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

6 months to
12 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 58 38 56
Rank change year-on-year -20 +18 -14
Permanent jobs citing Microservices 859 1,106 1,383
As % of all permanent jobs with remote/hybrid work options 4.02% 6.69% 4.33%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 4.86% 7.17% 4.87%
Number of salaries quoted 636 541 1,210
10th Percentile £44,375 £47,500 £42,500
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 £93,778 £83,759
90th Percentile £100,000 £115,000 £98,626
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 17,688 15,434 28,381
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 82.75% 93.34% 88.85%
Number of salaries quoted 12,944 9,142 21,602
10th Percentile £35,000 £29,913 £33,750
25th Percentile £45,000 £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 £75,772
90th Percentile £100,000 £102,500 £95,000
UK median annual salary £60,000 £57,500 £55,000
% change year-on-year +4.35% +4.55% -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 12 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 (0.93%) CMS
2 5 (0.58%) IIS
2 5 (0.58%) JBoss
2 5 (0.58%) nginx
3 3 (0.35%) Apache Airflow
3 3 (0.35%) Camunda
3 3 (0.35%) Confluence
3 3 (0.35%) DNN
3 3 (0.35%) EPiServer
3 3 (0.35%) Immediacy CMS
3 3 (0.35%) Kentico
3 3 (0.35%) Sitecore CMS
3 3 (0.35%) Sitefinity
3 3 (0.35%) Umbraco
3 3 (0.35%) WordPress
4 2 (0.23%) Apache
4 2 (0.23%) NServiceBus
4 2 (0.23%) OpenStack
4 2 (0.23%) Oracle SOA Suite
4 2 (0.23%) SharePoint
Applications
1 4 (0.47%) Chatbot
Business Applications
1 9 (1.05%) Dynamics CRM
2 4 (0.47%) Dynamics AX
2 4 (0.47%) Oracle EBS
3 2 (0.23%) Shopify
4 1 (0.12%) Payment Gateway
Cloud Services
1 502 (58.44%) AWS
2 420 (48.89%) Azure
3 170 (19.79%) GCP
4 146 (17.00%) SaaS
5 105 (12.22%) Serverless
6 92 (10.71%) GitHub
7 75 (8.73%) Azure DevOps
8 68 (7.92%) GitHub Copilot
9 59 (6.87%) Amazon EKS
10 55 (6.40%) AWS Lambda
11 47 (5.47%) Azure Service Bus
12 42 (4.89%) Amazon S3
13 40 (4.66%) Azure AKS
14 39 (4.54%) Amazon SQS
15 35 (4.07%) Amazon ECS
16 31 (3.61%) Amazon EC2
16 31 (3.61%) Azure Cosmos DB
17 30 (3.49%) PaaS
18 20 (2.33%) Azure Functions
18 20 (2.33%) Power Platform
Communications & Networking
1 64 (7.45%) Broadband
2 7 (0.81%) Hyperconnected
2 7 (0.81%) Internet
3 6 (0.70%) Cisco ASA
3 6 (0.70%) DNS
3 6 (0.70%) Firewall
4 5 (0.58%) DHCP
4 5 (0.58%) MQTT
5 4 (0.47%) Network Security
5 4 (0.47%) TCP/IP
6 3 (0.35%) Modbus
7 2 (0.23%) AMQP
8 1 (0.12%) HTTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 225 (26.19%) MongoDB
2 150 (17.46%) Azure SQL Database
3 127 (14.78%) Elasticsearch
4 116 (13.50%) PostgreSQL
5 66 (7.68%) NoSQL
6 60 (6.98%) SQL Server
7 52 (6.05%) MySQL
8 31 (3.61%) Relational Database
9 27 (3.14%) Redis
10 19 (2.21%) Amazon RDS
11 9 (1.05%) Metadata
12 7 (0.81%) Data Lake
12 7 (0.81%) DynamoDB
12 7 (0.81%) RDBMS
13 5 (0.58%) MariaDB
14 4 (0.47%) Data Warehouse
14 4 (0.47%) Delta Lake
15 3 (0.35%) BigQuery
