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 14 February 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
14 Feb 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 66 34 49
Rank change year-on-year -32 +15 -22
Permanent jobs citing Kubernetes 573 1,194 1,508
As % of all permanent jobs with remote/hybrid work options 3.53% 7.62% 5.42%
As % of the Systems Management category 37.21% 52.14% 41.94%
Number of salaries quoted 391 662 1,274
10th Percentile £51,250 £52,500 £47,500
25th Percentile £57,500 £62,500 £57,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £72,500 £77,500 £72,500
Median % change year-on-year -6.45% +6.90% -3.33%
75th Percentile £87,500 £108,667 £90,000
90th Percentile £110,000 £130,000 £110,000
UK median annual salary £75,000 £80,000 £75,000
% change year-on-year -6.25% +6.67% -3.23%

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 1,540 2,290 3,596
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 9.49% 14.61% 12.94%
Number of salaries quoted 1,064 1,385 3,069
10th Percentile £37,000 £42,500 £38,750
25th Percentile £46,446 £52,500 £48,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £64,741 £70,000 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year -7.51% +7.69% -4.83%
75th Percentile £82,500 £91,000 £83,750
90th Percentile £96,750 £115,000 £97,500
UK median annual salary £62,500 £70,000 £62,500
% change year-on-year -10.71% +12.00% -7.41%

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 14 February 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 12 (2.09%) Apache Spark
2 8 (1.40%) Apache Airflow
3 7 (1.22%) Apache
4 6 (1.05%) OpenStack
5 5 (0.87%) Anypoint
5 5 (0.87%) Apache Pulsar
6 4 (0.70%) ArcGIS
6 4 (0.70%) GeoServer
6 4 (0.70%) IIS
6 4 (0.70%) Microsoft Exchange
6 4 (0.70%) Oracle Spatial
7 3 (0.52%) Confluence
7 3 (0.52%) nginx
8 1 (0.17%) Camunda
8 1 (0.17%) SAS
8 1 (0.17%) SharePoint
Applications
1 4 (0.70%) Weka
2 2 (0.35%) Chatbot
3 1 (0.17%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 5 (0.87%) Shopify
2 1 (0.17%) Actimize
Cloud Services
1 361 (63.00%) AWS
2 253 (44.15%) Azure
3 167 (29.14%) GCP
4 122 (21.29%) GitHub
5 111 (19.37%) Amazon EKS
6 89 (15.53%) GitHub Actions
7 76 (13.26%) SaaS
8 65 (11.34%) Azure DevOps
9 59 (10.30%) Serverless
10 53 (9.25%) AWS CloudFormation
11 49 (8.55%) Amazon CloudWatch
12 44 (7.68%) Azure AKS
13 42 (7.33%) AWS Lambda
14 38 (6.63%) Amazon S3
15 30 (5.24%) Amazon ECS
16 28 (4.89%) Amazon EC2
17 27 (4.71%) OpenShift
18 23 (4.01%) Datadog
19 20 (3.49%) Pulumi
20 16 (2.79%) Azure Monitor
Communications & Networking
1 43 (7.50%) Broadband
2 37 (6.46%) Firewall
3 21 (3.66%) VPN
4 12 (2.09%) DNS
5 11 (1.92%) Network Security
6 7 (1.22%) WAN
7 5 (0.87%) DHCP
7 5 (0.87%) SD-WAN
8 4 (0.70%) AMQP
8 4 (0.70%) Intrusion Detection
8 4 (0.70%) LAN
8 4 (0.70%) TCP/IP
9 3 (0.52%) HTTP
9 3 (0.52%) Internet
9 3 (0.52%) Kerberos
9 3 (0.52%) SCCP
9 3 (0.52%) Unified Communications
9 3 (0.52%) VLAN
9 3 (0.52%) VoIP
9 3 (0.52%) Wireshark
Database & Business Intelligence
1 70 (12.22%) PostgreSQL
2 57 (9.95%) NoSQL
3 39 (6.81%) SQL Server
4 38 (6.63%) MongoDB
5 35 (6.11%) Relational Database
6 23 (4.01%) Amazon RDS
7 19 (3.32%) RDBMS
8 17 (2.97%) MySQL
9 11 (1.92%) BigQuery
10 10 (1.75%) Flink
11 8 (1.40%) Amazon Aurora
11 8 (1.40%) Redis
12 7 (1.22%) Azure SQL Database
