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 26 September 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
26 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 81 76 61
Rank change year-on-year -5 -15 -32
Permanent jobs citing Kubernetes 770 726 950
As % of all permanent jobs with remote/hybrid work options 3.11% 4.40% 4.15%
As % of the Systems Management category 45.48% 43.16% 41.47%
Number of salaries quoted 512 343 597
10th Percentile £46,250 £48,750 £52,500
25th Percentile £52,500 £58,750 £61,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £72,500 £76,500
Median % change year-on-year -10.34% -5.23% +2.00%
75th Percentile £85,000 £87,500 £95,000
90th Percentile £97,500 £110,000 £117,500
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 1,693 1,682 2,291
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 6.83% 10.18% 10.00%
Number of salaries quoted 1,219 867 1,338
10th Percentile £33,750 £35,000 £36,500
25th Percentile £46,250 £45,000 £47,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £65,000 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year -7.69% - -3.70%
75th Percentile £75,000 £82,500 £86,000
90th Percentile £95,000 £99,250 £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 26 September 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 (1.30%) Apache Spark
2 8 (1.04%) Apache Airflow
3 7 (0.91%) Oracle SOA Suite
4 6 (0.78%) IIS
4 6 (0.78%) nginx
5 5 (0.65%) Confluence
6 4 (0.52%) Apache
6 4 (0.52%) ArcGIS
6 4 (0.52%) Camunda
6 4 (0.52%) GeoServer
6 4 (0.52%) Oracle Spatial
7 2 (0.26%) Ethereum
7 2 (0.26%) Hedera
7 2 (0.26%) OpenStack
8 1 (0.13%) Cloud Foundry
8 1 (0.13%) JBoss
8 1 (0.13%) Microsoft Exchange
8 1 (0.13%) Oracle Coherence
8 1 (0.13%) Red Hat Fuse
Applications
1 12 (1.56%) Chatbot
2 1 (0.13%) Lightworks
Business Applications
1 2 (0.26%) Distributed Ledger
1 2 (0.26%) SAP S/4HANA
2 1 (0.13%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
Cloud Services
1 439 (57.01%) AWS
2 415 (53.90%) Azure
3 230 (29.87%) GCP
4 203 (26.36%) GitHub
5 135 (17.53%) GitHub Copilot
6 102 (13.25%) Amazon EKS
7 101 (13.12%) SaaS
8 72 (9.35%) Azure AI
9 51 (6.62%) Serverless
10 48 (6.23%) GitHub Actions
11 45 (5.84%) Azure AKS
11 45 (5.84%) Azure DevOps
12 43 (5.58%) AWS CloudFormation
13 40 (5.19%) OpenShift
14 26 (3.38%) Amazon EC2
15 21 (2.73%) Azure Service Bus
16 20 (2.60%) Amazon ECS
16 20 (2.60%) Virtual Private Cloud
17 19 (2.47%) Azure Monitor
17 19 (2.47%) PaaS
Communications & Networking
1 25 (3.25%) VPN
2 23 (2.99%) Firewall
3 21 (2.73%) DNS
3 21 (2.73%) Internet
4 17 (2.21%) Broadband
5 15 (1.95%) TCP/IP
6 13 (1.69%) Network Security
7 11 (1.43%) BGP
8 10 (1.30%) VLAN
9 6 (0.78%) DHCP
9 6 (0.78%) OSPF
9 6 (0.78%) VXLAN
10 4 (0.52%) HTTP
10 4 (0.52%) WAN
11 2 (0.26%) SAN
11 2 (0.26%) WireGuard
12 1 (0.13%) iSCSI
12 1 (0.13%) MQTT
12 1 (0.13%) SSL
12 1 (0.13%) Unified Communications
Database & Business Intelligence
1 160 (20.78%) MongoDB
2 138 (17.92%) Azure SQL Database
3 83 (10.78%) PostgreSQL
4 43 (5.58%) Elasticsearch
5 34 (4.42%) NoSQL
6 28 (3.64%) SQL Server
7 26 (3.38%) Amazon RDS
8 25 (3.25%) Relational Database
9 23 (2.99%) MySQL
10 11 (1.43%) Data Warehouse
11 6 (0.78%) BigQuery
11 6 (0.78%) Delta Lake
11 6 (0.78%) DynamoDB
