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

6 months to
23 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 75 59 68
Rank change year-on-year -16 +9 -40
Permanent jobs citing Kubernetes 721 876 1,076
As % of all permanent jobs with remote/hybrid work options 3.33% 5.31% 3.74%
As % of the Systems Management category 39.25% 43.52% 34.51%
Number of salaries quoted 535 443 871
10th Percentile £45,000 £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 £98,474 £95,000
90th Percentile £97,500 £127,500 £117,500
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 1,837 2,013 3,118
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 8.48% 12.21% 10.85%
Number of salaries quoted 1,359 1,159 2,299
10th Percentile £37,250 £36,150 £36,500
25th Percentile £47,500 £48,306 £47,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £62,500 £67,500 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year -7.41% +3.85% -7.14%
75th Percentile £77,500 £85,000 £84,964
90th Percentile £95,000 £105,250 £102,500
UK median annual salary £64,000 £65,000 £62,500
% change year-on-year -1.54% +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 23 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 (1.25%) Apache Spark
2 8 (1.11%) Apache Airflow
3 6 (0.83%) IIS
3 6 (0.83%) OpenStack
4 5 (0.69%) nginx
5 3 (0.42%) Confluence
5 3 (0.42%) Oracle SOA Suite
6 2 (0.28%) ArcGIS
6 2 (0.28%) Camunda
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
1 401 (55.62%) Azure
2 400 (55.48%) AWS
3 206 (28.57%) GitHub
4 184 (25.52%) GCP
5 139 (19.28%) GitHub Copilot
6 97 (13.45%) Amazon EKS
7 75 (10.40%) SaaS
8 74 (10.26%) Azure AI
9 67 (9.29%) Serverless
10 54 (7.49%) GitHub Actions
11 44 (6.10%) AWS CloudFormation
11 44 (6.10%) Azure DevOps
12 43 (5.96%) Azure AKS
13 35 (4.85%) Amazon EC2
14 33 (4.58%) OpenShift
15 30 (4.16%) Amazon S3
16 25 (3.47%) AWS Lambda
16 25 (3.47%) PaaS
17 23 (3.19%) Amazon ECS
18 22 (3.05%) Amazon CloudWatch
Communications & Networking
1 29 (4.02%) Firewall
2 24 (3.33%) DNS
2 24 (3.33%) VPN
3 20 (2.77%) Internet
4 17 (2.36%) Broadband
5 15 (2.08%) TCP/IP
6 8 (1.11%) DHCP
6 8 (1.11%) VLAN
7 7 (0.97%) BGP
7 7 (0.97%) Network Security
8 6 (0.83%) OSPF
8 6 (0.83%) VXLAN
9 5 (0.69%) MQTT
10 4 (0.55%) HTTP
10 4 (0.55%) WAN
11 3 (0.42%) SAN
12 2 (0.28%) iSCSI
12 2 (0.28%) RTP
12 2 (0.28%) SSL
12 2 (0.28%) Unified Communications
Database & Business Intelligence
1 159 (22.05%) MongoDB
2 138 (19.14%) Azure SQL Database
3 71 (9.85%) PostgreSQL
4 50 (6.93%) Elasticsearch
5 29 (4.02%) MySQL
5 29 (4.02%) NoSQL
6 26 (3.61%) Relational Database
6 26 (3.61%) SQL Server
7 23 (3.19%) Amazon RDS
8 7 (0.97%) Data Warehouse
9 6 (0.83%) Delta Lake
9 6 (0.83%) DynamoDB
9 6 (0.83%) Redis
10 4 (0.55%) BigQuery
10 4 (0.55%) Metadata
11 3 (0.42%) Apache Cassandra
11 3 (0.42%) Power BI
11 3 (0.42%) Spark SQL
11 3 (0.42%) Tableau
12 2 (0.28%) GIS
Development Applications
1 96 (13.31%) Git
2 55 (7.63%) GitLab
3 54 (7.49%) TeamCity
4 53 (7.35%) Jenkins
5 19 (2.64%) JUnit
