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

6 months to
6 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 69 36 46
Rank change year-on-year -33 +10 -9
Permanent jobs citing Microservices 672 1,112 1,802
As % of all permanent jobs with remote/hybrid work options 3.47% 7.47% 5.34%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 4.24% 7.89% 5.96%
Number of salaries quoted 482 554 1,618
10th Percentile £46,250 £48,860 £42,500
25th Percentile £52,500 £57,500 £48,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £69,310 £70,000 £61,206
Median % change year-on-year -0.99% +14.37% -18.39%
75th Percentile £88,148 £93,778 £82,500
90th Percentile £105,000 £115,000 £96,827
UK median annual salary £75,000 £72,500 £65,000
% change year-on-year +3.45% +11.54% -14.23%

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 15,867 14,093 30,256
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 82.01% 94.67% 89.67%
Number of salaries quoted 11,345 8,291 23,580
10th Percentile £35,000 £30,000 £33,750
25th Percentile £45,000 £42,500 £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 £105,000 £95,000
UK median annual salary £60,000 £57,500 £55,000
% change year-on-year +4.35% +4.55% -9.54%

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 6 June 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 7 (1.04%) JBoss
2 4 (0.60%) CMS
2 4 (0.60%) Oracle SOA Suite
2 4 (0.60%) WebSphere
3 3 (0.45%) Apache Airflow
3 3 (0.45%) OpenStack
4 2 (0.30%) Apache
4 2 (0.30%) Camunda
4 2 (0.30%) Confluence
4 2 (0.30%) NServiceBus
4 2 (0.30%) SharePoint
5 1 (0.15%) Apache Pulsar
5 1 (0.15%) Apache Spark
5 1 (0.15%) Cloud Foundry
5 1 (0.15%) Red Hat Fuse
5 1 (0.15%) WordPress
Applications
1 1 (0.15%) Chatbot
Business Applications
1 5 (0.74%) Dynamics CRM
2 4 (0.60%) Dynamics AX
3 2 (0.30%) Oracle ERP
3 2 (0.30%) Shopify
4 1 (0.15%) Oracle EBS
4 1 (0.15%) Payment Gateway
Cloud Services
1 428 (63.69%) AWS
2 307 (45.68%) Azure
3 159 (23.66%) GCP
4 122 (18.15%) SaaS
5 108 (16.07%) Serverless
6 65 (9.67%) Azure DevOps
7 57 (8.48%) GitHub
8 56 (8.33%) AWS Lambda
9 48 (7.14%) Amazon EKS
10 44 (6.55%) Amazon SQS
11 41 (6.10%) Amazon S3
12 37 (5.51%) Amazon ECS
13 34 (5.06%) Azure AKS
14 32 (4.76%) Amazon EC2
15 31 (4.61%) Azure Service Bus
16 29 (4.32%) GitHub Copilot
17 25 (3.72%) PaaS
18 18 (2.68%) Azure Event Grid
18 18 (2.68%) Power Platform
19 15 (2.23%) Azure Cosmos DB
Communications & Networking
1 60 (8.93%) Broadband
2 6 (0.89%) Cisco ASA
2 6 (0.89%) DNS
2 6 (0.89%) Firewall
3 5 (0.74%) DHCP
3 5 (0.74%) MQTT
4 4 (0.60%) TCP/IP
5 3 (0.45%) Hyperconnected
5 3 (0.45%) Internet
5 3 (0.45%) Modbus
5 3 (0.45%) Network Security
6 2 (0.30%) AMQP
7 1 (0.15%) HTTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 132 (19.64%) MongoDB
2 107 (15.92%) PostgreSQL
3 78 (11.61%) NoSQL
4 48 (7.14%) Azure SQL Database
5 42 (6.25%) Elasticsearch
6 41 (6.10%) MySQL
7 36 (5.36%) SQL Server
8 23 (3.42%) Relational Database
9 19 (2.83%) Amazon RDS
