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

6 months to
25 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 57 38 61
Rank change year-on-year -19 +23 -20
Permanent jobs citing Microservices 887 1,085 1,110
As % of all permanent jobs with remote/hybrid work options 4.08% 6.60% 4.00%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 4.92% 7.08% 4.53%
Number of salaries quoted 641 526 958
10th Percentile £45,000 £47,500 £41,250
25th Percentile £50,000 £57,500 £50,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £66,000 £70,000 £62,500
Median % change year-on-year -5.71% +12.00% -16.67%
75th Percentile £88,148 £90,938 £83,750
90th Percentile £100,000 £115,000 £97,500
UK median annual salary £72,500 £72,500 £65,000
% change year-on-year - +11.54% -13.65%

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 18,035 15,327 24,491
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 82.95% 93.18% 88.34%
Number of salaries quoted 13,088 9,060 18,139
10th Percentile £35,000 £29,750 £34,981
25th Percentile £44,972 £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 £78,750 £77,181
90th Percentile £100,000 £101,250 £96,000
UK median annual salary £60,000 £55,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year +9.09% - -8.33%

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 25 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 8 (0.90%) CMS
2 5 (0.56%) IIS
2 5 (0.56%) nginx
3 4 (0.45%) Oracle SOA Suite
4 3 (0.34%) Apache Airflow
4 3 (0.34%) Camunda
4 3 (0.34%) Confluence
4 3 (0.34%) DNN
4 3 (0.34%) EPiServer
4 3 (0.34%) Immediacy CMS
4 3 (0.34%) JBoss
4 3 (0.34%) Kentico
4 3 (0.34%) Sitecore CMS
4 3 (0.34%) Sitefinity
4 3 (0.34%) Umbraco
4 3 (0.34%) WordPress
5 2 (0.23%) NServiceBus
5 2 (0.23%) OpenStack
5 2 (0.23%) SharePoint
6 1 (0.11%) Cloud Foundry
Applications
1 6 (0.68%) Chatbot
Business Applications
1 7 (0.79%) Dynamics CRM
2 4 (0.45%) Dynamics AX
2 4 (0.45%) Oracle EBS
3 2 (0.23%) Shopify
4 1 (0.11%) Payment Gateway
Cloud Services
1 499 (56.26%) AWS
2 425 (47.91%) Azure
3 164 (18.49%) GCP
4 144 (16.23%) SaaS
5 99 (11.16%) Serverless
6 93 (10.48%) GitHub
7 78 (8.79%) Azure DevOps
8 70 (7.89%) GitHub Copilot
9 57 (6.43%) AWS Lambda
10 54 (6.09%) Amazon EKS
11 47 (5.30%) Azure Service Bus
12 43 (4.85%) Amazon S3
13 41 (4.62%) Amazon SQS
14 39 (4.40%) Azure AKS
15 35 (3.95%) Amazon ECS
16 32 (3.61%) Azure Cosmos DB
17 31 (3.49%) Amazon EC2
18 28 (3.16%) PaaS
19 19 (2.14%) Azure Monitor
20 17 (1.92%) Azure Functions
Communications & Networking
1 64 (7.22%) Broadband
2 7 (0.79%) Hyperconnected
2 7 (0.79%) Internet
3 6 (0.68%) Cisco ASA
3 6 (0.68%) Firewall
4 5 (0.56%) DNS
4 5 (0.56%) MQTT
5 4 (0.45%) DHCP
5 4 (0.45%) Network Security
5 4 (0.45%) TCP/IP
6 3 (0.34%) Modbus
7 2 (0.23%) HTTP
8 1 (0.11%) AMQP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 226 (25.48%) MongoDB
2 150 (16.91%) Azure SQL Database
3 130 (14.66%) Elasticsearch
4 112 (12.63%) PostgreSQL
5 64 (7.22%) SQL Server
6 63 (7.10%) NoSQL
7 51 (5.75%) MySQL
8 29 (3.27%) Redis
