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

6 months to
15 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 67 37 43
Rank change year-on-year -30 +6 -5
Permanent jobs citing Microservices 710 1,107 1,792
As % of all permanent jobs with remote/hybrid work options 3.57% 7.23% 5.19%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 4.37% 7.64% 5.83%
Number of salaries quoted 521 547 1,599
10th Percentile £45,000 £48,165 £42,500
25th Percentile £50,468 £57,500 £48,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £67,500 £70,000 £61,206
Median % change year-on-year -3.57% +14.37% -18.39%
75th Percentile £88,148 £93,778 £81,875
90th Percentile £100,000 £115,000 £97,500
UK median annual salary £75,000 £74,500 £65,000
% change year-on-year +0.67% +14.62% -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 16,250 14,485 30,759
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 81.82% 94.60% 89.12%
Number of salaries quoted 11,711 8,403 23,769
10th Percentile £35,000 £29,848 £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 15 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 (0.99%) JBoss
2 5 (0.70%) CMS
3 4 (0.56%) WebSphere
4 3 (0.42%) Apache Airflow
4 3 (0.42%) Oracle SOA Suite
5 2 (0.28%) Apache
5 2 (0.28%) Camunda
5 2 (0.28%) Confluence
5 2 (0.28%) NServiceBus
5 2 (0.28%) SharePoint
6 1 (0.14%) DNN
6 1 (0.14%) EPiServer
6 1 (0.14%) IIS
6 1 (0.14%) Immediacy CMS
6 1 (0.14%) nginx
6 1 (0.14%) OpenStack
6 1 (0.14%) Oracle Coherence
6 1 (0.14%) Sitecore CMS
6 1 (0.14%) Umbraco
6 1 (0.14%) WordPress
Applications
1 2 (0.28%) Chatbot
Business Applications
1 5 (0.70%) Dynamics CRM
2 4 (0.56%) Dynamics AX
3 2 (0.28%) Shopify
4 1 (0.14%) Oracle EBS
4 1 (0.14%) Oracle ERP
4 1 (0.14%) Payment Gateway
Cloud Services
1 445 (62.68%) AWS
2 336 (47.32%) Azure
3 152 (21.41%) GCP
4 128 (18.03%) SaaS
5 106 (14.93%) Serverless
6 66 (9.30%) Azure DevOps
7 64 (9.01%) GitHub
8 56 (7.89%) AWS Lambda
9 48 (6.76%) Amazon EKS
10 43 (6.06%) Amazon SQS
11 42 (5.92%) Amazon S3
12 40 (5.63%) GitHub Copilot
13 36 (5.07%) Amazon ECS
13 36 (5.07%) Azure AKS
14 34 (4.79%) Azure Service Bus
15 32 (4.51%) Amazon EC2
16 25 (3.52%) PaaS
17 21 (2.96%) Azure Cosmos DB
18 18 (2.54%) Azure Event Grid
19 17 (2.39%) Power Platform
Communications & Networking
1 61 (8.59%) Broadband
2 6 (0.85%) Cisco ASA
2 6 (0.85%) DNS
2 6 (0.85%) Firewall
2 6 (0.85%) Hyperconnected
2 6 (0.85%) Internet
3 5 (0.70%) DHCP
3 5 (0.70%) MQTT
4 4 (0.56%) TCP/IP
5 3 (0.42%) Modbus
5 3 (0.42%) Network Security
6 2 (0.28%) AMQP
7 1 (0.14%) HTTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 157 (22.11%) MongoDB
2 105 (14.79%) PostgreSQL
3 78 (10.99%) Azure SQL Database
4 73 (10.28%) NoSQL
5 68 (9.58%) Elasticsearch
6 43 (6.06%) SQL Server
7 41 (5.77%) MySQL
8 26 (3.66%) Relational Database
9 20 (2.82%) Redis
10 19 (2.68%) Amazon RDS
11 7 (0.99%) DynamoDB
11 7 (0.99%) RDBMS
12 6 (0.85%) BigQuery
12 6 (0.85%) Metadata
13 4 (0.56%) MariaDB
14 3 (0.42%) Data Lake
