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 26 November 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
26 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 77 60 43
Rank change year-on-year -17 -17 -5
Permanent jobs citing Microservices 510 877 1,306
As % of all permanent jobs with remote/hybrid work options 3.34% 4.41% 6.21%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 3.68% 4.90% 6.54%
Number of salaries quoted 412 521 997
10th Percentile £51,250 £45,000 £49,900
25th Percentile £57,500 £51,250 £56,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £75,000 £67,500 £75,000
Median % change year-on-year +11.11% -10.00% -
75th Percentile £89,063 £85,000 £88,750
90th Percentile £117,250 £105,000 £108,500
UK median annual salary £75,000 £70,000 £75,000
% change year-on-year +7.14% -6.67% -3.23%

All Process and 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 13,874 17,882 19,977
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 90.99% 89.98% 94.97%
Number of salaries quoted 8,773 10,763 16,162
10th Percentile £29,500 £36,250 £36,500
25th Percentile £40,000 £46,250 £46,306
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,500 £62,500 £62,500
Median % change year-on-year -8.00% - -
75th Percentile £77,500 £81,250 £80,000
90th Percentile £97,500 £100,000 £97,500
UK median annual salary £55,000 £60,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year -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 26 November 2025.

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 12 (2.35%) Oracle SOA Suite
2 7 (1.37%) Confluence
2 7 (1.37%) JBoss
3 6 (1.18%) Apache Airflow
3 6 (1.18%) WebSphere
4 5 (0.98%) CMS
4 5 (0.98%) nginx
5 4 (0.78%) Apache Pulsar
5 4 (0.78%) IIS
6 3 (0.59%) Apache
6 3 (0.59%) Oracle Workflow
7 2 (0.39%) NServiceBus
7 2 (0.39%) SharePoint
8 1 (0.20%) ArcGIS
8 1 (0.20%) Ethereum
8 1 (0.20%) Hyperledger
8 1 (0.20%) OpenStack
Applications
1 3 (0.59%) Microsoft Excel
1 3 (0.59%) Microsoft Office
1 3 (0.59%) Microsoft PowerPoint
1 3 (0.59%) MS Visio
2 1 (0.20%) PlantUML
Business Applications
1 12 (2.35%) Oracle ERP
2 2 (0.39%) Dynamics CRM
3 1 (0.20%) Distributed Ledger
3 1 (0.20%) Quorum
3 1 (0.20%) R3 Corda
Cloud Services
1 289 (56.67%) Azure
2 267 (52.35%) AWS
3 100 (19.61%) SaaS
4 98 (19.22%) GCP
5 74 (14.51%) Azure DevOps
6 72 (14.12%) Serverless
7 65 (12.75%) GitHub
8 35 (6.86%) Azure Service Bus
9 28 (5.49%) AWS Lambda
10 26 (5.10%) Power Platform
11 25 (4.90%) Amazon S3
11 25 (4.90%) GitHub Actions
12 24 (4.71%) Amazon EKS
13 23 (4.51%) PaaS
14 22 (4.31%) Amazon ECS
14 22 (4.31%) Azure Cosmos DB
15 15 (2.94%) OCI
16 14 (2.75%) Amazon SQS
16 14 (2.75%) Azure App Service
17 13 (2.55%) OpenShift
Communications & Networking
1 3 (0.59%) Broadband
2 2 (0.39%) AMQP
2 2 (0.39%) Network Security
3 1 (0.20%) Firewall
3 1 (0.20%) Internet
3 1 (0.20%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 89 (17.45%) MongoDB
2 79 (15.49%) SQL Server
3 77 (15.10%) NoSQL
4 64 (12.55%) PostgreSQL
5 47 (9.22%) Azure SQL Database
