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

6 months to
21 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 81 77 72
Rank change year-on-year -4 -5 -44
Permanent jobs citing Kubernetes 738 771 934
As % of all permanent jobs with remote/hybrid work options 3.21% 4.65% 3.78%
As % of the Systems Management category 45.81% 44.57% 39.58%
Number of salaries quoted 528 374 695
10th Percentile £46,250 £48,750 £52,500
25th Percentile £52,500 £60,000 £60,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £76,250 £75,000
Median % change year-on-year -14.75% +1.67% -
75th Percentile £83,750 £91,250 £95,000
90th Percentile £98,250 £115,000 £117,500
UK median annual salary £70,000 £77,500 £76,000
% change year-on-year -9.68% +1.97% +1.33%

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 1,611 1,730 2,360
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 7.02% 10.44% 9.55%
Number of salaries quoted 1,186 934 1,591
10th Percentile £36,250 £31,250 £36,500
25th Percentile £46,299 £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 £74,997 £82,751 £85,000
90th Percentile £95,000 £100,000 £105,000
UK median annual salary £60,000 £62,500 £60,000
% change year-on-year -4.00% +4.17% -7.69%

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 21 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 11 (1.49%) Apache Spark
2 7 (0.95%) Apache Airflow
2 7 (0.95%) Oracle SOA Suite
3 6 (0.81%) IIS
4 5 (0.68%) nginx
4 5 (0.68%) OpenStack
5 4 (0.54%) Camunda
5 4 (0.54%) Confluence
6 3 (0.41%) ArcGIS
6 3 (0.41%) GeoServer
6 3 (0.41%) Oracle Spatial
7 2 (0.27%) Apache
8 1 (0.14%) Cloud Foundry
8 1 (0.14%) JBoss
8 1 (0.14%) Microsoft Exchange
8 1 (0.14%) Oracle Coherence
8 1 (0.14%) Red Hat Fuse
Applications
1 6 (0.81%) Chatbot
2 1 (0.14%) Lightworks
Business Applications
1 2 (0.27%) SAP S/4HANA
2 1 (0.14%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
Cloud Services
1 424 (57.45%) Azure
2 409 (55.42%) AWS
3 201 (27.24%) GitHub
4 194 (26.29%) GCP
5 141 (19.11%) GitHub Copilot
6 84 (11.38%) Amazon EKS
7 80 (10.84%) SaaS
8 76 (10.30%) Azure AI
9 58 (7.86%) Serverless
10 47 (6.37%) AWS CloudFormation
11 46 (6.23%) Azure DevOps
11 46 (6.23%) GitHub Actions
12 45 (6.10%) Azure AKS
13 42 (5.69%) OpenShift
14 30 (4.07%) Amazon EC2
15 26 (3.52%) Amazon S3
16 22 (2.98%) PaaS
17 21 (2.85%) AWS Lambda
17 21 (2.85%) Azure Service Bus
17 21 (2.85%) Datadog
Communications & Networking
1 24 (3.25%) DNS
1 24 (3.25%) Firewall
2 21 (2.85%) VPN
3 20 (2.71%) Internet
4 18 (2.44%) Broadband
5 15 (2.03%) TCP/IP
6 9 (1.22%) DHCP
7 8 (1.08%) BGP
7 8 (1.08%) Network Security
7 8 (1.08%) VLAN
8 6 (0.81%) OSPF
8 6 (0.81%) VXLAN
9 5 (0.68%) WAN
10 4 (0.54%) HTTP
11 2 (0.27%) LAN
11 2 (0.27%) MQTT
11 2 (0.27%) SAN
11 2 (0.27%) SSL
11 2 (0.27%) WireGuard
12 1 (0.14%) Remote Desktop
Database & Business Intelligence
1 160 (21.68%) MongoDB
2 142 (19.24%) Azure SQL Database
3 70 (9.49%) PostgreSQL
4 50 (6.78%) Elasticsearch
5 32 (4.34%) NoSQL
6 30 (4.07%) SQL Server
7 26 (3.52%) MySQL
8 25 (3.39%) Relational Database
9 21 (2.85%) Amazon RDS
10 10 (1.36%) Data Warehouse
11 6 (0.81%) Delta Lake
11 6 (0.81%) DynamoDB
