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

6 months to
18 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 75 51 66
Rank change year-on-year -24 +15 -39
Permanent jobs citing Kubernetes 641 909 1,357
As % of all permanent jobs with remote/hybrid work options 3.20% 5.90% 3.92%
As % of the Systems Management category 39.42% 44.76% 36.65%
Number of salaries quoted 415 476 1,120
10th Percentile £47,255 £50,000 £50,000
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 £83,750 £107,625 £93,750
90th Percentile £97,500 £138,750 £116,375
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 1,626 2,031 3,703
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 8.12% 13.18% 10.69%
Number of salaries quoted 1,144 1,170 2,817
10th Percentile £36,250 £36,250 £36,500
25th Percentile £46,446 £49,238 £47,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £62,500 £67,500 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year -7.41% +3.85% -7.14%
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 18 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 (1.09%) Apache Airflow
1 7 (1.09%) OpenStack
2 6 (0.94%) 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 (0.16%) Cloud Foundry
4 1 (0.16%) JBoss
4 1 (0.16%) nginx
4 1 (0.16%) Oracle Coherence
4 1 (0.16%) Red Hat Fuse
4 1 (0.16%) SAS
Applications
1 4 (0.62%) Weka
2 1 (0.16%) Chatbot
Business Applications
1 2 (0.31%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 366 (57.10%) AWS
2 304 (47.43%) Azure
3 158 (24.65%) GCP
4 140 (21.84%) GitHub
5 104 (16.22%) Amazon EKS
6 83 (12.95%) GitHub Copilot
7 73 (11.39%) SaaS
8 65 (10.14%) Serverless
9 47 (7.33%) GitHub Actions
10 46 (7.18%) Azure AI
11 45 (7.02%) AWS CloudFormation
12 41 (6.40%) Azure AKS
13 37 (5.77%) Amazon EC2
14 36 (5.62%) Azure DevOps
15 34 (5.30%) Amazon S3
16 30 (4.68%) OpenShift
17 26 (4.06%) AWS Lambda
18 25 (3.90%) Amazon CloudWatch
18 25 (3.90%) Pulumi
19 24 (3.74%) Amazon ECS
Communications & Networking
1 56 (8.74%) Broadband
2 29 (4.52%) Firewall
3 23 (3.59%) DNS
4 20 (3.12%) VPN
5 13 (2.03%) TCP/IP
6 11 (1.72%) Internet
7 9 (1.40%) DHCP
7 9 (1.40%) Network Security
8 7 (1.09%) VLAN
9 6 (0.94%) BGP
10 5 (0.78%) OSPF
10 5 (0.78%) VXLAN
11 4 (0.62%) MQTT
11 4 (0.62%) WAN
12 3 (0.47%) HTTP
12 3 (0.47%) RTP
12 3 (0.47%) SAN
12 3 (0.47%) SCCP
12 3 (0.47%) VoIP
12 3 (0.47%) Wireshark
Database & Business Intelligence
1 104 (16.22%) MongoDB
2 78 (12.17%) Azure SQL Database
3 65 (10.14%) PostgreSQL
4 47 (7.33%) NoSQL
5 42 (6.55%) Relational Database
6 30 (4.68%) Elasticsearch
7 26 (4.06%) Amazon RDS
7 26 (4.06%) MySQL
8 25 (3.90%) SQL Server
9 18 (2.81%) RDBMS
10 8 (1.25%) BigQuery
11 7 (1.09%) Redis
12 6 (0.94%) DynamoDB
13 4 (0.62%) Amazon Aurora
13 4 (0.62%) Data Warehouse
13 4 (0.62%) Delta Lake
14 3 (0.47%) Metadata
15 2 (0.31%) Amazon Athena
15 2 (0.31%) Cloud Spanner
15 2 (0.31%) Pinecone
Development Applications
1 79 (12.32%) Git
2 76 (11.86%) TeamCity
3 67 (10.45%) Jenkins
4 59 (9.20%) GitLab
5 18 (2.81%) Jaeger
6 15 (2.34%) JUnit
7 13 (2.03%) JIRA
8 12 (1.87%) Maven
8 12 (1.87%) Visual Studio Code
9 9 (1.40%) Mockito
10 8 (1.25%) Cucumber
11 7 (1.09%) JMeter
11 7 (1.09%) Selenium
12 6 (0.94%) Bitbucket
12 6 (0.94%) Postman
12 6 (0.94%) Visual Studio
13 5 (0.78%) Atlassian Bamboo
13 5 (0.78%) Locust
14 4 (0.62%) SonarQube
14 4 (0.62%) Subversion
General
1 140 (21.84%) Finance
2 120 (18.72%) Social Skills
3 95 (14.82%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 83 (12.95%) Retail
