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 31 March 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
31 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 67 45 36
Rank change year-on-year -22 -9 +1
Permanent jobs citing Microservices 589 753 1,933
As % of all permanent jobs with remote/hybrid work options 3.53% 5.87% 6.23%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 4.21% 6.19% 6.79%
Number of salaries quoted 410 604 1,719
10th Percentile £48,704 £47,500 £42,500
25th Percentile £55,750 £56,250 £50,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £70,000 £71,991 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year -2.77% +10.76% -13.33%
75th Percentile £93,475 £93,778 £83,500
90th Percentile £112,625 £115,000 £96,539
UK median annual salary £76,703 £75,000 £65,465
% change year-on-year +2.27% +14.57% -15.53%

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 13,978 12,164 28,463
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 83.76% 94.81% 91.69%
Number of salaries quoted 9,715 8,801 23,226
10th Percentile £31,250 £32,500 £33,784
25th Percentile £42,500 £46,250 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £62,500 £57,500
Median % change year-on-year -4.00% +8.70% -8.00%
75th Percentile £80,000 £81,250 £75,000
90th Percentile £100,000 £105,000 £95,000
UK median annual salary £55,000 £60,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year -8.33% +9.09% -10.57%

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 31 March 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 13 (2.21%) JBoss
2 11 (1.87%) WebSphere
3 9 (1.53%) Oracle SOA Suite
4 5 (0.85%) Apache Pulsar
4 5 (0.85%) CMS
5 4 (0.68%) Apache Airflow
6 3 (0.51%) NServiceBus
6 3 (0.51%) OpenStack
6 3 (0.51%) Oracle Workflow
7 2 (0.34%) Apache
7 2 (0.34%) Camunda
7 2 (0.34%) Confluence
7 2 (0.34%) nginx
7 2 (0.34%) SharePoint
8 1 (0.17%) Apache Spark
8 1 (0.17%) Ethereum
8 1 (0.17%) Hyperledger
8 1 (0.17%) WordPress
Applications
1 3 (0.51%) Microsoft Excel
1 3 (0.51%) Microsoft Office
1 3 (0.51%) Microsoft PowerPoint
1 3 (0.51%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 9 (1.53%) Oracle ERP
2 4 (0.68%) Dynamics AX
3 2 (0.34%) Dynamics CRM
3 2 (0.34%) Shopify
4 1 (0.17%) Actimize
4 1 (0.17%) Distributed Ledger
4 1 (0.17%) Payment Gateway
4 1 (0.17%) Quorum
4 1 (0.17%) R3 Corda
Cloud Services
1 375 (63.67%) AWS
2 285 (48.39%) Azure
3 183 (31.07%) GCP
4 133 (22.58%) SaaS
5 106 (18.00%) Serverless
6 66 (11.21%) GitHub
7 55 (9.34%) Azure DevOps
8 45 (7.64%) Amazon EKS
8 45 (7.64%) AWS Lambda
9 39 (6.62%) Amazon S3
10 38 (6.45%) Amazon SQS
11 30 (5.09%) Azure Service Bus
12 27 (4.58%) Amazon ECS
13 26 (4.41%) Amazon EC2
14 24 (4.07%) Power Platform
15 23 (3.90%) GitHub Actions
16 20 (3.40%) Azure Event Grid
16 20 (3.40%) PaaS
17 16 (2.72%) Azure Cosmos DB
17 16 (2.72%) OpenShift
Communications & Networking
1 51 (8.66%) Broadband
2 6 (1.02%) Cisco ASA
2 6 (1.02%) Firewall
3 5 (0.85%) DHCP
3 5 (0.85%) DNS
4 4 (0.68%) MQTT
5 3 (0.51%) Modbus
5 3 (0.51%) TCP/IP
6 2 (0.34%) AMQP
6 2 (0.34%) Hyperconnected
6 2 (0.34%) Internet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 89 (15.11%) PostgreSQL
