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 2 October 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
2 Oct 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 78 80 63
Rank change year-on-year +2 -17 -34
Permanent jobs citing Kubernetes 794 722 961
As % of all permanent jobs with remote/hybrid work options 3.18% 4.28% 4.28%
As % of the Systems Management category 46.00% 42.67% 42.02%
Number of salaries quoted 522 339 592
10th Percentile £46,250 £48,750 £53,750
25th Percentile £52,500 £58,750 £61,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £72,500 £77,000
Median % change year-on-year -10.34% -5.84% +2.67%
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 1,726 1,692 2,287
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 6.92% 10.03% 10.17%
Number of salaries quoted 1,237 865 1,318
10th Percentile £33,900 £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 £87,500
90th Percentile £95,000 £99,500 £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 2 October 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 (1.26%) Apache Spark
2 7 (0.88%) Apache Airflow
2 7 (0.88%) Oracle SOA Suite
3 6 (0.76%) Confluence
3 6 (0.76%) IIS
3 6 (0.76%) nginx
4 5 (0.63%) Camunda
5 4 (0.50%) Apache
5 4 (0.50%) ArcGIS
5 4 (0.50%) GeoServer
5 4 (0.50%) Oracle Spatial
6 3 (0.38%) WebLogic
7 2 (0.25%) Ethereum
7 2 (0.25%) Hedera
7 2 (0.25%) 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 (1.51%) Chatbot
2 1 (0.13%) Lightworks
Business Applications
1 2 (0.25%) Distributed Ledger
1 2 (0.25%) SAP S/4HANA
2 1 (0.13%) Actimize
2 1 (0.13%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
Cloud Services
1 454 (57.18%) AWS
2 421 (53.02%) Azure
3 238 (29.97%) GCP
4 205 (25.82%) GitHub
5 135 (17.00%) GitHub Copilot
6 110 (13.85%) Amazon EKS
7 106 (13.35%) SaaS
8 72 (9.07%) Azure AI
9 52 (6.55%) Serverless
10 50 (6.30%) GitHub Actions
11 48 (6.05%) Azure AKS
12 47 (5.92%) Azure DevOps
13 46 (5.79%) AWS CloudFormation
14 40 (5.04%) OpenShift
15 27 (3.40%) Amazon EC2
16 22 (2.77%) Azure Service Bus
16 22 (2.77%) Virtual Private Cloud
17 21 (2.64%) AWS Lambda
17 21 (2.64%) Google Kubernetes Engine
17 21 (2.64%) PaaS
Communications & Networking
1 31 (3.90%) VPN
2 26 (3.27%) Firewall
3 21 (2.64%) DNS
3 21 (2.64%) Internet
4 17 (2.14%) Broadband
4 17 (2.14%) TCP/IP
5 15 (1.89%) Network Security
6 14 (1.76%) BGP
7 11 (1.39%) VLAN
8 6 (0.76%) OSPF
8 6 (0.76%) VXLAN
9 5 (0.63%) DHCP
10 4 (0.50%) HTTP
10 4 (0.50%) WAN
11 2 (0.25%) SAN
11 2 (0.25%) Unified Communications
11 2 (0.25%) WireGuard
12 1 (0.13%) iSCSI
12 1 (0.13%) LAN
12 1 (0.13%) SSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 162 (20.40%) MongoDB
2 139 (17.51%) Azure SQL Database
3 89 (11.21%) PostgreSQL
4 43 (5.42%) Elasticsearch
5 38 (4.79%) NoSQL
6 33 (4.16%) Amazon RDS
7 28 (3.53%) SQL Server
8 25 (3.15%) Relational Database
9 24 (3.02%) MySQL
10 11 (1.39%) Data Warehouse
11 7 (0.88%) BigQuery
11 7 (0.88%) Redis
12 6 (0.76%) Delta Lake
12 6 (0.76%) DynamoDB
12 6 (0.76%) Power BI
13 5 (0.63%) Metadata
13 5 (0.63%) Tableau
14 4 (0.50%) Flink
