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

6 months to
30 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 73 37 61
Rank change year-on-year -36 +24 -35
Permanent jobs citing Kubernetes 575 847 1,405
As % of all permanent jobs with remote/hybrid work options 3.17% 6.29% 4.32%
As % of the Systems Management category 38.05% 49.24% 37.12%
Number of salaries quoted 369 616 1,185
10th Percentile £52,400 £51,250 £48,750
25th Percentile £60,000 £61,250 £59,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £70,079 £80,000 £75,000
Median % change year-on-year -12.40% +6.67% -
75th Percentile £87,500 £115,000 £91,934
90th Percentile £120,000 £138,750 £115,000
UK median annual salary £75,000 £82,500 £75,000
% change year-on-year -9.09% +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 1,511 1,720 3,785
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 8.34% 12.78% 11.64%
Number of salaries quoted 1,031 1,336 3,001
10th Percentile £37,500 £41,250 £37,101
25th Percentile £48,165 £52,500 £47,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £70,000 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year -7.14% +7.69% -6.40%
75th Percentile £82,500 £90,000 £83,750
90th Percentile £96,250 £115,000 £102,500
UK median annual salary £65,000 £69,384 £60,000
% change year-on-year -6.32% +15.64% -11.11%

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 30 April 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 (1.91%) Apache Spark
2 10 (1.74%) Apache Airflow
2 10 (1.74%) OpenStack
3 5 (0.87%) Apache Pulsar
3 5 (0.87%) ArcGIS
3 5 (0.87%) GeoServer
3 5 (0.87%) Oracle Spatial
4 4 (0.70%) Microsoft Exchange
5 3 (0.52%) Confluence
6 2 (0.35%) Apache
6 2 (0.35%) Camunda
6 2 (0.35%) nginx
7 1 (0.17%) Anypoint
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 (0.70%) Weka
2 2 (0.35%) Chatbot
3 1 (0.17%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 1 (0.17%) Actimize
1 1 (0.17%) Shopify
Cloud Services
1 350 (60.87%) AWS
2 252 (43.83%) Azure
3 168 (29.22%) GCP
4 114 (19.83%) Amazon EKS
5 96 (16.70%) GitHub
6 74 (12.87%) SaaS
7 66 (11.48%) Serverless
8 63 (10.96%) GitHub Actions
9 43 (7.48%) AWS CloudFormation
10 42 (7.30%) Azure DevOps
11 40 (6.96%) Azure AKS
12 36 (6.26%) Amazon CloudWatch
12 36 (6.26%) OpenShift
13 35 (6.09%) Amazon S3
14 33 (5.74%) Amazon EC2
15 32 (5.57%) AWS Lambda
16 26 (4.52%) Amazon ECS
17 24 (4.17%) Datadog
18 19 (3.30%) PaaS
18 19 (3.30%) Pulumi
Communications & Networking
1 44 (7.65%) Broadband
2 35 (6.09%) Firewall
3 18 (3.13%) VPN
4 17 (2.96%) DNS
5 10 (1.74%) DHCP
5 10 (1.74%) TCP/IP
6 7 (1.22%) Network Security
7 5 (0.87%) WAN
8 4 (0.70%) AMQP
8 4 (0.70%) MQTT
8 4 (0.70%) VLAN
9 3 (0.52%) HTTP
9 3 (0.52%) RTP
9 3 (0.52%) SAN
9 3 (0.52%) SCCP
9 3 (0.52%) Unified Communications
9 3 (0.52%) VoIP
9 3 (0.52%) Wireshark
10 2 (0.35%) LAN
10 2 (0.35%) PuTTY
Database & Business Intelligence
1 75 (13.04%) PostgreSQL
2 57 (9.91%) NoSQL
3 47 (8.17%) SQL Server
4 38 (6.61%) MongoDB
4 38 (6.61%) Relational Database
5 30 (5.22%) Amazon RDS
6 19 (3.30%) RDBMS
7 17 (2.96%) MySQL
8 12 (2.09%) Azure SQL Database
9 10 (1.74%) Elasticsearch
10 9 (1.57%) BigQuery
11 8 (1.39%) Amazon Aurora
11 8 (1.39%) Flink
12 6 (1.04%) DynamoDB
12 6 (1.04%) Redis
