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

6 months to
22 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 55 39 61
Rank change year-on-year -16 +22 -20
Permanent jobs citing Microservices 893 1,090 1,186
As % of all permanent jobs with remote/hybrid work options 4.12% 6.61% 4.08%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 4.98% 7.09% 4.61%
Number of salaries quoted 642 530 1,026
10th Percentile £45,000 £47,500 £41,250
25th Percentile £50,000 £57,500 £50,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £70,000 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year -7.14% +7.69% -13.33%
75th Percentile £88,148 £93,771 £83,759
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 17,944 15,366 25,740
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 82.81% 93.22% 88.46%
Number of salaries quoted 13,066 9,085 19,242
10th Percentile £35,000 £29,789 £34,089
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 £76,250
90th Percentile £100,000 £102,500 £95,000
UK median annual salary £60,000 £56,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year +7.14% +1.82% -8.73%

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 22 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%) JBoss
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%) Kentico
4 3 (0.34%) Oracle SOA Suite
4 3 (0.34%) Sitecore CMS
4 3 (0.34%) Sitefinity
4 3 (0.34%) Umbraco
4 3 (0.34%) WordPress
5 2 (0.22%) NServiceBus
5 2 (0.22%) OpenStack
5 2 (0.22%) SharePoint
6 1 (0.11%) Apache
Applications
1 5 (0.56%) Chatbot
Business Applications
1 9 (1.01%) Dynamics CRM
2 4 (0.45%) Dynamics AX
2 4 (0.45%) Oracle EBS
3 2 (0.22%) Shopify
4 1 (0.11%) Payment Gateway
Cloud Services
1 505 (56.55%) AWS
2 423 (47.37%) Azure
3 170 (19.04%) GCP
4 150 (16.80%) SaaS
5 103 (11.53%) Serverless
6 93 (10.41%) GitHub
7 77 (8.62%) Azure DevOps
8 69 (7.73%) GitHub Copilot
9 59 (6.61%) Amazon EKS
10 58 (6.49%) AWS Lambda
11 48 (5.38%) Azure Service Bus
12 44 (4.93%) Amazon S3
13 42 (4.70%) Amazon SQS
14 39 (4.37%) Azure AKS
15 36 (4.03%) Amazon ECS
16 32 (3.58%) Amazon EC2
17 31 (3.47%) Azure Cosmos DB
18 29 (3.25%) PaaS
19 19 (2.13%) Azure Functions
19 19 (2.13%) Power Platform
Communications & Networking
1 64 (7.17%) Broadband
2 7 (0.78%) Hyperconnected
2 7 (0.78%) Internet
3 6 (0.67%) Cisco ASA
3 6 (0.67%) DNS
3 6 (0.67%) Firewall
4 5 (0.56%) DHCP
4 5 (0.56%) MQTT
5 4 (0.45%) Network Security
5 4 (0.45%) TCP/IP
6 3 (0.34%) Modbus
7 1 (0.11%) AMQP
7 1 (0.11%) HTTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 227 (25.42%) MongoDB
2 150 (16.80%) Azure SQL Database
3 129 (14.45%) Elasticsearch
4 115 (12.88%) PostgreSQL
5 64 (7.17%) NoSQL
6 61 (6.83%) SQL Server
7 51 (5.71%) MySQL
8 30 (3.36%) Relational Database
9 28 (3.14%) Redis
10 21 (2.35%) Amazon RDS
11 8 (0.90%) Metadata
12 7 (0.78%) Data Lake
12 7 (0.78%) DynamoDB
12 7 (0.78%) RDBMS
13 5 (0.56%) MariaDB
14 4 (0.45%) Data Warehouse
14 4 (0.45%) Delta Lake
