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

6 months to
16 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 74 56 67
Rank change year-on-year -18 +11 -40
Permanent jobs citing Kubernetes 707 885 1,187
As % of all permanent jobs with remote/hybrid work options 3.31% 5.36% 3.73%
As % of the Systems Management category 39.08% 43.40% 35.21%
Number of salaries quoted 518 455 965
10th Percentile £45,000 £49,850 £50,000
25th Percentile £52,500 £60,000 £60,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £78,810 £77,500
Median % change year-on-year -17.52% +1.69% +3.33%
75th Percentile £82,188 £100,000 £95,000
90th Percentile £97,500 £129,000 £118,750
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 1,809 2,039 3,371
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 8.47% 12.35% 10.60%
Number of salaries quoted 1,331 1,185 2,511
10th Percentile £36,750 £36,250 £36,500
25th Percentile £46,743 £48,750 £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 £77,500 £86,250 £84,964
90th Percentile £95,000 £107,500 £105,000
UK median annual salary £63,373 £65,000 £62,500
% change year-on-year -2.50% +4.00% -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 16 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 7 (0.99%) Apache Airflow
2 6 (0.85%) Apache Spark
2 6 (0.85%) IIS
2 6 (0.85%) OpenStack
3 5 (0.71%) nginx
4 2 (0.28%) ArcGIS
4 2 (0.28%) Camunda
4 2 (0.28%) Confluence
4 2 (0.28%) GeoServer
4 2 (0.28%) Microsoft Exchange
4 2 (0.28%) Oracle SOA Suite
4 2 (0.28%) Oracle Spatial
5 1 (0.14%) Apache
5 1 (0.14%) Cloud Foundry
5 1 (0.14%) JBoss
5 1 (0.14%) Oracle Coherence
5 1 (0.14%) Red Hat Fuse
Applications
1 2 (0.28%) Weka
2 1 (0.14%) Lightworks
Business Applications
1 2 (0.28%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 393 (55.59%) AWS
2 381 (53.89%) Azure
3 204 (28.85%) GitHub
4 177 (25.04%) GCP
5 139 (19.66%) GitHub Copilot
6 104 (14.71%) Amazon EKS
7 76 (10.75%) SaaS
8 74 (10.47%) Azure AI
9 66 (9.34%) Serverless
10 53 (7.50%) GitHub Actions
11 45 (6.36%) Azure AKS
12 44 (6.22%) AWS CloudFormation
13 42 (5.94%) Azure DevOps
14 35 (4.95%) Amazon EC2
15 32 (4.53%) OpenShift
16 31 (4.38%) Amazon S3
17 25 (3.54%) AWS Lambda
17 25 (3.54%) PaaS
18 24 (3.39%) Amazon ECS
19 22 (3.11%) Amazon CloudWatch
Communications & Networking
1 30 (4.24%) Firewall
2 25 (3.54%) DNS
2 25 (3.54%) VPN
3 24 (3.39%) Broadband
4 20 (2.83%) Internet
5 15 (2.12%) TCP/IP
6 9 (1.27%) DHCP
7 8 (1.13%) VLAN
8 7 (0.99%) BGP
8 7 (0.99%) Network Security
9 6 (0.85%) OSPF
9 6 (0.85%) VXLAN
10 5 (0.71%) MQTT
11 4 (0.57%) HTTP
11 4 (0.57%) WAN
12 3 (0.42%) RTP
12 3 (0.42%) SAN
12 3 (0.42%) Unified Communications
12 3 (0.42%) VoIP
12 3 (0.42%) Wireshark
Database & Business Intelligence
1 161 (22.77%) MongoDB
2 137 (19.38%) Azure SQL Database
3 71 (10.04%) PostgreSQL
4 50 (7.07%) Elasticsearch
5 34 (4.81%) NoSQL
6 32 (4.53%) Relational Database
7 29 (4.10%) MySQL
8 27 (3.82%) SQL Server
9 23 (3.25%) Amazon RDS
10 6 (0.85%) Data Warehouse
10 6 (0.85%) DynamoDB
10 6 (0.85%) RDBMS
10 6 (0.85%) Redis
11 5 (0.71%) BigQuery
11 5 (0.71%) Delta Lake
12 3 (0.42%) Apache Cassandra
12 3 (0.42%) Metadata
13 2 (0.28%) MariaDB
