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 10 July 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
10 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 73 59 67
Rank change year-on-year -14 +8 -40
Permanent jobs citing Kubernetes 732 897 1,221
As % of all permanent jobs with remote/hybrid work options 3.45% 5.45% 3.78%
As % of the Systems Management category 40.00% 43.56% 35.51%
Number of salaries quoted 519 463 995
10th Percentile £45,200 £49,800 £50,000
25th Percentile £52,500 £60,000 £60,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £78,810 £77,500
Median % change year-on-year -17.52% +1.69% +3.33%
75th Percentile £82,500 £101,830 £95,000
90th Percentile £97,500 £129,500 £118,250
UK median annual salary £70,000 £80,000 £77,500
% change year-on-year -12.50% +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 1,830 2,059 3,438
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 8.62% 12.50% 10.63%
Number of salaries quoted 1,344 1,197 2,574
10th Percentile £36,575 £36,250 £36,500
25th Percentile £46,669 £48,306 £47,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £62,500 £67,500 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year -7.41% +3.85% -7.14%
75th Percentile £78,000 £86,250 £84,919
90th Percentile £95,000 £107,500 £104,250
UK median annual salary £65,000 £67,269 £62,500
% change year-on-year -3.37% +7.63% -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 10 July 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 7 (0.96%) Apache Airflow
1 7 (0.96%) Apache Spark
2 6 (0.82%) OpenStack
3 5 (0.68%) IIS
4 4 (0.55%) nginx
5 2 (0.27%) Apache
5 2 (0.27%) ArcGIS
5 2 (0.27%) Camunda
5 2 (0.27%) Confluence
5 2 (0.27%) GeoServer
5 2 (0.27%) Microsoft Exchange
5 2 (0.27%) Oracle SOA Suite
5 2 (0.27%) Oracle Spatial
6 1 (0.14%) Cloud Foundry
6 1 (0.14%) JBoss
6 1 (0.14%) Oracle Coherence
6 1 (0.14%) Red Hat Fuse
6 1 (0.14%) SAS
Applications
1 4 (0.55%) Weka
2 1 (0.14%) Chatbot
2 1 (0.14%) Lightworks
Business Applications
1 2 (0.27%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 407 (55.60%) AWS
2 384 (52.46%) Azure
3 204 (27.87%) GitHub
4 182 (24.86%) GCP
5 140 (19.13%) GitHub Copilot
6 109 (14.89%) Amazon EKS
7 79 (10.79%) SaaS
8 75 (10.25%) Azure AI
9 68 (9.29%) Serverless
10 52 (7.10%) GitHub Actions
11 48 (6.56%) AWS CloudFormation
12 45 (6.15%) Azure AKS
13 43 (5.87%) Azure DevOps
14 36 (4.92%) Amazon EC2
15 33 (4.51%) Amazon S3
15 33 (4.51%) OpenShift
16 25 (3.42%) Amazon ECS
16 25 (3.42%) AWS Lambda
17 24 (3.28%) PaaS
18 23 (3.14%) Amazon CloudWatch
Communications & Networking
1 38 (5.19%) Broadband
2 31 (4.23%) Firewall
3 25 (3.42%) DNS
3 25 (3.42%) VPN
4 20 (2.73%) Internet
5 15 (2.05%) TCP/IP
6 9 (1.23%) DHCP
7 8 (1.09%) Network Security
7 8 (1.09%) VLAN
8 7 (0.96%) BGP
9 6 (0.82%) OSPF
9 6 (0.82%) VXLAN
10 5 (0.68%) MQTT
11 4 (0.55%) HTTP
11 4 (0.55%) WAN
12 3 (0.41%) RTP
12 3 (0.41%) SAN
12 3 (0.41%) Unified Communications
12 3 (0.41%) VoIP
12 3 (0.41%) Wireshark
Database & Business Intelligence
1 162 (22.13%) MongoDB
2 136 (18.58%) Azure SQL Database
3 75 (10.25%) PostgreSQL
4 50 (6.83%) Elasticsearch
5 39 (5.33%) NoSQL
6 38 (5.19%) Relational Database
7 30 (4.10%) MySQL
8 27 (3.69%) SQL Server
9 23 (3.14%) Amazon RDS
10 11 (1.50%) RDBMS
