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

6 months to
9 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 79 48 65
Rank change year-on-year -31 +17 -38
Permanent jobs citing Kubernetes 612 935 1,364
As % of all permanent jobs with remote/hybrid work options 3.14% 6.19% 4.01%
As % of the Systems Management category 38.54% 45.57% 36.93%
Number of salaries quoted 382 498 1,135
10th Percentile £47,930 £50,000 £50,000
25th Percentile £55,875 £60,000 £60,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £67,500 £80,000 £75,000
Median % change year-on-year -15.63% +6.67% -
75th Percentile £83,891 £109,688 £93,750
90th Percentile £103,750 £138,750 £115,750
UK median annual salary £72,500 £80,000 £77,500
% change year-on-year -9.38% +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 1,588 2,052 3,693
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 8.16% 13.59% 10.84%
Number of salaries quoted 1,095 1,193 2,841
10th Percentile £36,250 £36,250 £36,500
25th Percentile £46,446 £49,118 £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 £61,625
% change year-on-year -3.70% +9.53% -8.70%

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 9 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 9 (1.47%) OpenStack
2 7 (1.14%) Apache Airflow
3 6 (0.98%) Apache Spark
4 3 (0.49%) ArcGIS
4 3 (0.49%) GeoServer
4 3 (0.49%) Oracle Spatial
5 2 (0.33%) Apache
5 2 (0.33%) Camunda
5 2 (0.33%) Confluence
5 2 (0.33%) Microsoft Exchange
5 2 (0.33%) Oracle SOA Suite
6 1 (0.16%) Apache Pulsar
6 1 (0.16%) Cloud Foundry
6 1 (0.16%) IIS
6 1 (0.16%) JBoss
6 1 (0.16%) Red Hat Fuse
6 1 (0.16%) SAS
Applications
1 4 (0.65%) Weka
2 1 (0.16%) Chatbot
2 1 (0.16%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 2 (0.33%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 364 (59.48%) AWS
2 275 (44.93%) Azure
3 159 (25.98%) GCP
4 115 (18.79%) GitHub
5 108 (17.65%) Amazon EKS
6 74 (12.09%) SaaS
7 66 (10.78%) Serverless
8 55 (8.99%) GitHub Copilot
9 48 (7.84%) GitHub Actions
10 44 (7.19%) AWS CloudFormation
11 41 (6.70%) Azure AKS
12 35 (5.72%) Amazon EC2
12 35 (5.72%) Amazon S3
13 34 (5.56%) Azure DevOps
14 31 (5.07%) Azure AI
15 30 (4.90%) OpenShift
16 27 (4.41%) Amazon ECS
16 27 (4.41%) AWS Lambda
17 25 (4.08%) Amazon CloudWatch
18 24 (3.92%) Pulumi
Communications & Networking
1 52 (8.50%) Broadband
2 29 (4.74%) Firewall
3 22 (3.59%) DNS
4 19 (3.10%) VPN
5 12 (1.96%) TCP/IP
6 9 (1.47%) DHCP
7 8 (1.31%) Network Security
8 7 (1.14%) Internet
9 6 (0.98%) VLAN
10 5 (0.82%) BGP
11 4 (0.65%) MQTT
11 4 (0.65%) OSPF
11 4 (0.65%) VXLAN
11 4 (0.65%) WAN
12 3 (0.49%) HTTP
12 3 (0.49%) RTP
12 3 (0.49%) SAN
12 3 (0.49%) SCCP
12 3 (0.49%) VoIP
12 3 (0.49%) Wireshark
Database & Business Intelligence
1 79 (12.91%) MongoDB
2 68 (11.11%) PostgreSQL
3 50 (8.17%) Azure SQL Database
4 49 (8.01%) NoSQL
5 42 (6.86%) Relational Database
6 26 (4.25%) Amazon RDS
6 26 (4.25%) SQL Server
7 22 (3.59%) MySQL
8 21 (3.43%) Elasticsearch
9 18 (2.94%) RDBMS
10 9 (1.47%) BigQuery
11 7 (1.14%) Redis
12 6 (0.98%) DynamoDB
13 4 (0.65%) Amazon Aurora
14 3 (0.49%) GIS
14 3 (0.49%) QGIS
15 2 (0.33%) Amazon Athena
15 2 (0.33%) Apache Cassandra
15 2 (0.33%) MariaDB
