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 20 October 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
20 Oct 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 86 48 30
Rank change year-on-year -38 -18 -7
Permanent jobs citing Kubernetes 646 1,064 1,785
As % of all permanent jobs with remote/hybrid work options 3.98% 5.27% 7.68%
As % of the Systems Management category 37.06% 44.48% 47.68%
Number of salaries quoted 322 577 1,519
10th Percentile £48,750 £52,500 £50,000
25th Percentile £58,750 £61,250 £60,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £72,500 £75,000 £75,000
Median % change year-on-year -3.33% - -
75th Percentile £87,500 £93,750 £87,500
90th Percentile £107,500 £112,500 £102,500
UK median annual salary £75,000 £77,500 £75,000
% change year-on-year -3.23% +3.33% -3.23%

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 1,743 2,392 3,744
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 10.75% 11.84% 16.12%
Number of salaries quoted 946 1,420 3,234
10th Percentile £35,000 £39,450 £41,250
25th Percentile £46,250 £50,000 £52,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £67,500 £67,500
Median % change year-on-year -3.70% - -3.57%
75th Percentile £82,500 £85,000 £85,000
90th Percentile £97,500 £105,000 £97,500
UK median annual salary £60,000 £67,500 £65,000
% change year-on-year -11.11% +3.85% -3.70%

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 20 October 2025.

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
1 162 (25.08%) Confluence
2 12 (1.86%) IIS
3 7 (1.08%) Apache
3 7 (1.08%) Apache Spark
4 6 (0.93%) Apache Airflow
4 6 (0.93%) nginx
5 3 (0.46%) Microsoft Exchange
6 2 (0.31%) Anypoint
6 2 (0.31%) BizTalk Server
7 1 (0.15%) Apache Solr
7 1 (0.15%) ArcGIS
7 1 (0.15%) Drupal
7 1 (0.15%) GeoServer
7 1 (0.15%) OpenStack
7 1 (0.15%) Oracle Spatial
7 1 (0.15%) SharePoint
7 1 (0.15%) Tomcat
7 1 (0.15%) WordPress
Business Applications
1 2 (0.31%) Shopify
2 1 (0.15%) Dynamics CRM
2 1 (0.15%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 485 (75.08%) AWS
2 475 (73.53%) Azure
3 254 (39.32%) GCP
4 84 (13.00%) GitHub
5 70 (10.84%) Azure DevOps
6 53 (8.20%) GitHub Actions
7 39 (6.04%) Serverless
8 36 (5.57%) Azure AKS
9 34 (5.26%) SaaS
10 33 (5.11%) AWS CloudFormation
11 30 (4.64%) Amazon CloudWatch
12 29 (4.49%) Amazon ECS
12 29 (4.49%) Amazon EKS
12 29 (4.49%) AWS Lambda
13 20 (3.10%) Azure Monitor
14 18 (2.79%) Amazon S3
15 16 (2.48%) OpenShift
16 15 (2.32%) Azure Cosmos DB
17 13 (2.01%) Entra ID
18 12 (1.86%) Datadog
Communications & Networking
1 28 (4.33%) Firewall
2 19 (2.94%) DNS
3 14 (2.17%) VPN
4 12 (1.86%) TCP/IP
5 10 (1.55%) WAN
6 9 (1.39%) LAN
7 8 (1.24%) DHCP
8 7 (1.08%) Broadband
9 6 (0.93%) Fibre Channel
10 4 (0.62%) Internet
10 4 (0.62%) Network Security
11 2 (0.31%) 5G
11 2 (0.31%) AMQP
11 2 (0.31%) HTTP
11 2 (0.31%) Kerberos
11 2 (0.31%) SD-WAN
11 2 (0.31%) VLAN
11 2 (0.31%) VSAN
12 1 (0.15%) Diameter Protocol
12 1 (0.15%) IOS XR
Database & Business Intelligence
1 284 (43.96%) SQL Server
2 48 (7.43%) NoSQL
3 41 (6.35%) PostgreSQL
4 32 (4.95%) MongoDB
5 15 (2.32%) MySQL
6 14 (2.17%) Relational Database
7 12 (1.86%) Elasticsearch
8 11 (1.70%) Amazon RDS
9 10 (1.55%) DynamoDB
9 10 (1.55%) Redis
10 5 (0.77%) Azure SQL Database
10 5 (0.77%) Big Data
