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

6 months to
30 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 74 53 69
Rank change year-on-year -21 +16 -42
Permanent jobs citing Kubernetes 694 903 1,282
As % of all permanent jobs with remote/hybrid work options 3.36% 5.72% 3.83%
As % of the Systems Management category 40.42% 44.24% 36.04%
Number of salaries quoted 482 474 1,057
10th Percentile £45,575 £49,825 £49,500
25th Percentile £52,500 £60,000 £60,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £78,810 £75,000
Median % change year-on-year -17.52% +5.08% -
75th Percentile £81,250 £104,375 £93,750
90th Percentile £95,000 £130,000 £117,500
UK median annual salary £70,000 £80,000 £77,500
% change year-on-year -12.50% +3.23% +3.33%

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 1,717 2,041 3,557
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 8.30% 12.92% 10.64%
Number of salaries quoted 1,255 1,182 2,690
10th Percentile £37,250 £36,250 £36,500
25th Percentile £46,747 £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 £77,750 £87,500 £84,919
90th Percentile £95,000 £113,375 £102,500
UK median annual salary £65,000 £67,500 £62,500
% change year-on-year -3.70% +8.00% -7.41%

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 30 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 (1.01%) Apache Airflow
1 7 (1.01%) Apache Spark
1 7 (1.01%) OpenStack
2 4 (0.58%) IIS
3 3 (0.43%) nginx
4 2 (0.29%) Apache
4 2 (0.29%) ArcGIS
4 2 (0.29%) Camunda
4 2 (0.29%) Confluence
4 2 (0.29%) GeoServer
4 2 (0.29%) Microsoft Exchange
4 2 (0.29%) Oracle SOA Suite
4 2 (0.29%) Oracle Spatial
5 1 (0.14%) Cloud Foundry
5 1 (0.14%) JBoss
5 1 (0.14%) Oracle Coherence
5 1 (0.14%) Red Hat Fuse
5 1 (0.14%) SAS
Applications
1 4 (0.58%) Weka
2 1 (0.14%) Chatbot
Business Applications
1 2 (0.29%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 391 (56.34%) AWS
2 356 (51.30%) Azure
3 187 (26.95%) GitHub
4 169 (24.35%) GCP
5 125 (18.01%) GitHub Copilot
6 109 (15.71%) Amazon EKS
7 77 (11.10%) SaaS
8 67 (9.65%) Azure AI
8 67 (9.65%) Serverless
9 50 (7.20%) GitHub Actions
10 46 (6.63%) AWS CloudFormation
11 45 (6.48%) Azure AKS
12 40 (5.76%) Azure DevOps
13 37 (5.33%) Amazon EC2
14 34 (4.90%) Amazon S3
15 31 (4.47%) OpenShift
16 26 (3.75%) AWS Lambda
17 25 (3.60%) Amazon ECS
18 24 (3.46%) Amazon CloudWatch
19 21 (3.03%) PaaS
Communications & Networking
1 40 (5.76%) Broadband
2 32 (4.61%) Firewall
3 25 (3.60%) DNS
4 23 (3.31%) VPN
5 17 (2.45%) Internet
6 14 (2.02%) TCP/IP
7 9 (1.30%) DHCP
7 9 (1.30%) Network Security
8 8 (1.15%) VLAN
9 7 (1.01%) BGP
10 6 (0.86%) OSPF
10 6 (0.86%) VXLAN
11 4 (0.58%) MQTT
11 4 (0.58%) WAN
12 3 (0.43%) HTTP
12 3 (0.43%) RTP
12 3 (0.43%) SAN
12 3 (0.43%) Unified Communications
12 3 (0.43%) VoIP
12 3 (0.43%) Wireshark
Database & Business Intelligence
1 146 (21.04%) MongoDB
2 120 (17.29%) Azure SQL Database
3 72 (10.37%) PostgreSQL
4 45 (6.48%) Elasticsearch
5 41 (5.91%) NoSQL
6 37 (5.33%) Relational Database
7 27 (3.89%) MySQL
8 26 (3.75%) SQL Server
9 24 (3.46%) Amazon RDS
10 12 (1.73%) RDBMS
11 8 (1.15%) BigQuery
12 7 (1.01%) Redis
13 6 (0.86%) Data Warehouse
13 6 (0.86%) DynamoDB
14 5 (0.72%) Delta Lake