15 2 (0.33%) Neo4j
Development Applications
1 78 (12.75%) TeamCity
2 75 (12.25%) Git
3 67 (10.95%) Jenkins
4 56 (9.15%) GitLab
5 18 (2.94%) Jaeger
6 14 (2.29%) JUnit
7 12 (1.96%) Maven
7 12 (1.96%) Visual Studio Code
8 10 (1.63%) JIRA
9 9 (1.47%) Mockito
10 8 (1.31%) Cucumber
11 7 (1.14%) JMeter
12 6 (0.98%) Bitbucket
12 6 (0.98%) Selenium
12 6 (0.98%) Visual Studio
13 5 (0.82%) Atlassian Bamboo
13 5 (0.82%) Locust
13 5 (0.82%) Postman
14 4 (0.65%) CircleCI
14 4 (0.65%) SonarQube
General
1 140 (22.88%) Finance
2 120 (19.61%) Social Skills
3 100 (16.34%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 88 (14.38%) Retail
5 85 (13.89%) Banking
6 82 (13.40%) Law
7 42 (6.86%) Financial Institution
8 39 (6.37%) Public Sector
9 37 (6.05%) Back Office
10 16 (2.61%) Advertising
10 16 (2.61%) Analytical Skills
11 9 (1.47%) Organisational Skills
12 8 (1.31%) Aerospace
13 6 (0.98%) Aviation
13 6 (0.98%) Games
13 6 (0.98%) Legal
13 6 (0.98%) Marketing
13 6 (0.98%) Telecoms
14 5 (0.82%) Front Office
14 5 (0.82%) Military
Job Titles
1 183 (29.90%) Senior
2 131 (21.41%) Developer
3 112 (18.30%) Software Engineer
4 107 (17.48%) Lead
5 73 (11.93%) DevOps Engineer
6 58 (9.48%) Cloud Engineer
7 50 (8.17%) .NET Developer
8 48 (7.84%) Platform Engineer
9 39 (6.37%) Azure Engineer
10 37 (6.05%) Senior Developer
10 37 (6.05%) Senior Software Engineer
11 31 (5.07%) AWS Engineer
11 31 (5.07%) Java Developer
11 31 (5.07%) Java Engineer
11 31 (5.07%) Senior DevOps
12 29 (4.74%) Cloud Platform Engineer
12 29 (4.74%) Team Leader
13 28 (4.58%) Lead Software Engineer
14 25 (4.08%) Python Engineer
15 23 (3.76%) Java Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 101 (16.50%) .NET
2 70 (11.44%) React
3 66 (10.78%) .NET Core
4 65 (10.62%) Spring
5 57 (9.31%) Kafka
6 54 (8.82%) ASP.NET
7 52 (8.50%) ASP.NET Core
8 51 (8.33%) REST
9 50 (8.17%) Node.js
10 45 (7.35%) Spring Boot
11 40 (6.54%) AngularJS
12 36 (5.88%) RESTful
13 32 (5.23%) CSS
13 32 (5.23%) HTML
14 31 (5.07%) Vue
15 28 (4.58%) ML.NET
16 27 (4.41%) Elastic Stack
17 26 (4.25%) Django
17 26 (4.25%) OpenTelemetry
18 23 (3.76%) Akka
Miscellaneous
1 186 (30.39%) Cloud Native
2 49 (8.01%) Distributed Systems
3 47 (7.68%) Product Ownership
4 24 (3.92%) Blog
5 22 (3.59%) Over-the-Top Content
5 22 (3.59%) Video\Live Streaming
6 19 (3.10%) Hybrid Cloud
7 18 (2.94%) Private Cloud
8 17 (2.78%) Data Centre
9 13 (2.12%) Public Cloud
10 11 (1.80%) Greenfield Project
11 10 (1.63%) Onboarding
11 10 (1.63%) Security Posture
12 9 (1.47%) Digital TV
12 9 (1.47%) Management Information System
13 7 (1.14%) AI Agents
13 7 (1.14%) Self-Motivation
14 6 (0.98%) Algorithms
14 6 (0.98%) CMDB
14 6 (0.98%) Legacy Systems
Operating Systems
1 133 (21.73%) Linux
2 33 (5.39%) Windows
3 19 (3.10%) Windows Server
4 18 (2.94%) Unix
5 15 (2.45%) Android
6 14 (2.29%) Ubuntu
7 13 (2.12%) Apple iOS
8 11 (1.80%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
9 7 (1.14%) CentOS
10 5 (0.82%) Debian
11 4 (0.65%) Windows Server 2016
12 3 (0.49%) VMS
13 2 (0.33%) Mac OS
Processes & Methodologies
1 396 (64.71%) CI/CD
2 307 (50.16%) DevOps
3 247 (40.36%) Agile
4 228 (37.25%) Infrastructure as Code
5 200 (32.68%) Containerisation
