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

6 months to
13 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 74 58 68
Rank change year-on-year -16 +10 -42
Permanent jobs citing Kubernetes 719 895 1,195
As % of all permanent jobs with remote/hybrid work options 3.37% 5.41% 3.74%
As % of the Systems Management category 39.57% 43.51% 35.28%
Number of salaries quoted 521 460 973
10th Percentile £45,250 £49,650 £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 £100,313 £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 1,817 2,057 3,387
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 8.51% 12.44% 10.61%
Number of salaries quoted 1,347 1,193 2,525
10th Percentile £36,650 £36,250 £36,500
25th Percentile £46,446 £48,750 £47,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £62,500 £67,500 £64,000
Median % change year-on-year -7.41% +5.47% -8.57%
75th Percentile £77,750 £86,250 £84,919
90th Percentile £95,000 £107,500 £105,000
UK median annual salary £65,000 £65,000 £62,500
% change year-on-year - +4.00% -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 13 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 (0.97%) Apache Airflow
1 7 (0.97%) Apache Spark
2 6 (0.83%) IIS
2 6 (0.83%) OpenStack
3 5 (0.70%) nginx
4 2 (0.28%) Apache
4 2 (0.28%) ArcGIS
4 2 (0.28%) Camunda
4 2 (0.28%) Confluence
4 2 (0.28%) GeoServer
4 2 (0.28%) Microsoft Exchange
4 2 (0.28%) Oracle SOA Suite
4 2 (0.28%) 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 (0.56%) Weka
2 1 (0.14%) Lightworks
Business Applications
1 2 (0.28%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 402 (55.91%) AWS
2 384 (53.41%) Azure
3 204 (28.37%) GitHub
4 181 (25.17%) GCP
5 140 (19.47%) GitHub Copilot
6 109 (15.16%) Amazon EKS
7 77 (10.71%) SaaS
8 74 (10.29%) Azure AI
9 67 (9.32%) Serverless
10 52 (7.23%) GitHub Actions
11 48 (6.68%) AWS CloudFormation
12 46 (6.40%) Azure AKS
13 43 (5.98%) Azure DevOps
14 36 (5.01%) Amazon EC2
15 34 (4.73%) OpenShift
16 33 (4.59%) Amazon S3
17 25 (3.48%) AWS Lambda
18 24 (3.34%) Amazon ECS
18 24 (3.34%) PaaS
19 23 (3.20%) Amazon CloudWatch
Communications & Networking
1 31 (4.31%) Firewall
2 25 (3.48%) DNS
2 25 (3.48%) VPN
3 24 (3.34%) Broadband
4 20 (2.78%) Internet
5 15 (2.09%) TCP/IP
6 9 (1.25%) DHCP
7 8 (1.11%) Network Security
7 8 (1.11%) VLAN
8 7 (0.97%) BGP
9 6 (0.83%) OSPF
9 6 (0.83%) VXLAN
10 5 (0.70%) MQTT
11 4 (0.56%) HTTP
11 4 (0.56%) WAN
12 3 (0.42%) RTP
12 3 (0.42%) SAN
12 3 (0.42%) Unified Communications
12 3 (0.42%) VoIP
12 3 (0.42%) Wireshark
Database & Business Intelligence
1 162 (22.53%) MongoDB
2 137 (19.05%) Azure SQL Database
3 72 (10.01%) PostgreSQL
4 50 (6.95%) Elasticsearch
5 34 (4.73%) NoSQL
6 33 (4.59%) Relational Database
7 30 (4.17%) MySQL
8 28 (3.89%) SQL Server
9 23 (3.20%) Amazon RDS
10 7 (0.97%) Redis
11 6 (0.83%) BigQuery
11 6 (0.83%) Data Warehouse
11 6 (0.83%) DynamoDB
11 6 (0.83%) RDBMS
12 5 (0.70%) Delta Lake
13 3 (0.42%) Apache Cassandra
13 3 (0.42%) Metadata
14 2 (0.28%) GIS
14 2 (0.28%) Neo4j
14 2 (0.28%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 85 (11.82%) Git
