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 29 November 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
29 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 82 40 33
Rank change year-on-year -42 -7 -5
Permanent jobs citing Kubernetes 480 1,154 1,545
As % of all permanent jobs with remote/hybrid work options 3.14% 5.87% 7.38%
As % of the Systems Management category 36.17% 46.48% 45.59%
Number of salaries quoted 378 592 1,294
10th Percentile £51,250 £52,500 £47,875
25th Percentile £59,000 £60,000 £60,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £75,000 £75,000 £72,500
Median % change year-on-year - +3.45% -3.33%
75th Percentile £87,500 £95,000 £87,500
90th Percentile £114,125 £112,500 £102,125
UK median annual salary £75,000 £77,500 £75,000
% change year-on-year -3.23% +3.33% -3.23%

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 1,327 2,483 3,389
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 8.69% 12.63% 16.19%
Number of salaries quoted 987 1,465 2,908
10th Percentile £37,000 £40,000 £41,250
25th Percentile £48,750 £51,250 £51,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £67,500 £67,500
Median % change year-on-year -3.70% - -2.80%
75th Percentile £83,750 £85,000 £85,000
90th Percentile £100,000 £102,500 £97,500
UK median annual salary £62,500 £67,500 £65,000
% change year-on-year -7.41% +3.85% -3.70%

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 29 November 2025.

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 (2.50%) Apache Spark
1 12 (2.50%) IIS
2 10 (2.08%) Apache Airflow
3 7 (1.46%) nginx
4 6 (1.25%) Apache
5 5 (1.04%) Anypoint
6 4 (0.83%) Apache Pulsar
6 4 (0.83%) Confluence
6 4 (0.83%) Microsoft Exchange
7 2 (0.42%) ArcGIS
7 2 (0.42%) GeoServer
7 2 (0.42%) OpenStack
7 2 (0.42%) Oracle Spatial
8 1 (0.21%) Apache Solr
8 1 (0.21%) BizTalk Server
8 1 (0.21%) SharePoint
8 1 (0.21%) Tomcat
Business Applications
1 5 (1.04%) Shopify
Cloud Services
1 289 (60.21%) AWS
2 262 (54.58%) Azure
3 123 (25.63%) GCP
4 121 (25.21%) GitHub
5 80 (16.67%) GitHub Actions
6 75 (15.63%) Azure DevOps
7 56 (11.67%) Amazon EKS
8 53 (11.04%) SaaS
9 48 (10.00%) Serverless
10 46 (9.58%) Azure AKS
11 44 (9.17%) AWS CloudFormation
12 42 (8.75%) Amazon CloudWatch
13 36 (7.50%) AWS Lambda
14 32 (6.67%) Amazon ECS
15 29 (6.04%) OpenShift
16 27 (5.63%) Amazon S3
17 22 (4.58%) Datadog
18 19 (3.96%) Azure Monitor
19 16 (3.33%) Azure Cosmos DB
20 14 (2.92%) Entra ID
Communications & Networking
1 36 (7.50%) Firewall
2 16 (3.33%) DNS
3 15 (3.13%) VPN
4 11 (2.29%) WAN
5 10 (2.08%) TCP/IP
6 9 (1.88%) LAN
7 8 (1.67%) Network Security
8 6 (1.25%) Fibre Channel
9 5 (1.04%) Broadband
9 5 (1.04%) DHCP
9 5 (1.04%) Internet
10 4 (0.83%) Intrusion Detection
10 4 (0.83%) SD-WAN
11 3 (0.63%) Kerberos
12 2 (0.42%) AMQP
12 2 (0.42%) VLAN
12 2 (0.42%) VSAN
13 1 (0.21%) 5G
13 1 (0.21%) MIMO
13 1 (0.21%) NAS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 63 (13.13%) PostgreSQL
2 51 (10.63%) NoSQL
3 42 (8.75%) SQL Server
4 40 (8.33%) MongoDB
5 18 (3.75%) MySQL
6 17 (3.54%) Relational Database
7 15 (3.13%) Amazon RDS
8 11 (2.29%) Redis
9 10 (2.08%) DynamoDB
10 9 (1.88%) Elasticsearch
11 8 (1.67%) Azure SQL Database
12 6 (1.25%) Big Data