10 16 (2.38%) Redis
11 9 (1.34%) BigQuery
12 8 (1.19%) DynamoDB
13 6 (0.89%) Metadata
14 5 (0.74%) RDBMS
15 4 (0.60%) MariaDB
16 3 (0.45%) Data Lake
16 3 (0.45%) Oracle Database
16 3 (0.45%) SQL Server Integration Services
17 2 (0.30%) Looker
17 2 (0.30%) Power BI
Development Applications
1 64 (9.52%) Git
2 40 (5.95%) GitLab
2 40 (5.95%) TeamCity
3 24 (3.57%) Cypress.io
4 22 (3.27%) Jenkins
5 14 (2.08%) Claude Code
6 11 (1.64%) JUnit
6 11 (1.64%) Maven
7 9 (1.34%) Mockito
8 8 (1.19%) JIRA
8 8 (1.19%) Visual Studio
9 7 (1.04%) Selenium
10 5 (0.74%) CircleCI
10 5 (0.74%) REST Assured
11 4 (0.60%) Atlassian Bamboo
11 4 (0.60%) Bitbucket
11 4 (0.60%) Cucumber
11 4 (0.60%) NUnit
12 3 (0.45%) Jasmine
12 3 (0.45%) JMeter
General
1 168 (25.00%) Finance
2 117 (17.41%) Social Skills
3 82 (12.20%) Public Sector
4 71 (10.57%) Banking
5 70 (10.42%) Law
6 57 (8.48%) Retail
7 50 (7.44%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 43 (6.40%) Financial Institution
9 39 (5.80%) Back Office
10 36 (5.36%) Analytical Skills
11 13 (1.93%) Marketing
12 10 (1.49%) Legal
13 9 (1.34%) Manufacturing
13 9 (1.34%) Telecoms
14 8 (1.19%) Aerospace
14 8 (1.19%) Influencing Skills
15 6 (0.89%) Games
16 5 (0.74%) Aviation
16 5 (0.74%) Health Technology
16 5 (0.74%) Publishing
Job Titles
1 248 (36.90%) Developer
2 190 (28.27%) Software Engineer
3 143 (21.28%) Senior
4 131 (19.49%) Lead
5 92 (13.69%) Architect
6 87 (12.95%) .NET Developer
7 81 (12.05%) Full-Stack Developer
8 60 (8.93%) Senior Software Engineer
9 47 (6.99%) Java Engineer
10 39 (5.80%) Lead Developer
11 36 (5.36%) .NET Software Engineer
12 35 (5.21%) C# Developer
13 33 (4.91%) Senior Developer
14 32 (4.76%) Java Software Engineer
15 31 (4.61%) C# Software Engineer
15 31 (4.61%) Lead Software Engineer
16 30 (4.46%) Scala Engineer
17 29 (4.32%) Full-Stack Engineer
18 28 (4.17%) C# .NET Developer
18 28 (4.17%) Java Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 188 (27.98%) .NET
2 167 (24.85%) React
3 152 (22.62%) Node.js
4 96 (14.29%) RESTful
5 80 (11.90%) .NET Core
6 76 (11.31%) Vue
7 71 (10.57%) REST
8 70 (10.42%) Spring
9 67 (9.97%) ASP.NET
10 62 (9.23%) AngularJS
11 55 (8.18%) ASP.NET Core
12 53 (7.89%) gRPC
13 48 (7.14%) Spring Boot
14 43 (6.40%) Kafka
15 39 (5.80%) .NET Framework
15 39 (5.80%) ASP.NET Web API
15 39 (5.80%) HTML
16 38 (5.65%) CSS
17 29 (4.32%) Blazor
18 27 (4.02%) Jest
Miscellaneous
1 205 (30.51%) Cloud Native
2 111 (16.52%) Distributed Systems
3 70 (10.42%) Product Ownership
4 46 (6.85%) Video\Live Streaming
5 45 (6.70%) Over-the-Top Content
6 27 (4.02%) Enterprise Software
7 22 (3.27%) Legacy Systems
8 14 (2.08%) Greenfield Project
9 13 (1.93%) Legacy Applications
9 13 (1.93%) Self-Motivation
10 10 (1.49%) Mobile App
10 10 (1.49%) Virtual Team
11 9 (1.34%) Data Structures
12 8 (1.19%) Algorithms
12 8 (1.19%) PKI
13 7 (1.04%) AI Agents
13 7 (1.04%) Onboarding
14 6 (0.89%) Distributed Architecture
14 6 (0.89%) IoT
15 5 (0.74%) Mobile Payment
Operating Systems
1 40 (5.95%) Linux
