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

6 months to
20 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 79 42 63
Rank change year-on-year -37 +21 -37
Permanent jobs citing Kubernetes 587 1,021 1,383
As % of all permanent jobs with remote/hybrid work options 3.12% 6.76% 4.25%
As % of the Systems Management category 38.39% 46.96% 37.17%
Number of salaries quoted 369 556 1,168
10th Percentile £48,750 £51,250 £50,000
25th Percentile £57,500 £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 £85,000 £110,313 £93,750
90th Percentile £105,000 £138,750 £115,000
UK median annual salary £74,000 £82,500 £75,000
% change year-on-year -10.30% +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 1,529 2,174 3,721
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 8.14% 14.40% 11.42%
Number of salaries quoted 1,039 1,281 2,934
10th Percentile £37,500 £37,250 £37,101
25th Percentile £48,165 £51,250 £47,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £67,500 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year -3.70% +3.85% -6.44%
75th Percentile £81,250 £88,750 £83,750
90th Percentile £95,000 £115,000 £102,500
UK median annual salary £65,000 £67,500 £60,500
% change year-on-year -3.70% +11.57% -10.37%

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 20 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 (1.70%) OpenStack
2 7 (1.19%) Apache Spark
3 6 (1.02%) Apache Airflow
4 4 (0.68%) ArcGIS
4 4 (0.68%) GeoServer
4 4 (0.68%) Oracle Spatial
5 3 (0.51%) Confluence
5 3 (0.51%) Microsoft Exchange
6 2 (0.34%) Apache
6 2 (0.34%) Camunda
6 2 (0.34%) nginx
7 1 (0.17%) Apache Pulsar
7 1 (0.17%) Cloud Foundry
7 1 (0.17%) IIS
7 1 (0.17%) JBoss
7 1 (0.17%) Oracle SOA Suite
7 1 (0.17%) Red Hat Fuse
7 1 (0.17%) SAS
7 1 (0.17%) SharePoint
Applications
1 4 (0.68%) Weka
2 2 (0.34%) Chatbot
3 1 (0.17%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 1 (0.17%) Actimize
1 1 (0.17%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 347 (59.11%) AWS
2 265 (45.14%) Azure
3 158 (26.92%) GCP
4 115 (19.59%) Amazon EKS
4 115 (19.59%) GitHub
5 73 (12.44%) SaaS
6 69 (11.75%) Serverless
7 58 (9.88%) GitHub Actions
8 44 (7.50%) GitHub Copilot
9 41 (6.98%) AWS CloudFormation
10 37 (6.30%) Amazon EC2
10 37 (6.30%) Azure AKS
10 37 (6.30%) Azure DevOps
11 36 (6.13%) Amazon S3
12 31 (5.28%) AWS Lambda
13 27 (4.60%) Amazon ECS
14 26 (4.43%) Azure AI
15 25 (4.26%) Amazon CloudWatch
16 24 (4.09%) OpenShift
17 19 (3.24%) Datadog
Communications & Networking
1 48 (8.18%) Broadband
2 31 (5.28%) Firewall
3 19 (3.24%) DNS
4 18 (3.07%) VPN
5 12 (2.04%) TCP/IP
6 10 (1.70%) DHCP
7 8 (1.36%) Network Security
8 6 (1.02%) Internet
8 6 (1.02%) VLAN
9 4 (0.68%) AMQP
9 4 (0.68%) MQTT
9 4 (0.68%) WAN
10 3 (0.51%) BGP
10 3 (0.51%) HTTP
10 3 (0.51%) OSPF
10 3 (0.51%) SAN
10 3 (0.51%) Unified Communications
10 3 (0.51%) VoIP
10 3 (0.51%) VXLAN
10 3 (0.51%) Wireshark
Database & Business Intelligence
1 73 (12.44%) MongoDB
2 62 (10.56%) PostgreSQL
3 52 (8.86%) NoSQL
4 42 (7.16%) Azure SQL Database
5 39 (6.64%) Relational Database
6 36 (6.13%) SQL Server
7 30 (5.11%) Amazon RDS
8 21 (3.58%) Elasticsearch
8 21 (3.58%) MySQL
9 18 (3.07%) RDBMS
10 8 (1.36%) BigQuery
