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

6 months to
11 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 74 45 33
Rank change year-on-year -29 -12 +3
Permanent jobs citing Microservices 554 836 1,953
As % of all permanent jobs with remote/hybrid work options 3.33% 5.99% 6.53%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 3.91% 6.29% 7.08%
Number of salaries quoted 398 614 1,728
10th Percentile £50,468 £47,500 £42,500
25th Percentile £56,631 £56,250 £50,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £72,750 £71,991 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year +1.05% +10.76% -13.33%
75th Percentile £95,000 £93,778 £83,750
90th Percentile £113,750 £115,000 £97,500
UK median annual salary £77,500 £74,870 £67,500
% change year-on-year +3.51% +10.92% -13.62%

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 14,163 13,299 27,577
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 85.18% 95.33% 92.18%
Number of salaries quoted 9,242 8,824 22,844
10th Percentile £31,250 £34,415 £34,000
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 £75,772
90th Percentile £100,000 £102,500 £95,000
UK median annual salary £55,000 £60,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year -8.33% +9.09% -11.31%

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 11 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 (2.35%) JBoss
2 11 (1.99%) Oracle SOA Suite
2 11 (1.99%) WebSphere
3 5 (0.90%) Apache Pulsar
4 4 (0.72%) CMS
5 3 (0.54%) Apache Airflow
5 3 (0.54%) Confluence
5 3 (0.54%) NServiceBus
5 3 (0.54%) OpenStack
5 3 (0.54%) Oracle Workflow
6 2 (0.36%) nginx
7 1 (0.18%) Apache
7 1 (0.18%) Apache Spark
7 1 (0.18%) Camunda
7 1 (0.18%) Ethereum
7 1 (0.18%) Hyperledger
7 1 (0.18%) SharePoint
7 1 (0.18%) WordPress
Applications
1 3 (0.54%) Microsoft Excel
1 3 (0.54%) Microsoft Office
1 3 (0.54%) Microsoft PowerPoint
1 3 (0.54%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 11 (1.99%) Oracle ERP
2 4 (0.72%) Dynamics AX
3 2 (0.36%) Dynamics CRM
4 1 (0.18%) Actimize
4 1 (0.18%) Distributed Ledger
4 1 (0.18%) Payment Gateway
4 1 (0.18%) Quorum
4 1 (0.18%) R3 Corda
4 1 (0.18%) Shopify
Cloud Services
1 343 (61.91%) AWS
2 281 (50.72%) Azure
3 160 (28.88%) GCP
4 128 (23.10%) SaaS
5 110 (19.86%) Serverless
6 67 (12.09%) GitHub
7 56 (10.11%) Azure DevOps
8 44 (7.94%) Amazon EKS
8 44 (7.94%) AWS Lambda
9 37 (6.68%) Amazon S3
10 35 (6.32%) Amazon SQS
11 31 (5.60%) Azure Service Bus
12 25 (4.51%) Amazon ECS
12 25 (4.51%) Power Platform
13 24 (4.33%) GitHub Actions
14 22 (3.97%) Amazon EC2
15 20 (3.61%) Azure Event Grid
15 20 (3.61%) PaaS
16 17 (3.07%) Azure Cosmos DB
17 16 (2.89%) Azure App Service
Communications & Networking
1 31 (5.60%) Broadband
2 4 (0.72%) Cisco ASA
2 4 (0.72%) DHCP
2 4 (0.72%) DNS
2 4 (0.72%) Firewall
2 4 (0.72%) MQTT
3 2 (0.36%) AMQP
3 2 (0.36%) Modbus
3 2 (0.36%) TCP/IP
4 1 (0.18%) Hyperconnected
4 1 (0.18%) Internet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 88 (15.88%) PostgreSQL
2 80 (14.44%) NoSQL
3 75 (13.54%) MongoDB
4 62 (11.19%) SQL Server
5 31 (5.60%) MySQL
6 17 (3.07%) Redis
