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

6 months to
22 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 75 31 58
Rank change year-on-year -44 +27 -31
Permanent jobs citing Kubernetes 578 1,101 1,438
As % of all permanent jobs with remote/hybrid work options 3.38% 8.21% 4.71%
As % of the Systems Management category 38.08% 54.50% 39.36%
Number of salaries quoted 381 671 1,207
10th Percentile £52,400 £52,500 £48,750
25th Percentile £58,750 £62,500 £57,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £70,079 £80,000 £72,500
Median % change year-on-year -12.40% +10.34% -3.33%
75th Percentile £87,500 £110,000 £87,500
90th Percentile £110,000 £138,750 £110,000
UK median annual salary £75,000 £82,500 £75,000
% change year-on-year -9.09% +10.00% -1.03%

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 1,518 2,020 3,653
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 8.88% 15.06% 11.98%
Number of salaries quoted 1,037 1,394 3,045
10th Percentile £36,400 £42,500 £37,500
25th Percentile £46,446 £52,500 £47,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £70,000 £63,218
Median % change year-on-year -7.14% +10.73% -8.14%
75th Percentile £82,500 £91,438 £83,750
90th Percentile £95,000 £115,000 £100,000
UK median annual salary £62,500 £70,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year -10.71% +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 March 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 14 (2.42%) Apache Spark
2 8 (1.38%) Apache Airflow
2 8 (1.38%) OpenStack
3 5 (0.87%) Anypoint
3 5 (0.87%) Apache Pulsar
4 4 (0.69%) ArcGIS
4 4 (0.69%) GeoServer
4 4 (0.69%) Microsoft Exchange
4 4 (0.69%) Oracle Spatial
5 3 (0.52%) Apache
6 2 (0.35%) Camunda
6 2 (0.35%) Confluence
6 2 (0.35%) nginx
7 1 (0.17%) IIS
7 1 (0.17%) SAS
7 1 (0.17%) SharePoint
Applications
1 4 (0.69%) 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
1 368 (63.67%) AWS
2 255 (44.12%) Azure
3 179 (30.97%) GCP
4 117 (20.24%) Amazon EKS
5 109 (18.86%) GitHub
6 83 (14.36%) SaaS
7 78 (13.49%) GitHub Actions
8 59 (10.21%) Serverless
9 52 (9.00%) Azure DevOps
10 43 (7.44%) AWS CloudFormation
11 41 (7.09%) Amazon S3
11 41 (7.09%) Azure AKS
12 40 (6.92%) Amazon CloudWatch
13 35 (6.06%) OpenShift
14 34 (5.88%) AWS Lambda
15 33 (5.71%) Amazon EC2
16 23 (3.98%) Amazon ECS
16 23 (3.98%) Datadog
17 19 (3.29%) Pulumi
18 15 (2.60%) PaaS
Communications & Networking
1 44 (7.61%) Broadband
2 32 (5.54%) Firewall
3 16 (2.77%) VPN
4 11 (1.90%) DNS
5 9 (1.56%) Network Security
6 7 (1.21%) DHCP
7 5 (0.87%) SD-WAN
7 5 (0.87%) TCP/IP
8 4 (0.69%) AMQP
8 4 (0.69%) Intrusion Detection
8 4 (0.69%) MQTT
8 4 (0.69%) WAN
9 3 (0.52%) HTTP
9 3 (0.52%) Internet
9 3 (0.52%) Kerberos
9 3 (0.52%) SCCP
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 67 (11.59%) PostgreSQL
2 61 (10.55%) NoSQL
3 38 (6.57%) MongoDB
3 38 (6.57%) Relational Database
4 37 (6.40%) SQL Server
5 28 (4.84%) Amazon RDS
6 19 (3.29%) RDBMS
7 18 (3.11%) MySQL
8 12 (2.08%) Azure SQL Database
9 10 (1.73%) Elasticsearch
9 10 (1.73%) Flink
10 9 (1.56%) BigQuery
11 8 (1.38%) Amazon Aurora
11 8 (1.38%) Redis
12 5 (0.87%) Power BI
13 4 (0.69%) Big Data
13 4 (0.69%) Data Warehouse
13 4 (0.69%) GIS
13 4 (0.69%) Hadoop
