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 9 August 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
9 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 62 39 74
Rank change year-on-year -23 +35 -30
Permanent jobs citing Microservices 895 1,031 915
As % of all permanent jobs with remote/hybrid work options 3.95% 6.23% 3.68%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 4.76% 6.71% 4.19%
Number of salaries quoted 643 479 749
10th Percentile £45,000 £47,500 £40,000
25th Percentile £50,000 £57,500 £50,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £70,000 £64,000
Median % change year-on-year -7.14% +9.38% -14.67%
75th Percentile £88,148 £87,500 £82,500
90th Percentile £100,000 £108,000 £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 18,803 15,374 21,834
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 82.94% 92.93% 87.74%
Number of salaries quoted 13,559 9,059 15,712
10th Percentile £35,000 £29,750 £35,000
25th Percentile £44,972 £40,750 £43,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £58,500 £59,747
Median % change year-on-year +2.56% -2.09% -4.40%
75th Percentile £80,000 £78,500 £77,500
90th Percentile £100,000 £100,000 £97,500
UK median annual salary £60,000 £55,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year +9.09% - -8.71%

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 9 August 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 (0.78%) CMS
1 7 (0.78%) Oracle SOA Suite
2 5 (0.56%) Camunda
2 5 (0.56%) IIS
2 5 (0.56%) nginx
3 3 (0.34%) Confluence
3 3 (0.34%) DNN
3 3 (0.34%) EPiServer
3 3 (0.34%) Immediacy CMS
3 3 (0.34%) Kentico
3 3 (0.34%) Sitecore CMS
3 3 (0.34%) Sitefinity
3 3 (0.34%) Umbraco
3 3 (0.34%) WordPress
4 2 (0.22%) Apache Airflow
4 2 (0.22%) JBoss
4 2 (0.22%) OpenStack
5 1 (0.11%) Apache
5 1 (0.11%) Red Hat Fuse
5 1 (0.11%) SharePoint
Applications
1 7 (0.78%) Chatbot
Business Applications
1 7 (0.78%) 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
1 509 (56.87%) AWS
2 431 (48.16%) Azure
3 163 (18.21%) GCP
4 146 (16.31%) SaaS
5 100 (11.17%) Serverless
6 90 (10.06%) GitHub
7 79 (8.83%) Azure DevOps
8 70 (7.82%) GitHub Copilot
9 62 (6.93%) AWS Lambda
10 56 (6.26%) Amazon EKS
11 49 (5.47%) Azure Service Bus
12 46 (5.14%) Amazon S3
13 43 (4.80%) Amazon SQS
14 38 (4.25%) Amazon ECS
14 38 (4.25%) Azure AKS
15 33 (3.69%) Amazon EC2
16 31 (3.46%) Azure Cosmos DB
17 26 (2.91%) PaaS
18 21 (2.35%) Azure Monitor
19 19 (2.12%) Snowflake
Communications & Networking
1 55 (6.15%) Broadband
2 7 (0.78%) Hyperconnected
2 7 (0.78%) Internet
3 5 (0.56%) Cisco ASA
3 5 (0.56%) DNS
3 5 (0.56%) Firewall
4 4 (0.45%) DHCP
4 4 (0.45%) HTTP
4 4 (0.45%) Network Security
4 4 (0.45%) TCP/IP
5 3 (0.34%) Modbus
5 3 (0.34%) MQTT
Database & Business Intelligence
1 226 (25.25%) MongoDB
2 150 (16.76%) Azure SQL Database
3 132 (14.75%) Elasticsearch
