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

6 months to
12 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 82 75 66
Rank change year-on-year -7 -9 -38
Permanent jobs citing Kubernetes 740 755 923
As % of all permanent jobs with remote/hybrid work options 3.09% 4.65% 3.94%
As % of the Systems Management category 45.01% 44.46% 40.17%
Number of salaries quoted 510 369 629
10th Percentile £46,250 £48,750 £52,500
25th Percentile £52,500 £60,000 £61,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £75,000 £75,000
Median % change year-on-year -13.33% - -
75th Percentile £85,000 £90,000 £95,000
90th Percentile £97,500 £115,000 £118,750
UK median annual salary £70,000 £77,500 £76,000
% change year-on-year -9.68% +1.97% +1.33%

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 1,644 1,698 2,298
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 6.87% 10.46% 9.81%
Number of salaries quoted 1,199 896 1,404
10th Percentile £34,539 £33,750 £36,750
25th Percentile £46,250 £45,000 £47,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £65,000 £62,891
Median % change year-on-year -7.69% +3.35% -8.58%
75th Percentile £75,000 £82,751 £86,063
90th Percentile £95,000 £100,000 £105,000
UK median annual salary £60,000 £61,500 £63,750
% change year-on-year -2.44% -3.53% -1.92%

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 12 September 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 (1.49%) Apache Spark
2 7 (0.95%) Apache Airflow
2 7 (0.95%) Oracle SOA Suite
3 6 (0.81%) IIS
4 5 (0.68%) nginx
4 5 (0.68%) OpenStack
5 4 (0.54%) ArcGIS
5 4 (0.54%) Confluence
5 4 (0.54%) GeoServer
5 4 (0.54%) Oracle Spatial
6 3 (0.41%) Camunda
7 2 (0.27%) Apache
8 1 (0.14%) Cloud Foundry
8 1 (0.14%) JBoss
8 1 (0.14%) Microsoft Exchange
8 1 (0.14%) Oracle Coherence
8 1 (0.14%) Red Hat Fuse
Applications
1 12 (1.62%) Chatbot
2 1 (0.14%) Lightworks
Business Applications
1 2 (0.27%) SAP S/4HANA
2 1 (0.14%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
Cloud Services
1 423 (57.16%) AWS
2 413 (55.81%) Azure
3 212 (28.65%) GCP
4 199 (26.89%) GitHub
5 136 (18.38%) GitHub Copilot
6 93 (12.57%) Amazon EKS
7 80 (10.81%) SaaS
8 73 (9.86%) Azure AI
9 51 (6.89%) Serverless
10 47 (6.35%) GitHub Actions
10 47 (6.35%) OpenShift
11 45 (6.08%) Azure DevOps
12 44 (5.95%) AWS CloudFormation
13 42 (5.68%) Azure AKS
14 27 (3.65%) Amazon EC2
15 21 (2.84%) Amazon ECS
15 21 (2.84%) Amazon S3
16 18 (2.43%) AWS Lambda
16 18 (2.43%) Azure Service Bus
16 18 (2.43%) Virtual Private Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 22 (2.97%) DNS
2 21 (2.84%) Firewall
3 20 (2.70%) Internet
3 20 (2.70%) VPN
4 17 (2.30%) Broadband
5 14 (1.89%) TCP/IP
6 9 (1.22%) Network Security
7 8 (1.08%) BGP
7 8 (1.08%) VLAN
8 7 (0.95%) DHCP
9 6 (0.81%) OSPF
9 6 (0.81%) VXLAN
10 5 (0.68%) WAN
11 4 (0.54%) HTTP
12 2 (0.27%) LAN
12 2 (0.27%) SAN
12 2 (0.27%) WireGuard
13 1 (0.14%) iSCSI
13 1 (0.14%) MQTT
13 1 (0.14%) Remote Desktop
Database & Business Intelligence
1 157 (21.22%) MongoDB
2 137 (18.51%) Azure SQL Database
3 76 (10.27%) PostgreSQL
4 45 (6.08%) Elasticsearch
5 35 (4.73%) NoSQL
6 27 (3.65%) SQL Server
7 25 (3.38%) MySQL
8 24 (3.24%) Relational Database
9 19 (2.57%) Amazon RDS
10 11 (1.49%) Data Warehouse
11 6 (0.81%) Delta Lake
