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

6 months to
10 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 75 37 63
Rank change year-on-year -38 +26 -37
Permanent jobs citing Kubernetes 580 1,039 1,390
As % of all permanent jobs with remote/hybrid work options 3.15% 7.18% 4.28%
As % of the Systems Management category 38.26% 53.61% 37.24%
Number of salaries quoted 375 601 1,170
10th Percentile £50,000 £51,250 £50,000
25th Percentile £58,125 £60,000 £59,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £70,000 £80,000 £75,000
Median % change year-on-year -12.50% +6.67% -
75th Percentile £85,500 £115,000 £92,359
90th Percentile £107,500 £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 1,516 1,938 3,733
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 8.23% 13.40% 11.48%
Number of salaries quoted 1,038 1,333 2,953
10th Percentile £37,500 £39,164 £37,101
25th Percentile £48,750 £51,250 £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 £81,250 £90,000 £83,750
90th Percentile £95,000 £115,000 £102,500
UK median annual salary £65,000 £67,500 £60,000
% change year-on-year -3.70% +12.50% -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 10 May 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 10 (1.72%) Apache Airflow
1 10 (1.72%) Apache Spark
1 10 (1.72%) OpenStack
2 4 (0.69%) ArcGIS
2 4 (0.69%) GeoServer
2 4 (0.69%) Microsoft Exchange
2 4 (0.69%) Oracle Spatial
3 3 (0.52%) Apache Pulsar
3 3 (0.52%) Confluence
4 2 (0.34%) Apache
4 2 (0.34%) Camunda
4 2 (0.34%) nginx
5 1 (0.17%) Cloud Foundry
5 1 (0.17%) IIS
5 1 (0.17%) JBoss
5 1 (0.17%) Oracle SOA Suite
5 1 (0.17%) Red Hat Fuse
5 1 (0.17%) SAS
5 1 (0.17%) SharePoint
Applications
1 4 (0.69%) Weka
2 2 (0.34%) Chatbot
3 1 (0.17%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 1 (0.17%) Actimize
Cloud Services
1 335 (57.76%) AWS
2 266 (45.86%) Azure
3 156 (26.90%) GCP
4 110 (18.97%) GitHub
5 107 (18.45%) Amazon EKS
6 69 (11.90%) SaaS
7 68 (11.72%) Serverless
8 60 (10.34%) GitHub Actions
9 41 (7.07%) AWS CloudFormation
10 39 (6.72%) Azure AKS
10 39 (6.72%) Azure DevOps
11 36 (6.21%) Amazon EC2
11 36 (6.21%) Amazon S3
11 36 (6.21%) GitHub Copilot
12 32 (5.52%) AWS Lambda
13 26 (4.48%) OpenShift
14 25 (4.31%) Amazon CloudWatch
14 25 (4.31%) Amazon ECS
15 22 (3.79%) Azure AI
15 22 (3.79%) Datadog
Communications & Networking
1 48 (8.28%) Broadband
2 32 (5.52%) Firewall
3 18 (3.10%) DNS
3 18 (3.10%) VPN
4 11 (1.90%) TCP/IP
5 10 (1.72%) DHCP
6 7 (1.21%) Network Security
7 5 (0.86%) VLAN
8 4 (0.69%) AMQP
8 4 (0.69%) Internet
8 4 (0.69%) MQTT
8 4 (0.69%) WAN
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 (0.34%) iSCSI
Database & Business Intelligence
1 66 (11.38%) MongoDB
1 66 (11.38%) PostgreSQL
2 56 (9.66%) NoSQL
3 41 (7.07%) Relational Database
4 38 (6.55%) SQL Server
5 36 (6.21%) Azure SQL Database
6 31 (5.34%) Amazon RDS
7 23 (3.97%) MySQL
8 18 (3.10%) RDBMS
9 17 (2.93%) Elasticsearch
10 9 (1.55%) BigQuery
11 8 (1.38%) Amazon Aurora
12 7 (1.21%) Flink
13 6 (1.03%) DynamoDB
13 6 (1.03%) Redis
14 5 (0.86%) Power BI
15 4 (0.69%) Data Warehouse
15 4 (0.69%) GIS
15 4 (0.69%) QGIS
