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 21 July 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
21 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 76 58 70
Rank change year-on-year -18 +12 -42
Permanent jobs citing Kubernetes 719 871 1,087
As % of all permanent jobs with remote/hybrid work options 3.33% 5.29% 3.73%
As % of the Systems Management category 39.20% 43.48% 34.44%
Number of salaries quoted 533 438 882
10th Percentile £45,050 £48,750 £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 £98,474 £95,000
90th Percentile £97,500 £127,500 £118,625
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 1,834 2,003 3,156
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 8.49% 12.16% 10.83%
Number of salaries quoted 1,361 1,149 2,327
10th Percentile £37,250 £35,600 £36,500
25th Percentile £47,500 £48,165 £47,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £62,500 £67,500 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year -7.41% +3.85% -7.14%
75th Percentile £77,500 £85,000 £84,964
90th Percentile £95,000 £105,250 £102,500
UK median annual salary £64,618 £65,000 £62,500
% change year-on-year -0.59% +4.00% -7.41%

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 21 July 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 7 (0.97%) Apache Airflow
1 7 (0.97%) Apache Spark
2 6 (0.83%) IIS
2 6 (0.83%) OpenStack
3 5 (0.70%) nginx
4 3 (0.42%) Oracle SOA Suite
5 2 (0.28%) ArcGIS
5 2 (0.28%) Camunda
5 2 (0.28%) Confluence
5 2 (0.28%) GeoServer
5 2 (0.28%) Microsoft Exchange
5 2 (0.28%) Oracle Spatial
6 1 (0.14%) Apache
6 1 (0.14%) Cloud Foundry
6 1 (0.14%) JBoss
6 1 (0.14%) Oracle Coherence
6 1 (0.14%) Red Hat Fuse
Applications
1 2 (0.28%) Weka
2 1 (0.14%) Lightworks
Business Applications
1 2 (0.28%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 403 (56.05%) AWS
2 396 (55.08%) Azure
3 203 (28.23%) GitHub
4 187 (26.01%) GCP
5 139 (19.33%) GitHub Copilot
6 103 (14.33%) Amazon EKS
7 78 (10.85%) SaaS
8 74 (10.29%) Azure AI
9 67 (9.32%) Serverless
10 52 (7.23%) GitHub Actions
11 45 (6.26%) AWS CloudFormation
12 44 (6.12%) Azure DevOps
13 43 (5.98%) Azure AKS
14 35 (4.87%) Amazon EC2
15 32 (4.45%) OpenShift
16 31 (4.31%) Amazon S3
17 25 (3.48%) AWS Lambda
17 25 (3.48%) PaaS
18 24 (3.34%) Amazon ECS
19 21 (2.92%) Azure Service Bus
Communications & Networking
1 29 (4.03%) Firewall
2 25 (3.48%) DNS
3 24 (3.34%) VPN
4 20 (2.78%) Internet
5 17 (2.36%) Broadband
6 15 (2.09%) TCP/IP
7 9 (1.25%) DHCP
8 8 (1.11%) VLAN
9 7 (0.97%) BGP
9 7 (0.97%) Network Security
10 6 (0.83%) OSPF
10 6 (0.83%) VXLAN
11 5 (0.70%) MQTT
12 4 (0.56%) WAN
13 3 (0.42%) HTTP
13 3 (0.42%) SAN
14 2 (0.28%) LAN
14 2 (0.28%) Remote Desktop
14 2 (0.28%) SSL
14 2 (0.28%) VoIP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 159 (22.11%) MongoDB
2 138 (19.19%) Azure SQL Database
3 73 (10.15%) PostgreSQL
4 50 (6.95%) Elasticsearch
5 29 (4.03%) MySQL
6 28 (3.89%) Relational Database
7 27 (3.76%) SQL Server
8 26 (3.62%) NoSQL
9 23 (3.20%) Amazon RDS
10 7 (0.97%) Data Warehouse
11 6 (0.83%) Delta Lake
11 6 (0.83%) DynamoDB
11 6 (0.83%) Redis
12 5 (0.70%) BigQuery
13 4 (0.56%) Metadata
14 3 (0.42%) Apache Cassandra
