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 25 November 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
25 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 82 43 33
Rank change year-on-year -39 -10 -4
Permanent jobs citing Kubernetes 475 1,135 1,546
As % of all permanent jobs with remote/hybrid work options 3.13% 5.71% 7.30%
As % of the Systems Management category 36.48% 45.91% 45.51%
Number of salaries quoted 373 573 1,300
10th Percentile £51,250 £51,859 £48,750
25th Percentile £58,750 £60,000 £60,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £75,000 £75,000 £72,500
Median % change year-on-year - +3.45% -3.33%
75th Percentile £87,500 £93,778 £87,500
90th Percentile £113,750 £112,500 £105,000
UK median annual salary £75,000 £77,500 £75,000
% change year-on-year -3.23% +3.33% -3.23%

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 1,302 2,472 3,397
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 8.57% 12.43% 16.03%
Number of salaries quoted 972 1,446 2,920
10th Percentile £36,775 £40,000 £41,250
25th Percentile £48,750 £50,000 £51,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £67,500 £67,500
Median % change year-on-year -3.70% - -2.80%
75th Percentile £83,750 £85,000 £85,000
90th Percentile £100,000 £100,000 £97,500
UK median annual salary £61,500 £67,500 £65,000
% change year-on-year -8.89% +3.85% -3.70%

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 25 November 2025.

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 12 (2.53%) Apache Spark
1 12 (2.53%) IIS
2 10 (2.11%) Apache Airflow
3 6 (1.26%) Apache
3 6 (1.26%) nginx
4 5 (1.05%) Anypoint
5 4 (0.84%) Apache Pulsar
5 4 (0.84%) Confluence
5 4 (0.84%) Microsoft Exchange
6 2 (0.42%) ArcGIS
6 2 (0.42%) GeoServer
6 2 (0.42%) Oracle Spatial
7 1 (0.21%) Apache Solr
7 1 (0.21%) BizTalk Server
7 1 (0.21%) OpenStack
7 1 (0.21%) SharePoint
7 1 (0.21%) Tomcat
Business Applications
1 5 (1.05%) Shopify
Cloud Services
1 285 (60.00%) AWS
2 260 (54.74%) Azure
3 125 (26.32%) GCP
4 115 (24.21%) GitHub
5 74 (15.58%) Azure DevOps
5 74 (15.58%) GitHub Actions
6 54 (11.37%) Amazon EKS
7 52 (10.95%) SaaS
8 45 (9.47%) Azure AKS
9 44 (9.26%) Serverless
10 43 (9.05%) AWS CloudFormation
11 41 (8.63%) Amazon CloudWatch
12 32 (6.74%) AWS Lambda
13 31 (6.53%) Amazon ECS
14 29 (6.11%) OpenShift
15 23 (4.84%) Amazon S3
16 20 (4.21%) Azure Monitor
16 20 (4.21%) Datadog
17 16 (3.37%) Azure Cosmos DB
18 14 (2.95%) Entra ID
Communications & Networking
1 36 (7.58%) Firewall
2 16 (3.37%) DNS
3 15 (3.16%) VPN
4 11 (2.32%) TCP/IP
4 11 (2.32%) WAN
5 9 (1.89%) LAN
6 8 (1.68%) Network Security
7 6 (1.26%) Fibre Channel
8 5 (1.05%) Broadband
8 5 (1.05%) DHCP
8 5 (1.05%) Internet
9 4 (0.84%) Intrusion Detection
9 4 (0.84%) SD-WAN
10 3 (0.63%) Kerberos
11 2 (0.42%) AMQP
11 2 (0.42%) VLAN
11 2 (0.42%) VSAN
12 1 (0.21%) 5G
12 1 (0.21%) MIMO
12 1 (0.21%) Radio Access Network
Database & Business Intelligence
1 62 (13.05%) PostgreSQL
2 52 (10.95%) NoSQL
3 41 (8.63%) SQL Server
4 39 (8.21%) MongoDB
5 18 (3.79%) MySQL
5 18 (3.79%) Relational Database
6 12 (2.53%) Amazon RDS
7 11 (2.32%) Elasticsearch
7 11 (2.32%) Redis
8 10 (2.11%) DynamoDB
9 8 (1.68%) Azure SQL Database
10 6 (1.26%) Big Data
10 6 (1.26%) Data Warehouse
