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

6 months to
21 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 64 47 75
Rank change year-on-year -17 +28 -31
Permanent jobs citing Microservices 871 971 917
As % of all permanent jobs with remote/hybrid work options 3.79% 5.86% 3.71%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 4.60% 6.30% 4.24%
Number of salaries quoted 630 447 717
10th Percentile £45,000 £47,200 £40,000
25th Percentile £50,000 £57,250 £49,383
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £67,500 £70,000 £64,000
Median % change year-on-year -3.57% +9.38% -14.67%
75th Percentile £88,148 £83,750 £82,500
90th Percentile £100,000 £100,000 £97,500
UK median annual salary £72,500 £72,500 £65,000
% change year-on-year - +11.54% -13.33%

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 18,916 15,419 21,639
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 82.38% 93.04% 87.53%
Number of salaries quoted 13,655 8,896 15,104
10th Percentile £35,000 £29,750 £35,000
25th Percentile £44,972 £40,500 £43,750
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 £78,750
90th Percentile £100,000 £100,000 £98,750
UK median annual salary £60,000 £55,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year +9.09% - -8.71%

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 21 August 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 9 (1.03%) CMS
2 7 (0.80%) Oracle SOA Suite
3 5 (0.57%) Camunda
3 5 (0.57%) IIS
3 5 (0.57%) nginx
4 3 (0.34%) DNN
4 3 (0.34%) EPiServer
4 3 (0.34%) Immediacy CMS
4 3 (0.34%) Kentico
4 3 (0.34%) Sitecore CMS
4 3 (0.34%) Sitefinity
4 3 (0.34%) Umbraco
5 2 (0.23%) Apache Airflow
5 2 (0.23%) Confluence
5 2 (0.23%) JBoss
5 2 (0.23%) OpenStack
5 2 (0.23%) WordPress
6 1 (0.11%) Apache
6 1 (0.11%) Oracle Coherence
6 1 (0.11%) SharePoint
Applications
1 7 (0.80%) Chatbot
Business Applications
1 7 (0.80%) Dynamics CRM
2 4 (0.46%) Oracle EBS
3 3 (0.34%) Dynamics AX
4 2 (0.23%) Shopify
5 1 (0.11%) Payment Gateway
Cloud Services
1 487 (55.91%) AWS
2 412 (47.30%) Azure
3 150 (17.22%) GCP
4 145 (16.65%) SaaS
5 101 (11.60%) Serverless
6 93 (10.68%) GitHub
7 81 (9.30%) Azure DevOps
8 70 (8.04%) GitHub Copilot
9 65 (7.46%) AWS Lambda
10 56 (6.43%) Amazon EKS
11 52 (5.97%) Azure Service Bus
12 47 (5.40%) Amazon S3
13 44 (5.05%) Amazon SQS
14 41 (4.71%) Amazon ECS
15 37 (4.25%) Azure AKS
16 33 (3.79%) Amazon EC2
17 32 (3.67%) Azure Cosmos DB
18 26 (2.99%) PaaS
19 24 (2.76%) Azure Monitor
20 20 (2.30%) Snowflake
Communications & Networking
1 46 (5.28%) Broadband
2 7 (0.80%) Hyperconnected
2 7 (0.80%) Internet
3 4 (0.46%) HTTP
3 4 (0.46%) Network Security
3 4 (0.46%) TCP/IP
4 3 (0.34%) Cisco ASA
4 3 (0.34%) DNS
4 3 (0.34%) Firewall
4 3 (0.34%) Modbus
5 2 (0.23%) DHCP
5 2 (0.23%) MQTT
6 1 (0.11%) X.509
Database & Business Intelligence
1 220 (25.26%) MongoDB
2 150 (17.22%) Azure SQL Database
3 134 (15.38%) Elasticsearch
4 106 (12.17%) PostgreSQL
5 73 (8.38%) SQL Server
6 49 (5.63%) NoSQL
7 44 (5.05%) MySQL
8 33 (3.79%) Relational Database
