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

6 months to
24 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 75 56 67
Rank change year-on-year -19 +11 -39
Permanent jobs citing Kubernetes 714 872 1,054
As % of all permanent jobs with remote/hybrid work options 3.29% 5.30% 3.73%
As % of the Systems Management category 38.97% 43.43% 34.40%
Number of salaries quoted 532 439 850
10th Percentile £45,000 £50,000 £52,500
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 £98,474 £95,000
90th Percentile £97,500 £127,500 £115,000
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 1,832 2,008 3,064
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 8.44% 12.19% 10.83%
Number of salaries quoted 1,356 1,153 2,253
10th Percentile £36,875 £35,150 £36,500
25th Percentile £47,500 £48,165 £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 £77,625 £85,000 £84,964
90th Percentile £95,000 £104,550 £102,500
UK median annual salary £64,000 £65,000 £62,500
% change year-on-year -1.54% +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 24 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 9 (1.26%) Apache Spark
2 7 (0.98%) Apache Airflow
3 6 (0.84%) IIS
3 6 (0.84%) OpenStack
4 5 (0.70%) nginx
5 3 (0.42%) Confluence
5 3 (0.42%) Oracle SOA Suite
6 2 (0.28%) ArcGIS
6 2 (0.28%) Camunda
6 2 (0.28%) GeoServer
6 2 (0.28%) Microsoft Exchange
6 2 (0.28%) Oracle Spatial
7 1 (0.14%) Apache
7 1 (0.14%) Cloud Foundry
7 1 (0.14%) JBoss
7 1 (0.14%) Oracle Coherence
7 1 (0.14%) Red Hat Fuse
Applications
1 1 (0.14%) Lightworks
Business Applications
1 2 (0.28%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 403 (56.44%) Azure
2 393 (55.04%) AWS
3 203 (28.43%) GitHub
4 181 (25.35%) GCP
5 139 (19.47%) GitHub Copilot
6 90 (12.61%) Amazon EKS
7 74 (10.36%) Azure AI
8 73 (10.22%) SaaS
9 66 (9.24%) Serverless
10 51 (7.14%) GitHub Actions
11 44 (6.16%) Azure DevOps
12 43 (6.02%) Azure AKS
13 42 (5.88%) AWS CloudFormation
14 34 (4.76%) Amazon EC2
15 33 (4.62%) OpenShift
16 29 (4.06%) Amazon S3
17 25 (3.50%) PaaS
18 24 (3.36%) AWS Lambda
19 23 (3.22%) Amazon ECS
20 21 (2.94%) Azure Service Bus
Communications & Networking
1 28 (3.92%) Firewall
2 24 (3.36%) DNS
3 23 (3.22%) VPN
4 20 (2.80%) Internet
5 17 (2.38%) Broadband
6 15 (2.10%) TCP/IP
7 8 (1.12%) DHCP
7 8 (1.12%) VLAN
8 7 (0.98%) BGP
8 7 (0.98%) Network Security
9 6 (0.84%) OSPF
9 6 (0.84%) VXLAN
10 5 (0.70%) MQTT
11 4 (0.56%) HTTP
11 4 (0.56%) WAN
12 3 (0.42%) SAN
13 2 (0.28%) Remote Desktop
13 2 (0.28%) RTP
13 2 (0.28%) SSL
13 2 (0.28%) WireGuard
Database & Business Intelligence
1 159 (22.27%) MongoDB
2 138 (19.33%) Azure SQL Database
3 70 (9.80%) PostgreSQL
4 50 (7.00%) Elasticsearch
5 29 (4.06%) MySQL
5 29 (4.06%) NoSQL
6 26 (3.64%) Relational Database
6 26 (3.64%) SQL Server
7 23 (3.22%) Amazon RDS
8 7 (0.98%) Data Warehouse
9 6 (0.84%) Delta Lake
9 6 (0.84%) DynamoDB
9 6 (0.84%) Redis
10 4 (0.56%) BigQuery
10 4 (0.56%) Metadata
11 3 (0.42%) Apache Cassandra
11 3 (0.42%) Power BI
11 3 (0.42%) Spark SQL
11 3 (0.42%) Tableau
12 2 (0.28%) GIS
Development Applications
1 97 (13.59%) Git
