Microservices Jobs with Hybrid/Remote/WFH Options

Microservices
UK > Work from Home

The table below provides summary statistics for permanent remote or hybrid work requiring Microservices skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the annual salaries offered in vacancies that cited Microservices over the 6 months leading up to 17 July 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
17 Jul 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 50 61 36
Rank change year-on-year +11 -25 -6
Permanent jobs citing Microservices 1,107 1,316 2,357
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 5.25% 4.15% 6.84%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 5.65% 4.66% 7.13%
Number of salaries quoted 544 1,149 1,549
10th Percentile £47,500 £42,500 £49,650
25th Percentile £57,500 £50,000 £56,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £70,000 £64,000 £75,000
Median % change year-on-year +9.38% -14.67% +3.45%
75th Percentile £93,778 £83,750 £90,000
90th Percentile £115,000 £97,500 £105,000
UK median annual salary £72,500 £65,000 £75,554
% change year-on-year +11.54% -13.97% +0.74%

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 19,577 28,235 33,073
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 92.88% 89.04% 95.95%
Number of salaries quoted 10,339 20,623 24,306
10th Percentile £25,313 £34,000 £37,500
25th Percentile £39,000 £42,500 £47,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,500 £57,500 £62,500
Median % change year-on-year - -8.00% +4.17%
75th Percentile £76,250 £76,250 £81,250
90th Percentile £100,000 £95,000 £100,000
UK median annual salary £55,000 £55,000 £60,249
% change year-on-year - -8.71% +0.42%

Microservices
Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

Job vacancies with remote working options citing Microservices as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Microservices trend for jobs with Hybrid/Remote/WFH options

Microservices
Salary Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

3-month moving average salary quoted in job vacancies with remote working options citing Microservices.

Microservices salary trend for jobs with a WFH option

Microservices
Salary Histogram for Jobs with a WFH Option

Salary distribution for jobs with remote working options citing Microservices over the 6 months to 17 July 2025.

