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

6 months to
13 Oct 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 77 82 50
Rank change year-on-year +5 -32 -20
Permanent jobs citing Kubernetes 806 688 1,022
As % of all permanent jobs with remote/hybrid work options 3.23% 4.17% 4.80%
As % of the Systems Management category 45.77% 41.87% 45.56%
Number of salaries quoted 508 325 572
10th Percentile £46,250 £48,750 £52,500
25th Percentile £52,500 £59,750 £61,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £72,500 £75,750
Median % change year-on-year -10.34% -4.29% +1.00%
75th Percentile £85,000 £87,500 £95,000
90th Percentile £97,500 £107,500 £114,750
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 1,761 1,643 2,243
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 7.05% 9.96% 10.53%
Number of salaries quoted 1,239 844 1,254
10th Percentile £33,950 £33,650 £36,575
25th Percentile £45,946 £45,000 £47,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £64,000 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year -6.25% -1.54% -2.99%
75th Percentile £75,000 £82,500 £86,250
90th Percentile £95,000 £97,500 £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 13 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 (1.24%) Apache Spark
2 7 (0.87%) Apache Airflow
2 7 (0.87%) Oracle SOA Suite
3 6 (0.74%) Confluence
3 6 (0.74%) IIS
3 6 (0.74%) nginx
3 6 (0.74%) WebLogic
4 5 (0.62%) Apache
4 5 (0.62%) Camunda
5 4 (0.50%) ArcGIS
5 4 (0.50%) GeoServer
5 4 (0.50%) Oracle Spatial
6 2 (0.25%) Ethereum
6 2 (0.25%) Hedera
7 1 (0.12%) JBoss
7 1 (0.12%) OpenStack
7 1 (0.12%) Oracle Coherence
7 1 (0.12%) Red Hat Fuse
Applications
1 12 (1.49%) Chatbot
2 1 (0.12%) Lightworks
Business Applications
1 2 (0.25%) Distributed Ledger
1 2 (0.25%) SAP S/4HANA
2 1 (0.12%) Actimize
2 1 (0.12%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
Cloud Services
1 467 (57.94%) AWS
2 419 (51.99%) Azure
3 258 (32.01%) GCP
4 206 (25.56%) GitHub
5 136 (16.87%) GitHub Copilot
6 124 (15.38%) SaaS
7 117 (14.52%) Amazon EKS
8 73 (9.06%) Azure AI
9 50 (6.20%) GitHub Actions
10 49 (6.08%) Azure DevOps
11 46 (5.71%) Azure AKS
11 46 (5.71%) Serverless
12 42 (5.21%) AWS CloudFormation
12 42 (5.21%) OpenShift
13 33 (4.09%) Google Kubernetes Engine
14 32 (3.97%) Virtual Private Cloud
15 24 (2.98%) Amazon EC2
16 21 (2.61%) Azure Monitor
16 21 (2.61%) Google Compute Engine
16 21 (2.61%) PaaS
Communications & Networking
1 40 (4.96%) VPN
2 27 (3.35%) Firewall
3 26 (3.23%) TCP/IP
4 25 (3.10%) BGP
5 22 (2.73%) Network Security
6 21 (2.61%) Internet
7 20 (2.48%) DNS
8 17 (2.11%) Broadband
9 16 (1.99%) VLAN
10 6 (0.74%) OSPF
10 6 (0.74%) VXLAN
11 4 (0.50%) DHCP
11 4 (0.50%) HTTP
12 3 (0.37%) WAN
13 2 (0.25%) Unified Communications
14 1 (0.12%) AMQP
14 1 (0.12%) MQTT
14 1 (0.12%) SAN
14 1 (0.12%) WireGuard
Database & Business Intelligence
1 162 (20.10%) MongoDB
2 141 (17.49%) Azure SQL Database
3 103 (12.78%) PostgreSQL
4 44 (5.46%) Elasticsearch
5 42 (5.21%) Amazon RDS
6 38 (4.71%) NoSQL
7 25 (3.10%) SQL Server
8 24 (2.98%) Relational Database
9 22 (2.73%) MySQL
10 11 (1.36%) Data Warehouse
10 11 (1.36%) Redis
11 8 (0.99%) BigQuery
