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

6 months to
27 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 75 61 67
Rank change year-on-year -14 +6 -39
Permanent jobs citing Kubernetes 727 865 1,015
As % of all permanent jobs with remote/hybrid work options 3.33% 5.24% 3.74%
As % of the Systems Management category 39.45% 43.29% 34.36%
Number of salaries quoted 539 432 817
10th Percentile £45,200 £50,000 £52,500
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 £96,250 £95,000
90th Percentile £100,000 £127,500 £115,000
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 1,843 1,998 2,954
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 8.44% 12.10% 10.89%
Number of salaries quoted 1,364 1,143 2,163
10th Percentile £37,075 £35,000 £37,000
25th Percentile £47,500 £48,165 £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 £78,000 £85,000 £85,000
90th Percentile £95,000 £102,500 £102,500
UK median annual salary £64,125 £65,000 £62,500
% change year-on-year -1.35% +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 27 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 9 (1.24%) Apache Spark
2 7 (0.96%) Apache Airflow
3 6 (0.83%) IIS
3 6 (0.83%) OpenStack
4 5 (0.69%) nginx
4 5 (0.69%) Oracle SOA Suite
5 3 (0.41%) Camunda
5 3 (0.41%) Confluence
6 2 (0.28%) ArcGIS
6 2 (0.28%) GeoServer
6 2 (0.28%) Microsoft Exchange
6 2 (0.28%) Oracle Spatial
7 1 (0.14%) Apache
7 1 (0.14%) Cloud Foundry
7 1 (0.14%) JBoss
7 1 (0.14%) Oracle Coherence
7 1 (0.14%) Red Hat Fuse
Applications
1 1 (0.14%) Lightworks
Business Applications
1 2 (0.28%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 413 (56.81%) Azure
2 399 (54.88%) AWS
3 206 (28.34%) GitHub
4 183 (25.17%) GCP
5 141 (19.39%) GitHub Copilot
6 88 (12.10%) Amazon EKS
7 76 (10.45%) SaaS
8 74 (10.18%) Azure AI
9 66 (9.08%) Serverless
10 50 (6.88%) GitHub Actions
11 47 (6.46%) Azure DevOps
12 45 (6.19%) Azure AKS
13 43 (5.91%) AWS CloudFormation
14 35 (4.81%) OpenShift
15 33 (4.54%) Amazon EC2
16 29 (3.99%) Amazon S3
17 24 (3.30%) AWS Lambda
17 24 (3.30%) PaaS
18 23 (3.16%) Amazon ECS
19 21 (2.89%) Azure Service Bus
Communications & Networking
1 28 (3.85%) Firewall
2 24 (3.30%) DNS
3 23 (3.16%) VPN
4 20 (2.75%) Internet
5 17 (2.34%) Broadband
6 15 (2.06%) TCP/IP
7 8 (1.10%) DHCP
7 8 (1.10%) VLAN
8 7 (0.96%) BGP
8 7 (0.96%) Network Security
9 6 (0.83%) OSPF
9 6 (0.83%) VXLAN
10 5 (0.69%) MQTT
11 4 (0.55%) HTTP
11 4 (0.55%) WAN
12 3 (0.41%) SAN
13 2 (0.28%) iSCSI
13 2 (0.28%) LAN
13 2 (0.28%) Remote Desktop
13 2 (0.28%) SSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 158 (21.73%) MongoDB
2 139 (19.12%) Azure SQL Database
3 69 (9.49%) PostgreSQL
4 50 (6.88%) Elasticsearch
5 29 (3.99%) NoSQL
6 28 (3.85%) MySQL
6 28 (3.85%) SQL Server
7 25 (3.44%) Relational Database
8 22 (3.03%) Amazon RDS
9 8 (1.10%) Data Warehouse
10 6 (0.83%) Delta Lake
10 6 (0.83%) DynamoDB
10 6 (0.83%) Redis
11 4 (0.55%) Metadata
12 3 (0.41%) Apache Cassandra
12 3 (0.41%) BigQuery
12 3 (0.41%) Power BI
12 3 (0.41%) Spark SQL
12 3 (0.41%) Tableau
13 2 (0.28%) MariaDB
Development Applications
1 98 (13.48%) Git
