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 14 May 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
14 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 72 38 61
Rank change year-on-year -34 +23 -35
Permanent jobs citing Kubernetes 589 1,037 1,394
As % of all permanent jobs with remote/hybrid work options 3.18% 7.13% 4.29%
As % of the Systems Management category 38.57% 47.55% 37.37%
Number of salaries quoted 376 565 1,173
10th Percentile £49,445 £51,250 £50,000
25th Percentile £57,500 £60,000 £59,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £70,000 £80,000 £75,000
Median % change year-on-year -12.50% +6.67% -
75th Percentile £85,000 £115,000 £93,750
90th Percentile £105,000 £138,750 £115,000
UK median annual salary £73,000 £82,500 £75,000
% change year-on-year -11.52% +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 1,527 2,181 3,730
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 8.25% 15.01% 11.49%
Number of salaries quoted 1,038 1,283 2,946
10th Percentile £37,500 £38,250 £37,101
25th Percentile £48,750 £51,250 £47,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £69,384 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year -6.32% +6.74% -6.40%
75th Percentile £81,250 £90,000 £83,750
90th Percentile £95,000 £115,000 £102,500
UK median annual salary £65,000 £67,500 £60,500
% change year-on-year -3.70% +11.57% -10.37%

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 14 May 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 (1.70%) OpenStack
2 8 (1.36%) Apache Airflow
2 8 (1.36%) Apache Spark
3 4 (0.68%) ArcGIS
3 4 (0.68%) GeoServer
3 4 (0.68%) Oracle Spatial
4 3 (0.51%) Confluence
4 3 (0.51%) Microsoft Exchange
5 2 (0.34%) Apache
5 2 (0.34%) Apache Pulsar
5 2 (0.34%) Camunda
5 2 (0.34%) nginx
6 1 (0.17%) Cloud Foundry
6 1 (0.17%) IIS
6 1 (0.17%) JBoss
6 1 (0.17%) Oracle SOA Suite
6 1 (0.17%) Red Hat Fuse
6 1 (0.17%) SAS
6 1 (0.17%) SharePoint
Applications
1 4 (0.68%) Weka
2 2 (0.34%) Chatbot
3 1 (0.17%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 1 (0.17%) Actimize
1 1 (0.17%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 344 (58.40%) AWS
2 272 (46.18%) Azure
3 160 (27.16%) GCP
4 115 (19.52%) GitHub
5 110 (18.68%) Amazon EKS
6 71 (12.05%) SaaS
7 68 (11.54%) Serverless
8 59 (10.02%) GitHub Actions
9 44 (7.47%) GitHub Copilot
10 39 (6.62%) AWS CloudFormation
10 39 (6.62%) Azure DevOps
11 38 (6.45%) Azure AKS
12 36 (6.11%) Amazon EC2
12 36 (6.11%) Amazon S3
13 32 (5.43%) AWS Lambda
14 26 (4.41%) Amazon ECS
14 26 (4.41%) Azure AI
15 25 (4.24%) Amazon CloudWatch
16 24 (4.07%) OpenShift
17 23 (3.90%) Datadog
Communications & Networking
1 48 (8.15%) Broadband
2 31 (5.26%) Firewall
3 19 (3.23%) DNS
4 18 (3.06%) VPN
5 11 (1.87%) TCP/IP
6 10 (1.70%) DHCP
7 7 (1.19%) Network Security
8 6 (1.02%) Internet
9 5 (0.85%) VLAN
10 4 (0.68%) AMQP
10 4 (0.68%) MQTT
10 4 (0.68%) WAN
11 3 (0.51%) HTTP
11 3 (0.51%) RTP
11 3 (0.51%) SAN
11 3 (0.51%) SCCP
11 3 (0.51%) Unified Communications
11 3 (0.51%) VoIP
11 3 (0.51%) Wireshark
12 2 (0.34%) LAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 74 (12.56%) MongoDB
2 66 (11.21%) PostgreSQL
3 55 (9.34%) NoSQL
4 43 (7.30%) Azure SQL Database
5 40 (6.79%) Relational Database
6 37 (6.28%) SQL Server
7 30 (5.09%) Amazon RDS
8 21 (3.57%) Elasticsearch
