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 15 September 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
15 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 79 72 70
Rank change year-on-year -7 -2 -42
Permanent jobs citing Kubernetes 739 741 911
As % of all permanent jobs with remote/hybrid work options 3.08% 4.58% 3.93%
As % of the Systems Management category 45.25% 44.11% 40.03%
Number of salaries quoted 507 358 615
10th Percentile £46,250 £48,750 £52,500
25th Percentile £52,500 £60,000 £61,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £75,000 £77,500
Median % change year-on-year -13.33% -3.23% +3.33%
75th Percentile £85,000 £87,500 £95,000
90th Percentile £97,500 £110,000 £118,750
UK median annual salary £70,000 £77,500 £77,500
% change year-on-year -9.68% - +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 1,633 1,680 2,276
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 6.81% 10.38% 9.82%
Number of salaries quoted 1,193 881 1,376
10th Percentile £34,135 £35,000 £36,625
25th Percentile £46,250 £45,000 £47,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £65,000 £64,000
Median % change year-on-year -7.69% +1.56% -5.19%
75th Percentile £75,000 £82,751 £86,563
90th Percentile £95,000 £98,750 £105,000
UK median annual salary £60,000 £60,000 £65,000
% change year-on-year - -7.69% -

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 15 September 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 (1.35%) Apache Spark
2 7 (0.95%) Oracle SOA Suite
3 6 (0.81%) IIS
4 5 (0.68%) Apache Airflow
4 5 (0.68%) nginx
4 5 (0.68%) OpenStack
5 4 (0.54%) ArcGIS
5 4 (0.54%) Confluence
5 4 (0.54%) GeoServer
5 4 (0.54%) Oracle Spatial
6 3 (0.41%) Camunda
7 1 (0.14%) Apache
7 1 (0.14%) Cloud Foundry
7 1 (0.14%) Ethereum
7 1 (0.14%) Hedera
7 1 (0.14%) JBoss
7 1 (0.14%) Microsoft Exchange
7 1 (0.14%) Oracle Coherence
7 1 (0.14%) Red Hat Fuse
Applications
1 12 (1.62%) Chatbot
2 1 (0.14%) Lightworks
Business Applications
1 2 (0.27%) SAP S/4HANA
2 1 (0.14%) Distributed Ledger
2 1 (0.14%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
Cloud Services
1 421 (56.97%) AWS
2 412 (55.75%) Azure
3 215 (29.09%) GCP
4 196 (26.52%) GitHub
5 135 (18.27%) GitHub Copilot
6 93 (12.58%) Amazon EKS
7 81 (10.96%) SaaS
8 72 (9.74%) Azure AI
9 50 (6.77%) Serverless
10 47 (6.36%) OpenShift
11 45 (6.09%) GitHub Actions
12 44 (5.95%) Azure DevOps
13 42 (5.68%) AWS CloudFormation
13 42 (5.68%) Azure AKS
14 26 (3.52%) Amazon EC2
15 20 (2.71%) Azure Service Bus
16 19 (2.57%) Amazon ECS
17 18 (2.44%) Amazon S3
18 17 (2.30%) PaaS
18 17 (2.30%) Virtual Private Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 21 (2.84%) DNS
2 20 (2.71%) Firewall
2 20 (2.71%) Internet
2 20 (2.71%) VPN
3 17 (2.30%) Broadband
4 13 (1.76%) TCP/IP
5 9 (1.22%) Network Security
6 8 (1.08%) BGP
6 8 (1.08%) VLAN
7 7 (0.95%) DHCP
8 6 (0.81%) OSPF
8 6 (0.81%) VXLAN
9 5 (0.68%) WAN
10 4 (0.54%) HTTP
11 2 (0.27%) LAN
11 2 (0.27%) SAN
11 2 (0.27%) WireGuard
12 1 (0.14%) iSCSI
12 1 (0.14%) MQTT
12 1 (0.14%) Remote Desktop
Database & Business Intelligence
1 156 (21.11%) MongoDB
2 136 (18.40%) Azure SQL Database
3 78 (10.55%) PostgreSQL
4 44 (5.95%) Elasticsearch
5 35 (4.74%) NoSQL
6 27 (3.65%) SQL Server
7 24 (3.25%) MySQL
7 24 (3.25%) Relational Database
