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 13 November 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
13 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 93 44 32
Rank change year-on-year -49 -12 -5
Permanent jobs citing Kubernetes 470 1,106 1,625
As % of all permanent jobs with remote/hybrid work options 3.00% 5.59% 7.52%
As % of the Systems Management category 35.63% 45.63% 46.26%
Number of salaries quoted 370 554 1,375
10th Percentile £51,125 £52,500 £48,750
25th Percentile £58,750 £61,250 £60,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £75,000 £75,000 £73,500
Median % change year-on-year - +2.04% -2.00%
75th Percentile £87,500 £93,750 £87,500
90th Percentile £110,000 £110,000 £100,750
UK median annual salary £75,000 £77,500 £75,000
% change year-on-year -3.23% +3.33% -3.23%

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 1,319 2,424 3,513
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 8.41% 12.26% 16.25%
Number of salaries quoted 997 1,399 3,025
10th Percentile £36,250 £40,000 £41,250
25th Percentile £47,500 £50,000 £51,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £67,500 £67,500
Median % change year-on-year -3.70% - -2.80%
75th Percentile £83,750 £85,000 £85,000
90th Percentile £100,000 £102,500 £97,500
UK median annual salary £60,875 £67,500 £65,000
% change year-on-year -9.81% +3.85% -3.70%

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 13 November 2025.

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 12 (2.55%) IIS
2 9 (1.91%) Apache Spark
3 7 (1.49%) Apache
4 6 (1.28%) Apache Airflow
4 6 (1.28%) nginx
5 5 (1.06%) Anypoint
6 4 (0.85%) Confluence
6 4 (0.85%) Microsoft Exchange
7 2 (0.43%) Apache Pulsar
7 2 (0.43%) ArcGIS
7 2 (0.43%) BizTalk Server
7 2 (0.43%) GeoServer
7 2 (0.43%) Oracle Spatial
8 1 (0.21%) Apache Solr
8 1 (0.21%) OpenStack
8 1 (0.21%) SharePoint
8 1 (0.21%) Tomcat
Business Applications
1 5 (1.06%) Shopify
2 1 (0.21%) Dynamics CRM
2 1 (0.21%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 287 (61.06%) AWS
2 255 (54.26%) Azure
3 123 (26.17%) GCP
4 111 (23.62%) GitHub
5 74 (15.74%) Azure DevOps
6 71 (15.11%) GitHub Actions
7 53 (11.28%) Amazon EKS
8 52 (11.06%) SaaS
9 45 (9.57%) Serverless
10 43 (9.15%) Azure AKS
11 42 (8.94%) Amazon CloudWatch
12 40 (8.51%) AWS CloudFormation
13 34 (7.23%) AWS Lambda
14 31 (6.60%) Amazon ECS
15 25 (5.32%) OpenShift
16 24 (5.11%) Amazon S3
17 19 (4.04%) Azure Monitor
18 17 (3.62%) Datadog
19 16 (3.40%) Azure Cosmos DB
20 14 (2.98%) Entra ID
Communications & Networking
1 35 (7.45%) Firewall
2 16 (3.40%) DNS
3 14 (2.98%) VPN
4 12 (2.55%) TCP/IP
5 11 (2.34%) WAN
6 9 (1.91%) LAN
7 8 (1.70%) Network Security
8 6 (1.28%) Broadband
8 6 (1.28%) Fibre Channel
8 6 (1.28%) Internet
9 5 (1.06%) DHCP
10 4 (0.85%) Intrusion Detection
10 4 (0.85%) SD-WAN
11 3 (0.64%) Kerberos
12 2 (0.43%) AMQP
12 2 (0.43%) VLAN
12 2 (0.43%) VSAN
13 1 (0.21%) 5G
13 1 (0.21%) IOS XR
13 1 (0.21%) NAS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 56 (11.91%) PostgreSQL
2 49 (10.43%) NoSQL
3 43 (9.15%) SQL Server
4 37 (7.87%) MongoDB
5 18 (3.83%) MySQL
6 17 (3.62%) Relational Database
7 15 (3.19%) Amazon RDS
8 12 (2.55%) DynamoDB
8 12 (2.55%) Elasticsearch
9 11 (2.34%) Redis
10 6 (1.28%) Azure SQL Database