13 4 (0.69%) QGIS
Development Applications
1 80 (13.84%) TeamCity
2 73 (12.63%) Jenkins
3 57 (9.86%) Git
4 55 (9.52%) GitLab
5 19 (3.29%) Jaeger
6 13 (2.25%) Cucumber
7 12 (2.08%) Selenium
8 10 (1.73%) JUnit
9 9 (1.56%) JMeter
10 8 (1.38%) JIRA
10 8 (1.38%) SonarQube
10 8 (1.38%) Visual Studio Code
11 7 (1.21%) Visual Studio
12 6 (1.04%) Bitbucket
12 6 (1.04%) CircleCI
13 5 (0.87%) Locust
13 5 (0.87%) Robot Framework
14 4 (0.69%) MLflow
15 3 (0.52%) Eclipse
15 3 (0.52%) REST Assured
General
1 134 (23.18%) Finance
2 123 (21.28%) Social Skills
3 94 (16.26%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 91 (15.74%) Banking
5 89 (15.40%) Retail
6 85 (14.71%) Law
7 54 (9.34%) Financial Institution
8 44 (7.61%) Back Office
9 31 (5.36%) Public Sector
10 25 (4.33%) Telecoms
11 18 (3.11%) Analytical Skills
12 12 (2.08%) Front Office
13 10 (1.73%) Legal
14 7 (1.21%) Military
15 5 (0.87%) Advertising
15 5 (0.87%) Esports
15 5 (0.87%) Organisational Skills
16 4 (0.69%) Aviation
16 4 (0.69%) Manufacturing
16 4 (0.69%) Tech for Good
Job Titles
1 192 (33.22%) Senior
2 125 (21.63%) Software Engineer
3 114 (19.72%) Lead
4 83 (14.36%) Developer
5 79 (13.67%) DevOps Engineer
6 62 (10.73%) Cloud Engineer
7 50 (8.65%) Platform Engineer
8 48 (8.30%) Senior Software Engineer
9 37 (6.40%) Azure Engineer
10 36 (6.23%) Senior Developer
11 31 (5.36%) Java Engineer
12 30 (5.19%) AWS Engineer
13 28 (4.84%) Python Engineer
14 26 (4.50%) Lead DevOps
14 26 (4.50%) Lead Software Engineer
15 25 (4.33%) Infrastructure Engineer
15 25 (4.33%) Software Developer
16 24 (4.15%) Cloud Platform Engineer
16 24 (4.15%) Java Software Engineer
17 23 (3.98%) Senior DevOps
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 73 (12.63%) .NET
2 71 (12.28%) Spring
3 61 (10.55%) Kafka
4 60 (10.38%) Spring Boot
5 59 (10.21%) React
6 48 (8.30%) Elastic Stack
7 47 (8.13%) RESTful
8 40 (6.92%) REST
9 35 (6.06%) Node.js
10 31 (5.36%) .NET Core
11 30 (5.19%) Django
12 25 (4.33%) Akka
13 21 (3.63%) Flask
13 21 (3.63%) gRPC
13 21 (3.63%) OAuth
14 19 (3.29%) OpenTelemetry
15 18 (3.11%) AngularJS
15 18 (3.11%) FastAPI
15 18 (3.11%) RabbitMQ
16 16 (2.77%) .NET Framework
Miscellaneous
1 182 (31.49%) Cloud Native
2 45 (7.79%) Distributed Systems
3 43 (7.44%) Product Ownership
4 23 (3.98%) Blog
4 23 (3.98%) Over-the-Top Content
4 23 (3.98%) Video\Live Streaming
5 16 (2.77%) Legacy Systems
6 15 (2.60%) Onboarding
7 14 (2.42%) Private Cloud
8 13 (2.25%) AI Agents
9 12 (2.08%) Data Centre
9 12 (2.08%) Hybrid Cloud
9 12 (2.08%) Security Posture
10 11 (1.90%) Virtual Team
11 10 (1.73%) Public Cloud
12 7 (1.21%) Distributed Architecture
12 7 (1.21%) Fixed Income
13 6 (1.04%) Low-Code
13 6 (1.04%) Management Information System
14 5 (0.87%) Legacy Applications
Operating Systems
1 129 (22.32%) Linux
2 35 (6.06%) Unix
3 33 (5.71%) Windows
4 22 (3.81%) Android
5 13 (2.25%) Apple iOS
6 12 (2.08%) Ubuntu
7 10 (1.73%) Windows Server
8 9 (1.56%) CentOS
8 9 (1.56%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
9 7 (1.21%) VMS
10 2 (0.35%) Debian
10 2 (0.35%) Windows Server 2016
11 1 (0.17%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 359 (62.11%) CI/CD
2 327 (56.57%) DevOps
3 232 (40.14%) Containerisation