9 31 (3.56%) Redis
10 21 (2.41%) Amazon RDS
11 12 (1.38%) DynamoDB
12 8 (0.92%) Metadata
13 7 (0.80%) Data Lake
13 7 (0.80%) RDBMS
14 4 (0.46%) Data Warehouse
14 4 (0.46%) Delta Lake
14 4 (0.46%) MariaDB
14 4 (0.46%) SQL Server Integration Services
15 2 (0.23%) Amazon Redshift
15 2 (0.23%) Oracle Database
Development Applications
1 77 (8.84%) Git
2 44 (5.05%) TeamCity
3 33 (3.79%) GitLab
4 26 (2.99%) Cypress.io
5 20 (2.30%) Jenkins
6 18 (2.07%) JUnit
7 17 (1.95%) Maven
8 16 (1.84%) Claude Code
8 16 (1.84%) Mockito
9 9 (1.03%) JIRA
9 9 (1.03%) Selenium
10 5 (0.57%) Atlassian Bamboo
10 5 (0.57%) Octopus Deploy
11 4 (0.46%) Bitbucket
11 4 (0.46%) NUnit
12 3 (0.34%) Jasmine
12 3 (0.34%) Visual Studio
12 3 (0.34%) Visual Studio Code
13 2 (0.23%) MLflow
13 2 (0.23%) SonarQube
General
1 184 (21.13%) Finance
2 151 (17.34%) Social Skills
3 97 (11.14%) Law
4 90 (10.33%) Public Sector
5 82 (9.41%) Retail
6 73 (8.38%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 72 (8.27%) Legal
8 64 (7.35%) Banking
9 42 (4.82%) Back Office
10 41 (4.71%) Financial Institution
11 37 (4.25%) Analytical Skills
12 28 (3.21%) Legal Technology
13 24 (2.76%) Games
14 19 (2.18%) Marketing
15 17 (1.95%) Aerospace
16 9 (1.03%) Local Government
17 8 (0.92%) Advertising
17 8 (0.92%) Manufacturing
18 7 (0.80%) Telecoms
19 6 (0.69%) French Language
Job Titles
1 415 (47.65%) Developer
2 190 (21.81%) .NET Developer
3 187 (21.47%) Senior
4 183 (21.01%) Software Engineer
5 170 (19.52%) Lead
6 103 (11.83%) Architect
6 103 (11.83%) Full-Stack Developer
7 91 (10.45%) Senior Developer
8 53 (6.08%) Lead Developer
9 49 (5.63%) Senior Software Engineer
10 45 (5.17%) Full-Stack Engineer
11 42 (4.82%) Lead Software Engineer
12 37 (4.25%) Software Developer
13 31 (3.56%) Java Developer
14 28 (3.21%) .NET Software Engineer
14 28 (3.21%) C# Developer
14 28 (3.21%) Java Engineer
14 28 (3.21%) Solutions Architect
14 28 (3.21%) Technical Leader
15 27 (3.10%) C# .NET Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 360 (41.33%) .NET
2 266 (30.54%) Node.js
3 241 (27.67%) React
4 184 (21.13%) .NET Core
5 178 (20.44%) ASP.NET
6 154 (17.68%) ASP.NET Core
7 151 (17.34%) Vue
8 122 (14.01%) Terraform
9 118 (13.55%) AngularJS
10 99 (11.37%) Blazor
11 94 (10.79%) ASP.NET Web API
12 88 (10.10%) REST
13 81 (9.30%) RESTful
14 74 (8.50%) Spring
15 71 (8.15%) .NET Framework
16 50 (5.74%) Spring Boot
17 43 (4.94%) Kafka
18 42 (4.82%) gRPC
19 40 (4.59%) CSS
20 33 (3.79%) HTML
Miscellaneous
1 220 (25.26%) Cloud Native
2 128 (14.70%) Distributed Systems
3 71 (8.15%) Product Ownership
4 37 (4.25%) Legacy Systems
5 31 (3.56%) Video\Live Streaming
6 29 (3.33%) Greenfield Project
7 27 (3.10%) Over-the-Top Content
8 19 (2.18%) Enterprise Software
9 18 (2.07%) Self-Motivation
10 15 (1.72%) AI Agents
11 14 (1.61%) Virtual Team
12 10 (1.15%) Mobile App
13 9 (1.03%) Blog
13 9 (1.03%) IoT
13 9 (1.03%) Legacy Applications
13 9 (1.03%) Management Information System
14 7 (0.80%) Hybrid Cloud
15 6 (0.69%) Data Structures
15 6 (0.69%) Marketing Technology
