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 30 May 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
30 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 79 43 62
Rank change year-on-year -36 +19 -37
Permanent jobs citing Kubernetes 620 959 1,369
As % of all permanent jobs with remote/hybrid work options 3.23% 6.48% 4.12%
As % of the Systems Management category 39.29% 46.11% 37.05%
Number of salaries quoted 393 503 1,155
10th Percentile £47,930 £50,250 £50,000
25th Percentile £56,250 £60,000 £59,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £67,500 £80,000 £75,000
Median % change year-on-year -15.63% +6.67% -
75th Percentile £85,000 £110,000 £93,750
90th Percentile £104,750 £138,750 £117,000
UK median annual salary £72,500 £80,000 £75,000
% change year-on-year -9.38% +6.67% -

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 1,578 2,080 3,695
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 8.22% 14.05% 11.13%
Number of salaries quoted 1,088 1,200 2,892
10th Percentile £37,175 £36,475 £36,500
25th Percentile £47,398 £50,000 £47,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £64,125 £67,563 £64,000
Median % change year-on-year -5.09% +5.57% -8.57%
75th Percentile £79,557 £87,500 £83,750
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 30 May 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 9 (1.45%) OpenStack
2 6 (0.97%) Apache Airflow
2 6 (0.97%) Apache Spark
3 4 (0.65%) ArcGIS
3 4 (0.65%) GeoServer
3 4 (0.65%) Oracle Spatial
4 3 (0.48%) Camunda
4 3 (0.48%) Confluence
4 3 (0.48%) Microsoft Exchange
5 2 (0.32%) Apache
5 2 (0.32%) Oracle SOA Suite
6 1 (0.16%) Apache Pulsar
6 1 (0.16%) Cloud Foundry
6 1 (0.16%) IIS
6 1 (0.16%) JBoss
6 1 (0.16%) nginx
6 1 (0.16%) Red Hat Fuse
6 1 (0.16%) SAS
6 1 (0.16%) SharePoint
Applications
1 4 (0.65%) Weka
2 2 (0.32%) Chatbot
3 1 (0.16%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 2 (0.32%) SAP S/4HANA
2 1 (0.16%) Actimize
Cloud Services
1 371 (59.84%) AWS
2 277 (44.68%) Azure
3 167 (26.94%) GCP
4 115 (18.55%) GitHub
5 114 (18.39%) Amazon EKS
6 79 (12.74%) SaaS
7 67 (10.81%) Serverless
8 52 (8.39%) GitHub Copilot
9 50 (8.06%) GitHub Actions
10 44 (7.10%) AWS CloudFormation
11 40 (6.45%) Azure AKS
12 38 (6.13%) Amazon EC2
13 36 (5.81%) Amazon S3
13 36 (5.81%) Azure DevOps
14 30 (4.84%) Azure AI
15 28 (4.52%) Amazon CloudWatch
15 28 (4.52%) AWS Lambda
15 28 (4.52%) OpenShift
16 27 (4.35%) Amazon ECS
17 24 (3.87%) Pulumi
Communications & Networking
1 51 (8.23%) Broadband
2 30 (4.84%) Firewall
3 22 (3.55%) DNS
4 19 (3.06%) VPN
5 13 (2.10%) TCP/IP
6 10 (1.61%) DHCP
7 9 (1.45%) Network Security
8 7 (1.13%) Internet
8 7 (1.13%) VLAN
9 4 (0.65%) AMQP
9 4 (0.65%) BGP
9 4 (0.65%) MQTT
9 4 (0.65%) OSPF
9 4 (0.65%) VXLAN
9 4 (0.65%) WAN
10 3 (0.48%) HTTP
10 3 (0.48%) RTP
10 3 (0.48%) SCCP
10 3 (0.48%) Unified Communications
10 3 (0.48%) VoIP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 80 (12.90%) MongoDB
2 66 (10.65%) PostgreSQL
3 51 (8.23%) NoSQL
4 48 (7.74%) Azure SQL Database
5 40 (6.45%) Relational Database
6 32 (5.16%) SQL Server
7 30 (4.84%) Amazon RDS
8 23 (3.71%) MySQL
9 22 (3.55%) Elasticsearch
10 18 (2.90%) RDBMS
11 8 (1.29%) BigQuery
11 8 (1.29%) Redis
12 7 (1.13%) Amazon Aurora
13 6 (0.97%) DynamoDB
