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 31 July 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
31 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 75 64 73
Rank change year-on-year -11 +9 -45
Permanent jobs citing Kubernetes 731 851 990
As % of all permanent jobs with remote/hybrid work options 3.30% 5.16% 3.72%
As % of the Systems Management category 38.99% 42.85% 34.22%
Number of salaries quoted 537 420 784
10th Percentile £45,400 £51,250 £52,500
25th Percentile £52,500 £60,000 £60,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £78,810 £77,500
Median % change year-on-year -17.52% +1.69% +3.33%
75th Percentile £82,500 £95,063 £95,000
90th Percentile £100,000 £125,000 £116,750
UK median annual salary £70,000 £80,000 £77,500
% change year-on-year -12.50% +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 1,875 1,986 2,893
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 8.46% 12.05% 10.88%
Number of salaries quoted 1,389 1,137 2,100
10th Percentile £37,000 £35,000 £36,500
25th Percentile £47,750 £48,165 £48,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £62,500 £67,500 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year -7.41% +3.85% -7.14%
75th Percentile £78,000 £85,000 £85,000
90th Percentile £96,250 £102,410 £102,500
UK median annual salary £62,870 £65,000 £62,500
% change year-on-year -3.28% +4.00% -6.72%

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 31 July 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 9 (1.23%) Apache Spark
2 8 (1.09%) Apache Airflow
3 6 (0.82%) IIS
3 6 (0.82%) OpenStack
4 5 (0.68%) nginx
4 5 (0.68%) Oracle SOA Suite
5 4 (0.55%) Confluence
6 3 (0.41%) Camunda
7 2 (0.27%) ArcGIS
7 2 (0.27%) GeoServer
7 2 (0.27%) Microsoft Exchange
7 2 (0.27%) Oracle Spatial
8 1 (0.14%) Apache
8 1 (0.14%) Cloud Foundry
8 1 (0.14%) JBoss
8 1 (0.14%) Oracle Coherence
8 1 (0.14%) Red Hat Fuse
Applications
1 1 (0.14%) Lightworks
Business Applications
1 2 (0.27%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 417 (57.05%) Azure
2 401 (54.86%) AWS
3 205 (28.04%) GitHub
4 187 (25.58%) GCP
5 142 (19.43%) GitHub Copilot
6 88 (12.04%) Amazon EKS
7 78 (10.67%) SaaS
8 75 (10.26%) Azure AI
9 61 (8.34%) Serverless
10 48 (6.57%) GitHub Actions
11 47 (6.43%) Azure DevOps
12 45 (6.16%) Azure AKS
13 44 (6.02%) AWS CloudFormation
14 35 (4.79%) OpenShift
15 31 (4.24%) Amazon EC2
16 27 (3.69%) Amazon S3
17 24 (3.28%) PaaS
18 23 (3.15%) Amazon ECS
19 21 (2.87%) AWS Lambda
19 21 (2.87%) Azure Service Bus
Communications & Networking
1 27 (3.69%) Firewall
2 24 (3.28%) DNS
3 22 (3.01%) VPN
4 20 (2.74%) Internet
5 17 (2.33%) Broadband
6 15 (2.05%) TCP/IP
7 8 (1.09%) DHCP
7 8 (1.09%) VLAN
8 7 (0.96%) BGP
8 7 (0.96%) Network Security
9 6 (0.82%) OSPF
9 6 (0.82%) VXLAN
10 5 (0.68%) HTTP
11 4 (0.55%) MQTT
11 4 (0.55%) WAN
12 3 (0.41%) SAN
13 2 (0.27%) iSCSI
13 2 (0.27%) LAN
13 2 (0.27%) Remote Desktop
13 2 (0.27%) SSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 159 (21.75%) MongoDB
2 140 (19.15%) Azure SQL Database
3 71 (9.71%) PostgreSQL
4 50 (6.84%) Elasticsearch
5 29 (3.97%) SQL Server
6 28 (3.83%) MySQL
7 27 (3.69%) NoSQL
8 25 (3.42%) Relational Database
9 21 (2.87%) Amazon RDS
10 8 (1.09%) Data Warehouse
11 6 (0.82%) Delta Lake
