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

 6 months to
20 Jun 2026		 Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 73 50 66
Rank change year-on-year -23 +16 -39
Permanent jobs citing Kubernetes 661 910 1,354
As % of all permanent jobs with remote/hybrid work options 3.28% 5.88% 3.90%
As % of the Systems Management category 40.21% 44.85% 36.81%
Number of salaries quoted 433 478 1,114
10th Percentile £47,500 £50,000 £50,000
25th Percentile £55,000 £60,000 £60,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £78,810 £75,000
Median % change year-on-year -17.52% +5.08% -
75th Percentile £82,500 £107,875 £93,750
90th Percentile £97,500 £136,125 £115,875
UK median annual salary £72,000 £80,000 £75,000
% change year-on-year -10.00% +6.67% -

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 1,644 2,029 3,678
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 8.16% 13.11% 10.59%
Number of salaries quoted 1,167 1,170 2,789
10th Percentile £36,250 £36,250 £36,500
25th Percentile £46,743 £49,636 £47,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £62,500 £67,626 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year -7.58% +4.04% -7.14%
75th Percentile £78,750 £87,500 £84,919
90th Percentile £95,000 £115,000 £102,500
UK median annual salary £65,000 £67,500 £62,500
% change year-on-year -3.70% +8.00% -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 20 June 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 (1.06%) Apache Airflow
1 7 (1.06%) Apache Spark
1 7 (1.06%) OpenStack
2 3 (0.45%) IIS
3 2 (0.30%) Apache
3 2 (0.30%) ArcGIS
3 2 (0.30%) Camunda
3 2 (0.30%) Confluence
3 2 (0.30%) GeoServer
3 2 (0.30%) Microsoft Exchange
3 2 (0.30%) nginx
3 2 (0.30%) Oracle SOA Suite
3 2 (0.30%) Oracle Spatial
4 1 (0.15%) Cloud Foundry
4 1 (0.15%) JBoss
4 1 (0.15%) Oracle Coherence
4 1 (0.15%) Red Hat Fuse
4 1 (0.15%) SAS
Applications
1 4 (0.61%) Weka
2 1 (0.15%) Chatbot
Business Applications
1 2 (0.30%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 376 (56.88%) AWS
2 320 (48.41%) Azure
3 161 (24.36%) GCP
4 153 (23.15%) GitHub
5 106 (16.04%) Amazon EKS
6 94 (14.22%) GitHub Copilot
7 75 (11.35%) SaaS
8 66 (9.98%) Serverless
9 50 (7.56%) Azure AI
10 46 (6.96%) GitHub Actions
11 45 (6.81%) AWS CloudFormation
12 42 (6.35%) Azure AKS
13 37 (5.60%) Amazon EC2
14 36 (5.45%) Azure DevOps
15 34 (5.14%) Amazon S3
16 30 (4.54%) OpenShift
17 26 (3.93%) AWS Lambda
18 25 (3.78%) Amazon CloudWatch
18 25 (3.78%) Pulumi
19 23 (3.48%) Amazon ECS
Communications & Networking
1 57 (8.62%) Broadband
2 30 (4.54%) Firewall
3 23 (3.48%) DNS
4 20 (3.03%) VPN
5 13 (1.97%) Internet
5 13 (1.97%) TCP/IP
6 9 (1.36%) DHCP
6 9 (1.36%) Network Security
7 7 (1.06%) VLAN
8 6 (0.91%) BGP
9 5 (0.76%) OSPF
9 5 (0.76%) VXLAN
10 4 (0.61%) MQTT
10 4 (0.61%) WAN
11 3 (0.45%) HTTP
11 3 (0.45%) RTP
11 3 (0.45%) SAN
11 3 (0.45%) SCCP
11 3 (0.45%) VoIP
11 3 (0.45%) Wireshark
Database & Business Intelligence
1 116 (17.55%) MongoDB
2 90 (13.62%) Azure SQL Database
3 69 (10.44%) PostgreSQL
4 48 (7.26%) NoSQL
5 43 (6.51%) Relational Database
6 36 (5.45%) Elasticsearch
7 27 (4.08%) MySQL
8 26 (3.93%) Amazon RDS
8 26 (3.93%) SQL Server
9 18 (2.72%) RDBMS
10 8 (1.21%) BigQuery
11 7 (1.06%) Redis
12 6 (0.91%) Data Warehouse
