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

6 months to
21 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 68 37 59
Rank change year-on-year -31 +22 -32
Permanent jobs citing Kubernetes 606 919 1,415
As % of all permanent jobs with remote/hybrid work options 3.39% 6.89% 4.37%
As % of the Systems Management category 38.67% 51.11% 37.21%
Number of salaries quoted 391 630 1,189
10th Percentile £52,400 £51,250 £48,750
25th Percentile £60,000 £61,250 £58,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £72,000 £80,000 £75,000
Median % change year-on-year -10.00% +6.67% -
75th Percentile £88,750 £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 1,567 1,798 3,803
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 8.77% 13.47% 11.75%
Number of salaries quoted 1,069 1,360 3,014
10th Percentile £37,500 £41,250 £37,101
25th Percentile £48,750 £52,500 £47,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £70,000 £64,000
Median % change year-on-year -7.14% +9.38% -7.84%
75th Percentile £82,500 £90,000 £83,750
90th Percentile £95,250 £115,000 £102,500
UK median annual salary £65,000 £70,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year -7.14% +16.67% -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 21 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 (1.82%) Apache Spark
2 10 (1.65%) Apache Airflow
2 10 (1.65%) OpenStack
3 5 (0.83%) Apache Pulsar
3 5 (0.83%) ArcGIS
3 5 (0.83%) GeoServer
3 5 (0.83%) Oracle Spatial
4 4 (0.66%) Microsoft Exchange
5 3 (0.50%) Anypoint
5 3 (0.50%) Apache
5 3 (0.50%) Confluence
6 2 (0.33%) Camunda
6 2 (0.33%) nginx
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 (0.66%) Weka
2 2 (0.33%) Chatbot
3 1 (0.17%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 3 (0.50%) Shopify
2 1 (0.17%) Actimize
Cloud Services
1 379 (62.54%) AWS
2 259 (42.74%) Azure
3 184 (30.36%) GCP
4 125 (20.63%) Amazon EKS
5 107 (17.66%) GitHub
6 82 (13.53%) SaaS
7 72 (11.88%) GitHub Actions
8 67 (11.06%) Serverless
9 44 (7.26%) AWS CloudFormation
9 44 (7.26%) Azure DevOps
10 41 (6.77%) Amazon S3
10 41 (6.77%) Azure AKS
11 37 (6.11%) Amazon CloudWatch
12 36 (5.94%) AWS Lambda
13 35 (5.78%) Amazon EC2
13 35 (5.78%) OpenShift
14 28 (4.62%) Amazon ECS
15 26 (4.29%) Datadog
16 19 (3.14%) Pulumi
17 16 (2.64%) PaaS
Communications & Networking
1 44 (7.26%) Broadband
2 37 (6.11%) Firewall
3 17 (2.81%) VPN
4 16 (2.64%) DNS
5 10 (1.65%) DHCP
6 9 (1.49%) TCP/IP
7 8 (1.32%) Network Security
8 5 (0.83%) WAN
9 4 (0.66%) AMQP
9 4 (0.66%) MQTT
10 3 (0.50%) HTTP
10 3 (0.50%) Internet
10 3 (0.50%) Intrusion Detection
10 3 (0.50%) RTP
10 3 (0.50%) SAN
10 3 (0.50%) SCCP
10 3 (0.50%) SD-WAN
10 3 (0.50%) Unified Communications
10 3 (0.50%) VLAN
10 3 (0.50%) Wireshark
Database & Business Intelligence
1 77 (12.71%) PostgreSQL
2 61 (10.07%) NoSQL
3 47 (7.76%) SQL Server
4 42 (6.93%) MongoDB
5 40 (6.60%) Relational Database
6 31 (5.12%) Amazon RDS
7 19 (3.14%) MySQL
7 19 (3.14%) RDBMS
8 12 (1.98%) Azure SQL Database
9 10 (1.65%) Elasticsearch
9 10 (1.65%) Flink
10 9 (1.49%) BigQuery
11 8 (1.32%) Amazon Aurora
12 7 (1.16%) Redis
13 5 (0.83%) DynamoDB
13 5 (0.83%) GIS
13 5 (0.83%) Power BI
13 5 (0.83%) QGIS
14 4 (0.66%) Data Warehouse
15 3 (0.50%) Apache Cassandra
