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 9 October 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
9 Oct 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 80 83 56
Rank change year-on-year +3 -27 -27
Permanent jobs citing Kubernetes 784 704 995
As % of all permanent jobs with remote/hybrid work options 3.16% 4.19% 4.59%
As % of the Systems Management category 45.50% 42.03% 44.44%
Number of salaries quoted 506 329 582
10th Percentile £46,250 £48,633 £53,750
25th Percentile £52,500 £58,500 £61,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £72,500 £76,000
Median % change year-on-year -10.34% -4.61% +1.33%
75th Percentile £85,000 £87,500 £95,000
90th Percentile £97,500 £107,500 £112,500
UK median annual salary £70,000 £75,000 £77,500
% change year-on-year -6.67% -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 1,723 1,675 2,239
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 6.95% 9.98% 10.33%
Number of salaries quoted 1,229 858 1,280
10th Percentile £33,750 £33,425 £36,500
25th Percentile £45,643 £45,000 £47,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £62,500 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year -4.00% -3.85% -3.70%
75th Percentile £75,026 £82,500 £86,250
90th Percentile £95,000 £97,500 £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 9 October 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 (1.28%) Apache Spark
2 7 (0.89%) Apache Airflow
2 7 (0.89%) Oracle SOA Suite
3 6 (0.77%) Confluence
3 6 (0.77%) IIS
3 6 (0.77%) nginx
4 5 (0.64%) Apache
4 5 (0.64%) Camunda
4 5 (0.64%) WebLogic
5 4 (0.51%) ArcGIS
5 4 (0.51%) GeoServer
5 4 (0.51%) Oracle Spatial
6 2 (0.26%) Ethereum
6 2 (0.26%) Hedera
7 1 (0.13%) JBoss
7 1 (0.13%) OpenStack
7 1 (0.13%) Oracle Coherence
7 1 (0.13%) Red Hat Fuse
Applications
1 12 (1.53%) Chatbot
2 1 (0.13%) Lightworks
Business Applications
1 2 (0.26%) Distributed Ledger
1 2 (0.26%) SAP S/4HANA
2 1 (0.13%) Actimize
2 1 (0.13%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
Cloud Services
1 450 (57.40%) AWS
2 414 (52.81%) Azure
3 245 (31.25%) GCP
4 204 (26.02%) GitHub
5 135 (17.22%) GitHub Copilot
6 113 (14.41%) SaaS
7 111 (14.16%) Amazon EKS
8 72 (9.18%) Azure AI
9 49 (6.25%) GitHub Actions
10 48 (6.12%) Serverless
11 47 (5.99%) Azure AKS
11 47 (5.99%) Azure DevOps
12 42 (5.36%) AWS CloudFormation
13 40 (5.10%) OpenShift
14 27 (3.44%) Google Kubernetes Engine
14 27 (3.44%) Virtual Private Cloud
15 24 (3.06%) Amazon EC2
16 22 (2.81%) Azure Service Bus
17 21 (2.68%) PaaS
18 20 (2.55%) IaaS
Communications & Networking
1 36 (4.59%) VPN
2 26 (3.32%) Firewall
3 21 (2.68%) DNS
3 21 (2.68%) TCP/IP
4 20 (2.55%) BGP
4 20 (2.55%) Internet
5 19 (2.42%) Network Security
6 17 (2.17%) Broadband
7 14 (1.79%) VLAN
8 6 (0.77%) OSPF
8 6 (0.77%) VXLAN
9 4 (0.51%) DHCP
9 4 (0.51%) HTTP
10 3 (0.38%) WAN
11 2 (0.26%) Unified Communications
11 2 (0.26%) WireGuard
12 1 (0.13%) MQTT
12 1 (0.13%) SAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 161 (20.54%) MongoDB
2 140 (17.86%) Azure SQL Database
3 93 (11.86%) PostgreSQL
4 43 (5.48%) Elasticsearch
5 37 (4.72%) Amazon RDS
5 37 (4.72%) NoSQL
6 26 (3.32%) SQL Server
7 24 (3.06%) Relational Database
8 22 (2.81%) MySQL