12 6 (0.74%) Delta Lake
12 6 (0.74%) Power BI
13 5 (0.62%) DynamoDB
13 5 (0.62%) Flink
13 5 (0.62%) Looker
13 5 (0.62%) Metadata
13 5 (0.62%) Tableau
14 4 (0.50%) Big Data
Development Applications
1 105 (13.03%) TeamCity
2 79 (9.80%) Git
3 56 (6.95%) Jenkins
4 40 (4.96%) GitLab
5 34 (4.22%) JUnit
6 23 (2.85%) Mockito
7 19 (2.36%) JIRA
8 18 (2.23%) Maven
9 16 (1.99%) Selenium
10 11 (1.36%) Postman
11 9 (1.12%) Bitbucket
12 8 (0.99%) Atlassian Bamboo
12 8 (0.99%) Cucumber
12 8 (0.99%) SonarQube
13 6 (0.74%) Gatling
13 6 (0.74%) Octopus Deploy
14 4 (0.50%) Cypress.io
14 4 (0.50%) Subversion
14 4 (0.50%) Vagrant
14 4 (0.50%) Visual Studio Code
General
1 215 (26.67%) Finance
2 149 (18.49%) Social Skills
3 131 (16.25%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 127 (15.76%) Retail
5 121 (15.01%) Law
6 118 (14.64%) Banking
7 82 (10.17%) Financial Institution
8 80 (9.93%) Back Office
9 75 (9.31%) Public Sector
10 33 (4.09%) Advertising
10 33 (4.09%) Analytical Skills
11 20 (2.48%) Aerospace
12 19 (2.36%) Marketing
13 12 (1.49%) Games
14 9 (1.12%) Legal
15 6 (0.74%) Telecoms
16 4 (0.50%) Front Office
17 3 (0.37%) Aviation
17 3 (0.37%) Military
17 3 (0.37%) Police
Job Titles
1 235 (29.16%) Senior
2 216 (26.80%) Developer
3 161 (19.98%) Software Engineer
4 132 (16.38%) .NET Developer
5 79 (9.80%) DevOps Engineer
6 72 (8.93%) Lead
7 59 (7.32%) Cloud Engineer
8 53 (6.58%) Architect
9 45 (5.58%) Senior Developer
9 45 (5.58%) Senior Software Engineer
10 44 (5.46%) Java Engineer
11 41 (5.09%) Platform Engineer
12 33 (4.09%) Azure Engineer
13 29 (3.60%) Java Developer
14 28 (3.47%) Java Software Engineer
14 28 (3.47%) Lead Software Engineer
15 27 (3.35%) Senior DevOps
16 25 (3.10%) Full-Stack Developer
16 25 (3.10%) GCP Engineer
16 25 (3.10%) Team Leader
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 321 (39.83%) Terraform
2 201 (24.94%) .NET
3 137 (17.00%) .NET Core
3 137 (17.00%) ASP.NET
4 133 (16.50%) ASP.NET Core
5 99 (12.28%) Node.js
6 91 (11.29%) React
7 81 (10.05%) CSS
7 81 (10.05%) Spring
8 80 (9.93%) HTML
9 78 (9.68%) AngularJS
10 71 (8.81%) ML.NET
11 65 (8.06%) Vue
12 62 (7.69%) REST
13 56 (6.95%) RESTful
13 56 (6.95%) Spring Boot
14 55 (6.82%) Kafka
15 36 (4.47%) OpenTelemetry
16 29 (3.60%) Blazor
17 18 (2.23%) ARM Templates
Miscellaneous
1 255 (31.64%) Cloud Native
2 83 (10.30%) Distributed Systems
3 62 (7.69%) Product Ownership
4 49 (6.08%) Blog
5 27 (3.35%) Greenfield Project
6 22 (2.73%) Security Posture
7 20 (2.48%) AI Agents
8 19 (2.36%) Digital TV
9 18 (2.23%) Management Information System
10 14 (1.74%) Enterprise Software
10 14 (1.74%) Legacy Systems
11 12 (1.49%) Data Centre
11 12 (1.49%) Self-Motivation
12 10 (1.24%) Cyber Threat
12 10 (1.24%) Public Cloud
12 10 (1.24%) Replication
13 9 (1.12%) Cyber Defence
13 9 (1.12%) IoT
14 8 (0.99%) Cyber Kill Chain
14 8 (0.99%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 124 (15.38%) Linux
2 36 (4.47%) Windows
3 14 (1.74%) Ubuntu
3 14 (1.74%) Windows Server
4 11 (1.36%) Apple iOS
5 7 (0.87%) Android
6 5 (0.62%) macOS
7 3 (0.37%) Debian
8 2 (0.25%) CentOS
9 1 (0.12%) Unix
9 1 (0.12%) VMS
9 1 (0.12%) Windows Server 2016
Processes & Methodologies
1 548 (67.99%) CI/CD
