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

6 months to
11 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 81 76 70
Rank change year-on-year -5 -6 -42
Permanent jobs citing Kubernetes 747 754 924
As % of all permanent jobs with remote/hybrid work options 3.12% 4.64% 3.94%
As % of the Systems Management category 45.00% 44.38% 40.26%
Number of salaries quoted 520 366 630
10th Percentile £46,250 £48,750 £52,500
25th Percentile £52,500 £60,000 £61,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £75,000 £75,500
Median % change year-on-year -13.33% -0.66% +0.67%
75th Percentile £85,000 £89,688 £95,000
90th Percentile £97,500 £114,375 £118,750
UK median annual salary £70,000 £77,500 £76,500
% change year-on-year -9.68% +1.31% +2.00%

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 1,660 1,699 2,295
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 6.92% 10.46% 9.78%
Number of salaries quoted 1,216 894 1,408
10th Percentile £35,000 £33,650 £36,500
25th Percentile £46,250 £45,000 £47,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £65,000 £62,891
Median % change year-on-year -7.69% +3.35% -9.44%
75th Percentile £75,000 £82,751 £86,250
90th Percentile £95,000 £100,000 £105,000
UK median annual salary £60,000 £60,625 £63,750
% change year-on-year -1.03% -4.90% -1.92%

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 11 September 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 (1.47%) Apache Spark
2 7 (0.94%) Apache Airflow
2 7 (0.94%) Oracle SOA Suite
3 6 (0.80%) IIS
4 5 (0.67%) nginx
4 5 (0.67%) OpenStack
5 4 (0.54%) ArcGIS
5 4 (0.54%) Camunda
5 4 (0.54%) Confluence
5 4 (0.54%) GeoServer
5 4 (0.54%) Oracle Spatial
6 2 (0.27%) Apache
7 1 (0.13%) Cloud Foundry
7 1 (0.13%) JBoss
7 1 (0.13%) Microsoft Exchange
7 1 (0.13%) Oracle Coherence
7 1 (0.13%) Red Hat Fuse
Applications
1 12 (1.61%) Chatbot
2 1 (0.13%) Lightworks
Business Applications
1 2 (0.27%) SAP S/4HANA
2 1 (0.13%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
Cloud Services
1 425 (56.89%) AWS
2 422 (56.49%) Azure
3 208 (27.84%) GCP
4 205 (27.44%) GitHub
5 141 (18.88%) GitHub Copilot
6 90 (12.05%) Amazon EKS
7 77 (10.31%) SaaS
8 76 (10.17%) Azure AI
9 52 (6.96%) Serverless
10 48 (6.43%) GitHub Actions
11 47 (6.29%) Azure DevOps
11 47 (6.29%) OpenShift
12 46 (6.16%) AWS CloudFormation
13 42 (5.62%) Azure AKS
14 28 (3.75%) Amazon EC2
15 22 (2.95%) Amazon S3
16 21 (2.81%) Amazon ECS
17 19 (2.54%) AWS Lambda
17 19 (2.54%) Azure Service Bus
18 18 (2.41%) Virtual Private Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 22 (2.95%) DNS
2 21 (2.81%) Firewall
3 20 (2.68%) Internet
3 20 (2.68%) VPN
4 17 (2.28%) Broadband
5 14 (1.87%) TCP/IP
6 9 (1.20%) Network Security
7 8 (1.07%) BGP
7 8 (1.07%) VLAN
8 7 (0.94%) DHCP
9 6 (0.80%) OSPF
9 6 (0.80%) VXLAN
10 5 (0.67%) WAN
11 4 (0.54%) HTTP
12 2 (0.27%) LAN
12 2 (0.27%) SAN
12 2 (0.27%) WireGuard
13 1 (0.13%) MQTT
13 1 (0.13%) Remote Desktop
13 1 (0.13%) SSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 162 (21.69%) MongoDB
2 142 (19.01%) Azure SQL Database
3 76 (10.17%) PostgreSQL
4 47 (6.29%) Elasticsearch
5 35 (4.69%) NoSQL
6 28 (3.75%) SQL Server
7 25 (3.35%) MySQL
8 24 (3.21%) Relational Database
9 20 (2.68%) Amazon RDS
10 11 (1.47%) Data Warehouse
11 6 (0.80%) Delta Lake
