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 21 February 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
21 Feb 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 67 32 52
Rank change year-on-year -35 +20 -25
Permanent jobs citing Kubernetes 573 1,215 1,463
As % of all permanent jobs with remote/hybrid work options 3.50% 7.91% 5.26%
As % of the Systems Management category 37.26% 53.24% 41.40%
Number of salaries quoted 389 675 1,233
10th Percentile £51,250 £52,500 £47,500
25th Percentile £57,500 £62,500 £57,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £72,500 £77,500 £72,500
Median % change year-on-year -6.45% +6.90% -3.33%
75th Percentile £87,500 £108,750 £88,750
90th Percentile £108,000 £133,000 £111,000
UK median annual salary £75,000 £80,000 £75,000
% change year-on-year -6.25% +6.67% -3.23%

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 1,538 2,282 3,534
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 9.38% 14.85% 12.72%
Number of salaries quoted 1,062 1,391 3,020
10th Percentile £36,550 £42,500 £38,087
25th Percentile £46,446 £52,500 £48,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £64,741 £70,000 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year -7.51% +7.69% -4.84%
75th Percentile £82,500 £91,250 £83,750
90th Percentile £95,000 £115,000 £100,000
UK median annual salary £62,500 £70,000 £62,500
% change year-on-year -10.71% +12.00% -7.41%

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 21 February 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 12 (2.09%) Apache Spark
2 7 (1.22%) Apache
2 7 (1.22%) Apache Airflow
3 6 (1.05%) OpenStack
4 5 (0.87%) Anypoint
4 5 (0.87%) Apache Pulsar
4 5 (0.87%) Microsoft Exchange
5 4 (0.70%) ArcGIS
5 4 (0.70%) GeoServer
5 4 (0.70%) Oracle Spatial
6 3 (0.52%) Confluence
6 3 (0.52%) IIS
6 3 (0.52%) nginx
7 1 (0.17%) Camunda
7 1 (0.17%) SAS
7 1 (0.17%) SharePoint
Applications
1 4 (0.70%) Weka
2 2 (0.35%) Chatbot
3 1 (0.17%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 5 (0.87%) Shopify
2 1 (0.17%) Actimize
Cloud Services
1 367 (64.05%) AWS
2 253 (44.15%) Azure
3 170 (29.67%) GCP
4 117 (20.42%) GitHub
5 110 (19.20%) Amazon EKS
6 86 (15.01%) GitHub Actions
7 75 (13.09%) SaaS
8 62 (10.82%) Azure DevOps
9 59 (10.30%) Serverless
10 52 (9.08%) AWS CloudFormation
11 48 (8.38%) Amazon CloudWatch
12 43 (7.50%) Azure AKS
13 42 (7.33%) AWS Lambda
14 38 (6.63%) Amazon S3
15 30 (5.24%) Amazon ECS
16 28 (4.89%) Amazon EC2
17 27 (4.71%) OpenShift
18 22 (3.84%) Datadog
19 20 (3.49%) Pulumi
20 15 (2.62%) Azure Monitor
Communications & Networking
1 43 (7.50%) Broadband
2 36 (6.28%) Firewall
3 20 (3.49%) VPN
4 12 (2.09%) DNS
5 11 (1.92%) Network Security
6 6 (1.05%) DHCP
6 6 (1.05%) WAN
7 5 (0.87%) SD-WAN
8 4 (0.70%) AMQP
8 4 (0.70%) Intrusion Detection
9 3 (0.52%) HTTP
9 3 (0.52%) Internet
9 3 (0.52%) Kerberos
9 3 (0.52%) LAN
9 3 (0.52%) SCCP
9 3 (0.52%) TCP/IP
9 3 (0.52%) Unified Communications
9 3 (0.52%) VLAN
9 3 (0.52%) VoIP
9 3 (0.52%) Wireshark
Database & Business Intelligence
1 70 (12.22%) PostgreSQL
2 57 (9.95%) NoSQL
3 39 (6.81%) SQL Server
4 37 (6.46%) MongoDB
5 36 (6.28%) Relational Database
6 23 (4.01%) Amazon RDS
7 19 (3.32%) RDBMS
8 18 (3.14%) MySQL
9 10 (1.75%) BigQuery
9 10 (1.75%) Flink
10 8 (1.40%) Amazon Aurora