12 6 (0.91%) DynamoDB
13 5 (0.76%) Delta Lake
14 4 (0.61%) Amazon Aurora
15 3 (0.45%) Apache Cassandra
15 3 (0.45%) Metadata
16 2 (0.30%) MariaDB
16 2 (0.30%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 81 (12.25%) Git
2 77 (11.65%) TeamCity
3 68 (10.29%) Jenkins
4 60 (9.08%) GitLab
5 18 (2.72%) Jaeger
6 16 (2.42%) JUnit
7 15 (2.27%) JIRA
8 13 (1.97%) Maven
9 12 (1.82%) Visual Studio Code
10 10 (1.51%) Mockito
11 9 (1.36%) Cucumber
12 7 (1.06%) JMeter
12 7 (1.06%) Selenium
13 6 (0.91%) Bitbucket
13 6 (0.91%) Postman
13 6 (0.91%) Visual Studio
14 5 (0.76%) Atlassian Bamboo
14 5 (0.76%) Locust
14 5 (0.76%) SonarQube
15 4 (0.61%) Subversion
General
1 143 (21.63%) Finance
2 120 (18.15%) Social Skills
3 96 (14.52%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 84 (12.71%) Retail
5 81 (12.25%) Banking
6 76 (11.50%) Law
7 44 (6.66%) Public Sector
8 41 (6.20%) Financial Institution
9 38 (5.75%) Back Office
10 25 (3.78%) Advertising
11 19 (2.87%) Analytical Skills
12 13 (1.97%) Marketing
13 11 (1.66%) Aerospace
14 10 (1.51%) Games
15 9 (1.36%) Organisational Skills
16 7 (1.06%) Legal
16 7 (1.06%) Telecoms
17 6 (0.91%) Aviation
18 5 (0.76%) Military
19 4 (0.61%) Manufacturing
Job Titles
1 194 (29.35%) Senior
2 172 (26.02%) Developer
3 117 (17.70%) Software Engineer
4 106 (16.04%) Lead
5 86 (13.01%) .NET Developer
6 69 (10.44%) DevOps Engineer
7 59 (8.93%) Cloud Engineer
8 50 (7.56%) Platform Engineer
9 43 (6.51%) Senior Software Engineer
10 41 (6.20%) Azure Engineer
10 41 (6.20%) Senior Developer
11 33 (4.99%) AWS Engineer
11 33 (4.99%) Java Engineer
12 32 (4.84%) Java Developer
13 31 (4.69%) Cloud Platform Engineer
14 30 (4.54%) Lead Software Engineer
14 30 (4.54%) Senior DevOps
14 30 (4.54%) Team Leader
15 24 (3.63%) Java Software Engineer
15 24 (3.63%) Python Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 143 (21.63%) .NET
2 100 (15.13%) .NET Core
3 95 (14.37%) ASP.NET
4 89 (13.46%) ASP.NET Core
5 67 (10.14%) Spring
6 64 (9.68%) React
7 61 (9.23%) AngularJS
8 60 (9.08%) Node.js
9 55 (8.32%) Kafka
10 54 (8.17%) CSS
10 54 (8.17%) HTML
11 52 (7.87%) Vue
12 50 (7.56%) REST
13 49 (7.41%) Spring Boot
14 48 (7.26%) ML.NET
15 42 (6.35%) RESTful
16 26 (3.93%) OpenTelemetry
17 25 (3.78%) Django
17 25 (3.78%) Elastic Stack
18 23 (3.48%) Akka
Miscellaneous
1 192 (29.05%) Cloud Native
2 50 (7.56%) Distributed Systems
3 44 (6.66%) Product Ownership
4 22 (3.33%) Blog
4 22 (3.33%) Over-the-Top Content
4 22 (3.33%) Video\Live Streaming
5 20 (3.03%) Hybrid Cloud
6 18 (2.72%) Private Cloud
7 17 (2.57%) Data Centre
8 16 (2.42%) Greenfield Project
9 14 (2.12%) Digital TV
10 13 (1.97%) Public Cloud
11 10 (1.51%) Management Information System
12 9 (1.36%) Legacy Systems
12 9 (1.36%) Security Posture
13 8 (1.21%) Onboarding
14 7 (1.06%) Self-Motivation
14 7 (1.06%) Virtual Team
15 6 (0.91%) CMDB
15 6 (0.91%) IoT
Operating Systems
1 145 (21.94%) Linux
2 35 (5.30%) Windows
3 19 (2.87%) Windows Server
4 18 (2.72%) Unix
5 15 (2.27%) Ubuntu
6 11 (1.66%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
7 9 (1.36%) Android
7 9 (1.36%) Apple iOS
8 7 (1.06%) CentOS
9 6 (0.91%) Debian
10 3 (0.45%) VMS
10 3 (0.45%) Windows Server 2016
11 2 (0.30%) Mac OS
Processes & Methodologies
1 424 (64.15%) CI/CD
