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 7 February 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
7 Feb 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 72 34 48
Rank change year-on-year -38 +14 -20
Permanent jobs citing Kubernetes 548 1,195 1,556
As % of all permanent jobs with remote/hybrid work options 3.44% 7.52% 5.60%
As % of the Systems Management category 36.85% 51.98% 42.72%
Number of salaries quoted 381 662 1,316
10th Percentile £51,875 £52,500 £47,500
25th Percentile £57,500 £62,500 £57,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £72,500 £77,500 £70,576
Median % change year-on-year -6.45% +9.81% -5.90%
75th Percentile £87,500 £105,000 £87,500
90th Percentile £110,000 £122,500 £110,000
UK median annual salary £75,000 £80,000 £75,000
% change year-on-year -6.25% +6.67% -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 1,487 2,299 3,642
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 9.32% 14.48% 13.12%
Number of salaries quoted 1,036 1,390 3,111
10th Percentile £37,500 £42,500 £38,750
25th Percentile £47,000 £52,500 £48,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £70,000 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year -7.14% +7.69% -4.51%
75th Percentile £82,500 £90,000 £83,750
90th Percentile £98,750 £115,000 £97,500
UK median annual salary £62,500 £70,000 £62,500
% change year-on-year -10.71% +12.00% -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 7 February 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 12 (2.19%) Apache Spark
2 9 (1.64%) Apache Airflow
3 7 (1.28%) Apache
4 6 (1.09%) OpenStack
5 5 (0.91%) Anypoint
5 5 (0.91%) Apache Pulsar
5 5 (0.91%) IIS
6 4 (0.73%) ArcGIS
6 4 (0.73%) GeoServer
6 4 (0.73%) Microsoft Exchange
6 4 (0.73%) Oracle Spatial
7 3 (0.55%) nginx
8 2 (0.36%) Confluence
9 1 (0.18%) Camunda
9 1 (0.18%) SAS
9 1 (0.18%) SharePoint
Applications
1 4 (0.73%) Weka
2 2 (0.36%) Chatbot
3 1 (0.18%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 5 (0.91%) Shopify
2 1 (0.18%) Actimize
Cloud Services
1 339 (61.86%) AWS
2 250 (45.62%) Azure
3 151 (27.55%) GCP
4 127 (23.18%) GitHub
5 96 (17.52%) Amazon EKS
6 90 (16.42%) GitHub Actions
7 66 (12.04%) Azure DevOps
7 66 (12.04%) SaaS
8 55 (10.04%) Serverless
9 53 (9.67%) AWS CloudFormation
10 49 (8.94%) Amazon CloudWatch
11 43 (7.85%) Azure AKS
12 41 (7.48%) AWS Lambda
13 35 (6.39%) Amazon S3
14 29 (5.29%) Amazon ECS
15 25 (4.56%) Amazon EC2
15 25 (4.56%) OpenShift
16 24 (4.38%) Datadog
17 20 (3.65%) Pulumi
18 16 (2.92%) Azure Monitor
Communications & Networking
1 43 (7.85%) Broadband
2 37 (6.75%) Firewall
3 21 (3.83%) VPN
4 12 (2.19%) DNS
5 11 (2.01%) Network Security
6 8 (1.46%) WAN
7 5 (0.91%) LAN
7 5 (0.91%) SD-WAN
8 4 (0.73%) AMQP
8 4 (0.73%) DHCP
8 4 (0.73%) Intrusion Detection
8 4 (0.73%) TCP/IP
9 3 (0.55%) Fibre Channel
9 3 (0.55%) HTTP
9 3 (0.55%) Internet
9 3 (0.55%) Kerberos
9 3 (0.55%) Unified Communications
9 3 (0.55%) VLAN
9 3 (0.55%) VoIP
9 3 (0.55%) Wireshark
Database & Business Intelligence
1 68 (12.41%) PostgreSQL
2 58 (10.58%) NoSQL
3 40 (7.30%) SQL Server
4 38 (6.93%) MongoDB
5 36 (6.57%) Relational Database
6 21 (3.83%) Amazon RDS
7 19 (3.47%) RDBMS
8 18 (3.28%) MySQL
9 12 (2.19%) BigQuery
10 10 (1.82%) Flink
11 8 (1.46%) Amazon Aurora
