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

6 months to
9 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 80 75 69
Rank change year-on-year -5 -6 -44
Permanent jobs citing Kubernetes 746 751 919
As % of all permanent jobs with remote/hybrid work options 3.14% 4.64% 3.94%
As % of the Systems Management category 45.13% 44.62% 40.40%
Number of salaries quoted 525 362 625
10th Percentile £46,250 £48,750 £52,500
25th Percentile £52,500 £60,000 £61,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £75,000 £76,000
Median % change year-on-year -13.33% -1.32% +1.33%
75th Percentile £85,000 £90,000 £95,000
90th Percentile £97,500 £114,875 £118,750
UK median annual salary £70,000 £77,500 £76,500
% change year-on-year -9.68% +1.31% +2.00%

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 1,653 1,683 2,275
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 6.95% 10.40% 9.75%
Number of salaries quoted 1,215 888 1,395
10th Percentile £35,200 £32,725 £36,500
25th Percentile £46,250 £45,000 £47,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £65,000 £63,000
Median % change year-on-year -7.69% +3.17% -9.28%
75th Percentile £75,000 £82,751 £86,250
90th Percentile £95,000 £100,000 £105,000
UK median annual salary £60,000 £62,500 £63,750
% change year-on-year -4.00% -1.96% -1.92%

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 9 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 11 (1.47%) Apache Spark
2 7 (0.94%) Apache Airflow
2 7 (0.94%) Oracle SOA Suite
3 6 (0.80%) IIS
4 5 (0.67%) nginx
4 5 (0.67%) OpenStack
5 4 (0.54%) Camunda
5 4 (0.54%) Confluence
6 3 (0.40%) ArcGIS
6 3 (0.40%) GeoServer
6 3 (0.40%) Oracle Spatial
7 2 (0.27%) Apache
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
Applications
1 12 (1.61%) Chatbot
2 1 (0.13%) Lightworks
Business Applications
1 2 (0.27%) SAP S/4HANA
2 1 (0.13%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
Cloud Services
1 423 (56.70%) Azure
2 418 (56.03%) AWS
3 206 (27.61%) GitHub
4 204 (27.35%) GCP
5 141 (18.90%) GitHub Copilot
6 89 (11.93%) Amazon EKS
7 76 (10.19%) Azure AI
7 76 (10.19%) SaaS
8 50 (6.70%) Serverless
9 49 (6.57%) GitHub Actions
10 47 (6.30%) AWS CloudFormation
10 47 (6.30%) Azure DevOps
10 47 (6.30%) OpenShift
11 43 (5.76%) Azure AKS
12 28 (3.75%) Amazon EC2
13 22 (2.95%) Amazon S3
14 21 (2.82%) Amazon ECS
15 19 (2.55%) AWS Lambda
15 19 (2.55%) Azure Service Bus
16 18 (2.41%) Virtual Private Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 23 (3.08%) DNS
2 22 (2.95%) Firewall
3 20 (2.68%) Internet
3 20 (2.68%) VPN
4 17 (2.28%) Broadband
5 15 (2.01%) TCP/IP
6 8 (1.07%) BGP
6 8 (1.07%) DHCP
6 8 (1.07%) Network Security
6 8 (1.07%) VLAN
7 6 (0.80%) OSPF
7 6 (0.80%) VXLAN
8 5 (0.67%) WAN
9 4 (0.54%) HTTP
10 2 (0.27%) LAN
10 2 (0.27%) SAN
10 2 (0.27%) WireGuard
11 1 (0.13%) MQTT
11 1 (0.13%) Remote Desktop
11 1 (0.13%) SSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 162 (21.72%) MongoDB
2 142 (19.03%) Azure SQL Database
3 74 (9.92%) PostgreSQL
4 47 (6.30%) Elasticsearch
5 36 (4.83%) NoSQL
6 28 (3.75%) SQL Server
7 26 (3.49%) Relational Database
8 25 (3.35%) MySQL
9 19 (2.55%) Amazon RDS
10 11 (1.47%) Data Warehouse
11 6 (0.80%) Delta Lake
11 6 (0.80%) DynamoDB
12 5 (0.67%) Metadata
12 5 (0.67%) Power BI
