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 5 December 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
5 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 82 61 47
Rank change year-on-year -21 -14 -9
Permanent jobs citing Microservices 501 875 1,256
As % of all permanent jobs with remote/hybrid work options 3.27% 4.59% 6.13%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 3.63% 5.03% 6.45%
Number of salaries quoted 403 532 959
10th Percentile £52,400 £45,000 £50,549
25th Percentile £57,500 £52,375 £56,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £75,000 £67,500 £75,000
Median % change year-on-year +11.11% -10.00% -
75th Percentile £90,000 £84,973 £88,875
90th Percentile £117,000 £104,750 £107,500
UK median annual salary £77,500 £70,000 £75,000
% change year-on-year +10.71% -6.67% -3.23%

All Process and 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 13,815 17,389 19,463
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 90.14% 91.15% 94.99%
Number of salaries quoted 8,716 10,513 15,727
10th Percentile £29,675 £36,250 £36,500
25th Percentile £40,000 £46,250 £46,306
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,500 £62,500 £62,500
Median % change year-on-year -8.00% - -
75th Percentile £78,750 £81,250 £80,070
90th Percentile £100,000 £100,000 £97,500
UK median annual salary £55,000 £60,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year -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 5 December 2025.

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 14 (2.79%) Oracle SOA Suite
2 8 (1.60%) Confluence
2 8 (1.60%) JBoss
3 7 (1.40%) nginx
3 7 (1.40%) WebSphere
4 6 (1.20%) Apache Airflow
5 5 (1.00%) CMS
6 4 (0.80%) Apache Pulsar
6 4 (0.80%) IIS
7 3 (0.60%) Apache
7 3 (0.60%) Oracle Workflow
8 1 (0.20%) ArcGIS
8 1 (0.20%) Ethereum
8 1 (0.20%) Hyperledger
8 1 (0.20%) NServiceBus
8 1 (0.20%) OpenStack
8 1 (0.20%) SharePoint
Applications
1 3 (0.60%) Microsoft Excel
1 3 (0.60%) Microsoft Office
1 3 (0.60%) Microsoft PowerPoint
1 3 (0.60%) MS Visio
2 1 (0.20%) PlantUML
Business Applications
1 14 (2.79%) Oracle ERP
2 1 (0.20%) Actimize
2 1 (0.20%) Distributed Ledger
2 1 (0.20%) Dynamics CRM
2 1 (0.20%) Quorum
2 1 (0.20%) R3 Corda
Cloud Services
1 281 (56.09%) Azure
2 269 (53.69%) AWS
3 99 (19.76%) SaaS
4 98 (19.56%) GCP
5 80 (15.97%) Serverless
6 71 (14.17%) Azure DevOps
7 66 (13.17%) GitHub
8 34 (6.79%) Azure Service Bus
9 30 (5.99%) AWS Lambda
10 27 (5.39%) Amazon S3
10 27 (5.39%) PaaS
11 26 (5.19%) Power Platform
12 25 (4.99%) Amazon EKS
12 25 (4.99%) GitHub Actions
13 24 (4.79%) Amazon ECS
14 21 (4.19%) Azure Cosmos DB
15 17 (3.39%) Amazon SQS
15 17 (3.39%) OCI
16 15 (2.99%) Azure App Service
17 14 (2.79%) GitHub Copilot
Communications & Networking
1 3 (0.60%) Broadband
2 2 (0.40%) AMQP
3 1 (0.20%) Internet
3 1 (0.20%) Network Security
Database & Business Intelligence
1 90 (17.96%) MongoDB
2 76 (15.17%) SQL Server
3 75 (14.97%) NoSQL
4 65 (12.97%) PostgreSQL
5 46 (9.18%) Azure SQL Database
6 34 (6.79%) Elasticsearch
7 25 (4.99%) MySQL
8 19 (3.79%) Power BI
