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

6 months to
24 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 75 52 63
Rank change year-on-year -23 +11 -36
Permanent jobs citing Kubernetes 676 908 1,335
As % of all permanent jobs with remote/hybrid work options 3.31% 5.83% 3.89%
As % of the Systems Management category 40.07% 44.73% 36.57%
Number of salaries quoted 451 477 1,098
10th Percentile £46,250 £50,000 £50,000
25th Percentile £53,750 £60,000 £60,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £78,810 £75,000
Median % change year-on-year -17.52% +5.08% -
75th Percentile £82,500 £107,500 £93,750
90th Percentile £97,500 £135,000 £117,500
UK median annual salary £70,079 £80,000 £75,000
% change year-on-year -12.40% +6.67% -

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 1,687 2,030 3,651
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 8.26% 13.04% 10.65%
Number of salaries quoted 1,209 1,171 2,767
10th Percentile £36,250 £36,250 £36,500
25th Percentile £46,743 £48,996 £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 £78,000 £87,500 £84,919
90th Percentile £95,000 £115,000 £102,500
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 24 June 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 (1.04%) Apache Airflow
1 7 (1.04%) Apache Spark
1 7 (1.04%) OpenStack
2 3 (0.44%) IIS
3 2 (0.30%) Apache
3 2 (0.30%) ArcGIS
3 2 (0.30%) Camunda
3 2 (0.30%) Confluence
3 2 (0.30%) GeoServer
3 2 (0.30%) Microsoft Exchange
3 2 (0.30%) nginx
3 2 (0.30%) Oracle SOA Suite
3 2 (0.30%) Oracle Spatial
4 1 (0.15%) Cloud Foundry
4 1 (0.15%) JBoss
4 1 (0.15%) Oracle Coherence
4 1 (0.15%) Red Hat Fuse
4 1 (0.15%) SAS
Applications
1 4 (0.59%) Weka
2 1 (0.15%) Chatbot
Business Applications
1 2 (0.30%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 379 (56.07%) AWS
2 331 (48.96%) Azure
3 165 (24.41%) GCP
4 163 (24.11%) GitHub
5 110 (16.27%) Amazon EKS
6 104 (15.38%) GitHub Copilot
7 78 (11.54%) SaaS
8 67 (9.91%) Serverless
9 56 (8.28%) Azure AI
10 47 (6.95%) GitHub Actions
11 45 (6.66%) AWS CloudFormation
12 43 (6.36%) Azure AKS
13 38 (5.62%) Amazon EC2
14 37 (5.47%) Azure DevOps
15 35 (5.18%) Amazon S3
16 31 (4.59%) OpenShift
17 27 (3.99%) AWS Lambda
18 25 (3.70%) Amazon CloudWatch
19 23 (3.40%) Amazon ECS
20 21 (3.11%) Virtual Private Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 51 (7.54%) Broadband
2 32 (4.73%) Firewall
3 24 (3.55%) DNS
4 21 (3.11%) VPN
5 14 (2.07%) Internet
5 14 (2.07%) TCP/IP
6 10 (1.48%) Network Security
7 9 (1.33%) DHCP
8 8 (1.18%) VLAN
9 7 (1.04%) BGP
10 6 (0.89%) OSPF
10 6 (0.89%) VXLAN
11 4 (0.59%) MQTT
11 4 (0.59%) WAN
12 3 (0.44%) HTTP
12 3 (0.44%) RTP
12 3 (0.44%) SAN
12 3 (0.44%) SCCP
12 3 (0.44%) VoIP
12 3 (0.44%) Wireshark
Database & Business Intelligence
1 126 (18.64%) MongoDB
2 99 (14.64%) Azure SQL Database
3 72 (10.65%) PostgreSQL
4 41 (6.07%) NoSQL
5 38 (5.62%) Elasticsearch
6 37 (5.47%) Relational Database
7 27 (3.99%) MySQL
8 26 (3.85%) Amazon RDS
8 26 (3.85%) SQL Server
9 12 (1.78%) RDBMS
10 8 (1.18%) BigQuery
11 7 (1.04%) Redis
12 6 (0.89%) Data Warehouse
12 6 (0.89%) DynamoDB
13 5 (0.74%) Delta Lake
14 4 (0.59%) Amazon Aurora
15 3 (0.44%) Apache Cassandra
