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

6 months to
14 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 78 67 72
Rank change year-on-year -11 +5 -44
Permanent jobs citing Kubernetes 731 811 941
As % of all permanent jobs with remote/hybrid work options 3.22% 4.88% 3.79%
As % of the Systems Management category 38.58% 41.87% 34.44%
Number of salaries quoted 526 390 720
10th Percentile £46,250 £48,750 £52,500
25th Percentile £52,500 £60,000 £60,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £77,500 £75,000
Median % change year-on-year -16.13% +3.33% -
75th Percentile £83,438 £93,771 £95,000
90th Percentile £98,750 £115,000 £117,500
UK median annual salary £70,000 £78,810 £77,500
% change year-on-year -11.18% +1.69% +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 1,895 1,937 2,732
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 8.34% 11.66% 11.00%
Number of salaries quoted 1,402 1,106 1,924
10th Percentile £37,250 £35,000 £37,000
25th Percentile £48,750 £47,500 £48,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £62,500 £65,250 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year -4.21% +0.38% -7.14%
75th Percentile £78,750 £82,751 £85,000
90th Percentile £97,500 £98,474 £102,675
UK median annual salary £65,000 £65,000 £65,000
% change year-on-year - - -2.99%

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 August 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 11 (1.50%) Apache Spark
2 7 (0.96%) Apache Airflow
2 7 (0.96%) Oracle SOA Suite
3 6 (0.82%) IIS
4 5 (0.68%) nginx
4 5 (0.68%) OpenStack
5 4 (0.55%) Camunda
5 4 (0.55%) Confluence
6 3 (0.41%) ArcGIS
6 3 (0.41%) GeoServer
6 3 (0.41%) Oracle Spatial
7 2 (0.27%) Apache
7 2 (0.27%) Microsoft Exchange
8 1 (0.14%) Cloud Foundry
8 1 (0.14%) JBoss
8 1 (0.14%) Oracle Coherence
8 1 (0.14%) Red Hat Fuse
Applications
1 3 (0.41%) Chatbot
2 1 (0.14%) Lightworks
Business Applications
1 2 (0.27%) SAP S/4HANA
2 1 (0.14%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
Cloud Services
1 426 (58.28%) Azure
2 403 (55.13%) AWS
3 199 (27.22%) GitHub
4 189 (25.85%) GCP
5 141 (19.29%) GitHub Copilot
6 79 (10.81%) Amazon EKS
7 76 (10.40%) Azure AI
8 75 (10.26%) SaaS
9 56 (7.66%) Serverless
10 47 (6.43%) AWS CloudFormation
11 45 (6.16%) Azure DevOps
12 44 (6.02%) Azure AKS
12 44 (6.02%) GitHub Actions
13 40 (5.47%) OpenShift
14 29 (3.97%) Amazon EC2
15 26 (3.56%) Amazon S3
16 21 (2.87%) Azure Service Bus
16 21 (2.87%) Datadog
16 21 (2.87%) PaaS
17 20 (2.74%) AWS Lambda
Communications & Networking
1 24 (3.28%) DNS
1 24 (3.28%) Firewall
2 20 (2.74%) Internet
2 20 (2.74%) VPN
3 18 (2.46%) Broadband
4 14 (1.92%) TCP/IP
5 9 (1.23%) DHCP
6 8 (1.09%) BGP
6 8 (1.09%) VLAN
7 7 (0.96%) Network Security
8 6 (0.82%) OSPF
8 6 (0.82%) VXLAN
9 5 (0.68%) WAN
10 4 (0.55%) HTTP
11 3 (0.41%) MQTT
11 3 (0.41%) SAN
12 2 (0.27%) LAN
12 2 (0.27%) Remote Desktop
12 2 (0.27%) SSL
12 2 (0.27%) WireGuard
Database & Business Intelligence
1 158 (21.61%) MongoDB
2 141 (19.29%) Azure SQL Database
3 71 (9.71%) PostgreSQL
4 50 (6.84%) Elasticsearch
5 31 (4.24%) SQL Server
6 30 (4.10%) NoSQL
7 27 (3.69%) MySQL
8 26 (3.56%) Relational Database
9 20 (2.74%) Amazon RDS
10 10 (1.37%) Data Warehouse
11 6 (0.82%) Delta Lake
11 6 (0.82%) DynamoDB
