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 12 April 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
12 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 65 35 59
Rank change year-on-year -30 +24 -32
Permanent jobs citing Kubernetes 606 943 1,456
As % of all permanent jobs with remote/hybrid work options 3.48% 7.22% 4.59%
As % of the Systems Management category 38.92% 51.96% 38.77%
Number of salaries quoted 393 648 1,218
10th Percentile £52,500 £51,425 £48,750
25th Percentile £58,750 £62,500 £57,625
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £70,079 £80,000 £75,000
Median % change year-on-year -12.40% +6.67% -
75th Percentile £87,500 £112,500 £91,250
90th Percentile £109,500 £138,750 £112,500
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 1,557 1,815 3,755
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 8.95% 13.90% 11.85%
Number of salaries quoted 1,070 1,368 3,062
10th Percentile £37,500 £42,000 £37,500
25th Percentile £48,165 £52,500 £47,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £70,000 £64,000
Median % change year-on-year -7.14% +9.38% -7.84%
75th Percentile £82,500 £91,000 £83,750
90th Percentile £95,000 £115,000 £102,500
UK median annual salary £65,000 £70,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year -7.14% +16.67% -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 12 April 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 11 (1.82%) Apache Spark
2 10 (1.65%) Apache Airflow
3 9 (1.49%) OpenStack
4 5 (0.83%) Anypoint
4 5 (0.83%) Apache Pulsar
5 4 (0.66%) ArcGIS
5 4 (0.66%) GeoServer
5 4 (0.66%) Microsoft Exchange
5 4 (0.66%) Oracle Spatial
6 3 (0.50%) Apache
6 3 (0.50%) Confluence
7 2 (0.33%) Camunda
7 2 (0.33%) nginx
8 1 (0.17%) Cloud Foundry
8 1 (0.17%) SAS
8 1 (0.17%) SharePoint
Applications
1 4 (0.66%) Weka
2 2 (0.33%) Chatbot
3 1 (0.17%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 5 (0.83%) Shopify
2 1 (0.17%) Actimize
Cloud Services
1 382 (63.04%) AWS
2 260 (42.90%) Azure
3 189 (31.19%) GCP
4 125 (20.63%) Amazon EKS
5 110 (18.15%) GitHub
6 83 (13.70%) SaaS
7 77 (12.71%) GitHub Actions
8 65 (10.73%) Serverless
9 46 (7.59%) AWS CloudFormation
9 46 (7.59%) Azure DevOps
10 41 (6.77%) Amazon S3
11 40 (6.60%) Azure AKS
12 39 (6.44%) Amazon CloudWatch
13 35 (5.78%) Amazon EC2
13 35 (5.78%) AWS Lambda
14 34 (5.61%) OpenShift
15 26 (4.29%) Amazon ECS
15 26 (4.29%) Datadog
16 19 (3.14%) Pulumi
17 16 (2.64%) PaaS
Communications & Networking
1 44 (7.26%) Broadband
2 38 (6.27%) Firewall
3 18 (2.97%) VPN
4 14 (2.31%) DNS
5 9 (1.49%) DHCP
5 9 (1.49%) Network Security
6 8 (1.32%) TCP/IP
7 4 (0.66%) AMQP
7 4 (0.66%) Intrusion Detection
7 4 (0.66%) MQTT
7 4 (0.66%) SD-WAN
7 4 (0.66%) WAN
8 3 (0.50%) HTTP
8 3 (0.50%) Internet
8 3 (0.50%) RTP
8 3 (0.50%) SCCP
8 3 (0.50%) Unified Communications
8 3 (0.50%) VLAN
8 3 (0.50%) VoIP
8 3 (0.50%) Wireshark
Database & Business Intelligence
1 72 (11.88%) PostgreSQL
2 64 (10.56%) NoSQL
3 41 (6.77%) MongoDB
3 41 (6.77%) SQL Server
4 40 (6.60%) Relational Database
5 29 (4.79%) Amazon RDS
6 19 (3.14%) MySQL
6 19 (3.14%) RDBMS
7 12 (1.98%) Azure SQL Database
8 10 (1.65%) Elasticsearch
8 10 (1.65%) Flink
9 9 (1.49%) BigQuery
10 8 (1.32%) Amazon Aurora
11 7 (1.16%) Redis
12 5 (0.83%) Power BI