10 6 (1.26%) Power BI
11 5 (1.05%) BigQuery
11 5 (1.05%) Flink
12 4 (0.84%) Data Lake
13 3 (0.63%) Amazon Athena
13 3 (0.63%) Apache Ignite
13 3 (0.63%) Pinecone
Development Applications
1 71 (14.95%) Git
2 61 (12.84%) Jenkins
3 48 (10.11%) GitLab
4 20 (4.21%) TeamCity
5 9 (1.89%) JUnit
6 8 (1.68%) Cucumber
6 8 (1.68%) Selenium
7 7 (1.47%) SonarQube
8 6 (1.26%) JIRA
8 6 (1.26%) Sonatype Nexus
8 6 (1.26%) Visual Studio Code
9 5 (1.05%) Octopus Deploy
10 4 (0.84%) Robot Framework
11 3 (0.63%) Bitbucket
12 2 (0.42%) Artifactory
12 2 (0.42%) CircleCI
12 2 (0.42%) Eclipse
12 2 (0.42%) JMeter
12 2 (0.42%) MLflow
12 2 (0.42%) TestRail
General
1 91 (19.16%) Social Skills
2 84 (17.68%) Finance
3 37 (7.79%) Law
4 34 (7.16%) Public Sector
5 33 (6.95%) Banking
6 31 (6.53%) Financial Institution
7 30 (6.32%) Retail
8 24 (5.05%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 23 (4.84%) Telecoms
10 22 (4.63%) Back Office
11 10 (2.11%) Front Office
12 9 (1.89%) Analytical Skills
13 7 (1.47%) Legal
14 6 (1.26%) Documentation Skills
14 6 (1.26%) Games
15 5 (1.05%) Automotive
15 5 (1.05%) Marketing
15 5 (1.05%) Tech for Good
16 4 (0.84%) Manufacturing
17 3 (0.63%) Electronics
Job Titles
1 140 (29.47%) Senior
2 90 (18.95%) DevOps Engineer
3 69 (14.53%) Software Engineer
4 68 (14.32%) Developer
5 54 (11.37%) Lead
6 53 (11.16%) Cloud Engineer
7 39 (8.21%) Infrastructure Engineer
8 36 (7.58%) Architect
9 34 (7.16%) Azure Engineer
9 34 (7.16%) Platform Engineer
10 27 (5.68%) Senior DevOps
11 26 (5.47%) Senior Software Engineer
12 24 (5.05%) Python Engineer
12 24 (5.05%) Senior Developer
13 20 (4.21%) Senior DevOps Engineer
14 18 (3.79%) AWS DevOps
14 18 (3.79%) AWS Engineer
14 18 (3.79%) Software Developer
14 18 (3.79%) Solutions Architect
15 16 (3.37%) Senior Cloud Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 74 (15.58%) .NET
2 54 (11.37%) React
3 51 (10.74%) Spring
4 50 (10.53%) Kafka
4 50 (10.53%) Spring Boot
5 47 (9.89%) RESTful
6 35 (7.37%) REST
7 30 (6.32%) Elastic Stack
8 29 (6.11%) Node.js
9 25 (5.26%) RabbitMQ
10 24 (5.05%) Django
11 23 (4.84%) Flask
12 21 (4.42%) .NET Core
12 21 (4.42%) gRPC
13 19 (4.00%) AngularJS
14 17 (3.58%) FastAPI
14 17 (3.58%) Web Services
15 16 (3.37%) YAML
16 15 (3.16%) .NET Framework
17 12 (2.53%) GraphQL
Miscellaneous
1 154 (32.42%) Cloud Native
2 44 (9.26%) Distributed Systems
3 30 (6.32%) Onboarding
4 23 (4.84%) Product Ownership
5 20 (4.21%) Data Centre
6 19 (4.00%) Management Information System
7 16 (3.37%) Hybrid Cloud
8 15 (3.16%) Legacy Systems
8 15 (3.16%) Public Cloud
9 10 (2.11%) Self-Motivation
10 8 (1.68%) Algorithms
11 7 (1.47%) Greenfield Project
11 7 (1.47%) Private Cloud
11 7 (1.47%) Security Posture
12 6 (1.26%) AI Agents
12 6 (1.26%) Virtual Team
13 5 (1.05%) Blog
13 5 (1.05%) Derivative
13 5 (1.05%) Linux Command Line
13 5 (1.05%) Low-Code
Operating Systems
1 118 (24.84%) Linux
2 71 (14.95%) Windows
3 26 (5.47%) Windows Server
4 20 (4.21%) Unix
5 13 (2.74%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 11 (2.32%) Android
7 10 (2.11%) Windows Server 2019
8 9 (1.89%) Ubuntu
9 8 (1.68%) Rocky
9 8 (1.68%) VMS
10 6 (1.26%) CentOS
11 4 (0.84%) Apple iOS
12 3 (0.63%) Debian
Processes & Methodologies
1 298 (62.74%) DevOps
2 292 (61.47%) CI/CD