11 6 (0.82%) Redis
12 5 (0.68%) Metadata
13 4 (0.55%) Power BI
13 4 (0.55%) Tableau
14 3 (0.41%) Apache Cassandra
14 3 (0.41%) Big Data
14 3 (0.41%) GIS
14 3 (0.41%) Hadoop
Development Applications
1 100 (13.68%) Git
2 53 (7.25%) Jenkins
3 51 (6.98%) GitLab
4 48 (6.57%) TeamCity
5 27 (3.69%) JUnit
6 17 (2.33%) Maven
6 17 (2.33%) Selenium
7 15 (2.05%) Mockito
8 13 (1.78%) JIRA
9 12 (1.64%) Cucumber
9 12 (1.64%) Postman
9 12 (1.64%) Visual Studio Code
10 10 (1.37%) Atlassian Bamboo
11 9 (1.23%) Bitbucket
12 8 (1.09%) SonarQube
13 6 (0.82%) Gatling
13 6 (0.82%) Octopus Deploy
14 5 (0.68%) JMeter
14 5 (0.68%) Locust
14 5 (0.68%) Subversion
General
1 167 (22.85%) Finance
2 131 (17.92%) Social Skills
3 70 (9.58%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 68 (9.30%) Banking
5 64 (8.76%) Law
5 64 (8.76%) Retail
6 59 (8.07%) Public Sector
7 38 (5.20%) Financial Institution
8 37 (5.06%) Advertising
8 37 (5.06%) Back Office
9 23 (3.15%) Analytical Skills
10 21 (2.87%) Marketing
11 19 (2.60%) Aerospace
12 13 (1.78%) Games
13 11 (1.50%) Legal
14 8 (1.09%) Organisational Skills
15 6 (0.82%) Telecoms
16 3 (0.41%) Front Office
16 3 (0.41%) Manufacturing
16 3 (0.41%) Military
Job Titles
1 213 (29.14%) Developer
2 193 (26.40%) Senior
3 135 (18.47%) .NET Developer
4 113 (15.46%) Software Engineer
5 78 (10.67%) DevOps Engineer
6 73 (9.99%) Lead
7 55 (7.52%) Cloud Engineer
8 51 (6.98%) Platform Engineer
9 48 (6.57%) Architect
10 46 (6.29%) Azure Engineer
11 39 (5.34%) Senior Developer
12 33 (4.51%) Java Developer
13 32 (4.38%) Senior Software Engineer
14 29 (3.97%) Cloud Platform Engineer
15 28 (3.83%) Senior DevOps
16 27 (3.69%) AWS Engineer
17 25 (3.42%) Lead Software Engineer
18 24 (3.28%) Python Engineer
18 24 (3.28%) Senior DevOps Engineer
19 22 (3.01%) Full-Stack Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 205 (28.04%) .NET
2 142 (19.43%) .NET Core
2 142 (19.43%) ASP.NET
3 136 (18.60%) ASP.NET Core
4 85 (11.63%) Node.js
5 82 (11.22%) AngularJS
6 81 (11.08%) CSS
6 81 (11.08%) HTML
7 79 (10.81%) React
8 74 (10.12%) ML.NET
9 69 (9.44%) Vue
10 64 (8.76%) Spring
11 62 (8.48%) REST
12 58 (7.93%) Kafka
13 48 (6.57%) RESTful
14 40 (5.47%) Spring Boot
15 28 (3.83%) Blazor
16 23 (3.15%) Django
16 23 (3.15%) OAuth
16 23 (3.15%) OpenID
Miscellaneous
1 191 (26.13%) Cloud Native
2 54 (7.39%) Distributed Systems
3 46 (6.29%) Product Ownership
4 24 (3.28%) Greenfield Project
5 20 (2.74%) Digital TV
6 17 (2.33%) Data Centre
7 16 (2.19%) AI Agents
7 16 (2.19%) Blog
7 16 (2.19%) Hybrid Cloud
7 16 (2.19%) Public Cloud
8 14 (1.92%) Legacy Systems
8 14 (1.92%) Private Cloud
9 13 (1.78%) Self-Motivation
10 11 (1.50%) IoT
10 11 (1.50%) Management Information System
11 8 (1.09%) Enterprise Software
11 8 (1.09%) Mobile App
12 7 (0.96%) Onboarding
12 7 (0.96%) PKI
12 7 (0.96%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 136 (18.60%) Linux
2 43 (5.88%) Windows
3 23 (3.15%) Windows Server
4 15 (2.05%) Ubuntu
5 9 (1.23%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 6 (0.82%) Android
6 6 (0.82%) Apple iOS
6 6 (0.82%) Debian
7 5 (0.68%) CentOS
8 3 (0.41%) VMS
9 2 (0.27%) Mac OS
9 2 (0.27%) Windows Server 2016
Processes & Methodologies
1 482 (65.94%) CI/CD
2 294 (40.22%) DevOps
3 268 (36.66%) Agile
4 240 (32.83%) Microservices