11 6 (0.78%) Redis
12 5 (0.65%) Metadata
12 5 (0.65%) Power BI
12 5 (0.65%) Tableau
13 4 (0.52%) Apache Cassandra
13 4 (0.52%) GIS
13 4 (0.52%) QGIS
Development Applications
1 89 (11.56%) Git
2 80 (10.39%) TeamCity
3 54 (7.01%) Jenkins
4 45 (5.84%) GitLab
5 28 (3.64%) JUnit
6 18 (2.34%) JIRA
6 18 (2.34%) Maven
7 17 (2.21%) Mockito
8 16 (2.08%) Selenium
9 12 (1.56%) Postman
10 10 (1.30%) Atlassian Bamboo
10 10 (1.30%) Bitbucket
11 9 (1.17%) Cucumber
11 9 (1.17%) SonarQube
12 6 (0.78%) Gatling
12 6 (0.78%) Octopus Deploy
12 6 (0.78%) Visual Studio Code
13 5 (0.65%) Subversion
14 4 (0.52%) Vagrant
15 3 (0.39%) Appium
General
1 196 (25.45%) Finance
2 147 (19.09%) Social Skills
3 114 (14.81%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 108 (14.03%) Retail
5 105 (13.64%) Law
6 103 (13.38%) Banking
7 70 (9.09%) Public Sector
8 63 (8.18%) Financial Institution
9 62 (8.05%) Back Office
10 33 (4.29%) Advertising
11 29 (3.77%) Analytical Skills
12 20 (2.60%) Aerospace
13 19 (2.47%) Marketing
14 11 (1.43%) Games
15 9 (1.17%) Legal
16 6 (0.78%) Telecoms
17 4 (0.52%) Front Office
17 4 (0.52%) Organisational Skills
18 3 (0.39%) Manufacturing
18 3 (0.39%) Military
Job Titles
1 214 (27.79%) Developer
2 210 (27.27%) Senior
3 140 (18.18%) Software Engineer
4 130 (16.88%) .NET Developer
5 74 (9.61%) DevOps Engineer
6 69 (8.96%) Lead
7 54 (7.01%) Cloud Engineer
8 51 (6.62%) Architect
9 44 (5.71%) Platform Engineer
10 40 (5.19%) Azure Engineer
10 40 (5.19%) Senior Developer
11 34 (4.42%) Senior Software Engineer
12 29 (3.77%) Java Developer
13 28 (3.64%) Java Engineer
14 27 (3.51%) Cloud Platform Engineer
14 27 (3.51%) Lead Software Engineer
15 26 (3.38%) Team Leader
16 24 (3.12%) Full-Stack Developer
17 23 (2.99%) Senior DevOps
18 21 (2.73%) AWS Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 303 (39.35%) Terraform
2 197 (25.58%) .NET
3 135 (17.53%) .NET Core
3 135 (17.53%) ASP.NET
4 131 (17.01%) ASP.NET Core
5 95 (12.34%) Node.js
6 91 (11.82%) React
7 82 (10.65%) AngularJS
8 79 (10.26%) CSS
8 79 (10.26%) HTML
9 70 (9.09%) ML.NET
10 69 (8.96%) Spring
11 67 (8.70%) Vue
12 62 (8.05%) REST
13 53 (6.88%) Kafka
14 49 (6.36%) RESTful
15 43 (5.58%) Spring Boot
16 27 (3.51%) Blazor
17 25 (3.25%) OpenTelemetry
18 22 (2.86%) Django
Miscellaneous
1 218 (28.31%) Cloud Native
2 66 (8.57%) Distributed Systems
3 60 (7.79%) Product Ownership
4 32 (4.16%) Blog
5 26 (3.38%) Greenfield Project
6 19 (2.47%) Digital TV
7 18 (2.34%) AI Agents
8 14 (1.82%) Data Centre
8 14 (1.82%) Legacy Systems
9 12 (1.56%) Security Posture
9 12 (1.56%) Self-Motivation
10 11 (1.43%) Hybrid Cloud
10 11 (1.43%) Management Information System
10 11 (1.43%) Public Cloud
11 10 (1.30%) Enterprise Software
12 9 (1.17%) IoT
12 9 (1.17%) PKI
12 9 (1.17%) Private Cloud
12 9 (1.17%) Replication
13 8 (1.04%) Cyber Kill Chain
Operating Systems
1 131 (17.01%) Linux
2 43 (5.58%) Windows
3 18 (2.34%) Windows Server
4 16 (2.08%) Ubuntu
5 11 (1.43%) Apple iOS
6 8 (1.04%) Android
7 5 (0.65%) Mac OS
8 4 (0.52%) Debian
8 4 (0.52%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
9 3 (0.39%) CentOS
10 1 (0.13%) Unix
10 1 (0.13%) VMS
10 1 (0.13%) Windows Server 2016
Processes & Methodologies
1 510 (66.23%) CI/CD
2 296 (38.44%) DevOps
3 276 (35.84%) Agile
