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 5 June 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
5 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 78 46 63
Rank change year-on-year -32 +17 -37
Permanent jobs citing Kubernetes 607 945 1,366
As % of all permanent jobs with remote/hybrid work options 3.15% 6.36% 4.07%
As % of the Systems Management category 38.84% 45.92% 37.05%
Number of salaries quoted 379 499 1,145
10th Percentile £47,844 £50,000 £50,000
25th Percentile £56,250 £60,000 £59,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £67,500 £80,000 £75,000
Median % change year-on-year -15.63% +6.67% -
75th Percentile £83,750 £109,375 £93,750
90th Percentile £104,000 £138,750 £115,000
UK median annual salary £72,500 £80,000 £75,000
% change year-on-year -9.38% +6.67% -

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 1,563 2,058 3,687
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 8.10% 13.84% 10.97%
Number of salaries quoted 1,077 1,193 2,863
10th Percentile £36,250 £36,250 £36,500
25th Percentile £46,446 £49,750 £47,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £62,500 £67,500 £64,000
Median % change year-on-year -7.41% +5.47% -8.57%
75th Percentile £78,750 £87,500 £83,750
90th Percentile £95,000 £115,000 £102,500
UK median annual salary £65,000 £67,500 £60,500
% change year-on-year -3.70% +11.57% -10.37%

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 5 June 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 9 (1.48%) OpenStack
2 7 (1.15%) Apache Airflow
3 6 (0.99%) Apache Spark
4 3 (0.49%) ArcGIS
4 3 (0.49%) GeoServer
4 3 (0.49%) Microsoft Exchange
4 3 (0.49%) Oracle Spatial
5 2 (0.33%) Apache
5 2 (0.33%) Camunda
5 2 (0.33%) Confluence
5 2 (0.33%) Oracle SOA Suite
6 1 (0.16%) Apache Pulsar
6 1 (0.16%) Cloud Foundry
6 1 (0.16%) IIS
6 1 (0.16%) JBoss
6 1 (0.16%) Red Hat Fuse
6 1 (0.16%) SAS
6 1 (0.16%) SharePoint
Applications
1 4 (0.66%) Weka
2 1 (0.16%) Chatbot
2 1 (0.16%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 2 (0.33%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 361 (59.47%) AWS
2 273 (44.98%) Azure
3 160 (26.36%) GCP
4 112 (18.45%) GitHub
5 108 (17.79%) Amazon EKS
6 74 (12.19%) SaaS
7 66 (10.87%) Serverless
8 52 (8.57%) GitHub Copilot
9 48 (7.91%) GitHub Actions
10 44 (7.25%) AWS CloudFormation
11 40 (6.59%) Azure AKS
12 34 (5.60%) Amazon EC2
12 34 (5.60%) Amazon S3
12 34 (5.60%) Azure DevOps
13 30 (4.94%) OpenShift
14 29 (4.78%) Azure AI
15 27 (4.45%) Amazon ECS
15 27 (4.45%) AWS Lambda
16 25 (4.12%) Amazon CloudWatch
17 24 (3.95%) Pulumi
Communications & Networking
1 51 (8.40%) Broadband
2 30 (4.94%) Firewall
3 22 (3.62%) DNS
4 20 (3.29%) VPN
5 13 (2.14%) TCP/IP
6 10 (1.65%) DHCP
7 8 (1.32%) Network Security
8 7 (1.15%) Internet
8 7 (1.15%) VLAN
9 5 (0.82%) BGP
9 5 (0.82%) WAN
10 4 (0.66%) MQTT
10 4 (0.66%) OSPF
10 4 (0.66%) VXLAN
11 3 (0.49%) HTTP
11 3 (0.49%) RTP
11 3 (0.49%) SAN
11 3 (0.49%) SCCP
11 3 (0.49%) VoIP
11 3 (0.49%) Wireshark
Database & Business Intelligence
1 76 (12.52%) MongoDB
2 69 (11.37%) PostgreSQL
3 49 (8.07%) NoSQL
4 48 (7.91%) Azure SQL Database
5 42 (6.92%) Relational Database
6 27 (4.45%) SQL Server
7 26 (4.28%) Amazon RDS
8 23 (3.79%) MySQL
9 21 (3.46%) Elasticsearch
10 18 (2.97%) RDBMS
11 9 (1.48%) BigQuery