14 4 (0.65%) Flink
14 4 (0.65%) GIS
14 4 (0.65%) QGIS
15 3 (0.48%) Apache Cassandra
16 2 (0.32%) Neo4j
16 2 (0.32%) SQL Server Integration Services
Development Applications
1 79 (12.74%) TeamCity
2 75 (12.10%) Git
3 65 (10.48%) Jenkins
4 55 (8.87%) GitLab
5 18 (2.90%) Jaeger
6 14 (2.26%) JUnit
7 12 (1.94%) Maven
7 12 (1.94%) Visual Studio Code
8 11 (1.77%) JIRA
9 9 (1.45%) Mockito
10 8 (1.29%) Cucumber
11 7 (1.13%) JMeter
12 6 (0.97%) Bitbucket
12 6 (0.97%) Selenium
12 6 (0.97%) Visual Studio
13 5 (0.81%) Atlassian Bamboo
13 5 (0.81%) Locust
13 5 (0.81%) Postman
14 4 (0.65%) CircleCI
14 4 (0.65%) MLflow
General
1 147 (23.71%) Finance
2 120 (19.35%) Social Skills
3 100 (16.13%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 92 (14.84%) Retail
5 89 (14.35%) Banking
6 83 (13.39%) Law
7 43 (6.94%) Financial Institution
8 38 (6.13%) Back Office
9 36 (5.81%) Public Sector
10 17 (2.74%) Analytical Skills
11 14 (2.26%) Advertising
12 10 (1.61%) Organisational Skills
13 8 (1.29%) Aerospace
14 7 (1.13%) Front Office
14 7 (1.13%) Telecoms
15 6 (0.97%) Aviation
15 6 (0.97%) Games
15 6 (0.97%) Legal
15 6 (0.97%) Military
16 5 (0.81%) Marketing
Job Titles
1 187 (30.16%) Senior
2 129 (20.81%) Developer
3 117 (18.87%) Software Engineer
4 113 (18.23%) Lead
5 76 (12.26%) DevOps Engineer
6 59 (9.52%) Cloud Engineer
7 51 (8.23%) Platform Engineer
8 47 (7.58%) .NET Developer
9 41 (6.61%) Azure Engineer
10 40 (6.45%) Senior Software Engineer
11 37 (5.97%) Senior Developer
12 33 (5.32%) AWS Engineer
13 32 (5.16%) Java Developer
13 32 (5.16%) Java Engineer
14 31 (5.00%) Cloud Platform Engineer
14 31 (5.00%) Senior DevOps
15 30 (4.84%) Lead Software Engineer
15 30 (4.84%) Team Leader
16 25 (4.03%) Python Engineer
17 24 (3.87%) Java Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 99 (15.97%) .NET
2 71 (11.45%) React
3 66 (10.65%) Spring
4 64 (10.32%) .NET Core
5 58 (9.35%) Kafka
6 51 (8.23%) ASP.NET
7 50 (8.06%) Node.js
7 50 (8.06%) REST
8 49 (7.90%) ASP.NET Core
9 46 (7.42%) Spring Boot
10 38 (6.13%) AngularJS
11 37 (5.97%) RESTful
12 30 (4.84%) CSS
12 30 (4.84%) HTML
12 30 (4.84%) Vue
13 28 (4.52%) Elastic Stack
14 27 (4.35%) Django
15 26 (4.19%) ML.NET
16 24 (3.87%) OpenTelemetry
17 23 (3.71%) Akka
Miscellaneous
1 182 (29.35%) Cloud Native
2 49 (7.90%) Product Ownership
3 47 (7.58%) Distributed Systems
4 24 (3.87%) Blog
5 22 (3.55%) Over-the-Top Content
5 22 (3.55%) Video\Live Streaming
6 18 (2.90%) Hybrid Cloud
6 18 (2.90%) Private Cloud
7 16 (2.58%) Data Centre
8 13 (2.10%) Public Cloud
9 12 (1.94%) Onboarding
10 10 (1.61%) AI Agents
10 10 (1.61%) Greenfield Project
10 10 (1.61%) Security Posture
11 9 (1.45%) Digital TV
11 9 (1.45%) Management Information System
12 7 (1.13%) Self-Motivation
13 6 (0.97%) Algorithms
13 6 (0.97%) CMDB
13 6 (0.97%) CUDA
Operating Systems
1 137 (22.10%) Linux
2 33 (5.32%) Windows
3 18 (2.90%) Unix
3 18 (2.90%) Windows Server
4 16 (2.58%) Android
5 15 (2.42%) Ubuntu
6 13 (2.10%) Apple iOS
7 11 (1.77%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
8 7 (1.13%) CentOS
9 5 (0.81%) Debian
10 4 (0.65%) VMS
11 3 (0.48%) Windows Server 2016
12 2 (0.32%) Mac OS
Processes & Methodologies
1 400 (64.52%) CI/CD
2 319 (51.45%) DevOps
3 246 (39.68%) Agile
4 228 (36.77%) Infrastructure as Code
