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 16 September 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
16 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 82 75 67
Rank change year-on-year -7 -8 -39
Permanent jobs citing Kubernetes 743 743 927
As % of all permanent jobs with remote/hybrid work options 3.08% 4.57% 3.97%
As % of the Systems Management category 45.33% 44.07% 40.18%
Number of salaries quoted 504 360 615
10th Percentile £46,250 £48,750 £52,500
25th Percentile £52,500 £59,500 £61,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £75,000 £77,500
Median % change year-on-year -13.33% -3.23% +3.33%
75th Percentile £85,000 £87,500 £95,000
90th Percentile £97,500 £110,000 £118,750
UK median annual salary £70,000 £77,500 £77,500
% change year-on-year -9.68% - +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 1,639 1,686 2,307
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 6.80% 10.38% 9.88%
Number of salaries quoted 1,191 886 1,373
10th Percentile £34,000 £35,000 £36,500
25th Percentile £46,250 £45,000 £47,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £65,000 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year -7.69% - -3.70%
75th Percentile £75,000 £82,500 £86,250
90th Percentile £95,000 £97,750 £105,000
UK median annual salary £60,000 £60,500 £65,000
% change year-on-year -0.83% -6.92% -

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 16 September 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 11 (1.48%) Apache Spark
2 7 (0.94%) Oracle SOA Suite
3 6 (0.81%) IIS
4 5 (0.67%) Apache Airflow
4 5 (0.67%) nginx
5 4 (0.54%) ArcGIS
5 4 (0.54%) Confluence
5 4 (0.54%) GeoServer
5 4 (0.54%) OpenStack
5 4 (0.54%) Oracle Spatial
6 3 (0.40%) Camunda
7 1 (0.13%) Apache
7 1 (0.13%) Cloud Foundry
7 1 (0.13%) Ethereum
7 1 (0.13%) Hedera
7 1 (0.13%) JBoss
7 1 (0.13%) Microsoft Exchange
7 1 (0.13%) Oracle Coherence
7 1 (0.13%) Red Hat Fuse
Applications
1 12 (1.62%) Chatbot
2 1 (0.13%) Lightworks
Business Applications
1 2 (0.27%) SAP S/4HANA
2 1 (0.13%) Distributed Ledger
2 1 (0.13%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
Cloud Services
1 420 (56.53%) AWS
2 410 (55.18%) Azure
3 214 (28.80%) GCP
4 199 (26.78%) GitHub
5 135 (18.17%) GitHub Copilot
6 91 (12.25%) Amazon EKS
7 85 (11.44%) SaaS
8 72 (9.69%) Azure AI
9 50 (6.73%) Serverless
10 47 (6.33%) GitHub Actions
11 44 (5.92%) Azure AKS
11 44 (5.92%) Azure DevOps
12 42 (5.65%) AWS CloudFormation
13 41 (5.52%) OpenShift
14 26 (3.50%) Amazon EC2
15 20 (2.69%) Azure Service Bus
16 19 (2.56%) Amazon ECS
17 18 (2.42%) Amazon S3
18 17 (2.29%) Azure Monitor
18 17 (2.29%) PaaS
Communications & Networking
1 21 (2.83%) DNS
1 21 (2.83%) Firewall
1 21 (2.83%) Internet
1 21 (2.83%) VPN
2 17 (2.29%) Broadband
3 13 (1.75%) TCP/IP
4 10 (1.35%) Network Security
5 8 (1.08%) BGP
5 8 (1.08%) VLAN
6 7 (0.94%) DHCP
7 6 (0.81%) OSPF
7 6 (0.81%) VXLAN
8 5 (0.67%) WAN
9 4 (0.54%) HTTP
10 2 (0.27%) LAN
10 2 (0.27%) SAN
10 2 (0.27%) WireGuard
11 1 (0.13%) MQTT
11 1 (0.13%) Remote Desktop
11 1 (0.13%) SSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 158 (21.27%) MongoDB
2 136 (18.30%) Azure SQL Database
3 78 (10.50%) PostgreSQL
4 44 (5.92%) Elasticsearch
5 35 (4.71%) NoSQL
6 28 (3.77%) SQL Server
7 24 (3.23%) MySQL
7 24 (3.23%) Relational Database
8 19 (2.56%) Amazon RDS
