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

6 months to
1 Oct 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 80 79 61
Rank change year-on-year -1 -18 -32
Permanent jobs citing Kubernetes 793 726 953
As % of all permanent jobs with remote/hybrid work options 3.18% 4.32% 4.25%
As % of the Systems Management category 46.10% 42.98% 41.87%
Number of salaries quoted 522 343 586
10th Percentile £46,250 £48,750 £53,750
25th Percentile £52,500 £58,750 £61,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £72,500 £77,000
Median % change year-on-year -10.34% -5.84% +2.67%
75th Percentile £85,000 £87,500 £95,000
90th Percentile £97,500 £110,000 £118,125
UK median annual salary £70,000 £75,000 £77,500
% change year-on-year -6.67% -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 1,720 1,689 2,276
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 6.89% 10.04% 10.14%
Number of salaries quoted 1,233 869 1,309
10th Percentile £33,800 £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 £75,026 £82,500 £87,500
90th Percentile £95,000 £98,150 £105,000
UK median annual salary £60,000 £60,000 £65,000
% change year-on-year - -7.69% -

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 1 October 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 10 (1.26%) Apache Spark
2 8 (1.01%) Apache Airflow
3 7 (0.88%) Confluence
3 7 (0.88%) Oracle SOA Suite
4 6 (0.76%) IIS
4 6 (0.76%) nginx
5 5 (0.63%) Camunda
6 4 (0.50%) Apache
6 4 (0.50%) ArcGIS
6 4 (0.50%) GeoServer
6 4 (0.50%) Oracle Spatial
7 2 (0.25%) Ethereum
7 2 (0.25%) Hedera
7 2 (0.25%) OpenStack
8 1 (0.13%) Cloud Foundry
8 1 (0.13%) JBoss
8 1 (0.13%) Microsoft Exchange
8 1 (0.13%) Oracle Coherence
8 1 (0.13%) Red Hat Fuse
8 1 (0.13%) WebLogic
Applications
1 12 (1.51%) Chatbot
2 1 (0.13%) Lightworks
Business Applications
1 2 (0.25%) Distributed Ledger
1 2 (0.25%) SAP S/4HANA
2 1 (0.13%) Actimize
2 1 (0.13%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
Cloud Services
1 454 (57.25%) AWS
2 424 (53.47%) Azure
3 239 (30.14%) GCP
4 207 (26.10%) GitHub
5 135 (17.02%) GitHub Copilot
6 108 (13.62%) Amazon EKS
7 105 (13.24%) SaaS
8 72 (9.08%) Azure AI
9 55 (6.94%) Serverless
10 50 (6.31%) GitHub Actions
11 48 (6.05%) Azure AKS
12 47 (5.93%) Azure DevOps
13 43 (5.42%) AWS CloudFormation
14 40 (5.04%) OpenShift
15 27 (3.40%) Amazon EC2
16 22 (2.77%) Amazon ECS
16 22 (2.77%) Azure Service Bus
17 21 (2.65%) AWS Lambda
17 21 (2.65%) Virtual Private Cloud
18 20 (2.52%) Amazon S3
Communications & Networking
1 28 (3.53%) VPN
2 25 (3.15%) Firewall
3 22 (2.77%) DNS
4 21 (2.65%) Internet
5 17 (2.14%) Broadband
5 17 (2.14%) TCP/IP
6 14 (1.77%) Network Security
7 13 (1.64%) BGP
8 11 (1.39%) VLAN
9 6 (0.76%) DHCP
9 6 (0.76%) OSPF
9 6 (0.76%) VXLAN
10 4 (0.50%) HTTP
10 4 (0.50%) WAN
11 2 (0.25%) SAN
11 2 (0.25%) Unified Communications
11 2 (0.25%) WireGuard
12 1 (0.13%) iSCSI
12 1 (0.13%) MQTT
12 1 (0.13%) Remote Desktop
Database & Business Intelligence
1 164 (20.68%) MongoDB
2 139 (17.53%) Azure SQL Database
3 90 (11.35%) PostgreSQL
4 43 (5.42%) Elasticsearch
5 40 (5.04%) NoSQL
6 32 (4.04%) Amazon RDS
7 30 (3.78%) SQL Server
8 25 (3.15%) MySQL
8 25 (3.15%) Relational Database
9 11 (1.39%) Data Warehouse
10 7 (0.88%) BigQuery
