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 10 January 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
10 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 79 54 34
Rank change year-on-year -25 -20 +4
Permanent jobs citing Microservices 489 854 1,465
As % of all permanent jobs with remote/hybrid work options 3.25% 5.18% 6.81%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 3.71% 5.54% 7.28%
Number of salaries quoted 391 532 1,207
10th Percentile £52,500 £47,257 £43,750
25th Percentile £57,625 £52,500 £51,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £75,000 £70,000 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year +7.14% +7.69% -13.33%
75th Percentile £90,000 £85,063 £83,750
90th Percentile £117,500 £102,500 £97,500
UK median annual salary £77,500 £70,000 £70,000
% change year-on-year +10.71% - -9.68%

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 13,165 15,405 20,125
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 87.43% 93.51% 93.50%
Number of salaries quoted 8,370 9,087 16,278
10th Percentile £30,000 £36,250 £36,250
25th Percentile £41,250 £46,875 £46,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £62,500 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -4.00% +4.17% -4.00%
75th Percentile £80,000 £81,250 £80,000
90th Percentile £100,000 £100,000 £97,500
UK median annual salary £55,000 £60,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year -8.33% - -4.00%

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 10 January 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 17 (3.48%) Oracle SOA Suite
2 10 (2.04%) JBoss
3 9 (1.84%) WebSphere
4 6 (1.23%) Confluence
5 5 (1.02%) Apache Airflow
5 5 (1.02%) Apache Pulsar
6 3 (0.61%) nginx
6 3 (0.61%) OpenStack
6 3 (0.61%) Oracle Workflow
7 2 (0.41%) Apache
7 2 (0.41%) CMS
8 1 (0.20%) ArcGIS
8 1 (0.20%) Camunda
8 1 (0.20%) Ethereum
8 1 (0.20%) Hyperledger
8 1 (0.20%) NServiceBus
8 1 (0.20%) SharePoint
Applications
1 3 (0.61%) Microsoft Excel
1 3 (0.61%) Microsoft Office
1 3 (0.61%) Microsoft PowerPoint
1 3 (0.61%) MS Visio
2 1 (0.20%) PlantUML
Business Applications
1 17 (3.48%) Oracle ERP
2 1 (0.20%) Actimize
2 1 (0.20%) Distributed Ledger
2 1 (0.20%) Dynamics CRM
2 1 (0.20%) Quorum
2 1 (0.20%) R3 Corda
Cloud Services
1 286 (58.49%) AWS
2 275 (56.24%) Azure
3 103 (21.06%) Serverless
4 102 (20.86%) SaaS
5 100 (20.45%) GCP
6 77 (15.75%) GitHub
7 66 (13.50%) Azure DevOps
8 39 (7.98%) AWS Lambda
9 32 (6.54%) Amazon S3
10 29 (5.93%) Power Platform
11 28 (5.73%) Amazon SQS
11 28 (5.73%) GitHub Actions
12 27 (5.52%) Amazon EKS
13 26 (5.32%) Amazon ECS
14 25 (5.11%) PaaS
15 24 (4.91%) Azure Service Bus
16 20 (4.09%) OCI
17 19 (3.89%) Azure App Service
18 17 (3.48%) GitHub Copilot
19 15 (3.07%) Amazon EC2
Communications & Networking
1 2 (0.41%) AMQP
1 2 (0.41%) Broadband
2 1 (0.20%) Hyperconnected
2 1 (0.20%) Internet
2 1 (0.20%) Network Security
Database & Business Intelligence
1 88 (18.00%) MongoDB
2 76 (15.54%) NoSQL
3 72 (14.72%) PostgreSQL
4 62 (12.68%) SQL Server
5 38 (7.77%) Azure SQL Database
