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 25 December 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
25 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 80 38 32
Rank change year-on-year -42 -6 -3
Permanent jobs citing Kubernetes 492 1,151 1,424
As % of all permanent jobs with remote/hybrid work options 3.21% 6.66% 7.12%
As % of the Systems Management category 36.07% 48.65% 44.61%
Number of salaries quoted 378 596 1,195
10th Percentile £52,400 £52,500 £47,500
25th Percentile £60,000 £61,250 £57,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £75,000 £75,000 £70,576
Median % change year-on-year - +6.27% -5.90%
75th Percentile £90,000 £95,000 £89,500
90th Percentile £115,000 £115,000 £105,000
UK median annual salary £75,000 £77,500 £75,000
% change year-on-year -3.23% +3.33% -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 1,364 2,366 3,192
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 8.91% 13.69% 15.96%
Number of salaries quoted 997 1,422 2,749
10th Percentile £37,500 £40,000 £40,750
25th Percentile £48,750 £51,250 £51,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £69,308 £65,351
Median % change year-on-year -6.22% +6.06% -5.90%
75th Percentile £83,750 £86,000 £85,000
90th Percentile £100,000 £105,000 £100,000
UK median annual salary £62,500 £68,000 £65,000
% change year-on-year -8.09% +4.62% -3.70%

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 25 December 2025.

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 13 (2.64%) Apache Spark
2 10 (2.03%) IIS
3 9 (1.83%) Apache Airflow
4 6 (1.22%) Apache
5 5 (1.02%) Anypoint
5 5 (1.02%) Apache Pulsar
5 5 (1.02%) nginx
6 4 (0.81%) ArcGIS
6 4 (0.81%) Confluence
6 4 (0.81%) GeoServer
6 4 (0.81%) Microsoft Exchange
6 4 (0.81%) OpenStack
6 4 (0.81%) Oracle Spatial
7 1 (0.20%) BizTalk Server
7 1 (0.20%) Camunda
7 1 (0.20%) SharePoint
7 1 (0.20%) Tomcat
Applications
1 1 (0.20%) Chatbot
1 1 (0.20%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 5 (1.02%) Shopify
2 1 (0.20%) Actimize
Cloud Services
1 302 (61.38%) AWS
2 261 (53.05%) Azure
3 134 (27.24%) GCP
4 121 (24.59%) GitHub
5 84 (17.07%) GitHub Actions
6 73 (14.84%) Azure DevOps
7 67 (13.62%) Amazon EKS
8 59 (11.99%) SaaS
9 49 (9.96%) Serverless
10 46 (9.35%) Azure AKS
11 45 (9.15%) AWS CloudFormation
12 40 (8.13%) Amazon CloudWatch
13 38 (7.72%) AWS Lambda
14 31 (6.30%) Amazon ECS
15 30 (6.10%) Amazon S3
16 28 (5.69%) OpenShift
17 24 (4.88%) Datadog
18 17 (3.46%) Amazon EC2
19 14 (2.85%) Azure Monitor
20 12 (2.44%) Azure Cosmos DB
Communications & Networking
1 37 (7.52%) Firewall
2 18 (3.66%) VPN
3 14 (2.85%) DNS
4 12 (2.44%) WAN
5 11 (2.24%) Broadband
6 10 (2.03%) TCP/IP
7 9 (1.83%) LAN
7 9 (1.83%) Network Security
8 6 (1.22%) Fibre Channel
9 5 (1.02%) SD-WAN
10 4 (0.81%) Internet
10 4 (0.81%) Intrusion Detection
11 3 (0.61%) AMQP
11 3 (0.61%) DHCP
11 3 (0.61%) Kerberos
11 3 (0.61%) VLAN
12 2 (0.41%) VSAN
13 1 (0.20%) 5G
13 1 (0.20%) MIMO
13 1 (0.20%) NAS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 69 (14.02%) PostgreSQL
2 56 (11.38%) NoSQL
3 43 (8.74%) SQL Server
4 40 (8.13%) MongoDB
5 24 (4.88%) Relational Database
6 18 (3.66%) MySQL
7 17 (3.46%) Amazon RDS
8 10 (2.03%) Flink
9 8 (1.63%) Azure SQL Database
9 8 (1.63%) DynamoDB
