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 3 December 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
3 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 84 40 33
Rank change year-on-year -44 -7 -7
Permanent jobs citing Kubernetes 479 1,146 1,505
As % of all permanent jobs with remote/hybrid work options 3.14% 6.01% 7.32%
As % of the Systems Management category 36.32% 46.40% 45.26%
Number of salaries quoted 376 587 1,260
10th Percentile £52,400 £52,500 £47,500
25th Percentile £60,000 £60,000 £58,775
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £75,000 £75,000 £72,000
Median % change year-on-year - +4.17% -4.00%
75th Percentile £87,500 £95,000 £87,500
90th Percentile £115,000 £115,000 £100,125
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 1,319 2,470 3,325
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 8.64% 12.96% 16.18%
Number of salaries quoted 976 1,459 2,856
10th Percentile £37,250 £40,000 £41,250
25th Percentile £49,598 £51,250 £51,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £68,000 £67,500
Median % change year-on-year -4.41% +0.74% -2.80%
75th Percentile £84,063 £85,000 £85,000
90th Percentile £100,000 £102,500 £97,500
UK median annual salary £62,500 £67,500 £65,000
% change year-on-year -7.41% +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 3 December 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 (2.51%) Apache Spark
1 12 (2.51%) IIS
2 9 (1.88%) Apache Airflow
3 6 (1.25%) Apache
3 6 (1.25%) nginx
4 5 (1.04%) Anypoint
4 5 (1.04%) Confluence
5 4 (0.84%) Apache Pulsar
5 4 (0.84%) Microsoft Exchange
6 3 (0.63%) ArcGIS
6 3 (0.63%) GeoServer
6 3 (0.63%) Oracle Spatial
7 2 (0.42%) OpenStack
8 1 (0.21%) BizTalk Server
8 1 (0.21%) SharePoint
8 1 (0.21%) Tomcat
Applications
1 1 (0.21%) Chatbot
Business Applications
1 5 (1.04%) Shopify
2 1 (0.21%) Actimize
Cloud Services
1 290 (60.54%) AWS
2 261 (54.49%) Azure
3 125 (26.10%) GCP
4 119 (24.84%) GitHub
5 79 (16.49%) GitHub Actions
6 75 (15.66%) Azure DevOps
7 57 (11.90%) Amazon EKS
8 54 (11.27%) SaaS
9 47 (9.81%) Serverless
10 46 (9.60%) Azure AKS
11 45 (9.39%) AWS CloudFormation
12 43 (8.98%) Amazon CloudWatch
13 36 (7.52%) AWS Lambda
14 32 (6.68%) Amazon ECS
15 28 (5.85%) Amazon S3
15 28 (5.85%) OpenShift
16 22 (4.59%) Datadog
17 19 (3.97%) Azure Monitor
18 15 (3.13%) Amazon EC2
18 15 (3.13%) Azure Cosmos DB
Communications & Networking
1 37 (7.72%) Firewall
2 15 (3.13%) DNS
2 15 (3.13%) VPN
3 11 (2.30%) WAN
4 9 (1.88%) LAN
4 9 (1.88%) Network Security
4 9 (1.88%) TCP/IP
5 6 (1.25%) Fibre Channel
6 5 (1.04%) Broadband
6 5 (1.04%) DHCP
6 5 (1.04%) Internet
7 4 (0.84%) Intrusion Detection
7 4 (0.84%) SD-WAN
8 3 (0.63%) Kerberos
9 2 (0.42%) AMQP
9 2 (0.42%) VLAN
9 2 (0.42%) VSAN
10 1 (0.21%) 5G
10 1 (0.21%) MIMO
10 1 (0.21%) NAS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 61 (12.73%) PostgreSQL
2 47 (9.81%) NoSQL
3 44 (9.19%) SQL Server
4 39 (8.14%) MongoDB
5 17 (3.55%) Relational Database
6 16 (3.34%) Amazon RDS
6 16 (3.34%) MySQL
7 10 (2.09%) DynamoDB
8 8 (1.67%) Azure SQL Database
8 8 (1.67%) Elasticsearch
8 8 (1.67%) Redis
9 6 (1.25%) Data Warehouse