10 6 (1.28%) Big Data
11 5 (1.06%) Data Warehouse
12 4 (0.85%) Flink
13 3 (0.64%) Amazon Athena
13 3 (0.64%) Apache Ignite
13 3 (0.64%) BigQuery
13 3 (0.64%) Data Lake
13 3 (0.64%) Pinecone
13 3 (0.64%) Power BI
Development Applications
1 74 (15.74%) Git
2 59 (12.55%) Jenkins
3 50 (10.64%) GitLab
4 21 (4.47%) TeamCity
5 9 (1.91%) JUnit
6 8 (1.70%) Cucumber
6 8 (1.70%) Selenium
6 8 (1.70%) SonarQube
7 7 (1.49%) Sonatype Nexus
7 7 (1.49%) Visual Studio Code
8 6 (1.28%) Octopus Deploy
9 5 (1.06%) JIRA
10 4 (0.85%) Robot Framework
11 3 (0.64%) Artifactory
11 3 (0.64%) Bitbucket
12 2 (0.43%) Eclipse
12 2 (0.43%) JMeter
12 2 (0.43%) MLflow
12 2 (0.43%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
12 2 (0.43%) TestRail
General
1 88 (18.72%) Social Skills
2 80 (17.02%) Finance
3 35 (7.45%) Law
4 34 (7.23%) Public Sector
5 32 (6.81%) Banking
6 31 (6.60%) Financial Institution
7 29 (6.17%) Retail
8 25 (5.32%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 22 (4.68%) Back Office
10 15 (3.19%) Telecoms
11 11 (2.34%) Front Office
12 10 (2.13%) Analytical Skills
13 7 (1.49%) Games
13 7 (1.49%) Legal
14 6 (1.28%) Automotive
15 5 (1.06%) Documentation Skills
15 5 (1.06%) Tech for Good
16 3 (0.64%) Marketing
17 2 (0.43%) Health Technology
17 2 (0.43%) Manufacturing
Job Titles
1 137 (29.15%) Senior
2 93 (19.79%) DevOps Engineer
3 69 (14.68%) Software Engineer
4 65 (13.83%) Developer
5 54 (11.49%) Lead
6 50 (10.64%) Cloud Engineer
7 38 (8.09%) Architect
7 38 (8.09%) Infrastructure Engineer
8 34 (7.23%) Azure Engineer
9 33 (7.02%) Platform Engineer
10 29 (6.17%) Senior DevOps
11 27 (5.74%) Senior Software Engineer
12 25 (5.32%) Python Engineer
13 23 (4.89%) Senior Developer
14 21 (4.47%) Senior DevOps Engineer
14 21 (4.47%) Solutions Architect
15 20 (4.26%) AWS DevOps
16 19 (4.04%) AWS Engineer
17 18 (3.83%) Java Engineer
17 18 (3.83%) Site Reliability Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 75 (15.96%) .NET
2 54 (11.49%) Spring
3 51 (10.85%) React
3 51 (10.85%) Spring Boot
4 42 (8.94%) Kafka
5 39 (8.30%) RESTful
6 37 (7.87%) REST
7 30 (6.38%) Elastic Stack
8 25 (5.32%) Node.js
8 25 (5.32%) RabbitMQ
9 24 (5.11%) Django
9 24 (5.11%) Flask
10 21 (4.47%) .NET Core
10 21 (4.47%) Web Services
11 18 (3.83%) FastAPI
12 17 (3.62%) AngularJS
12 17 (3.62%) YAML
13 14 (2.98%) .NET Framework
14 13 (2.77%) gRPC
15 12 (2.55%) GraphQL
Miscellaneous
1 148 (31.49%) Cloud Native
2 39 (8.30%) Distributed Systems
3 27 (5.74%) Onboarding
4 22 (4.68%) Data Centre
5 20 (4.26%) Management Information System
5 20 (4.26%) Product Ownership
6 18 (3.83%) Public Cloud
7 17 (3.62%) Hybrid Cloud
8 14 (2.98%) Legacy Systems
9 12 (2.55%) Self-Motivation
10 8 (1.70%) Algorithms
10 8 (1.70%) Private Cloud
11 7 (1.49%) Low-Code
11 7 (1.49%) Security Posture
12 6 (1.28%) BYOD
12 6 (1.28%) Greenfield Project
13 5 (1.06%) Blog
13 5 (1.06%) Derivative
13 5 (1.06%) Linux Command Line
14 4 (0.85%) Fixed Income
Operating Systems
1 118 (25.11%) Linux
2 71 (15.11%) Windows
3 28 (5.96%) Windows Server
4 20 (4.26%) Unix
5 13 (2.77%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 10 (2.13%) Ubuntu
6 10 (2.13%) Windows Server 2019
7 8 (1.70%) Rocky
8 7 (1.49%) VMS
9 6 (1.28%) CentOS
10 5 (1.06%) Android
11 3 (0.64%) Debian
12 2 (0.43%) Apple iOS