4 205 (35.47%) Agile
5 198 (34.26%) Infrastructure as Code
6 171 (29.58%) Microservices
7 164 (28.37%) Software Engineering
8 121 (20.93%) Test Automation
9 115 (19.90%) Mentoring
10 114 (19.72%) Continuous Improvement
11 89 (15.40%) Platform Engineering
12 84 (14.53%) AI
12 84 (14.53%) Clean Code
13 83 (14.36%) Observability
14 81 (14.01%) Deployment Automation
14 81 (14.01%) Problem-Solving
15 70 (12.11%) High Availability
16 68 (11.76%) Site Reliability Engineering
17 67 (11.59%) TDD
18 65 (11.25%) Infrastructure Engineering
Programming Languages
1 242 (41.87%) Python
2 192 (33.22%) Java
3 92 (15.92%) Go
4 91 (15.74%) JavaScript
5 86 (14.88%) SQL
6 74 (12.80%) Bash
7 59 (10.21%) C#
8 43 (7.44%) PowerShell
8 43 (7.44%) TypeScript
9 37 (6.40%) Bicep
10 30 (5.19%) Scala
11 14 (2.42%) C++
12 8 (1.38%) Delphi
13 6 (1.04%) PHP
14 5 (0.87%) Rust
14 5 (0.87%) Shell Script
15 4 (0.69%) C
16 3 (0.52%) Perl
17 2 (0.35%) Korn
17 2 (0.35%) Ruby
Qualifications
1 73 (12.63%) Degree
1 73 (12.63%) Security Cleared
2 55 (9.52%) SC Cleared
3 45 (7.79%) Computer Science Degree
4 37 (6.40%) AWS Certification
5 34 (5.88%) Azure Certification
6 17 (2.94%) DV Cleared
7 7 (1.21%) CREST Certified
7 7 (1.21%) Microsoft Certification
7 7 (1.21%) OSCP
8 5 (0.87%) CISSP
8 5 (0.87%) GIAC
8 5 (0.87%) ISACA
8 5 (0.87%) SANS
9 3 (0.52%) LPIC
10 2 (0.35%) ISTQB
10 2 (0.35%) ISTQB Advanced Certification
10 2 (0.35%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
10 2 (0.35%) Linux+ Certification
10 2 (0.35%) Master's Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 35 (6.06%) QA
2 22 (3.81%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 17 (2.94%) PCI DSS
4 15 (2.60%) NIST
5 11 (1.90%) Accessibility
5 11 (1.90%) GDPR
6 10 (1.73%) SOC 2
7 8 (1.38%) Data Quality
8 4 (0.69%) GRC
8 4 (0.69%) WCAG
9 3 (0.52%) ISO 9001
9 3 (0.52%) SLA
10 2 (0.35%) ECSS
10 2 (0.35%) Software Quality Assurance
11 1 (0.17%) HIPAA
11 1 (0.17%) MiFID
System Software
1 349 (60.38%) Docker
2 20 (3.46%) Active Directory
3 13 (2.25%) Virtual Machines
4 11 (1.90%) VMware Infrastructure
5 9 (1.56%) VMware NSX
6 6 (1.04%) vSphere
7 4 (0.69%) Firmware
7 4 (0.69%) Hyper-V
8 3 (0.52%) Kamailio
9 2 (0.35%) Citrix Hypervisor
9 2 (0.35%) Slurm Workload Manager
10 1 (0.17%) vCloud
10 1 (0.17%) Virtual Desktop
10 1 (0.17%) VMware ESXi
Systems Management
1 292 (50.52%) Terraform
2 139 (24.05%) Grafana
3 116 (20.07%) Ansible
4 83 (14.36%) Prometheus
5 45 (7.79%) Argo
6 19 (3.29%) Kustomize
7 12 (2.08%) Puppet
8 8 (1.38%) Istio
9 7 (1.21%) Progress Chef
10 6 (1.04%) Proxmox
11 5 (0.87%) ZABBIX
12 4 (0.69%) Cilium
12 4 (0.69%) logstash
12 4 (0.69%) Packer
13 3 (0.52%) Kibana
13 3 (0.52%) Microsoft Intune
14 2 (0.35%) Active Directory Federation Services
14 2 (0.35%) FortiGate
14 2 (0.35%) MIIS
15 1 (0.17%) Graylog
Vendors
1 61 (10.55%) Microsoft
2 35 (6.06%) Google
3 28 (4.84%) VMware
4 23 (3.98%) Oracle
5 15 (2.60%) Red Hat
5 15 (2.60%) Splunk
6 10 (1.73%) Dell
7 8 (1.38%) Confluent
7 8 (1.38%) Databricks
8 7 (1.21%) Cisco
8 7 (1.21%) SAP
9 6 (1.04%) Fortinet
9 6 (1.04%) Okta
9 6 (1.04%) Palo Alto
10 5 (0.87%) IFS
10 5 (0.87%) Jitterbit
10 5 (0.87%) Mavenir
10 5 (0.87%) MuleSoft
10 5 (0.87%) SnapLogic
10 5 (0.87%) Workday