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

6 months to
9 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 77 36 62
Rank change year-on-year -41 +26 -36
Permanent jobs citing Kubernetes 579 1,038 1,386
As % of all permanent jobs with remote/hybrid work options 3.16% 7.22% 4.26%
As % of the Systems Management category 38.32% 53.78% 37.13%
Number of salaries quoted 368 600 1,166
10th Percentile £51,250 £51,194 £50,000
25th Percentile £58,750 £60,000 £59,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £70,000 £80,000 £75,000
Median % change year-on-year -12.50% +6.67% -
75th Percentile £86,250 £115,000 £91,934
90th Percentile £107,500 £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 1,511 1,930 3,733
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 8.24% 13.43% 11.48%
Number of salaries quoted 1,028 1,325 2,951
10th Percentile £37,500 £39,821 £37,101
25th Percentile £48,750 £51,250 £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 £67,500 £60,000
% change year-on-year -3.70% +12.50% -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 9 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 (1.73%) Apache Airflow
1 10 (1.73%) Apache Spark
1 10 (1.73%) OpenStack
2 4 (0.69%) ArcGIS
2 4 (0.69%) GeoServer
2 4 (0.69%) Microsoft Exchange
2 4 (0.69%) Oracle Spatial
3 3 (0.52%) Apache Pulsar
3 3 (0.52%) Confluence
4 2 (0.35%) Apache
4 2 (0.35%) Camunda
4 2 (0.35%) nginx
5 1 (0.17%) Cloud Foundry
5 1 (0.17%) IIS
5 1 (0.17%) JBoss
5 1 (0.17%) Red Hat Fuse
5 1 (0.17%) SAS
5 1 (0.17%) SharePoint
Applications
1 4 (0.69%) Weka
2 2 (0.35%) Chatbot
3 1 (0.17%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 1 (0.17%) Actimize
Cloud Services
1 340 (58.72%) AWS
2 260 (44.91%) Azure
3 159 (27.46%) GCP
4 111 (19.17%) Amazon EKS
5 103 (17.79%) GitHub
6 72 (12.44%) SaaS
7 68 (11.74%) Serverless
8 60 (10.36%) GitHub Actions
9 43 (7.43%) AWS CloudFormation
10 40 (6.91%) Azure AKS
11 39 (6.74%) Azure DevOps
12 36 (6.22%) Amazon EC2
12 36 (6.22%) Amazon S3
13 32 (5.53%) AWS Lambda
14 29 (5.01%) GitHub Copilot
15 28 (4.84%) OpenShift
16 26 (4.49%) Amazon CloudWatch
17 25 (4.32%) Amazon ECS
18 22 (3.80%) Datadog
19 19 (3.28%) Pulumi
Communications & Networking
1 49 (8.46%) Broadband
2 32 (5.53%) Firewall
3 18 (3.11%) DNS
3 18 (3.11%) VPN
4 11 (1.90%) TCP/IP
5 10 (1.73%) DHCP
6 7 (1.21%) Network Security
7 5 (0.86%) VLAN
8 4 (0.69%) AMQP
8 4 (0.69%) MQTT
8 4 (0.69%) WAN
9 3 (0.52%) HTTP
9 3 (0.52%) Internet
9 3 (0.52%) RTP
9 3 (0.52%) SAN
9 3 (0.52%) SCCP
9 3 (0.52%) Unified Communications
9 3 (0.52%) VoIP
9 3 (0.52%) Wireshark
10 2 (0.35%) PuTTY
Database & Business Intelligence
1 66 (11.40%) PostgreSQL
2 60 (10.36%) MongoDB
3 57 (9.84%) NoSQL
4 42 (7.25%) Relational Database
5 38 (6.56%) SQL Server
6 31 (5.35%) Amazon RDS
7 29 (5.01%) Azure SQL Database
8 24 (4.15%) MySQL
9 19 (3.28%) RDBMS
10 16 (2.76%) Elasticsearch
11 9 (1.55%) BigQuery
12 8 (1.38%) Amazon Aurora
13 7 (1.21%) Flink
14 6 (1.04%) DynamoDB
14 6 (1.04%) Redis
15 5 (0.86%) Power BI
