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 3 July 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
3 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 62 37 48
Rank change year-on-year -25 +11 -8
Permanent jobs citing Microservices 808 1,107 1,615
As % of all permanent jobs with remote/hybrid work options 3.88% 6.89% 4.83%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 4.71% 7.36% 5.43%
Number of salaries quoted 604 549 1,437
10th Percentile £45,000 £47,500 £41,250
25th Percentile £50,000 £57,500 £48,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £67,500 £70,000 £62,500
Median % change year-on-year -3.57% +12.00% -16.67%
75th Percentile £88,148 £93,778 £83,250
90th Percentile £100,000 £115,000 £97,500
UK median annual salary £72,500 £72,500 £65,000
% change year-on-year - +11.54% -13.97%

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 17,169 15,050 29,747
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 82.41% 93.73% 88.99%
Number of salaries quoted 12,535 8,890 22,885
10th Percentile £35,000 £29,906 £33,750
25th Percentile £45,000 £41,250 £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 £79,938 £75,772
90th Percentile £100,000 £104,500 £95,000
UK median annual salary £60,000 £57,500 £55,000
% change year-on-year +4.35% +4.55% -9.09%

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 3 July 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 (0.87%) CMS
2 6 (0.74%) JBoss
3 3 (0.37%) Apache Airflow
3 3 (0.37%) Camunda
3 3 (0.37%) Confluence
3 3 (0.37%) DNN
3 3 (0.37%) EPiServer
3 3 (0.37%) IIS
3 3 (0.37%) Immediacy CMS
3 3 (0.37%) Kentico
3 3 (0.37%) nginx
3 3 (0.37%) Sitecore CMS
3 3 (0.37%) Sitefinity
3 3 (0.37%) Umbraco
3 3 (0.37%) WebSphere
4 2 (0.25%) Apache
4 2 (0.25%) NServiceBus
4 2 (0.25%) OpenStack
4 2 (0.25%) Oracle SOA Suite
4 2 (0.25%) SharePoint
Applications
1 3 (0.37%) Chatbot
Business Applications
1 8 (0.99%) Dynamics CRM
2 4 (0.50%) Dynamics AX
2 4 (0.50%) Oracle EBS
3 2 (0.25%) Shopify
4 1 (0.12%) Payment Gateway
Cloud Services
1 490 (60.64%) AWS
2 395 (48.89%) Azure
3 161 (19.93%) GCP
4 142 (17.57%) SaaS
5 105 (13.00%) Serverless
6 84 (10.40%) GitHub
7 73 (9.03%) Azure DevOps
8 60 (7.43%) GitHub Copilot
9 57 (7.05%) Amazon EKS
10 56 (6.93%) AWS Lambda
11 43 (5.32%) Amazon S3
12 41 (5.07%) Amazon SQS
12 41 (5.07%) Azure Service Bus
13 39 (4.83%) Azure AKS
14 36 (4.46%) Amazon ECS
15 32 (3.96%) Amazon EC2
16 30 (3.71%) PaaS
17 28 (3.47%) Azure Cosmos DB
18 19 (2.35%) Azure Functions
18 19 (2.35%) Power Platform
Communications & Networking
1 64 (7.92%) Broadband
2 8 (0.99%) Hyperconnected
2 8 (0.99%) Internet
3 6 (0.74%) Cisco ASA
3 6 (0.74%) DNS
3 6 (0.74%) Firewall
4 5 (0.62%) DHCP
4 5 (0.62%) MQTT
5 4 (0.50%) Network Security
5 4 (0.50%) TCP/IP
6 3 (0.37%) Modbus
7 2 (0.25%) AMQP
8 1 (0.12%) HTTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 209 (25.87%) MongoDB
2 130 (16.09%) Azure SQL Database
3 117 (14.48%) PostgreSQL
4 113 (13.99%) Elasticsearch
5 68 (8.42%) NoSQL
6 55 (6.81%) SQL Server
7 52 (6.44%) MySQL
8 30 (3.71%) Relational Database
9 26 (3.22%) Redis