5 225 (30.78%) Infrastructure as Code
6 206 (28.18%) AI
7 200 (27.36%) Containerisation
8 196 (26.81%) Full-Stack Development
9 194 (26.54%) Software Engineering
10 182 (24.90%) Mentoring
11 129 (17.65%) Continuous Improvement
12 127 (17.37%) Test Automation
13 125 (17.10%) Observability
14 117 (16.01%) Machine Learning
15 116 (15.87%) Platform Engineering
16 107 (14.64%) TDD
17 100 (13.68%) Problem-Solving
18 90 (12.31%) Clean Code
19 89 (12.18%) Scrum
20 72 (9.85%) Deployment Automation
Programming Languages
1 233 (31.87%) Python
2 217 (29.69%) SQL
3 212 (29.00%) C#
4 159 (21.75%) Java
5 111 (15.18%) TypeScript
6 85 (11.63%) JavaScript
7 75 (10.26%) Bash
8 70 (9.58%) PowerShell
9 44 (6.02%) Go
10 21 (2.87%) Bicep
11 15 (2.05%) PL/SQL
12 13 (1.78%) Scala
13 11 (1.50%) PHP
14 8 (1.09%) Ruby
15 7 (0.96%) Groovy
15 7 (0.96%) Kotlin
16 4 (0.55%) C++
16 4 (0.55%) Rust
17 3 (0.41%) T-SQL
17 3 (0.41%) VB.NET
Qualifications
1 117 (16.01%) Security Cleared
2 96 (13.13%) SC Cleared
3 62 (8.48%) Degree
4 44 (6.02%) Azure Certification
5 28 (3.83%) Computer Science Degree
6 18 (2.46%) AWS Certification
7 15 (2.05%) DV Cleared
8 9 (1.23%) CISSP
9 7 (0.96%) GIAC
10 6 (0.82%) BPSS Clearance
11 5 (0.68%) CISM
12 4 (0.55%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
12 4 (0.55%) CEH
12 4 (0.55%) CREST Certified
12 4 (0.55%) ISACA
12 4 (0.55%) Microsoft Certification
12 4 (0.55%) OCP
12 4 (0.55%) Oracle Certification
12 4 (0.55%) OSCP
13 3 (0.41%) AWS Certified Developer
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 40 (5.47%) QA
2 25 (3.42%) Accessibility
3 19 (2.60%) NIST
4 13 (1.78%) WCAG
5 10 (1.37%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 7 (0.96%) PCI DSS
7 5 (0.68%) Data Quality
8 4 (0.55%) Cyber Essentials
8 4 (0.55%) SOC 2
9 3 (0.41%) ISO 9001
9 3 (0.41%) NCSC
10 2 (0.27%) GDPR
11 1 (0.14%) California Consumer Privacy Act
11 1 (0.14%) HIPAA
11 1 (0.14%) ISO 22301
11 1 (0.14%) ISO/IEC 42001
11 1 (0.14%) PSD2
11 1 (0.14%) SEPA
11 1 (0.14%) SLA
System Software
1 474 (64.84%) Docker
2 29 (3.97%) Active Directory
3 20 (2.74%) Virtual Machines
4 19 (2.60%) VMware Infrastructure
5 4 (0.55%) Firmware
5 4 (0.55%) Slurm Workload Manager
6 3 (0.41%) Citrix Hypervisor
6 3 (0.41%) iptables
7 1 (0.14%) Hyper-V
7 1 (0.14%) KVM
7 1 (0.14%) QEMU
7 1 (0.14%) Virtual Servers
7 1 (0.14%) Xen
Systems Management
1 280 (38.30%) Terraform
2 105 (14.36%) Grafana
3 90 (12.31%) Ansible
4 52 (7.11%) Prometheus
5 27 (3.69%) Argo
6 25 (3.42%) Istio
7 21 (2.87%) Puppet
8 12 (1.64%) Progress Chef
9 7 (0.96%) Kustomize
9 7 (0.96%) Packer
10 6 (0.82%) Active Directory Federation Services
10 6 (0.82%) FortiGate
10 6 (0.82%) Microsoft Intune
11 4 (0.55%) linkerd
12 3 (0.41%) Cilium
12 3 (0.41%) Kibana
12 3 (0.41%) ZABBIX
13 2 (0.27%) SCCM
13 2 (0.27%) SCOM
13 2 (0.27%) WSUS
Vendors
1 213 (29.14%) Microsoft
2 45 (6.16%) Google
3 31 (4.24%) Oracle
4 25 (3.42%) VMware
5 23 (3.15%) Red Hat
6 21 (2.87%) Facebook
6 21 (2.87%) Okta
7 16 (2.19%) Splunk
8 14 (1.92%) Ping Identity
9 13 (1.78%) OpenAI
10 12 (1.64%) Palo Alto
10 12 (1.64%) ServiceNow
11 9 (1.23%) Databricks
12 8 (1.09%) Cisco
12 8 (1.09%) Confluent
13 7 (0.96%) Dynatrace
13 7 (0.96%) EMC
13 7 (0.96%) ForgeRock
13 7 (0.96%) Fortinet
14 6 (0.82%) Zscaler