11 7 (1.19%) Amazon Aurora
11 7 (1.19%) Redis
12 6 (1.02%) Flink
13 5 (0.85%) DynamoDB
14 4 (0.68%) GIS
14 4 (0.68%) QGIS
15 3 (0.51%) Apache Cassandra
16 2 (0.34%) Neo4j
16 2 (0.34%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 77 (13.12%) TeamCity
2 67 (11.41%) Git
3 61 (10.39%) Jenkins
4 49 (8.35%) GitLab
5 18 (3.07%) Jaeger
6 12 (2.04%) Visual Studio Code
7 9 (1.53%) JIRA
7 9 (1.53%) JUnit
7 9 (1.53%) Maven
8 8 (1.36%) JMeter
9 6 (1.02%) Cucumber
9 6 (1.02%) Locust
9 6 (1.02%) Mockito
9 6 (1.02%) Visual Studio
10 5 (0.85%) SonarQube
11 4 (0.68%) Bitbucket
11 4 (0.68%) CircleCI
11 4 (0.68%) MLflow
11 4 (0.68%) Selenium
12 3 (0.51%) REST Assured
General
1 143 (24.36%) Finance
2 113 (19.25%) Social Skills
3 97 (16.52%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 90 (15.33%) Retail
5 89 (15.16%) Banking
6 80 (13.63%) Law
7 42 (7.16%) Financial Institution
8 36 (6.13%) Back Office
9 35 (5.96%) Public Sector
10 16 (2.73%) Analytical Skills
11 11 (1.87%) Advertising
12 10 (1.70%) Organisational Skills
13 9 (1.53%) Front Office
14 8 (1.36%) Telecoms
15 6 (1.02%) Aerospace
15 6 (1.02%) Military
16 5 (0.85%) Games
16 5 (0.85%) Legal
17 4 (0.68%) Marketing
17 4 (0.68%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 181 (30.83%) Senior
2 118 (20.10%) Developer
3 111 (18.91%) Software Engineer
4 109 (18.57%) Lead
5 71 (12.10%) DevOps Engineer
6 49 (8.35%) Cloud Engineer
7 46 (7.84%) Platform Engineer
8 44 (7.50%) Azure Engineer
9 40 (6.81%) .NET Developer
10 39 (6.64%) Senior Software Engineer
11 33 (5.62%) Senior Developer
12 31 (5.28%) Java Developer
12 31 (5.28%) Java Engineer
13 29 (4.94%) Lead Software Engineer
13 29 (4.94%) Senior DevOps
14 28 (4.77%) Cloud Platform Engineer
14 28 (4.77%) Team Leader
15 27 (4.60%) AWS Engineer
15 27 (4.60%) Python Engineer
16 24 (4.09%) Java Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 93 (15.84%) .NET
2 64 (10.90%) Spring
3 63 (10.73%) React
4 58 (9.88%) Kafka
5 57 (9.71%) .NET Core
6 48 (8.18%) Spring Boot
7 45 (7.67%) Node.js
7 45 (7.67%) REST
8 44 (7.50%) ASP.NET
9 42 (7.16%) ASP.NET Core
10 35 (5.96%) AngularJS
11 33 (5.62%) RESTful
12 31 (5.28%) Elastic Stack
13 25 (4.26%) CSS
13 25 (4.26%) Django
13 25 (4.26%) HTML
13 25 (4.26%) Vue
14 23 (3.92%) Akka
14 23 (3.92%) OpenTelemetry
15 22 (3.75%) ML.NET
Miscellaneous
1 173 (29.47%) Cloud Native
2 49 (8.35%) Product Ownership
3 43 (7.33%) Distributed Systems
4 24 (4.09%) Blog
5 22 (3.75%) Over-the-Top Content
5 22 (3.75%) Video\Live Streaming
6 18 (3.07%) Private Cloud
7 17 (2.90%) Hybrid Cloud
8 15 (2.56%) Data Centre
9 14 (2.39%) Onboarding
10 12 (2.04%) Public Cloud
11 10 (1.70%) AI Agents
12 9 (1.53%) Digital TV
12 9 (1.53%) Security Posture
13 8 (1.36%) Management Information System
14 7 (1.19%) Legacy Systems
15 6 (1.02%) Algorithms
15 6 (1.02%) CMDB
15 6 (1.02%) Greenfield Project
15 6 (1.02%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 130 (22.15%) Linux
2 32 (5.45%) Windows
3 19 (3.24%) Unix
4 17 (2.90%) Android
5 16 (2.73%) Windows Server
6 13 (2.21%) Apple iOS
7 12 (2.04%) Ubuntu
8 11 (1.87%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
9 7 (1.19%) CentOS
10 6 (1.02%) VMS
11 4 (0.68%) Debian
