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 November 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
19 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 82 43 32
Rank change year-on-year -39 -11 -5
Permanent jobs citing Kubernetes 478 1,121 1,589
As % of all permanent jobs with remote/hybrid work options 3.13% 5.72% 7.41%
As % of the Systems Management category 36.52% 46.19% 46.03%
Number of salaries quoted 378 559 1,345
10th Percentile £50,875 £52,500 £48,450
25th Percentile £58,750 £61,250 £60,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £75,000 £75,000 £73,500
Median % change year-on-year - +2.04% -2.00%
75th Percentile £87,500 £93,750 £87,500
90th Percentile £111,625 £112,500 £105,000
UK median annual salary £75,000 £77,500 £75,000
% change year-on-year -3.23% +3.33% -3.23%

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 1,309 2,427 3,452
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 8.57% 12.39% 16.09%
Number of salaries quoted 983 1,402 2,973
10th Percentile £36,550 £40,000 £41,250
25th Percentile £48,165 £50,000 £51,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £67,500 £67,500
Median % change year-on-year -3.70% - -2.80%
75th Percentile £83,750 £85,000 £85,000
90th Percentile £100,000 £102,500 £97,500
UK median annual salary £61,496 £67,500 £65,000
% change year-on-year -8.89% +3.85% -3.70%

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 November 2025.

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 12 (2.51%) IIS
2 11 (2.30%) Apache Spark
3 10 (2.09%) Apache Airflow
4 6 (1.26%) Apache
4 6 (1.26%) nginx
5 5 (1.05%) Anypoint
6 4 (0.84%) Apache Pulsar
6 4 (0.84%) Confluence
6 4 (0.84%) Microsoft Exchange
7 2 (0.42%) ArcGIS
7 2 (0.42%) BizTalk Server
7 2 (0.42%) GeoServer
7 2 (0.42%) Oracle Spatial
8 1 (0.21%) Apache Solr
8 1 (0.21%) OpenStack
8 1 (0.21%) SharePoint
8 1 (0.21%) Tomcat
Business Applications
1 5 (1.05%) Shopify
2 1 (0.21%) Dynamics CRM
Cloud Services
1 288 (60.25%) AWS
2 261 (54.60%) Azure
3 126 (26.36%) GCP
4 116 (24.27%) GitHub
5 74 (15.48%) Azure DevOps
6 73 (15.27%) GitHub Actions
7 53 (11.09%) SaaS
8 52 (10.88%) Amazon EKS
9 46 (9.62%) Azure AKS
9 46 (9.62%) Serverless
10 42 (8.79%) AWS CloudFormation
11 40 (8.37%) Amazon CloudWatch
12 34 (7.11%) AWS Lambda
13 31 (6.49%) Amazon ECS
14 29 (6.07%) OpenShift
15 25 (5.23%) Amazon S3
16 20 (4.18%) Azure Monitor
17 18 (3.77%) Datadog
18 16 (3.35%) Azure Cosmos DB
19 14 (2.93%) Entra ID
Communications & Networking
1 36 (7.53%) Firewall
2 17 (3.56%) DNS
3 15 (3.14%) VPN
4 12 (2.51%) TCP/IP
5 11 (2.30%) WAN
6 9 (1.88%) LAN
7 8 (1.67%) Network Security
8 6 (1.26%) Broadband
8 6 (1.26%) Fibre Channel
8 6 (1.26%) Internet
9 5 (1.05%) DHCP
10 4 (0.84%) Intrusion Detection
10 4 (0.84%) SD-WAN
11 3 (0.63%) Kerberos
12 2 (0.42%) AMQP
12 2 (0.42%) VLAN
12 2 (0.42%) VSAN
13 1 (0.21%) 5G
13 1 (0.21%) IOS XR
13 1 (0.21%) NAS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 61 (12.76%) PostgreSQL
2 51 (10.67%) NoSQL
3 44 (9.21%) SQL Server
4 38 (7.95%) MongoDB
5 18 (3.77%) Relational Database
6 17 (3.56%) MySQL
7 14 (2.93%) Amazon RDS
8 12 (2.51%) DynamoDB
8 12 (2.51%) Elasticsearch
9 11 (2.30%) Redis
10 7 (1.46%) Azure SQL Database
11 6 (1.26%) Big Data
12 5 (1.05%) BigQuery