11 8 (1.46%) Redis
12 7 (1.28%) Azure SQL Database
13 6 (1.09%) Data Warehouse
14 5 (0.91%) DynamoDB
14 5 (0.91%) Elasticsearch
14 5 (0.91%) Power BI
15 4 (0.73%) Data Lake
15 4 (0.73%) Pinecone
15 4 (0.73%) QGIS
Development Applications
1 73 (13.32%) Jenkins
2 62 (11.31%) TeamCity
3 51 (9.31%) Git
4 48 (8.76%) GitLab
5 19 (3.47%) Jaeger
6 10 (1.82%) Selenium
7 9 (1.64%) Cucumber
7 9 (1.64%) JUnit
8 8 (1.46%) JIRA
8 8 (1.46%) SonarQube
9 6 (1.09%) CircleCI
10 5 (0.91%) Bitbucket
10 5 (0.91%) JMeter
10 5 (0.91%) Robot Framework
10 5 (0.91%) Visual Studio
11 4 (0.73%) Visual Studio Code
12 3 (0.55%) Eclipse
12 3 (0.55%) MLflow
12 3 (0.55%) REST Assured
13 2 (0.36%) git-flow
General
1 118 (21.53%) Finance
2 111 (20.26%) Social Skills
3 71 (12.96%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 68 (12.41%) Retail
5 65 (11.86%) Law
6 64 (11.68%) Banking
7 47 (8.58%) Financial Institution
8 33 (6.02%) Back Office
8 33 (6.02%) Public Sector
9 25 (4.56%) Telecoms
10 16 (2.92%) Analytical Skills
11 12 (2.19%) Front Office
12 6 (1.09%) Legal
13 5 (0.91%) Esports
14 4 (0.73%) Aviation
14 4 (0.73%) Manufacturing
14 4 (0.73%) Military
15 3 (0.55%) Games
15 3 (0.55%) Presentation Skills
15 3 (0.55%) Tech for Good
Job Titles
1 180 (32.85%) Senior
2 112 (20.44%) Software Engineer
3 90 (16.42%) Lead
4 76 (13.87%) DevOps Engineer
5 75 (13.69%) Developer
6 71 (12.96%) Cloud Engineer
7 48 (8.76%) Platform Engineer
8 42 (7.66%) Senior Software Engineer
9 37 (6.75%) Azure Engineer
10 31 (5.66%) Infrastructure Engineer
11 28 (5.11%) Senior Developer
12 27 (4.93%) AWS Engineer
13 26 (4.74%) Java Engineer
14 24 (4.38%) Architect
15 23 (4.20%) Cloud Platform Engineer
16 22 (4.01%) Full-Stack Engineer
16 22 (4.01%) Lead Cloud Engineer
16 22 (4.01%) Lead DevOps
16 22 (4.01%) Python Engineer
16 22 (4.01%) Software Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 70 (12.77%) React
2 69 (12.59%) .NET
2 69 (12.59%) Spring
3 62 (11.31%) Spring Boot
4 55 (10.04%) Kafka
5 47 (8.58%) Elastic Stack
6 44 (8.03%) RESTful
7 38 (6.93%) REST
8 34 (6.20%) Node.js
9 26 (4.74%) Django
10 25 (4.56%) .NET Core
10 25 (4.56%) Akka
10 25 (4.56%) gRPC
11 23 (4.20%) AngularJS
12 20 (3.65%) Flask
12 20 (3.65%) RabbitMQ
13 19 (3.47%) OpenTelemetry
14 16 (2.92%) Web Services
15 14 (2.55%) ADO
15 14 (2.55%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 168 (30.66%) Cloud Native
2 46 (8.39%) Distributed Systems
3 37 (6.75%) Product Ownership
4 23 (4.20%) Onboarding
4 23 (4.20%) Over-the-Top Content
4 23 (4.20%) Video\Live Streaming
5 18 (3.28%) Blog
6 15 (2.74%) Legacy Systems
7 13 (2.37%) Data Centre
8 12 (2.19%) AI Agents
9 10 (1.82%) Security Posture
9 10 (1.82%) Virtual Team
10 9 (1.64%) Private Cloud
11 8 (1.46%) Hybrid Cloud
12 7 (1.28%) Distributed Architecture
12 7 (1.28%) Public Cloud
13 6 (1.09%) Algorithms
13 6 (1.09%) Fixed Income
13 6 (1.09%) Linux Command Line
13 6 (1.09%) Management Information System
Operating Systems
1 138 (25.18%) Linux
2 47 (8.58%) Windows
3 36 (6.57%) Unix
4 23 (4.20%) Android
5 15 (2.74%) Ubuntu
6 13 (2.37%) Apple iOS
6 13 (2.37%) Windows Server
7 10 (1.82%) VMS
8 8 (1.46%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
9 7 (1.28%) CentOS
10 4 (0.73%) Debian
11 2 (0.36%) Windows Server 2016
11 2 (0.36%) Windows Server 2019