11 6 (0.81%) Redis
12 5 (0.68%) Metadata
13 4 (0.54%) Power BI
13 4 (0.54%) Tableau
14 3 (0.41%) Apache Cassandra
14 3 (0.41%) Big Data
14 3 (0.41%) GIS
14 3 (0.41%) Hadoop
Development Applications
1 97 (13.14%) Git
2 52 (7.05%) Jenkins
2 52 (7.05%) TeamCity
3 50 (6.78%) GitLab
4 27 (3.66%) JUnit
5 17 (2.30%) Maven
5 17 (2.30%) Selenium
6 15 (2.03%) Mockito
7 14 (1.90%) JIRA
8 12 (1.63%) Cucumber
8 12 (1.63%) Postman
8 12 (1.63%) Visual Studio Code
9 10 (1.36%) Atlassian Bamboo
10 9 (1.22%) Bitbucket
11 8 (1.08%) SonarQube
12 6 (0.81%) Gatling
12 6 (0.81%) Octopus Deploy
13 5 (0.68%) JMeter
13 5 (0.68%) Locust
13 5 (0.68%) Subversion
General
1 173 (23.44%) Finance
2 129 (17.48%) Social Skills
3 77 (10.43%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 74 (10.03%) Banking
5 70 (9.49%) Retail
6 69 (9.35%) Law
7 61 (8.27%) Public Sector
8 42 (5.69%) Financial Institution
9 41 (5.56%) Back Office
10 37 (5.01%) Advertising
11 24 (3.25%) Analytical Skills
12 21 (2.85%) Marketing
13 20 (2.71%) Aerospace
14 13 (1.76%) Games
15 11 (1.49%) Legal
16 7 (0.95%) Organisational Skills
17 6 (0.81%) Telecoms
18 3 (0.41%) Front Office
18 3 (0.41%) Manufacturing
18 3 (0.41%) Military
Job Titles
1 214 (29.00%) Developer
2 194 (26.29%) Senior
3 135 (18.29%) .NET Developer
4 116 (15.72%) Software Engineer
5 78 (10.57%) DevOps Engineer
6 72 (9.76%) Lead
7 55 (7.45%) Cloud Engineer
8 52 (7.05%) Platform Engineer
9 48 (6.50%) Architect
10 47 (6.37%) Azure Engineer
11 39 (5.28%) Senior Developer
12 33 (4.47%) Java Developer
13 31 (4.20%) Senior Software Engineer
14 29 (3.93%) Cloud Platform Engineer
15 27 (3.66%) AWS Engineer
15 27 (3.66%) Lead Software Engineer
15 27 (3.66%) Senior DevOps
16 24 (3.25%) Python Engineer
17 23 (3.12%) Full-Stack Developer
17 23 (3.12%) Senior DevOps Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 285 (38.62%) Terraform
2 204 (27.64%) .NET
3 142 (19.24%) .NET Core
3 142 (19.24%) ASP.NET
4 136 (18.43%) ASP.NET Core
5 89 (12.06%) Node.js
6 82 (11.11%) AngularJS
7 81 (10.98%) CSS
7 81 (10.98%) HTML
8 78 (10.57%) React
9 74 (10.03%) ML.NET
10 68 (9.21%) Vue
11 65 (8.81%) Spring
12 62 (8.40%) REST
13 57 (7.72%) Kafka
14 47 (6.37%) RESTful
15 41 (5.56%) Spring Boot
16 28 (3.79%) Blazor
17 22 (2.98%) Django
17 22 (2.98%) OAuth
Miscellaneous
1 193 (26.15%) Cloud Native
2 56 (7.59%) Distributed Systems
3 48 (6.50%) Product Ownership
4 24 (3.25%) Greenfield Project
5 20 (2.71%) Digital TV
6 18 (2.44%) Blog
7 17 (2.30%) AI Agents
7 17 (2.30%) Data Centre
8 16 (2.17%) Public Cloud
9 14 (1.90%) Hybrid Cloud
9 14 (1.90%) Legacy Systems
9 14 (1.90%) Private Cloud
10 13 (1.76%) Self-Motivation
11 11 (1.49%) IoT
12 8 (1.08%) Cyber Kill Chain
12 8 (1.08%) Enterprise Software
12 8 (1.08%) Management Information System
12 8 (1.08%) Mobile App
12 8 (1.08%) Onboarding
12 8 (1.08%) PKI
Operating Systems
1 132 (17.89%) Linux
2 44 (5.96%) Windows
3 24 (3.25%) Windows Server
4 15 (2.03%) Ubuntu
5 7 (0.95%) Android
5 7 (0.95%) Apple iOS
6 6 (0.81%) Debian
6 6 (0.81%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
7 5 (0.68%) CentOS
8 3 (0.41%) VMS
9 2 (0.27%) Mac OS
9 2 (0.27%) Windows Server 2016