12 5 (1.05%) Data Warehouse
12 5 (1.05%) Power BI
13 4 (0.84%) Data Lake
13 4 (0.84%) Flink
14 3 (0.63%) Amazon Athena
14 3 (0.63%) Apache Ignite
14 3 (0.63%) Pinecone
Development Applications
1 74 (15.48%) Git
2 60 (12.55%) Jenkins
3 49 (10.25%) GitLab
4 21 (4.39%) TeamCity
5 9 (1.88%) JUnit
6 8 (1.67%) Cucumber
6 8 (1.67%) Selenium
7 7 (1.46%) SonarQube
8 6 (1.26%) JIRA
8 6 (1.26%) Octopus Deploy
8 6 (1.26%) Sonatype Nexus
8 6 (1.26%) Visual Studio Code
9 4 (0.84%) Robot Framework
10 3 (0.63%) Artifactory
10 3 (0.63%) Bitbucket
11 2 (0.42%) CircleCI
11 2 (0.42%) Eclipse
11 2 (0.42%) git-flow
11 2 (0.42%) JMeter
11 2 (0.42%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
General
1 94 (19.67%) Social Skills
2 83 (17.36%) Finance
3 37 (7.74%) Law
4 35 (7.32%) Public Sector
5 32 (6.69%) Banking
6 31 (6.49%) Financial Institution
7 29 (6.07%) Retail
8 25 (5.23%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 22 (4.60%) Back Office
9 22 (4.60%) Telecoms
10 11 (2.30%) Front Office
11 9 (1.88%) Analytical Skills
12 7 (1.46%) Legal
13 6 (1.26%) Documentation Skills
13 6 (1.26%) Games
14 5 (1.05%) Automotive
14 5 (1.05%) Marketing
14 5 (1.05%) Tech for Good
15 4 (0.84%) Manufacturing
16 3 (0.63%) Electronics
Job Titles
1 140 (29.29%) Senior
2 90 (18.83%) DevOps Engineer
3 71 (14.85%) Software Engineer
4 68 (14.23%) Developer
5 55 (11.51%) Lead
6 54 (11.30%) Cloud Engineer
7 38 (7.95%) Infrastructure Engineer
8 37 (7.74%) Architect
9 34 (7.11%) Platform Engineer
10 32 (6.69%) Azure Engineer
11 28 (5.86%) Senior Software Engineer
12 27 (5.65%) Senior DevOps
13 24 (5.02%) Python Engineer
14 23 (4.81%) Senior Developer
15 20 (4.18%) Senior DevOps Engineer
16 19 (3.97%) Solutions Architect
17 18 (3.77%) AWS DevOps
17 18 (3.77%) AWS Engineer
17 18 (3.77%) Software Developer
18 17 (3.56%) Java Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 76 (15.90%) .NET
2 56 (11.72%) React
3 53 (11.09%) Spring
4 51 (10.67%) Spring Boot
5 47 (9.83%) Kafka
6 46 (9.62%) RESTful
7 40 (8.37%) REST
8 30 (6.28%) Elastic Stack
8 30 (6.28%) Node.js
9 25 (5.23%) RabbitMQ
10 24 (5.02%) Django
10 24 (5.02%) Flask
11 21 (4.39%) .NET Core
11 21 (4.39%) Web Services
12 19 (3.97%) AngularJS
12 19 (3.97%) gRPC
13 18 (3.77%) FastAPI
14 17 (3.56%) YAML
15 15 (3.14%) .NET Framework
16 13 (2.72%) GraphQL
Miscellaneous
1 152 (31.80%) Cloud Native
2 43 (9.00%) Distributed Systems
3 29 (6.07%) Onboarding
4 22 (4.60%) Data Centre
4 22 (4.60%) Product Ownership
5 19 (3.97%) Management Information System
6 16 (3.35%) Hybrid Cloud
6 16 (3.35%) Public Cloud
7 14 (2.93%) Legacy Systems
8 12 (2.51%) Self-Motivation
9 8 (1.67%) Algorithms
10 7 (1.46%) Greenfield Project
10 7 (1.46%) Private Cloud
10 7 (1.46%) Security Posture
11 6 (1.26%) BYOD
11 6 (1.26%) Low-Code
12 5 (1.05%) AI Agents
12 5 (1.05%) Derivative
12 5 (1.05%) Linux Command Line
12 5 (1.05%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 118 (24.69%) Linux
2 71 (14.85%) Windows
3 27 (5.65%) Windows Server
4 19 (3.97%) Unix
5 13 (2.72%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 10 (2.09%) Android
6 10 (2.09%) Ubuntu
6 10 (2.09%) Windows Server 2019
7 8 (1.67%) Rocky
8 7 (1.46%) VMS
9 6 (1.26%) CentOS
10 4 (0.84%) Apple iOS
11 3 (0.63%) Debian
12 1 (0.21%) Windows Server 2016
