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

6 months to
5 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 69 33 58
Rank change year-on-year -36 +25 -31
Permanent jobs citing Kubernetes 599 996 1,449
As % of all permanent jobs with remote/hybrid work options 3.52% 7.74% 4.61%
As % of the Systems Management category 39.00% 53.61% 38.84%
Number of salaries quoted 390 653 1,215
10th Percentile £52,400 £51,698 £48,750
25th Percentile £58,750 £62,500 £57,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £71,750 £80,000 £75,000
Median % change year-on-year -10.31% +6.67% -
75th Percentile £87,500 £112,500 £91,250
90th Percentile £107,750 £138,750 £111,250
UK median annual salary £75,000 £85,000 £75,000
% change year-on-year -11.76% +13.33% -

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 1,536 1,858 3,731
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 9.04% 14.44% 11.86%
Number of salaries quoted 1,060 1,371 3,056
10th Percentile £37,000 £42,500 £37,500
25th Percentile £47,500 £52,500 £47,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £70,000 £63,000
Median % change year-on-year -7.14% +11.11% -9.28%
75th Percentile £82,500 £91,250 £83,750
90th Percentile £95,000 £115,000 £100,000
UK median annual salary £63,247 £70,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year -9.65% +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 5 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 12 (2.00%) Apache Spark
2 10 (1.67%) Apache Airflow
3 9 (1.50%) OpenStack
4 5 (0.83%) Anypoint
4 5 (0.83%) Apache Pulsar
5 4 (0.67%) ArcGIS
5 4 (0.67%) GeoServer
5 4 (0.67%) Oracle Spatial
6 3 (0.50%) Apache
6 3 (0.50%) Confluence
6 3 (0.50%) Microsoft Exchange
7 2 (0.33%) Camunda
7 2 (0.33%) nginx
8 1 (0.17%) Cloud Foundry
8 1 (0.17%) IIS
8 1 (0.17%) SAS
8 1 (0.17%) SharePoint
Applications
1 4 (0.67%) Weka
2 2 (0.33%) Chatbot
3 1 (0.17%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 5 (0.83%) Shopify
2 1 (0.17%) Actimize
Cloud Services
1 381 (63.61%) AWS
2 261 (43.57%) Azure
3 187 (31.22%) GCP
4 123 (20.53%) Amazon EKS
5 114 (19.03%) GitHub
6 85 (14.19%) SaaS
7 80 (13.36%) GitHub Actions
8 62 (10.35%) Serverless
9 49 (8.18%) Azure DevOps
10 41 (6.84%) Amazon S3
10 41 (6.84%) AWS CloudFormation
11 40 (6.68%) Azure AKS
12 39 (6.51%) Amazon CloudWatch
13 34 (5.68%) Amazon EC2
14 33 (5.51%) AWS Lambda
14 33 (5.51%) OpenShift
15 25 (4.17%) Amazon ECS
16 24 (4.01%) Datadog
17 19 (3.17%) Pulumi
18 16 (2.67%) PaaS
Communications & Networking
1 44 (7.35%) Broadband
2 35 (5.84%) Firewall
3 16 (2.67%) VPN
4 12 (2.00%) DNS
5 9 (1.50%) Network Security
6 8 (1.34%) DHCP
7 7 (1.17%) TCP/IP
8 4 (0.67%) AMQP
8 4 (0.67%) Internet
8 4 (0.67%) Intrusion Detection
8 4 (0.67%) MQTT
8 4 (0.67%) SD-WAN
8 4 (0.67%) WAN
9 3 (0.50%) HTTP
9 3 (0.50%) RTP
9 3 (0.50%) SCCP
9 3 (0.50%) Unified Communications
9 3 (0.50%) VoIP
9 3 (0.50%) Wireshark
10 2 (0.33%) SSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 72 (12.02%) PostgreSQL
2 63 (10.52%) NoSQL
3 41 (6.84%) Relational Database
4 39 (6.51%) MongoDB
4 39 (6.51%) SQL Server
5 28 (4.67%) Amazon RDS
6 19 (3.17%) RDBMS
7 18 (3.01%) MySQL
8 12 (2.00%) Azure SQL Database
9 10 (1.67%) Elasticsearch
9 10 (1.67%) Flink
10 9 (1.50%) BigQuery
11 8 (1.34%) Amazon Aurora
11 8 (1.34%) Redis
