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

6 months to
15 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 75 49 64
Rank change year-on-year -26 +15 -37
Permanent jobs citing Kubernetes 637 914 1,361
As % of all permanent jobs with remote/hybrid work options 3.21% 5.97% 3.94%
As % of the Systems Management category 39.54% 44.89% 36.64%
Number of salaries quoted 411 480 1,123
10th Percentile £47,092 £50,000 £50,000
25th Percentile £55,000 £60,000 £59,625
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £78,810 £75,000
Median % change year-on-year -17.52% +5.08% -
75th Percentile £82,500 £108,188 £93,750
90th Percentile £97,500 £138,750 £116,000
UK median annual salary £72,500 £80,000 £75,000
% change year-on-year -9.38% +6.67% -

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 1,611 2,036 3,715
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 8.11% 13.30% 10.76%
Number of salaries quoted 1,130 1,174 2,824
10th Percentile £36,250 £36,250 £36,500
25th Percentile £46,446 £48,750 £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 £78,350 £87,500 £84,919
90th Percentile £95,000 £115,000 £102,500
UK median annual salary £65,000 £67,500 £61,103
% change year-on-year -3.70% +10.47% -9.48%

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 15 June 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 7 (1.10%) Apache Airflow
1 7 (1.10%) OpenStack
2 6 (0.94%) Apache Spark
3 2 (0.31%) Apache
3 2 (0.31%) ArcGIS
3 2 (0.31%) Camunda
3 2 (0.31%) Confluence
3 2 (0.31%) GeoServer
3 2 (0.31%) IIS
3 2 (0.31%) Microsoft Exchange
3 2 (0.31%) Oracle SOA Suite
3 2 (0.31%) Oracle Spatial
4 1 (0.16%) Cloud Foundry
4 1 (0.16%) JBoss
4 1 (0.16%) nginx
4 1 (0.16%) Oracle Coherence
4 1 (0.16%) Red Hat Fuse
4 1 (0.16%) SAS
Applications
1 4 (0.63%) Weka
2 1 (0.16%) Chatbot
Business Applications
1 2 (0.31%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 369 (57.93%) AWS
2 300 (47.10%) Azure
3 160 (25.12%) GCP
4 137 (21.51%) GitHub
5 104 (16.33%) Amazon EKS
6 80 (12.56%) GitHub Copilot
7 73 (11.46%) SaaS
8 64 (10.05%) Serverless
9 46 (7.22%) GitHub Actions
10 45 (7.06%) Azure AI
11 44 (6.91%) AWS CloudFormation
12 41 (6.44%) Azure AKS
13 36 (5.65%) Amazon EC2
13 36 (5.65%) Azure DevOps
14 35 (5.49%) Amazon S3
15 30 (4.71%) OpenShift
16 27 (4.24%) AWS Lambda
17 25 (3.92%) Amazon CloudWatch
17 25 (3.92%) Amazon ECS
18 24 (3.77%) Pulumi
Communications & Networking
1 53 (8.32%) Broadband
2 29 (4.55%) Firewall
3 22 (3.45%) DNS
4 19 (2.98%) VPN
5 13 (2.04%) TCP/IP
6 11 (1.73%) Internet
7 9 (1.41%) DHCP
7 9 (1.41%) Network Security
8 7 (1.10%) VLAN
9 6 (0.94%) BGP
10 5 (0.78%) OSPF
10 5 (0.78%) VXLAN
11 4 (0.63%) MQTT
11 4 (0.63%) WAN
12 3 (0.47%) HTTP
12 3 (0.47%) RTP
12 3 (0.47%) SAN
12 3 (0.47%) SCCP
12 3 (0.47%) VoIP
12 3 (0.47%) Wireshark
Database & Business Intelligence
1 101 (15.86%) MongoDB
2 75 (11.77%) Azure SQL Database
3 65 (10.20%) PostgreSQL
4 48 (7.54%) NoSQL
5 42 (6.59%) Relational Database
6 29 (4.55%) Elasticsearch
7 26 (4.08%) Amazon RDS
8 25 (3.92%) SQL Server
9 23 (3.61%) MySQL
10 18 (2.83%) RDBMS
11 7 (1.10%) BigQuery
11 7 (1.10%) Redis
12 6 (0.94%) DynamoDB
13 4 (0.63%) Amazon Aurora
14 3 (0.47%) Metadata
15 2 (0.31%) Amazon Athena
