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 29 July 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
29 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 75 61 72
Rank change year-on-year -14 +11 -44
Permanent jobs citing Kubernetes 731 852 996
As % of all permanent jobs with remote/hybrid work options 3.34% 5.18% 3.74%
As % of the Systems Management category 39.43% 43.03% 34.22%
Number of salaries quoted 540 421 789
10th Percentile £45,475 £50,000 £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 £95,000 £95,000
90th Percentile £100,000 £125,000 £115,500
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 1,854 1,980 2,911
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 8.47% 12.03% 10.92%
Number of salaries quoted 1,373 1,130 2,111
10th Percentile £37,000 £35,675 £36,500
25th Percentile £47,930 £48,165 £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 £78,000 £85,000 £85,000
90th Percentile £96,250 £102,410 £102,500
UK median annual salary £62,500 £65,000 £62,500
% change year-on-year -3.85% +4.00% -6.72%

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 29 July 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 9 (1.23%) Apache Spark
2 7 (0.96%) Apache Airflow
3 6 (0.82%) IIS
3 6 (0.82%) OpenStack
4 5 (0.68%) nginx
4 5 (0.68%) Oracle SOA Suite
5 3 (0.41%) Camunda
5 3 (0.41%) 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
1 416 (56.91%) Azure
2 403 (55.13%) AWS
3 205 (28.04%) GitHub
4 187 (25.58%) GCP
5 141 (19.29%) GitHub Copilot
6 90 (12.31%) Amazon EKS
7 78 (10.67%) SaaS
8 74 (10.12%) Azure AI
9 64 (8.76%) Serverless
10 49 (6.70%) GitHub Actions
11 47 (6.43%) Azure DevOps
12 45 (6.16%) AWS CloudFormation
12 45 (6.16%) Azure AKS
13 35 (4.79%) OpenShift
14 32 (4.38%) Amazon EC2
15 28 (3.83%) Amazon S3
16 24 (3.28%) PaaS
17 23 (3.15%) Amazon ECS
18 22 (3.01%) AWS Lambda
19 21 (2.87%) Azure Service Bus
Communications & Networking
1 28 (3.83%) Firewall
2 24 (3.28%) DNS
3 23 (3.15%) VPN
4 20 (2.74%) Internet
5 17 (2.33%) Broadband
6 15 (2.05%) TCP/IP
7 8 (1.09%) DHCP
7 8 (1.09%) VLAN
8 7 (0.96%) BGP
8 7 (0.96%) Network Security
9 6 (0.82%) OSPF
9 6 (0.82%) VXLAN
10 5 (0.68%) MQTT
11 4 (0.55%) HTTP
11 4 (0.55%) WAN
12 3 (0.41%) SAN
13 2 (0.27%) LAN
13 2 (0.27%) Remote Desktop
13 2 (0.27%) SSL
13 2 (0.27%) WireGuard
Database & Business Intelligence
1 158 (21.61%) MongoDB
2 139 (19.02%) Azure SQL Database
3 70 (9.58%) PostgreSQL
4 50 (6.84%) Elasticsearch
5 28 (3.83%) MySQL
5 28 (3.83%) SQL Server
6 27 (3.69%) NoSQL
7 25 (3.42%) Relational Database
8 21 (2.87%) Amazon RDS
9 8 (1.09%) 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%) BigQuery
12 3 (0.41%) Power BI
12 3 (0.41%) Spark SQL
12 3 (0.41%) Tableau
13 2 (0.27%) GIS
Development Applications
1 100 (13.68%) Git
2 54 (7.39%) GitLab
2 54 (7.39%) Jenkins
3 52 (7.11%) TeamCity
4 23 (3.15%) JUnit
5 16 (2.19%) Maven
6 15 (2.05%) Selenium
7 13 (1.78%) JIRA