10 20 (2.48%) Amazon RDS
11 8 (0.99%) Metadata
12 7 (0.87%) RDBMS
13 6 (0.74%) Data Lake
13 6 (0.74%) DynamoDB
14 5 (0.62%) MariaDB
15 4 (0.50%) BigQuery
15 4 (0.50%) Data Warehouse
15 4 (0.50%) Delta Lake
16 3 (0.37%) Oracle Database
16 3 (0.37%) SQL Server Integration Services
Development Applications
1 57 (7.05%) Git
2 45 (5.57%) TeamCity
3 41 (5.07%) GitLab
4 23 (2.85%) Cypress.io
5 19 (2.35%) Jenkins
6 17 (2.10%) Claude Code
7 11 (1.36%) JIRA
7 11 (1.36%) JUnit
7 11 (1.36%) Maven
8 9 (1.11%) Mockito
9 7 (0.87%) Selenium
10 6 (0.74%) NUnit
10 6 (0.74%) Visual Studio
11 5 (0.62%) Atlassian Bamboo
11 5 (0.62%) Bitbucket
12 4 (0.50%) Cucumber
13 3 (0.37%) CircleCI
13 3 (0.37%) Jasmine
13 3 (0.37%) SpecFlow
13 3 (0.37%) Visual Studio Code
General
1 190 (23.51%) Finance
2 125 (15.47%) Social Skills
3 87 (10.77%) Public Sector
4 83 (10.27%) Law
5 78 (9.65%) Retail
6 73 (9.03%) Banking
7 59 (7.30%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 43 (5.32%) Back Office
8 43 (5.32%) Financial Institution
9 36 (4.46%) Analytical Skills
10 25 (3.09%) Legal
11 15 (1.86%) Games
12 14 (1.73%) Aerospace
12 14 (1.73%) Marketing
13 12 (1.49%) Legal Technology
14 10 (1.24%) Telecoms
15 9 (1.11%) Influencing Skills
15 9 (1.11%) Manufacturing
16 5 (0.62%) Aviation
17 4 (0.50%) Health Technology
Job Titles
1 345 (42.70%) Developer
2 202 (25.00%) Software Engineer
3 167 (20.67%) .NET Developer
4 156 (19.31%) Lead
5 155 (19.18%) Senior
6 100 (12.38%) Architect
7 90 (11.14%) Full-Stack Developer
8 60 (7.43%) Senior Software Engineer
9 48 (5.94%) Lead Developer
9 48 (5.94%) Senior Developer
10 47 (5.82%) Java Engineer
11 38 (4.70%) Lead Software Engineer
12 36 (4.46%) Full-Stack Engineer
13 34 (4.21%) .NET Software Engineer
13 34 (4.21%) C# Developer
14 33 (4.08%) Java Software Engineer
15 31 (3.84%) Software Developer
16 30 (3.71%) C# Software Engineer
16 30 (3.71%) Scala Engineer
16 30 (3.71%) Solutions Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 291 (36.01%) .NET
2 232 (28.71%) Node.js
3 221 (27.35%) React
4 159 (19.68%) .NET Core
5 150 (18.56%) ASP.NET
6 135 (16.71%) Vue
7 133 (16.46%) ASP.NET Core
8 107 (13.24%) AngularJS
9 88 (10.89%) RESTful
10 87 (10.77%) ASP.NET Web API
11 74 (9.16%) Blazor
11 74 (9.16%) REST
12 69 (8.54%) Spring
13 68 (8.42%) .NET Framework
14 53 (6.56%) gRPC
15 50 (6.19%) Spring Boot
16 40 (4.95%) CSS
17 39 (4.83%) Kafka
18 38 (4.70%) HTML
19 25 (3.09%) Jest
Miscellaneous
1 228 (28.22%) Cloud Native
2 131 (16.21%) Distributed Systems
3 71 (8.79%) Product Ownership
4 46 (5.69%) Video\Live Streaming
5 45 (5.57%) Over-the-Top Content
6 28 (3.47%) Legacy Systems
7 27 (3.34%) Greenfield Project
8 19 (2.35%) Enterprise Software
9 14 (1.73%) Virtual Team
10 12 (1.49%) Legacy Applications
10 12 (1.49%) Self-Motivation
11 11 (1.36%) AI Agents
12 9 (1.11%) Mobile App
13 7 (0.87%) Blog
13 7 (0.87%) Hybrid Cloud
13 7 (0.87%) Management Information System
13 7 (0.87%) Onboarding
14 6 (0.74%) Data Structures
14 6 (0.74%) Distributed Architecture
14 6 (0.74%) PKI
Operating Systems
1 47 (5.82%) Linux
2 20 (2.48%) Unix
2 20 (2.48%) Windows
3 3 (0.37%) Android
