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 6 July 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
6 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 72 55 67
Rank change year-on-year -17 +12 -40
Permanent jobs citing Kubernetes 718 893 1,256
As % of all permanent jobs with remote/hybrid work options 3.42% 5.51% 3.81%
As % of the Systems Management category 40.50% 43.62% 35.91%
Number of salaries quoted 505 463 1,030
10th Percentile £45,350 £49,800 £50,000
25th Percentile £53,555 £60,000 £60,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £78,810 £77,500
Median % change year-on-year -17.52% +1.69% +3.33%
75th Percentile £81,250 £102,410 £95,000
90th Percentile £95,750 £130,000 £118,750
UK median annual salary £70,000 £80,000 £77,500
% change year-on-year -12.50% +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 1,773 2,047 3,498
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 8.44% 12.62% 10.61%
Number of salaries quoted 1,299 1,187 2,632
10th Percentile £36,700 £36,250 £36,500
25th Percentile £46,747 £48,528 £47,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £62,500 £67,500 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year -7.41% +3.85% -7.14%
75th Percentile £77,500 £86,250 £84,919
90th Percentile £95,000 £108,300 £104,750
UK median annual salary £65,000 £67,500 £62,500
% change year-on-year -3.70% +8.00% -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 6 July 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 7 (0.97%) Apache Airflow
1 7 (0.97%) Apache Spark
1 7 (0.97%) OpenStack
2 5 (0.70%) IIS
3 4 (0.56%) nginx
4 2 (0.28%) Apache
4 2 (0.28%) ArcGIS
4 2 (0.28%) Camunda
4 2 (0.28%) Confluence
4 2 (0.28%) GeoServer
4 2 (0.28%) Microsoft Exchange
4 2 (0.28%) Oracle SOA Suite
4 2 (0.28%) Oracle Spatial
5 1 (0.14%) Cloud Foundry
5 1 (0.14%) JBoss
5 1 (0.14%) Oracle Coherence
5 1 (0.14%) Red Hat Fuse
5 1 (0.14%) SAS
Applications
1 4 (0.56%) Weka
2 1 (0.14%) Chatbot
2 1 (0.14%) Lightworks
Business Applications
1 2 (0.28%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 400 (55.71%) AWS
2 376 (52.37%) Azure
3 196 (27.30%) GitHub
4 176 (24.51%) GCP
5 135 (18.80%) GitHub Copilot
6 108 (15.04%) Amazon EKS
7 77 (10.72%) SaaS
8 73 (10.17%) Azure AI
9 69 (9.61%) Serverless
10 50 (6.96%) GitHub Actions
11 49 (6.82%) AWS CloudFormation
12 46 (6.41%) Azure AKS
13 42 (5.85%) Azure DevOps
14 36 (5.01%) Amazon EC2
15 34 (4.74%) Amazon S3
16 32 (4.46%) OpenShift
17 26 (3.62%) AWS Lambda
18 25 (3.48%) Amazon ECS
19 24 (3.34%) PaaS
20 23 (3.20%) Amazon CloudWatch
Communications & Networking
1 40 (5.57%) Broadband
2 32 (4.46%) Firewall
3 25 (3.48%) DNS
3 25 (3.48%) VPN
4 18 (2.51%) Internet
5 15 (2.09%) TCP/IP
6 9 (1.25%) DHCP
6 9 (1.25%) Network Security
7 8 (1.11%) VLAN
8 7 (0.97%) BGP
9 6 (0.84%) OSPF
9 6 (0.84%) VXLAN
10 5 (0.70%) MQTT
11 4 (0.56%) HTTP
11 4 (0.56%) WAN
12 3 (0.42%) RTP
12 3 (0.42%) SAN
12 3 (0.42%) Unified Communications
12 3 (0.42%) VoIP
12 3 (0.42%) Wireshark
Database & Business Intelligence
1 156 (21.73%) MongoDB
2 131 (18.25%) Azure SQL Database
3 72 (10.03%) PostgreSQL
4 48 (6.69%) Elasticsearch
5 40 (5.57%) NoSQL
6 37 (5.15%) Relational Database
7 28 (3.90%) MySQL
8 27 (3.76%) SQL Server
9 23 (3.20%) Amazon RDS
10 12 (1.67%) RDBMS
