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

6 months to
14 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 68 49 72
Rank change year-on-year -19 +23 -25
Permanent jobs citing Microservices 844 932 867
As % of all permanent jobs with remote/hybrid work options 3.53% 5.73% 3.72%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 4.34% 6.15% 4.25%
Number of salaries quoted 610 419 582
10th Percentile £45,000 £47,500 £40,000
25th Percentile £50,000 £57,500 £48,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £67,500 £70,000 £61,206
Median % change year-on-year -3.57% +14.37% -18.39%
75th Percentile £89,688 £83,750 £81,250
90th Percentile £100,000 £103,000 £95,000
UK median annual salary £72,500 £72,500 £65,000
% change year-on-year - +11.54% -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 19,442 15,153 20,421
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 81.35% 93.11% 87.69%
Number of salaries quoted 13,983 8,632 12,822
10th Percentile £34,000 £29,854 £35,500
25th Percentile £44,972 £40,500 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £60,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year - - -4.00%
75th Percentile £80,000 £78,750 £80,000
90th Percentile £100,000 £100,000 £100,000
UK median annual salary £60,000 £55,000 £57,500
% change year-on-year +9.09% -4.35% -4.17%

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 14 September 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 (0.95%) CMS
2 7 (0.83%) Oracle SOA Suite
3 5 (0.59%) IIS
3 5 (0.59%) nginx
4 4 (0.47%) Camunda
5 3 (0.36%) DNN
5 3 (0.36%) EPiServer
5 3 (0.36%) Immediacy CMS
5 3 (0.36%) Kentico
5 3 (0.36%) Sitecore CMS
5 3 (0.36%) Sitefinity
5 3 (0.36%) Umbraco
6 2 (0.24%) Confluence
6 2 (0.24%) OpenStack
6 2 (0.24%) WordPress
7 1 (0.12%) Apache Airflow
7 1 (0.12%) Apache Spark
7 1 (0.12%) Cloud Foundry
7 1 (0.12%) Oracle Coherence
7 1 (0.12%) Red Hat Fuse
Applications
1 7 (0.83%) Chatbot
Business Applications
1 7 (0.83%) Dynamics CRM
2 4 (0.47%) Oracle EBS
Cloud Services
1 470 (55.69%) AWS
2 392 (46.45%) Azure
3 145 (17.18%) SaaS
4 134 (15.88%) GCP
5 99 (11.73%) Serverless
6 89 (10.55%) GitHub
7 72 (8.53%) Azure DevOps
8 68 (8.06%) GitHub Copilot
9 66 (7.82%) AWS Lambda
10 64 (7.58%) Amazon EKS
11 50 (5.92%) Amazon S3
12 47 (5.57%) Azure Service Bus
13 41 (4.86%) Amazon ECS
13 41 (4.86%) Amazon SQS
14 31 (3.67%) Azure AKS
14 31 (3.67%) Azure Cosmos DB
15 30 (3.55%) Amazon EC2
16 25 (2.96%) PaaS
17 24 (2.84%) Azure Monitor
18 21 (2.49%) AWS Step Functions
Communications & Networking
1 27 (3.20%) Broadband
2 6 (0.71%) Hyperconnected
2 6 (0.71%) Internet
3 5 (0.59%) HTTP
4 4 (0.47%) Network Security
5 2 (0.24%) DNS
6 1 (0.12%) DHCP
6 1 (0.12%) MQTT
6 1 (0.12%) SSL
6 1 (0.12%) TCP/IP
6 1 (0.12%) X.509
Database & Business Intelligence
1 216 (25.59%) MongoDB
2 147 (17.42%) Azure SQL Database
3 131 (15.52%) Elasticsearch
4 100 (11.85%) PostgreSQL
5 64 (7.58%) SQL Server
6 41 (4.86%) MySQL
7 37 (4.38%) NoSQL
8 34 (4.03%) Relational Database
9 28 (3.32%) Redis