2 20 (2.98%) Unix
3 14 (2.08%) Windows
4 7 (1.04%) Android
5 5 (0.74%) 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
1 350 (52.08%) CI/CD
2 297 (44.20%) Software Engineering
3 294 (43.75%) Agile
4 241 (35.86%) DevOps
5 222 (33.04%) Full-Stack Development
6 195 (29.02%) Mentoring
7 165 (24.55%) Containerisation
8 153 (22.77%) Coaching
9 151 (22.47%) Test Automation
10 138 (20.54%) Problem-Solving
11 136 (20.24%) Continuous Improvement
11 136 (20.24%) Event-Driven
12 125 (18.60%) Clean Code
13 108 (16.07%) AI
13 108 (16.07%) Scrum
14 105 (15.63%) Infrastructure as Code
15 101 (15.03%) Technical Leadership
16 96 (14.29%) Event-Driven Architecture
17 93 (13.84%) TDD
18 82 (12.20%) Machine Learning
Programming Languages
1 204 (30.36%) Java
2 183 (27.23%) JavaScript
3 182 (27.08%) C#
4 172 (25.60%) SQL
5 148 (22.02%) Python
6 133 (19.79%) TypeScript
7 57 (8.48%) Go
8 47 (6.99%) Scala
9 25 (3.72%) Ruby
10 15 (2.23%) PHP
11 14 (2.08%) Bash
12 12 (1.79%) PL/SQL
13 10 (1.49%) Bicep
13 10 (1.49%) PowerShell
14 8 (1.19%) Kotlin
14 8 (1.19%) Rust
15 5 (0.74%) C++
15 5 (0.74%) Shell Script
16 1 (0.15%) Perl
16 1 (0.15%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 68 (10.12%) Security Cleared
2 66 (9.82%) Degree
3 52 (7.74%) SC Cleared
4 30 (4.46%) Computer Science Degree
5 23 (3.42%) Azure Certification
6 19 (2.83%) AWS Certification
7 16 (2.38%) CISSP
7 16 (2.38%) TOGAF Certification
8 14 (2.08%) DBS Check
9 12 (1.79%) Microsoft Certification
10 11 (1.64%) CISM
11 8 (1.19%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
12 5 (0.74%) GIAC
12 5 (0.74%) ISACA
12 5 (0.74%) SANS
13 4 (0.60%) AWS Certified Developer
13 4 (0.60%) ISTQB
13 4 (0.60%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
13 4 (0.60%) Master's Degree
14 3 (0.45%) (ISC)2 CCSP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 44 (6.55%) QA
2 21 (3.13%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 18 (2.68%) Accessibility
4 17 (2.53%) GDPR
5 16 (2.38%) NIST
6 10 (1.49%) Actionable Recommendations
7 8 (1.19%) NCSC
7 8 (1.19%) PCI DSS
8 4 (0.60%) WCAG
9 3 (0.45%) HMG Security Policy Framework
9 3 (0.45%) IFRS
9 3 (0.45%) ISO 9001
9 3 (0.45%) Sarbanes-Oxley
10 2 (0.30%) GRC
10 2 (0.30%) SEPA
System Software
1 198 (29.46%) Docker
2 11 (1.64%) Active Directory
3 3 (0.45%) Firmware
Systems Management
1 193 (28.72%) Kubernetes
2 117 (17.41%) Terraform
3 50 (7.44%) Grafana
4 29 (4.32%) Ansible
5 18 (2.68%) Argo
6 10 (1.49%) Prometheus
7 3 (0.45%) Kibana
7 3 (0.45%) Single Sign-On
8 2 (0.30%) MIIS
8 2 (0.30%) Opsgenie
8 2 (0.30%) Puppet
Vendors
1 114 (16.96%) Microsoft
2 45 (6.70%) Typelevel
3 25 (3.72%) Google
4 18 (2.68%) Oracle
5 9 (1.34%) OpenAI
6 7 (1.04%) Red Hat
7 6 (0.89%) Cisco
7 6 (0.89%) F5
7 6 (0.89%) Juniper
7 6 (0.89%) Palo Alto
8 5 (0.74%) ForgeRock
8 5 (0.74%) HubSpot
8 5 (0.74%) Okta
9 4 (0.60%) Databricks
9 4 (0.60%) Salesforce
9 4 (0.60%) Splunk
10 3 (0.45%) Dynatrace
10 3 (0.45%) Foundry
10 3 (0.45%) Revolut
10 3 (0.45%) ServiceNow