11 6 (0.82%) DynamoDB
11 6 (0.82%) Redis
12 4 (0.55%) Metadata
13 3 (0.41%) Apache Cassandra
13 3 (0.41%) BigQuery
13 3 (0.41%) Power BI
13 3 (0.41%) Spark SQL
13 3 (0.41%) Tableau
14 2 (0.27%) Neo4j
Development Applications
1 101 (13.82%) Git
2 53 (7.25%) GitLab
2 53 (7.25%) Jenkins
3 52 (7.11%) TeamCity
4 24 (3.28%) JUnit
5 16 (2.19%) Maven
5 16 (2.19%) Selenium
6 14 (1.92%) JIRA
7 13 (1.78%) Mockito
8 12 (1.64%) Cucumber
8 12 (1.64%) Visual Studio Code
9 11 (1.50%) Postman
10 8 (1.09%) Atlassian Bamboo
10 8 (1.09%) Bitbucket
11 6 (0.82%) Gatling
11 6 (0.82%) Octopus Deploy
11 6 (0.82%) SonarQube
12 5 (0.68%) JMeter
12 5 (0.68%) Locust
12 5 (0.68%) Subversion
General
1 170 (23.26%) Finance
2 132 (18.06%) Social Skills
3 75 (10.26%) Banking
3 75 (10.26%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 73 (9.99%) Retail
5 70 (9.58%) Law
6 53 (7.25%) Public Sector
7 41 (5.61%) Financial Institution
8 39 (5.34%) Back Office
9 38 (5.20%) Advertising
10 24 (3.28%) Analytical Skills
11 21 (2.87%) Marketing
12 17 (2.33%) Aerospace
13 13 (1.78%) Games
14 8 (1.09%) Legal
14 8 (1.09%) Organisational Skills
15 6 (0.82%) Telecoms
16 4 (0.55%) Manufacturing
16 4 (0.55%) Military
17 3 (0.41%) Front Office
Job Titles
1 213 (29.14%) Developer
2 197 (26.95%) Senior
3 134 (18.33%) .NET Developer
4 118 (16.14%) Software Engineer
5 84 (11.49%) Lead
6 79 (10.81%) DevOps Engineer
7 57 (7.80%) Cloud Engineer
8 47 (6.43%) Platform Engineer
9 46 (6.29%) Azure Engineer
10 43 (5.88%) Architect
11 39 (5.34%) Senior Developer
12 35 (4.79%) Senior Software Engineer
13 31 (4.24%) Java Developer
13 31 (4.24%) Lead Software Engineer
14 30 (4.10%) Senior DevOps
15 27 (3.69%) AWS Engineer
15 27 (3.69%) Cloud Platform Engineer
16 25 (3.42%) Java Engineer
17 24 (3.28%) Python Engineer
17 24 (3.28%) Team Leader
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 203 (27.77%) .NET
2 142 (19.43%) .NET Core
2 142 (19.43%) ASP.NET
3 136 (18.60%) ASP.NET Core
4 84 (11.49%) AngularJS
5 81 (11.08%) CSS
5 81 (11.08%) HTML
6 79 (10.81%) React
7 78 (10.67%) Node.js
8 74 (10.12%) ML.NET
9 70 (9.58%) Vue
10 65 (8.89%) Spring
11 61 (8.34%) REST
12 57 (7.80%) Kafka
13 48 (6.57%) RESTful
14 44 (6.02%) Spring Boot
15 28 (3.83%) Blazor
16 24 (3.28%) OAuth
17 23 (3.15%) Django
17 23 (3.15%) OpenID
Miscellaneous
1 200 (27.36%) Cloud Native
2 60 (8.21%) Distributed Systems
3 47 (6.43%) Product Ownership
4 24 (3.28%) Greenfield Project
5 20 (2.74%) Digital TV
6 18 (2.46%) Data Centre
6 18 (2.46%) Hybrid Cloud
7 17 (2.33%) Blog
8 16 (2.19%) Private Cloud
9 14 (1.92%) Legacy Systems
9 14 (1.92%) Public Cloud
10 13 (1.78%) Management Information System
11 11 (1.50%) AI Agents
11 11 (1.50%) IoT
12 9 (1.23%) Self-Motivation
13 8 (1.09%) Enterprise Software
13 8 (1.09%) Virtual Team
14 7 (0.96%) Onboarding
14 7 (0.96%) PKI
15 6 (0.82%) Replication
Operating Systems
1 134 (18.33%) Linux
2 41 (5.61%) Windows
3 21 (2.87%) Windows Server
4 15 (2.05%) Ubuntu
5 9 (1.23%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 6 (0.82%) Android
6 6 (0.82%) Apple iOS
6 6 (0.82%) Debian
7 5 (0.68%) CentOS
8 3 (0.41%) VMS
8 3 (0.41%) Windows Server 2016
9 2 (0.27%) Mac OS
Processes & Methodologies
1 489 (66.89%) CI/CD
2 303 (41.45%) DevOps
