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

6 months to
27 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 73 54 68
Rank change year-on-year -19 +14 -41
Permanent jobs citing Kubernetes 681 906 1,292
As % of all permanent jobs with remote/hybrid work options 3.33% 5.80% 3.85%
As % of the Systems Management category 40.13% 44.30% 36.16%
Number of salaries quoted 458 476 1,065
10th Percentile £46,250 £49,875 £50,000
25th Percentile £53,750 £60,000 £60,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £78,810 £76,000
Median % change year-on-year -17.52% +3.70% +1.33%
75th Percentile £82,500 £103,125 £93,750
90th Percentile £97,500 £130,000 £117,500
UK median annual salary £70,079 £80,000 £77,500
% change year-on-year -12.40% +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 1,697 2,045 3,573
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 8.30% 13.09% 10.64%
Number of salaries quoted 1,225 1,185 2,705
10th Percentile £36,350 £36,250 £36,500
25th Percentile £46,743 £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 £78,467 £87,500 £84,919
90th Percentile £95,000 £112,250 £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 27 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 (1.03%) Apache Airflow
1 7 (1.03%) Apache Spark
1 7 (1.03%) OpenStack
2 4 (0.59%) IIS
3 3 (0.44%) 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 (0.15%) Cloud Foundry
5 1 (0.15%) JBoss
5 1 (0.15%) Oracle Coherence
5 1 (0.15%) Red Hat Fuse
5 1 (0.15%) SAS
Applications
1 4 (0.59%) Weka
2 1 (0.15%) Chatbot
Business Applications
1 2 (0.29%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 382 (56.09%) AWS
2 336 (49.34%) Azure
3 168 (24.67%) GitHub
4 167 (24.52%) GCP
5 109 (16.01%) Amazon EKS
6 106 (15.57%) GitHub Copilot
7 78 (11.45%) SaaS
8 68 (9.99%) Serverless
9 57 (8.37%) Azure AI
10 50 (7.34%) GitHub Actions
11 46 (6.75%) AWS CloudFormation
12 45 (6.61%) Azure AKS
13 40 (5.87%) Azure DevOps
14 38 (5.58%) Amazon EC2
15 35 (5.14%) Amazon S3
16 31 (4.55%) OpenShift
17 27 (3.96%) AWS Lambda
18 25 (3.67%) Amazon ECS
19 24 (3.52%) Amazon CloudWatch
20 21 (3.08%) PaaS
Communications & Networking
1 51 (7.49%) Broadband
2 32 (4.70%) Firewall
3 25 (3.67%) DNS
4 23 (3.38%) VPN
5 14 (2.06%) Internet
5 14 (2.06%) TCP/IP
6 9 (1.32%) DHCP
6 9 (1.32%) Network Security
7 8 (1.17%) VLAN
8 7 (1.03%) BGP
9 6 (0.88%) OSPF
9 6 (0.88%) VXLAN
10 4 (0.59%) MQTT
10 4 (0.59%) WAN
11 3 (0.44%) AMQP
11 3 (0.44%) HTTP
11 3 (0.44%) RTP
11 3 (0.44%) SAN
11 3 (0.44%) VoIP
11 3 (0.44%) Wireshark
Database & Business Intelligence
1 127 (18.65%) MongoDB
2 101 (14.83%) Azure SQL Database
3 72 (10.57%) PostgreSQL
4 41 (6.02%) NoSQL
5 38 (5.58%) Elasticsearch
6 37 (5.43%) Relational Database
7 27 (3.96%) MySQL
7 27 (3.96%) SQL Server
8 25 (3.67%) Amazon RDS
9 12 (1.76%) RDBMS
10 8 (1.17%) BigQuery
11 7 (1.03%) Redis
12 6 (0.88%) Data Warehouse
12 6 (0.88%) DynamoDB
13 5 (0.73%) Delta Lake
14 3 (0.44%) Amazon Aurora
14 3 (0.44%) Apache Cassandra
14 3 (0.44%) Metadata
15 2 (0.29%) Neo4j
15 2 (0.29%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 83 (12.19%) Git
