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

6 months to
23 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 82 76 64
Rank change year-on-year -6 -12 -35
Permanent jobs citing Kubernetes 763 732 924
As % of all permanent jobs with remote/hybrid work options 3.10% 4.53% 4.10%
As % of the Systems Management category 45.42% 43.52% 41.57%
Number of salaries quoted 509 349 593
10th Percentile £46,100 £48,750 £52,750
25th Percentile £52,500 £58,750 £61,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £72,500 £77,500
Median % change year-on-year -10.34% -6.45% +3.33%
75th Percentile £85,000 £87,500 £95,000
90th Percentile £97,500 £110,000 £118,750
UK median annual salary £70,000 £75,000 £77,500
% change year-on-year -6.67% -3.23% +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 1,680 1,682 2,223
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 6.83% 10.41% 9.86%
Number of salaries quoted 1,213 877 1,323
10th Percentile £34,000 £35,000 £36,500
25th Percentile £46,250 £45,000 £47,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £65,000 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year -7.69% - -3.70%
75th Percentile £75,000 £82,500 £87,500
90th Percentile £95,000 £99,250 £105,000
UK median annual salary £60,000 £60,500 £65,000
% change year-on-year -0.83% -6.92% -

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 23 September 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 (1.31%) Apache Spark
2 7 (0.92%) Apache Airflow
2 7 (0.92%) Oracle SOA Suite
3 6 (0.79%) IIS
3 6 (0.79%) nginx
4 5 (0.66%) Confluence
5 4 (0.52%) ArcGIS
5 4 (0.52%) Camunda
5 4 (0.52%) GeoServer
5 4 (0.52%) Oracle Spatial
6 3 (0.39%) Apache
6 3 (0.39%) OpenStack
7 2 (0.26%) Ethereum
7 2 (0.26%) Hedera
8 1 (0.13%) Cloud Foundry
8 1 (0.13%) JBoss
8 1 (0.13%) Microsoft Exchange
8 1 (0.13%) Oracle Coherence
8 1 (0.13%) Red Hat Fuse
Applications
1 12 (1.57%) Chatbot
2 1 (0.13%) Lightworks
Business Applications
1 2 (0.26%) Distributed Ledger
1 2 (0.26%) SAP S/4HANA
2 1 (0.13%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
Cloud Services
1 433 (56.75%) AWS
2 417 (54.65%) Azure
3 226 (29.62%) GCP
4 204 (26.74%) GitHub
5 135 (17.69%) GitHub Copilot
6 99 (12.98%) Amazon EKS
7 97 (12.71%) SaaS
8 72 (9.44%) Azure AI
9 51 (6.68%) Serverless
10 49 (6.42%) GitHub Actions
11 47 (6.16%) Azure DevOps
12 45 (5.90%) Azure AKS
13 42 (5.50%) AWS CloudFormation
14 40 (5.24%) OpenShift
15 26 (3.41%) Amazon EC2
16 22 (2.88%) Azure Service Bus
17 20 (2.62%) Virtual Private Cloud
18 19 (2.49%) Amazon ECS
18 19 (2.49%) Azure Monitor
18 19 (2.49%) PaaS
Communications & Networking
1 25 (3.28%) VPN
2 23 (3.01%) Firewall
3 21 (2.75%) DNS
3 21 (2.75%) Internet
4 17 (2.23%) Broadband
5 15 (1.97%) TCP/IP
6 13 (1.70%) Network Security
7 11 (1.44%) BGP
8 10 (1.31%) VLAN
9 6 (0.79%) DHCP
9 6 (0.79%) OSPF
9 6 (0.79%) VXLAN
10 4 (0.52%) HTTP
10 4 (0.52%) WAN
11 2 (0.26%) SAN
11 2 (0.26%) WireGuard
12 1 (0.13%) LAN
12 1 (0.13%) MQTT
12 1 (0.13%) Remote Desktop
12 1 (0.13%) SSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 160 (20.97%) MongoDB
2 138 (18.09%) Azure SQL Database
3 82 (10.75%) PostgreSQL
4 43 (5.64%) Elasticsearch
5 34 (4.46%) NoSQL
6 28 (3.67%) SQL Server
7 25 (3.28%) Amazon RDS
7 25 (3.28%) Relational Database
8 23 (3.01%) MySQL
9 11 (1.44%) Data Warehouse
10 6 (0.79%) Delta Lake