14 3 (0.42%) Oracle Database
14 3 (0.42%) SQL Server Integration Services
15 2 (0.28%) Electronic Patient Records
15 2 (0.28%) Looker
Development Applications
1 57 (8.03%) Git
2 41 (5.77%) GitLab
3 40 (5.63%) TeamCity
4 24 (3.38%) Cypress.io
5 20 (2.82%) Jenkins
6 15 (2.11%) Claude Code
7 11 (1.55%) JUnit
7 11 (1.55%) Maven
8 9 (1.27%) Mockito
9 8 (1.13%) JIRA
9 8 (1.13%) Visual Studio
10 7 (0.99%) Selenium
11 5 (0.70%) NUnit
11 5 (0.70%) REST Assured
12 4 (0.56%) Atlassian Bamboo
12 4 (0.56%) Bitbucket
12 4 (0.56%) Cucumber
13 3 (0.42%) Jasmine
13 3 (0.42%) JMeter
13 3 (0.42%) SpecFlow
General
1 175 (24.65%) Finance
2 120 (16.90%) Social Skills
3 82 (11.55%) Public Sector
4 72 (10.14%) Banking
5 66 (9.30%) Law
6 62 (8.73%) Retail
7 49 (6.90%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 41 (5.77%) Financial Institution
9 39 (5.49%) Back Office
10 36 (5.07%) Analytical Skills
11 14 (1.97%) Marketing
12 10 (1.41%) Aerospace
12 10 (1.41%) Legal
13 9 (1.27%) Games
13 9 (1.27%) Manufacturing
14 8 (1.13%) Influencing Skills
15 7 (0.99%) Telecoms
16 5 (0.70%) Aviation
16 5 (0.70%) Health Technology
16 5 (0.70%) Publishing
Job Titles
1 279 (39.30%) Developer
2 189 (26.62%) Software Engineer
3 142 (20.00%) Senior
4 140 (19.72%) Lead
5 116 (16.34%) .NET Developer
6 95 (13.38%) Architect
7 84 (11.83%) Full-Stack Developer
8 61 (8.59%) Senior Software Engineer
9 46 (6.48%) Java Engineer
10 42 (5.92%) Lead Developer
11 36 (5.07%) .NET Software Engineer
12 35 (4.93%) C# Developer
13 34 (4.79%) Senior Developer
14 32 (4.51%) Java Software Engineer
15 31 (4.37%) C# Software Engineer
15 31 (4.37%) Lead Software Engineer
16 30 (4.23%) Full-Stack Engineer
16 30 (4.23%) Scala Engineer
17 28 (3.94%) C# .NET Developer
18 27 (3.80%) Java Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 222 (31.27%) .NET
2 183 (25.77%) React
3 177 (24.93%) Node.js
4 111 (15.63%) .NET Core
5 96 (13.52%) ASP.NET
5 96 (13.52%) Vue
6 89 (12.54%) RESTful
7 83 (11.69%) ASP.NET Core
8 75 (10.56%) AngularJS
9 70 (9.86%) REST
10 69 (9.72%) Spring
11 57 (8.03%) ASP.NET Web API
12 51 (7.18%) gRPC
13 50 (7.04%) .NET Framework
14 48 (6.76%) Spring Boot
15 46 (6.48%) Blazor
16 40 (5.63%) Kafka
17 38 (5.35%) CSS
17 38 (5.35%) HTML
18 26 (3.66%) Jest
Miscellaneous
1 212 (29.86%) Cloud Native
2 115 (16.20%) Distributed Systems
3 67 (9.44%) Product Ownership
4 46 (6.48%) Video\Live Streaming
5 45 (6.34%) Over-the-Top Content
6 26 (3.66%) Enterprise Software
7 23 (3.24%) Legacy Systems
8 18 (2.54%) Greenfield Project
9 13 (1.83%) Legacy Applications
10 12 (1.69%) Self-Motivation
11 11 (1.55%) Virtual Team
12 9 (1.27%) Mobile App
13 8 (1.13%) Data Structures
13 8 (1.13%) PKI
14 7 (0.99%) AI Agents
14 7 (0.99%) Onboarding
15 6 (0.85%) Algorithms
16 5 (0.70%) Cyberattack
16 5 (0.70%) Hybrid Cloud
16 5 (0.70%) Mobile Payment
Operating Systems
1 41 (5.77%) Linux
2 20 (2.82%) Unix
3 15 (2.11%) Windows
4 3 (0.42%) Android
4 3 (0.42%) Apple iOS
5 1 (0.14%) CentOS
5 1 (0.14%) Debian