10 7 (0.88%) Redis
11 6 (0.76%) Delta Lake
11 6 (0.76%) DynamoDB
11 6 (0.76%) Power BI
12 5 (0.63%) Metadata
12 5 (0.63%) Tableau
13 4 (0.50%) Apache Cassandra
13 4 (0.50%) Big Data
13 4 (0.50%) GIS
Development Applications
1 88 (11.10%) Git
2 87 (10.97%) TeamCity
3 58 (7.31%) Jenkins
4 45 (5.67%) GitLab
5 29 (3.66%) JUnit
6 20 (2.52%) JIRA
7 18 (2.27%) Maven
7 18 (2.27%) Mockito
8 16 (2.02%) Selenium
9 12 (1.51%) Postman
10 10 (1.26%) Atlassian Bamboo
10 10 (1.26%) Bitbucket
11 9 (1.13%) SonarQube
12 8 (1.01%) Cucumber
13 6 (0.76%) Gatling
13 6 (0.76%) Octopus Deploy
14 5 (0.63%) Subversion
14 5 (0.63%) Visual Studio Code
15 4 (0.50%) Cypress.io
15 4 (0.50%) Vagrant
General
1 200 (25.22%) Finance
2 148 (18.66%) Social Skills
3 118 (14.88%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 115 (14.50%) Retail
5 110 (13.87%) Law
6 109 (13.75%) Banking
7 77 (9.71%) Public Sector
8 66 (8.32%) Financial Institution
9 64 (8.07%) Back Office
10 33 (4.16%) Advertising
11 31 (3.91%) Analytical Skills
12 20 (2.52%) Aerospace
13 19 (2.40%) Marketing
14 11 (1.39%) Games
15 9 (1.13%) Legal
16 6 (0.76%) Telecoms
17 4 (0.50%) Front Office
18 3 (0.38%) Aviation
18 3 (0.38%) Manufacturing
18 3 (0.38%) Military
Job Titles
1 222 (27.99%) Senior
2 219 (27.62%) Developer
3 148 (18.66%) Software Engineer
4 130 (16.39%) .NET Developer
5 78 (9.84%) DevOps Engineer
6 68 (8.58%) Lead
7 54 (6.81%) Cloud Engineer
8 51 (6.43%) Architect
9 43 (5.42%) Platform Engineer
10 42 (5.30%) Senior Developer
11 39 (4.92%) Azure Engineer
12 37 (4.67%) Senior Software Engineer
13 33 (4.16%) Java Engineer
14 32 (4.04%) Java Developer
15 27 (3.40%) Lead Software Engineer
15 27 (3.40%) Senior DevOps
16 26 (3.28%) Team Leader
17 25 (3.15%) Cloud Platform Engineer
17 25 (3.15%) Full-Stack Developer
18 23 (2.90%) Senior DevOps Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 312 (39.34%) Terraform
2 200 (25.22%) .NET
3 136 (17.15%) .NET Core
3 136 (17.15%) ASP.NET
4 132 (16.65%) ASP.NET Core
5 97 (12.23%) Node.js
6 94 (11.85%) React
7 82 (10.34%) AngularJS
8 80 (10.09%) CSS
9 79 (9.96%) HTML
10 75 (9.46%) Spring
11 70 (8.83%) ML.NET
12 67 (8.45%) Vue
13 61 (7.69%) REST
14 55 (6.94%) RESTful
15 54 (6.81%) Kafka
16 49 (6.18%) Spring Boot
17 28 (3.53%) OpenTelemetry
18 27 (3.40%) Blazor
19 21 (2.65%) Django
Miscellaneous
1 230 (29.00%) Cloud Native
2 71 (8.95%) Distributed Systems
3 61 (7.69%) Product Ownership
4 37 (4.67%) Blog
5 27 (3.40%) Greenfield Project
6 19 (2.40%) AI Agents
6 19 (2.40%) Digital TV
7 14 (1.77%) Data Centre
7 14 (1.77%) Legacy Systems
8 13 (1.64%) Security Posture
9 12 (1.51%) Management Information System
9 12 (1.51%) Self-Motivation
10 11 (1.39%) Enterprise Software
10 11 (1.39%) Hybrid Cloud
10 11 (1.39%) Public Cloud
11 10 (1.26%) Replication
12 9 (1.13%) IoT
12 9 (1.13%) PKI
12 9 (1.13%) Private Cloud
13 8 (1.01%) Mobile App
Operating Systems
1 131 (16.52%) Linux
2 42 (5.30%) Windows
3 17 (2.14%) Windows Server
4 16 (2.02%) Ubuntu
5 11 (1.39%) Apple iOS
6 8 (1.01%) Android
7 5 (0.63%) Mac OS
8 4 (0.50%) Debian
8 4 (0.50%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
9 3 (0.38%) CentOS
10 1 (0.13%) Unix
10 1 (0.13%) VMS
10 1 (0.13%) Windows Server 2016
Processes & Methodologies