11 8 (1.09%) BigQuery
12 7 (0.96%) Redis
13 6 (0.82%) Data Warehouse
13 6 (0.82%) DynamoDB
14 5 (0.68%) Delta Lake
15 3 (0.41%) Apache Cassandra
15 3 (0.41%) Metadata
16 2 (0.27%) GIS
16 2 (0.27%) Neo4j
16 2 (0.27%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 84 (11.48%) Git
2 71 (9.70%) TeamCity
3 60 (8.20%) Jenkins
4 54 (7.38%) GitLab
5 16 (2.19%) JUnit
6 14 (1.91%) Maven
7 13 (1.78%) JIRA
8 12 (1.64%) Jaeger
8 12 (1.64%) Visual Studio Code
9 10 (1.37%) Mockito
10 9 (1.23%) Cucumber
11 8 (1.09%) Bitbucket
12 7 (0.96%) Atlassian Bamboo
12 7 (0.96%) Selenium
13 6 (0.82%) JMeter
13 6 (0.82%) Postman
13 6 (0.82%) SonarQube
14 5 (0.68%) Locust
14 5 (0.68%) Octopus Deploy
14 5 (0.68%) Subversion
General
1 159 (21.72%) Finance
2 125 (17.08%) Social Skills
3 98 (13.39%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 90 (12.30%) Retail
5 89 (12.16%) Banking
6 84 (11.48%) Law
7 51 (6.97%) Public Sector
8 44 (6.01%) Financial Institution
9 43 (5.87%) Back Office
10 37 (5.05%) Advertising
11 22 (3.01%) Analytical Skills
12 20 (2.73%) Marketing
13 16 (2.19%) Aerospace
14 13 (1.78%) Games
15 9 (1.23%) Organisational Skills
16 8 (1.09%) Legal
17 6 (0.82%) Telecoms
18 4 (0.55%) Aviation
18 4 (0.55%) Manufacturing
18 4 (0.55%) Military
Job Titles
1 215 (29.37%) Developer
2 202 (27.60%) Senior
3 130 (17.76%) .NET Developer
4 123 (16.80%) Software Engineer
5 97 (13.25%) Lead
6 78 (10.66%) DevOps Engineer
7 61 (8.33%) Cloud Engineer
8 52 (7.10%) Platform Engineer
9 44 (6.01%) Azure Engineer
10 41 (5.60%) Senior Software Engineer
11 40 (5.46%) Senior Developer
12 34 (4.64%) Lead Software Engineer
13 33 (4.51%) AWS Engineer
14 32 (4.37%) Java Developer
14 32 (4.37%) Java Engineer
14 32 (4.37%) Senior DevOps
15 29 (3.96%) Cloud Platform Engineer
16 28 (3.83%) Architect
16 28 (3.83%) Team Leader
17 25 (3.42%) Python Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 191 (26.09%) .NET
2 141 (19.26%) .NET Core
3 139 (18.99%) ASP.NET
4 133 (18.17%) ASP.NET Core
5 83 (11.34%) AngularJS
6 80 (10.93%) CSS
6 80 (10.93%) HTML
7 77 (10.52%) Node.js
8 73 (9.97%) ML.NET
9 72 (9.84%) Vue
10 71 (9.70%) React
11 67 (9.15%) Spring
12 58 (7.92%) Kafka
13 51 (6.97%) REST
14 50 (6.83%) Spring Boot
15 45 (6.15%) RESTful
16 26 (3.55%) Django
17 22 (3.01%) Blazor
18 21 (2.87%) FastAPI
18 21 (2.87%) OpenTelemetry
Miscellaneous
1 209 (28.55%) Cloud Native
2 55 (7.51%) Distributed Systems
3 47 (6.42%) Product Ownership
4 24 (3.28%) Blog
5 21 (2.87%) Greenfield Project
6 20 (2.73%) Digital TV
6 20 (2.73%) Hybrid Cloud
7 18 (2.46%) Private Cloud
8 16 (2.19%) Data Centre
9 13 (1.78%) Public Cloud
10 11 (1.50%) Management Information System
11 10 (1.37%) AI Agents
11 10 (1.37%) Over-the-Top Content
11 10 (1.37%) Video\Live Streaming
12 9 (1.23%) Legacy Systems
13 8 (1.09%) Onboarding
13 8 (1.09%) Security Posture
14 7 (0.96%) Self-Motivation
14 7 (0.96%) Virtual Team
15 6 (0.82%) IoT
Operating Systems
1 145 (19.81%) Linux
2 40 (5.46%) Windows
3 20 (2.73%) Windows Server
4 18 (2.46%) Ubuntu
5 11 (1.50%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 11 (1.50%) Unix
6 9 (1.23%) Android
6 9 (1.23%) Apple iOS
7 7 (0.96%) CentOS
7 7 (0.96%) Debian
8 3 (0.41%) VMS
8 3 (0.41%) Windows Server 2016
9 2 (0.27%) Mac OS
Processes & Methodologies
