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

6 months to
16 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 68 37 58
Rank change year-on-year -31 +21 -31
Permanent jobs citing Kubernetes 607 930 1,454
As % of all permanent jobs with remote/hybrid work options 3.46% 7.05% 4.49%
As % of the Systems Management category 38.94% 51.75% 38.32%
Number of salaries quoted 388 632 1,211
10th Percentile £52,500 £51,250 £48,750
25th Percentile £60,000 £62,188 £58,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £72,250 £80,000 £75,000
Median % change year-on-year -9.69% +6.67% -
75th Percentile £88,750 £115,000 £91,934
90th Percentile £120,000 £138,750 £112,500
UK median annual salary £75,000 £82,500 £75,000
% change year-on-year -9.09% +10.00% -

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 1,559 1,797 3,794
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 8.88% 13.62% 11.72%
Number of salaries quoted 1,061 1,350 3,065
10th Percentile £37,500 £41,250 £37,101
25th Percentile £48,750 £52,500 £47,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £70,000 £64,000
Median % change year-on-year -7.14% +9.38% -7.84%
75th Percentile £82,500 £91,000 £83,750
90th Percentile £96,250 £115,000 £102,500
UK median annual salary £65,000 £70,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year -7.14% +16.67% -11.11%

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 16 April 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 11 (1.81%) Apache Spark
2 10 (1.65%) Apache Airflow
3 9 (1.48%) OpenStack
4 5 (0.82%) Anypoint
4 5 (0.82%) Apache Pulsar
5 4 (0.66%) ArcGIS
5 4 (0.66%) GeoServer
5 4 (0.66%) Microsoft Exchange
5 4 (0.66%) Oracle Spatial
6 3 (0.49%) Apache
6 3 (0.49%) Confluence
7 2 (0.33%) Camunda
7 2 (0.33%) nginx
8 1 (0.16%) Cloud Foundry
8 1 (0.16%) IIS
8 1 (0.16%) SAS
8 1 (0.16%) SharePoint
Applications
1 4 (0.66%) Weka
2 2 (0.33%) Chatbot
3 1 (0.16%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 5 (0.82%) Shopify
2 1 (0.16%) Actimize
Cloud Services
1 381 (62.77%) AWS
2 257 (42.34%) Azure
3 188 (30.97%) GCP
4 127 (20.92%) Amazon EKS
5 106 (17.46%) GitHub
6 86 (14.17%) SaaS
7 73 (12.03%) GitHub Actions
8 65 (10.71%) Serverless
9 44 (7.25%) AWS CloudFormation
9 44 (7.25%) Azure DevOps
10 41 (6.75%) Amazon S3
11 40 (6.59%) Azure AKS
12 37 (6.10%) Amazon CloudWatch
13 35 (5.77%) Amazon EC2
13 35 (5.77%) AWS Lambda
13 35 (5.77%) OpenShift
14 27 (4.45%) Amazon ECS
15 25 (4.12%) Datadog
16 19 (3.13%) Pulumi
17 17 (2.80%) PaaS
Communications & Networking
1 44 (7.25%) Broadband
2 40 (6.59%) Firewall
3 18 (2.97%) VPN
4 16 (2.64%) DNS
5 10 (1.65%) DHCP
6 9 (1.48%) Network Security
6 9 (1.48%) TCP/IP
7 5 (0.82%) WAN
8 4 (0.66%) AMQP
8 4 (0.66%) Intrusion Detection
8 4 (0.66%) MQTT
8 4 (0.66%) SD-WAN
9 3 (0.49%) HTTP
9 3 (0.49%) Internet
9 3 (0.49%) RTP
9 3 (0.49%) SAN
9 3 (0.49%) Unified Communications
9 3 (0.49%) VLAN
9 3 (0.49%) VoIP
9 3 (0.49%) Wireshark
Database & Business Intelligence
1 72 (11.86%) PostgreSQL
2 61 (10.05%) NoSQL
3 42 (6.92%) SQL Server
4 41 (6.75%) Relational Database
5 40 (6.59%) MongoDB
6 30 (4.94%) Amazon RDS
7 19 (3.13%) MySQL
7 19 (3.13%) RDBMS
8 12 (1.98%) Azure SQL Database
9 10 (1.65%) Elasticsearch
9 10 (1.65%) Flink
10 9 (1.48%) BigQuery
11 8 (1.32%) Amazon Aurora
12 7 (1.15%) Redis
