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 12 October 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
12 Oct 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 72 48 70
Rank change year-on-year -24 +22 -20
Permanent jobs citing Microservices 844 913 830
As % of all permanent jobs with remote/hybrid work options 3.39% 5.52% 3.86%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 4.20% 5.89% 4.38%
Number of salaries quoted 581 399 498
10th Percentile £43,930 £48,165 £40,000
25th Percentile £50,000 £57,500 £48,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £69,305 £70,000 £62,500
Median % change year-on-year -0.99% +12.00% -16.67%
75th Percentile £88,148 £85,000 £82,500
90th Percentile £100,000 £100,000 £96,250
UK median annual salary £72,500 £75,000 £65,000
% change year-on-year -3.33% +15.38% -13.33%

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 20,087 15,504 18,946
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 80.59% 93.81% 88.21%
Number of salaries quoted 14,255 8,362 11,176
10th Percentile £33,750 £29,750 £35,500
25th Percentile £44,447 £40,000 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £57,500 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year +4.35% -4.17% -4.00%
75th Percentile £80,000 £77,500 £80,000
90th Percentile £100,000 £100,000 £102,500
UK median annual salary £60,000 £55,000 £60,000
% 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 12 October 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 11 (1.30%) CMS
2 8 (0.95%) nginx
3 7 (0.83%) Oracle SOA Suite
4 6 (0.71%) Camunda
4 6 (0.71%) WebLogic
5 5 (0.59%) IIS
6 3 (0.36%) DNN
6 3 (0.36%) EPiServer
6 3 (0.36%) Headless CMS
6 3 (0.36%) Immediacy CMS
6 3 (0.36%) Kentico
6 3 (0.36%) Sitecore CMS
6 3 (0.36%) Sitefinity
6 3 (0.36%) Umbraco
7 2 (0.24%) Apache Spark
7 2 (0.24%) OpenStack
7 2 (0.24%) WordPress
8 1 (0.12%) Confluence
8 1 (0.12%) JBoss
8 1 (0.12%) Oracle Coherence
Applications
1 7 (0.83%) Chatbot
Business Applications
1 4 (0.47%) Dynamics CRM
2 3 (0.36%) Oracle EBS
Cloud Services
1 475 (56.28%) AWS
2 389 (46.09%) Azure
3 165 (19.55%) SaaS
4 140 (16.59%) GCP
5 100 (11.85%) Serverless
6 98 (11.61%) GitHub
7 84 (9.95%) Amazon EKS
8 72 (8.53%) GitHub Copilot
9 66 (7.82%) AWS Lambda
10 64 (7.58%) Azure DevOps
11 50 (5.92%) Amazon S3
12 44 (5.21%) Azure Service Bus
13 39 (4.62%) Amazon SQS
14 38 (4.50%) Amazon ECS
15 31 (3.67%) Azure Cosmos DB
16 29 (3.44%) Amazon EC2
16 29 (3.44%) Azure AKS
17 28 (3.32%) Azure Monitor
18 26 (3.08%) PaaS
19 25 (2.96%) Azure Functions
Communications & Networking
1 15 (1.78%) Broadband
2 13 (1.54%) VPN
3 11 (1.30%) Network Security
4 10 (1.18%) Firewall
5 8 (0.95%) TCP/IP
6 7 (0.83%) BGP
7 6 (0.71%) Hyperconnected
7 6 (0.71%) Internet
8 5 (0.59%) HTTP
9 3 (0.36%) DNS
9 3 (0.36%) OpenVPN
10 1 (0.12%) MQTT
10 1 (0.12%) SSL
10 1 (0.12%) X.509
Database & Business Intelligence
1 216 (25.59%) MongoDB
2 149 (17.65%) Azure SQL Database
3 131 (15.52%) Elasticsearch
4 112 (13.27%) PostgreSQL
5 64 (7.58%) SQL Server