8 19 (2.57%) Amazon RDS
9 11 (1.49%) Data Warehouse
10 6 (0.81%) Delta Lake
10 6 (0.81%) DynamoDB
11 5 (0.68%) Metadata
11 5 (0.68%) Power BI
11 5 (0.68%) Tableau
12 4 (0.54%) Apache Cassandra
12 4 (0.54%) Big Data
12 4 (0.54%) GIS
12 4 (0.54%) QGIS
12 4 (0.54%) Spark SQL
Development Applications
1 88 (11.91%) Git
2 68 (9.20%) TeamCity
3 52 (7.04%) Jenkins
4 46 (6.22%) GitLab
5 27 (3.65%) JUnit
6 18 (2.44%) Maven
7 16 (2.17%) Mockito
7 16 (2.17%) Selenium
8 15 (2.03%) JIRA
9 12 (1.62%) Postman
10 10 (1.35%) Atlassian Bamboo
11 9 (1.22%) Bitbucket
11 9 (1.22%) Cucumber
11 9 (1.22%) SonarQube
11 9 (1.22%) Visual Studio Code
12 6 (0.81%) Gatling
12 6 (0.81%) Octopus Deploy
13 5 (0.68%) Subversion
14 3 (0.41%) Appium
14 3 (0.41%) NUnit
General
1 188 (25.44%) Finance
2 130 (17.59%) Social Skills
3 95 (12.86%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 94 (12.72%) Banking
5 91 (12.31%) Retail
6 90 (12.18%) Law
7 63 (8.53%) Public Sector
8 53 (7.17%) Financial Institution
9 52 (7.04%) Back Office
10 33 (4.47%) Advertising
11 25 (3.38%) Analytical Skills
12 21 (2.84%) Aerospace
13 19 (2.57%) Marketing
14 11 (1.49%) Games
15 10 (1.35%) Legal
16 6 (0.81%) Telecoms
17 5 (0.68%) Organisational Skills
18 3 (0.41%) Front Office
18 3 (0.41%) Manufacturing
18 3 (0.41%) Military
Job Titles
1 211 (28.55%) Developer
2 197 (26.66%) Senior
3 130 (17.59%) Software Engineer
4 129 (17.46%) .NET Developer
5 76 (10.28%) DevOps Engineer
6 67 (9.07%) Lead
7 52 (7.04%) Cloud Engineer
8 48 (6.50%) Architect
9 44 (5.95%) Platform Engineer
10 42 (5.68%) Azure Engineer
11 38 (5.14%) Senior Developer
12 35 (4.74%) Senior Software Engineer
13 30 (4.06%) Java Developer
14 28 (3.79%) Java Engineer
15 26 (3.52%) Cloud Platform Engineer
16 25 (3.38%) Lead Software Engineer
16 25 (3.38%) Team Leader
17 24 (3.25%) AWS Engineer
17 24 (3.25%) Full-Stack Developer
18 22 (2.98%) Senior DevOps
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 290 (39.24%) Terraform
2 194 (26.25%) .NET
3 135 (18.27%) ASP.NET
4 134 (18.13%) .NET Core
5 130 (17.59%) ASP.NET Core
6 95 (12.86%) Node.js
7 83 (11.23%) React
8 82 (11.10%) AngularJS
9 77 (10.42%) CSS
9 77 (10.42%) HTML
10 70 (9.47%) ML.NET
11 67 (9.07%) Vue
12 66 (8.93%) Spring
13 61 (8.25%) REST
14 54 (7.31%) Kafka
15 45 (6.09%) RESTful
16 43 (5.82%) Spring Boot
17 27 (3.65%) Blazor
18 21 (2.84%) Django
18 21 (2.84%) OpenTelemetry
Miscellaneous
1 200 (27.06%) Cloud Native
2 58 (7.85%) Distributed Systems
3 55 (7.44%) Product Ownership
4 28 (3.79%) Blog
5 25 (3.38%) Greenfield Project
6 19 (2.57%) Digital TV
7 16 (2.17%) AI Agents
7 16 (2.17%) Data Centre
8 14 (1.89%) Legacy Systems
9 13 (1.76%) Public Cloud
10 12 (1.62%) Self-Motivation
11 11 (1.49%) Hybrid Cloud
12 10 (1.35%) Private Cloud
13 9 (1.22%) PKI
13 9 (1.22%) Replication
14 8 (1.08%) Cyber Kill Chain
14 8 (1.08%) Enterprise Software
14 8 (1.08%) IoT
14 8 (1.08%) Management Information System
14 8 (1.08%) Mobile App
Operating Systems
1 130 (17.59%) Linux
2 43 (5.82%) Windows
3 21 (2.84%) Windows Server
4 16 (2.17%) Ubuntu
5 8 (1.08%) Apple iOS
6 7 (0.95%) Android
7 6 (0.81%) CentOS
7 6 (0.81%) Debian
7 6 (0.81%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
8 3 (0.41%) Mac OS
8 3 (0.41%) VMS
9 2 (0.27%) Windows Server 2016
