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 7 March 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
7 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 76 33 56
Rank change year-on-year -43 +23 -29
Permanent jobs citing Kubernetes 562 1,184 1,470
As % of all permanent jobs with remote/hybrid work options 3.35% 8.03% 5.03%
As % of the Systems Management category 37.10% 53.17% 40.69%
Number of salaries quoted 377 677 1,231
10th Percentile £52,400 £51,698 £47,500
25th Percentile £58,750 £62,500 £57,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £72,500 £79,569 £72,500
Median % change year-on-year -8.88% +9.75% -3.33%
75th Percentile £87,500 £108,750 £88,750
90th Percentile £108,500 £136,500 £111,250
UK median annual salary £75,000 £80,000 £75,000
% change year-on-year -6.25% +6.67% -1.03%

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 1,515 2,227 3,613
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 9.04% 15.10% 12.36%
Number of salaries quoted 1,045 1,418 3,065
10th Percentile £36,250 £42,500 £37,500
25th Percentile £46,446 £52,500 £48,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £64,482 £70,000 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year -7.88% +7.69% -5.13%
75th Percentile £82,500 £91,250 £83,750
90th Percentile £95,000 £115,000 £100,000
UK median annual salary £62,500 £70,000 £62,000
% change year-on-year -10.71% +12.90% -8.15%

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 7 March 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 14 (2.49%) Apache Spark
2 6 (1.07%) Apache
2 6 (1.07%) Apache Airflow
2 6 (1.07%) OpenStack
3 5 (0.89%) Anypoint
3 5 (0.89%) Apache Pulsar
4 4 (0.71%) ArcGIS
4 4 (0.71%) GeoServer
4 4 (0.71%) Microsoft Exchange
4 4 (0.71%) Oracle Spatial
5 3 (0.53%) Confluence
5 3 (0.53%) nginx
6 1 (0.18%) Camunda
6 1 (0.18%) IIS
6 1 (0.18%) SAS
6 1 (0.18%) SharePoint
Applications
1 4 (0.71%) Weka
2 2 (0.36%) Chatbot
3 1 (0.18%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 5 (0.89%) Shopify
2 1 (0.18%) Actimize
Cloud Services
1 360 (64.06%) AWS
2 246 (43.77%) Azure
3 169 (30.07%) GCP
4 110 (19.57%) GitHub
5 108 (19.22%) Amazon EKS
6 83 (14.77%) GitHub Actions
7 79 (14.06%) SaaS
8 61 (10.85%) Serverless
9 56 (9.96%) Azure DevOps
10 46 (8.19%) Amazon CloudWatch
11 45 (8.01%) AWS CloudFormation
12 44 (7.83%) Azure AKS
13 41 (7.30%) Amazon S3
14 39 (6.94%) AWS Lambda
15 31 (5.52%) Amazon EC2
16 29 (5.16%) OpenShift
17 28 (4.98%) Amazon ECS
18 22 (3.91%) Datadog
19 20 (3.56%) Pulumi
20 14 (2.49%) PaaS
Communications & Networking
1 44 (7.83%) Broadband
2 31 (5.52%) Firewall
3 17 (3.02%) VPN
4 9 (1.60%) Network Security
5 8 (1.42%) DNS
6 5 (0.89%) DHCP
6 5 (0.89%) SD-WAN
7 4 (0.71%) AMQP
7 4 (0.71%) Intrusion Detection
7 4 (0.71%) MQTT
8 3 (0.53%) HTTP
8 3 (0.53%) Internet
8 3 (0.53%) Kerberos
8 3 (0.53%) RTP
8 3 (0.53%) SCCP
8 3 (0.53%) Unified Communications
8 3 (0.53%) VLAN
8 3 (0.53%) VoIP
8 3 (0.53%) WAN
8 3 (0.53%) Wireshark
Database & Business Intelligence
1 65 (11.57%) PostgreSQL
2 60 (10.68%) NoSQL
3 36 (6.41%) MongoDB
3 36 (6.41%) Relational Database
4 35 (6.23%) SQL Server
5 26 (4.63%) Amazon RDS
6 19 (3.38%) RDBMS
7 15 (2.67%) MySQL
8 10 (1.78%) Flink
9 9 (1.60%) BigQuery
10 8 (1.42%) Amazon Aurora
10 8 (1.42%) Redis