Microservices salary histogram for jobs with a WFH option

Microservices
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities with WFH Options by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same employment type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Application Platforms
1 179 (16.17%) Confluence
2 23 (2.08%) Jupyter
3 8 (0.72%) Apache
3 8 (0.72%) CMS
4 4 (0.36%) Apache Airflow
4 4 (0.36%) IIS
4 4 (0.36%) JBoss
4 4 (0.36%) nginx
5 3 (0.27%) GemFire
5 3 (0.27%) NServiceBus
5 3 (0.27%) OpenEdge
5 3 (0.27%) OpenStack
5 3 (0.27%) SAS
6 2 (0.18%) NetWeaver
6 2 (0.18%) SharePoint
6 2 (0.18%) Sitecore CMS
7 1 (0.090%) ColdFusion
7 1 (0.090%) Headless CMS
7 1 (0.090%) Microsoft Exchange
7 1 (0.090%) Oracle SOA Suite
Applications
1 8 (0.72%) Microsoft Office
2 1 (0.090%) Chatbot
Business Applications
1 4 (0.36%) Dynamics CRM
2 1 (0.090%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 735 (66.40%) Azure
2 680 (61.43%) AWS
3 451 (40.74%) GCP
4 72 (6.50%) Azure DevOps
5 62 (5.60%) Serverless
6 49 (4.43%) SaaS
7 41 (3.70%) AWS Lambda
8 36 (3.25%) Azure Service Bus
9 33 (2.98%) Azure Cosmos DB
10 30 (2.71%) GitHub
11 20 (1.81%) Apigee
11 20 (1.81%) AWS CloudFormation
11 20 (1.81%) SonarCloud
12 19 (1.72%) Amazon EC2
13 18 (1.63%) Amazon S3
14 17 (1.54%) Google Kubernetes Engine
15 14 (1.26%) OpenShift
16 13 (1.17%) Azure Logic Apps
16 13 (1.17%) Microsoft 365
16 13 (1.17%) PaaS
Communications & Networking
1 17 (1.54%) Internet
2 13 (1.17%) Network Security
3 4 (0.36%) Broadband
3 4 (0.36%) TCP/IP
4 2 (0.18%) Firewall
5 1 (0.090%) 3GPP
5 1 (0.090%) 4G
5 1 (0.090%) 5G
5 1 (0.090%) DAB
5 1 (0.090%) Diameter Protocol
5 1 (0.090%) HTTP
5 1 (0.090%) OpenVPN
5 1 (0.090%) SCTP
5 1 (0.090%) SSH
Database & Business Intelligence
1 316 (28.55%) SQL Server
2 90 (8.13%) MongoDB
3 89 (8.04%) NoSQL
4 52 (4.70%) PostgreSQL
5 48 (4.34%) Elasticsearch
6 46 (4.16%) Relational Database
7 41 (3.70%) Azure SQL Database
8 31 (2.80%) Big Data
8 31 (2.80%) MySQL
9 22 (1.99%) Redis
10 20 (1.81%) DynamoDB
11 15 (1.36%) RDBMS
12 12 (1.08%) Data Warehouse
13 10 (0.90%) Data Lake
14 9 (0.81%) NonStop SQL
15 6 (0.54%) Amazon RDS
15 6 (0.54%) Oracle Database
15 6 (0.54%) Tableau
16 4 (0.36%) InterSystems Cache
17 3 (0.27%) Amazon Aurora
Development Applications
1 280 (25.29%) SonarQube
2 278 (25.11%) JIRA
3 273 (24.66%) Maven
3 273 (24.66%) Sonatype Nexus
4 268 (24.21%) GitLab
5 262 (23.67%) Cucumber
6 253 (22.85%) Selenium
7 250 (22.58%) Bitbucket
8 132 (11.92%) Git
9 67 (6.05%) Jenkins
10 27 (2.44%) Visual Studio
11 25 (2.26%) Octopus Deploy
12 24 (2.17%) JUnit
12 24 (2.17%) Team Foundation Server
13 21 (1.90%) MSBuild
14 13 (1.17%) Cypress.io
14 13 (1.17%) Jasmine
14 13 (1.17%) Karma Test Runner
14 13 (1.17%) Mockito
15 12 (1.08%) webpack
General
1 476 (43.00%) Inclusion and Diversity
2 450 (40.65%) Finance
3 358 (32.34%) Banking
4 136 (12.29%) Social Skills
5 134 (12.10%) Retail
6 91 (8.22%) Investment Banking
7 90 (8.13%) Corporate Banking
8 26 (2.35%) Law
9 22 (1.99%) Analytical Skills
9 22 (1.99%) Public Sector
10 17 (1.54%) Front Office
11 12 (1.08%) Pharmaceutical
12 10 (0.90%) Advertising
12 10 (0.90%) Back Office
13 9 (0.81%) Billing
14 7 (0.63%) Automotive
14 7 (0.63%) Tech for Good
15 4 (0.36%) Electronics
15 4 (0.36%) Manufacturing
15 4 (0.36%) Marketing
Job Titles
1 551 (49.77%) Software Engineer
2 354 (31.98%) Senior
3 243 (21.95%) Developer
4 232 (20.96%) Senior Software Engineer
5 113 (10.21%) Architect
6 97 (8.76%) Lead
7 78 (7.05%) .NET Developer
8 64 (5.78%) Solutions Architect
9 53 (4.79%) Senior Developer
10 50 (4.52%) C# Developer
11 44 (3.97%) Java Engineer
12 41 (3.70%) Java Developer
13 31 (2.80%) Java Software Engineer
14 28 (2.53%) Technical Architect
15 27 (2.44%) AWS Architect
15 27 (2.44%) Senior Architect
16 25 (2.26%) Full-Stack Developer
17 23 (2.08%) Data Scientist
17 23 (2.08%) Senior Data Scientist
18 22 (1.99%) Software Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 408 (36.86%) .NET
2 404 (36.50%) React
3 337 (30.44%) Spring
4 332 (29.99%) HTML
5 322 (29.09%) Spring Boot
6 314 (28.36%) CSS
7 313 (28.27%) Kafka
8 258 (23.31%) JPA
9 257 (23.22%) Node.js
10 251 (22.67%) Redux
11 227 (20.51%) RESTful
12 203 (18.34%) REST
13 186 (16.80%) Hibernate
14 118 (10.66%) HTML5