12 7 (1.15%) Redis
13 6 (0.99%) DynamoDB
14 4 (0.66%) Amazon Aurora
15 3 (0.49%) Apache Cassandra
15 3 (0.49%) GIS
15 3 (0.49%) QGIS
16 2 (0.33%) InfluxDB
16 2 (0.33%) MariaDB
16 2 (0.33%) Neo4j
Development Applications
1 78 (12.85%) TeamCity
2 75 (12.36%) Git
3 66 (10.87%) Jenkins
4 55 (9.06%) GitLab
5 18 (2.97%) Jaeger
6 14 (2.31%) JUnit
7 12 (1.98%) Maven
7 12 (1.98%) Visual Studio Code
8 10 (1.65%) JIRA
9 9 (1.48%) Mockito
10 8 (1.32%) Cucumber
11 7 (1.15%) JMeter
12 6 (0.99%) Bitbucket
12 6 (0.99%) Selenium
12 6 (0.99%) Visual Studio
13 5 (0.82%) Atlassian Bamboo
13 5 (0.82%) Locust
13 5 (0.82%) Postman
14 4 (0.66%) CircleCI
14 4 (0.66%) SonarQube
General
1 140 (23.06%) Finance
2 120 (19.77%) Social Skills
3 100 (16.47%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 88 (14.50%) Retail
5 85 (14.00%) Banking
6 82 (13.51%) Law
7 42 (6.92%) Financial Institution
8 38 (6.26%) Public Sector
9 37 (6.10%) Back Office
10 17 (2.80%) Analytical Skills
11 14 (2.31%) Advertising
12 9 (1.48%) Organisational Skills
13 8 (1.32%) Aerospace
14 6 (0.99%) Aviation
14 6 (0.99%) Games
14 6 (0.99%) Legal
14 6 (0.99%) Military
14 6 (0.99%) Telecoms
15 5 (0.82%) Front Office
15 5 (0.82%) Marketing
Job Titles
1 183 (30.15%) Senior
2 128 (21.09%) Developer
3 112 (18.45%) Software Engineer
4 107 (17.63%) Lead
5 72 (11.86%) DevOps Engineer
6 57 (9.39%) Cloud Engineer
7 49 (8.07%) Platform Engineer
8 47 (7.74%) .NET Developer
9 40 (6.59%) Azure Engineer
10 37 (6.10%) Senior Developer
10 37 (6.10%) Senior Software Engineer
11 31 (5.11%) Java Developer
11 31 (5.11%) Java Engineer
11 31 (5.11%) Senior DevOps
12 30 (4.94%) AWS Engineer
12 30 (4.94%) Cloud Platform Engineer
13 29 (4.78%) Team Leader
14 28 (4.61%) Lead Software Engineer
15 25 (4.12%) Python Engineer
16 23 (3.79%) Java Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 97 (15.98%) .NET
2 69 (11.37%) React
3 65 (10.71%) Spring
4 63 (10.38%) .NET Core
5 56 (9.23%) Kafka
6 51 (8.40%) ASP.NET
6 51 (8.40%) REST
7 49 (8.07%) ASP.NET Core
7 49 (8.07%) Node.js
8 45 (7.41%) Spring Boot
9 38 (6.26%) AngularJS
10 36 (5.93%) RESTful
11 30 (4.94%) CSS
11 30 (4.94%) HTML
11 30 (4.94%) Vue
12 28 (4.61%) Elastic Stack
13 26 (4.28%) Django
13 26 (4.28%) ML.NET
14 25 (4.12%) OpenTelemetry
15 23 (3.79%) Akka
Miscellaneous
1 184 (30.31%) Cloud Native
2 48 (7.91%) Distributed Systems
3 47 (7.74%) Product Ownership
4 24 (3.95%) Blog
5 22 (3.62%) Over-the-Top Content
5 22 (3.62%) Video\Live Streaming
6 18 (2.97%) Hybrid Cloud
6 18 (2.97%) Private Cloud
7 16 (2.64%) Data Centre
8 13 (2.14%) Public Cloud
9 11 (1.81%) Onboarding
10 10 (1.65%) Greenfield Project
10 10 (1.65%) Security Posture
11 9 (1.48%) Digital TV
11 9 (1.48%) Management Information System
12 7 (1.15%) AI Agents
12 7 (1.15%) Self-Motivation
13 6 (0.99%) Algorithms
13 6 (0.99%) CMDB
13 6 (0.99%) Legacy Systems
Operating Systems
1 132 (21.75%) Linux
2 32 (5.27%) Windows
3 18 (2.97%) Unix
3 18 (2.97%) Windows Server
4 15 (2.47%) Android
5 14 (2.31%) Ubuntu
6 13 (2.14%) Apple iOS
7 11 (1.81%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
8 7 (1.15%) CentOS
9 5 (0.82%) Debian
10 3 (0.49%) VMS
10 3 (0.49%) Windows Server 2016
11 2 (0.33%) Mac OS
Processes & Methodologies
1 390 (64.25%) CI/CD
2 308 (50.74%) DevOps
3 246 (40.53%) Agile
