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

6 months to
11 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 81 48 65
Rank change year-on-year -33 +17 -38
Permanent jobs citing Kubernetes 623 922 1,369
As % of all permanent jobs with remote/hybrid work options 3.17% 6.10% 4.01%
As % of the Systems Management category 38.77% 45.26% 36.97%
Number of salaries quoted 394 489 1,139
10th Percentile £47,500 £50,000 £50,000
25th Percentile £55,000 £60,000 £60,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,576 £78,810 £75,000
Median % change year-on-year -16.79% +5.08% -
75th Percentile £83,750 £107,500 £93,750
90th Percentile £103,600 £138,750 £115,250
UK median annual salary £72,500 £80,000 £75,000
% change year-on-year -9.38% +6.67% -

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 1,607 2,037 3,703
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 8.19% 13.47% 10.83%
Number of salaries quoted 1,114 1,182 2,852
10th Percentile £36,250 £36,250 £36,500
25th Percentile £46,520 £48,842 £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 £78,750 £87,500 £84,919
90th Percentile £95,000 £115,000 £102,500
UK median annual salary £65,000 £67,500 £62,500
% change year-on-year -3.70% +8.00% -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 11 June 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 (1.12%) Apache Airflow
1 7 (1.12%) OpenStack
2 5 (0.80%) Apache Spark
3 3 (0.48%) ArcGIS
3 3 (0.48%) GeoServer
3 3 (0.48%) Oracle Spatial
4 2 (0.32%) Apache
4 2 (0.32%) Camunda
4 2 (0.32%) Confluence
4 2 (0.32%) Microsoft Exchange
4 2 (0.32%) Oracle SOA Suite
5 1 (0.16%) Apache Pulsar
5 1 (0.16%) Cloud Foundry
5 1 (0.16%) IIS
5 1 (0.16%) JBoss
5 1 (0.16%) Red Hat Fuse
5 1 (0.16%) SAS
Applications
1 4 (0.64%) Weka
2 1 (0.16%) Chatbot
2 1 (0.16%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 2 (0.32%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 364 (58.43%) AWS
2 286 (45.91%) Azure
3 156 (25.04%) GCP
4 128 (20.55%) GitHub
5 106 (17.01%) Amazon EKS
6 72 (11.56%) SaaS
7 68 (10.91%) GitHub Copilot
8 64 (10.27%) Serverless
9 48 (7.70%) GitHub Actions
10 45 (7.22%) AWS CloudFormation
11 41 (6.58%) Azure AKS
12 38 (6.10%) Azure AI
13 35 (5.62%) Amazon EC2
13 35 (5.62%) Amazon S3
14 33 (5.30%) Azure DevOps
15 31 (4.98%) OpenShift
16 27 (4.33%) AWS Lambda
17 25 (4.01%) Amazon CloudWatch
17 25 (4.01%) Amazon ECS
18 24 (3.85%) Pulumi
Communications & Networking
1 52 (8.35%) Broadband
2 30 (4.82%) Firewall
3 23 (3.69%) DNS
4 21 (3.37%) VPN
5 13 (2.09%) TCP/IP
6 9 (1.44%) DHCP
6 9 (1.44%) Internet
6 9 (1.44%) Network Security
7 7 (1.12%) VLAN
8 6 (0.96%) BGP
9 5 (0.80%) OSPF
9 5 (0.80%) VXLAN
10 4 (0.64%) MQTT
10 4 (0.64%) WAN
11 3 (0.48%) HTTP
11 3 (0.48%) RTP
11 3 (0.48%) SAN
11 3 (0.48%) SCCP
11 3 (0.48%) VoIP
11 3 (0.48%) Wireshark
Database & Business Intelligence
1 92 (14.77%) MongoDB
2 65 (10.43%) PostgreSQL
3 62 (9.95%) Azure SQL Database
4 46 (7.38%) NoSQL
5 43 (6.90%) Relational Database
6 26 (4.17%) Amazon RDS
6 26 (4.17%) SQL Server
7 25 (4.01%) Elasticsearch
8 21 (3.37%) MySQL
9 18 (2.89%) RDBMS
10 7 (1.12%) BigQuery
10 7 (1.12%) Redis
11 6 (0.96%) DynamoDB
12 4 (0.64%) Amazon Aurora
13 3 (0.48%) GIS
13 3 (0.48%) QGIS
