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

6 months to
27 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 82 78 65
Rank change year-on-year -4 -13 -36
Permanent jobs citing Kubernetes 768 724 947
As % of all permanent jobs with remote/hybrid work options 3.10% 4.36% 4.16%
As % of the Systems Management category 45.50% 43.04% 41.32%
Number of salaries quoted 511 342 593
10th Percentile £46,250 £48,750 £53,750
25th Percentile £52,500 £58,750 £61,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £72,500 £76,500
Median % change year-on-year -10.34% -5.23% +2.00%
75th Percentile £85,000 £87,500 £95,000
90th Percentile £97,500 £110,000 £117,500
UK median annual salary £70,000 £75,000 £77,500
% change year-on-year -6.67% -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 1,688 1,682 2,292
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 6.81% 10.14% 10.08%
Number of salaries quoted 1,215 866 1,328
10th Percentile £33,750 £35,000 £36,500
25th Percentile £46,250 £45,000 £47,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £65,000 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year -7.69% - -3.70%
75th Percentile £75,000 £82,500 £86,250
90th Percentile £95,000 £98,375 £105,000
UK median annual salary £60,000 £60,000 £65,000
% change year-on-year - -7.69% -

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 27 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 10 (1.30%) Apache Spark
2 8 (1.04%) Apache Airflow
3 7 (0.91%) Oracle SOA Suite
4 6 (0.78%) IIS
4 6 (0.78%) nginx
5 5 (0.65%) Camunda
5 5 (0.65%) Confluence
6 4 (0.52%) Apache
6 4 (0.52%) ArcGIS
6 4 (0.52%) GeoServer
6 4 (0.52%) Oracle Spatial
7 2 (0.26%) Ethereum
7 2 (0.26%) Hedera
7 2 (0.26%) OpenStack
8 1 (0.13%) Cloud Foundry
8 1 (0.13%) JBoss
8 1 (0.13%) Microsoft Exchange
8 1 (0.13%) Oracle Coherence
8 1 (0.13%) Red Hat Fuse
Applications
1 12 (1.56%) Chatbot
2 1 (0.13%) Lightworks
Business Applications
1 2 (0.26%) Distributed Ledger
1 2 (0.26%) SAP S/4HANA
2 1 (0.13%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
Cloud Services
1 439 (57.16%) AWS
2 415 (54.04%) Azure
3 228 (29.69%) GCP
4 202 (26.30%) GitHub
5 135 (17.58%) GitHub Copilot
6 103 (13.41%) Amazon EKS
7 101 (13.15%) SaaS
8 72 (9.38%) Azure AI
9 52 (6.77%) Serverless
10 47 (6.12%) GitHub Actions
11 45 (5.86%) Azure AKS
11 45 (5.86%) Azure DevOps
12 43 (5.60%) AWS CloudFormation
13 40 (5.21%) OpenShift
14 26 (3.39%) Amazon EC2
15 21 (2.73%) Azure Service Bus
16 20 (2.60%) Amazon ECS
16 20 (2.60%) Virtual Private Cloud
17 19 (2.47%) AWS Lambda
17 19 (2.47%) Azure Monitor
Communications & Networking
1 25 (3.26%) VPN
2 23 (2.99%) Firewall
3 21 (2.73%) DNS
3 21 (2.73%) Internet
4 17 (2.21%) Broadband
5 15 (1.95%) TCP/IP
6 13 (1.69%) Network Security
7 11 (1.43%) BGP
8 10 (1.30%) VLAN
9 6 (0.78%) DHCP
9 6 (0.78%) OSPF
9 6 (0.78%) VXLAN
10 4 (0.52%) HTTP
10 4 (0.52%) WAN
11 2 (0.26%) SAN
11 2 (0.26%) WireGuard
12 1 (0.13%) iSCSI
12 1 (0.13%) MQTT
12 1 (0.13%) Remote Desktop
12 1 (0.13%) Unified Communications
Database & Business Intelligence
1 160 (20.83%) MongoDB
2 138 (17.97%) Azure SQL Database
3 81 (10.55%) PostgreSQL
4 43 (5.60%) Elasticsearch
5 34 (4.43%) NoSQL
6 28 (3.65%) SQL Server
7 27 (3.52%) Amazon RDS
8 23 (2.99%) MySQL
8 23 (2.99%) Relational Database
9 11 (1.43%) Data Warehouse
