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 29 March 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
29 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 72 31 58
Rank change year-on-year -41 +27 -31
Permanent jobs citing Kubernetes 576 1,052 1,451
As % of all permanent jobs with remote/hybrid work options 3.42% 8.14% 4.68%
As % of the Systems Management category 37.82% 54.85% 39.41%
Number of salaries quoted 376 670 1,215
10th Percentile £52,400 £51,698 £48,750
25th Percentile £58,750 £62,500 £57,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £70,079 £80,000 £72,900
Median % change year-on-year -12.40% +9.74% -2.80%
75th Percentile £87,500 £110,000 £90,000
90th Percentile £108,750 £138,750 £111,250
UK median annual salary £75,000 £82,500 £75,000
% change year-on-year -9.09% +10.00% -

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 1,523 1,918 3,682
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 9.04% 14.84% 11.87%
Number of salaries quoted 1,050 1,390 3,053
10th Percentile £36,475 £42,500 £37,500
25th Percentile £46,584 £52,500 £47,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £70,000 £62,783
Median % change year-on-year -7.14% +11.50% -8.78%
75th Percentile £82,500 £91,250 £83,750
90th Percentile £95,000 £115,000 £100,000
UK median annual salary £62,500 £70,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year -10.71% +16.67% -11.11%

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 29 March 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 14 (2.43%) Apache Spark
2 9 (1.56%) OpenStack
3 8 (1.39%) Apache Airflow
4 5 (0.87%) Anypoint
4 5 (0.87%) Apache Pulsar
5 3 (0.52%) Apache
5 3 (0.52%) ArcGIS
5 3 (0.52%) GeoServer
5 3 (0.52%) Microsoft Exchange
5 3 (0.52%) Oracle Spatial
6 2 (0.35%) Camunda
6 2 (0.35%) Confluence
6 2 (0.35%) nginx
7 1 (0.17%) IIS
7 1 (0.17%) SAS
7 1 (0.17%) SharePoint
Applications
1 4 (0.69%) Weka
2 2 (0.35%) Chatbot
3 1 (0.17%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 5 (0.87%) Shopify
2 1 (0.17%) Actimize
Cloud Services
1 366 (63.54%) AWS
2 253 (43.92%) Azure
3 181 (31.42%) GCP
4 115 (19.97%) Amazon EKS
5 110 (19.10%) GitHub
6 82 (14.24%) SaaS
7 78 (13.54%) GitHub Actions
8 57 (9.90%) Serverless
9 51 (8.85%) Azure DevOps
10 41 (7.12%) Amazon S3
10 41 (7.12%) AWS CloudFormation
11 40 (6.94%) Azure AKS
12 39 (6.77%) Amazon CloudWatch
13 35 (6.08%) OpenShift
14 34 (5.90%) AWS Lambda
15 33 (5.73%) Amazon EC2
16 24 (4.17%) Datadog
17 22 (3.82%) Amazon ECS
18 19 (3.30%) Pulumi
19 16 (2.78%) PaaS
Communications & Networking
1 44 (7.64%) Broadband
2 32 (5.56%) Firewall
3 15 (2.60%) VPN
4 11 (1.91%) DNS
5 9 (1.56%) Network Security
6 7 (1.22%) DHCP
7 5 (0.87%) TCP/IP
8 4 (0.69%) AMQP
8 4 (0.69%) Intrusion Detection
8 4 (0.69%) MQTT
8 4 (0.69%) SD-WAN
9 3 (0.52%) HTTP
9 3 (0.52%) Internet
9 3 (0.52%) Kerberos
9 3 (0.52%) RTP
9 3 (0.52%) SCCP
9 3 (0.52%) Unified Communications
9 3 (0.52%) VoIP
9 3 (0.52%) WAN
9 3 (0.52%) Wireshark
Database & Business Intelligence
1 67 (11.63%) PostgreSQL
2 61 (10.59%) NoSQL
3 40 (6.94%) Relational Database
4 38 (6.60%) MongoDB
5 35 (6.08%) SQL Server
6 28 (4.86%) Amazon RDS
7 19 (3.30%) RDBMS
8 17 (2.95%) MySQL
9 12 (2.08%) Azure SQL Database
10 10 (1.74%) Elasticsearch
10 10 (1.74%) Flink
11 9 (1.56%) BigQuery
