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

6 months to
6 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 87 40 32
Rank change year-on-year -47 -8 -6
Permanent jobs citing Kubernetes 484 1,153 1,502
As % of all permanent jobs with remote/hybrid work options 3.15% 6.08% 7.31%
As % of the Systems Management category 36.28% 46.59% 45.05%
Number of salaries quoted 381 591 1,258
10th Percentile £52,400 £52,500 £47,500
25th Percentile £60,000 £60,000 £58,775
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £75,000 £75,000 £72,500
Median % change year-on-year - +3.45% -3.33%
75th Percentile £90,000 £95,000 £88,750
90th Percentile £115,000 £115,000 £103,250
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 1,334 2,475 3,334
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 8.70% 13.05% 16.22%
Number of salaries quoted 985 1,466 2,869
10th Percentile £37,500 £40,000 £41,245
25th Percentile £50,000 £51,250 £51,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £68,000 £67,500
Median % change year-on-year -4.41% +0.74% -2.80%
75th Percentile £85,000 £85,000 £85,000
90th Percentile £100,750 £102,500 £98,000
UK median annual salary £62,500 £67,500 £65,000
% change year-on-year -7.41% +3.85% -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 6 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 12 (2.48%) Apache Spark
1 12 (2.48%) IIS
2 9 (1.86%) Apache Airflow
3 7 (1.45%) nginx
4 6 (1.24%) Apache
5 5 (1.03%) Anypoint
5 5 (1.03%) Confluence
6 4 (0.83%) Apache Pulsar
6 4 (0.83%) Microsoft Exchange
7 3 (0.62%) ArcGIS
7 3 (0.62%) GeoServer
7 3 (0.62%) Oracle Spatial
8 2 (0.41%) OpenStack
9 1 (0.21%) BizTalk Server
9 1 (0.21%) Camunda
9 1 (0.21%) SharePoint
9 1 (0.21%) Tomcat
Applications
1 1 (0.21%) Chatbot
Business Applications
1 5 (1.03%) Shopify
2 1 (0.21%) Actimize
Cloud Services
1 294 (60.74%) AWS
2 260 (53.72%) Azure
3 127 (26.24%) GCP
4 121 (25.00%) GitHub
5 83 (17.15%) GitHub Actions
6 76 (15.70%) Azure DevOps
7 62 (12.81%) Amazon EKS
8 59 (12.19%) SaaS
9 48 (9.92%) Serverless
10 47 (9.71%) Azure AKS
11 44 (9.09%) Amazon CloudWatch
11 44 (9.09%) AWS CloudFormation
12 37 (7.64%) AWS Lambda
13 32 (6.61%) Amazon ECS
14 29 (5.99%) Amazon S3
15 28 (5.79%) OpenShift
16 23 (4.75%) Datadog
17 18 (3.72%) Amazon EC2
18 17 (3.51%) Azure Monitor
19 15 (3.10%) Azure Cosmos DB
Communications & Networking
1 35 (7.23%) Firewall
2 15 (3.10%) DNS
2 15 (3.10%) VPN
3 11 (2.27%) WAN
4 9 (1.86%) LAN
4 9 (1.86%) TCP/IP
5 8 (1.65%) Network Security
6 6 (1.24%) Fibre Channel
7 5 (1.03%) Broadband
7 5 (1.03%) DHCP
7 5 (1.03%) Internet
8 4 (0.83%) Intrusion Detection
8 4 (0.83%) SD-WAN
9 3 (0.62%) AMQP
9 3 (0.62%) Kerberos
10 2 (0.41%) VLAN
10 2 (0.41%) VSAN
11 1 (0.21%) 5G
11 1 (0.21%) NGN
11 1 (0.21%) SAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 61 (12.60%) PostgreSQL
2 47 (9.71%) NoSQL
3 45 (9.30%) SQL Server
4 42 (8.68%) MongoDB
5 19 (3.93%) Amazon RDS
6 17 (3.51%) Relational Database
7 16 (3.31%) MySQL
8 10 (2.07%) DynamoDB
9 9 (1.86%) Redis
10 8 (1.65%) Azure SQL Database
10 8 (1.65%) Flink
11 7 (1.45%) Elasticsearch
12 6 (1.24%) Data Warehouse
13 5 (1.03%) Big Data
13 5 (1.03%) BigQuery
13 5 (1.03%) Power BI