12 5 (0.83%) Power BI
13 4 (0.67%) Data Warehouse
13 4 (0.67%) GIS
13 4 (0.67%) QGIS
14 3 (0.50%) MariaDB
14 3 (0.50%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 82 (13.69%) TeamCity
2 76 (12.69%) Jenkins
3 70 (11.69%) Git
4 59 (9.85%) GitLab
5 19 (3.17%) Jaeger
6 14 (2.34%) Cucumber
7 12 (2.00%) Selenium
7 12 (2.00%) Visual Studio Code
8 10 (1.67%) JMeter
8 10 (1.67%) JUnit
9 9 (1.50%) JIRA
9 9 (1.50%) SonarQube
10 7 (1.17%) Visual Studio
11 6 (1.00%) Bitbucket
11 6 (1.00%) CircleCI
11 6 (1.00%) Locust
12 5 (0.83%) Robot Framework
13 4 (0.67%) MLflow
14 3 (0.50%) Eclipse
14 3 (0.50%) REST Assured
General
1 142 (23.71%) Finance
2 133 (22.20%) Social Skills
3 98 (16.36%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 95 (15.86%) Banking
5 94 (15.69%) Retail
6 88 (14.69%) Law
7 55 (9.18%) Financial Institution
8 45 (7.51%) Back Office
9 34 (5.68%) Public Sector
10 25 (4.17%) Telecoms
11 19 (3.17%) Analytical Skills
12 12 (2.00%) Front Office
13 10 (1.67%) Legal
14 7 (1.17%) Military
14 7 (1.17%) Organisational Skills
15 5 (0.83%) Advertising
15 5 (0.83%) Esports
15 5 (0.83%) Manufacturing
16 4 (0.67%) Aviation
16 4 (0.67%) Marketing
Job Titles
1 193 (32.22%) Senior
2 125 (20.87%) Software Engineer
3 115 (19.20%) Lead
4 85 (14.19%) Developer
4 85 (14.19%) DevOps Engineer
5 62 (10.35%) Cloud Engineer
6 52 (8.68%) Platform Engineer
7 48 (8.01%) Senior Software Engineer
8 43 (7.18%) Azure Engineer
9 36 (6.01%) Senior Developer
10 33 (5.51%) Python Engineer
11 32 (5.34%) Java Engineer
12 31 (5.18%) AWS Engineer
13 29 (4.84%) Infrastructure Engineer
14 28 (4.67%) Cloud Platform Engineer
15 26 (4.34%) Lead DevOps
15 26 (4.34%) Lead Software Engineer
16 25 (4.17%) Java Software Engineer
16 25 (4.17%) Senior DevOps
17 24 (4.01%) Java Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 71 (11.85%) Spring
2 70 (11.69%) .NET
3 66 (11.02%) Kafka
4 64 (10.68%) React
5 59 (9.85%) Spring Boot
6 50 (8.35%) Elastic Stack
6 50 (8.35%) RESTful
7 47 (7.85%) REST
8 36 (6.01%) Node.js
9 35 (5.84%) Django
10 30 (5.01%) .NET Core
11 25 (4.17%) Akka
11 25 (4.17%) Flask
12 22 (3.67%) FastAPI
13 21 (3.51%) gRPC
14 20 (3.34%) AngularJS
14 20 (3.34%) OAuth
14 20 (3.34%) RabbitMQ
15 19 (3.17%) OpenTelemetry
16 15 (2.50%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 186 (31.05%) Cloud Native
2 46 (7.68%) Distributed Systems
3 45 (7.51%) Product Ownership
4 25 (4.17%) Blog
5 23 (3.84%) Over-the-Top Content
5 23 (3.84%) Video\Live Streaming
6 19 (3.17%) Private Cloud
7 17 (2.84%) Onboarding
8 16 (2.67%) Legacy Systems
9 14 (2.34%) AI Agents
9 14 (2.34%) Data Centre
9 14 (2.34%) Hybrid Cloud
9 14 (2.34%) Public Cloud
10 12 (2.00%) Security Posture
11 11 (1.84%) Virtual Team
12 7 (1.17%) Fixed Income
13 6 (1.00%) CUDA
13 6 (1.00%) Distributed Architecture
13 6 (1.00%) Low-Code
13 6 (1.00%) Management Information System
Operating Systems
1 135 (22.54%) Linux
2 37 (6.18%) Windows
3 33 (5.51%) Unix
4 22 (3.67%) Android
5 15 (2.50%) Windows Server
6 13 (2.17%) Apple iOS
6 13 (2.17%) Ubuntu
7 11 (1.84%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
8 10 (1.67%) CentOS
9 7 (1.17%) VMS
10 3 (0.50%) Debian
10 3 (0.50%) Windows Server 2016
Processes & Methodologies
1 376 (62.77%) CI/CD
2 342 (57.10%) DevOps
3 233 (38.90%) Containerisation