14 4 (0.50%) Looker
14 4 (0.50%) QGIS
Development Applications
1 89 (11.21%) TeamCity
2 87 (10.96%) Git
3 58 (7.30%) Jenkins
4 45 (5.67%) GitLab
5 31 (3.90%) JUnit
6 20 (2.52%) Mockito
7 19 (2.39%) JIRA
8 18 (2.27%) Maven
9 16 (2.02%) Selenium
10 12 (1.51%) Postman
11 10 (1.26%) Atlassian Bamboo
11 10 (1.26%) Bitbucket
12 9 (1.13%) SonarQube
13 8 (1.01%) Cucumber
14 6 (0.76%) Gatling
14 6 (0.76%) Octopus Deploy
15 5 (0.63%) Subversion
15 5 (0.63%) Visual Studio Code
16 4 (0.50%) Cypress.io
16 4 (0.50%) Vagrant
General
1 203 (25.57%) Finance
2 149 (18.77%) Social Skills
3 119 (14.99%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 116 (14.61%) Retail
5 111 (13.98%) Law
6 109 (13.73%) Banking
7 75 (9.45%) Public Sector
8 68 (8.56%) Financial Institution
9 66 (8.31%) Back Office
10 33 (4.16%) Advertising
11 31 (3.90%) Analytical Skills
12 20 (2.52%) Aerospace
13 19 (2.39%) Marketing
14 11 (1.39%) Games
15 9 (1.13%) Legal
16 6 (0.76%) Telecoms
17 4 (0.50%) Front Office
18 3 (0.38%) Manufacturing
18 3 (0.38%) Military
18 3 (0.38%) Organisational Skills
Job Titles
1 224 (28.21%) Senior
2 219 (27.58%) Developer
3 150 (18.89%) Software Engineer
4 130 (16.37%) .NET Developer
5 78 (9.82%) DevOps Engineer
6 70 (8.82%) Lead
7 55 (6.93%) Cloud Engineer
8 52 (6.55%) Architect
9 44 (5.54%) Platform Engineer
10 42 (5.29%) Senior Developer
11 39 (4.91%) Azure Engineer
12 38 (4.79%) Senior Software Engineer
13 36 (4.53%) Java Engineer
14 32 (4.03%) Java Developer
15 28 (3.53%) Lead Software Engineer
16 27 (3.40%) Senior DevOps
16 27 (3.40%) Team Leader
17 26 (3.27%) Cloud Platform Engineer
18 25 (3.15%) Full-Stack Developer
19 24 (3.02%) Java Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 312 (39.29%) Terraform
2 200 (25.19%) .NET
3 136 (17.13%) .NET Core
3 136 (17.13%) ASP.NET
4 132 (16.62%) ASP.NET Core
5 96 (12.09%) Node.js
6 92 (11.59%) React
7 81 (10.20%) AngularJS
8 80 (10.08%) CSS
9 79 (9.95%) HTML
10 78 (9.82%) Spring
11 70 (8.82%) ML.NET
12 66 (8.31%) Vue
13 62 (7.81%) REST
14 54 (6.80%) Kafka
14 54 (6.80%) RESTful
15 52 (6.55%) Spring Boot
16 28 (3.53%) Blazor
16 28 (3.53%) OpenTelemetry
17 20 (2.52%) Django
Miscellaneous
1 234 (29.47%) Cloud Native
2 73 (9.19%) Distributed Systems
3 62 (7.81%) Product Ownership
4 38 (4.79%) Blog
5 27 (3.40%) Greenfield Project
6 19 (2.39%) AI Agents
6 19 (2.39%) Digital TV
7 14 (1.76%) Legacy Systems
7 14 (1.76%) Security Posture
8 13 (1.64%) Data Centre
8 13 (1.64%) Management Information System
9 12 (1.51%) Enterprise Software
9 12 (1.51%) Self-Motivation
10 11 (1.39%) Hybrid Cloud
10 11 (1.39%) Public Cloud
11 10 (1.26%) Replication
12 9 (1.13%) IoT
12 9 (1.13%) PKI
12 9 (1.13%) Private Cloud
13 8 (1.01%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 131 (16.50%) Linux
2 40 (5.04%) Windows
3 16 (2.02%) Ubuntu
3 16 (2.02%) Windows Server
4 11 (1.39%) Apple iOS
5 8 (1.01%) Android
6 5 (0.63%) Mac OS
7 4 (0.50%) Debian
7 4 (0.50%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
8 3 (0.38%) CentOS
9 1 (0.13%) Unix
9 1 (0.13%) VMS
9 1 (0.13%) Windows Server 2016
