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 30 September 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
30 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 79 77 63
Rank change year-on-year -2 -14 -34
Permanent jobs citing Kubernetes 788 724 942
As % of all permanent jobs with remote/hybrid work options 3.16% 4.32% 4.21%
As % of the Systems Management category 46.03% 43.04% 41.52%
Number of salaries quoted 519 341 576
10th Percentile £46,250 £48,750 £53,750
25th Percentile £52,500 £58,750 £61,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £72,500 £77,000
Median % change year-on-year -10.34% -5.84% +2.67%
75th Percentile £85,000 £87,500 £95,000
90th Percentile £97,500 £110,000 £118,750
UK median annual salary £70,000 £75,000 £77,500
% change year-on-year -6.67% -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 1,712 1,682 2,269
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 6.86% 10.03% 10.14%
Number of salaries quoted 1,228 864 1,297
10th Percentile £33,750 £35,000 £36,500
25th Percentile £46,250 £45,000 £47,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £65,000 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year -7.69% - -3.70%
75th Percentile £75,007 £82,500 £87,500
90th Percentile £95,000 £98,525 £105,000
UK median annual salary £60,000 £60,000 £65,000
% change year-on-year - -7.69% -

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 30 September 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 (1.27%) Apache Spark
2 8 (1.02%) Apache Airflow
3 7 (0.89%) Confluence
3 7 (0.89%) Oracle SOA Suite
4 6 (0.76%) IIS
4 6 (0.76%) nginx
5 5 (0.63%) Camunda
6 4 (0.51%) Apache
6 4 (0.51%) ArcGIS
6 4 (0.51%) GeoServer
6 4 (0.51%) Oracle Spatial
7 2 (0.25%) Ethereum
7 2 (0.25%) Hedera
7 2 (0.25%) OpenStack
8 1 (0.13%) Cloud Foundry
8 1 (0.13%) JBoss
8 1 (0.13%) Microsoft Exchange
8 1 (0.13%) Oracle Coherence
8 1 (0.13%) Red Hat Fuse
8 1 (0.13%) WebLogic
Applications
1 12 (1.52%) Chatbot
2 1 (0.13%) Lightworks
Business Applications
1 2 (0.25%) Distributed Ledger
1 2 (0.25%) SAP S/4HANA
2 1 (0.13%) Actimize
2 1 (0.13%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
Cloud Services
1 451 (57.23%) AWS
2 420 (53.30%) Azure
3 236 (29.95%) GCP
4 206 (26.14%) GitHub
5 135 (17.13%) GitHub Copilot
6 108 (13.71%) Amazon EKS
7 104 (13.20%) SaaS
8 72 (9.14%) Azure AI
9 55 (6.98%) Serverless
10 49 (6.22%) GitHub Actions
11 47 (5.96%) Azure AKS
12 46 (5.84%) Azure DevOps
13 44 (5.58%) AWS CloudFormation
14 40 (5.08%) OpenShift
15 28 (3.55%) Amazon EC2
16 22 (2.79%) Amazon ECS
16 22 (2.79%) Azure Service Bus
17 21 (2.66%) Amazon S3
17 21 (2.66%) AWS Lambda
17 21 (2.66%) Virtual Private Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 26 (3.30%) VPN
2 24 (3.05%) Firewall
3 22 (2.79%) DNS
4 21 (2.66%) Internet
5 17 (2.16%) Broadband
6 16 (2.03%) TCP/IP
7 14 (1.78%) Network Security
8 12 (1.52%) BGP
9 10 (1.27%) VLAN
10 6 (0.76%) DHCP
10 6 (0.76%) OSPF
10 6 (0.76%) VXLAN
11 4 (0.51%) HTTP
11 4 (0.51%) WAN
12 2 (0.25%) SAN
12 2 (0.25%) WireGuard
13 1 (0.13%) iSCSI
13 1 (0.13%) MQTT
13 1 (0.13%) Remote Desktop
13 1 (0.13%) Unified Communications
Database & Business Intelligence
1 162 (20.56%) MongoDB
2 139 (17.64%) Azure SQL Database
3 87 (11.04%) PostgreSQL
4 43 (5.46%) Elasticsearch
5 39 (4.95%) NoSQL
6 31 (3.93%) Amazon RDS