14 4 (0.45%) SQL Server Integration Services
15 3 (0.34%) Oracle Database
16 2 (0.22%) Amazon Redshift
Development Applications
1 67 (7.50%) Git
2 48 (5.38%) TeamCity
3 41 (4.59%) GitLab
4 24 (2.69%) Cypress.io
5 21 (2.35%) Jenkins
6 17 (1.90%) Claude Code
7 13 (1.46%) Maven
8 12 (1.34%) JIRA
8 12 (1.34%) JUnit
9 10 (1.12%) Mockito
10 7 (0.78%) Selenium
11 5 (0.56%) Atlassian Bamboo
11 5 (0.56%) Bitbucket
11 5 (0.56%) Octopus Deploy
12 4 (0.45%) NUnit
13 3 (0.34%) Jasmine
13 3 (0.34%) SonarQube
13 3 (0.34%) Visual Studio
13 3 (0.34%) Visual Studio Code
14 2 (0.22%) MLflow
General
1 194 (21.72%) Finance
2 139 (15.57%) Social Skills
3 100 (11.20%) Law
4 90 (10.08%) Public Sector
5 89 (9.97%) Retail
6 72 (8.06%) Banking
7 70 (7.84%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 70 (7.84%) Legal
8 46 (5.15%) Back Office
8 46 (5.15%) Financial Institution
9 35 (3.92%) Analytical Skills
10 28 (3.14%) Legal Technology
11 18 (2.02%) Marketing
12 17 (1.90%) Aerospace
13 16 (1.79%) Games
14 10 (1.12%) Telecoms
15 9 (1.01%) Manufacturing
16 6 (0.67%) Advertising
16 6 (0.67%) Influencing Skills
17 5 (0.56%) Aviation
Job Titles
1 415 (46.47%) Developer
2 201 (22.51%) Software Engineer
3 191 (21.39%) Senior
4 189 (21.16%) .NET Developer
5 168 (18.81%) Lead
6 101 (11.31%) Architect
7 94 (10.53%) Full-Stack Developer
8 91 (10.19%) Senior Developer
9 53 (5.94%) Senior Software Engineer
10 50 (5.60%) Lead Developer
11 44 (4.93%) Full-Stack Engineer
11 44 (4.93%) Java Engineer
12 41 (4.59%) Lead Software Engineer
13 35 (3.92%) C# Developer
14 31 (3.47%) .NET Software Engineer
14 31 (3.47%) C# .NET Developer
14 31 (3.47%) Java Software Engineer
14 31 (3.47%) Software Developer
15 30 (3.36%) Scala Engineer
15 30 (3.36%) Solutions Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 351 (39.31%) .NET
2 251 (28.11%) Node.js
3 231 (25.87%) React
4 175 (19.60%) .NET Core
5 172 (19.26%) ASP.NET
6 153 (17.13%) ASP.NET Core
7 147 (16.46%) Vue
8 116 (12.99%) AngularJS
9 95 (10.64%) ASP.NET Web API
10 91 (10.19%) Blazor
10 91 (10.19%) RESTful
11 79 (8.85%) REST
12 73 (8.17%) .NET Framework
13 68 (7.61%) Spring
14 54 (6.05%) gRPC
15 51 (5.71%) Spring Boot
16 43 (4.82%) Kafka
17 42 (4.70%) CSS
18 40 (4.48%) HTML
19 26 (2.91%) Jest
Miscellaneous
1 235 (26.32%) Cloud Native
2 138 (15.45%) Distributed Systems
3 77 (8.62%) Product Ownership
4 46 (5.15%) Video\Live Streaming
5 45 (5.04%) Over-the-Top Content
6 33 (3.70%) Legacy Systems
7 30 (3.36%) Greenfield Project
8 17 (1.90%) Enterprise Software
9 13 (1.46%) Virtual Team
10 12 (1.34%) AI Agents
10 12 (1.34%) Self-Motivation
11 10 (1.12%) Legacy Applications
12 8 (0.90%) IoT
12 8 (0.90%) Mobile App
13 7 (0.78%) Blog
13 7 (0.78%) Hybrid Cloud
13 7 (0.78%) Management Information System
13 7 (0.78%) Onboarding
14 6 (0.67%) Data Structures
15 5 (0.56%) Cyberattack
Operating Systems
1 51 (5.71%) Linux
2 23 (2.58%) Windows
3 20 (2.24%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 483 (54.09%) Agile