9 18 (3.59%) DynamoDB
10 14 (2.79%) Tableau
11 13 (2.59%) Redis
12 12 (2.40%) Relational Database
13 10 (2.00%) Data Warehouse
14 7 (1.40%) Amazon RDS
14 7 (1.40%) NonStop SQL
15 5 (1.00%) Data Lake
16 4 (0.80%) BigQuery
17 3 (0.60%) Snowflake Schema
18 2 (0.40%) Amazon Redshift
18 2 (0.40%) Apache Cassandra
Development Applications
1 86 (17.17%) Git
2 42 (8.38%) Jenkins
3 26 (5.19%) JIRA
4 17 (3.39%) GitLab
5 15 (2.99%) TeamCity
6 14 (2.79%) Oracle Forms
7 13 (2.59%) Cypress.io
8 11 (2.20%) Selenium
9 8 (1.60%) git-flow
9 8 (1.60%) JUnit
9 8 (1.60%) Octopus Deploy
9 8 (1.60%) Team Foundation Server
10 7 (1.40%) Cucumber
10 7 (1.40%) Visual Studio
11 6 (1.20%) CircleCI
12 4 (0.80%) JMeter
12 4 (0.80%) MSBuild
12 4 (0.80%) SonarQube
13 3 (0.60%) Mockito
13 3 (0.60%) Visual Studio Code
General
1 146 (29.14%) Social Skills
2 115 (22.95%) Finance
3 38 (7.58%) Law
4 33 (6.59%) Banking
5 30 (5.99%) Retail
6 22 (4.39%) Public Sector
7 21 (4.19%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 20 (3.99%) Back Office
9 19 (3.79%) Financial Institution
10 17 (3.39%) Billing
10 17 (3.39%) Telecoms
11 16 (3.19%) Analytical Skills
12 13 (2.59%) Legal
13 11 (2.20%) Front Office
14 10 (2.00%) Advertising
15 8 (1.60%) Marketing
16 7 (1.40%) Influencing Skills
17 5 (1.00%) Pharmaceutical
18 4 (0.80%) Manufacturing
18 4 (0.80%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 198 (39.52%) Developer
2 137 (27.35%) Senior
3 97 (19.36%) Software Engineer
4 80 (15.97%) .NET Developer
4 80 (15.97%) Architect
5 65 (12.97%) Lead
6 45 (8.98%) Senior Developer
7 40 (7.98%) Senior Software Engineer
8 31 (6.19%) Lead Developer
9 28 (5.59%) Full-Stack Developer
10 26 (5.19%) C# Developer
10 26 (5.19%) Software Developer
11 25 (4.99%) Principal Engineer
12 23 (4.59%) Java Engineer
13 22 (4.39%) Java Developer
13 22 (4.39%) Solutions Architect
14 20 (3.99%) Applications Engineer
14 20 (3.99%) Cloud Engineer
15 19 (3.79%) Technical Architect
16 18 (3.59%) Azure Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 205 (40.92%) .NET
2 145 (28.94%) React
3 128 (25.55%) RESTful
4 79 (15.77%) AngularJS
5 77 (15.37%) .NET Core
6 71 (14.17%) Kafka
7 67 (13.37%) Node.js
8 65 (12.97%) ASP.NET Web API
9 61 (12.18%) Spring
10 57 (11.38%) .NET Framework
10 57 (11.38%) REST
11 55 (10.98%) Spring Boot
12 54 (10.78%) ASP.NET
13 50 (9.98%) Entity Framework
14 49 (9.78%) HTML
15 38 (7.58%) ASP.NET MVC
16 37 (7.39%) CSS
17 35 (6.99%) Vue
18 34 (6.79%) RabbitMQ
19 32 (6.39%) GraphQL
Miscellaneous
1 144 (28.74%) Cloud Native
2 66 (13.17%) Distributed Systems
3 47 (9.38%) Enterprise Software
4 44 (8.78%) Product Ownership
5 21 (4.19%) Onboarding
6 16 (3.19%) Greenfield Project
7 14 (2.79%) Data Structures
8 12 (2.40%) Algorithms
8 12 (2.40%) Legacy Systems
9 10 (2.00%) Virtual Team
10 8 (1.60%) AI Agents
10 8 (1.60%) Mobile App
11 7 (1.40%) DataPower
11 7 (1.40%) IoT
12 6 (1.20%) Management Information System
13 5 (1.00%) Augmented Reality
13 5 (1.00%) Data Protection Act
13 5 (1.00%) Derivative
13 5 (1.00%) Distributed Architecture
