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

6 months to
2 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 75 63 71
Rank change year-on-year -12 +8 -43
Permanent jobs citing Kubernetes 736 851 948
As % of all permanent jobs with remote/hybrid work options 3.31% 5.13% 3.75%
As % of the Systems Management category 39.05% 42.89% 34.27%
Number of salaries quoted 537 419 741
10th Percentile £45,400 £51,250 £52,500
25th Percentile £52,500 £60,000 £60,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £77,500 £77,500
Median % change year-on-year -16.13% - +3.33%
75th Percentile £82,500 £95,000 £95,000
90th Percentile £100,000 £125,000 £117,500
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 1,885 1,984 2,766
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 8.47% 11.96% 10.93%
Number of salaries quoted 1,395 1,135 1,984
10th Percentile £37,000 £35,000 £37,000
25th Percentile £47,930 £48,083 £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 £78,609 £85,000 £85,000
90th Percentile £96,250 £100,750 £102,500
UK median annual salary £64,618 £65,000 £63,750
% change year-on-year -0.59% +1.96% -4.85%

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 2 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 9 (1.22%) Apache Spark
2 8 (1.09%) Apache Airflow
3 6 (0.82%) IIS
3 6 (0.82%) OpenStack
3 6 (0.82%) Oracle SOA Suite
4 5 (0.68%) nginx
5 4 (0.54%) Confluence
6 3 (0.41%) Camunda
7 2 (0.27%) ArcGIS
7 2 (0.27%) GeoServer
7 2 (0.27%) Microsoft Exchange
7 2 (0.27%) 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 (0.27%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 420 (57.07%) Azure
2 406 (55.16%) AWS
3 205 (27.85%) GitHub
4 189 (25.68%) GCP
5 142 (19.29%) GitHub Copilot
6 89 (12.09%) Amazon EKS
7 80 (10.87%) SaaS
8 76 (10.33%) Azure AI
9 61 (8.29%) Serverless
10 48 (6.52%) GitHub Actions
11 47 (6.39%) Azure DevOps
12 45 (6.11%) AWS CloudFormation
12 45 (6.11%) Azure AKS
13 35 (4.76%) OpenShift
14 31 (4.21%) Amazon EC2
15 27 (3.67%) Amazon S3
16 24 (3.26%) PaaS
17 23 (3.13%) Amazon ECS
18 21 (2.85%) AWS Lambda
18 21 (2.85%) Azure Service Bus
Communications & Networking
1 27 (3.67%) Firewall
2 25 (3.40%) DNS
3 22 (2.99%) VPN
4 20 (2.72%) Internet
5 17 (2.31%) Broadband
6 15 (2.04%) TCP/IP
7 9 (1.22%) DHCP
8 8 (1.09%) VLAN
9 7 (0.95%) BGP
9 7 (0.95%) Network Security
10 6 (0.82%) OSPF
10 6 (0.82%) VXLAN
11 5 (0.68%) HTTP
12 4 (0.54%) MQTT
12 4 (0.54%) WAN
13 3 (0.41%) SAN
14 2 (0.27%) iSCSI
14 2 (0.27%) LAN
14 2 (0.27%) Remote Desktop
14 2 (0.27%) SSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 159 (21.60%) MongoDB
2 140 (19.02%) Azure SQL Database
3 71 (9.65%) PostgreSQL
4 50 (6.79%) Elasticsearch
5 29 (3.94%) SQL Server
6 28 (3.80%) MySQL
7 27 (3.67%) NoSQL
8 25 (3.40%) Relational Database
9 21 (2.85%) Amazon RDS
10 8 (1.09%) Data Warehouse
11 6 (0.82%) Delta Lake
11 6 (0.82%) DynamoDB
11 6 (0.82%) Redis
12 4 (0.54%) Metadata
13 3 (0.41%) Apache Cassandra
13 3 (0.41%) BigQuery
13 3 (0.41%) Power BI
13 3 (0.41%) Spark SQL
13 3 (0.41%) Tableau
14 2 (0.27%) Neo4j
Development Applications
1 101 (13.72%) Git
2 53 (7.20%) GitLab