10 6 (0.79%) DynamoDB
11 5 (0.66%) BigQuery
11 5 (0.66%) Metadata
11 5 (0.66%) Power BI
11 5 (0.66%) Redis
11 5 (0.66%) Tableau
12 4 (0.52%) Apache Cassandra
12 4 (0.52%) Big Data
12 4 (0.52%) GIS
Development Applications
1 91 (11.93%) Git
2 79 (10.35%) TeamCity
3 54 (7.08%) Jenkins
4 45 (5.90%) GitLab
5 28 (3.67%) JUnit
6 18 (2.36%) JIRA
6 18 (2.36%) Maven
7 17 (2.23%) Mockito
8 16 (2.10%) Selenium
9 12 (1.57%) Postman
10 10 (1.31%) Atlassian Bamboo
10 10 (1.31%) Bitbucket
11 9 (1.18%) Cucumber
11 9 (1.18%) SonarQube
12 8 (1.05%) Visual Studio Code
13 6 (0.79%) Gatling
13 6 (0.79%) Octopus Deploy
14 5 (0.66%) Subversion
15 4 (0.52%) Vagrant
16 3 (0.39%) Cypress.io
General
1 194 (25.43%) Finance
2 143 (18.74%) Social Skills
3 111 (14.55%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 104 (13.63%) Retail
5 103 (13.50%) Law
6 101 (13.24%) Banking
7 68 (8.91%) Public Sector
8 62 (8.13%) Financial Institution
9 61 (7.99%) Back Office
10 33 (4.33%) Advertising
11 30 (3.93%) Analytical Skills
12 20 (2.62%) Aerospace
13 19 (2.49%) Marketing
14 11 (1.44%) Games
15 9 (1.18%) Legal
16 6 (0.79%) Telecoms
17 5 (0.66%) Organisational Skills
18 4 (0.52%) Front Office
19 3 (0.39%) Manufacturing
19 3 (0.39%) Military
Job Titles
1 212 (27.79%) Developer
2 205 (26.87%) Senior
3 138 (18.09%) Software Engineer
4 129 (16.91%) .NET Developer
5 72 (9.44%) DevOps Engineer
6 70 (9.17%) Lead
7 52 (6.82%) Cloud Engineer
8 51 (6.68%) Architect
9 44 (5.77%) Platform Engineer
10 42 (5.50%) Azure Engineer
11 38 (4.98%) Senior Developer
12 34 (4.46%) Senior Software Engineer
13 29 (3.80%) Java Developer
14 28 (3.67%) Java Engineer
15 27 (3.54%) Cloud Platform Engineer
15 27 (3.54%) Lead Software Engineer
15 27 (3.54%) Team Leader
16 24 (3.15%) Full-Stack Developer
17 21 (2.75%) Infrastructure Engineer
17 21 (2.75%) Senior DevOps
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 299 (39.19%) Terraform
2 196 (25.69%) .NET
3 135 (17.69%) .NET Core
3 135 (17.69%) ASP.NET
4 131 (17.17%) ASP.NET Core
5 95 (12.45%) Node.js
6 91 (11.93%) React
7 82 (10.75%) AngularJS
8 79 (10.35%) CSS
8 79 (10.35%) HTML
9 70 (9.17%) ML.NET
10 69 (9.04%) Spring
11 67 (8.78%) Vue
12 60 (7.86%) REST
13 53 (6.95%) Kafka
14 49 (6.42%) RESTful
15 43 (5.64%) Spring Boot
16 27 (3.54%) Blazor
17 25 (3.28%) OpenTelemetry
18 22 (2.88%) Django
Miscellaneous
1 215 (28.18%) Cloud Native
2 66 (8.65%) Distributed Systems
3 60 (7.86%) Product Ownership
4 32 (4.19%) Blog
5 26 (3.41%) Greenfield Project
6 19 (2.49%) Digital TV
7 18 (2.36%) AI Agents
8 16 (2.10%) Data Centre
9 14 (1.83%) Legacy Systems
10 13 (1.70%) Public Cloud
11 12 (1.57%) Self-Motivation
12 11 (1.44%) Hybrid Cloud
12 11 (1.44%) Management Information System
12 11 (1.44%) Private Cloud
12 11 (1.44%) Security Posture
13 10 (1.31%) Enterprise Software
14 9 (1.18%) IoT
14 9 (1.18%) PKI
14 9 (1.18%) Replication
15 8 (1.05%) Cyber Kill Chain
Operating Systems
1 134 (17.56%) Linux
2 45 (5.90%) Windows
3 21 (2.75%) Windows Server
4 16 (2.10%) Ubuntu
5 11 (1.44%) Apple iOS
6 8 (1.05%) Android
7 5 (0.66%) Debian
7 5 (0.66%) Mac OS
7 5 (0.66%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
8 4 (0.52%) CentOS
9 2 (0.26%) VMS
9 2 (0.26%) Windows Server 2016
10 1 (0.13%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 509 (66.71%) CI/CD
2 295 (38.66%) DevOps