11 6 (0.81%) DynamoDB
12 5 (0.68%) Metadata
12 5 (0.68%) Power BI
12 5 (0.68%) Tableau
13 4 (0.54%) Apache Cassandra
13 4 (0.54%) Big Data
13 4 (0.54%) GIS
13 4 (0.54%) QGIS
13 4 (0.54%) Spark SQL
Development Applications
1 90 (12.16%) Git
2 65 (8.78%) TeamCity
3 53 (7.16%) Jenkins
4 47 (6.35%) GitLab
5 27 (3.65%) JUnit
6 18 (2.43%) Maven
7 16 (2.16%) Mockito
7 16 (2.16%) Selenium
8 15 (2.03%) JIRA
9 12 (1.62%) Postman
10 10 (1.35%) Atlassian Bamboo
10 10 (1.35%) Visual Studio Code
11 9 (1.22%) Bitbucket
11 9 (1.22%) Cucumber
11 9 (1.22%) SonarQube
12 6 (0.81%) Gatling
12 6 (0.81%) Octopus Deploy
13 5 (0.68%) Subversion
14 3 (0.41%) Appium
14 3 (0.41%) NUnit
General
1 183 (24.73%) Finance
2 127 (17.16%) Social Skills
3 91 (12.30%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 90 (12.16%) Banking
5 88 (11.89%) Retail
6 86 (11.62%) Law
7 64 (8.65%) Public Sector
8 52 (7.03%) Financial Institution
9 51 (6.89%) Back Office
10 33 (4.46%) Advertising
11 25 (3.38%) Analytical Skills
12 21 (2.84%) Aerospace
13 19 (2.57%) Marketing
14 11 (1.49%) Games
15 10 (1.35%) Legal
16 6 (0.81%) Organisational Skills
16 6 (0.81%) Telecoms
17 3 (0.41%) Aviation
17 3 (0.41%) Manufacturing
17 3 (0.41%) Military
Job Titles
1 210 (28.38%) Developer
2 196 (26.49%) Senior
3 130 (17.57%) .NET Developer
4 128 (17.30%) Software Engineer
5 77 (10.41%) DevOps Engineer
6 70 (9.46%) Lead
7 52 (7.03%) Cloud Engineer
8 48 (6.49%) Architect
9 47 (6.35%) Platform Engineer
10 43 (5.81%) Azure Engineer
11 37 (5.00%) Senior Developer
12 33 (4.46%) Senior Software Engineer
13 30 (4.05%) Java Developer
14 28 (3.78%) Cloud Platform Engineer
15 26 (3.51%) Java Engineer
15 26 (3.51%) Lead Software Engineer
15 26 (3.51%) Team Leader
16 25 (3.38%) AWS Engineer
17 24 (3.24%) Full-Stack Developer
18 23 (3.11%) Senior DevOps
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 290 (39.19%) Terraform
2 195 (26.35%) .NET
3 136 (18.38%) ASP.NET
4 135 (18.24%) .NET Core
5 131 (17.70%) ASP.NET Core
6 95 (12.84%) Node.js
7 82 (11.08%) React
8 81 (10.95%) AngularJS
9 78 (10.54%) CSS
9 78 (10.54%) HTML
10 71 (9.59%) ML.NET
11 67 (9.05%) Vue
12 66 (8.92%) Spring
13 61 (8.24%) REST
14 54 (7.30%) Kafka
15 45 (6.08%) RESTful
16 43 (5.81%) Spring Boot
17 27 (3.65%) Blazor
18 21 (2.84%) Django
19 20 (2.70%) OpenTelemetry
Miscellaneous
1 199 (26.89%) Cloud Native
2 58 (7.84%) Distributed Systems
3 55 (7.43%) Product Ownership
4 25 (3.38%) Blog
5 24 (3.24%) Greenfield Project
6 20 (2.70%) Digital TV
7 16 (2.16%) AI Agents
7 16 (2.16%) Data Centre
8 14 (1.89%) Legacy Systems
8 14 (1.89%) Public Cloud
9 12 (1.62%) Self-Motivation
10 11 (1.49%) Hybrid Cloud
10 11 (1.49%) Private Cloud
11 9 (1.22%) PKI
12 8 (1.08%) Cyber Kill Chain
12 8 (1.08%) Enterprise Software
12 8 (1.08%) IoT
12 8 (1.08%) Management Information System
12 8 (1.08%) Mobile App
12 8 (1.08%) Replication
Operating Systems
1 132 (17.84%) Linux
2 44 (5.95%) Windows
3 22 (2.97%) Windows Server
4 16 (2.16%) Ubuntu
5 8 (1.08%) Apple iOS
6 7 (0.95%) Android
7 6 (0.81%) CentOS
7 6 (0.81%) Debian
7 6 (0.81%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
8 3 (0.41%) Mac OS
8 3 (0.41%) VMS
9 2 (0.27%) Windows Server 2016
Processes & Methodologies
1 491 (66.35%) CI/CD
2 291 (39.32%) DevOps