10 16 (1.90%) Amazon RDS
11 13 (1.54%) DynamoDB
12 10 (1.18%) Data Lake
13 8 (0.95%) Amazon Redshift
13 8 (0.95%) Metadata
14 7 (0.83%) Amazon Athena
14 7 (0.83%) RDBMS
15 6 (0.71%) Parquet
16 4 (0.47%) Data Warehouse
16 4 (0.47%) Delta Lake
17 3 (0.36%) SQL Server Integration Services
Development Applications
1 78 (9.24%) Git
2 52 (6.16%) TeamCity
3 28 (3.32%) GitLab
4 26 (3.08%) Cypress.io
5 19 (2.25%) JUnit
6 18 (2.13%) Maven
7 17 (2.01%) Mockito
8 15 (1.78%) Jenkins
9 14 (1.66%) Claude Code
10 8 (0.95%) JIRA
10 8 (0.95%) Selenium
11 5 (0.59%) Atlassian Bamboo
11 5 (0.59%) Octopus Deploy
12 4 (0.47%) Bitbucket
13 3 (0.36%) NUnit
14 2 (0.24%) Mocha
14 2 (0.24%) MSTest
14 2 (0.24%) SonarQube
14 2 (0.24%) Visual Studio
14 2 (0.24%) Visual Studio Code
General
1 189 (22.39%) Finance
2 149 (17.65%) Social Skills
3 103 (12.20%) Law
4 92 (10.90%) Public Sector
5 86 (10.19%) Retail
6 79 (9.36%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 73 (8.65%) Banking
8 71 (8.41%) Legal
9 52 (6.16%) Back Office
10 50 (5.92%) Financial Institution
11 39 (4.62%) Analytical Skills
12 28 (3.32%) Legal Technology
13 26 (3.08%) Games
14 18 (2.13%) Aerospace
15 14 (1.66%) Marketing
16 9 (1.07%) French Language
17 8 (0.95%) Local Government
18 7 (0.83%) Advertising
18 7 (0.83%) Influencing Skills
19 5 (0.59%) Aviation
Job Titles
1 397 (47.04%) Developer
2 186 (22.04%) Senior
3 184 (21.80%) .NET Developer
4 175 (20.73%) Lead
5 169 (20.02%) Software Engineer
6 108 (12.80%) Architect
7 100 (11.85%) Full-Stack Developer
8 90 (10.66%) Senior Developer
9 50 (5.92%) Lead Developer
10 44 (5.21%) Senior Software Engineer
11 41 (4.86%) Lead Software Engineer
12 40 (4.74%) Full-Stack Engineer
13 37 (4.38%) Technical Leader
14 33 (3.91%) Software Developer
15 31 (3.67%) Java Developer
16 30 (3.55%) Technical Architect
17 28 (3.32%) Team Leader
18 27 (3.20%) Lead Architect
19 25 (2.96%) C# .NET Developer
19 25 (2.96%) C# Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 333 (39.45%) .NET
2 263 (31.16%) Node.js
3 234 (27.73%) React
4 174 (20.62%) .NET Core
5 172 (20.38%) ASP.NET
6 150 (17.77%) ASP.NET Core
7 147 (17.42%) Vue
8 129 (15.28%) Terraform
9 116 (13.74%) AngularJS
10 99 (11.73%) Blazor
11 92 (10.90%) ASP.NET Web API
12 84 (9.95%) REST
13 76 (9.00%) Spring
14 70 (8.29%) RESTful
15 62 (7.35%) .NET Framework
16 52 (6.16%) Spring Boot
17 42 (4.98%) Kafka
18 34 (4.03%) CSS
19 31 (3.67%) WPF
20 29 (3.44%) Jest
Miscellaneous
1 219 (25.95%) Cloud Native
2 108 (12.80%) Distributed Systems
3 76 (9.00%) Product Ownership
4 36 (4.27%) Legacy Systems
5 29 (3.44%) Greenfield Project
6 18 (2.13%) Self-Motivation
7 17 (2.01%) Enterprise Software
8 14 (1.66%) AI Agents
8 14 (1.66%) Virtual Team
9 13 (1.54%) Video\Live Streaming
10 9 (1.07%) Blog
10 9 (1.07%) Mobile App
10 9 (1.07%) Over-the-Top Content
11 8 (0.95%) Legacy Applications
11 8 (0.95%) Management Information System
12 7 (0.83%) Data Structures
12 7 (0.83%) Hybrid Cloud
12 7 (0.83%) IoT
13 5 (0.59%) Mobile Payment
13 5 (0.59%) Onboarding
