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

6 months to
9 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 65 34 58
Rank change year-on-year -31 +24 -31
Permanent jobs citing Kubernetes 602 982 1,457
As % of all permanent jobs with remote/hybrid work options 3.50% 7.60% 4.59%
As % of the Systems Management category 39.09% 53.25% 38.80%
Number of salaries quoted 391 655 1,215
10th Percentile £52,500 £51,500 £48,750
25th Percentile £58,750 £62,500 £57,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £70,079 £80,000 £75,000
Median % change year-on-year -12.40% +6.67% -
75th Percentile £87,500 £112,500 £91,250
90th Percentile £107,500 £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 1,540 1,844 3,755
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 8.94% 14.26% 11.83%
Number of salaries quoted 1,058 1,371 3,061
10th Percentile £37,500 £42,500 £37,500
25th Percentile £48,165 £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 £64,618 £70,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year -7.69% +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 9 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 (1.83%) Apache Spark
2 10 (1.66%) Apache Airflow
2 10 (1.66%) OpenStack
3 5 (0.83%) Anypoint
3 5 (0.83%) Apache Pulsar
4 4 (0.66%) ArcGIS
4 4 (0.66%) GeoServer
4 4 (0.66%) Microsoft Exchange
4 4 (0.66%) Oracle Spatial
5 3 (0.50%) Apache
5 3 (0.50%) Confluence
6 2 (0.33%) Camunda
6 2 (0.33%) nginx
7 1 (0.17%) Cloud Foundry
7 1 (0.17%) SAS
7 1 (0.17%) SharePoint
Applications
1 4 (0.66%) 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
1 382 (63.46%) AWS
2 260 (43.19%) Azure
3 187 (31.06%) GCP
4 124 (20.60%) Amazon EKS
5 112 (18.60%) GitHub
6 83 (13.79%) SaaS
7 79 (13.12%) GitHub Actions
8 64 (10.63%) Serverless
9 46 (7.64%) Azure DevOps
10 45 (7.48%) AWS CloudFormation
11 41 (6.81%) Amazon S3
12 40 (6.64%) Amazon CloudWatch
13 38 (6.31%) Azure AKS
14 35 (5.81%) Amazon EC2
14 35 (5.81%) AWS Lambda
15 34 (5.65%) OpenShift
16 26 (4.32%) Amazon ECS
16 26 (4.32%) Datadog
17 19 (3.16%) Pulumi
18 16 (2.66%) PaaS
Communications & Networking
1 44 (7.31%) Broadband
2 37 (6.15%) Firewall
3 17 (2.82%) VPN
4 13 (2.16%) DNS
5 9 (1.50%) DHCP
5 9 (1.50%) Network Security
6 8 (1.33%) TCP/IP
7 4 (0.66%) AMQP
7 4 (0.66%) Intrusion Detection
7 4 (0.66%) MQTT
7 4 (0.66%) SD-WAN
7 4 (0.66%) WAN
8 3 (0.50%) HTTP
8 3 (0.50%) Internet
8 3 (0.50%) RTP
8 3 (0.50%) SCCP
8 3 (0.50%) Unified Communications
8 3 (0.50%) VoIP
8 3 (0.50%) Wireshark
9 2 (0.33%) SAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 73 (12.13%) PostgreSQL
2 64 (10.63%) NoSQL
3 41 (6.81%) Relational Database
4 40 (6.64%) MongoDB
4 40 (6.64%) SQL Server
5 29 (4.82%) Amazon RDS
6 19 (3.16%) MySQL
6 19 (3.16%) RDBMS
7 12 (1.99%) Azure SQL Database
8 10 (1.66%) Elasticsearch
8 10 (1.66%) Flink
9 9 (1.50%) BigQuery
10 8 (1.33%) Amazon Aurora
11 7 (1.16%) Redis
12 5 (0.83%) Power BI
13 4 (0.66%) Data Warehouse
13 4 (0.66%) GIS
13 4 (0.66%) QGIS
14 3 (0.50%) DynamoDB
14 3 (0.50%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 82 (13.62%) TeamCity
2 76 (12.62%) Jenkins