3 263 (35.54%) Agile
4 244 (32.97%) Microservices
5 209 (28.24%) AI
5 209 (28.24%) Infrastructure as Code
6 204 (27.57%) Software Engineering
7 199 (26.89%) Full-Stack Development
8 197 (26.62%) Mentoring
9 184 (24.86%) Containerisation
10 140 (18.92%) Test Automation
11 131 (17.70%) Continuous Improvement
12 127 (17.16%) Observability
13 117 (15.81%) Machine Learning
14 108 (14.59%) Problem-Solving
15 107 (14.46%) Platform Engineering
16 102 (13.78%) Clean Code
17 100 (13.51%) TDD
18 87 (11.76%) Scrum
19 82 (11.08%) Deployment Automation
Programming Languages
1 226 (30.54%) Python
2 215 (29.05%) SQL
3 200 (27.03%) C#
4 180 (24.32%) Java
5 113 (15.27%) TypeScript
6 93 (12.57%) JavaScript
7 81 (10.95%) Bash
8 72 (9.73%) PowerShell
9 44 (5.95%) Go
10 22 (2.97%) Bicep
11 15 (2.03%) PL/SQL
12 14 (1.89%) Scala
13 8 (1.08%) Kotlin
13 8 (1.08%) PHP
13 8 (1.08%) Ruby
14 7 (0.95%) Groovy
15 4 (0.54%) C++
15 4 (0.54%) Rust
16 3 (0.41%) C
16 3 (0.41%) Swift
Qualifications
1 122 (16.49%) Security Cleared
2 97 (13.11%) SC Cleared
3 55 (7.43%) Degree
4 38 (5.14%) Azure Certification
5 26 (3.51%) Computer Science Degree
6 17 (2.30%) AWS Certification
7 15 (2.03%) DV Cleared
8 8 (1.08%) CISSP
9 7 (0.95%) BPSS Clearance
9 7 (0.95%) GIAC
10 6 (0.81%) CISM
11 5 (0.68%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
11 5 (0.68%) CEH
12 4 (0.54%) CREST Certified
12 4 (0.54%) Microsoft Certification
12 4 (0.54%) OCP
12 4 (0.54%) Oracle Certification
12 4 (0.54%) OSCP
13 3 (0.41%) AWS Certified Developer
14 2 (0.27%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 30 (4.05%) QA
2 23 (3.11%) Accessibility
3 19 (2.57%) NIST
4 9 (1.22%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 9 (1.22%) WCAG
5 8 (1.08%) PCI DSS
6 5 (0.68%) Cyber Essentials
6 5 (0.68%) Data Quality
7 4 (0.54%) NCSC
7 4 (0.54%) SOC 2
8 2 (0.27%) GDPR
9 1 (0.14%) California Consumer Privacy Act
9 1 (0.14%) HIPAA
9 1 (0.14%) ISO 22301
9 1 (0.14%) ISO/IEC 42001
9 1 (0.14%) PSD2
9 1 (0.14%) SEPA
9 1 (0.14%) SLA
System Software
1 472 (63.78%) Docker
2 25 (3.38%) Active Directory
3 20 (2.70%) Virtual Machines
4 17 (2.30%) VMware Infrastructure
5 4 (0.54%) Slurm Workload Manager
6 3 (0.41%) iptables
7 2 (0.27%) Citrix Hypervisor
7 2 (0.27%) Hyper-V
8 1 (0.14%) Firmware
8 1 (0.14%) KVM
8 1 (0.14%) QEMU
8 1 (0.14%) Virtual Servers
8 1 (0.14%) Xen
Systems Management
1 120 (16.22%) Grafana
2 84 (11.35%) Ansible
3 52 (7.03%) Prometheus
4 27 (3.65%) Argo
5 24 (3.24%) Istio
6 20 (2.70%) Puppet
7 13 (1.76%) Progress Chef
8 8 (1.08%) Kustomize
8 8 (1.08%) Packer
9 6 (0.81%) FortiGate
9 6 (0.81%) Microsoft Intune
10 5 (0.68%) Active Directory Federation Services
11 4 (0.54%) linkerd
12 3 (0.41%) Cilium
12 3 (0.41%) Kibana
12 3 (0.41%) ZABBIX
13 2 (0.27%) Podman
13 2 (0.27%) SCCM
13 2 (0.27%) SCOM
13 2 (0.27%) WSUS
Vendors
1 203 (27.43%) Microsoft
2 43 (5.81%) Google
3 32 (4.32%) Oracle
4 23 (3.11%) Red Hat
5 22 (2.97%) OpenAI
5 22 (2.97%) VMware
6 21 (2.84%) Splunk
7 19 (2.57%) Facebook
7 19 (2.57%) Okta
8 15 (2.03%) Ping Identity
9 11 (1.49%) Databricks
9 11 (1.49%) Palo Alto
10 10 (1.35%) ServiceNow
11 7 (0.95%) Cisco
11 7 (0.95%) Dynatrace
11 7 (0.95%) Fortinet
12 6 (0.81%) Confluent
12 6 (0.81%) EMC
12 6 (0.81%) ForgeRock
12 6 (0.81%) Zscaler