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 5 August 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
5 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 76 64 73
Rank change year-on-year -12 +9 -45
Permanent jobs citing Kubernetes 737 837 949
As % of all permanent jobs with remote/hybrid work options 3.29% 5.07% 3.75%
As % of the Systems Management category 38.91% 42.62% 34.26%
Number of salaries quoted 533 407 732
10th Percentile £46,250 £51,250 £52,500
25th Percentile £52,500 £60,000 £60,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £77,500 £77,500
Median % change year-on-year -16.13% - +3.33%
75th Percentile £82,500 £93,778 £95,000
90th Percentile £100,000 £116,500 £117,250
UK median annual salary £70,000 £80,000 £77,500
% change year-on-year -12.50% +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 1,894 1,964 2,770
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 8.44% 11.90% 10.96%
Number of salaries quoted 1,397 1,121 1,970
10th Percentile £37,150 £35,000 £36,750
25th Percentile £48,289 £47,500 £48,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £62,500 £67,500 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year -7.41% +3.85% -7.14%
75th Percentile £78,467 £83,750 £85,000
90th Percentile £96,250 £100,000 £102,750
UK median annual salary £64,147 £65,000 £63,500
% change year-on-year -1.31% +2.36% -5.22%

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 5 August 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 (1.36%) Apache Spark
2 8 (1.09%) Apache Airflow
3 7 (0.95%) Oracle SOA Suite
4 6 (0.81%) IIS
5 5 (0.68%) nginx
5 5 (0.68%) OpenStack
6 4 (0.54%) Camunda
6 4 (0.54%) Confluence
7 2 (0.27%) ArcGIS
7 2 (0.27%) GeoServer
7 2 (0.27%) Microsoft Exchange
7 2 (0.27%) Oracle Spatial
8 1 (0.14%) Apache
8 1 (0.14%) Cloud Foundry
8 1 (0.14%) JBoss
8 1 (0.14%) Oracle Coherence
8 1 (0.14%) Red Hat Fuse
Applications
1 1 (0.14%) Lightworks
Business Applications
1 2 (0.27%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 422 (57.26%) Azure
2 407 (55.22%) AWS
3 201 (27.27%) GitHub
4 189 (25.64%) GCP
5 141 (19.13%) GitHub Copilot
6 91 (12.35%) Amazon EKS
7 81 (10.99%) SaaS
8 76 (10.31%) Azure AI
9 60 (8.14%) Serverless
10 48 (6.51%) Azure DevOps
11 47 (6.38%) GitHub Actions
12 46 (6.24%) AWS CloudFormation
13 45 (6.11%) Azure AKS
14 37 (5.02%) OpenShift
15 32 (4.34%) Amazon EC2
16 28 (3.80%) Amazon S3
17 23 (3.12%) PaaS
18 22 (2.99%) Amazon ECS
18 22 (2.99%) Azure Service Bus
19 21 (2.85%) AWS Lambda
Communications & Networking
1 27 (3.66%) Firewall
2 25 (3.39%) DNS
3 21 (2.85%) VPN
4 20 (2.71%) Internet
5 17 (2.31%) Broadband
6 15 (2.04%) TCP/IP
7 9 (1.22%) DHCP
8 8 (1.09%) VLAN
9 7 (0.95%) BGP
9 7 (0.95%) Network Security
10 6 (0.81%) OSPF
10 6 (0.81%) VXLAN
11 4 (0.54%) HTTP
11 4 (0.54%) MQTT
11 4 (0.54%) WAN
12 3 (0.41%) SAN
13 2 (0.27%) iSCSI
13 2 (0.27%) LAN
13 2 (0.27%) Remote Desktop
13 2 (0.27%) SSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 157 (21.30%) MongoDB
2 141 (19.13%) Azure SQL Database
3 71 (9.63%) PostgreSQL
4 50 (6.78%) Elasticsearch
5 30 (4.07%) SQL Server
6 27 (3.66%) MySQL
6 27 (3.66%) NoSQL
7 25 (3.39%) Relational Database
8 22 (2.99%) Amazon RDS
9 9 (1.22%) Data Warehouse
10 6 (0.81%) Delta Lake