9 6 (1.25%) Flink
10 5 (1.04%) Big Data
10 5 (1.04%) BigQuery
10 5 (1.04%) Power BI
11 4 (0.84%) Data Lake
11 4 (0.84%) Pinecone
12 3 (0.63%) Apache Ignite
12 3 (0.63%) QGIS
Development Applications
1 64 (13.36%) Git
2 59 (12.32%) Jenkins
3 48 (10.02%) GitLab
4 20 (4.18%) TeamCity
5 9 (1.88%) JUnit
5 9 (1.88%) Selenium
6 8 (1.67%) Cucumber
7 7 (1.46%) JIRA
7 7 (1.46%) SonarQube
8 6 (1.25%) Visual Studio Code
9 5 (1.04%) Octopus Deploy
9 5 (1.04%) Sonatype Nexus
10 4 (0.84%) Bitbucket
10 4 (0.84%) MLflow
10 4 (0.84%) Robot Framework
11 3 (0.63%) JMeter
12 2 (0.42%) Artifactory
12 2 (0.42%) Eclipse
12 2 (0.42%) git-flow
12 2 (0.42%) TestRail
General
1 94 (19.62%) Social Skills
2 86 (17.95%) Finance
3 37 (7.72%) Law
4 35 (7.31%) Banking
5 34 (7.10%) Public Sector
6 32 (6.68%) Financial Institution
6 32 (6.68%) Retail
7 24 (5.01%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 24 (5.01%) Telecoms
8 22 (4.59%) Back Office
9 10 (2.09%) Analytical Skills
9 10 (2.09%) Front Office
10 7 (1.46%) Legal
11 6 (1.25%) Documentation Skills
11 6 (1.25%) Games
12 5 (1.04%) Tech for Good
13 4 (0.84%) Esports
13 4 (0.84%) Manufacturing
13 4 (0.84%) Marketing
14 3 (0.63%) Electronics
Job Titles
1 142 (29.65%) Senior
2 91 (19.00%) DevOps Engineer
3 72 (15.03%) Software Engineer
4 61 (12.73%) Developer
5 57 (11.90%) Lead
6 54 (11.27%) Cloud Engineer
7 40 (8.35%) Infrastructure Engineer
8 37 (7.72%) Architect
9 36 (7.52%) Azure Engineer
9 36 (7.52%) Platform Engineer
10 28 (5.85%) Senior Software Engineer
11 25 (5.22%) Senior DevOps
12 24 (5.01%) Python Engineer
13 22 (4.59%) Senior Developer
14 19 (3.97%) AWS Engineer
14 19 (3.97%) Senior DevOps Engineer
15 18 (3.76%) Software Developer
15 18 (3.76%) Solutions Architect
16 17 (3.55%) AWS DevOps
17 16 (3.34%) Site Reliability Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 71 (14.82%) .NET
2 53 (11.06%) Kafka
3 52 (10.86%) React
3 52 (10.86%) Spring
3 52 (10.86%) Spring Boot
4 40 (8.35%) RESTful
5 33 (6.89%) REST
6 29 (6.05%) Elastic Stack
7 27 (5.64%) Node.js
8 25 (5.22%) Django
9 23 (4.80%) Flask
9 23 (4.80%) gRPC
10 20 (4.18%) RabbitMQ
11 19 (3.97%) AngularJS
12 17 (3.55%) .NET Core
12 17 (3.55%) FastAPI
13 16 (3.34%) YAML
14 13 (2.71%) Web Services
15 11 (2.30%) ADO
15 11 (2.30%) WebSockets
Miscellaneous
1 157 (32.78%) Cloud Native
2 46 (9.60%) Distributed Systems
3 32 (6.68%) Onboarding
4 24 (5.01%) Product Ownership
5 20 (4.18%) Data Centre
6 18 (3.76%) Management Information System
7 16 (3.34%) Legacy Systems
8 15 (3.13%) Hybrid Cloud
8 15 (3.13%) Public Cloud
9 9 (1.88%) AI Agents
9 9 (1.88%) Self-Motivation
10 8 (1.67%) Algorithms
11 7 (1.46%) Private Cloud
11 7 (1.46%) Security Posture
11 7 (1.46%) Virtual Team
12 6 (1.25%) Fixed Income
12 6 (1.25%) Greenfield Project
13 5 (1.04%) Blog
13 5 (1.04%) Legacy Applications
13 5 (1.04%) Linux Command Line
Operating Systems
1 123 (25.68%) Linux
2 73 (15.24%) Windows
3 26 (5.43%) Windows Server
4 20 (4.18%) Unix
5 13 (2.71%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 12 (2.51%) Android
7 10 (2.09%) Ubuntu
7 10 (2.09%) VMS
7 10 (2.09%) Windows Server 2019
8 8 (1.67%) Rocky
9 6 (1.25%) CentOS