3 3 (0.37%) Apple iOS
4 1 (0.12%) CentOS
4 1 (0.12%) Debian
4 1 (0.12%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 1 (0.12%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 410 (50.74%) Agile
2 397 (49.13%) CI/CD
3 339 (41.96%) Software Engineering
4 318 (39.36%) Full-Stack Development
5 259 (32.05%) DevOps
6 221 (27.35%) Mentoring
7 166 (20.54%) Problem-Solving
8 164 (20.30%) Coaching
8 164 (20.30%) Continuous Improvement
9 159 (19.68%) Containerisation
10 158 (19.55%) Test Automation
11 155 (19.18%) Scrum
12 150 (18.56%) Event-Driven
13 143 (17.70%) Clean Code
14 140 (17.33%) AI
15 133 (16.46%) TDD
16 120 (14.85%) Technical Leadership
17 118 (14.60%) Infrastructure as Code
18 106 (13.12%) Event-Driven Architecture
19 85 (10.52%) Roadmaps
Programming Languages
1 287 (35.52%) C#
2 258 (31.93%) SQL
3 239 (29.58%) JavaScript
4 211 (26.11%) Java
5 190 (23.51%) TypeScript
6 156 (19.31%) Python
7 51 (6.31%) Go
8 47 (5.82%) Scala
9 27 (3.34%) Ruby
10 15 (1.86%) Bash
11 14 (1.73%) Bicep
11 14 (1.73%) PHP
11 14 (1.73%) PowerShell
12 10 (1.24%) PL/SQL
13 8 (0.99%) Rust
14 6 (0.74%) Kotlin
15 3 (0.37%) C++
16 2 (0.25%) T-SQL
17 1 (0.12%) Groovy
17 1 (0.12%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 74 (9.16%) Security Cleared
2 69 (8.54%) Degree
3 54 (6.68%) SC Cleared
4 27 (3.34%) Computer Science Degree
5 15 (1.86%) Azure Certification
6 14 (1.73%) CISSP
7 13 (1.61%) AWS Certification
7 13 (1.61%) DBS Check
8 9 (1.11%) CISM
9 7 (0.87%) TOGAF Certification
10 6 (0.74%) DV Cleared
10 6 (0.74%) Microsoft Certification
11 5 (0.62%) GIAC
11 5 (0.62%) ISACA
11 5 (0.62%) SANS
12 4 (0.50%) AWS Certified Developer
12 4 (0.50%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
13 3 (0.37%) (ISC)2 CCSP
13 3 (0.37%) CCSP
13 3 (0.37%) Master's Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 64 (7.92%) QA
2 23 (2.85%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 21 (2.60%) GDPR
4 14 (1.73%) Accessibility
4 14 (1.73%) NIST
5 10 (1.24%) Actionable Recommendations
6 6 (0.74%) HMG Security Policy Framework
6 6 (0.74%) NCSC
6 6 (0.74%) PCI DSS
7 3 (0.37%) California Consumer Privacy Act
7 3 (0.37%) IFRS
7 3 (0.37%) ISO 9001
7 3 (0.37%) Sarbanes-Oxley
8 2 (0.25%) Data Quality
8 2 (0.25%) GRC
8 2 (0.25%) SEPA
8 2 (0.25%) WCAG
System Software
1 236 (29.21%) Docker
2 13 (1.61%) Active Directory
3 3 (0.37%) Firmware
3 3 (0.37%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 228 (28.22%) Kubernetes
2 114 (14.11%) Terraform
3 59 (7.30%) Grafana
4 28 (3.47%) Ansible
5 16 (1.98%) Argo
6 14 (1.73%) Prometheus
7 3 (0.37%) Kibana
8 2 (0.25%) MIIS
8 2 (0.25%) Opsgenie
8 2 (0.25%) Puppet
9 1 (0.12%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 198 (24.50%) Microsoft
2 45 (5.57%) Typelevel
3 29 (3.59%) Google
4 24 (2.97%) Oracle
5 15 (1.86%) OpenAI
6 9 (1.11%) Databricks
7 7 (0.87%) Red Hat
8 6 (0.74%) Cisco
8 6 (0.74%) F5
8 6 (0.74%) Juniper
8 6 (0.74%) Palo Alto
9 5 (0.62%) ForgeRock
9 5 (0.62%) HubSpot
9 5 (0.62%) Okta
9 5 (0.62%) SAP
9 5 (0.62%) Splunk
10 4 (0.50%) Salesforce
10 4 (0.50%) ServiceNow
11 3 (0.37%) Alterian
11 3 (0.37%) Infor