9 11 (1.48%) Data Warehouse
10 6 (0.81%) Delta Lake
10 6 (0.81%) DynamoDB
11 5 (0.67%) Metadata
11 5 (0.67%) Power BI
11 5 (0.67%) Tableau
12 4 (0.54%) Apache Cassandra
12 4 (0.54%) Big Data
12 4 (0.54%) GIS
12 4 (0.54%) QGIS
12 4 (0.54%) Redis
Development Applications
1 88 (11.84%) Git
2 72 (9.69%) TeamCity
3 52 (7.00%) Jenkins
4 46 (6.19%) GitLab
5 27 (3.63%) JUnit
6 18 (2.42%) Maven
7 16 (2.15%) JIRA
7 16 (2.15%) Mockito
7 16 (2.15%) Selenium
8 12 (1.62%) Postman
9 10 (1.35%) Atlassian Bamboo
10 9 (1.21%) Bitbucket
10 9 (1.21%) Cucumber
10 9 (1.21%) SonarQube
10 9 (1.21%) Visual Studio Code
11 6 (0.81%) Gatling
11 6 (0.81%) Octopus Deploy
12 5 (0.67%) Subversion
13 3 (0.40%) Cypress.io
13 3 (0.40%) NUnit
General
1 187 (25.17%) Finance
2 134 (18.03%) Social Skills
3 99 (13.32%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 96 (12.92%) Retail
5 94 (12.65%) Law
6 92 (12.38%) Banking
7 64 (8.61%) Public Sector
8 56 (7.54%) Financial Institution
9 55 (7.40%) Back Office
10 33 (4.44%) Advertising
11 27 (3.63%) Analytical Skills
12 21 (2.83%) Aerospace
13 19 (2.56%) Marketing
14 11 (1.48%) Games
15 10 (1.35%) Legal
16 6 (0.81%) Telecoms
17 5 (0.67%) Organisational Skills
18 4 (0.54%) Front Office
19 3 (0.40%) Manufacturing
19 3 (0.40%) Military
Job Titles
1 210 (28.26%) Developer
2 197 (26.51%) Senior
3 133 (17.90%) Software Engineer
4 129 (17.36%) .NET Developer
5 70 (9.42%) DevOps Engineer
6 69 (9.29%) Lead
7 52 (7.00%) Cloud Engineer
8 48 (6.46%) Architect
9 44 (5.92%) Platform Engineer
10 42 (5.65%) Azure Engineer
11 38 (5.11%) Senior Developer
12 35 (4.71%) Senior Software Engineer
13 30 (4.04%) Java Developer
13 30 (4.04%) Java Engineer
14 26 (3.50%) Cloud Platform Engineer
14 26 (3.50%) Lead Software Engineer
15 25 (3.36%) Team Leader
16 24 (3.23%) Full-Stack Developer
17 21 (2.83%) Principal Engineer
18 20 (2.69%) Senior DevOps
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 289 (38.90%) Terraform
2 195 (26.24%) .NET
3 135 (18.17%) .NET Core
3 135 (18.17%) ASP.NET
4 130 (17.50%) ASP.NET Core
5 95 (12.79%) Node.js
6 85 (11.44%) React
7 82 (11.04%) AngularJS
8 77 (10.36%) CSS
8 77 (10.36%) HTML
9 70 (9.42%) ML.NET
10 68 (9.15%) Spring
11 67 (9.02%) Vue
12 61 (8.21%) REST
13 52 (7.00%) Kafka
14 46 (6.19%) RESTful
15 43 (5.79%) Spring Boot
16 27 (3.63%) Blazor
17 21 (2.83%) Django
17 21 (2.83%) OpenTelemetry
Miscellaneous
1 204 (27.46%) Cloud Native
2 59 (7.94%) Distributed Systems
3 57 (7.67%) Product Ownership
4 28 (3.77%) Blog
5 25 (3.36%) Greenfield Project
6 19 (2.56%) Digital TV
7 18 (2.42%) AI Agents
8 15 (2.02%) Data Centre
9 14 (1.88%) Legacy Systems
10 13 (1.75%) Public Cloud
11 12 (1.62%) Hybrid Cloud
11 12 (1.62%) Self-Motivation
12 11 (1.48%) Private Cloud
13 9 (1.21%) IoT
13 9 (1.21%) PKI
13 9 (1.21%) Replication
14 8 (1.08%) Cyber Kill Chain
14 8 (1.08%) Enterprise Software
14 8 (1.08%) Management Information System
14 8 (1.08%) Mobile App
Operating Systems
1 132 (17.77%) Linux
2 44 (5.92%) Windows
3 21 (2.83%) Windows Server
4 16 (2.15%) Ubuntu
5 9 (1.21%) Apple iOS
6 7 (0.94%) Android
7 5 (0.67%) CentOS
7 5 (0.67%) Debian
7 5 (0.67%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
8 4 (0.54%) Mac OS
9 2 (0.27%) VMS
9 2 (0.27%) Windows Server 2016
Processes & Methodologies
1 496 (66.76%) CI/CD
2 285 (38.36%) DevOps
3 268 (36.07%) Agile
