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

6 months to
11 Oct 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 76 81 52
Rank change year-on-year +5 -29 -22
Permanent jobs citing Kubernetes 796 700 1,024
As % of all permanent jobs with remote/hybrid work options 3.20% 4.21% 4.74%
As % of the Systems Management category 45.83% 42.19% 45.33%
Number of salaries quoted 506 327 576
10th Percentile £46,250 £48,750 £52,527
25th Percentile £52,500 £58,750 £60,938
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £72,500 £75,750
Median % change year-on-year -10.34% -4.29% +1.00%
75th Percentile £85,000 £87,500 £95,000
90th Percentile £97,500 £107,500 £115,000
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 1,737 1,659 2,259
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 6.98% 9.98% 10.46%
Number of salaries quoted 1,230 850 1,269
10th Percentile £33,975 £33,475 £36,500
25th Percentile £45,795 £45,000 £47,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £63,975 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year -6.21% -1.58% -3.70%
75th Percentile £75,000 £82,500 £86,000
90th Percentile £95,000 £97,500 £105,000
UK median annual salary £60,000 £60,000 £65,000
% change year-on-year - -7.69% -

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 11 October 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 (1.26%) Apache Spark
2 7 (0.88%) Apache Airflow
2 7 (0.88%) Oracle SOA Suite
3 6 (0.75%) Confluence
3 6 (0.75%) IIS
3 6 (0.75%) nginx
3 6 (0.75%) WebLogic
4 5 (0.63%) Apache
4 5 (0.63%) Camunda
5 4 (0.50%) ArcGIS
5 4 (0.50%) GeoServer
5 4 (0.50%) Oracle Spatial
6 2 (0.25%) Ethereum
6 2 (0.25%) Hedera
7 1 (0.13%) JBoss
7 1 (0.13%) OpenStack
7 1 (0.13%) Oracle Coherence
7 1 (0.13%) Red Hat Fuse
Applications
1 12 (1.51%) Chatbot
2 1 (0.13%) Lightworks
Business Applications
1 2 (0.25%) Distributed Ledger
1 2 (0.25%) SAP S/4HANA
2 1 (0.13%) Actimize
2 1 (0.13%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
Cloud Services
1 460 (57.79%) AWS
2 417 (52.39%) Azure
3 252 (31.66%) GCP
4 205 (25.75%) GitHub
5 135 (16.96%) GitHub Copilot
6 119 (14.95%) SaaS
7 113 (14.20%) Amazon EKS
8 72 (9.05%) Azure AI
9 50 (6.28%) GitHub Actions
10 48 (6.03%) Azure DevOps
11 47 (5.90%) Azure AKS
11 47 (5.90%) Serverless
12 42 (5.28%) AWS CloudFormation
13 41 (5.15%) OpenShift
14 30 (3.77%) Google Kubernetes Engine
15 29 (3.64%) Virtual Private Cloud
16 24 (3.02%) Amazon EC2
17 22 (2.76%) Azure Service Bus
18 21 (2.64%) Azure Monitor
18 21 (2.64%) PaaS
Communications & Networking
1 38 (4.77%) VPN
2 26 (3.27%) Firewall
3 23 (2.89%) TCP/IP
4 22 (2.76%) BGP
5 21 (2.64%) DNS
6 20 (2.51%) Internet
6 20 (2.51%) Network Security
7 17 (2.14%) Broadband
8 16 (2.01%) VLAN
9 6 (0.75%) OSPF
9 6 (0.75%) VXLAN
10 4 (0.50%) DHCP
10 4 (0.50%) HTTP
11 3 (0.38%) WAN
12 2 (0.25%) Unified Communications
12 2 (0.25%) WireGuard
13 1 (0.13%) MQTT
13 1 (0.13%) SAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 161 (20.23%) MongoDB
2 140 (17.59%) Azure SQL Database
3 98 (12.31%) PostgreSQL
4 44 (5.53%) Elasticsearch
5 39 (4.90%) Amazon RDS
6 38 (4.77%) NoSQL
7 26 (3.27%) SQL Server
8 24 (3.02%) Relational Database
9 22 (2.76%) MySQL
