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 22 April 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

 6 months to
22 Apr 2026		 Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 70 37 61
Rank change year-on-year -33 +24 -34
Permanent jobs citing Kubernetes 597 915 1,415
As % of all permanent jobs with remote/hybrid work options 3.34% 6.85% 4.37%
As % of the Systems Management category 38.44% 51.00% 37.19%
Number of salaries quoted 388 628 1,189
10th Percentile £52,400 £51,250 £48,750
25th Percentile £59,688 £61,250 £58,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £70,789 £80,000 £75,000
Median % change year-on-year -11.51% +6.67% -
75th Percentile £88,750 £115,000 £91,934
90th Percentile £120,000 £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 1,553 1,794 3,805
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 8.69% 13.42% 11.76%
Number of salaries quoted 1,064 1,358 3,016
10th Percentile £37,500 £41,250 £37,101
25th Percentile £48,604 £52,500 £47,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £70,000 £63,609
Median % change year-on-year -7.14% +10.05% -8.41%
75th Percentile £82,500 £90,000 £83,750
90th Percentile £95,875 £115,000 £102,500
UK median annual salary £65,000 £70,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year -7.14% +16.67% -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 22 April 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 (1.84%) Apache Spark
2 10 (1.68%) Apache Airflow
2 10 (1.68%) OpenStack
3 5 (0.84%) Apache Pulsar
3 5 (0.84%) ArcGIS
3 5 (0.84%) GeoServer
3 5 (0.84%) Oracle Spatial
4 4 (0.67%) Microsoft Exchange
5 3 (0.50%) Anypoint
5 3 (0.50%) Apache
5 3 (0.50%) Confluence
6 2 (0.34%) Camunda
6 2 (0.34%) nginx
7 1 (0.17%) Cloud Foundry
7 1 (0.17%) IIS
7 1 (0.17%) JBoss
7 1 (0.17%) Red Hat Fuse
7 1 (0.17%) SAS
7 1 (0.17%) SharePoint
Applications
1 4 (0.67%) Weka
2 2 (0.34%) Chatbot
3 1 (0.17%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 3 (0.50%) Shopify
2 1 (0.17%) Actimize
Cloud Services
1 372 (62.31%) AWS
2 257 (43.05%) Azure
3 178 (29.82%) GCP
4 122 (20.44%) Amazon EKS
5 106 (17.76%) GitHub
6 78 (13.07%) SaaS
7 71 (11.89%) GitHub Actions
8 68 (11.39%) Serverless
9 45 (7.54%) Azure DevOps
10 43 (7.20%) AWS CloudFormation
11 42 (7.04%) Azure AKS
12 41 (6.87%) Amazon S3
13 37 (6.20%) Amazon CloudWatch
14 36 (6.03%) AWS Lambda
15 35 (5.86%) Amazon EC2
15 35 (5.86%) OpenShift
16 28 (4.69%) Amazon ECS
17 25 (4.19%) Datadog
18 19 (3.18%) Pulumi
19 18 (3.02%) PaaS
Communications & Networking
1 44 (7.37%) Broadband
2 35 (5.86%) Firewall
3 17 (2.85%) VPN
4 16 (2.68%) DNS
5 10 (1.68%) DHCP
6 9 (1.51%) TCP/IP
7 7 (1.17%) Network Security
8 5 (0.84%) WAN
9 4 (0.67%) AMQP
9 4 (0.67%) MQTT
10 3 (0.50%) HTTP
10 3 (0.50%) Internet
10 3 (0.50%) RTP
10 3 (0.50%) SAN
10 3 (0.50%) SCCP
10 3 (0.50%) Unified Communications
10 3 (0.50%) VLAN
10 3 (0.50%) VoIP
10 3 (0.50%) Wireshark
11 2 (0.34%) iSCSI
Database & Business Intelligence
1 77 (12.90%) PostgreSQL
2 61 (10.22%) NoSQL
3 47 (7.87%) SQL Server
4 41 (6.87%) MongoDB
5 40 (6.70%) Relational Database
6 31 (5.19%) Amazon RDS
7 19 (3.18%) RDBMS
8 18 (3.02%) MySQL
9 12 (2.01%) Azure SQL Database
10 10 (1.68%) Elasticsearch
10 10 (1.68%) Flink
11 9 (1.51%) BigQuery
12 8 (1.34%) Amazon Aurora
13 7 (1.17%) Redis