8 29 (3.27%) Relational Database
9 21 (2.37%) Amazon RDS
10 8 (0.90%) Metadata
11 7 (0.79%) Data Lake
11 7 (0.79%) DynamoDB
11 7 (0.79%) RDBMS
12 5 (0.56%) MariaDB
13 4 (0.45%) Data Warehouse
13 4 (0.45%) Delta Lake
13 4 (0.45%) SQL Server Integration Services
14 3 (0.34%) Oracle Database
15 2 (0.23%) Amazon Redshift
Development Applications
1 68 (7.67%) Git
2 43 (4.85%) TeamCity
3 39 (4.40%) GitLab
4 23 (2.59%) Cypress.io
5 19 (2.14%) Jenkins
6 17 (1.92%) Claude Code
7 13 (1.47%) JUnit
7 13 (1.47%) Maven
8 11 (1.24%) JIRA
8 11 (1.24%) Mockito
9 7 (0.79%) Selenium
10 5 (0.56%) Atlassian Bamboo
10 5 (0.56%) Bitbucket
10 5 (0.56%) Octopus Deploy
11 4 (0.45%) NUnit
12 3 (0.34%) Jasmine
12 3 (0.34%) SonarQube
12 3 (0.34%) Visual Studio
12 3 (0.34%) Visual Studio Code
13 2 (0.23%) MLflow
General
1 186 (20.97%) Finance
2 139 (15.67%) Social Skills
3 94 (10.60%) Law
4 89 (10.03%) Public Sector
5 82 (9.24%) Retail
6 69 (7.78%) Legal
7 65 (7.33%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 64 (7.22%) Banking
9 40 (4.51%) Financial Institution
10 38 (4.28%) Back Office
11 37 (4.17%) Analytical Skills
12 28 (3.16%) Legal Technology
13 20 (2.25%) Marketing
14 17 (1.92%) Aerospace
14 17 (1.92%) Games
15 10 (1.13%) Telecoms
16 9 (1.01%) Manufacturing
17 7 (0.79%) Advertising
18 6 (0.68%) Influencing Skills
19 5 (0.56%) Aviation
Job Titles
1 416 (46.90%) Developer
2 197 (22.21%) Software Engineer
3 190 (21.42%) .NET Developer
4 187 (21.08%) Senior
5 169 (19.05%) Lead
6 97 (10.94%) Architect
7 95 (10.71%) Full-Stack Developer
8 91 (10.26%) Senior Developer
9 52 (5.86%) Lead Developer
9 52 (5.86%) Senior Software Engineer
10 44 (4.96%) Full-Stack Engineer
11 40 (4.51%) Java Engineer
11 40 (4.51%) Lead Software Engineer
12 35 (3.95%) C# Developer
13 31 (3.49%) .NET Software Engineer
13 31 (3.49%) C# .NET Developer
13 31 (3.49%) Software Developer
14 30 (3.38%) Scala Engineer
15 28 (3.16%) Java Software Engineer
15 28 (3.16%) Technical Leader
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 354 (39.91%) .NET
2 254 (28.64%) Node.js
3 232 (26.16%) React
4 176 (19.84%) .NET Core
5 173 (19.50%) ASP.NET
6 153 (17.25%) ASP.NET Core
7 148 (16.69%) Vue
8 116 (13.08%) AngularJS
9 95 (10.71%) ASP.NET Web API
10 92 (10.37%) Blazor
11 89 (10.03%) RESTful
12 82 (9.24%) REST
13 73 (8.23%) .NET Framework
14 67 (7.55%) Spring
15 55 (6.20%) gRPC
16 51 (5.75%) Spring Boot
17 43 (4.85%) Kafka
18 41 (4.62%) CSS
19 39 (4.40%) HTML
20 26 (2.93%) WPF
Miscellaneous
1 231 (26.04%) Cloud Native
2 141 (15.90%) Distributed Systems
3 72 (8.12%) Product Ownership
4 47 (5.30%) Video\Live Streaming
5 45 (5.07%) Over-the-Top Content
6 34 (3.83%) Legacy Systems
7 30 (3.38%) Greenfield Project
8 18 (2.03%) Enterprise Software
9 14 (1.58%) Virtual Team
10 12 (1.35%) AI Agents
10 12 (1.35%) Self-Motivation
11 10 (1.13%) Legacy Applications
12 8 (0.90%) Management Information System
12 8 (0.90%) Mobile App
13 7 (0.79%) Hybrid Cloud
13 7 (0.79%) IoT
13 7 (0.79%) Onboarding
14 6 (0.68%) Data Structures
14 6 (0.68%) Marketing Technology