4 265 (34.42%) Microservices
5 220 (28.57%) Software Engineering
6 218 (28.31%) AI
7 214 (27.79%) Infrastructure as Code
8 211 (27.40%) Mentoring
9 202 (26.23%) Full-Stack Development
10 186 (24.16%) Containerisation
11 146 (18.96%) Test Automation
12 140 (18.18%) Observability
13 137 (17.79%) Continuous Improvement
14 123 (15.97%) Problem-Solving
15 120 (15.58%) Machine Learning
16 111 (14.42%) Clean Code
17 103 (13.38%) TDD
18 101 (13.12%) Platform Engineering
19 100 (12.99%) Fintech
20 92 (11.95%) Deployment Automation
Programming Languages
1 235 (30.52%) Python
2 227 (29.48%) SQL
3 211 (27.40%) Java
4 204 (26.49%) C#
5 118 (15.32%) TypeScript
6 96 (12.47%) JavaScript
7 91 (11.82%) Bash
8 72 (9.35%) PowerShell
9 51 (6.62%) Go
10 22 (2.86%) Bicep
11 15 (1.95%) PL/SQL
11 15 (1.95%) Scala
12 9 (1.17%) Kotlin
13 8 (1.04%) PHP
13 8 (1.04%) Ruby
14 7 (0.91%) Groovy
15 6 (0.78%) Shell Script
16 4 (0.52%) C
16 4 (0.52%) C++
16 4 (0.52%) Rust
Qualifications
1 125 (16.23%) Security Cleared
2 102 (13.25%) SC Cleared
3 51 (6.62%) Degree
4 37 (4.81%) Azure Certification
5 25 (3.25%) Computer Science Degree
6 20 (2.60%) AWS Certification
7 13 (1.69%) DV Cleared
8 8 (1.04%) BPSS Clearance
8 8 (1.04%) CISSP
8 8 (1.04%) GIAC
9 7 (0.91%) CISM
10 5 (0.65%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
10 5 (0.65%) CEH
10 5 (0.65%) CREST Certified
10 5 (0.65%) OSCP
11 4 (0.52%) Microsoft Certification
11 4 (0.52%) OCP
11 4 (0.52%) Oracle Certification
12 3 (0.39%) GCFA
12 3 (0.39%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 30 (3.90%) QA
2 22 (2.86%) Accessibility
3 20 (2.60%) NIST
4 13 (1.69%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 13 (1.69%) PCI DSS
5 9 (1.17%) WCAG
6 8 (1.04%) Data Quality
7 6 (0.78%) Cyber Essentials
7 6 (0.78%) SOC 2
8 4 (0.52%) GDPR
8 4 (0.52%) NCSC
9 1 (0.13%) California Consumer Privacy Act
9 1 (0.13%) HIPAA
9 1 (0.13%) ISO 22301
9 1 (0.13%) ISO/IEC 42001
9 1 (0.13%) PSD2
9 1 (0.13%) SEPA
9 1 (0.13%) SLA
System Software
1 477 (61.95%) Docker
2 21 (2.73%) Active Directory
3 16 (2.08%) Virtual Machines
4 15 (1.95%) VMware Infrastructure
5 3 (0.39%) iptables
6 1 (0.13%) Citrix Hypervisor
6 1 (0.13%) HDFS
6 1 (0.13%) Hyper-V
6 1 (0.13%) KVM
6 1 (0.13%) QEMU
6 1 (0.13%) Slurm Workload Manager
6 1 (0.13%) Virtual Servers
6 1 (0.13%) Xen
Systems Management
1 138 (17.92%) Grafana
2 79 (10.26%) Ansible
3 58 (7.53%) Prometheus
4 27 (3.51%) Argo
5 18 (2.34%) Istio
6 17 (2.21%) Puppet
7 15 (1.95%) Progress Chef
8 8 (1.04%) Kustomize
8 8 (1.04%) Packer
9 6 (0.78%) FortiGate
9 6 (0.78%) Microsoft Intune
10 4 (0.52%) Active Directory Federation Services
10 4 (0.52%) Cilium
10 4 (0.52%) linkerd
10 4 (0.52%) Single Sign-On
11 2 (0.26%) CASB
11 2 (0.26%) Kibana
11 2 (0.26%) Microsoft Data Protection Manager
11 2 (0.26%) Podman
11 2 (0.26%) Proxmox
Vendors
1 203 (26.36%) Microsoft
2 51 (6.62%) Google
3 31 (4.03%) Oracle
4 27 (3.51%) Splunk
5 24 (3.12%) OpenAI
6 21 (2.73%) Red Hat
7 19 (2.47%) Facebook
7 19 (2.47%) VMware
8 18 (2.34%) Okta
9 15 (1.95%) Ping Identity
10 12 (1.56%) Databricks
11 9 (1.17%) Dynatrace
11 9 (1.17%) New Relic
11 9 (1.17%) Palo Alto
12 8 (1.04%) ServiceNow
13 6 (0.78%) Citrix
13 6 (0.78%) Fortinet
13 6 (0.78%) Zscaler
14 5 (0.65%) ForgeRock
14 5 (0.65%) Qualys