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 8 October 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
8 Oct 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 78 79 55
Rank change year-on-year +1 -24 -26
Permanent jobs citing Kubernetes 779 711 1,010
As % of all permanent jobs with remote/hybrid work options 3.14% 4.23% 4.62%
As % of the Systems Management category 45.32% 42.32% 44.53%
Number of salaries quoted 508 335 589
10th Percentile £46,025 £48,399 £53,511
25th Percentile £52,500 £58,000 £61,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £70,000 £76,500
Median % change year-on-year -7.14% -8.50% +2.00%
75th Percentile £85,000 £86,375 £95,000
90th Percentile £97,500 £107,500 £115,000
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 1,719 1,680 2,268
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 6.93% 10.00% 10.37%
Number of salaries quoted 1,231 860 1,295
10th Percentile £33,750 £34,900 £36,500
25th Percentile £46,250 £45,000 £47,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £63,225 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year -5.10% -2.73% -2.99%
75th Percentile £75,138 £82,500 £86,250
90th Percentile £95,000 £96,375 £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 8 October 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 (1.28%) Apache Spark
2 7 (0.90%) Oracle SOA Suite
3 6 (0.77%) Apache Airflow
3 6 (0.77%) Confluence
3 6 (0.77%) IIS
3 6 (0.77%) nginx
4 5 (0.64%) Camunda
4 5 (0.64%) WebLogic
5 4 (0.51%) Apache
6 3 (0.39%) ArcGIS
6 3 (0.39%) GeoServer
6 3 (0.39%) Oracle Spatial
7 2 (0.26%) Ethereum
7 2 (0.26%) Hedera
8 1 (0.13%) JBoss
8 1 (0.13%) OpenStack
8 1 (0.13%) Oracle Coherence
8 1 (0.13%) Red Hat Fuse
Applications
1 12 (1.54%) Chatbot
2 1 (0.13%) Lightworks
Business Applications
1 2 (0.26%) Distributed Ledger
1 2 (0.26%) SAP S/4HANA
2 1 (0.13%) Actimize
2 1 (0.13%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
Cloud Services
1 449 (57.64%) AWS
2 412 (52.89%) Azure
3 241 (30.94%) GCP
4 204 (26.19%) GitHub
5 135 (17.33%) GitHub Copilot
6 110 (14.12%) SaaS
7 109 (13.99%) Amazon EKS
8 72 (9.24%) Azure AI
9 49 (6.29%) GitHub Actions
9 49 (6.29%) Serverless
10 47 (6.03%) Azure AKS
10 47 (6.03%) Azure DevOps
11 45 (5.78%) AWS CloudFormation
12 40 (5.13%) OpenShift
13 26 (3.34%) Virtual Private Cloud
14 25 (3.21%) Amazon EC2
14 25 (3.21%) Google Kubernetes Engine
15 21 (2.70%) Azure Service Bus
15 21 (2.70%) PaaS
16 20 (2.57%) Azure Monitor
Communications & Networking
1 34 (4.36%) VPN
2 25 (3.21%) Firewall
3 21 (2.70%) DNS
4 20 (2.57%) Internet
5 19 (2.44%) TCP/IP
6 18 (2.31%) BGP
6 18 (2.31%) Network Security
7 17 (2.18%) Broadband
8 13 (1.67%) VLAN
9 6 (0.77%) OSPF
9 6 (0.77%) VXLAN
10 4 (0.51%) DHCP
10 4 (0.51%) HTTP
11 3 (0.39%) WAN
12 2 (0.26%) Unified Communications
12 2 (0.26%) WireGuard
13 1 (0.13%) MQTT
13 1 (0.13%) SAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 162 (20.80%) MongoDB
2 140 (17.97%) Azure SQL Database
3 90 (11.55%) PostgreSQL
4 43 (5.52%) Elasticsearch
5 38 (4.88%) NoSQL
6 36 (4.62%) Amazon RDS
7 24 (3.08%) Relational Database
7 24 (3.08%) SQL Server
8 22 (2.82%) MySQL
9 11 (1.41%) Data Warehouse
10 7 (0.90%) BigQuery