13 6 (1.05%) Data Warehouse
14 5 (0.87%) DynamoDB
14 5 (0.87%) Elasticsearch
14 5 (0.87%) Power BI
15 4 (0.70%) Big Data
15 4 (0.70%) Data Lake
15 4 (0.70%) QGIS
Development Applications
1 75 (13.09%) TeamCity
2 74 (12.91%) Jenkins
3 52 (9.08%) Git
4 50 (8.73%) GitLab
5 19 (3.32%) Jaeger
6 10 (1.75%) Selenium
7 9 (1.57%) Cucumber
7 9 (1.57%) JIRA
7 9 (1.57%) JUnit
8 8 (1.40%) SonarQube
9 6 (1.05%) Bitbucket
9 6 (1.05%) CircleCI
10 5 (0.87%) JMeter
10 5 (0.87%) Robot Framework
10 5 (0.87%) Visual Studio
11 4 (0.70%) Visual Studio Code
12 3 (0.52%) Eclipse
12 3 (0.52%) MLflow
12 3 (0.52%) REST Assured
13 2 (0.35%) Maven
General
1 128 (22.34%) Finance
2 117 (20.42%) Social Skills
3 85 (14.83%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 84 (14.66%) Retail
5 81 (14.14%) Law
6 79 (13.79%) Banking
7 55 (9.60%) Financial Institution
8 41 (7.16%) Back Office
9 33 (5.76%) Public Sector
10 25 (4.36%) Telecoms
11 16 (2.79%) Analytical Skills
12 12 (2.09%) Front Office
13 7 (1.22%) Legal
13 7 (1.22%) Military
14 5 (0.87%) Esports
14 5 (0.87%) Tech for Good
15 4 (0.70%) Aviation
15 4 (0.70%) Manufacturing
16 3 (0.52%) Games
16 3 (0.52%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 186 (32.46%) Senior
2 126 (21.99%) Software Engineer
3 99 (17.28%) Lead
4 79 (13.79%) Developer
5 76 (13.26%) DevOps Engineer
6 72 (12.57%) Cloud Engineer
7 48 (8.38%) Platform Engineer
8 45 (7.85%) Senior Software Engineer
9 37 (6.46%) Azure Engineer
10 32 (5.58%) Infrastructure Engineer
11 31 (5.41%) Java Engineer
12 30 (5.24%) Senior Developer
13 27 (4.71%) AWS Engineer
14 26 (4.54%) Java Software Engineer
15 24 (4.19%) Full-Stack Engineer
16 23 (4.01%) Architect
16 23 (4.01%) Cloud Platform Engineer
17 22 (3.84%) Lead Cloud Engineer
17 22 (3.84%) Lead DevOps
17 22 (3.84%) Software Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 75 (13.09%) React
2 73 (12.74%) Spring
3 71 (12.39%) .NET
4 64 (11.17%) Spring Boot
5 57 (9.95%) Kafka
6 48 (8.38%) Elastic Stack
7 44 (7.68%) RESTful
8 38 (6.63%) REST
9 34 (5.93%) Node.js
10 26 (4.54%) .NET Core
10 26 (4.54%) Django
11 25 (4.36%) Akka
11 25 (4.36%) AngularJS
12 23 (4.01%) gRPC
13 21 (3.66%) RabbitMQ
14 20 (3.49%) Flask
15 19 (3.32%) OpenTelemetry
16 16 (2.79%) Web Services
17 14 (2.44%) .NET Framework
18 13 (2.27%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 185 (32.29%) Cloud Native
2 48 (8.38%) Distributed Systems
3 42 (7.33%) Product Ownership
4 23 (4.01%) Blog
4 23 (4.01%) Over-the-Top Content
4 23 (4.01%) Video\Live Streaming
5 21 (3.66%) Onboarding
6 16 (2.79%) Legacy Systems
7 13 (2.27%) Data Centre
8 12 (2.09%) AI Agents
8 12 (2.09%) Security Posture
9 11 (1.92%) Virtual Team
10 10 (1.75%) Private Cloud
11 9 (1.57%) Hybrid Cloud
12 7 (1.22%) Distributed Architecture
12 7 (1.22%) Management Information System
12 7 (1.22%) Public Cloud
13 6 (1.05%) Algorithms
13 6 (1.05%) Fixed Income
13 6 (1.05%) Low-Code
Operating Systems
1 138 (24.08%) Linux
2 45 (7.85%) Windows
3 36 (6.28%) Unix
4 25 (4.36%) Android
5 15 (2.62%) Apple iOS
6 14 (2.44%) Ubuntu
7 12 (2.09%) Windows Server
8 9 (1.57%) VMS
9 7 (1.22%) CentOS
9 7 (1.22%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
10 3 (0.52%) Debian
11 2 (0.35%) Windows Server 2016
11 2 (0.35%) Windows Server 2019
12 1 (0.17%) Rocky
Processes & Methodologies
1 356 (62.13%) CI/CD
