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

6 months to
17 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 76 58 65
Rank change year-on-year -18 +7 -38
Permanent jobs citing Kubernetes 711 882 1,153
As % of all permanent jobs with remote/hybrid work options 3.32% 5.35% 3.75%
As % of the Systems Management category 39.24% 43.45% 35.01%
Number of salaries quoted 519 451 934
10th Percentile £45,000 £49,750 £51,250
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 £100,000 £95,000
90th Percentile £97,500 £127,500 £117,125
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 1,812 2,030 3,293
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 8.46% 12.31% 10.70%
Number of salaries quoted 1,333 1,175 2,440
10th Percentile £36,800 £36,250 £36,500
25th Percentile £47,000 £48,528 £47,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £62,500 £67,500 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year -7.41% +3.85% -7.14%
75th Percentile £77,500 £85,000 £84,930
90th Percentile £95,000 £107,500 £102,500
UK median annual salary £64,559 £65,000 £62,500
% change year-on-year -0.68% +4.00% -7.41%

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 17 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 7 (0.98%) Apache Airflow
2 6 (0.84%) Apache Spark
2 6 (0.84%) IIS
2 6 (0.84%) OpenStack
3 5 (0.70%) nginx
4 2 (0.28%) ArcGIS
4 2 (0.28%) Camunda
4 2 (0.28%) Confluence
4 2 (0.28%) GeoServer
4 2 (0.28%) Microsoft Exchange
4 2 (0.28%) Oracle SOA Suite
4 2 (0.28%) Oracle Spatial
5 1 (0.14%) Apache
5 1 (0.14%) Cloud Foundry
5 1 (0.14%) JBoss
5 1 (0.14%) Oracle Coherence
5 1 (0.14%) Red Hat Fuse
Applications
1 2 (0.28%) Weka
2 1 (0.14%) Lightworks
Business Applications
1 2 (0.28%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 398 (55.98%) AWS
2 388 (54.57%) Azure
3 202 (28.41%) GitHub
4 181 (25.46%) GCP
5 139 (19.55%) GitHub Copilot
6 103 (14.49%) Amazon EKS
7 76 (10.69%) SaaS
8 74 (10.41%) Azure AI
9 66 (9.28%) Serverless
10 51 (7.17%) GitHub Actions
11 45 (6.33%) AWS CloudFormation
11 45 (6.33%) Azure AKS
12 42 (5.91%) Azure DevOps
13 35 (4.92%) Amazon EC2
14 32 (4.50%) OpenShift
15 31 (4.36%) Amazon S3
16 25 (3.52%) AWS Lambda
16 25 (3.52%) PaaS
17 24 (3.38%) Amazon ECS
18 21 (2.95%) Azure Service Bus
Communications & Networking
1 29 (4.08%) Firewall
2 25 (3.52%) DNS
3 24 (3.38%) Broadband
3 24 (3.38%) VPN
4 20 (2.81%) Internet
5 15 (2.11%) TCP/IP
6 9 (1.27%) DHCP
7 8 (1.13%) VLAN
8 7 (0.98%) BGP
8 7 (0.98%) Network Security
9 6 (0.84%) OSPF
9 6 (0.84%) VXLAN
10 5 (0.70%) MQTT
11 4 (0.56%) WAN
12 3 (0.42%) HTTP
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
1 160 (22.50%) MongoDB
2 137 (19.27%) Azure SQL Database
3 73 (10.27%) PostgreSQL
4 50 (7.03%) Elasticsearch
5 33 (4.64%) NoSQL
6 32 (4.50%) Relational Database
7 28 (3.94%) MySQL
8 27 (3.80%) SQL Server
9 23 (3.23%) Amazon RDS
10 6 (0.84%) Data Warehouse
10 6 (0.84%) DynamoDB
10 6 (0.84%) RDBMS
10 6 (0.84%) Redis
11 5 (0.70%) BigQuery
11 5 (0.70%) Delta Lake
12 3 (0.42%) Apache Cassandra
12 3 (0.42%) Metadata
