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

6 months to
19 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 82 57 49
Rank change year-on-year -25 -8 -10
Permanent jobs citing Microservices 496 875 1,170
As % of all permanent jobs with remote/hybrid work options 3.24% 5.01% 5.90%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 3.64% 5.40% 6.21%
Number of salaries quoted 398 543 891
10th Percentile £52,400 £45,771 £50,000
25th Percentile £57,500 £52,500 £55,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £75,000 £67,500 £70,576
Median % change year-on-year +11.11% -4.36% -5.90%
75th Percentile £90,000 £84,482 £89,500
90th Percentile £115,750 £102,500 £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 13,641 16,190 18,834
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 89.02% 92.72% 94.98%
Number of salaries quoted 8,739 9,805 15,142
10th Percentile £30,000 £36,250 £36,250
25th Percentile £40,750 £46,250 £46,306
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,500 £62,500 £61,000
Median % change year-on-year -8.00% +2.46% -2.40%
75th Percentile £78,750 £81,250 £80,000
90th Percentile £100,000 £100,000 £97,500
UK median annual salary £55,000 £60,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year -8.33% - -2.60%

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 19 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 16 (3.23%) Oracle SOA Suite
2 8 (1.61%) JBoss
3 7 (1.41%) Confluence
3 7 (1.41%) WebSphere
4 6 (1.21%) nginx
5 5 (1.01%) Apache Airflow
5 5 (1.01%) Apache Pulsar
6 4 (0.81%) CMS
7 3 (0.60%) IIS
7 3 (0.60%) OpenStack
7 3 (0.60%) Oracle Workflow
8 2 (0.40%) Apache
9 1 (0.20%) ArcGIS
9 1 (0.20%) Camunda
9 1 (0.20%) Ethereum
9 1 (0.20%) Hyperledger
9 1 (0.20%) NServiceBus
9 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 16 (3.23%) 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
1 279 (56.25%) Azure
2 278 (56.05%) AWS
3 101 (20.36%) GCP
3 101 (20.36%) SaaS
4 92 (18.55%) Serverless
5 72 (14.52%) GitHub
6 71 (14.31%) Azure DevOps
7 35 (7.06%) AWS Lambda
8 31 (6.25%) Amazon S3
8 31 (6.25%) Azure Service Bus
9 29 (5.85%) Power Platform
10 28 (5.65%) GitHub Actions
11 27 (5.44%) Amazon ECS
11 27 (5.44%) Amazon EKS
12 26 (5.24%) PaaS
13 22 (4.44%) Amazon SQS
14 19 (3.83%) OCI
15 17 (3.43%) Azure Cosmos DB
16 16 (3.23%) Azure App Service
16 16 (3.23%) 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 88 (17.74%) MongoDB
2 82 (16.53%) NoSQL
3 73 (14.72%) PostgreSQL
3 73 (14.72%) SQL Server
4 40 (8.06%) Azure SQL Database
5 28 (5.65%) Elasticsearch
6 26 (5.24%) MySQL
7 21 (4.23%) Power BI
8 20 (4.03%) DynamoDB
9 16 (3.23%) Tableau
10 13 (2.62%) Redis
11 12 (2.42%) Relational Database
12 9 (1.81%) Data Warehouse
13 8 (1.61%) Amazon RDS
14 7 (1.41%) BigQuery
15 6 (1.21%) NonStop SQL
16 5 (1.01%) Data Lake
17 2 (0.40%) Amazon Redshift
17 2 (0.40%) PostHog
