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

6 months to
14 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 76 48 66
Rank change year-on-year -28 +18 -39
Permanent jobs citing Kubernetes 633 914 1,364
As % of all permanent jobs with remote/hybrid work options 3.20% 5.97% 3.96%
As % of the Systems Management category 39.39% 44.87% 36.70%
Number of salaries quoted 406 480 1,126
10th Percentile £47,500 £50,000 £50,000
25th Percentile £55,000 £60,000 £59,438
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,288 £78,810 £75,000
Median % change year-on-year -17.16% +5.08% -
75th Percentile £82,500 £108,188 £93,750
90th Percentile £97,500 £138,750 £116,875
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 1,607 2,037 3,717
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 8.12% 13.32% 10.78%
Number of salaries quoted 1,125 1,175 2,833
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 14 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 (1.11%) Apache Airflow
1 7 (1.11%) OpenStack
2 6 (0.95%) Apache Spark
3 2 (0.32%) Apache
3 2 (0.32%) ArcGIS
3 2 (0.32%) Camunda
3 2 (0.32%) Confluence
3 2 (0.32%) GeoServer
3 2 (0.32%) IIS
3 2 (0.32%) Microsoft Exchange
3 2 (0.32%) Oracle SOA Suite
3 2 (0.32%) 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 (0.32%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 367 (57.98%) AWS
2 295 (46.60%) Azure
3 158 (24.96%) GCP
4 133 (21.01%) GitHub
5 104 (16.43%) Amazon EKS
6 76 (12.01%) GitHub Copilot
7 73 (11.53%) SaaS
8 63 (9.95%) Serverless
9 45 (7.11%) GitHub Actions
10 44 (6.95%) AWS CloudFormation
11 42 (6.64%) Azure AI
12 41 (6.48%) Azure AKS
13 36 (5.69%) Amazon EC2
13 36 (5.69%) Azure DevOps
14 35 (5.53%) Amazon S3
15 30 (4.74%) OpenShift
16 26 (4.11%) AWS Lambda
17 25 (3.95%) Amazon CloudWatch
17 25 (3.95%) Amazon ECS
18 24 (3.79%) Pulumi
Communications & Networking
1 53 (8.37%) Broadband
2 29 (4.58%) Firewall
3 22 (3.48%) DNS
4 19 (3.00%) VPN
5 13 (2.05%) TCP/IP
6 10 (1.58%) Internet
7 9 (1.42%) DHCP
7 9 (1.42%) Network Security
8 7 (1.11%) VLAN
9 6 (0.95%) BGP
10 5 (0.79%) OSPF
10 5 (0.79%) VXLAN
11 4 (0.63%) MQTT
11 4 (0.63%) WAN
12 3 (0.47%) HTTP
12 3 (0.47%) RTP
12 3 (0.47%) SAN
12 3 (0.47%) SCCP
12 3 (0.47%) VoIP
12 3 (0.47%) Wireshark
Database & Business Intelligence
1 99 (15.64%) MongoDB
2 72 (11.37%) Azure SQL Database
3 65 (10.27%) PostgreSQL
4 49 (7.74%) NoSQL
5 42 (6.64%) Relational Database
6 29 (4.58%) Elasticsearch
7 26 (4.11%) Amazon RDS
8 25 (3.95%) SQL Server
9 23 (3.63%) MySQL
10 18 (2.84%) RDBMS
11 7 (1.11%) BigQuery
11 7 (1.11%) Redis
12 6 (0.95%) DynamoDB
13 4 (0.63%) Amazon Aurora
14 3 (0.47%) Metadata
15 2 (0.32%) Amazon Athena
15 2 (0.32%) Delta Lake
15 2 (0.32%) InfluxDB
15 2 (0.32%) Pinecone
15 2 (0.32%) QGIS
Development Applications
1 77 (12.16%) TeamCity
2 76 (12.01%) Git
3 64 (10.11%) Jenkins
4 57 (9.00%) GitLab
5 18 (2.84%) Jaeger
6 15 (2.37%) JUnit
7 12 (1.90%) Maven
7 12 (1.90%) Visual Studio Code
