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 28 August 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
28 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 79 72 70
Rank change year-on-year -7 -2 -43
Permanent jobs citing Kubernetes 742 782 941
As % of all permanent jobs with remote/hybrid work options 3.19% 4.73% 3.79%
As % of the Systems Management category 45.66% 45.15% 39.82%
Number of salaries quoted 528 385 691
10th Percentile £46,250 £48,750 £52,500
25th Percentile £52,500 £60,000 £60,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £75,000 £75,000
Median % change year-on-year -13.33% - -
75th Percentile £85,000 £91,250 £93,750
90th Percentile £98,250 £114,500 £115,000
UK median annual salary £70,000 £77,500 £75,000
% change year-on-year -9.68% +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 1,625 1,732 2,363
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 6.98% 10.48% 9.52%
Number of salaries quoted 1,196 934 1,566
10th Percentile £36,250 £31,325 £36,500
25th Percentile £46,250 £45,000 £47,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £65,000 £62,500
Median % change year-on-year -7.69% +4.00% -10.00%
75th Percentile £75,000 £82,751 £85,000
90th Percentile £95,000 £100,000 £105,000
UK median annual salary £60,000 £62,500 £61,754
% change year-on-year -4.00% +1.21% -4.99%

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 28 August 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 (1.35%) Apache Spark
2 7 (0.94%) Apache Airflow
2 7 (0.94%) Oracle SOA Suite
3 6 (0.81%) IIS
4 5 (0.67%) nginx
4 5 (0.67%) OpenStack
5 4 (0.54%) Camunda
5 4 (0.54%) Confluence
6 3 (0.40%) ArcGIS
6 3 (0.40%) GeoServer
6 3 (0.40%) Oracle Spatial
7 2 (0.27%) Apache
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
Applications
1 9 (1.21%) Chatbot
2 1 (0.13%) Lightworks
Business Applications
1 2 (0.27%) SAP S/4HANA
2 1 (0.13%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
Cloud Services
1 422 (56.87%) Azure
2 412 (55.53%) AWS
3 203 (27.36%) GitHub
4 198 (26.68%) GCP
5 141 (19.00%) GitHub Copilot
6 88 (11.86%) Amazon EKS
7 79 (10.65%) SaaS
8 76 (10.24%) Azure AI
9 52 (7.01%) Serverless
10 48 (6.47%) GitHub Actions
11 47 (6.33%) AWS CloudFormation
12 46 (6.20%) Azure DevOps
12 46 (6.20%) OpenShift
13 43 (5.80%) Azure AKS
14 29 (3.91%) Amazon EC2
15 24 (3.23%) Amazon S3
16 20 (2.70%) Amazon ECS
16 20 (2.70%) AWS Lambda
16 20 (2.70%) Azure Service Bus
17 18 (2.43%) Datadog
Communications & Networking
1 24 (3.23%) Firewall
2 23 (3.10%) DNS
3 21 (2.83%) VPN
4 20 (2.70%) Internet
5 17 (2.29%) Broadband
6 15 (2.02%) TCP/IP
7 8 (1.08%) BGP
7 8 (1.08%) DHCP
7 8 (1.08%) Network Security
7 8 (1.08%) VLAN
8 6 (0.81%) OSPF
8 6 (0.81%) VXLAN
9 5 (0.67%) WAN
10 4 (0.54%) HTTP
11 2 (0.27%) LAN
11 2 (0.27%) SAN
11 2 (0.27%) SSL
11 2 (0.27%) WireGuard
12 1 (0.13%) MQTT
12 1 (0.13%) Remote Desktop
Database & Business Intelligence
1 161 (21.70%) MongoDB
2 142 (19.14%) Azure SQL Database
3 70 (9.43%) PostgreSQL
4 49 (6.60%) Elasticsearch
5 33 (4.45%) NoSQL
6 29 (3.91%) SQL Server
7 26 (3.50%) MySQL
8 25 (3.37%) Relational Database
9 21 (2.83%) Amazon RDS
10 10 (1.35%) Data Warehouse
11 6 (0.81%) Delta Lake
11 6 (0.81%) DynamoDB
12 5 (0.67%) Metadata