1 526 (66.33%) CI/CD
2 306 (38.59%) DevOps
3 288 (36.32%) Agile
4 274 (34.55%) Microservices
5 231 (29.13%) Software Engineering
6 224 (28.25%) AI
7 221 (27.87%) Mentoring
8 217 (27.36%) Infrastructure as Code
9 206 (25.98%) Full-Stack Development
10 191 (24.09%) Containerisation
11 153 (19.29%) Test Automation
12 143 (18.03%) Continuous Improvement
13 141 (17.78%) Observability
14 130 (16.39%) Problem-Solving
15 124 (15.64%) Machine Learning
16 117 (14.75%) Clean Code
17 109 (13.75%) TDD
18 106 (13.37%) Fintech
19 103 (12.99%) Platform Engineering
20 95 (11.98%) Deployment Automation
Programming Languages
1 246 (31.02%) Python
2 237 (29.89%) SQL
3 229 (28.88%) Java
4 206 (25.98%) C#
5 123 (15.51%) TypeScript
6 102 (12.86%) JavaScript
7 95 (11.98%) Bash
8 73 (9.21%) PowerShell
9 58 (7.31%) Go
10 22 (2.77%) Bicep
11 15 (1.89%) PL/SQL
11 15 (1.89%) Scala
12 9 (1.13%) Kotlin
13 8 (1.01%) PHP
13 8 (1.01%) Ruby
14 7 (0.88%) Groovy
15 6 (0.76%) Shell Script
16 5 (0.63%) C
17 4 (0.50%) C++
17 4 (0.50%) Rust
Qualifications
1 128 (16.14%) Security Cleared
2 105 (13.24%) SC Cleared
3 51 (6.43%) Degree
4 36 (4.54%) Azure Certification
5 23 (2.90%) Computer Science Degree
6 21 (2.65%) AWS Certification
7 13 (1.64%) DV Cleared
8 9 (1.13%) CISSP
9 8 (1.01%) BPSS Clearance
9 8 (1.01%) CISM
9 8 (1.01%) GIAC
10 5 (0.63%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
10 5 (0.63%) CEH
10 5 (0.63%) CREST Certified
10 5 (0.63%) OSCP
11 4 (0.50%) Microsoft Certification
11 4 (0.50%) OCP
11 4 (0.50%) Oracle Certification
12 3 (0.38%) Cisco Certification
12 3 (0.38%) GCFA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 29 (3.66%) QA
2 22 (2.77%) Accessibility
2 22 (2.77%) NIST
3 16 (2.02%) PCI DSS
4 14 (1.77%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 8 (1.01%) Data Quality
5 8 (1.01%) WCAG
6 7 (0.88%) SOC 2
7 6 (0.76%) Cyber Essentials
8 4 (0.50%) GDPR
8 4 (0.50%) NCSC
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
1 487 (61.41%) Docker
2 21 (2.65%) Active Directory
3 17 (2.14%) Virtual Machines
4 15 (1.89%) VMware Infrastructure
5 3 (0.38%) iptables
6 1 (0.13%) Citrix Hypervisor
6 1 (0.13%) HDFS
6 1 (0.13%) Hyper-V
6 1 (0.13%) KVM
6 1 (0.13%) QEMU
6 1 (0.13%) Slurm Workload Manager
6 1 (0.13%) Virtual Servers
6 1 (0.13%) Xen
Systems Management
1 144 (18.16%) Grafana
2 83 (10.47%) Ansible
3 61 (7.69%) Prometheus
4 28 (3.53%) Argo
5 18 (2.27%) Istio
6 17 (2.14%) Puppet
7 15 (1.89%) Progress Chef
8 8 (1.01%) Kustomize
9 7 (0.88%) Packer
10 6 (0.76%) FortiGate
10 6 (0.76%) Microsoft Intune
11 5 (0.63%) Cilium
11 5 (0.63%) Single Sign-On
12 4 (0.50%) Active Directory Federation Services
12 4 (0.50%) linkerd
13 3 (0.38%) Proxmox
14 2 (0.25%) CASB
14 2 (0.25%) Kibana
14 2 (0.25%) Microsoft Data Protection Manager
14 2 (0.25%) WSUS
Vendors
1 206 (25.98%) Microsoft
2 56 (7.06%) Google
3 32 (4.04%) Oracle
4 29 (3.66%) Splunk
5 26 (3.28%) OpenAI
6 21 (2.65%) Red Hat
7 20 (2.52%) VMware
8 19 (2.40%) Facebook
9 18 (2.27%) Okta
10 15 (1.89%) Ping Identity
11 12 (1.51%) Databricks
12 10 (1.26%) Dynatrace
13 9 (1.13%) New Relic
14 8 (1.01%) Palo Alto
14 8 (1.01%) ServiceNow
15 6 (0.76%) Citrix
15 6 (0.76%) Fortinet
15 6 (0.76%) Zscaler
16 5 (0.63%) HubSpot
16 5 (0.63%) Qualys