14 3 (0.42%) Power BI
14 3 (0.42%) Spark SQL
14 3 (0.42%) Tableau
15 2 (0.28%) Neo4j
Development Applications
1 92 (12.80%) Git
2 59 (8.21%) TeamCity
3 54 (7.51%) GitLab
4 51 (7.09%) Jenkins
5 18 (2.50%) JUnit
6 15 (2.09%) Maven
7 13 (1.81%) JIRA
8 12 (1.67%) Visual Studio Code
9 11 (1.53%) Mockito
10 10 (1.39%) Selenium
11 9 (1.25%) Cucumber
12 7 (0.97%) Atlassian Bamboo
12 7 (0.97%) Bitbucket
12 7 (0.97%) Postman
13 6 (0.83%) Octopus Deploy
14 5 (0.70%) JMeter
14 5 (0.70%) Locust
14 5 (0.70%) Subversion
15 4 (0.56%) SonarQube
16 3 (0.42%) Gatling
General
1 167 (23.23%) Finance
2 124 (17.25%) Social Skills
3 86 (11.96%) Banking
3 86 (11.96%) Retail
4 84 (11.68%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 79 (10.99%) Law
6 53 (7.37%) Public Sector
7 44 (6.12%) Financial Institution
8 43 (5.98%) Back Office
9 37 (5.15%) Advertising
10 23 (3.20%) Analytical Skills
11 20 (2.78%) Marketing
12 16 (2.23%) Aerospace
13 13 (1.81%) Games
14 8 (1.11%) Legal
14 8 (1.11%) Organisational Skills
15 6 (0.83%) Telecoms
16 4 (0.56%) Manufacturing
16 4 (0.56%) Military
17 3 (0.42%) Aviation
Job Titles
1 214 (29.76%) Developer
2 197 (27.40%) Senior
3 133 (18.50%) .NET Developer
4 119 (16.55%) Software Engineer
5 87 (12.10%) Lead
6 78 (10.85%) DevOps Engineer
7 55 (7.65%) Cloud Engineer
8 51 (7.09%) Platform Engineer
9 45 (6.26%) Azure Engineer
10 39 (5.42%) Senior Developer
11 37 (5.15%) Senior Software Engineer
12 35 (4.87%) Architect
13 33 (4.59%) Lead Software Engineer
14 32 (4.45%) AWS Engineer
14 32 (4.45%) Java Developer
14 32 (4.45%) Senior DevOps
15 30 (4.17%) Java Engineer
16 29 (4.03%) Cloud Platform Engineer
17 24 (3.34%) Senior DevOps Engineer
17 24 (3.34%) Team Leader
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 195 (27.12%) .NET
2 140 (19.47%) .NET Core
2 140 (19.47%) ASP.NET
3 134 (18.64%) ASP.NET Core
4 82 (11.40%) AngularJS
5 81 (11.27%) CSS
5 81 (11.27%) HTML
6 74 (10.29%) Node.js
6 74 (10.29%) React
7 73 (10.15%) ML.NET
8 70 (9.74%) Vue
9 67 (9.32%) Spring
10 58 (8.07%) Kafka
11 55 (7.65%) REST
12 49 (6.82%) Spring Boot
13 47 (6.54%) RESTful
14 25 (3.48%) Blazor
15 23 (3.20%) Django
15 23 (3.20%) OAuth
16 22 (3.06%) .NET Framework
Miscellaneous
1 207 (28.79%) Cloud Native
2 57 (7.93%) Distributed Systems
3 47 (6.54%) Product Ownership
4 22 (3.06%) Greenfield Project
5 21 (2.92%) Blog
6 20 (2.78%) Digital TV
7 19 (2.64%) Hybrid Cloud
8 18 (2.50%) Data Centre
9 17 (2.36%) Private Cloud
10 13 (1.81%) Public Cloud
11 11 (1.53%) Management Information System
12 10 (1.39%) AI Agents
13 8 (1.11%) IoT
13 8 (1.11%) Legacy Systems
13 8 (1.11%) Onboarding
14 6 (0.83%) CMDB
14 6 (0.83%) CUDA
14 6 (0.83%) PKI
14 6 (0.83%) Replication
14 6 (0.83%) Security Posture
Operating Systems
1 133 (18.50%) Linux
2 40 (5.56%) Windows
3 21 (2.92%) Windows Server
4 16 (2.23%) Ubuntu
5 9 (1.25%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 6 (0.83%) Debian
7 5 (0.70%) Android
7 5 (0.70%) Apple iOS
7 5 (0.70%) CentOS
8 3 (0.42%) VMS
8 3 (0.42%) Windows Server 2016
9 2 (0.28%) Mac OS
Processes & Methodologies
1 485 (67.45%) CI/CD
2 303 (42.14%) DevOps
3 259 (36.02%) Agile
4 243 (33.80%) Microservices
5 229 (31.85%) Infrastructure as Code