13 5 (0.82%) Power BI
14 4 (0.66%) Data Warehouse
14 4 (0.66%) DynamoDB
14 4 (0.66%) GIS
14 4 (0.66%) InfluxDB
14 4 (0.66%) QGIS
Development Applications
1 85 (14.00%) TeamCity
2 73 (12.03%) Jenkins
3 69 (11.37%) Git
4 59 (9.72%) GitLab
5 19 (3.13%) Jaeger
6 14 (2.31%) Cucumber
7 12 (1.98%) Selenium
7 12 (1.98%) Visual Studio Code
8 10 (1.65%) JIRA
8 10 (1.65%) JMeter
8 10 (1.65%) JUnit
9 9 (1.48%) SonarQube
10 6 (0.99%) Bitbucket
10 6 (0.99%) CircleCI
10 6 (0.99%) Locust
10 6 (0.99%) Robot Framework
10 6 (0.99%) Visual Studio
11 4 (0.66%) MLflow
12 3 (0.49%) REST Assured
12 3 (0.49%) TestRail
General
1 150 (24.71%) Finance
2 138 (22.73%) Social Skills
3 102 (16.80%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 100 (16.47%) Banking
5 97 (15.98%) Retail
6 92 (15.16%) Law
7 57 (9.39%) Financial Institution
8 48 (7.91%) Back Office
9 35 (5.77%) Public Sector
10 23 (3.79%) Telecoms
11 17 (2.80%) Analytical Skills
12 13 (2.14%) Front Office
13 10 (1.65%) Legal
14 8 (1.32%) Organisational Skills
15 7 (1.15%) Military
16 5 (0.82%) Advertising
16 5 (0.82%) Esports
16 5 (0.82%) Manufacturing
17 4 (0.66%) Aviation
17 4 (0.66%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 193 (31.80%) Senior
2 125 (20.59%) Software Engineer
3 119 (19.60%) Lead
4 86 (14.17%) DevOps Engineer
5 85 (14.00%) Developer
6 62 (10.21%) Cloud Engineer
7 49 (8.07%) Azure Engineer
7 49 (8.07%) Platform Engineer
8 46 (7.58%) Senior Software Engineer
9 36 (5.93%) Senior Developer
10 34 (5.60%) Infrastructure Engineer
10 34 (5.60%) Java Engineer
10 34 (5.60%) Python Engineer
11 30 (4.94%) AWS Engineer
12 29 (4.78%) Cloud Platform Engineer
13 27 (4.45%) Java Software Engineer
13 27 (4.45%) Lead Software Engineer
14 26 (4.28%) Senior DevOps
15 25 (4.12%) Lead DevOps
16 24 (3.95%) Team Leader
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 68 (11.20%) .NET
2 67 (11.04%) Kafka
2 67 (11.04%) Spring
3 62 (10.21%) React
4 54 (8.90%) Spring Boot
5 49 (8.07%) RESTful
6 48 (7.91%) REST
7 47 (7.74%) Elastic Stack
8 37 (6.10%) Node.js
9 35 (5.77%) Django
10 26 (4.28%) .NET Core
11 25 (4.12%) Akka
12 24 (3.95%) Flask
13 22 (3.62%) FastAPI
14 21 (3.46%) gRPC
14 21 (3.46%) OpenTelemetry
14 21 (3.46%) RabbitMQ
15 20 (3.29%) OAuth
16 19 (3.13%) AngularJS
17 14 (2.31%) JSON
Miscellaneous
1 193 (31.80%) Cloud Native
2 45 (7.41%) Distributed Systems
2 45 (7.41%) Product Ownership
3 25 (4.12%) Blog
4 23 (3.79%) Over-the-Top Content
4 23 (3.79%) Video\Live Streaming
5 19 (3.13%) Private Cloud
6 17 (2.80%) Data Centre
6 17 (2.80%) Hybrid Cloud
6 17 (2.80%) Onboarding
7 16 (2.64%) Legacy Systems
8 14 (2.31%) AI Agents
8 14 (2.31%) Public Cloud
9 12 (1.98%) Security Posture
10 11 (1.81%) Virtual Team
11 8 (1.32%) Fixed Income
12 7 (1.15%) Management Information System
13 6 (0.99%) CUDA
13 6 (0.99%) Distributed Architecture
13 6 (0.99%) Low-Code
Operating Systems
1 139 (22.90%) Linux
2 39 (6.43%) Windows
3 30 (4.94%) Unix
4 23 (3.79%) Android
5 15 (2.47%) Windows Server
6 14 (2.31%) Apple iOS
6 14 (2.31%) Ubuntu
7 13 (2.14%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
8 11 (1.81%) CentOS
9 8 (1.32%) VMS
10 4 (0.66%) Debian
11 3 (0.49%) Windows Server 2016
12 2 (0.33%) Mac OS
Processes & Methodologies
1 376 (61.94%) CI/CD
2 341 (56.18%) DevOps
3 230 (37.89%) Containerisation