15 104 (9.39%) Jest
16 100 (9.03%) AngularJS
17 99 (8.94%) CSS3
18 98 (8.85%) Sass
19 97 (8.76%) .NET Core
20 77 (6.96%) ASP.NET
Miscellaneous
1 320 (28.91%) Product Ownership
2 260 (23.49%) Enterprise Software
3 201 (18.16%) Cyberattack
4 189 (17.07%) Self-Motivation
5 178 (16.08%) Linux Command Line
6 74 (6.68%) Cloud Native
7 43 (3.88%) Algorithms
8 38 (3.43%) Management Information System
9 33 (2.98%) Distributed Systems
10 21 (1.90%) Public Cloud
11 19 (1.72%) Greenfield Project
12 18 (1.63%) Legacy Systems
13 15 (1.36%) Onboarding
13 15 (1.36%) Private Cloud
14 14 (1.26%) IoT
15 13 (1.17%) Mobile App
16 12 (1.08%) Data Structures
17 10 (0.90%) Virtual Team
18 9 (0.81%) Online Banking
19 6 (0.54%) DataPower
Operating Systems
1 227 (20.51%) Linux
2 22 (1.99%) Windows
3 18 (1.63%) Unix
4 17 (1.54%) Android
5 7 (0.63%) Apple iOS
6 2 (0.18%) Debian
7 1 (0.090%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
7 1 (0.090%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 760 (68.65%) Agile
2 688 (62.15%) Software Engineering
3 562 (50.77%) DevOps
4 483 (43.63%) CI/CD
5 427 (38.57%) Mentoring
6 408 (36.86%) Containerisation
7 362 (32.70%) Test Automation
8 359 (32.43%) Full-Stack Development
9 305 (27.55%) SDLC
10 303 (27.37%) User Experience
11 292 (26.38%) TDD
12 280 (25.29%) Front End Development
12 280 (25.29%) Performance Optimisation
13 257 (23.22%) Scrum
14 232 (20.96%) Continuous Improvement
15 220 (19.87%) Machine Learning
16 210 (18.97%) Clean Code
17 203 (18.34%) Cloud Security
18 192 (17.34%) Site Reliability Engineering
19 184 (16.62%) Data Engineering
Programming Languages
1 693 (62.60%) Java
2 642 (57.99%) JavaScript
3 440 (39.75%) SQL
4 321 (29.00%) Python
5 253 (22.85%) C#
6 218 (19.69%) Go
7 194 (17.52%) TypeScript
8 189 (17.07%) C++
9 179 (16.17%) Rust
10 20 (1.81%) PHP
11 14 (1.26%) PowerShell
12 13 (1.17%) Kotlin
13 10 (0.90%) Ruby
14 9 (0.81%) Groovy
15 7 (0.63%) Bash
15 7 (0.63%) C
16 6 (0.54%) Shell Script
17 5 (0.45%) Bicep
18 4 (0.36%) T-SQL
19 3 (0.27%) Perl
Qualifications
1 248 (22.40%) Security Cleared
2 214 (19.33%) AWS Certification
3 207 (18.70%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
4 204 (18.43%) DV Cleared
5 178 (16.08%) AWS Certified Developer
6 92 (8.31%) Degree
7 58 (5.24%) Computer Science Degree
8 33 (2.98%) SC Cleared
9 19 (1.72%) Azure Certification
10 18 (1.63%) Master's Degree
11 8 (0.72%) DBS Check
12 5 (0.45%) (ISC)2 CCSP
12 5 (0.45%) Cisco Certification
12 5 (0.45%) CISM
12 5 (0.45%) CISSP
12 5 (0.45%) CompTIA Security+
13 4 (0.36%) PhD
13 4 (0.36%) TOGAF Certification
14 3 (0.27%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
14 3 (0.27%) OCP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 298 (26.92%) QA
2 100 (9.03%) Accessibility
3 53 (4.79%) GDPR
4 27 (2.44%) HIPAA
5 14 (1.26%) NIST
6 6 (0.54%) CDISC
6 6 (0.54%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 3 (0.27%) Basel II
7 3 (0.27%) Basel III
7 3 (0.27%) Dodd-Frank
7 3 (0.27%) IFRS
7 3 (0.27%) IFRS 9
7 3 (0.27%) PCI DSS
7 3 (0.27%) Sarbanes-Oxley
8 2 (0.18%) SOC 2
9 1 (0.090%) Actionable Recommendations
9 1 (0.090%) Cyber Essentials
9 1 (0.090%) GRC
9 1 (0.090%) ISO 15022
9 1 (0.090%) ISO 20022
System Software
1 514 (46.43%) Docker
2 4 (0.36%) Virtual Machines
3 1 (0.090%) Active Directory
3 1 (0.090%) KVM
3 1 (0.090%) VMware Infrastructure
3 1 (0.090%) Xen
Systems Management
1 480 (43.36%) Kubernetes
2 72 (6.50%) Terraform
3 30 (2.71%) Prometheus
4 27 (2.44%) Grafana
5 14 (1.26%) Istio
6 13 (1.17%) Ansible
7 5 (0.45%) Progress Chef
8 4 (0.36%) Argo
9 3 (0.27%) Packer
10 2 (0.18%) Puppet
11 1 (0.090%) CFEngine
11 1 (0.090%) Check_MK
11 1 (0.090%) FortiGate
11 1 (0.090%) Kibana
11 1 (0.090%) Kustomize
11 1 (0.090%) logstash
11 1 (0.090%) Microsoft Intune
11 1 (0.090%) Opsgenie
11 1 (0.090%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 250 (22.58%) Solace
2 109 (9.85%) Microsoft
3 42 (3.79%) Google
4 22 (1.99%) IBM
5 17 (1.54%) Oracle
6 10 (0.90%) Dynatrace
6 10 (0.90%) Guidewire
7 8 (0.72%) Atlassian
7 8 (0.72%) Trayport
8 7 (0.63%) Cisco
8 7 (0.63%) YouTube
9 6 (0.54%) Apple
9 6 (0.54%) Facebook
9 6 (0.54%) Sage
10 5 (0.45%) Splunk
11 4 (0.36%) AppDynamics
11 4 (0.36%) Red Hat
12 3 (0.27%) Bloomberg
12 3 (0.27%) Salesforce
12 3 (0.27%) TIBCO