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 6 November 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
6 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 97 46 30
Rank change year-on-year -51 -16 -3
Permanent jobs citing Kubernetes 493 1,091 1,669
As % of all permanent jobs with remote/hybrid work options 3.11% 5.50% 7.64%
As % of the Systems Management category 30.68% 45.52% 46.63%
Number of salaries quoted 365 541 1,411
10th Percentile £51,250 £52,500 £48,750
25th Percentile £57,500 £60,000 £60,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £72,500 £75,000 £73,500
Median % change year-on-year -3.33% +2.04% -2.00%
75th Percentile £87,500 £93,750 £87,500
90th Percentile £107,500 £105,000 £101,250
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 1,607 2,397 3,579
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 10.14% 12.07% 16.38%
Number of salaries quoted 994 1,372 3,082
10th Percentile £36,250 £40,000 £41,250
25th Percentile £47,500 £50,000 £51,250
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 £100,000 £102,500 £97,500
UK median annual salary £60,500 £67,500 £65,000
% change year-on-year -10.37% +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 6 November 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 12 (2.43%) IIS
2 8 (1.62%) Apache
2 8 (1.62%) Apache Spark
3 6 (1.22%) Apache Airflow
3 6 (1.22%) nginx
4 5 (1.01%) Anypoint
4 5 (1.01%) Confluence
5 3 (0.61%) Microsoft Exchange
6 2 (0.41%) BizTalk Server
7 1 (0.20%) Apache Pulsar
7 1 (0.20%) Apache Solr
7 1 (0.20%) ArcGIS
7 1 (0.20%) Drupal
7 1 (0.20%) GeoServer
7 1 (0.20%) OpenStack
7 1 (0.20%) Oracle Spatial
7 1 (0.20%) SharePoint
7 1 (0.20%) Tomcat
7 1 (0.20%) WordPress
Business Applications
1 5 (1.01%) Shopify
2 1 (0.20%) Dynamics CRM
2 1 (0.20%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 312 (63.29%) AWS
2 284 (57.61%) Azure
3 115 (23.33%) GCP
4 108 (21.91%) GitHub
5 73 (14.81%) Azure DevOps
6 69 (14.00%) GitHub Actions
7 47 (9.53%) Amazon EKS
7 47 (9.53%) SaaS
8 44 (8.92%) Serverless
9 41 (8.32%) Amazon CloudWatch
10 40 (8.11%) Azure AKS
11 39 (7.91%) AWS CloudFormation
12 33 (6.69%) AWS Lambda
13 31 (6.29%) Amazon ECS
14 23 (4.67%) Amazon S3
15 21 (4.26%) OpenShift
16 19 (3.85%) Azure Monitor
17 16 (3.25%) Azure Cosmos DB
17 16 (3.25%) Datadog
18 14 (2.84%) Entra ID
Communications & Networking
1 35 (7.10%) Firewall
2 17 (3.45%) DNS
3 15 (3.04%) VPN
4 12 (2.43%) TCP/IP
5 11 (2.23%) WAN
6 9 (1.83%) Broadband
6 9 (1.83%) LAN
7 7 (1.42%) Network Security
8 6 (1.22%) DHCP
8 6 (1.22%) Fibre Channel
8 6 (1.22%) Internet
9 4 (0.81%) SD-WAN
10 3 (0.61%) Intrusion Detection
10 3 (0.61%) Kerberos
11 2 (0.41%) AMQP
11 2 (0.41%) VLAN
11 2 (0.41%) VSAN
12 1 (0.20%) MIMO
12 1 (0.20%) NAS
12 1 (0.20%) NGN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 78 (15.82%) SQL Server
2 53 (10.75%) PostgreSQL
3 51 (10.34%) NoSQL
4 38 (7.71%) MongoDB
5 17 (3.45%) Relational Database
6 16 (3.25%) MySQL
7 13 (2.64%) Amazon RDS
8 12 (2.43%) Elasticsearch
9 11 (2.23%) DynamoDB
9 11 (2.23%) Redis
10 6 (1.22%) Big Data
11 5 (1.01%) Azure SQL Database
12 3 (0.61%) Apache Hive
12 3 (0.61%) BigQuery
12 3 (0.61%) Couchbase
12 3 (0.61%) Data Lake
12 3 (0.61%) Data Warehouse
12 3 (0.61%) Flink