7 16 (2.89%) Elasticsearch
8 15 (2.71%) Azure SQL Database
8 15 (2.71%) Power BI
9 12 (2.17%) BigQuery
9 12 (2.17%) DynamoDB
10 11 (1.99%) Relational Database
10 11 (1.99%) Tableau
11 9 (1.62%) Amazon RDS
12 6 (1.08%) Data Lake
13 5 (0.90%) Data Warehouse
14 2 (0.36%) CouchDB
14 2 (0.36%) NonStop SQL
14 2 (0.36%) Oracle Database
14 2 (0.36%) SQL Server Integration Services
Development Applications
1 75 (13.54%) Git
2 42 (7.58%) Jenkins
3 34 (6.14%) TeamCity
4 26 (4.69%) GitLab
5 23 (4.15%) Cypress.io
6 19 (3.43%) JIRA
7 11 (1.99%) Oracle Forms
8 10 (1.81%) Cucumber
9 9 (1.62%) Selenium
10 8 (1.44%) CircleCI
11 7 (1.26%) git-flow
11 7 (1.26%) JUnit
12 6 (1.08%) Visual Studio
13 4 (0.72%) Claude Code
13 4 (0.72%) REST Assured
14 3 (0.54%) JMeter
14 3 (0.54%) SpecFlow
15 2 (0.36%) Maven
15 2 (0.36%) NUnit
15 2 (0.36%) WebDriver
General
1 163 (29.42%) Social Skills
2 148 (26.71%) Finance
3 66 (11.91%) Law
4 62 (11.19%) Banking
5 49 (8.84%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 47 (8.48%) Retail
7 43 (7.76%) Financial Institution
8 41 (7.40%) Public Sector
9 39 (7.04%) Back Office
10 25 (4.51%) Analytical Skills
11 24 (4.33%) Telecoms
12 12 (2.17%) Legal
12 12 (2.17%) Marketing
13 10 (1.81%) Influencing Skills
13 10 (1.81%) Manufacturing
14 7 (1.26%) Health Technology
15 6 (1.08%) Advertising
15 6 (1.08%) Presentation Skills
16 5 (0.90%) Billing
16 5 (0.90%) Publishing
Job Titles
1 187 (33.75%) Developer
2 163 (29.42%) Senior
3 152 (27.44%) Software Engineer
4 83 (14.98%) Architect
5 82 (14.80%) Lead
6 61 (11.01%) Senior Software Engineer
7 51 (9.21%) Full-Stack Developer
8 49 (8.84%) Java Engineer
9 48 (8.66%) .NET Developer
9 48 (8.66%) Senior Developer
10 35 (6.32%) Lead Developer
11 34 (6.14%) Java Software Engineer
12 26 (4.69%) Full-Stack Engineer
13 25 (4.51%) C# Developer
14 24 (4.33%) Software Developer
15 23 (4.15%) Java Developer
16 22 (3.97%) Senior Java Engineer
17 20 (3.61%) Solutions Architect
18 19 (3.43%) Principal Engineer
19 18 (3.25%) .NET Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 175 (31.59%) .NET
2 142 (25.63%) React
3 120 (21.66%) RESTful
4 81 (14.62%) Node.js
5 78 (14.08%) Spring
6 69 (12.45%) Kafka
7 60 (10.83%) REST
7 60 (10.83%) Spring Boot
8 57 (10.29%) .NET Core
9 52 (9.39%) gRPC
10 46 (8.30%) AngularJS
11 43 (7.76%) .NET Framework
12 37 (6.68%) ASP.NET Web API
13 36 (6.50%) ASP.NET
14 32 (5.78%) HTML
15 29 (5.23%) CSS
15 29 (5.23%) RabbitMQ
16 28 (5.05%) Entity Framework
17 26 (4.69%) OAuth
18 24 (4.33%) Jest
Miscellaneous
1 180 (32.49%) Cloud Native
2 96 (17.33%) Distributed Systems
3 68 (12.27%) Product Ownership
4 55 (9.93%) Enterprise Software
5 28 (5.05%) Over-the-Top Content
5 28 (5.05%) Video\Live Streaming
6 16 (2.89%) Virtual Team
7 13 (2.35%) Greenfield Project
7 13 (2.35%) Legacy Systems
8 11 (1.99%) DataPower
8 11 (1.99%) Self-Motivation
9 10 (1.81%) AI Agents
9 10 (1.81%) Algorithms
10 9 (1.62%) Data Structures
10 9 (1.62%) Distributed Architecture
11 8 (1.44%) Legacy Applications
12 7 (1.26%) IoT
12 7 (1.26%) Mobile App
12 7 (1.26%) PKI
13 5 (0.90%) Onboarding
Operating Systems
1 16 (2.89%) Android