10 6 (0.78%) BigQuery
10 6 (0.78%) Delta Lake
10 6 (0.78%) DynamoDB
10 6 (0.78%) Redis
11 5 (0.65%) Metadata
11 5 (0.65%) Power BI
11 5 (0.65%) Tableau
12 4 (0.52%) Apache Cassandra
12 4 (0.52%) Big Data
12 4 (0.52%) GIS
Development Applications
1 86 (11.20%) Git
2 80 (10.42%) TeamCity
3 54 (7.03%) Jenkins
4 45 (5.86%) GitLab
5 29 (3.78%) JUnit
6 18 (2.34%) JIRA
6 18 (2.34%) Maven
6 18 (2.34%) Mockito
7 16 (2.08%) Selenium
8 12 (1.56%) Postman
9 10 (1.30%) Atlassian Bamboo
9 10 (1.30%) Bitbucket
10 9 (1.17%) SonarQube
11 8 (1.04%) Cucumber
12 6 (0.78%) Gatling
12 6 (0.78%) Octopus Deploy
13 5 (0.65%) Subversion
13 5 (0.65%) Visual Studio Code
14 4 (0.52%) Vagrant
15 3 (0.39%) Appium
General
1 194 (25.26%) Finance
2 144 (18.75%) Social Skills
3 113 (14.71%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 108 (14.06%) Retail
5 105 (13.67%) Law
6 103 (13.41%) Banking
7 70 (9.11%) Public Sector
8 63 (8.20%) Financial Institution
9 62 (8.07%) Back Office
10 33 (4.30%) Advertising
11 28 (3.65%) Analytical Skills
12 20 (2.60%) Aerospace
13 19 (2.47%) Marketing
14 11 (1.43%) Games
15 9 (1.17%) Legal
16 6 (0.78%) Telecoms
17 4 (0.52%) Front Office
18 3 (0.39%) Manufacturing
18 3 (0.39%) Military
18 3 (0.39%) Organisational Skills
Job Titles
1 214 (27.86%) Developer
2 211 (27.47%) Senior
3 141 (18.36%) Software Engineer
4 130 (16.93%) .NET Developer
5 75 (9.77%) DevOps Engineer
6 68 (8.85%) Lead
7 54 (7.03%) Cloud Engineer
8 51 (6.64%) Architect
9 43 (5.60%) Platform Engineer
10 40 (5.21%) Senior Developer
11 39 (5.08%) Azure Engineer
12 34 (4.43%) Senior Software Engineer
13 29 (3.78%) Java Developer
14 28 (3.65%) Java Engineer
15 27 (3.52%) Lead Software Engineer
16 26 (3.39%) Cloud Platform Engineer
16 26 (3.39%) Team Leader
17 24 (3.13%) Full-Stack Developer
17 24 (3.13%) Senior DevOps
18 22 (2.86%) Principal Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 300 (39.06%) Terraform
2 197 (25.65%) .NET
3 135 (17.58%) .NET Core
3 135 (17.58%) ASP.NET
4 131 (17.06%) ASP.NET Core
5 95 (12.37%) Node.js
6 91 (11.85%) React
7 82 (10.68%) AngularJS
8 79 (10.29%) CSS
8 79 (10.29%) HTML
9 70 (9.11%) ML.NET
9 70 (9.11%) Spring
10 67 (8.72%) Vue
11 60 (7.81%) REST
12 53 (6.90%) Kafka
13 49 (6.38%) RESTful
14 44 (5.73%) Spring Boot
15 27 (3.52%) Blazor
16 25 (3.26%) OpenTelemetry
17 20 (2.60%) Django
Miscellaneous
1 216 (28.13%) Cloud Native
2 66 (8.59%) Distributed Systems
3 60 (7.81%) Product Ownership
4 32 (4.17%) Blog
5 26 (3.39%) Greenfield Project
6 19 (2.47%) Digital TV
7 18 (2.34%) AI Agents
8 14 (1.82%) Data Centre
8 14 (1.82%) Legacy Systems
9 12 (1.56%) Security Posture
9 12 (1.56%) Self-Motivation
10 11 (1.43%) Hybrid Cloud
10 11 (1.43%) Management Information System
11 10 (1.30%) Enterprise Software
11 10 (1.30%) Public Cloud
12 9 (1.17%) IoT
12 9 (1.17%) PKI
12 9 (1.17%) Replication
13 8 (1.04%) Cyber Kill Chain
13 8 (1.04%) Mobile App
Operating Systems
1 130 (16.93%) Linux
2 42 (5.47%) Windows
3 17 (2.21%) Windows Server
4 16 (2.08%) Ubuntu
5 11 (1.43%) Apple iOS
6 8 (1.04%) Android
7 5 (0.65%) Mac OS
8 4 (0.52%) Debian
8 4 (0.52%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
9 3 (0.39%) CentOS
10 1 (0.13%) Unix
10 1 (0.13%) VMS
10 1 (0.13%) Windows Server 2016
Processes & Methodologies
1 507 (66.02%) CI/CD
