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

6 months to
23 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 72 37 62
Rank change year-on-year -35 +25 -35
Permanent jobs citing Kubernetes 586 917 1,424
As % of all permanent jobs with remote/hybrid work options 3.27% 6.85% 4.38%
As % of the Systems Management category 38.13% 50.92% 37.26%
Number of salaries quoted 381 629 1,201
10th Percentile £52,400 £51,250 £48,750
25th Percentile £60,000 £61,250 £58,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £70,079 £80,000 £75,000
Median % change year-on-year -12.40% +6.67% -
75th Percentile £88,750 £115,000 £91,934
90th Percentile £120,000 £138,750 £115,000
UK median annual salary £75,000 £82,500 £75,000
% change year-on-year -9.09% +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 1,537 1,801 3,822
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 8.58% 13.46% 11.77%
Number of salaries quoted 1,053 1,367 3,036
10th Percentile £37,500 £41,250 £37,101
25th Percentile £48,165 £52,500 £47,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £70,000 £64,000
Median % change year-on-year -7.14% +9.38% -7.84%
75th Percentile £82,500 £90,000 £83,750
90th Percentile £95,000 £115,000 £102,500
UK median annual salary £65,000 £70,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year -7.14% +16.67% -11.11%

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 23 April 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 11 (1.88%) Apache Spark
2 10 (1.71%) Apache Airflow
2 10 (1.71%) OpenStack
3 5 (0.85%) Apache Pulsar
3 5 (0.85%) ArcGIS
3 5 (0.85%) GeoServer
3 5 (0.85%) Oracle Spatial
4 4 (0.68%) Microsoft Exchange
5 3 (0.51%) Apache
5 3 (0.51%) Confluence
6 2 (0.34%) Anypoint
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%) 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 2 (0.34%) Shopify
2 1 (0.17%) Actimize
Cloud Services
1 362 (61.77%) AWS
2 255 (43.52%) Azure
3 171 (29.18%) GCP
4 117 (19.97%) Amazon EKS
5 102 (17.41%) GitHub
6 72 (12.29%) SaaS
7 67 (11.43%) GitHub Actions
7 67 (11.43%) Serverless
8 44 (7.51%) Azure DevOps
9 43 (7.34%) Azure AKS
10 42 (7.17%) AWS CloudFormation
11 40 (6.83%) Amazon S3
12 36 (6.14%) Amazon CloudWatch
13 35 (5.97%) Amazon EC2
13 35 (5.97%) AWS Lambda
13 35 (5.97%) OpenShift
14 27 (4.61%) Amazon ECS
15 24 (4.10%) Datadog
16 19 (3.24%) Pulumi
17 18 (3.07%) PaaS
Communications & Networking
1 44 (7.51%) Broadband
2 34 (5.80%) Firewall
3 17 (2.90%) VPN
4 16 (2.73%) DNS
5 10 (1.71%) DHCP
6 9 (1.54%) TCP/IP
7 6 (1.02%) Network Security
8 5 (0.85%) WAN
9 4 (0.68%) AMQP
9 4 (0.68%) MQTT
10 3 (0.51%) HTTP
10 3 (0.51%) Internet
10 3 (0.51%) RTP
10 3 (0.51%) SAN
10 3 (0.51%) SCCP
10 3 (0.51%) Unified Communications
10 3 (0.51%) VLAN
10 3 (0.51%) VoIP
10 3 (0.51%) Wireshark
11 2 (0.34%) SSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 77 (13.14%) PostgreSQL
2 59 (10.07%) NoSQL
3 47 (8.02%) SQL Server
4 41 (7.00%) MongoDB
5 39 (6.66%) Relational Database
6 31 (5.29%) Amazon RDS
7 19 (3.24%) RDBMS
8 18 (3.07%) MySQL
9 12 (2.05%) Azure SQL Database
10 10 (1.71%) Elasticsearch
11 9 (1.54%) BigQuery
11 9 (1.54%) Flink
12 8 (1.37%) Amazon Aurora
