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

6 months to
21 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 77 41 62
Rank change year-on-year -36 +21 -36
Permanent jobs citing Kubernetes 592 1,011 1,388
As % of all permanent jobs with remote/hybrid work options 3.15% 6.75% 4.27%
As % of the Systems Management category 38.72% 46.74% 37.33%
Number of salaries quoted 369 547 1,174
10th Percentile £48,750 £51,250 £50,000
25th Percentile £57,500 £60,000 £59,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £70,000 £80,000 £75,000
Median % change year-on-year -12.50% +6.67% -
75th Percentile £85,000 £111,875 £93,750
90th Percentile £105,000 £138,750 £115,000
UK median annual salary £72,750 £82,500 £75,000
% change year-on-year -11.82% +10.00% -

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 1,529 2,163 3,718
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 8.14% 14.43% 11.43%
Number of salaries quoted 1,034 1,270 2,931
10th Percentile £37,500 £37,225 £37,000
25th Percentile £48,165 £51,250 £47,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £67,563 £64,000
Median % change year-on-year -3.79% +5.57% -8.57%
75th Percentile £81,250 £88,750 £83,750
90th Percentile £95,000 £115,000 £102,500
UK median annual salary £65,000 £67,500 £60,500
% change year-on-year -3.70% +11.57% -10.37%

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 May 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 10 (1.69%) OpenStack
2 7 (1.18%) Apache Spark
3 6 (1.01%) Apache Airflow
4 4 (0.68%) ArcGIS
4 4 (0.68%) GeoServer
4 4 (0.68%) Oracle Spatial
5 3 (0.51%) Confluence
5 3 (0.51%) Microsoft Exchange
6 2 (0.34%) Apache
6 2 (0.34%) Camunda
6 2 (0.34%) nginx
6 2 (0.34%) Oracle SOA Suite
7 1 (0.17%) Apache Pulsar
7 1 (0.17%) Cloud Foundry
7 1 (0.17%) IIS
7 1 (0.17%) JBoss
7 1 (0.17%) Red Hat Fuse
7 1 (0.17%) SAS
7 1 (0.17%) SharePoint
Applications
1 4 (0.68%) Weka
2 2 (0.34%) Chatbot
3 1 (0.17%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 2 (0.34%) SAP S/4HANA
2 1 (0.17%) Actimize
Cloud Services
1 352 (59.46%) AWS
2 269 (45.44%) Azure
3 160 (27.03%) GCP
4 116 (19.59%) GitHub
5 115 (19.43%) Amazon EKS
6 76 (12.84%) SaaS
7 69 (11.66%) Serverless
8 58 (9.80%) GitHub Actions
9 44 (7.43%) GitHub Copilot
10 41 (6.93%) AWS CloudFormation
11 38 (6.42%) Azure AKS
12 37 (6.25%) Amazon EC2
12 37 (6.25%) Azure DevOps
13 36 (6.08%) Amazon S3
14 31 (5.24%) AWS Lambda
15 28 (4.73%) Amazon ECS
16 26 (4.39%) Azure AI
17 25 (4.22%) Amazon CloudWatch
18 24 (4.05%) OpenShift
19 21 (3.55%) Datadog
Communications & Networking
1 48 (8.11%) Broadband
2 29 (4.90%) Firewall
3 20 (3.38%) DNS
4 18 (3.04%) VPN
5 12 (2.03%) TCP/IP
6 10 (1.69%) DHCP
7 8 (1.35%) Network Security
8 6 (1.01%) Internet
8 6 (1.01%) VLAN
9 4 (0.68%) AMQP
9 4 (0.68%) MQTT
9 4 (0.68%) WAN
10 3 (0.51%) BGP
10 3 (0.51%) HTTP
10 3 (0.51%) OSPF
10 3 (0.51%) SAN
10 3 (0.51%) Unified Communications
10 3 (0.51%) VoIP
10 3 (0.51%) VXLAN
10 3 (0.51%) Wireshark
Database & Business Intelligence
1 73 (12.33%) MongoDB
2 62 (10.47%) PostgreSQL
3 52 (8.78%) NoSQL
4 42 (7.09%) Azure SQL Database
5 39 (6.59%) Relational Database
6 35 (5.91%) SQL Server
7 31 (5.24%) Amazon RDS
8 21 (3.55%) Elasticsearch
8 21 (3.55%) MySQL
9 18 (3.04%) RDBMS
10 8 (1.35%) BigQuery
