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 3 October 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
3 Oct 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 79 80 63
Rank change year-on-year +1 -17 -34
Permanent jobs citing Kubernetes 782 719 957
As % of all permanent jobs with remote/hybrid work options 3.14% 4.27% 4.28%
As % of the Systems Management category 45.68% 42.57% 42.08%
Number of salaries quoted 515 338 587
10th Percentile £45,800 £48,750 £53,750
25th Percentile £52,500 £58,750 £61,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £71,250 £76,500
Median % change year-on-year -8.77% -6.86% +2.00%
75th Percentile £85,000 £87,500 £95,000
90th Percentile £97,500 £110,000 £115,000
UK median annual salary £70,000 £75,000 £77,500
% change year-on-year -6.67% -3.23% +3.33%

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 1,712 1,689 2,274
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 6.88% 10.04% 10.17%
Number of salaries quoted 1,229 865 1,304
10th Percentile £33,950 £35,000 £36,500
25th Percentile £46,250 £45,000 £47,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £65,000 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year -7.69% - -3.70%
75th Percentile £75,026 £82,500 £86,250
90th Percentile £95,000 £98,450 £105,000
UK median annual salary £60,000 £60,000 £65,000
% change year-on-year - -7.69% -

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 3 October 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 (1.28%) Apache Spark
2 7 (0.90%) Oracle SOA Suite
3 6 (0.77%) Apache Airflow
3 6 (0.77%) Confluence
3 6 (0.77%) IIS
3 6 (0.77%) nginx
4 5 (0.64%) Camunda
5 4 (0.51%) Apache
6 3 (0.38%) ArcGIS
6 3 (0.38%) GeoServer
6 3 (0.38%) Oracle Spatial
6 3 (0.38%) WebLogic
7 2 (0.26%) Ethereum
7 2 (0.26%) Hedera
7 2 (0.26%) OpenStack
8 1 (0.13%) Cloud Foundry
8 1 (0.13%) JBoss
8 1 (0.13%) Microsoft Exchange
8 1 (0.13%) Oracle Coherence
8 1 (0.13%) Red Hat Fuse
Applications
1 12 (1.53%) Chatbot
2 1 (0.13%) Lightworks
Business Applications
1 2 (0.26%) Distributed Ledger
1 2 (0.26%) SAP S/4HANA
2 1 (0.13%) Actimize
2 1 (0.13%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
Cloud Services
1 445 (56.91%) AWS
2 417 (53.32%) Azure
3 233 (29.80%) GCP
4 204 (26.09%) GitHub
5 135 (17.26%) GitHub Copilot
6 104 (13.30%) Amazon EKS
6 104 (13.30%) SaaS
7 72 (9.21%) Azure AI
8 49 (6.27%) GitHub Actions
8 49 (6.27%) Serverless
9 47 (6.01%) Azure AKS
9 47 (6.01%) Azure DevOps
10 46 (5.88%) AWS CloudFormation
11 40 (5.12%) OpenShift
12 26 (3.32%) Amazon EC2
13 22 (2.81%) Azure Service Bus
13 22 (2.81%) Virtual Private Cloud
14 21 (2.69%) Google Kubernetes Engine
14 21 (2.69%) PaaS
15 20 (2.56%) IaaS
Communications & Networking
1 30 (3.84%) VPN
2 25 (3.20%) Firewall
3 21 (2.69%) DNS
3 21 (2.69%) Internet
4 17 (2.17%) Broadband
4 17 (2.17%) TCP/IP
5 15 (1.92%) Network Security
6 14 (1.79%) BGP
7 11 (1.41%) VLAN
8 6 (0.77%) OSPF
8 6 (0.77%) VXLAN
9 5 (0.64%) DHCP
10 4 (0.51%) HTTP
10 4 (0.51%) WAN
11 2 (0.26%) SAN
11 2 (0.26%) Unified Communications
11 2 (0.26%) WireGuard
12 1 (0.13%) iSCSI
12 1 (0.13%) MQTT
12 1 (0.13%) Remote Desktop
Database & Business Intelligence
1 162 (20.72%) MongoDB
2 139 (17.77%) Azure SQL Database
3 86 (11.00%) PostgreSQL
4 43 (5.50%) Elasticsearch
5 38 (4.86%) NoSQL
6 33 (4.22%) Amazon RDS
7 27 (3.45%) SQL Server
