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

6 months to
3 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 80 76 70
Rank change year-on-year -4 -6 -44
Permanent jobs citing Kubernetes 742 772 920
As % of all permanent jobs with remote/hybrid work options 3.18% 4.72% 3.80%
As % of the Systems Management category 45.44% 45.23% 39.81%
Number of salaries quoted 524 380 657
10th Percentile £46,250 £48,750 £52,500
25th Percentile £52,500 £60,000 £60,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £75,000 £75,000
Median % change year-on-year -13.33% - -
75th Percentile £85,000 £90,000 £95,000
90th Percentile £97,500 £115,000 £118,000
UK median annual salary £70,000 £77,500 £77,500
% change year-on-year -9.68% - +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 1,633 1,707 2,311
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 6.99% 10.44% 9.55%
Number of salaries quoted 1,200 917 1,487
10th Percentile £35,725 £31,500 £36,500
25th Percentile £46,250 £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 £75,000 £82,751 £85,000
90th Percentile £95,000 £100,000 £105,000
UK median annual salary £60,000 £62,500 £62,500
% change year-on-year -4.00% - -3.85%

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 3 September 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 (1.48%) Apache Spark
2 7 (0.94%) Apache Airflow
2 7 (0.94%) Oracle SOA Suite
3 6 (0.81%) IIS
4 5 (0.67%) nginx
4 5 (0.67%) OpenStack
5 4 (0.54%) Camunda
5 4 (0.54%) Confluence
6 3 (0.40%) ArcGIS
6 3 (0.40%) GeoServer
6 3 (0.40%) Oracle Spatial
7 2 (0.27%) Apache
8 1 (0.13%) Cloud Foundry
8 1 (0.13%) JBoss
8 1 (0.13%) Microsoft Exchange
8 1 (0.13%) Oracle Coherence
8 1 (0.13%) Red Hat Fuse
Applications
1 12 (1.62%) Chatbot
2 1 (0.13%) Lightworks
Business Applications
1 2 (0.27%) SAP S/4HANA
2 1 (0.13%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
Cloud Services
1 421 (56.74%) Azure
2 415 (55.93%) AWS
3 204 (27.49%) GitHub
4 201 (27.09%) GCP
5 141 (19.00%) GitHub Copilot
6 86 (11.59%) Amazon EKS
7 76 (10.24%) Azure AI
8 75 (10.11%) SaaS
9 50 (6.74%) Serverless
10 49 (6.60%) GitHub Actions
11 47 (6.33%) AWS CloudFormation
11 47 (6.33%) Azure DevOps
12 46 (6.20%) OpenShift
13 43 (5.80%) Azure AKS
14 28 (3.77%) Amazon EC2
15 23 (3.10%) Amazon S3
16 20 (2.70%) Amazon ECS
17 19 (2.56%) AWS Lambda
17 19 (2.56%) Azure Service Bus
18 18 (2.43%) Virtual Private Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 23 (3.10%) DNS
2 22 (2.96%) Firewall
3 20 (2.70%) Internet
3 20 (2.70%) VPN
4 17 (2.29%) Broadband
5 15 (2.02%) TCP/IP
6 8 (1.08%) BGP
6 8 (1.08%) DHCP
6 8 (1.08%) Network Security
6 8 (1.08%) VLAN
7 6 (0.81%) OSPF
7 6 (0.81%) VXLAN
8 5 (0.67%) WAN
9 4 (0.54%) HTTP
10 2 (0.27%) LAN
10 2 (0.27%) SAN
10 2 (0.27%) WireGuard
11 1 (0.13%) MQTT
11 1 (0.13%) Remote Desktop
11 1 (0.13%) SSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 162 (21.83%) MongoDB
2 142 (19.14%) Azure SQL Database
3 72 (9.70%) PostgreSQL
4 49 (6.60%) Elasticsearch
5 35 (4.72%) NoSQL
6 28 (3.77%) SQL Server
7 26 (3.50%) MySQL
8 25 (3.37%) Relational Database
9 19 (2.56%) Amazon RDS
10 10 (1.35%) Data Warehouse
11 6 (0.81%) Delta Lake
11 6 (0.81%) DynamoDB