16 4 (0.69%) Data Warehouse
16 4 (0.69%) GIS
16 4 (0.69%) QGIS
17 3 (0.52%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 71 (12.26%) TeamCity
2 69 (11.92%) Git
3 64 (11.05%) Jenkins
4 51 (8.81%) GitLab
5 19 (3.28%) Jaeger
6 12 (2.07%) Visual Studio Code
7 10 (1.73%) JIRA
8 9 (1.55%) JMeter
9 7 (1.21%) SonarQube
10 6 (1.04%) CircleCI
10 6 (1.04%) Cucumber
10 6 (1.04%) Locust
10 6 (1.04%) Visual Studio
11 5 (0.86%) Bitbucket
11 5 (0.86%) JUnit
11 5 (0.86%) Maven
12 4 (0.69%) MLflow
12 4 (0.69%) Robot Framework
12 4 (0.69%) Selenium
13 3 (0.52%) REST Assured
General
1 134 (23.14%) Finance
2 120 (20.73%) Social Skills
3 87 (15.03%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 81 (13.99%) Banking
4 81 (13.99%) Retail
5 72 (12.44%) Law
6 38 (6.56%) Financial Institution
7 35 (6.04%) Public Sector
8 32 (5.53%) Back Office
9 16 (2.76%) Analytical Skills
9 16 (2.76%) Telecoms
10 10 (1.73%) Front Office
10 10 (1.73%) Organisational Skills
11 9 (1.55%) Advertising
12 7 (1.21%) Military
13 5 (0.86%) Legal
13 5 (0.86%) Marketing
14 4 (0.69%) Aerospace
14 4 (0.69%) Games
14 4 (0.69%) Manufacturing
Job Titles
1 182 (31.43%) Senior
2 109 (18.83%) Lead
3 108 (18.65%) Software Engineer
4 103 (17.79%) Developer
5 74 (12.78%) DevOps Engineer
6 51 (8.81%) Cloud Engineer
7 48 (8.29%) Azure Engineer
8 47 (8.12%) Platform Engineer
9 37 (6.39%) Senior Software Engineer
10 32 (5.53%) Senior Developer
11 30 (5.18%) Java Developer
11 30 (5.18%) Java Engineer
12 29 (5.01%) Cloud Platform Engineer
13 28 (4.84%) AWS Engineer
13 28 (4.84%) Python Engineer
13 28 (4.84%) Senior DevOps
14 27 (4.66%) Lead Software Engineer
15 25 (4.32%) .NET Developer
15 25 (4.32%) Team Leader
16 24 (4.15%) Infrastructure Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 81 (13.99%) .NET
2 64 (11.05%) Kafka
2 64 (11.05%) React
3 58 (10.02%) Spring
4 46 (7.94%) Node.js
4 46 (7.94%) Spring Boot
5 43 (7.43%) REST
6 41 (7.08%) .NET Core
7 40 (6.91%) RESTful
8 35 (6.04%) Elastic Stack
9 30 (5.18%) AngularJS
10 29 (5.01%) ASP.NET
11 27 (4.66%) ASP.NET Core
12 25 (4.32%) Django
13 23 (3.97%) Akka
13 23 (3.97%) OpenTelemetry
14 20 (3.45%) FastAPI
14 20 (3.45%) Vue
15 19 (3.28%) CSS
15 19 (3.28%) RabbitMQ
Miscellaneous
1 173 (29.88%) Cloud Native
2 47 (8.12%) Product Ownership
3 44 (7.60%) Distributed Systems
4 22 (3.80%) Over-the-Top Content
4 22 (3.80%) Video\Live Streaming
5 20 (3.45%) Blog
6 18 (3.11%) Private Cloud
7 17 (2.94%) Hybrid Cloud
8 15 (2.59%) Data Centre
9 14 (2.42%) Onboarding
10 13 (2.25%) AI Agents
11 12 (2.07%) Public Cloud
12 9 (1.55%) Legacy Systems
12 9 (1.55%) Security Posture
13 8 (1.38%) Management Information System
14 7 (1.21%) Virtual Team
15 6 (1.04%) Algorithms
15 6 (1.04%) CMDB
15 6 (1.04%) CUDA
15 6 (1.04%) Distributed Architecture
Operating Systems
1 131 (22.63%) Linux
2 38 (6.56%) Windows
3 21 (3.63%) Android
3 21 (3.63%) Unix
4 16 (2.76%) Windows Server
5 14 (2.42%) Apple iOS
6 13 (2.25%) Ubuntu
7 12 (2.07%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
8 9 (1.55%) CentOS