13 7 (1.19%) Redis
14 6 (1.02%) DynamoDB
15 5 (0.85%) GIS
15 5 (0.85%) Power BI
15 5 (0.85%) QGIS
16 4 (0.68%) Data Warehouse
17 3 (0.51%) MariaDB
Development Applications
1 73 (12.46%) TeamCity
2 72 (12.29%) Git
2 72 (12.29%) Jenkins
3 56 (9.56%) GitLab
4 19 (3.24%) Jaeger
5 14 (2.39%) Cucumber
6 13 (2.22%) Visual Studio Code
7 12 (2.05%) Selenium
8 11 (1.88%) JUnit
9 10 (1.71%) JIRA
10 9 (1.54%) JMeter
11 7 (1.19%) SonarQube
12 6 (1.02%) CircleCI
12 6 (1.02%) Locust
12 6 (1.02%) Visual Studio
13 5 (0.85%) Bitbucket
14 4 (0.68%) MLflow
14 4 (0.68%) Robot Framework
15 3 (0.51%) Maven
15 3 (0.51%) REST Assured
General
1 137 (23.38%) Finance
2 134 (22.87%) Social Skills
3 90 (15.36%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 85 (14.51%) Banking
5 82 (13.99%) Retail
6 77 (13.14%) Law
7 42 (7.17%) Financial Institution
8 35 (5.97%) Public Sector
9 33 (5.63%) Back Office
10 22 (3.75%) Telecoms
11 16 (2.73%) Analytical Skills
12 12 (2.05%) Front Office
13 8 (1.37%) Organisational Skills
14 7 (1.19%) Legal
14 7 (1.19%) Military
15 6 (1.02%) Advertising
16 5 (0.85%) Esports
16 5 (0.85%) Manufacturing
17 4 (0.68%) Aviation
17 4 (0.68%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 188 (32.08%) Senior
2 116 (19.80%) Software Engineer
3 114 (19.45%) Lead
4 91 (15.53%) Developer
5 79 (13.48%) DevOps Engineer
6 56 (9.56%) Cloud Engineer
7 48 (8.19%) Azure Engineer
8 46 (7.85%) Platform Engineer
9 41 (7.00%) Senior Software Engineer
10 37 (6.31%) Senior Developer
11 32 (5.46%) Infrastructure Engineer
12 31 (5.29%) Java Engineer
12 31 (5.29%) Python Engineer
13 30 (5.12%) AWS Engineer
14 28 (4.78%) Cloud Platform Engineer
15 27 (4.61%) Lead Software Engineer
15 27 (4.61%) Senior DevOps
16 25 (4.27%) Java Developer
17 24 (4.10%) Lead DevOps
17 24 (4.10%) Team Leader
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 70 (11.95%) .NET
2 69 (11.77%) Kafka
3 67 (11.43%) Spring
4 66 (11.26%) React
5 54 (9.22%) Spring Boot
6 47 (8.02%) RESTful
7 46 (7.85%) REST
8 45 (7.68%) Elastic Stack
9 42 (7.17%) Node.js
10 34 (5.80%) Django
11 26 (4.44%) .NET Core
12 25 (4.27%) Akka
13 23 (3.92%) AngularJS
13 23 (3.92%) Flask
14 22 (3.75%) OpenTelemetry
14 22 (3.75%) RabbitMQ
15 21 (3.58%) gRPC
16 20 (3.41%) FastAPI
16 20 (3.41%) OAuth
17 14 (2.39%) ASP.NET
Miscellaneous
1 179 (30.55%) Cloud Native
2 48 (8.19%) Distributed Systems
3 42 (7.17%) Product Ownership
4 23 (3.92%) Over-the-Top Content
4 23 (3.92%) Video\Live Streaming
5 22 (3.75%) Blog
6 17 (2.90%) Hybrid Cloud
6 17 (2.90%) Legacy Systems
6 17 (2.90%) Private Cloud
7 16 (2.73%) Onboarding
8 15 (2.56%) AI Agents
9 13 (2.22%) Data Centre
10 12 (2.05%) Public Cloud
11 9 (1.54%) Security Posture
11 9 (1.54%) Virtual Team
12 8 (1.37%) Management Information System
13 7 (1.19%) Fixed Income
14 6 (1.02%) Algorithms
14 6 (1.02%) CUDA
14 6 (1.02%) Distributed Architecture
Operating Systems
1 133 (22.70%) Linux
2 37 (6.31%) Windows
3 26 (4.44%) Unix
4 23 (3.92%) Android
5 15 (2.56%) Windows Server
6 14 (2.39%) Apple iOS
6 14 (2.39%) Ubuntu
7 12 (2.05%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
8 9 (1.54%) CentOS
9 8 (1.37%) VMS
10 4 (0.68%) Debian
