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 11 July 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
11 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 74 59 69
Rank change year-on-year -15 +10 -42
Permanent jobs citing Kubernetes 732 893 1,204
As % of all permanent jobs with remote/hybrid work options 3.43% 5.42% 3.75%
As % of the Systems Management category 39.83% 43.52% 35.33%
Number of salaries quoted 524 458 979
10th Percentile £45,325 £49,450 £50,000
25th Percentile £52,500 £60,000 £60,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £78,810 £77,500
Median % change year-on-year -17.52% +1.69% +3.33%
75th Percentile £82,500 £100,938 £95,000
90th Percentile £97,500 £130,000 £118,750
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 1,838 2,052 3,408
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 8.62% 12.46% 10.63%
Number of salaries quoted 1,357 1,189 2,542
10th Percentile £36,500 £36,250 £36,500
25th Percentile £46,446 £48,306 £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 £78,000 £85,000 £84,964
90th Percentile £95,000 £107,500 £105,000
UK median annual salary £65,000 £67,037 £62,500
% change year-on-year -3.04% +7.26% -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 11 July 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 (0.96%) Apache Airflow
1 7 (0.96%) Apache Spark
2 6 (0.82%) IIS
2 6 (0.82%) OpenStack
3 5 (0.68%) nginx
4 2 (0.27%) Apache
4 2 (0.27%) ArcGIS
4 2 (0.27%) Camunda
4 2 (0.27%) Confluence
4 2 (0.27%) GeoServer
4 2 (0.27%) Microsoft Exchange
4 2 (0.27%) Oracle SOA Suite
4 2 (0.27%) 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 (0.55%) Weka
2 1 (0.14%) Chatbot
2 1 (0.14%) Lightworks
Business Applications
1 2 (0.27%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 404 (55.19%) AWS
2 387 (52.87%) Azure
3 204 (27.87%) GitHub
4 184 (25.14%) GCP
5 140 (19.13%) GitHub Copilot
6 109 (14.89%) Amazon EKS
7 79 (10.79%) SaaS
8 75 (10.25%) Azure AI
9 68 (9.29%) Serverless
10 52 (7.10%) GitHub Actions
11 48 (6.56%) AWS CloudFormation
12 46 (6.28%) Azure AKS
13 44 (6.01%) Azure DevOps
14 36 (4.92%) Amazon EC2
15 34 (4.64%) OpenShift
16 33 (4.51%) Amazon S3
17 25 (3.42%) Amazon ECS
17 25 (3.42%) AWS Lambda
18 24 (3.28%) PaaS
19 23 (3.14%) Amazon CloudWatch
Communications & Networking
1 33 (4.51%) Broadband
2 31 (4.23%) Firewall
3 25 (3.42%) DNS
3 25 (3.42%) VPN
4 20 (2.73%) Internet
5 15 (2.05%) TCP/IP
6 9 (1.23%) DHCP
7 8 (1.09%) Network Security
7 8 (1.09%) VLAN
8 7 (0.96%) BGP
9 6 (0.82%) OSPF
9 6 (0.82%) VXLAN
10 5 (0.68%) MQTT
11 4 (0.55%) HTTP
11 4 (0.55%) WAN
12 3 (0.41%) RTP
12 3 (0.41%) SAN
12 3 (0.41%) Unified Communications
12 3 (0.41%) VoIP
12 3 (0.41%) Wireshark
Database & Business Intelligence
1 162 (22.13%) MongoDB
2 137 (18.72%) Azure SQL Database
3 75 (10.25%) PostgreSQL
4 50 (6.83%) Elasticsearch
5 34 (4.64%) NoSQL
6 33 (4.51%) Relational Database
7 30 (4.10%) MySQL
8 28 (3.83%) SQL Server
9 23 (3.14%) Amazon RDS
10 8 (1.09%) BigQuery
11 7 (0.96%) Redis
12 6 (0.82%) Data Warehouse
12 6 (0.82%) DynamoDB
12 6 (0.82%) RDBMS
13 5 (0.68%) Delta Lake
14 3 (0.41%) Apache Cassandra
14 3 (0.41%) Metadata
