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 3 May 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
3 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 75 37 62
Rank change year-on-year -38 +25 -36
Permanent jobs citing Kubernetes 574 919 1,394
As % of all permanent jobs with remote/hybrid work options 3.15% 6.76% 4.29%
As % of the Systems Management category 38.01% 51.08% 36.93%
Number of salaries quoted 363 607 1,177
10th Percentile £52,400 £51,250 £50,000
25th Percentile £59,375 £60,825 £59,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £70,000 £80,000 £75,000
Median % change year-on-year -12.50% +6.67% -
75th Percentile £87,500 £115,000 £91,934
90th Percentile £110,000 £138,750 £115,000
UK median annual salary £75,000 £82,500 £75,000
% change year-on-year -9.09% +10.00% -

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 1,510 1,799 3,775
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 8.30% 13.22% 11.61%
Number of salaries quoted 1,023 1,333 2,991
10th Percentile £37,500 £40,696 £37,101
25th Percentile £48,750 £51,698 £47,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £70,000 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year -7.14% +7.69% -6.40%
75th Percentile £82,000 £90,000 £83,750
90th Percentile £95,000 £115,000 £102,500
UK median annual salary £65,000 £69,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year -5.80% +15.00% -11.11%

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 3 May 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 (1.74%) Apache Airflow
1 10 (1.74%) Apache Spark
1 10 (1.74%) OpenStack
2 5 (0.87%) ArcGIS
2 5 (0.87%) GeoServer
2 5 (0.87%) Oracle Spatial
3 4 (0.70%) Apache Pulsar
3 4 (0.70%) Microsoft Exchange
4 3 (0.52%) Confluence
5 2 (0.35%) Apache
5 2 (0.35%) Camunda
5 2 (0.35%) nginx
6 1 (0.17%) Anypoint
6 1 (0.17%) Cloud Foundry
6 1 (0.17%) IIS
6 1 (0.17%) JBoss
6 1 (0.17%) Red Hat Fuse
6 1 (0.17%) SAS
6 1 (0.17%) SharePoint
Applications
1 4 (0.70%) Weka
2 2 (0.35%) Chatbot
3 1 (0.17%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 1 (0.17%) Actimize
1 1 (0.17%) Shopify
Cloud Services
1 347 (60.45%) AWS
2 249 (43.38%) Azure
3 164 (28.57%) GCP
4 113 (19.69%) Amazon EKS
5 96 (16.72%) GitHub
6 74 (12.89%) SaaS
7 65 (11.32%) Serverless
8 63 (10.98%) GitHub Actions
9 42 (7.32%) AWS CloudFormation
9 42 (7.32%) Azure DevOps
10 41 (7.14%) Azure AKS
11 35 (6.10%) Amazon S3
11 35 (6.10%) OpenShift
12 34 (5.92%) Amazon CloudWatch
12 34 (5.92%) Amazon EC2
13 31 (5.40%) AWS Lambda
14 26 (4.53%) Amazon ECS
15 23 (4.01%) Datadog
16 19 (3.31%) PaaS
16 19 (3.31%) Pulumi
Communications & Networking
1 48 (8.36%) Broadband
2 33 (5.75%) Firewall
3 18 (3.14%) VPN
4 17 (2.96%) DNS
5 10 (1.74%) DHCP
5 10 (1.74%) TCP/IP
6 7 (1.22%) Network Security
7 5 (0.87%) WAN
8 4 (0.70%) AMQP
8 4 (0.70%) MQTT
8 4 (0.70%) VLAN
9 3 (0.52%) HTTP
9 3 (0.52%) RTP
9 3 (0.52%) SAN
9 3 (0.52%) SCCP
9 3 (0.52%) Unified Communications
9 3 (0.52%) VoIP
9 3 (0.52%) Wireshark
10 2 (0.35%) LAN
10 2 (0.35%) SSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 75 (13.07%) PostgreSQL
2 56 (9.76%) NoSQL
3 47 (8.19%) SQL Server
4 43 (7.49%) MongoDB
4 43 (7.49%) Relational Database
5 30 (5.23%) Amazon RDS
6 22 (3.83%) MySQL
7 19 (3.31%) RDBMS
8 12 (2.09%) Azure SQL Database
9 10 (1.74%) Elasticsearch