6 47 (5.57%) MySQL
7 36 (4.27%) Redis
8 35 (4.15%) NoSQL
9 33 (3.91%) Relational Database
10 27 (3.20%) Amazon RDS
11 14 (1.66%) DynamoDB
12 13 (1.54%) Data Lake
13 10 (1.18%) Amazon Redshift
14 8 (0.95%) Metadata
15 7 (0.83%) Amazon Athena
16 6 (0.71%) Parquet
16 6 (0.71%) RDBMS
17 4 (0.47%) Data Warehouse
17 4 (0.47%) Delta Lake
17 4 (0.47%) MariaDB
Development Applications
1 73 (8.65%) TeamCity
2 72 (8.53%) Git
3 29 (3.44%) GitLab
4 26 (3.08%) JUnit
5 24 (2.84%) Mockito
6 23 (2.73%) Cypress.io
7 18 (2.13%) Maven
8 17 (2.01%) Claude Code
9 15 (1.78%) Jenkins
10 9 (1.07%) JIRA
11 6 (0.71%) Selenium
12 5 (0.59%) Octopus Deploy
13 3 (0.36%) Atlassian Bamboo
13 3 (0.36%) Bitbucket
13 3 (0.36%) MLflow
13 3 (0.36%) Visual Studio
14 2 (0.24%) Mocha
14 2 (0.24%) NUnit
14 2 (0.24%) Visual Studio Code
15 1 (0.12%) Cucumber
General
1 209 (24.76%) Finance
2 164 (19.43%) Social Skills
3 117 (13.86%) Law
4 106 (12.56%) Retail
5 95 (11.26%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 87 (10.31%) Public Sector
7 79 (9.36%) Banking
8 73 (8.65%) Back Office
9 71 (8.41%) Financial Institution
10 68 (8.06%) Legal
11 42 (4.98%) Analytical Skills
12 28 (3.32%) Legal Technology
13 26 (3.08%) Games
14 16 (1.90%) Aerospace
15 14 (1.66%) Marketing
16 9 (1.07%) French Language
17 6 (0.71%) Advertising
18 5 (0.59%) Front Office
18 5 (0.59%) Influencing Skills
18 5 (0.59%) Local Government
Job Titles
1 378 (44.79%) Developer
2 199 (23.58%) Senior
3 177 (20.97%) Software Engineer
4 174 (20.62%) .NET Developer
5 168 (19.91%) Lead
6 96 (11.37%) Senior Developer
7 95 (11.26%) Full-Stack Developer
8 94 (11.14%) Architect
9 48 (5.69%) Lead Developer
10 45 (5.33%) Lead Software Engineer
10 45 (5.33%) Senior Software Engineer
11 40 (4.74%) Full-Stack Engineer
12 36 (4.27%) Technical Leader
13 35 (4.15%) Java Engineer
14 33 (3.91%) Software Developer
15 31 (3.67%) Team Leader
16 28 (3.32%) Java Developer
17 25 (2.96%) Solutions Architect
17 25 (2.96%) Technical Architect
18 23 (2.73%) Principal Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 331 (39.22%) .NET
2 255 (30.21%) Node.js
3 226 (26.78%) React
4 183 (21.68%) .NET Core
5 172 (20.38%) ASP.NET
6 153 (18.13%) Terraform
7 150 (17.77%) ASP.NET Core
8 141 (16.71%) Vue
9 113 (13.39%) AngularJS
10 101 (11.97%) Blazor
11 95 (11.26%) REST
12 91 (10.78%) ASP.NET Web API
13 86 (10.19%) Spring
14 73 (8.65%) RESTful
15 61 (7.23%) .NET Framework
16 60 (7.11%) Spring Boot
17 52 (6.16%) Kafka
18 31 (3.67%) WPF
19 27 (3.20%) Jest
20 26 (3.08%) CSS
Miscellaneous
1 241 (28.55%) Cloud Native
2 116 (13.74%) Distributed Systems
3 78 (9.24%) Product Ownership
4 31 (3.67%) Legacy Systems
5 30 (3.55%) Greenfield Project
6 23 (2.73%) Enterprise Software
7 18 (2.13%) Management Information System
7 18 (2.13%) Self-Motivation
8 16 (1.90%) Blog
9 15 (1.78%) AI Agents
10 14 (1.66%) Virtual Team
11 10 (1.18%) Security Posture
12 9 (1.07%) Data Structures
12 9 (1.07%) Legacy Applications
13 7 (0.83%) Hybrid Cloud
13 7 (0.83%) IoT
14 6 (0.71%) Algorithms
14 6 (0.71%) Mobile App