12 6 (1.25%) Data Warehouse
12 6 (1.25%) Flink
12 6 (1.25%) Power BI
13 5 (1.04%) BigQuery
14 4 (0.83%) Data Lake
15 3 (0.63%) Amazon Athena
15 3 (0.63%) Apache Ignite
15 3 (0.63%) Pinecone
Development Applications
1 67 (13.96%) Git
2 62 (12.92%) Jenkins
3 50 (10.42%) GitLab
4 20 (4.17%) TeamCity
5 9 (1.88%) JUnit
5 9 (1.88%) Selenium
6 8 (1.67%) Cucumber
7 7 (1.46%) SonarQube
8 6 (1.25%) JIRA
8 6 (1.25%) Visual Studio Code
9 5 (1.04%) Octopus Deploy
9 5 (1.04%) Sonatype Nexus
10 4 (0.83%) Bitbucket
10 4 (0.83%) Robot Framework
11 3 (0.63%) JMeter
12 2 (0.42%) Artifactory
12 2 (0.42%) CircleCI
12 2 (0.42%) Eclipse
12 2 (0.42%) git-flow
12 2 (0.42%) TestRail
General
1 94 (19.58%) Social Skills
2 89 (18.54%) Finance
3 37 (7.71%) Law
4 34 (7.08%) Banking
4 34 (7.08%) Public Sector
5 32 (6.67%) Financial Institution
6 31 (6.46%) Retail
7 24 (5.00%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 23 (4.79%) Telecoms
9 22 (4.58%) Back Office
10 10 (2.08%) Front Office
11 9 (1.88%) Analytical Skills
12 7 (1.46%) Legal
13 6 (1.25%) Documentation Skills
13 6 (1.25%) Games
14 5 (1.04%) Marketing
14 5 (1.04%) Tech for Good
15 4 (0.83%) Automotive
15 4 (0.83%) Esports
15 4 (0.83%) Manufacturing
Job Titles
1 140 (29.17%) Senior
2 92 (19.17%) DevOps Engineer
3 70 (14.58%) Software Engineer
4 66 (13.75%) Developer
5 59 (12.29%) Lead
6 53 (11.04%) Cloud Engineer
7 39 (8.13%) Infrastructure Engineer
8 35 (7.29%) Architect
8 35 (7.29%) Azure Engineer
9 34 (7.08%) Platform Engineer
10 27 (5.63%) Senior Software Engineer
11 26 (5.42%) Senior DevOps
12 24 (5.00%) Python Engineer
13 22 (4.58%) Senior Developer
14 20 (4.17%) Senior DevOps Engineer
15 18 (3.75%) AWS Engineer
15 18 (3.75%) Software Developer
16 17 (3.54%) AWS DevOps
16 17 (3.54%) Solutions Architect
17 16 (3.33%) Lead DevOps
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 74 (15.42%) .NET
2 55 (11.46%) React
3 52 (10.83%) Spring
3 52 (10.83%) Spring Boot
4 50 (10.42%) Kafka
5 45 (9.38%) RESTful
6 32 (6.67%) REST
7 31 (6.46%) Elastic Stack
8 29 (6.04%) Node.js
9 24 (5.00%) Django
10 23 (4.79%) Flask
10 23 (4.79%) RabbitMQ
11 22 (4.58%) gRPC
12 20 (4.17%) .NET Core
12 20 (4.17%) AngularJS
13 17 (3.54%) FastAPI
14 16 (3.33%) YAML
15 15 (3.13%) Web Services
16 13 (2.71%) .NET Framework
17 12 (2.50%) GraphQL
Miscellaneous
1 157 (32.71%) Cloud Native
2 44 (9.17%) Distributed Systems
3 32 (6.67%) Onboarding
4 25 (5.21%) Product Ownership
5 20 (4.17%) Data Centre
6 18 (3.75%) Management Information System
7 15 (3.13%) Hybrid Cloud
7 15 (3.13%) Legacy Systems
7 15 (3.13%) Public Cloud
8 9 (1.88%) Self-Motivation
9 8 (1.67%) Algorithms
10 7 (1.46%) Private Cloud
10 7 (1.46%) Security Posture
10 7 (1.46%) Virtual Team
11 6 (1.25%) AI Agents
11 6 (1.25%) Fixed Income
11 6 (1.25%) Greenfield Project
12 5 (1.04%) Blog
12 5 (1.04%) Derivative
12 5 (1.04%) Linux Command Line
Operating Systems
1 121 (25.21%) Linux
2 71 (14.79%) Windows
3 26 (5.42%) Windows Server
4 20 (4.17%) Unix
5 13 (2.71%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 11 (2.29%) Android
7 10 (2.08%) Windows Server 2019
8 9 (1.88%) Ubuntu
9 8 (1.67%) Rocky
9 8 (1.67%) VMS
10 6 (1.25%) CentOS
11 4 (0.83%) Apple iOS
12 3 (0.63%) Debian
Processes & Methodologies
