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 17 June 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
17 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 76 51 67
Rank change year-on-year -25 +16 -40
Permanent jobs citing Kubernetes 640 911 1,351
As % of all permanent jobs with remote/hybrid work options 3.21% 5.93% 3.91%
As % of the Systems Management category 39.51% 44.81% 36.56%
Number of salaries quoted 413 478 1,113
10th Percentile £47,174 £50,000 £50,000
25th Percentile £55,000 £60,000 £60,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £78,810 £75,000
Median % change year-on-year -17.52% +5.08% -
75th Percentile £82,500 £107,875 £93,750
90th Percentile £97,500 £138,750 £117,250
UK median annual salary £72,500 £80,000 £76,000
% change year-on-year -9.38% +5.26% +1.33%

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 1,620 2,033 3,695
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 8.11% 13.24% 10.69%
Number of salaries quoted 1,137 1,172 2,806
10th Percentile £36,250 £36,250 £36,500
25th Percentile £46,446 £48,750 £47,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £62,500 £67,500 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year -7.41% +3.85% -7.14%
75th Percentile £78,750 £87,500 £84,919
90th Percentile £95,000 £115,000 £102,500
UK median annual salary £65,000 £67,500 £61,206
% change year-on-year -3.70% +10.28% -9.32%

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 17 June 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 7 (1.09%) Apache Airflow
1 7 (1.09%) OpenStack
2 6 (0.94%) Apache Spark
3 2 (0.31%) Apache
3 2 (0.31%) ArcGIS
3 2 (0.31%) Camunda
3 2 (0.31%) Confluence
3 2 (0.31%) GeoServer
3 2 (0.31%) IIS
3 2 (0.31%) Microsoft Exchange
3 2 (0.31%) Oracle SOA Suite
3 2 (0.31%) Oracle Spatial
4 1 (0.16%) Cloud Foundry
4 1 (0.16%) JBoss
4 1 (0.16%) nginx
4 1 (0.16%) Oracle Coherence
4 1 (0.16%) Red Hat Fuse
4 1 (0.16%) SAS
Applications
1 4 (0.63%) Weka
2 1 (0.16%) Chatbot
Business Applications
1 2 (0.31%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 368 (57.50%) AWS
2 303 (47.34%) Azure
3 159 (24.84%) GCP
4 138 (21.56%) GitHub
5 106 (16.56%) Amazon EKS
6 82 (12.81%) GitHub Copilot
7 73 (11.41%) SaaS
8 66 (10.31%) Serverless
9 46 (7.19%) GitHub Actions
10 45 (7.03%) Azure AI
11 44 (6.88%) AWS CloudFormation
12 41 (6.41%) Azure AKS
13 36 (5.63%) Amazon EC2
13 36 (5.63%) Azure DevOps
14 35 (5.47%) Amazon S3
15 30 (4.69%) OpenShift
16 27 (4.22%) AWS Lambda
17 25 (3.91%) Amazon CloudWatch
17 25 (3.91%) Amazon ECS
17 25 (3.91%) Pulumi
Communications & Networking
1 56 (8.75%) Broadband
2 29 (4.53%) Firewall
3 22 (3.44%) DNS
4 19 (2.97%) VPN
5 13 (2.03%) TCP/IP
6 11 (1.72%) Internet
7 9 (1.41%) DHCP
7 9 (1.41%) Network Security
8 7 (1.09%) VLAN
9 6 (0.94%) BGP
10 5 (0.78%) OSPF
10 5 (0.78%) VXLAN
11 4 (0.63%) MQTT
11 4 (0.63%) WAN
12 3 (0.47%) AMQP
12 3 (0.47%) HTTP
12 3 (0.47%) RTP
12 3 (0.47%) SCCP
12 3 (0.47%) Unified Communications
12 3 (0.47%) VoIP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 103 (16.09%) MongoDB
2 77 (12.03%) Azure SQL Database
3 65 (10.16%) PostgreSQL
4 47 (7.34%) NoSQL
5 42 (6.56%) Relational Database
6 30 (4.69%) Elasticsearch
7 26 (4.06%) Amazon RDS
7 26 (4.06%) MySQL
8 25 (3.91%) SQL Server
9 18 (2.81%) RDBMS
