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 24 January 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
24 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 69 35 42
Rank change year-on-year -34 +7 -13
Permanent jobs citing Kubernetes 542 1,187 1,520
As % of all permanent jobs with remote/hybrid work options 3.47% 7.25% 6.10%
As % of the Systems Management category 36.87% 50.88% 43.70%
Number of salaries quoted 377 633 1,277
10th Percentile £52,400 £52,500 £47,400
25th Percentile £58,750 £61,250 £56,525
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £74,500 £76,500 £70,576
Median % change year-on-year -2.61% +8.39% -5.90%
75th Percentile £87,500 £100,000 £87,500
90th Percentile £110,000 £118,750 £108,000
UK median annual salary £75,000 £80,000 £75,000
% change year-on-year -6.25% +6.67% -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 1,470 2,333 3,478
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 9.42% 14.25% 13.96%
Number of salaries quoted 1,028 1,392 2,986
10th Percentile £37,000 £41,250 £38,750
25th Percentile £47,398 £52,500 £48,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £70,000 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year -7.14% +7.69% -5.13%
75th Percentile £82,500 £87,500 £83,750
90th Percentile £100,000 £112,375 £97,500
UK median annual salary £62,500 £70,000 £62,500
% change year-on-year -10.71% +12.00% -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 24 January 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 12 (2.21%) Apache Spark
2 8 (1.48%) Apache Airflow
3 7 (1.29%) Apache
3 7 (1.29%) IIS
4 5 (0.92%) Anypoint
4 5 (0.92%) Apache Pulsar
4 5 (0.92%) OpenStack
5 4 (0.74%) ArcGIS
5 4 (0.74%) GeoServer
5 4 (0.74%) Microsoft Exchange
5 4 (0.74%) Oracle Spatial
6 3 (0.55%) nginx
7 2 (0.37%) Confluence
8 1 (0.18%) Camunda
8 1 (0.18%) SAS
8 1 (0.18%) SharePoint
Applications
1 4 (0.74%) Weka
2 2 (0.37%) Chatbot
3 1 (0.18%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 5 (0.92%) Shopify
2 1 (0.18%) Actimize
Cloud Services
1 331 (61.07%) AWS
2 253 (46.68%) Azure
3 148 (27.31%) GCP
4 123 (22.69%) GitHub
5 93 (17.16%) Amazon EKS
6 86 (15.87%) GitHub Actions
7 70 (12.92%) Azure DevOps
8 66 (12.18%) SaaS
9 54 (9.96%) AWS CloudFormation
10 52 (9.59%) Serverless
11 47 (8.67%) Amazon CloudWatch
12 45 (8.30%) Azure AKS
13 40 (7.38%) AWS Lambda
14 34 (6.27%) Amazon S3
15 30 (5.54%) Amazon ECS
16 25 (4.61%) OpenShift
17 24 (4.43%) Datadog
18 23 (4.24%) Amazon EC2
19 20 (3.69%) Pulumi
20 16 (2.95%) Azure Monitor
Communications & Networking
1 43 (7.93%) Broadband
2 39 (7.20%) Firewall
3 21 (3.87%) VPN
4 14 (2.58%) DNS
5 11 (2.03%) Network Security
6 10 (1.85%) WAN
7 8 (1.48%) TCP/IP
8 7 (1.29%) LAN
9 5 (0.92%) Fibre Channel
9 5 (0.92%) SD-WAN
10 4 (0.74%) AMQP
10 4 (0.74%) DHCP
10 4 (0.74%) Intrusion Detection
11 3 (0.55%) Internet
11 3 (0.55%) Kerberos
11 3 (0.55%) SCCP
11 3 (0.55%) VLAN
12 2 (0.37%) PuTTY
12 2 (0.37%) VSAN
13 1 (0.18%) 5G
Database & Business Intelligence
1 71 (13.10%) PostgreSQL
2 60 (11.07%) NoSQL
3 44 (8.12%) SQL Server
4 40 (7.38%) MongoDB
5 37 (6.83%) Relational Database
6 20 (3.69%) Amazon RDS
7 19 (3.51%) MySQL
7 19 (3.51%) RDBMS
8 11 (2.03%) BigQuery
9 10 (1.85%) Flink
10 8 (1.48%) Redis
11 7 (1.29%) Amazon Aurora
11 7 (1.29%) Azure SQL Database
