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

6 months to
4 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 76 64 73
Rank change year-on-year -12 +9 -45
Permanent jobs citing Kubernetes 733 837 949
As % of all permanent jobs with remote/hybrid work options 3.29% 5.07% 3.75%
As % of the Systems Management category 39.03% 42.62% 34.26%
Number of salaries quoted 530 407 732
10th Percentile £46,175 £51,250 £52,500
25th Percentile £52,500 £60,000 £60,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £77,500 £77,500
Median % change year-on-year -16.13% - +3.33%
75th Percentile £82,500 £93,778 £95,000
90th Percentile £100,000 £116,500 £117,250
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 1,878 1,964 2,770
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 8.43% 11.90% 10.96%
Number of salaries quoted 1,384 1,121 1,970
10th Percentile £37,075 £35,000 £36,750
25th Percentile £48,289 £47,500 £48,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £62,500 £67,500 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year -7.41% +3.85% -7.14%
75th Percentile £78,538 £83,750 £85,000
90th Percentile £96,250 £100,000 £102,750
UK median annual salary £63,373 £65,000 £63,500
% change year-on-year -2.50% +2.36% -5.22%

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 4 August 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 (1.36%) Apache Spark
2 8 (1.09%) Apache Airflow
3 6 (0.82%) IIS
3 6 (0.82%) Oracle SOA Suite
4 5 (0.68%) nginx
4 5 (0.68%) OpenStack
5 4 (0.55%) Camunda
5 4 (0.55%) Confluence
6 2 (0.27%) ArcGIS
6 2 (0.27%) GeoServer
6 2 (0.27%) Microsoft Exchange
6 2 (0.27%) Oracle Spatial
7 1 (0.14%) Apache
7 1 (0.14%) Cloud Foundry
7 1 (0.14%) JBoss
7 1 (0.14%) Oracle Coherence
7 1 (0.14%) Red Hat Fuse
Applications
1 1 (0.14%) Lightworks
Business Applications
1 2 (0.27%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 418 (57.03%) Azure
2 405 (55.25%) AWS
3 201 (27.42%) GitHub
4 188 (25.65%) GCP
5 141 (19.24%) GitHub Copilot
6 91 (12.41%) Amazon EKS
7 81 (11.05%) SaaS
8 76 (10.37%) Azure AI
9 60 (8.19%) Serverless
10 47 (6.41%) Azure DevOps
10 47 (6.41%) GitHub Actions
11 46 (6.28%) AWS CloudFormation
12 45 (6.14%) Azure AKS
13 37 (5.05%) OpenShift
14 32 (4.37%) Amazon EC2
15 28 (3.82%) Amazon S3
16 23 (3.14%) PaaS
17 22 (3.00%) Amazon ECS
17 22 (3.00%) Azure Service Bus
18 21 (2.86%) AWS Lambda
Communications & Networking
1 27 (3.68%) Firewall
2 25 (3.41%) DNS
3 21 (2.86%) VPN
4 20 (2.73%) Internet
5 17 (2.32%) Broadband
6 15 (2.05%) TCP/IP
7 9 (1.23%) DHCP
8 8 (1.09%) VLAN
9 7 (0.95%) BGP
9 7 (0.95%) Network Security
10 6 (0.82%) OSPF
10 6 (0.82%) VXLAN
11 4 (0.55%) HTTP
11 4 (0.55%) MQTT
11 4 (0.55%) WAN
12 3 (0.41%) SAN
13 2 (0.27%) iSCSI
13 2 (0.27%) LAN
13 2 (0.27%) Remote Desktop
13 2 (0.27%) SSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 157 (21.42%) MongoDB
2 141 (19.24%) Azure SQL Database
3 71 (9.69%) PostgreSQL
4 50 (6.82%) Elasticsearch
5 30 (4.09%) SQL Server
6 27 (3.68%) MySQL
6 27 (3.68%) NoSQL
7 25 (3.41%) Relational Database
8 22 (3.00%) Amazon RDS
9 9 (1.23%) Data Warehouse
10 6 (0.82%) Delta Lake
10 6 (0.82%) DynamoDB
10 6 (0.82%) Redis
11 4 (0.55%) Metadata