14 6 (0.71%) Public Cloud
14 6 (0.71%) Robotics
Operating Systems
1 47 (5.57%) Linux
2 26 (3.08%) Windows
3 11 (1.30%) Unix
4 1 (0.12%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 472 (55.92%) Agile
2 453 (53.67%) CI/CD
3 314 (37.20%) Full-Stack Development
4 311 (36.85%) Software Engineering
5 270 (31.99%) Mentoring
6 248 (29.38%) DevOps
7 203 (24.05%) Continuous Improvement
8 185 (21.92%) Problem-Solving
9 162 (19.19%) AI
10 157 (18.60%) Scrum
11 155 (18.36%) Event-Driven
12 151 (17.89%) Technical Leadership
12 151 (17.89%) Test Automation
13 141 (16.71%) TDD
14 138 (16.35%) Coaching
15 128 (15.17%) Clean Code
16 121 (14.34%) Architectural Patterns
17 118 (13.98%) Infrastructure as Code
18 111 (13.15%) Event-Driven Architecture
19 99 (11.73%) Enterprise Architecture
Programming Languages
1 353 (41.82%) C#
2 267 (31.64%) SQL
3 247 (29.27%) Java
4 237 (28.08%) JavaScript
5 195 (23.10%) TypeScript
6 119 (14.10%) Python
7 29 (3.44%) Ruby
8 23 (2.73%) Go
9 18 (2.13%) Bash
10 15 (1.78%) Bicep
10 15 (1.78%) PowerShell
11 14 (1.66%) PL/SQL
12 7 (0.83%) Kotlin
12 7 (0.83%) PHP
13 6 (0.71%) C++
14 5 (0.59%) Scala
15 3 (0.36%) VB.NET
16 2 (0.24%) C
16 2 (0.24%) Groovy
16 2 (0.24%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 104 (12.32%) Security Cleared
2 84 (9.95%) SC Cleared
3 65 (7.70%) Degree
4 31 (3.67%) Computer Science Degree
5 15 (1.78%) Azure Certification
6 12 (1.42%) CISM
6 12 (1.42%) CISSP
7 11 (1.30%) AWS Certification
7 11 (1.30%) DV Cleared
8 9 (1.07%) Cisco Certification
9 8 (0.95%) (ISC)2 CCSP
9 8 (0.95%) CCSP
9 8 (0.95%) DBS Check
10 6 (0.71%) TOGAF Certification
11 5 (0.59%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
11 5 (0.59%) Microsoft Certification
12 4 (0.47%) BPSS Clearance
13 2 (0.24%) CSSLP
13 2 (0.24%) GWAPT
13 2 (0.24%) OSCP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 103 (12.20%) QA
2 27 (3.20%) Accessibility
3 26 (3.08%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 15 (1.78%) GDPR
5 14 (1.66%) NIST
6 11 (1.30%) PCI DSS
7 9 (1.07%) Data Quality
8 8 (0.95%) HMG Security Policy Framework
9 7 (0.83%) SOC 2
10 4 (0.47%) California Consumer Privacy Act
10 4 (0.47%) NCSC
11 3 (0.36%) SLA
12 2 (0.24%) WCAG
13 1 (0.12%) PSD2
13 1 (0.12%) SEPA
System Software
1 236 (27.96%) Docker
2 9 (1.07%) Active Directory
3 7 (0.83%) Virtual Machines
4 2 (0.24%) Virtual Desktop
5 1 (0.12%) HDFS
Systems Management
1 288 (34.12%) Kubernetes
2 86 (10.19%) Grafana
3 14 (1.66%) Argo
4 12 (1.42%) Ansible
4 12 (1.42%) Prometheus
5 7 (0.83%) Cilium
6 3 (0.36%) Kibana
7 2 (0.24%) Single Sign-On
8 1 (0.12%) Consul
8 1 (0.12%) Control-M
Vendors
1 226 (26.78%) Microsoft
2 41 (4.86%) Google
3 30 (3.55%) Oracle
4 16 (1.90%) OpenAI
5 13 (1.54%) SAP
6 11 (1.30%) Databricks
7 9 (1.07%) Splunk
8 8 (0.95%) Dynatrace
9 4 (0.47%) Epicor
9 4 (0.47%) Facebook
9 4 (0.47%) ForgeRock
9 4 (0.47%) HubSpot
9 4 (0.47%) IFS
9 4 (0.47%) Infor
9 4 (0.47%) Instagram
9 4 (0.47%) TikTok
10 3 (0.36%) Alterian
10 3 (0.36%) CyberArk
10 3 (0.36%) OpenText
10 3 (0.36%) Sitecore