3 195 (41.05%) Containerisation
4 165 (34.74%) Infrastructure as Code
5 136 (28.63%) Microservices
6 126 (26.53%) Agile
7 111 (23.37%) Software Engineering
8 101 (21.26%) Problem-Solving
9 87 (18.32%) Infrastructure Engineering
10 79 (16.63%) Continuous Improvement
11 75 (15.79%) AI
12 73 (15.37%) Mentoring
13 69 (14.53%) Observability
14 58 (12.21%) Platform Engineering
15 56 (11.79%) Site Reliability Engineering
16 49 (10.32%) Machine Learning
17 48 (10.11%) High Availability
18 47 (9.89%) Cloud Security
19 46 (9.68%) Test Automation
20 45 (9.47%) Event-Driven
Programming Languages
1 207 (43.58%) Python
2 108 (22.74%) Java
3 99 (20.84%) SQL
4 71 (14.95%) PowerShell
5 66 (13.89%) C#
6 65 (13.68%) Bash
7 57 (12.00%) JavaScript
8 42 (8.84%) Bicep
9 38 (8.00%) Go
10 37 (7.79%) TypeScript
11 8 (1.68%) Delphi
11 8 (1.68%) Scala
12 7 (1.47%) C++
12 7 (1.47%) PHP
13 6 (1.26%) Shell Script
14 5 (1.05%) Kotlin
15 4 (0.84%) F#
15 4 (0.84%) OCaml
15 4 (0.84%) Ruby
15 4 (0.84%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 75 (15.79%) Security Cleared
2 58 (12.21%) SC Cleared
3 53 (11.16%) Degree
4 47 (9.89%) AWS Certification
5 40 (8.42%) Azure Certification
6 32 (6.74%) Computer Science Degree
7 22 (4.63%) DV Cleared
8 13 (2.74%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
9 10 (2.11%) BPSS Clearance
10 8 (1.68%) Network+ Certification
11 7 (1.47%) Master's Degree
12 6 (1.26%) PhD
13 5 (1.05%) Cisco Certification
13 5 (1.05%) CISM
13 5 (1.05%) CISSP
14 3 (0.63%) (ISC)2 CCSP
14 3 (0.63%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
14 3 (0.63%) CompTIA Security+
15 2 (0.42%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
15 2 (0.42%) CRISC
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 25 (5.26%) QA
2 24 (5.05%) GDPR
3 16 (3.37%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 12 (2.53%) NIST
5 11 (2.32%) HIPAA
5 11 (2.32%) SOC 2
6 10 (2.11%) PCI DSS
7 7 (1.47%) Data Quality
8 5 (1.05%) SLA
9 4 (0.84%) GRC
10 2 (0.42%) ECSS
11 1 (0.21%) MiFID
System Software
1 285 (60.00%) Docker
2 26 (5.47%) Active Directory
3 16 (3.37%) Hyper-V
4 15 (3.16%) VMware Infrastructure
5 11 (2.32%) vSphere
6 6 (1.26%) NFS
7 5 (1.05%) Virtual Machines
8 3 (0.63%) VMware NSX
9 2 (0.42%) Virtual Servers
10 1 (0.21%) Dovecot
10 1 (0.21%) Postfix
10 1 (0.21%) vCloud
10 1 (0.21%) VMware ESXi
Systems Management
1 209 (44.00%) Terraform
2 100 (21.05%) Ansible
3 95 (20.00%) Grafana
4 54 (11.37%) Prometheus
5 20 (4.21%) Argo
6 5 (1.05%) Cilium
7 4 (0.84%) Progress Chef
7 4 (0.84%) Puppet
8 3 (0.63%) Microsoft Data Protection Manager
8 3 (0.63%) SCCM
8 3 (0.63%) SCOM
8 3 (0.63%) WSUS
9 2 (0.42%) Kubeflow
9 2 (0.42%) Kustomize
9 2 (0.42%) Microsoft Intune
10 1 (0.21%) Failover Clustering
10 1 (0.21%) FortiGate
10 1 (0.21%) ITRS Geneos
10 1 (0.21%) Karpenter
10 1 (0.21%) Oracle Enterprise Manager
Vendors
1 49 (10.32%) Microsoft
2 25 (5.26%) Google
3 23 (4.84%) Oracle
4 21 (4.42%) Red Hat
4 21 (4.42%) VMware
5 17 (3.58%) Dell
6 13 (2.74%) Splunk
7 11 (2.32%) Cisco
8 8 (1.68%) SAP
9 7 (1.47%) Commvault
9 7 (1.47%) Databricks
9 7 (1.47%) Pure Storage
10 5 (1.05%) Dynatrace
10 5 (1.05%) IBM
10 5 (1.05%) IFS
10 5 (1.05%) Jitterbit
10 5 (1.05%) MuleSoft
10 5 (1.05%) SnapLogic
10 5 (1.05%) TIBCO
10 5 (1.05%) Workday