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 20 April 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
20 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 64 37 61
Rank change year-on-year -27 +24 -34
Permanent jobs citing Kubernetes 611 920 1,422
As % of all permanent jobs with remote/hybrid work options 3.43% 6.91% 4.38%
As % of the Systems Management category 38.67% 51.11% 37.10%
Number of salaries quoted 392 631 1,196
10th Percentile £52,400 £51,250 £48,750
25th Percentile £60,000 £61,250 £58,563
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £72,500 £80,000 £75,000
Median % change year-on-year -9.38% +6.67% -
75th Percentile £89,063 £115,000 £91,934
90th Percentile £120,000 £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 1,580 1,800 3,833
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 8.86% 13.51% 11.81%
Number of salaries quoted 1,074 1,362 3,041
10th Percentile £37,500 £41,250 £37,101
25th Percentile £48,750 £52,500 £47,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £70,000 £64,000
Median % change year-on-year -7.14% +9.38% -7.84%
75th Percentile £82,500 £90,000 £83,750
90th Percentile £97,125 £115,000 £102,500
UK median annual salary £65,000 £70,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year -7.14% +16.67% -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 20 April 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 11 (1.80%) Apache Spark
2 10 (1.64%) Apache Airflow
2 10 (1.64%) OpenStack
3 5 (0.82%) Apache Pulsar
4 4 (0.65%) ArcGIS
4 4 (0.65%) GeoServer
4 4 (0.65%) Microsoft Exchange
4 4 (0.65%) Oracle Spatial
5 3 (0.49%) Anypoint
5 3 (0.49%) Apache
5 3 (0.49%) Confluence
6 2 (0.33%) Camunda
6 2 (0.33%) nginx
7 1 (0.16%) Cloud Foundry
7 1 (0.16%) IIS
7 1 (0.16%) JBoss
7 1 (0.16%) Red Hat Fuse
7 1 (0.16%) SAS
7 1 (0.16%) SharePoint
Applications
1 4 (0.65%) Weka
2 2 (0.33%) Chatbot
3 1 (0.16%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 3 (0.49%) Shopify
2 1 (0.16%) Actimize
Cloud Services
1 384 (62.85%) AWS
2 260 (42.55%) Azure
3 188 (30.77%) GCP
4 128 (20.95%) Amazon EKS
5 107 (17.51%) GitHub
6 86 (14.08%) SaaS
7 73 (11.95%) GitHub Actions
8 67 (10.97%) Serverless
9 46 (7.53%) AWS CloudFormation
10 44 (7.20%) Azure DevOps
11 42 (6.87%) Azure AKS
12 41 (6.71%) Amazon S3
13 38 (6.22%) Amazon CloudWatch
14 36 (5.89%) AWS Lambda
15 35 (5.73%) Amazon EC2
15 35 (5.73%) OpenShift
16 29 (4.75%) Amazon ECS
17 26 (4.26%) Datadog
18 19 (3.11%) Pulumi
19 17 (2.78%) PaaS
Communications & Networking
1 44 (7.20%) Broadband
2 38 (6.22%) Firewall
3 18 (2.95%) VPN
4 16 (2.62%) DNS
5 10 (1.64%) DHCP
6 9 (1.47%) Network Security
6 9 (1.47%) TCP/IP
7 5 (0.82%) WAN
8 4 (0.65%) AMQP
8 4 (0.65%) Intrusion Detection
8 4 (0.65%) MQTT
9 3 (0.49%) HTTP
9 3 (0.49%) Internet
9 3 (0.49%) RTP
9 3 (0.49%) SAN
9 3 (0.49%) SD-WAN
9 3 (0.49%) Unified Communications
9 3 (0.49%) VLAN
9 3 (0.49%) VoIP
9 3 (0.49%) Wireshark
Database & Business Intelligence
1 75 (12.27%) PostgreSQL
2 61 (9.98%) NoSQL
3 45 (7.36%) SQL Server
4 42 (6.87%) MongoDB
5 40 (6.55%) Relational Database
6 31 (5.07%) Amazon RDS
7 19 (3.11%) MySQL
7 19 (3.11%) RDBMS
8 12 (1.96%) Azure SQL Database
9 10 (1.64%) Elasticsearch
9 10 (1.64%) Flink
10 9 (1.47%) BigQuery
11 8 (1.31%) Amazon Aurora
12 7 (1.15%) Redis
