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 15 March 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
15 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 73 30 58
Rank change year-on-year -43 +28 -31
Permanent jobs citing Kubernetes 573 1,148 1,441
As % of all permanent jobs with remote/hybrid work options 3.40% 8.28% 4.81%
As % of the Systems Management category 37.50% 54.59% 40.06%
Number of salaries quoted 380 678 1,204
10th Percentile £52,400 £52,259 £48,750
25th Percentile £58,750 £62,500 £57,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £71,289 £80,000 £72,500
Median % change year-on-year -10.89% +10.34% -3.33%
75th Percentile £87,500 £110,000 £87,500
90th Percentile £107,750 £138,750 £110,000
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 1,528 2,103 3,597
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 9.06% 15.16% 12.01%
Number of salaries quoted 1,046 1,406 3,040
10th Percentile £36,250 £42,500 £37,500
25th Percentile £46,446 £52,500 £47,525
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £70,000 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year -7.14% +7.69% -5.13%
75th Percentile £82,500 £91,868 £83,750
90th Percentile £95,000 £115,000 £98,875
UK median annual salary £62,500 £70,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year -10.71% +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 15 March 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 14 (2.44%) Apache Spark
2 8 (1.40%) Apache Airflow
3 6 (1.05%) OpenStack
4 5 (0.87%) Anypoint
4 5 (0.87%) Apache
4 5 (0.87%) Apache Pulsar
5 4 (0.70%) ArcGIS
5 4 (0.70%) GeoServer
5 4 (0.70%) Microsoft Exchange
5 4 (0.70%) Oracle Spatial
6 3 (0.52%) Confluence
7 2 (0.35%) Camunda
7 2 (0.35%) nginx
8 1 (0.17%) IIS
8 1 (0.17%) SAS
8 1 (0.17%) SharePoint
Applications
1 4 (0.70%) Weka
2 2 (0.35%) Chatbot
3 1 (0.17%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 5 (0.87%) Shopify
2 1 (0.17%) Actimize
Cloud Services
1 364 (63.53%) AWS
2 253 (44.15%) Azure
3 173 (30.19%) GCP
4 115 (20.07%) GitHub
5 112 (19.55%) Amazon EKS
6 82 (14.31%) GitHub Actions
6 82 (14.31%) SaaS
7 59 (10.30%) Serverless
8 54 (9.42%) Azure DevOps
9 46 (8.03%) AWS CloudFormation
10 42 (7.33%) Amazon CloudWatch
10 42 (7.33%) Amazon S3
10 42 (7.33%) Azure AKS
11 37 (6.46%) AWS Lambda
12 33 (5.76%) Amazon EC2
13 29 (5.06%) OpenShift
14 25 (4.36%) Amazon ECS
15 23 (4.01%) Datadog
16 19 (3.32%) Pulumi
17 15 (2.62%) PaaS
Communications & Networking
1 44 (7.68%) Broadband
2 32 (5.58%) Firewall
3 16 (2.79%) VPN
4 10 (1.75%) DNS
5 9 (1.57%) Network Security
6 6 (1.05%) DHCP
7 5 (0.87%) SD-WAN
8 4 (0.70%) AMQP
8 4 (0.70%) Intrusion Detection
8 4 (0.70%) MQTT
8 4 (0.70%) TCP/IP
9 3 (0.52%) HTTP
9 3 (0.52%) Internet
9 3 (0.52%) Kerberos
9 3 (0.52%) RTP
9 3 (0.52%) Unified Communications
9 3 (0.52%) VLAN
9 3 (0.52%) VoIP
9 3 (0.52%) WAN
9 3 (0.52%) Wireshark
Database & Business Intelligence
1 67 (11.69%) PostgreSQL
2 61 (10.65%) NoSQL
3 41 (7.16%) MongoDB
4 38 (6.63%) Relational Database
5 37 (6.46%) SQL Server
6 28 (4.89%) Amazon RDS
7 19 (3.32%) RDBMS
8 17 (2.97%) MySQL
9 13 (2.27%) Azure SQL Database
10 10 (1.75%) Flink
11 9 (1.57%) BigQuery
11 9 (1.57%) Elasticsearch
11 9 (1.57%) Redis
12 8 (1.40%) Amazon Aurora
