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

6 months to
10 Oct 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 79 79 55
Rank change year-on-year 0 -24 -25
Permanent jobs citing Kubernetes 792 704 1,005
As % of all permanent jobs with remote/hybrid work options 3.19% 4.22% 4.64%
As % of the Systems Management category 45.65% 42.13% 44.85%
Number of salaries quoted 504 329 574
10th Percentile £46,250 £48,750 £52,554
25th Percentile £52,500 £58,750 £61,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £72,500 £75,750
Median % change year-on-year -10.34% -4.29% +1.00%
75th Percentile £85,000 £87,500 £93,750
90th Percentile £97,500 £107,500 £114,250
UK median annual salary £70,000 £75,000 £77,500
% change year-on-year -6.67% -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 1,735 1,671 2,241
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 6.98% 10.02% 10.35%
Number of salaries quoted 1,230 858 1,265
10th Percentile £33,750 £33,425 £36,500
25th Percentile £45,536 £45,000 £47,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £63,225 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year -5.10% -2.73% -3.35%
75th Percentile £75,000 £82,500 £86,250
90th Percentile £95,000 £97,500 £105,000
UK median annual salary £60,000 £60,000 £65,000
% change year-on-year - -7.69% -

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 10 October 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 (1.26%) Apache Spark
2 7 (0.88%) Apache Airflow
2 7 (0.88%) Oracle SOA Suite
3 6 (0.76%) Confluence
3 6 (0.76%) IIS
3 6 (0.76%) nginx
3 6 (0.76%) WebLogic
4 5 (0.63%) Apache
4 5 (0.63%) Camunda
5 4 (0.51%) ArcGIS
5 4 (0.51%) GeoServer
5 4 (0.51%) Oracle Spatial
6 2 (0.25%) Ethereum
6 2 (0.25%) Hedera
7 1 (0.13%) JBoss
7 1 (0.13%) OpenStack
7 1 (0.13%) Oracle Coherence
7 1 (0.13%) Red Hat Fuse
Applications
1 12 (1.52%) Chatbot
2 1 (0.13%) Lightworks
Business Applications
1 2 (0.25%) Distributed Ledger
1 2 (0.25%) SAP S/4HANA
2 1 (0.13%) Actimize
2 1 (0.13%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
Cloud Services
1 458 (57.83%) AWS
2 415 (52.40%) Azure
3 252 (31.82%) GCP
4 205 (25.88%) GitHub
5 135 (17.05%) GitHub Copilot
6 118 (14.90%) SaaS
7 113 (14.27%) Amazon EKS
8 72 (9.09%) Azure AI
9 50 (6.31%) GitHub Actions
10 47 (5.93%) Azure DevOps
10 47 (5.93%) Serverless
11 46 (5.81%) Azure AKS
12 41 (5.18%) AWS CloudFormation
12 41 (5.18%) OpenShift
13 30 (3.79%) Google Kubernetes Engine
14 29 (3.66%) Virtual Private Cloud
15 24 (3.03%) Amazon EC2
16 22 (2.78%) Azure Service Bus
17 21 (2.65%) PaaS
18 20 (2.53%) IaaS
Communications & Networking
1 38 (4.80%) VPN
2 26 (3.28%) Firewall
3 23 (2.90%) TCP/IP
4 22 (2.78%) BGP
5 21 (2.65%) DNS
6 20 (2.53%) Internet
6 20 (2.53%) Network Security
7 17 (2.15%) Broadband
8 16 (2.02%) VLAN
9 6 (0.76%) OSPF
9 6 (0.76%) VXLAN
10 4 (0.51%) DHCP
10 4 (0.51%) HTTP
11 3 (0.38%) WAN
12 2 (0.25%) Unified Communications
12 2 (0.25%) WireGuard
13 1 (0.13%) MQTT
13 1 (0.13%) SAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 160 (20.20%) MongoDB
2 140 (17.68%) Azure SQL Database
3 97 (12.25%) PostgreSQL
4 43 (5.43%) Elasticsearch
5 39 (4.92%) Amazon RDS
6 37 (4.67%) NoSQL
7 26 (3.28%) SQL Server
8 24 (3.03%) Relational Database