11 7 (1.22%) Azure SQL Database
11 7 (1.22%) Redis
12 6 (1.05%) Data Warehouse
13 5 (0.87%) DynamoDB
13 5 (0.87%) Power BI
14 4 (0.70%) Big Data
14 4 (0.70%) Data Lake
14 4 (0.70%) Elasticsearch
14 4 (0.70%) QGIS
Development Applications
1 75 (13.09%) TeamCity
2 74 (12.91%) Jenkins
3 53 (9.25%) Git
4 51 (8.90%) GitLab
5 19 (3.32%) Jaeger
6 10 (1.75%) Selenium
7 9 (1.57%) Cucumber
7 9 (1.57%) JIRA
7 9 (1.57%) JUnit
8 8 (1.40%) SonarQube
9 6 (1.05%) Bitbucket
9 6 (1.05%) CircleCI
10 5 (0.87%) JMeter
10 5 (0.87%) Robot Framework
10 5 (0.87%) Visual Studio
11 4 (0.70%) Visual Studio Code
12 3 (0.52%) Eclipse
12 3 (0.52%) MLflow
12 3 (0.52%) REST Assured
13 2 (0.35%) Maven
General
1 126 (21.99%) Finance
2 118 (20.59%) Social Skills
3 85 (14.83%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 84 (14.66%) Retail
5 82 (14.31%) Law
6 78 (13.61%) Banking
7 55 (9.60%) Financial Institution
8 41 (7.16%) Back Office
9 32 (5.58%) Public Sector
10 25 (4.36%) Telecoms
11 16 (2.79%) Analytical Skills
12 12 (2.09%) Front Office
13 8 (1.40%) Legal
14 7 (1.22%) Military
15 5 (0.87%) Esports
15 5 (0.87%) Tech for Good
16 4 (0.70%) Aviation
16 4 (0.70%) Manufacturing
17 3 (0.52%) Documentation Skills
17 3 (0.52%) Games
Job Titles
1 189 (32.98%) Senior
2 128 (22.34%) Software Engineer
3 101 (17.63%) Lead
4 79 (13.79%) Developer
5 78 (13.61%) DevOps Engineer
6 69 (12.04%) Cloud Engineer
7 47 (8.20%) Platform Engineer
7 47 (8.20%) Senior Software Engineer
8 35 (6.11%) Azure Engineer
9 31 (5.41%) Java Engineer
10 30 (5.24%) Senior Developer
11 29 (5.06%) Infrastructure Engineer
12 27 (4.71%) AWS Engineer
13 26 (4.54%) Java Software Engineer
14 24 (4.19%) Full-Stack Engineer
14 24 (4.19%) Lead DevOps
15 23 (4.01%) Architect
15 23 (4.01%) Cloud Platform Engineer
16 22 (3.84%) Lead Cloud Engineer
16 22 (3.84%) Software Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 77 (13.44%) React
2 73 (12.74%) Spring
3 70 (12.22%) .NET
4 64 (11.17%) Spring Boot
5 58 (10.12%) Kafka
6 48 (8.38%) Elastic Stack
7 45 (7.85%) RESTful
8 37 (6.46%) REST
9 35 (6.11%) Node.js
10 26 (4.54%) .NET Core
10 26 (4.54%) Django
11 25 (4.36%) Akka
12 24 (4.19%) AngularJS
13 23 (4.01%) gRPC
14 21 (3.66%) RabbitMQ
15 20 (3.49%) Flask
16 19 (3.32%) OpenTelemetry
17 16 (2.79%) Web Services
18 14 (2.44%) .NET Framework
18 14 (2.44%) OAuth
Miscellaneous
1 185 (32.29%) Cloud Native
2 48 (8.38%) Distributed Systems
3 42 (7.33%) Product Ownership
4 23 (4.01%) Blog
4 23 (4.01%) Over-the-Top Content
4 23 (4.01%) Video\Live Streaming
5 18 (3.14%) Onboarding
6 16 (2.79%) Legacy Systems
7 12 (2.09%) AI Agents
7 12 (2.09%) Data Centre
7 12 (2.09%) Security Posture
8 11 (1.92%) Virtual Team
9 10 (1.75%) Hybrid Cloud
9 10 (1.75%) Private Cloud
10 9 (1.57%) Management Information System
11 7 (1.22%) Distributed Architecture
11 7 (1.22%) Public Cloud
12 6 (1.05%) Fixed Income
12 6 (1.05%) Low-Code
13 5 (0.87%) Legacy Applications
Operating Systems
1 139 (24.26%) Linux
2 42 (7.33%) Windows
3 36 (6.28%) Unix
4 24 (4.19%) Android
5 14 (2.44%) Apple iOS
6 13 (2.27%) Ubuntu
7 9 (1.57%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
7 9 (1.57%) Windows Server
8 8 (1.40%) VMS
9 7 (1.22%) CentOS
10 2 (0.35%) Debian
10 2 (0.35%) Windows Server 2016