15 3 (0.35%) Oracle Database
15 3 (0.35%) SQL Server Integration Services
Development Applications
1 60 (6.98%) Git
2 47 (5.47%) TeamCity
3 41 (4.77%) GitLab
4 22 (2.56%) Cypress.io
5 21 (2.44%) Jenkins
6 18 (2.10%) Claude Code
7 12 (1.40%) Maven
8 11 (1.28%) JIRA
8 11 (1.28%) JUnit
9 9 (1.05%) Mockito
10 7 (0.81%) Selenium
11 6 (0.70%) NUnit
12 5 (0.58%) Atlassian Bamboo
12 5 (0.58%) Bitbucket
12 5 (0.58%) Octopus Deploy
12 5 (0.58%) Visual Studio
13 4 (0.47%) Cucumber
14 3 (0.35%) Jasmine
14 3 (0.35%) JMeter
14 3 (0.35%) SpecFlow
General
1 196 (22.82%) Finance
2 133 (15.48%) Social Skills
3 101 (11.76%) Law
4 87 (10.13%) Public Sector
5 85 (9.90%) Retail
6 74 (8.61%) Banking
7 65 (7.57%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 45 (5.24%) Back Office
8 45 (5.24%) Financial Institution
9 41 (4.77%) Legal
10 35 (4.07%) Analytical Skills
11 28 (3.26%) Legal Technology
12 17 (1.98%) Aerospace
13 16 (1.86%) Games
13 16 (1.86%) Marketing
14 10 (1.16%) Telecoms
15 9 (1.05%) Manufacturing
16 8 (0.93%) Influencing Skills
17 5 (0.58%) Aviation
18 4 (0.47%) Health Technology
Job Titles
1 383 (44.59%) Developer
2 203 (23.63%) Software Engineer
3 187 (21.77%) .NET Developer
4 167 (19.44%) Senior
5 164 (19.09%) Lead
6 103 (11.99%) Architect
7 92 (10.71%) Full-Stack Developer
8 65 (7.57%) Senior Developer
9 57 (6.64%) Senior Software Engineer
10 48 (5.59%) Lead Developer
11 45 (5.24%) Java Engineer
12 41 (4.77%) Lead Software Engineer
13 40 (4.66%) Full-Stack Engineer
14 34 (3.96%) C# Developer
15 33 (3.84%) .NET Software Engineer
15 33 (3.84%) Java Software Engineer
16 32 (3.73%) Solutions Architect
17 31 (3.61%) Software Developer
18 30 (3.49%) Scala Engineer
18 30 (3.49%) Technical Leader
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 325 (37.83%) .NET
2 246 (28.64%) Node.js
3 228 (26.54%) React
4 176 (20.49%) .NET Core
5 170 (19.79%) ASP.NET
6 151 (17.58%) ASP.NET Core
7 145 (16.88%) Vue
8 116 (13.50%) AngularJS
9 96 (11.18%) ASP.NET Web API
10 86 (10.01%) RESTful
11 85 (9.90%) Blazor
12 77 (8.96%) REST
13 76 (8.85%) .NET Framework
14 70 (8.15%) Spring
15 54 (6.29%) gRPC
16 52 (6.05%) Spring Boot
17 41 (4.77%) CSS
17 41 (4.77%) Kafka
18 39 (4.54%) HTML
19 24 (2.79%) Entity Framework
Miscellaneous
1 237 (27.59%) Cloud Native
2 134 (15.60%) Distributed Systems
3 76 (8.85%) Product Ownership
4 46 (5.36%) Video\Live Streaming
5 45 (5.24%) Over-the-Top Content
6 30 (3.49%) Legacy Systems
7 29 (3.38%) Greenfield Project
8 18 (2.10%) Enterprise Software
9 15 (1.75%) Virtual Team
10 12 (1.40%) AI Agents
10 12 (1.40%) Self-Motivation
11 11 (1.28%) Legacy Applications
12 9 (1.05%) Mobile App
13 7 (0.81%) Blog
13 7 (0.81%) Hybrid Cloud
13 7 (0.81%) Management Information System
13 7 (0.81%) Onboarding
14 6 (0.70%) Data Structures
14 6 (0.70%) Distributed Architecture
14 6 (0.70%) IoT
Operating Systems
1 49 (5.70%) Linux
2 22 (2.56%) Windows
3 20 (2.33%) Unix
4 3 (0.35%) Android
4 3 (0.35%) Apple iOS
5 1 (0.12%) CentOS
5 1 (0.12%) Debian