13 2 (0.28%) MariaDB
13 2 (0.28%) Neo4j
13 2 (0.28%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 86 (12.10%) Git
2 60 (8.44%) TeamCity
3 54 (7.59%) GitLab
4 51 (7.17%) Jenkins
5 17 (2.39%) JUnit
6 14 (1.97%) Maven
7 13 (1.83%) JIRA
8 12 (1.69%) Visual Studio Code
9 10 (1.41%) Mockito
10 9 (1.27%) Cucumber
11 8 (1.13%) Selenium
12 7 (0.98%) Atlassian Bamboo
12 7 (0.98%) Bitbucket
12 7 (0.98%) Jaeger
12 7 (0.98%) Postman
13 6 (0.84%) Octopus Deploy
14 5 (0.70%) JMeter
14 5 (0.70%) Locust
14 5 (0.70%) Subversion
15 4 (0.56%) SonarQube
General
1 161 (22.64%) Finance
2 121 (17.02%) Social Skills
3 89 (12.52%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 85 (11.95%) Banking
5 84 (11.81%) Retail
6 78 (10.97%) Law
7 51 (7.17%) Public Sector
8 44 (6.19%) Financial Institution
9 43 (6.05%) Back Office
10 37 (5.20%) Advertising
11 22 (3.09%) Analytical Skills
12 20 (2.81%) Marketing
13 16 (2.25%) Aerospace
14 13 (1.83%) Games
15 8 (1.13%) Legal
15 8 (1.13%) Organisational Skills
16 6 (0.84%) Telecoms
17 4 (0.56%) Manufacturing
17 4 (0.56%) Military
18 3 (0.42%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 211 (29.68%) Developer
2 192 (27.00%) Senior
3 131 (18.42%) .NET Developer
4 118 (16.60%) Software Engineer
5 91 (12.80%) Lead
6 78 (10.97%) DevOps Engineer
7 58 (8.16%) Cloud Engineer
8 49 (6.89%) Platform Engineer
9 45 (6.33%) Azure Engineer
10 38 (5.34%) Senior Software Engineer
11 37 (5.20%) Senior Developer
12 33 (4.64%) Lead Software Engineer
13 32 (4.50%) AWS Engineer
14 31 (4.36%) Java Developer
14 31 (4.36%) Senior DevOps
15 30 (4.22%) Architect
15 30 (4.22%) Java Engineer
16 28 (3.94%) Cloud Platform Engineer
17 26 (3.66%) Team Leader
18 24 (3.38%) Python Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 190 (26.72%) .NET
2 139 (19.55%) .NET Core
2 139 (19.55%) ASP.NET
3 133 (18.71%) ASP.NET Core
4 80 (11.25%) AngularJS
4 80 (11.25%) CSS
4 80 (11.25%) HTML
5 73 (10.27%) ML.NET
5 73 (10.27%) Node.js
6 71 (9.99%) Vue
7 69 (9.70%) React
8 65 (9.14%) Spring
9 56 (7.88%) Kafka
10 50 (7.03%) REST
11 49 (6.89%) Spring Boot
12 47 (6.61%) RESTful
13 24 (3.38%) Django
14 22 (3.09%) .NET Framework
14 22 (3.09%) Blazor
15 21 (2.95%) OAuth
Miscellaneous
1 204 (28.69%) Cloud Native
2 54 (7.59%) Distributed Systems
3 45 (6.33%) Product Ownership
4 22 (3.09%) Greenfield Project
5 21 (2.95%) Blog
6 20 (2.81%) Digital TV
7 19 (2.67%) Hybrid Cloud
8 18 (2.53%) Data Centre
9 17 (2.39%) Private Cloud
10 13 (1.83%) Public Cloud
11 11 (1.55%) Management Information System
12 9 (1.27%) AI Agents
13 8 (1.13%) Legacy Systems
13 8 (1.13%) Onboarding
14 6 (0.84%) CMDB
14 6 (0.84%) CUDA
14 6 (0.84%) IoT
14 6 (0.84%) PKI
14 6 (0.84%) Replication
14 6 (0.84%) Security Posture
Operating Systems
1 136 (19.13%) Linux
2 40 (5.63%) Windows
3 21 (2.95%) Windows Server
4 15 (2.11%) Ubuntu
5 9 (1.27%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 6 (0.84%) Debian
6 6 (0.84%) Unix
7 5 (0.70%) Android
7 5 (0.70%) Apple iOS
7 5 (0.70%) CentOS
8 3 (0.42%) VMS
8 3 (0.42%) Windows Server 2016
9 2 (0.28%) Mac OS