6 29 (5.93%) Elasticsearch
7 24 (4.91%) MySQL
8 22 (4.50%) Power BI
9 18 (3.68%) DynamoDB
10 17 (3.48%) Tableau
11 13 (2.66%) Redis
12 10 (2.04%) BigQuery
12 10 (2.04%) Relational Database
13 9 (1.84%) Amazon RDS
13 9 (1.84%) Data Warehouse
14 6 (1.23%) NonStop SQL
15 4 (0.82%) Data Lake
16 2 (0.41%) Apache Cassandra
16 2 (0.41%) PostHog
16 2 (0.41%) Snowflake Schema
Development Applications
1 82 (16.77%) Git
2 46 (9.41%) Jenkins
3 26 (5.32%) JIRA
4 20 (4.09%) GitLab
5 18 (3.68%) Cypress.io
6 17 (3.48%) Oracle Forms
7 15 (3.07%) TeamCity
8 11 (2.25%) Selenium
9 8 (1.64%) CircleCI
9 8 (1.64%) git-flow
9 8 (1.64%) JUnit
10 7 (1.43%) Cucumber
11 6 (1.23%) Visual Studio
12 4 (0.82%) JMeter
13 3 (0.61%) Mockito
13 3 (0.61%) Postman
13 3 (0.61%) Storybook
13 3 (0.61%) Visual Studio Code
14 2 (0.41%) Gatling
14 2 (0.41%) Locust
General
1 160 (32.72%) Social Skills
2 121 (24.74%) Finance
3 38 (7.77%) Law
4 34 (6.95%) Banking
5 26 (5.32%) Public Sector
6 25 (5.11%) Retail
7 23 (4.70%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 22 (4.50%) Financial Institution
9 20 (4.09%) Telecoms
10 19 (3.89%) Analytical Skills
10 19 (3.89%) Back Office
11 13 (2.66%) Billing
11 13 (2.66%) Legal
12 9 (1.84%) Advertising
12 9 (1.84%) Influencing Skills
13 7 (1.43%) Marketing
14 6 (1.23%) Presentation Skills
15 5 (1.02%) Esports
15 5 (1.02%) Front Office
16 3 (0.61%) Health Technology
Job Titles
1 185 (37.83%) Developer
2 137 (28.02%) Senior
3 100 (20.45%) Software Engineer
4 79 (16.16%) Architect
5 73 (14.93%) Lead
6 68 (13.91%) .NET Developer
7 44 (9.00%) Senior Software Engineer
8 41 (8.38%) Senior Developer
9 34 (6.95%) Full-Stack Developer
10 32 (6.54%) Lead Developer
11 25 (5.11%) Java Engineer
11 25 (5.11%) Software Developer
12 24 (4.91%) Applications Engineer
12 24 (4.91%) Principal Engineer
13 23 (4.70%) Cloud Engineer
14 21 (4.29%) C# Developer
15 19 (3.89%) Azure Developer
15 19 (3.89%) Full-Stack Engineer
15 19 (3.89%) Java Developer
15 19 (3.89%) Solutions Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 189 (38.65%) .NET
2 152 (31.08%) React
3 132 (26.99%) RESTful
4 82 (16.77%) Node.js
5 73 (14.93%) Kafka
6 71 (14.52%) .NET Core
7 70 (14.31%) AngularJS
8 66 (13.50%) Spring
9 60 (12.27%) ASP.NET Web API
10 55 (11.25%) Spring Boot
11 50 (10.22%) .NET Framework
12 49 (10.02%) ASP.NET
12 49 (10.02%) REST
13 41 (8.38%) Entity Framework
14 37 (7.57%) HTML
15 33 (6.75%) ASP.NET MVC
16 29 (5.93%) RabbitMQ
16 29 (5.93%) Vue
17 28 (5.73%) OAuth
18 27 (5.52%) CSS
Miscellaneous
1 145 (29.65%) Cloud Native
2 73 (14.93%) Distributed Systems
3 59 (12.07%) Enterprise Software
4 49 (10.02%) Product Ownership
5 16 (3.27%) Greenfield Project
6 15 (3.07%) Data Structures
6 15 (3.07%) Onboarding
7 14 (2.86%) Algorithms
8 12 (2.45%) Legacy Systems
8 12 (2.45%) Virtual Team
9 10 (2.04%) AI Agents
10 9 (1.84%) DataPower
11 8 (1.64%) Mobile App
12 7 (1.43%) Distributed Architecture
13 6 (1.23%) IoT
14 5 (1.02%) Derivative
14 5 (1.02%) PKI
15 4 (0.82%) Legacy Applications
15 4 (0.82%) Self-Motivation