6 37 (7.25%) Elasticsearch
7 25 (4.90%) MySQL
8 17 (3.33%) DynamoDB
8 17 (3.33%) Power BI
8 17 (3.33%) Redis
9 16 (3.14%) Relational Database
10 12 (2.35%) Tableau
11 10 (1.96%) Data Warehouse
12 8 (1.57%) NonStop SQL
13 6 (1.18%) Amazon RDS
14 5 (0.98%) Data Lake
14 5 (0.98%) RDBMS
15 4 (0.78%) BigQuery
16 3 (0.59%) Snowflake Schema
17 2 (0.39%) Amazon Redshift
Development Applications
1 96 (18.82%) Git
2 42 (8.24%) Jenkins
3 23 (4.51%) JIRA
4 18 (3.53%) GitLab
5 14 (2.75%) TeamCity
6 12 (2.35%) Oracle Forms
7 11 (2.16%) Cypress.io
7 11 (2.16%) Selenium
8 9 (1.76%) Octopus Deploy
8 9 (1.76%) Team Foundation Server
8 9 (1.76%) Visual Studio
9 8 (1.57%) git-flow
9 8 (1.57%) JUnit
10 7 (1.37%) Cucumber
11 6 (1.18%) CircleCI
11 6 (1.18%) MSBuild
12 4 (0.78%) JMeter
12 4 (0.78%) SonarQube
13 3 (0.59%) Mockito
13 3 (0.59%) Postman
General
1 143 (28.04%) Social Skills
2 113 (22.16%) Finance
3 37 (7.25%) Law
4 33 (6.47%) Banking
5 30 (5.88%) Retail
6 23 (4.51%) Public Sector
7 20 (3.92%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 19 (3.73%) Back Office
9 18 (3.53%) Billing
9 18 (3.53%) Financial Institution
10 17 (3.33%) Analytical Skills
11 16 (3.14%) Telecoms
12 14 (2.75%) Front Office
13 10 (1.96%) Advertising
14 9 (1.76%) Legal
15 8 (1.57%) Marketing
16 7 (1.37%) Influencing Skills
17 6 (1.18%) Pharmaceutical
18 4 (0.78%) Manufacturing
18 4 (0.78%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 214 (41.96%) Developer
2 133 (26.08%) Senior
3 96 (18.82%) Software Engineer
4 84 (16.47%) .NET Developer
5 74 (14.51%) Architect
6 62 (12.16%) Lead
7 47 (9.22%) Senior Developer
8 39 (7.65%) Senior Software Engineer
9 34 (6.67%) C# Developer
10 31 (6.08%) Lead Developer
11 27 (5.29%) Full-Stack Developer
12 26 (5.10%) Software Developer
13 25 (4.90%) Principal Engineer
14 24 (4.71%) Java Developer
14 24 (4.71%) Java Engineer
15 22 (4.31%) Solutions Architect
16 18 (3.53%) Applications Engineer
16 18 (3.53%) Cloud Engineer
17 17 (3.33%) Technical Architect
18 15 (2.94%) Principal Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 220 (43.14%) .NET
2 139 (27.25%) React
3 131 (25.69%) RESTful
4 84 (16.47%) .NET Core
5 81 (15.88%) AngularJS
6 70 (13.73%) Kafka
7 66 (12.94%) Node.js
7 66 (12.94%) REST
8 64 (12.55%) ASP.NET Web API
8 64 (12.55%) Spring
9 63 (12.35%) .NET Framework
10 61 (11.96%) ASP.NET
11 57 (11.18%) Spring Boot
12 56 (10.98%) Entity Framework
12 56 (10.98%) HTML
13 43 (8.43%) CSS
14 41 (8.04%) RabbitMQ
15 39 (7.65%) ASP.NET MVC
16 35 (6.86%) Vue
17 32 (6.27%) GraphQL
Miscellaneous
1 140 (27.45%) Cloud Native
2 67 (13.14%) Distributed Systems
3 45 (8.82%) Product Ownership
4 43 (8.43%) Enterprise Software
5 22 (4.31%) Onboarding
6 17 (3.33%) Greenfield Project
7 14 (2.75%) Data Structures
8 13 (2.55%) Legacy Systems
9 12 (2.35%) Algorithms
10 9 (1.76%) Virtual Team
11 8 (1.57%) Mobile App
12 7 (1.37%) IoT
12 7 (1.37%) Management Information System
12 7 (1.37%) Self-Motivation
13 6 (1.18%) AI Agents
13 6 (1.18%) DataPower
13 6 (1.18%) Derivative
14 5 (0.98%) Augmented Reality