13 5 (0.82%) DynamoDB
13 5 (0.82%) Power BI
14 4 (0.65%) Data Warehouse
14 4 (0.65%) GIS
14 4 (0.65%) InfluxDB
14 4 (0.65%) QGIS
Development Applications
1 85 (13.91%) TeamCity
2 75 (12.27%) Jenkins
3 72 (11.78%) Git
4 59 (9.66%) GitLab
5 19 (3.11%) Jaeger
6 14 (2.29%) Cucumber
6 14 (2.29%) Visual Studio Code
7 12 (1.96%) Selenium
8 11 (1.80%) JUnit
9 10 (1.64%) JIRA
9 10 (1.64%) JMeter
10 9 (1.47%) SonarQube
11 6 (0.98%) Bitbucket
11 6 (0.98%) CircleCI
11 6 (0.98%) Locust
11 6 (0.98%) Robot Framework
11 6 (0.98%) Visual Studio
12 4 (0.65%) MLflow
13 3 (0.49%) REST Assured
13 3 (0.49%) TestRail
General
1 151 (24.71%) Finance
2 136 (22.26%) Social Skills
3 102 (16.69%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 100 (16.37%) Banking
5 97 (15.88%) Retail
6 90 (14.73%) Law
7 57 (9.33%) Financial Institution
8 48 (7.86%) Back Office
9 37 (6.06%) Public Sector
10 23 (3.76%) Telecoms
11 17 (2.78%) Analytical Skills
12 13 (2.13%) Front Office
13 8 (1.31%) Legal
13 8 (1.31%) Organisational Skills
14 7 (1.15%) Military
15 5 (0.82%) Advertising
15 5 (0.82%) Esports
15 5 (0.82%) Manufacturing
16 4 (0.65%) Aviation
16 4 (0.65%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 193 (31.59%) Senior
2 126 (20.62%) Software Engineer
3 122 (19.97%) Lead
4 90 (14.73%) Developer
5 85 (13.91%) DevOps Engineer
6 61 (9.98%) Cloud Engineer
7 50 (8.18%) Azure Engineer
7 50 (8.18%) Platform Engineer
8 46 (7.53%) Senior Software Engineer
9 36 (5.89%) Senior Developer
10 35 (5.73%) Infrastructure Engineer
10 35 (5.73%) Java Engineer
11 34 (5.56%) Python Engineer
12 31 (5.07%) AWS Engineer
13 30 (4.91%) Cloud Platform Engineer
14 27 (4.42%) Java Software Engineer
14 27 (4.42%) Lead Software Engineer
15 26 (4.26%) Senior DevOps
16 25 (4.09%) Java Developer
16 25 (4.09%) Lead DevOps
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 70 (11.46%) Kafka
2 69 (11.29%) .NET
3 68 (11.13%) Spring
4 65 (10.64%) React
5 55 (9.00%) Spring Boot
6 48 (7.86%) Elastic Stack
6 48 (7.86%) RESTful
7 47 (7.69%) REST
8 41 (6.71%) Node.js
9 35 (5.73%) Django
10 26 (4.26%) .NET Core
11 25 (4.09%) Akka
12 24 (3.93%) Flask
13 22 (3.60%) AngularJS
13 22 (3.60%) FastAPI
13 22 (3.60%) OpenTelemetry
13 22 (3.60%) RabbitMQ
14 21 (3.44%) gRPC
15 20 (3.27%) OAuth
16 14 (2.29%) ADO
Miscellaneous
1 194 (31.75%) Cloud Native
2 48 (7.86%) Distributed Systems
3 46 (7.53%) Product Ownership
4 25 (4.09%) Blog
5 23 (3.76%) Over-the-Top Content
5 23 (3.76%) Video\Live Streaming
6 19 (3.11%) Private Cloud
7 17 (2.78%) Hybrid Cloud
7 17 (2.78%) Onboarding
8 16 (2.62%) Data Centre
8 16 (2.62%) Legacy Systems
9 14 (2.29%) AI Agents
9 14 (2.29%) Public Cloud
10 12 (1.96%) Security Posture
11 10 (1.64%) Virtual Team
12 8 (1.31%) Fixed Income
13 7 (1.15%) Management Information System
14 6 (0.98%) Algorithms
14 6 (0.98%) CUDA
14 6 (0.98%) Distributed Architecture
Operating Systems
1 137 (22.42%) Linux
2 40 (6.55%) Windows
3 28 (4.58%) Unix
4 23 (3.76%) Android
5 16 (2.62%) Windows Server
6 14 (2.29%) Apple iOS
6 14 (2.29%) Ubuntu
7 13 (2.13%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
8 11 (1.80%) CentOS
9 8 (1.31%) VMS
10 4 (0.65%) Debian
11 3 (0.49%) Windows Server 2016
12 2 (0.33%) Mac OS
Processes & Methodologies
1 383 (62.68%) CI/CD
2 344 (56.30%) DevOps
3 232 (37.97%) Containerisation
