Hybrid/Remote Kubernetes Job Trends

Kubernetes (k8s)
UK > Work from Home

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for remote or hybrid work requiring Kubernetes skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 11 May 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
11 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 74 36 62
Rank change year-on-year -38 +26 -36
Permanent jobs citing Kubernetes 586 1,075 1,391
As % of all permanent jobs with remote/hybrid work options 3.18% 7.35% 4.27%
As % of the Systems Management category 38.65% 52.57% 37.26%
Number of salaries quoted 382 601 1,171
10th Percentile £50,000 £51,250 £50,000
25th Percentile £57,500 £60,000 £59,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £70,000 £80,000 £75,000
Median % change year-on-year -12.50% +6.67% -
75th Percentile £85,000 £115,000 £92,500
90th Percentile £107,250 £138,750 £115,000
UK median annual salary £75,000 £82,500 £75,000
% change year-on-year -9.09% +10.00% -

All Systems Management Skills
Work from Home

Kubernetes falls under the Systems Management category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent job vacancies with remote or hybrid options requiring systems management skills.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for systems management skills 1,516 2,045 3,733
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 8.22% 13.99% 11.47%
Number of salaries quoted 1,039 1,333 2,951
10th Percentile £37,500 £39,164 £37,101
25th Percentile £48,750 £51,250 £47,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £70,000 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year -7.14% +7.69% -6.40%
75th Percentile £81,250 £90,000 £83,750
90th Percentile £95,000 £115,000 £102,500
UK median annual salary £65,000 £67,500 £60,000
% change year-on-year -3.70% +12.50% -11.11%

Kubernetes
Job Vacancy Trend for Remote/Hybrid Jobs

Historical trend showing the proportion of permanent IT job postings citing Kubernetes and offering remote or hybrid work options relative to all permanent IT jobs advertised.

Kubernetes job vacancy trend for remote/hybrid jobs

Kubernetes
Salary Trend for Remote/Hybrid Jobs

Salary distribution trend for jobs with remote/hybrid work options citing Kubernetes.

Salary distribution trend for jobs with remote/hybrid work options citing Kubernetes

Kubernetes
Salary Histogram for Remote/Hybrid Jobs

Salary distribution for jobs with remote/hybrid work options citing Kubernetes over the 6 months to 11 May 2026.