14 2 (0.32%) Amazon Athena
14 2 (0.32%) Apache Cassandra
14 2 (0.32%) MariaDB
14 2 (0.32%) Neo4j
Development Applications
1 78 (12.52%) TeamCity
2 70 (11.24%) Git
3 64 (10.27%) Jenkins
4 56 (8.99%) GitLab
5 18 (2.89%) Jaeger
6 14 (2.25%) JUnit
7 12 (1.93%) Maven
7 12 (1.93%) Visual Studio Code
8 10 (1.61%) JIRA
9 9 (1.44%) Mockito
10 8 (1.28%) Cucumber
11 7 (1.12%) JMeter
12 6 (0.96%) Bitbucket
12 6 (0.96%) Selenium
12 6 (0.96%) Visual Studio
13 5 (0.80%) Atlassian Bamboo
13 5 (0.80%) Locust
13 5 (0.80%) Postman
14 4 (0.64%) SonarQube
15 3 (0.48%) Gatling
General
1 140 (22.47%) Finance
2 120 (19.26%) Social Skills
3 99 (15.89%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 88 (14.13%) Retail
5 85 (13.64%) Banking
6 79 (12.68%) Law
7 41 (6.58%) Financial Institution
8 39 (6.26%) Public Sector
9 37 (5.94%) Back Office
10 19 (3.05%) Advertising
11 16 (2.57%) Analytical Skills
12 10 (1.61%) Aerospace
13 9 (1.44%) Marketing
13 9 (1.44%) Organisational Skills
14 7 (1.12%) Games
15 6 (0.96%) Aviation
15 6 (0.96%) Legal
15 6 (0.96%) Telecoms
16 5 (0.80%) Front Office
16 5 (0.80%) Military
Job Titles
1 184 (29.53%) Senior
2 141 (22.63%) Developer
3 109 (17.50%) Software Engineer
4 107 (17.17%) Lead
5 73 (11.72%) DevOps Engineer
6 62 (9.95%) .NET Developer
7 59 (9.47%) Cloud Engineer
8 48 (7.70%) Platform Engineer
9 40 (6.42%) Azure Engineer
10 37 (5.94%) Senior Developer
11 36 (5.78%) Senior Software Engineer
12 31 (4.98%) AWS Engineer
12 31 (4.98%) Java Engineer
12 31 (4.98%) Senior DevOps
13 29 (4.65%) Cloud Platform Engineer
13 29 (4.65%) Java Developer
13 29 (4.65%) Team Leader
14 28 (4.49%) Lead Software Engineer
15 25 (4.01%) Python Engineer
16 23 (3.69%) Java Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 113 (18.14%) .NET
2 77 (12.36%) .NET Core
3 66 (10.59%) ASP.NET
3 66 (10.59%) React
4 64 (10.27%) ASP.NET Core
5 63 (10.11%) Spring
6 56 (8.99%) Kafka
7 51 (8.19%) Node.js
8 50 (8.03%) REST
9 46 (7.38%) AngularJS
10 44 (7.06%) Spring Boot
11 39 (6.26%) CSS
11 39 (6.26%) HTML
12 37 (5.94%) Vue
13 36 (5.78%) RESTful
14 35 (5.62%) ML.NET
15 26 (4.17%) Django
15 26 (4.17%) OpenTelemetry
16 25 (4.01%) Elastic Stack
17 23 (3.69%) Akka
Miscellaneous
1 187 (30.02%) Cloud Native
2 47 (7.54%) Distributed Systems
3 46 (7.38%) Product Ownership
4 24 (3.85%) Blog
5 22 (3.53%) Over-the-Top Content
5 22 (3.53%) Video\Live Streaming
6 19 (3.05%) Hybrid Cloud
7 18 (2.89%) Private Cloud
8 17 (2.73%) Data Centre
9 13 (2.09%) Public Cloud
10 11 (1.77%) Digital TV
10 11 (1.77%) Greenfield Project
11 10 (1.61%) Onboarding
11 10 (1.61%) Security Posture
12 9 (1.44%) Management Information System
13 7 (1.12%) AI Agents
13 7 (1.12%) Self-Motivation
14 6 (0.96%) CMDB
14 6 (0.96%) CUDA
14 6 (0.96%) Legacy Systems
Operating Systems
1 134 (21.51%) Linux
2 33 (5.30%) Windows
3 19 (3.05%) Windows Server
4 18 (2.89%) Unix
5 14 (2.25%) Ubuntu
6 13 (2.09%) Android
7 11 (1.77%) Apple iOS
7 11 (1.77%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
8 7 (1.12%) CentOS
9 5 (0.80%) Debian
10 4 (0.64%) Windows Server 2016
11 3 (0.48%) VMS
12 2 (0.32%) Mac OS
Processes & Methodologies
1 402 (64.53%) CI/CD
2 304 (48.80%) DevOps
3 249 (39.97%) Agile
4 230 (36.92%) Infrastructure as Code