Processes & Methodologies
1 301 (62.97%) DevOps
2 296 (61.92%) CI/CD
3 199 (41.63%) Containerisation
4 165 (34.52%) Infrastructure as Code
5 139 (29.08%) Microservices
6 129 (26.99%) Agile
7 113 (23.64%) Software Engineering
8 101 (21.13%) Problem-Solving
9 86 (17.99%) Infrastructure Engineering
10 81 (16.95%) Continuous Improvement
11 75 (15.69%) Mentoring
12 74 (15.48%) AI
13 66 (13.81%) Observability
14 56 (11.72%) Platform Engineering
15 55 (11.51%) Site Reliability Engineering
16 48 (10.04%) Machine Learning
17 47 (9.83%) Cloud Security
18 46 (9.62%) Test Automation
19 45 (9.41%) High Availability
20 44 (9.21%) Coaching
Programming Languages
1 210 (43.93%) Python
2 109 (22.80%) Java
3 100 (20.92%) SQL
4 69 (14.44%) PowerShell
5 68 (14.23%) C#
6 65 (13.60%) Bash
7 54 (11.30%) JavaScript
8 41 (8.58%) Bicep
9 39 (8.16%) TypeScript
10 37 (7.74%) Go
11 8 (1.67%) Delphi
12 7 (1.46%) PHP
12 7 (1.46%) Scala
13 6 (1.26%) C++
13 6 (1.26%) Shell Script
14 5 (1.05%) Kotlin
15 4 (0.84%) F#
15 4 (0.84%) OCaml
15 4 (0.84%) Ruby
15 4 (0.84%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 76 (15.90%) Security Cleared
2 60 (12.55%) SC Cleared
3 50 (10.46%) Degree
4 49 (10.25%) AWS Certification
5 38 (7.95%) Azure Certification
6 29 (6.07%) Computer Science Degree
7 24 (5.02%) DV Cleared
8 15 (3.14%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
9 10 (2.09%) BPSS Clearance
10 8 (1.67%) Network+ Certification
11 7 (1.46%) Master's Degree
12 6 (1.26%) PhD
13 5 (1.05%) Cisco Certification
13 5 (1.05%) CISM
13 5 (1.05%) CISSP
14 4 (0.84%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
15 3 (0.63%) (ISC)2 CCSP
15 3 (0.63%) CompTIA Security+
16 2 (0.42%) AWS Certified Developer
16 2 (0.42%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 26 (5.44%) QA
2 24 (5.02%) GDPR
3 16 (3.35%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 12 (2.51%) NIST
5 11 (2.30%) HIPAA
5 11 (2.30%) PCI DSS
5 11 (2.30%) SOC 2
6 6 (1.26%) Data Quality
7 5 (1.05%) SLA
8 4 (0.84%) GRC
9 2 (0.42%) ECSS
10 1 (0.21%) MiFID
System Software
1 290 (60.67%) Docker
2 26 (5.44%) Active Directory
3 16 (3.35%) Hyper-V
3 16 (3.35%) VMware Infrastructure
4 11 (2.30%) vSphere
5 6 (1.26%) NFS
6 5 (1.05%) Virtual Machines
7 3 (0.63%) VMware NSX
8 2 (0.42%) Virtual Servers
9 1 (0.21%) Dovecot
9 1 (0.21%) Postfix
9 1 (0.21%) vCloud
9 1 (0.21%) VMware ESXi
Systems Management
1 210 (43.93%) Terraform
2 101 (21.13%) Ansible
3 94 (19.67%) Grafana
4 54 (11.30%) Prometheus
5 19 (3.97%) Argo
6 5 (1.05%) Cilium
7 4 (0.84%) Progress Chef
7 4 (0.84%) Puppet
8 3 (0.63%) Kibana
8 3 (0.63%) Microsoft Data Protection Manager
8 3 (0.63%) SCCM
8 3 (0.63%) SCOM
8 3 (0.63%) WSUS
9 2 (0.42%) Kubeflow
9 2 (0.42%) Kustomize
9 2 (0.42%) Microsoft Intune
10 1 (0.21%) FortiGate
10 1 (0.21%) ITRS Geneos
10 1 (0.21%) logstash
10 1 (0.21%) Nagios
Vendors
1 52 (10.88%) Microsoft
2 26 (5.44%) Google
3 25 (5.23%) Oracle
4 23 (4.81%) VMware
5 21 (4.39%) Red Hat
6 17 (3.56%) Dell
7 13 (2.72%) Splunk
8 12 (2.51%) Cisco
9 8 (1.67%) Commvault
9 8 (1.67%) SAP
10 7 (1.46%) Databricks
10 7 (1.46%) Pure Storage
11 6 (1.26%) Trayport
12 5 (1.05%) Epicor
12 5 (1.05%) Foundry
12 5 (1.05%) IBM
12 5 (1.05%) Infor
12 5 (1.05%) Informatica
12 5 (1.05%) ServiceNow
12 5 (1.05%) Talend