13 5 (0.87%) Data Warehouse
13 5 (0.87%) Power BI
14 4 (0.70%) Big Data
14 4 (0.70%) GIS
14 4 (0.70%) Hadoop
14 4 (0.70%) QGIS
Development Applications
1 78 (13.61%) TeamCity
2 73 (12.74%) Jenkins
3 57 (9.95%) Git
4 54 (9.42%) GitLab
5 19 (3.32%) Jaeger
6 13 (2.27%) Cucumber
7 11 (1.92%) Selenium
8 10 (1.75%) JUnit
9 9 (1.57%) JIRA
9 9 (1.57%) JMeter
10 8 (1.40%) SonarQube
11 7 (1.22%) Visual Studio Code
12 6 (1.05%) Bitbucket
12 6 (1.05%) CircleCI
12 6 (1.05%) Visual Studio
13 5 (0.87%) Locust
13 5 (0.87%) Robot Framework
14 4 (0.70%) MLflow
15 3 (0.52%) Eclipse
15 3 (0.52%) REST Assured
General
1 128 (22.34%) Finance
2 121 (21.12%) Social Skills
3 93 (16.23%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 87 (15.18%) Retail
5 83 (14.49%) Banking
5 83 (14.49%) Law
6 54 (9.42%) Financial Institution
7 43 (7.50%) Back Office
8 30 (5.24%) Public Sector
9 25 (4.36%) Telecoms
10 18 (3.14%) Analytical Skills
11 12 (2.09%) Front Office
12 9 (1.57%) Legal
13 7 (1.22%) Military
14 5 (0.87%) Advertising
14 5 (0.87%) Esports
14 5 (0.87%) Organisational Skills
14 5 (0.87%) Tech for Good
15 4 (0.70%) Aviation
15 4 (0.70%) Manufacturing
Job Titles
1 189 (32.98%) Senior
2 126 (21.99%) Software Engineer
3 112 (19.55%) Lead
4 83 (14.49%) Developer
5 78 (13.61%) DevOps Engineer
6 62 (10.82%) Cloud Engineer
7 49 (8.55%) Platform Engineer
8 48 (8.38%) Senior Software Engineer
9 38 (6.63%) Azure Engineer
10 35 (6.11%) Senior Developer
11 31 (5.41%) Java Engineer
12 26 (4.54%) AWS Engineer
12 26 (4.54%) Lead DevOps
12 26 (4.54%) Python Engineer
13 25 (4.36%) Java Software Engineer
13 25 (4.36%) Lead Software Engineer
14 24 (4.19%) Cloud Platform Engineer
14 24 (4.19%) Infrastructure Engineer
15 23 (4.01%) Software Developer
16 22 (3.84%) Java Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 72 (12.57%) .NET
2 71 (12.39%) Spring
3 63 (10.99%) React
4 61 (10.65%) Spring Boot
5 57 (9.95%) Kafka
6 48 (8.38%) Elastic Stack
6 48 (8.38%) RESTful
7 38 (6.63%) REST
8 36 (6.28%) Node.js
9 31 (5.41%) .NET Core
10 29 (5.06%) Django
11 25 (4.36%) Akka
12 22 (3.84%) gRPC
13 20 (3.49%) AngularJS
13 20 (3.49%) Flask
14 19 (3.32%) OAuth
14 19 (3.32%) OpenTelemetry
14 19 (3.32%) RabbitMQ
15 17 (2.97%) FastAPI
16 16 (2.79%) .NET Framework
Miscellaneous
1 186 (32.46%) Cloud Native
2 46 (8.03%) Distributed Systems
3 43 (7.50%) Product Ownership
4 23 (4.01%) Blog
4 23 (4.01%) Over-the-Top Content
4 23 (4.01%) Video\Live Streaming
5 16 (2.79%) Legacy Systems
6 15 (2.62%) Onboarding
7 14 (2.44%) Private Cloud
8 13 (2.27%) AI Agents
9 12 (2.09%) Security Posture
10 11 (1.92%) Data Centre
10 11 (1.92%) Hybrid Cloud
10 11 (1.92%) Virtual Team
11 10 (1.75%) Public Cloud
12 7 (1.22%) Distributed Architecture
13 6 (1.05%) Fixed Income
13 6 (1.05%) Low-Code
13 6 (1.05%) Management Information System
14 5 (0.87%) Legacy Applications
Operating Systems
1 128 (22.34%) Linux
2 35 (6.11%) Unix
3 34 (5.93%) Windows
4 23 (4.01%) Android
5 13 (2.27%) Apple iOS
6 12 (2.09%) Ubuntu
7 10 (1.75%) Windows Server
8 8 (1.40%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
9 7 (1.22%) CentOS
10 6 (1.05%) VMS
11 2 (0.35%) Windows Server 2016
12 1 (0.17%) Debian
12 1 (0.17%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 359 (62.65%) CI/CD