13 1 (0.21%) Windows Server 2016
Processes & Methodologies
1 302 (64.26%) DevOps
2 292 (62.13%) CI/CD
3 194 (41.28%) Containerisation
4 167 (35.53%) Infrastructure as Code
5 132 (28.09%) Microservices
6 126 (26.81%) Agile
7 112 (23.83%) Software Engineering
8 99 (21.06%) Problem-Solving
9 85 (18.09%) Infrastructure Engineering
10 80 (17.02%) Continuous Improvement
11 75 (15.96%) Mentoring
12 68 (14.47%) AI
13 62 (13.19%) Observability
14 56 (11.91%) Site Reliability Engineering
15 55 (11.70%) Platform Engineering
16 46 (9.79%) Test Automation
17 45 (9.57%) Cloud Security
18 44 (9.36%) Coaching
18 44 (9.36%) High Availability
19 43 (9.15%) Machine Learning
Programming Languages
1 208 (44.26%) Python
2 113 (24.04%) Java
3 98 (20.85%) SQL
4 71 (15.11%) PowerShell
5 68 (14.47%) C#
6 65 (13.83%) Bash
7 48 (10.21%) JavaScript
8 38 (8.09%) Bicep
9 36 (7.66%) TypeScript
10 29 (6.17%) Go
11 8 (1.70%) Delphi
12 7 (1.49%) PHP
12 7 (1.49%) Scala
13 6 (1.28%) Shell Script
14 5 (1.06%) Kotlin
15 4 (0.85%) F#
15 4 (0.85%) Haskell
15 4 (0.85%) OCaml
15 4 (0.85%) T-SQL
16 3 (0.64%) C++
Qualifications
1 72 (15.32%) Security Cleared
2 57 (12.13%) SC Cleared
3 54 (11.49%) AWS Certification
4 44 (9.36%) Degree
5 41 (8.72%) Azure Certification
6 23 (4.89%) Computer Science Degree
6 23 (4.89%) DV Cleared
7 17 (3.62%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
8 10 (2.13%) BPSS Clearance
9 8 (1.70%) Master's Degree
9 8 (1.70%) Network+ Certification
10 6 (1.28%) PhD
11 5 (1.06%) Cisco Certification
11 5 (1.06%) CISM
11 5 (1.06%) CISSP
12 4 (0.85%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
13 3 (0.64%) (ISC)2 CCSP
13 3 (0.64%) CompTIA Security+
14 2 (0.43%) AWS Certified Developer
14 2 (0.43%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 26 (5.53%) GDPR
2 25 (5.32%) QA
3 17 (3.62%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 13 (2.77%) HIPAA
4 13 (2.77%) NIST
5 12 (2.55%) SOC 2
6 11 (2.34%) PCI DSS
7 5 (1.06%) SLA
8 4 (0.85%) Data Quality
8 4 (0.85%) GRC
9 2 (0.43%) ECSS
System Software
1 283 (60.21%) Docker
2 27 (5.74%) Active Directory
3 16 (3.40%) VMware Infrastructure
4 15 (3.19%) Hyper-V
5 11 (2.34%) vSphere
6 6 (1.28%) NFS
7 5 (1.06%) Virtual Machines
8 3 (0.64%) VMware NSX
9 2 (0.43%) Virtual Servers
10 1 (0.21%) Dovecot
10 1 (0.21%) KVM
10 1 (0.21%) Postfix
10 1 (0.21%) VMware ESXi
10 1 (0.21%) Xen
Systems Management
1 208 (44.26%) Terraform
2 104 (22.13%) Ansible
3 92 (19.57%) Grafana
4 53 (11.28%) Prometheus
5 17 (3.62%) Argo
6 5 (1.06%) Cilium
6 5 (1.06%) Progress Chef
7 4 (0.85%) Puppet
8 3 (0.64%) Kibana
8 3 (0.64%) Microsoft Data Protection Manager
8 3 (0.64%) SCCM
8 3 (0.64%) SCOM
8 3 (0.64%) WSUS
9 2 (0.43%) Kubeflow
9 2 (0.43%) Kustomize
9 2 (0.43%) Microsoft Intune
10 1 (0.21%) CFEngine
10 1 (0.21%) FortiGate
10 1 (0.21%) logstash
10 1 (0.21%) Nagios
Vendors
1 53 (11.28%) Microsoft
2 26 (5.53%) Google
2 26 (5.53%) Oracle
3 23 (4.89%) VMware
4 18 (3.83%) Red Hat
5 17 (3.62%) Dell
6 12 (2.55%) Cisco
6 12 (2.55%) Splunk
7 8 (1.70%) Commvault
8 7 (1.49%) Databricks
8 7 (1.49%) Pure Storage
8 7 (1.49%) SAP
9 6 (1.28%) Trayport
10 5 (1.06%) Foundry
10 5 (1.06%) IBM
10 5 (1.06%) Infor
10 5 (1.06%) Informatica
10 5 (1.06%) ServiceNow
10 5 (1.06%) Software AG
10 5 (1.06%) Talend