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 19 December 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
19 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 83 38 33
Rank change year-on-year -45 -5 -5
Permanent jobs citing Kubernetes 494 1,148 1,449
As % of all permanent jobs with remote/hybrid work options 3.22% 6.57% 7.31%
As % of the Systems Management category 35.98% 48.11% 44.68%
Number of salaries quoted 386 591 1,216
10th Percentile £52,400 £52,500 £47,500
25th Percentile £60,000 £61,250 £57,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £75,000 £75,000 £70,576
Median % change year-on-year - +6.27% -5.90%
75th Percentile £90,000 £95,000 £87,500
90th Percentile £115,000 £115,000 £103,750
UK median annual salary £75,000 £77,500 £75,000
% change year-on-year -3.23% +3.33% -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 1,373 2,386 3,243
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 8.96% 13.66% 16.35%
Number of salaries quoted 1,014 1,438 2,794
10th Percentile £37,500 £40,000 £41,227
25th Percentile £49,598 £51,250 £51,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £69,154 £66,750
Median % change year-on-year -6.01% +3.60% -3.88%
75th Percentile £83,750 £85,000 £84,764
90th Percentile £100,000 £105,000 £100,000
UK median annual salary £62,500 £68,000 £65,000
% change year-on-year -8.09% +4.62% -3.70%

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 19 December 2025.

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 13 (2.63%) Apache Spark
2 11 (2.23%) IIS
3 9 (1.82%) Apache Airflow
4 6 (1.21%) Apache
4 6 (1.21%) nginx
5 5 (1.01%) Anypoint
5 5 (1.01%) Apache Pulsar
5 5 (1.01%) Microsoft Exchange
6 4 (0.81%) ArcGIS
6 4 (0.81%) Confluence
6 4 (0.81%) GeoServer
6 4 (0.81%) OpenStack
6 4 (0.81%) Oracle Spatial
7 2 (0.40%) SharePoint
8 1 (0.20%) BizTalk Server
8 1 (0.20%) Camunda
8 1 (0.20%) Tomcat
Applications
1 1 (0.20%) Chatbot
1 1 (0.20%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 5 (1.01%) Shopify
2 1 (0.20%) Actimize
Cloud Services
1 303 (61.34%) AWS
2 265 (53.64%) Azure
3 133 (26.92%) GCP
4 121 (24.49%) GitHub
5 84 (17.00%) GitHub Actions
6 77 (15.59%) Azure DevOps
7 68 (13.77%) Amazon EKS
8 61 (12.35%) SaaS
9 50 (10.12%) Azure AKS
9 50 (10.12%) Serverless
10 45 (9.11%) AWS CloudFormation
11 41 (8.30%) Amazon CloudWatch
12 39 (7.89%) AWS Lambda
13 33 (6.68%) Amazon ECS
14 31 (6.28%) Amazon S3
15 28 (5.67%) OpenShift
16 24 (4.86%) Datadog
17 18 (3.64%) Amazon EC2
18 16 (3.24%) Azure Monitor
19 14 (2.83%) Azure Cosmos DB
Communications & Networking
1 37 (7.49%) Firewall
2 18 (3.64%) VPN
3 15 (3.04%) DNS
4 12 (2.43%) WAN
5 10 (2.02%) TCP/IP
6 9 (1.82%) LAN
6 9 (1.82%) Network Security
7 6 (1.21%) Fibre Channel
8 5 (1.01%) Broadband
8 5 (1.01%) Internet
8 5 (1.01%) SD-WAN
9 4 (0.81%) DHCP
9 4 (0.81%) Intrusion Detection
10 3 (0.61%) AMQP
10 3 (0.61%) Kerberos
10 3 (0.61%) VLAN
11 2 (0.40%) VSAN
12 1 (0.20%) 5G
12 1 (0.20%) MIMO
12 1 (0.20%) NAS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 69 (13.97%) PostgreSQL
2 50 (10.12%) NoSQL
3 45 (9.11%) SQL Server
4 40 (8.10%) MongoDB
5 19 (3.85%) Amazon RDS
6 18 (3.64%) MySQL
6 18 (3.64%) Relational Database
7 10 (2.02%) Flink
8 9 (1.82%) Azure SQL Database
8 9 (1.82%) DynamoDB
