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

6 months to
15 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 74 39 62
Rank change year-on-year -35 +23 -36
Permanent jobs citing Kubernetes 585 1,031 1,392
As % of all permanent jobs with remote/hybrid work options 3.16% 7.05% 4.29%
As % of the Systems Management category 38.46% 47.36% 37.34%
Number of salaries quoted 369 559 1,175
10th Percentile £48,750 £51,000 £50,000
25th Percentile £57,500 £60,000 £59,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £70,000 £80,000 £75,000
Median % change year-on-year -12.50% +6.67% -
75th Percentile £85,000 £113,750 £93,750
90th Percentile £105,000 £138,750 £115,000
UK median annual salary £73,000 £82,500 £75,000
% change year-on-year -11.52% +10.00% -

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 1,521 2,177 3,728
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 8.21% 14.88% 11.50%
Number of salaries quoted 1,034 1,280 2,946
10th Percentile £37,500 £37,500 £37,101
25th Percentile £48,750 £51,250 £47,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £67,626 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year -3.88% +4.04% -6.40%
75th Percentile £81,250 £88,750 £83,750
90th Percentile £95,000 £115,000 £102,500
UK median annual salary £65,000 £67,500 £60,500
% change year-on-year -3.70% +11.57% -10.37%

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 15 May 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 (1.71%) OpenStack
2 7 (1.20%) Apache Spark
3 6 (1.03%) Apache Airflow
4 4 (0.68%) ArcGIS
4 4 (0.68%) GeoServer
4 4 (0.68%) Oracle Spatial
5 3 (0.51%) Confluence
5 3 (0.51%) Microsoft Exchange
6 2 (0.34%) Apache
6 2 (0.34%) Apache Pulsar
6 2 (0.34%) Camunda
6 2 (0.34%) nginx
7 1 (0.17%) Cloud Foundry
7 1 (0.17%) IIS
7 1 (0.17%) JBoss
7 1 (0.17%) Oracle SOA Suite
7 1 (0.17%) Red Hat Fuse
7 1 (0.17%) SAS
7 1 (0.17%) SharePoint
Applications
1 4 (0.68%) Weka
2 2 (0.34%) Chatbot
3 1 (0.17%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 1 (0.17%) Actimize
1 1 (0.17%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 343 (58.63%) AWS
2 267 (45.64%) Azure
3 160 (27.35%) GCP
4 114 (19.49%) Amazon EKS
5 113 (19.32%) GitHub
6 73 (12.48%) SaaS
7 67 (11.45%) Serverless
8 58 (9.91%) GitHub Actions
9 44 (7.52%) GitHub Copilot
10 40 (6.84%) AWS CloudFormation
11 39 (6.67%) Azure DevOps
12 37 (6.32%) Azure AKS
13 36 (6.15%) Amazon EC2
13 36 (6.15%) Amazon S3
14 31 (5.30%) AWS Lambda
15 26 (4.44%) Amazon CloudWatch
15 26 (4.44%) Amazon ECS
15 26 (4.44%) Azure AI
16 24 (4.10%) OpenShift
17 21 (3.59%) Datadog
Communications & Networking
1 48 (8.21%) Broadband
2 31 (5.30%) Firewall
3 19 (3.25%) DNS
4 18 (3.08%) VPN
5 11 (1.88%) TCP/IP
6 10 (1.71%) DHCP
7 7 (1.20%) Network Security
8 6 (1.03%) Internet
9 5 (0.85%) VLAN
10 4 (0.68%) AMQP
10 4 (0.68%) MQTT
10 4 (0.68%) WAN
11 3 (0.51%) HTTP
11 3 (0.51%) RTP
11 3 (0.51%) SAN
11 3 (0.51%) SCCP
11 3 (0.51%) Unified Communications
11 3 (0.51%) VoIP
11 3 (0.51%) Wireshark
12 2 (0.34%) iSCSI
Database & Business Intelligence
1 73 (12.48%) MongoDB
2 62 (10.60%) PostgreSQL
3 54 (9.23%) NoSQL
4 43 (7.35%) Azure SQL Database
5 39 (6.67%) Relational Database
6 37 (6.32%) SQL Server
7 30 (5.13%) Amazon RDS
8 21 (3.59%) Elasticsearch
8 21 (3.59%) MySQL
9 18 (3.08%) RDBMS