2 54 (7.43%) GitLab
3 53 (7.29%) Jenkins
4 50 (6.88%) TeamCity
5 23 (3.16%) JUnit
6 16 (2.20%) Maven
7 14 (1.93%) Selenium
8 13 (1.79%) JIRA
8 13 (1.79%) Mockito
9 12 (1.65%) Visual Studio Code
10 11 (1.51%) Cucumber
11 10 (1.38%) Postman
12 8 (1.10%) Atlassian Bamboo
12 8 (1.10%) Bitbucket
13 6 (0.83%) Octopus Deploy
13 6 (0.83%) SonarQube
14 5 (0.69%) Gatling
14 5 (0.69%) JMeter
14 5 (0.69%) Locust
14 5 (0.69%) Subversion
General
1 169 (23.25%) Finance
2 127 (17.47%) Social Skills
3 74 (10.18%) Banking
4 72 (9.90%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 72 (9.90%) Retail
5 67 (9.22%) Law
6 54 (7.43%) Public Sector
7 41 (5.64%) Financial Institution
8 39 (5.36%) Back Office
9 37 (5.09%) Advertising
10 23 (3.16%) Analytical Skills
11 20 (2.75%) Marketing
12 17 (2.34%) Aerospace
13 13 (1.79%) Games
14 8 (1.10%) Legal
14 8 (1.10%) Organisational Skills
15 6 (0.83%) Telecoms
16 5 (0.69%) Military
17 4 (0.55%) Manufacturing
18 3 (0.41%) Front Office
Job Titles
1 215 (29.57%) Developer
2 198 (27.24%) Senior
3 133 (18.29%) .NET Developer
4 117 (16.09%) Software Engineer
5 84 (11.55%) Lead
6 79 (10.87%) DevOps Engineer
7 58 (7.98%) Cloud Engineer
8 48 (6.60%) Platform Engineer
9 46 (6.33%) Azure Engineer
10 41 (5.64%) Architect
10 41 (5.64%) Senior Developer
11 35 (4.81%) Senior Software Engineer
12 33 (4.54%) Java Developer
13 31 (4.26%) Senior DevOps
14 30 (4.13%) Lead Software Engineer
15 28 (3.85%) AWS Engineer
15 28 (3.85%) Cloud Platform Engineer
16 27 (3.71%) Java Engineer
17 24 (3.30%) Python Engineer
17 24 (3.30%) Senior DevOps Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 199 (27.37%) .NET
2 140 (19.26%) .NET Core
2 140 (19.26%) ASP.NET
3 134 (18.43%) ASP.NET Core
4 84 (11.55%) AngularJS
5 80 (11.00%) CSS
5 80 (11.00%) HTML
6 77 (10.59%) Node.js
6 77 (10.59%) React
7 73 (10.04%) ML.NET
8 70 (9.63%) Vue
9 69 (9.49%) Spring
10 60 (8.25%) REST
11 59 (8.12%) Kafka
12 49 (6.74%) Spring Boot
13 48 (6.60%) RESTful
14 26 (3.58%) Blazor
15 23 (3.16%) OAuth
16 22 (3.03%) .NET Framework
16 22 (3.03%) Django
Miscellaneous
1 200 (27.51%) Cloud Native
2 59 (8.12%) Distributed Systems
3 46 (6.33%) Product Ownership
4 24 (3.30%) Greenfield Project
5 20 (2.75%) Digital TV
6 19 (2.61%) Hybrid Cloud
7 18 (2.48%) Data Centre
8 17 (2.34%) Private Cloud
9 15 (2.06%) Blog
10 14 (1.93%) Public Cloud
11 13 (1.79%) Legacy Systems
12 12 (1.65%) Management Information System
13 11 (1.51%) AI Agents
14 9 (1.24%) IoT
14 9 (1.24%) Self-Motivation
15 7 (0.96%) Onboarding
15 7 (0.96%) PKI
15 7 (0.96%) Virtual Team
16 6 (0.83%) CMDB
16 6 (0.83%) Replication
Operating Systems
1 132 (18.16%) Linux
2 41 (5.64%) Windows
3 21 (2.89%) Windows Server
4 15 (2.06%) Ubuntu
5 9 (1.24%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 6 (0.83%) Debian
7 5 (0.69%) Android
7 5 (0.69%) Apple iOS
7 5 (0.69%) CentOS
8 3 (0.41%) VMS
8 3 (0.41%) Windows Server 2016
9 2 (0.28%) Mac OS
Processes & Methodologies
1 489 (67.26%) CI/CD
2 305 (41.95%) DevOps
3 271 (37.28%) Agile
4 246 (33.84%) Microservices
5 226 (31.09%) Infrastructure as Code
6 208 (28.61%) Containerisation
7 194 (26.69%) AI