12 3 (0.61%) Hadoop
12 3 (0.61%) RDBMS
Development Applications
1 82 (16.63%) GitLab
2 72 (14.60%) Git
3 58 (11.76%) Jenkins
4 43 (8.72%) Sonatype Nexus
5 42 (8.52%) Cucumber
5 42 (8.52%) JIRA
5 42 (8.52%) Selenium
5 42 (8.52%) SonarQube
6 38 (7.71%) Bitbucket
7 37 (7.51%) Maven
8 18 (3.65%) TeamCity
9 8 (1.62%) Octopus Deploy
9 8 (1.62%) Visual Studio Code
10 7 (1.42%) JUnit
11 3 (0.61%) Artifactory
12 2 (0.41%) Cypress.io
12 2 (0.41%) Robot Framework
12 2 (0.41%) Spock
12 2 (0.41%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
12 2 (0.41%) Visual Studio
General
1 111 (22.52%) Finance
2 85 (17.24%) Social Skills
3 61 (12.37%) Banking
4 59 (11.97%) Retail
5 57 (11.56%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 36 (7.30%) Corporate Banking
6 36 (7.30%) Investment Banking
7 33 (6.69%) Public Sector
8 29 (5.88%) Law
9 26 (5.27%) Financial Institution
10 17 (3.45%) Back Office
11 13 (2.64%) Telecoms
12 11 (2.23%) Analytical Skills
13 10 (2.03%) Front Office
14 7 (1.42%) Games
14 7 (1.42%) Legal
15 6 (1.22%) Automotive
16 5 (1.01%) Documentation Skills
16 5 (1.01%) Tech for Good
17 3 (0.61%) Marketing
Job Titles
1 132 (26.77%) Senior
2 101 (20.49%) Software Engineer
3 91 (18.46%) DevOps Engineer
4 68 (13.79%) Developer
5 52 (10.55%) Lead
6 48 (9.74%) Cloud Engineer
7 37 (7.51%) Infrastructure Engineer
8 36 (7.30%) Architect
9 33 (6.69%) Platform Engineer
10 32 (6.49%) Azure Engineer
11 31 (6.29%) Senior DevOps
12 25 (5.07%) Python Engineer
13 24 (4.87%) Senior Software Engineer
14 23 (4.67%) Senior Developer
14 23 (4.67%) Senior DevOps Engineer
15 21 (4.26%) Solutions Architect
16 20 (4.06%) AWS DevOps
17 19 (3.85%) AWS Engineer
17 19 (3.85%) Java Engineer
18 18 (3.65%) Senior Cloud Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 90 (18.26%) Spring
2 89 (18.05%) React
3 87 (17.65%) Spring Boot
4 76 (15.42%) Kafka
5 75 (15.21%) REST
6 73 (14.81%) .NET
6 73 (14.81%) RESTful
7 46 (9.33%) CSS
7 46 (9.33%) HTML
8 42 (8.52%) CSS3
8 42 (8.52%) HTML5
9 39 (7.91%) Redux
10 37 (7.51%) Jest
10 37 (7.51%) JPA
11 36 (7.30%) Sass
12 28 (5.68%) Elastic Stack
13 26 (5.27%) Node.js
14 25 (5.07%) RabbitMQ
15 22 (4.46%) Flask
15 22 (4.46%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 140 (28.40%) Cloud Native
2 54 (10.95%) Product Ownership
3 38 (7.71%) Distributed Systems
4 36 (7.30%) Enterprise Software
5 26 (5.27%) Onboarding
6 22 (4.46%) Data Centre
7 20 (4.06%) Management Information System
8 18 (3.65%) Public Cloud
9 17 (3.45%) Hybrid Cloud
10 13 (2.64%) Self-Motivation
11 10 (2.03%) Legacy Systems
12 8 (1.62%) Algorithms
12 8 (1.62%) Private Cloud
13 7 (1.42%) Low-Code
13 7 (1.42%) Security Posture
14 6 (1.22%) BYOD
14 6 (1.22%) Greenfield Project
15 5 (1.01%) Derivative
15 5 (1.01%) Linux Command Line
15 5 (1.01%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 119 (24.14%) Linux
2 70 (14.20%) Windows
3 29 (5.88%) Windows Server
4 22 (4.46%) Unix
5 12 (2.43%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 10 (2.03%) Windows Server 2019
7 8 (1.62%) Rocky
7 8 (1.62%) Ubuntu
8 6 (1.22%) VMS
9 4 (0.81%) Android
9 4 (0.81%) CentOS
10 3 (0.61%) Debian
11 2 (0.41%) Apple iOS
12 1 (0.20%) Windows Server 2016
Processes & Methodologies
1 331 (67.14%) DevOps
2 324 (65.72%) CI/CD
