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

6 months to
25 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 76 58 70
Rank change year-on-year -18 +12 -43
Permanent jobs citing Kubernetes 720 865 1,029
As % of all permanent jobs with remote/hybrid work options 3.31% 5.26% 3.71%
As % of the Systems Management category 39.28% 43.31% 34.33%
Number of salaries quoted 535 432 828
10th Percentile £45,000 £50,000 £52,500
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 £82,500 £96,250 £95,000
90th Percentile £99,000 £127,500 £115,000
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 1,833 1,997 2,997
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 8.43% 12.14% 10.81%
Number of salaries quoted 1,358 1,142 2,192
10th Percentile £36,925 £35,000 £36,775
25th Percentile £47,500 £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 £95,000 £102,500 £102,500
UK median annual salary £63,373 £65,000 £62,500
% change year-on-year -2.50% +4.00% -6.81%

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 25 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 (1.25%) Apache Spark
2 7 (0.97%) Apache Airflow
3 6 (0.83%) IIS
3 6 (0.83%) OpenStack
4 5 (0.69%) nginx
5 4 (0.56%) Oracle SOA Suite
6 3 (0.42%) Confluence
7 2 (0.28%) ArcGIS
7 2 (0.28%) Camunda
7 2 (0.28%) GeoServer
7 2 (0.28%) Microsoft Exchange
7 2 (0.28%) Oracle Spatial
8 1 (0.14%) Apache
8 1 (0.14%) Cloud Foundry
8 1 (0.14%) JBoss
8 1 (0.14%) Oracle Coherence
8 1 (0.14%) Red Hat Fuse
Applications
1 1 (0.14%) Lightworks
Business Applications
1 2 (0.28%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 408 (56.67%) Azure
2 395 (54.86%) AWS
3 205 (28.47%) GitHub
4 181 (25.14%) GCP
5 140 (19.44%) GitHub Copilot
6 89 (12.36%) Amazon EKS
7 74 (10.28%) Azure AI
7 74 (10.28%) SaaS
8 66 (9.17%) Serverless
9 51 (7.08%) GitHub Actions
10 45 (6.25%) Azure DevOps
11 44 (6.11%) Azure AKS
12 43 (5.97%) AWS CloudFormation
13 34 (4.72%) Amazon EC2
13 34 (4.72%) OpenShift
14 29 (4.03%) Amazon S3
15 24 (3.33%) AWS Lambda
15 24 (3.33%) PaaS
16 23 (3.19%) Amazon ECS
17 21 (2.92%) Azure Service Bus
Communications & Networking
1 28 (3.89%) Firewall
2 24 (3.33%) DNS
3 23 (3.19%) VPN
4 20 (2.78%) Internet
5 17 (2.36%) Broadband
6 15 (2.08%) TCP/IP
7 8 (1.11%) DHCP
7 8 (1.11%) VLAN
8 7 (0.97%) BGP
8 7 (0.97%) Network Security
9 6 (0.83%) OSPF
9 6 (0.83%) VXLAN
10 5 (0.69%) MQTT
11 4 (0.56%) HTTP
11 4 (0.56%) WAN
12 3 (0.42%) SAN
13 2 (0.28%) LAN
13 2 (0.28%) RTP
13 2 (0.28%) SSL
13 2 (0.28%) VoIP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 159 (22.08%) MongoDB
2 138 (19.17%) Azure SQL Database
3 69 (9.58%) PostgreSQL
4 50 (6.94%) Elasticsearch
5 29 (4.03%) MySQL
5 29 (4.03%) NoSQL
6 26 (3.61%) SQL Server
7 25 (3.47%) Relational Database
8 23 (3.19%) Amazon RDS
9 8 (1.11%) Data Warehouse
10 6 (0.83%) Delta Lake
10 6 (0.83%) DynamoDB
10 6 (0.83%) Redis
11 4 (0.56%) Metadata
12 3 (0.42%) Apache Cassandra
12 3 (0.42%) BigQuery
12 3 (0.42%) Power BI
12 3 (0.42%) Spark SQL
12 3 (0.42%) Tableau
13 2 (0.28%) Big Data
Development Applications