10 9 (1.57%) BigQuery
11 8 (1.39%) Amazon Aurora
11 8 (1.39%) Flink
12 6 (1.05%) DynamoDB
12 6 (1.05%) Redis
13 5 (0.87%) GIS
13 5 (0.87%) Power BI
13 5 (0.87%) QGIS
14 4 (0.70%) Data Warehouse
15 3 (0.52%) Apache Cassandra
Development Applications
1 75 (13.07%) Git
2 72 (12.54%) TeamCity
3 71 (12.37%) Jenkins
4 58 (10.10%) GitLab
5 19 (3.31%) Jaeger
6 14 (2.44%) Cucumber
7 12 (2.09%) Selenium
7 12 (2.09%) Visual Studio Code
8 11 (1.92%) JUnit
9 10 (1.74%) JIRA
10 9 (1.57%) JMeter
11 7 (1.22%) SonarQube
12 6 (1.05%) CircleCI
12 6 (1.05%) Locust
12 6 (1.05%) Visual Studio
13 5 (0.87%) Bitbucket
14 4 (0.70%) MLflow
14 4 (0.70%) Robot Framework
15 3 (0.52%) Maven
15 3 (0.52%) REST Assured
General
1 136 (23.69%) Finance
2 131 (22.82%) Social Skills
3 90 (15.68%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 84 (14.63%) Banking
5 83 (14.46%) Retail
6 75 (13.07%) Law
7 41 (7.14%) Financial Institution
8 34 (5.92%) Public Sector
9 33 (5.75%) Back Office
10 18 (3.14%) Telecoms
11 15 (2.61%) Analytical Skills
12 11 (1.92%) Front Office
13 9 (1.57%) Organisational Skills
14 7 (1.22%) Military
15 6 (1.05%) Advertising
15 6 (1.05%) Legal
16 4 (0.70%) Esports
16 4 (0.70%) Manufacturing
16 4 (0.70%) Marketing
16 4 (0.70%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 187 (32.58%) Senior
2 111 (19.34%) Software Engineer
3 110 (19.16%) Lead
4 89 (15.51%) Developer
5 77 (13.41%) DevOps Engineer
6 52 (9.06%) Cloud Engineer
7 48 (8.36%) Azure Engineer
8 47 (8.19%) Platform Engineer
9 38 (6.62%) Senior Software Engineer
10 37 (6.45%) Senior Developer
11 31 (5.40%) Java Engineer
12 29 (5.05%) AWS Engineer
12 29 (5.05%) Cloud Platform Engineer
12 29 (5.05%) Python Engineer
13 27 (4.70%) Lead Software Engineer
13 27 (4.70%) Senior DevOps
14 26 (4.53%) Infrastructure Engineer
14 26 (4.53%) Java Developer
15 24 (4.18%) Lead DevOps
15 24 (4.18%) Team Leader
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 68 (11.85%) Kafka
2 67 (11.67%) .NET
3 64 (11.15%) Spring
4 62 (10.80%) React
5 53 (9.23%) Spring Boot
6 44 (7.67%) REST
7 43 (7.49%) Elastic Stack
8 42 (7.32%) RESTful
9 41 (7.14%) Node.js
10 33 (5.75%) Django
11 25 (4.36%) .NET Core
12 24 (4.18%) Akka
13 23 (4.01%) OpenTelemetry
14 22 (3.83%) AngularJS
14 22 (3.83%) Flask
15 20 (3.48%) RabbitMQ
16 19 (3.31%) FastAPI
17 18 (3.14%) gRPC
17 18 (3.14%) OAuth
18 13 (2.26%) .NET Framework
Miscellaneous
1 178 (31.01%) Cloud Native
2 47 (8.19%) Distributed Systems
3 46 (8.01%) Product Ownership
4 22 (3.83%) Blog
4 22 (3.83%) Over-the-Top Content
4 22 (3.83%) Video\Live Streaming
5 18 (3.14%) Private Cloud
6 17 (2.96%) Hybrid Cloud
6 17 (2.96%) Legacy Systems
7 15 (2.61%) Onboarding
8 14 (2.44%) AI Agents
8 14 (2.44%) Data Centre
9 12 (2.09%) Public Cloud
10 9 (1.57%) Security Posture
11 8 (1.39%) Management Information System
12 7 (1.22%) Virtual Team
13 6 (1.05%) Algorithms
13 6 (1.05%) CUDA
13 6 (1.05%) Distributed Architecture
13 6 (1.05%) Fixed Income
Operating Systems
1 130 (22.65%) Linux
2 37 (6.45%) Windows
3 22 (3.83%) Android
3 22 (3.83%) Unix
4 16 (2.79%) Windows Server
5 14 (2.44%) Apple iOS
5 14 (2.44%) Ubuntu
6 12 (2.09%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
7 9 (1.57%) CentOS
8 7 (1.22%) VMS
9 4 (0.70%) Debian
10 3 (0.52%) Windows Server 2016
11 2 (0.35%) Mac OS
Processes & Methodologies