10 11 (1.38%) Data Warehouse
11 9 (1.13%) Redis
12 8 (1.01%) BigQuery
13 6 (0.75%) Delta Lake
13 6 (0.75%) Power BI
14 5 (0.63%) DynamoDB
14 5 (0.63%) Flink
14 5 (0.63%) Looker
14 5 (0.63%) Metadata
14 5 (0.63%) Tableau
15 4 (0.50%) Big Data
Development Applications
1 101 (12.69%) TeamCity
2 80 (10.05%) Git
3 55 (6.91%) Jenkins
4 40 (5.03%) GitLab
5 34 (4.27%) JUnit
6 23 (2.89%) Mockito
7 19 (2.39%) JIRA
8 18 (2.26%) Maven
9 16 (2.01%) Selenium
10 11 (1.38%) Postman
11 9 (1.13%) Bitbucket
12 8 (1.01%) Atlassian Bamboo
12 8 (1.01%) Cucumber
12 8 (1.01%) SonarQube
13 6 (0.75%) Gatling
13 6 (0.75%) Octopus Deploy
14 4 (0.50%) Cypress.io
14 4 (0.50%) Subversion
14 4 (0.50%) Vagrant
14 4 (0.50%) Visual Studio Code
General
1 209 (26.26%) Finance
2 145 (18.22%) Social Skills
3 128 (16.08%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 125 (15.70%) Retail
5 119 (14.95%) Law
6 116 (14.57%) Banking
7 78 (9.80%) Financial Institution
8 76 (9.55%) Back Office
9 74 (9.30%) Public Sector
10 33 (4.15%) Advertising
11 32 (4.02%) Analytical Skills
12 20 (2.51%) Aerospace
13 19 (2.39%) Marketing
14 11 (1.38%) Games
15 9 (1.13%) Legal
16 6 (0.75%) Telecoms
17 4 (0.50%) Front Office
18 3 (0.38%) Aviation
18 3 (0.38%) Military
18 3 (0.38%) Police
Job Titles
1 229 (28.77%) Senior
2 215 (27.01%) Developer
3 158 (19.85%) Software Engineer
4 131 (16.46%) .NET Developer
5 77 (9.67%) DevOps Engineer
6 71 (8.92%) Lead
7 57 (7.16%) Cloud Engineer
8 53 (6.66%) Architect
9 45 (5.65%) Senior Software Engineer
10 44 (5.53%) Senior Developer
11 43 (5.40%) Java Engineer
12 40 (5.03%) Platform Engineer
13 32 (4.02%) Azure Engineer
14 29 (3.64%) Java Developer
15 27 (3.39%) Java Software Engineer
15 27 (3.39%) Lead Software Engineer
16 25 (3.14%) Full-Stack Developer
16 25 (3.14%) Senior DevOps
16 25 (3.14%) Senior Java Engineer
16 25 (3.14%) Team Leader
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 317 (39.82%) Terraform
2 201 (25.25%) .NET
3 136 (17.09%) .NET Core
3 136 (17.09%) ASP.NET
4 132 (16.58%) ASP.NET Core
5 98 (12.31%) Node.js
6 90 (11.31%) React
7 80 (10.05%) CSS
7 80 (10.05%) Spring
8 79 (9.92%) HTML
9 78 (9.80%) AngularJS
10 70 (8.79%) ML.NET
11 65 (8.17%) Vue
12 62 (7.79%) REST
13 56 (7.04%) RESTful
14 55 (6.91%) Spring Boot
15 54 (6.78%) Kafka
16 34 (4.27%) OpenTelemetry
17 29 (3.64%) Blazor
18 18 (2.26%) .NET Framework
Miscellaneous
1 249 (31.28%) Cloud Native
2 80 (10.05%) Distributed Systems
3 61 (7.66%) Product Ownership
4 46 (5.78%) Blog
5 27 (3.39%) Greenfield Project
6 20 (2.51%) Security Posture
7 19 (2.39%) AI Agents
7 19 (2.39%) Digital TV
8 16 (2.01%) Management Information System
9 14 (1.76%) Legacy Systems
10 13 (1.63%) Enterprise Software
11 12 (1.51%) Data Centre
11 12 (1.51%) Self-Motivation
12 10 (1.26%) Cyber Threat
12 10 (1.26%) Public Cloud
12 10 (1.26%) Replication
13 9 (1.13%) Cyber Defence
13 9 (1.13%) IoT
14 8 (1.01%) Cyber Kill Chain
14 8 (1.01%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 125 (15.70%) Linux
2 37 (4.65%) Windows
3 15 (1.88%) Ubuntu
4 14 (1.76%) Windows Server
5 11 (1.38%) Apple iOS
6 7 (0.88%) Android
7 6 (0.75%) macOS
8 3 (0.38%) Debian
9 2 (0.25%) CentOS
10 1 (0.13%) Unix
10 1 (0.13%) VMS
10 1 (0.13%) Windows Server 2016
