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

6 months to
19 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 74 52 66
Rank change year-on-year -22 +14 -39
Permanent jobs citing Kubernetes 649 910 1,360
As % of all permanent jobs with remote/hybrid work options 3.23% 5.90% 3.92%
As % of the Systems Management category 39.69% 44.85% 36.74%
Number of salaries quoted 423 478 1,122
10th Percentile £47,092 £50,000 £48,750
25th Percentile £55,000 £60,000 £60,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £78,810 £75,000
Median % change year-on-year -17.52% +5.08% -
75th Percentile £83,125 £108,563 £93,750
90th Percentile £97,500 £138,750 £116,125
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 1,635 2,029 3,702
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 8.14% 13.15% 10.67%
Number of salaries quoted 1,154 1,169 2,816
10th Percentile £36,250 £36,250 £36,500
25th Percentile £46,520 £49,118 £47,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £62,500 £67,500 £64,000
Median % change year-on-year -7.41% +5.47% -8.57%
75th Percentile £78,750 £87,500 £84,919
90th Percentile £95,000 £115,000 £102,500
UK median annual salary £65,000 £67,500 £61,206
% change year-on-year -3.70% +10.28% -9.32%

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 19 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 (1.08%) Apache Airflow
1 7 (1.08%) OpenStack
2 6 (0.92%) Apache Spark
3 2 (0.31%) Apache
3 2 (0.31%) ArcGIS
3 2 (0.31%) Camunda
3 2 (0.31%) Confluence
3 2 (0.31%) GeoServer
3 2 (0.31%) IIS
3 2 (0.31%) Microsoft Exchange
3 2 (0.31%) Oracle SOA Suite
3 2 (0.31%) Oracle Spatial
4 1 (0.15%) Cloud Foundry
4 1 (0.15%) JBoss
4 1 (0.15%) nginx
4 1 (0.15%) Oracle Coherence
4 1 (0.15%) Red Hat Fuse
4 1 (0.15%) SAS
Applications
1 4 (0.62%) Weka
2 1 (0.15%) Chatbot
Business Applications
1 2 (0.31%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 369 (56.86%) AWS
2 312 (48.07%) Azure
3 159 (24.50%) GCP
4 146 (22.50%) GitHub
5 104 (16.02%) Amazon EKS
6 88 (13.56%) GitHub Copilot
7 73 (11.25%) SaaS
8 66 (10.17%) Serverless
9 49 (7.55%) Azure AI
10 48 (7.40%) GitHub Actions
11 45 (6.93%) AWS CloudFormation
12 41 (6.32%) Azure AKS
13 37 (5.70%) Amazon EC2
14 36 (5.55%) Azure DevOps
15 34 (5.24%) Amazon S3
16 30 (4.62%) OpenShift
17 26 (4.01%) AWS Lambda
18 25 (3.85%) Amazon CloudWatch
18 25 (3.85%) Pulumi
19 24 (3.70%) Amazon ECS
Communications & Networking
1 56 (8.63%) Broadband
2 29 (4.47%) Firewall
3 23 (3.54%) DNS
4 20 (3.08%) VPN
5 13 (2.00%) TCP/IP
6 12 (1.85%) Internet
7 9 (1.39%) DHCP
7 9 (1.39%) Network Security
8 7 (1.08%) VLAN
9 6 (0.92%) BGP
10 5 (0.77%) OSPF
10 5 (0.77%) VXLAN
11 4 (0.62%) MQTT
11 4 (0.62%) WAN
12 3 (0.46%) HTTP
12 3 (0.46%) RTP
12 3 (0.46%) SAN
12 3 (0.46%) SCCP
12 3 (0.46%) VoIP
12 3 (0.46%) Wireshark
Database & Business Intelligence
1 109 (16.80%) MongoDB
2 83 (12.79%) Azure SQL Database
3 66 (10.17%) PostgreSQL
4 47 (7.24%) NoSQL
5 42 (6.47%) Relational Database
6 31 (4.78%) Elasticsearch
7 26 (4.01%) Amazon RDS
7 26 (4.01%) MySQL
8 25 (3.85%) SQL Server
9 18 (2.77%) RDBMS
10 8 (1.23%) BigQuery
11 7 (1.08%) Redis
12 6 (0.92%) DynamoDB
13 4 (0.62%) Amazon Aurora
13 4 (0.62%) Data Warehouse