15 3 (0.44%) Metadata
16 2 (0.30%) MariaDB
16 2 (0.30%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 83 (12.28%) Git
2 81 (11.98%) TeamCity
3 69 (10.21%) Jenkins
4 58 (8.58%) GitLab
5 17 (2.51%) JUnit
6 15 (2.22%) JIRA
7 13 (1.92%) Maven
8 12 (1.78%) Jaeger
8 12 (1.78%) Visual Studio Code
9 10 (1.48%) Mockito
10 9 (1.33%) Cucumber
11 8 (1.18%) Selenium
12 7 (1.04%) Bitbucket
12 7 (1.04%) JMeter
12 7 (1.04%) Postman
13 6 (0.89%) Atlassian Bamboo
13 6 (0.89%) Visual Studio
14 5 (0.74%) Locust
14 5 (0.74%) SonarQube
14 5 (0.74%) Subversion
General
1 147 (21.75%) Finance
2 119 (17.60%) Social Skills
3 94 (13.91%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 88 (13.02%) Retail
5 85 (12.57%) Banking
6 80 (11.83%) Law
7 46 (6.80%) Public Sector
8 43 (6.36%) Financial Institution
9 41 (6.07%) Back Office
10 27 (3.99%) Advertising
11 19 (2.81%) Analytical Skills
12 14 (2.07%) Marketing
13 12 (1.78%) Aerospace
14 10 (1.48%) Games
15 9 (1.33%) Organisational Skills
16 7 (1.04%) Legal
16 7 (1.04%) Telecoms
17 6 (0.89%) Aviation
18 4 (0.59%) Manufacturing
18 4 (0.59%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 200 (29.59%) Senior
2 184 (27.22%) Developer
3 120 (17.75%) Software Engineer
4 99 (14.64%) Lead
5 95 (14.05%) .NET Developer
6 70 (10.36%) DevOps Engineer
7 57 (8.43%) Cloud Engineer
8 50 (7.40%) Platform Engineer
9 44 (6.51%) Senior Software Engineer
10 42 (6.21%) Senior Developer
11 40 (5.92%) Azure Engineer
12 34 (5.03%) AWS Engineer
12 34 (5.03%) Java Developer
13 33 (4.88%) Java Engineer
14 31 (4.59%) Lead Software Engineer
15 30 (4.44%) Cloud Platform Engineer
15 30 (4.44%) Senior DevOps
16 29 (4.29%) Team Leader
17 24 (3.55%) Java Software Engineer
17 24 (3.55%) Python Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 154 (22.78%) .NET
2 109 (16.12%) .NET Core
3 104 (15.38%) ASP.NET
4 98 (14.50%) ASP.NET Core
5 68 (10.06%) Spring
6 65 (9.62%) AngularJS
6 65 (9.62%) React
7 62 (9.17%) Node.js
8 60 (8.88%) CSS
8 60 (8.88%) HTML
9 58 (8.58%) Kafka
10 55 (8.14%) Vue
11 54 (7.99%) ML.NET
12 51 (7.54%) REST
13 50 (7.40%) Spring Boot
14 44 (6.51%) RESTful
15 25 (3.70%) Django
16 23 (3.40%) Akka
17 21 (3.11%) OpenTelemetry
18 20 (2.96%) FastAPI
Miscellaneous
1 200 (29.59%) Cloud Native
2 52 (7.69%) Distributed Systems
3 46 (6.80%) Product Ownership
4 23 (3.40%) Blog
5 22 (3.25%) Over-the-Top Content
5 22 (3.25%) Video\Live Streaming
6 20 (2.96%) Hybrid Cloud
7 18 (2.66%) Private Cloud
8 17 (2.51%) Data Centre
8 17 (2.51%) Digital TV
8 17 (2.51%) Greenfield Project
9 13 (1.92%) Public Cloud
10 10 (1.48%) Management Information System
11 9 (1.33%) Legacy Systems
11 9 (1.33%) Security Posture
12 8 (1.18%) Onboarding
13 7 (1.04%) Self-Motivation
13 7 (1.04%) Virtual Team
14 6 (0.89%) CMDB
14 6 (0.89%) IoT
Operating Systems
1 142 (21.01%) Linux
2 36 (5.33%) Windows
3 19 (2.81%) Windows Server
4 16 (2.37%) Ubuntu
5 12 (1.78%) Unix
6 11 (1.63%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
7 9 (1.33%) Android
7 9 (1.33%) Apple iOS
8 7 (1.04%) CentOS
8 7 (1.04%) Debian
9 3 (0.44%) VMS
9 3 (0.44%) Windows Server 2016
10 2 (0.30%) Mac OS
Processes & Methodologies
1 439 (64.94%) CI/CD
2 303 (44.82%) DevOps