5 1 (0.12%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 1 (0.12%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 450 (52.39%) Agile
2 424 (49.36%) CI/CD
3 363 (42.26%) Software Engineering
4 338 (39.35%) Full-Stack Development
5 264 (30.73%) DevOps
6 228 (26.54%) Mentoring
7 186 (21.65%) Continuous Improvement
8 182 (21.19%) Problem-Solving
9 170 (19.79%) Scrum
10 168 (19.56%) Coaching
11 165 (19.21%) Test Automation
12 159 (18.51%) Containerisation
13 155 (18.04%) Event-Driven
14 147 (17.11%) Clean Code
15 143 (16.65%) AI
16 142 (16.53%) TDD
17 126 (14.67%) Technical Leadership
18 123 (14.32%) Infrastructure as Code
19 107 (12.46%) Event-Driven Architecture
20 89 (10.36%) Roadmaps
Programming Languages
1 326 (37.95%) C#
2 280 (32.60%) SQL
3 256 (29.80%) JavaScript
4 216 (25.15%) Java
5 204 (23.75%) TypeScript
6 159 (18.51%) Python
7 53 (6.17%) Go
8 48 (5.59%) Scala
9 26 (3.03%) Ruby
10 17 (1.98%) PHP
11 16 (1.86%) PowerShell
12 15 (1.75%) Bash
13 14 (1.63%) Bicep
14 10 (1.16%) PL/SQL
15 8 (0.93%) Rust
16 4 (0.47%) Kotlin
17 3 (0.35%) C++
18 2 (0.23%) T-SQL
19 1 (0.12%) Perl
19 1 (0.12%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 77 (8.96%) Security Cleared
2 69 (8.03%) Degree
3 56 (6.52%) SC Cleared
4 26 (3.03%) Computer Science Degree
5 13 (1.51%) AWS Certification
5 13 (1.51%) Azure Certification
5 13 (1.51%) CISSP
6 12 (1.40%) DBS Check
7 8 (0.93%) CISM
7 8 (0.93%) DV Cleared
8 6 (0.70%) TOGAF Certification
9 5 (0.58%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
9 5 (0.58%) GIAC
9 5 (0.58%) ISACA
9 5 (0.58%) Microsoft Certification
9 5 (0.58%) SANS
10 4 (0.47%) AWS Certified Developer
11 3 (0.35%) (ISC)2 CCSP
11 3 (0.35%) BPSS Clearance
11 3 (0.35%) Master's Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 84 (9.78%) QA
2 23 (2.68%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 21 (2.44%) GDPR
4 14 (1.63%) Accessibility
5 13 (1.51%) NIST
6 10 (1.16%) Actionable Recommendations
7 7 (0.81%) HMG Security Policy Framework
8 5 (0.58%) NCSC
8 5 (0.58%) PCI DSS
9 4 (0.47%) California Consumer Privacy Act
10 3 (0.35%) Data Quality
10 3 (0.35%) IFRS
10 3 (0.35%) ISO 9001
10 3 (0.35%) Sarbanes-Oxley
10 3 (0.35%) SEPA
10 3 (0.35%) WCAG
11 2 (0.23%) GRC
12 1 (0.12%) PSD2
System Software
1 248 (28.87%) Docker
2 13 (1.51%) Active Directory
3 5 (0.58%) Virtual Machines
4 3 (0.35%) Firmware
Systems Management
1 242 (28.17%) Kubernetes
2 116 (13.50%) Terraform
3 64 (7.45%) Grafana
4 29 (3.38%) Ansible
5 18 (2.10%) Argo
6 17 (1.98%) Prometheus
7 3 (0.35%) Kibana
8 2 (0.23%) MIIS
8 2 (0.23%) Opsgenie
8 2 (0.23%) Puppet
9 1 (0.12%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 225 (26.19%) Microsoft
2 45 (5.24%) Typelevel
3 33 (3.84%) Google
4 25 (2.91%) Oracle
5 15 (1.75%) OpenAI
6 9 (1.05%) Databricks
7 7 (0.81%) Red Hat
8 6 (0.70%) Cisco
8 6 (0.70%) F5
8 6 (0.70%) Juniper
8 6 (0.70%) Palo Alto
8 6 (0.70%) SAP
9 5 (0.58%) ForgeRock
9 5 (0.58%) HubSpot
9 5 (0.58%) Okta
9 5 (0.58%) Splunk
10 4 (0.47%) Epicor
10 4 (0.47%) Infor
10 4 (0.47%) Salesforce
10 4 (0.47%) ServiceNow