9 8 (1.63%) Redis
10 7 (1.42%) BigQuery
10 7 (1.42%) Data Warehouse
10 7 (1.42%) Elasticsearch
10 7 (1.42%) RDBMS
11 6 (1.22%) Power BI
12 5 (1.02%) Big Data
12 5 (1.02%) Data Lake
13 4 (0.81%) GIS
13 4 (0.81%) QGIS
Development Applications
1 60 (12.20%) Git
2 56 (11.38%) Jenkins
3 47 (9.55%) GitLab
4 23 (4.67%) TeamCity
5 10 (2.03%) JUnit
5 10 (2.03%) Selenium
6 8 (1.63%) Cucumber
7 7 (1.42%) Jaeger
8 6 (1.22%) SonarQube
8 6 (1.22%) Visual Studio Code
9 5 (1.02%) JIRA
10 4 (0.81%) Bitbucket
10 4 (0.81%) CircleCI
10 4 (0.81%) JMeter
10 4 (0.81%) MLflow
10 4 (0.81%) Robot Framework
11 3 (0.61%) Octopus Deploy
12 2 (0.41%) Cypress.io
12 2 (0.41%) Eclipse
12 2 (0.41%) REST Assured
General
1 104 (21.14%) Social Skills
2 100 (20.33%) Finance
3 44 (8.94%) Law
4 42 (8.54%) Banking
5 39 (7.93%) Retail
6 37 (7.52%) Financial Institution
7 36 (7.32%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 32 (6.50%) Public Sector
9 26 (5.28%) Telecoms
10 23 (4.67%) Back Office
11 14 (2.85%) Analytical Skills
12 12 (2.44%) Front Office
13 7 (1.42%) Legal
14 5 (1.02%) Documentation Skills
14 5 (1.02%) Esports
15 4 (0.81%) Games
15 4 (0.81%) Manufacturing
15 4 (0.81%) Tech for Good
16 3 (0.61%) Marketing
16 3 (0.61%) Military
Job Titles
1 143 (29.07%) Senior
2 89 (18.09%) DevOps Engineer
3 80 (16.26%) Software Engineer
4 72 (14.63%) Lead
5 59 (11.99%) Cloud Engineer
6 57 (11.59%) Developer
7 40 (8.13%) Azure Engineer
8 36 (7.32%) Architect
8 36 (7.32%) Platform Engineer
9 35 (7.11%) Infrastructure Engineer
10 30 (6.10%) Senior Software Engineer
11 24 (4.88%) Lead DevOps
11 24 (4.88%) Python Engineer
12 21 (4.27%) Lead DevOps Engineer
13 19 (3.86%) AWS Engineer
13 19 (3.86%) Full-Stack Engineer
13 19 (3.86%) Senior Developer
13 19 (3.86%) Senior DevOps
13 19 (3.86%) Software Developer
14 18 (3.66%) Development Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 67 (13.62%) .NET
2 60 (12.20%) React
3 57 (11.59%) Kafka
4 56 (11.38%) Spring
5 53 (10.77%) Spring Boot
6 44 (8.94%) RESTful
7 37 (7.52%) Elastic Stack
8 32 (6.50%) Node.js
8 32 (6.50%) REST
9 28 (5.69%) Django
10 27 (5.49%) gRPC
11 24 (4.88%) Flask
12 20 (4.07%) RabbitMQ
13 19 (3.86%) AngularJS
13 19 (3.86%) FastAPI
14 18 (3.66%) .NET Core
15 16 (3.25%) YAML
16 14 (2.85%) ADO
17 13 (2.64%) WebSockets
18 12 (2.44%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 153 (31.10%) Cloud Native
2 46 (9.35%) Distributed Systems
3 32 (6.50%) Product Ownership
4 30 (6.10%) Onboarding
5 16 (3.25%) Data Centre
5 16 (3.25%) Legacy Systems
6 14 (2.85%) Management Information System
7 13 (2.64%) Public Cloud
8 11 (2.24%) AI Agents
9 10 (2.03%) Hybrid Cloud
10 9 (1.83%) Algorithms
11 8 (1.63%) Virtual Team
12 7 (1.42%) Blog
12 7 (1.42%) Private Cloud
13 6 (1.22%) Fixed Income
13 6 (1.22%) Security Posture
13 6 (1.22%) Self-Motivation
14 5 (1.02%) Distributed Architecture
14 5 (1.02%) Legacy Applications
14 5 (1.02%) Low-Code
Operating Systems
1 122 (24.80%) Linux
2 62 (12.60%) Windows
3 25 (5.08%) Unix
4 21 (4.27%) Windows Server
5 18 (3.66%) Android
6 10 (2.03%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 10 (2.03%) Ubuntu
6 10 (2.03%) VMS
7 8 (1.63%) Apple iOS
8 7 (1.42%) Windows Server 2019
9 5 (1.02%) CentOS
9 5 (1.02%) Rocky
10 3 (0.61%) Debian