10 7 (0.90%) Redis
11 6 (0.77%) Delta Lake
11 6 (0.77%) DynamoDB
11 6 (0.77%) Power BI
12 5 (0.64%) Metadata
12 5 (0.64%) Tableau
13 4 (0.51%) DocumentDB
13 4 (0.51%) Flink
13 4 (0.51%) Looker
Development Applications
1 94 (12.07%) TeamCity
2 80 (10.27%) Git
3 55 (7.06%) Jenkins
4 43 (5.52%) GitLab
5 33 (4.24%) JUnit
6 22 (2.82%) Mockito
7 19 (2.44%) JIRA
8 18 (2.31%) Maven
9 16 (2.05%) Selenium
10 11 (1.41%) Postman
11 9 (1.16%) Bitbucket
12 8 (1.03%) Atlassian Bamboo
12 8 (1.03%) Cucumber
12 8 (1.03%) SonarQube
13 6 (0.77%) Gatling
13 6 (0.77%) Octopus Deploy
14 4 (0.51%) Cypress.io
14 4 (0.51%) Subversion
14 4 (0.51%) Vagrant
14 4 (0.51%) Visual Studio Code
General
1 204 (26.19%) Finance
2 145 (18.61%) Social Skills
3 120 (15.40%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 115 (14.76%) Retail
5 112 (14.38%) Law
6 109 (13.99%) Banking
7 74 (9.50%) Public Sector
8 73 (9.37%) Financial Institution
9 71 (9.11%) Back Office
10 33 (4.24%) Advertising
11 31 (3.98%) Analytical Skills
12 20 (2.57%) Aerospace
13 19 (2.44%) Marketing
14 11 (1.41%) Games
15 9 (1.16%) Legal
16 6 (0.77%) Telecoms
17 4 (0.51%) Front Office
18 3 (0.39%) Aviation
18 3 (0.39%) Military
18 3 (0.39%) Police
Job Titles
1 222 (28.50%) Senior
2 213 (27.34%) Developer
3 150 (19.26%) Software Engineer
4 130 (16.69%) .NET Developer
5 77 (9.88%) DevOps Engineer
6 69 (8.86%) Lead
7 55 (7.06%) Cloud Engineer
8 51 (6.55%) Architect
9 41 (5.26%) Platform Engineer
9 41 (5.26%) Senior Developer
10 39 (5.01%) Java Engineer
10 39 (5.01%) Senior Software Engineer
11 33 (4.24%) Azure Engineer
12 30 (3.85%) Java Developer
13 27 (3.47%) Lead Software Engineer
14 25 (3.21%) Full-Stack Developer
14 25 (3.21%) Senior DevOps
14 25 (3.21%) Team Leader
15 24 (3.08%) Cloud Platform Engineer
15 24 (3.08%) Java Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 308 (39.54%) Terraform
2 197 (25.29%) .NET
3 136 (17.46%) .NET Core
3 136 (17.46%) ASP.NET
4 132 (16.94%) ASP.NET Core
5 96 (12.32%) Node.js
6 89 (11.42%) React
7 80 (10.27%) CSS
8 79 (10.14%) HTML
9 78 (10.01%) AngularJS
9 78 (10.01%) Spring
10 70 (8.99%) ML.NET
11 66 (8.47%) Vue
12 59 (7.57%) REST
13 53 (6.80%) Kafka
13 53 (6.80%) RESTful
13 53 (6.80%) Spring Boot
14 31 (3.98%) OpenTelemetry
15 28 (3.59%) Blazor
16 18 (2.31%) .NET Framework
Miscellaneous
1 235 (30.17%) Cloud Native
2 74 (9.50%) Distributed Systems
3 61 (7.83%) Product Ownership
4 40 (5.13%) Blog
5 27 (3.47%) Greenfield Project
6 19 (2.44%) Digital TV
7 18 (2.31%) AI Agents
8 17 (2.18%) Security Posture
9 15 (1.93%) Management Information System
10 14 (1.80%) Legacy Systems
11 13 (1.67%) Enterprise Software
12 12 (1.54%) Data Centre
12 12 (1.54%) Self-Motivation
13 10 (1.28%) Public Cloud
13 10 (1.28%) Replication
14 9 (1.16%) Hybrid Cloud
14 9 (1.16%) IoT
15 8 (1.03%) Cyber Kill Chain
15 8 (1.03%) PKI
15 8 (1.03%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 120 (15.40%) Linux
2 36 (4.62%) Windows
3 14 (1.80%) Ubuntu
3 14 (1.80%) Windows Server
4 11 (1.41%) Apple iOS
5 8 (1.03%) Android
6 5 (0.64%) Mac OS
7 3 (0.39%) Debian
8 2 (0.26%) CentOS
9 1 (0.13%) Unix
9 1 (0.13%) Windows Server 2016
Processes & Methodologies
1 526 (67.52%) CI/CD