5 201 (32.26%) Containerisation
6 195 (31.30%) Microservices
7 165 (26.48%) Software Engineering
8 160 (25.68%) Mentoring
9 128 (20.55%) Continuous Improvement
10 127 (20.39%) AI
11 125 (20.06%) Test Automation
12 112 (17.98%) Full-Stack Development
13 107 (17.17%) Observability
13 107 (17.17%) Platform Engineering
14 99 (15.89%) Clean Code
15 93 (14.93%) TDD
16 83 (13.32%) Scrum
17 81 (13.00%) Deployment Automation
18 77 (12.36%) Problem-Solving
19 76 (12.20%) Analytics
Programming Languages
1 228 (36.60%) Python
2 186 (29.86%) Java
3 133 (21.35%) SQL
4 119 (19.10%) C#
5 85 (13.64%) JavaScript
6 83 (13.32%) TypeScript
7 82 (13.16%) Bash
8 73 (11.72%) Go
9 54 (8.67%) PowerShell
10 30 (4.82%) Scala
11 18 (2.89%) Bicep
12 10 (1.61%) PHP
12 10 (1.61%) PL/SQL
13 9 (1.44%) C++
14 7 (1.12%) C
14 7 (1.12%) Rust
15 5 (0.80%) Groovy
16 4 (0.64%) Ruby
17 3 (0.48%) Perl
17 3 (0.48%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 85 (13.64%) Security Cleared
2 71 (11.40%) SC Cleared
3 53 (8.51%) Degree
4 44 (7.06%) Azure Certification
5 38 (6.10%) AWS Certification
6 25 (4.01%) Computer Science Degree
7 13 (2.09%) DV Cleared
8 9 (1.44%) CREST Certified
8 9 (1.44%) OSCP
9 7 (1.12%) CISSP
9 7 (1.12%) Microsoft Certification
10 6 (0.96%) GIAC
10 6 (0.96%) ISACA
11 5 (0.80%) SANS
12 2 (0.32%) ISTQB
12 2 (0.32%) ISTQB Advanced Certification
12 2 (0.32%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
12 2 (0.32%) Linux+ Certification
12 2 (0.32%) LPIC
12 2 (0.32%) Master's Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 36 (5.78%) QA
2 19 (3.05%) Accessibility
3 16 (2.57%) NIST
4 14 (2.25%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 11 (1.77%) PCI DSS
6 7 (1.12%) WCAG
7 4 (0.64%) Data Quality
7 4 (0.64%) GDPR
7 4 (0.64%) SOC 2
8 3 (0.48%) ISO 9001
9 2 (0.32%) Software Quality Assurance
10 1 (0.16%) Cyber Essentials
10 1 (0.16%) ISO/IEC 42001
10 1 (0.16%) SLA
System Software
1 375 (60.19%) Docker
2 30 (4.82%) Active Directory
3 19 (3.05%) VMware Infrastructure
4 14 (2.25%) Virtual Machines
5 5 (0.80%) VMware NSX
6 4 (0.64%) Firmware
6 4 (0.64%) Slurm Workload Manager
7 3 (0.48%) Citrix Hypervisor
7 3 (0.48%) Kamailio
8 1 (0.16%) Hyper-V
8 1 (0.16%) iptables
8 1 (0.16%) KVM
8 1 (0.16%) QEMU
8 1 (0.16%) Virtual Servers
8 1 (0.16%) vSphere
8 1 (0.16%) Xen
Systems Management
1 302 (48.48%) Terraform
2 120 (19.26%) Grafana
3 112 (17.98%) Ansible
4 78 (12.52%) Prometheus
5 46 (7.38%) Argo
6 24 (3.85%) Kustomize
7 19 (3.05%) Puppet
8 18 (2.89%) Istio
9 14 (2.25%) Progress Chef
10 8 (1.28%) Packer
11 7 (1.12%) Active Directory Federation Services
11 7 (1.12%) Proxmox
11 7 (1.12%) ZABBIX
12 6 (0.96%) Microsoft Intune
13 5 (0.80%) FortiGate
13 5 (0.80%) Kibana
14 3 (0.48%) Nagios
15 2 (0.32%) MIIS
15 2 (0.32%) Podman
16 1 (0.16%) Cilium
Vendors
1 132 (21.19%) Microsoft
2 40 (6.42%) Google
3 34 (5.46%) VMware
4 20 (3.21%) Red Hat
5 18 (2.89%) Oracle
6 12 (1.93%) Splunk
7 11 (1.77%) Palo Alto
8 10 (1.61%) ServiceNow
9 9 (1.44%) Facebook
9 9 (1.44%) Fortinet
9 9 (1.44%) Okta
10 8 (1.28%) Cisco
10 8 (1.28%) Confluent
11 7 (1.12%) EMC
11 7 (1.12%) OpenAI
12 6 (0.96%) Citrix
12 6 (0.96%) F5
13 5 (0.80%) ForgeRock
13 5 (0.80%) HubSpot
13 5 (0.80%) Zscaler