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

6 months to
22 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 85 76 64
Rank change year-on-year -9 -12 -35
Permanent jobs citing Kubernetes 752 735 936
As % of all permanent jobs with remote/hybrid work options 3.07% 4.55% 4.11%
As % of the Systems Management category 45.25% 43.70% 41.56%
Number of salaries quoted 506 352 605
10th Percentile £46,250 £48,750 £53,000
25th Percentile £52,500 £59,500 £61,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £75,000 £77,500
Median % change year-on-year -13.33% -3.23% +3.33%
75th Percentile £85,000 £87,500 £95,000
90th Percentile £97,500 £110,000 £118,750
UK median annual salary £70,000 £77,500 £77,500
% change year-on-year -9.68% - +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 1,662 1,682 2,252
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 6.79% 10.42% 9.89%
Number of salaries quoted 1,203 878 1,344
10th Percentile £33,800 £35,000 £36,575
25th Percentile £46,250 £45,000 £47,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £65,000 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year -7.69% - -3.70%
75th Percentile £75,000 £82,500 £87,500
90th Percentile £95,000 £99,125 £105,000
UK median annual salary £60,000 £60,500 £65,000
% change year-on-year -0.83% -6.92% -

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 22 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 10 (1.33%) Apache Spark
2 7 (0.93%) Oracle SOA Suite
3 6 (0.80%) Apache Airflow
3 6 (0.80%) IIS
3 6 (0.80%) nginx
4 5 (0.66%) Confluence
5 4 (0.53%) ArcGIS
5 4 (0.53%) Camunda
5 4 (0.53%) GeoServer
5 4 (0.53%) Oracle Spatial
6 3 (0.40%) OpenStack
7 2 (0.27%) Apache
8 1 (0.13%) Cloud Foundry
8 1 (0.13%) Ethereum
8 1 (0.13%) Hedera
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 (1.60%) Chatbot
2 1 (0.13%) Lightworks
Business Applications
1 2 (0.27%) SAP S/4HANA
2 1 (0.13%) Distributed Ledger
2 1 (0.13%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
Cloud Services
1 425 (56.52%) AWS
2 416 (55.32%) Azure
3 217 (28.86%) GCP
4 204 (27.13%) GitHub
5 135 (17.95%) GitHub Copilot
6 95 (12.63%) Amazon EKS
7 92 (12.23%) SaaS
8 72 (9.57%) Azure AI
9 51 (6.78%) Serverless
10 49 (6.52%) GitHub Actions
11 47 (6.25%) Azure DevOps
12 45 (5.98%) Azure AKS
13 42 (5.59%) AWS CloudFormation
14 40 (5.32%) OpenShift
15 26 (3.46%) Amazon EC2
16 22 (2.93%) Azure Service Bus
17 19 (2.53%) Amazon ECS
17 19 (2.53%) Azure Monitor
17 19 (2.53%) PaaS
18 18 (2.39%) IaaS
Communications & Networking
1 22 (2.93%) Firewall
1 22 (2.93%) VPN
2 21 (2.79%) DNS
2 21 (2.79%) Internet
3 17 (2.26%) Broadband
4 12 (1.60%) Network Security
4 12 (1.60%) TCP/IP
5 8 (1.06%) BGP
5 8 (1.06%) VLAN
6 6 (0.80%) DHCP
6 6 (0.80%) OSPF
6 6 (0.80%) VXLAN
7 4 (0.53%) HTTP
7 4 (0.53%) WAN
8 2 (0.27%) SAN
8 2 (0.27%) WireGuard
9 1 (0.13%) LAN
9 1 (0.13%) MQTT
9 1 (0.13%) Remote Desktop
9 1 (0.13%) SSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 159 (21.14%) MongoDB
2 138 (18.35%) Azure SQL Database
3 76 (10.11%) PostgreSQL
4 43 (5.72%) Elasticsearch
5 34 (4.52%) NoSQL
6 28 (3.72%) SQL Server
7 25 (3.32%) Relational Database
8 23 (3.06%) MySQL
9 21 (2.79%) Amazon RDS
10 11 (1.46%) Data Warehouse
11 6 (0.80%) Delta Lake
11 6 (0.80%) DynamoDB
12 5 (0.66%) Metadata
12 5 (0.66%) Power BI