13 2 (0.28%) Neo4j
13 2 (0.28%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 85 (12.02%) Git
2 60 (8.49%) TeamCity
3 53 (7.50%) GitLab
4 51 (7.21%) Jenkins
5 16 (2.26%) JUnit
6 14 (1.98%) Maven
7 13 (1.84%) JIRA
8 12 (1.70%) Visual Studio Code
9 10 (1.41%) Mockito
10 9 (1.27%) Cucumber
11 7 (0.99%) Atlassian Bamboo
11 7 (0.99%) Bitbucket
11 7 (0.99%) Jaeger
11 7 (0.99%) Selenium
12 6 (0.85%) Octopus Deploy
12 6 (0.85%) Postman
13 5 (0.71%) JMeter
13 5 (0.71%) Locust
13 5 (0.71%) Subversion
14 4 (0.57%) SonarQube
General
1 157 (22.21%) Finance
2 122 (17.26%) Social Skills
3 89 (12.59%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 85 (12.02%) Banking
4 85 (12.02%) Retail
5 78 (11.03%) Law
6 50 (7.07%) Public Sector
7 44 (6.22%) Financial Institution
8 43 (6.08%) Back Office
9 37 (5.23%) Advertising
10 21 (2.97%) Analytical Skills
11 20 (2.83%) Marketing
12 16 (2.26%) Aerospace
13 13 (1.84%) Games
14 8 (1.13%) Legal
14 8 (1.13%) Organisational Skills
15 6 (0.85%) Telecoms
16 4 (0.57%) Manufacturing
16 4 (0.57%) Military
17 3 (0.42%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 211 (29.84%) Developer
2 189 (26.73%) Senior
3 131 (18.53%) .NET Developer
4 117 (16.55%) Software Engineer
5 89 (12.59%) Lead
6 78 (11.03%) DevOps Engineer
7 57 (8.06%) Cloud Engineer
8 48 (6.79%) Platform Engineer
9 44 (6.22%) Azure Engineer
10 38 (5.37%) Senior Software Engineer
11 36 (5.09%) Senior Developer
12 32 (4.53%) AWS Engineer
12 32 (4.53%) Lead Software Engineer
12 32 (4.53%) Senior DevOps
13 31 (4.38%) Java Developer
14 30 (4.24%) Architect
14 30 (4.24%) Java Engineer
15 28 (3.96%) Cloud Platform Engineer
16 26 (3.68%) Team Leader
17 24 (3.39%) Python Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 191 (27.02%) .NET
2 139 (19.66%) .NET Core
2 139 (19.66%) ASP.NET
3 133 (18.81%) ASP.NET Core
4 81 (11.46%) AngularJS
5 79 (11.17%) CSS
5 79 (11.17%) HTML
6 73 (10.33%) ML.NET
6 73 (10.33%) Node.js
7 72 (10.18%) Vue
8 69 (9.76%) React
9 65 (9.19%) Spring
10 57 (8.06%) Kafka
11 51 (7.21%) REST
12 48 (6.79%) Spring Boot
13 46 (6.51%) RESTful
14 25 (3.54%) Django
15 22 (3.11%) .NET Framework
15 22 (3.11%) Blazor
15 22 (3.11%) OAuth
Miscellaneous
1 204 (28.85%) Cloud Native
2 53 (7.50%) Distributed Systems
3 46 (6.51%) Product Ownership
4 22 (3.11%) Greenfield Project
5 21 (2.97%) Blog
6 20 (2.83%) Digital TV
6 20 (2.83%) Hybrid Cloud
7 18 (2.55%) Private Cloud
8 17 (2.40%) Data Centre
9 13 (1.84%) Public Cloud
10 11 (1.56%) Management Information System
11 9 (1.27%) AI Agents
12 8 (1.13%) Legacy Systems
12 8 (1.13%) Onboarding
13 6 (0.85%) CMDB
13 6 (0.85%) CUDA
13 6 (0.85%) IoT
13 6 (0.85%) PKI
13 6 (0.85%) Security Posture
13 6 (0.85%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 135 (19.09%) Linux
2 39 (5.52%) Windows
3 20 (2.83%) Windows Server
4 16 (2.26%) Ubuntu
5 9 (1.27%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 6 (0.85%) Android
6 6 (0.85%) Apple iOS
6 6 (0.85%) Debian
6 6 (0.85%) Unix
7 5 (0.71%) CentOS
8 3 (0.42%) VMS
8 3 (0.42%) Windows Server 2016
9 2 (0.28%) Mac OS
Processes & Methodologies
1 474 (67.04%) CI/CD
2 303 (42.86%) DevOps
3 259 (36.63%) Agile
4 236 (33.38%) Microservices