12 5 (0.67%) Redis
13 4 (0.54%) Power BI
13 4 (0.54%) Tableau
14 3 (0.40%) BigQuery
14 3 (0.40%) InfluxDB
14 3 (0.40%) QGIS
14 3 (0.40%) Spark SQL
Development Applications
1 95 (12.80%) Git
2 55 (7.41%) TeamCity
3 52 (7.01%) Jenkins
4 49 (6.60%) GitLab
5 27 (3.64%) JUnit
6 17 (2.29%) Maven
6 17 (2.29%) Selenium
7 15 (2.02%) Mockito
8 14 (1.89%) JIRA
9 12 (1.62%) Postman
9 12 (1.62%) Visual Studio Code
10 10 (1.35%) Atlassian Bamboo
11 9 (1.21%) Bitbucket
11 9 (1.21%) Cucumber
12 8 (1.08%) SonarQube
13 6 (0.81%) Gatling
13 6 (0.81%) Octopus Deploy
14 5 (0.67%) Subversion
15 4 (0.54%) NUnit
16 3 (0.40%) Cypress.io
General
1 177 (23.85%) Finance
2 128 (17.25%) Social Skills
3 79 (10.65%) Banking
3 79 (10.65%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 75 (10.11%) Retail
5 73 (9.84%) Law
6 63 (8.49%) Public Sector
7 45 (6.06%) Financial Institution
8 44 (5.93%) Back Office
9 36 (4.85%) Advertising
10 24 (3.23%) Analytical Skills
11 21 (2.83%) Marketing
12 20 (2.70%) Aerospace
13 13 (1.75%) Games
14 10 (1.35%) Legal
15 7 (0.94%) Organisational Skills
16 6 (0.81%) Telecoms
17 3 (0.40%) Front Office
17 3 (0.40%) Manufacturing
17 3 (0.40%) Military
Job Titles
1 216 (29.11%) Developer
2 195 (26.28%) Senior
3 135 (18.19%) .NET Developer
4 117 (15.77%) Software Engineer
5 80 (10.78%) DevOps Engineer
6 68 (9.16%) Lead
7 55 (7.41%) Cloud Engineer
8 51 (6.87%) Platform Engineer
9 48 (6.47%) Architect
10 46 (6.20%) Azure Engineer
11 39 (5.26%) Senior Developer
12 31 (4.18%) Java Developer
13 30 (4.04%) Senior Software Engineer
14 29 (3.91%) Cloud Platform Engineer
15 27 (3.64%) AWS Engineer
15 27 (3.64%) Senior DevOps
16 25 (3.37%) Lead Software Engineer
17 24 (3.23%) Full-Stack Developer
18 23 (3.10%) Python Engineer
18 23 (3.10%) Senior DevOps Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 287 (38.68%) Terraform
2 203 (27.36%) .NET
3 142 (19.14%) ASP.NET
4 141 (19.00%) .NET Core
5 136 (18.33%) ASP.NET Core
6 94 (12.67%) Node.js
7 82 (11.05%) AngularJS
8 81 (10.92%) CSS
8 81 (10.92%) HTML
9 79 (10.65%) React
10 74 (9.97%) ML.NET
11 68 (9.16%) Vue
12 65 (8.76%) REST
12 65 (8.76%) Spring
13 57 (7.68%) Kafka
14 46 (6.20%) RESTful
15 41 (5.53%) Spring Boot
16 29 (3.91%) Blazor
17 21 (2.83%) Django
18 20 (2.70%) OAuth
Miscellaneous
1 193 (26.01%) Cloud Native
2 59 (7.95%) Distributed Systems
3 50 (6.74%) Product Ownership
4 25 (3.37%) Greenfield Project
5 21 (2.83%) Blog
6 20 (2.70%) Digital TV
7 17 (2.29%) AI Agents
7 17 (2.29%) Data Centre
8 16 (2.16%) Public Cloud
9 14 (1.89%) Hybrid Cloud
9 14 (1.89%) Legacy Systems
9 14 (1.89%) Private Cloud
10 13 (1.75%) Self-Motivation
11 11 (1.48%) IoT
12 9 (1.21%) PKI
13 8 (1.08%) Cyber Kill Chain
13 8 (1.08%) Enterprise Software
13 8 (1.08%) Management Information System
13 8 (1.08%) Mobile App
13 8 (1.08%) Replication
Operating Systems
1 133 (17.92%) Linux
2 45 (6.06%) Windows
3 24 (3.23%) Windows Server
4 15 (2.02%) Ubuntu
5 7 (0.94%) Android
5 7 (0.94%) Apple iOS
6 6 (0.81%) CentOS
6 6 (0.81%) Debian
6 6 (0.81%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
7 3 (0.40%) VMS
8 2 (0.27%) Mac OS
8 2 (0.27%) Windows Server 2016
Processes & Methodologies
1 487 (65.63%) CI/CD
2 293 (39.49%) DevOps
3 266 (35.85%) Agile
4 245 (33.02%) Microservices
