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 13 August 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
13 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 74 67 73
Rank change year-on-year -7 +6 -45
Permanent jobs citing Kubernetes 735 809 941
As % of all permanent jobs with remote/hybrid work options 3.23% 4.87% 3.78%
As % of the Systems Management category 38.56% 41.96% 34.32%
Number of salaries quoted 528 390 722
10th Percentile £46,250 £49,875 £52,500
25th Percentile £52,500 £60,000 £60,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £77,500 £75,500
Median % change year-on-year -16.13% +2.65% +0.67%
75th Percentile £82,813 £93,778 £95,000
90th Percentile £100,000 £115,000 £117,500
UK median annual salary £70,000 £78,810 £77,500
% change year-on-year -11.18% +1.69% +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 1,906 1,928 2,742
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 8.39% 11.60% 11.02%
Number of salaries quoted 1,408 1,107 1,935
10th Percentile £37,250 £35,000 £36,750
25th Percentile £48,750 £47,500 £48,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £62,500 £66,367 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year -5.83% +2.10% -7.14%
75th Percentile £78,750 £82,751 £85,000
90th Percentile £97,500 £98,474 £104,100
UK median annual salary £65,000 £65,000 £65,000
% change year-on-year - - -2.99%

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 13 August 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 (1.50%) Apache Spark
2 7 (0.95%) Apache Airflow
2 7 (0.95%) Oracle SOA Suite
3 6 (0.82%) IIS
4 5 (0.68%) nginx
4 5 (0.68%) OpenStack
5 4 (0.54%) Camunda
5 4 (0.54%) Confluence
6 3 (0.41%) ArcGIS
6 3 (0.41%) GeoServer
6 3 (0.41%) Oracle Spatial
7 2 (0.27%) Apache
7 2 (0.27%) Microsoft Exchange
8 1 (0.14%) Cloud Foundry
8 1 (0.14%) JBoss
8 1 (0.14%) Oracle Coherence
8 1 (0.14%) Red Hat Fuse
Applications
1 3 (0.41%) Chatbot
2 1 (0.14%) Lightworks
Business Applications
1 2 (0.27%) SAP S/4HANA
2 1 (0.14%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
Cloud Services
1 426 (57.96%) Azure
2 408 (55.51%) AWS
3 201 (27.35%) GitHub
4 193 (26.26%) GCP
5 141 (19.18%) GitHub Copilot
6 82 (11.16%) Amazon EKS
7 76 (10.34%) Azure AI
8 75 (10.20%) SaaS
9 57 (7.76%) Serverless
10 48 (6.53%) AWS CloudFormation
11 46 (6.26%) GitHub Actions
12 45 (6.12%) Azure DevOps
13 43 (5.85%) Azure AKS
14 39 (5.31%) OpenShift
15 30 (4.08%) Amazon EC2
16 27 (3.67%) Amazon S3
17 21 (2.86%) Amazon ECS
17 21 (2.86%) AWS Lambda
17 21 (2.86%) Azure Service Bus
17 21 (2.86%) PaaS
Communications & Networking
1 26 (3.54%) DNS
1 26 (3.54%) Firewall
2 21 (2.86%) VPN
3 20 (2.72%) Internet
4 18 (2.45%) Broadband
5 15 (2.04%) TCP/IP
6 10 (1.36%) DHCP
7 8 (1.09%) BGP
7 8 (1.09%) VLAN
8 7 (0.95%) Network Security
9 6 (0.82%) OSPF
9 6 (0.82%) VXLAN
10 5 (0.68%) WAN
11 4 (0.54%) HTTP
12 3 (0.41%) MQTT
12 3 (0.41%) SAN
13 2 (0.27%) LAN
13 2 (0.27%) Remote Desktop
13 2 (0.27%) SSL
13 2 (0.27%) WireGuard
Database & Business Intelligence
1 157 (21.36%) MongoDB
2 141 (19.18%) Azure SQL Database
3 70 (9.52%) PostgreSQL
4 49 (6.67%) Elasticsearch
5 31 (4.22%) SQL Server
6 30 (4.08%) NoSQL
7 27 (3.67%) MySQL
8 25 (3.40%) Relational Database
9 21 (2.86%) Amazon RDS
10 10 (1.36%) Data Warehouse