15 3 (0.43%) Amazon Aurora
15 3 (0.43%) Apache Cassandra
15 3 (0.43%) Metadata
16 2 (0.29%) MariaDB
16 2 (0.29%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 83 (11.96%) Git
2 70 (10.09%) TeamCity
3 61 (8.79%) Jenkins
4 57 (8.21%) GitLab
5 16 (2.31%) JUnit
6 14 (2.02%) JIRA
7 13 (1.87%) Maven
8 12 (1.73%) Jaeger
8 12 (1.73%) Visual Studio Code
9 10 (1.44%) Mockito
10 9 (1.30%) Cucumber
11 7 (1.01%) Bitbucket
11 7 (1.01%) Selenium
12 6 (0.86%) Atlassian Bamboo
12 6 (0.86%) JMeter
12 6 (0.86%) Postman
13 5 (0.72%) Locust
13 5 (0.72%) SonarQube
13 5 (0.72%) Subversion
13 5 (0.72%) Visual Studio
General
1 150 (21.61%) Finance
2 121 (17.44%) Social Skills
3 95 (13.69%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 87 (12.54%) Retail
5 85 (12.25%) Banking
6 81 (11.67%) Law
7 51 (7.35%) Public Sector
8 42 (6.05%) Financial Institution
9 41 (5.91%) Back Office
10 32 (4.61%) Advertising
11 21 (3.03%) Analytical Skills
12 17 (2.45%) Marketing
13 14 (2.02%) Aerospace
14 12 (1.73%) Games
15 9 (1.30%) Organisational Skills
16 7 (1.01%) Legal
17 6 (0.86%) Telecoms
18 5 (0.72%) Aviation
19 4 (0.58%) Manufacturing
19 4 (0.58%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 200 (28.82%) Developer
2 195 (28.10%) Senior
3 117 (16.86%) Software Engineer
4 115 (16.57%) .NET Developer
5 98 (14.12%) Lead
6 77 (11.10%) DevOps Engineer
7 60 (8.65%) Cloud Engineer
8 51 (7.35%) Platform Engineer
9 42 (6.05%) Azure Engineer
9 42 (6.05%) Senior Software Engineer
10 39 (5.62%) Senior Developer
11 34 (4.90%) AWS Engineer
12 33 (4.76%) Java Developer
13 32 (4.61%) Java Engineer
14 31 (4.47%) Lead Software Engineer
14 31 (4.47%) Senior DevOps
15 30 (4.32%) Cloud Platform Engineer
16 29 (4.18%) Team Leader
17 24 (3.46%) Python Engineer
18 23 (3.31%) Java Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 175 (25.22%) .NET
2 128 (18.44%) .NET Core
3 124 (17.87%) ASP.NET
4 118 (17.00%) ASP.NET Core
5 75 (10.81%) AngularJS
6 71 (10.23%) CSS
6 71 (10.23%) HTML
7 69 (9.94%) Node.js
8 68 (9.80%) Spring
9 66 (9.51%) React
10 65 (9.37%) ML.NET
11 64 (9.22%) Vue
12 58 (8.36%) Kafka
13 50 (7.20%) REST
13 50 (7.20%) Spring Boot
14 43 (6.20%) RESTful
15 25 (3.60%) Django
16 21 (3.03%) OpenTelemetry
17 20 (2.88%) FastAPI
18 19 (2.74%) Blazor
Miscellaneous
1 204 (29.39%) Cloud Native
2 53 (7.64%) Distributed Systems
3 45 (6.48%) Product Ownership
4 23 (3.31%) Blog
5 20 (2.88%) Digital TV
5 20 (2.88%) Hybrid Cloud
6 19 (2.74%) Greenfield Project
7 18 (2.59%) Private Cloud
8 17 (2.45%) Data Centre
9 13 (1.87%) Public Cloud
10 11 (1.59%) Over-the-Top Content
10 11 (1.59%) Video\Live Streaming
11 10 (1.44%) Management Information System
12 9 (1.30%) AI Agents
12 9 (1.30%) Legacy Systems
13 8 (1.15%) Onboarding
13 8 (1.15%) Security Posture
14 7 (1.01%) Self-Motivation
14 7 (1.01%) Virtual Team
15 6 (0.86%) IoT
Operating Systems
1 143 (20.61%) Linux
2 37 (5.33%) Windows
3 19 (2.74%) Windows Server
4 16 (2.31%) Ubuntu
5 12 (1.73%) Unix
6 11 (1.59%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
7 9 (1.30%) Android
7 9 (1.30%) Apple iOS
8 7 (1.01%) CentOS
8 7 (1.01%) Debian
9 3 (0.43%) VMS
9 3 (0.43%) Windows Server 2016
10 2 (0.29%) Mac OS
Processes & Methodologies
1 460 (66.28%) CI/CD