6 194 (31.70%) Microservices
7 168 (27.45%) Software Engineering
8 161 (26.31%) Mentoring
9 127 (20.75%) Test Automation
10 126 (20.59%) Continuous Improvement
11 120 (19.61%) AI
12 106 (17.32%) Observability
12 106 (17.32%) Platform Engineering
13 102 (16.67%) Full-Stack Development
14 99 (16.18%) Clean Code
15 92 (15.03%) TDD
16 82 (13.40%) Scrum
17 81 (13.24%) Deployment Automation
18 76 (12.42%) Problem-Solving
19 72 (11.76%) Analytics
Programming Languages
1 228 (37.25%) Python
2 187 (30.56%) Java
3 122 (19.93%) SQL
4 107 (17.48%) C#
5 89 (14.54%) JavaScript
6 82 (13.40%) Bash
7 78 (12.75%) TypeScript
8 74 (12.09%) Go
9 53 (8.66%) PowerShell
10 31 (5.07%) Scala
11 17 (2.78%) Bicep
12 10 (1.63%) PHP
12 10 (1.63%) PL/SQL
13 9 (1.47%) C++
14 7 (1.14%) C
14 7 (1.14%) Rust
15 5 (0.82%) Groovy
16 4 (0.65%) Ruby
17 3 (0.49%) Perl
17 3 (0.49%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 87 (14.22%) Security Cleared
2 73 (11.93%) SC Cleared
3 53 (8.66%) Degree
4 45 (7.35%) Azure Certification
5 38 (6.21%) AWS Certification
6 24 (3.92%) Computer Science Degree
7 13 (2.12%) DV Cleared
8 9 (1.47%) CREST Certified
8 9 (1.47%) OSCP
9 7 (1.14%) CISSP
9 7 (1.14%) Microsoft Certification
10 6 (0.98%) GIAC
10 6 (0.98%) ISACA
11 5 (0.82%) SANS
12 2 (0.33%) ISTQB
12 2 (0.33%) ISTQB Advanced Certification
12 2 (0.33%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
12 2 (0.33%) Linux+ Certification
12 2 (0.33%) LPIC
12 2 (0.33%) Master's Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 36 (5.88%) QA
2 19 (3.10%) Accessibility
3 15 (2.45%) NIST
4 14 (2.29%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 10 (1.63%) PCI DSS
6 7 (1.14%) WCAG
7 5 (0.82%) Data Quality
8 4 (0.65%) GDPR
8 4 (0.65%) SOC 2
9 3 (0.49%) ISO 9001
10 2 (0.33%) Software Quality Assurance
11 1 (0.16%) Cyber Essentials
11 1 (0.16%) ISO/IEC 42001
11 1 (0.16%) SLA
System Software
1 365 (59.64%) Docker
2 30 (4.90%) Active Directory
3 19 (3.10%) VMware Infrastructure
4 14 (2.29%) Virtual Machines
5 5 (0.82%) VMware NSX
6 4 (0.65%) Firmware
6 4 (0.65%) Slurm Workload Manager
7 3 (0.49%) Citrix Hypervisor
7 3 (0.49%) Kamailio
8 1 (0.16%) Hyper-V
8 1 (0.16%) iptables
8 1 (0.16%) KVM
8 1 (0.16%) QEMU
8 1 (0.16%) Virtual Servers
8 1 (0.16%) vSphere
8 1 (0.16%) Xen
Systems Management
1 303 (49.51%) Terraform
2 120 (19.61%) Grafana
3 113 (18.46%) Ansible
4 78 (12.75%) Prometheus
5 48 (7.84%) Argo
6 24 (3.92%) Kustomize
7 18 (2.94%) Istio
7 18 (2.94%) Puppet
8 14 (2.29%) Progress Chef
9 8 (1.31%) Packer
10 7 (1.14%) Active Directory Federation Services
10 7 (1.14%) Proxmox
10 7 (1.14%) ZABBIX
11 6 (0.98%) Microsoft Intune
12 5 (0.82%) Kibana
13 4 (0.65%) FortiGate
14 3 (0.49%) Nagios
15 2 (0.33%) MIIS
15 2 (0.33%) Podman
16 1 (0.16%) Cilium
Vendors
1 118 (19.28%) Microsoft
2 40 (6.54%) Google
3 34 (5.56%) VMware
4 20 (3.27%) Red Hat
5 18 (2.94%) Oracle
6 12 (1.96%) Splunk
7 10 (1.63%) Palo Alto
7 10 (1.63%) ServiceNow
8 9 (1.47%) Okta
9 8 (1.31%) Cisco
9 8 (1.31%) Confluent
9 8 (1.31%) Fortinet
10 7 (1.14%) EMC
10 7 (1.14%) OpenAI
11 6 (0.98%) Citrix
11 6 (0.98%) Databricks
11 6 (0.98%) F5
11 6 (0.98%) Facebook
12 5 (0.82%) ForgeRock
12 5 (0.82%) HubSpot