11 7 (1.25%) Azure SQL Database
12 6 (1.07%) Data Warehouse
13 5 (0.89%) Elasticsearch
13 5 (0.89%) Power BI
14 4 (0.71%) Big Data
14 4 (0.71%) Data Lake
14 4 (0.71%) GIS
14 4 (0.71%) QGIS
Development Applications
1 75 (13.35%) TeamCity
2 72 (12.81%) Jenkins
3 52 (9.25%) GitLab
4 51 (9.07%) Git
5 19 (3.38%) Jaeger
6 12 (2.14%) Cucumber
7 10 (1.78%) Selenium
8 9 (1.60%) JIRA
8 9 (1.60%) JUnit
9 8 (1.42%) JMeter
9 8 (1.42%) SonarQube
10 6 (1.07%) Bitbucket
10 6 (1.07%) CircleCI
11 5 (0.89%) Robot Framework
11 5 (0.89%) Visual Studio
12 4 (0.71%) Locust
12 4 (0.71%) Visual Studio Code
13 3 (0.53%) Eclipse
13 3 (0.53%) MLflow
13 3 (0.53%) REST Assured
General
1 123 (21.89%) Finance
2 117 (20.82%) Social Skills
3 89 (15.84%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 85 (15.12%) Retail
5 81 (14.41%) Law
6 80 (14.23%) Banking
7 54 (9.61%) Financial Institution
8 41 (7.30%) Back Office
9 31 (5.52%) Public Sector
10 25 (4.45%) Telecoms
11 16 (2.85%) Analytical Skills
12 12 (2.14%) Front Office
13 9 (1.60%) Legal
14 7 (1.25%) Military
15 5 (0.89%) Esports
15 5 (0.89%) Tech for Good
16 4 (0.71%) Aviation
16 4 (0.71%) Manufacturing
17 3 (0.53%) Games
17 3 (0.53%) Organisational Skills
Job Titles
1 187 (33.27%) Senior
2 129 (22.95%) Software Engineer
3 107 (19.04%) Lead
4 78 (13.88%) DevOps Engineer
5 77 (13.70%) Developer
6 61 (10.85%) Cloud Engineer
7 48 (8.54%) Senior Software Engineer
8 46 (8.19%) Platform Engineer
9 36 (6.41%) Azure Engineer
10 32 (5.69%) Java Engineer
11 31 (5.52%) Senior Developer
12 28 (4.98%) AWS Engineer
13 27 (4.80%) Java Software Engineer
14 24 (4.27%) Full-Stack Engineer
14 24 (4.27%) Infrastructure Engineer
14 24 (4.27%) Lead DevOps
15 23 (4.09%) Lead Software Engineer
15 23 (4.09%) Software Developer
16 22 (3.91%) Architect
16 22 (3.91%) Cloud Platform Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 75 (13.35%) Spring
2 70 (12.46%) .NET
2 70 (12.46%) React
3 66 (11.74%) Spring Boot
4 59 (10.50%) Kafka
5 48 (8.54%) Elastic Stack
6 47 (8.36%) RESTful
7 34 (6.05%) Node.js
7 34 (6.05%) REST
8 29 (5.16%) Django
9 28 (4.98%) .NET Core
10 25 (4.45%) Akka
11 22 (3.91%) gRPC
12 20 (3.56%) Flask
13 19 (3.38%) AngularJS
13 19 (3.38%) OpenTelemetry
14 18 (3.20%) RabbitMQ
15 17 (3.02%) OAuth
16 14 (2.49%) .NET Framework
16 14 (2.49%) FastAPI
Miscellaneous
1 185 (32.92%) Cloud Native
2 48 (8.54%) Distributed Systems
3 41 (7.30%) Product Ownership
4 23 (4.09%) Blog
4 23 (4.09%) Over-the-Top Content
4 23 (4.09%) Video\Live Streaming
5 16 (2.85%) Legacy Systems
6 15 (2.67%) Onboarding
7 12 (2.14%) AI Agents
7 12 (2.14%) Security Posture
8 11 (1.96%) Private Cloud
8 11 (1.96%) Virtual Team
9 10 (1.78%) Data Centre
10 9 (1.60%) Hybrid Cloud
11 7 (1.25%) Distributed Architecture
11 7 (1.25%) Public Cloud
12 6 (1.07%) Fixed Income
12 6 (1.07%) Low-Code
12 6 (1.07%) Management Information System
13 5 (0.89%) Legacy Applications
Operating Systems
1 126 (22.42%) Linux
2 36 (6.41%) Unix
3 32 (5.69%) Windows
4 23 (4.09%) Android
5 13 (2.31%) Apple iOS
6 12 (2.14%) Ubuntu
7 8 (1.42%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
8 7 (1.25%) CentOS
8 7 (1.25%) Windows Server
9 6 (1.07%) VMS
10 2 (0.36%) Windows Server 2016
11 1 (0.18%) Debian
11 1 (0.18%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 355 (63.17%) CI/CD