13 5 (0.87%) GIS
13 5 (0.87%) Power BI
13 5 (0.87%) QGIS
14 4 (0.70%) Data Warehouse
15 3 (0.52%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 73 (12.70%) TeamCity
2 72 (12.52%) Jenkins
3 70 (12.17%) Git
4 54 (9.39%) GitLab
5 19 (3.30%) Jaeger
6 14 (2.43%) Cucumber
7 12 (2.09%) Selenium
7 12 (2.09%) Visual Studio Code
8 11 (1.91%) JUnit
9 10 (1.74%) JIRA
10 9 (1.57%) JMeter
11 7 (1.22%) SonarQube
12 6 (1.04%) CircleCI
12 6 (1.04%) Locust
12 6 (1.04%) Visual Studio
13 5 (0.87%) Bitbucket
14 4 (0.70%) MLflow
14 4 (0.70%) Robot Framework
15 3 (0.52%) Maven
15 3 (0.52%) REST Assured
General
1 135 (23.48%) Finance
2 131 (22.78%) Social Skills
3 90 (15.65%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 84 (14.61%) Banking
5 82 (14.26%) Retail
6 75 (13.04%) Law
7 41 (7.13%) Financial Institution
8 34 (5.91%) Public Sector
9 33 (5.74%) Back Office
10 21 (3.65%) Telecoms
11 16 (2.78%) Analytical Skills
12 11 (1.91%) Front Office
13 9 (1.57%) Organisational Skills
14 7 (1.22%) Military
15 6 (1.04%) Advertising
15 6 (1.04%) Legal
16 4 (0.70%) Esports
16 4 (0.70%) Manufacturing
16 4 (0.70%) Marketing
16 4 (0.70%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 190 (33.04%) Senior
2 112 (19.48%) Lead
3 110 (19.13%) Software Engineer
4 90 (15.65%) Developer
5 78 (13.57%) DevOps Engineer
6 54 (9.39%) Cloud Engineer
7 50 (8.70%) Azure Engineer
8 47 (8.17%) Platform Engineer
9 38 (6.61%) Senior Developer
9 38 (6.61%) Senior Software Engineer
10 31 (5.39%) Java Engineer
11 29 (5.04%) Cloud Platform Engineer
11 29 (5.04%) Infrastructure Engineer
11 29 (5.04%) Python Engineer
12 28 (4.87%) AWS Engineer
12 28 (4.87%) Senior DevOps
13 27 (4.70%) Lead Software Engineer
14 26 (4.52%) Java Developer
15 24 (4.17%) Lead DevOps
15 24 (4.17%) Team Leader
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 70 (12.17%) Kafka
2 65 (11.30%) .NET
3 64 (11.13%) Spring
4 61 (10.61%) React
5 53 (9.22%) Spring Boot
6 45 (7.83%) Elastic Stack
6 45 (7.83%) REST
7 44 (7.65%) RESTful
8 42 (7.30%) Node.js
9 33 (5.74%) Django
10 25 (4.35%) Akka
11 24 (4.17%) .NET Core
12 23 (4.00%) OpenTelemetry
13 22 (3.83%) AngularJS
13 22 (3.83%) Flask
14 20 (3.48%) gRPC
14 20 (3.48%) OAuth
14 20 (3.48%) RabbitMQ
15 19 (3.30%) FastAPI
16 13 (2.26%) Loki
Miscellaneous
1 173 (30.09%) Cloud Native
2 50 (8.70%) Distributed Systems
3 41 (7.13%) Product Ownership
4 23 (4.00%) Over-the-Top Content
4 23 (4.00%) Video\Live Streaming
5 22 (3.83%) Blog
6 19 (3.30%) Private Cloud
7 17 (2.96%) Hybrid Cloud
8 16 (2.78%) Legacy Systems
9 15 (2.61%) AI Agents
9 15 (2.61%) Data Centre
9 15 (2.61%) Onboarding
10 13 (2.26%) Public Cloud
11 9 (1.57%) Security Posture
12 8 (1.39%) Management Information System
12 8 (1.39%) Virtual Team
13 6 (1.04%) Algorithms
13 6 (1.04%) CUDA
13 6 (1.04%) Distributed Architecture
13 6 (1.04%) Fixed Income
Operating Systems
1 132 (22.96%) Linux
2 38 (6.61%) Windows
3 25 (4.35%) Unix
4 23 (4.00%) Android
5 16 (2.78%) Windows Server
6 14 (2.43%) Apple iOS
6 14 (2.43%) Ubuntu
7 12 (2.09%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
8 9 (1.57%) CentOS
9 7 (1.22%) VMS
10 4 (0.70%) Debian
11 3 (0.52%) Windows Server 2016
12 2 (0.35%) Mac OS
Processes & Methodologies
1 356 (61.91%) CI/CD
2 327 (56.87%) DevOps
3 220 (38.26%) Agile
