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

 6 months to
3 Mar 2026		 Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 75 32 54
Rank change year-on-year -43 +22 -27
Permanent jobs citing Kubernetes 557 1,154 1,455
As % of all permanent jobs with remote/hybrid work options 3.37% 8.00% 5.09%
As % of the Systems Management category 36.91% 53.38% 40.86%
Number of salaries quoted 373 652 1,218
10th Percentile £51,903 £52,500 £47,500
25th Percentile £57,500 £62,500 £57,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £72,500 £80,000 £72,500
Median % change year-on-year -9.38% +10.34% -3.33%
75th Percentile £87,500 £110,000 £90,000
90th Percentile £107,500 £138,750 £111,250
UK median annual salary £75,000 £82,500 £75,000
% change year-on-year -9.09% +10.00% -1.03%

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 1,509 2,162 3,561
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 9.14% 14.98% 12.46%
Number of salaries quoted 1,038 1,356 3,022
10th Percentile £36,250 £42,500 £37,530
25th Percentile £46,446 £52,500 £48,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £64,241 £70,000 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year -8.23% +7.69% -5.13%
75th Percentile £82,500 £91,313 £83,750
90th Percentile £95,000 £115,000 £100,000
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 3 March 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 13 (2.33%) Apache Spark
2 6 (1.08%) Apache
2 6 (1.08%) Apache Airflow
2 6 (1.08%) OpenStack
3 5 (0.90%) Anypoint
3 5 (0.90%) Apache Pulsar
4 4 (0.72%) ArcGIS
4 4 (0.72%) GeoServer
4 4 (0.72%) Microsoft Exchange
4 4 (0.72%) Oracle Spatial
5 3 (0.54%) Confluence
5 3 (0.54%) nginx
6 1 (0.18%) Camunda
6 1 (0.18%) IIS
6 1 (0.18%) SAS
6 1 (0.18%) SharePoint
Applications
1 4 (0.72%) Weka
2 2 (0.36%) Chatbot
3 1 (0.18%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 5 (0.90%) Shopify
2 1 (0.18%) Actimize
Cloud Services
1 357 (64.09%) AWS
2 244 (43.81%) Azure
3 169 (30.34%) GCP
4 110 (19.75%) GitHub
5 106 (19.03%) Amazon EKS
6 82 (14.72%) GitHub Actions
7 75 (13.46%) SaaS
8 60 (10.77%) Serverless
9 56 (10.05%) Azure DevOps
10 47 (8.44%) AWS CloudFormation
11 45 (8.08%) Amazon CloudWatch
12 44 (7.90%) Azure AKS
13 38 (6.82%) Amazon S3
13 38 (6.82%) AWS Lambda
14 29 (5.21%) Amazon EC2
15 28 (5.03%) Amazon ECS
16 27 (4.85%) OpenShift
17 23 (4.13%) Datadog
18 20 (3.59%) Pulumi
19 14 (2.51%) PaaS
Communications & Networking
1 44 (7.90%) Broadband
2 32 (5.75%) Firewall
3 19 (3.41%) VPN
4 11 (1.97%) DNS
5 9 (1.62%) Network Security
6 7 (1.26%) DHCP
7 5 (0.90%) SD-WAN
7 5 (0.90%) WAN
8 4 (0.72%) AMQP
8 4 (0.72%) Intrusion Detection
8 4 (0.72%) MQTT
9 3 (0.54%) HTTP
9 3 (0.54%) Internet
9 3 (0.54%) Kerberos
9 3 (0.54%) RTP
9 3 (0.54%) SCCP
9 3 (0.54%) Unified Communications
9 3 (0.54%) VLAN
9 3 (0.54%) VoIP
9 3 (0.54%) Wireshark
Database & Business Intelligence
1 65 (11.67%) PostgreSQL
2 60 (10.77%) NoSQL
3 36 (6.46%) MongoDB
3 36 (6.46%) Relational Database
4 34 (6.10%) SQL Server
5 24 (4.31%) Amazon RDS
6 19 (3.41%) RDBMS
7 15 (2.69%) MySQL
8 10 (1.80%) Flink
9 9 (1.62%) BigQuery
10 8 (1.44%) Amazon Aurora
11 7 (1.26%) Azure SQL Database
11 7 (1.26%) Redis
12 6 (1.08%) Data Warehouse
13 5 (0.90%) Power BI
14 4 (0.72%) Big Data
