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

6 months to
15 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 69 36 60
Rank change year-on-year -33 +24 -33
Permanent jobs citing Kubernetes 599 930 1,441
As % of all permanent jobs with remote/hybrid work options 3.43% 7.10% 4.48%
As % of the Systems Management category 38.67% 51.67% 38.38%
Number of salaries quoted 386 631 1,204
10th Percentile £52,500 £51,250 £48,750
25th Percentile £60,000 £61,875 £57,875
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £70,789 £80,000 £75,000
Median % change year-on-year -11.51% +6.67% -
75th Percentile £87,500 £115,000 £91,250
90th Percentile £120,000 £138,750 £112,500
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 1,549 1,800 3,755
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 8.87% 13.74% 11.68%
Number of salaries quoted 1,060 1,350 3,040
10th Percentile £37,500 £41,250 £37,101
25th Percentile £48,165 £52,500 £47,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £70,000 £64,000
Median % change year-on-year -7.14% +9.38% -7.84%
75th Percentile £82,500 £91,188 £83,750
90th Percentile £95,000 £115,000 £102,500
UK median annual salary £65,000 £70,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year -7.14% +16.67% -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 15 April 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 (1.84%) Apache Spark
2 10 (1.67%) Apache Airflow
3 9 (1.50%) OpenStack
4 5 (0.83%) Anypoint
4 5 (0.83%) Apache Pulsar
5 4 (0.67%) ArcGIS
5 4 (0.67%) GeoServer
5 4 (0.67%) Microsoft Exchange
5 4 (0.67%) Oracle Spatial
6 3 (0.50%) Apache
6 3 (0.50%) Confluence
7 2 (0.33%) Camunda
7 2 (0.33%) nginx
8 1 (0.17%) Cloud Foundry
8 1 (0.17%) SAS
8 1 (0.17%) SharePoint
Applications
1 4 (0.67%) Weka
2 2 (0.33%) Chatbot
3 1 (0.17%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 5 (0.83%) Shopify
2 1 (0.17%) Actimize
Cloud Services
1 376 (62.77%) AWS
2 255 (42.57%) Azure
3 186 (31.05%) GCP
4 125 (20.87%) Amazon EKS
5 106 (17.70%) GitHub
6 83 (13.86%) SaaS
7 73 (12.19%) GitHub Actions
8 64 (10.68%) Serverless
9 44 (7.35%) Azure DevOps
10 43 (7.18%) AWS CloudFormation
11 41 (6.84%) Amazon S3
12 40 (6.68%) Azure AKS
13 36 (6.01%) Amazon CloudWatch
14 35 (5.84%) Amazon EC2
15 34 (5.68%) AWS Lambda
16 33 (5.51%) OpenShift
17 26 (4.34%) Amazon ECS
18 24 (4.01%) Datadog
19 19 (3.17%) Pulumi
20 16 (2.67%) PaaS
Communications & Networking
1 44 (7.35%) Broadband
2 38 (6.34%) Firewall
3 17 (2.84%) VPN
4 15 (2.50%) DNS
5 10 (1.67%) DHCP
6 9 (1.50%) Network Security
6 9 (1.50%) TCP/IP
7 4 (0.67%) AMQP
7 4 (0.67%) Intrusion Detection
7 4 (0.67%) MQTT
7 4 (0.67%) SD-WAN
7 4 (0.67%) WAN
8 3 (0.50%) HTTP
8 3 (0.50%) Internet
8 3 (0.50%) RTP
8 3 (0.50%) SCCP
8 3 (0.50%) Unified Communications
8 3 (0.50%) VoIP
8 3 (0.50%) Wireshark
9 2 (0.33%) iSCSI
Database & Business Intelligence
1 71 (11.85%) PostgreSQL
2 61 (10.18%) NoSQL
3 42 (7.01%) SQL Server
4 41 (6.84%) Relational Database
5 40 (6.68%) MongoDB
6 29 (4.84%) Amazon RDS
7 19 (3.17%) MySQL
7 19 (3.17%) RDBMS
8 12 (2.00%) Azure SQL Database
9 10 (1.67%) Elasticsearch
9 10 (1.67%) Flink
10 9 (1.50%) BigQuery
11 8 (1.34%) Amazon Aurora
12 7 (1.17%) Redis
13 5 (0.83%) Power BI
14 4 (0.67%) Data Warehouse
14 4 (0.67%) GIS