4 113 (12.63%) PostgreSQL
5 70 (7.82%) SQL Server
6 60 (6.70%) NoSQL
7 52 (5.81%) MySQL
8 31 (3.46%) Relational Database
9 30 (3.35%) Redis
10 21 (2.35%) Amazon RDS
11 8 (0.89%) DynamoDB
11 8 (0.89%) Metadata
12 7 (0.78%) Data Lake
12 7 (0.78%) RDBMS
13 4 (0.45%) Data Warehouse
13 4 (0.45%) Delta Lake
13 4 (0.45%) MariaDB
13 4 (0.45%) SQL Server Integration Services
14 2 (0.22%) Looker
14 2 (0.22%) Oracle Database
Development Applications
1 78 (8.72%) Git
2 45 (5.03%) TeamCity
3 36 (4.02%) GitLab
4 25 (2.79%) Cypress.io
5 20 (2.23%) Jenkins
6 17 (1.90%) Claude Code
6 17 (1.90%) JUnit
6 17 (1.90%) Maven
7 15 (1.68%) Mockito
8 11 (1.23%) JIRA
9 9 (1.01%) 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%) Visual Studio
12 3 (0.34%) Visual Studio Code
13 2 (0.22%) Karma Test Runner
13 2 (0.22%) MLflow
General
1 188 (21.01%) Finance
2 147 (16.42%) Social Skills
3 102 (11.40%) Law
4 98 (10.95%) Public Sector
5 85 (9.50%) Retail
6 73 (8.16%) Legal
7 71 (7.93%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 65 (7.26%) Banking
9 41 (4.58%) Back Office
9 41 (4.58%) Financial Institution
10 39 (4.36%) Analytical Skills
11 28 (3.13%) Legal Technology
12 21 (2.35%) Games
13 19 (2.12%) Marketing
14 17 (1.90%) Aerospace
15 9 (1.01%) Manufacturing
15 9 (1.01%) Telecoms
16 8 (0.89%) Advertising
17 7 (0.78%) Local Government
18 5 (0.56%) Influencing Skills
Job Titles
1 412 (46.03%) Developer
2 197 (22.01%) Software Engineer
3 189 (21.12%) .NET Developer
4 188 (21.01%) Senior
5 171 (19.11%) Lead
6 104 (11.62%) Architect
7 100 (11.17%) Full-Stack Developer
8 90 (10.06%) Senior Developer
9 53 (5.92%) Lead Developer
10 50 (5.59%) Senior Software Engineer
11 44 (4.92%) Full-Stack Engineer
12 43 (4.80%) Lead Software Engineer
13 38 (4.25%) Java Engineer
14 33 (3.69%) Software Developer
15 29 (3.24%) .NET Software Engineer
15 29 (3.24%) C# Developer
15 29 (3.24%) Team Leader
16 28 (3.13%) C# .NET Developer
16 28 (3.13%) Java Developer
16 28 (3.13%) Technical Leader
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 360 (40.22%) .NET
2 257 (28.72%) Node.js
3 242 (27.04%) React
4 182 (20.34%) .NET Core
5 177 (19.78%) ASP.NET
6 154 (17.21%) ASP.NET Core
7 151 (16.87%) Vue
8 119 (13.30%) AngularJS
9 96 (10.73%) Blazor
10 94 (10.50%) ASP.NET Web API
11 87 (9.72%) RESTful
12 86 (9.61%) REST
13 73 (8.16%) .NET Framework
14 69 (7.71%) Spring
15 48 (5.36%) gRPC
16 46 (5.14%) Spring Boot
17 41 (4.58%) Kafka
18 40 (4.47%) CSS
19 35 (3.91%) HTML
20 31 (3.46%) WPF
Miscellaneous
1 237 (26.48%) Cloud Native
2 134 (14.97%) Distributed Systems
3 74 (8.27%) Product Ownership
4 40 (4.47%) Video\Live Streaming
5 37 (4.13%) Legacy Systems
6 36 (4.02%) Over-the-Top Content
7 29 (3.24%) Greenfield Project
8 22 (2.46%) Enterprise Software
9 19 (2.12%) Self-Motivation
10 15 (1.68%) AI Agents
10 15 (1.68%) Virtual Team
11 12 (1.34%) Legacy Applications