12 5 (0.67%) Metadata
13 4 (0.54%) Power BI
13 4 (0.54%) Redis
13 4 (0.54%) Tableau
14 3 (0.40%) Apache Cassandra
14 3 (0.40%) Big Data
14 3 (0.40%) GIS
14 3 (0.40%) Hadoop
Development Applications
1 94 (12.67%) Git
2 56 (7.55%) TeamCity
3 51 (6.87%) GitLab
3 51 (6.87%) Jenkins
4 27 (3.64%) JUnit
5 17 (2.29%) Maven
5 17 (2.29%) Selenium
6 15 (2.02%) Mockito
7 14 (1.89%) JIRA
8 12 (1.62%) Postman
8 12 (1.62%) Visual Studio Code
9 10 (1.35%) Atlassian Bamboo
10 9 (1.21%) Bitbucket
10 9 (1.21%) Cucumber
11 8 (1.08%) SonarQube
12 6 (0.81%) Gatling
12 6 (0.81%) Octopus Deploy
13 5 (0.67%) Subversion
14 4 (0.54%) NUnit
15 3 (0.40%) Cypress.io
General
1 177 (23.85%) Finance
2 127 (17.12%) Social Skills
3 80 (10.78%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 78 (10.51%) Banking
5 75 (10.11%) Retail
6 74 (9.97%) Law
7 65 (8.76%) Public Sector
8 45 (6.06%) Financial Institution
9 44 (5.93%) Back Office
10 36 (4.85%) Advertising
11 24 (3.23%) Analytical Skills
12 21 (2.83%) Marketing
13 20 (2.70%) Aerospace
14 13 (1.75%) Games
15 10 (1.35%) Legal
16 7 (0.94%) Organisational Skills
17 6 (0.81%) Telecoms
18 3 (0.40%) Front Office
18 3 (0.40%) Manufacturing
18 3 (0.40%) Military
Job Titles
1 216 (29.11%) Developer
2 198 (26.68%) Senior
3 135 (18.19%) .NET Developer
4 118 (15.90%) Software Engineer
5 80 (10.78%) DevOps Engineer
6 70 (9.43%) Lead
7 54 (7.28%) Cloud Engineer
8 51 (6.87%) Platform Engineer
9 47 (6.33%) Architect
10 44 (5.93%) Azure Engineer
11 39 (5.26%) Senior Developer
12 32 (4.31%) Senior Software Engineer
13 31 (4.18%) Java Developer
14 29 (3.91%) Cloud Platform Engineer
15 25 (3.37%) AWS Engineer
15 25 (3.37%) Senior DevOps
16 24 (3.23%) Full-Stack Developer
16 24 (3.23%) Java Engineer
16 24 (3.23%) Lead Software Engineer
16 24 (3.23%) Python Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 285 (38.41%) Terraform
2 201 (27.09%) .NET
3 142 (19.14%) ASP.NET
4 140 (18.87%) .NET Core
5 136 (18.33%) ASP.NET Core
6 97 (13.07%) Node.js
7 83 (11.19%) AngularJS
8 81 (10.92%) CSS
8 81 (10.92%) HTML
9 80 (10.78%) React
10 74 (9.97%) ML.NET
11 69 (9.30%) Vue
12 65 (8.76%) REST
12 65 (8.76%) Spring
13 54 (7.28%) Kafka
14 46 (6.20%) RESTful
15 41 (5.53%) Spring Boot
16 29 (3.91%) Blazor
17 20 (2.70%) Django
17 20 (2.70%) OAuth
Miscellaneous
1 192 (25.88%) Cloud Native
2 58 (7.82%) Distributed Systems
3 50 (6.74%) Product Ownership
4 25 (3.37%) Greenfield Project
5 22 (2.96%) Blog
6 20 (2.70%) Digital TV
7 17 (2.29%) AI Agents
7 17 (2.29%) Data Centre
8 16 (2.16%) Public Cloud
9 14 (1.89%) Legacy Systems
10 13 (1.75%) Hybrid Cloud
10 13 (1.75%) Private Cloud
10 13 (1.75%) Self-Motivation
11 9 (1.21%) IoT
11 9 (1.21%) PKI
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%) Replication
Operating Systems
1 132 (17.79%) Linux
2 45 (6.06%) Windows
3 24 (3.23%) Windows Server
4 15 (2.02%) Ubuntu
5 7 (0.94%) Android
5 7 (0.94%) Apple iOS
6 6 (0.81%) CentOS
6 6 (0.81%) Debian
6 6 (0.81%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
7 3 (0.40%) VMS
8 2 (0.27%) Mac OS
8 2 (0.27%) Windows Server 2016
Processes & Methodologies
1 488 (65.77%) CI/CD
2 290 (39.08%) DevOps
3 266 (35.85%) Agile
4 242 (32.61%) Microservices