14 4 (0.67%) QGIS
15 3 (0.50%) DynamoDB
15 3 (0.50%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 83 (13.86%) TeamCity
2 71 (11.85%) Jenkins
3 68 (11.35%) Git
4 59 (9.85%) GitLab
5 19 (3.17%) Jaeger
6 14 (2.34%) Cucumber
7 12 (2.00%) Selenium
7 12 (2.00%) Visual Studio Code
8 10 (1.67%) JMeter
8 10 (1.67%) JUnit
9 9 (1.50%) JIRA
9 9 (1.50%) SonarQube
10 6 (1.00%) Bitbucket
10 6 (1.00%) CircleCI
10 6 (1.00%) Locust
10 6 (1.00%) Visual Studio
11 5 (0.83%) Robot Framework
12 4 (0.67%) MLflow
13 3 (0.50%) Eclipse
13 3 (0.50%) REST Assured
General
1 147 (24.54%) Finance
2 137 (22.87%) Social Skills
3 100 (16.69%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 98 (16.36%) Banking
5 95 (15.86%) Retail
6 90 (15.03%) Law
7 55 (9.18%) Financial Institution
8 46 (7.68%) Back Office
9 35 (5.84%) Public Sector
10 23 (3.84%) Telecoms
11 17 (2.84%) Analytical Skills
12 13 (2.17%) Front Office
13 10 (1.67%) Legal
14 8 (1.34%) Organisational Skills
15 7 (1.17%) Military
16 5 (0.83%) Advertising
16 5 (0.83%) Esports
16 5 (0.83%) Manufacturing
17 4 (0.67%) Aviation
17 4 (0.67%) Tech for Good
Job Titles
1 193 (32.22%) Senior
2 124 (20.70%) Software Engineer
3 118 (19.70%) Lead
4 86 (14.36%) DevOps Engineer
5 85 (14.19%) Developer
6 61 (10.18%) Cloud Engineer
7 49 (8.18%) Platform Engineer
8 48 (8.01%) Azure Engineer
9 46 (7.68%) Senior Software Engineer
10 36 (6.01%) Senior Developer
11 34 (5.68%) Python Engineer
12 33 (5.51%) Infrastructure Engineer
12 33 (5.51%) Java Engineer
13 30 (5.01%) AWS Engineer
14 29 (4.84%) Cloud Platform Engineer
15 26 (4.34%) Java Software Engineer
15 26 (4.34%) Lead DevOps
15 26 (4.34%) Lead Software Engineer
15 26 (4.34%) Senior DevOps
16 23 (3.84%) Team Leader
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 69 (11.52%) .NET
2 67 (11.19%) Kafka
2 67 (11.19%) Spring
3 63 (10.52%) React
4 55 (9.18%) Spring Boot
5 50 (8.35%) RESTful
6 48 (8.01%) REST
7 46 (7.68%) Elastic Stack
8 35 (5.84%) Django
8 35 (5.84%) Node.js
9 27 (4.51%) .NET Core
10 25 (4.17%) Akka
11 24 (4.01%) Flask
12 22 (3.67%) FastAPI
13 21 (3.51%) gRPC
13 21 (3.51%) RabbitMQ
14 20 (3.34%) OAuth
14 20 (3.34%) OpenTelemetry
15 19 (3.17%) AngularJS
16 14 (2.34%) JSON
Miscellaneous
1 188 (31.39%) Cloud Native
2 45 (7.51%) Product Ownership
3 44 (7.35%) Distributed Systems
4 25 (4.17%) Blog
5 23 (3.84%) Over-the-Top Content
5 23 (3.84%) Video\Live Streaming
6 19 (3.17%) Private Cloud
7 17 (2.84%) Hybrid Cloud
7 17 (2.84%) Onboarding
8 16 (2.67%) Data Centre
8 16 (2.67%) Legacy Systems
9 14 (2.34%) AI Agents
9 14 (2.34%) Public Cloud
10 12 (2.00%) Security Posture
11 11 (1.84%) Virtual Team
12 8 (1.34%) Fixed Income
13 7 (1.17%) Management Information System
14 6 (1.00%) CUDA
14 6 (1.00%) Distributed Architecture
14 6 (1.00%) Low-Code
Operating Systems
1 134 (22.37%) Linux
2 36 (6.01%) Windows
3 30 (5.01%) Unix
4 23 (3.84%) Android
5 15 (2.50%) Windows Server
6 14 (2.34%) Apple iOS
7 13 (2.17%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
7 13 (2.17%) Ubuntu
8 10 (1.67%) CentOS
9 8 (1.34%) VMS
10 4 (0.67%) Debian
11 3 (0.50%) Windows Server 2016
12 1 (0.17%) Mac OS
Processes & Methodologies
1 372 (62.10%) CI/CD
2 339 (56.59%) DevOps
3 229 (38.23%) Containerisation
4 223 (37.23%) Agile