2 298 (38.25%) DevOps
3 282 (36.20%) Agile
4 279 (35.82%) Microservices
5 231 (29.65%) Software Engineering
6 223 (28.63%) AI
6 223 (28.63%) Mentoring
7 210 (26.96%) Infrastructure as Code
8 205 (26.32%) Full-Stack Development
9 186 (23.88%) Containerisation
10 154 (19.77%) Test Automation
11 141 (18.10%) Observability
12 140 (17.97%) Continuous Improvement
13 131 (16.82%) Problem-Solving
14 124 (15.92%) Machine Learning
15 116 (14.89%) Clean Code
16 109 (13.99%) Fintech
17 108 (13.86%) TDD
18 102 (13.09%) Platform Engineering
19 97 (12.45%) Deployment Automation
Programming Languages
1 244 (31.32%) Python
2 237 (30.42%) SQL
3 236 (30.30%) Java
4 204 (26.19%) C#
5 120 (15.40%) TypeScript
6 99 (12.71%) JavaScript
7 94 (12.07%) Bash
8 69 (8.86%) PowerShell
9 60 (7.70%) Go
10 24 (3.08%) Bicep
11 15 (1.93%) Scala
12 14 (1.80%) PL/SQL
13 9 (1.16%) Kotlin
14 8 (1.03%) PHP
14 8 (1.03%) Ruby
15 6 (0.77%) Groovy
16 5 (0.64%) C
16 5 (0.64%) Shell Script
17 4 (0.51%) C++
17 4 (0.51%) Rust
Qualifications
1 130 (16.69%) Security Cleared
2 107 (13.74%) SC Cleared
3 50 (6.42%) Degree
4 32 (4.11%) Azure Certification
5 23 (2.95%) Computer Science Degree
6 19 (2.44%) AWS Certification
7 13 (1.67%) DV Cleared
8 12 (1.54%) CISSP
9 11 (1.41%) CISM
10 8 (1.03%) BPSS Clearance
10 8 (1.03%) GIAC
11 6 (0.77%) (ISC)2 CCSP
11 6 (0.77%) Cisco Certification
12 5 (0.64%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
12 5 (0.64%) CCSP
12 5 (0.64%) CEH
12 5 (0.64%) CREST Certified
12 5 (0.64%) OSCP
13 4 (0.51%) Microsoft Certification
13 4 (0.51%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 27 (3.47%) QA
2 25 (3.21%) NIST
3 22 (2.82%) Accessibility
3 22 (2.82%) PCI DSS
4 19 (2.44%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 12 (1.54%) SOC 2
6 8 (1.03%) WCAG
7 7 (0.90%) Data Quality
8 6 (0.77%) Cyber Essentials
9 4 (0.51%) GDPR
9 4 (0.51%) NCSC
10 1 (0.13%) California Consumer Privacy Act
10 1 (0.13%) HIPAA
10 1 (0.13%) ISO 22301
10 1 (0.13%) PSD2
10 1 (0.13%) SEPA
10 1 (0.13%) SLA
System Software
1 484 (62.13%) Docker
2 18 (2.31%) Virtual Machines
3 15 (1.93%) Active Directory
4 12 (1.54%) VMware Infrastructure
5 3 (0.39%) iptables
6 1 (0.13%) HDFS
6 1 (0.13%) Hyper-V
6 1 (0.13%) Virtual Servers
Systems Management
1 149 (19.13%) Grafana
2 72 (9.24%) Ansible
3 62 (7.96%) Prometheus
4 30 (3.85%) Argo
5 19 (2.44%) Istio
6 14 (1.80%) Progress Chef
6 14 (1.80%) Puppet
7 9 (1.16%) Kustomize
8 8 (1.03%) Cilium
9 7 (0.90%) Packer
9 7 (0.90%) Single Sign-On
10 6 (0.77%) FortiGate
11 4 (0.51%) linkerd
11 4 (0.51%) Microsoft Intune
12 2 (0.26%) Active Directory Federation Services
12 2 (0.26%) CASB
12 2 (0.26%) Microsoft Data Protection Manager
12 2 (0.26%) Podman
12 2 (0.26%) Proxmox
12 2 (0.26%) WSUS
Vendors
1 204 (26.19%) Microsoft
2 61 (7.83%) Google
3 34 (4.36%) Oracle
4 28 (3.59%) Splunk
5 25 (3.21%) OpenAI
6 19 (2.44%) Facebook
6 19 (2.44%) Red Hat
7 16 (2.05%) Okta
7 16 (2.05%) VMware
8 15 (1.93%) Ping Identity
9 12 (1.54%) Databricks
10 11 (1.41%) Dynatrace
11 9 (1.16%) New Relic
12 8 (1.03%) Palo Alto
13 7 (0.90%) ServiceNow
14 6 (0.77%) Fortinet
14 6 (0.77%) Zscaler
15 5 (0.64%) ForgeRock
15 5 (0.64%) HubSpot
15 5 (0.64%) Qualys