2 296 (38.54%) DevOps
3 276 (35.94%) Agile
4 266 (34.64%) Microservices
5 219 (28.52%) Software Engineering
6 218 (28.39%) AI
7 212 (27.60%) Infrastructure as Code
8 210 (27.34%) Mentoring
9 203 (26.43%) Full-Stack Development
10 185 (24.09%) Containerisation
11 146 (19.01%) Test Automation
12 139 (18.10%) Observability
13 135 (17.58%) Continuous Improvement
14 122 (15.89%) Problem-Solving
15 120 (15.63%) Machine Learning
16 109 (14.19%) Clean Code
17 104 (13.54%) TDD
18 100 (13.02%) Fintech
19 99 (12.89%) Platform Engineering
20 91 (11.85%) Deployment Automation
Programming Languages
1 231 (30.08%) Python
2 227 (29.56%) SQL
3 211 (27.47%) Java
4 204 (26.56%) C#
5 118 (15.36%) TypeScript
6 96 (12.50%) JavaScript
7 91 (11.85%) Bash
8 71 (9.24%) PowerShell
9 51 (6.64%) Go
10 22 (2.86%) Bicep
11 15 (1.95%) PL/SQL
11 15 (1.95%) Scala
12 9 (1.17%) Kotlin
13 8 (1.04%) PHP
13 8 (1.04%) Ruby
14 7 (0.91%) Groovy
15 6 (0.78%) Shell Script
16 4 (0.52%) C
16 4 (0.52%) C++
16 4 (0.52%) Rust
Qualifications
1 126 (16.41%) Security Cleared
2 103 (13.41%) SC Cleared
3 48 (6.25%) Degree
4 36 (4.69%) Azure Certification
5 23 (2.99%) Computer Science Degree
6 20 (2.60%) AWS Certification
7 13 (1.69%) DV Cleared
8 8 (1.04%) BPSS Clearance
8 8 (1.04%) CISSP
8 8 (1.04%) GIAC
9 7 (0.91%) CISM
10 5 (0.65%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
10 5 (0.65%) CEH
10 5 (0.65%) CREST Certified
10 5 (0.65%) OSCP
11 4 (0.52%) Microsoft Certification
11 4 (0.52%) OCP
11 4 (0.52%) Oracle Certification
12 3 (0.39%) GCFA
12 3 (0.39%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 29 (3.78%) QA
2 21 (2.73%) Accessibility
3 20 (2.60%) NIST
4 13 (1.69%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 13 (1.69%) PCI DSS
5 8 (1.04%) Data Quality
5 8 (1.04%) WCAG
6 6 (0.78%) Cyber Essentials
6 6 (0.78%) SOC 2
7 4 (0.52%) GDPR
7 4 (0.52%) NCSC
8 1 (0.13%) California Consumer Privacy Act
8 1 (0.13%) HIPAA
8 1 (0.13%) ISO 22301
8 1 (0.13%) ISO/IEC 42001
8 1 (0.13%) PSD2
8 1 (0.13%) SEPA
8 1 (0.13%) SLA
System Software
1 477 (62.11%) Docker
2 20 (2.60%) Active Directory
3 16 (2.08%) Virtual Machines
4 14 (1.82%) VMware Infrastructure
5 3 (0.39%) iptables
6 1 (0.13%) Citrix Hypervisor
6 1 (0.13%) HDFS
6 1 (0.13%) Hyper-V
6 1 (0.13%) KVM
6 1 (0.13%) QEMU
6 1 (0.13%) Slurm Workload Manager
6 1 (0.13%) Virtual Servers
6 1 (0.13%) Xen
Systems Management
1 137 (17.84%) Grafana
2 78 (10.16%) Ansible
3 58 (7.55%) Prometheus
4 27 (3.52%) Argo
5 18 (2.34%) Istio
6 17 (2.21%) Puppet
7 15 (1.95%) Progress Chef
8 8 (1.04%) Kustomize
9 7 (0.91%) Packer
10 6 (0.78%) FortiGate
10 6 (0.78%) Microsoft Intune
11 4 (0.52%) Active Directory Federation Services
11 4 (0.52%) Cilium
11 4 (0.52%) linkerd
11 4 (0.52%) Single Sign-On
12 2 (0.26%) CASB
12 2 (0.26%) Kibana
12 2 (0.26%) Microsoft Data Protection Manager
12 2 (0.26%) Podman
12 2 (0.26%) Proxmox
Vendors
1 202 (26.30%) Microsoft
2 51 (6.64%) Google
3 31 (4.04%) Oracle
4 27 (3.52%) Splunk
5 24 (3.13%) OpenAI
6 21 (2.73%) Red Hat
7 19 (2.47%) Facebook
8 18 (2.34%) Okta
8 18 (2.34%) VMware
9 15 (1.95%) Ping Identity
10 12 (1.56%) Databricks
11 9 (1.17%) Dynatrace
11 9 (1.17%) New Relic
12 8 (1.04%) Palo Alto
13 7 (0.91%) ServiceNow
14 6 (0.78%) Citrix
14 6 (0.78%) Fortinet
14 6 (0.78%) Zscaler
15 5 (0.65%) HubSpot
15 5 (0.65%) Qualys