10 7 (1.09%) BigQuery
10 7 (1.09%) Redis
11 6 (0.94%) DynamoDB
12 4 (0.63%) Amazon Aurora
12 4 (0.63%) Data Warehouse
12 4 (0.63%) Delta Lake
13 3 (0.47%) Metadata
14 2 (0.31%) Amazon Athena
14 2 (0.31%) Pinecone
14 2 (0.31%) QGIS
Development Applications
1 79 (12.34%) Git
2 77 (12.03%) TeamCity
3 66 (10.31%) Jenkins
4 59 (9.22%) GitLab
5 18 (2.81%) Jaeger
6 15 (2.34%) JUnit
7 13 (2.03%) JIRA
8 12 (1.88%) Maven
8 12 (1.88%) Visual Studio Code
9 9 (1.41%) Mockito
10 8 (1.25%) Cucumber
11 7 (1.09%) JMeter
11 7 (1.09%) Selenium
12 6 (0.94%) Bitbucket
12 6 (0.94%) Postman
12 6 (0.94%) Visual Studio
13 5 (0.78%) Atlassian Bamboo
13 5 (0.78%) Locust
14 4 (0.63%) SonarQube
14 4 (0.63%) Subversion
General
1 141 (22.03%) Finance
2 121 (18.91%) Social Skills
3 97 (15.16%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 85 (13.28%) Retail
5 82 (12.81%) Banking
6 77 (12.03%) Law
7 43 (6.72%) Public Sector
8 40 (6.25%) Financial Institution
9 37 (5.78%) Back Office
10 23 (3.59%) Advertising
11 19 (2.97%) Analytical Skills
12 11 (1.72%) Marketing
13 10 (1.56%) Aerospace
14 9 (1.41%) Organisational Skills
15 8 (1.25%) Games
16 6 (0.94%) Aviation
16 6 (0.94%) Legal
16 6 (0.94%) Telecoms
17 5 (0.78%) Military
18 4 (0.63%) Manufacturing
Job Titles
1 192 (30.00%) Senior
2 161 (25.16%) Developer
3 113 (17.66%) Software Engineer
4 103 (16.09%) Lead
5 75 (11.72%) .NET Developer
6 69 (10.78%) DevOps Engineer
7 60 (9.38%) Cloud Engineer
8 49 (7.66%) Platform Engineer
9 42 (6.56%) Senior Software Engineer
10 41 (6.41%) Senior Developer
11 40 (6.25%) Azure Engineer
12 32 (5.00%) AWS Engineer
12 32 (5.00%) Java Developer
13 31 (4.84%) Java Engineer
14 30 (4.69%) Cloud Platform Engineer
14 30 (4.69%) Senior DevOps
15 29 (4.53%) Team Leader
16 28 (4.38%) Lead Software Engineer
17 24 (3.75%) Python Engineer
18 23 (3.59%) Java Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 129 (20.16%) .NET
2 89 (13.91%) .NET Core
3 82 (12.81%) ASP.NET
4 77 (12.03%) ASP.NET Core
5 65 (10.16%) React
5 65 (10.16%) Spring
6 54 (8.44%) Node.js
7 53 (8.28%) AngularJS
7 53 (8.28%) Kafka
8 49 (7.66%) REST
9 48 (7.50%) CSS
9 48 (7.50%) HTML
10 46 (7.19%) Spring Boot
11 43 (6.72%) ML.NET
11 43 (6.72%) Vue
12 39 (6.09%) RESTful
13 26 (4.06%) OpenTelemetry
14 25 (3.91%) Django
14 25 (3.91%) Elastic Stack
15 23 (3.59%) Akka
Miscellaneous
1 190 (29.69%) Cloud Native
2 49 (7.66%) Distributed Systems
3 43 (6.72%) Product Ownership
4 23 (3.59%) Blog
5 22 (3.44%) Over-the-Top Content
5 22 (3.44%) Video\Live Streaming
6 20 (3.13%) Hybrid Cloud
7 18 (2.81%) Private Cloud
8 17 (2.66%) Data Centre
9 16 (2.50%) Greenfield Project
10 13 (2.03%) Digital TV
10 13 (2.03%) Public Cloud
11 9 (1.41%) Legacy Systems
11 9 (1.41%) Management Information System
11 9 (1.41%) Onboarding
11 9 (1.41%) Security Posture
12 7 (1.09%) Self-Motivation
13 6 (0.94%) AI Agents
13 6 (0.94%) CMDB
13 6 (0.94%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 139 (21.72%) Linux
2 33 (5.16%) Windows
3 18 (2.81%) Unix
3 18 (2.81%) Windows Server
4 14 (2.19%) Ubuntu
5 11 (1.72%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 10 (1.56%) Android
6 10 (1.56%) Apple iOS
7 7 (1.09%) CentOS
8 5 (0.78%) Debian
9 3 (0.47%) VMS
9 3 (0.47%) Windows Server 2016
10 2 (0.31%) Mac OS
Processes & Methodologies