7 29 (3.68%) SQL Server
8 25 (3.17%) Relational Database
9 24 (3.05%) MySQL
10 11 (1.40%) Data Warehouse
11 7 (0.89%) Redis
12 6 (0.76%) BigQuery
12 6 (0.76%) Delta Lake
12 6 (0.76%) DynamoDB
12 6 (0.76%) Power BI
13 5 (0.63%) Metadata
13 5 (0.63%) Tableau
14 4 (0.51%) Apache Cassandra
14 4 (0.51%) Big Data
14 4 (0.51%) GIS
Development Applications
1 88 (11.17%) Git
2 86 (10.91%) TeamCity
3 58 (7.36%) Jenkins
4 46 (5.84%) GitLab
5 29 (3.68%) JUnit
6 20 (2.54%) JIRA
7 18 (2.28%) Maven
7 18 (2.28%) Mockito
8 16 (2.03%) Selenium
9 12 (1.52%) Postman
10 10 (1.27%) Atlassian Bamboo
10 10 (1.27%) Bitbucket
11 9 (1.14%) SonarQube
12 8 (1.02%) Cucumber
13 6 (0.76%) Gatling
13 6 (0.76%) Octopus Deploy
14 5 (0.63%) Subversion
14 5 (0.63%) Visual Studio Code
15 4 (0.51%) Vagrant
16 3 (0.38%) Appium
General
1 199 (25.25%) Finance
2 148 (18.78%) Social Skills
3 117 (14.85%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 114 (14.47%) Retail
5 109 (13.83%) Law
6 108 (13.71%) Banking
7 73 (9.26%) Public Sector
8 65 (8.25%) Financial Institution
9 63 (7.99%) Back Office
10 33 (4.19%) Advertising
11 31 (3.93%) Analytical Skills
12 20 (2.54%) Aerospace
13 19 (2.41%) Marketing
14 11 (1.40%) Games
15 9 (1.14%) Legal
16 6 (0.76%) Telecoms
17 4 (0.51%) Front Office
18 3 (0.38%) Aviation
18 3 (0.38%) Manufacturing
18 3 (0.38%) Military
Job Titles
1 219 (27.79%) Developer
1 219 (27.79%) Senior
2 145 (18.40%) Software Engineer
3 130 (16.50%) .NET Developer
4 79 (10.03%) DevOps Engineer
5 68 (8.63%) Lead
6 55 (6.98%) Cloud Engineer
7 51 (6.47%) Architect
8 44 (5.58%) Platform Engineer
9 42 (5.33%) Senior Developer
10 39 (4.95%) Azure Engineer
11 37 (4.70%) Senior Software Engineer
12 32 (4.06%) Java Developer
12 32 (4.06%) Java Engineer
13 27 (3.43%) Lead Software Engineer
14 26 (3.30%) Cloud Platform Engineer
14 26 (3.30%) Senior DevOps
14 26 (3.30%) Team Leader
15 25 (3.17%) Full-Stack Developer
16 23 (2.92%) Senior DevOps Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 311 (39.47%) Terraform
2 199 (25.25%) .NET
3 136 (17.26%) .NET Core
3 136 (17.26%) ASP.NET
4 132 (16.75%) ASP.NET Core
5 96 (12.18%) Node.js
6 92 (11.68%) React
7 82 (10.41%) AngularJS
8 79 (10.03%) CSS
8 79 (10.03%) HTML
9 74 (9.39%) Spring
10 70 (8.88%) ML.NET
11 67 (8.50%) Vue
12 61 (7.74%) REST
13 54 (6.85%) Kafka
14 52 (6.60%) RESTful
15 48 (6.09%) Spring Boot
16 27 (3.43%) Blazor
16 27 (3.43%) OpenTelemetry
17 20 (2.54%) Django
Miscellaneous
1 229 (29.06%) Cloud Native
2 69 (8.76%) Distributed Systems
3 61 (7.74%) Product Ownership
4 36 (4.57%) Blog
5 27 (3.43%) Greenfield Project
6 19 (2.41%) Digital TV
7 18 (2.28%) AI Agents
8 14 (1.78%) Data Centre
8 14 (1.78%) Legacy Systems
9 13 (1.65%) Security Posture
10 12 (1.52%) Management Information System
10 12 (1.52%) Self-Motivation
11 11 (1.40%) Hybrid Cloud
11 11 (1.40%) Public Cloud
12 10 (1.27%) Enterprise Software
12 10 (1.27%) Replication
13 9 (1.14%) IoT
13 9 (1.14%) PKI
14 8 (1.02%) Mobile App
14 8 (1.02%) Private Cloud
Operating Systems
1 130 (16.50%) Linux
2 42 (5.33%) Windows
3 17 (2.16%) Windows Server
4 16 (2.03%) Ubuntu
5 11 (1.40%) Apple iOS
6 8 (1.02%) Android
7 5 (0.63%) Mac OS
8 4 (0.51%) Debian
8 4 (0.51%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
9 3 (0.38%) CentOS
10 1 (0.13%) Unix
10 1 (0.13%) VMS
10 1 (0.13%) Windows Server 2016