12 3 (0.41%) Apache Cassandra
12 3 (0.41%) Big Data
12 3 (0.41%) BigQuery
12 3 (0.41%) Power BI
12 3 (0.41%) Spark SQL
12 3 (0.41%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 100 (13.64%) Git
2 55 (7.50%) TeamCity
3 53 (7.23%) Jenkins
4 51 (6.96%) GitLab
5 26 (3.55%) JUnit
6 17 (2.32%) Maven
6 17 (2.32%) Selenium
7 14 (1.91%) Mockito
8 13 (1.77%) JIRA
9 12 (1.64%) Cucumber
9 12 (1.64%) Postman
9 12 (1.64%) Visual Studio Code
10 9 (1.23%) Atlassian Bamboo
10 9 (1.23%) Bitbucket
11 7 (0.95%) SonarQube
12 6 (0.82%) Gatling
12 6 (0.82%) Octopus Deploy
13 5 (0.68%) JMeter
13 5 (0.68%) Locust
13 5 (0.68%) Subversion
General
1 173 (23.60%) Finance
2 132 (18.01%) Social Skills
3 77 (10.50%) Banking
3 77 (10.50%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 75 (10.23%) Retail
5 72 (9.82%) Law
6 55 (7.50%) Public Sector
7 42 (5.73%) Financial Institution
8 41 (5.59%) Back Office
9 38 (5.18%) Advertising
10 23 (3.14%) Analytical Skills
11 21 (2.86%) Marketing
12 18 (2.46%) Aerospace
13 13 (1.77%) Games
14 9 (1.23%) Legal
15 8 (1.09%) Organisational Skills
16 6 (0.82%) Telecoms
17 5 (0.68%) Military
18 3 (0.41%) Front Office
18 3 (0.41%) Manufacturing
Job Titles
1 214 (29.20%) Developer
2 195 (26.60%) Senior
3 134 (18.28%) .NET Developer
4 120 (16.37%) Software Engineer
5 84 (11.46%) Lead
6 77 (10.50%) DevOps Engineer
7 57 (7.78%) Cloud Engineer
8 48 (6.55%) Platform Engineer
9 46 (6.28%) Azure Engineer
10 43 (5.87%) Architect
11 41 (5.59%) Senior Developer
12 34 (4.64%) Senior Software Engineer
13 32 (4.37%) Java Developer
13 32 (4.37%) Lead Software Engineer
14 29 (3.96%) Senior DevOps
15 28 (3.82%) Cloud Platform Engineer
16 27 (3.68%) AWS Engineer
17 25 (3.41%) Java Engineer
18 24 (3.27%) Python Engineer
18 24 (3.27%) Team Leader
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 202 (27.56%) .NET
2 141 (19.24%) .NET Core
3 140 (19.10%) ASP.NET
4 134 (18.28%) ASP.NET Core
5 84 (11.46%) AngularJS
6 81 (11.05%) CSS
6 81 (11.05%) HTML
7 80 (10.91%) React
8 79 (10.78%) Node.js
9 74 (10.10%) ML.NET
10 69 (9.41%) Vue
11 65 (8.87%) Spring
12 62 (8.46%) REST
13 57 (7.78%) Kafka
14 48 (6.55%) RESTful
15 43 (5.87%) Spring Boot
16 28 (3.82%) Blazor
17 23 (3.14%) OAuth
17 23 (3.14%) OpenID
18 22 (3.00%) Django
Miscellaneous
1 200 (27.29%) Cloud Native
2 58 (7.91%) Distributed Systems
3 49 (6.68%) Product Ownership
4 23 (3.14%) Greenfield Project
5 20 (2.73%) Digital TV
6 18 (2.46%) Blog
6 18 (2.46%) Hybrid Cloud
7 16 (2.18%) Data Centre
7 16 (2.18%) Private Cloud
8 15 (2.05%) Legacy Systems
8 15 (2.05%) Public Cloud
9 13 (1.77%) AI Agents
9 13 (1.77%) Management Information System
10 11 (1.50%) IoT
10 11 (1.50%) Self-Motivation
11 8 (1.09%) Enterprise Software
11 8 (1.09%) Virtual Team
12 7 (0.95%) Onboarding
12 7 (0.95%) PKI
13 6 (0.82%) Replication
Operating Systems
1 132 (18.01%) Linux
2 41 (5.59%) Windows
3 21 (2.86%) Windows Server
4 14 (1.91%) Ubuntu
5 9 (1.23%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 6 (0.82%) Android
6 6 (0.82%) Apple iOS
6 6 (0.82%) Debian
7 5 (0.68%) CentOS
8 3 (0.41%) VMS
9 2 (0.27%) Mac OS
9 2 (0.27%) Windows Server 2016
Processes & Methodologies
1 493 (67.26%) CI/CD
2 304 (41.47%) DevOps
3 272 (37.11%) Agile