11 3 (0.51%) Windows Server 2016
12 2 (0.34%) Mac OS
Processes & Methodologies
1 364 (62.12%) CI/CD
2 333 (56.83%) DevOps
3 226 (38.57%) Agile
4 224 (38.23%) Containerisation
5 208 (35.49%) Infrastructure as Code
6 174 (29.69%) Microservices
7 161 (27.47%) Software Engineering
8 128 (21.84%) Mentoring
9 127 (21.67%) Test Automation
10 116 (19.80%) Continuous Improvement
11 98 (16.72%) Observability
12 96 (16.38%) Platform Engineering
13 89 (15.19%) Clean Code
14 86 (14.68%) AI
15 84 (14.33%) Problem-Solving
16 80 (13.65%) Deployment Automation
17 76 (12.97%) Site Reliability Engineering
18 69 (11.77%) TDD
19 64 (10.92%) Scrum
20 63 (10.75%) High Availability
Programming Languages
1 248 (42.32%) Python
2 189 (32.25%) Java
3 92 (15.70%) Go
4 91 (15.53%) JavaScript
5 84 (14.33%) SQL
6 71 (12.12%) Bash
7 62 (10.58%) C#
8 52 (8.87%) TypeScript
9 43 (7.34%) PowerShell
10 33 (5.63%) Scala
11 28 (4.78%) Bicep
12 16 (2.73%) C++
13 9 (1.54%) PHP
14 8 (1.37%) Delphi
15 7 (1.19%) C
15 7 (1.19%) Rust
16 4 (0.68%) Perl
17 3 (0.51%) Korn
17 3 (0.51%) Shell Script
17 3 (0.51%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 78 (13.31%) Security Cleared
2 76 (12.97%) Degree
3 60 (10.24%) SC Cleared
4 44 (7.51%) Computer Science Degree
5 39 (6.66%) Azure Certification
6 30 (5.12%) AWS Certification
7 16 (2.73%) DV Cleared
8 8 (1.37%) CREST Certified
8 8 (1.37%) OSCP
9 6 (1.02%) CISSP
9 6 (1.02%) ISACA
9 6 (1.02%) 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 38 (6.48%) QA
2 16 (2.73%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 14 (2.39%) NIST
4 13 (2.22%) Accessibility
5 11 (1.88%) PCI DSS
6 10 (1.71%) Data Quality
7 6 (1.02%) GDPR
8 5 (0.85%) SOC 2
8 5 (0.85%) WCAG
9 3 (0.51%) ISO 9001
10 2 (0.34%) ECSS
10 2 (0.34%) Software Quality Assurance
11 1 (0.17%) GRC
11 1 (0.17%) ISO/IEC 42001
11 1 (0.17%) MiFID
System Software
1 347 (59.22%) Docker
2 30 (5.12%) Active Directory
3 16 (2.73%) VMware Infrastructure
4 13 (2.22%) Virtual Machines
5 7 (1.19%) VMware NSX
6 5 (0.85%) Firmware
7 4 (0.68%) Hyper-V
7 4 (0.68%) Slurm Workload Manager
8 3 (0.51%) Citrix Hypervisor
8 3 (0.51%) Kamailio
8 3 (0.51%) vSphere
9 1 (0.17%) KVM
9 1 (0.17%) QEMU
9 1 (0.17%) vCloud
9 1 (0.17%) Virtual Desktop
9 1 (0.17%) Virtual Servers
9 1 (0.17%) Xen
Systems Management
1 300 (51.19%) Terraform
2 132 (22.53%) Grafana
3 123 (20.99%) Ansible
4 83 (14.16%) Prometheus
5 48 (8.19%) Argo
6 23 (3.92%) Kustomize
7 18 (3.07%) Puppet
8 12 (2.05%) Istio
9 9 (1.54%) Progress Chef
10 7 (1.19%) Microsoft Intune
10 7 (1.19%) Proxmox
10 7 (1.19%) ZABBIX
11 6 (1.02%) Active Directory Federation Services
11 6 (1.02%) Packer
12 5 (0.85%) Kibana
13 4 (0.68%) logstash
14 2 (0.34%) FortiGate
14 2 (0.34%) MIIS
14 2 (0.34%) Nagios
14 2 (0.34%) Podman
Vendors
1 68 (11.60%) Microsoft
2 37 (6.31%) Google
3 32 (5.46%) VMware
4 23 (3.92%) Red Hat
5 19 (3.24%) Oracle
6 12 (2.05%) Splunk
7 9 (1.54%) Okta
8 8 (1.37%) Confluent
8 8 (1.37%) Databricks
9 7 (1.19%) Cisco
9 7 (1.19%) Dell
10 6 (1.02%) OpenAI
10 6 (1.02%) ServiceNow
11 5 (0.85%) AppDynamics
11 5 (0.85%) EMC
11 5 (0.85%) F5
11 5 (0.85%) ForgeRock
11 5 (0.85%) Fortinet
11 5 (0.85%) Mavenir
11 5 (0.85%) Palo Alto