8 24 (3.07%) Relational Database
9 23 (2.94%) MySQL
10 11 (1.41%) Data Warehouse
11 7 (0.90%) BigQuery
11 7 (0.90%) Redis
12 6 (0.77%) Delta Lake
12 6 (0.77%) DynamoDB
12 6 (0.77%) Power BI
13 5 (0.64%) Metadata
13 5 (0.64%) Tableau
14 4 (0.51%) Apache Cassandra
14 4 (0.51%) Big Data
14 4 (0.51%) DocumentDB
Development Applications
1 87 (11.13%) TeamCity
2 84 (10.74%) Git
3 56 (7.16%) Jenkins
4 43 (5.50%) GitLab
5 31 (3.96%) JUnit
6 20 (2.56%) Mockito
7 19 (2.43%) JIRA
8 18 (2.30%) Maven
9 16 (2.05%) Selenium
10 12 (1.53%) Postman
11 10 (1.28%) Atlassian Bamboo
11 10 (1.28%) Bitbucket
12 8 (1.02%) Cucumber
12 8 (1.02%) SonarQube
13 6 (0.77%) Gatling
13 6 (0.77%) Octopus Deploy
14 5 (0.64%) Subversion
14 5 (0.64%) Visual Studio Code
15 4 (0.51%) Cypress.io
15 4 (0.51%) Vagrant
General
1 201 (25.70%) Finance
2 145 (18.54%) Social Skills
3 116 (14.83%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 112 (14.32%) Retail
5 108 (13.81%) Law
6 106 (13.55%) Banking
7 73 (9.34%) Public Sector
8 67 (8.57%) Financial Institution
9 65 (8.31%) Back Office
10 33 (4.22%) Advertising
11 31 (3.96%) Analytical Skills
12 20 (2.56%) Aerospace
13 19 (2.43%) Marketing
14 11 (1.41%) Games
15 9 (1.15%) Legal
16 6 (0.77%) Telecoms
17 4 (0.51%) Front Office
18 3 (0.38%) Manufacturing
18 3 (0.38%) Military
18 3 (0.38%) Organisational Skills
Job Titles
1 221 (28.26%) Senior
2 218 (27.88%) Developer
3 148 (18.93%) Software Engineer
4 130 (16.62%) .NET Developer
5 78 (9.97%) DevOps Engineer
6 69 (8.82%) Lead
7 54 (6.91%) Cloud Engineer
8 50 (6.39%) Architect
9 43 (5.50%) Platform Engineer
10 42 (5.37%) Senior Developer
11 38 (4.86%) Azure Engineer
11 38 (4.86%) Senior Software Engineer
12 35 (4.48%) Java Engineer
13 31 (3.96%) Java Developer
14 27 (3.45%) Lead Software Engineer
15 26 (3.32%) Senior DevOps
15 26 (3.32%) Team Leader
16 25 (3.20%) Cloud Platform Engineer
16 25 (3.20%) Full-Stack Developer
17 23 (2.94%) Java Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 304 (38.87%) Terraform
2 199 (25.45%) .NET
3 136 (17.39%) .NET Core
3 136 (17.39%) ASP.NET
4 132 (16.88%) ASP.NET Core
5 95 (12.15%) Node.js
6 89 (11.38%) React
7 80 (10.23%) CSS
8 79 (10.10%) AngularJS
8 79 (10.10%) HTML
9 76 (9.72%) Spring
10 70 (8.95%) ML.NET
11 66 (8.44%) Vue
12 60 (7.67%) REST
13 54 (6.91%) RESTful
14 53 (6.78%) Kafka
15 51 (6.52%) Spring Boot
16 28 (3.58%) Blazor
16 28 (3.58%) OpenTelemetry
17 18 (2.30%) ARM Templates
Miscellaneous
1 230 (29.41%) Cloud Native
2 71 (9.08%) Distributed Systems
3 61 (7.80%) Product Ownership
4 36 (4.60%) Blog
5 27 (3.45%) Greenfield Project
6 19 (2.43%) Digital TV
7 18 (2.30%) AI Agents
8 14 (1.79%) Legacy Systems
8 14 (1.79%) Security Posture
9 13 (1.66%) Data Centre
9 13 (1.66%) Management Information System
10 12 (1.53%) Enterprise Software
10 12 (1.53%) Self-Motivation
11 11 (1.41%) Public Cloud
12 10 (1.28%) Replication
13 9 (1.15%) Hybrid Cloud
13 9 (1.15%) IoT
14 8 (1.02%) Cyber Kill Chain
14 8 (1.02%) Mobile App
14 8 (1.02%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 127 (16.24%) Linux
2 40 (5.12%) Windows
3 16 (2.05%) Windows Server
4 15 (1.92%) Ubuntu
5 11 (1.41%) Apple iOS
6 8 (1.02%) Android
7 5 (0.64%) Mac OS
8 4 (0.51%) Debian
9 3 (0.38%) CentOS
9 3 (0.38%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
10 1 (0.13%) Unix
10 1 (0.13%) VMS
10 1 (0.13%) Windows Server 2016