1 412 (64.38%) CI/CD
2 300 (46.88%) DevOps
3 259 (40.47%) Agile
4 232 (36.25%) Infrastructure as Code
5 202 (31.56%) Microservices
6 198 (30.94%) Containerisation
7 174 (27.19%) Software Engineering
8 170 (26.56%) Mentoring
9 137 (21.41%) AI
10 129 (20.16%) Continuous Improvement
11 127 (19.84%) Test Automation
12 126 (19.69%) Full-Stack Development
13 109 (17.03%) Observability
14 107 (16.72%) Platform Engineering
15 100 (15.63%) TDD
16 99 (15.47%) Clean Code
17 86 (13.44%) Scrum
18 81 (12.66%) Deployment Automation
18 81 (12.66%) Problem-Solving
19 77 (12.03%) Analytics
Programming Languages
1 225 (35.16%) Python
2 188 (29.38%) Java
3 151 (23.59%) SQL
4 138 (21.56%) C#
5 90 (14.06%) TypeScript
6 82 (12.81%) Bash
6 82 (12.81%) JavaScript
7 67 (10.47%) Go
8 54 (8.44%) PowerShell
9 31 (4.84%) Scala
10 19 (2.97%) Bicep
11 10 (1.56%) PHP
11 10 (1.56%) PL/SQL
12 7 (1.09%) C
12 7 (1.09%) C++
12 7 (1.09%) Rust
13 5 (0.78%) Groovy
13 5 (0.78%) Ruby
14 3 (0.47%) Perl
14 3 (0.47%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 85 (13.28%) Security Cleared
2 70 (10.94%) SC Cleared
3 52 (8.13%) Degree
4 46 (7.19%) Azure Certification
5 38 (5.94%) AWS Certification
6 22 (3.44%) Computer Science Degree
7 12 (1.88%) DV Cleared
8 8 (1.25%) CREST Certified
8 8 (1.25%) OSCP
9 7 (1.09%) CISSP
9 7 (1.09%) Microsoft Certification
10 6 (0.94%) GIAC
10 6 (0.94%) ISACA
11 5 (0.78%) SANS
12 2 (0.31%) CISM
12 2 (0.31%) ISTQB
12 2 (0.31%) ISTQB Advanced Certification
12 2 (0.31%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
12 2 (0.31%) LPIC
12 2 (0.31%) Master's Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 37 (5.78%) QA
2 22 (3.44%) Accessibility
3 15 (2.34%) NIST
4 14 (2.19%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 10 (1.56%) PCI DSS
6 7 (1.09%) WCAG
7 4 (0.63%) Data Quality
7 4 (0.63%) GDPR
7 4 (0.63%) SOC 2
8 3 (0.47%) ISO 9001
9 2 (0.31%) Software Quality Assurance
10 1 (0.16%) Cyber Essentials
10 1 (0.16%) ISO/IEC 42001
10 1 (0.16%) SLA
System Software
1 396 (61.88%) Docker
2 29 (4.53%) Active Directory
3 19 (2.97%) VMware Infrastructure
4 15 (2.34%) Virtual Machines
5 5 (0.78%) VMware NSX
6 4 (0.63%) Firmware
6 4 (0.63%) Slurm Workload Manager
7 3 (0.47%) Citrix Hypervisor
7 3 (0.47%) Kamailio
8 1 (0.16%) Hyper-V
8 1 (0.16%) iptables
8 1 (0.16%) KVM
8 1 (0.16%) QEMU
8 1 (0.16%) Virtual Servers
8 1 (0.16%) vSphere
8 1 (0.16%) Xen
Systems Management
1 298 (46.56%) Terraform
2 120 (18.75%) Grafana
3 111 (17.34%) Ansible
4 79 (12.34%) Prometheus
5 45 (7.03%) Argo
6 24 (3.75%) Kustomize
7 20 (3.13%) Istio
7 20 (3.13%) Puppet
8 15 (2.34%) Progress Chef
9 8 (1.25%) Packer
10 7 (1.09%) Active Directory Federation Services
10 7 (1.09%) Proxmox
10 7 (1.09%) ZABBIX
11 6 (0.94%) Microsoft Intune
12 5 (0.78%) FortiGate
12 5 (0.78%) Kibana
13 3 (0.47%) linkerd
13 3 (0.47%) Nagios
14 2 (0.31%) MIIS
14 2 (0.31%) Podman
Vendors
1 145 (22.66%) Microsoft
2 43 (6.72%) Google
3 34 (5.31%) VMware
4 18 (2.81%) Oracle
4 18 (2.81%) Red Hat
5 13 (2.03%) Splunk
6 11 (1.72%) Facebook
6 11 (1.72%) Palo Alto
7 10 (1.56%) ServiceNow
8 9 (1.41%) Fortinet
8 9 (1.41%) Okta
9 8 (1.25%) Cisco
9 8 (1.25%) Confluent
10 7 (1.09%) Databricks
10 7 (1.09%) EMC
11 6 (0.94%) Citrix
11 6 (0.94%) F5
11 6 (0.94%) OpenAI
12 5 (0.78%) ForgeRock
12 5 (0.78%) HubSpot