14 5 (0.98%) Data Protection Act
14 5 (0.98%) Distributed Architecture
Operating Systems
1 22 (4.31%) Linux
2 19 (3.73%) Windows
3 9 (1.76%) Android
4 2 (0.39%) Apple iOS
4 2 (0.39%) VMS
5 1 (0.20%) Fedora
Processes & Methodologies
1 270 (52.94%) Agile
2 231 (45.29%) CI/CD
3 218 (42.75%) DevOps
4 171 (33.53%) Software Engineering
5 144 (28.24%) Full-Stack Development
6 123 (24.12%) Mentoring
7 97 (19.02%) Containerisation
8 92 (18.04%) Event-Driven
8 92 (18.04%) Problem-Solving
9 89 (17.45%) Continuous Improvement
10 88 (17.25%) AI
11 86 (16.86%) TDD
12 82 (16.08%) Test Automation
13 75 (14.71%) Clean Code
14 73 (14.31%) Scrum
15 65 (12.75%) MVC
16 63 (12.35%) Code Quality
16 63 (12.35%) Computer Science
16 63 (12.35%) Design Patterns
17 59 (11.57%) Roadmaps
Programming Languages
1 232 (45.49%) C#
2 168 (32.94%) Java
3 166 (32.55%) SQL
4 128 (25.10%) JavaScript
5 106 (20.78%) TypeScript
6 103 (20.20%) Python
7 31 (6.08%) Go
8 13 (2.55%) Shell Script
9 12 (2.35%) PL/SQL
10 10 (1.96%) PHP
11 9 (1.76%) PowerShell
11 9 (1.76%) Ruby
12 6 (1.18%) C++
12 6 (1.18%) Delphi
13 4 (0.78%) Bicep
13 4 (0.78%) C
14 3 (0.59%) Bash
14 3 (0.59%) Elixir
14 3 (0.59%) Erlang
14 3 (0.59%) Kotlin
Qualifications
1 71 (13.92%) Degree
2 54 (10.59%) Computer Science Degree
3 37 (7.25%) AWS Certification
4 35 (6.86%) Security Cleared
5 31 (6.08%) SC Cleared
6 26 (5.10%) Azure Certification
7 22 (4.31%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
8 21 (4.12%) Master's Degree
9 20 (3.92%) TOGAF Certification
10 16 (3.14%) Microsoft Certification
11 6 (1.18%) CISM
11 6 (1.18%) CISSP
12 4 (0.78%) AWS Certified Developer
13 3 (0.59%) (ISC)2 CCSP
13 3 (0.59%) BPSS Clearance
13 3 (0.59%) Cisco Certification
13 3 (0.59%) CompTIA Security+
13 3 (0.59%) DV Cleared
14 2 (0.39%) ISTQB
14 2 (0.39%) PhD
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 59 (11.57%) QA
2 24 (4.71%) GDPR
3 12 (2.35%) Accessibility
4 10 (1.96%) NIST
5 8 (1.57%) HIPAA
5 8 (1.57%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 5 (0.98%) PCI DSS
6 5 (0.98%) Sarbanes-Oxley
7 3 (0.59%) NCSC
7 3 (0.59%) WCAG
8 2 (0.39%) Data Quality
8 2 (0.39%) SOC 2
9 1 (0.20%) ISO/IEC 42001
9 1 (0.20%) JSP 440
System Software
1 128 (25.10%) Docker
2 11 (2.16%) Active Directory
3 4 (0.78%) Virtual Machines
4 2 (0.39%) VMware NSX
4 2 (0.39%) vSphere
5 1 (0.20%) Firmware
5 1 (0.20%) HDFS
Systems Management
1 136 (26.67%) Kubernetes
2 54 (10.59%) Terraform
3 34 (6.67%) Grafana
4 12 (2.35%) Prometheus
4 12 (2.35%) Single Sign-On
5 10 (1.96%) Ansible
6 6 (1.18%) Argo
6 6 (1.18%) Kibana
7 2 (0.39%) Progress Chef
7 2 (0.39%) Puppet
8 1 (0.20%) Istio
Vendors
1 118 (23.14%) Microsoft
2 26 (5.10%) Oracle
3 16 (3.14%) Guidewire
4 15 (2.94%) Google
5 7 (1.37%) Facebook
5 7 (1.37%) YouTube
6 6 (1.18%) Databricks
7 5 (0.98%) Red Hat
8 4 (0.78%) BiZZdesign
8 4 (0.78%) Ericsson
8 4 (0.78%) Mavenir
8 4 (0.78%) Nokia
8 4 (0.78%) Salesforce
8 4 (0.78%) Trayport
9 3 (0.59%) Dynatrace
9 3 (0.59%) MuleSoft
9 3 (0.59%) Sage
10 2 (0.39%) SAP
10 2 (0.39%) SnapLogic
10 2 (0.39%) VMware