11 7 (1.18%) Amazon Aurora
11 7 (1.18%) Redis
12 6 (1.01%) DynamoDB
12 6 (1.01%) Flink
13 4 (0.68%) GIS
13 4 (0.68%) QGIS
14 3 (0.51%) Apache Cassandra
15 2 (0.34%) Neo4j
15 2 (0.34%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 78 (13.18%) TeamCity
2 67 (11.32%) Git
3 61 (10.30%) Jenkins
4 50 (8.45%) GitLab
5 18 (3.04%) Jaeger
6 12 (2.03%) Visual Studio Code
7 11 (1.86%) JUnit
7 11 (1.86%) Maven
8 10 (1.69%) JIRA
9 8 (1.35%) JMeter
9 8 (1.35%) Mockito
10 6 (1.01%) Cucumber
10 6 (1.01%) Locust
10 6 (1.01%) Visual Studio
11 5 (0.84%) SonarQube
12 4 (0.68%) Bitbucket
12 4 (0.68%) CircleCI
12 4 (0.68%) MLflow
12 4 (0.68%) Selenium
13 3 (0.51%) REST Assured
General
1 145 (24.49%) Finance
2 115 (19.43%) Social Skills
3 98 (16.55%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 91 (15.37%) Retail
5 90 (15.20%) Banking
6 81 (13.68%) Law
7 43 (7.26%) Financial Institution
8 37 (6.25%) Back Office
9 35 (5.91%) Public Sector
10 17 (2.87%) Analytical Skills
11 11 (1.86%) Advertising
12 10 (1.69%) Organisational Skills
13 9 (1.52%) Front Office
14 8 (1.35%) Telecoms
15 6 (1.01%) Aerospace
15 6 (1.01%) Legal
15 6 (1.01%) Military
16 5 (0.84%) Games
17 4 (0.68%) Marketing
17 4 (0.68%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 181 (30.57%) Senior
2 121 (20.44%) Developer
3 112 (18.92%) Lead
3 112 (18.92%) Software Engineer
4 71 (11.99%) DevOps Engineer
5 50 (8.45%) Cloud Engineer
6 47 (7.94%) Platform Engineer
7 43 (7.26%) Azure Engineer
8 40 (6.76%) .NET Developer
9 39 (6.59%) Senior Software Engineer
10 34 (5.74%) Senior Developer
11 33 (5.57%) Java Developer
12 31 (5.24%) Java Engineer
13 30 (5.07%) Lead Software Engineer
14 29 (4.90%) Cloud Platform Engineer
14 29 (4.90%) Senior DevOps
14 29 (4.90%) Team Leader
15 27 (4.56%) AWS Engineer
15 27 (4.56%) Python Engineer
16 24 (4.05%) Java Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 93 (15.71%) .NET
2 66 (11.15%) Spring
3 65 (10.98%) React
4 59 (9.97%) Kafka
5 57 (9.63%) .NET Core
6 48 (8.11%) Spring Boot
7 46 (7.77%) Node.js
7 46 (7.77%) REST
8 44 (7.43%) ASP.NET
9 42 (7.09%) ASP.NET Core
10 35 (5.91%) AngularJS
11 34 (5.74%) RESTful
12 30 (5.07%) Elastic Stack
13 25 (4.22%) CSS
13 25 (4.22%) Django
13 25 (4.22%) HTML
13 25 (4.22%) Vue
14 24 (4.05%) OpenTelemetry
15 23 (3.89%) Akka
16 22 (3.72%) ML.NET
Miscellaneous
1 174 (29.39%) Cloud Native
2 50 (8.45%) Product Ownership
3 45 (7.60%) Distributed Systems
4 24 (4.05%) Blog
5 22 (3.72%) Over-the-Top Content
5 22 (3.72%) Video\Live Streaming
6 18 (3.04%) Private Cloud
7 17 (2.87%) Hybrid Cloud
8 15 (2.53%) Data Centre
9 14 (2.36%) Onboarding
10 12 (2.03%) Public Cloud
11 10 (1.69%) AI Agents
11 10 (1.69%) Security Posture
12 9 (1.52%) Digital TV
12 9 (1.52%) Management Information System
13 7 (1.18%) Self-Motivation
14 6 (1.01%) Algorithms
14 6 (1.01%) Greenfield Project
14 6 (1.01%) Legacy Systems
14 6 (1.01%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 133 (22.47%) Linux
2 33 (5.57%) Windows
3 18 (3.04%) Unix
3 18 (3.04%) Windows Server
4 17 (2.87%) Android
5 13 (2.20%) Apple iOS
6 12 (2.03%) Ubuntu
7 11 (1.86%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
8 7 (1.18%) CentOS
9 5 (0.84%) VMS
10 4 (0.68%) Debian
11 3 (0.51%) Windows Server 2016
12 2 (0.34%) Mac OS
Processes & Methodologies