9 8 (1.62%) Redis
10 7 (1.42%) BigQuery
10 7 (1.42%) Data Warehouse
10 7 (1.42%) Elasticsearch
11 6 (1.21%) Power BI
12 5 (1.01%) Big Data
12 5 (1.01%) Data Lake
13 4 (0.81%) Amazon Aurora
13 4 (0.81%) GIS
13 4 (0.81%) QGIS
Development Applications
1 60 (12.15%) Git
2 57 (11.54%) Jenkins
3 46 (9.31%) GitLab
4 23 (4.66%) TeamCity
5 9 (1.82%) JUnit
5 9 (1.82%) Selenium
6 8 (1.62%) Cucumber
7 6 (1.21%) SonarQube
7 6 (1.21%) Visual Studio Code
8 5 (1.01%) JIRA
9 4 (0.81%) Bitbucket
9 4 (0.81%) CircleCI
9 4 (0.81%) MLflow
9 4 (0.81%) Octopus Deploy
9 4 (0.81%) Robot Framework
10 3 (0.61%) JMeter
11 2 (0.40%) Eclipse
11 2 (0.40%) git-flow
11 2 (0.40%) TestRail
12 1 (0.20%) Burp Suite
General
1 105 (21.26%) Social Skills
2 97 (19.64%) Finance
3 44 (8.91%) Law
4 43 (8.70%) Banking
5 40 (8.10%) Retail
6 35 (7.09%) Financial Institution
7 33 (6.68%) Public Sector
8 30 (6.07%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 26 (5.26%) Telecoms
10 23 (4.66%) Back Office
11 13 (2.63%) Analytical Skills
12 12 (2.43%) Front Office
13 7 (1.42%) Legal
14 5 (1.01%) Documentation Skills
14 5 (1.01%) Esports
15 4 (0.81%) Games
15 4 (0.81%) Manufacturing
15 4 (0.81%) Tech for Good
16 3 (0.61%) Electronics
16 3 (0.61%) Marketing
Job Titles
1 148 (29.96%) Senior
2 90 (18.22%) DevOps Engineer
3 80 (16.19%) Software Engineer
4 64 (12.96%) Lead
5 58 (11.74%) Developer
6 56 (11.34%) Cloud Engineer
7 42 (8.50%) Azure Engineer
8 38 (7.69%) Infrastructure Engineer
9 37 (7.49%) Architect
9 37 (7.49%) Platform Engineer
10 31 (6.28%) Senior Software Engineer
11 25 (5.06%) Python Engineer
12 21 (4.25%) Lead DevOps
12 21 (4.25%) Senior Developer
12 21 (4.25%) Senior DevOps
13 19 (3.85%) AWS Engineer
13 19 (3.85%) Full-Stack Engineer
13 19 (3.85%) Lead DevOps Engineer
14 18 (3.64%) Site Reliability Engineer
14 18 (3.64%) Software Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 69 (13.97%) .NET
2 62 (12.55%) React
3 58 (11.74%) Kafka
4 57 (11.54%) Spring
5 54 (10.93%) Spring Boot
6 43 (8.70%) RESTful
7 33 (6.68%) REST
8 32 (6.48%) Node.js
9 31 (6.28%) Elastic Stack
10 28 (5.67%) Django
11 27 (5.47%) gRPC
12 24 (4.86%) Flask
13 21 (4.25%) RabbitMQ
14 20 (4.05%) .NET Core
15 19 (3.85%) AngularJS
15 19 (3.85%) FastAPI
16 16 (3.24%) YAML
17 13 (2.63%) ADO
17 13 (2.63%) Web Services
17 13 (2.63%) WebSockets
Miscellaneous
1 158 (31.98%) Cloud Native
2 48 (9.72%) Distributed Systems
3 31 (6.28%) Onboarding
4 30 (6.07%) Product Ownership
5 17 (3.44%) Data Centre
6 16 (3.24%) Legacy Systems
7 15 (3.04%) Management Information System
8 14 (2.83%) Public Cloud
9 12 (2.43%) Hybrid Cloud
10 11 (2.23%) AI Agents
11 8 (1.62%) Algorithms
11 8 (1.62%) Virtual Team
12 7 (1.42%) Blog
12 7 (1.42%) Private Cloud
12 7 (1.42%) Security Posture
13 6 (1.21%) Distributed Architecture
13 6 (1.21%) Fixed Income
13 6 (1.21%) Self-Motivation
14 5 (1.01%) Linux Command Line
14 5 (1.01%) Low-Code
Operating Systems
1 120 (24.29%) Linux
2 66 (13.36%) Windows
3 23 (4.66%) Windows Server
4 19 (3.85%) Unix
5 18 (3.64%) Android
6 11 (2.23%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 11 (2.23%) Ubuntu
7 10 (2.02%) VMS
8 8 (1.62%) Apple iOS
8 8 (1.62%) Windows Server 2019
9 6 (1.21%) CentOS
9 6 (1.21%) Rocky
10 3 (0.61%) Debian
11 1 (0.20%) Windows Server 2016