3 221 (44.83%) Containerisation
4 165 (33.47%) Infrastructure as Code
5 164 (33.27%) Microservices
6 158 (32.05%) Agile
7 145 (29.41%) Software Engineering
8 111 (22.52%) Mentoring
9 100 (20.28%) Problem-Solving
10 81 (16.43%) Infrastructure Engineering
11 80 (16.23%) Test Automation
12 76 (15.42%) Continuous Improvement
13 69 (14.00%) Full-Stack Development
14 66 (13.39%) AI
15 62 (12.58%) Observability
15 62 (12.58%) Performance Optimisation
16 53 (10.75%) Platform Engineering
16 53 (10.75%) SDLC
16 53 (10.75%) Site Reliability Engineering
16 53 (10.75%) User Experience
Programming Languages
1 206 (41.78%) Python
2 146 (29.61%) Java
3 136 (27.59%) SQL
4 89 (18.05%) JavaScript
5 73 (14.81%) TypeScript
6 70 (14.20%) PowerShell
7 69 (14.00%) C#
8 65 (13.18%) Bash
9 37 (7.51%) Bicep
10 28 (5.68%) Go
11 9 (1.83%) PHP
12 6 (1.22%) Delphi
12 6 (1.22%) Scala
12 6 (1.22%) Shell Script
13 5 (1.01%) Kotlin
14 4 (0.81%) C++
14 4 (0.81%) F#
14 4 (0.81%) Haskell
14 4 (0.81%) OCaml
14 4 (0.81%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 69 (14.00%) Security Cleared
2 56 (11.36%) SC Cleared
3 54 (10.95%) AWS Certification
4 40 (8.11%) Azure Certification
4 40 (8.11%) Degree
5 21 (4.26%) Computer Science Degree
5 21 (4.26%) DV Cleared
6 17 (3.45%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
7 10 (2.03%) BPSS Clearance
8 8 (1.62%) Master's Degree
8 8 (1.62%) Network+ Certification
9 6 (1.22%) PhD
10 5 (1.01%) Cisco Certification
10 5 (1.01%) CISM
10 5 (1.01%) CISSP
11 3 (0.61%) (ISC)2 CCSP
11 3 (0.61%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
11 3 (0.61%) CompTIA Security+
12 2 (0.41%) AWS Certified Developer
12 2 (0.41%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 60 (12.17%) QA
2 36 (7.30%) Accessibility
3 26 (5.27%) GDPR
4 16 (3.25%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 13 (2.64%) HIPAA
5 13 (2.64%) NIST
6 11 (2.23%) SOC 2
7 10 (2.03%) PCI DSS
8 5 (1.01%) SLA
9 3 (0.61%) Data Quality
9 3 (0.61%) GRC
10 2 (0.41%) ECSS
System Software
1 314 (63.69%) Docker
2 27 (5.48%) Active Directory
3 16 (3.25%) VMware Infrastructure
4 14 (2.84%) Hyper-V
5 12 (2.43%) vSphere
6 6 (1.22%) NFS
6 6 (1.22%) Virtual Machines
7 3 (0.61%) VMware NSX
8 2 (0.41%) Virtual Servers
9 1 (0.20%) Dovecot
9 1 (0.20%) KVM
9 1 (0.20%) Postfix
9 1 (0.20%) VMware ESXi
9 1 (0.20%) Xen
Systems Management
1 202 (40.97%) Terraform
2 104 (21.10%) Ansible
3 86 (17.44%) Grafana
4 54 (10.95%) Prometheus
5 17 (3.45%) Argo
6 5 (1.01%) Progress Chef
7 4 (0.81%) Cilium
7 4 (0.81%) Puppet
8 3 (0.61%) Kibana
8 3 (0.61%) Kustomize
8 3 (0.61%) Microsoft Data Protection Manager
8 3 (0.61%) SCCM
8 3 (0.61%) SCOM
8 3 (0.61%) WSUS
9 2 (0.41%) Kubeflow
10 1 (0.20%) Active Directory Federation Services
10 1 (0.20%) Failover Clustering
10 1 (0.20%) Istio
10 1 (0.20%) Karpenter
10 1 (0.20%) logstash
Vendors
1 52 (10.55%) Microsoft
2 39 (7.91%) Solace
3 26 (5.27%) Google
4 24 (4.87%) Oracle
5 23 (4.67%) VMware
6 16 (3.25%) Dell
6 16 (3.25%) Red Hat
7 12 (2.43%) Cisco
8 9 (1.83%) Splunk
9 8 (1.62%) Commvault
10 7 (1.42%) Pure Storage
10 7 (1.42%) SAP
11 6 (1.22%) Databricks
11 6 (1.22%) Trayport
12 5 (1.01%) Foundry
12 5 (1.01%) Infor
12 5 (1.01%) Jitterbit
12 5 (1.01%) MuleSoft
12 5 (1.01%) SnapLogic
12 5 (1.01%) Talend