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

6 months to
12 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 76 67 71
Rank change year-on-year -9 +4 -43
Permanent jobs citing Kubernetes 736 819 928
As % of all permanent jobs with remote/hybrid work options 3.24% 4.99% 3.72%
As % of the Systems Management category 38.64% 42.26% 34.01%
Number of salaries quoted 529 393 710
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 £75,500
Median % change year-on-year -16.13% +2.65% +0.67%
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 1,905 1,938 2,729
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 8.40% 11.80% 10.94%
Number of salaries quoted 1,406 1,109 1,923
10th Percentile £37,250 £35,000 £36,750
25th Percentile £48,750 £47,500 £48,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £62,500 £66,500 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year -6.02% +2.31% -7.14%
75th Percentile £78,750 £82,751 £85,000
90th Percentile £97,500 £98,529 £102,700
UK median annual salary £65,000 £65,000 £65,000
% change year-on-year - - -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 12 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 (1.49%) Apache Spark
2 7 (0.95%) Apache Airflow
2 7 (0.95%) Oracle SOA Suite
3 6 (0.82%) IIS
4 5 (0.68%) Confluence
4 5 (0.68%) nginx
4 5 (0.68%) OpenStack
5 4 (0.54%) Camunda
6 3 (0.41%) ArcGIS
6 3 (0.41%) GeoServer
6 3 (0.41%) Oracle Spatial
7 2 (0.27%) Apache
7 2 (0.27%) Microsoft Exchange
8 1 (0.14%) Cloud Foundry
8 1 (0.14%) JBoss
8 1 (0.14%) Oracle Coherence
8 1 (0.14%) Red Hat Fuse
Applications
1 3 (0.41%) Chatbot
2 1 (0.14%) Lightworks
Business Applications
1 2 (0.27%) SAP S/4HANA
2 1 (0.14%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
Cloud Services
1 426 (57.88%) Azure
2 408 (55.43%) AWS
3 201 (27.31%) GitHub
4 194 (26.36%) GCP
5 141 (19.16%) GitHub Copilot
6 83 (11.28%) Amazon EKS
7 76 (10.33%) Azure AI
7 76 (10.33%) SaaS
8 59 (8.02%) Serverless
9 48 (6.52%) AWS CloudFormation
10 46 (6.25%) GitHub Actions
11 45 (6.11%) Azure DevOps
12 43 (5.84%) Azure AKS
13 37 (5.03%) OpenShift
14 30 (4.08%) Amazon EC2
15 27 (3.67%) Amazon S3
16 23 (3.13%) Azure Service Bus
17 22 (2.99%) PaaS
18 21 (2.85%) Amazon ECS
18 21 (2.85%) Datadog
Communications & Networking
1 26 (3.53%) DNS
1 26 (3.53%) Firewall
2 21 (2.85%) VPN
3 20 (2.72%) Internet
4 18 (2.45%) Broadband
5 15 (2.04%) TCP/IP
6 10 (1.36%) DHCP
7 8 (1.09%) BGP
7 8 (1.09%) VLAN
8 7 (0.95%) Network Security
9 6 (0.82%) OSPF
9 6 (0.82%) VXLAN
10 5 (0.68%) WAN
11 4 (0.54%) HTTP
12 3 (0.41%) MQTT
12 3 (0.41%) SAN
13 2 (0.27%) iSCSI
13 2 (0.27%) Remote Desktop
13 2 (0.27%) SSL
13 2 (0.27%) WireGuard
Database & Business Intelligence
1 157 (21.33%) MongoDB
2 141 (19.16%) Azure SQL Database
3 71 (9.65%) PostgreSQL
4 50 (6.79%) Elasticsearch
5 31 (4.21%) SQL Server
6 30 (4.08%) NoSQL
7 27 (3.67%) MySQL
8 25 (3.40%) Relational Database
9 21 (2.85%) Amazon RDS
10 10 (1.36%) Data Warehouse
11 6 (0.82%) Delta Lake
11 6 (0.82%) DynamoDB
11 6 (0.82%) Redis
12 5 (0.68%) Metadata
13 4 (0.54%) Power BI
13 4 (0.54%) Tableau
14 3 (0.41%) Apache Cassandra
14 3 (0.41%) Big Data
14 3 (0.41%) GIS