6 199 (27.68%) Containerisation
7 192 (26.70%) Full-Stack Development
8 187 (26.01%) Software Engineering
9 181 (25.17%) AI
10 174 (24.20%) Mentoring
11 131 (18.22%) Test Automation
12 129 (17.94%) Continuous Improvement
13 119 (16.55%) Observability
14 115 (15.99%) Platform Engineering
15 107 (14.88%) Clean Code
16 103 (14.33%) Machine Learning
16 103 (14.33%) TDD
17 101 (14.05%) Problem-Solving
18 90 (12.52%) Deployment Automation
19 83 (11.54%) Scrum
Programming Languages
1 225 (31.29%) Python
2 212 (29.49%) SQL
3 206 (28.65%) C#
4 173 (24.06%) Java
5 114 (15.86%) TypeScript
6 72 (10.01%) JavaScript
7 70 (9.74%) Bash
8 69 (9.60%) PowerShell
9 46 (6.40%) Go
10 23 (3.20%) Bicep
11 13 (1.81%) Scala
12 11 (1.53%) PL/SQL
13 10 (1.39%) PHP
14 8 (1.11%) Ruby
15 7 (0.97%) Groovy
15 7 (0.97%) Rust
16 5 (0.70%) C
16 5 (0.70%) C++
17 4 (0.56%) Kotlin
18 3 (0.42%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 94 (13.07%) Security Cleared
2 77 (10.71%) SC Cleared
3 58 (8.07%) Degree
4 43 (5.98%) Azure Certification
5 26 (3.62%) Computer Science Degree
6 19 (2.64%) AWS Certification
7 11 (1.53%) DV Cleared
8 10 (1.39%) CISSP
9 8 (1.11%) GIAC
10 6 (0.83%) CREST Certified
10 6 (0.83%) ISACA
10 6 (0.83%) OSCP
11 5 (0.70%) SANS
12 4 (0.56%) CISM
12 4 (0.56%) Microsoft Certification
13 3 (0.42%) CEH
14 2 (0.28%) ITIL Certification
14 2 (0.28%) Master's Degree
15 1 (0.14%) CompTIA Security+
15 1 (0.14%) ISO 27001 Lead Implementer
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 41 (5.70%) QA
2 22 (3.06%) Accessibility
3 18 (2.50%) NIST
4 12 (1.67%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 10 (1.39%) WCAG
6 9 (1.25%) PCI DSS
7 5 (0.70%) Data Quality
8 4 (0.56%) SOC 2
9 3 (0.42%) Cyber Essentials
9 3 (0.42%) ISO 9001
10 1 (0.14%) GDPR
10 1 (0.14%) ISO 22301
10 1 (0.14%) ISO/IEC 42001
10 1 (0.14%) PSD2
10 1 (0.14%) SEPA
10 1 (0.14%) SLA
System Software
1 449 (62.45%) Docker
2 30 (4.17%) Active Directory
3 19 (2.64%) VMware Infrastructure
4 18 (2.50%) Virtual Machines
5 4 (0.56%) Firmware
5 4 (0.56%) Slurm Workload Manager
6 3 (0.42%) Citrix Hypervisor
6 3 (0.42%) iptables
7 2 (0.28%) Kamailio
7 2 (0.28%) VMware NSX
8 1 (0.14%) Hyper-V
8 1 (0.14%) KVM
8 1 (0.14%) QEMU
8 1 (0.14%) Virtual Servers
8 1 (0.14%) Xen
Systems Management
1 293 (40.75%) Terraform
2 121 (16.83%) Grafana
3 93 (12.93%) Ansible
4 58 (8.07%) Prometheus
5 28 (3.89%) Argo
6 21 (2.92%) Istio
6 21 (2.92%) Puppet
7 15 (2.09%) Progress Chef
8 8 (1.11%) Packer
9 7 (0.97%) Active Directory Federation Services
10 6 (0.83%) FortiGate
10 6 (0.83%) Kustomize
10 6 (0.83%) Microsoft Intune
10 6 (0.83%) Proxmox
11 5 (0.70%) Kibana
11 5 (0.70%) ZABBIX
12 3 (0.42%) linkerd
12 3 (0.42%) Nagios
13 2 (0.28%) CASB
13 2 (0.28%) MIIS
Vendors
1 209 (29.07%) Microsoft
2 34 (4.73%) Google
3 31 (4.31%) VMware
4 23 (3.20%) Oracle
5 20 (2.78%) Facebook
6 19 (2.64%) Okta
7 17 (2.36%) Red Hat
8 16 (2.23%) Splunk
9 12 (1.67%) Palo Alto
9 12 (1.67%) ServiceNow
10 10 (1.39%) Ping Identity
11 9 (1.25%) Databricks
11 9 (1.25%) ForgeRock
11 9 (1.25%) Fortinet
12 8 (1.11%) Cisco
12 8 (1.11%) Confluent
13 7 (0.97%) EMC
14 6 (0.83%) Citrix
14 6 (0.83%) F5
14 6 (0.83%) OpenAI