2 81 (11.89%) TeamCity
3 72 (10.57%) Jenkins
4 57 (8.37%) GitLab
5 16 (2.35%) JUnit
6 14 (2.06%) JIRA
7 13 (1.91%) Maven
8 12 (1.76%) Jaeger
8 12 (1.76%) Visual Studio Code
9 10 (1.47%) Mockito
10 9 (1.32%) Cucumber
11 7 (1.03%) Bitbucket
11 7 (1.03%) Selenium
12 6 (0.88%) Atlassian Bamboo
12 6 (0.88%) JMeter
12 6 (0.88%) Postman
13 5 (0.73%) Locust
13 5 (0.73%) SonarQube
13 5 (0.73%) Subversion
13 5 (0.73%) Visual Studio
General
1 147 (21.59%) Finance
2 120 (17.62%) Social Skills
3 95 (13.95%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 87 (12.78%) Retail
5 85 (12.48%) Banking
6 81 (11.89%) Law
7 47 (6.90%) Public Sector
8 42 (6.17%) Financial Institution
9 41 (6.02%) Back Office
10 28 (4.11%) Advertising
11 21 (3.08%) Analytical Skills
12 15 (2.20%) Marketing
13 12 (1.76%) Aerospace
14 10 (1.47%) Games
15 9 (1.32%) Organisational Skills
16 7 (1.03%) Legal
17 6 (0.88%) Telecoms
18 5 (0.73%) Aviation
19 4 (0.59%) Manufacturing
19 4 (0.59%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 202 (29.66%) Senior
2 185 (27.17%) Developer
3 121 (17.77%) Software Engineer
4 98 (14.39%) Lead
5 96 (14.10%) .NET Developer
6 73 (10.72%) DevOps Engineer
7 60 (8.81%) Cloud Engineer
8 51 (7.49%) Platform Engineer
9 44 (6.46%) Senior Software Engineer
10 42 (6.17%) Azure Engineer
10 42 (6.17%) Senior Developer
11 34 (4.99%) AWS Engineer
11 34 (4.99%) Java Developer
12 33 (4.85%) Java Engineer
13 31 (4.55%) Lead Software Engineer
13 31 (4.55%) Senior DevOps
14 30 (4.41%) Cloud Platform Engineer
15 29 (4.26%) Team Leader
16 24 (3.52%) Java Software Engineer
16 24 (3.52%) Python Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 156 (22.91%) .NET
2 109 (16.01%) .NET Core
3 105 (15.42%) ASP.NET
4 99 (14.54%) ASP.NET Core
5 69 (10.13%) Spring
6 66 (9.69%) React
7 65 (9.54%) AngularJS
8 63 (9.25%) Node.js
9 61 (8.96%) CSS
9 61 (8.96%) HTML
10 58 (8.52%) Kafka
11 55 (8.08%) ML.NET
11 55 (8.08%) Vue
12 51 (7.49%) REST
12 51 (7.49%) Spring Boot
13 43 (6.31%) RESTful
14 25 (3.67%) Django
15 23 (3.38%) Akka
16 21 (3.08%) OpenTelemetry
17 20 (2.94%) FastAPI
Miscellaneous
1 203 (29.81%) Cloud Native
2 54 (7.93%) Distributed Systems
3 45 (6.61%) Product Ownership
4 23 (3.38%) Blog
5 22 (3.23%) Over-the-Top Content
5 22 (3.23%) Video\Live Streaming
6 20 (2.94%) Hybrid Cloud
7 18 (2.64%) Private Cloud
8 17 (2.50%) Data Centre
8 17 (2.50%) Digital TV
8 17 (2.50%) Greenfield Project
9 13 (1.91%) Public Cloud
10 10 (1.47%) Management Information System
11 9 (1.32%) Legacy Systems
12 8 (1.17%) AI Agents
12 8 (1.17%) Onboarding
12 8 (1.17%) Security Posture
13 7 (1.03%) Self-Motivation
13 7 (1.03%) Virtual Team
14 6 (0.88%) IoT
Operating Systems
1 143 (21.00%) Linux
2 37 (5.43%) Windows
3 19 (2.79%) Windows Server
4 16 (2.35%) Ubuntu
5 12 (1.76%) Unix
6 11 (1.62%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
7 9 (1.32%) Android
7 9 (1.32%) Apple iOS
8 7 (1.03%) CentOS
8 7 (1.03%) Debian
9 3 (0.44%) VMS
9 3 (0.44%) Windows Server 2016
10 2 (0.29%) Mac OS
Processes & Methodologies
1 446 (65.49%) CI/CD