3 70 (11.63%) Git
4 60 (9.97%) GitLab
5 19 (3.16%) Jaeger
6 14 (2.33%) Cucumber
7 12 (1.99%) Selenium
7 12 (1.99%) Visual Studio Code
8 10 (1.66%) JMeter
8 10 (1.66%) JUnit
9 9 (1.50%) JIRA
9 9 (1.50%) SonarQube
10 6 (1.00%) Bitbucket
10 6 (1.00%) CircleCI
10 6 (1.00%) Locust
10 6 (1.00%) Visual Studio
11 5 (0.83%) Robot Framework
12 4 (0.66%) MLflow
13 3 (0.50%) Eclipse
13 3 (0.50%) REST Assured
General
1 145 (24.09%) Finance
2 135 (22.43%) Social Skills
3 98 (16.28%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 96 (15.95%) Banking
5 93 (15.45%) Retail
6 88 (14.62%) Law
7 54 (8.97%) Financial Institution
8 45 (7.48%) Back Office
9 35 (5.81%) Public Sector
10 25 (4.15%) Telecoms
11 19 (3.16%) Analytical Skills
12 12 (1.99%) Front Office
13 10 (1.66%) Legal
14 8 (1.33%) Organisational Skills
15 7 (1.16%) Military
16 5 (0.83%) Advertising
16 5 (0.83%) Esports
16 5 (0.83%) Manufacturing
17 4 (0.66%) Aviation
17 4 (0.66%) Tech for Good
Job Titles
1 195 (32.39%) Senior
2 123 (20.43%) Software Engineer
3 116 (19.27%) Lead
4 86 (14.29%) Developer
5 85 (14.12%) DevOps Engineer
6 62 (10.30%) Cloud Engineer
7 52 (8.64%) Platform Engineer
8 46 (7.64%) Azure Engineer
8 46 (7.64%) Senior Software Engineer
9 37 (6.15%) Senior Developer
10 34 (5.65%) Python Engineer
11 32 (5.32%) Java Engineer
12 31 (5.15%) AWS Engineer
12 31 (5.15%) Infrastructure Engineer
13 28 (4.65%) Cloud Platform Engineer
14 26 (4.32%) Lead DevOps
14 26 (4.32%) Lead Software Engineer
14 26 (4.32%) Senior DevOps
15 25 (4.15%) Java Developer
15 25 (4.15%) Java Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 69 (11.46%) .NET
1 69 (11.46%) Spring
2 65 (10.80%) Kafka
2 65 (10.80%) React
3 57 (9.47%) Spring Boot
4 50 (8.31%) Elastic Stack
4 50 (8.31%) RESTful
5 48 (7.97%) REST
6 36 (5.98%) Node.js
7 35 (5.81%) Django
8 28 (4.65%) .NET Core
9 25 (4.15%) Akka
9 25 (4.15%) Flask
10 22 (3.65%) FastAPI
11 21 (3.49%) gRPC
12 20 (3.32%) AngularJS
12 20 (3.32%) OAuth
12 20 (3.32%) OpenTelemetry
13 19 (3.16%) RabbitMQ
14 15 (2.49%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 185 (30.73%) Cloud Native
2 45 (7.48%) Distributed Systems
3 44 (7.31%) Product Ownership
4 25 (4.15%) Blog
5 23 (3.82%) Over-the-Top Content
5 23 (3.82%) Video\Live Streaming
6 19 (3.16%) Private Cloud
7 17 (2.82%) Onboarding
8 16 (2.66%) Data Centre
8 16 (2.66%) Legacy Systems
9 15 (2.49%) Hybrid Cloud
10 14 (2.33%) AI Agents
10 14 (2.33%) Public Cloud
11 12 (1.99%) Security Posture
12 11 (1.83%) Virtual Team
13 7 (1.16%) Fixed Income
13 7 (1.16%) Management Information System
14 6 (1.00%) CUDA
14 6 (1.00%) Distributed Architecture
14 6 (1.00%) Low-Code
Operating Systems
1 139 (23.09%) Linux
2 38 (6.31%) Windows
3 33 (5.48%) Unix
4 22 (3.65%) Android
5 15 (2.49%) Windows Server
6 14 (2.33%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
7 13 (2.16%) Apple iOS
7 13 (2.16%) Ubuntu
8 11 (1.83%) CentOS
9 8 (1.33%) VMS
10 4 (0.66%) Debian
11 3 (0.50%) Windows Server 2016
Processes & Methodologies
1 377 (62.62%) CI/CD
2 344 (57.14%) DevOps
3 232 (38.54%) Containerisation
4 222 (36.88%) Agile