13 4 (0.66%) Data Warehouse
13 4 (0.66%) GIS
13 4 (0.66%) QGIS
14 3 (0.50%) DynamoDB
14 3 (0.50%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 83 (13.70%) TeamCity
2 74 (12.21%) Jenkins
3 70 (11.55%) Git
4 62 (10.23%) GitLab
5 19 (3.14%) Jaeger
6 14 (2.31%) Cucumber
7 12 (1.98%) Selenium
7 12 (1.98%) Visual Studio Code
8 10 (1.65%) JMeter
8 10 (1.65%) JUnit
9 9 (1.49%) JIRA
9 9 (1.49%) SonarQube
10 6 (0.99%) Bitbucket
10 6 (0.99%) CircleCI
10 6 (0.99%) Locust
10 6 (0.99%) Visual Studio
11 5 (0.83%) Robot Framework
12 4 (0.66%) MLflow
13 3 (0.50%) Eclipse
13 3 (0.50%) REST Assured
General
1 146 (24.09%) Finance
2 139 (22.94%) Social Skills
3 100 (16.50%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 97 (16.01%) Banking
5 96 (15.84%) Retail
6 90 (14.85%) Law
7 55 (9.08%) Financial Institution
8 46 (7.59%) Back Office
9 36 (5.94%) Public Sector
10 25 (4.13%) Telecoms
11 19 (3.14%) Analytical Skills
12 12 (1.98%) Front Office
13 10 (1.65%) Legal
14 8 (1.32%) Organisational Skills
15 7 (1.16%) Military
16 5 (0.83%) Advertising
16 5 (0.83%) Esports
16 5 (0.83%) Manufacturing
17 4 (0.66%) Aviation
17 4 (0.66%) Tech for Good
Job Titles
1 196 (32.34%) Senior
2 125 (20.63%) Software Engineer
3 117 (19.31%) Lead
4 86 (14.19%) Developer
4 86 (14.19%) DevOps Engineer
5 61 (10.07%) Cloud Engineer
6 53 (8.75%) Platform Engineer
7 47 (7.76%) Azure Engineer
8 46 (7.59%) Senior Software Engineer
9 37 (6.11%) Senior Developer
10 35 (5.78%) Python Engineer
11 34 (5.61%) Infrastructure Engineer
12 33 (5.45%) Java Engineer
13 31 (5.12%) AWS Engineer
14 29 (4.79%) Cloud Platform Engineer
15 26 (4.29%) Java Software Engineer
15 26 (4.29%) Lead DevOps
15 26 (4.29%) Lead Software Engineer
15 26 (4.29%) Senior DevOps
16 24 (3.96%) Java Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 69 (11.39%) .NET
2 68 (11.22%) Spring
3 66 (10.89%) Kafka
4 64 (10.56%) React
5 56 (9.24%) Spring Boot
6 51 (8.42%) RESTful
7 49 (8.09%) Elastic Stack
8 47 (7.76%) REST
9 36 (5.94%) Django
10 35 (5.78%) Node.js
11 27 (4.46%) .NET Core
12 25 (4.13%) Akka
12 25 (4.13%) Flask
13 23 (3.80%) FastAPI
14 21 (3.47%) gRPC
15 20 (3.30%) OAuth
15 20 (3.30%) OpenTelemetry
15 20 (3.30%) RabbitMQ
16 19 (3.14%) AngularJS
17 14 (2.31%) JSON
Miscellaneous
1 189 (31.19%) Cloud Native
2 45 (7.43%) Product Ownership
3 43 (7.10%) Distributed Systems
4 25 (4.13%) Blog
5 23 (3.80%) Over-the-Top Content
5 23 (3.80%) Video\Live Streaming
6 19 (3.14%) Private Cloud
7 17 (2.81%) Hybrid Cloud
7 17 (2.81%) Onboarding
8 16 (2.64%) Data Centre
8 16 (2.64%) Legacy Systems
9 14 (2.31%) AI Agents
9 14 (2.31%) Public Cloud
10 12 (1.98%) Security Posture
11 11 (1.82%) Virtual Team
12 7 (1.16%) Fixed Income
12 7 (1.16%) Management Information System
13 6 (0.99%) CUDA
13 6 (0.99%) Distributed Architecture
13 6 (0.99%) Low-Code
Operating Systems
1 138 (22.77%) Linux
2 38 (6.27%) Windows
3 33 (5.45%) Unix
4 23 (3.80%) Android
5 15 (2.48%) Windows Server
6 14 (2.31%) Apple iOS
6 14 (2.31%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 14 (2.31%) Ubuntu
7 11 (1.82%) CentOS
8 8 (1.32%) VMS
9 4 (0.66%) Debian
10 3 (0.50%) Windows Server 2016
11 1 (0.17%) Mac OS
Processes & Methodologies
1 380 (62.71%) CI/CD
2 345 (56.93%) DevOps
3 234 (38.61%) Containerisation
4 224 (36.96%) Agile