16 3 (0.52%) Apache Cassandra
Development Applications
1 69 (11.90%) Git
2 68 (11.72%) TeamCity
3 62 (10.69%) Jenkins
4 50 (8.62%) GitLab
5 18 (3.10%) Jaeger
6 12 (2.07%) Visual Studio Code
7 10 (1.72%) JIRA
8 8 (1.38%) JMeter
9 6 (1.03%) CircleCI
9 6 (1.03%) Cucumber
9 6 (1.03%) JUnit
9 6 (1.03%) Locust
9 6 (1.03%) Maven
9 6 (1.03%) Visual Studio
10 5 (0.86%) SonarQube
11 4 (0.69%) Bitbucket
11 4 (0.69%) MLflow
11 4 (0.69%) Selenium
12 3 (0.52%) Mockito
12 3 (0.52%) REST Assured
General
1 133 (22.93%) Finance
2 120 (20.69%) Social Skills
3 83 (14.31%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 78 (13.45%) Banking
4 78 (13.45%) Retail
5 69 (11.90%) Law
6 35 (6.03%) Financial Institution
6 35 (6.03%) Public Sector
7 29 (5.00%) Back Office
8 16 (2.76%) Analytical Skills
8 16 (2.76%) Telecoms
9 10 (1.72%) Advertising
9 10 (1.72%) Front Office
9 10 (1.72%) Organisational Skills
10 7 (1.21%) Military
11 6 (1.03%) Aerospace
12 5 (0.86%) Legal
12 5 (0.86%) Marketing
13 4 (0.69%) Games
13 4 (0.69%) Manufacturing
Job Titles
1 182 (31.38%) Senior
2 111 (19.14%) Developer
3 108 (18.62%) Lead
4 105 (18.10%) Software Engineer
5 72 (12.41%) DevOps Engineer
6 51 (8.79%) Cloud Engineer
7 48 (8.28%) Azure Engineer
8 47 (8.10%) Platform Engineer
9 36 (6.21%) Senior Software Engineer
10 33 (5.69%) Senior Developer
11 32 (5.52%) .NET Developer
12 31 (5.34%) Java Developer
13 29 (5.00%) Cloud Platform Engineer
13 29 (5.00%) Java Engineer
14 28 (4.83%) AWS Engineer
14 28 (4.83%) Python Engineer
14 28 (4.83%) Senior DevOps
15 27 (4.66%) Lead Software Engineer
16 24 (4.14%) Infrastructure Engineer
16 24 (4.14%) Team Leader
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 88 (15.17%) .NET
2 65 (11.21%) React
3 64 (11.03%) Kafka
4 59 (10.17%) Spring
5 48 (8.28%) .NET Core
6 47 (8.10%) Node.js
7 46 (7.93%) Spring Boot
8 44 (7.59%) REST
9 40 (6.90%) RESTful
10 36 (6.21%) ASP.NET
11 34 (5.86%) ASP.NET Core
12 33 (5.69%) AngularJS
13 32 (5.52%) Elastic Stack
14 25 (4.31%) Django
15 23 (3.97%) Akka
15 23 (3.97%) CSS
15 23 (3.97%) HTML
15 23 (3.97%) Vue
16 22 (3.79%) OpenTelemetry
17 20 (3.45%) FastAPI
Miscellaneous
1 170 (29.31%) Cloud Native
2 46 (7.93%) Product Ownership
3 44 (7.59%) Distributed Systems
4 22 (3.79%) Over-the-Top Content
4 22 (3.79%) Video\Live Streaming
5 20 (3.45%) Blog
6 18 (3.10%) Private Cloud
7 17 (2.93%) Hybrid Cloud
8 15 (2.59%) Data Centre
9 14 (2.41%) Onboarding
10 13 (2.24%) AI Agents
11 12 (2.07%) Public Cloud
12 9 (1.55%) Security Posture
13 8 (1.38%) Digital TV
13 8 (1.38%) Legacy Systems
13 8 (1.38%) Management Information System
14 7 (1.21%) Virtual Team
15 6 (1.03%) Algorithms
15 6 (1.03%) Distributed Architecture
15 6 (1.03%) Greenfield Project
Operating Systems
1 128 (22.07%) Linux
2 36 (6.21%) Windows
3 21 (3.62%) Android
4 20 (3.45%) Unix
5 16 (2.76%) Windows Server
6 14 (2.41%) Apple iOS
7 12 (2.07%) Ubuntu
8 11 (1.90%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
9 7 (1.21%) CentOS
9 7 (1.21%) VMS
10 4 (0.69%) Debian
11 3 (0.52%) Windows Server 2016
12 2 (0.34%) Mac OS
Processes & Methodologies
1 365 (62.93%) CI/CD
2 317 (54.66%) DevOps
3 231 (39.83%) Agile