11 8 (1.11%) BigQuery
12 7 (0.97%) Redis
13 6 (0.84%) Data Warehouse
13 6 (0.84%) DynamoDB
14 5 (0.70%) Delta Lake
15 3 (0.42%) Apache Cassandra
15 3 (0.42%) Metadata
16 2 (0.28%) Big Data
16 2 (0.28%) Neo4j
16 2 (0.28%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 82 (11.42%) Git
2 70 (9.75%) TeamCity
3 60 (8.36%) Jenkins
4 55 (7.66%) GitLab
5 16 (2.23%) JUnit
6 14 (1.95%) JIRA
7 13 (1.81%) Maven
8 12 (1.67%) Jaeger
8 12 (1.67%) Visual Studio Code
9 10 (1.39%) Mockito
10 9 (1.25%) Cucumber
11 8 (1.11%) Bitbucket
12 7 (0.97%) Atlassian Bamboo
12 7 (0.97%) Selenium
13 6 (0.84%) JMeter
13 6 (0.84%) Postman
14 5 (0.70%) Locust
14 5 (0.70%) Octopus Deploy
14 5 (0.70%) SonarQube
14 5 (0.70%) Subversion
General
1 157 (21.87%) Finance
2 124 (17.27%) Social Skills
3 96 (13.37%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 88 (12.26%) Retail
5 85 (11.84%) Banking
6 81 (11.28%) Law
7 51 (7.10%) Public Sector
8 42 (5.85%) Financial Institution
9 41 (5.71%) Back Office
10 36 (5.01%) Advertising
11 23 (3.20%) Analytical Skills
12 19 (2.65%) Marketing
13 15 (2.09%) Aerospace
14 12 (1.67%) Games
15 9 (1.25%) Organisational Skills
16 8 (1.11%) Legal
17 6 (0.84%) Telecoms
18 5 (0.70%) Aviation
19 4 (0.56%) Manufacturing
19 4 (0.56%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 209 (29.11%) Developer
2 200 (27.86%) Senior
3 125 (17.41%) .NET Developer
4 120 (16.71%) Software Engineer
5 97 (13.51%) Lead
6 78 (10.86%) DevOps Engineer
7 59 (8.22%) Cloud Engineer
8 52 (7.24%) Platform Engineer
9 43 (5.99%) Azure Engineer
10 41 (5.71%) Senior Software Engineer
11 39 (5.43%) Senior Developer
12 33 (4.60%) AWS Engineer
13 32 (4.46%) Java Developer
13 32 (4.46%) Java Engineer
13 32 (4.46%) Senior DevOps
14 31 (4.32%) Lead Software Engineer
15 29 (4.04%) Cloud Platform Engineer
15 29 (4.04%) Team Leader
16 24 (3.34%) Architect
16 24 (3.34%) Python Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 188 (26.18%) .NET
2 137 (19.08%) .NET Core
3 134 (18.66%) ASP.NET
4 128 (17.83%) ASP.NET Core
5 80 (11.14%) AngularJS
6 76 (10.58%) CSS
6 76 (10.58%) HTML
7 74 (10.31%) Node.js
8 71 (9.89%) ML.NET
8 71 (9.89%) React
9 68 (9.47%) Vue
10 66 (9.19%) Spring
11 58 (8.08%) Kafka
12 49 (6.82%) REST
13 48 (6.69%) Spring Boot
14 43 (5.99%) RESTful
15 25 (3.48%) Django
16 21 (2.92%) .NET Framework
16 21 (2.92%) Blazor
16 21 (2.92%) OpenTelemetry
Miscellaneous
1 208 (28.97%) Cloud Native
2 54 (7.52%) Distributed Systems
3 45 (6.27%) Product Ownership
4 23 (3.20%) Blog
5 21 (2.92%) Digital TV
5 21 (2.92%) Greenfield Project
6 20 (2.79%) Hybrid Cloud
7 18 (2.51%) Private Cloud
8 17 (2.37%) Data Centre
9 13 (1.81%) Public Cloud
10 11 (1.53%) Management Information System
10 11 (1.53%) Over-the-Top Content
10 11 (1.53%) Video\Live Streaming
11 10 (1.39%) AI Agents
12 9 (1.25%) Legacy Systems
12 9 (1.25%) Security Posture
13 8 (1.11%) Onboarding
14 7 (0.97%) Self-Motivation
14 7 (0.97%) Virtual Team
15 6 (0.84%) IoT
Operating Systems
1 145 (20.19%) Linux
2 39 (5.43%) Windows
3 20 (2.79%) Windows Server
4 16 (2.23%) Ubuntu
5 12 (1.67%) Unix
6 11 (1.53%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
7 9 (1.25%) Android
7 9 (1.25%) Apple iOS
8 7 (0.97%) CentOS
8 7 (0.97%) Debian
9 3 (0.42%) VMS
9 3 (0.42%) Windows Server 2016