11 7 (1.29%) DynamoDB
12 6 (1.11%) Data Warehouse
12 6 (1.11%) Power BI
13 5 (0.92%) Data Lake
13 5 (0.92%) Elasticsearch
14 4 (0.74%) Pinecone
14 4 (0.74%) QGIS
Development Applications
1 74 (13.65%) Jenkins
2 60 (11.07%) TeamCity
3 51 (9.41%) Git
4 47 (8.67%) GitLab
5 19 (3.51%) Jaeger
6 10 (1.85%) JUnit
6 10 (1.85%) Selenium
7 9 (1.66%) Cucumber
8 7 (1.29%) SonarQube
9 6 (1.11%) CircleCI
9 6 (1.11%) JIRA
10 5 (0.92%) Bitbucket
10 5 (0.92%) JMeter
10 5 (0.92%) Robot Framework
10 5 (0.92%) Visual Studio
11 4 (0.74%) Visual Studio Code
12 3 (0.55%) Eclipse
12 3 (0.55%) MLflow
12 3 (0.55%) REST Assured
13 2 (0.37%) Cypress.io
General
1 115 (21.22%) Finance
2 113 (20.85%) Social Skills
3 67 (12.36%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 63 (11.62%) Retail
5 62 (11.44%) Law
6 61 (11.25%) Banking
7 45 (8.30%) Financial Institution
8 32 (5.90%) Back Office
8 32 (5.90%) Public Sector
9 26 (4.80%) Telecoms
10 15 (2.77%) Analytical Skills
11 12 (2.21%) Front Office
12 6 (1.11%) Legal
13 5 (0.92%) Esports
14 4 (0.74%) Aviation
14 4 (0.74%) Documentation Skills
14 4 (0.74%) Manufacturing
15 3 (0.55%) Electronics
15 3 (0.55%) Games
15 3 (0.55%) Military
Job Titles
1 170 (31.37%) Senior
2 110 (20.30%) Software Engineer
3 89 (16.42%) Lead
4 79 (14.58%) DevOps Engineer
5 69 (12.73%) Developer
6 66 (12.18%) Cloud Engineer
7 46 (8.49%) Platform Engineer
8 41 (7.56%) Senior Software Engineer
9 38 (7.01%) Azure Engineer
10 32 (5.90%) Infrastructure Engineer
11 27 (4.98%) Architect
12 25 (4.61%) AWS Engineer
12 25 (4.61%) Senior Developer
13 24 (4.43%) Lead DevOps
14 23 (4.24%) Python Engineer
15 22 (4.06%) Full-Stack Engineer
15 22 (4.06%) Java Engineer
16 21 (3.87%) Cloud Platform Engineer
16 21 (3.87%) Lead Cloud Engineer
16 21 (3.87%) Software Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 70 (12.92%) React
2 68 (12.55%) .NET
3 63 (11.62%) Spring
4 56 (10.33%) Spring Boot
5 50 (9.23%) Kafka
6 49 (9.04%) Elastic Stack
7 44 (8.12%) RESTful
8 35 (6.46%) REST
9 34 (6.27%) Node.js
10 26 (4.80%) Django
11 25 (4.61%) gRPC
12 24 (4.43%) Akka
13 23 (4.24%) .NET Core
13 23 (4.24%) AngularJS
14 20 (3.69%) Flask
15 19 (3.51%) OpenTelemetry
16 18 (3.32%) RabbitMQ
17 16 (2.95%) YAML
18 15 (2.77%) Web Services
19 14 (2.58%) ADO
Miscellaneous
1 164 (30.26%) Cloud Native
2 42 (7.75%) Distributed Systems
3 35 (6.46%) Product Ownership
4 24 (4.43%) Onboarding
5 23 (4.24%) Over-the-Top Content
5 23 (4.24%) Video\Live Streaming
6 16 (2.95%) Blog
7 15 (2.77%) Legacy Systems
8 12 (2.21%) AI Agents
8 12 (2.21%) Data Centre
9 10 (1.85%) Security Posture
9 10 (1.85%) Virtual Team
10 8 (1.48%) Management Information System
10 8 (1.48%) Private Cloud
11 7 (1.29%) Algorithms
11 7 (1.29%) Distributed Architecture
11 7 (1.29%) Linux Command Line
11 7 (1.29%) Public Cloud
12 6 (1.11%) Hybrid Cloud
12 6 (1.11%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 136 (25.09%) Linux
2 51 (9.41%) Windows
3 37 (6.83%) Unix
4 23 (4.24%) Android
5 14 (2.58%) Windows Server
6 13 (2.40%) Apple iOS
6 13 (2.40%) Ubuntu
7 10 (1.85%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
7 10 (1.85%) VMS
8 7 (1.29%) CentOS
9 4 (0.74%) Debian
10 2 (0.37%) Windows Server 2019
11 1 (0.18%) Rocky
11 1 (0.18%) Windows Server 2016
Processes & Methodologies
1 329 (60.70%) CI/CD
2 326 (60.15%) DevOps