9 22 (2.78%) MySQL
10 11 (1.39%) Data Warehouse
11 9 (1.14%) Redis
12 8 (1.01%) BigQuery
13 6 (0.76%) Delta Lake
13 6 (0.76%) Power BI
14 5 (0.63%) DynamoDB
14 5 (0.63%) Flink
14 5 (0.63%) Looker
14 5 (0.63%) Metadata
14 5 (0.63%) Tableau
15 4 (0.51%) Big Data
Development Applications
1 101 (12.75%) TeamCity
2 80 (10.10%) Git
3 55 (6.94%) Jenkins
4 40 (5.05%) GitLab
5 34 (4.29%) JUnit
6 23 (2.90%) Mockito
7 19 (2.40%) JIRA
8 18 (2.27%) Maven
9 16 (2.02%) Selenium
10 11 (1.39%) Postman
11 9 (1.14%) Bitbucket
12 8 (1.01%) Atlassian Bamboo
12 8 (1.01%) Cucumber
12 8 (1.01%) SonarQube
13 6 (0.76%) Gatling
13 6 (0.76%) Octopus Deploy
14 4 (0.51%) Cypress.io
14 4 (0.51%) Subversion
14 4 (0.51%) Vagrant
14 4 (0.51%) Visual Studio Code
General
1 209 (26.39%) Finance
2 146 (18.43%) Social Skills
3 129 (16.29%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 125 (15.78%) Retail
5 120 (15.15%) Law
6 117 (14.77%) Banking
7 78 (9.85%) Financial Institution
8 76 (9.60%) Back Office
9 72 (9.09%) Public Sector
10 33 (4.17%) Advertising
11 32 (4.04%) Analytical Skills
12 20 (2.53%) Aerospace
13 19 (2.40%) Marketing
14 11 (1.39%) Games
15 9 (1.14%) Legal
16 6 (0.76%) Telecoms
17 4 (0.51%) Front Office
18 3 (0.38%) Aviation
18 3 (0.38%) Military
18 3 (0.38%) Police
Job Titles
1 227 (28.66%) Senior
2 214 (27.02%) Developer
3 156 (19.70%) Software Engineer
4 131 (16.54%) .NET Developer
5 77 (9.72%) DevOps Engineer
6 71 (8.96%) Lead
7 56 (7.07%) Cloud Engineer
8 53 (6.69%) Architect
9 43 (5.43%) Java Engineer
9 43 (5.43%) Senior Developer
9 43 (5.43%) Senior Software Engineer
10 40 (5.05%) Platform Engineer
11 32 (4.04%) Azure Engineer
12 29 (3.66%) Java Developer
13 27 (3.41%) Java Software Engineer
13 27 (3.41%) Lead Software Engineer
14 25 (3.16%) Full-Stack Developer
14 25 (3.16%) Senior DevOps
14 25 (3.16%) Team Leader
15 24 (3.03%) Senior Java Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 314 (39.65%) Terraform
2 201 (25.38%) .NET
3 136 (17.17%) .NET Core
3 136 (17.17%) ASP.NET
4 132 (16.67%) ASP.NET Core
5 97 (12.25%) Node.js
6 89 (11.24%) React
7 80 (10.10%) CSS
8 79 (9.97%) HTML
8 79 (9.97%) Spring
9 78 (9.85%) AngularJS
10 70 (8.84%) ML.NET
11 65 (8.21%) Vue
12 61 (7.70%) REST
13 56 (7.07%) RESTful
14 54 (6.82%) Kafka
14 54 (6.82%) Spring Boot
15 34 (4.29%) OpenTelemetry
16 29 (3.66%) Blazor
17 18 (2.27%) .NET Framework
Miscellaneous
1 247 (31.19%) Cloud Native
2 79 (9.97%) Distributed Systems
3 61 (7.70%) Product Ownership
4 46 (5.81%) Blog
5 27 (3.41%) Greenfield Project
6 20 (2.53%) Security Posture
7 19 (2.40%) Digital TV
8 18 (2.27%) AI Agents
9 16 (2.02%) Management Information System
10 14 (1.77%) Legacy Systems
11 13 (1.64%) Enterprise Software
12 12 (1.52%) Data Centre
12 12 (1.52%) Self-Motivation
13 10 (1.26%) Public Cloud
13 10 (1.26%) Replication
14 9 (1.14%) Cyber Threat
14 9 (1.14%) IoT
15 8 (1.01%) Cyber Defence
15 8 (1.01%) Cyber Kill Chain
15 8 (1.01%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 124 (15.66%) Linux
2 37 (4.67%) Windows
3 15 (1.89%) Ubuntu
4 14 (1.77%) Windows Server
5 12 (1.52%) Apple iOS
6 8 (1.01%) Android
7 6 (0.76%) Mac OS
8 3 (0.38%) Debian
9 2 (0.25%) CentOS
10 1 (0.13%) Unix
10 1 (0.13%) Windows Server 2016