14 4 (0.72%) Data Lake
14 4 (0.72%) DynamoDB
14 4 (0.72%) GIS
14 4 (0.72%) QGIS
Development Applications
1 75 (13.46%) TeamCity
2 71 (12.75%) Jenkins
3 51 (9.16%) GitLab
4 50 (8.98%) Git
5 19 (3.41%) Jaeger
6 12 (2.15%) Cucumber
7 10 (1.80%) Selenium
8 9 (1.62%) JIRA
8 9 (1.62%) JUnit
9 8 (1.44%) JMeter
9 8 (1.44%) SonarQube
10 6 (1.08%) Bitbucket
10 6 (1.08%) CircleCI
11 5 (0.90%) Robot Framework
11 5 (0.90%) Visual Studio
12 4 (0.72%) Locust
12 4 (0.72%) Visual Studio Code
13 3 (0.54%) Eclipse
13 3 (0.54%) MLflow
13 3 (0.54%) REST Assured
General
1 123 (22.08%) Finance
2 117 (21.01%) Social Skills
3 89 (15.98%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 84 (15.08%) Retail
5 83 (14.90%) Law
6 78 (14.00%) Banking
7 54 (9.69%) Financial Institution
8 41 (7.36%) Back Office
9 31 (5.57%) Public Sector
10 25 (4.49%) Telecoms
11 16 (2.87%) Analytical Skills
12 12 (2.15%) Front Office
13 9 (1.62%) Legal
14 7 (1.26%) Military
15 5 (0.90%) Esports
15 5 (0.90%) Tech for Good
16 4 (0.72%) Aviation
16 4 (0.72%) Manufacturing
17 3 (0.54%) Games
17 3 (0.54%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 186 (33.39%) Senior
2 130 (23.34%) Software Engineer
3 107 (19.21%) Lead
4 77 (13.82%) Developer
5 75 (13.46%) DevOps Engineer
6 64 (11.49%) Cloud Engineer
7 48 (8.62%) Senior Software Engineer
8 45 (8.08%) Platform Engineer
9 35 (6.28%) Azure Engineer
10 32 (5.75%) Java Engineer
11 31 (5.57%) Senior Developer
12 27 (4.85%) Infrastructure Engineer
12 27 (4.85%) Java Software Engineer
13 26 (4.67%) AWS Engineer
14 24 (4.31%) Full-Stack Engineer
14 24 (4.31%) Lead DevOps
15 23 (4.13%) Lead Software Engineer
15 23 (4.13%) Software Developer
16 22 (3.95%) Architect
16 22 (3.95%) Cloud Platform Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 75 (13.46%) Spring
2 71 (12.75%) React
3 70 (12.57%) .NET
4 66 (11.85%) Spring Boot
5 57 (10.23%) Kafka
6 48 (8.62%) Elastic Stack
7 47 (8.44%) RESTful
8 34 (6.10%) Node.js
8 34 (6.10%) REST
9 28 (5.03%) Django
10 27 (4.85%) .NET Core
11 25 (4.49%) Akka
12 22 (3.95%) gRPC
13 20 (3.59%) AngularJS
13 20 (3.59%) Flask
14 19 (3.41%) OpenTelemetry
14 19 (3.41%) RabbitMQ
15 16 (2.87%) OAuth
16 14 (2.51%) .NET Framework
16 14 (2.51%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 184 (33.03%) Cloud Native
2 47 (8.44%) Distributed Systems
3 42 (7.54%) Product Ownership
4 23 (4.13%) Blog
4 23 (4.13%) Over-the-Top Content
4 23 (4.13%) Video\Live Streaming
5 16 (2.87%) Legacy Systems
5 16 (2.87%) Onboarding
6 12 (2.15%) AI Agents
6 12 (2.15%) Security Posture
7 11 (1.97%) Virtual Team
8 10 (1.80%) Data Centre
8 10 (1.80%) Private Cloud
9 8 (1.44%) Hybrid Cloud
10 7 (1.26%) Distributed Architecture
10 7 (1.26%) Public Cloud
11 6 (1.08%) Fixed Income
11 6 (1.08%) Low-Code
11 6 (1.08%) Management Information System
12 5 (0.90%) Legacy Applications
Operating Systems
1 127 (22.80%) Linux
2 36 (6.46%) Unix
3 34 (6.10%) Windows
4 23 (4.13%) Android
5 13 (2.33%) Apple iOS
6 12 (2.15%) Ubuntu
7 8 (1.44%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
8 7 (1.26%) CentOS
8 7 (1.26%) VMS
8 7 (1.26%) Windows Server
9 2 (0.36%) Windows Server 2016
10 1 (0.18%) Debian
10 1 (0.18%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 355 (63.73%) CI/CD
2 326 (58.53%) DevOps