8 11 (1.74%) JIRA
9 9 (1.42%) Mockito
10 8 (1.26%) Cucumber
11 7 (1.11%) JMeter
12 6 (0.95%) Bitbucket
12 6 (0.95%) Selenium
12 6 (0.95%) Visual Studio
13 5 (0.79%) Atlassian Bamboo
13 5 (0.79%) Locust
13 5 (0.79%) Postman
14 4 (0.63%) SonarQube
14 4 (0.63%) Subversion
General
1 138 (21.80%) Finance
2 122 (19.27%) Social Skills
3 98 (15.48%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 87 (13.74%) Retail
5 83 (13.11%) Banking
6 78 (12.32%) Law
7 43 (6.79%) Public Sector
8 41 (6.48%) Financial Institution
9 37 (5.85%) Back Office
10 20 (3.16%) Advertising
11 18 (2.84%) Analytical Skills
12 10 (1.58%) Aerospace
12 10 (1.58%) Marketing
13 9 (1.42%) Organisational Skills
14 8 (1.26%) Games
15 6 (0.95%) Aviation
15 6 (0.95%) Legal
16 5 (0.79%) Military
17 4 (0.63%) Manufacturing
17 4 (0.63%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 188 (29.70%) Senior
2 153 (24.17%) Developer
3 112 (17.69%) Software Engineer
4 105 (16.59%) Lead
5 72 (11.37%) DevOps Engineer
6 70 (11.06%) .NET Developer
7 59 (9.32%) Cloud Engineer
8 48 (7.58%) Platform Engineer
9 40 (6.32%) Azure Engineer
9 40 (6.32%) Senior Software Engineer
10 38 (6.00%) Senior Developer
11 32 (5.06%) AWS Engineer
12 31 (4.90%) Java Developer
12 31 (4.90%) Java Engineer
12 31 (4.90%) Senior DevOps
13 29 (4.58%) Cloud Platform Engineer
13 29 (4.58%) Team Leader
14 28 (4.42%) Lead Software Engineer
15 25 (3.95%) Python Engineer
16 23 (3.63%) Java Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 121 (19.12%) .NET
2 84 (13.27%) .NET Core
3 75 (11.85%) ASP.NET
4 72 (11.37%) ASP.NET Core
5 64 (10.11%) Spring
6 62 (9.79%) React
7 55 (8.69%) Node.js
8 53 (8.37%) Kafka
9 50 (7.90%) AngularJS
10 49 (7.74%) REST
11 45 (7.11%) Spring Boot
12 44 (6.95%) CSS
12 44 (6.95%) HTML
13 41 (6.48%) Vue
14 39 (6.16%) ML.NET
15 36 (5.69%) RESTful
16 26 (4.11%) Django
16 26 (4.11%) OpenTelemetry
17 25 (3.95%) Elastic Stack
18 23 (3.63%) Akka
Miscellaneous
1 189 (29.86%) Cloud Native
2 46 (7.27%) Distributed Systems
3 45 (7.11%) Product Ownership
4 23 (3.63%) Blog
5 22 (3.48%) Over-the-Top Content
5 22 (3.48%) Video\Live Streaming
6 19 (3.00%) Hybrid Cloud
7 18 (2.84%) Private Cloud
8 17 (2.69%) Data Centre
9 14 (2.21%) Greenfield Project
10 13 (2.05%) Digital TV
10 13 (2.05%) Public Cloud
11 10 (1.58%) Security Posture
12 9 (1.42%) Legacy Systems
12 9 (1.42%) Management Information System
12 9 (1.42%) Onboarding
13 7 (1.11%) Self-Motivation
14 6 (0.95%) AI Agents
14 6 (0.95%) CMDB
14 6 (0.95%) CUDA
Operating Systems
1 137 (21.64%) Linux
2 33 (5.21%) Windows
3 18 (2.84%) Unix
3 18 (2.84%) Windows Server
4 14 (2.21%) Ubuntu
5 11 (1.74%) Android
5 11 (1.74%) Apple iOS
5 11 (1.74%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 7 (1.11%) CentOS
7 5 (0.79%) Debian
8 3 (0.47%) VMS
8 3 (0.47%) Windows Server 2016
9 2 (0.32%) Mac OS
Processes & Methodologies
1 407 (64.30%) CI/CD
2 303 (47.87%) DevOps
3 256 (40.44%) Agile
4 231 (36.49%) Infrastructure as Code