2 306 (46.29%) DevOps
3 271 (41.00%) Agile
4 232 (35.10%) Infrastructure as Code
5 216 (32.68%) Microservices
6 198 (29.95%) Containerisation
7 178 (26.93%) Software Engineering
8 173 (26.17%) Mentoring
9 147 (22.24%) AI
10 138 (20.88%) Full-Stack Development
11 131 (19.82%) Continuous Improvement
12 126 (19.06%) Test Automation
13 109 (16.49%) Observability
14 107 (16.19%) Platform Engineering
15 104 (15.73%) TDD
16 101 (15.28%) Clean Code
17 90 (13.62%) Scrum
18 82 (12.41%) Deployment Automation
19 79 (11.95%) Problem-Solving
20 78 (11.80%) Machine Learning
Programming Languages
1 229 (34.64%) Python
2 190 (28.74%) Java
3 168 (25.42%) SQL
4 153 (23.15%) C#
5 96 (14.52%) TypeScript
6 82 (12.41%) Bash
6 82 (12.41%) JavaScript
7 65 (9.83%) Go
8 57 (8.62%) PowerShell
9 32 (4.84%) Scala
10 20 (3.03%) Bicep
11 10 (1.51%) PHP
11 10 (1.51%) PL/SQL
12 7 (1.06%) C
12 7 (1.06%) C++
12 7 (1.06%) Rust
13 6 (0.91%) Groovy
14 5 (0.76%) Ruby
15 3 (0.45%) Perl
15 3 (0.45%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 89 (13.46%) Security Cleared
2 71 (10.74%) SC Cleared
3 53 (8.02%) Degree
4 46 (6.96%) Azure Certification
5 38 (5.75%) AWS Certification
6 22 (3.33%) Computer Science Degree
7 12 (1.82%) DV Cleared
8 8 (1.21%) CISSP
9 7 (1.06%) CREST Certified
9 7 (1.06%) GIAC
9 7 (1.06%) Microsoft Certification
9 7 (1.06%) OSCP
10 6 (0.91%) ISACA
11 5 (0.76%) SANS
12 3 (0.45%) CISM
13 2 (0.30%) CEH
13 2 (0.30%) ISTQB
13 2 (0.30%) ITIL Certification
13 2 (0.30%) Linux+ Certification
13 2 (0.30%) LPIC
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 39 (5.90%) QA
2 22 (3.33%) Accessibility
3 16 (2.42%) NIST
4 15 (2.27%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 10 (1.51%) PCI DSS
6 7 (1.06%) WCAG
7 4 (0.61%) Data Quality
7 4 (0.61%) GDPR
7 4 (0.61%) SOC 2
8 3 (0.45%) ISO 9001
9 2 (0.30%) Cyber Essentials
9 2 (0.30%) Software Quality Assurance
10 1 (0.15%) ISO/IEC 42001
10 1 (0.15%) SLA
System Software
1 416 (62.93%) Docker
2 29 (4.39%) Active Directory
3 19 (2.87%) VMware Infrastructure
4 16 (2.42%) Virtual Machines
5 5 (0.76%) VMware NSX
6 4 (0.61%) Firmware
6 4 (0.61%) Slurm Workload Manager
7 3 (0.45%) Citrix Hypervisor
7 3 (0.45%) Kamailio
8 2 (0.30%) iptables
9 1 (0.15%) Hyper-V
9 1 (0.15%) KVM
9 1 (0.15%) QEMU
9 1 (0.15%) Virtual Servers
9 1 (0.15%) vSphere
9 1 (0.15%) Xen
Systems Management
1 299 (45.23%) Terraform
2 120 (18.15%) Grafana
3 114 (17.25%) Ansible
4 79 (11.95%) Prometheus
5 45 (6.81%) Argo
6 24 (3.63%) Kustomize
7 22 (3.33%) Puppet
8 20 (3.03%) Istio
9 16 (2.42%) Progress Chef
10 8 (1.21%) Packer
11 7 (1.06%) Active Directory Federation Services
11 7 (1.06%) Proxmox
11 7 (1.06%) ZABBIX
12 6 (0.91%) Microsoft Intune
13 5 (0.76%) FortiGate
13 5 (0.76%) Kibana
14 3 (0.45%) linkerd
14 3 (0.45%) Nagios
15 2 (0.30%) MIIS
15 2 (0.30%) Podman
Vendors
1 159 (24.05%) Microsoft
2 46 (6.96%) Google
3 34 (5.14%) VMware
4 18 (2.72%) Oracle
4 18 (2.72%) Red Hat
5 14 (2.12%) Splunk
6 13 (1.97%) Facebook
7 11 (1.66%) Palo Alto
8 10 (1.51%) ServiceNow
9 9 (1.36%) Databricks
9 9 (1.36%) Fortinet
9 9 (1.36%) Okta
10 8 (1.21%) Cisco
10 8 (1.21%) Confluent
11 7 (1.06%) EMC
11 7 (1.06%) OpenAI
12 6 (0.91%) Citrix
12 6 (0.91%) F5
13 5 (0.76%) HubSpot
13 5 (0.76%) Zscaler
319 hybrid/remote Kubernetes jobs