12 5 (0.66%) Redis
12 5 (0.66%) Tableau
13 4 (0.53%) Apache Cassandra
13 4 (0.53%) Big Data
13 4 (0.53%) GIS
13 4 (0.53%) QGIS
Development Applications
1 90 (11.97%) Git
2 74 (9.84%) TeamCity
3 53 (7.05%) Jenkins
4 45 (5.98%) GitLab
5 28 (3.72%) JUnit
6 18 (2.39%) JIRA
6 18 (2.39%) Maven
7 17 (2.26%) Mockito
8 16 (2.13%) Selenium
9 12 (1.60%) Postman
10 10 (1.33%) Atlassian Bamboo
10 10 (1.33%) Bitbucket
11 9 (1.20%) Cucumber
11 9 (1.20%) SonarQube
12 8 (1.06%) Visual Studio Code
13 6 (0.80%) Gatling
13 6 (0.80%) Octopus Deploy
14 5 (0.66%) Subversion
15 4 (0.53%) Vagrant
16 3 (0.40%) Cypress.io
General
1 188 (25.00%) Finance
2 140 (18.62%) Social Skills
3 106 (14.10%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 99 (13.16%) Retail
5 98 (13.03%) Law
6 96 (12.77%) Banking
7 68 (9.04%) Public Sector
8 58 (7.71%) Financial Institution
9 57 (7.58%) Back Office
10 33 (4.39%) Advertising
11 28 (3.72%) Analytical Skills
12 20 (2.66%) Aerospace
13 19 (2.53%) Marketing
14 11 (1.46%) Games
15 9 (1.20%) Legal
16 6 (0.80%) Telecoms
17 5 (0.66%) Organisational Skills
18 4 (0.53%) Front Office
19 3 (0.40%) Manufacturing
19 3 (0.40%) Military
Job Titles
1 211 (28.06%) Developer
2 201 (26.73%) Senior
3 135 (17.95%) Software Engineer
4 129 (17.15%) .NET Developer
5 72 (9.57%) DevOps Engineer
6 70 (9.31%) Lead
7 51 (6.78%) Architect
7 51 (6.78%) Cloud Engineer
8 44 (5.85%) Platform Engineer
9 42 (5.59%) Azure Engineer
10 38 (5.05%) Senior Developer
11 33 (4.39%) Senior Software Engineer
12 29 (3.86%) Java Developer
13 28 (3.72%) Java Engineer
14 27 (3.59%) Cloud Platform Engineer
14 27 (3.59%) Lead Software Engineer
14 27 (3.59%) Team Leader
15 24 (3.19%) Full-Stack Developer
16 21 (2.79%) Principal Engineer
16 21 (2.79%) Senior DevOps
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 292 (38.83%) Terraform
2 195 (25.93%) .NET
3 135 (17.95%) .NET Core
3 135 (17.95%) ASP.NET
4 131 (17.42%) ASP.NET Core
5 94 (12.50%) Node.js
6 89 (11.84%) React
7 82 (10.90%) AngularJS
8 78 (10.37%) CSS
8 78 (10.37%) HTML
9 70 (9.31%) ML.NET
10 68 (9.04%) Spring
11 67 (8.91%) Vue
12 60 (7.98%) REST
13 52 (6.91%) Kafka
14 46 (6.12%) RESTful
15 42 (5.59%) Spring Boot
16 27 (3.59%) Blazor
17 22 (2.93%) OpenTelemetry
18 21 (2.79%) Django
Miscellaneous
1 207 (27.53%) Cloud Native
2 62 (8.24%) Distributed Systems
3 59 (7.85%) Product Ownership
4 28 (3.72%) Blog
5 26 (3.46%) Greenfield Project
6 19 (2.53%) Digital TV
7 18 (2.39%) AI Agents
8 16 (2.13%) Data Centre
9 14 (1.86%) Legacy Systems
10 13 (1.73%) Public Cloud
11 12 (1.60%) Self-Motivation
12 11 (1.46%) Hybrid Cloud
12 11 (1.46%) Private Cloud
13 10 (1.33%) Enterprise Software
13 10 (1.33%) Management Information System
13 10 (1.33%) Security Posture
14 9 (1.20%) IoT
14 9 (1.20%) PKI
15 8 (1.06%) Cyber Kill Chain
15 8 (1.06%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 134 (17.82%) Linux
2 45 (5.98%) Windows
3 21 (2.79%) Windows Server
4 16 (2.13%) Ubuntu
5 11 (1.46%) Apple iOS
6 8 (1.06%) Android
7 5 (0.66%) Debian
7 5 (0.66%) Mac OS
7 5 (0.66%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
8 4 (0.53%) CentOS
9 2 (0.27%) VMS
9 2 (0.27%) Windows Server 2016
10 1 (0.13%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 503 (66.89%) CI/CD
2 290 (38.56%) DevOps
3 271 (36.04%) Agile
4 257 (34.18%) Microservices