10 8 (1.37%) BigQuery
11 7 (1.20%) Amazon Aurora
11 7 (1.20%) Redis
12 6 (1.03%) Flink
13 5 (0.85%) DynamoDB
14 4 (0.68%) GIS
14 4 (0.68%) QGIS
15 3 (0.51%) Apache Cassandra
16 2 (0.34%) Neo4j
16 2 (0.34%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 77 (13.16%) TeamCity
2 67 (11.45%) Git
3 60 (10.26%) Jenkins
4 49 (8.38%) GitLab
5 18 (3.08%) Jaeger
6 12 (2.05%) Visual Studio Code
7 10 (1.71%) JIRA
8 8 (1.37%) JMeter
8 8 (1.37%) JUnit
8 8 (1.37%) Maven
9 6 (1.03%) Cucumber
9 6 (1.03%) Locust
9 6 (1.03%) Visual Studio
10 5 (0.85%) Mockito
10 5 (0.85%) SonarQube
11 4 (0.68%) Bitbucket
11 4 (0.68%) CircleCI
11 4 (0.68%) MLflow
11 4 (0.68%) Selenium
12 3 (0.51%) REST Assured
General
1 141 (24.10%) Finance
2 116 (19.83%) Social Skills
3 96 (16.41%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 90 (15.38%) Retail
5 89 (15.21%) Banking
6 79 (13.50%) Law
7 42 (7.18%) Financial Institution
8 36 (6.15%) Back Office
9 34 (5.81%) Public Sector
10 17 (2.91%) Analytical Skills
11 11 (1.88%) Advertising
11 11 (1.88%) Telecoms
12 10 (1.71%) Organisational Skills
13 9 (1.54%) Front Office
14 6 (1.03%) Aerospace
14 6 (1.03%) Military
15 5 (0.85%) Games
15 5 (0.85%) Legal
16 4 (0.68%) Marketing
16 4 (0.68%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 182 (31.11%) Senior
2 117 (20.00%) Developer
3 112 (19.15%) Software Engineer
4 109 (18.63%) Lead
5 70 (11.97%) DevOps Engineer
6 48 (8.21%) Platform Engineer
7 46 (7.86%) Azure Engineer
7 46 (7.86%) Cloud Engineer
8 40 (6.84%) .NET Developer
9 39 (6.67%) Senior Software Engineer
10 33 (5.64%) Senior Developer
11 31 (5.30%) Java Developer
11 31 (5.30%) Java Engineer
12 29 (4.96%) Cloud Platform Engineer
12 29 (4.96%) Lead Software Engineer
12 29 (4.96%) Senior DevOps
13 27 (4.62%) AWS Engineer
13 27 (4.62%) Python Engineer
13 27 (4.62%) Team Leader
14 24 (4.10%) Java Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 95 (16.24%) .NET
2 63 (10.77%) React
3 62 (10.60%) Spring
4 60 (10.26%) Kafka
5 57 (9.74%) .NET Core
6 47 (8.03%) Node.js
6 47 (8.03%) Spring Boot
7 44 (7.52%) ASP.NET
7 44 (7.52%) REST
8 42 (7.18%) ASP.NET Core
9 36 (6.15%) RESTful
10 35 (5.98%) AngularJS
11 32 (5.47%) Elastic Stack
12 25 (4.27%) CSS
12 25 (4.27%) Django
12 25 (4.27%) HTML
12 25 (4.27%) Vue
13 23 (3.93%) Akka
14 22 (3.76%) ML.NET
14 22 (3.76%) OpenTelemetry
Miscellaneous
1 172 (29.40%) Cloud Native
2 49 (8.38%) Product Ownership
3 43 (7.35%) Distributed Systems
4 24 (4.10%) Blog
5 22 (3.76%) Over-the-Top Content
5 22 (3.76%) Video\Live Streaming
6 18 (3.08%) Private Cloud
7 17 (2.91%) Hybrid Cloud
8 15 (2.56%) Data Centre
9 14 (2.39%) Onboarding
10 12 (2.05%) Public Cloud
11 11 (1.88%) AI Agents
12 9 (1.54%) Digital TV
12 9 (1.54%) Security Posture
13 8 (1.37%) Management Information System
14 7 (1.20%) Greenfield Project
14 7 (1.20%) Legacy Systems
15 6 (1.03%) Algorithms
15 6 (1.03%) CMDB
15 6 (1.03%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 132 (22.56%) Linux
2 34 (5.81%) Windows
3 20 (3.42%) Unix
4 18 (3.08%) Android
5 16 (2.74%) Windows Server
6 13 (2.22%) Apple iOS
7 12 (2.05%) Ubuntu
8 11 (1.88%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
9 7 (1.20%) CentOS
10 6 (1.03%) VMS
11 4 (0.68%) Debian
12 3 (0.51%) Windows Server 2016
13 2 (0.34%) Mac OS
Processes & Methodologies