1 483 (65.98%) CI/CD
2 314 (42.90%) DevOps
3 281 (38.39%) Agile
4 242 (33.06%) Infrastructure as Code
5 241 (32.92%) Microservices
6 206 (28.14%) Containerisation
7 191 (26.09%) Software Engineering
8 189 (25.82%) Full-Stack Development
9 183 (25.00%) AI
9 183 (25.00%) Mentoring
10 137 (18.72%) Test Automation
11 135 (18.44%) Continuous Improvement
12 116 (15.85%) Observability
13 115 (15.71%) Platform Engineering
14 113 (15.44%) TDD
15 111 (15.16%) Clean Code
16 104 (14.21%) Machine Learning
17 97 (13.25%) Problem-Solving
18 93 (12.70%) Deployment Automation
19 91 (12.43%) Scrum
Programming Languages
1 238 (32.51%) Python
2 212 (28.96%) SQL
3 200 (27.32%) C#
4 189 (25.82%) Java
5 116 (15.85%) TypeScript
6 84 (11.48%) JavaScript
7 79 (10.79%) Bash
8 69 (9.43%) PowerShell
9 60 (8.20%) Go
10 23 (3.14%) Bicep
11 21 (2.87%) Scala
12 10 (1.37%) PHP
12 10 (1.37%) PL/SQL
13 7 (0.96%) C
13 7 (0.96%) C++
13 7 (0.96%) Groovy
13 7 (0.96%) Ruby
13 7 (0.96%) Rust
14 4 (0.55%) Kotlin
15 3 (0.41%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 90 (12.30%) Security Cleared
2 71 (9.70%) SC Cleared
3 58 (7.92%) Degree
4 43 (5.87%) Azure Certification
5 31 (4.23%) AWS Certification
6 28 (3.83%) Computer Science Degree
7 12 (1.64%) DV Cleared
8 9 (1.23%) CISSP
9 8 (1.09%) GIAC
10 7 (0.96%) CREST Certified
10 7 (0.96%) OSCP
11 6 (0.82%) ISACA
12 5 (0.68%) SANS
13 4 (0.55%) CISM
13 4 (0.55%) Microsoft Certification
14 3 (0.41%) CEH
14 3 (0.41%) Master's Degree
15 2 (0.27%) ITIL Certification
16 1 (0.14%) PMI Certification
16 1 (0.14%) RHCE
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 41 (5.60%) QA
2 21 (2.87%) Accessibility
3 18 (2.46%) NIST
4 14 (1.91%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 11 (1.50%) PCI DSS
6 8 (1.09%) WCAG
7 4 (0.55%) Data Quality
7 4 (0.55%) SOC 2
8 3 (0.41%) Cyber Essentials
8 3 (0.41%) ISO 9001
9 2 (0.27%) GDPR
10 1 (0.14%) ISO/IEC 42001
10 1 (0.14%) PSD2
10 1 (0.14%) SEPA
10 1 (0.14%) SLA
System Software
1 464 (63.39%) Docker
2 29 (3.96%) Active Directory
3 20 (2.73%) VMware Infrastructure
4 18 (2.46%) Virtual Machines
5 5 (0.68%) VMware NSX
6 4 (0.55%) Firmware
6 4 (0.55%) Slurm Workload Manager
7 3 (0.41%) Citrix Hypervisor
7 3 (0.41%) iptables
7 3 (0.41%) Kamailio
8 1 (0.14%) Hyper-V
8 1 (0.14%) KVM
8 1 (0.14%) QEMU
8 1 (0.14%) Virtual Servers
8 1 (0.14%) vSphere
8 1 (0.14%) Xen
Systems Management
1 306 (41.80%) Terraform
2 125 (17.08%) Grafana
3 106 (14.48%) Ansible
4 71 (9.70%) Prometheus
5 41 (5.60%) Argo
6 24 (3.28%) Puppet
7 21 (2.87%) Istio
8 17 (2.32%) Kustomize
8 17 (2.32%) Progress Chef
9 8 (1.09%) Packer
10 7 (0.96%) Active Directory Federation Services
10 7 (0.96%) Proxmox
10 7 (0.96%) ZABBIX
11 6 (0.82%) FortiGate
11 6 (0.82%) Microsoft Intune
12 5 (0.68%) Kibana
13 3 (0.41%) linkerd
13 3 (0.41%) Nagios
14 2 (0.27%) MIIS
14 2 (0.27%) Podman
Vendors
1 208 (28.42%) Microsoft
2 42 (5.74%) Google
3 35 (4.78%) VMware
4 20 (2.73%) Facebook
4 20 (2.73%) Oracle
5 18 (2.46%) Red Hat
5 18 (2.46%) Splunk
6 14 (1.91%) Okta
7 12 (1.64%) Palo Alto
7 12 (1.64%) ServiceNow
8 10 (1.37%) Fortinet
9 9 (1.23%) Databricks
10 8 (1.09%) Cisco
10 8 (1.09%) Confluent
11 7 (0.96%) EMC
11 7 (0.96%) ForgeRock
11 7 (0.96%) OpenAI
12 6 (0.82%) Dynatrace
12 6 (0.82%) F5
12 6 (0.82%) Zscaler