3 218 (40.22%) Containerisation
4 195 (35.98%) Infrastructure as Code
5 173 (31.92%) Agile
6 146 (26.94%) Software Engineering
7 142 (26.20%) Microservices
8 100 (18.45%) Continuous Improvement
9 97 (17.90%) Problem-Solving
10 95 (17.53%) Mentoring
11 91 (16.79%) Test Automation
12 82 (15.13%) Observability
12 82 (15.13%) Platform Engineering
13 81 (14.94%) Infrastructure Engineering
14 80 (14.76%) AI
15 68 (12.55%) High Availability
16 60 (11.07%) Cloud Security
16 60 (11.07%) Site Reliability Engineering
17 59 (10.89%) Clean Code
18 57 (10.52%) Deployment Automation
Programming Languages
1 231 (42.62%) Python
2 162 (29.89%) Java
3 93 (17.16%) JavaScript
4 85 (15.68%) SQL
5 79 (14.58%) Go
6 78 (14.39%) Bash
7 54 (9.96%) PowerShell
8 49 (9.04%) C#
9 47 (8.67%) Bicep
9 47 (8.67%) TypeScript
10 26 (4.80%) Scala
11 12 (2.21%) C++
12 8 (1.48%) Delphi
13 5 (0.92%) Shell Script
14 4 (0.74%) PHP
15 3 (0.55%) Kotlin
15 3 (0.55%) Ruby
16 2 (0.37%) C
16 2 (0.37%) Perl
16 2 (0.37%) R
Qualifications
1 77 (14.21%) Security Cleared
2 60 (11.07%) Degree
3 59 (10.89%) SC Cleared
4 50 (9.23%) AWS Certification
5 44 (8.12%) Computer Science Degree
6 34 (6.27%) Azure Certification
7 16 (2.95%) DV Cleared
8 7 (1.29%) Microsoft Certification
9 6 (1.11%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
10 4 (0.74%) CREST Certified
10 4 (0.74%) OSCP
11 3 (0.55%) BPSS Clearance
11 3 (0.55%) CISSP
11 3 (0.55%) Master's Degree
12 2 (0.37%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
12 2 (0.37%) AWS Certified Developer
12 2 (0.37%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
12 2 (0.37%) Cisco Certification
12 2 (0.37%) ISTQB Advanced Certification
12 2 (0.37%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 31 (5.72%) QA
2 21 (3.87%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 17 (3.14%) GDPR
4 16 (2.95%) PCI DSS
5 11 (2.03%) NIST
5 11 (2.03%) SOC 2
6 10 (1.85%) Data Quality
7 4 (0.74%) GRC
8 3 (0.55%) Accessibility
8 3 (0.55%) SLA
9 2 (0.37%) ECSS
9 2 (0.37%) HIPAA
9 2 (0.37%) Software Quality Assurance
10 1 (0.18%) MiFID
System Software
1 323 (59.59%) Docker
2 15 (2.77%) Active Directory
3 12 (2.21%) VMware Infrastructure
4 11 (2.03%) vSphere
5 9 (1.66%) VMware NSX
6 5 (0.92%) Hyper-V
6 5 (0.92%) NFS
7 4 (0.74%) Virtual Machines
8 2 (0.37%) Virtual Servers
9 1 (0.18%) Firmware
9 1 (0.18%) Kamailio
9 1 (0.18%) vCloud
9 1 (0.18%) Virtual Desktop
9 1 (0.18%) VMware ESXi
Systems Management
1 276 (50.92%) Terraform
2 127 (23.43%) Grafana
3 119 (21.96%) Ansible
4 82 (15.13%) Prometheus
5 46 (8.49%) Argo
6 20 (3.69%) Kustomize
7 10 (1.85%) Puppet
8 7 (1.29%) Progress Chef
9 5 (0.92%) Cilium
10 4 (0.74%) logstash
10 4 (0.74%) ZABBIX
11 3 (0.55%) Microsoft Intune
12 2 (0.37%) FortiGate
12 2 (0.37%) Proxmox
13 1 (0.18%) Docker Swarm
13 1 (0.18%) Istio
13 1 (0.18%) Karpenter
13 1 (0.18%) Kibana
13 1 (0.18%) Rancher
13 1 (0.18%) vCenter Server
Vendors
1 45 (8.30%) Microsoft
2 36 (6.64%) Google
3 24 (4.43%) VMware
4 22 (4.06%) Oracle
5 19 (3.51%) Red Hat
6 14 (2.58%) Splunk
7 10 (1.85%) Databricks
7 10 (1.85%) Dell
8 9 (1.66%) Cisco
9 8 (1.48%) SAP
10 6 (1.11%) Dynatrace
11 5 (0.92%) Commvault
11 5 (0.92%) IBM
11 5 (0.92%) IFS
11 5 (0.92%) Jitterbit
11 5 (0.92%) Mavenir
11 5 (0.92%) MuleSoft
11 5 (0.92%) Pure Storage
11 5 (0.92%) SnapLogic
11 5 (0.92%) Workday