Processes & Methodologies
1 529 (66.62%) CI/CD
2 305 (38.41%) DevOps
3 287 (36.15%) Agile
4 278 (35.01%) Microservices
5 232 (29.22%) Software Engineering
6 224 (28.21%) AI
6 224 (28.21%) Mentoring
7 216 (27.20%) Infrastructure as Code
8 206 (25.94%) Full-Stack Development
9 193 (24.31%) Containerisation
10 154 (19.40%) Test Automation
11 143 (18.01%) Continuous Improvement
12 142 (17.88%) Observability
13 133 (16.75%) Problem-Solving
14 124 (15.62%) Machine Learning
15 117 (14.74%) Clean Code
16 110 (13.85%) TDD
17 108 (13.60%) Fintech
18 102 (12.85%) Platform Engineering
19 96 (12.09%) Deployment Automation
Programming Languages
1 247 (31.11%) Python
2 236 (29.72%) SQL
3 233 (29.35%) Java
4 206 (25.94%) C#
5 120 (15.11%) TypeScript
6 101 (12.72%) JavaScript
7 95 (11.96%) Bash
8 74 (9.32%) PowerShell
9 59 (7.43%) Go
10 24 (3.02%) Bicep
11 15 (1.89%) PL/SQL
11 15 (1.89%) Scala
12 9 (1.13%) Kotlin
13 8 (1.01%) PHP
13 8 (1.01%) Ruby
14 7 (0.88%) Groovy
15 6 (0.76%) Shell Script
16 5 (0.63%) C
17 4 (0.50%) C++
17 4 (0.50%) Rust
Qualifications
1 129 (16.25%) Security Cleared
2 106 (13.35%) SC Cleared
3 53 (6.68%) Degree
4 34 (4.28%) Azure Certification
5 25 (3.15%) Computer Science Degree
6 20 (2.52%) AWS Certification
7 13 (1.64%) DV Cleared
8 10 (1.26%) CISSP
9 9 (1.13%) CISM
10 8 (1.01%) BPSS Clearance
10 8 (1.01%) GIAC
11 5 (0.63%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
11 5 (0.63%) CEH
11 5 (0.63%) CREST Certified
11 5 (0.63%) OSCP
12 4 (0.50%) (ISC)2 CCSP
12 4 (0.50%) Cisco Certification
12 4 (0.50%) Microsoft Certification
12 4 (0.50%) OCP
12 4 (0.50%) Oracle Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 28 (3.53%) QA
2 25 (3.15%) NIST
3 22 (2.77%) Accessibility
4 19 (2.39%) PCI DSS
5 15 (1.89%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 8 (1.01%) Data Quality
6 8 (1.01%) SOC 2
6 8 (1.01%) WCAG
7 6 (0.76%) Cyber Essentials
8 4 (0.50%) GDPR
8 4 (0.50%) 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
1 491 (61.84%) Docker
2 19 (2.39%) Active Directory
3 17 (2.14%) Virtual Machines
4 14 (1.76%) VMware Infrastructure
5 3 (0.38%) 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
1 146 (18.39%) Grafana
2 81 (10.20%) Ansible
3 61 (7.68%) Prometheus
4 28 (3.53%) Argo
5 18 (2.27%) Istio
6 17 (2.14%) Puppet
7 15 (1.89%) Progress Chef
8 8 (1.01%) Kustomize
9 7 (0.88%) Packer
10 6 (0.76%) Cilium
10 6 (0.76%) FortiGate
11 5 (0.63%) Microsoft Intune
11 5 (0.63%) Single Sign-On
12 4 (0.50%) linkerd
13 3 (0.38%) Active Directory Federation Services
13 3 (0.38%) Proxmox
14 2 (0.25%) CASB
14 2 (0.25%) Kibana
14 2 (0.25%) Microsoft Data Protection Manager
14 2 (0.25%) Podman
Vendors
1 207 (26.07%) Microsoft
2 57 (7.18%) Google
3 34 (4.28%) Oracle
4 29 (3.65%) Splunk
5 26 (3.27%) OpenAI
6 21 (2.64%) Red Hat
7 19 (2.39%) Facebook
7 19 (2.39%) VMware
8 17 (2.14%) Okta
9 15 (1.89%) Ping Identity
10 12 (1.51%) Databricks
11 10 (1.26%) Dynatrace
12 9 (1.13%) New Relic
13 8 (1.01%) Palo Alto
13 8 (1.01%) ServiceNow
14 6 (0.76%) Fortinet
14 6 (0.76%) Zscaler
15 5 (0.63%) Citrix
15 5 (0.63%) HubSpot
15 5 (0.63%) Qualys