2 310 (38.46%) DevOps
3 291 (36.10%) Microservices
4 287 (35.61%) Agile
5 244 (30.27%) Software Engineering
6 228 (28.29%) Mentoring
7 227 (28.16%) AI
8 213 (26.43%) Infrastructure as Code
9 210 (26.05%) Full-Stack Development
10 193 (23.95%) Containerisation
11 161 (19.98%) Test Automation
12 148 (18.36%) Observability
13 144 (17.87%) Continuous Improvement
14 138 (17.12%) Problem-Solving
15 127 (15.76%) Clean Code
16 125 (15.51%) Machine Learning
17 120 (14.89%) Fintech
18 108 (13.40%) TDD
19 103 (12.78%) Deployment Automation
19 103 (12.78%) Platform Engineering
Programming Languages
1 258 (32.01%) Python
2 255 (31.64%) Java
3 251 (31.14%) SQL
4 206 (25.56%) C#
5 124 (15.38%) TypeScript
6 101 (12.53%) Bash
6 101 (12.53%) JavaScript
7 71 (8.81%) PowerShell
8 70 (8.68%) Go
9 25 (3.10%) Bicep
10 16 (1.99%) Scala
11 14 (1.74%) PL/SQL
12 9 (1.12%) Kotlin
13 8 (0.99%) PHP
13 8 (0.99%) Ruby
14 6 (0.74%) Groovy
14 6 (0.74%) Shell Script
15 4 (0.50%) C
15 4 (0.50%) Rust
16 3 (0.37%) C++
Qualifications
1 134 (16.63%) Security Cleared
2 111 (13.77%) SC Cleared
3 51 (6.33%) Degree
4 33 (4.09%) Azure Certification
5 21 (2.61%) Computer Science Degree
6 19 (2.36%) AWS Certification
7 15 (1.86%) CISSP
8 14 (1.74%) CISM
9 13 (1.61%) DV Cleared
10 9 (1.12%) (ISC)2 CCSP
10 9 (1.12%) Cisco Certification
10 9 (1.12%) GIAC
11 8 (0.99%) BPSS Clearance
11 8 (0.99%) CCSP
12 5 (0.62%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
12 5 (0.62%) CEH
13 4 (0.50%) CREST Certified
13 4 (0.50%) GCFA
13 4 (0.50%) OSCP
13 4 (0.50%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 29 (3.60%) PCI DSS
2 28 (3.47%) NIST
3 27 (3.35%) QA
4 26 (3.23%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 25 (3.10%) Accessibility
6 19 (2.36%) SOC 2
7 8 (0.99%) Data Quality
7 8 (0.99%) WCAG
8 6 (0.74%) Cyber Essentials
9 5 (0.62%) GDPR
10 4 (0.50%) NCSC
11 1 (0.12%) California Consumer Privacy Act
11 1 (0.12%) HIPAA
11 1 (0.12%) ISO 22301
11 1 (0.12%) PSD2
11 1 (0.12%) SEPA
11 1 (0.12%) SLA
System Software
1 496 (61.54%) Docker
2 18 (2.23%) Virtual Machines
3 15 (1.86%) Active Directory
4 12 (1.49%) VMware Infrastructure
5 3 (0.37%) iptables
6 1 (0.12%) HDFS
6 1 (0.12%) Hyper-V
6 1 (0.12%) Virtual Servers
Systems Management
1 162 (20.10%) Grafana
2 71 (8.81%) Ansible
3 68 (8.44%) Prometheus
4 32 (3.97%) Argo
5 21 (2.61%) Istio
6 14 (1.74%) Progress Chef
6 14 (1.74%) Puppet
7 11 (1.36%) Cilium
7 11 (1.36%) Kustomize
7 11 (1.36%) Single Sign-On
8 7 (0.87%) Packer
9 6 (0.74%) FortiGate
10 4 (0.50%) linkerd
10 4 (0.50%) Microsoft Intune
11 2 (0.25%) Active Directory Federation Services
11 2 (0.25%) CASB
11 2 (0.25%) Microsoft Data Protection Manager
11 2 (0.25%) Proxmox
11 2 (0.25%) SCCM
11 2 (0.25%) WSUS
Vendors
1 208 (25.81%) Microsoft
2 75 (9.31%) Google
3 36 (4.47%) Oracle
4 32 (3.97%) Splunk
5 25 (3.10%) OpenAI
6 22 (2.73%) Red Hat
7 19 (2.36%) Facebook
8 16 (1.99%) Okta
8 16 (1.99%) VMware
9 15 (1.86%) Ping Identity
10 12 (1.49%) Databricks
11 11 (1.36%) Dynatrace
12 10 (1.24%) New Relic
13 8 (0.99%) Palo Alto
14 7 (0.87%) ServiceNow
15 6 (0.74%) Fortinet
15 6 (0.74%) Zscaler
16 5 (0.62%) CrowdStrike
16 5 (0.62%) ForgeRock
16 5 (0.62%) Qualys