7 194 (26.69%) Full-Stack Development
8 189 (26.00%) Software Engineering
9 177 (24.35%) Mentoring
10 132 (18.16%) Continuous Improvement
11 126 (17.33%) Test Automation
12 122 (16.78%) Observability
13 112 (15.41%) Platform Engineering
14 108 (14.86%) Machine Learning
14 108 (14.86%) TDD
15 103 (14.17%) Problem-Solving
16 99 (13.62%) Clean Code
17 86 (11.83%) Scrum
18 79 (10.87%) Deployment Automation
Programming Languages
1 231 (31.77%) Python
2 214 (29.44%) SQL
3 211 (29.02%) C#
4 167 (22.97%) Java
5 113 (15.54%) TypeScript
6 78 (10.73%) JavaScript
7 72 (9.90%) Bash
8 70 (9.63%) PowerShell
9 48 (6.60%) Go
10 23 (3.16%) Bicep
11 13 (1.79%) PL/SQL
11 13 (1.79%) Scala
12 11 (1.51%) PHP
13 8 (1.10%) Ruby
14 7 (0.96%) Groovy
14 7 (0.96%) Rust
15 5 (0.69%) C++
15 5 (0.69%) Kotlin
16 4 (0.55%) C
17 3 (0.41%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 103 (14.17%) Security Cleared
2 85 (11.69%) SC Cleared
3 60 (8.25%) Degree
4 43 (5.91%) Azure Certification
5 28 (3.85%) Computer Science Degree
6 18 (2.48%) AWS Certification
7 14 (1.93%) DV Cleared
8 9 (1.24%) CISSP
9 7 (0.96%) GIAC
10 5 (0.69%) CREST Certified
10 5 (0.69%) ISACA
10 5 (0.69%) OSCP
11 4 (0.55%) CISM
11 4 (0.55%) Microsoft Certification
11 4 (0.55%) SANS
12 3 (0.41%) BPSS Clearance
12 3 (0.41%) CEH
13 2 (0.28%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
13 2 (0.28%) Master's Degree
13 2 (0.28%) OCP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 43 (5.91%) QA
2 25 (3.44%) Accessibility
3 18 (2.48%) NIST
4 12 (1.65%) WCAG
5 11 (1.51%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 8 (1.10%) PCI DSS
7 5 (0.69%) Data Quality
7 5 (0.69%) SOC 2
8 3 (0.41%) Cyber Essentials
8 3 (0.41%) ISO 9001
9 1 (0.14%) GDPR
9 1 (0.14%) ISO 22301
9 1 (0.14%) ISO/IEC 42001
9 1 (0.14%) NCSC
9 1 (0.14%) PSD2
9 1 (0.14%) SEPA
9 1 (0.14%) SLA
System Software
1 466 (64.10%) Docker
2 29 (3.99%) Active Directory
3 19 (2.61%) Virtual Machines
3 19 (2.61%) VMware Infrastructure
4 4 (0.55%) Firmware
4 4 (0.55%) Slurm Workload Manager
5 3 (0.41%) Citrix Hypervisor
5 3 (0.41%) iptables
6 1 (0.14%) Hyper-V
6 1 (0.14%) Kamailio
6 1 (0.14%) KVM
6 1 (0.14%) QEMU
6 1 (0.14%) Virtual Servers
6 1 (0.14%) Xen
Systems Management
1 286 (39.34%) Terraform
2 110 (15.13%) Grafana
3 92 (12.65%) Ansible
4 58 (7.98%) Prometheus
5 27 (3.71%) Argo
6 22 (3.03%) Istio
7 20 (2.75%) Puppet
8 14 (1.93%) Progress Chef
9 8 (1.10%) Packer
10 7 (0.96%) Active Directory Federation Services
11 6 (0.83%) FortiGate
11 6 (0.83%) Kustomize
11 6 (0.83%) Microsoft Intune
12 5 (0.69%) Kibana
12 5 (0.69%) Proxmox
13 4 (0.55%) linkerd
14 3 (0.41%) Nagios
14 3 (0.41%) ZABBIX
15 2 (0.28%) CASB
15 2 (0.28%) MIIS
Vendors
1 210 (28.89%) Microsoft
2 35 (4.81%) Google
3 28 (3.85%) VMware
4 25 (3.44%) Oracle
5 20 (2.75%) Facebook
5 20 (2.75%) Okta
6 18 (2.48%) Red Hat
7 16 (2.20%) Splunk
8 12 (1.65%) Palo Alto
8 12 (1.65%) Ping Identity
8 12 (1.65%) ServiceNow
9 10 (1.38%) Databricks
10 8 (1.10%) Cisco
10 8 (1.10%) Confluent
10 8 (1.10%) ForgeRock
10 8 (1.10%) Fortinet
10 8 (1.10%) OpenAI
11 7 (0.96%) Dynatrace
11 7 (0.96%) EMC
12 6 (0.83%) Zscaler