Processes & Methodologies
1 475 (66.81%) CI/CD
2 306 (43.04%) DevOps
3 261 (36.71%) Agile
4 237 (33.33%) Microservices
5 232 (32.63%) Infrastructure as Code
6 200 (28.13%) Containerisation
7 186 (26.16%) Full-Stack Development
8 185 (26.02%) Software Engineering
9 178 (25.04%) AI
10 175 (24.61%) Mentoring
11 130 (18.28%) Test Automation
12 127 (17.86%) Continuous Improvement
13 117 (16.46%) Observability
14 113 (15.89%) Platform Engineering
15 104 (14.63%) Clean Code
16 103 (14.49%) TDD
17 102 (14.35%) Machine Learning
18 98 (13.78%) Problem-Solving
19 90 (12.66%) Deployment Automation
20 83 (11.67%) Scrum
Programming Languages
1 229 (32.21%) Python
2 211 (29.68%) SQL
3 201 (28.27%) C#
4 176 (24.75%) Java
5 112 (15.75%) TypeScript
6 74 (10.41%) Bash
6 74 (10.41%) JavaScript
7 69 (9.70%) PowerShell
8 52 (7.31%) Go
9 23 (3.23%) Bicep
10 13 (1.83%) Scala
11 10 (1.41%) PHP
11 10 (1.41%) PL/SQL
12 7 (0.98%) Groovy
12 7 (0.98%) Ruby
12 7 (0.98%) Rust
13 6 (0.84%) C
13 6 (0.84%) C++
14 4 (0.56%) Kotlin
15 3 (0.42%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 90 (12.66%) Security Cleared
2 73 (10.27%) SC Cleared
3 58 (8.16%) Degree
4 42 (5.91%) Azure Certification
5 27 (3.80%) Computer Science Degree
6 25 (3.52%) AWS Certification
7 11 (1.55%) DV Cleared
8 10 (1.41%) CISSP
9 8 (1.13%) GIAC
10 6 (0.84%) CREST Certified
10 6 (0.84%) ISACA
10 6 (0.84%) OSCP
11 5 (0.70%) SANS
12 4 (0.56%) CISM
13 3 (0.42%) CEH
13 3 (0.42%) Microsoft Certification
14 2 (0.28%) ITIL Certification
14 2 (0.28%) Master's Degree
15 1 (0.14%) ISO 27001 Lead Implementer
15 1 (0.14%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 41 (5.77%) QA
2 22 (3.09%) Accessibility
3 18 (2.53%) NIST
4 12 (1.69%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 10 (1.41%) WCAG
6 9 (1.27%) PCI DSS
7 4 (0.56%) 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%) PSD2
9 1 (0.14%) SEPA
9 1 (0.14%) SLA
System Software
1 444 (62.45%) Docker
2 30 (4.22%) Active Directory
3 19 (2.67%) VMware Infrastructure
4 18 (2.53%) 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
7 2 (0.28%) VMware NSX
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
1 293 (41.21%) Terraform
2 121 (17.02%) Grafana
3 98 (13.78%) Ansible
4 64 (9.00%) Prometheus
5 34 (4.78%) Argo
6 21 (2.95%) Istio
6 21 (2.95%) Puppet
7 15 (2.11%) Progress Chef
8 12 (1.69%) Kustomize
9 8 (1.13%) Packer
10 7 (0.98%) Active Directory Federation Services
11 6 (0.84%) FortiGate
11 6 (0.84%) Microsoft Intune
11 6 (0.84%) Proxmox
12 5 (0.70%) Kibana
12 5 (0.70%) ZABBIX
13 3 (0.42%) linkerd
13 3 (0.42%) Nagios
14 2 (0.28%) MIIS
14 2 (0.28%) Podman
Vendors
1 208 (29.25%) Microsoft
2 38 (5.34%) Google
3 31 (4.36%) VMware
4 22 (3.09%) Oracle
5 20 (2.81%) Facebook
6 17 (2.39%) Okta
6 17 (2.39%) Red Hat
7 16 (2.25%) Splunk
8 12 (1.69%) Palo Alto
8 12 (1.69%) ServiceNow
9 9 (1.27%) Fortinet
10 8 (1.13%) Cisco
10 8 (1.13%) Confluent
10 8 (1.13%) Databricks
10 8 (1.13%) ForgeRock
10 8 (1.13%) Ping Identity
11 7 (0.98%) EMC
12 6 (0.84%) Citrix
12 6 (0.84%) F5
12 6 (0.84%) OpenAI