15 6 (0.69%) Onboarding
Operating Systems
1 49 (5.63%) Linux
2 24 (2.76%) Windows
3 17 (1.95%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 478 (54.88%) Agile
2 452 (51.89%) CI/CD
3 344 (39.49%) Full-Stack Development
4 336 (38.58%) Software Engineering
5 265 (30.42%) DevOps
6 251 (28.82%) Mentoring
7 202 (23.19%) Continuous Improvement
8 189 (21.70%) Problem-Solving
9 170 (19.52%) Event-Driven
10 167 (19.17%) Scrum
11 163 (18.71%) AI
12 148 (16.99%) Coaching
13 141 (16.19%) TDD
13 141 (16.19%) Test Automation
14 136 (15.61%) Technical Leadership
15 135 (15.50%) Containerisation
16 133 (15.27%) Clean Code
17 125 (14.35%) Infrastructure as Code
18 116 (13.32%) Event-Driven Architecture
19 115 (13.20%) Enterprise Architecture
Programming Languages
1 375 (43.05%) C#
2 265 (30.42%) SQL
3 262 (30.08%) JavaScript
4 212 (24.34%) TypeScript
5 206 (23.65%) Java
6 138 (15.84%) Python
7 39 (4.48%) Go
8 33 (3.79%) Ruby
9 32 (3.67%) Scala
10 19 (2.18%) Bash
11 15 (1.72%) PL/SQL
11 15 (1.72%) PowerShell
12 14 (1.61%) Bicep
12 14 (1.61%) PHP
13 5 (0.57%) Kotlin
14 4 (0.46%) C++
14 4 (0.46%) Rust
15 3 (0.34%) VB.NET
16 2 (0.23%) T-SQL
17 1 (0.11%) Perl
Qualifications
1 85 (9.76%) Security Cleared
2 67 (7.69%) Degree
3 65 (7.46%) SC Cleared
4 32 (3.67%) Computer Science Degree
5 11 (1.26%) AWS Certification
5 11 (1.26%) DV Cleared
6 10 (1.15%) Azure Certification
7 8 (0.92%) CISSP
8 7 (0.80%) DBS Check
9 6 (0.69%) CISM
10 5 (0.57%) Microsoft Certification
11 4 (0.46%) AWS Certified Developer
11 4 (0.46%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
12 3 (0.34%) (ISC)2 CCSP
12 3 (0.34%) BPSS Clearance
12 3 (0.34%) CCSP
12 3 (0.34%) Cisco Certification
12 3 (0.34%) TOGAF Certification
13 2 (0.23%) GIAC
13 2 (0.23%) ITIL Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 112 (12.86%) QA
2 22 (2.53%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 18 (2.07%) GDPR
4 16 (1.84%) Accessibility
5 10 (1.15%) Actionable Recommendations
6 9 (1.03%) HMG Security Policy Framework
7 8 (0.92%) NIST
8 4 (0.46%) California Consumer Privacy Act
8 4 (0.46%) WCAG
9 3 (0.34%) Data Quality
9 3 (0.34%) IFRS
9 3 (0.34%) ISO 9001
9 3 (0.34%) NCSC
9 3 (0.34%) PCI DSS
9 3 (0.34%) Sarbanes-Oxley
10 2 (0.23%) SLA
11 1 (0.11%) PSD2
11 1 (0.11%) SEPA
System Software
1 245 (28.13%) Docker
2 9 (1.03%) Active Directory
3 5 (0.57%) Virtual Machines
4 3 (0.34%) Firmware
Systems Management
1 242 (27.78%) Kubernetes
2 56 (6.43%) Grafana
3 21 (2.41%) Ansible
4 17 (1.95%) Argo
5 14 (1.61%) Prometheus
6 2 (0.23%) MIIS
7 1 (0.11%) Consul
7 1 (0.11%) Kibana
7 1 (0.11%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 232 (26.64%) Microsoft
2 35 (4.02%) Google
3 28 (3.21%) Oracle
4 27 (3.10%) Typelevel
5 13 (1.49%) OpenAI
6 12 (1.38%) SAP
7 9 (1.03%) Databricks
8 5 (0.57%) HubSpot
8 5 (0.57%) Splunk
9 4 (0.46%) Dynatrace
9 4 (0.46%) Epicor
9 4 (0.46%) Facebook
9 4 (0.46%) ForgeRock
9 4 (0.46%) IFS
9 4 (0.46%) Infor
9 4 (0.46%) Instagram
9 4 (0.46%) Okta
9 4 (0.46%) ServiceNow
9 4 (0.46%) TikTok
10 3 (0.34%) Sitecore