Processes & Methodologies
1 522 (66.24%) CI/CD
2 304 (38.58%) DevOps
3 287 (36.42%) Agile
4 272 (34.52%) Microservices
5 226 (28.68%) Software Engineering
6 221 (28.05%) AI
7 219 (27.79%) Mentoring
8 218 (27.66%) Infrastructure as Code
9 204 (25.89%) Full-Stack Development
10 190 (24.11%) Containerisation
11 151 (19.16%) Test Automation
12 144 (18.27%) Continuous Improvement
13 141 (17.89%) Observability
14 129 (16.37%) Problem-Solving
15 122 (15.48%) Machine Learning
16 115 (14.59%) Clean Code
17 107 (13.58%) TDD
18 105 (13.32%) Fintech
19 104 (13.20%) Platform Engineering
20 95 (12.06%) Deployment Automation
Programming Languages
1 240 (30.46%) Python
2 233 (29.57%) SQL
3 226 (28.68%) Java
4 205 (26.02%) C#
5 121 (15.36%) TypeScript
6 99 (12.56%) JavaScript
7 93 (11.80%) Bash
8 73 (9.26%) PowerShell
9 56 (7.11%) Go
10 22 (2.79%) Bicep
11 15 (1.90%) PL/SQL
11 15 (1.90%) Scala
12 9 (1.14%) Kotlin
13 8 (1.02%) PHP
13 8 (1.02%) Ruby
14 7 (0.89%) Groovy
15 6 (0.76%) Shell Script
16 5 (0.63%) C
17 4 (0.51%) C++
17 4 (0.51%) Rust
Qualifications
1 129 (16.37%) Security Cleared
2 106 (13.45%) SC Cleared
3 49 (6.22%) Degree
4 36 (4.57%) Azure Certification
5 23 (2.92%) Computer Science Degree
6 20 (2.54%) AWS Certification
7 13 (1.65%) DV Cleared
8 9 (1.14%) CISSP
9 8 (1.02%) BPSS Clearance
9 8 (1.02%) CISM
9 8 (1.02%) GIAC
10 5 (0.63%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
10 5 (0.63%) CEH
10 5 (0.63%) CREST Certified
10 5 (0.63%) OSCP
11 4 (0.51%) Microsoft Certification
11 4 (0.51%) OCP
11 4 (0.51%) Oracle Certification
12 3 (0.38%) Cisco Certification
12 3 (0.38%) GCFA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 29 (3.68%) QA
2 22 (2.79%) Accessibility
2 22 (2.79%) NIST
3 15 (1.90%) PCI DSS
4 14 (1.78%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 8 (1.02%) Data Quality
5 8 (1.02%) WCAG
6 7 (0.89%) SOC 2
7 6 (0.76%) Cyber Essentials
8 4 (0.51%) GDPR
8 4 (0.51%) NCSC
9 1 (0.13%) California Consumer Privacy Act
9 1 (0.13%) HIPAA
9 1 (0.13%) ISO 22301
9 1 (0.13%) ISO/IEC 42001
9 1 (0.13%) PSD2
9 1 (0.13%) SEPA
9 1 (0.13%) SLA
System Software
1 485 (61.55%) Docker
2 21 (2.66%) Active Directory
3 17 (2.16%) Virtual Machines
4 14 (1.78%) VMware Infrastructure
5 3 (0.38%) iptables
6 1 (0.13%) Citrix Hypervisor
6 1 (0.13%) HDFS
6 1 (0.13%) Hyper-V
6 1 (0.13%) KVM
6 1 (0.13%) QEMU
6 1 (0.13%) Slurm Workload Manager
6 1 (0.13%) Virtual Servers
6 1 (0.13%) Xen
Systems Management
1 142 (18.02%) Grafana
2 83 (10.53%) Ansible
3 59 (7.49%) Prometheus
4 29 (3.68%) Argo
5 18 (2.28%) Istio
6 17 (2.16%) Puppet
7 15 (1.90%) Progress Chef
8 8 (1.02%) Kustomize
9 7 (0.89%) Packer
10 6 (0.76%) FortiGate
10 6 (0.76%) Microsoft Intune
11 5 (0.63%) Cilium
12 4 (0.51%) Active Directory Federation Services
12 4 (0.51%) linkerd
12 4 (0.51%) Single Sign-On
13 2 (0.25%) CASB
13 2 (0.25%) Kibana
13 2 (0.25%) Proxmox
13 2 (0.25%) SCCM
13 2 (0.25%) WSUS
Vendors
1 205 (26.02%) Microsoft
2 53 (6.73%) Google
3 32 (4.06%) Oracle
4 29 (3.68%) Splunk
5 24 (3.05%) OpenAI
6 21 (2.66%) Red Hat
7 19 (2.41%) Facebook
7 19 (2.41%) VMware
8 18 (2.28%) Okta
9 15 (1.90%) Ping Identity
10 12 (1.52%) Databricks
11 10 (1.27%) Dynatrace
12 9 (1.14%) New Relic
13 8 (1.02%) Palo Alto
13 8 (1.02%) ServiceNow
14 6 (0.76%) Citrix
14 6 (0.76%) Fortinet
14 6 (0.76%) Zscaler
15 5 (0.63%) HubSpot
15 5 (0.63%) Qualys