4 225 (37.07%) Agile
5 214 (35.26%) Infrastructure as Code
6 178 (29.32%) Microservices
7 169 (27.84%) Software Engineering
8 132 (21.75%) Test Automation
9 126 (20.76%) Mentoring
10 123 (20.26%) Continuous Improvement
11 98 (16.14%) Platform Engineering
12 96 (15.82%) Clean Code
13 94 (15.49%) Observability
14 91 (14.99%) Problem-Solving
15 88 (14.50%) Deployment Automation
16 81 (13.34%) AI
17 77 (12.69%) Site Reliability Engineering
18 70 (11.53%) Infrastructure Engineering
19 69 (11.37%) TDD
20 64 (10.54%) High Availability
Programming Languages
1 250 (41.19%) Python
2 196 (32.29%) Java
3 95 (15.65%) Go
4 90 (14.83%) JavaScript
5 87 (14.33%) SQL
6 74 (12.19%) Bash
7 58 (9.56%) C#
8 47 (7.74%) PowerShell
9 46 (7.58%) TypeScript
10 30 (4.94%) Scala
11 29 (4.78%) Bicep
12 14 (2.31%) C++
13 8 (1.32%) Delphi
14 6 (0.99%) PHP
14 6 (0.99%) Rust
14 6 (0.99%) Shell Script
15 5 (0.82%) C
16 4 (0.66%) Perl
17 3 (0.49%) Korn
18 2 (0.33%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 77 (12.69%) Degree
1 77 (12.69%) Security Cleared
2 58 (9.56%) SC Cleared
3 46 (7.58%) Computer Science Degree
4 39 (6.43%) Azure Certification
5 33 (5.44%) AWS Certification
6 18 (2.97%) DV Cleared
7 8 (1.32%) CREST Certified
7 8 (1.32%) OSCP
8 6 (0.99%) ISACA
8 6 (0.99%) Microsoft Certification
9 5 (0.82%) CISSP
9 5 (0.82%) GIAC
9 5 (0.82%) SANS
10 3 (0.49%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
10 3 (0.49%) LPIC
11 2 (0.33%) ISTQB
11 2 (0.33%) ITIL Certification
11 2 (0.33%) Linux+ Certification
11 2 (0.33%) Master's Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 37 (6.10%) QA
2 21 (3.46%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 18 (2.97%) PCI DSS
4 17 (2.80%) NIST
5 12 (1.98%) Accessibility
6 10 (1.65%) SOC 2
7 9 (1.48%) Data Quality
7 9 (1.48%) GDPR
8 5 (0.82%) WCAG
9 4 (0.66%) GRC
10 3 (0.49%) ISO 9001
10 3 (0.49%) SLA
11 2 (0.33%) ECSS
11 2 (0.33%) Software Quality Assurance
12 1 (0.16%) ISO/IEC 42001
12 1 (0.16%) MiFID
System Software
1 350 (57.66%) Docker
2 28 (4.61%) Active Directory
3 15 (2.47%) VMware Infrastructure
4 13 (2.14%) Virtual Machines
5 7 (1.15%) VMware NSX
6 5 (0.82%) Firmware
7 4 (0.66%) Hyper-V
7 4 (0.66%) Slurm Workload Manager
8 3 (0.49%) Citrix Hypervisor
8 3 (0.49%) Kamailio
8 3 (0.49%) vSphere
9 1 (0.16%) KVM
9 1 (0.16%) QEMU
9 1 (0.16%) vCloud
9 1 (0.16%) Virtual Desktop
9 1 (0.16%) Virtual Servers
9 1 (0.16%) Xen
Systems Management
1 317 (52.22%) Terraform
2 144 (23.72%) Grafana
3 123 (20.26%) Ansible
4 85 (14.00%) Prometheus
5 47 (7.74%) Argo
6 21 (3.46%) Kustomize
7 18 (2.97%) Puppet
8 10 (1.65%) Istio
9 9 (1.48%) Progress Chef
10 7 (1.15%) Proxmox
10 7 (1.15%) ZABBIX
11 6 (0.99%) Active Directory Federation Services
11 6 (0.99%) Microsoft Intune
11 6 (0.99%) Packer
12 5 (0.82%) Kibana
13 4 (0.66%) Cilium
13 4 (0.66%) logstash
14 2 (0.33%) FortiGate
14 2 (0.33%) MIIS
14 2 (0.33%) Podman
Vendors
1 67 (11.04%) Microsoft
2 36 (5.93%) Google
3 33 (5.44%) VMware
4 22 (3.62%) Oracle
5 21 (3.46%) Red Hat
6 16 (2.64%) Splunk
7 10 (1.65%) Dell
8 9 (1.48%) Cisco
8 9 (1.48%) Okta
9 8 (1.32%) Confluent
9 8 (1.32%) Databricks
10 7 (1.15%) EMC
10 7 (1.15%) F5
10 7 (1.15%) Palo Alto
10 7 (1.15%) SAP
11 6 (0.99%) IBM
11 6 (0.99%) ServiceNow
12 5 (0.82%) Ericsson
12 5 (0.82%) Informatica
12 5 (0.82%) Software AG