7 13 (1.78%) Mockito
8 12 (1.64%) Visual Studio Code
9 11 (1.50%) Cucumber
10 10 (1.37%) Postman
11 8 (1.09%) Atlassian Bamboo
11 8 (1.09%) Bitbucket
12 6 (0.82%) Octopus Deploy
12 6 (0.82%) SonarQube
13 5 (0.68%) Gatling
13 5 (0.68%) JMeter
13 5 (0.68%) Locust
13 5 (0.68%) Subversion
General
1 169 (23.12%) Finance
2 129 (17.65%) Social Skills
3 76 (10.40%) Banking
4 74 (10.12%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 74 (10.12%) Retail
5 69 (9.44%) Law
6 52 (7.11%) Public Sector
7 41 (5.61%) Financial Institution
8 39 (5.34%) Back Office
9 37 (5.06%) Advertising
10 24 (3.28%) Analytical Skills
11 20 (2.74%) Marketing
12 17 (2.33%) Aerospace
13 13 (1.78%) Games
14 8 (1.09%) Legal
14 8 (1.09%) Organisational Skills
15 6 (0.82%) Telecoms
16 4 (0.55%) Manufacturing
16 4 (0.55%) Military
17 3 (0.41%) Aviation
Job Titles
1 213 (29.14%) Developer
2 198 (27.09%) Senior
3 133 (18.19%) .NET Developer
4 119 (16.28%) Software Engineer
5 84 (11.49%) Lead
6 80 (10.94%) DevOps Engineer
7 57 (7.80%) Cloud Engineer
8 48 (6.57%) Platform Engineer
9 46 (6.29%) Azure Engineer
10 41 (5.61%) Architect
11 40 (5.47%) Senior Developer
12 35 (4.79%) Senior Software Engineer
13 31 (4.24%) Java Developer
13 31 (4.24%) Lead Software Engineer
13 31 (4.24%) Senior DevOps
14 28 (3.83%) AWS Engineer
14 28 (3.83%) Cloud Platform Engineer
15 26 (3.56%) Java Engineer
16 25 (3.42%) Python Engineer
17 24 (3.28%) Senior DevOps Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 200 (27.36%) .NET
2 140 (19.15%) .NET Core
2 140 (19.15%) ASP.NET
3 134 (18.33%) ASP.NET Core
4 84 (11.49%) AngularJS
5 80 (10.94%) CSS
5 80 (10.94%) HTML
6 79 (10.81%) React
7 78 (10.67%) Node.js
8 73 (9.99%) ML.NET
9 70 (9.58%) Vue
10 66 (9.03%) Spring
11 60 (8.21%) REST
12 58 (7.93%) Kafka
13 48 (6.57%) RESTful
14 46 (6.29%) Spring Boot
15 27 (3.69%) Blazor
16 24 (3.28%) OAuth
17 23 (3.15%) Django
17 23 (3.15%) OpenID
Miscellaneous
1 202 (27.63%) Cloud Native
2 60 (8.21%) Distributed Systems
3 48 (6.57%) Product Ownership
4 24 (3.28%) Greenfield Project
5 20 (2.74%) Digital TV
6 19 (2.60%) Hybrid Cloud
7 18 (2.46%) Data Centre
8 17 (2.33%) Private Cloud
9 16 (2.19%) Blog
10 14 (1.92%) Public Cloud
11 13 (1.78%) Legacy Systems
12 12 (1.64%) Management Information System
13 11 (1.50%) AI Agents
14 10 (1.37%) IoT
15 9 (1.23%) Self-Motivation
16 8 (1.09%) Enterprise Software
16 8 (1.09%) Virtual Team
17 7 (0.96%) Onboarding
17 7 (0.96%) PKI
18 6 (0.82%) CMDB
Operating Systems
1 134 (18.33%) Linux
2 41 (5.61%) Windows
3 21 (2.87%) Windows Server
4 15 (2.05%) Ubuntu
5 9 (1.23%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 6 (0.82%) Debian
7 5 (0.68%) Android
7 5 (0.68%) Apple iOS
7 5 (0.68%) CentOS
8 3 (0.41%) VMS
8 3 (0.41%) Windows Server 2016
9 2 (0.27%) Mac OS
Processes & Methodologies
1 490 (67.03%) CI/CD
2 307 (42.00%) DevOps
3 269 (36.80%) Agile
4 247 (33.79%) Microservices
5 228 (31.19%) Infrastructure as Code
