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

6 months to
16 Oct 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 77 82 50
Rank change year-on-year +5 -32 -20
Permanent jobs citing Kubernetes 806 693 1,030
As % of all permanent jobs with remote/hybrid work options 3.20% 4.22% 4.98%
As % of the Systems Management category 45.77% 41.85% 46.61%
Number of salaries quoted 504 330 585
10th Percentile £46,250 £48,750 £52,522
25th Percentile £52,500 £58,750 £61,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £72,500 £75,000
Median % change year-on-year -10.34% -3.33% -
75th Percentile £85,000 £87,500 £93,750
90th Percentile £96,750 £107,500 £112,500
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 1,761 1,656 2,210
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 7.00% 10.08% 10.69%
Number of salaries quoted 1,237 855 1,259
10th Percentile £33,750 £31,500 £37,500
25th Percentile £45,000 £44,375 £47,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £64,000 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year -6.25% -1.54% -2.99%
75th Percentile £75,000 £82,500 £86,000
90th Percentile £94,750 £97,500 £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 16 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 (1.24%) Apache Spark
2 7 (0.87%) Apache Airflow
2 7 (0.87%) Oracle SOA Suite
2 7 (0.87%) WebLogic
3 6 (0.74%) Confluence
3 6 (0.74%) nginx
4 5 (0.62%) Apache
4 5 (0.62%) Camunda
4 5 (0.62%) IIS
5 4 (0.50%) ArcGIS
5 4 (0.50%) GeoServer
5 4 (0.50%) Oracle Spatial
6 2 (0.25%) Ethereum
6 2 (0.25%) Hedera
7 1 (0.12%) JBoss
7 1 (0.12%) OpenStack
7 1 (0.12%) Oracle Coherence
7 1 (0.12%) Red Hat Fuse
Applications
1 12 (1.49%) Chatbot
2 1 (0.12%) Lightworks
Business Applications
1 2 (0.25%) Distributed Ledger
1 2 (0.25%) SAP S/4HANA
2 1 (0.12%) Actimize
2 1 (0.12%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
Cloud Services
1 467 (57.94%) AWS
2 422 (52.36%) Azure
3 256 (31.76%) GCP
4 216 (26.80%) GitHub
5 144 (17.87%) GitHub Copilot
6 122 (15.14%) SaaS
7 115 (14.27%) Amazon EKS
8 78 (9.68%) Azure AI
9 51 (6.33%) GitHub Actions
10 49 (6.08%) Azure DevOps
11 46 (5.71%) Serverless
12 45 (5.58%) Azure AKS
13 41 (5.09%) AWS CloudFormation
14 40 (4.96%) OpenShift
15 33 (4.09%) Google Kubernetes Engine
16 32 (3.97%) Virtual Private Cloud
17 24 (2.98%) Amazon EC2
18 21 (2.61%) Azure Monitor
18 21 (2.61%) Azure Service Bus
18 21 (2.61%) Google Compute Engine
Communications & Networking
1 39 (4.84%) VPN
2 25 (3.10%) BGP
2 25 (3.10%) TCP/IP
3 24 (2.98%) Firewall
4 23 (2.85%) Internet
5 22 (2.73%) Network Security
6 18 (2.23%) DNS
7 17 (2.11%) Broadband
8 15 (1.86%) VLAN
9 6 (0.74%) OSPF
9 6 (0.74%) VXLAN
10 4 (0.50%) HTTP
11 3 (0.37%) DHCP
12 2 (0.25%) Unified Communications
12 2 (0.25%) WAN
13 1 (0.12%) AMQP
13 1 (0.12%) MQTT
13 1 (0.12%) SSH
Database & Business Intelligence
1 170 (21.09%) MongoDB
2 149 (18.49%) Azure SQL Database
3 102 (12.66%) PostgreSQL
4 47 (5.83%) Elasticsearch
5 41 (5.09%) Amazon RDS
6 39 (4.84%) NoSQL
7 24 (2.98%) SQL Server
8 23 (2.85%) Relational Database
9 22 (2.73%) MySQL
10 11 (1.36%) Data Warehouse
10 11 (1.36%) Redis
11 8 (0.99%) BigQuery
