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

6 months to
6 Oct 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 79 81 58
Rank change year-on-year +2 -23 -29
Permanent jobs citing Kubernetes 779 710 987
As % of all permanent jobs with remote/hybrid work options 3.13% 4.24% 4.51%
As % of the Systems Management category 45.42% 42.34% 43.89%
Number of salaries quoted 511 331 585
10th Percentile £46,250 £48,750 £53,750
25th Percentile £52,500 £58,625 £61,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £70,000 £76,500
Median % change year-on-year -7.14% -8.50% +2.00%
75th Percentile £85,000 £87,000 £95,000
90th Percentile £97,500 £107,500 £115,000
UK median annual salary £70,000 £75,000 £77,500
% change year-on-year -6.67% -3.23% +3.33%

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 1,715 1,677 2,249
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 6.89% 10.00% 10.28%
Number of salaries quoted 1,230 855 1,290
10th Percentile £33,750 £34,400 £36,500
25th Percentile £46,250 £45,000 £47,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £63,950 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year -6.18% -1.62% -3.70%
75th Percentile £75,250 £82,500 £86,250
90th Percentile £95,000 £97,000 £105,000
UK median annual salary £60,000 £60,000 £65,000
% change year-on-year - -7.69% -

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 October 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 10 (1.28%) Apache Spark
2 7 (0.90%) Oracle SOA Suite
3 6 (0.77%) Apache Airflow
3 6 (0.77%) Confluence
3 6 (0.77%) IIS
3 6 (0.77%) nginx
4 5 (0.64%) Camunda
5 4 (0.51%) Apache
6 3 (0.39%) ArcGIS
6 3 (0.39%) GeoServer
6 3 (0.39%) Oracle Spatial
6 3 (0.39%) WebLogic
7 2 (0.26%) Ethereum
7 2 (0.26%) Hedera
7 2 (0.26%) OpenStack
8 1 (0.13%) JBoss
8 1 (0.13%) Microsoft Exchange
8 1 (0.13%) Oracle Coherence
8 1 (0.13%) Red Hat Fuse
Applications
1 12 (1.54%) Chatbot
2 1 (0.13%) Lightworks
Business Applications
1 2 (0.26%) Distributed Ledger
1 2 (0.26%) SAP S/4HANA
2 1 (0.13%) Actimize
2 1 (0.13%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
Cloud Services
1 443 (56.87%) AWS
2 416 (53.40%) Azure
3 236 (30.30%) GCP
4 204 (26.19%) GitHub
5 135 (17.33%) GitHub Copilot
6 105 (13.48%) SaaS
7 104 (13.35%) Amazon EKS
8 72 (9.24%) Azure AI
9 49 (6.29%) GitHub Actions
9 49 (6.29%) Serverless
10 47 (6.03%) Azure AKS
10 47 (6.03%) Azure DevOps
11 46 (5.91%) AWS CloudFormation
12 40 (5.13%) OpenShift
13 25 (3.21%) Amazon EC2
14 23 (2.95%) Virtual Private Cloud
15 22 (2.82%) Google Kubernetes Engine
15 22 (2.82%) PaaS
16 21 (2.70%) Azure Service Bus
16 21 (2.70%) IaaS
Communications & Networking
1 32 (4.11%) VPN
2 25 (3.21%) Firewall
3 22 (2.82%) DNS
4 20 (2.57%) Internet
5 17 (2.18%) Broadband
5 17 (2.18%) TCP/IP
6 16 (2.05%) Network Security
7 15 (1.93%) BGP
8 12 (1.54%) VLAN
9 6 (0.77%) OSPF
9 6 (0.77%) VXLAN
10 5 (0.64%) DHCP
11 4 (0.51%) HTTP
12 3 (0.39%) WAN
13 2 (0.26%) SAN
13 2 (0.26%) Unified Communications
13 2 (0.26%) WireGuard
14 1 (0.13%) iSCSI
14 1 (0.13%) MQTT
14 1 (0.13%) Remote Desktop
Database & Business Intelligence
1 162 (20.80%) MongoDB
2 140 (17.97%) Azure SQL Database
3 87 (11.17%) PostgreSQL
4 43 (5.52%) Elasticsearch
5 38 (4.88%) NoSQL
6 33 (4.24%) Amazon RDS
7 26 (3.34%) SQL Server
8 24 (3.08%) Relational Database