6 14 (1.94%) JIRA
6 14 (1.94%) Maven
7 12 (1.66%) Visual Studio Code
8 11 (1.53%) Mockito
8 11 (1.53%) Selenium
9 10 (1.39%) Cucumber
10 8 (1.11%) Postman
11 7 (0.97%) Atlassian Bamboo
11 7 (0.97%) Bitbucket
12 6 (0.83%) Octopus Deploy
13 5 (0.69%) JMeter
13 5 (0.69%) Locust
13 5 (0.69%) Subversion
14 4 (0.55%) Gatling
14 4 (0.55%) SonarQube
General
1 167 (23.16%) Finance
2 125 (17.34%) Social Skills
3 80 (11.10%) Banking
3 80 (11.10%) Retail
4 79 (10.96%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 72 (9.99%) Law
6 52 (7.21%) Public Sector
7 42 (5.83%) Financial Institution
8 41 (5.69%) Back Office
9 37 (5.13%) Advertising
10 23 (3.19%) Analytical Skills
11 20 (2.77%) Marketing
12 17 (2.36%) Aerospace
13 13 (1.80%) Games
14 8 (1.11%) Organisational Skills
15 7 (0.97%) Legal
16 6 (0.83%) Telecoms
17 4 (0.55%) Manufacturing
17 4 (0.55%) Military
18 3 (0.42%) Aviation
Job Titles
1 212 (29.40%) Developer
2 197 (27.32%) Senior
3 132 (18.31%) .NET Developer
4 117 (16.23%) Software Engineer
5 86 (11.93%) Lead
6 79 (10.96%) DevOps Engineer
7 56 (7.77%) Cloud Engineer
8 49 (6.80%) Platform Engineer
9 45 (6.24%) Azure Engineer
10 39 (5.41%) Senior Developer
11 37 (5.13%) Architect
12 35 (4.85%) Senior Software Engineer
13 32 (4.44%) Lead Software Engineer
13 32 (4.44%) Senior DevOps
14 31 (4.30%) AWS Engineer
14 31 (4.30%) Java Developer
15 29 (4.02%) Cloud Platform Engineer
16 27 (3.74%) Java Engineer
17 25 (3.47%) Python Engineer
18 24 (3.33%) Senior DevOps Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 194 (26.91%) .NET
2 140 (19.42%) ASP.NET
3 139 (19.28%) .NET Core
4 134 (18.59%) ASP.NET Core
5 82 (11.37%) AngularJS
6 80 (11.10%) CSS
6 80 (11.10%) HTML
7 75 (10.40%) Node.js
8 73 (10.12%) ML.NET
9 72 (9.99%) React
10 70 (9.71%) Vue
11 66 (9.15%) Spring
12 58 (8.04%) Kafka
13 55 (7.63%) REST
14 49 (6.80%) Spring Boot
15 48 (6.66%) RESTful
16 25 (3.47%) Blazor
17 23 (3.19%) Django
17 23 (3.19%) OAuth
18 22 (3.05%) .NET Framework
Miscellaneous
1 204 (28.29%) Cloud Native
2 57 (7.91%) Distributed Systems
3 46 (6.38%) Product Ownership
4 24 (3.33%) Greenfield Project
5 20 (2.77%) Digital TV
5 20 (2.77%) Hybrid Cloud
6 18 (2.50%) Blog
6 18 (2.50%) Data Centre
7 17 (2.36%) Private Cloud
8 13 (1.80%) Public Cloud
9 12 (1.66%) Management Information System
10 10 (1.39%) AI Agents
10 10 (1.39%) Legacy Systems
11 8 (1.11%) IoT
11 8 (1.11%) Onboarding
12 7 (0.97%) PKI
13 6 (0.83%) CMDB
13 6 (0.83%) CUDA
13 6 (0.83%) Mobile App
13 6 (0.83%) Replication
Operating Systems
1 131 (18.17%) Linux
2 41 (5.69%) Windows
3 21 (2.91%) Windows Server
4 16 (2.22%) Ubuntu
5 9 (1.25%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 6 (0.83%) Android
6 6 (0.83%) Apple iOS
6 6 (0.83%) Debian
7 5 (0.69%) CentOS
8 3 (0.42%) VMS
8 3 (0.42%) Windows Server 2016
9 2 (0.28%) Mac OS
Processes & Methodologies
1 488 (67.68%) CI/CD
2 303 (42.02%) DevOps
3 262 (36.34%) Agile
4 241 (33.43%) Microservices
5 228 (31.62%) Infrastructure as Code
6 202 (28.02%) Containerisation