5 1 (0.14%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 1 (0.14%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 358 (50.42%) CI/CD
2 326 (45.92%) Agile
3 300 (42.25%) Software Engineering
4 256 (36.06%) Full-Stack Development
5 239 (33.66%) DevOps
6 200 (28.17%) Mentoring
7 161 (22.68%) Containerisation
8 155 (21.83%) Coaching
9 149 (20.99%) Test Automation
10 142 (20.00%) Problem-Solving
11 139 (19.58%) Continuous Improvement
12 138 (19.44%) Event-Driven
13 130 (18.31%) Clean Code
14 119 (16.76%) Scrum
15 118 (16.62%) AI
16 109 (15.35%) Infrastructure as Code
17 107 (15.07%) Technical Leadership
18 103 (14.51%) TDD
19 98 (13.80%) Event-Driven Architecture
20 80 (11.27%) Machine Learning
Programming Languages
1 217 (30.56%) C#
2 202 (28.45%) Java
3 201 (28.31%) JavaScript
4 200 (28.17%) SQL
5 154 (21.69%) TypeScript
6 150 (21.13%) Python
7 52 (7.32%) Go
8 47 (6.62%) Scala
9 25 (3.52%) Ruby
10 14 (1.97%) Bash
10 14 (1.97%) PHP
11 12 (1.69%) Bicep
12 11 (1.55%) PL/SQL
12 11 (1.55%) PowerShell
13 8 (1.13%) Rust
14 7 (0.99%) Kotlin
15 3 (0.42%) C++
15 3 (0.42%) Shell Script
16 2 (0.28%) T-SQL
17 1 (0.14%) Perl
Qualifications
1 68 (9.58%) Security Cleared
2 64 (9.01%) Degree
3 50 (7.04%) SC Cleared
4 29 (4.08%) Computer Science Degree
5 22 (3.10%) Azure Certification
6 18 (2.54%) AWS Certification
7 16 (2.25%) CISSP
8 15 (2.11%) TOGAF Certification
9 14 (1.97%) DBS Check
10 11 (1.55%) CISM
10 11 (1.55%) Microsoft Certification
11 7 (0.99%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
12 5 (0.70%) GIAC
12 5 (0.70%) ISACA
12 5 (0.70%) SANS
13 4 (0.56%) AWS Certified Developer
13 4 (0.56%) ISTQB
13 4 (0.56%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
14 3 (0.42%) (ISC)2 CCSP
14 3 (0.42%) Master's Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 44 (6.20%) QA
2 21 (2.96%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 18 (2.54%) GDPR
4 17 (2.39%) Accessibility
5 16 (2.25%) NIST
6 10 (1.41%) Actionable Recommendations
7 8 (1.13%) NCSC
7 8 (1.13%) PCI DSS
8 3 (0.42%) HMG Security Policy Framework
8 3 (0.42%) IFRS
8 3 (0.42%) ISO 9001
8 3 (0.42%) Sarbanes-Oxley
8 3 (0.42%) WCAG
9 2 (0.28%) GRC
9 2 (0.28%) SEPA
System Software
1 208 (29.30%) Docker
2 11 (1.55%) Active Directory
3 3 (0.42%) Firmware
4 1 (0.14%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 199 (28.03%) Kubernetes
2 115 (16.20%) Terraform
3 51 (7.18%) Grafana
4 27 (3.80%) Ansible
5 16 (2.25%) Argo
6 11 (1.55%) Prometheus
7 3 (0.42%) Kibana
8 2 (0.28%) MIIS
8 2 (0.28%) Opsgenie
8 2 (0.28%) Puppet
8 2 (0.28%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 144 (20.28%) Microsoft
2 45 (6.34%) Typelevel
3 26 (3.66%) Google
4 18 (2.54%) Oracle
5 11 (1.55%) OpenAI
6 7 (0.99%) Red Hat
7 6 (0.85%) Cisco
7 6 (0.85%) F5
7 6 (0.85%) Juniper
7 6 (0.85%) Palo Alto
8 5 (0.70%) Databricks
8 5 (0.70%) ForgeRock
8 5 (0.70%) HubSpot
8 5 (0.70%) Okta
9 4 (0.56%) Salesforce
9 4 (0.56%) Splunk
10 3 (0.42%) Dynatrace
10 3 (0.42%) Foundry
10 3 (0.42%) Revolut
10 3 (0.42%) ServiceNow