5 210 (35.06%) Infrastructure as Code
6 176 (29.38%) Microservices
7 168 (28.05%) Software Engineering
8 129 (21.54%) Test Automation
9 122 (20.37%) Continuous Improvement
9 122 (20.37%) Mentoring
10 95 (15.86%) Platform Engineering
11 94 (15.69%) Clean Code
12 91 (15.19%) Observability
12 91 (15.19%) Problem-Solving
13 86 (14.36%) Deployment Automation
14 80 (13.36%) AI
15 75 (12.52%) Site Reliability Engineering
16 70 (11.69%) TDD
17 67 (11.19%) Infrastructure Engineering
18 64 (10.68%) High Availability
Programming Languages
1 246 (41.07%) Python
2 194 (32.39%) Java
3 96 (16.03%) Go
4 91 (15.19%) JavaScript
5 87 (14.52%) SQL
6 71 (11.85%) Bash
7 59 (9.85%) C#
8 46 (7.68%) TypeScript
9 45 (7.51%) PowerShell
10 30 (5.01%) Scala
11 29 (4.84%) Bicep
12 14 (2.34%) C++
13 8 (1.34%) Delphi
14 6 (1.00%) PHP
14 6 (1.00%) Rust
14 6 (1.00%) Shell Script
15 5 (0.83%) C
16 4 (0.67%) Perl
17 3 (0.50%) Korn
18 2 (0.33%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 77 (12.85%) Degree
2 73 (12.19%) Security Cleared
3 56 (9.35%) SC Cleared
4 46 (7.68%) Computer Science Degree
5 39 (6.51%) Azure Certification
6 33 (5.51%) AWS Certification
7 16 (2.67%) DV Cleared
8 8 (1.34%) CREST Certified
8 8 (1.34%) OSCP
9 6 (1.00%) Microsoft Certification
10 5 (0.83%) CISSP
10 5 (0.83%) GIAC
10 5 (0.83%) ISACA
10 5 (0.83%) SANS
11 3 (0.50%) LPIC
12 2 (0.33%) ISTQB
12 2 (0.33%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
12 2 (0.33%) ITIL Certification
12 2 (0.33%) Linux+ Certification
12 2 (0.33%) Master's Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 37 (6.18%) QA
2 21 (3.51%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 18 (3.01%) PCI DSS
4 17 (2.84%) NIST
5 12 (2.00%) Accessibility
6 10 (1.67%) SOC 2
7 9 (1.50%) Data Quality
7 9 (1.50%) GDPR
8 5 (0.83%) WCAG
9 4 (0.67%) GRC
10 3 (0.50%) ISO 9001
10 3 (0.50%) SLA
11 2 (0.33%) ECSS
11 2 (0.33%) Software Quality Assurance
12 1 (0.17%) ISO/IEC 42001
12 1 (0.17%) MiFID
System Software
1 348 (58.10%) Docker
2 27 (4.51%) Active Directory
3 14 (2.34%) VMware Infrastructure
4 13 (2.17%) Virtual Machines
5 7 (1.17%) VMware NSX
6 5 (0.83%) Firmware
7 4 (0.67%) Hyper-V
7 4 (0.67%) Slurm Workload Manager
8 3 (0.50%) Citrix Hypervisor
8 3 (0.50%) Kamailio
8 3 (0.50%) vSphere
9 1 (0.17%) KVM
9 1 (0.17%) QEMU
9 1 (0.17%) vCloud
9 1 (0.17%) Virtual Desktop
9 1 (0.17%) Xen
Systems Management
1 312 (52.09%) Terraform
2 139 (23.21%) Grafana
3 121 (20.20%) Ansible
4 83 (13.86%) Prometheus
5 45 (7.51%) Argo
6 19 (3.17%) Kustomize
7 17 (2.84%) Puppet
8 8 (1.34%) Istio
8 8 (1.34%) Progress Chef
9 7 (1.17%) Proxmox
9 7 (1.17%) ZABBIX
10 6 (1.00%) Active Directory Federation Services
10 6 (1.00%) Packer
11 5 (0.83%) Kibana
11 5 (0.83%) Microsoft Intune
12 4 (0.67%) Cilium
12 4 (0.67%) logstash
13 2 (0.33%) FortiGate
13 2 (0.33%) MIIS
13 2 (0.33%) Nagios
Vendors
1 68 (11.35%) Microsoft
2 36 (6.01%) Google
3 32 (5.34%) VMware
4 22 (3.67%) Oracle
5 18 (3.01%) Red Hat
6 15 (2.50%) Splunk
7 10 (1.67%) Dell
8 9 (1.50%) Cisco
8 9 (1.50%) Okta
9 8 (1.34%) Confluent
9 8 (1.34%) Databricks
10 7 (1.17%) EMC
10 7 (1.17%) F5
10 7 (1.17%) Palo Alto
10 7 (1.17%) SAP
11 6 (1.00%) IBM
11 6 (1.00%) ServiceNow
12 5 (0.83%) Ericsson
12 5 (0.83%) Informatica
12 5 (0.83%) Software AG