2 54 (7.56%) GitLab
3 51 (7.14%) Jenkins
4 50 (7.00%) TeamCity
5 20 (2.80%) JUnit
6 14 (1.96%) JIRA
6 14 (1.96%) Maven
7 12 (1.68%) Selenium
7 12 (1.68%) Visual Studio Code
8 11 (1.54%) Cucumber
8 11 (1.54%) Mockito
9 9 (1.26%) Postman
10 7 (0.98%) Atlassian Bamboo
10 7 (0.98%) Bitbucket
11 6 (0.84%) Octopus Deploy
12 5 (0.70%) Gatling
12 5 (0.70%) JMeter
12 5 (0.70%) Locust
12 5 (0.70%) Subversion
13 4 (0.56%) SonarQube
General
1 166 (23.25%) Finance
2 125 (17.51%) Social Skills
3 75 (10.50%) Banking
4 74 (10.36%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 74 (10.36%) Retail
5 67 (9.38%) Law
6 52 (7.28%) Public Sector
7 40 (5.60%) Financial Institution
8 39 (5.46%) Back Office
9 37 (5.18%) Advertising
10 23 (3.22%) Analytical Skills
11 20 (2.80%) Marketing
12 17 (2.38%) Aerospace
13 13 (1.82%) Games
14 8 (1.12%) Legal
14 8 (1.12%) Organisational Skills
15 6 (0.84%) Telecoms
16 4 (0.56%) Manufacturing
16 4 (0.56%) Military
17 3 (0.42%) Aviation
Job Titles
1 212 (29.69%) Developer
2 194 (27.17%) Senior
3 132 (18.49%) .NET Developer
4 114 (15.97%) Software Engineer
5 85 (11.90%) Lead
6 78 (10.92%) DevOps Engineer
7 57 (7.98%) Cloud Engineer
8 47 (6.58%) Platform Engineer
9 45 (6.30%) Azure Engineer
10 39 (5.46%) Senior Developer
11 37 (5.18%) Architect
12 34 (4.76%) Senior Software Engineer
13 31 (4.34%) Java Developer
13 31 (4.34%) Lead Software Engineer
13 31 (4.34%) Senior DevOps
14 29 (4.06%) AWS Engineer
15 27 (3.78%) Cloud Platform Engineer
16 26 (3.64%) Java Engineer
17 24 (3.36%) Senior DevOps Engineer
18 23 (3.22%) Python Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 194 (27.17%) .NET
2 140 (19.61%) ASP.NET
3 139 (19.47%) .NET Core
4 134 (18.77%) ASP.NET Core
5 82 (11.48%) AngularJS
6 80 (11.20%) CSS
6 80 (11.20%) HTML
7 75 (10.50%) Node.js
8 73 (10.22%) ML.NET
9 71 (9.94%) React
10 70 (9.80%) Vue
11 66 (9.24%) Spring
12 58 (8.12%) Kafka
13 55 (7.70%) REST
14 49 (6.86%) Spring Boot
15 48 (6.72%) RESTful
16 25 (3.50%) Blazor
17 23 (3.22%) Django
17 23 (3.22%) OAuth
18 22 (3.08%) .NET Framework
Miscellaneous
1 196 (27.45%) Cloud Native
2 58 (8.12%) Distributed Systems
3 45 (6.30%) Product Ownership
4 24 (3.36%) Greenfield Project
5 20 (2.80%) Digital TV
6 19 (2.66%) Hybrid Cloud
7 18 (2.52%) Data Centre
8 17 (2.38%) Blog
9 16 (2.24%) Private Cloud
10 13 (1.82%) Public Cloud
11 11 (1.54%) Management Information System
12 10 (1.40%) AI Agents
12 10 (1.40%) Legacy Systems
13 8 (1.12%) IoT
14 7 (0.98%) Onboarding
14 7 (0.98%) PKI
15 6 (0.84%) CMDB
15 6 (0.84%) CUDA
15 6 (0.84%) Mobile App
15 6 (0.84%) Replication
Operating Systems
1 131 (18.35%) Linux
2 41 (5.74%) Windows
3 21 (2.94%) Windows Server
4 16 (2.24%) Ubuntu
5 9 (1.26%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 6 (0.84%) Debian
7 5 (0.70%) Android
7 5 (0.70%) Apple iOS
7 5 (0.70%) CentOS
8 3 (0.42%) VMS
8 3 (0.42%) Windows Server 2016
9 2 (0.28%) Mac OS
Processes & Methodologies
1 482 (67.51%) CI/CD
2 299 (41.88%) DevOps
3 263 (36.83%) Agile
4 239 (33.47%) Microservices
5 224 (31.37%) Infrastructure as Code
6 201 (28.15%) Containerisation