5 200 (31.60%) Microservices
6 198 (31.28%) Containerisation
7 171 (27.01%) Software Engineering
8 165 (26.07%) Mentoring
9 132 (20.85%) AI
10 128 (20.22%) Continuous Improvement
11 127 (20.06%) Test Automation
12 120 (18.96%) Full-Stack Development
13 108 (17.06%) Observability
14 106 (16.75%) Platform Engineering
15 98 (15.48%) Clean Code
16 97 (15.32%) TDD
17 86 (13.59%) Scrum
18 81 (12.80%) Deployment Automation
19 79 (12.48%) Problem-Solving
20 77 (12.16%) Analytics
Programming Languages
1 226 (35.70%) Python
2 188 (29.70%) Java
3 144 (22.75%) SQL
4 129 (20.38%) C#
5 88 (13.90%) TypeScript
6 84 (13.27%) JavaScript
7 82 (12.95%) Bash
8 68 (10.74%) Go
9 54 (8.53%) PowerShell
10 30 (4.74%) Scala
11 19 (3.00%) Bicep
12 10 (1.58%) PHP
12 10 (1.58%) PL/SQL
13 7 (1.11%) C
13 7 (1.11%) C++
13 7 (1.11%) Rust
14 5 (0.79%) Groovy
14 5 (0.79%) Ruby
15 3 (0.47%) Perl
15 3 (0.47%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 84 (13.27%) Security Cleared
2 70 (11.06%) SC Cleared
3 50 (7.90%) Degree
4 44 (6.95%) Azure Certification
5 38 (6.00%) AWS Certification
6 22 (3.48%) Computer Science Degree
7 12 (1.90%) DV Cleared
8 9 (1.42%) CREST Certified
8 9 (1.42%) OSCP
9 7 (1.11%) CISSP
9 7 (1.11%) Microsoft Certification
10 6 (0.95%) GIAC
10 6 (0.95%) ISACA
11 5 (0.79%) SANS
12 2 (0.32%) ISTQB
12 2 (0.32%) ISTQB Advanced Certification
12 2 (0.32%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
12 2 (0.32%) Linux+ Certification
12 2 (0.32%) LPIC
12 2 (0.32%) Master's Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 37 (5.85%) QA
2 22 (3.48%) Accessibility
3 15 (2.37%) NIST
4 14 (2.21%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 10 (1.58%) PCI DSS
6 7 (1.11%) 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 (0.32%) Software Quality Assurance
10 1 (0.16%) Cyber Essentials
10 1 (0.16%) ISO/IEC 42001
10 1 (0.16%) SLA
System Software
1 387 (61.14%) Docker
2 29 (4.58%) Active Directory
3 19 (3.00%) VMware Infrastructure
4 14 (2.21%) Virtual Machines
5 5 (0.79%) 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
1 300 (47.39%) Terraform
2 120 (18.96%) Grafana
3 112 (17.69%) Ansible
4 79 (12.48%) Prometheus
5 45 (7.11%) Argo
6 24 (3.79%) Kustomize
7 19 (3.00%) Istio
7 19 (3.00%) Puppet
8 14 (2.21%) Progress Chef
9 8 (1.26%) Packer
10 7 (1.11%) Active Directory Federation Services
10 7 (1.11%) Proxmox
10 7 (1.11%) ZABBIX
11 6 (0.95%) Microsoft Intune
12 5 (0.79%) FortiGate
12 5 (0.79%) Kibana
13 3 (0.47%) Nagios
14 2 (0.32%) linkerd
14 2 (0.32%) MIIS
14 2 (0.32%) Podman
Vendors
1 140 (22.12%) Microsoft
2 42 (6.64%) Google
3 34 (5.37%) VMware
4 18 (2.84%) Oracle
4 18 (2.84%) Red Hat
5 12 (1.90%) Splunk
6 11 (1.74%) Palo Alto
7 10 (1.58%) Facebook
7 10 (1.58%) ServiceNow
8 9 (1.42%) Fortinet
8 9 (1.42%) Okta
9 8 (1.26%) Cisco
9 8 (1.26%) Confluent
10 7 (1.11%) EMC
10 7 (1.11%) OpenAI
11 6 (0.95%) Citrix
11 6 (0.95%) Databricks
11 6 (0.95%) F5
12 5 (0.79%) ForgeRock
12 5 (0.79%) HubSpot