3 268 (36.66%) Agile
4 247 (33.79%) Microservices
5 224 (30.64%) Infrastructure as Code
6 206 (28.18%) Containerisation
7 197 (26.95%) AI
8 196 (26.81%) Full-Stack Development
9 191 (26.13%) Software Engineering
10 180 (24.62%) Mentoring
11 129 (17.65%) Continuous Improvement
12 127 (17.37%) Test Automation
13 122 (16.69%) Observability
14 112 (15.32%) Machine Learning
15 111 (15.18%) Platform Engineering
16 107 (14.64%) TDD
17 103 (14.09%) Problem-Solving
18 100 (13.68%) Clean Code
19 84 (11.49%) Scrum
20 80 (10.94%) Deployment Automation
Programming Languages
1 230 (31.46%) Python
2 215 (29.41%) C#
3 213 (29.14%) SQL
4 165 (22.57%) Java
5 113 (15.46%) TypeScript
6 78 (10.67%) JavaScript
7 73 (9.99%) Bash
8 70 (9.58%) PowerShell
9 49 (6.70%) Go
10 23 (3.15%) Bicep
11 13 (1.78%) PL/SQL
11 13 (1.78%) Scala
12 12 (1.64%) PHP
13 8 (1.09%) Ruby
14 7 (0.96%) Groovy
15 6 (0.82%) Kotlin
15 6 (0.82%) Rust
16 5 (0.68%) C++
17 4 (0.55%) C
18 3 (0.41%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 103 (14.09%) Security Cleared
2 85 (11.63%) SC Cleared
3 61 (8.34%) Degree
4 43 (5.88%) Azure Certification
5 29 (3.97%) Computer Science Degree
6 17 (2.33%) AWS Certification
7 14 (1.92%) DV Cleared
8 9 (1.23%) CISSP
9 7 (0.96%) GIAC
10 5 (0.68%) CREST Certified
10 5 (0.68%) ISACA
10 5 (0.68%) OSCP
11 4 (0.55%) CISM
11 4 (0.55%) Microsoft Certification
11 4 (0.55%) SANS
12 3 (0.41%) BPSS Clearance
12 3 (0.41%) CEH
13 2 (0.27%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
13 2 (0.27%) Master's Degree
13 2 (0.27%) OCP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 41 (5.61%) QA
2 26 (3.56%) Accessibility
3 19 (2.60%) NIST
4 13 (1.78%) WCAG
5 11 (1.50%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 9 (1.23%) PCI DSS
7 5 (0.68%) Data Quality
7 5 (0.68%) SOC 2
8 3 (0.41%) Cyber Essentials
8 3 (0.41%) ISO 9001
9 1 (0.14%) GDPR
9 1 (0.14%) ISO 22301
9 1 (0.14%) ISO/IEC 42001
9 1 (0.14%) NCSC
9 1 (0.14%) PSD2
9 1 (0.14%) SEPA
9 1 (0.14%) SLA
System Software
1 469 (64.16%) Docker
2 29 (3.97%) Active Directory
3 20 (2.74%) Virtual Machines
4 19 (2.60%) VMware Infrastructure
5 4 (0.55%) Firmware
5 4 (0.55%) Slurm Workload Manager
6 3 (0.41%) Citrix Hypervisor
6 3 (0.41%) iptables
7 1 (0.14%) Hyper-V
7 1 (0.14%) Kamailio
7 1 (0.14%) KVM
7 1 (0.14%) QEMU
7 1 (0.14%) Virtual Servers
7 1 (0.14%) Xen
Systems Management
1 287 (39.26%) Terraform
2 110 (15.05%) Grafana
3 90 (12.31%) Ansible
4 55 (7.52%) Prometheus
5 27 (3.69%) Argo
6 23 (3.15%) Istio
7 21 (2.87%) Puppet
8 13 (1.78%) Progress Chef
9 7 (0.96%) Active Directory Federation Services
9 7 (0.96%) Packer
10 6 (0.82%) FortiGate
10 6 (0.82%) Kustomize
10 6 (0.82%) Microsoft Intune
11 5 (0.68%) Kibana
12 4 (0.55%) linkerd
12 4 (0.55%) Proxmox
13 3 (0.41%) Nagios
13 3 (0.41%) ZABBIX
14 2 (0.27%) CASB
14 2 (0.27%) MIIS
Vendors
1 212 (29.00%) Microsoft
2 37 (5.06%) Google
3 27 (3.69%) VMware
4 25 (3.42%) Oracle
5 21 (2.87%) Facebook
5 21 (2.87%) Okta
6 18 (2.46%) Red Hat
7 16 (2.19%) Splunk
8 13 (1.78%) Ping Identity
9 12 (1.64%) Palo Alto
9 12 (1.64%) ServiceNow
10 10 (1.37%) Databricks
11 8 (1.09%) Cisco
11 8 (1.09%) Confluent
11 8 (1.09%) ForgeRock
11 8 (1.09%) Fortinet
11 8 (1.09%) OpenAI
12 7 (0.96%) Dynatrace
12 7 (0.96%) EMC
13 6 (0.82%) Zscaler