16 3 (0.61%) Low-Code
Operating Systems
1 14 (2.86%) Linux
2 13 (2.66%) Android
3 9 (1.84%) Windows
4 4 (0.82%) Apple iOS
5 2 (0.41%) VMS
6 1 (0.20%) Fedora
Processes & Methodologies
1 248 (50.72%) Agile
2 241 (49.28%) CI/CD
3 206 (42.13%) DevOps
4 176 (35.99%) Software Engineering
5 159 (32.52%) Full-Stack Development
6 135 (27.61%) Mentoring
7 107 (21.88%) Event-Driven
8 98 (20.04%) Containerisation
9 96 (19.63%) AI
10 95 (19.43%) Continuous Improvement
11 91 (18.61%) Test Automation
12 89 (18.20%) Problem-Solving
13 82 (16.77%) Computer Science
14 74 (15.13%) Architectural Patterns
14 74 (15.13%) TDD
15 71 (14.52%) Clean Code
16 67 (13.70%) Event-Driven Architecture
17 65 (13.29%) Coaching
17 65 (13.29%) Scrum
18 61 (12.47%) Technical Leadership
Programming Languages
1 193 (39.47%) C#
2 170 (34.76%) Java
3 145 (29.65%) SQL
4 125 (25.56%) JavaScript
5 116 (23.72%) TypeScript
6 107 (21.88%) Python
7 35 (7.16%) Go
8 19 (3.89%) Shell Script
9 17 (3.48%) PL/SQL
10 14 (2.86%) Ruby
11 9 (1.84%) C++
12 8 (1.64%) PHP
13 6 (1.23%) Delphi
14 4 (0.82%) C
14 4 (0.82%) Kotlin
14 4 (0.82%) PowerShell
15 3 (0.61%) Bicep
15 3 (0.61%) Elixir
15 3 (0.61%) Erlang
16 2 (0.41%) Rust
Qualifications
1 85 (17.38%) Degree
2 72 (14.72%) Computer Science Degree
3 43 (8.79%) AWS Certification
4 39 (7.98%) Security Cleared
5 38 (7.77%) Azure Certification
6 36 (7.36%) SC Cleared
7 33 (6.75%) TOGAF Certification
8 30 (6.13%) Microsoft Certification
9 28 (5.73%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
10 17 (3.48%) Master's Degree
11 6 (1.23%) CISM
11 6 (1.23%) CISSP
12 4 (0.82%) AWS Certified Developer
12 4 (0.82%) DV Cleared
12 4 (0.82%) ISTQB
12 4 (0.82%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
13 2 (0.41%) BPSS Clearance
13 2 (0.41%) DBS Check
13 2 (0.41%) ISTQB Advanced Certification
13 2 (0.41%) SnowPro
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 53 (10.84%) QA
2 15 (3.07%) GDPR
3 13 (2.66%) Accessibility
4 10 (2.04%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 8 (1.64%) NIST
5 8 (1.64%) PCI DSS
6 6 (1.23%) NCSC
7 5 (1.02%) WCAG
8 3 (0.61%) Data Quality
9 2 (0.41%) HIPAA
9 2 (0.41%) Sarbanes-Oxley
9 2 (0.41%) SOC 2
10 1 (0.20%) ISO/IEC 42001
10 1 (0.20%) JSP 440
System Software
1 108 (22.09%) Docker
2 13 (2.66%) Active Directory
3 2 (0.41%) VMware NSX
3 2 (0.41%) vSphere
4 1 (0.20%) Firmware
4 1 (0.20%) HDFS
Systems Management
1 130 (26.58%) Kubernetes
2 75 (15.34%) Terraform
3 32 (6.54%) Grafana
4 17 (3.48%) Single Sign-On
5 13 (2.66%) Ansible
6 8 (1.64%) Argo
7 7 (1.43%) Prometheus
8 6 (1.23%) Kibana
9 2 (0.41%) Progress Chef
9 2 (0.41%) Puppet
10 1 (0.20%) Istio
Vendors
1 117 (23.93%) Microsoft
2 30 (6.13%) Oracle
3 13 (2.66%) Google
3 13 (2.66%) Guidewire
4 6 (1.23%) Databricks
4 6 (1.23%) Facebook
4 6 (1.23%) YouTube
5 5 (1.02%) Ericsson
5 5 (1.02%) Mavenir
5 5 (1.02%) Nokia
6 4 (0.82%) BiZZdesign
7 3 (0.61%) Dynatrace
7 3 (0.61%) Red Hat
8 2 (0.41%) OpenAI
8 2 (0.41%) Salesforce
8 2 (0.41%) SAP
8 2 (0.41%) SendGrid
8 2 (0.41%) Solarflare
8 2 (0.41%) Sparx
8 2 (0.41%) VMware