11 3 (0.46%) Amazon Athena
11 3 (0.46%) Apache Ignite
11 3 (0.46%) BigQuery
11 3 (0.46%) Couchbase
11 3 (0.46%) Data Lake
11 3 (0.46%) Data Warehouse
11 3 (0.46%) Pinecone
11 3 (0.46%) RDBMS
Development Applications
1 284 (43.96%) GitLab
2 256 (39.63%) Sonatype Nexus
3 253 (39.16%) JIRA
3 253 (39.16%) SonarQube
4 248 (38.39%) Bitbucket
4 248 (38.39%) Maven
5 247 (38.24%) Cucumber
5 247 (38.24%) Selenium
6 63 (9.75%) Git
7 49 (7.59%) Jenkins
8 8 (1.24%) Octopus Deploy
9 4 (0.62%) Artifactory
9 4 (0.62%) TeamCity
9 4 (0.62%) Visual Studio Code
10 2 (0.31%) Cypress.io
10 2 (0.31%) Jaeger
10 2 (0.31%) MLflow
10 2 (0.31%) Spock
10 2 (0.31%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
10 2 (0.31%) Visual Studio
General
1 298 (46.13%) Finance
2 256 (39.63%) Banking
3 255 (39.47%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 98 (15.17%) Retail
5 90 (13.93%) Corporate Banking
5 90 (13.93%) Investment Banking
6 68 (10.53%) Social Skills
7 29 (4.49%) Public Sector
8 12 (1.86%) Law
9 9 (1.39%) Telecoms
10 8 (1.24%) Analytical Skills
10 8 (1.24%) Front Office
11 7 (1.08%) Financial Institution
11 7 (1.08%) Games
12 5 (0.77%) Automotive
12 5 (0.77%) Documentation Skills
12 5 (0.77%) Tech for Good
13 4 (0.62%) Legal
14 3 (0.46%) Marketing
15 2 (0.31%) Health Technology
Job Titles
1 300 (46.44%) Software Engineer
2 111 (17.18%) Senior
3 82 (12.69%) DevOps Engineer
4 57 (8.82%) Developer
5 39 (6.04%) Lead
6 38 (5.88%) Architect
6 38 (5.88%) Cloud Engineer
7 31 (4.80%) Senior DevOps
8 29 (4.49%) Infrastructure Engineer
9 26 (4.02%) Azure Engineer
10 25 (3.87%) Platform Engineer
10 25 (3.87%) Python Engineer
11 23 (3.56%) Solutions Architect
12 22 (3.41%) AWS DevOps
13 21 (3.25%) Senior DevOps Engineer
14 20 (3.10%) AWS Architect
14 20 (3.10%) Senior Cloud Engineer
15 18 (2.79%) AWS Engineer
16 15 (2.32%) AWS Solution Architect
16 15 (2.32%) Senior Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 295 (45.67%) React
2 287 (44.43%) Spring
3 285 (44.12%) Kafka
3 285 (44.12%) Spring Boot
4 257 (39.78%) CSS
4 257 (39.78%) HTML
5 250 (38.70%) Redux
6 248 (38.39%) JPA
7 158 (24.46%) Hibernate
8 132 (20.43%) REST
9 119 (18.42%) RESTful
10 96 (14.86%) CSS3
10 96 (14.86%) HTML5
11 91 (14.09%) Jest
12 90 (13.93%) Sass
13 67 (10.37%) .NET
14 24 (3.72%) Node.js
15 22 (3.41%) RabbitMQ
16 19 (2.94%) Web Services
17 18 (2.79%) .NET Core
Miscellaneous
1 260 (40.25%) Product Ownership
2 247 (38.24%) Enterprise Software
3 110 (17.03%) Cloud Native
4 34 (5.26%) Distributed Systems
5 23 (3.56%) Management Information System
5 23 (3.56%) Onboarding
6 22 (3.41%) Hybrid Cloud
7 17 (2.63%) Data Centre
8 14 (2.17%) Public Cloud
9 12 (1.86%) Self-Motivation
10 10 (1.55%) Algorithms
11 7 (1.08%) Greenfield Project
12 6 (0.93%) BYOD
13 5 (0.77%) Derivative
13 5 (0.77%) Security Posture
14 4 (0.62%) Cloud Security Posture
14 4 (0.62%) Data Protection Act
14 4 (0.62%) Data Structures
14 4 (0.62%) IoT
14 4 (0.62%) Low-Code
Operating Systems
1 111 (17.18%) Linux
2 67 (10.37%) Windows
3 29 (4.49%) Windows Server
4 15 (2.32%) Unix
5 13 (2.01%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 10 (1.55%) Windows Server 2019
7 8 (1.24%) Rocky
7 8 (1.24%) Ubuntu
8 5 (0.77%) VMS
9 4 (0.62%) Debian
10 3 (0.46%) Android
11 2 (0.31%) Apple iOS
11 2 (0.31%) CentOS