2 329 (58.54%) DevOps
3 225 (40.04%) Containerisation
4 197 (35.05%) Agile
5 193 (34.34%) Infrastructure as Code
6 168 (29.89%) Microservices
7 162 (28.83%) Software Engineering
8 113 (20.11%) Mentoring
9 110 (19.57%) Continuous Improvement
9 110 (19.57%) Test Automation
10 87 (15.48%) Problem-Solving
11 86 (15.30%) Observability
12 83 (14.77%) AI
13 79 (14.06%) Deployment Automation
13 79 (14.06%) Platform Engineering
14 77 (13.70%) Clean Code
15 70 (12.46%) High Availability
16 67 (11.92%) Infrastructure Engineering
17 63 (11.21%) TDD
18 60 (10.68%) Site Reliability Engineering
Programming Languages
1 230 (40.93%) Python
2 193 (34.34%) Java
3 96 (17.08%) JavaScript
4 89 (15.84%) Go
5 78 (13.88%) Bash
5 78 (13.88%) SQL
6 55 (9.79%) C#
7 48 (8.54%) TypeScript
8 43 (7.65%) PowerShell
9 39 (6.94%) Bicep
10 28 (4.98%) Scala
11 14 (2.49%) C++
12 8 (1.42%) Delphi
13 5 (0.89%) PHP
13 5 (0.89%) Rust
13 5 (0.89%) Shell Script
14 4 (0.71%) C
15 3 (0.53%) Perl
16 2 (0.36%) Korn
16 2 (0.36%) Ruby
Qualifications
1 78 (13.88%) Security Cleared
2 68 (12.10%) Degree
3 60 (10.68%) SC Cleared
4 42 (7.47%) Computer Science Degree
5 41 (7.30%) AWS Certification
6 32 (5.69%) Azure Certification
7 14 (2.49%) DV Cleared
8 7 (1.25%) CREST Certified
8 7 (1.25%) Microsoft Certification
8 7 (1.25%) OSCP
9 4 (0.71%) CISSP
9 4 (0.71%) GIAC
9 4 (0.71%) ISACA
9 4 (0.71%) SANS
10 3 (0.53%) LPIC
11 2 (0.36%) Cisco Certification
11 2 (0.36%) ISTQB
11 2 (0.36%) ISTQB Advanced Certification
11 2 (0.36%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
11 2 (0.36%) Linux+ Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 32 (5.69%) QA
2 21 (3.74%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 17 (3.02%) PCI DSS
4 14 (2.49%) NIST
5 12 (2.14%) GDPR
6 10 (1.78%) Data Quality
6 10 (1.78%) SOC 2
7 9 (1.60%) Accessibility
8 4 (0.71%) GRC
9 3 (0.53%) SLA
9 3 (0.53%) WCAG
10 2 (0.36%) ECSS
10 2 (0.36%) HIPAA
10 2 (0.36%) ISO 9001
10 2 (0.36%) Software Quality Assurance
11 1 (0.18%) MiFID
System Software
1 341 (60.68%) Docker
2 16 (2.85%) Active Directory
3 9 (1.60%) VMware NSX
4 8 (1.42%) VMware Infrastructure
5 7 (1.25%) Virtual Machines
6 6 (1.07%) vSphere
7 3 (0.53%) Firmware
7 3 (0.53%) Hyper-V
7 3 (0.53%) Kamailio
8 1 (0.18%) Citrix Hypervisor
8 1 (0.18%) vCloud
8 1 (0.18%) Virtual Desktop
8 1 (0.18%) VMware ESXi
Systems Management
1 276 (49.11%) Terraform
2 143 (25.44%) Grafana
3 114 (20.28%) Ansible
4 85 (15.12%) Prometheus
5 47 (8.36%) Argo
6 20 (3.56%) Kustomize
7 11 (1.96%) Puppet
8 7 (1.25%) Progress Chef
9 6 (1.07%) Proxmox
10 5 (0.89%) Cilium
11 4 (0.71%) logstash
11 4 (0.71%) ZABBIX
12 3 (0.53%) Istio
12 3 (0.53%) Kibana
12 3 (0.53%) Microsoft Intune
13 2 (0.36%) FortiGate
13 2 (0.36%) Packer
14 1 (0.18%) Active Directory Federation Services
14 1 (0.18%) ITRS Geneos
14 1 (0.18%) Nagios
Vendors
1 52 (9.25%) Microsoft
2 35 (6.23%) Google
3 25 (4.45%) VMware
4 22 (3.91%) Oracle
5 15 (2.67%) Splunk
6 14 (2.49%) Red Hat
7 10 (1.78%) Dell
8 8 (1.42%) Databricks
9 7 (1.25%) SAP
10 5 (0.89%) Epicor
10 5 (0.89%) Ericsson
10 5 (0.89%) Fortinet
10 5 (0.89%) IBM
10 5 (0.89%) Infor
10 5 (0.89%) Informatica
10 5 (0.89%) Mavenir
10 5 (0.89%) Nokia
10 5 (0.89%) Software AG
10 5 (0.89%) Talend
10 5 (0.89%) TIBCO