11 6 (0.80%) DynamoDB
12 5 (0.67%) Metadata
12 5 (0.67%) Power BI
12 5 (0.67%) Tableau
13 4 (0.54%) Apache Cassandra
13 4 (0.54%) Big Data
13 4 (0.54%) GIS
13 4 (0.54%) QGIS
13 4 (0.54%) Redis
Development Applications
1 91 (12.18%) Git
2 61 (8.17%) TeamCity
3 53 (7.10%) Jenkins
4 49 (6.56%) GitLab
5 28 (3.75%) JUnit
6 18 (2.41%) Maven
7 17 (2.28%) Selenium
8 16 (2.14%) Mockito
9 15 (2.01%) JIRA
10 12 (1.61%) Postman
11 11 (1.47%) Visual Studio Code
12 10 (1.34%) Atlassian Bamboo
13 9 (1.20%) Bitbucket
13 9 (1.20%) Cucumber
13 9 (1.20%) SonarQube
14 6 (0.80%) Gatling
14 6 (0.80%) Octopus Deploy
15 5 (0.67%) Subversion
16 4 (0.54%) NUnit
17 3 (0.40%) Cypress.io
General
1 181 (24.23%) Finance
2 127 (17.00%) Social Skills
3 87 (11.65%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 85 (11.38%) Banking
5 83 (11.11%) Retail
6 81 (10.84%) Law
7 66 (8.84%) Public Sector
8 48 (6.43%) Financial Institution
9 47 (6.29%) Back Office
10 36 (4.82%) Advertising
11 24 (3.21%) Analytical Skills
12 21 (2.81%) Aerospace
12 21 (2.81%) Marketing
13 13 (1.74%) Games
14 10 (1.34%) Legal
15 6 (0.80%) Organisational Skills
15 6 (0.80%) Telecoms
16 3 (0.40%) Aviation
16 3 (0.40%) Front Office
16 3 (0.40%) Manufacturing
Job Titles
1 218 (29.18%) Developer
2 200 (26.77%) Senior
3 135 (18.07%) .NET Developer
4 124 (16.60%) Software Engineer
5 79 (10.58%) DevOps Engineer
6 68 (9.10%) Lead
7 53 (7.10%) Cloud Engineer
8 48 (6.43%) Architect
9 47 (6.29%) Platform Engineer
10 43 (5.76%) Azure Engineer
11 40 (5.35%) Senior Developer
12 33 (4.42%) Senior Software Engineer
13 31 (4.15%) Java Developer
14 28 (3.75%) Cloud Platform Engineer
15 27 (3.61%) Java Engineer
16 25 (3.35%) AWS Engineer
17 24 (3.21%) Full-Stack Developer
17 24 (3.21%) Lead Software Engineer
17 24 (3.21%) Senior DevOps
17 24 (3.21%) Team Leader
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 289 (38.69%) Terraform
2 201 (26.91%) .NET
3 142 (19.01%) ASP.NET
4 140 (18.74%) .NET Core
5 136 (18.21%) ASP.NET Core
6 97 (12.99%) Node.js
7 83 (11.11%) AngularJS
8 82 (10.98%) React
9 81 (10.84%) CSS
9 81 (10.84%) HTML
10 74 (9.91%) ML.NET
11 69 (9.24%) Vue
12 68 (9.10%) Spring
13 63 (8.43%) REST
14 55 (7.36%) Kafka
15 46 (6.16%) RESTful
16 44 (5.89%) Spring Boot
17 29 (3.88%) Blazor
18 21 (2.81%) Django
19 20 (2.68%) OpenTelemetry
Miscellaneous
1 196 (26.24%) Cloud Native
2 58 (7.76%) Distributed Systems
3 51 (6.83%) Product Ownership
4 25 (3.35%) Blog
4 25 (3.35%) Greenfield Project
5 20 (2.68%) Digital TV
6 17 (2.28%) AI Agents
7 16 (2.14%) Data Centre
8 14 (1.87%) Legacy Systems
8 14 (1.87%) Public Cloud
9 13 (1.74%) Self-Motivation
10 12 (1.61%) Hybrid Cloud
11 11 (1.47%) Private Cloud
12 9 (1.20%) IoT
12 9 (1.20%) PKI
13 8 (1.07%) Cyber Kill Chain
13 8 (1.07%) Enterprise Software
13 8 (1.07%) Management Information System
13 8 (1.07%) Mobile App
13 8 (1.07%) Replication
Operating Systems
1 133 (17.80%) Linux
2 44 (5.89%) Windows
3 22 (2.95%) Windows Server
4 16 (2.14%) Ubuntu
5 8 (1.07%) Apple iOS
6 7 (0.94%) Android
7 6 (0.80%) CentOS
7 6 (0.80%) Debian
7 6 (0.80%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
8 3 (0.40%) Mac OS
8 3 (0.40%) VMS
9 2 (0.27%) Windows Server 2016
Processes & Methodologies
1 492 (65.86%) CI/CD
2 291 (38.96%) DevOps
3 268 (35.88%) Agile
4 245 (32.80%) Microservices