7 190 (26.35%) Full-Stack Development
8 187 (25.94%) AI
8 187 (25.94%) Software Engineering
9 174 (24.13%) Mentoring
10 130 (18.03%) Continuous Improvement
11 128 (17.75%) Test Automation
12 122 (16.92%) Observability
13 113 (15.67%) Platform Engineering
14 108 (14.98%) Machine Learning
15 104 (14.42%) TDD
16 103 (14.29%) Problem-Solving
17 102 (14.15%) Clean Code
18 85 (11.79%) Deployment Automation
19 83 (11.51%) Scrum
Programming Languages
1 232 (32.18%) Python
2 212 (29.40%) SQL
3 207 (28.71%) C#
4 168 (23.30%) Java
5 113 (15.67%) TypeScript
6 72 (9.99%) Bash
7 71 (9.85%) JavaScript
8 69 (9.57%) PowerShell
9 47 (6.52%) Go
10 23 (3.19%) Bicep
11 13 (1.80%) Scala
12 11 (1.53%) PHP
12 11 (1.53%) PL/SQL
13 8 (1.11%) Ruby
14 7 (0.97%) Groovy
14 7 (0.97%) Rust
15 6 (0.83%) C++
16 5 (0.69%) C
16 5 (0.69%) Kotlin
17 3 (0.42%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 94 (13.04%) Security Cleared
2 78 (10.82%) SC Cleared
3 59 (8.18%) Degree
4 43 (5.96%) Azure Certification
5 27 (3.74%) Computer Science Degree
6 19 (2.64%) AWS Certification
7 13 (1.80%) DV Cleared
8 9 (1.25%) CISSP
9 7 (0.97%) GIAC
10 6 (0.83%) CREST Certified
10 6 (0.83%) OSCP
11 5 (0.69%) ISACA
12 4 (0.55%) CISM
12 4 (0.55%) Microsoft Certification
12 4 (0.55%) SANS
13 3 (0.42%) CEH
14 2 (0.28%) BPSS Clearance
14 2 (0.28%) ITIL Certification
14 2 (0.28%) Master's Degree
15 1 (0.14%) PMI Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 42 (5.83%) QA
2 24 (3.33%) Accessibility
3 17 (2.36%) NIST
4 12 (1.66%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 11 (1.53%) WCAG
6 9 (1.25%) PCI DSS
7 5 (0.69%) Data Quality
8 4 (0.55%) SOC 2
9 3 (0.42%) Cyber Essentials
9 3 (0.42%) ISO 9001
10 1 (0.14%) GDPR
10 1 (0.14%) ISO 22301
10 1 (0.14%) ISO/IEC 42001
10 1 (0.14%) PSD2
10 1 (0.14%) SEPA
10 1 (0.14%) SLA
System Software
1 455 (63.11%) Docker
2 29 (4.02%) Active Directory
3 19 (2.64%) VMware Infrastructure
4 18 (2.50%) Virtual Machines
5 4 (0.55%) Firmware
5 4 (0.55%) Slurm Workload Manager
6 3 (0.42%) Citrix Hypervisor
6 3 (0.42%) iptables
7 2 (0.28%) Kamailio
8 1 (0.14%) 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
1 289 (40.08%) Terraform
2 117 (16.23%) Grafana
3 91 (12.62%) Ansible
4 58 (8.04%) Prometheus
5 28 (3.88%) Argo
6 22 (3.05%) Istio
7 20 (2.77%) Puppet
8 14 (1.94%) Progress Chef
9 8 (1.11%) Packer
10 7 (0.97%) Active Directory Federation Services
11 6 (0.83%) FortiGate
11 6 (0.83%) Kustomize
11 6 (0.83%) Microsoft Intune
11 6 (0.83%) Proxmox
12 5 (0.69%) Kibana
13 4 (0.55%) linkerd
14 3 (0.42%) Nagios
14 3 (0.42%) ZABBIX
15 2 (0.28%) CASB
15 2 (0.28%) MIIS
Vendors
1 209 (28.99%) Microsoft
2 34 (4.72%) Google
3 29 (4.02%) VMware
4 23 (3.19%) Oracle
5 20 (2.77%) Facebook
6 19 (2.64%) Okta
7 17 (2.36%) Red Hat
8 16 (2.22%) Splunk
9 12 (1.66%) Palo Alto
9 12 (1.66%) ServiceNow
10 11 (1.53%) Ping Identity
11 10 (1.39%) Databricks
12 9 (1.25%) Fortinet
13 8 (1.11%) Cisco
13 8 (1.11%) Confluent
13 8 (1.11%) ForgeRock
13 8 (1.11%) OpenAI
14 7 (0.97%) EMC
15 6 (0.83%) Citrix
15 6 (0.83%) F5