2 15 (2.71%) Linux
3 7 (1.26%) Apple iOS
4 4 (0.72%) Unix
4 4 (0.72%) Windows
5 2 (0.36%) VMS
6 1 (0.18%) CentOS
6 1 (0.18%) Debian
6 1 (0.18%) Fedora
6 1 (0.18%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 1 (0.18%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 288 (51.99%) CI/CD
2 248 (44.77%) Software Engineering
3 229 (41.34%) Agile
4 217 (39.17%) DevOps
5 158 (28.52%) Full-Stack Development
6 148 (26.71%) Mentoring
7 146 (26.35%) Containerisation
8 136 (24.55%) Test Automation
9 125 (22.56%) Problem-Solving
10 121 (21.84%) Event-Driven
11 111 (20.04%) Continuous Improvement
12 107 (19.31%) Coaching
13 102 (18.41%) Clean Code
14 98 (17.69%) AI
15 82 (14.80%) Computer Science
16 80 (14.44%) Event-Driven Architecture
17 77 (13.90%) Architectural Patterns
18 70 (12.64%) TDD
19 68 (12.27%) Technical Leadership
20 65 (11.73%) Scrum
Programming Languages
1 198 (35.74%) Java
2 164 (29.60%) C#
3 134 (24.19%) Python
4 124 (22.38%) SQL
5 120 (21.66%) JavaScript
6 104 (18.77%) TypeScript
7 62 (11.19%) Go
8 28 (5.05%) Scala
9 18 (3.25%) Ruby
10 13 (2.35%) Shell Script
11 11 (1.99%) PHP
11 11 (1.99%) PL/SQL
12 8 (1.44%) Kotlin
13 7 (1.26%) C++
14 6 (1.08%) Delphi
14 6 (1.08%) Rust
15 4 (0.72%) Bicep
16 3 (0.54%) Erlang
16 3 (0.54%) PowerShell
17 2 (0.36%) C
Qualifications
1 97 (17.51%) Degree
2 65 (11.73%) Computer Science Degree
3 51 (9.21%) Security Cleared
4 45 (8.12%) SC Cleared
5 37 (6.68%) AWS Certification
5 37 (6.68%) Azure Certification
6 32 (5.78%) TOGAF Certification
7 29 (5.23%) Microsoft Certification
8 24 (4.33%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
9 12 (2.17%) CISSP
10 11 (1.99%) Master's Degree
11 8 (1.44%) CISM
11 8 (1.44%) DBS Check
12 5 (0.90%) ISTQB
12 5 (0.90%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
13 4 (0.72%) GIAC
13 4 (0.72%) ISACA
13 4 (0.72%) SANS
14 3 (0.54%) AWS Certified Developer
15 2 (0.36%) ISTQB Advanced Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 49 (8.84%) QA
2 15 (2.71%) Accessibility
3 13 (2.35%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 12 (2.17%) NIST
5 11 (1.99%) GDPR
6 8 (1.44%) NCSC
7 7 (1.26%) PCI DSS
8 2 (0.36%) Data Quality
8 2 (0.36%) GRC
8 2 (0.36%) HMG Security Policy Framework
8 2 (0.36%) ISO 9001
8 2 (0.36%) SEPA
8 2 (0.36%) WCAG
9 1 (0.18%) ISO/IEC 42001
9 1 (0.18%) JSP 440
System Software
1 153 (27.62%) Docker
2 14 (2.53%) Active Directory
3 3 (0.54%) Firmware
4 2 (0.36%) VMware NSX
4 2 (0.36%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 164 (29.60%) Kubernetes
2 89 (16.06%) Terraform
3 55 (9.93%) Grafana
4 23 (4.15%) Ansible
5 11 (1.99%) Single Sign-On
6 9 (1.62%) Prometheus
7 8 (1.44%) Argo
7 8 (1.44%) Kibana
8 2 (0.36%) Opsgenie
8 2 (0.36%) Puppet
Vendors
1 90 (16.25%) Microsoft
2 28 (5.05%) Typelevel
3 26 (4.69%) Oracle
4 20 (3.61%) Google
5 8 (1.44%) Red Hat
6 6 (1.08%) Databricks
7 5 (0.90%) Ericsson
7 5 (0.90%) Mavenir
7 5 (0.90%) Nokia
8 4 (0.72%) Cisco
8 4 (0.72%) F5
8 4 (0.72%) ForgeRock
8 4 (0.72%) Guidewire
8 4 (0.72%) Juniper
8 4 (0.72%) Okta
8 4 (0.72%) Palo Alto
8 4 (0.72%) Revolut
9 3 (0.54%) OpenAI
9 3 (0.54%) SAP
10 2 (0.36%) Salesforce