5 215 (28.98%) Infrastructure as Code
6 210 (28.30%) AI
7 201 (27.09%) Full-Stack Development
8 200 (26.95%) Software Engineering
9 193 (26.01%) Mentoring
10 192 (25.88%) Containerisation
11 132 (17.79%) Test Automation
12 128 (17.25%) Continuous Improvement
13 125 (16.85%) Observability
14 118 (15.90%) Machine Learning
15 114 (15.36%) Platform Engineering
16 104 (14.02%) TDD
17 102 (13.75%) Problem-Solving
18 98 (13.21%) Clean Code
19 86 (11.59%) Scrum
20 74 (9.97%) Deployment Automation
Programming Languages
1 230 (31.00%) Python
2 220 (29.65%) SQL
3 210 (28.30%) C#
4 167 (22.51%) Java
5 112 (15.09%) TypeScript
6 90 (12.13%) JavaScript
7 77 (10.38%) Bash
8 73 (9.84%) PowerShell
9 46 (6.20%) Go
10 23 (3.10%) Bicep
11 15 (2.02%) PL/SQL
12 14 (1.89%) Scala
13 11 (1.48%) PHP
14 8 (1.08%) Kotlin
14 8 (1.08%) Ruby
15 7 (0.94%) Groovy
16 4 (0.54%) C++
17 3 (0.40%) C
17 3 (0.40%) T-SQL
17 3 (0.40%) VB.NET
Qualifications
1 118 (15.90%) Security Cleared
2 97 (13.07%) SC Cleared
3 57 (7.68%) Degree
4 43 (5.80%) Azure Certification
5 28 (3.77%) Computer Science Degree
6 18 (2.43%) AWS Certification
7 17 (2.29%) DV Cleared
8 8 (1.08%) CISSP
9 7 (0.94%) BPSS Clearance
10 6 (0.81%) CISM
10 6 (0.81%) GIAC
11 5 (0.67%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
11 5 (0.67%) CEH
12 4 (0.54%) CREST Certified
12 4 (0.54%) Microsoft Certification
12 4 (0.54%) OCP
12 4 (0.54%) Oracle Certification
12 4 (0.54%) OSCP
13 3 (0.40%) AWS Certified Developer
14 2 (0.27%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 33 (4.45%) QA
2 24 (3.23%) Accessibility
3 18 (2.43%) NIST
4 12 (1.62%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 10 (1.35%) WCAG
6 7 (0.94%) PCI DSS
7 5 (0.67%) Cyber Essentials
7 5 (0.67%) Data Quality
8 4 (0.54%) SOC 2
9 3 (0.40%) ISO 9001
9 3 (0.40%) NCSC
10 2 (0.27%) GDPR
11 1 (0.13%) California Consumer Privacy Act
11 1 (0.13%) HIPAA
11 1 (0.13%) ISO 22301
11 1 (0.13%) ISO/IEC 42001
11 1 (0.13%) PSD2
11 1 (0.13%) SEPA
11 1 (0.13%) SLA
System Software
1 474 (63.88%) Docker
2 27 (3.64%) Active Directory
3 21 (2.83%) Virtual Machines
4 18 (2.43%) VMware Infrastructure
5 4 (0.54%) Firmware
5 4 (0.54%) Slurm Workload Manager
6 3 (0.40%) iptables
7 2 (0.27%) Citrix Hypervisor
7 2 (0.27%) Hyper-V
8 1 (0.13%) KVM
8 1 (0.13%) QEMU
8 1 (0.13%) Virtual Servers
8 1 (0.13%) Xen
Systems Management
1 111 (14.96%) Grafana
2 87 (11.73%) Ansible
3 52 (7.01%) Prometheus
4 27 (3.64%) Argo
5 25 (3.37%) Istio
6 21 (2.83%) Puppet
7 12 (1.62%) Progress Chef
8 7 (0.94%) Kustomize
8 7 (0.94%) Packer
9 6 (0.81%) Active Directory Federation Services
9 6 (0.81%) FortiGate
9 6 (0.81%) Microsoft Intune
10 4 (0.54%) linkerd
11 3 (0.40%) Cilium
11 3 (0.40%) Kibana
11 3 (0.40%) ZABBIX
12 2 (0.27%) MIIS
12 2 (0.27%) SCCM
12 2 (0.27%) SCOM
12 2 (0.27%) WSUS
Vendors
1 212 (28.57%) Microsoft
2 43 (5.80%) Google
3 31 (4.18%) Oracle
4 24 (3.23%) VMware
5 21 (2.83%) Facebook
5 21 (2.83%) Red Hat
6 20 (2.70%) Splunk
7 19 (2.56%) Okta
7 19 (2.56%) OpenAI
8 14 (1.89%) Ping Identity
9 12 (1.62%) Palo Alto
9 12 (1.62%) ServiceNow
10 9 (1.21%) Databricks
11 8 (1.08%) Cisco
11 8 (1.08%) Confluent
12 7 (0.94%) Dynatrace
12 7 (0.94%) EMC
12 7 (0.94%) Fortinet
13 6 (0.81%) New Relic
13 6 (0.81%) Zscaler