Kubernetes salary histogram for jobs with remote/hybrid work options

Kubernetes
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 10 (1.71%) Apache Airflow
1 10 (1.71%) OpenStack
2 9 (1.54%) Apache Spark
3 4 (0.68%) ArcGIS
3 4 (0.68%) GeoServer
3 4 (0.68%) Microsoft Exchange
3 4 (0.68%) Oracle Spatial
4 3 (0.51%) Apache Pulsar
4 3 (0.51%) Confluence
5 2 (0.34%) Apache
5 2 (0.34%) Camunda
5 2 (0.34%) nginx
6 1 (0.17%) Cloud Foundry
6 1 (0.17%) IIS
6 1 (0.17%) JBoss
6 1 (0.17%) Oracle SOA Suite
6 1 (0.17%) Red Hat Fuse
6 1 (0.17%) SAS
6 1 (0.17%) SharePoint
Applications
1 4 (0.68%) Weka
2 2 (0.34%) Chatbot
3 1 (0.17%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 1 (0.17%) Actimize
Cloud Services
1 338 (57.68%) AWS
2 273 (46.59%) Azure
3 155 (26.45%) GCP
4 118 (20.14%) GitHub
5 106 (18.09%) Amazon EKS
6 68 (11.60%) SaaS
6 68 (11.60%) Serverless
7 60 (10.24%) GitHub Actions
8 44 (7.51%) GitHub Copilot
9 41 (7.00%) AWS CloudFormation
10 38 (6.48%) Azure AKS
10 38 (6.48%) Azure DevOps
11 36 (6.14%) Amazon EC2
11 36 (6.14%) Amazon S3
12 32 (5.46%) AWS Lambda
13 26 (4.44%) Azure AI
13 26 (4.44%) OpenShift
14 25 (4.27%) Amazon CloudWatch
14 25 (4.27%) Amazon ECS
15 22 (3.75%) Datadog
Communications & Networking
1 48 (8.19%) Broadband
2 32 (5.46%) Firewall
3 18 (3.07%) DNS
3 18 (3.07%) VPN
4 11 (1.88%) TCP/IP
5 10 (1.71%) DHCP
6 7 (1.19%) Network Security
7 6 (1.02%) Internet
8 5 (0.85%) VLAN
9 4 (0.68%) AMQP
9 4 (0.68%) MQTT
9 4 (0.68%) WAN
10 3 (0.51%) HTTP
10 3 (0.51%) RTP
10 3 (0.51%) SAN
10 3 (0.51%) SCCP
10 3 (0.51%) Unified Communications
10 3 (0.51%) VoIP
10 3 (0.51%) Wireshark
11 2 (0.34%) iSCSI
Database & Business Intelligence
1 74 (12.63%) MongoDB
2 66 (11.26%) PostgreSQL
3 55 (9.39%) NoSQL
4 43 (7.34%) Azure SQL Database
5 41 (7.00%) Relational Database
6 38 (6.48%) SQL Server
7 31 (5.29%) Amazon RDS
8 22 (3.75%) MySQL
9 21 (3.58%) Elasticsearch
10 18 (3.07%) RDBMS
11 9 (1.54%) BigQuery
12 8 (1.37%) Amazon Aurora
13 7 (1.19%) Flink
14 6 (1.02%) DynamoDB
14 6 (1.02%) Redis
15 4 (0.68%) GIS
15 4 (0.68%) Power BI
15 4 (0.68%) QGIS
16 3 (0.51%) Apache Cassandra
16 3 (0.51%) Data Warehouse
Development Applications
1 68 (11.60%) Git
2 67 (11.43%) TeamCity
3 61 (10.41%) Jenkins
4 50 (8.53%) GitLab
5 18 (3.07%) Jaeger
6 12 (2.05%) Visual Studio Code
7 10 (1.71%) JIRA
8 8 (1.37%) JMeter
9 7 (1.19%) JUnit
9 7 (1.19%) Maven
10 6 (1.02%) CircleCI
10 6 (1.02%) Cucumber
10 6 (1.02%) Locust
10 6 (1.02%) Visual Studio
11 5 (0.85%) SonarQube
12 4 (0.68%) Bitbucket
12 4 (0.68%) MLflow
12 4 (0.68%) Mockito
12 4 (0.68%) Selenium
13 3 (0.51%) REST Assured
General
1 134 (22.87%) Finance
2 120 (20.48%) Social Skills
3 82 (13.99%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 77 (13.14%) Banking
4 77 (13.14%) Retail
5 68 (11.60%) Law
6 35 (5.97%) Public Sector
7 34 (5.80%) Financial Institution
