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

6 months to
19 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 73 57 68
Rank change year-on-year -16 +11 -40
Permanent jobs citing Kubernetes 718 879 1,143
As % of all permanent jobs with remote/hybrid work options 3.33% 5.33% 3.75%
As % of the Systems Management category 39.30% 43.60% 34.99%
Number of salaries quoted 526 446 925
10th Percentile £45,000 £49,375 £50,500
25th Percentile £52,500 £60,000 £60,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £78,155 £77,500
Median % change year-on-year -16.83% +0.85% +3.33%
75th Percentile £82,500 £98,681 £95,000
90th Percentile £97,500 £127,500 £117,000
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 1,827 2,016 3,267
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 8.48% 12.22% 10.72%
Number of salaries quoted 1,348 1,162 2,416
10th Percentile £36,925 £36,250 £36,500
25th Percentile £47,398 £48,165 £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 £77,500 £85,000 £84,919
90th Percentile £95,000 £107,500 £102,500
UK median annual salary £64,500 £65,000 £62,500
% change year-on-year -0.77% +4.00% -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 19 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 (0.97%) Apache Airflow
2 6 (0.84%) Apache Spark
2 6 (0.84%) IIS
2 6 (0.84%) OpenStack
3 5 (0.70%) nginx
4 3 (0.42%) Oracle SOA Suite
5 2 (0.28%) ArcGIS
5 2 (0.28%) Camunda
5 2 (0.28%) Confluence
5 2 (0.28%) GeoServer
5 2 (0.28%) Microsoft Exchange
5 2 (0.28%) Oracle Spatial
6 1 (0.14%) Apache
6 1 (0.14%) Cloud Foundry
6 1 (0.14%) JBoss
6 1 (0.14%) Oracle Coherence
6 1 (0.14%) Red Hat Fuse
Applications
1 2 (0.28%) Weka
2 1 (0.14%) Lightworks
Business Applications
1 2 (0.28%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 403 (56.13%) AWS
2 392 (54.60%) Azure
3 203 (28.27%) GitHub
4 183 (25.49%) GCP
5 139 (19.36%) GitHub Copilot
6 103 (14.35%) Amazon EKS
7 77 (10.72%) SaaS
8 74 (10.31%) Azure AI
9 66 (9.19%) Serverless
10 52 (7.24%) GitHub Actions
11 45 (6.27%) AWS CloudFormation
11 45 (6.27%) Azure AKS
12 42 (5.85%) Azure DevOps
13 35 (4.87%) Amazon EC2
14 32 (4.46%) OpenShift
15 31 (4.32%) Amazon S3
16 25 (3.48%) AWS Lambda
16 25 (3.48%) PaaS
17 24 (3.34%) Amazon ECS
18 21 (2.92%) Azure Service Bus
Communications & Networking
1 29 (4.04%) Firewall
2 25 (3.48%) DNS
3 24 (3.34%) VPN
4 23 (3.20%) Broadband
5 20 (2.79%) Internet
6 15 (2.09%) TCP/IP
7 9 (1.25%) DHCP
8 8 (1.11%) VLAN
9 7 (0.97%) BGP
9 7 (0.97%) Network Security
10 6 (0.84%) OSPF
10 6 (0.84%) VXLAN
11 5 (0.70%) MQTT
12 4 (0.56%) WAN
13 3 (0.42%) HTTP
13 3 (0.42%) SAN
14 2 (0.28%) LAN
14 2 (0.28%) Remote Desktop
14 2 (0.28%) SSL
14 2 (0.28%) VoIP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 160 (22.28%) MongoDB
2 137 (19.08%) Azure SQL Database
3 74 (10.31%) PostgreSQL
4 50 (6.96%) Elasticsearch
5 33 (4.60%) NoSQL
5 33 (4.60%) Relational Database
6 28 (3.90%) MySQL
7 27 (3.76%) SQL Server
8 23 (3.20%) Amazon RDS
9 6 (0.84%) Data Warehouse
9 6 (0.84%) DynamoDB
9 6 (0.84%) RDBMS
9 6 (0.84%) Redis
10 5 (0.70%) BigQuery
10 5 (0.70%) Delta Lake
11 3 (0.42%) Apache Cassandra
11 3 (0.42%) Metadata