12 1 (0.15%) Windows Server 2016
Processes & Methodologies
1 512 (79.26%) DevOps
2 488 (75.54%) CI/CD
3 409 (63.31%) Containerisation
4 355 (54.95%) Microservices
5 354 (54.80%) Agile
6 337 (52.17%) Software Engineering
7 279 (43.19%) Full-Stack Development
8 271 (41.95%) Performance Optimisation
8 271 (41.95%) Test Automation
9 260 (40.25%) SDLC
10 255 (39.47%) Front End Development
11 218 (33.75%) Continuous Improvement
12 185 (28.64%) TDD
13 176 (27.24%) Clean Code
14 154 (23.84%) Mentoring
15 147 (22.76%) Infrastructure as Code
16 104 (16.10%) User Experience
17 102 (15.79%) Migration
18 93 (14.40%) Strategic Thinking
19 90 (13.93%) Responsive Web Design
Programming Languages
1 344 (53.25%) SQL
2 335 (51.86%) Java
3 296 (45.82%) JavaScript
4 187 (28.95%) Python
5 126 (19.50%) TypeScript
6 63 (9.75%) C#
6 63 (9.75%) PowerShell
7 57 (8.82%) Bash
8 31 (4.80%) Bicep
9 22 (3.41%) Go
10 8 (1.24%) PHP
11 5 (0.77%) C++
11 5 (0.77%) Kotlin
11 5 (0.77%) Scala
12 4 (0.62%) C
12 4 (0.62%) F#
12 4 (0.62%) Groovy
12 4 (0.62%) Haskell
12 4 (0.62%) OCaml
12 4 (0.62%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 66 (10.22%) Security Cleared
2 58 (8.98%) AWS Certification
3 54 (8.36%) SC Cleared
4 43 (6.66%) Azure Certification
5 30 (4.64%) Degree
6 20 (3.10%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
6 20 (3.10%) DV Cleared
7 11 (1.70%) Computer Science Degree
8 10 (1.55%) BPSS Clearance
9 8 (1.24%) Master's Degree
9 8 (1.24%) Network+ Certification
10 6 (0.93%) Cisco Certification
10 6 (0.93%) CISM
10 6 (0.93%) CISSP
10 6 (0.93%) PhD
11 4 (0.62%) (ISC)2 CCSP
11 4 (0.62%) CompTIA Security+
12 2 (0.31%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
12 2 (0.31%) AWS Certified Developer
12 2 (0.31%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 268 (41.49%) QA
2 90 (13.93%) Accessibility
3 26 (4.02%) GDPR
4 16 (2.48%) HIPAA
5 11 (1.70%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 11 (1.70%) NIST
6 6 (0.93%) SOC 2
7 3 (0.46%) Data Quality
7 3 (0.46%) PCI DSS
7 3 (0.46%) SLA
System Software
1 495 (76.63%) Docker
2 26 (4.02%) Active Directory
3 15 (2.32%) Hyper-V
3 15 (2.32%) VMware Infrastructure
4 11 (1.70%) vSphere
5 6 (0.93%) NFS
5 6 (0.93%) Virtual Machines
6 2 (0.31%) Virtual Servers
6 2 (0.31%) VMware NSX
7 1 (0.15%) Dovecot
7 1 (0.15%) KVM
7 1 (0.15%) Postfix
7 1 (0.15%) VMware ESXi
7 1 (0.15%) Xen
Systems Management
1 177 (27.40%) Terraform
2 101 (15.63%) Ansible
3 61 (9.44%) Grafana
4 48 (7.43%) Prometheus
5 15 (2.32%) Argo
6 5 (0.77%) Microsoft Data Protection Manager
6 5 (0.77%) Progress Chef
6 5 (0.77%) SCCM
6 5 (0.77%) SCOM
6 5 (0.77%) WSUS
7 4 (0.62%) Puppet
8 3 (0.46%) Kustomize
9 2 (0.31%) Kibana
9 2 (0.31%) Kubeflow
10 1 (0.15%) CFEngine
10 1 (0.15%) Istio
10 1 (0.15%) logstash
10 1 (0.15%) Nagios
10 1 (0.15%) Oracle Enterprise Manager
10 1 (0.15%) vCenter Server
Vendors
1 250 (38.70%) Solace
2 48 (7.43%) Microsoft
3 28 (4.33%) Google
4 19 (2.94%) VMware
5 17 (2.63%) Red Hat
6 16 (2.48%) Oracle
7 12 (1.86%) Dell
8 10 (1.55%) Cisco
9 8 (1.24%) Commvault
10 7 (1.08%) Pure Storage
11 6 (0.93%) Databricks
11 6 (0.93%) Trayport
12 5 (0.77%) Dynatrace
12 5 (0.77%) ServiceNow
13 4 (0.62%) Ping Identity
13 4 (0.62%) SAP
13 4 (0.62%) Splunk
14 3 (0.46%) Foundry
14 3 (0.46%) Pega
15 2 (0.31%) Infor