11 6 (0.82%) Delta Lake
11 6 (0.82%) DynamoDB
11 6 (0.82%) Redis
12 5 (0.68%) Metadata
13 4 (0.54%) Power BI
13 4 (0.54%) Tableau
14 3 (0.41%) Apache Cassandra
14 3 (0.41%) Big Data
14 3 (0.41%) GIS
14 3 (0.41%) Hadoop
Development Applications
1 101 (13.74%) Git
2 54 (7.35%) Jenkins
3 51 (6.94%) GitLab
4 49 (6.67%) TeamCity
5 27 (3.67%) JUnit
6 17 (2.31%) Maven
6 17 (2.31%) Selenium
7 15 (2.04%) Mockito
8 13 (1.77%) JIRA
9 12 (1.63%) Cucumber
9 12 (1.63%) Postman
9 12 (1.63%) Visual Studio Code
10 10 (1.36%) Atlassian Bamboo
11 9 (1.22%) Bitbucket
12 8 (1.09%) SonarQube
13 6 (0.82%) Gatling
13 6 (0.82%) Octopus Deploy
14 5 (0.68%) JMeter
14 5 (0.68%) Locust
14 5 (0.68%) Subversion
General
1 168 (22.86%) Finance
2 133 (18.10%) Social Skills
3 72 (9.80%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 70 (9.52%) Banking
5 67 (9.12%) Law
5 67 (9.12%) Retail
6 59 (8.03%) Public Sector
7 38 (5.17%) Financial Institution
8 37 (5.03%) Advertising
8 37 (5.03%) Back Office
9 23 (3.13%) Analytical Skills
10 21 (2.86%) Marketing
11 19 (2.59%) Aerospace
12 13 (1.77%) Games
13 12 (1.63%) Legal
14 8 (1.09%) Organisational Skills
15 6 (0.82%) Telecoms
16 4 (0.54%) Military
17 3 (0.41%) Front Office
17 3 (0.41%) Manufacturing
Job Titles
1 212 (28.84%) Developer
2 197 (26.80%) Senior
3 135 (18.37%) .NET Developer
4 112 (15.24%) Software Engineer
5 78 (10.61%) DevOps Engineer
6 75 (10.20%) Lead
7 56 (7.62%) Cloud Engineer
8 50 (6.80%) Platform Engineer
9 48 (6.53%) Architect
10 46 (6.26%) Azure Engineer
11 39 (5.31%) Senior Developer
12 33 (4.49%) Java Developer
12 33 (4.49%) Senior Software Engineer
13 29 (3.95%) Cloud Platform Engineer
13 29 (3.95%) Senior DevOps
14 27 (3.67%) AWS Engineer
15 26 (3.54%) Lead Software Engineer
16 24 (3.27%) Python Engineer
16 24 (3.27%) Senior DevOps Engineer
17 23 (3.13%) Team Leader
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 205 (27.89%) .NET
2 142 (19.32%) .NET Core
2 142 (19.32%) ASP.NET
3 136 (18.50%) ASP.NET Core
4 84 (11.43%) Node.js
5 82 (11.16%) AngularJS
6 81 (11.02%) CSS
6 81 (11.02%) HTML
7 78 (10.61%) React
8 74 (10.07%) ML.NET
9 69 (9.39%) Vue
10 64 (8.71%) Spring
11 62 (8.44%) REST
12 58 (7.89%) Kafka
13 48 (6.53%) RESTful
14 40 (5.44%) Spring Boot
15 28 (3.81%) Blazor
16 24 (3.27%) OAuth
16 24 (3.27%) OpenID
17 23 (3.13%) Django
Miscellaneous
1 192 (26.12%) Cloud Native
2 56 (7.62%) Distributed Systems
3 45 (6.12%) Product Ownership
4 23 (3.13%) Greenfield Project
5 20 (2.72%) Digital TV
6 17 (2.31%) Blog
6 17 (2.31%) Data Centre
6 17 (2.31%) Hybrid Cloud
7 16 (2.18%) AI Agents
7 16 (2.18%) Public Cloud
8 15 (2.04%) Private Cloud
9 14 (1.90%) Legacy Systems
10 13 (1.77%) Self-Motivation
11 11 (1.50%) IoT
11 11 (1.50%) Management Information System
12 8 (1.09%) Enterprise Software
12 8 (1.09%) Mobile App
13 7 (0.95%) Onboarding
13 7 (0.95%) PKI
13 7 (0.95%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 138 (18.78%) Linux
2 43 (5.85%) Windows
3 23 (3.13%) Windows Server
4 15 (2.04%) Ubuntu
5 9 (1.22%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 7 (0.95%) Android
6 7 (0.95%) Apple iOS
7 6 (0.82%) Debian
8 5 (0.68%) CentOS
9 3 (0.41%) VMS
10 2 (0.27%) Mac OS
10 2 (0.27%) Windows Server 2016
Processes & Methodologies
1 484 (65.85%) CI/CD
2 296 (40.27%) DevOps
