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 10 August 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
10 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 76 68 71
Rank change year-on-year -8 +3 -43
Permanent jobs citing Kubernetes 743 827 926
As % of all permanent jobs with remote/hybrid work options 3.27% 5.01% 3.73%
As % of the Systems Management category 38.84% 42.35% 34.02%
Number of salaries quoted 531 399 712
10th Percentile £46,250 £50,000 £52,500
25th Percentile £52,500 £60,000 £60,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £77,500 £75,000
Median % change year-on-year -16.13% +3.33% -
75th Percentile £82,500 £93,778 £95,000
90th Percentile £100,000 £115,000 £117,500
UK median annual salary £70,000 £78,810 £77,500
% change year-on-year -11.18% +1.69% +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 1,913 1,953 2,722
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 8.43% 11.82% 10.96%
Number of salaries quoted 1,406 1,121 1,933
10th Percentile £37,250 £35,000 £36,750
25th Percentile £48,750 £47,500 £48,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £62,500 £67,037 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year -6.77% +3.13% -7.14%
75th Percentile £78,750 £83,750 £85,000
90th Percentile £97,500 £100,000 £102,500
UK median annual salary £64,809 £65,000 £65,000
% change year-on-year -0.29% - -2.99%

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 10 August 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 (1.48%) Apache Spark
2 7 (0.94%) Apache Airflow
2 7 (0.94%) Oracle SOA Suite
3 6 (0.81%) IIS
4 5 (0.67%) Confluence
4 5 (0.67%) nginx
4 5 (0.67%) OpenStack
5 4 (0.54%) Camunda
6 2 (0.27%) Apache
6 2 (0.27%) ArcGIS
6 2 (0.27%) GeoServer
6 2 (0.27%) Microsoft Exchange
6 2 (0.27%) Oracle Spatial
7 1 (0.13%) Cloud Foundry
7 1 (0.13%) JBoss
7 1 (0.13%) Oracle Coherence
7 1 (0.13%) Red Hat Fuse
Applications
1 3 (0.40%) Chatbot
2 1 (0.13%) Lightworks
Business Applications
1 2 (0.27%) SAP S/4HANA
2 1 (0.13%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
Cloud Services
1 425 (57.20%) Azure
2 413 (55.59%) AWS
3 200 (26.92%) GitHub
4 194 (26.11%) GCP
5 141 (18.98%) GitHub Copilot
6 90 (12.11%) Amazon EKS
7 80 (10.77%) SaaS
8 76 (10.23%) Azure AI
9 61 (8.21%) Serverless
10 47 (6.33%) AWS CloudFormation
11 46 (6.19%) Azure DevOps
11 46 (6.19%) GitHub Actions
12 45 (6.06%) Azure AKS
13 38 (5.11%) OpenShift
14 32 (4.31%) Amazon EC2
15 29 (3.90%) Amazon S3
16 23 (3.10%) Azure Service Bus
16 23 (3.10%) PaaS
17 22 (2.96%) AWS Lambda
18 21 (2.83%) Datadog
Communications & Networking
1 26 (3.50%) DNS
1 26 (3.50%) Firewall
2 20 (2.69%) Internet
2 20 (2.69%) VPN
3 18 (2.42%) Broadband
4 15 (2.02%) TCP/IP
5 10 (1.35%) DHCP
6 8 (1.08%) VLAN
7 7 (0.94%) BGP
7 7 (0.94%) Network Security
8 6 (0.81%) OSPF
8 6 (0.81%) VXLAN
9 4 (0.54%) HTTP
9 4 (0.54%) WAN
10 3 (0.40%) MQTT
10 3 (0.40%) SAN
11 2 (0.27%) LAN
11 2 (0.27%) Remote Desktop
11 2 (0.27%) SSL
11 2 (0.27%) WireGuard
Database & Business Intelligence
1 157 (21.13%) MongoDB
2 141 (18.98%) Azure SQL Database
3 72 (9.69%) PostgreSQL
4 50 (6.73%) Elasticsearch
5 31 (4.17%) NoSQL
6 30 (4.04%) SQL Server
7 27 (3.63%) MySQL
8 25 (3.36%) Relational Database
9 22 (2.96%) Amazon RDS
10 10 (1.35%) Data Warehouse