5 230 (32.53%) Infrastructure as Code
6 197 (27.86%) Containerisation
7 185 (26.17%) Full-Stack Development
8 183 (25.88%) Software Engineering
9 180 (25.46%) AI
10 173 (24.47%) Mentoring
11 129 (18.25%) Test Automation
12 127 (17.96%) Continuous Improvement
13 116 (16.41%) Observability
14 112 (15.84%) Platform Engineering
15 104 (14.71%) Clean Code
16 102 (14.43%) Machine Learning
17 101 (14.29%) TDD
18 97 (13.72%) Problem-Solving
19 89 (12.59%) Deployment Automation
20 82 (11.60%) Scrum
Programming Languages
1 229 (32.39%) Python
2 212 (29.99%) SQL
3 201 (28.43%) C#
4 176 (24.89%) Java
5 111 (15.70%) TypeScript
6 75 (10.61%) Bash
7 72 (10.18%) JavaScript
8 69 (9.76%) PowerShell
9 53 (7.50%) Go
10 23 (3.25%) Bicep
11 13 (1.84%) Scala
12 10 (1.41%) PHP
12 10 (1.41%) PL/SQL
13 7 (0.99%) C
13 7 (0.99%) C++
13 7 (0.99%) Groovy
13 7 (0.99%) Ruby
13 7 (0.99%) Rust
14 4 (0.57%) Kotlin
15 3 (0.42%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 88 (12.45%) Security Cleared
2 71 (10.04%) SC Cleared
3 56 (7.92%) Degree
4 41 (5.80%) Azure Certification
5 27 (3.82%) Computer Science Degree
6 26 (3.68%) AWS Certification
7 11 (1.56%) DV Cleared
8 10 (1.41%) CISSP
9 8 (1.13%) GIAC
10 6 (0.85%) CREST Certified
10 6 (0.85%) ISACA
10 6 (0.85%) OSCP
11 5 (0.71%) SANS
12 4 (0.57%) CISM
13 3 (0.42%) CEH
13 3 (0.42%) Microsoft Certification
14 2 (0.28%) ITIL Certification
14 2 (0.28%) Master's Degree
15 1 (0.14%) ISO 27001 Lead Implementer
15 1 (0.14%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 42 (5.94%) QA
2 21 (2.97%) Accessibility
3 18 (2.55%) NIST
4 13 (1.84%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 10 (1.41%) PCI DSS
6 8 (1.13%) WCAG
7 4 (0.57%) Data Quality
7 4 (0.57%) SOC 2
8 3 (0.42%) Cyber Essentials
8 3 (0.42%) ISO 9001
9 1 (0.14%) GDPR
9 1 (0.14%) ISO 22301
9 1 (0.14%) ISO/IEC 42001
9 1 (0.14%) PSD2
9 1 (0.14%) SEPA
9 1 (0.14%) SLA
System Software
1 443 (62.66%) Docker
2 29 (4.10%) Active Directory
3 19 (2.69%) VMware Infrastructure
4 18 (2.55%) Virtual Machines
5 4 (0.57%) Firmware
5 4 (0.57%) Slurm Workload Manager
6 3 (0.42%) Citrix Hypervisor
6 3 (0.42%) iptables
6 3 (0.42%) Kamailio
7 2 (0.28%) VMware NSX
8 1 (0.14%) Hyper-V
8 1 (0.14%) KVM
8 1 (0.14%) QEMU
8 1 (0.14%) Virtual Servers
8 1 (0.14%) Xen
Systems Management
1 292 (41.30%) Terraform
2 122 (17.26%) Grafana
3 97 (13.72%) Ansible
4 65 (9.19%) Prometheus
5 35 (4.95%) Argo
6 21 (2.97%) Istio
6 21 (2.97%) Puppet
7 15 (2.12%) Progress Chef
8 12 (1.70%) Kustomize
9 8 (1.13%) Packer
10 7 (0.99%) Active Directory Federation Services
10 7 (0.99%) Proxmox
11 6 (0.85%) FortiGate
11 6 (0.85%) Microsoft Intune
12 5 (0.71%) Kibana
12 5 (0.71%) ZABBIX
13 3 (0.42%) linkerd
13 3 (0.42%) Nagios
14 2 (0.28%) MIIS
14 2 (0.28%) Podman
Vendors
1 208 (29.42%) Microsoft
2 36 (5.09%) Google
3 32 (4.53%) VMware
4 20 (2.83%) Facebook
4 20 (2.83%) Oracle
5 17 (2.40%) Okta
5 17 (2.40%) Red Hat
6 16 (2.26%) Splunk
7 12 (1.70%) Palo Alto
7 12 (1.70%) ServiceNow
8 10 (1.41%) Fortinet
9 8 (1.13%) Cisco
9 8 (1.13%) Confluent
9 8 (1.13%) Databricks
9 8 (1.13%) ForgeRock
9 8 (1.13%) Ping Identity
10 7 (0.99%) EMC
11 6 (0.85%) Citrix
11 6 (0.85%) F5
11 6 (0.85%) OpenAI