4 246 (33.56%) Microservices
5 227 (30.97%) Infrastructure as Code
6 205 (27.97%) Containerisation
7 199 (27.15%) AI
8 197 (26.88%) Full-Stack Development
8 197 (26.88%) Software Engineering
9 186 (25.38%) Mentoring
10 133 (18.14%) Test Automation
11 131 (17.87%) Continuous Improvement
12 124 (16.92%) Observability
13 114 (15.55%) Machine Learning
14 112 (15.28%) Platform Engineering
15 108 (14.73%) TDD
16 103 (14.05%) Problem-Solving
17 101 (13.78%) Clean Code
18 86 (11.73%) Scrum
19 81 (11.05%) Deployment Automation
Programming Languages
1 230 (31.38%) Python
2 215 (29.33%) SQL
3 213 (29.06%) C#
4 170 (23.19%) Java
5 112 (15.28%) TypeScript
6 80 (10.91%) JavaScript
7 74 (10.10%) Bash
8 70 (9.55%) PowerShell
9 48 (6.55%) Go
10 22 (3.00%) Bicep
11 14 (1.91%) PL/SQL
12 13 (1.77%) Scala
13 10 (1.36%) PHP
14 8 (1.09%) Ruby
15 7 (0.95%) Groovy
16 6 (0.82%) Kotlin
17 5 (0.68%) Rust
18 4 (0.55%) C++
19 3 (0.41%) T-SQL
19 3 (0.41%) VB.NET
Qualifications
1 107 (14.60%) Security Cleared
2 87 (11.87%) SC Cleared
3 61 (8.32%) Degree
4 44 (6.00%) Azure Certification
5 28 (3.82%) Computer Science Degree
6 18 (2.46%) AWS Certification
7 15 (2.05%) DV Cleared
8 9 (1.23%) CISSP
9 7 (0.95%) GIAC
10 5 (0.68%) BPSS Clearance
10 5 (0.68%) CREST Certified
10 5 (0.68%) ISACA
10 5 (0.68%) OSCP
11 4 (0.55%) CISM
11 4 (0.55%) Microsoft Certification
11 4 (0.55%) SANS
12 3 (0.41%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
12 3 (0.41%) CEH
12 3 (0.41%) OCP
12 3 (0.41%) Oracle Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 41 (5.59%) QA
2 27 (3.68%) Accessibility
3 19 (2.59%) NIST
4 13 (1.77%) WCAG
5 10 (1.36%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 7 (0.95%) PCI DSS
7 5 (0.68%) Data Quality
7 5 (0.68%) SOC 2
8 3 (0.41%) Cyber Essentials
8 3 (0.41%) ISO 9001
9 2 (0.27%) NCSC
10 1 (0.14%) GDPR
10 1 (0.14%) ISO 22301
10 1 (0.14%) ISO/IEC 42001
10 1 (0.14%) PSD2
10 1 (0.14%) SEPA
10 1 (0.14%) SLA
System Software
1 467 (63.71%) Docker
2 30 (4.09%) Active Directory
3 20 (2.73%) Virtual Machines
4 19 (2.59%) VMware Infrastructure
5 4 (0.55%) Firmware
5 4 (0.55%) Slurm Workload Manager
6 3 (0.41%) Citrix Hypervisor
6 3 (0.41%) iptables
7 1 (0.14%) Hyper-V
7 1 (0.14%) KVM
7 1 (0.14%) QEMU
7 1 (0.14%) Virtual Servers
7 1 (0.14%) Xen
Systems Management
1 290 (39.56%) Terraform
2 113 (15.42%) Grafana
3 91 (12.41%) Ansible
4 54 (7.37%) Prometheus
5 26 (3.55%) Argo
6 24 (3.27%) Istio
7 19 (2.59%) Puppet
8 13 (1.77%) Progress Chef
9 7 (0.95%) Packer
10 6 (0.82%) Active Directory Federation Services
10 6 (0.82%) FortiGate
10 6 (0.82%) Kustomize
10 6 (0.82%) Microsoft Intune
11 4 (0.55%) Kibana
11 4 (0.55%) linkerd
11 4 (0.55%) Proxmox
12 3 (0.41%) ZABBIX
13 2 (0.27%) CASB
13 2 (0.27%) MIIS
13 2 (0.27%) Nagios
Vendors
1 210 (28.65%) Microsoft
2 38 (5.18%) Google
3 27 (3.68%) Oracle
4 26 (3.55%) VMware
5 21 (2.86%) Facebook
5 21 (2.86%) Okta
6 20 (2.73%) Red Hat
7 15 (2.05%) Splunk
8 13 (1.77%) Ping Identity
9 12 (1.64%) Palo Alto
9 12 (1.64%) ServiceNow
10 10 (1.36%) Databricks
11 9 (1.23%) OpenAI
12 8 (1.09%) Cisco
12 8 (1.09%) Confluent
12 8 (1.09%) ForgeRock
13 7 (0.95%) Dynatrace
13 7 (0.95%) EMC
13 7 (0.95%) Fortinet
14 6 (0.82%) Zscaler