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

6 months to
6 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 76 36 62
Rank change year-on-year -40 +26 -36
Permanent jobs citing Kubernetes 575 1,048 1,392
As % of all permanent jobs with remote/hybrid work options 3.14% 7.42% 4.29%
As % of the Systems Management category 37.98% 54.39% 37.00%
Number of salaries quoted 364 610 1,173
10th Percentile £52,400 £51,250 £50,000
25th Percentile £58,750 £61,250 £59,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £70,000 £80,000 £75,000
Median % change year-on-year -12.50% +6.67% -
75th Percentile £87,500 £115,000 £91,934
90th Percentile £110,000 £138,750 £115,000
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 1,514 1,927 3,762
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 8.26% 13.64% 11.58%
Number of salaries quoted 1,026 1,337 2,973
10th Percentile £37,500 £41,000 £37,101
25th Percentile £48,750 £51,875 £47,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £70,000 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year -7.14% +7.69% -6.40%
75th Percentile £81,250 £90,000 £83,750
90th Percentile £95,000 £115,000 £102,500
UK median annual salary £65,000 £69,384 £60,000
% change year-on-year -6.32% +15.64% -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 6 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 10 (1.74%) Apache Airflow
1 10 (1.74%) Apache Spark
1 10 (1.74%) OpenStack
2 5 (0.87%) ArcGIS
2 5 (0.87%) GeoServer
2 5 (0.87%) Oracle Spatial
3 4 (0.70%) Apache Pulsar
3 4 (0.70%) Microsoft Exchange
4 3 (0.52%) Confluence
5 2 (0.35%) Apache
5 2 (0.35%) Camunda
5 2 (0.35%) nginx
6 1 (0.17%) Cloud Foundry
6 1 (0.17%) IIS
6 1 (0.17%) JBoss
6 1 (0.17%) Red Hat Fuse
6 1 (0.17%) SAS
6 1 (0.17%) SharePoint
Applications
1 4 (0.70%) Weka
2 2 (0.35%) Chatbot
3 1 (0.17%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 1 (0.17%) Actimize
Cloud Services
1 347 (60.35%) AWS
2 249 (43.30%) Azure
3 165 (28.70%) GCP
4 113 (19.65%) Amazon EKS
5 100 (17.39%) GitHub
6 74 (12.87%) SaaS
7 65 (11.30%) GitHub Actions
7 65 (11.30%) Serverless
8 43 (7.48%) AWS CloudFormation
9 42 (7.30%) Azure DevOps
10 41 (7.13%) Azure AKS
11 35 (6.09%) Amazon EC2
11 35 (6.09%) Amazon S3
11 35 (6.09%) OpenShift
12 34 (5.91%) Amazon CloudWatch
13 31 (5.39%) AWS Lambda
14 26 (4.52%) Amazon ECS
15 23 (4.00%) Datadog
16 19 (3.30%) PaaS
16 19 (3.30%) Pulumi
Communications & Networking
1 47 (8.17%) Broadband
2 32 (5.57%) Firewall
3 17 (2.96%) DNS
3 17 (2.96%) VPN
4 10 (1.74%) DHCP
4 10 (1.74%) TCP/IP
5 7 (1.22%) Network Security
6 4 (0.70%) AMQP
6 4 (0.70%) MQTT
6 4 (0.70%) VLAN
6 4 (0.70%) WAN
7 3 (0.52%) HTTP
7 3 (0.52%) RTP
7 3 (0.52%) SAN
7 3 (0.52%) SCCP
7 3 (0.52%) Unified Communications
7 3 (0.52%) VoIP
7 3 (0.52%) Wireshark
8 2 (0.35%) iSCSI
8 2 (0.35%) LAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 75 (13.04%) PostgreSQL
2 56 (9.74%) NoSQL
3 47 (8.17%) SQL Server
4 45 (7.83%) MongoDB
5 42 (7.30%) Relational Database
6 30 (5.22%) Amazon RDS
7 22 (3.83%) MySQL
8 19 (3.30%) RDBMS
9 14 (2.43%) Azure SQL Database
10 11 (1.91%) Elasticsearch
11 9 (1.57%) BigQuery
12 8 (1.39%) Amazon Aurora
12 8 (1.39%) Flink
13 6 (1.04%) DynamoDB
13 6 (1.04%) Redis
14 5 (0.87%) GIS