4 214 (37.22%) Containerisation
5 210 (36.52%) Infrastructure as Code
6 171 (29.74%) Microservices
7 155 (26.96%) Software Engineering
8 136 (23.65%) Mentoring
9 124 (21.57%) Test Automation
10 114 (19.83%) Continuous Improvement
11 98 (17.04%) Observability
12 94 (16.35%) Platform Engineering
13 89 (15.48%) Clean Code
14 85 (14.78%) AI
15 83 (14.43%) Problem-Solving
16 79 (13.74%) Deployment Automation
17 75 (13.04%) Site Reliability Engineering
18 69 (12.00%) TDD
19 64 (11.13%) Analytics
20 63 (10.96%) High Availability
Programming Languages
1 242 (42.09%) Python
2 182 (31.65%) Java
3 91 (15.83%) Go
4 90 (15.65%) JavaScript
5 82 (14.26%) SQL
6 73 (12.70%) Bash
7 60 (10.43%) C#
8 50 (8.70%) TypeScript
9 48 (8.35%) PowerShell
10 33 (5.74%) Scala
11 26 (4.52%) Bicep
12 14 (2.43%) C++
13 8 (1.39%) Delphi
13 8 (1.39%) PHP
14 7 (1.22%) C
14 7 (1.22%) Rust
15 4 (0.70%) Perl
16 3 (0.52%) Korn
16 3 (0.52%) Ruby
16 3 (0.52%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 77 (13.39%) Security Cleared
2 73 (12.70%) Degree
3 59 (10.26%) SC Cleared
4 43 (7.48%) Azure Certification
5 41 (7.13%) Computer Science Degree
6 31 (5.39%) AWS Certification
7 16 (2.78%) DV Cleared
8 8 (1.39%) CREST Certified
8 8 (1.39%) OSCP
9 6 (1.04%) CISSP
9 6 (1.04%) ISACA
9 6 (1.04%) Microsoft Certification
10 5 (0.87%) GIAC
10 5 (0.87%) SANS
11 3 (0.52%) LPIC
11 3 (0.52%) Master's Degree
12 2 (0.35%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
12 2 (0.35%) ISTQB
12 2 (0.35%) ITIL Certification
12 2 (0.35%) Linux+ Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 36 (6.26%) QA
2 15 (2.61%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 14 (2.43%) Accessibility
3 14 (2.43%) NIST
4 11 (1.91%) PCI DSS
5 10 (1.74%) Data Quality
6 5 (0.87%) GDPR
6 5 (0.87%) SOC 2
6 5 (0.87%) WCAG
7 3 (0.52%) ISO 9001
8 2 (0.35%) Software Quality Assurance
9 1 (0.17%) GRC
9 1 (0.17%) ISO/IEC 42001
9 1 (0.17%) MiFID
System Software
1 338 (58.78%) Docker
2 32 (5.57%) Active Directory
3 18 (3.13%) VMware Infrastructure
4 13 (2.26%) Virtual Machines
5 6 (1.04%) VMware NSX
6 5 (0.87%) Firmware
7 4 (0.70%) Hyper-V
7 4 (0.70%) Slurm Workload Manager
8 3 (0.52%) Citrix Hypervisor
8 3 (0.52%) Kamailio
9 2 (0.35%) vSphere
10 1 (0.17%) KVM
10 1 (0.17%) QEMU
10 1 (0.17%) vCloud
10 1 (0.17%) Virtual Desktop
10 1 (0.17%) Virtual Servers
10 1 (0.17%) Xen
Systems Management
1 305 (53.04%) Terraform
2 130 (22.61%) Grafana
3 124 (21.57%) Ansible
4 81 (14.09%) Prometheus
5 48 (8.35%) Argo
6 23 (4.00%) Kustomize
7 18 (3.13%) Puppet
8 13 (2.26%) Istio
9 9 (1.57%) Progress Chef
10 8 (1.39%) Microsoft Intune
11 7 (1.22%) Packer
11 7 (1.22%) Proxmox
11 7 (1.22%) ZABBIX
12 6 (1.04%) Active Directory Federation Services
13 5 (0.87%) Kibana
14 4 (0.70%) logstash
15 3 (0.52%) FortiGate
16 2 (0.35%) MIIS
16 2 (0.35%) Nagios
16 2 (0.35%) Podman
Vendors
1 68 (11.83%) Microsoft
2 36 (6.26%) Google
3 33 (5.74%) VMware
4 23 (4.00%) Red Hat
5 18 (3.13%) Oracle
6 12 (2.09%) Splunk
7 9 (1.57%) Okta
8 8 (1.39%) Cisco
8 8 (1.39%) Confluent
8 8 (1.39%) Databricks
9 7 (1.22%) Palo Alto
9 7 (1.22%) ServiceNow
10 6 (1.04%) Dell
10 6 (1.04%) EMC
10 6 (1.04%) F5
10 6 (1.04%) Fortinet
10 6 (1.04%) OpenAI
11 5 (0.87%) Citrix
11 5 (0.87%) ESRI
11 5 (0.87%) Nokia