Processes & Methodologies
1 311 (62.96%) CI/CD
2 310 (62.75%) DevOps
3 202 (40.89%) Containerisation
4 168 (34.01%) Infrastructure as Code
5 139 (28.14%) Agile
6 137 (27.73%) Microservices
7 125 (25.30%) Software Engineering
8 101 (20.45%) Problem-Solving
9 90 (18.22%) Infrastructure Engineering
10 89 (18.02%) Continuous Improvement
11 83 (16.80%) AI
12 82 (16.60%) Observability
13 72 (14.57%) Mentoring
14 71 (14.37%) Platform Engineering
15 65 (13.16%) Site Reliability Engineering
16 60 (12.15%) Test Automation
17 56 (11.34%) Cloud Security
18 54 (10.93%) Event-Driven
18 54 (10.93%) Machine Learning
19 51 (10.32%) High Availability
Programming Languages
1 219 (44.33%) Python
2 119 (24.09%) Java
3 94 (19.03%) SQL
4 67 (13.56%) PowerShell
5 66 (13.36%) JavaScript
6 64 (12.96%) Bash
7 54 (10.93%) C#
7 54 (10.93%) Go
8 46 (9.31%) Bicep
9 44 (8.91%) TypeScript
10 10 (2.02%) C++
11 9 (1.82%) Scala
12 8 (1.62%) Delphi
13 6 (1.21%) PHP
14 5 (1.01%) Kotlin
14 5 (1.01%) Shell Script
15 4 (0.81%) F#
15 4 (0.81%) Haskell
15 4 (0.81%) OCaml
15 4 (0.81%) Ruby
Qualifications
1 77 (15.59%) Security Cleared
2 64 (12.96%) Degree
3 62 (12.55%) SC Cleared
4 41 (8.30%) AWS Certification
4 41 (8.30%) Azure Certification
4 41 (8.30%) Computer Science Degree
5 21 (4.25%) DV Cleared
6 10 (2.02%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
7 9 (1.82%) BPSS Clearance
8 7 (1.42%) Master's Degree
9 6 (1.21%) Network+ Certification
10 5 (1.01%) PhD
11 4 (0.81%) Cisco Certification
11 4 (0.81%) CISM
11 4 (0.81%) CISSP
12 3 (0.61%) Microsoft Certification
13 2 (0.40%) (ISC)2 CCSP
13 2 (0.40%) CISA
13 2 (0.40%) CRISC
13 2 (0.40%) OSCP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 28 (5.67%) QA
2 19 (3.85%) GDPR
3 17 (3.44%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 11 (2.23%) PCI DSS
4 11 (2.23%) SOC 2
5 10 (2.02%) Data Quality
5 10 (2.02%) NIST
6 7 (1.42%) HIPAA
7 4 (0.81%) GRC
8 3 (0.61%) SLA
9 2 (0.40%) ECSS
10 1 (0.20%) MiFID
System Software
1 288 (58.30%) Docker
2 23 (4.66%) Active Directory
3 14 (2.83%) VMware Infrastructure
4 12 (2.43%) Hyper-V
4 12 (2.43%) vSphere
5 6 (1.21%) NFS
5 6 (1.21%) Virtual Machines
6 4 (0.81%) VMware NSX
7 2 (0.40%) Virtual Servers
8 1 (0.20%) Dovecot
8 1 (0.20%) Firmware
8 1 (0.20%) Postfix
8 1 (0.20%) vCloud
8 1 (0.20%) Virtual Desktop
8 1 (0.20%) VMware ESXi
Systems Management
1 231 (46.76%) Terraform
2 107 (21.66%) Grafana
3 100 (20.24%) Ansible
4 62 (12.55%) Prometheus
5 28 (5.67%) Argo
6 5 (1.01%) Cilium
6 5 (1.01%) Puppet
7 4 (0.81%) logstash
7 4 (0.81%) Progress Chef
8 3 (0.61%) Microsoft Intune
9 2 (0.40%) FortiGate
9 2 (0.40%) Kubeflow
9 2 (0.40%) Kustomize
10 1 (0.20%) Docker Swarm
10 1 (0.20%) Istio
10 1 (0.20%) ITRS Geneos
10 1 (0.20%) Karpenter
10 1 (0.20%) Microsoft Data Protection Manager
10 1 (0.20%) Rancher
10 1 (0.20%) vCenter Server
Vendors
1 49 (9.92%) Microsoft
2 23 (4.66%) Oracle
3 22 (4.45%) Red Hat
4 21 (4.25%) VMware
5 19 (3.85%) Google
6 15 (3.04%) Dell
7 12 (2.43%) Splunk
8 11 (2.23%) Cisco
9 10 (2.02%) Databricks
10 8 (1.62%) SAP
11 7 (1.42%) Commvault
11 7 (1.42%) Pure Storage
12 6 (1.21%) Dynatrace
13 5 (1.01%) Ericsson
13 5 (1.01%) IFS
13 5 (1.01%) Jitterbit
13 5 (1.01%) Mavenir
13 5 (1.01%) MuleSoft
13 5 (1.01%) SnapLogic
13 5 (1.01%) Workday