10 6 (0.81%) DynamoDB
10 6 (0.81%) Redis
11 4 (0.54%) Metadata
12 3 (0.41%) Apache Cassandra
12 3 (0.41%) Big Data
12 3 (0.41%) BigQuery
12 3 (0.41%) Power BI
12 3 (0.41%) Spark SQL
12 3 (0.41%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 100 (13.57%) Git
2 55 (7.46%) TeamCity
3 53 (7.19%) Jenkins
4 51 (6.92%) GitLab
5 27 (3.66%) JUnit
6 18 (2.44%) Maven
7 17 (2.31%) Selenium
8 15 (2.04%) Mockito
9 13 (1.76%) JIRA
10 12 (1.63%) Cucumber
10 12 (1.63%) Postman
10 12 (1.63%) Visual Studio Code
11 9 (1.22%) Atlassian Bamboo
11 9 (1.22%) Bitbucket
12 7 (0.95%) SonarQube
13 6 (0.81%) Gatling
13 6 (0.81%) Octopus Deploy
14 5 (0.68%) JMeter
14 5 (0.68%) Locust
14 5 (0.68%) Subversion
General
1 175 (23.74%) Finance
2 132 (17.91%) Social Skills
3 77 (10.45%) Banking
3 77 (10.45%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 75 (10.18%) Retail
5 72 (9.77%) Law
6 55 (7.46%) Public Sector
7 42 (5.70%) Financial Institution
8 41 (5.56%) Back Office
9 38 (5.16%) Advertising
10 24 (3.26%) Analytical Skills
11 21 (2.85%) Marketing
12 18 (2.44%) Aerospace
13 13 (1.76%) Games
14 9 (1.22%) Legal
15 8 (1.09%) Organisational Skills
16 6 (0.81%) Telecoms
17 5 (0.68%) Military
18 3 (0.41%) Front Office
18 3 (0.41%) Manufacturing
Job Titles
1 215 (29.17%) Developer
2 197 (26.73%) Senior
3 134 (18.18%) .NET Developer
4 120 (16.28%) Software Engineer
5 84 (11.40%) Lead
6 78 (10.58%) DevOps Engineer
7 57 (7.73%) Cloud Engineer
8 49 (6.65%) Platform Engineer
9 46 (6.24%) Azure Engineer
10 43 (5.83%) Architect
11 42 (5.70%) Senior Developer
12 34 (4.61%) Senior Software Engineer
13 33 (4.48%) Java Developer
14 32 (4.34%) Lead Software Engineer
15 30 (4.07%) Senior DevOps
16 28 (3.80%) Cloud Platform Engineer
17 27 (3.66%) AWS Engineer
18 25 (3.39%) Java Engineer
19 24 (3.26%) Senior DevOps Engineer
19 24 (3.26%) Team Leader
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 203 (27.54%) .NET
2 141 (19.13%) .NET Core
3 140 (19.00%) ASP.NET
4 134 (18.18%) ASP.NET Core
5 84 (11.40%) AngularJS
6 81 (10.99%) CSS
6 81 (10.99%) HTML
6 81 (10.99%) React
7 79 (10.72%) Node.js
8 74 (10.04%) ML.NET
9 69 (9.36%) Vue
10 66 (8.96%) Spring
11 63 (8.55%) REST
12 57 (7.73%) Kafka
13 48 (6.51%) RESTful
14 43 (5.83%) Spring Boot
15 28 (3.80%) Blazor
16 23 (3.12%) OAuth
16 23 (3.12%) OpenID
17 22 (2.99%) Django
Miscellaneous
1 201 (27.27%) Cloud Native
2 58 (7.87%) Distributed Systems
3 49 (6.65%) Product Ownership
4 23 (3.12%) Greenfield Project
5 20 (2.71%) Digital TV
6 18 (2.44%) Blog
6 18 (2.44%) Hybrid Cloud
7 16 (2.17%) Data Centre
7 16 (2.17%) Private Cloud
8 15 (2.04%) Legacy Systems
8 15 (2.04%) Public Cloud
9 14 (1.90%) AI Agents
10 13 (1.76%) Management Information System
11 12 (1.63%) Self-Motivation
12 11 (1.49%) IoT
13 8 (1.09%) Enterprise Software
13 8 (1.09%) Virtual Team
14 7 (0.95%) Mobile App
14 7 (0.95%) Onboarding
14 7 (0.95%) PKI
Operating Systems
1 134 (18.18%) Linux
2 42 (5.70%) Windows
3 22 (2.99%) Windows Server
4 14 (1.90%) Ubuntu
5 9 (1.22%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 6 (0.81%) Android
6 6 (0.81%) Apple iOS
6 6 (0.81%) Debian
7 5 (0.68%) CentOS
8 3 (0.41%) VMS
9 2 (0.27%) Mac OS
9 2 (0.27%) Windows Server 2016
Processes & Methodologies
1 496 (67.30%) CI/CD