17 2 (0.40%) Snowflake Schema
Development Applications
1 91 (18.35%) Git
2 46 (9.27%) Jenkins
3 27 (5.44%) JIRA
4 17 (3.43%) GitLab
5 16 (3.23%) Oracle Forms
6 15 (3.02%) Cypress.io
6 15 (3.02%) TeamCity
7 11 (2.22%) Selenium
8 8 (1.61%) CircleCI
8 8 (1.61%) git-flow
8 8 (1.61%) JUnit
9 7 (1.41%) Cucumber
10 5 (1.01%) Octopus Deploy
10 5 (1.01%) Team Foundation Server
10 5 (1.01%) Visual Studio
11 4 (0.81%) JMeter
12 3 (0.60%) Mockito
12 3 (0.60%) Postman
12 3 (0.60%) SonarQube
12 3 (0.60%) Visual Studio Code
General
1 150 (30.24%) Social Skills
2 114 (22.98%) Finance
3 41 (8.27%) Law
4 32 (6.45%) Banking
5 29 (5.85%) Retail
6 25 (5.04%) Public Sector
7 23 (4.64%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 21 (4.23%) Financial Institution
9 20 (4.03%) Back Office
9 20 (4.03%) Telecoms
10 17 (3.43%) Analytical Skills
11 15 (3.02%) Billing
12 13 (2.62%) Legal
13 9 (1.81%) Advertising
14 8 (1.61%) Marketing
15 7 (1.41%) Influencing Skills
16 6 (1.21%) Front Office
17 5 (1.01%) Esports
18 4 (0.81%) Presentation Skills
19 3 (0.60%) Documentation Skills
Job Titles
1 192 (38.71%) Developer
2 138 (27.82%) Senior
3 95 (19.15%) Software Engineer
4 81 (16.33%) Architect
5 73 (14.72%) .NET Developer
6 66 (13.31%) Lead
7 45 (9.07%) Senior Developer
8 39 (7.86%) Senior Software Engineer
9 33 (6.65%) Full-Stack Developer
9 33 (6.65%) Lead Developer
10 24 (4.84%) Java Engineer
10 24 (4.84%) Software Developer
11 23 (4.64%) Applications Engineer
11 23 (4.64%) Principal Engineer
12 22 (4.44%) Cloud Engineer
12 22 (4.44%) Java Developer
12 22 (4.44%) Solutions Architect
13 21 (4.23%) C# Developer
14 19 (3.83%) Azure Developer
15 18 (3.63%) Full-Stack Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 195 (39.31%) .NET
2 147 (29.64%) React
3 134 (27.02%) RESTful
4 74 (14.92%) AngularJS
5 73 (14.72%) .NET Core
5 73 (14.72%) Kafka
6 72 (14.52%) Node.js
7 63 (12.70%) Spring
8 60 (12.10%) ASP.NET Web API
9 55 (11.09%) Spring Boot
10 53 (10.69%) .NET Framework
10 53 (10.69%) REST
11 51 (10.28%) ASP.NET
12 46 (9.27%) Entity Framework
13 44 (8.87%) HTML
14 34 (6.85%) ASP.NET MVC
14 34 (6.85%) CSS
14 34 (6.85%) RabbitMQ
15 31 (6.25%) gRPC
15 31 (6.25%) Vue
Miscellaneous
1 146 (29.44%) Cloud Native
2 72 (14.52%) Distributed Systems
3 52 (10.48%) Enterprise Software
4 48 (9.68%) Product Ownership
5 19 (3.83%) Onboarding
6 14 (2.82%) Data Structures
6 14 (2.82%) Greenfield Project
7 13 (2.62%) Legacy Systems
8 12 (2.42%) Algorithms
9 11 (2.22%) Virtual Team
10 10 (2.02%) AI Agents
11 9 (1.81%) Mobile App
12 8 (1.61%) IoT
13 7 (1.41%) DataPower
13 7 (1.41%) Distributed Architecture
14 5 (1.01%) Data Protection Act
14 5 (1.01%) Derivative
15 4 (0.81%) Management Information System
15 4 (0.81%) Self-Motivation
16 3 (0.60%) Low-Code
Operating Systems
1 18 (3.63%) Linux
2 14 (2.82%) Android
2 14 (2.82%) Windows
3 4 (0.81%) Apple iOS
4 2 (0.40%) VMS