3 223 (40.04%) Containerisation
4 196 (35.19%) Agile
5 192 (34.47%) Infrastructure as Code
6 167 (29.98%) Microservices
7 162 (29.08%) Software Engineering
8 112 (20.11%) Continuous Improvement
9 111 (19.93%) Mentoring
10 110 (19.75%) Test Automation
11 90 (16.16%) Problem-Solving
12 86 (15.44%) Observability
13 81 (14.54%) AI
14 79 (14.18%) Deployment Automation
14 79 (14.18%) Platform Engineering
15 77 (13.82%) Clean Code
16 70 (12.57%) High Availability
16 70 (12.57%) Infrastructure Engineering
17 61 (10.95%) TDD
18 59 (10.59%) Site Reliability Engineering
Programming Languages
1 225 (40.39%) Python
2 193 (34.65%) Java
3 97 (17.41%) JavaScript
4 86 (15.44%) Go
5 79 (14.18%) SQL
6 76 (13.64%) Bash
7 54 (9.69%) C#
8 48 (8.62%) TypeScript
9 42 (7.54%) PowerShell
10 39 (7.00%) Bicep
11 27 (4.85%) Scala
12 14 (2.51%) C++
13 8 (1.44%) Delphi
14 5 (0.90%) Rust
14 5 (0.90%) Shell Script
15 4 (0.72%) C
16 3 (0.54%) Perl
16 3 (0.54%) PHP
17 2 (0.36%) Korn
17 2 (0.36%) Ruby
Qualifications
1 77 (13.82%) Security Cleared
2 68 (12.21%) Degree
3 59 (10.59%) SC Cleared
4 42 (7.54%) Computer Science Degree
5 41 (7.36%) AWS Certification
6 31 (5.57%) Azure Certification
7 13 (2.33%) DV Cleared
8 7 (1.26%) CREST Certified
8 7 (1.26%) Microsoft Certification
8 7 (1.26%) OSCP
9 4 (0.72%) CISSP
9 4 (0.72%) GIAC
9 4 (0.72%) ISACA
9 4 (0.72%) SANS
10 3 (0.54%) LPIC
11 2 (0.36%) Cisco Certification
11 2 (0.36%) ISTQB
11 2 (0.36%) ISTQB Advanced Certification
11 2 (0.36%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
11 2 (0.36%) Linux+ Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 31 (5.57%) QA
2 20 (3.59%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 18 (3.23%) PCI DSS
4 14 (2.51%) NIST
5 13 (2.33%) GDPR
6 11 (1.97%) SOC 2
7 10 (1.80%) Data Quality
8 9 (1.62%) Accessibility
9 4 (0.72%) GRC
10 3 (0.54%) SLA
10 3 (0.54%) WCAG
11 2 (0.36%) ECSS
11 2 (0.36%) HIPAA
11 2 (0.36%) Software Quality Assurance
12 1 (0.18%) MiFID
System Software
1 339 (60.86%) Docker
2 18 (3.23%) Active Directory
3 9 (1.62%) VMware NSX
4 8 (1.44%) VMware Infrastructure
5 6 (1.08%) vSphere
6 5 (0.90%) Virtual Machines
7 3 (0.54%) Hyper-V
7 3 (0.54%) Kamailio
8 2 (0.36%) Virtual Servers
9 1 (0.18%) Citrix Hypervisor
9 1 (0.18%) Firmware
9 1 (0.18%) vCloud
9 1 (0.18%) Virtual Desktop
9 1 (0.18%) VMware ESXi
Systems Management
1 274 (49.19%) Terraform
2 143 (25.67%) Grafana
3 114 (20.47%) Ansible
4 85 (15.26%) Prometheus
5 47 (8.44%) Argo
6 20 (3.59%) Kustomize
7 10 (1.80%) Puppet
8 6 (1.08%) Progress Chef
9 5 (0.90%) Cilium
9 5 (0.90%) Proxmox
10 4 (0.72%) logstash
10 4 (0.72%) ZABBIX
11 3 (0.54%) Kibana
11 3 (0.54%) Microsoft Intune
12 2 (0.36%) FortiGate
12 2 (0.36%) Packer
13 1 (0.18%) Docker Swarm
13 1 (0.18%) Istio
13 1 (0.18%) Rancher
13 1 (0.18%) vCenter Server
Vendors
1 49 (8.80%) Microsoft
2 35 (6.28%) Google
3 24 (4.31%) VMware
4 22 (3.95%) Oracle
5 15 (2.69%) Splunk
6 14 (2.51%) Red Hat
7 10 (1.80%) Dell
8 8 (1.44%) Databricks
9 7 (1.26%) SAP
10 5 (0.90%) Epicor
10 5 (0.90%) Ericsson
10 5 (0.90%) Fortinet
10 5 (0.90%) IBM
10 5 (0.90%) Infor
10 5 (0.90%) Informatica
10 5 (0.90%) Nokia
10 5 (0.90%) Software AG
10 5 (0.90%) Talend
10 5 (0.90%) TIBCO
10 5 (0.90%) Workday
561 hybrid/remote Kubernetes jobs