14 5 (0.84%) DynamoDB
14 5 (0.84%) GIS
14 5 (0.84%) Power BI
14 5 (0.84%) QGIS
15 4 (0.67%) Data Warehouse
16 3 (0.50%) Apache Cassandra
Development Applications
1 78 (13.07%) TeamCity
2 73 (12.23%) Git
2 73 (12.23%) Jenkins
3 57 (9.55%) GitLab
4 19 (3.18%) Jaeger
5 14 (2.35%) Cucumber
5 14 (2.35%) Visual Studio Code
6 12 (2.01%) Selenium
7 11 (1.84%) JUnit
8 10 (1.68%) JIRA
9 9 (1.51%) JMeter
10 7 (1.17%) SonarQube
11 6 (1.01%) CircleCI
11 6 (1.01%) Locust
11 6 (1.01%) Visual Studio
12 5 (0.84%) Bitbucket
13 4 (0.67%) MLflow
13 4 (0.67%) Robot Framework
14 3 (0.50%) Maven
14 3 (0.50%) REST Assured
General
1 141 (23.62%) Finance
2 137 (22.95%) Social Skills
3 95 (15.91%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 91 (15.24%) Banking
5 88 (14.74%) Retail
6 83 (13.90%) Law
7 48 (8.04%) Financial Institution
8 39 (6.53%) Back Office
9 36 (6.03%) Public Sector
10 23 (3.85%) Telecoms
11 17 (2.85%) Analytical Skills
12 13 (2.18%) Front Office
13 8 (1.34%) Legal
13 8 (1.34%) Organisational Skills
14 7 (1.17%) Military
15 6 (1.01%) Advertising
16 5 (0.84%) Esports
16 5 (0.84%) Manufacturing
17 4 (0.67%) Aviation
17 4 (0.67%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 191 (31.99%) Senior
2 121 (20.27%) Software Engineer
3 116 (19.43%) Lead
4 91 (15.24%) Developer
5 81 (13.57%) DevOps Engineer
6 58 (9.72%) Cloud Engineer
7 50 (8.38%) Platform Engineer
8 49 (8.21%) Azure Engineer
9 44 (7.37%) Senior Software Engineer
10 37 (6.20%) Senior Developer
11 33 (5.53%) Infrastructure Engineer
11 33 (5.53%) Java Engineer
11 33 (5.53%) Python Engineer
12 31 (5.19%) AWS Engineer
13 30 (5.03%) Cloud Platform Engineer
14 27 (4.52%) Lead Software Engineer
14 27 (4.52%) Senior DevOps
15 25 (4.19%) Java Developer
15 25 (4.19%) Java Software Engineer
16 24 (4.02%) Team Leader
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 70 (11.73%) Kafka
2 69 (11.56%) .NET
3 68 (11.39%) Spring
4 67 (11.22%) React
5 55 (9.21%) Spring Boot
6 49 (8.21%) RESTful
7 47 (7.87%) REST
8 46 (7.71%) Elastic Stack
9 42 (7.04%) Node.js
10 35 (5.86%) Django
11 26 (4.36%) .NET Core
12 25 (4.19%) Akka
13 24 (4.02%) AngularJS
13 24 (4.02%) Flask
14 22 (3.69%) OpenTelemetry
14 22 (3.69%) RabbitMQ
15 21 (3.52%) FastAPI
15 21 (3.52%) gRPC
16 20 (3.35%) OAuth
17 14 (2.35%) ASP.NET
Miscellaneous
1 186 (31.16%) Cloud Native
2 48 (8.04%) Distributed Systems
3 43 (7.20%) Product Ownership
4 23 (3.85%) Blog
4 23 (3.85%) Over-the-Top Content
4 23 (3.85%) Video\Live Streaming
5 18 (3.02%) Private Cloud
6 17 (2.85%) Hybrid Cloud
7 16 (2.68%) Legacy Systems
7 16 (2.68%) Onboarding
8 14 (2.35%) AI Agents
9 13 (2.18%) Data Centre
9 13 (2.18%) Public Cloud
10 10 (1.68%) Security Posture
11 9 (1.51%) Virtual Team
12 8 (1.34%) Fixed Income
12 8 (1.34%) Management Information System
13 6 (1.01%) Algorithms
13 6 (1.01%) CUDA
13 6 (1.01%) Distributed Architecture
Operating Systems
1 135 (22.61%) Linux
2 38 (6.37%) Windows
3 28 (4.69%) Unix
4 23 (3.85%) Android
5 16 (2.68%) Windows Server
6 14 (2.35%) Apple iOS
6 14 (2.35%) Ubuntu
7 12 (2.01%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
8 9 (1.51%) CentOS
9 8 (1.34%) VMS
10 4 (0.67%) Debian
11 3 (0.50%) Windows Server 2016
12 2 (0.34%) Mac OS
Processes & Methodologies
1 374 (62.65%) CI/CD
2 337 (56.45%) DevOps
3 228 (38.19%) Containerisation
4 227 (38.02%) Agile