2 81 (13.75%) NoSQL
3 75 (12.73%) MongoDB
4 57 (9.68%) SQL Server
5 32 (5.43%) MySQL
6 18 (3.06%) Azure SQL Database
7 17 (2.89%) Redis
8 16 (2.72%) Elasticsearch
9 13 (2.21%) Power BI
10 12 (2.04%) BigQuery
11 11 (1.87%) Amazon RDS
11 11 (1.87%) Relational Database
12 10 (1.70%) DynamoDB
13 9 (1.53%) Tableau
14 7 (1.19%) Data Lake
15 4 (0.68%) Data Warehouse
16 3 (0.51%) SQL Server Integration Services
17 2 (0.34%) MariaDB
17 2 (0.34%) NonStop SQL
17 2 (0.34%) Oracle Database
Development Applications
1 73 (12.39%) Git
2 39 (6.62%) TeamCity
3 38 (6.45%) Jenkins
4 25 (4.24%) GitLab
5 24 (4.07%) Cypress.io
6 15 (2.55%) JIRA
7 12 (2.04%) Selenium
8 10 (1.70%) Cucumber
9 9 (1.53%) Oracle Forms
10 8 (1.36%) CircleCI
10 8 (1.36%) Visual Studio
11 7 (1.19%) JUnit
12 6 (1.02%) Claude Code
12 6 (1.02%) git-flow
13 4 (0.68%) NUnit
13 4 (0.68%) REST Assured
14 3 (0.51%) Jasmine
14 3 (0.51%) JMeter
14 3 (0.51%) SpecFlow
15 2 (0.34%) WebDriver
General
1 157 (26.66%) Social Skills
2 152 (25.81%) Finance
3 70 (11.88%) Law
4 68 (11.54%) Banking
5 53 (9.00%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 51 (8.66%) Retail
7 46 (7.81%) Financial Institution
8 43 (7.30%) Public Sector
9 41 (6.96%) Back Office
10 29 (4.92%) Analytical Skills
11 26 (4.41%) Telecoms
12 13 (2.21%) Marketing
13 12 (2.04%) Legal
14 11 (1.87%) Manufacturing
15 7 (1.19%) Health Technology
15 7 (1.19%) Influencing Skills
16 6 (1.02%) Advertising
16 6 (1.02%) Presentation Skills
17 5 (0.85%) Esports
17 5 (0.85%) Publishing
Job Titles
1 200 (33.96%) Developer
2 172 (29.20%) Senior
3 171 (29.03%) Software Engineer
4 81 (13.75%) Architect
4 81 (13.75%) Lead
5 68 (11.54%) Senior Software Engineer
6 57 (9.68%) Full-Stack Developer
7 52 (8.83%) .NET Developer
7 52 (8.83%) Java Engineer
8 46 (7.81%) Senior Developer
9 36 (6.11%) Java Software Engineer
10 31 (5.26%) Lead Developer
11 30 (5.09%) Scala Engineer
12 29 (4.92%) C# Developer
13 28 (4.75%) Full-Stack Engineer
14 27 (4.58%) Software Developer
15 24 (4.07%) .NET Software Engineer
15 24 (4.07%) Senior Java Engineer
16 22 (3.74%) Java Developer
16 22 (3.74%) Solutions Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 183 (31.07%) .NET
2 144 (24.45%) React
3 116 (19.69%) RESTful
4 91 (15.45%) Node.js
5 75 (12.73%) Spring
6 69 (11.71%) gRPC
7 68 (11.54%) REST
8 59 (10.02%) Kafka
9 56 (9.51%) .NET Core
9 56 (9.51%) Spring Boot
10 46 (7.81%) AngularJS
11 44 (7.47%) .NET Framework
12 41 (6.96%) ASP.NET
13 38 (6.45%) HTML
14 34 (5.77%) CSS
15 32 (5.43%) ASP.NET Web API
16 31 (5.26%) Vue
17 27 (4.58%) Entity Framework
17 27 (4.58%) RabbitMQ
18 26 (4.41%) OAuth
Miscellaneous
1 187 (31.75%) Cloud Native
2 110 (18.68%) Distributed Systems
3 68 (11.54%) Product Ownership
4 49 (8.32%) Enterprise Software
5 45 (7.64%) Over-the-Top Content
5 45 (7.64%) Video\Live Streaming
6 16 (2.72%) Legacy Systems
6 16 (2.72%) Virtual Team
7 13 (2.21%) Self-Motivation
8 12 (2.04%) Greenfield Project
9 11 (1.87%) AI Agents
9 11 (1.87%) DataPower
10 10 (1.70%) Mobile App
11 9 (1.53%) Algorithms
11 9 (1.53%) Distributed Architecture
12 8 (1.36%) Data Structures
12 8 (1.36%) IoT
12 8 (1.36%) Legacy Applications
13 7 (1.19%) PKI