5 201 (32.42%) Containerisation
6 197 (31.77%) Microservices
7 173 (27.90%) Software Engineering
8 159 (25.65%) Mentoring
9 131 (21.13%) Test Automation
10 124 (20.00%) Continuous Improvement
11 119 (19.19%) AI
12 109 (17.58%) Platform Engineering
13 105 (16.94%) Observability
14 100 (16.13%) Clean Code
14 100 (16.13%) Full-Stack Development
15 90 (14.52%) TDD
16 85 (13.71%) Deployment Automation
17 82 (13.23%) Scrum
18 77 (12.42%) Problem-Solving
19 75 (12.10%) Analytics
Programming Languages
1 232 (37.42%) Python
2 190 (30.65%) Java
3 125 (20.16%) SQL
4 102 (16.45%) C#
5 90 (14.52%) JavaScript
6 83 (13.39%) Bash
7 80 (12.90%) Go
8 77 (12.42%) TypeScript
9 56 (9.03%) PowerShell
10 31 (5.00%) Scala
11 18 (2.90%) Bicep
12 10 (1.61%) C++
12 10 (1.61%) PHP
12 10 (1.61%) PL/SQL
13 7 (1.13%) C
13 7 (1.13%) Rust
14 4 (0.65%) Groovy
14 4 (0.65%) Ruby
15 3 (0.48%) Korn
15 3 (0.48%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 86 (13.87%) Security Cleared
2 72 (11.61%) SC Cleared
3 60 (9.68%) Degree
4 47 (7.58%) Azure Certification
5 37 (5.97%) AWS Certification
6 27 (4.35%) Computer Science Degree
7 13 (2.10%) DV Cleared
8 9 (1.45%) CREST Certified
8 9 (1.45%) OSCP
9 7 (1.13%) CISSP
9 7 (1.13%) Microsoft Certification
10 6 (0.97%) GIAC
10 6 (0.97%) ISACA
11 5 (0.81%) SANS
12 3 (0.48%) Master's Degree
13 2 (0.32%) ISTQB
13 2 (0.32%) ISTQB Advanced Certification
13 2 (0.32%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
13 2 (0.32%) ITIL Certification
13 2 (0.32%) LPIC
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 38 (6.13%) QA
2 19 (3.06%) Accessibility
3 15 (2.42%) NIST
4 14 (2.26%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 10 (1.61%) PCI DSS
6 7 (1.13%) WCAG
7 6 (0.97%) Data Quality
8 4 (0.65%) GDPR
8 4 (0.65%) SOC 2
9 3 (0.48%) ISO 9001
10 2 (0.32%) Software Quality Assurance
11 1 (0.16%) Cyber Essentials
11 1 (0.16%) ISO/IEC 42001
11 1 (0.16%) SLA
System Software
1 367 (59.19%) Docker
2 31 (5.00%) Active Directory
3 19 (3.06%) VMware Infrastructure
4 15 (2.42%) Virtual Machines
5 6 (0.97%) VMware NSX
6 5 (0.81%) Firmware
7 4 (0.65%) Slurm Workload Manager
8 3 (0.48%) Citrix Hypervisor
8 3 (0.48%) Kamailio
9 2 (0.32%) vSphere
10 1 (0.16%) Hyper-V
10 1 (0.16%) iptables
10 1 (0.16%) KVM
10 1 (0.16%) QEMU
10 1 (0.16%) Virtual Desktop
10 1 (0.16%) Virtual Servers
10 1 (0.16%) Xen
Systems Management
1 312 (50.32%) Terraform
2 124 (20.00%) Grafana
3 117 (18.87%) Ansible
4 79 (12.74%) Prometheus
5 47 (7.58%) Argo
6 22 (3.55%) Kustomize
7 18 (2.90%) Puppet
8 16 (2.58%) Istio
9 13 (2.10%) Progress Chef
10 8 (1.29%) Packer
11 7 (1.13%) Microsoft Intune
11 7 (1.13%) Proxmox
11 7 (1.13%) ZABBIX
12 6 (0.97%) Active Directory Federation Services
13 5 (0.81%) FortiGate
14 4 (0.65%) Kibana
15 2 (0.32%) logstash
15 2 (0.32%) MIIS
15 2 (0.32%) Nagios
15 2 (0.32%) Podman
Vendors
1 112 (18.06%) Microsoft
2 39 (6.29%) Google
3 34 (5.48%) VMware
4 19 (3.06%) Oracle
4 19 (3.06%) Red Hat
5 11 (1.77%) Splunk
6 10 (1.61%) Palo Alto
6 10 (1.61%) ServiceNow
7 9 (1.45%) Fortinet
7 9 (1.45%) Okta
8 8 (1.29%) Cisco
8 8 (1.29%) Confluent
9 7 (1.13%) EMC
9 7 (1.13%) OpenAI
10 6 (0.97%) Citrix
10 6 (0.97%) Databricks
10 6 (0.97%) F5
11 5 (0.81%) Facebook
11 5 (0.81%) ForgeRock
11 5 (0.81%) HubSpot