14 3 (0.41%) Hadoop
Development Applications
1 101 (13.72%) Git
2 53 (7.20%) Jenkins
3 51 (6.93%) GitLab
4 49 (6.66%) TeamCity
5 27 (3.67%) JUnit
6 18 (2.45%) Maven
7 17 (2.31%) Selenium
8 15 (2.04%) Mockito
9 14 (1.90%) JIRA
10 12 (1.63%) Cucumber
10 12 (1.63%) Postman
10 12 (1.63%) Visual Studio Code
11 9 (1.22%) Atlassian Bamboo
11 9 (1.22%) Bitbucket
12 7 (0.95%) SonarQube
13 6 (0.82%) Gatling
13 6 (0.82%) Octopus Deploy
14 5 (0.68%) JMeter
14 5 (0.68%) Locust
14 5 (0.68%) Subversion
General
1 173 (23.51%) Finance
2 133 (18.07%) Social Skills
3 73 (9.92%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 71 (9.65%) Banking
5 68 (9.24%) Law
5 68 (9.24%) Retail
6 58 (7.88%) Public Sector
7 39 (5.30%) Financial Institution
8 38 (5.16%) Back Office
9 37 (5.03%) Advertising
10 23 (3.13%) Analytical Skills
11 21 (2.85%) Marketing
12 19 (2.58%) Aerospace
13 13 (1.77%) Games
14 12 (1.63%) Legal
15 8 (1.09%) Organisational Skills
16 6 (0.82%) Telecoms
17 5 (0.68%) Military
18 3 (0.41%) Aviation
18 3 (0.41%) Manufacturing
Job Titles
1 214 (29.08%) Developer
2 198 (26.90%) Senior
3 135 (18.34%) .NET Developer
4 113 (15.35%) Software Engineer
5 77 (10.46%) DevOps Engineer
5 77 (10.46%) Lead
6 56 (7.61%) Cloud Engineer
7 50 (6.79%) Platform Engineer
8 48 (6.52%) Architect
9 46 (6.25%) Azure Engineer
10 41 (5.57%) Senior Developer
11 33 (4.48%) Java Developer
12 32 (4.35%) Senior Software Engineer
13 29 (3.94%) Cloud Platform Engineer
13 29 (3.94%) Senior DevOps
14 27 (3.67%) AWS Engineer
14 27 (3.67%) Lead Software Engineer
15 24 (3.26%) Python Engineer
15 24 (3.26%) Senior DevOps Engineer
16 23 (3.13%) Team Leader
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 204 (27.72%) .NET
2 142 (19.29%) .NET Core
2 142 (19.29%) ASP.NET
3 136 (18.48%) ASP.NET Core
4 83 (11.28%) AngularJS
5 81 (11.01%) CSS
5 81 (11.01%) HTML
5 81 (11.01%) Node.js
6 80 (10.87%) React
7 74 (10.05%) ML.NET
8 69 (9.38%) Vue
9 66 (8.97%) Spring
10 63 (8.56%) REST
11 58 (7.88%) Kafka
12 48 (6.52%) RESTful
13 41 (5.57%) Spring Boot
14 28 (3.80%) Blazor
15 24 (3.26%) OAuth
15 24 (3.26%) OpenID
16 23 (3.13%) Django
Miscellaneous
1 194 (26.36%) Cloud Native
2 56 (7.61%) Distributed Systems
3 47 (6.39%) Product Ownership
4 23 (3.13%) Greenfield Project
5 20 (2.72%) Digital TV
6 17 (2.31%) Blog
6 17 (2.31%) Data Centre
6 17 (2.31%) Hybrid Cloud
7 16 (2.17%) AI Agents
7 16 (2.17%) Public Cloud
8 15 (2.04%) Private Cloud
9 14 (1.90%) Legacy Systems
10 12 (1.63%) Management Information System
10 12 (1.63%) Self-Motivation
11 11 (1.49%) IoT
12 8 (1.09%) Enterprise Software
12 8 (1.09%) Mobile App
13 7 (0.95%) Onboarding
13 7 (0.95%) PKI
13 7 (0.95%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 138 (18.75%) Linux
2 43 (5.84%) Windows
3 23 (3.13%) Windows Server
4 15 (2.04%) Ubuntu
5 9 (1.22%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 7 (0.95%) Android
6 7 (0.95%) Apple iOS
7 6 (0.82%) Debian
8 5 (0.68%) CentOS
9 3 (0.41%) VMS
10 2 (0.27%) Mac OS
10 2 (0.27%) Windows Server 2016
Processes & Methodologies
1 484 (65.76%) CI/CD
2 297 (40.35%) DevOps
3 272 (36.96%) Agile
4 242 (32.88%) Microservices
5 228 (30.98%) Infrastructure as Code