13 4 (0.62%) Delta Lake
14 3 (0.46%) Metadata
15 2 (0.31%) Amazon Athena
15 2 (0.31%) Cloud Spanner
15 2 (0.31%) Pinecone
Development Applications
1 80 (12.33%) Git
2 76 (11.71%) TeamCity
3 67 (10.32%) Jenkins
4 59 (9.09%) GitLab
5 18 (2.77%) Jaeger
6 15 (2.31%) JUnit
7 14 (2.16%) JIRA
8 12 (1.85%) Maven
8 12 (1.85%) Visual Studio Code
9 9 (1.39%) Mockito
10 8 (1.23%) Cucumber
11 7 (1.08%) JMeter
11 7 (1.08%) Selenium
12 6 (0.92%) Bitbucket
12 6 (0.92%) Postman
12 6 (0.92%) Visual Studio
13 5 (0.77%) Atlassian Bamboo
13 5 (0.77%) Locust
14 4 (0.62%) SonarQube
14 4 (0.62%) Subversion
General
1 140 (21.57%) Finance
2 120 (18.49%) Social Skills
3 95 (14.64%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 83 (12.79%) Retail
5 80 (12.33%) Banking
6 75 (11.56%) Law
7 44 (6.78%) Public Sector
8 40 (6.16%) Financial Institution
9 37 (5.70%) Back Office
10 25 (3.85%) Advertising
11 19 (2.93%) Analytical Skills
12 13 (2.00%) Marketing
13 11 (1.69%) Aerospace
14 9 (1.39%) Organisational Skills
15 8 (1.23%) Games
16 7 (1.08%) Legal
17 6 (0.92%) Aviation
17 6 (0.92%) Telecoms
18 5 (0.77%) Military
19 4 (0.62%) Manufacturing
Job Titles
1 193 (29.74%) Senior
2 166 (25.58%) Developer
3 113 (17.41%) Software Engineer
4 103 (15.87%) Lead
5 80 (12.33%) .NET Developer
6 69 (10.63%) DevOps Engineer
7 60 (9.24%) Cloud Engineer
8 50 (7.70%) Platform Engineer
9 42 (6.47%) Senior Software Engineer
10 41 (6.32%) Senior Developer
11 40 (6.16%) Azure Engineer
12 33 (5.08%) AWS Engineer
13 32 (4.93%) Java Developer
13 32 (4.93%) Java Engineer
14 31 (4.78%) Cloud Platform Engineer
15 30 (4.62%) Senior DevOps
16 29 (4.47%) Team Leader
17 28 (4.31%) Lead Software Engineer
18 24 (3.70%) Python Engineer
19 23 (3.54%) Java Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 136 (20.96%) .NET
2 94 (14.48%) .NET Core
3 88 (13.56%) ASP.NET
4 83 (12.79%) ASP.NET Core
5 65 (10.02%) Spring
6 64 (9.86%) React
7 56 (8.63%) AngularJS
8 54 (8.32%) Node.js
9 53 (8.17%) CSS
9 53 (8.17%) HTML
9 53 (8.17%) Kafka
10 49 (7.55%) REST
11 47 (7.24%) ML.NET
11 47 (7.24%) Spring Boot
12 46 (7.09%) Vue
13 39 (6.01%) RESTful
14 26 (4.01%) OpenTelemetry
15 25 (3.85%) Django
15 25 (3.85%) Elastic Stack
16 23 (3.54%) Akka
Miscellaneous
1 191 (29.43%) Cloud Native
2 49 (7.55%) Distributed Systems
3 44 (6.78%) Product Ownership
4 22 (3.39%) Blog
4 22 (3.39%) Over-the-Top Content
4 22 (3.39%) Video\Live Streaming
5 20 (3.08%) Hybrid Cloud
6 18 (2.77%) Private Cloud
7 17 (2.62%) Data Centre
8 16 (2.47%) Greenfield Project
9 14 (2.16%) Digital TV
10 13 (2.00%) Public Cloud
11 10 (1.54%) Management Information System
12 9 (1.39%) Legacy Systems
12 9 (1.39%) Onboarding
12 9 (1.39%) Security Posture
13 7 (1.08%) Self-Motivation
14 6 (0.92%) AI Agents
14 6 (0.92%) IoT
14 6 (0.92%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 142 (21.88%) Linux
2 34 (5.24%) Windows
3 19 (2.93%) Windows Server
4 18 (2.77%) Unix
5 14 (2.16%) Ubuntu
6 11 (1.69%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
7 9 (1.39%) Android
7 9 (1.39%) Apple iOS
8 7 (1.08%) CentOS
9 5 (0.77%) Debian
10 3 (0.46%) VMS
10 3 (0.46%) Windows Server 2016
11 2 (0.31%) Mac OS
Processes & Methodologies
1 418 (64.41%) CI/CD
2 301 (46.38%) DevOps