15 2 (0.27%) Big Data
15 2 (0.27%) Neo4j
15 2 (0.27%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 84 (11.48%) Git
2 71 (9.70%) TeamCity
3 61 (8.33%) Jenkins
4 54 (7.38%) GitLab
5 16 (2.19%) JUnit
6 14 (1.91%) Maven
7 13 (1.78%) JIRA
8 12 (1.64%) Visual Studio Code
9 10 (1.37%) Mockito
10 9 (1.23%) Cucumber
11 8 (1.09%) Bitbucket
12 7 (0.96%) Atlassian Bamboo
12 7 (0.96%) Jaeger
12 7 (0.96%) Selenium
13 6 (0.82%) JMeter
13 6 (0.82%) Octopus Deploy
13 6 (0.82%) Postman
13 6 (0.82%) SonarQube
14 5 (0.68%) Locust
14 5 (0.68%) Subversion
General
1 159 (21.72%) Finance
2 127 (17.35%) Social Skills
3 93 (12.70%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 90 (12.30%) Retail
5 89 (12.16%) Banking
6 84 (11.48%) Law
7 51 (6.97%) Public Sector
8 44 (6.01%) Financial Institution
9 43 (5.87%) Back Office
10 37 (5.05%) Advertising
11 22 (3.01%) Analytical Skills
12 20 (2.73%) Marketing
13 16 (2.19%) Aerospace
14 13 (1.78%) Games
15 9 (1.23%) Organisational Skills
16 8 (1.09%) Legal
17 6 (0.82%) Telecoms
18 4 (0.55%) Aviation
18 4 (0.55%) Manufacturing
18 4 (0.55%) Military
Job Titles
1 215 (29.37%) Developer
2 202 (27.60%) Senior
3 130 (17.76%) .NET Developer
4 124 (16.94%) Software Engineer
5 93 (12.70%) Lead
6 79 (10.79%) DevOps Engineer
7 58 (7.92%) Cloud Engineer
8 52 (7.10%) Platform Engineer
9 45 (6.15%) Azure Engineer
10 41 (5.60%) Senior Software Engineer
11 40 (5.46%) Senior Developer
12 34 (4.64%) Lead Software Engineer
13 33 (4.51%) AWS Engineer
14 32 (4.37%) Java Developer
14 32 (4.37%) Java Engineer
14 32 (4.37%) Senior DevOps
15 30 (4.10%) Architect
16 29 (3.96%) Cloud Platform Engineer
17 27 (3.69%) Team Leader
18 25 (3.42%) Python Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 192 (26.23%) .NET
2 141 (19.26%) .NET Core
3 139 (18.99%) ASP.NET
4 133 (18.17%) ASP.NET Core
5 84 (11.48%) AngularJS
6 80 (10.93%) CSS
6 80 (10.93%) HTML
7 77 (10.52%) Node.js
8 73 (9.97%) ML.NET
9 72 (9.84%) React
9 72 (9.84%) Vue
10 67 (9.15%) Spring
11 58 (7.92%) Kafka
12 51 (6.97%) REST
13 50 (6.83%) Spring Boot
14 45 (6.15%) RESTful
15 26 (3.55%) Django
16 22 (3.01%) Blazor
17 21 (2.87%) .NET Framework
17 21 (2.87%) FastAPI
Miscellaneous
1 211 (28.83%) Cloud Native
2 55 (7.51%) Distributed Systems
3 47 (6.42%) Product Ownership
4 24 (3.28%) Blog
5 21 (2.87%) Greenfield Project
6 20 (2.73%) Digital TV
6 20 (2.73%) Hybrid Cloud
7 18 (2.46%) Private Cloud
8 17 (2.32%) Data Centre
9 13 (1.78%) Public Cloud
10 11 (1.50%) Management Information System
11 10 (1.37%) AI Agents
11 10 (1.37%) Over-the-Top Content
11 10 (1.37%) Video\Live Streaming
12 9 (1.23%) Legacy Systems
13 8 (1.09%) Onboarding
13 8 (1.09%) Security Posture
14 7 (0.96%) Self-Motivation
14 7 (0.96%) Virtual Team
15 6 (0.82%) IoT
Operating Systems
1 141 (19.26%) Linux
2 41 (5.60%) Windows
3 20 (2.73%) Windows Server
4 18 (2.46%) Ubuntu
5 11 (1.50%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 9 (1.23%) Android
6 9 (1.23%) Apple iOS
7 7 (0.96%) CentOS
7 7 (0.96%) Debian
8 6 (0.82%) Unix
9 3 (0.41%) VMS
9 3 (0.41%) Windows Server 2016
10 2 (0.27%) Mac OS
Processes & Methodologies
1 486 (66.39%) CI/CD
2 311 (42.49%) DevOps
3 277 (37.84%) Agile