6 206 (28.18%) Containerisation
7 196 (26.81%) AI
7 196 (26.81%) Full-Stack Development
8 192 (26.27%) Software Engineering
9 180 (24.62%) Mentoring
10 131 (17.92%) Continuous Improvement
11 126 (17.24%) Test Automation
12 123 (16.83%) Observability
13 112 (15.32%) Platform Engineering
14 109 (14.91%) Machine Learning
15 107 (14.64%) TDD
16 104 (14.23%) Problem-Solving
17 101 (13.82%) Clean Code
18 86 (11.76%) Scrum
19 80 (10.94%) Deployment Automation
Programming Languages
1 233 (31.87%) Python
2 212 (29.00%) C#
2 212 (29.00%) SQL
3 166 (22.71%) Java
4 113 (15.46%) TypeScript
5 78 (10.67%) JavaScript
6 74 (10.12%) Bash
7 70 (9.58%) PowerShell
8 50 (6.84%) Go
9 23 (3.15%) Bicep
10 13 (1.78%) PL/SQL
10 13 (1.78%) Scala
11 11 (1.50%) PHP
12 8 (1.09%) Ruby
13 7 (0.96%) Groovy
13 7 (0.96%) Rust
14 5 (0.68%) C++
14 5 (0.68%) Kotlin
15 4 (0.55%) C
16 3 (0.41%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 102 (13.95%) Security Cleared
2 84 (11.49%) SC Cleared
3 60 (8.21%) Degree
4 43 (5.88%) Azure Certification
5 28 (3.83%) Computer Science Degree
6 19 (2.60%) AWS Certification
7 14 (1.92%) DV Cleared
8 9 (1.23%) CISSP
9 7 (0.96%) GIAC
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%) BPSS Clearance
12 3 (0.41%) CEH
13 2 (0.27%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
13 2 (0.27%) ITIL Certification
13 2 (0.27%) Master's Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 43 (5.88%) QA
2 25 (3.42%) Accessibility
3 19 (2.60%) NIST
4 12 (1.64%) WCAG
5 11 (1.50%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 9 (1.23%) 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 1 (0.14%) GDPR
9 1 (0.14%) ISO 22301
9 1 (0.14%) ISO/IEC 42001
9 1 (0.14%) NCSC
9 1 (0.14%) PSD2
9 1 (0.14%) SEPA
9 1 (0.14%) SLA
System Software
1 468 (64.02%) Docker
2 29 (3.97%) Active Directory
3 20 (2.74%) Virtual Machines
4 19 (2.60%) 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%) Kamailio
7 1 (0.14%) KVM
7 1 (0.14%) QEMU
7 1 (0.14%) Virtual Servers
7 1 (0.14%) Xen
Systems Management
1 291 (39.81%) Terraform
2 112 (15.32%) Grafana
3 92 (12.59%) Ansible
4 58 (7.93%) Prometheus
5 27 (3.69%) Argo
6 23 (3.15%) Istio
7 21 (2.87%) Puppet
8 14 (1.92%) Progress Chef
9 8 (1.09%) Packer
10 7 (0.96%) Active Directory Federation Services
11 6 (0.82%) FortiGate
11 6 (0.82%) Kustomize
11 6 (0.82%) Microsoft Intune
12 5 (0.68%) Kibana
12 5 (0.68%) Proxmox
13 4 (0.55%) linkerd
14 3 (0.41%) Nagios
14 3 (0.41%) ZABBIX
15 2 (0.27%) CASB
15 2 (0.27%) MIIS
Vendors
1 210 (28.73%) Microsoft
2 36 (4.92%) Google
3 28 (3.83%) VMware
4 25 (3.42%) Oracle
5 21 (2.87%) Okta
6 20 (2.74%) Facebook
7 18 (2.46%) Red Hat
8 16 (2.19%) Splunk
9 13 (1.78%) Ping Identity
10 12 (1.64%) Palo Alto
10 12 (1.64%) ServiceNow
11 10 (1.37%) Databricks
12 8 (1.09%) Cisco
12 8 (1.09%) Confluent
12 8 (1.09%) ForgeRock
12 8 (1.09%) Fortinet
12 8 (1.09%) OpenAI
13 7 (0.96%) Dynatrace
13 7 (0.96%) EMC
14 6 (0.82%) Zscaler