Processes & Methodologies
1 536 (67.68%) CI/CD
2 301 (38.01%) DevOps
3 285 (35.98%) Microservices
4 284 (35.86%) Agile
5 238 (30.05%) Software Engineering
6 225 (28.41%) Mentoring
7 224 (28.28%) AI
8 208 (26.26%) Infrastructure as Code
9 206 (26.01%) Full-Stack Development
10 189 (23.86%) Containerisation
11 160 (20.20%) Test Automation
12 145 (18.31%) Observability
13 141 (17.80%) Continuous Improvement
14 134 (16.92%) Problem-Solving
15 125 (15.78%) Machine Learning
16 124 (15.66%) Clean Code
17 118 (14.90%) Fintech
18 108 (13.64%) TDD
19 101 (12.75%) Deployment Automation
19 101 (12.75%) Platform Engineering
Programming Languages
1 252 (31.82%) Python
2 247 (31.19%) Java
3 244 (30.81%) SQL
4 206 (26.01%) C#
5 121 (15.28%) TypeScript
6 99 (12.50%) Bash
6 99 (12.50%) JavaScript
7 70 (8.84%) PowerShell
8 66 (8.33%) Go
9 25 (3.16%) Bicep
10 16 (2.02%) Scala
11 14 (1.77%) PL/SQL
12 9 (1.14%) Kotlin
13 8 (1.01%) PHP
13 8 (1.01%) Ruby
14 6 (0.76%) Groovy
14 6 (0.76%) Shell Script
15 5 (0.63%) C
15 5 (0.63%) Rust
16 4 (0.51%) C++
Qualifications
1 133 (16.79%) Security Cleared
2 110 (13.89%) SC Cleared
3 50 (6.31%) Degree
4 32 (4.04%) Azure Certification
5 21 (2.65%) Computer Science Degree
6 19 (2.40%) AWS Certification
7 13 (1.64%) CISSP
7 13 (1.64%) DV Cleared
8 12 (1.52%) CISM
9 9 (1.14%) GIAC
10 8 (1.01%) BPSS Clearance
11 7 (0.88%) (ISC)2 CCSP
11 7 (0.88%) Cisco Certification
12 6 (0.76%) CCSP
13 5 (0.63%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
13 5 (0.63%) CEH
13 5 (0.63%) CREST Certified
13 5 (0.63%) OSCP
14 4 (0.51%) GCFA
14 4 (0.51%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 27 (3.41%) QA
2 26 (3.28%) NIST
2 26 (3.28%) PCI DSS
3 23 (2.90%) Accessibility
3 23 (2.90%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 16 (2.02%) SOC 2
5 9 (1.14%) Data Quality
6 8 (1.01%) WCAG
7 6 (0.76%) Cyber Essentials
8 4 (0.51%) GDPR
8 4 (0.51%) NCSC
9 1 (0.13%) California Consumer Privacy Act
9 1 (0.13%) HIPAA
9 1 (0.13%) ISO 22301
9 1 (0.13%) PSD2
9 1 (0.13%) SEPA
9 1 (0.13%) SLA
System Software
1 490 (61.87%) Docker
2 18 (2.27%) Virtual Machines
3 15 (1.89%) Active Directory
4 12 (1.52%) VMware Infrastructure
5 3 (0.38%) iptables
6 1 (0.13%) HDFS
6 1 (0.13%) Hyper-V
6 1 (0.13%) Virtual Servers
Systems Management
1 156 (19.70%) Grafana
2 70 (8.84%) Ansible
3 65 (8.21%) Prometheus
4 31 (3.91%) Argo
5 20 (2.53%) Istio
6 14 (1.77%) Progress Chef
6 14 (1.77%) Puppet
7 10 (1.26%) Kustomize
7 10 (1.26%) Single Sign-On
8 9 (1.14%) Cilium
9 7 (0.88%) Packer
10 6 (0.76%) FortiGate
11 4 (0.51%) linkerd
11 4 (0.51%) Microsoft Intune
12 2 (0.25%) Active Directory Federation Services
12 2 (0.25%) CASB
12 2 (0.25%) Microsoft Data Protection Manager
12 2 (0.25%) Podman
12 2 (0.25%) Proxmox
12 2 (0.25%) SCCM
Vendors
1 205 (25.88%) Microsoft
2 70 (8.84%) Google
3 36 (4.55%) Oracle
4 31 (3.91%) Splunk
5 25 (3.16%) OpenAI
6 21 (2.65%) Red Hat
7 19 (2.40%) Facebook
8 16 (2.02%) Okta
8 16 (2.02%) VMware
9 15 (1.89%) Ping Identity
10 12 (1.52%) Databricks
11 11 (1.39%) Dynatrace
12 10 (1.26%) New Relic
13 8 (1.01%) Palo Alto
14 7 (0.88%) ServiceNow
15 6 (0.76%) Fortinet
15 6 (0.76%) Zscaler
16 5 (0.63%) CrowdStrike
16 5 (0.63%) ForgeRock
16 5 (0.63%) Qualys