14 5 (0.87%) Power BI
14 5 (0.87%) QGIS
15 4 (0.70%) Data Warehouse
16 3 (0.52%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 75 (13.04%) Git
2 72 (12.52%) Jenkins
2 72 (12.52%) TeamCity
3 58 (10.09%) GitLab
4 19 (3.30%) Jaeger
5 14 (2.43%) Cucumber
6 12 (2.09%) Selenium
6 12 (2.09%) Visual Studio Code
7 11 (1.91%) JUnit
8 10 (1.74%) JIRA
9 9 (1.57%) JMeter
10 7 (1.22%) SonarQube
11 6 (1.04%) CircleCI
11 6 (1.04%) Locust
11 6 (1.04%) Visual Studio
12 5 (0.87%) Bitbucket
13 4 (0.70%) MLflow
13 4 (0.70%) Robot Framework
14 3 (0.52%) Maven
14 3 (0.52%) REST Assured
General
1 135 (23.48%) Finance
2 131 (22.78%) Social Skills
3 89 (15.48%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 84 (14.61%) Banking
5 83 (14.43%) Retail
6 74 (12.87%) Law
7 40 (6.96%) Financial Institution
8 34 (5.91%) Public Sector
9 33 (5.74%) Back Office
10 18 (3.13%) Telecoms
11 16 (2.78%) Analytical Skills
12 11 (1.91%) Front Office
13 10 (1.74%) Organisational Skills
14 7 (1.22%) Advertising
14 7 (1.22%) Military
15 5 (0.87%) Legal
16 4 (0.70%) Esports
16 4 (0.70%) Manufacturing
16 4 (0.70%) Marketing
16 4 (0.70%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 187 (32.52%) Senior
2 110 (19.13%) Lead
2 110 (19.13%) Software Engineer
3 90 (15.65%) Developer
4 77 (13.39%) DevOps Engineer
5 51 (8.87%) Cloud Engineer
6 48 (8.35%) Azure Engineer
6 48 (8.35%) Platform Engineer
7 37 (6.43%) Senior Software Engineer
8 36 (6.26%) Senior Developer
9 31 (5.39%) Java Engineer
10 29 (5.04%) AWS Engineer
10 29 (5.04%) Cloud Platform Engineer
10 29 (5.04%) Python Engineer
11 28 (4.87%) Senior DevOps
12 27 (4.70%) Lead Software Engineer
13 26 (4.52%) Java Developer
14 25 (4.35%) Infrastructure Engineer
15 24 (4.17%) Lead DevOps
15 24 (4.17%) Team Leader
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 69 (12.00%) .NET
2 68 (11.83%) Kafka
3 63 (10.96%) Spring
4 62 (10.78%) React
5 52 (9.04%) Spring Boot
6 43 (7.48%) Elastic Stack
6 43 (7.48%) REST
7 42 (7.30%) Node.js
8 41 (7.13%) RESTful
9 34 (5.91%) Django
10 27 (4.70%) .NET Core
11 24 (4.17%) Akka
12 23 (4.00%) AngularJS
12 23 (4.00%) OpenTelemetry
13 22 (3.83%) Flask
14 20 (3.48%) FastAPI
14 20 (3.48%) RabbitMQ
15 18 (3.13%) gRPC
15 18 (3.13%) OAuth
16 15 (2.61%) ASP.NET
Miscellaneous
1 177 (30.78%) Cloud Native
2 47 (8.17%) Distributed Systems
3 46 (8.00%) Product Ownership
4 22 (3.83%) Blog
4 22 (3.83%) Over-the-Top Content
4 22 (3.83%) Video\Live Streaming
5 18 (3.13%) Private Cloud
6 17 (2.96%) Hybrid Cloud
6 17 (2.96%) Legacy Systems
7 14 (2.43%) AI Agents
7 14 (2.43%) Data Centre
7 14 (2.43%) Onboarding
8 12 (2.09%) Public Cloud
9 9 (1.57%) Security Posture
10 8 (1.39%) Management Information System
11 7 (1.22%) Virtual Team
12 6 (1.04%) Algorithms
12 6 (1.04%) CMDB
12 6 (1.04%) CUDA
12 6 (1.04%) Fixed Income
Operating Systems
1 130 (22.61%) Linux
2 37 (6.43%) Windows
3 22 (3.83%) Android
4 21 (3.65%) Unix
5 16 (2.78%) Windows Server
6 14 (2.43%) Apple iOS
6 14 (2.43%) Ubuntu
7 12 (2.09%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
8 9 (1.57%) CentOS
9 7 (1.22%) VMS
10 4 (0.70%) Debian
11 3 (0.52%) Windows Server 2016
12 2 (0.35%) Mac OS
Processes & Methodologies
1 362 (62.96%) CI/CD
2 329 (57.22%) DevOps
3 223 (38.78%) Agile