2 305 (44.79%) DevOps
3 271 (39.79%) Agile
4 231 (33.92%) Infrastructure as Code
5 220 (32.31%) Microservices
6 197 (28.93%) Containerisation
7 184 (27.02%) Software Engineering
8 179 (26.28%) Mentoring
9 160 (23.49%) AI
10 152 (22.32%) Full-Stack Development
11 135 (19.82%) Continuous Improvement
12 129 (18.94%) Test Automation
13 111 (16.30%) Platform Engineering
14 109 (16.01%) Observability
15 107 (15.71%) Clean Code
15 107 (15.71%) TDD
16 92 (13.51%) Scrum
17 87 (12.78%) Deployment Automation
18 84 (12.33%) Problem-Solving
19 83 (12.19%) Machine Learning
Programming Languages
1 226 (33.19%) Python
2 188 (27.61%) Java
3 178 (26.14%) SQL
4 166 (24.38%) C#
5 99 (14.54%) TypeScript
6 80 (11.75%) JavaScript
7 78 (11.45%) Bash
8 62 (9.10%) PowerShell
9 60 (8.81%) Go
10 33 (4.85%) Scala
11 22 (3.23%) Bicep
12 10 (1.47%) PHP
12 10 (1.47%) PL/SQL
13 7 (1.03%) C
13 7 (1.03%) C++
13 7 (1.03%) Groovy
13 7 (1.03%) Rust
14 5 (0.73%) Ruby
15 4 (0.59%) Kotlin
16 3 (0.44%) Perl
Qualifications
1 89 (13.07%) Security Cleared
2 70 (10.28%) SC Cleared
3 55 (8.08%) Degree
4 45 (6.61%) Azure Certification
5 32 (4.70%) AWS Certification
6 25 (3.67%) Computer Science Degree
7 12 (1.76%) DV Cleared
8 8 (1.17%) CISSP
9 7 (1.03%) CREST Certified
9 7 (1.03%) GIAC
9 7 (1.03%) OSCP
10 6 (0.88%) ISACA
10 6 (0.88%) Microsoft Certification
11 5 (0.73%) SANS
12 3 (0.44%) 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 (5.87%) QA
2 22 (3.23%) Accessibility
3 16 (2.35%) NIST
4 14 (2.06%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 10 (1.47%) PCI DSS
6 8 (1.17%) WCAG
7 4 (0.59%) Data Quality
7 4 (0.59%) SOC 2
8 3 (0.44%) GDPR
8 3 (0.44%) ISO 9001
9 2 (0.29%) Cyber Essentials
10 1 (0.15%) ISO/IEC 42001
10 1 (0.15%) SLA
10 1 (0.15%) Software Quality Assurance
System Software
1 428 (62.85%) Docker
2 29 (4.26%) Active Directory
3 20 (2.94%) VMware Infrastructure
4 17 (2.50%) Virtual Machines
5 5 (0.73%) VMware NSX
6 4 (0.59%) Firmware
6 4 (0.59%) Slurm Workload Manager
7 3 (0.44%) Citrix Hypervisor
7 3 (0.44%) iptables
7 3 (0.44%) Kamailio
8 1 (0.15%) Hyper-V
8 1 (0.15%) KVM
8 1 (0.15%) QEMU
8 1 (0.15%) Virtual Servers
8 1 (0.15%) vSphere
8 1 (0.15%) Xen
Systems Management
1 298 (43.76%) Terraform
2 123 (18.06%) Grafana
3 107 (15.71%) Ansible
4 72 (10.57%) Prometheus
5 41 (6.02%) Argo
6 24 (3.52%) Puppet
7 21 (3.08%) Istio
8 18 (2.64%) Kustomize
9 17 (2.50%) Progress Chef
10 8 (1.17%) Packer
11 7 (1.03%) Active Directory Federation Services
11 7 (1.03%) Proxmox
11 7 (1.03%) ZABBIX
12 6 (0.88%) FortiGate
12 6 (0.88%) Microsoft Intune
13 5 (0.73%) Kibana
14 3 (0.44%) linkerd
14 3 (0.44%) Nagios
15 2 (0.29%) MIIS
15 2 (0.29%) Podman
Vendors
1 171 (25.11%) Microsoft
2 40 (5.87%) Google
3 35 (5.14%) VMware
4 18 (2.64%) Oracle
4 18 (2.64%) Red Hat
5 15 (2.20%) Facebook
5 15 (2.20%) Splunk
6 12 (1.76%) Palo Alto
7 10 (1.47%) Fortinet
7 10 (1.47%) ServiceNow
8 9 (1.32%) Databricks
8 9 (1.32%) Okta
9 8 (1.17%) Cisco
9 8 (1.17%) Confluent
10 7 (1.03%) EMC
10 7 (1.03%) OpenAI
11 6 (0.88%) Citrix
11 6 (0.88%) F5
11 6 (0.88%) Zscaler
12 5 (0.73%) Dynatrace