1 360 (62.72%) CI/CD
2 330 (57.49%) DevOps
3 221 (38.50%) Agile
4 211 (36.76%) Containerisation
5 209 (36.41%) Infrastructure as Code
6 174 (30.31%) Microservices
7 163 (28.40%) Software Engineering
8 136 (23.69%) Mentoring
9 124 (21.60%) Test Automation
10 114 (19.86%) Continuous Improvement
11 97 (16.90%) Observability
12 93 (16.20%) Platform Engineering
13 89 (15.51%) Clean Code
14 83 (14.46%) AI
15 80 (13.94%) Problem-Solving
16 79 (13.76%) Deployment Automation
17 74 (12.89%) Site Reliability Engineering
18 68 (11.85%) TDD
19 63 (10.98%) Analytics
20 62 (10.80%) Scrum
Programming Languages
1 239 (41.64%) Python
2 181 (31.53%) Java
3 90 (15.68%) JavaScript
4 88 (15.33%) Go
5 82 (14.29%) SQL
6 71 (12.37%) Bash
7 62 (10.80%) C#
8 51 (8.89%) TypeScript
9 46 (8.01%) PowerShell
10 32 (5.57%) Scala
11 26 (4.53%) Bicep
12 14 (2.44%) C++
13 8 (1.39%) Delphi
13 8 (1.39%) PHP
14 7 (1.22%) C
14 7 (1.22%) Rust
15 4 (0.70%) Perl
16 3 (0.52%) Korn
16 3 (0.52%) Ruby
16 3 (0.52%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 77 (13.41%) Security Cleared
2 69 (12.02%) Degree
3 59 (10.28%) SC Cleared
4 43 (7.49%) Azure Certification
5 37 (6.45%) Computer Science Degree
6 31 (5.40%) AWS Certification
7 16 (2.79%) DV Cleared
8 8 (1.39%) CREST Certified
8 8 (1.39%) OSCP
9 6 (1.05%) CISSP
9 6 (1.05%) ISACA
9 6 (1.05%) Microsoft Certification
10 5 (0.87%) GIAC
10 5 (0.87%) SANS
11 3 (0.52%) LPIC
11 3 (0.52%) Master's Degree
12 2 (0.35%) ISTQB
12 2 (0.35%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
12 2 (0.35%) ITIL Certification
12 2 (0.35%) Linux+ Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 41 (7.14%) QA
2 15 (2.61%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 14 (2.44%) Accessibility
3 14 (2.44%) NIST
4 11 (1.92%) PCI DSS
5 10 (1.74%) Data Quality
6 5 (0.87%) GDPR
6 5 (0.87%) SOC 2
6 5 (0.87%) WCAG
7 3 (0.52%) ISO 9001
8 2 (0.35%) Software Quality Assurance
9 1 (0.17%) GRC
9 1 (0.17%) ISO/IEC 42001
9 1 (0.17%) MiFID
System Software
1 340 (59.23%) Docker
2 31 (5.40%) Active Directory
3 18 (3.14%) VMware Infrastructure
4 13 (2.26%) Virtual Machines
5 6 (1.05%) VMware NSX
6 5 (0.87%) Firmware
7 4 (0.70%) Hyper-V
7 4 (0.70%) Slurm Workload Manager
8 3 (0.52%) Citrix Hypervisor
8 3 (0.52%) Kamailio
9 2 (0.35%) vSphere
10 1 (0.17%) KVM
10 1 (0.17%) QEMU
10 1 (0.17%) vCloud
10 1 (0.17%) Virtual Desktop
10 1 (0.17%) Virtual Servers
10 1 (0.17%) Xen
Systems Management
1 302 (52.61%) Terraform
2 128 (22.30%) Grafana
3 121 (21.08%) Ansible
4 80 (13.94%) Prometheus
5 48 (8.36%) Argo
6 23 (4.01%) Kustomize
7 18 (3.14%) Puppet
8 13 (2.26%) Istio
9 10 (1.74%) Progress Chef
10 8 (1.39%) Microsoft Intune
11 7 (1.22%) Packer
11 7 (1.22%) Proxmox
11 7 (1.22%) ZABBIX
12 6 (1.05%) Active Directory Federation Services
13 5 (0.87%) Kibana
14 4 (0.70%) logstash
15 3 (0.52%) FortiGate
16 2 (0.35%) MIIS
16 2 (0.35%) Nagios
16 2 (0.35%) Podman
Vendors
1 67 (11.67%) Microsoft
2 36 (6.27%) Google
3 32 (5.57%) VMware
4 23 (4.01%) Red Hat
5 18 (3.14%) Oracle
6 11 (1.92%) Splunk
7 9 (1.57%) Okta
8 8 (1.39%) Confluent
8 8 (1.39%) Databricks
9 7 (1.22%) Cisco
9 7 (1.22%) ServiceNow
10 6 (1.05%) Fortinet
10 6 (1.05%) OpenAI
10 6 (1.05%) Palo Alto
11 5 (0.87%) AppDynamics
11 5 (0.87%) Citrix
11 5 (0.87%) Dell
11 5 (0.87%) EMC
11 5 (0.87%) F5
11 5 (0.87%) ForgeRock