Processes & Methodologies
1 541 (67.96%) CI/CD
2 306 (38.44%) DevOps
3 286 (35.93%) Agile
3 286 (35.93%) Microservices
4 241 (30.28%) Software Engineering
5 226 (28.39%) AI
6 225 (28.27%) Mentoring
7 210 (26.38%) Infrastructure as Code
8 208 (26.13%) Full-Stack Development
9 191 (23.99%) Containerisation
10 162 (20.35%) Test Automation
11 145 (18.22%) Observability
12 142 (17.84%) Continuous Improvement
13 135 (16.96%) Problem-Solving
14 125 (15.70%) Clean Code
14 125 (15.70%) Machine Learning
15 117 (14.70%) Fintech
16 108 (13.57%) TDD
17 102 (12.81%) Platform Engineering
18 101 (12.69%) Deployment Automation
Programming Languages
1 255 (32.04%) Python
2 248 (31.16%) Java
3 244 (30.65%) SQL
4 206 (25.88%) C#
5 123 (15.45%) TypeScript
6 101 (12.69%) JavaScript
7 100 (12.56%) Bash
8 71 (8.92%) PowerShell
9 66 (8.29%) Go
10 25 (3.14%) Bicep
11 16 (2.01%) Scala
12 14 (1.76%) PL/SQL
13 9 (1.13%) Kotlin
14 8 (1.01%) PHP
14 8 (1.01%) Ruby
15 6 (0.75%) Groovy
15 6 (0.75%) Shell Script
16 5 (0.63%) C
16 5 (0.63%) Rust
17 4 (0.50%) C++
Qualifications
1 133 (16.71%) Security Cleared
2 110 (13.82%) SC Cleared
3 51 (6.41%) Degree
4 32 (4.02%) Azure Certification
5 21 (2.64%) Computer Science Degree
6 19 (2.39%) AWS Certification
7 13 (1.63%) CISSP
7 13 (1.63%) DV Cleared
8 12 (1.51%) CISM
9 9 (1.13%) GIAC
10 8 (1.01%) BPSS Clearance
11 7 (0.88%) (ISC)2 CCSP
11 7 (0.88%) Cisco Certification
12 6 (0.75%) CCSP
13 5 (0.63%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
13 5 (0.63%) CEH
14 4 (0.50%) CREST Certified
14 4 (0.50%) GCFA
14 4 (0.50%) OSCP
14 4 (0.50%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 27 (3.39%) QA
2 26 (3.27%) NIST
2 26 (3.27%) PCI DSS
3 25 (3.14%) Accessibility
4 23 (2.89%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 16 (2.01%) SOC 2
6 9 (1.13%) Data Quality
7 8 (1.01%) WCAG
8 6 (0.75%) Cyber Essentials
9 5 (0.63%) GDPR
10 4 (0.50%) NCSC
11 1 (0.13%) California Consumer Privacy Act
11 1 (0.13%) HIPAA
11 1 (0.13%) ISO 22301
11 1 (0.13%) PSD2
11 1 (0.13%) SEPA
11 1 (0.13%) SLA
System Software
1 493 (61.93%) Docker
2 18 (2.26%) Virtual Machines
3 15 (1.88%) Active Directory
4 12 (1.51%) VMware Infrastructure
5 3 (0.38%) iptables
6 1 (0.13%) HDFS
6 1 (0.13%) Hyper-V
6 1 (0.13%) Virtual Servers
Systems Management
1 157 (19.72%) Grafana
2 71 (8.92%) Ansible
3 66 (8.29%) Prometheus
4 31 (3.89%) Argo
5 20 (2.51%) Istio
6 14 (1.76%) Progress Chef
6 14 (1.76%) Puppet
7 10 (1.26%) Kustomize
7 10 (1.26%) Single Sign-On
8 9 (1.13%) Cilium
9 7 (0.88%) Packer
10 6 (0.75%) FortiGate
11 4 (0.50%) linkerd
11 4 (0.50%) Microsoft Intune
12 2 (0.25%) CASB
12 2 (0.25%) Microsoft Data Protection Manager
12 2 (0.25%) Proxmox
12 2 (0.25%) SCCM
12 2 (0.25%) SCOM
12 2 (0.25%) WSUS
Vendors
1 207 (26.01%) Microsoft
2 71 (8.92%) Google
3 36 (4.52%) Oracle
4 31 (3.89%) Splunk
5 25 (3.14%) OpenAI
6 21 (2.64%) Red Hat
7 19 (2.39%) Facebook
8 16 (2.01%) Okta
8 16 (2.01%) VMware
9 15 (1.88%) Ping Identity
10 12 (1.51%) Databricks
11 11 (1.38%) Dynatrace
12 10 (1.26%) New Relic
13 8 (1.01%) Palo Alto
14 7 (0.88%) ServiceNow
15 6 (0.75%) Fortinet
15 6 (0.75%) Zscaler
16 5 (0.63%) CrowdStrike
16 5 (0.63%) ForgeRock
16 5 (0.63%) Qualys