4 220 (36.73%) Agile
5 208 (34.72%) Infrastructure as Code
6 175 (29.22%) Microservices
7 170 (28.38%) Software Engineering
8 127 (21.20%) Test Automation
9 121 (20.20%) Mentoring
10 120 (20.03%) Continuous Improvement
11 95 (15.86%) Platform Engineering
12 92 (15.36%) Clean Code
13 89 (14.86%) Observability
14 87 (14.52%) Problem-Solving
15 86 (14.36%) Deployment Automation
16 83 (13.86%) AI
17 71 (11.85%) Site Reliability Engineering
18 70 (11.69%) TDD
19 66 (11.02%) High Availability
19 66 (11.02%) Infrastructure Engineering
Programming Languages
1 249 (41.57%) Python
2 193 (32.22%) Java
3 96 (16.03%) Go
4 94 (15.69%) JavaScript
5 90 (15.03%) SQL
6 74 (12.35%) Bash
7 62 (10.35%) C#
8 47 (7.85%) TypeScript
9 45 (7.51%) PowerShell
10 32 (5.34%) Bicep
11 30 (5.01%) Scala
12 14 (2.34%) C++
13 8 (1.34%) Delphi
14 6 (1.00%) PHP
14 6 (1.00%) Shell Script
15 5 (0.83%) Rust
16 4 (0.67%) C
16 4 (0.67%) Perl
17 2 (0.33%) Korn
17 2 (0.33%) Ruby
Qualifications
1 76 (12.69%) Degree
1 76 (12.69%) Security Cleared
2 57 (9.52%) SC Cleared
3 46 (7.68%) Computer Science Degree
4 39 (6.51%) Azure Certification
5 35 (5.84%) AWS Certification
6 18 (3.01%) DV Cleared
7 7 (1.17%) CREST Certified
7 7 (1.17%) Microsoft Certification
7 7 (1.17%) OSCP
8 5 (0.83%) CISSP
8 5 (0.83%) GIAC
8 5 (0.83%) ISACA
8 5 (0.83%) SANS
9 3 (0.50%) LPIC
10 2 (0.33%) ISTQB
10 2 (0.33%) ISTQB Advanced Certification
10 2 (0.33%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
10 2 (0.33%) Linux+ Certification
10 2 (0.33%) Master's Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 36 (6.01%) QA
2 23 (3.84%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 17 (2.84%) PCI DSS
4 16 (2.67%) NIST
5 12 (2.00%) Accessibility
6 11 (1.84%) GDPR
6 11 (1.84%) SOC 2
7 9 (1.50%) Data Quality
8 5 (0.83%) WCAG
9 4 (0.67%) GRC
10 3 (0.50%) ISO 9001
10 3 (0.50%) SLA
11 2 (0.33%) ECSS
11 2 (0.33%) Software Quality Assurance
12 1 (0.17%) HIPAA
12 1 (0.17%) ISO/IEC 42001
12 1 (0.17%) MiFID
System Software
1 355 (59.27%) Docker
2 24 (4.01%) Active Directory
3 14 (2.34%) VMware Infrastructure
4 13 (2.17%) Virtual Machines
5 8 (1.34%) VMware NSX
6 5 (0.83%) Firmware
7 4 (0.67%) Hyper-V
7 4 (0.67%) vSphere
8 3 (0.50%) Kamailio
8 3 (0.50%) Slurm Workload Manager
9 2 (0.33%) Citrix Hypervisor
10 1 (0.17%) KVM
10 1 (0.17%) QEMU
10 1 (0.17%) vCloud
10 1 (0.17%) Virtual Desktop
10 1 (0.17%) VMware ESXi
10 1 (0.17%) Xen
Systems Management
1 309 (51.59%) Terraform
2 140 (23.37%) Grafana
3 124 (20.70%) Ansible
4 84 (14.02%) Prometheus
5 45 (7.51%) Argo
6 19 (3.17%) Kustomize
7 16 (2.67%) Puppet
8 8 (1.34%) Istio
8 8 (1.34%) Progress Chef
9 7 (1.17%) Proxmox
10 6 (1.00%) Packer
10 6 (1.00%) ZABBIX
11 5 (0.83%) Kibana
12 4 (0.67%) Active Directory Federation Services
12 4 (0.67%) Cilium
12 4 (0.67%) logstash
12 4 (0.67%) Microsoft Intune
13 2 (0.33%) FortiGate
13 2 (0.33%) MIIS
13 2 (0.33%) Nagios
Vendors
1 66 (11.02%) Microsoft
2 36 (6.01%) Google
3 32 (5.34%) VMware
4 24 (4.01%) Oracle
5 17 (2.84%) Red Hat
6 16 (2.67%) Splunk
7 10 (1.67%) Cisco
8 9 (1.50%) Dell
9 8 (1.34%) Confluent
9 8 (1.34%) Databricks
9 8 (1.34%) Palo Alto
10 7 (1.17%) EMC
10 7 (1.17%) F5
10 7 (1.17%) Okta
10 7 (1.17%) SAP
11 6 (1.00%) Fortinet
11 6 (1.00%) IBM
12 5 (0.83%) Ericsson
12 5 (0.83%) Informatica
12 5 (0.83%) Software AG