8 21 (3.57%) MySQL
9 18 (3.06%) RDBMS
10 10 (1.70%) BigQuery
11 7 (1.19%) Amazon Aurora
11 7 (1.19%) Redis
12 6 (1.02%) Flink
13 5 (0.85%) DynamoDB
14 4 (0.68%) GIS
14 4 (0.68%) QGIS
15 3 (0.51%) Apache Cassandra
15 3 (0.51%) Power BI
16 2 (0.34%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 73 (12.39%) TeamCity
2 67 (11.38%) Git
3 60 (10.19%) Jenkins
4 50 (8.49%) GitLab
5 18 (3.06%) Jaeger
6 12 (2.04%) Visual Studio Code
7 10 (1.70%) JIRA
8 8 (1.36%) JMeter
8 8 (1.36%) JUnit
8 8 (1.36%) Maven
9 6 (1.02%) CircleCI
9 6 (1.02%) Cucumber
9 6 (1.02%) Locust
9 6 (1.02%) Visual Studio
10 5 (0.85%) Mockito
10 5 (0.85%) SonarQube
11 4 (0.68%) Bitbucket
11 4 (0.68%) MLflow
11 4 (0.68%) Selenium
12 3 (0.51%) REST Assured
General
1 138 (23.43%) Finance
2 117 (19.86%) Social Skills
3 92 (15.62%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 86 (14.60%) Retail
5 85 (14.43%) Banking
6 77 (13.07%) Law
7 38 (6.45%) Financial Institution
8 34 (5.77%) Public Sector
9 32 (5.43%) Back Office
10 16 (2.72%) Analytical Skills
11 11 (1.87%) Advertising
11 11 (1.87%) Telecoms
12 10 (1.70%) Organisational Skills
13 9 (1.53%) Front Office
14 6 (1.02%) Aerospace
14 6 (1.02%) Military
15 5 (0.85%) Games
15 5 (0.85%) Legal
16 4 (0.68%) Aviation
16 4 (0.68%) Marketing
Job Titles
1 182 (30.90%) Senior
2 119 (20.20%) Developer
3 111 (18.85%) Lead
4 110 (18.68%) Software Engineer
5 72 (12.22%) DevOps Engineer
6 48 (8.15%) Cloud Engineer
6 48 (8.15%) Platform Engineer
7 46 (7.81%) Azure Engineer
8 40 (6.79%) .NET Developer
9 38 (6.45%) Senior Software Engineer
10 33 (5.60%) Senior Developer
11 32 (5.43%) Java Developer
12 30 (5.09%) Java Engineer
13 29 (4.92%) Cloud Platform Engineer
13 29 (4.92%) Senior DevOps
14 28 (4.75%) Lead Software Engineer
15 27 (4.58%) Python Engineer
16 26 (4.41%) AWS Engineer
16 26 (4.41%) Team Leader
17 23 (3.90%) Java Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 96 (16.30%) .NET
2 66 (11.21%) React
3 63 (10.70%) Spring
4 60 (10.19%) Kafka
5 57 (9.68%) .NET Core
6 50 (8.49%) Node.js
7 48 (8.15%) Spring Boot
8 44 (7.47%) ASP.NET
8 44 (7.47%) REST
9 42 (7.13%) ASP.NET Core
10 36 (6.11%) AngularJS
10 36 (6.11%) RESTful
11 32 (5.43%) Elastic Stack
12 26 (4.41%) CSS
12 26 (4.41%) HTML
12 26 (4.41%) Vue
13 25 (4.24%) Django
14 23 (3.90%) Akka
15 22 (3.74%) ML.NET
15 22 (3.74%) OpenTelemetry
Miscellaneous
1 171 (29.03%) Cloud Native
2 48 (8.15%) Product Ownership
3 43 (7.30%) Distributed Systems
4 24 (4.07%) Blog
5 22 (3.74%) Over-the-Top Content
5 22 (3.74%) Video\Live Streaming
6 18 (3.06%) Private Cloud
7 17 (2.89%) Hybrid Cloud
8 15 (2.55%) Data Centre
8 15 (2.55%) Onboarding
9 12 (2.04%) Public Cloud
10 11 (1.87%) AI Agents
11 9 (1.53%) Digital TV
11 9 (1.53%) Security Posture
12 8 (1.36%) Management Information System
13 7 (1.19%) Greenfield Project
13 7 (1.19%) Legacy Systems
13 7 (1.19%) Virtual Team
14 6 (1.02%) Algorithms
14 6 (1.02%) CMDB
Operating Systems
1 130 (22.07%) Linux
2 34 (5.77%) Windows
3 20 (3.40%) Android
3 20 (3.40%) Unix
4 16 (2.72%) Windows Server
5 15 (2.55%) Apple iOS
6 12 (2.04%) Ubuntu
7 11 (1.87%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
8 7 (1.19%) CentOS
9 6 (1.02%) VMS
10 4 (0.68%) Debian
11 3 (0.51%) Windows Server 2016
12 2 (0.34%) Mac OS
Processes & Methodologies