4 206 (35.52%) Infrastructure as Code
5 195 (33.62%) Containerisation
6 176 (30.34%) Microservices
7 153 (26.38%) Software Engineering
8 134 (23.10%) Mentoring
9 116 (20.00%) Test Automation
10 115 (19.83%) Continuous Improvement
11 97 (16.72%) AI
12 96 (16.55%) Observability
13 93 (16.03%) Platform Engineering
14 87 (15.00%) Clean Code
15 80 (13.79%) Full-Stack Development
16 76 (13.10%) Deployment Automation
17 74 (12.76%) Problem-Solving
18 73 (12.59%) TDD
19 71 (12.24%) Scrum
20 70 (12.07%) Site Reliability Engineering
Programming Languages
1 227 (39.14%) Python
2 170 (29.31%) Java
3 107 (18.45%) SQL
4 91 (15.69%) JavaScript
5 83 (14.31%) C#
5 83 (14.31%) Go
6 70 (12.07%) Bash
7 63 (10.86%) TypeScript
8 46 (7.93%) PowerShell
9 32 (5.52%) Scala
10 24 (4.14%) Bicep
11 14 (2.41%) C++
12 8 (1.38%) PHP
13 7 (1.21%) C
13 7 (1.21%) Rust
14 4 (0.69%) Perl
14 4 (0.69%) PL/SQL
15 3 (0.52%) Groovy
15 3 (0.52%) Ruby
15 3 (0.52%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 77 (13.28%) Security Cleared
2 66 (11.38%) Degree
3 61 (10.52%) SC Cleared
4 44 (7.59%) Azure Certification
5 35 (6.03%) Computer Science Degree
6 30 (5.17%) AWS Certification
7 14 (2.41%) DV Cleared
8 8 (1.38%) CREST Certified
8 8 (1.38%) OSCP
9 6 (1.03%) CISSP
9 6 (1.03%) ISACA
9 6 (1.03%) Microsoft Certification
10 5 (0.86%) GIAC
10 5 (0.86%) SANS
11 3 (0.52%) LPIC
11 3 (0.52%) Master's Degree
12 2 (0.34%) ISTQB
12 2 (0.34%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
12 2 (0.34%) ITIL Certification
12 2 (0.34%) Linux+ Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 42 (7.24%) QA
2 14 (2.41%) Accessibility
2 14 (2.41%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 14 (2.41%) NIST
3 10 (1.72%) Data Quality
3 10 (1.72%) PCI DSS
4 5 (0.86%) WCAG
5 4 (0.69%) GDPR
5 4 (0.69%) SOC 2
6 3 (0.52%) ISO 9001
7 2 (0.34%) Software Quality Assurance
8 1 (0.17%) ISO/IEC 42001
8 1 (0.17%) MiFID
System Software
1 349 (60.17%) Docker
2 32 (5.52%) Active Directory
3 19 (3.28%) VMware Infrastructure
4 13 (2.24%) Virtual Machines
5 6 (1.03%) VMware NSX
6 5 (0.86%) Firmware
7 4 (0.69%) Slurm Workload Manager
8 3 (0.52%) Citrix Hypervisor
8 3 (0.52%) Hyper-V
8 3 (0.52%) Kamailio
9 2 (0.34%) 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
1 298 (51.38%) Terraform
2 119 (20.52%) Ansible
3 112 (19.31%) Grafana
4 76 (13.10%) Prometheus
5 46 (7.93%) Argo
6 22 (3.79%) Kustomize
7 18 (3.10%) Puppet
8 13 (2.24%) Istio
9 11 (1.90%) Progress Chef
10 8 (1.38%) Microsoft Intune
10 8 (1.38%) Packer
11 7 (1.21%) Proxmox
11 7 (1.21%) ZABBIX
12 6 (1.03%) Active Directory Federation Services
13 4 (0.69%) Kibana
13 4 (0.69%) logstash
14 3 (0.52%) FortiGate
15 2 (0.34%) MIIS
15 2 (0.34%) Nagios
15 2 (0.34%) Podman
Vendors
1 89 (15.34%) Microsoft
2 36 (6.21%) Google
3 33 (5.69%) VMware
4 21 (3.62%) Red Hat
5 10 (1.72%) Oracle
6 9 (1.55%) Okta
7 8 (1.38%) Cisco
7 8 (1.38%) Confluent
7 8 (1.38%) Databricks
7 8 (1.38%) Palo Alto
7 8 (1.38%) ServiceNow
7 8 (1.38%) Splunk
8 7 (1.21%) Fortinet
9 6 (1.03%) Citrix
9 6 (1.03%) EMC
9 6 (1.03%) F5
9 6 (1.03%) OpenAI
10 5 (0.86%) AppDynamics
10 5 (0.86%) ForgeRock
11 4 (0.69%) HubSpot