5 214 (28.46%) Software Engineering
6 213 (28.32%) AI
7 208 (27.66%) Infrastructure as Code
8 206 (27.39%) Mentoring
9 202 (26.86%) Full-Stack Development
10 182 (24.20%) Containerisation
11 144 (19.15%) Test Automation
12 136 (18.09%) Continuous Improvement
13 133 (17.69%) Observability
14 117 (15.56%) Machine Learning
14 117 (15.56%) Problem-Solving
15 106 (14.10%) Clean Code
16 101 (13.43%) Platform Engineering
16 101 (13.43%) TDD
17 91 (12.10%) Fintech
18 90 (11.97%) Deployment Automation
Programming Languages
1 225 (29.92%) Python
2 220 (29.26%) SQL
3 204 (27.13%) C#
4 196 (26.06%) Java
5 115 (15.29%) TypeScript
6 94 (12.50%) JavaScript
7 86 (11.44%) Bash
8 73 (9.71%) PowerShell
9 44 (5.85%) Go
10 22 (2.93%) Bicep
11 15 (1.99%) PL/SQL
12 13 (1.73%) Scala
13 8 (1.06%) Kotlin
13 8 (1.06%) PHP
13 8 (1.06%) Ruby
14 7 (0.93%) Groovy
15 4 (0.53%) C++
15 4 (0.53%) Rust
15 4 (0.53%) Shell Script
16 3 (0.40%) Swift
Qualifications
1 124 (16.49%) Security Cleared
2 100 (13.30%) SC Cleared
3 52 (6.91%) Degree
4 40 (5.32%) Azure Certification
5 25 (3.32%) Computer Science Degree
6 18 (2.39%) AWS Certification
7 14 (1.86%) DV Cleared
8 8 (1.06%) BPSS Clearance
8 8 (1.06%) GIAC
9 7 (0.93%) CISSP
10 6 (0.80%) CISM
11 5 (0.66%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
11 5 (0.66%) CEH
11 5 (0.66%) CREST Certified
11 5 (0.66%) OSCP
12 4 (0.53%) Microsoft Certification
12 4 (0.53%) OCP
12 4 (0.53%) Oracle Certification
13 3 (0.40%) AWS Certified Developer
13 3 (0.40%) GCFA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 30 (3.99%) QA
2 22 (2.93%) Accessibility
3 18 (2.39%) NIST
4 9 (1.20%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 9 (1.20%) WCAG
5 8 (1.06%) PCI DSS
6 6 (0.80%) Data Quality
7 5 (0.66%) Cyber Essentials
8 4 (0.53%) GDPR
8 4 (0.53%) NCSC
9 3 (0.40%) SOC 2
10 1 (0.13%) California Consumer Privacy Act
10 1 (0.13%) HIPAA
10 1 (0.13%) ISO 22301
10 1 (0.13%) ISO/IEC 42001
10 1 (0.13%) PSD2
10 1 (0.13%) SEPA
10 1 (0.13%) SLA
System Software
1 474 (63.03%) Docker
2 23 (3.06%) Active Directory
3 16 (2.13%) VMware Infrastructure
4 15 (1.99%) Virtual Machines
5 3 (0.40%) iptables
6 2 (0.27%) Slurm Workload Manager
7 1 (0.13%) Citrix Hypervisor
7 1 (0.13%) Firmware
7 1 (0.13%) HDFS
7 1 (0.13%) Hyper-V
7 1 (0.13%) KVM
7 1 (0.13%) QEMU
7 1 (0.13%) Virtual Servers
7 1 (0.13%) Xen
Systems Management
1 133 (17.69%) Grafana
2 82 (10.90%) Ansible
3 56 (7.45%) Prometheus
4 27 (3.59%) Argo
5 19 (2.53%) Puppet
6 18 (2.39%) Istio
7 15 (1.99%) Progress Chef
8 9 (1.20%) Packer
9 8 (1.06%) Kustomize
10 6 (0.80%) FortiGate
10 6 (0.80%) Microsoft Intune
11 5 (0.66%) Active Directory Federation Services
12 4 (0.53%) linkerd
13 3 (0.40%) Cilium
13 3 (0.40%) Kibana
14 2 (0.27%) CASB
14 2 (0.27%) Microsoft Data Protection Manager
14 2 (0.27%) Podman
14 2 (0.27%) Proxmox
14 2 (0.27%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 206 (27.39%) Microsoft
2 45 (5.98%) Google
3 31 (4.12%) Oracle
4 24 (3.19%) Splunk
5 23 (3.06%) OpenAI
6 22 (2.93%) Red Hat
7 21 (2.79%) VMware
8 19 (2.53%) Facebook
9 18 (2.39%) Okta
10 15 (1.99%) Ping Identity
11 12 (1.60%) Databricks
12 10 (1.33%) Palo Alto
13 9 (1.20%) Dynatrace
13 9 (1.20%) ServiceNow
14 7 (0.93%) New Relic
15 6 (0.80%) Citrix
15 6 (0.80%) Fortinet
15 6 (0.80%) Zscaler
16 5 (0.66%) Cisco
16 5 (0.66%) EMC