6 205 (27.85%) AI
7 202 (27.45%) Containerisation
8 196 (26.63%) Full-Stack Development
9 194 (26.36%) Software Engineering
10 188 (25.54%) Mentoring
11 131 (17.80%) Continuous Improvement
12 128 (17.39%) Test Automation
13 125 (16.98%) Observability
14 116 (15.76%) Machine Learning
15 115 (15.63%) Platform Engineering
16 108 (14.67%) TDD
17 101 (13.72%) Problem-Solving
18 93 (12.64%) Clean Code
19 88 (11.96%) Scrum
20 74 (10.05%) Deployment Automation
Programming Languages
1 230 (31.25%) Python
2 219 (29.76%) SQL
3 214 (29.08%) C#
4 162 (22.01%) Java
5 112 (15.22%) TypeScript
6 81 (11.01%) JavaScript
7 75 (10.19%) Bash
8 70 (9.51%) PowerShell
9 46 (6.25%) Go
10 21 (2.85%) Bicep
11 15 (2.04%) PL/SQL
12 13 (1.77%) Scala
13 11 (1.49%) PHP
14 8 (1.09%) Ruby
15 7 (0.95%) Groovy
15 7 (0.95%) Kotlin
16 4 (0.54%) C++
16 4 (0.54%) Rust
17 3 (0.41%) T-SQL
17 3 (0.41%) VB.NET
Qualifications
1 112 (15.22%) Security Cleared
2 92 (12.50%) SC Cleared
3 63 (8.56%) Degree
4 46 (6.25%) Azure Certification
5 28 (3.80%) Computer Science Degree
6 19 (2.58%) AWS Certification
7 14 (1.90%) DV Cleared
8 10 (1.36%) CISSP
9 8 (1.09%) GIAC
10 5 (0.68%) BPSS Clearance
10 5 (0.68%) CISM
10 5 (0.68%) CREST Certified
10 5 (0.68%) ISACA
10 5 (0.68%) OSCP
11 4 (0.54%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
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
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 40 (5.43%) QA
2 26 (3.53%) Accessibility
3 20 (2.72%) NIST
4 13 (1.77%) WCAG
5 10 (1.36%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 7 (0.95%) PCI DSS
7 5 (0.68%) Data Quality
8 4 (0.54%) Cyber Essentials
8 4 (0.54%) SOC 2
9 3 (0.41%) ISO 9001
9 3 (0.41%) NCSC
10 2 (0.27%) GDPR
11 1 (0.14%) California Consumer Privacy Act
11 1 (0.14%) HIPAA
11 1 (0.14%) ISO 22301
11 1 (0.14%) ISO/IEC 42001
11 1 (0.14%) PSD2
11 1 (0.14%) SEPA
11 1 (0.14%) SLA
System Software
1 475 (64.54%) Docker
2 30 (4.08%) Active Directory
3 20 (2.72%) Virtual Machines
4 19 (2.58%) VMware Infrastructure
5 4 (0.54%) Firmware
5 4 (0.54%) Slurm Workload Manager
6 3 (0.41%) Citrix Hypervisor
6 3 (0.41%) iptables
7 1 (0.14%) Hyper-V
7 1 (0.14%) KVM
7 1 (0.14%) QEMU
7 1 (0.14%) Virtual Servers
7 1 (0.14%) Xen
Systems Management
1 285 (38.72%) Terraform
2 108 (14.67%) Grafana
3 91 (12.36%) Ansible
4 54 (7.34%) Prometheus
5 26 (3.53%) Argo
6 24 (3.26%) Istio
7 21 (2.85%) Puppet
8 13 (1.77%) Progress Chef
9 8 (1.09%) Packer
10 6 (0.82%) Active Directory Federation Services
10 6 (0.82%) FortiGate
10 6 (0.82%) Kustomize
10 6 (0.82%) Microsoft Intune
11 4 (0.54%) Kibana
11 4 (0.54%) linkerd
12 3 (0.41%) Proxmox
12 3 (0.41%) ZABBIX
13 2 (0.27%) CASB
13 2 (0.27%) Microsoft Data Protection Manager
13 2 (0.27%) Podman
Vendors
1 213 (28.94%) Microsoft
2 45 (6.11%) Google
3 31 (4.21%) Oracle
4 25 (3.40%) VMware
5 23 (3.13%) Red Hat
6 22 (2.99%) Okta
7 21 (2.85%) Facebook
8 16 (2.17%) Splunk
9 14 (1.90%) Ping Identity
10 13 (1.77%) OpenAI
11 12 (1.63%) Palo Alto
11 12 (1.63%) ServiceNow
12 9 (1.22%) Databricks
13 8 (1.09%) Cisco
13 8 (1.09%) Confluent
13 8 (1.09%) ForgeRock
14 7 (0.95%) Dynatrace
14 7 (0.95%) EMC
14 7 (0.95%) Fortinet
15 6 (0.82%) Zscaler