15 2 (0.31%) Delta Lake
15 2 (0.31%) InfluxDB
15 2 (0.31%) Pinecone
15 2 (0.31%) QGIS
Development Applications
1 77 (12.09%) Git
1 77 (12.09%) TeamCity
2 66 (10.36%) Jenkins
3 58 (9.11%) GitLab
4 18 (2.83%) Jaeger
5 15 (2.35%) JUnit
6 12 (1.88%) Maven
6 12 (1.88%) Visual Studio Code
7 11 (1.73%) JIRA
8 9 (1.41%) Mockito
9 8 (1.26%) Cucumber
10 7 (1.10%) JMeter
10 7 (1.10%) Selenium
11 6 (0.94%) Bitbucket
11 6 (0.94%) Postman
11 6 (0.94%) Visual Studio
12 5 (0.78%) Atlassian Bamboo
12 5 (0.78%) Locust
13 4 (0.63%) SonarQube
13 4 (0.63%) Subversion
General
1 137 (21.51%) Finance
2 122 (19.15%) Social Skills
3 98 (15.38%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 87 (13.66%) Retail
5 83 (13.03%) Banking
6 78 (12.24%) Law
7 43 (6.75%) Public Sector
8 40 (6.28%) Financial Institution
9 37 (5.81%) Back Office
10 22 (3.45%) Advertising
11 18 (2.83%) Analytical Skills
12 10 (1.57%) Aerospace
12 10 (1.57%) Marketing
13 9 (1.41%) Organisational Skills
14 8 (1.26%) Games
15 6 (0.94%) Aviation
15 6 (0.94%) Legal
16 5 (0.78%) Military
17 4 (0.63%) Manufacturing
17 4 (0.63%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 189 (29.67%) Senior
2 157 (24.65%) Developer
3 111 (17.43%) Software Engineer
4 105 (16.48%) Lead
5 73 (11.46%) .NET Developer
6 72 (11.30%) DevOps Engineer
7 59 (9.26%) Cloud Engineer
8 49 (7.69%) Platform Engineer
9 40 (6.28%) Azure Engineer
9 40 (6.28%) Senior Software Engineer
10 39 (6.12%) Senior Developer
11 32 (5.02%) AWS Engineer
11 32 (5.02%) Java Developer
12 31 (4.87%) Java Engineer
12 31 (4.87%) Senior DevOps
13 30 (4.71%) Cloud Platform Engineer
14 29 (4.55%) Team Leader
15 28 (4.40%) Lead Software Engineer
16 25 (3.92%) Python Engineer
17 23 (3.61%) Java Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 124 (19.47%) .NET
2 87 (13.66%) .NET Core
3 78 (12.24%) ASP.NET
4 75 (11.77%) ASP.NET Core
5 65 (10.20%) Spring
6 62 (9.73%) React
7 55 (8.63%) Node.js
8 54 (8.48%) Kafka
9 50 (7.85%) AngularJS
10 49 (7.69%) REST
11 47 (7.38%) CSS
11 47 (7.38%) HTML
12 46 (7.22%) Spring Boot
13 42 (6.59%) ML.NET
14 41 (6.44%) Vue
15 37 (5.81%) RESTful
16 26 (4.08%) Django
16 26 (4.08%) OpenTelemetry
17 25 (3.92%) Elastic Stack
18 23 (3.61%) Akka
Miscellaneous
1 190 (29.83%) Cloud Native
2 46 (7.22%) Distributed Systems
3 44 (6.91%) Product Ownership
4 23 (3.61%) Blog
5 22 (3.45%) Over-the-Top Content
5 22 (3.45%) Video\Live Streaming
6 20 (3.14%) Hybrid Cloud
7 18 (2.83%) Private Cloud
8 17 (2.67%) Data Centre
9 16 (2.51%) Greenfield Project
10 13 (2.04%) Digital TV
10 13 (2.04%) Public Cloud
11 10 (1.57%) Security Posture
12 9 (1.41%) Legacy Systems
12 9 (1.41%) Management Information System
12 9 (1.41%) Onboarding
13 7 (1.10%) Self-Motivation
14 6 (0.94%) AI Agents
14 6 (0.94%) CMDB
14 6 (0.94%) CUDA
Operating Systems
1 137 (21.51%) Linux
2 33 (5.18%) Windows
3 18 (2.83%) Unix
3 18 (2.83%) Windows Server
4 14 (2.20%) Ubuntu
5 11 (1.73%) Android
5 11 (1.73%) Apple iOS
5 11 (1.73%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 7 (1.10%) CentOS
7 5 (0.78%) Debian
8 3 (0.47%) VMS
8 3 (0.47%) Windows Server 2016
9 2 (0.31%) Mac OS
Processes & Methodologies
1 411 (64.52%) CI/CD
2 302 (47.41%) DevOps
3 258 (40.50%) Agile
4 232 (36.42%) Infrastructure as Code