3 273 (35.78%) Agile
4 261 (34.21%) Microservices
5 217 (28.44%) Software Engineering
6 216 (28.31%) AI
7 211 (27.65%) Infrastructure as Code
8 208 (27.26%) Mentoring
9 202 (26.47%) Full-Stack Development
10 182 (23.85%) Containerisation
11 145 (19.00%) Test Automation
12 137 (17.96%) Observability
13 136 (17.82%) Continuous Improvement
14 120 (15.73%) Problem-Solving
15 119 (15.60%) Machine Learning
16 109 (14.29%) Clean Code
17 103 (13.50%) TDD
18 101 (13.24%) Platform Engineering
19 97 (12.71%) Fintech
20 91 (11.93%) Deployment Automation
Programming Languages
1 233 (30.54%) Python
2 224 (29.36%) SQL
3 206 (27.00%) Java
4 204 (26.74%) C#
5 117 (15.33%) TypeScript
6 95 (12.45%) JavaScript
7 89 (11.66%) Bash
8 73 (9.57%) PowerShell
9 49 (6.42%) Go
10 22 (2.88%) Bicep
11 15 (1.97%) PL/SQL
12 14 (1.83%) Scala
13 9 (1.18%) Kotlin
14 8 (1.05%) PHP
14 8 (1.05%) Ruby
15 7 (0.92%) Groovy
16 5 (0.66%) Shell Script
17 4 (0.52%) C++
17 4 (0.52%) Rust
18 3 (0.39%) Swift
Qualifications
1 124 (16.25%) Security Cleared
2 100 (13.11%) SC Cleared
3 52 (6.82%) Degree
4 40 (5.24%) Azure Certification
5 25 (3.28%) Computer Science Degree
6 18 (2.36%) AWS Certification
7 14 (1.83%) DV Cleared
8 8 (1.05%) BPSS Clearance
8 8 (1.05%) CISSP
8 8 (1.05%) GIAC
9 7 (0.92%) CISM
10 5 (0.66%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
10 5 (0.66%) CEH
10 5 (0.66%) CREST Certified
10 5 (0.66%) OSCP
11 4 (0.52%) Microsoft Certification
11 4 (0.52%) OCP
11 4 (0.52%) Oracle Certification
12 3 (0.39%) AWS Certified Developer
12 3 (0.39%) GCFA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 30 (3.93%) QA
2 22 (2.88%) Accessibility
3 20 (2.62%) NIST
4 12 (1.57%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 12 (1.57%) PCI DSS
5 9 (1.18%) WCAG
6 7 (0.92%) Data Quality
7 6 (0.79%) SOC 2
8 5 (0.66%) Cyber Essentials
9 4 (0.52%) GDPR
9 4 (0.52%) NCSC
10 1 (0.13%) California Consumer Privacy Act
10 1 (0.13%) HIPAA
10 1 (0.13%) ISO 22301
10 1 (0.13%) ISO/IEC 42001
10 1 (0.13%) PSD2
10 1 (0.13%) SEPA
10 1 (0.13%) SLA
System Software
1 477 (62.52%) Docker
2 23 (3.01%) Active Directory
3 16 (2.10%) Virtual Machines
3 16 (2.10%) VMware Infrastructure
4 3 (0.39%) iptables
5 2 (0.26%) Slurm Workload Manager
6 1 (0.13%) Citrix Hypervisor
6 1 (0.13%) Firmware
6 1 (0.13%) HDFS
6 1 (0.13%) Hyper-V
6 1 (0.13%) KVM
6 1 (0.13%) QEMU
6 1 (0.13%) Virtual Servers
6 1 (0.13%) Xen
Systems Management
1 138 (18.09%) Grafana
2 82 (10.75%) Ansible
3 59 (7.73%) Prometheus
4 27 (3.54%) Argo
5 19 (2.49%) Puppet
6 18 (2.36%) Istio
7 15 (1.97%) Progress Chef
8 9 (1.18%) Packer
9 8 (1.05%) Kustomize
10 6 (0.79%) FortiGate
10 6 (0.79%) Microsoft Intune
11 5 (0.66%) Active Directory Federation Services
12 4 (0.52%) Cilium
12 4 (0.52%) linkerd
12 4 (0.52%) Single Sign-On
13 3 (0.39%) Kibana
14 2 (0.26%) CASB
14 2 (0.26%) Microsoft Data Protection Manager
14 2 (0.26%) Podman
14 2 (0.26%) Proxmox
Vendors
1 206 (27.00%) Microsoft
2 49 (6.42%) Google
3 31 (4.06%) Oracle
4 25 (3.28%) Splunk
5 23 (3.01%) OpenAI
6 22 (2.88%) Red Hat
7 21 (2.75%) VMware
8 19 (2.49%) Facebook
9 18 (2.36%) Okta
10 15 (1.97%) Ping Identity
11 12 (1.57%) Databricks
12 10 (1.31%) Palo Alto
13 9 (1.18%) Dynatrace
13 9 (1.18%) ServiceNow
14 8 (1.05%) New Relic
15 6 (0.79%) Citrix
15 6 (0.79%) Fortinet
15 6 (0.79%) Zscaler
16 5 (0.66%) Cisco
16 5 (0.66%) EMC