2 308 (44.38%) DevOps
3 273 (39.34%) Agile
4 236 (34.01%) Infrastructure as Code
5 230 (33.14%) Microservices
6 201 (28.96%) Containerisation
7 183 (26.37%) Mentoring
8 180 (25.94%) Software Engineering
9 171 (24.64%) AI
9 171 (24.64%) Full-Stack Development
10 135 (19.45%) Continuous Improvement
11 133 (19.16%) Test Automation
12 114 (16.43%) Observability
13 111 (15.99%) Platform Engineering
14 107 (15.42%) Clean Code
15 103 (14.84%) TDD
16 94 (13.54%) Machine Learning
17 91 (13.11%) Deployment Automation
18 88 (12.68%) Problem-Solving
19 86 (12.39%) Scrum
Programming Languages
1 227 (32.71%) Python
2 196 (28.24%) SQL
3 187 (26.95%) Java
4 185 (26.66%) C#
5 108 (15.56%) TypeScript
6 80 (11.53%) JavaScript
7 78 (11.24%) Bash
8 62 (8.93%) PowerShell
9 60 (8.65%) Go
10 22 (3.17%) Bicep
10 22 (3.17%) Scala
11 10 (1.44%) PHP
11 10 (1.44%) PL/SQL
12 7 (1.01%) C
12 7 (1.01%) C++
12 7 (1.01%) Groovy
12 7 (1.01%) Rust
13 5 (0.72%) Ruby
14 4 (0.58%) Kotlin
15 3 (0.43%) Perl
Qualifications
1 89 (12.82%) Security Cleared
2 70 (10.09%) SC Cleared
3 55 (7.93%) Degree
4 45 (6.48%) Azure Certification
5 32 (4.61%) AWS Certification
6 25 (3.60%) Computer Science Degree
7 12 (1.73%) DV Cleared
8 8 (1.15%) CISSP
9 7 (1.01%) CREST Certified
9 7 (1.01%) GIAC
9 7 (1.01%) OSCP
10 6 (0.86%) ISACA
10 6 (0.86%) Microsoft Certification
11 5 (0.72%) SANS
12 3 (0.43%) CISM
13 2 (0.29%) CEH
13 2 (0.29%) ITIL Certification
13 2 (0.29%) Linux+ Certification
13 2 (0.29%) LPIC
13 2 (0.29%) Master's Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 40 (5.76%) QA
2 22 (3.17%) Accessibility
3 16 (2.31%) NIST
4 14 (2.02%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 10 (1.44%) PCI DSS
6 8 (1.15%) WCAG
7 4 (0.58%) Data Quality
7 4 (0.58%) SOC 2
8 3 (0.43%) GDPR
8 3 (0.43%) ISO 9001
9 2 (0.29%) Cyber Essentials
10 1 (0.14%) ISO/IEC 42001
10 1 (0.14%) SLA
10 1 (0.14%) Software Quality Assurance
System Software
1 437 (62.97%) Docker
2 29 (4.18%) Active Directory
3 20 (2.88%) VMware Infrastructure
4 17 (2.45%) Virtual Machines
5 5 (0.72%) VMware NSX
6 4 (0.58%) Firmware
6 4 (0.58%) Slurm Workload Manager
7 3 (0.43%) Citrix Hypervisor
7 3 (0.43%) iptables
7 3 (0.43%) Kamailio
8 1 (0.14%) Hyper-V
8 1 (0.14%) KVM
8 1 (0.14%) QEMU
8 1 (0.14%) Virtual Servers
8 1 (0.14%) vSphere
8 1 (0.14%) Xen
Systems Management
1 299 (43.08%) Terraform
2 123 (17.72%) Grafana
3 107 (15.42%) Ansible
4 72 (10.37%) Prometheus
5 41 (5.91%) Argo
6 24 (3.46%) Puppet
7 21 (3.03%) Istio
8 18 (2.59%) Kustomize
9 17 (2.45%) Progress Chef
10 8 (1.15%) Packer
11 7 (1.01%) Active Directory Federation Services
11 7 (1.01%) Proxmox
11 7 (1.01%) ZABBIX
12 6 (0.86%) FortiGate
12 6 (0.86%) Microsoft Intune
13 5 (0.72%) Kibana
14 3 (0.43%) linkerd
14 3 (0.43%) Nagios
15 2 (0.29%) MIIS
15 2 (0.29%) Podman
Vendors
1 190 (27.38%) Microsoft
2 42 (6.05%) Google
3 35 (5.04%) VMware
4 18 (2.59%) Oracle
4 18 (2.59%) Red Hat
5 17 (2.45%) Facebook
6 15 (2.16%) Splunk
7 12 (1.73%) Palo Alto
8 10 (1.44%) Fortinet
8 10 (1.44%) Okta
8 10 (1.44%) ServiceNow
9 9 (1.30%) Databricks
10 8 (1.15%) Cisco
10 8 (1.15%) Confluent
11 7 (1.01%) EMC
11 7 (1.01%) OpenAI
12 6 (0.86%) Citrix
12 6 (0.86%) F5
12 6 (0.86%) ForgeRock
12 6 (0.86%) Zscaler