2 62 (8.62%) TeamCity
3 54 (7.51%) GitLab
4 52 (7.23%) Jenkins
5 16 (2.23%) JUnit
6 14 (1.95%) Maven
7 13 (1.81%) JIRA
8 12 (1.67%) Visual Studio Code
9 10 (1.39%) Mockito
10 9 (1.25%) Cucumber
11 8 (1.11%) Bitbucket
12 7 (0.97%) Atlassian Bamboo
12 7 (0.97%) Jaeger
12 7 (0.97%) Selenium
13 6 (0.83%) JMeter
13 6 (0.83%) Octopus Deploy
13 6 (0.83%) Postman
13 6 (0.83%) SonarQube
14 5 (0.70%) Locust
14 5 (0.70%) Subversion
General
1 159 (22.11%) Finance
2 126 (17.52%) Social Skills
3 93 (12.93%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 90 (12.52%) Retail
5 89 (12.38%) Banking
6 82 (11.40%) Law
7 51 (7.09%) Public Sector
8 44 (6.12%) Financial Institution
9 43 (5.98%) Back Office
10 37 (5.15%) Advertising
11 21 (2.92%) Analytical Skills
12 20 (2.78%) Marketing
13 16 (2.23%) Aerospace
14 13 (1.81%) Games
15 8 (1.11%) Legal
15 8 (1.11%) Organisational Skills
16 6 (0.83%) Telecoms
17 4 (0.56%) Aviation
17 4 (0.56%) Manufacturing
17 4 (0.56%) Military
Job Titles
1 213 (29.62%) Developer
2 193 (26.84%) Senior
3 131 (18.22%) .NET Developer
4 119 (16.55%) Software Engineer
5 92 (12.80%) Lead
6 79 (10.99%) DevOps Engineer
7 58 (8.07%) Cloud Engineer
8 52 (7.23%) Platform Engineer
9 45 (6.26%) Azure Engineer
10 38 (5.29%) Senior Software Engineer
11 37 (5.15%) Senior Developer
12 34 (4.73%) Lead Software Engineer
13 33 (4.59%) AWS Engineer
14 32 (4.45%) Java Developer
14 32 (4.45%) Senior DevOps
15 31 (4.31%) Java Engineer
16 30 (4.17%) Architect
17 29 (4.03%) Cloud Platform Engineer
18 27 (3.76%) Team Leader
19 24 (3.34%) Python Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 192 (26.70%) .NET
2 140 (19.47%) .NET Core
3 139 (19.33%) ASP.NET
4 133 (18.50%) ASP.NET Core
5 84 (11.68%) AngularJS
6 79 (10.99%) CSS
6 79 (10.99%) HTML
7 75 (10.43%) Node.js
8 73 (10.15%) ML.NET
9 72 (10.01%) Vue
10 71 (9.87%) React
11 67 (9.32%) Spring
12 58 (8.07%) Kafka
13 52 (7.23%) REST
14 50 (6.95%) Spring Boot
15 45 (6.26%) RESTful
16 25 (3.48%) Django
17 22 (3.06%) .NET Framework
17 22 (3.06%) Blazor
18 21 (2.92%) OAuth
Miscellaneous
1 209 (29.07%) Cloud Native
2 53 (7.37%) Distributed Systems
3 47 (6.54%) Product Ownership
4 24 (3.34%) Blog
5 21 (2.92%) Greenfield Project
6 20 (2.78%) Digital TV
6 20 (2.78%) Hybrid Cloud
7 18 (2.50%) Private Cloud
8 17 (2.36%) Data Centre
9 13 (1.81%) Public Cloud
10 11 (1.53%) Management Information System
11 9 (1.25%) AI Agents
11 9 (1.25%) Legacy Systems
12 8 (1.11%) Onboarding
12 8 (1.11%) Security Posture
13 7 (0.97%) Self-Motivation
14 6 (0.83%) CMDB
14 6 (0.83%) CUDA
14 6 (0.83%) IoT
14 6 (0.83%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 142 (19.75%) Linux
2 41 (5.70%) Windows
3 20 (2.78%) Windows Server
4 18 (2.50%) Ubuntu
5 11 (1.53%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 7 (0.97%) Android
6 7 (0.97%) Apple iOS
6 7 (0.97%) CentOS
6 7 (0.97%) Debian
7 6 (0.83%) Unix
8 3 (0.42%) VMS
8 3 (0.42%) Windows Server 2016
9 2 (0.28%) Mac OS
Processes & Methodologies
1 483 (67.18%) CI/CD
2 309 (42.98%) DevOps
3 265 (36.86%) Agile
4 238 (33.10%) Microservices