5 212 (28.38%) Infrastructure as Code
6 211 (28.25%) AI
7 204 (27.31%) Full-Stack Development
8 203 (27.18%) Software Engineering
9 196 (26.24%) Mentoring
10 187 (25.03%) Containerisation
11 138 (18.47%) Test Automation
12 130 (17.40%) Continuous Improvement
13 128 (17.14%) Observability
14 120 (16.06%) Machine Learning
15 109 (14.59%) Platform Engineering
16 107 (14.32%) Problem-Solving
17 104 (13.92%) TDD
18 100 (13.39%) Clean Code
19 88 (11.78%) Scrum
20 78 (10.44%) Deployment Automation
Programming Languages
1 227 (30.39%) Python
2 223 (29.85%) SQL
3 207 (27.71%) C#
4 178 (23.83%) Java
5 115 (15.39%) TypeScript
6 93 (12.45%) JavaScript
7 80 (10.71%) Bash
8 72 (9.64%) PowerShell
9 43 (5.76%) Go
10 24 (3.21%) Bicep
11 15 (2.01%) PL/SQL
12 14 (1.87%) Scala
13 9 (1.20%) PHP
14 8 (1.07%) Kotlin
14 8 (1.07%) Ruby
15 7 (0.94%) Groovy
16 4 (0.54%) C++
16 4 (0.54%) Rust
17 3 (0.40%) Swift
17 3 (0.40%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 125 (16.73%) Security Cleared
2 99 (13.25%) SC Cleared
3 55 (7.36%) Degree
4 39 (5.22%) Azure Certification
5 26 (3.48%) Computer Science Degree
6 17 (2.28%) AWS Certification
6 17 (2.28%) DV Cleared
7 8 (1.07%) CISSP
8 7 (0.94%) BPSS Clearance
8 7 (0.94%) GIAC
9 6 (0.80%) CISM
10 5 (0.67%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
10 5 (0.67%) CEH
11 4 (0.54%) CREST Certified
11 4 (0.54%) Microsoft Certification
11 4 (0.54%) OCP
11 4 (0.54%) Oracle Certification
11 4 (0.54%) OSCP
12 3 (0.40%) AWS Certified Developer
13 2 (0.27%) Master's Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 31 (4.15%) QA
2 23 (3.08%) Accessibility
3 18 (2.41%) NIST
4 10 (1.34%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 9 (1.20%) WCAG
6 7 (0.94%) PCI DSS
7 5 (0.67%) Cyber Essentials
7 5 (0.67%) Data Quality
8 4 (0.54%) NCSC
8 4 (0.54%) SOC 2
9 2 (0.27%) GDPR
10 1 (0.13%) California Consumer Privacy Act
10 1 (0.13%) HIPAA
10 1 (0.13%) ISO 22301
10 1 (0.13%) ISO 9001
10 1 (0.13%) ISO/IEC 42001
10 1 (0.13%) PSD2
10 1 (0.13%) SEPA
10 1 (0.13%) SLA
System Software
1 481 (64.39%) Docker
2 25 (3.35%) Active Directory
3 19 (2.54%) Virtual Machines
4 17 (2.28%) VMware Infrastructure
5 4 (0.54%) Slurm Workload Manager
6 3 (0.40%) iptables
7 2 (0.27%) Citrix Hypervisor
7 2 (0.27%) Firmware
7 2 (0.27%) Hyper-V
8 1 (0.13%) KVM
8 1 (0.13%) QEMU
8 1 (0.13%) Virtual Servers
8 1 (0.13%) Xen
Systems Management
1 116 (15.53%) Grafana
2 85 (11.38%) Ansible
3 52 (6.96%) Prometheus
4 27 (3.61%) Argo
5 24 (3.21%) Istio
6 20 (2.68%) Puppet
7 13 (1.74%) Progress Chef
8 8 (1.07%) Kustomize
8 8 (1.07%) Packer
9 6 (0.80%) FortiGate
9 6 (0.80%) Microsoft Intune
10 5 (0.67%) Active Directory Federation Services
11 4 (0.54%) linkerd
12 3 (0.40%) Cilium
12 3 (0.40%) Kibana
12 3 (0.40%) ZABBIX
13 2 (0.27%) MIIS
13 2 (0.27%) SCCM
13 2 (0.27%) SCOM
13 2 (0.27%) WSUS
Vendors
1 208 (27.84%) Microsoft
2 44 (5.89%) Google
3 32 (4.28%) Oracle
4 23 (3.08%) Red Hat
5 22 (2.95%) OpenAI
5 22 (2.95%) VMware
6 21 (2.81%) Facebook
6 21 (2.81%) Splunk
7 19 (2.54%) Okta
8 15 (2.01%) Ping Identity
9 11 (1.47%) Databricks
9 11 (1.47%) Palo Alto
10 10 (1.34%) ServiceNow
11 7 (0.94%) Cisco
11 7 (0.94%) Dynatrace
11 7 (0.94%) Fortinet
12 6 (0.80%) Confluent
12 6 (0.80%) ForgeRock
12 6 (0.80%) New Relic
12 6 (0.80%) Zscaler