4 243 (33.20%) Microservices
5 239 (32.65%) Infrastructure as Code
6 202 (27.60%) Containerisation
7 192 (26.23%) Software Engineering
8 189 (25.82%) Full-Stack Development
9 183 (25.00%) AI
10 178 (24.32%) Mentoring
11 137 (18.72%) Test Automation
12 135 (18.44%) Continuous Improvement
13 118 (16.12%) Observability
14 116 (15.85%) Platform Engineering
15 113 (15.44%) TDD
16 111 (15.16%) Clean Code
17 104 (14.21%) Machine Learning
18 97 (13.25%) Problem-Solving
19 94 (12.84%) Deployment Automation
20 91 (12.43%) Scrum
Programming Languages
1 233 (31.83%) Python
2 213 (29.10%) SQL
3 201 (27.46%) C#
4 185 (25.27%) Java
5 116 (15.85%) TypeScript
6 79 (10.79%) JavaScript
7 74 (10.11%) Bash
8 70 (9.56%) PowerShell
9 55 (7.51%) Go
10 24 (3.28%) Bicep
11 21 (2.87%) Scala
12 10 (1.37%) PHP
12 10 (1.37%) PL/SQL
13 7 (0.96%) C
13 7 (0.96%) C++
13 7 (0.96%) Groovy
13 7 (0.96%) Ruby
13 7 (0.96%) Rust
14 4 (0.55%) Kotlin
15 3 (0.41%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 91 (12.43%) Security Cleared
2 72 (9.84%) SC Cleared
3 58 (7.92%) Degree
4 43 (5.87%) Azure Certification
5 28 (3.83%) Computer Science Degree
6 26 (3.55%) AWS Certification
7 12 (1.64%) DV Cleared
8 10 (1.37%) CISSP
9 8 (1.09%) GIAC
10 7 (0.96%) CREST Certified
10 7 (0.96%) OSCP
11 6 (0.82%) ISACA
12 5 (0.68%) SANS
13 4 (0.55%) CISM
13 4 (0.55%) Microsoft Certification
14 3 (0.41%) CEH
14 3 (0.41%) Master's Degree
15 2 (0.27%) ITIL Certification
16 1 (0.14%) PMI Certification
16 1 (0.14%) RHCE
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 42 (5.74%) QA
2 21 (2.87%) Accessibility
3 19 (2.60%) NIST
4 14 (1.91%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 11 (1.50%) PCI DSS
6 8 (1.09%) WCAG
7 4 (0.55%) Data Quality
7 4 (0.55%) SOC 2
8 3 (0.41%) Cyber Essentials
8 3 (0.41%) ISO 9001
9 2 (0.27%) GDPR
10 1 (0.14%) ISO 22301
10 1 (0.14%) ISO/IEC 42001
10 1 (0.14%) PSD2
10 1 (0.14%) SEPA
10 1 (0.14%) SLA
System Software
1 461 (62.98%) Docker
2 29 (3.96%) Active Directory
3 20 (2.73%) VMware Infrastructure
4 19 (2.60%) Virtual Machines
5 5 (0.68%) VMware NSX
6 4 (0.55%) Firmware
6 4 (0.55%) Slurm Workload Manager
7 3 (0.41%) Citrix Hypervisor
7 3 (0.41%) iptables
7 3 (0.41%) 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
1 303 (41.39%) Terraform
2 127 (17.35%) Grafana
3 102 (13.93%) Ansible
4 68 (9.29%) Prometheus
5 37 (5.05%) Argo
6 24 (3.28%) Puppet
7 21 (2.87%) Istio
8 17 (2.32%) Progress Chef
9 12 (1.64%) Kustomize
10 8 (1.09%) Packer
11 7 (0.96%) Active Directory Federation Services
11 7 (0.96%) Proxmox
11 7 (0.96%) ZABBIX
12 6 (0.82%) FortiGate
12 6 (0.82%) Microsoft Intune
13 5 (0.68%) Kibana
14 3 (0.41%) linkerd
14 3 (0.41%) Nagios
15 2 (0.27%) MIIS
15 2 (0.27%) Podman
Vendors
1 209 (28.55%) Microsoft
2 38 (5.19%) Google
3 35 (4.78%) VMware
4 20 (2.73%) Facebook
4 20 (2.73%) Oracle
5 18 (2.46%) Red Hat
5 18 (2.46%) Splunk
6 15 (2.05%) Okta
7 12 (1.64%) Palo Alto
7 12 (1.64%) ServiceNow
8 10 (1.37%) Fortinet
9 9 (1.23%) Databricks
10 8 (1.09%) Cisco
10 8 (1.09%) Confluent
10 8 (1.09%) ForgeRock
11 7 (0.96%) EMC
11 7 (0.96%) OpenAI
12 6 (0.82%) Dynatrace
12 6 (0.82%) Ping Identity
12 6 (0.82%) Zscaler