5 237 (32.96%) Infrastructure as Code
6 202 (28.09%) Containerisation
7 188 (26.15%) Full-Stack Development
8 185 (25.73%) Software Engineering
9 181 (25.17%) AI
10 175 (24.34%) Mentoring
11 134 (18.64%) Test Automation
12 132 (18.36%) Continuous Improvement
13 117 (16.27%) Observability
14 116 (16.13%) Platform Engineering
15 108 (15.02%) Clean Code
16 103 (14.33%) Machine Learning
17 101 (14.05%) TDD
18 96 (13.35%) Problem-Solving
19 94 (13.07%) Deployment Automation
20 82 (11.40%) Scrum
Programming Languages
1 233 (32.41%) Python
2 213 (29.62%) SQL
3 201 (27.96%) C#
4 183 (25.45%) Java
5 113 (15.72%) TypeScript
6 77 (10.71%) JavaScript
7 75 (10.43%) Bash
8 70 (9.74%) PowerShell
9 55 (7.65%) Go
10 23 (3.20%) Bicep
11 12 (1.67%) Scala
12 10 (1.39%) PHP
12 10 (1.39%) PL/SQL
13 7 (0.97%) C
13 7 (0.97%) C++
13 7 (0.97%) Groovy
13 7 (0.97%) Ruby
13 7 (0.97%) Rust
14 4 (0.56%) Kotlin
15 3 (0.42%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 91 (12.66%) Security Cleared
2 72 (10.01%) SC Cleared
3 57 (7.93%) Degree
4 41 (5.70%) Azure Certification
5 27 (3.76%) Computer Science Degree
6 26 (3.62%) AWS Certification
7 12 (1.67%) DV Cleared
8 10 (1.39%) CISSP
9 8 (1.11%) GIAC
10 7 (0.97%) CREST Certified
10 7 (0.97%) OSCP
11 6 (0.83%) ISACA
12 5 (0.70%) SANS
13 4 (0.56%) CISM
14 3 (0.42%) CEH
14 3 (0.42%) Microsoft Certification
15 2 (0.28%) ITIL Certification
15 2 (0.28%) Master's Degree
16 1 (0.14%) CompTIA Security+
16 1 (0.14%) ISO 27001 Lead Implementer
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 42 (5.84%) QA
2 21 (2.92%) Accessibility
3 19 (2.64%) NIST
4 14 (1.95%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 11 (1.53%) PCI DSS
6 8 (1.11%) WCAG
7 4 (0.56%) Data Quality
7 4 (0.56%) SOC 2
8 3 (0.42%) Cyber Essentials
8 3 (0.42%) ISO 9001
9 2 (0.28%) 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
1 447 (62.17%) Docker
2 29 (4.03%) Active Directory
3 20 (2.78%) VMware Infrastructure
4 19 (2.64%) Virtual Machines
5 5 (0.70%) VMware NSX
6 4 (0.56%) Firmware
6 4 (0.56%) Slurm Workload Manager
7 3 (0.42%) Citrix Hypervisor
7 3 (0.42%) iptables
7 3 (0.42%) 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
1 302 (42.00%) Terraform
2 127 (17.66%) Grafana
3 103 (14.33%) Ansible
4 68 (9.46%) Prometheus
5 35 (4.87%) Argo
6 24 (3.34%) Puppet
7 21 (2.92%) Istio
8 17 (2.36%) Progress Chef
9 12 (1.67%) Kustomize
10 8 (1.11%) Packer
11 7 (0.97%) Active Directory Federation Services
11 7 (0.97%) Proxmox
11 7 (0.97%) ZABBIX
12 6 (0.83%) FortiGate
12 6 (0.83%) Microsoft Intune
13 5 (0.70%) Kibana
14 3 (0.42%) linkerd
14 3 (0.42%) Nagios
15 2 (0.28%) MIIS
15 2 (0.28%) Podman
Vendors
1 208 (28.93%) Microsoft
2 38 (5.29%) Google
3 35 (4.87%) VMware
4 20 (2.78%) Facebook
4 20 (2.78%) Oracle
5 18 (2.50%) Red Hat
5 18 (2.50%) Splunk
6 16 (2.23%) Okta
7 12 (1.67%) Palo Alto
7 12 (1.67%) ServiceNow
8 10 (1.39%) Fortinet
9 8 (1.11%) Cisco
9 8 (1.11%) Confluent
9 8 (1.11%) Databricks
9 8 (1.11%) ForgeRock
10 7 (0.97%) EMC
10 7 (0.97%) OpenAI
10 7 (0.97%) Ping Identity
11 6 (0.83%) Citrix
11 6 (0.83%) F5