5 215 (28.98%) Infrastructure as Code
6 212 (28.57%) AI
7 203 (27.36%) Full-Stack Development
8 199 (26.82%) Software Engineering
9 194 (26.15%) Mentoring
10 188 (25.34%) Containerisation
11 135 (18.19%) Test Automation
12 130 (17.52%) Continuous Improvement
13 128 (17.25%) Observability
14 120 (16.17%) Machine Learning
15 115 (15.50%) Platform Engineering
16 105 (14.15%) Problem-Solving
17 102 (13.75%) TDD
18 98 (13.21%) Clean Code
19 85 (11.46%) Scrum
20 75 (10.11%) Deployment Automation
Programming Languages
1 230 (31.00%) Python
2 223 (30.05%) SQL
3 208 (28.03%) C#
4 169 (22.78%) Java
5 113 (15.23%) TypeScript
6 91 (12.26%) JavaScript
7 78 (10.51%) Bash
8 73 (9.84%) PowerShell
9 43 (5.80%) Go
10 24 (3.23%) Bicep
11 15 (2.02%) PL/SQL
12 14 (1.89%) Scala
13 9 (1.21%) PHP
14 8 (1.08%) Kotlin
14 8 (1.08%) Ruby
15 7 (0.94%) Groovy
16 4 (0.54%) C++
16 4 (0.54%) Rust
17 3 (0.40%) Swift
17 3 (0.40%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 120 (16.17%) Security Cleared
2 98 (13.21%) SC Cleared
3 57 (7.68%) Degree
4 42 (5.66%) Azure Certification
5 28 (3.77%) Computer Science Degree
6 17 (2.29%) AWS Certification
7 16 (2.16%) DV Cleared
8 8 (1.08%) CISSP
9 7 (0.94%) BPSS Clearance
10 6 (0.81%) CISM
10 6 (0.81%) GIAC
11 5 (0.67%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
11 5 (0.67%) CEH
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 (0.40%) AWS Certified Developer
14 2 (0.27%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 31 (4.18%) QA
2 24 (3.23%) Accessibility
3 18 (2.43%) NIST
4 10 (1.35%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 10 (1.35%) WCAG
5 7 (0.94%) PCI DSS
6 5 (0.67%) Cyber Essentials
6 5 (0.67%) Data Quality
7 4 (0.54%) SOC 2
8 3 (0.40%) NCSC
9 2 (0.27%) GDPR
10 1 (0.13%) California Consumer Privacy Act
10 1 (0.13%) HIPAA
10 1 (0.13%) ISO 22301
10 1 (0.13%) ISO 9001
10 1 (0.13%) ISO/IEC 42001
10 1 (0.13%) PSD2
10 1 (0.13%) SEPA
10 1 (0.13%) SLA
System Software
1 477 (64.29%) Docker
2 27 (3.64%) Active Directory
3 19 (2.56%) Virtual Machines
4 18 (2.43%) VMware Infrastructure
5 4 (0.54%) Slurm Workload Manager
6 3 (0.40%) iptables
7 2 (0.27%) Citrix Hypervisor
7 2 (0.27%) Firmware
7 2 (0.27%) Hyper-V
8 1 (0.13%) KVM
8 1 (0.13%) QEMU
8 1 (0.13%) Virtual Servers
8 1 (0.13%) Xen
Systems Management
1 112 (15.09%) Grafana
2 85 (11.46%) Ansible
3 52 (7.01%) Prometheus
4 28 (3.77%) Argo
5 24 (3.23%) Istio
6 20 (2.70%) Puppet
7 11 (1.48%) Progress Chef
8 8 (1.08%) Kustomize
9 7 (0.94%) Packer
10 6 (0.81%) Active Directory Federation Services
10 6 (0.81%) FortiGate
10 6 (0.81%) Microsoft Intune
11 4 (0.54%) linkerd
12 3 (0.40%) Cilium
12 3 (0.40%) Kibana
12 3 (0.40%) ZABBIX
13 2 (0.27%) MIIS
13 2 (0.27%) SCCM
13 2 (0.27%) SCOM
13 2 (0.27%) WSUS
Vendors
1 211 (28.44%) Microsoft
2 43 (5.80%) Google
3 31 (4.18%) Oracle
4 23 (3.10%) VMware
5 22 (2.96%) OpenAI
5 22 (2.96%) Red Hat
6 21 (2.83%) Facebook
7 20 (2.70%) Splunk
8 19 (2.56%) Okta
9 14 (1.89%) Ping Identity
10 12 (1.62%) Palo Alto
10 12 (1.62%) ServiceNow
11 10 (1.35%) Databricks
12 8 (1.08%) Cisco
13 7 (0.94%) Dynatrace
13 7 (0.94%) EMC
13 7 (0.94%) Fortinet
14 6 (0.81%) Confluent
14 6 (0.81%) New Relic
14 6 (0.81%) Zscaler