5 212 (35.51%) Infrastructure as Code
6 179 (29.98%) Microservices
7 166 (27.81%) Software Engineering
8 131 (21.94%) Test Automation
9 129 (21.61%) Mentoring
10 118 (19.77%) Continuous Improvement
11 100 (16.75%) Platform Engineering
12 97 (16.25%) Observability
13 93 (15.58%) Clean Code
14 87 (14.57%) Problem-Solving
15 86 (14.41%) AI
16 84 (14.07%) Deployment Automation
17 78 (13.07%) Site Reliability Engineering
18 70 (11.73%) TDD
19 65 (10.89%) Infrastructure Engineering
20 64 (10.72%) Scrum
Programming Languages
1 253 (42.38%) Python
2 195 (32.66%) Java
3 93 (15.58%) Go
4 91 (15.24%) JavaScript
5 86 (14.41%) SQL
6 73 (12.23%) Bash
7 62 (10.39%) C#
8 52 (8.71%) TypeScript
9 44 (7.37%) PowerShell
10 33 (5.53%) Scala
11 29 (4.86%) Bicep
12 15 (2.51%) C++
13 9 (1.51%) PHP
14 8 (1.34%) Delphi
15 7 (1.17%) Rust
16 6 (1.01%) C
17 4 (0.67%) Perl
17 4 (0.67%) Shell Script
18 3 (0.50%) Korn
18 3 (0.50%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 79 (13.23%) Security Cleared
2 78 (13.07%) Degree
3 61 (10.22%) SC Cleared
4 46 (7.71%) Computer Science Degree
5 40 (6.70%) Azure Certification
6 31 (5.19%) AWS Certification
7 16 (2.68%) DV Cleared
8 8 (1.34%) CREST Certified
8 8 (1.34%) OSCP
9 6 (1.01%) CISSP
9 6 (1.01%) ISACA
9 6 (1.01%) Microsoft Certification
10 5 (0.84%) GIAC
10 5 (0.84%) SANS
11 3 (0.50%) LPIC
11 3 (0.50%) Master's Degree
12 2 (0.34%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
12 2 (0.34%) ISTQB
12 2 (0.34%) ITIL Certification
12 2 (0.34%) Linux+ Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 38 (6.37%) QA
2 18 (3.02%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 15 (2.51%) NIST
4 13 (2.18%) Accessibility
4 13 (2.18%) PCI DSS
5 10 (1.68%) Data Quality
6 7 (1.17%) GDPR
6 7 (1.17%) SOC 2
7 5 (0.84%) WCAG
8 3 (0.50%) ISO 9001
9 2 (0.34%) ECSS
9 2 (0.34%) GRC
9 2 (0.34%) Software Quality Assurance
10 1 (0.17%) ISO/IEC 42001
10 1 (0.17%) MiFID
10 1 (0.17%) SLA
System Software
1 349 (58.46%) Docker
2 30 (5.03%) Active Directory
3 15 (2.51%) VMware Infrastructure
4 13 (2.18%) Virtual Machines
5 7 (1.17%) VMware NSX
6 5 (0.84%) Firmware
7 4 (0.67%) Hyper-V
7 4 (0.67%) Slurm Workload Manager
8 3 (0.50%) Citrix Hypervisor
8 3 (0.50%) Kamailio
8 3 (0.50%) vSphere
9 1 (0.17%) KVM
9 1 (0.17%) QEMU
9 1 (0.17%) vCloud
9 1 (0.17%) Virtual Desktop
9 1 (0.17%) Virtual Servers
9 1 (0.17%) Xen
Systems Management
1 307 (51.42%) Terraform
2 137 (22.95%) Grafana
3 125 (20.94%) Ansible
4 84 (14.07%) Prometheus
5 49 (8.21%) Argo
6 23 (3.85%) Kustomize
7 18 (3.02%) Puppet
8 12 (2.01%) Istio
9 9 (1.51%) Progress Chef
10 7 (1.17%) Proxmox
10 7 (1.17%) ZABBIX
11 6 (1.01%) Active Directory Federation Services
11 6 (1.01%) Microsoft Intune
11 6 (1.01%) Packer
12 5 (0.84%) Kibana
13 4 (0.67%) logstash
14 2 (0.34%) FortiGate
14 2 (0.34%) MIIS
14 2 (0.34%) Nagios
14 2 (0.34%) Podman
Vendors
1 69 (11.56%) Microsoft
2 37 (6.20%) Google
3 31 (5.19%) VMware
4 23 (3.85%) Red Hat
5 20 (3.35%) Oracle
6 13 (2.18%) Splunk
7 9 (1.51%) Okta
8 8 (1.34%) Confluent
8 8 (1.34%) Databricks
8 8 (1.34%) Dell
9 7 (1.17%) Cisco
10 6 (1.01%) ServiceNow
11 5 (0.84%) AppDynamics
11 5 (0.84%) EMC
11 5 (0.84%) Ericsson
11 5 (0.84%) ForgeRock
11 5 (0.84%) Mavenir
11 5 (0.84%) OpenAI
11 5 (0.84%) Palo Alto
11 5 (0.84%) SAP
400 hybrid/remote Kubernetes jobs