4 228 (37.32%) Agile
5 216 (35.35%) Infrastructure as Code
6 183 (29.95%) Microservices
7 170 (27.82%) Software Engineering
8 136 (22.26%) Test Automation
9 129 (21.11%) Mentoring
10 123 (20.13%) Continuous Improvement
11 99 (16.20%) Platform Engineering
12 98 (16.04%) Clean Code
13 96 (15.71%) Observability
14 89 (14.57%) Problem-Solving
15 88 (14.40%) Deployment Automation
16 85 (13.91%) AI
17 77 (12.60%) Site Reliability Engineering
18 71 (11.62%) Infrastructure Engineering
18 71 (11.62%) TDD
19 63 (10.31%) Scrum
Programming Languages
1 253 (41.41%) Python
2 198 (32.41%) Java
3 95 (15.55%) Go
4 91 (14.89%) JavaScript
5 86 (14.08%) SQL
6 75 (12.27%) Bash
7 60 (9.82%) C#
8 50 (8.18%) TypeScript
9 47 (7.69%) PowerShell
10 32 (5.24%) Scala
11 29 (4.75%) Bicep
12 15 (2.45%) C++
13 8 (1.31%) Delphi
13 8 (1.31%) PHP
14 7 (1.15%) Rust
15 6 (0.98%) C
16 4 (0.65%) Perl
16 4 (0.65%) Shell Script
17 3 (0.49%) Korn
17 3 (0.49%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 79 (12.93%) Degree
2 78 (12.77%) Security Cleared
3 59 (9.66%) SC Cleared
4 48 (7.86%) Computer Science Degree
5 39 (6.38%) Azure Certification
6 33 (5.40%) AWS Certification
7 18 (2.95%) DV Cleared
8 8 (1.31%) CREST Certified
8 8 (1.31%) OSCP
9 6 (0.98%) CISSP
9 6 (0.98%) ISACA
9 6 (0.98%) Microsoft Certification
10 5 (0.82%) GIAC
10 5 (0.82%) SANS
11 3 (0.49%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
11 3 (0.49%) LPIC
11 3 (0.49%) Master's Degree
12 2 (0.33%) ISTQB
12 2 (0.33%) ITIL Certification
12 2 (0.33%) Linux+ Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 38 (6.22%) QA
2 22 (3.60%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 18 (2.95%) NIST
3 18 (2.95%) PCI DSS
4 13 (2.13%) Accessibility
5 11 (1.80%) SOC 2
6 10 (1.64%) Data Quality
7 7 (1.15%) GDPR
8 5 (0.82%) WCAG
9 4 (0.65%) GRC
10 3 (0.49%) ISO 9001
10 3 (0.49%) SLA
11 2 (0.33%) ECSS
11 2 (0.33%) Software Quality Assurance
12 1 (0.16%) ISO/IEC 42001
12 1 (0.16%) MiFID
System Software
1 353 (57.77%) Docker
2 29 (4.75%) Active Directory
3 15 (2.45%) VMware Infrastructure
4 12 (1.96%) Virtual Machines
5 7 (1.15%) VMware NSX
6 5 (0.82%) Firmware
7 4 (0.65%) Hyper-V
7 4 (0.65%) Slurm Workload Manager
8 3 (0.49%) Citrix Hypervisor
8 3 (0.49%) Kamailio
8 3 (0.49%) vSphere
9 1 (0.16%) KVM
9 1 (0.16%) QEMU
9 1 (0.16%) vCloud
9 1 (0.16%) Virtual Desktop
9 1 (0.16%) Virtual Servers
9 1 (0.16%) Xen
Systems Management
1 320 (52.37%) Terraform
2 144 (23.57%) Grafana
3 126 (20.62%) Ansible
4 85 (13.91%) Prometheus
5 47 (7.69%) Argo
6 21 (3.44%) Kustomize
7 18 (2.95%) Puppet
8 10 (1.64%) Istio
9 9 (1.47%) Progress Chef
10 7 (1.15%) Proxmox
10 7 (1.15%) ZABBIX
11 6 (0.98%) Active Directory Federation Services
11 6 (0.98%) Microsoft Intune
11 6 (0.98%) Packer
12 5 (0.82%) Kibana
13 4 (0.65%) Cilium
13 4 (0.65%) logstash
14 2 (0.33%) FortiGate
14 2 (0.33%) MIIS
14 2 (0.33%) Podman
Vendors
1 68 (11.13%) Microsoft
2 37 (6.06%) Google
3 32 (5.24%) VMware
4 21 (3.44%) Red Hat
5 20 (3.27%) Oracle
6 16 (2.62%) Splunk
7 9 (1.47%) Okta
8 8 (1.31%) Cisco
8 8 (1.31%) Confluent
8 8 (1.31%) Databricks
8 8 (1.31%) Dell
9 6 (0.98%) EMC
9 6 (0.98%) F5
9 6 (0.98%) Palo Alto
9 6 (0.98%) ServiceNow
10 5 (0.82%) AppDynamics
10 5 (0.82%) Ericsson
10 5 (0.82%) ForgeRock
10 5 (0.82%) Fortinet
10 5 (0.82%) Mavenir