1 301 (62.71%) DevOps
2 299 (62.29%) CI/CD
3 199 (41.46%) Containerisation
4 167 (34.79%) Infrastructure as Code
5 131 (27.29%) Microservices
6 130 (27.08%) Agile
7 113 (23.54%) Software Engineering
8 102 (21.25%) Problem-Solving
9 89 (18.54%) Infrastructure Engineering
10 86 (17.92%) Continuous Improvement
11 76 (15.83%) Observability
12 75 (15.63%) Mentoring
13 74 (15.42%) AI
14 61 (12.71%) Platform Engineering
15 60 (12.50%) Site Reliability Engineering
16 49 (10.21%) Cloud Security
16 49 (10.21%) Test Automation
17 48 (10.00%) High Availability
18 46 (9.58%) Coaching
18 46 (9.58%) Machine Learning
Programming Languages
1 213 (44.38%) Python
2 110 (22.92%) Java
3 96 (20.00%) SQL
4 72 (15.00%) PowerShell
5 67 (13.96%) Bash
6 62 (12.92%) C#
7 60 (12.50%) JavaScript
8 43 (8.96%) Bicep
9 39 (8.13%) Go
10 38 (7.92%) TypeScript
11 8 (1.67%) Delphi
11 8 (1.67%) Scala
12 7 (1.46%) C++
12 7 (1.46%) PHP
13 6 (1.25%) Shell Script
14 5 (1.04%) Kotlin
15 4 (0.83%) F#
15 4 (0.83%) Haskell
15 4 (0.83%) OCaml
15 4 (0.83%) Ruby
Qualifications
1 74 (15.42%) Security Cleared
2 58 (12.08%) SC Cleared
3 54 (11.25%) Degree
4 46 (9.58%) AWS Certification
5 39 (8.13%) Azure Certification
6 33 (6.88%) Computer Science Degree
7 22 (4.58%) DV Cleared
8 12 (2.50%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
9 11 (2.29%) BPSS Clearance
10 8 (1.67%) Network+ Certification
11 7 (1.46%) Master's Degree
12 6 (1.25%) PhD
13 5 (1.04%) Cisco Certification
13 5 (1.04%) CISM
13 5 (1.04%) CISSP
14 3 (0.63%) (ISC)2 CCSP
14 3 (0.63%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
14 3 (0.63%) CompTIA Security+
15 2 (0.42%) AWS Certified Developer
15 2 (0.42%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 29 (6.04%) QA
2 24 (5.00%) GDPR
3 17 (3.54%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 11 (2.29%) NIST
4 11 (2.29%) SOC 2
5 10 (2.08%) HIPAA
5 10 (2.08%) PCI DSS
6 7 (1.46%) Data Quality
7 4 (0.83%) GRC
7 4 (0.83%) SLA
8 2 (0.42%) ECSS
9 1 (0.21%) MiFID
System Software
1 288 (60.00%) Docker
2 26 (5.42%) Active Directory
3 16 (3.33%) Hyper-V
4 15 (3.13%) VMware Infrastructure
5 11 (2.29%) vSphere
6 6 (1.25%) NFS
7 5 (1.04%) Virtual Machines
8 3 (0.63%) VMware NSX
9 2 (0.42%) Virtual Servers
10 1 (0.21%) Dovecot
10 1 (0.21%) Postfix
10 1 (0.21%) vCloud
10 1 (0.21%) VMware ESXi
Systems Management
1 215 (44.79%) Terraform
2 101 (21.04%) Ansible
2 101 (21.04%) Grafana
3 59 (12.29%) Prometheus
4 22 (4.58%) Argo
5 5 (1.04%) Cilium
5 5 (1.04%) Puppet
6 4 (0.83%) Progress Chef
7 3 (0.63%) Microsoft Data Protection Manager
7 3 (0.63%) SCCM
7 3 (0.63%) SCOM
7 3 (0.63%) WSUS
8 2 (0.42%) Kubeflow
8 2 (0.42%) Kustomize
8 2 (0.42%) logstash
8 2 (0.42%) Microsoft Intune
9 1 (0.21%) FortiGate
9 1 (0.21%) ITRS Geneos
9 1 (0.21%) Kibana
9 1 (0.21%) Oracle Enterprise Manager
Vendors
1 49 (10.21%) Microsoft
2 23 (4.79%) Google
2 23 (4.79%) Oracle
3 21 (4.38%) Red Hat
3 21 (4.38%) VMware
4 17 (3.54%) Dell
5 12 (2.50%) Splunk
6 11 (2.29%) Cisco
7 8 (1.67%) SAP
8 7 (1.46%) Commvault
8 7 (1.46%) Databricks
8 7 (1.46%) Pure Storage
9 6 (1.25%) Dynatrace
10 5 (1.04%) IFS
10 5 (1.04%) Informatica
10 5 (1.04%) Jitterbit
10 5 (1.04%) MuleSoft
10 5 (1.04%) SnapLogic
10 5 (1.04%) Software AG
10 5 (1.04%) Workday