1 376 (63.51%) CI/CD
2 312 (52.70%) DevOps
3 237 (40.03%) Agile
4 209 (35.30%) Infrastructure as Code
5 193 (32.60%) Containerisation
6 187 (31.59%) Microservices
7 165 (27.87%) Software Engineering
8 147 (24.83%) Mentoring
9 129 (21.79%) Test Automation
10 125 (21.11%) Continuous Improvement
11 104 (17.57%) AI
12 101 (17.06%) Platform Engineering
13 98 (16.55%) Clean Code
14 97 (16.39%) Observability
15 88 (14.86%) Full-Stack Development
16 86 (14.53%) Deployment Automation
17 83 (14.02%) TDD
18 78 (13.18%) Scrum
19 71 (11.99%) Problem-Solving
20 68 (11.49%) Site Reliability Engineering
Programming Languages
1 228 (38.51%) Python
2 190 (32.09%) Java
3 114 (19.26%) SQL
4 92 (15.54%) C#
5 89 (15.03%) JavaScript
6 77 (13.01%) Go
7 72 (12.16%) Bash
8 66 (11.15%) TypeScript
9 46 (7.77%) PowerShell
10 31 (5.24%) Scala
11 19 (3.21%) Bicep
12 11 (1.86%) C++
13 9 (1.52%) PL/SQL
14 8 (1.35%) PHP
15 7 (1.18%) C
15 7 (1.18%) Rust
16 4 (0.68%) Groovy
16 4 (0.68%) Perl
17 3 (0.51%) Korn
17 3 (0.51%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 78 (13.18%) Security Cleared
2 64 (10.81%) SC Cleared
3 62 (10.47%) Degree
4 48 (8.11%) Azure Certification
5 36 (6.08%) AWS Certification
6 29 (4.90%) Computer Science Degree
7 12 (2.03%) DV Cleared
8 9 (1.52%) CREST Certified
8 9 (1.52%) OSCP
9 7 (1.18%) CISSP
10 6 (1.01%) GIAC
10 6 (1.01%) ISACA
10 6 (1.01%) Microsoft Certification
11 5 (0.84%) SANS
12 3 (0.51%) LPIC
12 3 (0.51%) Master's Degree
13 2 (0.34%) CISM
13 2 (0.34%) ISTQB
13 2 (0.34%) ITIL Certification
13 2 (0.34%) Linux+ Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 42 (7.09%) QA
2 16 (2.70%) Accessibility
3 15 (2.53%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 15 (2.53%) NIST
4 10 (1.69%) PCI DSS
5 7 (1.18%) Data Quality
6 5 (0.84%) WCAG
7 4 (0.68%) GDPR
7 4 (0.68%) SOC 2
8 3 (0.51%) ISO 9001
9 2 (0.34%) Software Quality Assurance
10 1 (0.17%) Cyber Essentials
10 1 (0.17%) ISO/IEC 42001
10 1 (0.17%) SLA
System Software
1 352 (59.46%) Docker
2 31 (5.24%) Active Directory
3 17 (2.87%) VMware Infrastructure
4 13 (2.20%) Virtual Machines
5 6 (1.01%) VMware NSX
6 5 (0.84%) Firmware
7 4 (0.68%) Slurm Workload Manager
8 3 (0.51%) Citrix Hypervisor
8 3 (0.51%) Kamailio
9 2 (0.34%) vSphere
10 1 (0.17%) Hyper-V
10 1 (0.17%) KVM
10 1 (0.17%) QEMU
10 1 (0.17%) Virtual Desktop
10 1 (0.17%) Virtual Servers
10 1 (0.17%) Xen
Systems Management
1 303 (51.18%) Terraform
2 121 (20.44%) Grafana
3 115 (19.43%) Ansible
4 76 (12.84%) Prometheus
5 45 (7.60%) Argo
6 22 (3.72%) Kustomize
7 17 (2.87%) Puppet
8 14 (2.36%) Istio
9 12 (2.03%) Progress Chef
10 8 (1.35%) Packer
11 7 (1.18%) Microsoft Intune
11 7 (1.18%) Proxmox
11 7 (1.18%) ZABBIX
12 6 (1.01%) Active Directory Federation Services
13 4 (0.68%) FortiGate
13 4 (0.68%) Kibana
13 4 (0.68%) logstash
14 2 (0.34%) MIIS
14 2 (0.34%) Nagios
14 2 (0.34%) Podman
Vendors
1 101 (17.06%) Microsoft
2 36 (6.08%) Google
3 32 (5.41%) VMware
4 18 (3.04%) Red Hat
5 17 (2.87%) Oracle
6 9 (1.52%) Okta
6 9 (1.52%) Palo Alto
7 8 (1.35%) Cisco
7 8 (1.35%) Confluent
7 8 (1.35%) Fortinet
7 8 (1.35%) ServiceNow
7 8 (1.35%) Splunk
8 7 (1.18%) Databricks
8 7 (1.18%) EMC
9 6 (1.01%) Citrix
9 6 (1.01%) F5
9 6 (1.01%) OpenAI
10 5 (0.84%) ForgeRock
10 5 (0.84%) HubSpot
11 4 (0.68%) AppDynamics