5 212 (35.22%) Infrastructure as Code
6 176 (29.24%) Microservices
7 168 (27.91%) Software Engineering
8 127 (21.10%) Test Automation
9 123 (20.43%) Continuous Improvement
10 120 (19.93%) Mentoring
11 96 (15.95%) Platform Engineering
12 92 (15.28%) Clean Code
13 91 (15.12%) Problem-Solving
14 90 (14.95%) Observability
15 86 (14.29%) Deployment Automation
16 81 (13.46%) AI
17 74 (12.29%) Site Reliability Engineering
18 71 (11.79%) TDD
19 68 (11.30%) High Availability
20 67 (11.13%) Infrastructure Engineering
Programming Languages
1 250 (41.53%) Python
2 193 (32.06%) Java
3 96 (15.95%) Go
4 94 (15.61%) JavaScript
5 91 (15.12%) SQL
6 76 (12.62%) Bash
7 59 (9.80%) C#
8 49 (8.14%) PowerShell
9 48 (7.97%) TypeScript
10 31 (5.15%) Bicep
11 30 (4.98%) Scala
12 13 (2.16%) C++
13 8 (1.33%) Delphi
14 6 (1.00%) PHP
14 6 (1.00%) Shell Script
15 5 (0.83%) Rust
16 4 (0.66%) C
16 4 (0.66%) Perl
17 3 (0.50%) Korn
18 2 (0.33%) Ruby
Qualifications
1 80 (13.29%) Degree
2 75 (12.46%) Security Cleared
3 57 (9.47%) SC Cleared
4 49 (8.14%) Computer Science Degree
5 38 (6.31%) Azure Certification
6 35 (5.81%) AWS Certification
7 17 (2.82%) DV Cleared
8 7 (1.16%) CREST Certified
8 7 (1.16%) OSCP
9 6 (1.00%) Microsoft Certification
10 5 (0.83%) CISSP
10 5 (0.83%) GIAC
10 5 (0.83%) ISACA
10 5 (0.83%) SANS
11 3 (0.50%) LPIC
12 2 (0.33%) ISTQB
12 2 (0.33%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
12 2 (0.33%) ITIL Certification
12 2 (0.33%) Linux+ Certification
12 2 (0.33%) Master's Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 37 (6.15%) QA
2 23 (3.82%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 18 (2.99%) PCI DSS
4 17 (2.82%) NIST
5 12 (1.99%) Accessibility
6 11 (1.83%) GDPR
6 11 (1.83%) SOC 2
7 8 (1.33%) Data Quality
8 5 (0.83%) WCAG
9 4 (0.66%) 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 (58.97%) Docker
2 27 (4.49%) Active Directory
3 15 (2.49%) VMware Infrastructure
4 13 (2.16%) Virtual Machines
5 8 (1.33%) VMware NSX
6 5 (0.83%) Firmware
7 4 (0.66%) Hyper-V
7 4 (0.66%) Slurm Workload Manager
7 4 (0.66%) vSphere
8 3 (0.50%) Citrix Hypervisor
8 3 (0.50%) Kamailio
9 1 (0.17%) KVM
9 1 (0.17%) QEMU
9 1 (0.17%) vCloud
9 1 (0.17%) Virtual Desktop
9 1 (0.17%) VMware ESXi
9 1 (0.17%) Xen
Systems Management
1 314 (52.16%) Terraform
2 142 (23.59%) Grafana
3 126 (20.93%) Ansible
4 85 (14.12%) Prometheus
5 45 (7.48%) Argo
6 19 (3.16%) Kustomize
7 17 (2.82%) Puppet
8 8 (1.33%) Istio
8 8 (1.33%) Progress Chef
9 7 (1.16%) Proxmox
9 7 (1.16%) ZABBIX
10 6 (1.00%) Packer
11 5 (0.83%) Active Directory Federation Services
11 5 (0.83%) Kibana
11 5 (0.83%) Microsoft Intune
12 4 (0.66%) Cilium
12 4 (0.66%) logstash
13 2 (0.33%) FortiGate
13 2 (0.33%) MIIS
13 2 (0.33%) Nagios
Vendors
1 67 (11.13%) Microsoft
2 36 (5.98%) Google
3 33 (5.48%) VMware
4 24 (3.99%) Oracle
5 18 (2.99%) Red Hat
6 17 (2.82%) Splunk
7 10 (1.66%) Cisco
7 10 (1.66%) Dell
8 8 (1.33%) Confluent
8 8 (1.33%) Databricks
8 8 (1.33%) Okta
8 8 (1.33%) Palo Alto
9 7 (1.16%) EMC
9 7 (1.16%) F5
9 7 (1.16%) SAP
10 6 (1.00%) Fortinet
10 6 (1.00%) IBM
10 6 (1.00%) ServiceNow
11 5 (0.83%) Ericsson
11 5 (0.83%) Software AG