11 1 (0.17%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 358 (62.48%) CI/CD
2 335 (58.46%) DevOps
3 225 (39.27%) Containerisation
4 196 (34.21%) Infrastructure as Code
5 191 (33.33%) Agile
6 167 (29.14%) Microservices
7 164 (28.62%) Software Engineering
8 110 (19.20%) Mentoring
9 108 (18.85%) Continuous Improvement
10 105 (18.32%) Test Automation
11 94 (16.40%) Problem-Solving
12 84 (14.66%) AI
13 83 (14.49%) Observability
14 80 (13.96%) Platform Engineering
15 79 (13.79%) Deployment Automation
16 76 (13.26%) Clean Code
17 72 (12.57%) Infrastructure Engineering
18 69 (12.04%) High Availability
19 63 (10.99%) Cloud Security
20 62 (10.82%) Full-Stack Development
Programming Languages
1 230 (40.14%) Python
2 190 (33.16%) Java
3 98 (17.10%) JavaScript
4 88 (15.36%) Go
5 81 (14.14%) SQL
6 79 (13.79%) Bash
7 53 (9.25%) C#
7 53 (9.25%) TypeScript
8 47 (8.20%) PowerShell
9 42 (7.33%) Bicep
10 26 (4.54%) Scala
11 14 (2.44%) C++
12 8 (1.40%) Delphi
13 5 (0.87%) Shell Script
14 4 (0.70%) C
14 4 (0.70%) PHP
14 4 (0.70%) Rust
15 3 (0.52%) Kotlin
15 3 (0.52%) Perl
16 2 (0.35%) Ruby
Qualifications
1 81 (14.14%) Security Cleared
2 67 (11.69%) Degree
3 63 (10.99%) SC Cleared
4 48 (8.38%) AWS Certification
5 42 (7.33%) Computer Science Degree
6 32 (5.58%) Azure Certification
7 14 (2.44%) DV Cleared
8 7 (1.22%) CREST Certified
8 7 (1.22%) Microsoft Certification
8 7 (1.22%) OSCP
9 5 (0.87%) CISSP
10 4 (0.70%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
11 3 (0.52%) GIAC
11 3 (0.52%) ISACA
11 3 (0.52%) LPIC
11 3 (0.52%) Master's Degree
11 3 (0.52%) SANS
12 2 (0.35%) CRISC
12 2 (0.35%) ISTQB
12 2 (0.35%) Linux+ Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 29 (5.06%) QA
2 22 (3.84%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 19 (3.32%) PCI DSS
4 16 (2.79%) GDPR
5 13 (2.27%) NIST
6 12 (2.09%) SOC 2
7 10 (1.75%) Data Quality
8 6 (1.05%) Accessibility
9 4 (0.70%) GRC
10 3 (0.52%) SLA
11 2 (0.35%) ECSS
11 2 (0.35%) HIPAA
11 2 (0.35%) Software Quality Assurance
12 1 (0.17%) MiFID
System Software
1 340 (59.34%) Docker
2 18 (3.14%) Active Directory
3 9 (1.57%) VMware Infrastructure
3 9 (1.57%) VMware NSX
4 7 (1.22%) vSphere
5 5 (0.87%) Virtual Machines
6 3 (0.52%) Hyper-V
6 3 (0.52%) Kamailio
7 2 (0.35%) Virtual Servers
8 1 (0.17%) Citrix Hypervisor
8 1 (0.17%) Firmware
8 1 (0.17%) NFS
8 1 (0.17%) vCloud
8 1 (0.17%) Virtual Desktop
8 1 (0.17%) VMware ESXi
Systems Management
1 286 (49.91%) Terraform
2 143 (24.96%) Grafana
3 121 (21.12%) Ansible
4 87 (15.18%) Prometheus
5 47 (8.20%) Argo
6 20 (3.49%) Kustomize
7 12 (2.09%) Puppet
8 8 (1.40%) Progress Chef
9 5 (0.87%) Cilium
9 5 (0.87%) Proxmox
10 4 (0.70%) logstash
10 4 (0.70%) ZABBIX
11 3 (0.52%) Kibana
11 3 (0.52%) Microsoft Intune
12 2 (0.35%) FortiGate
12 2 (0.35%) Packer
13 1 (0.17%) Istio
13 1 (0.17%) ITRS Geneos
13 1 (0.17%) Nagios
13 1 (0.17%) vCenter Server
Vendors
1 51 (8.90%) Microsoft
2 36 (6.28%) Google
3 25 (4.36%) VMware
4 22 (3.84%) Oracle
5 16 (2.79%) Red Hat
6 15 (2.62%) Splunk
7 10 (1.75%) Dell
8 8 (1.40%) Databricks
9 7 (1.22%) SAP
10 5 (0.87%) Cisco
10 5 (0.87%) Epicor
10 5 (0.87%) Ericsson
10 5 (0.87%) Fortinet
10 5 (0.87%) IBM
10 5 (0.87%) Infor
10 5 (0.87%) Informatica
10 5 (0.87%) Nokia
10 5 (0.87%) Software AG
10 5 (0.87%) Talend
10 5 (0.87%) TIBCO