3 264 (40.68%) Agile
4 233 (35.90%) Infrastructure as Code
5 206 (31.74%) Microservices
6 199 (30.66%) Containerisation
7 174 (26.81%) Software Engineering
8 171 (26.35%) Mentoring
9 144 (22.19%) AI
10 131 (20.18%) Full-Stack Development
11 129 (19.88%) Continuous Improvement
12 125 (19.26%) Test Automation
13 109 (16.80%) Observability
14 108 (16.64%) Platform Engineering
15 101 (15.56%) TDD
16 99 (15.25%) Clean Code
17 87 (13.41%) Scrum
18 81 (12.48%) Problem-Solving
19 80 (12.33%) Deployment Automation
20 78 (12.02%) Analytics
Programming Languages
1 229 (35.29%) Python
2 187 (28.81%) Java
3 159 (24.50%) SQL
4 145 (22.34%) C#
5 90 (13.87%) TypeScript
6 82 (12.63%) Bash
6 82 (12.63%) JavaScript
7 66 (10.17%) Go
8 55 (8.47%) PowerShell
9 31 (4.78%) Scala
10 19 (2.93%) Bicep
11 10 (1.54%) PHP
11 10 (1.54%) PL/SQL
12 7 (1.08%) C
12 7 (1.08%) C++
12 7 (1.08%) Rust
13 6 (0.92%) Groovy
14 5 (0.77%) Ruby
15 3 (0.46%) Perl
15 3 (0.46%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 87 (13.41%) Security Cleared
2 71 (10.94%) SC Cleared
3 52 (8.01%) Degree
4 46 (7.09%) Azure Certification
5 38 (5.86%) AWS Certification
6 22 (3.39%) Computer Science Degree
7 12 (1.85%) DV Cleared
8 8 (1.23%) CISSP
9 7 (1.08%) CREST Certified
9 7 (1.08%) GIAC
9 7 (1.08%) Microsoft Certification
9 7 (1.08%) OSCP
10 6 (0.92%) ISACA
11 5 (0.77%) SANS
12 3 (0.46%) CISM
13 2 (0.31%) CEH
13 2 (0.31%) ISTQB
13 2 (0.31%) ITIL Certification
13 2 (0.31%) Linux+ Certification
13 2 (0.31%) LPIC
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 38 (5.86%) QA
2 22 (3.39%) Accessibility
3 16 (2.47%) NIST
4 15 (2.31%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 10 (1.54%) PCI DSS
6 7 (1.08%) WCAG
7 4 (0.62%) Data Quality
7 4 (0.62%) GDPR
7 4 (0.62%) SOC 2
8 3 (0.46%) ISO 9001
9 2 (0.31%) Cyber Essentials
9 2 (0.31%) Software Quality Assurance
10 1 (0.15%) ISO/IEC 42001
10 1 (0.15%) SLA
System Software
1 406 (62.56%) Docker
2 29 (4.47%) Active Directory
3 19 (2.93%) VMware Infrastructure
4 15 (2.31%) Virtual Machines
5 5 (0.77%) VMware NSX
6 4 (0.62%) Firmware
6 4 (0.62%) Slurm Workload Manager
7 3 (0.46%) Citrix Hypervisor
7 3 (0.46%) Kamailio
8 1 (0.15%) Hyper-V
8 1 (0.15%) iptables
8 1 (0.15%) KVM
8 1 (0.15%) QEMU
8 1 (0.15%) Virtual Servers
8 1 (0.15%) vSphere
8 1 (0.15%) Xen
Systems Management
1 299 (46.07%) Terraform
2 119 (18.34%) Grafana
3 112 (17.26%) Ansible
4 79 (12.17%) Prometheus
5 45 (6.93%) Argo
6 24 (3.70%) Kustomize
7 21 (3.24%) Puppet
8 20 (3.08%) Istio
9 16 (2.47%) Progress Chef
10 8 (1.23%) Packer
11 7 (1.08%) Active Directory Federation Services
11 7 (1.08%) Proxmox
11 7 (1.08%) ZABBIX
12 6 (0.92%) Microsoft Intune
13 5 (0.77%) FortiGate
13 5 (0.77%) Kibana
14 3 (0.46%) linkerd
14 3 (0.46%) Nagios
15 2 (0.31%) MIIS
15 2 (0.31%) Podman
Vendors
1 152 (23.42%) Microsoft
2 44 (6.78%) Google
3 34 (5.24%) VMware
4 18 (2.77%) Oracle
4 18 (2.77%) Red Hat
5 14 (2.16%) Splunk
6 13 (2.00%) Facebook
7 11 (1.69%) Palo Alto
8 10 (1.54%) ServiceNow
9 9 (1.39%) Fortinet
9 9 (1.39%) Okta
10 8 (1.23%) Cisco
10 8 (1.23%) Confluent
11 7 (1.08%) Databricks
11 7 (1.08%) EMC
12 6 (0.92%) Citrix
12 6 (0.92%) F5
12 6 (0.92%) OpenAI
13 5 (0.77%) HubSpot
13 5 (0.77%) Zscaler