12 8 (1.39%) Amazon Aurora
12 8 (1.39%) Redis
13 5 (0.87%) Power BI
14 4 (0.69%) Big Data
14 4 (0.69%) Data Warehouse
14 4 (0.69%) Hadoop
15 3 (0.52%) Apache Hive
15 3 (0.52%) GIS
Development Applications
1 80 (13.89%) TeamCity
2 73 (12.67%) Jenkins
3 62 (10.76%) Git
4 56 (9.72%) GitLab
5 19 (3.30%) Jaeger
6 14 (2.43%) Cucumber
7 12 (2.08%) Selenium
8 11 (1.91%) Visual Studio Code
9 10 (1.74%) JMeter
9 10 (1.74%) JUnit
10 8 (1.39%) JIRA
10 8 (1.39%) SonarQube
11 7 (1.22%) Visual Studio
12 6 (1.04%) Bitbucket
12 6 (1.04%) CircleCI
12 6 (1.04%) Locust
13 5 (0.87%) Robot Framework
14 4 (0.69%) MLflow
15 3 (0.52%) Eclipse
15 3 (0.52%) REST Assured
General
1 137 (23.78%) Finance
2 126 (21.88%) Social Skills
3 95 (16.49%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 91 (15.80%) Banking
5 89 (15.45%) Retail
6 85 (14.76%) Law
7 54 (9.38%) Financial Institution
8 44 (7.64%) Back Office
9 30 (5.21%) Public Sector
10 25 (4.34%) Telecoms
11 20 (3.47%) Analytical Skills
12 12 (2.08%) Front Office
13 10 (1.74%) Legal
14 7 (1.22%) Military
14 7 (1.22%) Organisational Skills
15 5 (0.87%) Advertising
15 5 (0.87%) Esports
16 4 (0.69%) Aviation
16 4 (0.69%) Manufacturing
16 4 (0.69%) Tech for Good
Job Titles
1 190 (32.99%) Senior
2 124 (21.53%) Software Engineer
3 112 (19.44%) Lead
4 81 (14.06%) DevOps Engineer
5 80 (13.89%) Developer
6 60 (10.42%) Cloud Engineer
7 50 (8.68%) Platform Engineer
8 48 (8.33%) Senior Software Engineer
9 39 (6.77%) Azure Engineer
10 36 (6.25%) Senior Developer
11 31 (5.38%) Java Engineer
12 30 (5.21%) Python Engineer
13 29 (5.03%) AWS Engineer
14 26 (4.51%) Infrastructure Engineer
14 26 (4.51%) Lead DevOps
15 25 (4.34%) Cloud Platform Engineer
15 25 (4.34%) Lead Software Engineer
16 24 (4.17%) Java Software Engineer
17 23 (3.99%) Senior DevOps
17 23 (3.99%) Software Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 70 (12.15%) Spring
2 68 (11.81%) .NET
3 61 (10.59%) Kafka
4 59 (10.24%) React
4 59 (10.24%) Spring Boot
5 48 (8.33%) Elastic Stack
6 47 (8.16%) RESTful
7 42 (7.29%) REST
8 34 (5.90%) Node.js
9 31 (5.38%) Django
10 30 (5.21%) .NET Core
11 25 (4.34%) Akka
12 23 (3.99%) Flask
13 21 (3.65%) gRPC
13 21 (3.65%) OAuth
14 20 (3.47%) FastAPI
15 19 (3.30%) OpenTelemetry
16 18 (3.13%) RabbitMQ
17 17 (2.95%) AngularJS
18 14 (2.43%) ASP.NET
Miscellaneous
1 181 (31.42%) Cloud Native
2 45 (7.81%) Distributed Systems
3 43 (7.47%) Product Ownership
4 23 (3.99%) Blog
4 23 (3.99%) Over-the-Top Content
4 23 (3.99%) Video\Live Streaming
5 17 (2.95%) Private Cloud
6 16 (2.78%) Legacy Systems
7 15 (2.60%) Onboarding
8 13 (2.26%) AI Agents
8 13 (2.26%) Data Centre
8 13 (2.26%) Public Cloud
9 12 (2.08%) Security Posture
10 11 (1.91%) Hybrid Cloud
10 11 (1.91%) Virtual Team
11 7 (1.22%) Distributed Architecture
11 7 (1.22%) Fixed Income
12 6 (1.04%) Low-Code
12 6 (1.04%) Management Information System
13 5 (0.87%) CUDA
Operating Systems
1 131 (22.74%) Linux
2 35 (6.08%) Unix
2 35 (6.08%) Windows
3 22 (3.82%) Android
4 13 (2.26%) Apple iOS
4 13 (2.26%) Windows Server
5 11 (1.91%) Ubuntu
6 10 (1.74%) CentOS
6 10 (1.74%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
7 8 (1.39%) VMS
8 3 (0.52%) Debian
8 3 (0.52%) Windows Server 2016
Processes & Methodologies
1 361 (62.67%) CI/CD
2 327 (56.77%) DevOps