9 7 (1.21%) VMS
10 4 (0.69%) Debian
11 3 (0.52%) Windows Server 2016
12 2 (0.35%) Mac OS
Processes & Methodologies
1 364 (62.87%) CI/CD
2 321 (55.44%) DevOps
3 230 (39.72%) Agile
4 209 (36.10%) Infrastructure as Code
5 197 (34.02%) Containerisation
6 175 (30.22%) Microservices
7 156 (26.94%) Software Engineering
8 135 (23.32%) Mentoring
9 120 (20.73%) Test Automation
10 116 (20.03%) Continuous Improvement
11 96 (16.58%) Observability
12 93 (16.06%) Platform Engineering
13 92 (15.89%) AI
14 90 (15.54%) Clean Code
15 79 (13.64%) Deployment Automation
16 75 (12.95%) Problem-Solving
17 72 (12.44%) Full-Stack Development
18 70 (12.09%) Site Reliability Engineering
18 70 (12.09%) TDD
19 69 (11.92%) Scrum
Programming Languages
1 228 (39.38%) Python
2 173 (29.88%) Java
3 99 (17.10%) SQL
4 91 (15.72%) JavaScript
5 84 (14.51%) Go
6 76 (13.13%) C#
7 72 (12.44%) Bash
8 60 (10.36%) TypeScript
9 48 (8.29%) PowerShell
10 32 (5.53%) Scala
11 24 (4.15%) Bicep
12 14 (2.42%) C++
13 8 (1.38%) PHP
14 7 (1.21%) C
14 7 (1.21%) Rust
15 4 (0.69%) Perl
16 3 (0.52%) Groovy
16 3 (0.52%) PL/SQL
16 3 (0.52%) Ruby
16 3 (0.52%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 79 (13.64%) Security Cleared
2 66 (11.40%) Degree
3 61 (10.54%) SC Cleared
4 44 (7.60%) Azure Certification
5 35 (6.04%) Computer Science Degree
6 31 (5.35%) AWS Certification
7 16 (2.76%) DV Cleared
8 8 (1.38%) CREST Certified
8 8 (1.38%) OSCP
9 6 (1.04%) CISSP
9 6 (1.04%) ISACA
9 6 (1.04%) Microsoft Certification
10 5 (0.86%) GIAC
10 5 (0.86%) 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 42 (7.25%) QA
2 14 (2.42%) Accessibility
2 14 (2.42%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 14 (2.42%) NIST
3 10 (1.73%) Data Quality
3 10 (1.73%) PCI DSS
4 5 (0.86%) WCAG
5 4 (0.69%) GDPR
5 4 (0.69%) SOC 2
6 3 (0.52%) ISO 9001
7 2 (0.35%) Software Quality Assurance
8 1 (0.17%) ISO/IEC 42001
8 1 (0.17%) MiFID
System Software
1 345 (59.59%) Docker
2 32 (5.53%) Active Directory
3 19 (3.28%) VMware Infrastructure
4 13 (2.25%) Virtual Machines
5 6 (1.04%) VMware NSX
6 5 (0.86%) Firmware
7 4 (0.69%) 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
1 304 (52.50%) Terraform
2 121 (20.90%) Ansible
3 117 (20.21%) Grafana
4 78 (13.47%) Prometheus
5 47 (8.12%) Argo
6 23 (3.97%) Kustomize
7 18 (3.11%) Puppet
8 13 (2.25%) Istio
9 11 (1.90%) Progress Chef
10 8 (1.38%) Microsoft Intune
10 8 (1.38%) Packer
11 7 (1.21%) Proxmox
11 7 (1.21%) ZABBIX
12 6 (1.04%) Active Directory Federation Services
13 4 (0.69%) Kibana
13 4 (0.69%) logstash
14 3 (0.52%) FortiGate
15 2 (0.35%) MIIS
15 2 (0.35%) Nagios
15 2 (0.35%) Podman
Vendors
1 82 (14.16%) Microsoft
2 37 (6.39%) Google
3 33 (5.70%) VMware
4 22 (3.80%) Red Hat
5 11 (1.90%) Splunk
6 10 (1.73%) Oracle
7 9 (1.55%) Okta
8 8 (1.38%) Cisco
8 8 (1.38%) Confluent
8 8 (1.38%) Databricks
8 8 (1.38%) Palo Alto
8 8 (1.38%) ServiceNow
9 7 (1.21%) Fortinet
10 6 (1.04%) Citrix
10 6 (1.04%) EMC
10 6 (1.04%) F5
10 6 (1.04%) OpenAI
11 5 (0.86%) AppDynamics
11 5 (0.86%) ForgeRock
12 4 (0.69%) Cribl.io