5 215 (35.48%) Infrastructure as Code
6 175 (28.88%) Microservices
7 169 (27.89%) Software Engineering
8 130 (21.45%) Test Automation
9 124 (20.46%) Mentoring
10 123 (20.30%) Continuous Improvement
11 97 (16.01%) Platform Engineering
12 94 (15.51%) Clean Code
12 94 (15.51%) Problem-Solving
13 92 (15.18%) Observability
14 87 (14.36%) Deployment Automation
15 83 (13.70%) AI
16 77 (12.71%) Site Reliability Engineering
17 71 (11.72%) TDD
18 69 (11.39%) Infrastructure Engineering
19 67 (11.06%) High Availability
Programming Languages
1 252 (41.58%) Python
2 194 (32.01%) Java
3 97 (16.01%) Go
4 93 (15.35%) JavaScript
5 90 (14.85%) SQL
6 75 (12.38%) Bash
7 59 (9.74%) C#
8 48 (7.92%) PowerShell
9 47 (7.76%) TypeScript
10 30 (4.95%) Bicep
10 30 (4.95%) Scala
11 14 (2.31%) C++
12 8 (1.32%) Delphi
13 6 (0.99%) PHP
13 6 (0.99%) Rust
13 6 (0.99%) Shell Script
14 5 (0.83%) C
15 4 (0.66%) Perl
16 3 (0.50%) Korn
17 2 (0.33%) Ruby
Qualifications
1 80 (13.20%) Degree
2 75 (12.38%) Security Cleared
3 57 (9.41%) SC Cleared
4 49 (8.09%) Computer Science Degree
5 38 (6.27%) Azure Certification
6 33 (5.45%) AWS Certification
7 17 (2.81%) DV Cleared
8 8 (1.32%) CREST Certified
8 8 (1.32%) OSCP
9 6 (0.99%) Microsoft Certification
10 5 (0.83%) CISSP
10 5 (0.83%) GIAC
10 5 (0.83%) ISACA
10 5 (0.83%) SANS
11 3 (0.50%) LPIC
12 2 (0.33%) ISTQB
12 2 (0.33%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
12 2 (0.33%) ITIL Certification
12 2 (0.33%) Linux+ Certification
12 2 (0.33%) Master's Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 37 (6.11%) QA
2 23 (3.80%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 18 (2.97%) PCI DSS
4 17 (2.81%) NIST
5 12 (1.98%) Accessibility
6 11 (1.82%) GDPR
6 11 (1.82%) SOC 2
7 9 (1.49%) Data Quality
8 5 (0.83%) WCAG
9 4 (0.66%) GRC
10 3 (0.50%) ISO 9001
10 3 (0.50%) SLA
11 2 (0.33%) ECSS
11 2 (0.33%) Software Quality Assurance
12 1 (0.17%) HIPAA
12 1 (0.17%) ISO/IEC 42001
12 1 (0.17%) MiFID
System Software
1 357 (58.91%) Docker
2 27 (4.46%) Active Directory
3 15 (2.48%) VMware Infrastructure
4 13 (2.15%) Virtual Machines
5 8 (1.32%) VMware NSX
6 5 (0.83%) Firmware
7 4 (0.66%) Hyper-V
7 4 (0.66%) Slurm Workload Manager
7 4 (0.66%) vSphere
8 3 (0.50%) Citrix Hypervisor
8 3 (0.50%) Kamailio
9 1 (0.17%) KVM
9 1 (0.17%) QEMU
9 1 (0.17%) vCloud
9 1 (0.17%) Virtual Desktop
9 1 (0.17%) VMware ESXi
9 1 (0.17%) Xen
Systems Management
1 317 (52.31%) Terraform
2 142 (23.43%) Grafana
3 125 (20.63%) Ansible
4 85 (14.03%) Prometheus
5 45 (7.43%) Argo
6 19 (3.14%) Kustomize
7 17 (2.81%) Puppet
8 8 (1.32%) Istio
8 8 (1.32%) Progress Chef
9 7 (1.16%) Proxmox
9 7 (1.16%) ZABBIX
10 6 (0.99%) Packer
11 5 (0.83%) Active Directory Federation Services
11 5 (0.83%) Kibana
11 5 (0.83%) Microsoft Intune
12 4 (0.66%) Cilium
12 4 (0.66%) logstash
13 2 (0.33%) FortiGate
13 2 (0.33%) MIIS
13 2 (0.33%) Nagios
Vendors
1 67 (11.06%) Microsoft
2 36 (5.94%) Google
3 33 (5.45%) VMware
4 24 (3.96%) Oracle
5 18 (2.97%) Red Hat
6 17 (2.81%) Splunk
7 10 (1.65%) Cisco
7 10 (1.65%) Dell
8 8 (1.32%) Confluent
8 8 (1.32%) Databricks
8 8 (1.32%) Okta
8 8 (1.32%) Palo Alto
9 7 (1.16%) EMC
9 7 (1.16%) F5
9 7 (1.16%) SAP
10 6 (0.99%) Fortinet
10 6 (0.99%) IBM
10 6 (0.99%) ServiceNow
11 5 (0.83%) Ericsson
11 5 (0.83%) Software AG