12 2 (0.28%) MariaDB
12 2 (0.28%) Neo4j
12 2 (0.28%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 88 (12.26%) Git
2 59 (8.22%) TeamCity
3 54 (7.52%) GitLab
4 50 (6.96%) Jenkins
5 18 (2.51%) JUnit
6 15 (2.09%) Maven
7 13 (1.81%) JIRA
8 12 (1.67%) Visual Studio Code
9 11 (1.53%) Mockito
10 9 (1.25%) Cucumber
10 9 (1.25%) Selenium
11 7 (0.97%) Atlassian Bamboo
11 7 (0.97%) Bitbucket
11 7 (0.97%) Jaeger
11 7 (0.97%) Postman
12 6 (0.84%) Octopus Deploy
13 5 (0.70%) JMeter
13 5 (0.70%) Locust
13 5 (0.70%) Subversion
14 4 (0.56%) SonarQube
General
1 163 (22.70%) Finance
2 121 (16.85%) Social Skills
3 89 (12.40%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 85 (11.84%) Banking
4 85 (11.84%) Retail
5 78 (10.86%) Law
6 51 (7.10%) Public Sector
7 44 (6.13%) Financial Institution
8 43 (5.99%) Back Office
9 37 (5.15%) Advertising
10 22 (3.06%) Analytical Skills
11 20 (2.79%) Marketing
12 16 (2.23%) Aerospace
13 13 (1.81%) Games
14 8 (1.11%) Legal
14 8 (1.11%) Organisational Skills
15 6 (0.84%) Telecoms
16 4 (0.56%) Manufacturing
16 4 (0.56%) Military
17 3 (0.42%) Front Office
Job Titles
1 213 (29.67%) Developer
2 195 (27.16%) Senior
3 132 (18.38%) .NET Developer
4 120 (16.71%) Software Engineer
5 92 (12.81%) Lead
6 78 (10.86%) DevOps Engineer
7 58 (8.08%) Cloud Engineer
8 49 (6.82%) Platform Engineer
9 45 (6.27%) Azure Engineer
10 39 (5.43%) Senior Software Engineer
11 38 (5.29%) Senior Developer
12 33 (4.60%) Lead Software Engineer
13 32 (4.46%) AWS Engineer
13 32 (4.46%) Java Developer
14 31 (4.32%) Architect
14 31 (4.32%) Senior DevOps
15 30 (4.18%) Java Engineer
16 28 (3.90%) Cloud Platform Engineer
17 26 (3.62%) Team Leader
18 24 (3.34%) Python Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 192 (26.74%) .NET
2 139 (19.36%) .NET Core
2 139 (19.36%) ASP.NET
3 133 (18.52%) ASP.NET Core
4 81 (11.28%) AngularJS
5 80 (11.14%) CSS
5 80 (11.14%) HTML
6 74 (10.31%) Node.js
7 73 (10.17%) ML.NET
7 73 (10.17%) React
8 71 (9.89%) Vue
9 66 (9.19%) Spring
10 57 (7.94%) Kafka
11 53 (7.38%) REST
12 49 (6.82%) RESTful
12 49 (6.82%) Spring Boot
13 24 (3.34%) Django
14 23 (3.20%) Blazor
15 22 (3.06%) .NET Framework
15 22 (3.06%) OAuth
Miscellaneous
1 206 (28.69%) Cloud Native
2 56 (7.80%) Distributed Systems
3 46 (6.41%) Product Ownership
4 22 (3.06%) Greenfield Project
5 21 (2.92%) Blog
6 20 (2.79%) Digital TV
7 19 (2.65%) Hybrid Cloud
8 18 (2.51%) Data Centre
9 17 (2.37%) Private Cloud
10 13 (1.81%) Public Cloud
11 11 (1.53%) Management Information System
12 10 (1.39%) AI Agents
13 8 (1.11%) Legacy Systems
13 8 (1.11%) Onboarding
14 7 (0.97%) IoT
15 6 (0.84%) CMDB
15 6 (0.84%) CUDA
15 6 (0.84%) PKI
15 6 (0.84%) Replication
15 6 (0.84%) Security Posture
Operating Systems
1 137 (19.08%) Linux
2 40 (5.57%) Windows
3 21 (2.92%) Windows Server
4 15 (2.09%) Ubuntu
5 9 (1.25%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 6 (0.84%) Debian
6 6 (0.84%) Unix
7 5 (0.70%) Android
7 5 (0.70%) Apple iOS
7 5 (0.70%) CentOS
8 3 (0.42%) VMS
8 3 (0.42%) Windows Server 2016
9 2 (0.28%) Mac OS
Processes & Methodologies
1 480 (66.85%) CI/CD
2 308 (42.90%) DevOps
3 262 (36.49%) Agile
4 241 (33.57%) Microservices