Processes & Methodologies
1 522 (66.75%) CI/CD
2 300 (38.36%) DevOps
3 284 (36.32%) Agile
4 275 (35.17%) Microservices
5 227 (29.03%) Software Engineering
6 223 (28.52%) Mentoring
7 222 (28.39%) AI
8 210 (26.85%) Infrastructure as Code
9 206 (26.34%) Full-Stack Development
10 190 (24.30%) Containerisation
11 151 (19.31%) Test Automation
12 143 (18.29%) Continuous Improvement
13 139 (17.77%) Observability
14 133 (17.01%) Problem-Solving
15 124 (15.86%) Machine Learning
16 113 (14.45%) Clean Code
17 108 (13.81%) TDD
18 105 (13.43%) Fintech
19 102 (13.04%) Platform Engineering
20 94 (12.02%) Deployment Automation
Programming Languages
1 243 (31.07%) Python
2 235 (30.05%) SQL
3 230 (29.41%) Java
4 206 (26.34%) C#
5 119 (15.22%) TypeScript
6 101 (12.92%) JavaScript
7 94 (12.02%) Bash
8 74 (9.46%) PowerShell
9 57 (7.29%) Go
10 24 (3.07%) Bicep
11 15 (1.92%) Scala
12 14 (1.79%) PL/SQL
13 9 (1.15%) Kotlin
14 8 (1.02%) PHP
14 8 (1.02%) Ruby
15 6 (0.77%) Groovy
16 5 (0.64%) C
16 5 (0.64%) Shell Script
17 4 (0.51%) C++
17 4 (0.51%) Rust
Qualifications
1 126 (16.11%) Security Cleared
2 103 (13.17%) SC Cleared
3 52 (6.65%) Degree
4 33 (4.22%) Azure Certification
5 25 (3.20%) Computer Science Degree
6 19 (2.43%) AWS Certification
7 13 (1.66%) DV Cleared
8 10 (1.28%) CISSP
9 9 (1.15%) CISM
10 8 (1.02%) BPSS Clearance
10 8 (1.02%) GIAC
11 5 (0.64%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
11 5 (0.64%) CEH
11 5 (0.64%) CREST Certified
11 5 (0.64%) OSCP
12 4 (0.51%) (ISC)2 CCSP
12 4 (0.51%) Cisco Certification
12 4 (0.51%) Microsoft Certification
12 4 (0.51%) OCP
12 4 (0.51%) Oracle Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 28 (3.58%) QA
2 24 (3.07%) NIST
3 22 (2.81%) Accessibility
4 19 (2.43%) PCI DSS
5 15 (1.92%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 8 (1.02%) Data Quality
6 8 (1.02%) SOC 2
6 8 (1.02%) WCAG
7 6 (0.77%) Cyber Essentials
8 4 (0.51%) GDPR
8 4 (0.51%) NCSC
9 1 (0.13%) California Consumer Privacy Act
9 1 (0.13%) HIPAA
9 1 (0.13%) ISO 22301
9 1 (0.13%) PSD2
9 1 (0.13%) SEPA
9 1 (0.13%) SLA
System Software
1 488 (62.40%) Docker
2 19 (2.43%) Active Directory
3 17 (2.17%) Virtual Machines
4 14 (1.79%) VMware Infrastructure
5 3 (0.38%) iptables
6 1 (0.13%) Citrix Hypervisor
6 1 (0.13%) HDFS
6 1 (0.13%) Hyper-V
6 1 (0.13%) KVM
6 1 (0.13%) QEMU
6 1 (0.13%) Slurm Workload Manager
6 1 (0.13%) Virtual Servers
6 1 (0.13%) Xen
Systems Management
1 143 (18.29%) Grafana
2 76 (9.72%) Ansible
3 60 (7.67%) Prometheus
4 28 (3.58%) Argo
5 18 (2.30%) Istio
6 17 (2.17%) Puppet
7 15 (1.92%) Progress Chef
8 8 (1.02%) Kustomize
9 7 (0.90%) Packer
10 6 (0.77%) Cilium
10 6 (0.77%) FortiGate
11 5 (0.64%) Microsoft Intune
11 5 (0.64%) Single Sign-On
12 4 (0.51%) linkerd
13 3 (0.38%) Active Directory Federation Services
14 2 (0.26%) CASB
14 2 (0.26%) Microsoft Data Protection Manager
14 2 (0.26%) Podman
14 2 (0.26%) Proxmox
14 2 (0.26%) WSUS
Vendors
1 206 (26.34%) Microsoft
2 56 (7.16%) Google
3 32 (4.09%) Oracle
4 29 (3.71%) Splunk
5 25 (3.20%) OpenAI
6 20 (2.56%) Red Hat
7 19 (2.43%) Facebook
8 18 (2.30%) VMware
9 17 (2.17%) Okta
10 15 (1.92%) Ping Identity
11 12 (1.53%) Databricks
12 10 (1.28%) Dynatrace
13 9 (1.15%) New Relic
14 8 (1.02%) Palo Alto
14 8 (1.02%) ServiceNow
15 6 (0.77%) Fortinet
15 6 (0.77%) Zscaler
16 5 (0.64%) ForgeRock
16 5 (0.64%) HubSpot
16 5 (0.64%) Qualys