3 268 (39.64%) Agile
4 227 (33.58%) Infrastructure as Code
5 222 (32.84%) Microservices
6 196 (28.99%) Containerisation
7 183 (27.07%) Software Engineering
8 176 (26.04%) Mentoring
9 156 (23.08%) AI
10 149 (22.04%) Full-Stack Development
11 135 (19.97%) Continuous Improvement
12 130 (19.23%) Test Automation
13 109 (16.12%) Observability
13 109 (16.12%) Platform Engineering
14 107 (15.83%) TDD
15 106 (15.68%) Clean Code
16 92 (13.61%) Scrum
17 87 (12.87%) Deployment Automation
18 83 (12.28%) Machine Learning
19 81 (11.98%) Problem-Solving
Programming Languages
1 224 (33.14%) Python
2 190 (28.11%) Java
3 176 (26.04%) SQL
4 164 (24.26%) C#
5 99 (14.64%) TypeScript
6 79 (11.69%) Bash
7 76 (11.24%) JavaScript
8 60 (8.88%) PowerShell
9 59 (8.73%) Go
10 33 (4.88%) Scala
11 21 (3.11%) Bicep
12 10 (1.48%) PHP
12 10 (1.48%) PL/SQL
13 7 (1.04%) C
13 7 (1.04%) C++
13 7 (1.04%) Rust
14 6 (0.89%) Groovy
15 5 (0.74%) Ruby
16 4 (0.59%) Kotlin
17 3 (0.44%) Perl
Qualifications
1 88 (13.02%) Security Cleared
2 70 (10.36%) SC Cleared
3 54 (7.99%) Degree
4 46 (6.80%) Azure Certification
5 32 (4.73%) AWS Certification
6 23 (3.40%) Computer Science Degree
7 12 (1.78%) DV Cleared
8 8 (1.18%) CISSP
9 7 (1.04%) CREST Certified
9 7 (1.04%) GIAC
9 7 (1.04%) Microsoft Certification
9 7 (1.04%) OSCP
10 6 (0.89%) ISACA
11 5 (0.74%) SANS
12 3 (0.44%) CISM
13 2 (0.30%) CEH
13 2 (0.30%) ISTQB
13 2 (0.30%) ITIL Certification
13 2 (0.30%) Linux+ Certification
13 2 (0.30%) LPIC
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 39 (5.77%) QA
2 22 (3.25%) Accessibility
3 16 (2.37%) NIST
4 15 (2.22%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 10 (1.48%) PCI DSS
6 7 (1.04%) WCAG
7 4 (0.59%) Data Quality
7 4 (0.59%) GDPR
7 4 (0.59%) SOC 2
8 3 (0.44%) ISO 9001
9 2 (0.30%) Cyber Essentials
9 2 (0.30%) Software Quality Assurance
10 1 (0.15%) ISO/IEC 42001
10 1 (0.15%) SLA
System Software
1 424 (62.72%) Docker
2 29 (4.29%) Active Directory
3 20 (2.96%) VMware Infrastructure
4 16 (2.37%) Virtual Machines
5 5 (0.74%) VMware NSX
6 4 (0.59%) Firmware
6 4 (0.59%) Slurm Workload Manager
7 3 (0.44%) Citrix Hypervisor
7 3 (0.44%) iptables
7 3 (0.44%) Kamailio
8 1 (0.15%) Hyper-V
8 1 (0.15%) KVM
8 1 (0.15%) QEMU
8 1 (0.15%) Virtual Servers
8 1 (0.15%) vSphere
8 1 (0.15%) Xen
Systems Management
1 296 (43.79%) Terraform
2 123 (18.20%) Grafana
3 107 (15.83%) Ansible
4 72 (10.65%) Prometheus
5 41 (6.07%) Argo
6 23 (3.40%) Puppet
7 20 (2.96%) Istio
8 18 (2.66%) Kustomize
9 16 (2.37%) Progress Chef
10 8 (1.18%) Packer
11 7 (1.04%) Active Directory Federation Services
11 7 (1.04%) Proxmox
11 7 (1.04%) ZABBIX
12 6 (0.89%) FortiGate
12 6 (0.89%) Microsoft Intune
13 5 (0.74%) Kibana
14 3 (0.44%) linkerd
14 3 (0.44%) Nagios
15 2 (0.30%) MIIS
15 2 (0.30%) Podman
Vendors
1 169 (25.00%) Microsoft
2 40 (5.92%) Google
3 35 (5.18%) VMware
4 18 (2.66%) Oracle
4 18 (2.66%) Red Hat
5 15 (2.22%) Splunk
6 14 (2.07%) Facebook
7 12 (1.78%) Palo Alto
8 10 (1.48%) Fortinet
8 10 (1.48%) ServiceNow
9 9 (1.33%) Databricks
9 9 (1.33%) Okta
10 8 (1.18%) Cisco
10 8 (1.18%) Confluent
11 7 (1.04%) EMC
11 7 (1.04%) OpenAI
12 6 (0.89%) Citrix
12 6 (0.89%) F5
12 6 (0.89%) Zscaler
13 5 (0.74%) Dynatrace