5 232 (32.31%) Infrastructure as Code
6 202 (28.13%) Containerisation
7 189 (26.32%) Full-Stack Development
8 188 (26.18%) Software Engineering
9 181 (25.21%) AI
10 177 (24.65%) Mentoring
11 131 (18.25%) Test Automation
12 127 (17.69%) Continuous Improvement
13 117 (16.30%) Observability
14 113 (15.74%) Platform Engineering
15 106 (14.76%) Clean Code
16 104 (14.48%) TDD
17 103 (14.35%) Machine Learning
18 98 (13.65%) Problem-Solving
19 90 (12.53%) Deployment Automation
20 83 (11.56%) Scrum
Programming Languages
1 229 (31.89%) Python
2 213 (29.67%) SQL
3 203 (28.27%) C#
4 179 (24.93%) Java
5 113 (15.74%) TypeScript
6 75 (10.45%) Bash
6 75 (10.45%) JavaScript
7 69 (9.61%) PowerShell
8 52 (7.24%) Go
9 23 (3.20%) Bicep
10 12 (1.67%) Scala
11 11 (1.53%) PL/SQL
12 10 (1.39%) PHP
13 7 (0.97%) Groovy
13 7 (0.97%) Ruby
13 7 (0.97%) Rust
14 6 (0.84%) C
14 6 (0.84%) C++
15 4 (0.56%) Kotlin
16 3 (0.42%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 91 (12.67%) Security Cleared
2 74 (10.31%) SC Cleared
3 58 (8.08%) Degree
4 42 (5.85%) Azure Certification
5 27 (3.76%) Computer Science Degree
6 25 (3.48%) AWS Certification
7 11 (1.53%) DV Cleared
8 10 (1.39%) CISSP
9 8 (1.11%) GIAC
10 6 (0.84%) CREST Certified
10 6 (0.84%) ISACA
10 6 (0.84%) OSCP
11 5 (0.70%) SANS
12 4 (0.56%) CISM
13 3 (0.42%) CEH
13 3 (0.42%) Microsoft Certification
14 2 (0.28%) ITIL Certification
14 2 (0.28%) Master's Degree
15 1 (0.14%) CompTIA Security+
15 1 (0.14%) ISO 27001 Lead Implementer
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 41 (5.71%) QA
2 22 (3.06%) Accessibility
3 18 (2.51%) NIST
4 12 (1.67%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 10 (1.39%) WCAG
6 9 (1.25%) PCI DSS
7 4 (0.56%) Data Quality
7 4 (0.56%) SOC 2
8 3 (0.42%) Cyber Essentials
8 3 (0.42%) ISO 9001
9 1 (0.14%) GDPR
9 1 (0.14%) ISO 22301
9 1 (0.14%) ISO/IEC 42001
9 1 (0.14%) PSD2
9 1 (0.14%) SEPA
9 1 (0.14%) SLA
System Software
1 449 (62.53%) Docker
2 30 (4.18%) Active Directory
3 19 (2.65%) VMware Infrastructure
4 18 (2.51%) Virtual Machines
5 4 (0.56%) Firmware
5 4 (0.56%) Slurm Workload Manager
6 3 (0.42%) Citrix Hypervisor
6 3 (0.42%) iptables
7 2 (0.28%) Kamailio
7 2 (0.28%) VMware NSX
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%) Xen
Systems Management
1 295 (41.09%) Terraform
2 121 (16.85%) Grafana
3 98 (13.65%) Ansible
4 64 (8.91%) Prometheus
5 34 (4.74%) Argo
6 21 (2.92%) Istio
6 21 (2.92%) Puppet
7 15 (2.09%) Progress Chef
8 12 (1.67%) Kustomize
9 8 (1.11%) Packer
10 7 (0.97%) Active Directory Federation Services
11 6 (0.84%) FortiGate
11 6 (0.84%) Microsoft Intune
11 6 (0.84%) Proxmox
12 5 (0.70%) Kibana
12 5 (0.70%) ZABBIX
13 3 (0.42%) linkerd
13 3 (0.42%) Nagios
14 2 (0.28%) MIIS
14 2 (0.28%) Podman
Vendors
1 208 (28.97%) Microsoft
2 38 (5.29%) Google
3 31 (4.32%) VMware
4 23 (3.20%) Oracle
5 20 (2.79%) Facebook
6 18 (2.51%) Okta
7 17 (2.37%) Red Hat
8 16 (2.23%) Splunk
9 12 (1.67%) Palo Alto
9 12 (1.67%) ServiceNow
10 9 (1.25%) Fortinet
10 9 (1.25%) Ping Identity
11 8 (1.11%) Cisco
11 8 (1.11%) Confluent
11 8 (1.11%) Databricks
11 8 (1.11%) ForgeRock
12 7 (0.97%) EMC
13 6 (0.84%) Citrix
13 6 (0.84%) F5
13 6 (0.84%) OpenAI