12 6 (0.74%) Delta Lake
12 6 (0.74%) Power BI
13 5 (0.62%) Flink
13 5 (0.62%) Looker
13 5 (0.62%) Metadata
13 5 (0.62%) Tableau
14 4 (0.50%) Apache Cassandra
14 4 (0.50%) Big Data
Development Applications
1 103 (12.78%) TeamCity
2 79 (9.80%) Git
3 54 (6.70%) Jenkins
4 41 (5.09%) GitLab
5 35 (4.34%) JUnit
6 24 (2.98%) Mockito
7 18 (2.23%) JIRA
8 17 (2.11%) Maven
9 16 (1.99%) Selenium
10 11 (1.36%) Postman
11 9 (1.12%) Bitbucket
12 8 (0.99%) Atlassian Bamboo
12 8 (0.99%) Cucumber
12 8 (0.99%) SonarQube
13 6 (0.74%) Gatling
13 6 (0.74%) Octopus Deploy
14 4 (0.50%) Cypress.io
14 4 (0.50%) Subversion
14 4 (0.50%) Vagrant
14 4 (0.50%) Visual Studio Code
General
1 212 (26.30%) Finance
2 149 (18.49%) Social Skills
3 129 (16.00%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 125 (15.51%) Retail
5 119 (14.76%) Law
6 115 (14.27%) Banking
7 80 (9.93%) Financial Institution
8 78 (9.68%) Back Office
9 75 (9.31%) Public Sector
10 34 (4.22%) Advertising
11 33 (4.09%) Analytical Skills
12 19 (2.36%) Aerospace
12 19 (2.36%) Marketing
13 13 (1.61%) Games
14 9 (1.12%) Legal
15 6 (0.74%) Telecoms
16 3 (0.37%) Aviation
16 3 (0.37%) Front Office
16 3 (0.37%) Military
16 3 (0.37%) Police
Job Titles
1 234 (29.03%) Senior
2 223 (27.67%) Developer
3 159 (19.73%) Software Engineer
4 140 (17.37%) .NET Developer
5 79 (9.80%) DevOps Engineer
6 69 (8.56%) Lead
7 58 (7.20%) Cloud Engineer
8 53 (6.58%) Architect
9 45 (5.58%) Senior Developer
9 45 (5.58%) Senior Software Engineer
10 44 (5.46%) Java Engineer
11 42 (5.21%) Platform Engineer
12 31 (3.85%) Azure Engineer
13 29 (3.60%) Java Developer
14 27 (3.35%) Java Software Engineer
14 27 (3.35%) Lead Software Engineer
15 26 (3.23%) Senior DevOps
16 25 (3.10%) Full-Stack Developer
16 25 (3.10%) GCP Engineer
16 25 (3.10%) Senior Java Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 318 (39.45%) Terraform
2 209 (25.93%) .NET
3 145 (17.99%) .NET Core
3 145 (17.99%) ASP.NET
4 141 (17.49%) ASP.NET Core
5 100 (12.41%) Node.js
6 91 (11.29%) React
7 86 (10.67%) CSS
8 85 (10.55%) HTML
9 82 (10.17%) Spring
10 81 (10.05%) AngularJS
11 76 (9.43%) ML.NET
12 68 (8.44%) Vue
13 62 (7.69%) REST
14 57 (7.07%) Spring Boot
15 56 (6.95%) RESTful
16 54 (6.70%) Kafka
17 35 (4.34%) OpenTelemetry
18 29 (3.60%) Blazor
19 19 (2.36%) .NET Framework
Miscellaneous
1 252 (31.27%) Cloud Native
2 82 (10.17%) Distributed Systems
3 61 (7.57%) Product Ownership
4 49 (6.08%) Blog
5 28 (3.47%) Greenfield Project
6 22 (2.73%) Security Posture
7 21 (2.61%) Digital TV
8 20 (2.48%) AI Agents
9 18 (2.23%) Management Information System
10 15 (1.86%) Enterprise Software
11 14 (1.74%) Legacy Systems
12 12 (1.49%) Data Centre
12 12 (1.49%) Self-Motivation
13 10 (1.24%) Cyber Threat
13 10 (1.24%) Public Cloud
13 10 (1.24%) Replication
14 9 (1.12%) Cyber Defence
14 9 (1.12%) IoT
15 8 (0.99%) Cyber Kill Chain
15 8 (0.99%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 122 (15.14%) Linux
2 32 (3.97%) Windows
3 13 (1.61%) Ubuntu
3 13 (1.61%) Windows Server
4 11 (1.36%) Apple iOS
5 7 (0.87%) Android
6 4 (0.50%) macOS
7 3 (0.37%) Debian
8 1 (0.12%) CentOS
8 1 (0.12%) Unix
8 1 (0.12%) VMS
8 1 (0.12%) Windows Server 2016