11 6 (0.81%) Delta Lake
11 6 (0.81%) DynamoDB
11 6 (0.81%) Redis
12 5 (0.67%) Metadata
13 4 (0.54%) Power BI
13 4 (0.54%) Tableau
14 3 (0.40%) Apache Cassandra
14 3 (0.40%) Big Data
14 3 (0.40%) BigQuery
14 3 (0.40%) Hadoop
Development Applications
1 101 (13.59%) Git
2 55 (7.40%) TeamCity
3 52 (7.00%) Jenkins
4 50 (6.73%) GitLab
5 27 (3.63%) JUnit
6 18 (2.42%) Maven
7 17 (2.29%) Selenium
8 15 (2.02%) Mockito
9 14 (1.88%) JIRA
10 12 (1.62%) Cucumber
10 12 (1.62%) Postman
10 12 (1.62%) Visual Studio Code
11 9 (1.21%) Atlassian Bamboo
11 9 (1.21%) Bitbucket
12 7 (0.94%) SonarQube
13 6 (0.81%) Gatling
13 6 (0.81%) Octopus Deploy
14 5 (0.67%) JMeter
14 5 (0.67%) Locust
14 5 (0.67%) Subversion
General
1 177 (23.82%) Finance
2 134 (18.03%) Social Skills
3 79 (10.63%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 77 (10.36%) Banking
5 74 (9.96%) Law
5 74 (9.96%) Retail
6 57 (7.67%) Public Sector
7 42 (5.65%) Financial Institution
8 41 (5.52%) Back Office
9 38 (5.11%) Advertising
10 23 (3.10%) Analytical Skills
11 21 (2.83%) Marketing
12 19 (2.56%) Aerospace
13 13 (1.75%) Games
14 10 (1.35%) Legal
15 8 (1.08%) Organisational Skills
16 6 (0.81%) Military
16 6 (0.81%) Telecoms
17 3 (0.40%) Front Office
17 3 (0.40%) Manufacturing
Job Titles
1 215 (28.94%) Developer
2 200 (26.92%) Senior
3 135 (18.17%) .NET Developer
4 120 (16.15%) Software Engineer
5 80 (10.77%) Lead
6 78 (10.50%) DevOps Engineer
7 56 (7.54%) Cloud Engineer
8 49 (6.59%) Platform Engineer
9 46 (6.19%) Architect
10 45 (6.06%) Azure Engineer
11 42 (5.65%) Senior Developer
12 34 (4.58%) Java Developer
12 34 (4.58%) Senior Software Engineer
13 31 (4.17%) Lead Software Engineer
14 29 (3.90%) Senior DevOps
15 28 (3.77%) Cloud Platform Engineer
16 27 (3.63%) AWS Engineer
17 25 (3.36%) Java Engineer
18 24 (3.23%) Senior DevOps Engineer
18 24 (3.23%) Team Leader
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 205 (27.59%) .NET
2 142 (19.11%) .NET Core
2 142 (19.11%) ASP.NET
3 136 (18.30%) ASP.NET Core
4 83 (11.17%) AngularJS
4 83 (11.17%) React
5 81 (10.90%) CSS
5 81 (10.90%) HTML
5 81 (10.90%) Node.js
6 74 (9.96%) ML.NET
7 69 (9.29%) Vue
8 68 (9.15%) Spring
9 63 (8.48%) REST
10 57 (7.67%) Kafka
11 49 (6.59%) RESTful
12 42 (5.65%) Spring Boot
13 28 (3.77%) Blazor
14 24 (3.23%) OAuth
14 24 (3.23%) OpenID
15 22 (2.96%) Django
Miscellaneous
1 200 (26.92%) Cloud Native
2 58 (7.81%) Distributed Systems
3 48 (6.46%) Product Ownership
4 23 (3.10%) Greenfield Project
5 20 (2.69%) Digital TV
6 19 (2.56%) Blog
7 17 (2.29%) Hybrid Cloud
8 16 (2.15%) Data Centre
8 16 (2.15%) Public Cloud
9 15 (2.02%) AI Agents
9 15 (2.02%) Legacy Systems
9 15 (2.02%) Private Cloud
10 13 (1.75%) Management Information System
11 12 (1.62%) Self-Motivation
12 11 (1.48%) IoT
13 8 (1.08%) Enterprise Software
13 8 (1.08%) Mobile App
13 8 (1.08%) Virtual Team
14 7 (0.94%) Onboarding
14 7 (0.94%) PKI
Operating Systems
1 135 (18.17%) Linux
2 43 (5.79%) Windows
3 23 (3.10%) Windows Server
4 14 (1.88%) Ubuntu
5 9 (1.21%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 7 (0.94%) Android
6 7 (0.94%) Apple iOS
7 6 (0.81%) Debian
8 5 (0.67%) CentOS
9 3 (0.40%) VMS
10 2 (0.27%) Mac OS
10 2 (0.27%) Windows Server 2016
Processes & Methodologies
1 492 (66.22%) CI/CD