4 226 (37.23%) Infrastructure as Code
5 199 (32.78%) Containerisation
6 193 (31.80%) Microservices
7 168 (27.68%) Software Engineering
8 159 (26.19%) Mentoring
9 127 (20.92%) Test Automation
10 124 (20.43%) Continuous Improvement
11 117 (19.28%) AI
12 107 (17.63%) Platform Engineering
13 104 (17.13%) Observability
14 99 (16.31%) Full-Stack Development
15 98 (16.14%) Clean Code
16 90 (14.83%) TDD
17 81 (13.34%) Deployment Automation
17 81 (13.34%) Scrum
18 76 (12.52%) Problem-Solving
19 72 (11.86%) Analytics
Programming Languages
1 227 (37.40%) Python
2 187 (30.81%) Java
3 120 (19.77%) SQL
4 103 (16.97%) C#
5 89 (14.66%) JavaScript
6 80 (13.18%) Bash
7 77 (12.69%) TypeScript
8 74 (12.19%) Go
9 54 (8.90%) PowerShell
10 31 (5.11%) Scala
11 17 (2.80%) Bicep
12 10 (1.65%) PHP
12 10 (1.65%) PL/SQL
13 9 (1.48%) C++
14 7 (1.15%) C
14 7 (1.15%) Rust
15 5 (0.82%) Groovy
16 4 (0.66%) Ruby
17 3 (0.49%) Perl
17 3 (0.49%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 87 (14.33%) Security Cleared
2 73 (12.03%) SC Cleared
3 53 (8.73%) Degree
4 46 (7.58%) Azure Certification
5 37 (6.10%) AWS Certification
6 24 (3.95%) Computer Science Degree
7 12 (1.98%) DV Cleared
8 9 (1.48%) CREST Certified
8 9 (1.48%) OSCP
9 7 (1.15%) CISSP
9 7 (1.15%) Microsoft Certification
10 6 (0.99%) GIAC
10 6 (0.99%) ISACA
11 5 (0.82%) SANS
12 2 (0.33%) ISTQB
12 2 (0.33%) ISTQB Advanced Certification
12 2 (0.33%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
12 2 (0.33%) Linux+ Certification
12 2 (0.33%) LPIC
12 2 (0.33%) Master's Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 36 (5.93%) QA
2 19 (3.13%) Accessibility
3 15 (2.47%) NIST
4 14 (2.31%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 10 (1.65%) PCI DSS
6 7 (1.15%) WCAG
7 5 (0.82%) Data Quality
8 4 (0.66%) GDPR
8 4 (0.66%) SOC 2
9 3 (0.49%) ISO 9001
10 2 (0.33%) Software Quality Assurance
11 1 (0.16%) Cyber Essentials
11 1 (0.16%) ISO/IEC 42001
11 1 (0.16%) SLA
System Software
1 360 (59.31%) Docker
2 31 (5.11%) Active Directory
3 19 (3.13%) VMware Infrastructure
4 15 (2.47%) Virtual Machines
5 5 (0.82%) Firmware
5 5 (0.82%) VMware NSX
6 4 (0.66%) Slurm Workload Manager
7 3 (0.49%) Citrix Hypervisor
7 3 (0.49%) Kamailio
8 1 (0.16%) Hyper-V
8 1 (0.16%) iptables
8 1 (0.16%) KVM
8 1 (0.16%) QEMU
8 1 (0.16%) Virtual Desktop
8 1 (0.16%) Virtual Servers
8 1 (0.16%) vSphere
8 1 (0.16%) Xen
Systems Management
1 303 (49.92%) Terraform
2 120 (19.77%) Grafana
3 114 (18.78%) Ansible
4 77 (12.69%) Prometheus
5 47 (7.74%) Argo
6 24 (3.95%) Kustomize
7 18 (2.97%) Puppet
8 17 (2.80%) Istio
9 14 (2.31%) Progress Chef
10 8 (1.32%) Packer
11 7 (1.15%) Microsoft Intune
11 7 (1.15%) Proxmox
11 7 (1.15%) ZABBIX
12 6 (0.99%) Active Directory Federation Services
13 5 (0.82%) FortiGate
14 4 (0.66%) Kibana
15 2 (0.33%) MIIS
15 2 (0.33%) Nagios
15 2 (0.33%) Podman
16 1 (0.16%) Graylog
Vendors
1 113 (18.62%) Microsoft
2 40 (6.59%) Google
3 33 (5.44%) VMware
4 20 (3.29%) Red Hat
5 18 (2.97%) Oracle
6 11 (1.81%) Splunk
7 10 (1.65%) Palo Alto
7 10 (1.65%) ServiceNow
8 9 (1.48%) Fortinet
8 9 (1.48%) Okta
9 8 (1.32%) Cisco
9 8 (1.32%) Confluent
10 7 (1.15%) EMC
10 7 (1.15%) OpenAI
11 6 (0.99%) Citrix
11 6 (0.99%) Databricks
11 6 (0.99%) F5
12 5 (0.82%) Facebook
12 5 (0.82%) ForgeRock
12 5 (0.82%) HubSpot