12 1 (0.18%) Rocky
Processes & Methodologies
1 336 (61.31%) CI/CD
2 325 (59.31%) DevOps
3 220 (40.15%) Containerisation
4 194 (35.40%) Infrastructure as Code
5 177 (32.30%) Agile
6 151 (27.55%) Microservices
7 150 (27.37%) Software Engineering
8 102 (18.61%) Continuous Improvement
9 97 (17.70%) Mentoring
10 93 (16.97%) Test Automation
11 92 (16.79%) Problem-Solving
12 84 (15.33%) AI
12 84 (15.33%) Platform Engineering
13 83 (15.15%) Observability
14 77 (14.05%) Infrastructure Engineering
15 69 (12.59%) High Availability
16 63 (11.50%) Deployment Automation
17 62 (11.31%) Clean Code
17 62 (11.31%) Cloud Security
18 58 (10.58%) Site Reliability Engineering
Programming Languages
1 233 (42.52%) Python
2 169 (30.84%) Java
3 96 (17.52%) JavaScript
4 85 (15.51%) Go
5 81 (14.78%) SQL
6 77 (14.05%) Bash
7 50 (9.12%) PowerShell
8 49 (8.94%) C#
9 48 (8.76%) TypeScript
10 45 (8.21%) Bicep
11 26 (4.74%) Scala
12 14 (2.55%) C++
13 8 (1.46%) Delphi
14 5 (0.91%) PHP
14 5 (0.91%) Shell Script
15 4 (0.73%) C
16 3 (0.55%) Kotlin
16 3 (0.55%) Perl
16 3 (0.55%) Ruby
17 2 (0.36%) Rust
Qualifications
1 78 (14.23%) Security Cleared
2 63 (11.50%) Degree
3 62 (11.31%) SC Cleared
4 49 (8.94%) AWS Certification
5 43 (7.85%) Computer Science Degree
6 32 (5.84%) Azure Certification
7 14 (2.55%) DV Cleared
8 7 (1.28%) Microsoft Certification
9 4 (0.73%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
9 4 (0.73%) CREST Certified
9 4 (0.73%) OSCP
10 3 (0.55%) CISSP
10 3 (0.55%) LPIC
10 3 (0.55%) Master's Degree
11 2 (0.36%) CISA
11 2 (0.36%) Cisco Certification
11 2 (0.36%) CISM
11 2 (0.36%) CRISC
11 2 (0.36%) ISTQB
11 2 (0.36%) Linux+ Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 31 (5.66%) QA
2 23 (4.20%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 19 (3.47%) PCI DSS
4 16 (2.92%) GDPR
5 11 (2.01%) NIST
5 11 (2.01%) SOC 2
6 10 (1.82%) Data Quality
7 4 (0.73%) GRC
8 3 (0.55%) Accessibility
8 3 (0.55%) SLA
9 2 (0.36%) ECSS
9 2 (0.36%) HIPAA
9 2 (0.36%) Software Quality Assurance
10 1 (0.18%) MiFID
System Software
1 327 (59.67%) Docker
2 15 (2.74%) Active Directory
3 9 (1.64%) VMware Infrastructure
3 9 (1.64%) VMware NSX
3 9 (1.64%) vSphere
4 4 (0.73%) Hyper-V
4 4 (0.73%) Virtual Machines
5 3 (0.55%) Kamailio
5 3 (0.55%) NFS
6 2 (0.36%) Virtual Servers
7 1 (0.18%) Firmware
7 1 (0.18%) vCloud
7 1 (0.18%) Virtual Desktop
7 1 (0.18%) VMware ESXi
Systems Management
1 275 (50.18%) Terraform
2 131 (23.91%) Grafana
3 119 (21.72%) Ansible
4 85 (15.51%) Prometheus
5 47 (8.58%) Argo
6 20 (3.65%) Kustomize
7 12 (2.19%) Puppet
8 8 (1.46%) Progress Chef
9 5 (0.91%) Cilium
10 4 (0.73%) logstash
10 4 (0.73%) Proxmox
10 4 (0.73%) ZABBIX
11 3 (0.55%) Microsoft Intune
12 2 (0.36%) FortiGate
12 2 (0.36%) Kibana
13 1 (0.18%) Docker Swarm
13 1 (0.18%) Istio
13 1 (0.18%) Packer
13 1 (0.18%) Rancher
13 1 (0.18%) vCenter Server
Vendors
1 46 (8.39%) Microsoft
2 36 (6.57%) Google
3 24 (4.38%) VMware
4 22 (4.01%) Oracle
5 17 (3.10%) Red Hat
6 15 (2.74%) Splunk
7 10 (1.82%) Dell
8 9 (1.64%) Databricks
9 7 (1.28%) Cisco
9 7 (1.28%) SAP
10 5 (0.91%) Epicor
10 5 (0.91%) Ericsson
10 5 (0.91%) Fortinet
10 5 (0.91%) IBM
10 5 (0.91%) Infor
10 5 (0.91%) Informatica
10 5 (0.91%) Nokia
10 5 (0.91%) Software AG
10 5 (0.91%) Talend
10 5 (0.91%) TIBCO