9 11 (1.40%) Data Warehouse
10 8 (1.02%) BigQuery
11 7 (0.89%) Redis
12 6 (0.77%) Delta Lake
12 6 (0.77%) Power BI
13 5 (0.64%) DynamoDB
13 5 (0.64%) Flink
13 5 (0.64%) Looker
13 5 (0.64%) Metadata
13 5 (0.64%) Tableau
14 4 (0.51%) Big Data
Development Applications
1 97 (12.37%) TeamCity
2 80 (10.20%) Git
3 55 (7.02%) Jenkins
4 42 (5.36%) GitLab
5 33 (4.21%) JUnit
6 22 (2.81%) Mockito
7 19 (2.42%) JIRA
8 18 (2.30%) Maven
9 16 (2.04%) Selenium
10 11 (1.40%) Postman
11 9 (1.15%) Bitbucket
12 8 (1.02%) Atlassian Bamboo
12 8 (1.02%) Cucumber
12 8 (1.02%) SonarQube
13 6 (0.77%) Gatling
13 6 (0.77%) Octopus Deploy
14 4 (0.51%) Cypress.io
14 4 (0.51%) Subversion
14 4 (0.51%) Vagrant
14 4 (0.51%) Visual Studio Code
General
1 206 (26.28%) Finance
2 146 (18.62%) Social Skills
3 122 (15.56%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 119 (15.18%) Retail
5 114 (14.54%) Law
6 111 (14.16%) Banking
7 75 (9.57%) Financial Institution
8 73 (9.31%) Back Office
8 73 (9.31%) Public Sector
9 33 (4.21%) Advertising
10 31 (3.95%) Analytical Skills
11 20 (2.55%) Aerospace
12 19 (2.42%) Marketing
13 11 (1.40%) Games
14 9 (1.15%) Legal
15 6 (0.77%) Telecoms
16 4 (0.51%) Front Office
17 3 (0.38%) Aviation
17 3 (0.38%) Military
17 3 (0.38%) Police
Job Titles
1 225 (28.70%) Senior
2 213 (27.17%) Developer
3 151 (19.26%) Software Engineer
4 130 (16.58%) .NET Developer
5 77 (9.82%) DevOps Engineer
6 69 (8.80%) Lead
7 56 (7.14%) Cloud Engineer
8 53 (6.76%) Architect
9 42 (5.36%) Senior Developer
10 41 (5.23%) Platform Engineer
11 40 (5.10%) Java Engineer
11 40 (5.10%) Senior Software Engineer
12 33 (4.21%) Azure Engineer
13 29 (3.70%) Java Developer
14 27 (3.44%) Lead Software Engineer
15 25 (3.19%) Full-Stack Developer
15 25 (3.19%) Java Software Engineer
15 25 (3.19%) Senior DevOps
15 25 (3.19%) Team Leader
16 24 (3.06%) Cloud Platform Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 310 (39.54%) Terraform
2 200 (25.51%) .NET
3 136 (17.35%) .NET Core
3 136 (17.35%) ASP.NET
4 132 (16.84%) ASP.NET Core
5 96 (12.24%) Node.js
6 88 (11.22%) React
7 80 (10.20%) CSS
8 79 (10.08%) HTML
9 78 (9.95%) AngularJS
9 78 (9.95%) Spring
10 70 (8.93%) ML.NET
11 65 (8.29%) Vue
12 59 (7.53%) REST
13 54 (6.89%) RESTful
14 53 (6.76%) Kafka
14 53 (6.76%) Spring Boot
15 31 (3.95%) OpenTelemetry
16 29 (3.70%) Blazor
17 19 (2.42%) Django
Miscellaneous
1 240 (30.61%) Cloud Native
2 76 (9.69%) Distributed Systems
3 61 (7.78%) Product Ownership
4 43 (5.48%) Blog
5 27 (3.44%) Greenfield Project
6 19 (2.42%) Digital TV
7 18 (2.30%) AI Agents
7 18 (2.30%) Security Posture
8 16 (2.04%) Management Information System
9 14 (1.79%) Legacy Systems
10 13 (1.66%) Enterprise Software
11 12 (1.53%) Data Centre
11 12 (1.53%) Self-Motivation
12 10 (1.28%) Public Cloud
12 10 (1.28%) Replication
13 9 (1.15%) Cyber Threat
13 9 (1.15%) IoT
14 8 (1.02%) Cyber Defence
14 8 (1.02%) Hybrid Cloud
14 8 (1.02%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 122 (15.56%) Linux
2 36 (4.59%) Windows
3 15 (1.91%) Ubuntu
4 14 (1.79%) Windows Server
5 11 (1.40%) Apple iOS
6 8 (1.02%) Android
7 5 (0.64%) Mac OS
8 3 (0.38%) Debian
9 2 (0.26%) CentOS
10 1 (0.13%) Unix
10 1 (0.13%) Windows Server 2016
Processes & Methodologies