4 210 (36.52%) Infrastructure as Code
5 209 (36.35%) Containerisation
6 174 (30.26%) Microservices
7 163 (28.35%) Software Engineering
8 136 (23.65%) Mentoring
9 124 (21.57%) Test Automation
10 114 (19.83%) Continuous Improvement
11 98 (17.04%) Observability
12 94 (16.35%) Platform Engineering
13 89 (15.48%) Clean Code
14 85 (14.78%) AI
15 81 (14.09%) Problem-Solving
16 79 (13.74%) Deployment Automation
17 73 (12.70%) Site Reliability Engineering
18 71 (12.35%) TDD
19 63 (10.96%) Analytics
19 63 (10.96%) Scrum
Programming Languages
1 240 (41.74%) Python
2 179 (31.13%) Java
3 89 (15.48%) JavaScript
4 88 (15.30%) Go
5 83 (14.43%) SQL
6 72 (12.52%) Bash
7 62 (10.78%) C#
8 53 (9.22%) TypeScript
9 47 (8.17%) PowerShell
10 32 (5.57%) Scala
11 26 (4.52%) Bicep
12 14 (2.43%) C++
13 8 (1.39%) Delphi
13 8 (1.39%) PHP
14 7 (1.22%) C
14 7 (1.22%) Rust
15 4 (0.70%) Perl
16 3 (0.52%) Korn
16 3 (0.52%) Ruby
16 3 (0.52%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 78 (13.57%) Security Cleared
2 70 (12.17%) Degree
3 60 (10.43%) SC Cleared
4 43 (7.48%) Azure Certification
5 37 (6.43%) Computer Science Degree
6 31 (5.39%) AWS Certification
7 16 (2.78%) DV Cleared
8 8 (1.39%) CREST Certified
8 8 (1.39%) OSCP
9 6 (1.04%) CISSP
9 6 (1.04%) ISACA
9 6 (1.04%) Microsoft Certification
10 5 (0.87%) GIAC
10 5 (0.87%) SANS
11 3 (0.52%) LPIC
11 3 (0.52%) Master's Degree
12 2 (0.35%) ISTQB
12 2 (0.35%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
12 2 (0.35%) ITIL Certification
12 2 (0.35%) Linux+ Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 41 (7.13%) QA
2 15 (2.61%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 14 (2.43%) Accessibility
3 14 (2.43%) NIST
4 11 (1.91%) PCI DSS
5 10 (1.74%) Data Quality
6 5 (0.87%) SOC 2
6 5 (0.87%) WCAG
7 4 (0.70%) GDPR
8 3 (0.52%) ISO 9001
9 2 (0.35%) Software Quality Assurance
10 1 (0.17%) GRC
10 1 (0.17%) ISO/IEC 42001
10 1 (0.17%) MiFID
System Software
1 341 (59.30%) Docker
2 31 (5.39%) Active Directory
3 18 (3.13%) VMware Infrastructure
4 13 (2.26%) Virtual Machines
5 6 (1.04%) VMware NSX
6 5 (0.87%) Firmware
7 4 (0.70%) Slurm Workload Manager
8 3 (0.52%) Citrix Hypervisor
8 3 (0.52%) Hyper-V
8 3 (0.52%) Kamailio
9 2 (0.35%) vSphere
10 1 (0.17%) KVM
10 1 (0.17%) QEMU
10 1 (0.17%) vCloud
10 1 (0.17%) Virtual Desktop
10 1 (0.17%) Virtual Servers
10 1 (0.17%) Xen
Systems Management
1 303 (52.70%) Terraform
2 127 (22.09%) Grafana
3 122 (21.22%) Ansible
4 80 (13.91%) Prometheus
5 48 (8.35%) Argo
6 23 (4.00%) Kustomize
7 18 (3.13%) Puppet
8 13 (2.26%) Istio
9 11 (1.91%) Progress Chef
10 8 (1.39%) Packer
11 7 (1.22%) Microsoft Intune
11 7 (1.22%) Proxmox
11 7 (1.22%) ZABBIX
12 6 (1.04%) Active Directory Federation Services
13 4 (0.70%) Kibana
13 4 (0.70%) logstash
14 2 (0.35%) FortiGate
14 2 (0.35%) MIIS
14 2 (0.35%) Nagios
14 2 (0.35%) Podman
Vendors
1 68 (11.83%) Microsoft
2 36 (6.26%) Google
3 32 (5.57%) VMware
4 23 (4.00%) Red Hat
5 17 (2.96%) Oracle
6 11 (1.91%) Splunk
7 9 (1.57%) Okta
8 8 (1.39%) Cisco
8 8 (1.39%) Confluent
8 8 (1.39%) Databricks
8 8 (1.39%) ServiceNow
9 7 (1.22%) Palo Alto
10 6 (1.04%) EMC
10 6 (1.04%) F5
10 6 (1.04%) Fortinet
10 6 (1.04%) OpenAI
11 5 (0.87%) AppDynamics
11 5 (0.87%) Citrix
11 5 (0.87%) ESRI
11 5 (0.87%) ForgeRock