2 326 (56.89%) DevOps
3 225 (39.27%) Containerisation
4 203 (35.43%) Agile
5 197 (34.38%) Infrastructure as Code
6 171 (29.84%) Microservices
7 165 (28.80%) Software Engineering
8 116 (20.24%) Continuous Improvement
9 115 (20.07%) Mentoring
9 115 (20.07%) Test Automation
10 86 (15.01%) AI
10 86 (15.01%) Platform Engineering
11 85 (14.83%) Observability
11 85 (14.83%) Problem-Solving
12 82 (14.31%) Clean Code
13 80 (13.96%) Deployment Automation
14 70 (12.22%) High Availability
15 66 (11.52%) Infrastructure Engineering
15 66 (11.52%) TDD
16 63 (10.99%) Site Reliability Engineering
Programming Languages
1 237 (41.36%) Python
2 192 (33.51%) Java
3 93 (16.23%) JavaScript
4 87 (15.18%) SQL
5 86 (15.01%) Go
6 76 (13.26%) Bash
7 59 (10.30%) C#
8 46 (8.03%) TypeScript
9 44 (7.68%) PowerShell
10 37 (6.46%) Bicep
11 29 (5.06%) Scala
12 14 (2.44%) C++
13 8 (1.40%) Delphi
14 6 (1.05%) PHP
15 5 (0.87%) Rust
15 5 (0.87%) Shell Script
16 4 (0.70%) C
17 3 (0.52%) Perl
18 2 (0.35%) Korn
18 2 (0.35%) Ruby
Qualifications
1 73 (12.74%) Security Cleared
2 72 (12.57%) Degree
3 56 (9.77%) SC Cleared
4 44 (7.68%) Computer Science Degree
5 39 (6.81%) AWS Certification
6 36 (6.28%) Azure Certification
7 16 (2.79%) DV Cleared
8 7 (1.22%) CREST Certified
8 7 (1.22%) Microsoft Certification
8 7 (1.22%) OSCP
9 4 (0.70%) CISSP
9 4 (0.70%) GIAC
9 4 (0.70%) ISACA
9 4 (0.70%) SANS
10 3 (0.52%) LPIC
11 2 (0.35%) ISTQB
11 2 (0.35%) ISTQB Advanced Certification
11 2 (0.35%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
11 2 (0.35%) Linux+ Certification
11 2 (0.35%) Master's Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 34 (5.93%) QA
2 23 (4.01%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 17 (2.97%) PCI DSS
4 14 (2.44%) NIST
5 12 (2.09%) GDPR
6 11 (1.92%) Accessibility
6 11 (1.92%) SOC 2
7 9 (1.57%) Data Quality
8 4 (0.70%) GRC
8 4 (0.70%) WCAG
9 3 (0.52%) ISO 9001
9 3 (0.52%) SLA
10 2 (0.35%) ECSS
10 2 (0.35%) HIPAA
10 2 (0.35%) Software Quality Assurance
11 1 (0.17%) MiFID
System Software
1 341 (59.51%) Docker
2 19 (3.32%) Active Directory
3 10 (1.75%) VMware Infrastructure
4 9 (1.57%) VMware NSX
5 7 (1.22%) Virtual Machines
6 6 (1.05%) vSphere
7 4 (0.70%) Firmware
8 3 (0.52%) Hyper-V
8 3 (0.52%) Kamailio
9 1 (0.17%) Citrix Hypervisor
9 1 (0.17%) vCloud
9 1 (0.17%) Virtual Desktop
9 1 (0.17%) VMware ESXi
Systems Management
1 285 (49.74%) Terraform
2 141 (24.61%) Grafana
3 116 (20.24%) Ansible
4 85 (14.83%) Prometheus
5 48 (8.38%) Argo
6 20 (3.49%) Kustomize
7 11 (1.92%) Puppet
8 7 (1.22%) Progress Chef
9 6 (1.05%) Proxmox
10 5 (0.87%) Cilium
11 4 (0.70%) logstash
11 4 (0.70%) Packer
11 4 (0.70%) ZABBIX
12 3 (0.52%) Kibana
12 3 (0.52%) Microsoft Intune
13 2 (0.35%) Active Directory Federation Services
13 2 (0.35%) FortiGate
13 2 (0.35%) Istio
14 1 (0.17%) ITRS Geneos
14 1 (0.17%) Nagios
Vendors
1 60 (10.47%) Microsoft
2 35 (6.11%) Google
3 27 (4.71%) VMware
4 22 (3.84%) Oracle
5 15 (2.62%) Splunk
6 14 (2.44%) Red Hat
7 10 (1.75%) Dell
8 8 (1.40%) Databricks
9 7 (1.22%) SAP
10 6 (1.05%) Cisco
10 6 (1.05%) Palo Alto
11 5 (0.87%) EMC
11 5 (0.87%) IBM
11 5 (0.87%) IFS
11 5 (0.87%) Jitterbit
11 5 (0.87%) Mavenir
11 5 (0.87%) MuleSoft
11 5 (0.87%) Okta
11 5 (0.87%) SnapLogic
11 5 (0.87%) Workday