3 271 (36.87%) Agile
4 241 (32.79%) Microservices
5 226 (30.75%) Infrastructure as Code
6 206 (28.03%) AI
7 201 (27.35%) Containerisation
8 195 (26.53%) Full-Stack Development
9 193 (26.26%) Software Engineering
10 182 (24.76%) Mentoring
11 128 (17.41%) Continuous Improvement
11 128 (17.41%) Test Automation
12 125 (17.01%) Observability
13 117 (15.92%) Machine Learning
14 115 (15.65%) Platform Engineering
15 107 (14.56%) TDD
16 102 (13.88%) Problem-Solving
17 91 (12.38%) Clean Code
18 89 (12.11%) Scrum
19 73 (9.93%) Deployment Automation
Programming Languages
1 232 (31.56%) Python
2 217 (29.52%) SQL
3 212 (28.84%) C#
4 160 (21.77%) Java
5 110 (14.97%) TypeScript
6 84 (11.43%) JavaScript
7 75 (10.20%) Bash
8 70 (9.52%) PowerShell
9 46 (6.26%) Go
10 21 (2.86%) Bicep
11 15 (2.04%) PL/SQL
12 13 (1.77%) Scala
13 11 (1.50%) PHP
14 8 (1.09%) Ruby
15 7 (0.95%) Groovy
15 7 (0.95%) Kotlin
16 4 (0.54%) C++
16 4 (0.54%) Rust
17 3 (0.41%) T-SQL
17 3 (0.41%) VB.NET
Qualifications
1 117 (15.92%) Security Cleared
2 95 (12.93%) SC Cleared
3 63 (8.57%) Degree
4 44 (5.99%) Azure Certification
5 28 (3.81%) Computer Science Degree
6 19 (2.59%) AWS Certification
7 15 (2.04%) DV Cleared
8 10 (1.36%) CISSP
9 8 (1.09%) GIAC
10 6 (0.82%) BPSS Clearance
11 5 (0.68%) CISM
11 5 (0.68%) CREST Certified
11 5 (0.68%) ISACA
11 5 (0.68%) OSCP
12 4 (0.54%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
12 4 (0.54%) CEH
12 4 (0.54%) Microsoft Certification
12 4 (0.54%) OCP
12 4 (0.54%) Oracle Certification
12 4 (0.54%) SANS
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 40 (5.44%) QA
2 25 (3.40%) Accessibility
3 20 (2.72%) NIST
4 13 (1.77%) WCAG
5 10 (1.36%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 7 (0.95%) PCI DSS
7 5 (0.68%) Data Quality
8 4 (0.54%) Cyber Essentials
8 4 (0.54%) SOC 2
9 3 (0.41%) ISO 9001
9 3 (0.41%) NCSC
10 2 (0.27%) GDPR
11 1 (0.14%) California Consumer Privacy Act
11 1 (0.14%) HIPAA
11 1 (0.14%) ISO 22301
11 1 (0.14%) ISO/IEC 42001
11 1 (0.14%) PSD2
11 1 (0.14%) SEPA
11 1 (0.14%) SLA
System Software
1 474 (64.49%) Docker
2 30 (4.08%) Active Directory
3 20 (2.72%) Virtual Machines
4 19 (2.59%) VMware Infrastructure
5 4 (0.54%) Firmware
5 4 (0.54%) Slurm Workload Manager
6 3 (0.41%) Citrix Hypervisor
6 3 (0.41%) iptables
7 1 (0.14%) Hyper-V
7 1 (0.14%) KVM
7 1 (0.14%) QEMU
7 1 (0.14%) Virtual Servers
7 1 (0.14%) Xen
Systems Management
1 282 (38.37%) Terraform
2 106 (14.42%) Grafana
3 92 (12.52%) Ansible
4 52 (7.07%) Prometheus
5 26 (3.54%) Argo
6 24 (3.27%) Istio
7 21 (2.86%) Puppet
8 12 (1.63%) Progress Chef
9 7 (0.95%) Packer
10 6 (0.82%) Active Directory Federation Services
10 6 (0.82%) FortiGate
10 6 (0.82%) Kustomize
10 6 (0.82%) Microsoft Intune
11 4 (0.54%) linkerd
12 3 (0.41%) Kibana
12 3 (0.41%) Proxmox
12 3 (0.41%) ZABBIX
13 2 (0.27%) SCCM
13 2 (0.27%) SCOM
13 2 (0.27%) WSUS
Vendors
1 213 (28.98%) Microsoft
2 46 (6.26%) Google
3 31 (4.22%) Oracle
4 26 (3.54%) VMware
5 23 (3.13%) Red Hat
6 22 (2.99%) Okta
7 21 (2.86%) Facebook
8 16 (2.18%) Splunk
9 14 (1.90%) Ping Identity
10 13 (1.77%) OpenAI
11 12 (1.63%) Palo Alto
11 12 (1.63%) ServiceNow
12 9 (1.22%) Databricks
13 8 (1.09%) Cisco
13 8 (1.09%) Confluent
13 8 (1.09%) ForgeRock
14 7 (0.95%) Dynatrace
14 7 (0.95%) EMC
14 7 (0.95%) Fortinet
15 6 (0.82%) Zscaler