4 252 (33.92%) Microservices
5 210 (28.26%) AI
6 209 (28.13%) Software Engineering
7 206 (27.73%) Infrastructure as Code
8 203 (27.32%) Mentoring
9 201 (27.05%) Full-Stack Development
10 178 (23.96%) Containerisation
11 143 (19.25%) Test Automation
12 131 (17.63%) Continuous Improvement
13 127 (17.09%) Observability
14 116 (15.61%) Machine Learning
15 112 (15.07%) Problem-Solving
16 105 (14.13%) Clean Code
17 103 (13.86%) Platform Engineering
18 100 (13.46%) TDD
19 87 (11.71%) Fintech
20 86 (11.57%) Scrum
Programming Languages
1 220 (29.61%) Python
2 217 (29.21%) SQL
3 204 (27.46%) C#
4 191 (25.71%) Java
5 113 (15.21%) TypeScript
6 94 (12.65%) JavaScript
7 82 (11.04%) Bash
8 72 (9.69%) PowerShell
9 41 (5.52%) Go
10 22 (2.96%) Bicep
11 15 (2.02%) PL/SQL
12 13 (1.75%) Scala
13 8 (1.08%) Kotlin
13 8 (1.08%) PHP
13 8 (1.08%) Ruby
14 7 (0.94%) Groovy
15 4 (0.54%) C++
15 4 (0.54%) Rust
16 3 (0.40%) Swift
16 3 (0.40%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 122 (16.42%) Security Cleared
2 97 (13.06%) SC Cleared
3 54 (7.27%) Degree
4 39 (5.25%) Azure Certification
5 26 (3.50%) Computer Science Degree
6 18 (2.42%) AWS Certification
7 15 (2.02%) DV Cleared
8 8 (1.08%) CISSP
8 8 (1.08%) GIAC
9 7 (0.94%) BPSS Clearance
10 6 (0.81%) CISM
11 5 (0.67%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
11 5 (0.67%) CEH
12 4 (0.54%) CREST Certified
12 4 (0.54%) Microsoft Certification
12 4 (0.54%) OCP
12 4 (0.54%) Oracle Certification
12 4 (0.54%) OSCP
13 3 (0.40%) AWS Certified Developer
14 2 (0.27%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 30 (4.04%) QA
2 22 (2.96%) Accessibility
3 19 (2.56%) NIST
4 9 (1.21%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 9 (1.21%) WCAG
5 8 (1.08%) PCI DSS
6 5 (0.67%) Cyber Essentials
6 5 (0.67%) Data Quality
7 4 (0.54%) NCSC
8 3 (0.40%) GDPR
8 3 (0.40%) SOC 2
9 1 (0.13%) California Consumer Privacy Act
9 1 (0.13%) HIPAA
9 1 (0.13%) ISO 22301
9 1 (0.13%) ISO/IEC 42001
9 1 (0.13%) PSD2
9 1 (0.13%) SEPA
9 1 (0.13%) SLA
System Software
1 468 (62.99%) Docker
2 24 (3.23%) Active Directory
3 17 (2.29%) VMware Infrastructure
4 14 (1.88%) Virtual Machines
5 3 (0.40%) iptables
5 3 (0.40%) Slurm Workload Manager
6 2 (0.27%) Citrix Hypervisor
6 2 (0.27%) Hyper-V
7 1 (0.13%) Firmware
7 1 (0.13%) HDFS
7 1 (0.13%) KVM
7 1 (0.13%) QEMU
7 1 (0.13%) Virtual Servers
7 1 (0.13%) Xen
Systems Management
1 127 (17.09%) Grafana
2 83 (11.17%) Ansible
3 55 (7.40%) Prometheus
4 26 (3.50%) Argo
5 19 (2.56%) Puppet
6 18 (2.42%) Istio
7 13 (1.75%) Progress Chef
8 8 (1.08%) Kustomize
9 7 (0.94%) Packer
10 6 (0.81%) FortiGate
10 6 (0.81%) Microsoft Intune
11 5 (0.67%) Active Directory Federation Services
12 4 (0.54%) linkerd
13 3 (0.40%) Cilium
13 3 (0.40%) Kibana
14 2 (0.27%) CASB
14 2 (0.27%) Microsoft Data Protection Manager
14 2 (0.27%) Podman
14 2 (0.27%) Proxmox
14 2 (0.27%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 202 (27.19%) Microsoft
2 44 (5.92%) Google
3 32 (4.31%) Oracle
4 23 (3.10%) Red Hat
5 22 (2.96%) OpenAI
5 22 (2.96%) Splunk
5 22 (2.96%) VMware
6 19 (2.56%) Facebook
6 19 (2.56%) Okta
7 15 (2.02%) Ping Identity
8 12 (1.62%) Databricks
9 10 (1.35%) Palo Alto
10 9 (1.21%) ServiceNow
11 7 (0.94%) Dynatrace
11 7 (0.94%) Fortinet
12 6 (0.81%) Cisco
12 6 (0.81%) Citrix
12 6 (0.81%) ForgeRock
12 6 (0.81%) New Relic
12 6 (0.81%) Zscaler