14 4 (0.83%) Amazon Aurora
14 4 (0.83%) Data Lake
14 4 (0.83%) Pinecone
15 3 (0.62%) Amazon Athena
Development Applications
1 60 (12.40%) Git
2 58 (11.98%) Jenkins
3 48 (9.92%) GitLab
4 21 (4.34%) TeamCity
5 9 (1.86%) JUnit
5 9 (1.86%) Selenium
6 8 (1.65%) Cucumber
7 7 (1.45%) JIRA
8 6 (1.24%) SonarQube
8 6 (1.24%) Visual Studio Code
9 5 (1.03%) Octopus Deploy
10 4 (0.83%) Bitbucket
10 4 (0.83%) MLflow
10 4 (0.83%) Robot Framework
10 4 (0.83%) Sonatype Nexus
11 3 (0.62%) JMeter
12 2 (0.41%) Artifactory
12 2 (0.41%) CircleCI
12 2 (0.41%) Eclipse
12 2 (0.41%) TestRail
General
1 96 (19.83%) Social Skills
2 91 (18.80%) Finance
3 38 (7.85%) Banking
3 38 (7.85%) Law
4 35 (7.23%) Retail
5 34 (7.02%) Public Sector
6 33 (6.82%) Financial Institution
7 25 (5.17%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 24 (4.96%) Telecoms
9 23 (4.75%) Back Office
10 11 (2.27%) Front Office
11 10 (2.07%) Analytical Skills
12 7 (1.45%) Legal
13 6 (1.24%) Documentation Skills
13 6 (1.24%) Games
14 5 (1.03%) Esports
14 5 (1.03%) Tech for Good
15 4 (0.83%) Manufacturing
16 3 (0.62%) Electronics
16 3 (0.62%) Marketing
Job Titles
1 141 (29.13%) Senior
2 90 (18.60%) DevOps Engineer
3 77 (15.91%) Software Engineer
4 62 (12.81%) Lead
5 59 (12.19%) Developer
6 56 (11.57%) Cloud Engineer
7 39 (8.06%) Infrastructure Engineer
8 38 (7.85%) Azure Engineer
8 38 (7.85%) Platform Engineer
9 36 (7.44%) Architect
10 30 (6.20%) Senior Software Engineer
11 23 (4.75%) Python Engineer
12 22 (4.55%) Senior DevOps
13 21 (4.34%) Senior Developer
14 19 (3.93%) AWS Engineer
15 18 (3.72%) Software Developer
16 17 (3.51%) Azure DevOps Engineer
16 17 (3.51%) Lead DevOps
16 17 (3.51%) Senior DevOps Engineer
16 17 (3.51%) Solutions Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 70 (14.46%) .NET
2 55 (11.36%) Kafka
2 55 (11.36%) React
3 54 (11.16%) Spring
3 54 (11.16%) Spring Boot
4 39 (8.06%) RESTful
5 31 (6.40%) REST
6 28 (5.79%) Elastic Stack
7 27 (5.58%) Node.js
8 25 (5.17%) Django
9 24 (4.96%) gRPC
10 23 (4.75%) Flask
11 21 (4.34%) RabbitMQ
12 20 (4.13%) AngularJS
13 18 (3.72%) .NET Core
14 17 (3.51%) FastAPI
15 16 (3.31%) YAML
16 13 (2.69%) Web Services
17 12 (2.48%) ADO
18 11 (2.27%) WebSockets
Miscellaneous
1 159 (32.85%) Cloud Native
2 45 (9.30%) Distributed Systems
3 32 (6.61%) Onboarding
4 26 (5.37%) Product Ownership
5 19 (3.93%) Data Centre
6 17 (3.51%) Management Information System
7 16 (3.31%) Legacy Systems
8 15 (3.10%) Public Cloud
9 14 (2.89%) Hybrid Cloud
10 9 (1.86%) AI Agents
11 8 (1.65%) Algorithms
11 8 (1.65%) Self-Motivation
11 8 (1.65%) Virtual Team
12 7 (1.45%) Private Cloud
12 7 (1.45%) Security Posture
13 6 (1.24%) Fixed Income
13 6 (1.24%) Greenfield Project
14 5 (1.03%) Blog
14 5 (1.03%) Legacy Applications
14 5 (1.03%) Linux Command Line
Operating Systems
1 123 (25.41%) Linux
2 72 (14.88%) Windows
3 25 (5.17%) Windows Server
4 19 (3.93%) Unix
5 13 (2.69%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 12 (2.48%) Android
7 10 (2.07%) Ubuntu
7 10 (2.07%) VMS
8 9 (1.86%) Windows Server 2019
9 7 (1.45%) Rocky
10 6 (1.24%) CentOS
11 4 (0.83%) Apple iOS
12 3 (0.62%) Debian
Processes & Methodologies
1 304 (62.81%) CI/CD
2 303 (62.60%) DevOps