15 5 (0.56%) Mobile Payment
Operating Systems
1 51 (5.75%) Linux
2 23 (2.59%) Windows
3 20 (2.25%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 482 (54.34%) Agile
2 461 (51.97%) CI/CD
3 362 (40.81%) Software Engineering
4 343 (38.67%) Full-Stack Development
5 264 (29.76%) DevOps
6 234 (26.38%) Mentoring
7 209 (23.56%) Continuous Improvement
7 209 (23.56%) Problem-Solving
8 170 (19.17%) Scrum
9 168 (18.94%) Coaching
10 161 (18.15%) Event-Driven
11 158 (17.81%) Containerisation
12 154 (17.36%) Test Automation
13 153 (17.25%) AI
14 144 (16.23%) Clean Code
15 142 (16.01%) TDD
16 128 (14.43%) Technical Leadership
17 122 (13.75%) Infrastructure as Code
18 114 (12.85%) Enterprise Architecture
19 112 (12.63%) Event-Driven Architecture
Programming Languages
1 363 (40.92%) C#
2 275 (31.00%) SQL
3 256 (28.86%) JavaScript
4 206 (23.22%) TypeScript
5 205 (23.11%) Java
6 162 (18.26%) Python
7 55 (6.20%) Go
8 49 (5.52%) Scala
9 26 (2.93%) Ruby
10 17 (1.92%) Bash
10 17 (1.92%) PHP
11 16 (1.80%) PowerShell
12 14 (1.58%) Bicep
13 12 (1.35%) PL/SQL
14 8 (0.90%) Rust
15 4 (0.45%) C++
16 3 (0.34%) Kotlin
17 2 (0.23%) T-SQL
18 1 (0.11%) Perl
18 1 (0.11%) VB.NET
Qualifications
1 79 (8.91%) Security Cleared
2 66 (7.44%) Degree
3 58 (6.54%) SC Cleared
4 28 (3.16%) Computer Science Degree
5 10 (1.13%) AWS Certification
5 10 (1.13%) Azure Certification
5 10 (1.13%) CISSP
5 10 (1.13%) DBS Check
6 9 (1.01%) DV Cleared
7 6 (0.68%) CISM
8 5 (0.56%) Microsoft Certification
9 4 (0.45%) AWS Certified Developer
9 4 (0.45%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
9 4 (0.45%) GIAC
9 4 (0.45%) ISACA
9 4 (0.45%) SANS
10 3 (0.34%) (ISC)2 CCSP
10 3 (0.34%) BPSS Clearance
10 3 (0.34%) Cisco Certification
10 3 (0.34%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 113 (12.74%) QA
2 22 (2.48%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 19 (2.14%) GDPR
4 13 (1.47%) Accessibility
5 10 (1.13%) Actionable Recommendations
5 10 (1.13%) NIST
6 8 (0.90%) HMG Security Policy Framework
7 4 (0.45%) California Consumer Privacy Act
7 4 (0.45%) WCAG
8 3 (0.34%) Data Quality
8 3 (0.34%) IFRS
8 3 (0.34%) ISO 9001
8 3 (0.34%) NCSC
8 3 (0.34%) PCI DSS
8 3 (0.34%) Sarbanes-Oxley
8 3 (0.34%) SEPA
9 2 (0.23%) GRC
10 1 (0.11%) PSD2
System Software
1 253 (28.52%) Docker
2 11 (1.24%) Active Directory
3 5 (0.56%) Virtual Machines
4 3 (0.34%) Firmware
Systems Management
1 241 (27.17%) Kubernetes
2 109 (12.29%) Terraform
3 60 (6.76%) Grafana
4 26 (2.93%) Ansible
5 18 (2.03%) Prometheus
6 16 (1.80%) Argo
7 3 (0.34%) Kibana
8 2 (0.23%) MIIS
8 2 (0.23%) Opsgenie
9 1 (0.11%) Puppet
9 1 (0.11%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 229 (25.82%) Microsoft
2 45 (5.07%) Typelevel
3 33 (3.72%) Google
4 27 (3.04%) Oracle
5 14 (1.58%) OpenAI
6 10 (1.13%) Databricks
7 7 (0.79%) SAP
8 6 (0.68%) Cisco
8 6 (0.68%) F5
8 6 (0.68%) Juniper
8 6 (0.68%) Palo Alto
8 6 (0.68%) Red Hat
9 5 (0.56%) ForgeRock
9 5 (0.56%) HubSpot
9 5 (0.56%) Okta
9 5 (0.56%) Splunk
10 4 (0.45%) Facebook
10 4 (0.45%) Infor
10 4 (0.45%) Salesforce
10 4 (0.45%) ServiceNow