%) Databricks
10 2 (0.31%) SendGrid