2 305 (41.38%) DevOps
3 273 (37.04%) Agile
4 248 (33.65%) Microservices
5 228 (30.94%) Infrastructure as Code
6 206 (27.95%) Containerisation
7 202 (27.41%) AI
8 199 (27.00%) Full-Stack Development
9 197 (26.73%) Software Engineering
10 188 (25.51%) Mentoring
11 133 (18.05%) Test Automation
12 132 (17.91%) Continuous Improvement
13 124 (16.82%) Observability
14 114 (15.47%) Machine Learning
15 113 (15.33%) Platform Engineering
16 109 (14.79%) TDD
17 103 (13.98%) Problem-Solving
18 101 (13.70%) Clean Code
19 87 (11.80%) Scrum
20 81 (10.99%) Deployment Automation
Programming Languages
1 231 (31.34%) Python
2 216 (29.31%) SQL
3 214 (29.04%) C#
4 171 (23.20%) Java
5 113 (15.33%) TypeScript
6 82 (11.13%) JavaScript
7 75 (10.18%) Bash
8 71 (9.63%) PowerShell
9 48 (6.51%) Go
10 22 (2.99%) Bicep
11 15 (2.04%) PL/SQL
12 13 (1.76%) Scala
13 10 (1.36%) PHP
14 8 (1.09%) Ruby
15 7 (0.95%) Groovy
16 6 (0.81%) Kotlin
17 5 (0.68%) Rust
18 4 (0.54%) C++
19 3 (0.41%) T-SQL
19 3 (0.41%) VB.NET
Qualifications
1 108 (14.65%) Security Cleared
2 88 (11.94%) SC Cleared
3 61 (8.28%) Degree
4 44 (5.97%) Azure Certification
5 28 (3.80%) Computer Science Degree
6 18 (2.44%) AWS Certification
7 15 (2.04%) DV Cleared
8 10 (1.36%) CISSP
9 8 (1.09%) GIAC
10 5 (0.68%) BPSS Clearance
10 5 (0.68%) CISM
10 5 (0.68%) CREST Certified
10 5 (0.68%) ISACA
10 5 (0.68%) OSCP
11 4 (0.54%) CEH
11 4 (0.54%) Microsoft Certification
11 4 (0.54%) SANS
12 3 (0.41%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
12 3 (0.41%) OCP
12 3 (0.41%) Oracle Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 41 (5.56%) QA
2 27 (3.66%) Accessibility
3 20 (2.71%) NIST
4 13 (1.76%) WCAG
5 11 (1.49%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 7 (0.95%) PCI DSS
7 5 (0.68%) Data Quality
7 5 (0.68%) SOC 2
8 4 (0.54%) Cyber Essentials
9 3 (0.41%) ISO 9001
10 2 (0.27%) NCSC
11 1 (0.14%) GDPR
11 1 (0.14%) ISO 22301
11 1 (0.14%) ISO/IEC 42001
11 1 (0.14%) PSD2
11 1 (0.14%) SEPA
11 1 (0.14%) SLA
System Software
1 469 (63.64%) Docker
2 30 (4.07%) Active Directory
3 20 (2.71%) Virtual Machines
4 19 (2.58%) VMware Infrastructure
5 4 (0.54%) Firmware
5 4 (0.54%) Slurm Workload Manager
6 3 (0.41%) Citrix Hypervisor
6 3 (0.41%) iptables
7 1 (0.14%) Hyper-V
7 1 (0.14%) KVM
7 1 (0.14%) QEMU
7 1 (0.14%) Virtual Servers
7 1 (0.14%) Xen
Systems Management
1 291 (39.48%) Terraform
2 113 (15.33%) Grafana
3 91 (12.35%) Ansible
4 54 (7.33%) Prometheus
5 26 (3.53%) Argo
6 24 (3.26%) Istio
7 19 (2.58%) Puppet
8 13 (1.76%) Progress Chef
9 7 (0.95%) Packer
10 6 (0.81%) Active Directory Federation Services
10 6 (0.81%) FortiGate
10 6 (0.81%) Kustomize
10 6 (0.81%) Microsoft Intune
11 4 (0.54%) Kibana
11 4 (0.54%) linkerd
11 4 (0.54%) Proxmox
12 3 (0.41%) ZABBIX
13 2 (0.27%) CASB
13 2 (0.27%) MIIS
13 2 (0.27%) Nagios
Vendors
1 211 (28.63%) Microsoft
2 39 (5.29%) Google
3 28 (3.80%) Oracle
4 26 (3.53%) VMware
5 21 (2.85%) Facebook
5 21 (2.85%) Okta
6 20 (2.71%) Red Hat
7 16 (2.17%) Splunk
8 13 (1.76%) Ping Identity
9 12 (1.63%) Palo Alto
9 12 (1.63%) ServiceNow
10 10 (1.36%) Databricks
10 10 (1.36%) OpenAI
11 8 (1.09%) Cisco
11 8 (1.09%) Confluent
11 8 (1.09%) ForgeRock
12 7 (0.95%) Dynatrace
12 7 (0.95%) EMC
12 7 (0.95%) Fortinet
13 6 (0.81%) Zscaler