1 373 (63.33%) CI/CD
2 314 (53.31%) DevOps
3 235 (39.90%) Agile
4 205 (34.80%) Infrastructure as Code
5 192 (32.60%) Containerisation
6 184 (31.24%) Microservices
7 160 (27.16%) Software Engineering
8 140 (23.77%) Mentoring
9 123 (20.88%) Test Automation
10 118 (20.03%) Continuous Improvement
11 102 (17.32%) AI
12 97 (16.47%) Observability
13 96 (16.30%) Platform Engineering
14 93 (15.79%) Clean Code
15 88 (14.94%) Full-Stack Development
16 81 (13.75%) Deployment Automation
17 79 (13.41%) TDD
18 76 (12.90%) Scrum
19 73 (12.39%) Problem-Solving
20 70 (11.88%) Site Reliability Engineering
Programming Languages
1 230 (39.05%) Python
2 180 (30.56%) Java
3 116 (19.69%) SQL
4 93 (15.79%) JavaScript
5 92 (15.62%) C#
6 81 (13.75%) Go
7 72 (12.22%) Bash
8 67 (11.38%) TypeScript
9 47 (7.98%) PowerShell
10 31 (5.26%) Scala
11 22 (3.74%) Bicep
12 11 (1.87%) C++
13 8 (1.36%) PHP
14 7 (1.19%) C
14 7 (1.19%) Rust
15 6 (1.02%) PL/SQL
16 4 (0.68%) Perl
17 3 (0.51%) Groovy
17 3 (0.51%) Ruby
17 3 (0.51%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 75 (12.73%) Security Cleared
2 64 (10.87%) Degree
3 60 (10.19%) SC Cleared
4 45 (7.64%) Azure Certification
5 32 (5.43%) AWS Certification
5 32 (5.43%) Computer Science Degree
6 12 (2.04%) DV Cleared
7 9 (1.53%) CREST Certified
7 9 (1.53%) OSCP
8 6 (1.02%) CISSP
8 6 (1.02%) ISACA
8 6 (1.02%) Microsoft Certification
9 5 (0.85%) GIAC
9 5 (0.85%) SANS
10 3 (0.51%) LPIC
10 3 (0.51%) Master's Degree
11 2 (0.34%) ISTQB
11 2 (0.34%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
11 2 (0.34%) ITIL Certification
11 2 (0.34%) Linux+ Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 42 (7.13%) QA
2 15 (2.55%) Accessibility
3 14 (2.38%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 14 (2.38%) NIST
4 10 (1.70%) PCI DSS
5 8 (1.36%) Data Quality
6 5 (0.85%) WCAG
7 4 (0.68%) GDPR
7 4 (0.68%) SOC 2
8 3 (0.51%) ISO 9001
9 2 (0.34%) Software Quality Assurance
10 1 (0.17%) ISO/IEC 42001
10 1 (0.17%) MiFID
System Software
1 354 (60.10%) Docker
2 31 (5.26%) Active Directory
3 18 (3.06%) VMware Infrastructure
4 13 (2.21%) Virtual Machines
5 6 (1.02%) VMware NSX
6 5 (0.85%) Firmware
7 4 (0.68%) Slurm Workload Manager
8 3 (0.51%) Citrix Hypervisor
8 3 (0.51%) Kamailio
9 2 (0.34%) Hyper-V
9 2 (0.34%) vSphere
10 1 (0.17%) KVM
10 1 (0.17%) QEMU
10 1 (0.17%) vCloud
10 1 (0.17%) Virtual Desktop
10 1 (0.17%) Virtual Servers
10 1 (0.17%) Xen
Systems Management
1 302 (51.27%) Terraform
2 117 (19.86%) Ansible
2 117 (19.86%) Grafana
3 76 (12.90%) Prometheus
4 45 (7.64%) Argo
5 22 (3.74%) Kustomize
6 17 (2.89%) Puppet
7 13 (2.21%) Istio
8 11 (1.87%) Progress Chef
9 8 (1.36%) Packer
10 7 (1.19%) Microsoft Intune
10 7 (1.19%) Proxmox
10 7 (1.19%) ZABBIX
11 6 (1.02%) Active Directory Federation Services
12 4 (0.68%) Kibana
12 4 (0.68%) logstash
13 3 (0.51%) FortiGate
14 2 (0.34%) MIIS
14 2 (0.34%) Nagios
14 2 (0.34%) Podman
Vendors
1 99 (16.81%) Microsoft
2 36 (6.11%) Google
3 32 (5.43%) VMware
4 20 (3.40%) Red Hat
5 13 (2.21%) Oracle
6 9 (1.53%) Okta
7 8 (1.36%) Cisco
7 8 (1.36%) Confluent
7 8 (1.36%) Palo Alto
7 8 (1.36%) ServiceNow
7 8 (1.36%) Splunk
8 7 (1.19%) Databricks
8 7 (1.19%) Fortinet
9 6 (1.02%) Citrix
9 6 (1.02%) EMC
9 6 (1.02%) F5
9 6 (1.02%) OpenAI
10 5 (0.85%) ForgeRock
11 4 (0.68%) Facebook
11 4 (0.68%) HubSpot