3 200 (41.32%) Containerisation
4 170 (35.12%) Infrastructure as Code
5 131 (27.07%) Microservices
6 129 (26.65%) Agile
7 122 (25.21%) Software Engineering
8 98 (20.25%) Problem-Solving
9 91 (18.80%) Infrastructure Engineering
10 87 (17.98%) Continuous Improvement
11 81 (16.74%) Observability
12 78 (16.12%) AI
13 75 (15.50%) Mentoring
14 68 (14.05%) Platform Engineering
15 65 (13.43%) Site Reliability Engineering
16 53 (10.95%) Cloud Security
17 52 (10.74%) Test Automation
18 51 (10.54%) High Availability
19 48 (9.92%) Coaching
19 48 (9.92%) Computer Science
Programming Languages
1 215 (44.42%) Python
2 113 (23.35%) Java
3 96 (19.83%) SQL
4 72 (14.88%) PowerShell
5 69 (14.26%) Bash
6 56 (11.57%) JavaScript
7 55 (11.36%) C#
8 45 (9.30%) Bicep
8 45 (9.30%) Go
9 39 (8.06%) TypeScript
10 8 (1.65%) C++
10 8 (1.65%) Delphi
10 8 (1.65%) Scala
11 6 (1.24%) PHP
12 5 (1.03%) Kotlin
12 5 (1.03%) Shell Script
13 4 (0.83%) F#
13 4 (0.83%) Haskell
13 4 (0.83%) OCaml
13 4 (0.83%) Ruby
Qualifications
1 75 (15.50%) Security Cleared
2 61 (12.60%) Degree
3 60 (12.40%) SC Cleared
4 45 (9.30%) AWS Certification
5 39 (8.06%) Azure Certification
6 36 (7.44%) Computer Science Degree
7 22 (4.55%) DV Cleared
8 11 (2.27%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
9 10 (2.07%) BPSS Clearance
10 8 (1.65%) Master's Degree
11 7 (1.45%) Network+ Certification
12 6 (1.24%) PhD
13 5 (1.03%) Cisco Certification
13 5 (1.03%) CISM
13 5 (1.03%) CISSP
14 3 (0.62%) (ISC)2 CCSP
14 3 (0.62%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
14 3 (0.62%) CompTIA Security+
15 2 (0.41%) AWS Certified Developer
15 2 (0.41%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 29 (5.99%) QA
2 20 (4.13%) GDPR
3 17 (3.51%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 11 (2.27%) SOC 2
5 10 (2.07%) NIST
5 10 (2.07%) PCI DSS
6 8 (1.65%) Data Quality
6 8 (1.65%) HIPAA
7 4 (0.83%) GRC
8 3 (0.62%) SLA
9 2 (0.41%) ECSS
10 1 (0.21%) MiFID
System Software
1 284 (58.68%) Docker
2 25 (5.17%) Active Directory
3 15 (3.10%) Hyper-V
3 15 (3.10%) VMware Infrastructure
4 12 (2.48%) vSphere
5 6 (1.24%) NFS
6 5 (1.03%) Virtual Machines
7 4 (0.83%) VMware NSX
8 2 (0.41%) Virtual Servers
9 1 (0.21%) Dovecot
9 1 (0.21%) Postfix
9 1 (0.21%) vCloud
9 1 (0.21%) VMware ESXi
Systems Management
1 222 (45.87%) Terraform
2 105 (21.69%) Grafana
3 100 (20.66%) Ansible
4 62 (12.81%) Prometheus
5 24 (4.96%) Argo
6 5 (1.03%) Cilium
6 5 (1.03%) Puppet
7 4 (0.83%) Progress Chef
8 3 (0.62%) logstash
8 3 (0.62%) Microsoft Data Protection Manager
8 3 (0.62%) SCCM
8 3 (0.62%) SCOM
8 3 (0.62%) WSUS
9 2 (0.41%) Kubeflow
9 2 (0.41%) Kustomize
9 2 (0.41%) Microsoft Intune
10 1 (0.21%) FortiGate
10 1 (0.21%) ITRS Geneos
10 1 (0.21%) Kibana
10 1 (0.21%) Oracle Enterprise Manager
Vendors
1 49 (10.12%) Microsoft
2 24 (4.96%) Oracle
3 22 (4.55%) Red Hat
3 22 (4.55%) VMware
4 19 (3.93%) Google
5 16 (3.31%) Dell
6 12 (2.48%) Splunk
7 11 (2.27%) Cisco
8 8 (1.65%) Databricks
8 8 (1.65%) SAP
9 7 (1.45%) Commvault
9 7 (1.45%) Pure Storage
10 6 (1.24%) Dynatrace
11 5 (1.03%) IFS
11 5 (1.03%) Informatica
11 5 (1.03%) Jitterbit
11 5 (1.03%) MuleSoft
11 5 (1.03%) SnapLogic
11 5 (1.03%) Software AG
11 5 (1.03%) Workday