Processes & Methodologies
1 489 (66.17%) CI/CD
2 288 (38.97%) DevOps
3 266 (35.99%) Agile
4 245 (33.15%) Microservices
5 208 (28.15%) AI
6 204 (27.60%) Infrastructure as Code
6 204 (27.60%) Software Engineering
7 197 (26.66%) Full-Stack Development
7 197 (26.66%) Mentoring
8 181 (24.49%) Containerisation
9 140 (18.94%) Test Automation
10 129 (17.46%) Continuous Improvement
11 125 (16.91%) Observability
12 115 (15.56%) Machine Learning
13 111 (15.02%) Problem-Solving
14 103 (13.94%) Clean Code
14 103 (13.94%) Platform Engineering
15 100 (13.53%) TDD
16 86 (11.64%) Scrum
17 84 (11.37%) Fintech
Programming Languages
1 222 (30.04%) Python
2 215 (29.09%) SQL
3 202 (27.33%) C#
4 185 (25.03%) Java
5 113 (15.29%) TypeScript
6 93 (12.58%) JavaScript
7 80 (10.83%) Bash
8 71 (9.61%) PowerShell
9 45 (6.09%) Go
10 22 (2.98%) Bicep
11 15 (2.03%) PL/SQL
12 13 (1.76%) Scala
13 8 (1.08%) Kotlin
13 8 (1.08%) PHP
13 8 (1.08%) Ruby
14 7 (0.95%) Groovy
15 4 (0.54%) C++
15 4 (0.54%) Rust
16 3 (0.41%) T-SQL
16 3 (0.41%) VB.NET
Qualifications
1 122 (16.51%) Security Cleared
2 97 (13.13%) SC Cleared
3 54 (7.31%) Degree
4 39 (5.28%) Azure Certification
5 26 (3.52%) Computer Science Degree
6 17 (2.30%) AWS Certification
7 15 (2.03%) DV Cleared
8 8 (1.08%) CISSP
9 7 (0.95%) BPSS Clearance
9 7 (0.95%) GIAC
10 6 (0.81%) CISM
11 5 (0.68%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
11 5 (0.68%) CEH
12 4 (0.54%) CREST Certified
12 4 (0.54%) Microsoft Certification
12 4 (0.54%) OCP
12 4 (0.54%) Oracle Certification
12 4 (0.54%) OSCP
13 3 (0.41%) AWS Certified Developer
14 2 (0.27%) CompTIA Security+
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 30 (4.06%) QA
2 22 (2.98%) Accessibility
3 19 (2.57%) NIST
4 9 (1.22%) WCAG
5 8 (1.08%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 8 (1.08%) PCI DSS
6 5 (0.68%) Cyber Essentials
6 5 (0.68%) Data Quality
7 4 (0.54%) NCSC
8 3 (0.41%) SOC 2
9 2 (0.27%) GDPR
10 1 (0.14%) California Consumer Privacy Act
10 1 (0.14%) HIPAA
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
1 471 (63.73%) Docker
2 24 (3.25%) Active Directory
3 20 (2.71%) Virtual Machines
4 16 (2.17%) VMware Infrastructure
5 4 (0.54%) Slurm Workload Manager
6 3 (0.41%) iptables
7 2 (0.27%) Citrix Hypervisor
7 2 (0.27%) Hyper-V
8 1 (0.14%) Firmware
8 1 (0.14%) KVM
8 1 (0.14%) QEMU
8 1 (0.14%) Virtual Servers
8 1 (0.14%) Xen
Systems Management
1 123 (16.64%) Grafana
2 83 (11.23%) Ansible
3 53 (7.17%) Prometheus
4 26 (3.52%) Argo
5 24 (3.25%) Istio
6 20 (2.71%) Puppet
7 13 (1.76%) Progress Chef
8 8 (1.08%) Kustomize
9 7 (0.95%) Packer
10 6 (0.81%) FortiGate
10 6 (0.81%) Microsoft Intune
11 5 (0.68%) Active Directory Federation Services
12 4 (0.54%) linkerd
13 3 (0.41%) Cilium
13 3 (0.41%) Kibana
13 3 (0.41%) ZABBIX
14 2 (0.27%) Nagios
14 2 (0.27%) SCCM
14 2 (0.27%) SCOM
14 2 (0.27%) WSUS
Vendors
1 201 (27.20%) Microsoft
2 43 (5.82%) Google
3 32 (4.33%) Oracle
4 23 (3.11%) Red Hat
5 22 (2.98%) OpenAI
6 21 (2.84%) Splunk
6 21 (2.84%) VMware
7 19 (2.57%) Facebook
7 19 (2.57%) Okta
8 15 (2.03%) Ping Identity
9 11 (1.49%) Databricks
10 10 (1.35%) Palo Alto
11 9 (1.22%) ServiceNow
12 7 (0.95%) Dynatrace
12 7 (0.95%) Fortinet
13 6 (0.81%) Citrix
13 6 (0.81%) Confluent
13 6 (0.81%) ForgeRock
13 6 (0.81%) New Relic
13 6 (0.81%) Zscaler