12 3 (0.51%) Windows Server 2016
13 2 (0.34%) Mac OS
Processes & Methodologies
1 373 (63.54%) CI/CD
2 312 (53.15%) DevOps
3 234 (39.86%) Agile
4 208 (35.43%) Infrastructure as Code
5 188 (32.03%) Containerisation
6 182 (31.01%) Microservices
7 163 (27.77%) Software Engineering
8 142 (24.19%) Mentoring
9 127 (21.64%) Test Automation
10 122 (20.78%) Continuous Improvement
11 100 (17.04%) AI
12 97 (16.52%) Clean Code
12 97 (16.52%) Observability
12 97 (16.52%) Platform Engineering
13 86 (14.65%) Full-Stack Development
14 85 (14.48%) Deployment Automation
15 81 (13.80%) TDD
16 76 (12.95%) Scrum
17 71 (12.10%) Problem-Solving
18 67 (11.41%) Site Reliability Engineering
Programming Languages
1 224 (38.16%) Python
2 186 (31.69%) Java
3 112 (19.08%) SQL
4 92 (15.67%) C#
5 88 (14.99%) JavaScript
6 78 (13.29%) Go
7 70 (11.93%) Bash
8 65 (11.07%) TypeScript
9 44 (7.50%) PowerShell
10 31 (5.28%) Scala
11 20 (3.41%) Bicep
12 11 (1.87%) C++
13 8 (1.36%) PHP
14 7 (1.19%) C
14 7 (1.19%) PL/SQL
14 7 (1.19%) Rust
15 4 (0.68%) Groovy
15 4 (0.68%) Perl
16 3 (0.51%) Korn
16 3 (0.51%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 77 (13.12%) Security Cleared
2 62 (10.56%) SC Cleared
3 60 (10.22%) Degree
4 46 (7.84%) Azure Certification
5 35 (5.96%) AWS Certification
6 28 (4.77%) Computer Science Degree
7 12 (2.04%) DV Cleared
8 9 (1.53%) CREST Certified
8 9 (1.53%) OSCP
9 6 (1.02%) CISSP
9 6 (1.02%) ISACA
9 6 (1.02%) Microsoft Certification
10 5 (0.85%) GIAC
10 5 (0.85%) SANS
11 3 (0.51%) LPIC
11 3 (0.51%) 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 (7.16%) QA
2 16 (2.73%) Accessibility
3 14 (2.39%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 14 (2.39%) NIST
4 10 (1.70%) PCI DSS
5 7 (1.19%) Data Quality
6 5 (0.85%) WCAG
7 4 (0.68%) GDPR
7 4 (0.68%) SOC 2
8 3 (0.51%) ISO 9001
9 2 (0.34%) Software Quality Assurance
10 1 (0.17%) ISO/IEC 42001
10 1 (0.17%) SLA
System Software
1 349 (59.45%) Docker
2 31 (5.28%) Active Directory
3 17 (2.90%) VMware Infrastructure
4 13 (2.21%) Virtual Machines
5 6 (1.02%) VMware NSX
6 5 (0.85%) Firmware
7 4 (0.68%) Slurm Workload Manager
8 3 (0.51%) Citrix Hypervisor
8 3 (0.51%) Kamailio
9 2 (0.34%) vSphere
10 1 (0.17%) Hyper-V
10 1 (0.17%) KVM
10 1 (0.17%) QEMU
10 1 (0.17%) Virtual Desktop
10 1 (0.17%) Virtual Servers
10 1 (0.17%) Xen
Systems Management
1 302 (51.45%) Terraform
2 120 (20.44%) Grafana
3 116 (19.76%) Ansible
4 75 (12.78%) Prometheus
5 43 (7.33%) Argo
6 22 (3.75%) Kustomize
7 17 (2.90%) Puppet
8 14 (2.39%) Istio
9 12 (2.04%) Progress Chef
10 8 (1.36%) Packer
11 7 (1.19%) Microsoft Intune
11 7 (1.19%) Proxmox
11 7 (1.19%) ZABBIX
12 6 (1.02%) Active Directory Federation Services
13 4 (0.68%) FortiGate
13 4 (0.68%) Kibana
13 4 (0.68%) logstash
14 2 (0.34%) MIIS
14 2 (0.34%) Nagios
14 2 (0.34%) Podman
Vendors
1 98 (16.70%) Microsoft
2 36 (6.13%) Google
3 31 (5.28%) VMware
4 18 (3.07%) Red Hat
5 14 (2.39%) Oracle
6 9 (1.53%) Okta
6 9 (1.53%) Palo Alto
7 8 (1.36%) Cisco
7 8 (1.36%) Confluent
7 8 (1.36%) Fortinet
7 8 (1.36%) ServiceNow
8 7 (1.19%) Databricks
8 7 (1.19%) Splunk
9 6 (1.02%) Citrix
9 6 (1.02%) EMC
9 6 (1.02%) F5
9 6 (1.02%) OpenAI
10 5 (0.85%) AppDynamics
10 5 (0.85%) ForgeRock
11 4 (0.68%) OneLogin