9 23 (2.95%) MySQL
10 11 (1.41%) Data Warehouse
11 7 (0.90%) BigQuery
11 7 (0.90%) Redis
12 6 (0.77%) Delta Lake
12 6 (0.77%) DynamoDB
12 6 (0.77%) Power BI
13 5 (0.64%) Metadata
13 5 (0.64%) Tableau
14 4 (0.51%) DocumentDB
14 4 (0.51%) Flink
14 4 (0.51%) Looker
Development Applications
1 89 (11.42%) TeamCity
2 80 (10.27%) Git
3 55 (7.06%) Jenkins
4 43 (5.52%) GitLab
5 31 (3.98%) JUnit
6 20 (2.57%) Mockito
7 19 (2.44%) JIRA
8 18 (2.31%) Maven
9 16 (2.05%) Selenium
10 12 (1.54%) Postman
11 10 (1.28%) Bitbucket
12 9 (1.16%) Atlassian Bamboo
13 8 (1.03%) Cucumber
13 8 (1.03%) SonarQube
14 6 (0.77%) Gatling
14 6 (0.77%) Octopus Deploy
15 4 (0.51%) Cypress.io
15 4 (0.51%) Subversion
15 4 (0.51%) Vagrant
15 4 (0.51%) Visual Studio Code
General
1 203 (26.06%) Finance
2 146 (18.74%) Social Skills
3 117 (15.02%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 112 (14.38%) Retail
5 109 (13.99%) Law
6 107 (13.74%) Banking
7 74 (9.50%) Public Sector
8 68 (8.73%) Financial Institution
9 66 (8.47%) Back Office
10 33 (4.24%) Advertising
11 31 (3.98%) Analytical Skills
12 20 (2.57%) Aerospace
13 19 (2.44%) Marketing
14 11 (1.41%) Games
15 9 (1.16%) Legal
16 6 (0.77%) Telecoms
17 4 (0.51%) Front Office
18 3 (0.39%) Military
18 3 (0.39%) Organisational Skills
18 3 (0.39%) Police
Job Titles
1 222 (28.50%) Senior
2 214 (27.47%) Developer
3 148 (19.00%) Software Engineer
4 130 (16.69%) .NET Developer
5 78 (10.01%) DevOps Engineer
6 68 (8.73%) Lead
7 54 (6.93%) Cloud Engineer
8 51 (6.55%) Architect
9 42 (5.39%) Platform Engineer
9 42 (5.39%) Senior Developer
10 38 (4.88%) Senior Software Engineer
11 37 (4.75%) Azure Engineer
12 36 (4.62%) Java Engineer
13 30 (3.85%) Java Developer
14 27 (3.47%) Lead Software Engineer
15 26 (3.34%) Senior DevOps
15 26 (3.34%) Team Leader
16 25 (3.21%) Full-Stack Developer
17 24 (3.08%) Cloud Platform Engineer
18 23 (2.95%) Senior DevOps Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 306 (39.28%) Terraform
2 198 (25.42%) .NET
3 136 (17.46%) .NET Core
3 136 (17.46%) ASP.NET
4 132 (16.94%) ASP.NET Core
5 96 (12.32%) Node.js
6 89 (11.42%) React
7 80 (10.27%) CSS
8 79 (10.14%) HTML
9 78 (10.01%) AngularJS
10 76 (9.76%) Spring
11 70 (8.99%) ML.NET
12 66 (8.47%) Vue
13 58 (7.45%) REST
14 53 (6.80%) RESTful
15 51 (6.55%) Kafka
15 51 (6.55%) Spring Boot
16 29 (3.72%) OpenTelemetry
17 28 (3.59%) Blazor
18 18 (2.31%) ARM Templates
Miscellaneous
1 230 (29.53%) Cloud Native
2 71 (9.11%) Distributed Systems
3 60 (7.70%) Product Ownership
4 37 (4.75%) Blog
5 27 (3.47%) Greenfield Project
6 19 (2.44%) Digital TV
7 18 (2.31%) AI Agents
8 15 (1.93%) Security Posture
9 14 (1.80%) Data Centre
9 14 (1.80%) Legacy Systems
9 14 (1.80%) Management Information System
10 12 (1.54%) Enterprise Software
10 12 (1.54%) Self-Motivation
11 10 (1.28%) Public Cloud
11 10 (1.28%) Replication
12 9 (1.16%) Hybrid Cloud
12 9 (1.16%) IoT
13 8 (1.03%) Cyber Kill Chain
13 8 (1.03%) PKI
13 8 (1.03%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 124 (15.92%) Linux
2 38 (4.88%) Windows
3 15 (1.93%) Windows Server
4 14 (1.80%) Ubuntu
5 11 (1.41%) Apple iOS
6 8 (1.03%) Android
7 5 (0.64%) Mac OS
8 4 (0.51%) Debian
9 3 (0.39%) CentOS
9 3 (0.39%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
10 1 (0.13%) Unix
10 1 (0.13%) VMS
10 1 (0.13%) Windows Server 2016