Operating Systems
1 46 (5.45%) Linux
2 24 (2.84%) Windows
3 14 (1.66%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 471 (55.81%) Agile
2 428 (50.71%) CI/CD
3 332 (39.34%) Full-Stack Development
4 308 (36.49%) Software Engineering
5 267 (31.64%) Mentoring
6 251 (29.74%) DevOps
7 200 (23.70%) Continuous Improvement
8 177 (20.97%) Problem-Solving
9 168 (19.91%) Event-Driven
10 157 (18.60%) Scrum
11 155 (18.36%) AI
12 145 (17.18%) Coaching
13 143 (16.94%) Technical Leadership
14 140 (16.59%) Test Automation
15 136 (16.11%) TDD
16 116 (13.74%) Clean Code
17 114 (13.51%) Event-Driven Architecture
18 113 (13.39%) Architectural Patterns
19 109 (12.91%) Infrastructure as Code
20 108 (12.80%) Enterprise Architecture
Programming Languages
1 354 (41.94%) C#
2 255 (30.21%) SQL
3 252 (29.86%) JavaScript
4 220 (26.07%) Java
5 207 (24.53%) TypeScript
6 115 (13.63%) Python
7 33 (3.91%) Ruby
8 20 (2.37%) Go
9 19 (2.25%) Bash
10 15 (1.78%) PL/SQL
11 14 (1.66%) PowerShell
11 14 (1.66%) Scala
12 13 (1.54%) Bicep
13 8 (0.95%) PHP
14 7 (0.83%) Kotlin
15 5 (0.59%) C++
16 3 (0.36%) VB.NET
17 2 (0.24%) T-SQL
18 1 (0.12%) Groovy
18 1 (0.12%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 92 (10.90%) Security Cleared
2 72 (8.53%) SC Cleared
3 67 (7.94%) Degree
4 31 (3.67%) Computer Science Degree
5 12 (1.42%) AWS Certification
5 12 (1.42%) Azure Certification
6 10 (1.18%) DV Cleared
7 8 (0.95%) CISSP
7 8 (0.95%) DBS Check
8 7 (0.83%) CISM
9 5 (0.59%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
9 5 (0.59%) Microsoft Certification
10 4 (0.47%) Cisco Certification
11 3 (0.36%) (ISC)2 CCSP
11 3 (0.36%) AWS Certified Developer
11 3 (0.36%) BPSS Clearance
11 3 (0.36%) CCSP
11 3 (0.36%) TOGAF Certification
12 2 (0.24%) ITIL Certification
12 2 (0.24%) PhD
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 104 (12.32%) QA
2 22 (2.61%) Accessibility
3 20 (2.37%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 18 (2.13%) GDPR
5 10 (1.18%) Actionable Recommendations
6 9 (1.07%) Data Quality
6 9 (1.07%) HMG Security Policy Framework
6 9 (1.07%) NIST
7 4 (0.47%) California Consumer Privacy Act
7 4 (0.47%) NCSC
7 4 (0.47%) PCI DSS
7 4 (0.47%) WCAG
8 3 (0.36%) IFRS
8 3 (0.36%) Sarbanes-Oxley
8 3 (0.36%) SLA
9 1 (0.12%) PSD2
9 1 (0.12%) SEPA
System Software
1 218 (25.83%) Docker
2 9 (1.07%) Active Directory
3 5 (0.59%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 242 (28.67%) Kubernetes
2 62 (7.35%) Grafana
3 17 (2.01%) Argo
4 16 (1.90%) Ansible
5 13 (1.54%) Prometheus
6 1 (0.12%) Consul
6 1 (0.12%) Kibana
6 1 (0.12%) MIIS
6 1 (0.12%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 224 (26.54%) Microsoft
2 34 (4.03%) Google
3 27 (3.20%) Oracle
4 13 (1.54%) OpenAI
4 13 (1.54%) SAP
5 9 (1.07%) Databricks
5 9 (1.07%) Typelevel
6 5 (0.59%) HubSpot
6 5 (0.59%) Splunk
7 4 (0.47%) Dynatrace
7 4 (0.47%) Epicor
7 4 (0.47%) Facebook
7 4 (0.47%) ForgeRock
7 4 (0.47%) IFS
7 4 (0.47%) Infor
7 4 (0.47%) Instagram
7 4 (0.47%) Okta
7 4 (0.47%) ServiceNow
7 4 (0.47%) TikTok
8 3 (0.36%) Optimizely