3 228 (39.58%) Containerisation
4 208 (36.11%) Agile
5 198 (34.38%) Infrastructure as Code
6 170 (29.51%) Microservices
7 164 (28.47%) Software Engineering
8 121 (21.01%) Test Automation
9 116 (20.14%) Mentoring
10 115 (19.97%) Continuous Improvement
11 91 (15.80%) Platform Engineering
12 86 (14.93%) Clean Code
13 85 (14.76%) Problem-Solving
14 84 (14.58%) AI
15 83 (14.41%) Deployment Automation
15 83 (14.41%) Observability
16 68 (11.81%) High Availability
16 68 (11.81%) Site Reliability Engineering
17 65 (11.28%) Infrastructure Engineering
17 65 (11.28%) TDD
Programming Languages
1 243 (42.19%) Python
2 190 (32.99%) Java
3 93 (16.15%) Go
4 91 (15.80%) JavaScript
5 85 (14.76%) SQL
6 74 (12.85%) Bash
7 59 (10.24%) C#
8 44 (7.64%) PowerShell
9 43 (7.47%) TypeScript
10 35 (6.08%) Bicep
11 30 (5.21%) Scala
12 14 (2.43%) C++
13 8 (1.39%) Delphi
14 6 (1.04%) PHP
15 5 (0.87%) Rust
15 5 (0.87%) Shell Script
16 4 (0.69%) C
17 3 (0.52%) Perl
18 2 (0.35%) Korn
18 2 (0.35%) Ruby
Qualifications
1 76 (13.19%) Degree
2 72 (12.50%) Security Cleared
3 53 (9.20%) SC Cleared
4 47 (8.16%) Computer Science Degree
5 36 (6.25%) Azure Certification
6 35 (6.08%) AWS Certification
7 18 (3.13%) DV Cleared
8 7 (1.22%) CREST Certified
8 7 (1.22%) Microsoft Certification
8 7 (1.22%) OSCP
9 5 (0.87%) CISSP
9 5 (0.87%) GIAC
9 5 (0.87%) ISACA
9 5 (0.87%) SANS
10 3 (0.52%) LPIC
11 2 (0.35%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
11 2 (0.35%) ISTQB
11 2 (0.35%) ISTQB Advanced Certification
11 2 (0.35%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
11 2 (0.35%) Master's Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 35 (6.08%) QA
2 22 (3.82%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 17 (2.95%) PCI DSS
4 15 (2.60%) NIST
5 12 (2.08%) Accessibility
6 11 (1.91%) GDPR
7 10 (1.74%) SOC 2
8 8 (1.39%) Data Quality
9 5 (0.87%) WCAG
10 4 (0.69%) GRC
11 3 (0.52%) ISO 9001
11 3 (0.52%) SLA
12 2 (0.35%) ECSS
12 2 (0.35%) Software Quality Assurance
13 1 (0.17%) HIPAA
13 1 (0.17%) MiFID
System Software
1 348 (60.42%) Docker
2 23 (3.99%) Active Directory
3 13 (2.26%) Virtual Machines
4 12 (2.08%) VMware Infrastructure
5 9 (1.56%) VMware NSX
6 5 (0.87%) Firmware
6 5 (0.87%) vSphere
7 4 (0.69%) Hyper-V
8 3 (0.52%) Kamailio
8 3 (0.52%) Slurm Workload Manager
9 2 (0.35%) Citrix Hypervisor
10 1 (0.17%) vCloud
10 1 (0.17%) Virtual Desktop
10 1 (0.17%) VMware ESXi
Systems Management
1 295 (51.22%) Terraform
2 138 (23.96%) Grafana
3 117 (20.31%) Ansible
4 83 (14.41%) Prometheus
5 44 (7.64%) Argo
6 19 (3.30%) Kustomize
7 14 (2.43%) Puppet
8 8 (1.39%) Istio
9 7 (1.22%) Progress Chef
10 6 (1.04%) Packer
10 6 (1.04%) Proxmox
10 6 (1.04%) ZABBIX
11 4 (0.69%) Cilium
11 4 (0.69%) Kibana
11 4 (0.69%) logstash
12 3 (0.52%) Active Directory Federation Services
12 3 (0.52%) Microsoft Intune
13 2 (0.35%) FortiGate
13 2 (0.35%) MIIS
13 2 (0.35%) Nagios
Vendors
1 64 (11.11%) Microsoft
2 35 (6.08%) Google
3 30 (5.21%) VMware
4 22 (3.82%) Oracle
5 16 (2.78%) Splunk
6 15 (2.60%) Red Hat
7 11 (1.91%) Dell
8 10 (1.74%) Cisco
9 8 (1.39%) Confluent
9 8 (1.39%) Databricks
9 8 (1.39%) Palo Alto
10 7 (1.22%) EMC
10 7 (1.22%) F5
10 7 (1.22%) SAP
11 6 (1.04%) Fortinet
11 6 (1.04%) Okta
12 5 (0.87%) Infor
12 5 (0.87%) Nokia
12 5 (0.87%) Software AG
12 5 (0.87%) TIBCO