14 5 (0.85%) Cyberattack
Operating Systems
1 17 (2.89%) Linux
2 16 (2.72%) Android
3 7 (1.19%) Apple iOS
4 6 (1.02%) Unix
5 4 (0.68%) Windows
6 2 (0.34%) VMS
7 1 (0.17%) CentOS
7 1 (0.17%) Debian
7 1 (0.17%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
7 1 (0.17%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 307 (52.12%) CI/CD
2 281 (47.71%) Software Engineering
3 231 (39.22%) Agile
4 223 (37.86%) DevOps
5 174 (29.54%) Full-Stack Development
6 164 (27.84%) Containerisation
7 149 (25.30%) Mentoring
8 148 (25.13%) Test Automation
9 142 (24.11%) Problem-Solving
10 127 (21.56%) Event-Driven
11 119 (20.20%) Coaching
12 118 (20.03%) Clean Code
12 118 (20.03%) Continuous Improvement
13 107 (18.17%) AI
14 86 (14.60%) Machine Learning
15 82 (13.92%) Event-Driven Architecture
16 77 (13.07%) Computer Science
17 74 (12.56%) TDD
18 71 (12.05%) Architectural Patterns
19 68 (11.54%) Roadmaps
Programming Languages
1 193 (32.77%) Java
2 164 (27.84%) C#
3 153 (25.98%) Python
4 130 (22.07%) JavaScript
4 130 (22.07%) SQL
5 105 (17.83%) TypeScript
6 79 (13.41%) Go
7 45 (7.64%) Scala
8 21 (3.57%) Ruby
9 14 (2.38%) PHP
10 11 (1.87%) Shell Script
11 9 (1.53%) PL/SQL
12 8 (1.36%) Kotlin
13 7 (1.19%) C++
13 7 (1.19%) Rust
14 6 (1.02%) Bicep
14 6 (1.02%) Delphi
15 4 (0.68%) PowerShell
16 2 (0.34%) C
17 1 (0.17%) Korn
Qualifications
1 93 (15.79%) Degree
2 59 (10.02%) Computer Science Degree
3 50 (8.49%) Security Cleared
4 43 (7.30%) SC Cleared
5 32 (5.43%) AWS Certification
5 32 (5.43%) Azure Certification
6 27 (4.58%) TOGAF Certification
7 25 (4.24%) Microsoft Certification
8 20 (3.40%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
9 12 (2.04%) CISSP
10 10 (1.70%) Master's Degree
11 8 (1.36%) DBS Check
12 7 (1.19%) CISM
13 5 (0.85%) AWS Certified Developer
13 5 (0.85%) GIAC
13 5 (0.85%) ISACA
13 5 (0.85%) ISTQB
13 5 (0.85%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
13 5 (0.85%) SANS
14 2 (0.34%) ISTQB Advanced Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 47 (7.98%) QA
2 17 (2.89%) Accessibility
3 14 (2.38%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 12 (2.04%) GDPR
4 12 (2.04%) NIST
5 7 (1.19%) NCSC
5 7 (1.19%) PCI DSS
6 3 (0.51%) ISO 9001
6 3 (0.51%) WCAG
7 2 (0.34%) Data Quality
7 2 (0.34%) GRC
7 2 (0.34%) HMG Security Policy Framework
7 2 (0.34%) SEPA
8 1 (0.17%) Actionable Recommendations
System Software
1 179 (30.39%) Docker
2 13 (2.21%) Active Directory
3 4 (0.68%) Firmware
4 2 (0.34%) VMware NSX
4 2 (0.34%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 170 (28.86%) Kubernetes
2 93 (15.79%) Terraform
3 59 (10.02%) Grafana
4 24 (4.07%) Ansible
5 9 (1.53%) Prometheus
5 9 (1.53%) Single Sign-On
6 8 (1.36%) Argo
7 6 (1.02%) Kibana
8 2 (0.34%) MIIS
8 2 (0.34%) Opsgenie
8 2 (0.34%) Puppet
Vendors
1 88 (14.94%) Microsoft
2 45 (7.64%) Typelevel
3 25 (4.24%) Google
4 24 (4.07%) Oracle
5 9 (1.53%) Red Hat
6 6 (1.02%) Cisco
6 6 (1.02%) Databricks
6 6 (1.02%) F5
6 6 (1.02%) Juniper
6 6 (1.02%) Palo Alto
7 5 (0.85%) Ericsson
7 5 (0.85%) ForgeRock
7 5 (0.85%) Mavenir
7 5 (0.85%) Nokia
7 5 (0.85%) Okta
8 4 (0.68%) Revolut
8 4 (0.68%) Salesforce
8 4 (0.68%) SAP
9 3 (0.51%) Guidewire
9 3 (0.51%) OpenAI