11 1 (0.20%) Windows Server 2016
Processes & Methodologies
1 311 (63.21%) DevOps
2 307 (62.40%) CI/CD
3 206 (41.87%) Containerisation
4 170 (34.55%) Infrastructure as Code
5 145 (29.47%) Agile
6 135 (27.44%) Microservices
7 123 (25.00%) Software Engineering
8 97 (19.72%) Problem-Solving
9 90 (18.29%) Continuous Improvement
10 88 (17.89%) Infrastructure Engineering
11 84 (17.07%) Observability
12 83 (16.87%) AI
13 75 (15.24%) Mentoring
14 71 (14.43%) Platform Engineering
15 65 (13.21%) Site Reliability Engineering
16 61 (12.40%) Test Automation
17 56 (11.38%) High Availability
17 56 (11.38%) Machine Learning
18 55 (11.18%) Cloud Security
19 52 (10.57%) Event-Driven
Programming Languages
1 221 (44.92%) Python
2 123 (25.00%) Java
3 92 (18.70%) SQL
4 72 (14.63%) JavaScript
5 65 (13.21%) Bash
6 62 (12.60%) Go
7 60 (12.20%) PowerShell
8 50 (10.16%) C#
9 44 (8.94%) Bicep
10 42 (8.54%) TypeScript
11 10 (2.03%) C++
12 9 (1.83%) Scala
13 8 (1.63%) Delphi
14 6 (1.22%) PHP
15 5 (1.02%) Kotlin
15 5 (1.02%) Shell Script
16 4 (0.81%) F#
16 4 (0.81%) Haskell
16 4 (0.81%) OCaml
16 4 (0.81%) Ruby
Qualifications
1 76 (15.45%) Security Cleared
2 61 (12.40%) Degree
2 61 (12.40%) SC Cleared
3 41 (8.33%) AWS Certification
3 41 (8.33%) Computer Science Degree
4 37 (7.52%) Azure Certification
5 20 (4.07%) DV Cleared
6 9 (1.83%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
7 8 (1.63%) BPSS Clearance
8 6 (1.22%) Master's Degree
9 5 (1.02%) Network+ Certification
10 4 (0.81%) PhD
11 3 (0.61%) Cisco Certification
11 3 (0.61%) CISM
11 3 (0.61%) CISSP
11 3 (0.61%) Microsoft Certification
12 2 (0.41%) CISA
12 2 (0.41%) CREST Certified
12 2 (0.41%) CRISC
12 2 (0.41%) OSCP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 30 (6.10%) QA
2 17 (3.46%) GDPR
2 17 (3.46%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 11 (2.24%) PCI DSS
3 11 (2.24%) SOC 2
4 10 (2.03%) Data Quality
5 9 (1.83%) NIST
6 5 (1.02%) HIPAA
7 4 (0.81%) GRC
8 3 (0.61%) SLA
9 2 (0.41%) ECSS
10 1 (0.20%) Accessibility
10 1 (0.20%) MiFID
System Software
1 289 (58.74%) Docker
2 20 (4.07%) Active Directory
3 13 (2.64%) VMware Infrastructure
4 12 (2.44%) vSphere
5 9 (1.83%) Hyper-V
6 6 (1.22%) NFS
7 5 (1.02%) Virtual Machines
8 4 (0.81%) VMware NSX
9 2 (0.41%) Virtual Servers
10 1 (0.20%) Firmware
10 1 (0.20%) vCloud
10 1 (0.20%) Virtual Desktop
10 1 (0.20%) VMware ESXi
Systems Management
1 236 (47.97%) Terraform
2 108 (21.95%) Grafana
3 105 (21.34%) Ansible
4 67 (13.62%) Prometheus
5 33 (6.71%) Argo
6 8 (1.63%) Kustomize
7 5 (1.02%) Cilium
8 4 (0.81%) logstash
8 4 (0.81%) Puppet
9 3 (0.61%) Microsoft Intune
9 3 (0.61%) Progress Chef
10 2 (0.41%) FortiGate
10 2 (0.41%) Kubeflow
11 1 (0.20%) Docker Swarm
11 1 (0.20%) Istio
11 1 (0.20%) ITRS Geneos
11 1 (0.20%) Karpenter
11 1 (0.20%) Kibana
11 1 (0.20%) Rancher
11 1 (0.20%) vCenter Server
Vendors
1 45 (9.15%) Microsoft
2 24 (4.88%) Google
3 21 (4.27%) Oracle
4 20 (4.07%) Red Hat
4 20 (4.07%) VMware
5 14 (2.85%) Dell
6 12 (2.44%) Splunk
7 11 (2.24%) Cisco
8 9 (1.83%) Databricks
9 8 (1.63%) SAP
10 7 (1.42%) Commvault
10 7 (1.42%) Pure Storage
11 6 (1.22%) Dynatrace
12 5 (1.02%) Ericsson
12 5 (1.02%) IFS
12 5 (1.02%) Jitterbit
12 5 (1.02%) Mavenir
12 5 (1.02%) MuleSoft
12 5 (1.02%) SnapLogic
12 5 (1.02%) Workday