Processes & Methodologies
1 521 (66.88%) CI/CD
2 299 (38.38%) DevOps
3 282 (36.20%) Agile
4 274 (35.17%) Microservices
5 229 (29.40%) Software Engineering
6 223 (28.63%) AI
7 221 (28.37%) Mentoring
8 210 (26.96%) Infrastructure as Code
9 205 (26.32%) Full-Stack Development
10 188 (24.13%) Containerisation
11 151 (19.38%) Test Automation
12 144 (18.49%) Continuous Improvement
13 139 (17.84%) Observability
14 132 (16.94%) Problem-Solving
15 124 (15.92%) Machine Learning
16 113 (14.51%) Clean Code
17 106 (13.61%) Fintech
17 106 (13.61%) TDD
18 103 (13.22%) Platform Engineering
19 95 (12.20%) Deployment Automation
Programming Languages
1 243 (31.19%) Python
2 235 (30.17%) SQL
3 230 (29.53%) Java
4 204 (26.19%) C#
5 120 (15.40%) TypeScript
6 100 (12.84%) JavaScript
7 95 (12.20%) Bash
8 73 (9.37%) PowerShell
9 57 (7.32%) Go
10 25 (3.21%) Bicep
11 15 (1.93%) Scala
12 14 (1.80%) PL/SQL
13 9 (1.16%) Kotlin
14 8 (1.03%) PHP
14 8 (1.03%) Ruby
15 6 (0.77%) Groovy
16 5 (0.64%) C
16 5 (0.64%) Shell Script
17 4 (0.51%) C++
17 4 (0.51%) Rust
Qualifications
1 127 (16.30%) Security Cleared
2 104 (13.35%) SC Cleared
3 52 (6.68%) Degree
4 33 (4.24%) Azure Certification
5 24 (3.08%) Computer Science Degree
6 19 (2.44%) AWS Certification
7 13 (1.67%) DV Cleared
8 10 (1.28%) CISSP
9 9 (1.16%) CISM
10 8 (1.03%) BPSS Clearance
10 8 (1.03%) GIAC
11 5 (0.64%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
11 5 (0.64%) CEH
11 5 (0.64%) CREST Certified
11 5 (0.64%) OSCP
12 4 (0.51%) Cisco Certification
12 4 (0.51%) Microsoft Certification
12 4 (0.51%) OCP
12 4 (0.51%) Oracle Certification
12 4 (0.51%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 28 (3.59%) QA
2 24 (3.08%) NIST
3 22 (2.82%) Accessibility
4 20 (2.57%) PCI DSS
5 16 (2.05%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 9 (1.16%) SOC 2
7 8 (1.03%) WCAG
8 7 (0.90%) Data Quality
9 6 (0.77%) Cyber Essentials
10 4 (0.51%) GDPR
10 4 (0.51%) NCSC
11 1 (0.13%) California Consumer Privacy Act
11 1 (0.13%) HIPAA
11 1 (0.13%) ISO 22301
11 1 (0.13%) PSD2
11 1 (0.13%) SEPA
11 1 (0.13%) SLA
System Software
1 486 (62.39%) Docker
2 18 (2.31%) Active Directory
2 18 (2.31%) Virtual Machines
3 13 (1.67%) VMware Infrastructure
4 3 (0.39%) iptables
5 1 (0.13%) Citrix Hypervisor
5 1 (0.13%) HDFS
5 1 (0.13%) Hyper-V
5 1 (0.13%) Slurm Workload Manager
5 1 (0.13%) Virtual Servers
Systems Management
1 145 (18.61%) Grafana
2 74 (9.50%) Ansible
3 61 (7.83%) Prometheus
4 29 (3.72%) Argo
5 18 (2.31%) Istio
6 15 (1.93%) Puppet
7 14 (1.80%) Progress Chef
8 8 (1.03%) Kustomize
9 7 (0.90%) Packer
10 6 (0.77%) Cilium
10 6 (0.77%) FortiGate
10 6 (0.77%) Single Sign-On
11 5 (0.64%) Microsoft Intune
12 4 (0.51%) linkerd
13 3 (0.39%) Active Directory Federation Services
14 2 (0.26%) CASB
14 2 (0.26%) Microsoft Data Protection Manager
14 2 (0.26%) Podman
14 2 (0.26%) Proxmox
14 2 (0.26%) WSUS
Vendors
1 207 (26.57%) Microsoft
2 58 (7.45%) Google
3 32 (4.11%) Oracle
4 29 (3.72%) Splunk
5 25 (3.21%) OpenAI
6 19 (2.44%) Facebook
6 19 (2.44%) Red Hat
7 17 (2.18%) Okta
7 17 (2.18%) VMware
8 15 (1.93%) Ping Identity
9 12 (1.54%) Databricks
10 11 (1.41%) Dynatrace
11 9 (1.16%) New Relic
12 8 (1.03%) Palo Alto
12 8 (1.03%) ServiceNow
13 6 (0.77%) Fortinet
13 6 (0.77%) Zscaler
14 5 (0.64%) ForgeRock
14 5 (0.64%) HubSpot
14 5 (0.64%) Qualys