12 5 (0.67%) Tableau
13 4 (0.54%) Apache Cassandra
13 4 (0.54%) Big Data
13 4 (0.54%) Redis
13 4 (0.54%) Spark SQL
14 3 (0.40%) InfluxDB
Development Applications
1 94 (12.60%) Git
2 58 (7.77%) TeamCity
3 53 (7.10%) Jenkins
4 50 (6.70%) GitLab
5 28 (3.75%) JUnit
6 18 (2.41%) Maven
7 17 (2.28%) Selenium
8 16 (2.14%) Mockito
9 14 (1.88%) JIRA
10 12 (1.61%) Postman
10 12 (1.61%) Visual Studio Code
11 10 (1.34%) Atlassian Bamboo
11 10 (1.34%) Cucumber
12 9 (1.21%) Bitbucket
12 9 (1.21%) SonarQube
13 6 (0.80%) Gatling
13 6 (0.80%) Octopus Deploy
14 5 (0.67%) Subversion
15 4 (0.54%) NUnit
16 3 (0.40%) Cypress.io
General
1 182 (24.40%) Finance
2 127 (17.02%) Social Skills
3 82 (10.99%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 80 (10.72%) Banking
5 77 (10.32%) Retail
6 76 (10.19%) Law
7 66 (8.85%) Public Sector
8 47 (6.30%) Financial Institution
9 46 (6.17%) Back Office
10 36 (4.83%) Advertising
11 24 (3.22%) Analytical Skills
12 21 (2.82%) Marketing
13 20 (2.68%) Aerospace
14 13 (1.74%) Games
15 10 (1.34%) Legal
16 7 (0.94%) Organisational Skills
17 6 (0.80%) Telecoms
18 3 (0.40%) Front Office
18 3 (0.40%) Manufacturing
18 3 (0.40%) Military
Job Titles
1 217 (29.09%) Developer
2 199 (26.68%) Senior
3 135 (18.10%) .NET Developer
4 121 (16.22%) Software Engineer
5 80 (10.72%) DevOps Engineer
6 71 (9.52%) Lead
7 54 (7.24%) Cloud Engineer
8 50 (6.70%) Platform Engineer
9 47 (6.30%) Architect
10 44 (5.90%) Azure Engineer
11 39 (5.23%) Senior Developer
12 32 (4.29%) Senior Software Engineer
13 31 (4.16%) Java Developer
14 29 (3.89%) Cloud Platform Engineer
15 25 (3.35%) AWS Engineer
15 25 (3.35%) Java Engineer
15 25 (3.35%) Lead Software Engineer
15 25 (3.35%) Senior DevOps
16 24 (3.22%) Full-Stack Developer
16 24 (3.22%) Team Leader
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 288 (38.61%) Terraform
2 201 (26.94%) .NET
3 142 (19.03%) ASP.NET
4 140 (18.77%) .NET Core
5 136 (18.23%) ASP.NET Core
6 97 (13.00%) Node.js
7 83 (11.13%) AngularJS
8 81 (10.86%) CSS
8 81 (10.86%) HTML
9 80 (10.72%) React
10 74 (9.92%) ML.NET
11 69 (9.25%) Vue
12 66 (8.85%) Spring
13 65 (8.71%) REST
14 55 (7.37%) Kafka
15 47 (6.30%) RESTful
16 42 (5.63%) Spring Boot
17 29 (3.89%) Blazor
18 20 (2.68%) Django
19 19 (2.55%) OAuth
Miscellaneous
1 195 (26.14%) Cloud Native
2 57 (7.64%) Distributed Systems
3 52 (6.97%) Product Ownership
4 25 (3.35%) Greenfield Project
5 22 (2.95%) Blog
6 20 (2.68%) Digital TV
7 17 (2.28%) AI Agents
7 17 (2.28%) Data Centre
8 16 (2.14%) Public Cloud
9 14 (1.88%) Legacy Systems
10 13 (1.74%) Hybrid Cloud
10 13 (1.74%) Private Cloud
10 13 (1.74%) Self-Motivation
11 9 (1.21%) IoT
11 9 (1.21%) PKI
12 8 (1.07%) Cyber Kill Chain
12 8 (1.07%) Enterprise Software
12 8 (1.07%) Management Information System
12 8 (1.07%) Mobile App
13 7 (0.94%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 131 (17.56%) Linux
2 45 (6.03%) Windows
3 24 (3.22%) Windows Server
4 15 (2.01%) Ubuntu
5 7 (0.94%) Android
5 7 (0.94%) Apple iOS
6 6 (0.80%) CentOS
6 6 (0.80%) Debian
6 6 (0.80%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
7 3 (0.40%) VMS
8 2 (0.27%) Mac OS
8 2 (0.27%) Windows Server 2016
Processes & Methodologies
1 493 (66.09%) CI/CD
2 293 (39.28%) DevOps
3 269 (36.06%) Agile
4 245 (32.84%) Microservices