1 98 (13.61%) Git
2 54 (7.50%) GitLab
3 53 (7.36%) Jenkins
4 50 (6.94%) TeamCity
5 22 (3.06%) JUnit
6 15 (2.08%) Maven
7 13 (1.81%) JIRA
7 13 (1.81%) Selenium
8 12 (1.67%) Mockito
8 12 (1.67%) Visual Studio Code
9 11 (1.53%) Cucumber
10 10 (1.39%) Postman
11 8 (1.11%) Atlassian Bamboo
11 8 (1.11%) Bitbucket
12 6 (0.83%) Octopus Deploy
12 6 (0.83%) SonarQube
13 5 (0.69%) Gatling
13 5 (0.69%) JMeter
13 5 (0.69%) Locust
13 5 (0.69%) Subversion
General
1 167 (23.19%) Finance
2 127 (17.64%) Social Skills
3 73 (10.14%) Banking
4 72 (10.00%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 72 (10.00%) Retail
5 67 (9.31%) Law
6 53 (7.36%) Public Sector
7 41 (5.69%) Financial Institution
8 39 (5.42%) Back Office
9 37 (5.14%) Advertising
10 23 (3.19%) Analytical Skills
11 20 (2.78%) Marketing
12 17 (2.36%) Aerospace
13 13 (1.81%) Games
14 8 (1.11%) Legal
14 8 (1.11%) Organisational Skills
15 6 (0.83%) Telecoms
16 5 (0.69%) Military
17 4 (0.56%) Manufacturing
18 3 (0.42%) Front Office
Job Titles
1 214 (29.72%) Developer
2 194 (26.94%) Senior
3 132 (18.33%) .NET Developer
4 116 (16.11%) Software Engineer
5 84 (11.67%) Lead
6 77 (10.69%) DevOps Engineer
7 57 (7.92%) Cloud Engineer
8 47 (6.53%) Platform Engineer
9 45 (6.25%) Azure Engineer
10 40 (5.56%) Senior Developer
11 39 (5.42%) Architect
12 34 (4.72%) Senior Software Engineer
13 32 (4.44%) Java Developer
14 30 (4.17%) Lead Software Engineer
14 30 (4.17%) Senior DevOps
15 29 (4.03%) AWS Engineer
16 27 (3.75%) Cloud Platform Engineer
17 26 (3.61%) Java Engineer
18 24 (3.33%) Python Engineer
19 23 (3.19%) Senior DevOps Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 196 (27.22%) .NET
2 140 (19.44%) .NET Core
2 140 (19.44%) ASP.NET
3 134 (18.61%) ASP.NET Core
4 83 (11.53%) AngularJS
5 80 (11.11%) CSS
5 80 (11.11%) HTML
6 77 (10.69%) Node.js
7 75 (10.42%) React
8 73 (10.14%) ML.NET
9 70 (9.72%) Vue
10 67 (9.31%) Spring
11 58 (8.06%) Kafka
11 58 (8.06%) REST
12 49 (6.81%) Spring Boot
13 48 (6.67%) RESTful
14 25 (3.47%) Blazor
15 24 (3.33%) OAuth
16 23 (3.19%) Django
17 22 (3.06%) .NET Framework
Miscellaneous
1 196 (27.22%) Cloud Native
2 58 (8.06%) Distributed Systems
3 45 (6.25%) Product Ownership
4 24 (3.33%) Greenfield Project
5 20 (2.78%) Digital TV
6 19 (2.64%) Hybrid Cloud
7 18 (2.50%) Data Centre
8 16 (2.22%) Private Cloud
9 15 (2.08%) Blog
10 13 (1.81%) Public Cloud
11 12 (1.67%) Legacy Systems
12 11 (1.53%) Management Information System
13 10 (1.39%) AI Agents
14 8 (1.11%) IoT
14 8 (1.11%) Self-Motivation
15 7 (0.97%) Onboarding
15 7 (0.97%) PKI
15 7 (0.97%) Virtual Team
16 6 (0.83%) CMDB
16 6 (0.83%) Replication
Operating Systems
1 131 (18.19%) Linux
2 41 (5.69%) Windows
3 21 (2.92%) Windows Server
4 16 (2.22%) Ubuntu
5 9 (1.25%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 6 (0.83%) Debian
7 5 (0.69%) Android
7 5 (0.69%) Apple iOS
7 5 (0.69%) CentOS
8 3 (0.42%) VMS
8 3 (0.42%) Windows Server 2016
9 2 (0.28%) Mac OS
Processes & Methodologies
1 486 (67.50%) CI/CD
2 302 (41.94%) DevOps
3 267 (37.08%) Agile
4 241 (33.47%) Microservices