2 336 (58.64%) DevOps
3 227 (39.62%) Containerisation
4 196 (34.21%) Infrastructure as Code
5 189 (32.98%) Agile
6 165 (28.80%) Microservices
7 164 (28.62%) Software Engineering
8 110 (19.20%) Mentoring
9 109 (19.02%) Continuous Improvement
10 106 (18.50%) Test Automation
11 94 (16.40%) Problem-Solving
12 85 (14.83%) AI
13 83 (14.49%) Observability
13 83 (14.49%) Platform Engineering
14 78 (13.61%) Deployment Automation
15 77 (13.44%) Clean Code
16 76 (13.26%) Infrastructure Engineering
17 69 (12.04%) High Availability
18 64 (11.17%) Cloud Security
19 62 (10.82%) Full-Stack Development
Programming Languages
1 231 (40.31%) Python
2 191 (33.33%) Java
3 98 (17.10%) JavaScript
4 88 (15.36%) Go
5 82 (14.31%) SQL
6 77 (13.44%) Bash
7 54 (9.42%) C#
8 52 (9.08%) TypeScript
9 48 (8.38%) PowerShell
10 44 (7.68%) Bicep
11 26 (4.54%) Scala
12 14 (2.44%) C++
13 8 (1.40%) Delphi
14 5 (0.87%) PHP
14 5 (0.87%) Shell Script
15 4 (0.70%) C
16 3 (0.52%) Kotlin
16 3 (0.52%) Perl
16 3 (0.52%) Rust
17 2 (0.35%) Ruby
Qualifications
1 81 (14.14%) Security Cleared
2 64 (11.17%) Degree
2 64 (11.17%) SC Cleared
3 49 (8.55%) AWS Certification
4 42 (7.33%) Computer Science Degree
5 34 (5.93%) Azure Certification
6 15 (2.62%) DV Cleared
7 7 (1.22%) Microsoft Certification
8 6 (1.05%) CREST Certified
8 6 (1.05%) OSCP
9 4 (0.70%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
9 4 (0.70%) CISSP
10 3 (0.52%) LPIC
10 3 (0.52%) Master's Degree
11 2 (0.35%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
11 2 (0.35%) AWS Certified Developer
11 2 (0.35%) BPSS Clearance
11 2 (0.35%) ISTQB Advanced Certification
11 2 (0.35%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
11 2 (0.35%) SANS
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 31 (5.41%) QA
2 23 (4.01%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 19 (3.32%) PCI DSS
4 16 (2.79%) GDPR
5 12 (2.09%) NIST
5 12 (2.09%) SOC 2
6 10 (1.75%) Data Quality
7 5 (0.87%) Accessibility
8 4 (0.70%) GRC
9 3 (0.52%) SLA
10 2 (0.35%) ECSS
10 2 (0.35%) HIPAA
10 2 (0.35%) Software Quality Assurance
11 1 (0.17%) MiFID
System Software
1 338 (58.99%) Docker
2 17 (2.97%) Active Directory
3 9 (1.57%) VMware NSX
4 8 (1.40%) VMware Infrastructure
4 8 (1.40%) vSphere
5 5 (0.87%) Virtual Machines
6 4 (0.70%) Hyper-V
7 3 (0.52%) Kamailio
8 2 (0.35%) NFS
8 2 (0.35%) Virtual Servers
9 1 (0.17%) Firmware
9 1 (0.17%) vCloud
9 1 (0.17%) Virtual Desktop
9 1 (0.17%) VMware ESXi
Systems Management
1 289 (50.44%) Terraform
2 144 (25.13%) Grafana
3 122 (21.29%) Ansible
4 87 (15.18%) Prometheus
5 47 (8.20%) Argo
6 20 (3.49%) Kustomize
7 12 (2.09%) Puppet
8 8 (1.40%) Progress Chef
9 5 (0.87%) Cilium
9 5 (0.87%) Proxmox
10 4 (0.70%) logstash
10 4 (0.70%) ZABBIX
11 3 (0.52%) Kibana
11 3 (0.52%) Microsoft Intune
12 2 (0.35%) FortiGate
12 2 (0.35%) Packer
13 1 (0.17%) Istio
13 1 (0.17%) ITRS Geneos
13 1 (0.17%) Nagios
13 1 (0.17%) vCenter Server
Vendors
1 47 (8.20%) Microsoft
2 36 (6.28%) Google
3 24 (4.19%) VMware
4 22 (3.84%) Oracle
5 15 (2.62%) Red Hat
5 15 (2.62%) Splunk
6 10 (1.75%) Dell
7 8 (1.40%) Databricks
8 7 (1.22%) SAP
9 6 (1.05%) Cisco
10 5 (0.87%) Epicor
10 5 (0.87%) Ericsson
10 5 (0.87%) Fortinet
10 5 (0.87%) IBM
10 5 (0.87%) Infor
10 5 (0.87%) Informatica
10 5 (0.87%) Nokia
10 5 (0.87%) Software AG
10 5 (0.87%) Talend
10 5 (0.87%) TIBCO