8 28 (4.78%) Back Office
9 16 (2.73%) Analytical Skills
9 16 (2.73%) Telecoms
10 11 (1.88%) Advertising
11 10 (1.71%) Front Office
11 10 (1.71%) Organisational Skills
12 7 (1.19%) Military
13 6 (1.02%) Aerospace
13 6 (1.02%) Marketing
14 5 (0.85%) Games
14 5 (0.85%) Legal
15 4 (0.68%) Manufacturing
Job Titles
1 180 (30.72%) Senior
2 119 (20.31%) Developer
3 109 (18.60%) Lead
4 103 (17.58%) Software Engineer
5 72 (12.29%) DevOps Engineer
6 51 (8.70%) Cloud Engineer
7 48 (8.19%) Azure Engineer
8 47 (8.02%) Platform Engineer
9 40 (6.83%) .NET Developer
10 34 (5.80%) Senior Software Engineer
11 33 (5.63%) Senior Developer
12 31 (5.29%) Java Developer
13 29 (4.95%) Cloud Platform Engineer
14 28 (4.78%) AWS Engineer
14 28 (4.78%) Java Engineer
14 28 (4.78%) Python Engineer
14 28 (4.78%) Senior DevOps
15 27 (4.61%) Lead Software Engineer
16 25 (4.27%) Team Leader
17 24 (4.10%) Infrastructure Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 95 (16.21%) .NET
2 66 (11.26%) React
3 63 (10.75%) Kafka
4 60 (10.24%) Spring
5 56 (9.56%) .NET Core
6 51 (8.70%) Node.js
7 46 (7.85%) Spring Boot
8 45 (7.68%) REST
9 44 (7.51%) ASP.NET
10 42 (7.17%) ASP.NET Core
11 39 (6.66%) RESTful
12 37 (6.31%) AngularJS
13 32 (5.46%) Elastic Stack
14 27 (4.61%) CSS
14 27 (4.61%) HTML
14 27 (4.61%) Vue
15 25 (4.27%) Django
16 23 (3.92%) Akka
17 22 (3.75%) ML.NET
17 22 (3.75%) OpenTelemetry
Miscellaneous
1 168 (28.67%) Cloud Native
2 46 (7.85%) Product Ownership
3 44 (7.51%) Distributed Systems
4 22 (3.75%) Over-the-Top Content
4 22 (3.75%) Video\Live Streaming
5 20 (3.41%) Blog
6 18 (3.07%) Private Cloud
7 17 (2.90%) Hybrid Cloud
8 15 (2.56%) Data Centre
8 15 (2.56%) Onboarding
9 13 (2.22%) AI Agents
10 12 (2.05%) Public Cloud
11 9 (1.54%) Digital TV
11 9 (1.54%) Security Posture
12 8 (1.37%) Legacy Systems
12 8 (1.37%) Management Information System
13 7 (1.19%) Virtual Team
14 6 (1.02%) Algorithms
14 6 (1.02%) Distributed Architecture
14 6 (1.02%) Greenfield Project
Operating Systems
1 128 (21.84%) Linux
2 36 (6.14%) Windows
3 21 (3.58%) Android
4 20 (3.41%) Unix
5 16 (2.73%) Windows Server
6 14 (2.39%) Apple iOS
7 12 (2.05%) Ubuntu
8 11 (1.88%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
9 7 (1.19%) CentOS
9 7 (1.19%) VMS
10 4 (0.68%) Debian
11 3 (0.51%) Windows Server 2016
12 2 (0.34%) Mac OS
Processes & Methodologies
1 368 (62.80%) CI/CD
2 315 (53.75%) DevOps
3 233 (39.76%) Agile
4 206 (35.15%) Infrastructure as Code
5 194 (33.11%) Containerisation
6 179 (30.55%) Microservices
7 151 (25.77%) Software Engineering
8 135 (23.04%) Mentoring
9 115 (19.62%) Continuous Improvement
9 115 (19.62%) Test Automation
10 101 (17.24%) AI
11 96 (16.38%) Observability
12 93 (15.87%) Platform Engineering
13 88 (15.02%) Full-Stack Development
14 85 (14.51%) Clean Code
15 77 (13.14%) TDD