Development Applications
1 82 (13.53%) TeamCity
2 74 (12.21%) Jenkins
3 72 (11.88%) Git
4 58 (9.57%) GitLab
5 19 (3.14%) Jaeger
6 14 (2.31%) Cucumber
6 14 (2.31%) Visual Studio Code
7 12 (1.98%) Selenium
8 11 (1.82%) JUnit
9 10 (1.65%) JIRA
9 10 (1.65%) JMeter
10 8 (1.32%) SonarQube
11 6 (0.99%) Bitbucket
11 6 (0.99%) CircleCI
11 6 (0.99%) Locust
11 6 (0.99%) Visual Studio
12 5 (0.83%) Robot Framework
13 4 (0.66%) MLflow
14 3 (0.50%) Eclipse
14 3 (0.50%) REST Assured
General
1 147 (24.26%) Finance
2 137 (22.61%) Social Skills
3 99 (16.34%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 96 (15.84%) Banking
5 93 (15.35%) Retail
6 87 (14.36%) Law
7 53 (8.75%) Financial Institution
8 44 (7.26%) Back Office
9 36 (5.94%) Public Sector
10 23 (3.80%) Telecoms
11 17 (2.81%) Analytical Skills
12 13 (2.15%) Front Office
13 8 (1.32%) Legal
13 8 (1.32%) Organisational Skills
14 7 (1.16%) Military
15 5 (0.83%) Advertising
15 5 (0.83%) Esports
15 5 (0.83%) Manufacturing
16 4 (0.66%) Aviation
16 4 (0.66%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 192 (31.68%) Senior
2 124 (20.46%) Software Engineer
3 120 (19.80%) Lead
4 91 (15.02%) Developer
5 83 (13.70%) DevOps Engineer
6 59 (9.74%) Cloud Engineer
7 50 (8.25%) Platform Engineer
8 49 (8.09%) Azure Engineer
9 45 (7.43%) Senior Software Engineer
10 37 (6.11%) Senior Developer
11 35 (5.78%) Infrastructure Engineer
12 34 (5.61%) Java Engineer
13 33 (5.45%) Python Engineer
14 31 (5.12%) AWS Engineer
15 30 (4.95%) Cloud Platform Engineer
16 27 (4.46%) Lead Software Engineer
16 27 (4.46%) Senior DevOps
17 26 (4.29%) Java Software Engineer
18 25 (4.13%) Java Developer
18 25 (4.13%) Lead DevOps
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 70 (11.55%) .NET
1 70 (11.55%) Kafka
2 68 (11.22%) Spring
3 67 (11.06%) React
4 55 (9.08%) Spring Boot
5 49 (8.09%) RESTful
6 47 (7.76%) Elastic Stack
6 47 (7.76%) REST
7 42 (6.93%) Node.js
8 35 (5.78%) Django
9 26 (4.29%) .NET Core
10 25 (4.13%) Akka
11 24 (3.96%) AngularJS
11 24 (3.96%) Flask
12 22 (3.63%) OpenTelemetry
12 22 (3.63%) RabbitMQ
13 21 (3.47%) FastAPI
13 21 (3.47%) gRPC
14 20 (3.30%) OAuth
15 14 (2.31%) ADO
Miscellaneous
1 191 (31.52%) Cloud Native
2 48 (7.92%) Distributed Systems
3 45 (7.43%) Product Ownership
4 24 (3.96%) Blog
5 23 (3.80%) Over-the-Top Content
5 23 (3.80%) Video\Live Streaming
6 19 (3.14%) Private Cloud
7 17 (2.81%) Hybrid Cloud
7 17 (2.81%) Onboarding
8 16 (2.64%) Legacy Systems
9 15 (2.48%) Data Centre
10 14 (2.31%) AI Agents
10 14 (2.31%) Public Cloud
11 11 (1.82%) Security Posture
12 10 (1.65%) Virtual Team
13 8 (1.32%) Fixed Income
14 7 (1.16%) Management Information System
15 6 (0.99%) Algorithms
15 6 (0.99%) CUDA
15 6 (0.99%) Distributed Architecture
Operating Systems
1 136 (22.44%) Linux
2 39 (6.44%) Windows
3 28 (4.62%) Unix
4 23 (3.80%) Android
5 16 (2.64%) Windows Server
6 14 (2.31%) Apple iOS
6 14 (2.31%) Ubuntu
7 12 (1.98%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
8 9 (1.49%) CentOS
9 8 (1.32%) VMS
10 4 (0.66%) Debian
11 3 (0.50%) Windows Server 2016
12 2 (0.33%) Mac OS
Processes & Methodologies
1 380 (62.71%) CI/CD
2 340 (56.11%) DevOps
3 229 (37.79%) Containerisation
4 228 (37.62%) Agile
5 213 (35.15%) Infrastructure as Code