1 529 (67.47%) CI/CD
2 298 (38.01%) DevOps
3 283 (36.10%) Agile
4 280 (35.71%) Microservices
5 233 (29.72%) Software Engineering
6 225 (28.70%) AI
7 224 (28.57%) Mentoring
8 208 (26.53%) Infrastructure as Code
9 205 (26.15%) Full-Stack Development
10 187 (23.85%) Containerisation
11 156 (19.90%) Test Automation
12 142 (18.11%) Observability
13 140 (17.86%) Continuous Improvement
14 135 (17.22%) Problem-Solving
15 125 (15.94%) Machine Learning
16 119 (15.18%) Clean Code
17 112 (14.29%) Fintech
18 108 (13.78%) TDD
19 102 (13.01%) Platform Engineering
20 98 (12.50%) Deployment Automation
Programming Languages
1 249 (31.76%) Python
2 241 (30.74%) SQL
3 240 (30.61%) Java
4 205 (26.15%) C#
5 120 (15.31%) TypeScript
6 99 (12.63%) JavaScript
7 95 (12.12%) Bash
8 69 (8.80%) PowerShell
9 63 (8.04%) Go
10 24 (3.06%) Bicep
11 16 (2.04%) Scala
12 14 (1.79%) PL/SQL
13 9 (1.15%) Kotlin
14 8 (1.02%) PHP
14 8 (1.02%) Ruby
15 6 (0.77%) Groovy
15 6 (0.77%) Shell Script
16 5 (0.64%) C
16 5 (0.64%) Rust
17 4 (0.51%) C++
Qualifications
1 131 (16.71%) Security Cleared
2 108 (13.78%) SC Cleared
3 50 (6.38%) Degree
4 32 (4.08%) Azure Certification
5 21 (2.68%) Computer Science Degree
6 19 (2.42%) AWS Certification
7 13 (1.66%) CISSP
7 13 (1.66%) DV Cleared
8 12 (1.53%) CISM
9 8 (1.02%) BPSS Clearance
9 8 (1.02%) GIAC
10 7 (0.89%) (ISC)2 CCSP
10 7 (0.89%) Cisco Certification
11 6 (0.77%) CCSP
12 5 (0.64%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
12 5 (0.64%) CEH
12 5 (0.64%) CREST Certified
12 5 (0.64%) OSCP
13 4 (0.51%) Microsoft Certification
13 4 (0.51%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 27 (3.44%) QA
2 26 (3.32%) NIST
3 24 (3.06%) PCI DSS
4 22 (2.81%) Accessibility
5 21 (2.68%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 14 (1.79%) SOC 2
7 9 (1.15%) Data Quality
8 8 (1.02%) WCAG
9 6 (0.77%) Cyber Essentials
10 4 (0.51%) GDPR
10 4 (0.51%) NCSC
11 1 (0.13%) California Consumer Privacy Act
11 1 (0.13%) HIPAA
11 1 (0.13%) ISO 22301
11 1 (0.13%) PSD2
11 1 (0.13%) SEPA
11 1 (0.13%) SLA
System Software
1 486 (61.99%) Docker
2 18 (2.30%) Virtual Machines
3 15 (1.91%) Active Directory
4 12 (1.53%) VMware Infrastructure
5 3 (0.38%) iptables
6 1 (0.13%) HDFS
6 1 (0.13%) Hyper-V
6 1 (0.13%) Virtual Servers
Systems Management
1 151 (19.26%) Grafana
2 72 (9.18%) Ansible
3 62 (7.91%) Prometheus
4 30 (3.83%) Argo
5 19 (2.42%) Istio
6 14 (1.79%) Progress Chef
6 14 (1.79%) Puppet
7 9 (1.15%) Cilium
7 9 (1.15%) Kustomize
8 8 (1.02%) Single Sign-On
9 7 (0.89%) Packer
10 6 (0.77%) FortiGate
11 4 (0.51%) linkerd
11 4 (0.51%) Microsoft Intune
12 2 (0.26%) Active Directory Federation Services
12 2 (0.26%) CASB
12 2 (0.26%) Microsoft Data Protection Manager
12 2 (0.26%) Podman
12 2 (0.26%) Proxmox
12 2 (0.26%) WSUS
Vendors
1 205 (26.15%) Microsoft
2 65 (8.29%) Google
3 35 (4.46%) Oracle
4 30 (3.83%) Splunk
5 25 (3.19%) OpenAI
6 20 (2.55%) Red Hat
7 19 (2.42%) Facebook
8 16 (2.04%) Okta
8 16 (2.04%) VMware
9 15 (1.91%) Ping Identity
10 12 (1.53%) Databricks
11 11 (1.40%) Dynatrace
12 10 (1.28%) New Relic
13 8 (1.02%) Palo Alto
14 7 (0.89%) ServiceNow
15 6 (0.77%) Fortinet
15 6 (0.77%) Zscaler
16 5 (0.64%) ForgeRock
16 5 (0.64%) Qualys
17 4 (0.51%) HubSpot