5 216 (28.95%) Infrastructure as Code
6 211 (28.28%) AI
7 204 (27.35%) Full-Stack Development
8 202 (27.08%) Software Engineering
9 197 (26.41%) Mentoring
10 188 (25.20%) Containerisation
11 137 (18.36%) Test Automation
12 133 (17.83%) Continuous Improvement
13 128 (17.16%) Observability
14 119 (15.95%) Machine Learning
15 114 (15.28%) Platform Engineering
16 105 (14.08%) Problem-Solving
17 102 (13.67%) TDD
18 101 (13.54%) Clean Code
19 85 (11.39%) Scrum
20 77 (10.32%) Deployment Automation
Programming Languages
1 231 (30.97%) Python
2 224 (30.03%) SQL
3 208 (27.88%) C#
4 172 (23.06%) Java
5 113 (15.15%) TypeScript
6 93 (12.47%) JavaScript
7 79 (10.59%) Bash
8 74 (9.92%) PowerShell
9 43 (5.76%) Go
10 24 (3.22%) Bicep
11 15 (2.01%) PL/SQL
12 14 (1.88%) Scala
13 9 (1.21%) PHP
14 8 (1.07%) Kotlin
14 8 (1.07%) Ruby
15 7 (0.94%) Groovy
16 4 (0.54%) C++
16 4 (0.54%) Rust
17 3 (0.40%) Swift
17 3 (0.40%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 124 (16.62%) Security Cleared
2 99 (13.27%) SC Cleared
3 57 (7.64%) Degree
4 42 (5.63%) Azure Certification
5 28 (3.75%) Computer Science Degree
6 17 (2.28%) AWS Certification
7 16 (2.14%) DV Cleared
8 8 (1.07%) CISSP
9 7 (0.94%) BPSS Clearance
10 6 (0.80%) CISM
10 6 (0.80%) GIAC
11 5 (0.67%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
11 5 (0.67%) CEH
12 4 (0.54%) CREST Certified
12 4 (0.54%) Microsoft Certification
12 4 (0.54%) OCP
12 4 (0.54%) Oracle Certification
12 4 (0.54%) OSCP
13 3 (0.40%) AWS Certified Developer
14 2 (0.27%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 32 (4.29%) QA
2 24 (3.22%) Accessibility
3 18 (2.41%) NIST
4 10 (1.34%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 10 (1.34%) WCAG
5 7 (0.94%) PCI DSS
6 5 (0.67%) Cyber Essentials
6 5 (0.67%) Data Quality
7 4 (0.54%) NCSC
7 4 (0.54%) SOC 2
8 2 (0.27%) GDPR
9 1 (0.13%) California Consumer Privacy Act
9 1 (0.13%) HIPAA
9 1 (0.13%) ISO 22301
9 1 (0.13%) ISO 9001
9 1 (0.13%) ISO/IEC 42001
9 1 (0.13%) PSD2
9 1 (0.13%) SEPA
9 1 (0.13%) SLA
System Software
1 477 (63.94%) Docker
2 27 (3.62%) Active Directory
3 19 (2.55%) Virtual Machines
4 18 (2.41%) VMware Infrastructure
5 4 (0.54%) Slurm Workload Manager
6 3 (0.40%) iptables
7 2 (0.27%) Citrix Hypervisor
7 2 (0.27%) Firmware
7 2 (0.27%) Hyper-V
8 1 (0.13%) KVM
8 1 (0.13%) QEMU
8 1 (0.13%) Virtual Servers
8 1 (0.13%) Xen
Systems Management
1 113 (15.15%) Grafana
2 86 (11.53%) Ansible
3 51 (6.84%) Prometheus
4 27 (3.62%) Argo
5 24 (3.22%) Istio
6 20 (2.68%) Puppet
7 11 (1.47%) Progress Chef
8 8 (1.07%) Kustomize
9 7 (0.94%) Packer
10 6 (0.80%) Active Directory Federation Services
10 6 (0.80%) FortiGate
10 6 (0.80%) Microsoft Intune
11 4 (0.54%) linkerd
12 3 (0.40%) Cilium
12 3 (0.40%) Kibana
12 3 (0.40%) ZABBIX
13 2 (0.27%) MIIS
13 2 (0.27%) SCCM
13 2 (0.27%) SCOM
13 2 (0.27%) WSUS
Vendors
1 211 (28.28%) Microsoft
2 43 (5.76%) Google
3 31 (4.16%) Oracle
4 23 (3.08%) VMware
5 22 (2.95%) OpenAI
5 22 (2.95%) Red Hat
6 21 (2.82%) Facebook
7 20 (2.68%) Okta
7 20 (2.68%) Splunk
8 15 (2.01%) Ping Identity
9 12 (1.61%) Palo Alto
9 12 (1.61%) ServiceNow
10 11 (1.47%) Databricks
11 8 (1.07%) Cisco
12 7 (0.94%) Dynatrace
12 7 (0.94%) EMC
12 7 (0.94%) Fortinet
13 6 (0.80%) ForgeRock
13 6 (0.80%) New Relic
13 6 (0.80%) Zscaler