5 199 (31.24%) Containerisation
5 199 (31.24%) Microservices
6 170 (26.69%) Software Engineering
7 165 (25.90%) Mentoring
8 137 (21.51%) AI
9 128 (20.09%) Continuous Improvement
10 127 (19.94%) Test Automation
11 123 (19.31%) Full-Stack Development
12 109 (17.11%) Observability
13 107 (16.80%) Platform Engineering
14 99 (15.54%) Clean Code
14 99 (15.54%) TDD
15 86 (13.50%) Scrum
16 81 (12.72%) Deployment Automation
17 79 (12.40%) Problem-Solving
18 77 (12.09%) Analytics
Programming Languages
1 226 (35.48%) Python
2 189 (29.67%) Java
3 146 (22.92%) SQL
4 132 (20.72%) C#
5 88 (13.81%) TypeScript
6 84 (13.19%) JavaScript
7 83 (13.03%) Bash
8 68 (10.68%) Go
9 54 (8.48%) PowerShell
10 31 (4.87%) Scala
11 19 (2.98%) Bicep
12 10 (1.57%) PHP
12 10 (1.57%) PL/SQL
13 7 (1.10%) C
13 7 (1.10%) C++
13 7 (1.10%) Rust
14 5 (0.78%) Groovy
14 5 (0.78%) Ruby
15 3 (0.47%) Perl
15 3 (0.47%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 84 (13.19%) Security Cleared
2 70 (10.99%) SC Cleared
3 50 (7.85%) Degree
4 44 (6.91%) Azure Certification
5 38 (5.97%) AWS Certification
6 22 (3.45%) Computer Science Degree
7 12 (1.88%) DV Cleared
8 9 (1.41%) CREST Certified
8 9 (1.41%) OSCP
9 7 (1.10%) CISSP
9 7 (1.10%) Microsoft Certification
10 6 (0.94%) GIAC
10 6 (0.94%) ISACA
11 5 (0.78%) SANS
12 2 (0.31%) ISTQB
12 2 (0.31%) ISTQB Advanced Certification
12 2 (0.31%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
12 2 (0.31%) Linux+ Certification
12 2 (0.31%) LPIC
12 2 (0.31%) Master's Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 37 (5.81%) QA
2 22 (3.45%) Accessibility
3 15 (2.35%) NIST
4 14 (2.20%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 10 (1.57%) PCI DSS
6 7 (1.10%) WCAG
7 4 (0.63%) Data Quality
7 4 (0.63%) GDPR
7 4 (0.63%) SOC 2
8 3 (0.47%) ISO 9001
9 2 (0.31%) Software Quality Assurance
10 1 (0.16%) Cyber Essentials
10 1 (0.16%) ISO/IEC 42001
10 1 (0.16%) SLA
System Software
1 392 (61.54%) Docker
2 29 (4.55%) Active Directory
3 19 (2.98%) VMware Infrastructure
4 14 (2.20%) Virtual Machines
5 5 (0.78%) VMware NSX
6 4 (0.63%) Firmware
6 4 (0.63%) Slurm Workload Manager
7 3 (0.47%) Citrix Hypervisor
7 3 (0.47%) Kamailio
8 1 (0.16%) Hyper-V
8 1 (0.16%) iptables
8 1 (0.16%) KVM
8 1 (0.16%) QEMU
8 1 (0.16%) Virtual Servers
8 1 (0.16%) vSphere
8 1 (0.16%) Xen
Systems Management
1 301 (47.25%) Terraform
2 121 (19.00%) Grafana
3 112 (17.58%) Ansible
4 80 (12.56%) Prometheus
5 45 (7.06%) Argo
6 24 (3.77%) Kustomize
7 20 (3.14%) Istio
7 20 (3.14%) Puppet
8 15 (2.35%) Progress Chef
9 8 (1.26%) Packer
10 7 (1.10%) Active Directory Federation Services
10 7 (1.10%) Proxmox
10 7 (1.10%) ZABBIX
11 6 (0.94%) Microsoft Intune
12 5 (0.78%) FortiGate
12 5 (0.78%) Kibana
13 3 (0.47%) linkerd
13 3 (0.47%) Nagios
14 2 (0.31%) MIIS
14 2 (0.31%) Podman
Vendors
1 143 (22.45%) Microsoft
2 43 (6.75%) Google
3 34 (5.34%) VMware
4 18 (2.83%) Oracle
4 18 (2.83%) Red Hat
5 13 (2.04%) Splunk
6 11 (1.73%) Palo Alto
7 10 (1.57%) Facebook
7 10 (1.57%) ServiceNow
8 9 (1.41%) Fortinet
8 9 (1.41%) Okta
9 8 (1.26%) Cisco
9 8 (1.26%) Confluent
10 7 (1.10%) EMC
10 7 (1.10%) OpenAI
11 6 (0.94%) Citrix
11 6 (0.94%) Databricks
11 6 (0.94%) F5
12 5 (0.78%) ForgeRock
12 5 (0.78%) HubSpot