Processes & Methodologies
1 551 (68.36%) CI/CD
2 310 (38.46%) DevOps
3 292 (36.23%) Microservices
4 288 (35.73%) Agile
5 244 (30.27%) Software Engineering
6 232 (28.78%) AI
7 225 (27.92%) Mentoring
8 217 (26.92%) Full-Stack Development
9 211 (26.18%) Infrastructure as Code
10 193 (23.95%) Containerisation
11 160 (19.85%) Test Automation
12 146 (18.11%) Observability
13 143 (17.74%) Continuous Improvement
14 140 (17.37%) Problem-Solving
15 129 (16.00%) Machine Learning
16 125 (15.51%) Clean Code
17 121 (15.01%) Fintech
18 112 (13.90%) TDD
19 102 (12.66%) Platform Engineering
20 101 (12.53%) Deployment Automation
Programming Languages
1 259 (32.13%) SQL
2 253 (31.39%) Python
3 252 (31.27%) Java
4 214 (26.55%) C#
5 126 (15.63%) TypeScript
6 100 (12.41%) JavaScript
7 98 (12.16%) Bash
8 71 (8.81%) Go
9 69 (8.56%) PowerShell
10 25 (3.10%) Bicep
11 16 (1.99%) Scala
12 14 (1.74%) PL/SQL
13 9 (1.12%) Kotlin
14 8 (0.99%) PHP
14 8 (0.99%) Ruby
15 6 (0.74%) Groovy
15 6 (0.74%) Shell Script
16 4 (0.50%) C
16 4 (0.50%) Rust
17 3 (0.37%) Swift
Qualifications
1 131 (16.25%) Security Cleared
2 110 (13.65%) SC Cleared
3 51 (6.33%) Degree
4 32 (3.97%) Azure Certification
5 21 (2.61%) Computer Science Degree
6 19 (2.36%) AWS Certification
7 15 (1.86%) CISSP
8 14 (1.74%) CISM
9 11 (1.36%) DV Cleared
10 9 (1.12%) (ISC)2 CCSP
10 9 (1.12%) Cisco Certification
10 9 (1.12%) GIAC
11 8 (0.99%) BPSS Clearance
11 8 (0.99%) CCSP
12 5 (0.62%) CEH
12 5 (0.62%) OCP
12 5 (0.62%) Oracle Certification
13 4 (0.50%) GCFA
13 4 (0.50%) Microsoft Certification
13 4 (0.50%) OSCP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 29 (3.60%) PCI DSS
2 28 (3.47%) NIST
2 28 (3.47%) QA
3 26 (3.23%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 25 (3.10%) Accessibility
5 19 (2.36%) SOC 2
6 8 (0.99%) Data Quality
6 8 (0.99%) WCAG
7 6 (0.74%) Cyber Essentials
8 5 (0.62%) GDPR
9 4 (0.50%) NCSC
10 1 (0.12%) California Consumer Privacy Act
10 1 (0.12%) HIPAA
10 1 (0.12%) ISO 22301
10 1 (0.12%) PSD2
10 1 (0.12%) SEPA
10 1 (0.12%) SLA
System Software
1 502 (62.28%) Docker
2 18 (2.23%) Virtual Machines
3 13 (1.61%) Active Directory
4 11 (1.36%) VMware Infrastructure
5 3 (0.37%) iptables
6 1 (0.12%) HDFS
6 1 (0.12%) Hyper-V
Systems Management
1 157 (19.48%) Grafana
2 70 (8.68%) Ansible
3 67 (8.31%) Prometheus
4 31 (3.85%) Argo
5 19 (2.36%) Istio
6 13 (1.61%) Progress Chef
6 13 (1.61%) Puppet
7 11 (1.36%) Cilium
7 11 (1.36%) Single Sign-On
8 9 (1.12%) Kustomize
9 7 (0.87%) Packer
10 6 (0.74%) FortiGate
11 4 (0.50%) linkerd
12 3 (0.37%) Microsoft Intune
13 2 (0.25%) CASB
13 2 (0.25%) Microsoft Data Protection Manager
13 2 (0.25%) Proxmox
13 2 (0.25%) SCCM
13 2 (0.25%) SCOM
13 2 (0.25%) WSUS
Vendors
1 215 (26.67%) Microsoft
2 77 (9.55%) Google
3 37 (4.59%) Oracle
4 31 (3.85%) Splunk
5 25 (3.10%) OpenAI
6 20 (2.48%) Red Hat
7 19 (2.36%) Facebook
8 15 (1.86%) Okta
8 15 (1.86%) Ping Identity
8 15 (1.86%) VMware
9 12 (1.49%) Databricks
10 11 (1.36%) Dynatrace
11 10 (1.24%) New Relic
12 8 (0.99%) Palo Alto
13 7 (0.87%) ServiceNow
14 6 (0.74%) Fortinet
14 6 (0.74%) Zscaler
15 5 (0.62%) CrowdStrike
15 5 (0.62%) ForgeRock
15 5 (0.62%) Qualys