10 4 (0.84%) Apple iOS
11 3 (0.63%) Debian
Processes & Methodologies
1 300 (62.63%) DevOps
2 298 (62.21%) CI/CD
3 201 (41.96%) Containerisation
4 169 (35.28%) Infrastructure as Code
5 131 (27.35%) Microservices
6 126 (26.30%) Agile
7 115 (24.01%) Software Engineering
8 99 (20.67%) Problem-Solving
9 91 (19.00%) Infrastructure Engineering
10 85 (17.75%) Continuous Improvement
11 78 (16.28%) AI
12 76 (15.87%) Observability
13 73 (15.24%) Mentoring
14 64 (13.36%) Platform Engineering
15 60 (12.53%) Site Reliability Engineering
16 51 (10.65%) Cloud Security
16 51 (10.65%) High Availability
17 49 (10.23%) Test Automation
18 48 (10.02%) Computer Science
18 48 (10.02%) Machine Learning
Programming Languages
1 214 (44.68%) Python
2 109 (22.76%) Java
3 96 (20.04%) SQL
4 73 (15.24%) PowerShell
5 69 (14.41%) Bash
6 59 (12.32%) JavaScript
7 58 (12.11%) C#
8 44 (9.19%) Bicep
9 41 (8.56%) Go
10 38 (7.93%) TypeScript
11 8 (1.67%) C++
11 8 (1.67%) Delphi
11 8 (1.67%) Scala
12 6 (1.25%) PHP
13 5 (1.04%) Kotlin
13 5 (1.04%) Shell Script
14 4 (0.84%) F#
14 4 (0.84%) Haskell
14 4 (0.84%) OCaml
14 4 (0.84%) Ruby
Qualifications
1 77 (16.08%) Security Cleared
2 61 (12.73%) SC Cleared
3 59 (12.32%) Degree
4 46 (9.60%) AWS Certification
5 40 (8.35%) Azure Certification
6 36 (7.52%) Computer Science Degree
7 22 (4.59%) DV Cleared
8 12 (2.51%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
9 11 (2.30%) BPSS Clearance
10 8 (1.67%) Master's Degree
10 8 (1.67%) Network+ Certification
11 6 (1.25%) PhD
12 5 (1.04%) Cisco Certification
12 5 (1.04%) CISM
12 5 (1.04%) CISSP
13 3 (0.63%) (ISC)2 CCSP
13 3 (0.63%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
13 3 (0.63%) CompTIA Security+
14 2 (0.42%) AWS Certified Developer
14 2 (0.42%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 27 (5.64%) QA
2 23 (4.80%) GDPR
3 17 (3.55%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 11 (2.30%) NIST
4 11 (2.30%) SOC 2
5 10 (2.09%) HIPAA
5 10 (2.09%) PCI DSS
6 8 (1.67%) Data Quality
7 4 (0.84%) GRC
7 4 (0.84%) SLA
8 2 (0.42%) ECSS
9 1 (0.21%) MiFID
System Software
1 285 (59.50%) Docker
2 26 (5.43%) Active Directory
3 16 (3.34%) Hyper-V
4 15 (3.13%) VMware Infrastructure
5 12 (2.51%) vSphere
6 6 (1.25%) NFS
7 5 (1.04%) Virtual Machines
8 4 (0.84%) 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
1 217 (45.30%) Terraform
2 101 (21.09%) Ansible
3 100 (20.88%) Grafana
4 58 (12.11%) Prometheus
5 22 (4.59%) Argo
6 5 (1.04%) Cilium
6 5 (1.04%) Puppet
7 4 (0.84%) Progress Chef
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%) logstash
9 2 (0.42%) Microsoft Intune
10 1 (0.21%) FortiGate
10 1 (0.21%) ITRS Geneos
10 1 (0.21%) Kibana
10 1 (0.21%) Oracle Enterprise Manager
Vendors
1 50 (10.44%) Microsoft
2 24 (5.01%) Oracle
3 22 (4.59%) Red Hat
3 22 (4.59%) VMware
4 21 (4.38%) Google
5 17 (3.55%) Dell
6 12 (2.51%) Splunk
7 11 (2.30%) Cisco
8 8 (1.67%) Databricks
8 8 (1.67%) SAP
9 7 (1.46%) Commvault
9 7 (1.46%) Pure Storage
10 6 (1.25%) Dynatrace
11 5 (1.04%) IFS
11 5 (1.04%) Informatica
11 5 (1.04%) Jitterbit
11 5 (1.04%) MuleSoft
11 5 (1.04%) SnapLogic
11 5 (1.04%) Software AG
11 5 (1.04%) Workday