10 2 (0.28%) Mac OS
Processes & Methodologies
1 472 (65.74%) CI/CD
2 311 (43.31%) DevOps
3 278 (38.72%) Agile
4 240 (33.43%) Infrastructure as Code
5 234 (32.59%) Microservices
6 205 (28.55%) Containerisation
7 185 (25.77%) Software Engineering
8 184 (25.63%) Mentoring
9 181 (25.21%) Full-Stack Development
10 178 (24.79%) AI
11 136 (18.94%) Continuous Improvement
12 132 (18.38%) Test Automation
13 114 (15.88%) Observability
13 114 (15.88%) Platform Engineering
14 108 (15.04%) TDD
15 107 (14.90%) Clean Code
16 101 (14.07%) Machine Learning
17 94 (13.09%) Problem-Solving
18 91 (12.67%) Deployment Automation
19 89 (12.40%) Scrum
Programming Languages
1 235 (32.73%) Python
2 207 (28.83%) SQL
3 197 (27.44%) C#
4 185 (25.77%) Java
5 110 (15.32%) TypeScript
6 81 (11.28%) JavaScript
7 80 (11.14%) Bash
8 68 (9.47%) PowerShell
9 60 (8.36%) Go
10 24 (3.34%) Bicep
11 22 (3.06%) Scala
12 10 (1.39%) PHP
12 10 (1.39%) PL/SQL
13 7 (0.97%) C
13 7 (0.97%) C++
13 7 (0.97%) Groovy
13 7 (0.97%) Rust
14 5 (0.70%) Ruby
15 4 (0.56%) Kotlin
16 3 (0.42%) Perl
Qualifications
1 89 (12.40%) Security Cleared
2 70 (9.75%) SC Cleared
3 57 (7.94%) Degree
4 44 (6.13%) Azure Certification
5 32 (4.46%) AWS Certification
6 27 (3.76%) Computer Science Degree
7 12 (1.67%) DV Cleared
8 9 (1.25%) CISSP
9 8 (1.11%) GIAC
10 7 (0.97%) CREST Certified
10 7 (0.97%) OSCP
11 6 (0.84%) ISACA
12 5 (0.70%) Microsoft Certification
12 5 (0.70%) SANS
13 4 (0.56%) CISM
14 3 (0.42%) CEH
14 3 (0.42%) Master's Degree
15 2 (0.28%) ITIL Certification
15 2 (0.28%) Linux+ Certification
15 2 (0.28%) LPIC
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 41 (5.71%) QA
2 21 (2.92%) Accessibility
3 19 (2.65%) NIST
4 15 (2.09%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 12 (1.67%) PCI DSS
6 8 (1.11%) WCAG
7 4 (0.56%) Data Quality
7 4 (0.56%) SOC 2
8 3 (0.42%) Cyber Essentials
8 3 (0.42%) GDPR
8 3 (0.42%) ISO 9001
9 1 (0.14%) ISO/IEC 42001
9 1 (0.14%) SLA
System Software
1 455 (63.37%) Docker
2 29 (4.04%) Active Directory
3 20 (2.79%) VMware Infrastructure
4 18 (2.51%) Virtual Machines
5 5 (0.70%) VMware NSX
6 4 (0.56%) Firmware
6 4 (0.56%) Slurm Workload Manager
7 3 (0.42%) Citrix Hypervisor
7 3 (0.42%) iptables
7 3 (0.42%) Kamailio
8 1 (0.14%) Hyper-V
8 1 (0.14%) KVM
8 1 (0.14%) QEMU
8 1 (0.14%) Virtual Servers
8 1 (0.14%) vSphere
8 1 (0.14%) Xen
Systems Management
1 306 (42.62%) Terraform
2 123 (17.13%) Grafana
3 109 (15.18%) Ansible
4 72 (10.03%) Prometheus
5 41 (5.71%) Argo
6 25 (3.48%) Puppet
7 21 (2.92%) Istio
8 18 (2.51%) Kustomize
9 17 (2.37%) Progress Chef
10 8 (1.11%) Packer
11 7 (0.97%) Active Directory Federation Services
11 7 (0.97%) Proxmox
11 7 (0.97%) ZABBIX
12 6 (0.84%) FortiGate
12 6 (0.84%) Microsoft Intune
13 5 (0.70%) Kibana
14 3 (0.42%) linkerd
14 3 (0.42%) Nagios
15 2 (0.28%) MIIS
15 2 (0.28%) Podman
Vendors
1 203 (28.27%) Microsoft
2 43 (5.99%) Google
3 35 (4.87%) VMware
4 20 (2.79%) Oracle
5 19 (2.65%) Facebook
6 18 (2.51%) Red Hat
7 17 (2.37%) Splunk
8 14 (1.95%) Okta
9 12 (1.67%) Palo Alto
10 11 (1.53%) ServiceNow
11 10 (1.39%) Fortinet
12 9 (1.25%) Databricks
13 8 (1.11%) Cisco
13 8 (1.11%) Confluent
14 7 (0.97%) EMC
14 7 (0.97%) ForgeRock
14 7 (0.97%) OpenAI
15 6 (0.84%) Citrix
15 6 (0.84%) F5
15 6 (0.84%) Zscaler