16 75 (12.80%) Deployment Automation
17 74 (12.63%) Problem-Solving
17 74 (12.63%) Scrum
18 70 (11.95%) Site Reliability Engineering
Programming Languages
1 227 (38.74%) Python
2 170 (29.01%) Java
3 114 (19.45%) SQL
4 92 (15.70%) JavaScript
5 90 (15.36%) C#
6 83 (14.16%) Go
7 70 (11.95%) Bash
8 67 (11.43%) TypeScript
9 46 (7.85%) PowerShell
10 31 (5.29%) Scala
11 24 (4.10%) Bicep
12 14 (2.39%) C++
13 8 (1.37%) PHP
14 7 (1.19%) C
14 7 (1.19%) Rust
15 5 (0.85%) PL/SQL
16 4 (0.68%) Perl
17 3 (0.51%) Groovy
17 3 (0.51%) Ruby
17 3 (0.51%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 76 (12.97%) Security Cleared
2 66 (11.26%) Degree
3 60 (10.24%) SC Cleared
4 43 (7.34%) Azure Certification
5 35 (5.97%) Computer Science Degree
6 30 (5.12%) AWS Certification
7 14 (2.39%) DV Cleared
8 8 (1.37%) CREST Certified
8 8 (1.37%) OSCP
9 6 (1.02%) CISSP
9 6 (1.02%) ISACA
9 6 (1.02%) Microsoft Certification
10 5 (0.85%) GIAC
10 5 (0.85%) SANS
11 3 (0.51%) LPIC
11 3 (0.51%) Master's Degree
12 2 (0.34%) ISTQB
12 2 (0.34%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
12 2 (0.34%) ITIL Certification
12 2 (0.34%) Linux+ Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 42 (7.17%) QA
2 14 (2.39%) Accessibility
2 14 (2.39%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 14 (2.39%) NIST
3 10 (1.71%) PCI DSS
4 9 (1.54%) Data Quality
5 5 (0.85%) WCAG
6 4 (0.68%) GDPR
6 4 (0.68%) SOC 2
7 3 (0.51%) ISO 9001
8 2 (0.34%) Software Quality Assurance
9 1 (0.17%) ISO/IEC 42001
9 1 (0.17%) MiFID
System Software
1 357 (60.92%) Docker
2 32 (5.46%) Active Directory
3 19 (3.24%) VMware Infrastructure
4 13 (2.22%) Virtual Machines
5 6 (1.02%) VMware NSX
6 5 (0.85%) Firmware
7 4 (0.68%) Slurm Workload Manager
8 3 (0.51%) Citrix Hypervisor
8 3 (0.51%) Hyper-V
8 3 (0.51%) Kamailio
9 2 (0.34%) vSphere
10 1 (0.17%) KVM
10 1 (0.17%) QEMU
10 1 (0.17%) vCloud
10 1 (0.17%) Virtual Desktop
10 1 (0.17%) Virtual Servers
10 1 (0.17%) Xen
Systems Management
1 297 (50.68%) Terraform
2 119 (20.31%) Ansible
3 111 (18.94%) Grafana
4 76 (12.97%) Prometheus
5 46 (7.85%) Argo
6 22 (3.75%) Kustomize
7 18 (3.07%) Puppet
8 13 (2.22%) Istio
9 11 (1.88%) Progress Chef
10 8 (1.37%) Microsoft Intune
10 8 (1.37%) Packer
11 7 (1.19%) Proxmox
11 7 (1.19%) ZABBIX
12 6 (1.02%) Active Directory Federation Services
13 4 (0.68%) Kibana
13 4 (0.68%) logstash
14 3 (0.51%) FortiGate
15 2 (0.34%) MIIS
15 2 (0.34%) Nagios
15 2 (0.34%) Podman
Vendors
1 97 (16.55%) Microsoft
2 37 (6.31%) Google
3 33 (5.63%) VMware
4 21 (3.58%) Red Hat
5 11 (1.88%) Oracle
6 9 (1.54%) Okta
7 8 (1.37%) Cisco
7 8 (1.37%) Confluent
7 8 (1.37%) Palo Alto
7 8 (1.37%) ServiceNow
7 8 (1.37%) Splunk
8 7 (1.19%) Databricks
8 7 (1.19%) Fortinet
9 6 (1.02%) Citrix
9 6 (1.02%) EMC
9 6 (1.02%) F5
9 6 (1.02%) OpenAI
10 5 (0.85%) AppDynamics
10 5 (0.85%) ForgeRock
11 4 (0.68%) HubSpot