12 10 (1.12%) IoT
12 10 (1.12%) Management Information System
13 9 (1.01%) Mobile App
14 8 (0.89%) Blog
15 7 (0.78%) Hybrid Cloud
15 7 (0.78%) Onboarding
16 6 (0.67%) Data Structures
16 6 (0.67%) Marketing Technology
Operating Systems
1 53 (5.92%) Linux
2 24 (2.68%) Windows
3 19 (2.12%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 497 (55.53%) Agile
2 458 (51.17%) CI/CD
3 354 (39.55%) Software Engineering
4 345 (38.55%) Full-Stack Development
5 269 (30.06%) DevOps
6 254 (28.38%) Mentoring
7 208 (23.24%) Continuous Improvement
8 200 (22.35%) Problem-Solving
9 172 (19.22%) Scrum
10 169 (18.88%) Event-Driven
11 167 (18.66%) Coaching
12 164 (18.32%) AI
13 152 (16.98%) Test Automation
14 149 (16.65%) Containerisation
14 149 (16.65%) TDD
15 144 (16.09%) Clean Code
16 135 (15.08%) Technical Leadership
17 124 (13.85%) Infrastructure as Code
18 116 (12.96%) Enterprise Architecture
18 116 (12.96%) Event-Driven Architecture
Programming Languages
1 374 (41.79%) C#
2 276 (30.84%) SQL
3 263 (29.39%) JavaScript
4 212 (23.69%) Java
5 210 (23.46%) TypeScript
6 150 (16.76%) Python
7 48 (5.36%) Go
8 41 (4.58%) Scala
9 31 (3.46%) Ruby
10 20 (2.23%) Bash
11 16 (1.79%) PHP
12 15 (1.68%) PL/SQL
12 15 (1.68%) PowerShell
13 14 (1.56%) Bicep
14 5 (0.56%) Rust
15 4 (0.45%) C++
15 4 (0.45%) Kotlin
16 3 (0.34%) VB.NET
17 2 (0.22%) T-SQL
18 1 (0.11%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 86 (9.61%) Security Cleared
2 71 (7.93%) Degree
3 65 (7.26%) SC Cleared
4 31 (3.46%) Computer Science Degree
5 11 (1.23%) AWS Certification
5 11 (1.23%) DV Cleared
6 10 (1.12%) Azure Certification
6 10 (1.12%) CISSP
6 10 (1.12%) DBS Check
7 6 (0.67%) 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%) CCSP
10 3 (0.34%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 110 (12.29%) QA
2 22 (2.46%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 18 (2.01%) GDPR
4 17 (1.90%) Accessibility
5 10 (1.12%) Actionable Recommendations
5 10 (1.12%) NIST
6 9 (1.01%) 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 (0.22%) GRC
10 1 (0.11%) PSD2
System Software
1 251 (28.04%) Docker
2 11 (1.23%) Active Directory
3 5 (0.56%) Virtual Machines
4 3 (0.34%) Firmware
Systems Management
1 247 (27.60%) Kubernetes
2 117 (13.07%) Terraform
3 59 (6.59%) Grafana
4 24 (2.68%) Ansible
5 16 (1.79%) Argo
6 15 (1.68%) Prometheus
7 3 (0.34%) Kibana
8 2 (0.22%) MIIS
8 2 (0.22%) Opsgenie
9 1 (0.11%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 234 (26.15%) Microsoft
2 37 (4.13%) Google
3 36 (4.02%) Typelevel
4 28 (3.13%) Oracle
5 13 (1.45%) OpenAI
6 11 (1.23%) SAP
7 9 (1.01%) Databricks
8 6 (0.67%) ForgeRock
8 6 (0.67%) Okta
9 5 (0.56%) Cisco
9 5 (0.56%) F5
9 5 (0.56%) HubSpot
9 5 (0.56%) Juniper
9 5 (0.56%) Palo Alto
9 5 (0.56%) Red Hat
9 5 (0.56%) Splunk
10 4 (0.45%) Epicor
10 4 (0.45%) Facebook
10 4 (0.45%) Infor
10 4 (0.45%) ServiceNow