5 224 (31.11%) Infrastructure as Code
6 206 (28.61%) Containerisation
7 192 (26.67%) Full-Stack Development
8 191 (26.53%) AI
9 186 (25.83%) Software Engineering
10 173 (24.03%) Mentoring
11 131 (18.19%) Continuous Improvement
12 125 (17.36%) Test Automation
13 122 (16.94%) Observability
14 110 (15.28%) Platform Engineering
15 108 (15.00%) Machine Learning
16 107 (14.86%) TDD
17 103 (14.31%) Problem-Solving
18 97 (13.47%) Clean Code
19 85 (11.81%) Scrum
20 80 (11.11%) Deployment Automation
Programming Languages
1 232 (32.22%) Python
2 212 (29.44%) SQL
3 207 (28.75%) C#
4 165 (22.92%) Java
5 113 (15.69%) TypeScript
6 77 (10.69%) JavaScript
7 72 (10.00%) Bash
8 69 (9.58%) PowerShell
9 47 (6.53%) Go
10 23 (3.19%) Bicep
11 13 (1.81%) Scala
12 12 (1.67%) PL/SQL
13 11 (1.53%) PHP
14 8 (1.11%) Ruby
15 7 (0.97%) Groovy
15 7 (0.97%) Rust
16 6 (0.83%) C++
17 5 (0.69%) C
17 5 (0.69%) Kotlin
18 3 (0.42%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 101 (14.03%) Security Cleared
2 83 (11.53%) SC Cleared
3 60 (8.33%) Degree
4 43 (5.97%) Azure Certification
5 27 (3.75%) Computer Science Degree
6 18 (2.50%) AWS Certification
7 13 (1.81%) DV Cleared
8 9 (1.25%) CISSP
9 7 (0.97%) GIAC
10 5 (0.69%) CREST Certified
10 5 (0.69%) ISACA
10 5 (0.69%) OSCP
11 4 (0.56%) CISM
11 4 (0.56%) Microsoft Certification
11 4 (0.56%) SANS
12 3 (0.42%) BPSS Clearance
12 3 (0.42%) CEH
13 2 (0.28%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
13 2 (0.28%) Master's Degree
13 2 (0.28%) OCP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 43 (5.97%) QA
2 25 (3.47%) Accessibility
3 18 (2.50%) NIST
4 12 (1.67%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 12 (1.67%) WCAG
5 9 (1.25%) PCI DSS
6 5 (0.69%) Data Quality
7 4 (0.56%) 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%) NCSC
9 1 (0.14%) PSD2
9 1 (0.14%) SEPA
9 1 (0.14%) SLA
System Software
1 461 (64.03%) Docker
2 29 (4.03%) Active Directory
3 19 (2.64%) VMware Infrastructure
4 18 (2.50%) Virtual Machines
5 4 (0.56%) Firmware
5 4 (0.56%) Slurm Workload Manager
6 3 (0.42%) Citrix Hypervisor
6 3 (0.42%) iptables
7 2 (0.28%) Kamailio
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
1 282 (39.17%) Terraform
2 111 (15.42%) Grafana
3 91 (12.64%) Ansible
4 58 (8.06%) Prometheus
5 28 (3.89%) Argo
6 22 (3.06%) Istio
7 20 (2.78%) Puppet
8 14 (1.94%) Progress Chef
9 8 (1.11%) Packer
10 7 (0.97%) Active Directory Federation Services
11 6 (0.83%) FortiGate
11 6 (0.83%) Kustomize
11 6 (0.83%) Microsoft Intune
12 5 (0.69%) Kibana
12 5 (0.69%) Proxmox
13 4 (0.56%) linkerd
14 3 (0.42%) Nagios
14 3 (0.42%) ZABBIX
15 2 (0.28%) CASB
15 2 (0.28%) MIIS
Vendors
1 209 (29.03%) Microsoft
2 35 (4.86%) Google
3 28 (3.89%) VMware
4 24 (3.33%) Oracle
5 20 (2.78%) Facebook
5 20 (2.78%) Okta
6 18 (2.50%) Red Hat
7 16 (2.22%) Splunk
8 12 (1.67%) Palo Alto
8 12 (1.67%) Ping Identity
8 12 (1.67%) ServiceNow
9 10 (1.39%) Databricks
10 9 (1.25%) Fortinet
11 8 (1.11%) Cisco
11 8 (1.11%) Confluent
11 8 (1.11%) ForgeRock
11 8 (1.11%) OpenAI
12 7 (0.97%) Dynatrace
12 7 (0.97%) EMC
13 6 (0.83%) Citrix