2 302 (40.65%) DevOps
3 275 (37.01%) Agile
4 247 (33.24%) Microservices
5 227 (30.55%) Infrastructure as Code
6 205 (27.59%) AI
7 204 (27.46%) Containerisation
8 198 (26.65%) Full-Stack Development
8 198 (26.65%) Software Engineering
9 190 (25.57%) Mentoring
10 134 (18.03%) Continuous Improvement
10 134 (18.03%) Test Automation
11 124 (16.69%) Observability
12 116 (15.61%) Machine Learning
13 113 (15.21%) Platform Engineering
14 108 (14.54%) TDD
15 104 (14.00%) Problem-Solving
16 101 (13.59%) Clean Code
17 87 (11.71%) Scrum
18 80 (10.77%) Deployment Automation
Programming Languages
1 229 (30.82%) Python
2 220 (29.61%) SQL
3 218 (29.34%) C#
4 171 (23.01%) Java
5 114 (15.34%) TypeScript
6 82 (11.04%) JavaScript
7 74 (9.96%) Bash
8 71 (9.56%) PowerShell
9 46 (6.19%) Go
10 22 (2.96%) Bicep
11 15 (2.02%) PL/SQL
12 13 (1.75%) Scala
13 11 (1.48%) PHP
14 8 (1.08%) Ruby
15 7 (0.94%) Groovy
15 7 (0.94%) Kotlin
16 4 (0.54%) C++
16 4 (0.54%) Rust
17 3 (0.40%) T-SQL
17 3 (0.40%) VB.NET
Qualifications
1 110 (14.80%) Security Cleared
2 90 (12.11%) SC Cleared
3 62 (8.34%) Degree
4 46 (6.19%) Azure Certification
5 28 (3.77%) Computer Science Degree
6 18 (2.42%) AWS Certification
7 15 (2.02%) DV Cleared
8 10 (1.35%) CISSP
9 8 (1.08%) GIAC
10 5 (0.67%) BPSS Clearance
10 5 (0.67%) CISM
10 5 (0.67%) CREST Certified
10 5 (0.67%) ISACA
10 5 (0.67%) OSCP
11 4 (0.54%) CEH
11 4 (0.54%) Microsoft Certification
11 4 (0.54%) OCP
11 4 (0.54%) Oracle Certification
11 4 (0.54%) SANS
12 3 (0.40%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 40 (5.38%) QA
2 26 (3.50%) Accessibility
3 20 (2.69%) NIST
4 13 (1.75%) WCAG
5 11 (1.48%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 7 (0.94%) PCI DSS
7 5 (0.67%) Data Quality
7 5 (0.67%) SOC 2
8 4 (0.54%) Cyber Essentials
9 3 (0.40%) ISO 9001
10 2 (0.27%) GDPR
10 2 (0.27%) NCSC
11 1 (0.13%) California Consumer Privacy Act
11 1 (0.13%) HIPAA
11 1 (0.13%) ISO 22301
11 1 (0.13%) ISO/IEC 42001
11 1 (0.13%) PSD2
11 1 (0.13%) SEPA
11 1 (0.13%) SLA
System Software
1 476 (64.06%) Docker
2 31 (4.17%) Active Directory
3 20 (2.69%) Virtual Machines
4 19 (2.56%) VMware Infrastructure
5 4 (0.54%) Firmware
5 4 (0.54%) Slurm Workload Manager
6 3 (0.40%) Citrix Hypervisor
6 3 (0.40%) iptables
7 1 (0.13%) Hyper-V
7 1 (0.13%) KVM
7 1 (0.13%) QEMU
7 1 (0.13%) Virtual Servers
7 1 (0.13%) Xen
Systems Management
1 290 (39.03%) Terraform
2 112 (15.07%) Grafana
3 90 (12.11%) Ansible
4 52 (7.00%) Prometheus
5 26 (3.50%) Argo
6 24 (3.23%) Istio
7 20 (2.69%) Puppet
8 13 (1.75%) Progress Chef
9 7 (0.94%) Packer
10 6 (0.81%) Active Directory Federation Services
10 6 (0.81%) FortiGate
10 6 (0.81%) Kustomize
10 6 (0.81%) Microsoft Intune
11 4 (0.54%) Kibana
11 4 (0.54%) linkerd
12 3 (0.40%) Proxmox
12 3 (0.40%) ZABBIX
13 2 (0.27%) SCCM
13 2 (0.27%) SCOM
13 2 (0.27%) WSUS
Vendors
1 213 (28.67%) Microsoft
2 41 (5.52%) Google
3 30 (4.04%) Oracle
4 25 (3.36%) VMware
5 22 (2.96%) Okta
5 22 (2.96%) Red Hat
6 21 (2.83%) Facebook
7 16 (2.15%) Splunk
8 14 (1.88%) Ping Identity
9 13 (1.75%) OpenAI
10 12 (1.62%) Palo Alto
10 12 (1.62%) ServiceNow
11 9 (1.21%) Databricks
12 8 (1.08%) Cisco
12 8 (1.08%) Confluent
12 8 (1.08%) ForgeRock
13 7 (0.94%) Dynatrace
13 7 (0.94%) EMC
13 7 (0.94%) Fortinet
14 6 (0.81%) Zscaler