7 189 (26.47%) Full-Stack Development
8 187 (26.19%) AI
9 182 (25.49%) Software Engineering
10 173 (24.23%) Mentoring
11 128 (17.93%) Continuous Improvement
12 123 (17.23%) Test Automation
13 120 (16.81%) Observability
14 110 (15.41%) Platform Engineering
15 108 (15.13%) Machine Learning
16 106 (14.85%) TDD
17 102 (14.29%) Problem-Solving
18 98 (13.73%) Clean Code
19 84 (11.76%) Scrum
20 81 (11.34%) Deployment Automation
Programming Languages
1 230 (32.21%) Python
2 212 (29.69%) SQL
3 207 (28.99%) C#
4 164 (22.97%) Java
5 112 (15.69%) TypeScript
6 72 (10.08%) JavaScript
7 71 (9.94%) Bash
8 69 (9.66%) PowerShell
9 46 (6.44%) Go
10 23 (3.22%) Bicep
11 13 (1.82%) Scala
12 11 (1.54%) PHP
12 11 (1.54%) PL/SQL
13 8 (1.12%) Ruby
14 7 (0.98%) Groovy
14 7 (0.98%) Rust
15 6 (0.84%) C++
16 5 (0.70%) C
16 5 (0.70%) Kotlin
17 3 (0.42%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 97 (13.59%) Security Cleared
2 81 (11.34%) SC Cleared
3 60 (8.40%) Degree
4 43 (6.02%) Azure Certification
5 27 (3.78%) Computer Science Degree
6 18 (2.52%) AWS Certification
7 13 (1.82%) DV Cleared
8 9 (1.26%) CISSP
9 7 (0.98%) GIAC
10 5 (0.70%) CREST Certified
10 5 (0.70%) ISACA
10 5 (0.70%) OSCP
11 4 (0.56%) CISM
11 4 (0.56%) Microsoft Certification
11 4 (0.56%) SANS
12 3 (0.42%) CEH
13 2 (0.28%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
13 2 (0.28%) BPSS Clearance
13 2 (0.28%) ITIL Certification
13 2 (0.28%) Master's Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 42 (5.88%) QA
2 25 (3.50%) Accessibility
3 17 (2.38%) NIST
4 12 (1.68%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 12 (1.68%) WCAG
5 9 (1.26%) PCI DSS
6 5 (0.70%) Data Quality
7 4 (0.56%) SOC 2
8 3 (0.42%) Cyber Essentials
8 3 (0.42%) ISO 9001
9 1 (0.14%) GDPR
9 1 (0.14%) ISO 22301
9 1 (0.14%) ISO/IEC 42001
9 1 (0.14%) NCSC
9 1 (0.14%) PSD2
9 1 (0.14%) SEPA
9 1 (0.14%) SLA
System Software
1 456 (63.87%) Docker
2 29 (4.06%) Active Directory
3 19 (2.66%) VMware Infrastructure
4 18 (2.52%) Virtual Machines
5 4 (0.56%) Firmware
5 4 (0.56%) Slurm Workload Manager
6 3 (0.42%) Citrix Hypervisor
6 3 (0.42%) iptables
7 2 (0.28%) 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%) Xen
Systems Management
1 283 (39.64%) Terraform
2 111 (15.55%) Grafana
3 91 (12.75%) Ansible
4 56 (7.84%) Prometheus
5 28 (3.92%) Argo
6 22 (3.08%) Istio
7 20 (2.80%) Puppet
8 14 (1.96%) Progress Chef
9 8 (1.12%) Packer
10 7 (0.98%) Active Directory Federation Services
11 6 (0.84%) FortiGate
11 6 (0.84%) Kustomize
11 6 (0.84%) Microsoft Intune
12 5 (0.70%) Kibana
12 5 (0.70%) Proxmox
13 4 (0.56%) linkerd
14 3 (0.42%) Nagios
14 3 (0.42%) ZABBIX
15 2 (0.28%) CASB
15 2 (0.28%) MIIS
Vendors
1 209 (29.27%) Microsoft
2 34 (4.76%) Google
3 28 (3.92%) VMware
4 23 (3.22%) Oracle
5 20 (2.80%) Facebook
6 19 (2.66%) Okta
7 17 (2.38%) Red Hat
8 16 (2.24%) Splunk
9 12 (1.68%) Palo Alto
9 12 (1.68%) ServiceNow
10 11 (1.54%) Ping Identity
11 10 (1.40%) Databricks
12 9 (1.26%) Fortinet
13 8 (1.12%) Cisco
13 8 (1.12%) Confluent
13 8 (1.12%) ForgeRock
13 8 (1.12%) OpenAI
14 7 (0.98%) EMC
15 6 (0.84%) Citrix
15 6 (0.84%) F5