Processes & Methodologies
1 487 (65.99%) CI/CD
2 296 (40.11%) DevOps
3 268 (36.31%) Agile
4 242 (32.79%) Microservices
5 223 (30.22%) Infrastructure as Code
6 210 (28.46%) AI
7 198 (26.83%) Containerisation
7 198 (26.83%) Full-Stack Development
8 197 (26.69%) Software Engineering
9 189 (25.61%) Mentoring
10 134 (18.16%) Continuous Improvement
11 132 (17.89%) Test Automation
12 126 (17.07%) Observability
13 118 (15.99%) Machine Learning
13 118 (15.99%) Platform Engineering
14 107 (14.50%) TDD
15 101 (13.69%) Problem-Solving
16 95 (12.87%) Clean Code
17 89 (12.06%) Scrum
18 75 (10.16%) Deployment Automation
Programming Languages
1 235 (31.84%) Python
2 219 (29.67%) SQL
3 212 (28.73%) C#
4 166 (22.49%) Java
5 111 (15.04%) TypeScript
6 87 (11.79%) JavaScript
7 75 (10.16%) Bash
8 71 (9.62%) PowerShell
9 45 (6.10%) Go
10 22 (2.98%) Bicep
11 15 (2.03%) PL/SQL
12 14 (1.90%) Scala
13 11 (1.49%) PHP
14 8 (1.08%) Ruby
15 7 (0.95%) Groovy
16 6 (0.81%) Kotlin
17 4 (0.54%) C++
17 4 (0.54%) Rust
18 3 (0.41%) T-SQL
18 3 (0.41%) VB.NET
Qualifications
1 118 (15.99%) Security Cleared
2 97 (13.14%) SC Cleared
3 59 (7.99%) Degree
4 44 (5.96%) Azure Certification
5 28 (3.79%) Computer Science Degree
6 18 (2.44%) AWS Certification
7 16 (2.17%) DV Cleared
8 9 (1.22%) CISSP
9 7 (0.95%) BPSS Clearance
9 7 (0.95%) GIAC
10 6 (0.81%) CISM
11 5 (0.68%) CEH
12 4 (0.54%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
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 (0.41%) AWS Certified Developer
13 3 (0.41%) ISACA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 39 (5.28%) QA
2 26 (3.52%) Accessibility
3 19 (2.57%) NIST
4 13 (1.76%) WCAG
5 12 (1.63%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 7 (0.95%) PCI DSS
7 5 (0.68%) Cyber Essentials
7 5 (0.68%) Data Quality
8 4 (0.54%) SOC 2
9 3 (0.41%) ISO 9001
9 3 (0.41%) NCSC
10 2 (0.27%) GDPR
11 1 (0.14%) California Consumer Privacy Act
11 1 (0.14%) HIPAA
11 1 (0.14%) ISO 22301
11 1 (0.14%) ISO/IEC 42001
11 1 (0.14%) PSD2
11 1 (0.14%) SEPA
11 1 (0.14%) SLA
System Software
1 476 (64.50%) Docker
2 28 (3.79%) Active Directory
3 21 (2.85%) Virtual Machines
4 18 (2.44%) VMware Infrastructure
5 4 (0.54%) Firmware
5 4 (0.54%) Slurm Workload Manager
6 3 (0.41%) iptables
7 2 (0.27%) Citrix Hypervisor
7 2 (0.27%) 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
1 110 (14.91%) Grafana
2 89 (12.06%) Ansible
3 52 (7.05%) Prometheus
4 27 (3.66%) Argo
5 25 (3.39%) Istio
6 21 (2.85%) Puppet
7 12 (1.63%) Progress Chef
8 7 (0.95%) Kustomize
8 7 (0.95%) 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 (0.41%) Cilium
11 3 (0.41%) Kibana
11 3 (0.41%) ZABBIX
12 2 (0.27%) MIIS
12 2 (0.27%) Nagios
12 2 (0.27%) SCCM
12 2 (0.27%) WSUS
Vendors
1 213 (28.86%) Microsoft
2 44 (5.96%) Google
3 31 (4.20%) Oracle
4 24 (3.25%) VMware
5 21 (2.85%) Facebook
6 20 (2.71%) Okta
6 20 (2.71%) Red Hat
7 18 (2.44%) Splunk
8 16 (2.17%) OpenAI
9 14 (1.90%) Ping Identity
10 12 (1.63%) Palo Alto
10 12 (1.63%) ServiceNow
11 9 (1.22%) Databricks
12 8 (1.08%) Cisco
12 8 (1.08%) Confluent
13 7 (0.95%) Dynatrace
13 7 (0.95%) EMC
13 7 (0.95%) Fortinet
14 6 (0.81%) ForgeRock
14 6 (0.81%) Zscaler