13 5 (1.00%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 19 (3.79%) Linux
2 16 (3.19%) Windows
3 10 (2.00%) Android
4 2 (0.40%) Apple iOS
4 2 (0.40%) VMS
5 1 (0.20%) Fedora
Processes & Methodologies
1 269 (53.69%) Agile
2 228 (45.51%) CI/CD
3 206 (41.12%) DevOps
4 169 (33.73%) Software Engineering
5 147 (29.34%) Full-Stack Development
6 129 (25.75%) Mentoring
7 98 (19.56%) Event-Driven
8 94 (18.76%) Containerisation
9 91 (18.16%) AI
10 89 (17.76%) Continuous Improvement
11 88 (17.56%) Problem-Solving
12 86 (17.17%) Test Automation
13 78 (15.57%) TDD
14 77 (15.37%) Clean Code
15 71 (14.17%) Scrum
16 67 (13.37%) Computer Science
17 63 (12.57%) Coaching
18 62 (12.38%) MVC
19 61 (12.18%) Event-Driven Architecture
20 59 (11.78%) Roadmaps
Programming Languages
1 215 (42.91%) C#
2 168 (33.53%) Java
3 162 (32.34%) SQL
4 126 (25.15%) JavaScript
5 109 (21.76%) TypeScript
6 108 (21.56%) Python
7 33 (6.59%) Go
8 14 (2.79%) PL/SQL
8 14 (2.79%) Shell Script
9 11 (2.20%) Ruby
10 9 (1.80%) PHP
11 8 (1.60%) PowerShell
12 7 (1.40%) C++
13 6 (1.20%) Delphi
14 4 (0.80%) Bicep
14 4 (0.80%) C
15 3 (0.60%) Elixir
15 3 (0.60%) Erlang
15 3 (0.60%) Kotlin
16 2 (0.40%) Rust
Qualifications
1 75 (14.97%) Degree
2 58 (11.58%) Computer Science Degree
3 39 (7.78%) AWS Certification
4 35 (6.99%) Security Cleared
5 32 (6.39%) SC Cleared
6 28 (5.59%) Azure Certification
7 24 (4.79%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
8 23 (4.59%) TOGAF Certification
9 21 (4.19%) Master's Degree
10 19 (3.79%) Microsoft Certification
11 6 (1.20%) CISM
11 6 (1.20%) CISSP
12 4 (0.80%) AWS Certified Developer
13 3 (0.60%) (ISC)2 CCSP
13 3 (0.60%) BPSS Clearance
13 3 (0.60%) Cisco Certification
13 3 (0.60%) CompTIA Security+
13 3 (0.60%) DV Cleared
14 2 (0.40%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
14 2 (0.40%) PhD
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 59 (11.78%) QA
2 20 (3.99%) GDPR
3 12 (2.40%) Accessibility
4 9 (1.80%) NIST
5 7 (1.40%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 6 (1.20%) HIPAA
7 5 (1.00%) PCI DSS
7 5 (1.00%) Sarbanes-Oxley
8 3 (0.60%) Data Quality
8 3 (0.60%) NCSC
8 3 (0.60%) WCAG
9 2 (0.40%) SOC 2
10 1 (0.20%) ISO/IEC 42001
10 1 (0.20%) JSP 440
System Software
1 119 (23.75%) Docker
2 12 (2.40%) Active Directory
3 4 (0.80%) Virtual Machines
4 2 (0.40%) VMware NSX
4 2 (0.40%) vSphere
5 1 (0.20%) Firmware
5 1 (0.20%) HDFS
Systems Management
1 130 (25.95%) Kubernetes
2 58 (11.58%) Terraform
3 36 (7.19%) Grafana
4 14 (2.79%) Single Sign-On
5 11 (2.20%) Prometheus
6 9 (1.80%) Ansible
7 6 (1.20%) Argo
7 6 (1.20%) Kibana
8 2 (0.40%) Progress Chef
8 2 (0.40%) Puppet
9 1 (0.20%) Istio
Vendors
1 119 (23.75%) Microsoft
2 28 (5.59%) Oracle
3 15 (2.99%) Guidewire
4 12 (2.40%) Google
5 7 (1.40%) Facebook
5 7 (1.40%) YouTube
6 6 (1.20%) Databricks
7 5 (1.00%) Red Hat
8 4 (0.80%) BiZZdesign
8 4 (0.80%) Ericsson
8 4 (0.80%) Mavenir
8 4 (0.80%) Nokia
9 3 (0.60%) Dynatrace
9 3 (0.60%) MuleSoft
9 3 (0.60%) Salesforce
10 2 (0.40%) Sage
10 2 (0.40%) SAP
10 2 (0.40%) SnapLogic
10 2 (0.40%) Trayport
10 2 (0.40%) VMware