5 1 (0.20%) Fedora
Processes & Methodologies
1 263 (53.02%) Agile
2 237 (47.78%) CI/CD
3 208 (41.94%) DevOps
4 171 (34.48%) Software Engineering
5 152 (30.65%) Full-Stack Development
6 131 (26.41%) Mentoring
7 106 (21.37%) Event-Driven
8 97 (19.56%) Containerisation
9 95 (19.15%) AI
10 90 (18.15%) Continuous Improvement
11 89 (17.94%) Test Automation
12 84 (16.94%) Problem-Solving
13 78 (15.73%) Clean Code
14 74 (14.92%) Computer Science
15 73 (14.72%) TDD
16 71 (14.31%) Scrum
17 66 (13.31%) Architectural Patterns
18 65 (13.10%) Coaching
18 65 (13.10%) Event-Driven Architecture
19 59 (11.90%) Technical Leadership
Programming Languages
1 201 (40.52%) C#
2 168 (33.87%) Java
3 157 (31.65%) SQL
4 128 (25.81%) JavaScript
5 112 (22.58%) TypeScript
6 110 (22.18%) Python
7 39 (7.86%) Go
8 17 (3.43%) Shell Script
9 16 (3.23%) PL/SQL
10 12 (2.42%) Ruby
11 10 (2.02%) PHP
12 9 (1.81%) C++
13 7 (1.41%) PowerShell
14 6 (1.21%) Delphi
15 4 (0.81%) C
15 4 (0.81%) Kotlin
16 3 (0.60%) Bicep
16 3 (0.60%) Elixir
16 3 (0.60%) Erlang
17 2 (0.40%) Rust
Qualifications
1 80 (16.13%) Degree
2 65 (13.10%) Computer Science Degree
3 41 (8.27%) AWS Certification
4 39 (7.86%) Security Cleared
5 36 (7.26%) SC Cleared
6 31 (6.25%) Azure Certification
7 28 (5.65%) TOGAF Certification
8 26 (5.24%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
9 23 (4.64%) Microsoft Certification
10 19 (3.83%) Master's Degree
11 6 (1.21%) CISM
11 6 (1.21%) CISSP
12 4 (0.81%) AWS Certified Developer
12 4 (0.81%) DV Cleared
13 3 (0.60%) BPSS Clearance
14 2 (0.40%) (ISC)2 CCSP
14 2 (0.40%) Cisco Certification
14 2 (0.40%) CompTIA Security+
14 2 (0.40%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
14 2 (0.40%) SnowPro
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 59 (11.90%) QA
2 17 (3.43%) GDPR
3 13 (2.62%) Accessibility
4 8 (1.61%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 8 (1.61%) NIST
5 6 (1.21%) PCI DSS
6 4 (0.81%) HIPAA
6 4 (0.81%) NCSC
6 4 (0.81%) WCAG
7 3 (0.60%) Data Quality
7 3 (0.60%) Sarbanes-Oxley
8 2 (0.40%) SOC 2
9 1 (0.20%) ISO/IEC 42001
9 1 (0.20%) JSP 440
System Software
1 119 (23.99%) Docker
2 13 (2.62%) Active Directory
3 3 (0.60%) 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
1 137 (27.62%) Kubernetes
2 67 (13.51%) Terraform
3 35 (7.06%) Grafana
4 16 (3.23%) Single Sign-On
5 12 (2.42%) Ansible
6 10 (2.02%) Prometheus
7 8 (1.61%) Argo
8 6 (1.21%) Kibana
9 2 (0.40%) Progress Chef
9 2 (0.40%) Puppet
10 1 (0.20%) Istio
Vendors
1 119 (23.99%) Microsoft
2 30 (6.05%) Oracle
3 13 (2.62%) Guidewire
4 12 (2.42%) Google
5 6 (1.21%) Databricks
5 6 (1.21%) Facebook
5 6 (1.21%) YouTube
6 5 (1.01%) Ericsson
6 5 (1.01%) Mavenir
6 5 (1.01%) Nokia
7 4 (0.81%) BiZZdesign
7 4 (0.81%) Red Hat
8 3 (0.60%) Dynatrace
8 3 (0.60%) Salesforce
9 2 (0.40%) MuleSoft
9 2 (0.40%) Sage
9 2 (0.40%) SAP
9 2 (0.40%) Solarflare
9 2 (0.40%) Sparx
9 2 (0.40%) VMware