2 53 (7.20%) Jenkins
2 53 (7.20%) TeamCity
3 25 (3.40%) JUnit
4 17 (2.31%) Maven
5 16 (2.17%) Selenium
6 14 (1.90%) JIRA
6 14 (1.90%) Mockito
7 12 (1.63%) Cucumber
7 12 (1.63%) Visual Studio Code
8 11 (1.49%) Postman
9 8 (1.09%) Atlassian Bamboo
9 8 (1.09%) Bitbucket
10 6 (0.82%) Gatling
10 6 (0.82%) Octopus Deploy
10 6 (0.82%) SonarQube
11 5 (0.68%) JMeter
11 5 (0.68%) Locust
11 5 (0.68%) Subversion
General
1 174 (23.64%) Finance
2 132 (17.93%) Social Skills
3 76 (10.33%) Banking
3 76 (10.33%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 74 (10.05%) Retail
5 71 (9.65%) Law
6 54 (7.34%) Public Sector
7 42 (5.71%) Financial Institution
8 40 (5.43%) Back Office
9 38 (5.16%) Advertising
10 24 (3.26%) Analytical Skills
11 21 (2.85%) Marketing
12 17 (2.31%) Aerospace
13 13 (1.77%) Games
14 9 (1.22%) Legal
15 8 (1.09%) Organisational Skills
16 6 (0.82%) Telecoms
17 4 (0.54%) Manufacturing
17 4 (0.54%) Military
18 3 (0.41%) Front Office
Job Titles
1 214 (29.08%) Developer
2 200 (27.17%) Senior
3 134 (18.21%) .NET Developer
4 119 (16.17%) Software Engineer
5 84 (11.41%) Lead
6 79 (10.73%) DevOps Engineer
7 58 (7.88%) Cloud Engineer
8 47 (6.39%) Platform Engineer
9 46 (6.25%) Azure Engineer
10 43 (5.84%) Architect
11 40 (5.43%) Senior Developer
12 35 (4.76%) Senior Software Engineer
13 32 (4.35%) Java Developer
14 31 (4.21%) Lead Software Engineer
15 30 (4.08%) Senior DevOps
16 27 (3.67%) AWS Engineer
16 27 (3.67%) Cloud Platform Engineer
17 25 (3.40%) Java Engineer
18 24 (3.26%) Python Engineer
18 24 (3.26%) Team Leader
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 203 (27.58%) .NET
2 142 (19.29%) .NET Core
2 142 (19.29%) ASP.NET
3 136 (18.48%) ASP.NET Core
4 84 (11.41%) AngularJS
5 81 (11.01%) CSS
5 81 (11.01%) HTML
6 80 (10.87%) React
7 78 (10.60%) Node.js
8 74 (10.05%) ML.NET
9 70 (9.51%) Vue
10 66 (8.97%) Spring
11 62 (8.42%) REST
12 57 (7.74%) Kafka
13 48 (6.52%) RESTful
14 44 (5.98%) Spring Boot
15 28 (3.80%) Blazor
16 24 (3.26%) OAuth
17 23 (3.13%) Django
17 23 (3.13%) OpenID
Miscellaneous
1 202 (27.45%) Cloud Native
2 60 (8.15%) Distributed Systems
3 48 (6.52%) Product Ownership
4 24 (3.26%) Greenfield Project
5 20 (2.72%) Digital TV
6 18 (2.45%) Blog
6 18 (2.45%) Data Centre
6 18 (2.45%) Hybrid Cloud
7 16 (2.17%) Private Cloud
8 15 (2.04%) Public Cloud
9 14 (1.90%) Legacy Systems
10 13 (1.77%) Management Information System
11 12 (1.63%) AI Agents
12 11 (1.49%) IoT
13 10 (1.36%) Self-Motivation
14 8 (1.09%) Enterprise Software
14 8 (1.09%) Virtual Team
15 7 (0.95%) Onboarding
15 7 (0.95%) PKI
16 6 (0.82%) Replication
Operating Systems
1 136 (18.48%) Linux
2 42 (5.71%) Windows
3 22 (2.99%) Windows Server
4 15 (2.04%) Ubuntu
5 9 (1.22%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 6 (0.82%) Android
6 6 (0.82%) Apple iOS
6 6 (0.82%) Debian
7 5 (0.68%) CentOS
8 3 (0.41%) VMS
8 3 (0.41%) Windows Server 2016
9 2 (0.27%) Mac OS
Processes & Methodologies
1 493 (66.98%) CI/CD
2 305 (41.44%) DevOps
3 270 (36.68%) Agile
4 249 (33.83%) Microservices
5 226 (30.71%) Infrastructure as Code
6 208 (28.26%) Containerisation
7 199 (27.04%) AI