6 182 (30.03%) Microservices
7 169 (27.89%) Software Engineering
8 134 (22.11%) Test Automation
9 128 (21.12%) Mentoring
10 121 (19.97%) Continuous Improvement
11 100 (16.50%) Platform Engineering
12 97 (16.01%) Observability
13 96 (15.84%) Clean Code
14 89 (14.69%) Problem-Solving
15 87 (14.36%) Deployment Automation
16 85 (14.03%) AI
17 78 (12.87%) Site Reliability Engineering
18 70 (11.55%) TDD
19 69 (11.39%) Infrastructure Engineering
20 64 (10.56%) Scrum
Programming Languages
1 254 (41.91%) Python
2 198 (32.67%) Java
3 94 (15.51%) Go
4 92 (15.18%) JavaScript
5 86 (14.19%) SQL
6 74 (12.21%) Bash
7 61 (10.07%) C#
8 52 (8.58%) TypeScript
9 45 (7.43%) PowerShell
10 33 (5.45%) Scala
11 28 (4.62%) Bicep
12 15 (2.48%) C++
13 9 (1.49%) PHP
14 8 (1.32%) Delphi
15 7 (1.16%) Rust
16 6 (0.99%) C
17 4 (0.66%) Perl
17 4 (0.66%) Shell Script
18 3 (0.50%) Korn
18 3 (0.50%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 79 (13.04%) Degree
1 79 (13.04%) Security Cleared
2 60 (9.90%) SC Cleared
3 47 (7.76%) Computer Science Degree
4 39 (6.44%) Azure Certification
5 32 (5.28%) AWS Certification
6 17 (2.81%) DV Cleared
7 8 (1.32%) CREST Certified
7 8 (1.32%) OSCP
8 6 (0.99%) CISSP
8 6 (0.99%) ISACA
8 6 (0.99%) Microsoft Certification
9 5 (0.83%) GIAC
9 5 (0.83%) SANS
10 3 (0.50%) LPIC
10 3 (0.50%) Master's Degree
11 2 (0.33%) ISTQB
11 2 (0.33%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
11 2 (0.33%) ITIL Certification
11 2 (0.33%) Linux+ Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 39 (6.44%) QA
2 20 (3.30%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 16 (2.64%) NIST
4 15 (2.48%) PCI DSS
5 13 (2.15%) Accessibility
6 10 (1.65%) Data Quality
7 9 (1.49%) SOC 2
8 7 (1.16%) GDPR
9 5 (0.83%) WCAG
10 3 (0.50%) GRC
10 3 (0.50%) ISO 9001
11 2 (0.33%) ECSS
11 2 (0.33%) SLA
11 2 (0.33%) Software Quality Assurance
12 1 (0.17%) ISO/IEC 42001
12 1 (0.17%) MiFID
System Software
1 351 (57.92%) Docker
2 29 (4.79%) Active Directory
3 15 (2.48%) VMware Infrastructure
4 12 (1.98%) Virtual Machines
5 7 (1.16%) VMware NSX
6 5 (0.83%) Firmware
7 4 (0.66%) Hyper-V
7 4 (0.66%) Slurm Workload Manager
8 3 (0.50%) Citrix Hypervisor
8 3 (0.50%) Kamailio
8 3 (0.50%) vSphere
9 1 (0.17%) KVM
9 1 (0.17%) QEMU
9 1 (0.17%) vCloud
9 1 (0.17%) Virtual Desktop
9 1 (0.17%) Virtual Servers
9 1 (0.17%) Xen
Systems Management
1 314 (51.82%) Terraform
2 141 (23.27%) Grafana
3 128 (21.12%) Ansible
4 85 (14.03%) Prometheus
5 48 (7.92%) Argo
6 22 (3.63%) Kustomize
7 18 (2.97%) Puppet
8 11 (1.82%) Istio
9 9 (1.49%) Progress Chef
10 7 (1.16%) Proxmox
10 7 (1.16%) ZABBIX
11 6 (0.99%) Active Directory Federation Services
11 6 (0.99%) Microsoft Intune
11 6 (0.99%) Packer
12 5 (0.83%) Kibana
13 4 (0.66%) logstash
14 3 (0.50%) Cilium
15 2 (0.33%) FortiGate
15 2 (0.33%) Nagios
15 2 (0.33%) Podman
Vendors
1 68 (11.22%) Microsoft
2 37 (6.11%) Google
3 32 (5.28%) VMware
4 22 (3.63%) Red Hat
5 21 (3.47%) Oracle
6 14 (2.31%) Splunk
7 9 (1.49%) Okta
8 8 (1.32%) Cisco
8 8 (1.32%) Confluent
8 8 (1.32%) Databricks
8 8 (1.32%) Dell
9 6 (0.99%) EMC
9 6 (0.99%) F5
9 6 (0.99%) Palo Alto
9 6 (0.99%) ServiceNow
10 5 (0.83%) AppDynamics
10 5 (0.83%) ForgeRock
10 5 (0.83%) Mavenir
10 5 (0.83%) Nokia
10 5 (0.83%) OpenAI