1 370 (63.25%) CI/CD
2 313 (53.50%) DevOps
3 232 (39.66%) Agile
4 204 (34.87%) Infrastructure as Code
5 188 (32.14%) Containerisation
6 185 (31.62%) Microservices
7 162 (27.69%) Software Engineering
8 141 (24.10%) Mentoring
9 126 (21.54%) Test Automation
10 118 (20.17%) Continuous Improvement
11 102 (17.44%) AI
12 97 (16.58%) Clean Code
13 95 (16.24%) Platform Engineering
14 94 (16.07%) Observability
15 86 (14.70%) Deployment Automation
16 85 (14.53%) Full-Stack Development
17 79 (13.50%) TDD
18 76 (12.99%) Scrum
19 72 (12.31%) Problem-Solving
20 67 (11.45%) Site Reliability Engineering
Programming Languages
1 226 (38.63%) Python
2 183 (31.28%) Java
3 116 (19.83%) SQL
4 92 (15.73%) C#
5 87 (14.87%) JavaScript
6 79 (13.50%) Go
7 72 (12.31%) Bash
8 65 (11.11%) TypeScript
9 47 (8.03%) PowerShell
10 31 (5.30%) Scala
11 22 (3.76%) Bicep
12 11 (1.88%) C++
13 8 (1.37%) PHP
14 7 (1.20%) C
14 7 (1.20%) Rust
15 6 (1.03%) PL/SQL
16 4 (0.68%) Perl
17 3 (0.51%) Groovy
17 3 (0.51%) Korn
17 3 (0.51%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 73 (12.48%) Security Cleared
2 63 (10.77%) Degree
3 58 (9.91%) SC Cleared
4 45 (7.69%) Azure Certification
5 32 (5.47%) AWS Certification
6 31 (5.30%) Computer Science Degree
7 12 (2.05%) DV Cleared
8 9 (1.54%) CREST Certified
8 9 (1.54%) OSCP
9 6 (1.03%) CISSP
9 6 (1.03%) ISACA
9 6 (1.03%) Microsoft Certification
10 5 (0.85%) GIAC
10 5 (0.85%) SANS
11 3 (0.51%) LPIC
11 3 (0.51%) Master's Degree
12 2 (0.34%) ISTQB
12 2 (0.34%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
12 2 (0.34%) ITIL Certification
12 2 (0.34%) Linux+ Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 41 (7.01%) QA
2 15 (2.56%) Accessibility
3 14 (2.39%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 14 (2.39%) NIST
4 10 (1.71%) PCI DSS
5 7 (1.20%) Data Quality
6 5 (0.85%) WCAG
7 4 (0.68%) GDPR
7 4 (0.68%) SOC 2
8 3 (0.51%) ISO 9001
9 2 (0.34%) Software Quality Assurance
10 1 (0.17%) ISO/IEC 42001
10 1 (0.17%) SLA
System Software
1 347 (59.32%) Docker
2 31 (5.30%) Active Directory
3 18 (3.08%) VMware Infrastructure
4 13 (2.22%) Virtual Machines
5 6 (1.03%) VMware NSX
6 5 (0.85%) Firmware
7 4 (0.68%) Slurm Workload Manager
8 3 (0.51%) Citrix Hypervisor
8 3 (0.51%) Kamailio
9 2 (0.34%) Hyper-V
9 2 (0.34%) vSphere
10 1 (0.17%) KVM
10 1 (0.17%) QEMU
10 1 (0.17%) vCloud
10 1 (0.17%) Virtual Desktop
10 1 (0.17%) Virtual Servers
10 1 (0.17%) Xen
Systems Management
1 301 (51.45%) Terraform
2 119 (20.34%) Grafana
3 116 (19.83%) Ansible
4 74 (12.65%) Prometheus
5 42 (7.18%) Argo
6 22 (3.76%) Kustomize
7 17 (2.91%) Puppet
8 13 (2.22%) Istio
9 11 (1.88%) Progress Chef
10 8 (1.37%) Packer
11 7 (1.20%) Microsoft Intune
11 7 (1.20%) Proxmox
11 7 (1.20%) ZABBIX
12 6 (1.03%) Active Directory Federation Services
13 4 (0.68%) Kibana
13 4 (0.68%) logstash
14 3 (0.51%) FortiGate
15 2 (0.34%) MIIS
15 2 (0.34%) Nagios
15 2 (0.34%) Podman
Vendors
1 99 (16.92%) Microsoft
2 36 (6.15%) Google
3 32 (5.47%) VMware
4 19 (3.25%) Red Hat
5 13 (2.22%) Oracle
6 9 (1.54%) Okta
7 8 (1.37%) Cisco
7 8 (1.37%) Confluent
7 8 (1.37%) Palo Alto
7 8 (1.37%) ServiceNow
7 8 (1.37%) Splunk
8 7 (1.20%) Databricks
8 7 (1.20%) Fortinet
9 6 (1.03%) Citrix
9 6 (1.03%) EMC
9 6 (1.03%) F5
9 6 (1.03%) OpenAI
10 5 (0.85%) ForgeRock
11 4 (0.68%) AppDynamics
11 4 (0.68%) OneLogin