8 197 (26.77%) Full-Stack Development
9 194 (26.36%) Software Engineering
10 183 (24.86%) Mentoring
11 130 (17.66%) Continuous Improvement
12 128 (17.39%) Test Automation
13 122 (16.58%) Observability
14 112 (15.22%) Machine Learning
15 111 (15.08%) Platform Engineering
16 109 (14.81%) TDD
17 103 (13.99%) Problem-Solving
18 101 (13.72%) Clean Code
19 86 (11.68%) Scrum
20 81 (11.01%) Deployment Automation
Programming Languages
1 232 (31.52%) Python
2 215 (29.21%) C#
3 214 (29.08%) SQL
4 167 (22.69%) Java
5 113 (15.35%) TypeScript
6 80 (10.87%) JavaScript
7 75 (10.19%) Bash
8 70 (9.51%) PowerShell
9 49 (6.66%) Go
10 23 (3.13%) Bicep
11 14 (1.90%) PL/SQL
12 13 (1.77%) Scala
13 12 (1.63%) PHP
14 8 (1.09%) Ruby
15 7 (0.95%) Groovy
16 6 (0.82%) Kotlin
16 6 (0.82%) Rust
17 5 (0.68%) C++
18 4 (0.54%) C
19 3 (0.41%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 106 (14.40%) Security Cleared
2 87 (11.82%) SC Cleared
3 61 (8.29%) Degree
4 43 (5.84%) Azure Certification
5 29 (3.94%) Computer Science Degree
6 18 (2.45%) AWS Certification
7 14 (1.90%) DV Cleared
8 9 (1.22%) CISSP
9 7 (0.95%) GIAC
10 5 (0.68%) CREST Certified
10 5 (0.68%) ISACA
10 5 (0.68%) OSCP
11 4 (0.54%) CISM
11 4 (0.54%) Microsoft Certification
11 4 (0.54%) SANS
12 3 (0.41%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
12 3 (0.41%) BPSS Clearance
12 3 (0.41%) CEH
13 2 (0.27%) AWS Certified Developer
13 2 (0.27%) Master's Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 41 (5.57%) QA
2 26 (3.53%) Accessibility
3 19 (2.58%) NIST
4 13 (1.77%) WCAG
5 11 (1.49%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 9 (1.22%) PCI DSS
7 5 (0.68%) Data Quality
7 5 (0.68%) SOC 2
8 3 (0.41%) Cyber Essentials
8 3 (0.41%) ISO 9001
9 2 (0.27%) NCSC
10 1 (0.14%) GDPR
10 1 (0.14%) ISO 22301
10 1 (0.14%) ISO/IEC 42001
10 1 (0.14%) PSD2
10 1 (0.14%) SEPA
10 1 (0.14%) SLA
System Software
1 472 (64.13%) Docker
2 30 (4.08%) Active Directory
3 20 (2.72%) Virtual Machines
4 19 (2.58%) VMware Infrastructure
5 4 (0.54%) Firmware
5 4 (0.54%) Slurm Workload Manager
6 3 (0.41%) Citrix Hypervisor
6 3 (0.41%) iptables
7 1 (0.14%) Hyper-V
7 1 (0.14%) Kamailio
7 1 (0.14%) KVM
7 1 (0.14%) QEMU
7 1 (0.14%) Virtual Servers
7 1 (0.14%) Xen
Systems Management
1 289 (39.27%) Terraform
2 111 (15.08%) Grafana
3 90 (12.23%) Ansible
4 55 (7.47%) Prometheus
5 27 (3.67%) Argo
6 23 (3.13%) Istio
7 21 (2.85%) Puppet
8 13 (1.77%) Progress Chef
9 7 (0.95%) Active Directory Federation Services
9 7 (0.95%) Packer
10 6 (0.82%) FortiGate
10 6 (0.82%) Kustomize
10 6 (0.82%) Microsoft Intune
11 5 (0.68%) Kibana
12 4 (0.54%) linkerd
12 4 (0.54%) Proxmox
13 3 (0.41%) Nagios
13 3 (0.41%) ZABBIX
14 2 (0.27%) CASB
14 2 (0.27%) MIIS
Vendors
1 213 (28.94%) Microsoft
2 38 (5.16%) Google
3 27 (3.67%) Oracle
3 27 (3.67%) VMware
4 21 (2.85%) Facebook
4 21 (2.85%) Okta
5 19 (2.58%) Red Hat
6 16 (2.17%) Splunk
7 13 (1.77%) Ping Identity
8 12 (1.63%) Palo Alto
8 12 (1.63%) ServiceNow
9 10 (1.36%) Databricks
10 9 (1.22%) OpenAI
11 8 (1.09%) Cisco
11 8 (1.09%) Confluent
11 8 (1.09%) ForgeRock
11 8 (1.09%) Fortinet
12 7 (0.95%) Dynatrace
12 7 (0.95%) EMC
13 6 (0.82%) Zscaler