2 462 (51.74%) CI/CD
3 366 (40.99%) Software Engineering
4 342 (38.30%) Full-Stack Development
5 268 (30.01%) DevOps
6 235 (26.32%) Mentoring
7 211 (23.63%) Continuous Improvement
8 210 (23.52%) Problem-Solving
9 171 (19.15%) Coaching
10 170 (19.04%) Scrum
11 159 (17.81%) Event-Driven
12 158 (17.69%) Containerisation
12 158 (17.69%) Test Automation
13 152 (17.02%) AI
14 148 (16.57%) Clean Code
15 141 (15.79%) TDD
16 125 (14.00%) Technical Leadership
17 121 (13.55%) Infrastructure as Code
18 115 (12.88%) Enterprise Architecture
19 110 (12.32%) Event-Driven Architecture
Programming Languages
1 362 (40.54%) C#
2 276 (30.91%) SQL
3 256 (28.67%) JavaScript
4 212 (23.74%) Java
5 206 (23.07%) TypeScript
6 163 (18.25%) Python
7 53 (5.94%) Go
8 49 (5.49%) Scala
9 27 (3.02%) Ruby
10 17 (1.90%) PHP
11 16 (1.79%) Bash
11 16 (1.79%) PowerShell
12 14 (1.57%) Bicep
13 11 (1.23%) PL/SQL
14 8 (0.90%) Rust
15 4 (0.45%) C++
15 4 (0.45%) Kotlin
16 2 (0.22%) T-SQL
17 1 (0.11%) Perl
17 1 (0.11%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 78 (8.73%) Security Cleared
2 67 (7.50%) Degree
3 57 (6.38%) SC Cleared
4 26 (2.91%) Computer Science Degree
5 11 (1.23%) CISSP
6 10 (1.12%) AWS Certification
6 10 (1.12%) Azure Certification
6 10 (1.12%) DBS Check
7 9 (1.01%) DV Cleared
8 6 (0.67%) CISM
9 5 (0.56%) GIAC
9 5 (0.56%) ISACA
9 5 (0.56%) Microsoft Certification
9 5 (0.56%) SANS
10 4 (0.45%) AWS Certified Developer
10 4 (0.45%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
11 3 (0.34%) (ISC)2 CCSP
11 3 (0.34%) BPSS Clearance
11 3 (0.34%) Cisco Certification
11 3 (0.34%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 112 (12.54%) QA
2 22 (2.46%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 19 (2.13%) GDPR
4 12 (1.34%) Accessibility
5 11 (1.23%) NIST
6 10 (1.12%) Actionable Recommendations
7 8 (0.90%) HMG Security Policy Framework
8 4 (0.45%) California Consumer Privacy Act
8 4 (0.45%) WCAG
9 3 (0.34%) Data Quality
9 3 (0.34%) IFRS
9 3 (0.34%) ISO 9001
9 3 (0.34%) NCSC
9 3 (0.34%) PCI DSS
9 3 (0.34%) Sarbanes-Oxley
9 3 (0.34%) SEPA
10 2 (0.22%) GRC
11 1 (0.11%) PSD2
System Software
1 254 (28.44%) Docker
2 12 (1.34%) Active Directory
3 5 (0.56%) Virtual Machines
4 3 (0.34%) Firmware
Systems Management
1 245 (27.44%) Kubernetes
2 115 (12.88%) Terraform
3 65 (7.28%) Grafana
4 28 (3.14%) Ansible
5 17 (1.90%) Prometheus
6 16 (1.79%) Argo
7 3 (0.34%) Kibana
8 2 (0.22%) MIIS
8 2 (0.22%) Opsgenie
9 1 (0.11%) Puppet
9 1 (0.11%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 229 (25.64%) Microsoft
2 45 (5.04%) Typelevel
3 34 (3.81%) Google
4 26 (2.91%) Oracle
5 14 (1.57%) OpenAI
6 10 (1.12%) Databricks
7 6 (0.67%) Cisco
7 6 (0.67%) F5
7 6 (0.67%) ForgeRock
7 6 (0.67%) Juniper
7 6 (0.67%) Okta
7 6 (0.67%) Palo Alto
7 6 (0.67%) Red Hat
7 6 (0.67%) SAP
8 5 (0.56%) HubSpot
8 5 (0.56%) Splunk
9 4 (0.45%) Epicor
9 4 (0.45%) Infor
9 4 (0.45%) Salesforce
9 4 (0.45%) ServiceNow