5 80 (12.48%) Banking
6 75 (11.70%) Law
7 44 (6.86%) Public Sector
8 40 (6.24%) Financial Institution
9 37 (5.77%) Back Office
10 24 (3.74%) Advertising
11 18 (2.81%) Analytical Skills
12 12 (1.87%) Marketing
13 10 (1.56%) Aerospace
14 9 (1.40%) Organisational Skills
15 8 (1.25%) Games
16 6 (0.94%) Aviation
16 6 (0.94%) Legal
16 6 (0.94%) Telecoms
17 5 (0.78%) Military
18 4 (0.62%) Manufacturing
Job Titles
1 192 (29.95%) Senior
2 162 (25.27%) Developer
3 112 (17.47%) Software Engineer
4 103 (16.07%) Lead
5 76 (11.86%) .NET Developer
6 69 (10.76%) DevOps Engineer
7 60 (9.36%) Cloud Engineer
8 50 (7.80%) Platform Engineer
9 42 (6.55%) Senior Software Engineer
10 41 (6.40%) Senior Developer
11 40 (6.24%) Azure Engineer
12 33 (5.15%) AWS Engineer
13 32 (4.99%) Java Developer
14 31 (4.84%) Cloud Platform Engineer
14 31 (4.84%) Java Engineer
15 30 (4.68%) Senior DevOps
16 29 (4.52%) Team Leader
17 28 (4.37%) Lead Software Engineer
18 24 (3.74%) Python Engineer
19 23 (3.59%) Java Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 130 (20.28%) .NET
2 90 (14.04%) .NET Core
3 83 (12.95%) ASP.NET
4 78 (12.17%) ASP.NET Core
5 64 (9.98%) Spring
6 63 (9.83%) React
7 53 (8.27%) AngularJS
7 53 (8.27%) Kafka
7 53 (8.27%) Node.js
8 49 (7.64%) CSS
8 49 (7.64%) HTML
8 49 (7.64%) REST
9 46 (7.18%) Spring Boot
10 44 (6.86%) ML.NET
11 43 (6.71%) Vue
12 39 (6.08%) RESTful
13 26 (4.06%) OpenTelemetry
14 25 (3.90%) Django
14 25 (3.90%) Elastic Stack
15 23 (3.59%) Akka
Miscellaneous
1 191 (29.80%) Cloud Native
2 49 (7.64%) Distributed Systems
3 43 (6.71%) Product Ownership
4 22 (3.43%) Blog
4 22 (3.43%) Over-the-Top Content
4 22 (3.43%) Video\Live Streaming
5 20 (3.12%) Hybrid Cloud
6 18 (2.81%) Private Cloud
7 17 (2.65%) Data Centre
8 16 (2.50%) Greenfield Project
9 13 (2.03%) Digital TV
9 13 (2.03%) Public Cloud
10 9 (1.40%) Legacy Systems
10 9 (1.40%) Management Information System
10 9 (1.40%) Onboarding
11 8 (1.25%) Security Posture
12 7 (1.09%) Self-Motivation
13 6 (0.94%) AI Agents
13 6 (0.94%) IoT
13 6 (0.94%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 141 (22.00%) Linux
2 33 (5.15%) Windows
3 18 (2.81%) Unix
3 18 (2.81%) Windows Server
4 14 (2.18%) Ubuntu
5 11 (1.72%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 9 (1.40%) Android
6 9 (1.40%) Apple iOS
7 7 (1.09%) CentOS
8 5 (0.78%) Debian
9 3 (0.47%) VMS
9 3 (0.47%) Windows Server 2016
10 2 (0.31%) Mac OS
Processes & Methodologies
1 413 (64.43%) CI/CD
2 300 (46.80%) DevOps
3 260 (40.56%) Agile
4 232 (36.19%) Infrastructure as Code
5 202 (31.51%) Microservices
6 198 (30.89%) Containerisation
7 173 (26.99%) Software Engineering
8 170 (26.52%) Mentoring
9 139 (21.68%) AI
10 129 (20.12%) Continuous Improvement
11 125 (19.50%) Full-Stack Development
12 124 (19.34%) Test Automation
13 109 (17.00%) Observability
14 108 (16.85%) Platform Engineering
15 100 (15.60%) TDD
16 98 (15.29%) Clean Code
17 86 (13.42%) Scrum
18 80 (12.48%) Deployment Automation
18 80 (12.48%) Problem-Solving
19 77 (12.01%) Analytics
Programming Languages
1 227 (35.41%) Python
2 186 (29.02%) Java
3 153 (23.87%) SQL
4 139 (21.68%) C#
5 88 (13.73%) TypeScript
6 82 (12.79%) Bash
7 81 (12.64%) JavaScript
8 66 (10.30%) Go
9 54 (8.42%) PowerShell
10 31 (4.84%) Scala
11 19 (2.96%) Bicep
12 10 (1.56%) PHP
12 10 (1.56%) PL/SQL
13 7 (1.09%) C
13 7 (1.09%) C++
13 7 (1.09%) Rust
14 6 (0.94%) Groovy
15 5 (0.78%) Ruby
16 3 (0.47%) Perl
16 3 (0.47%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 87 (13.57%) Security Cleared
2 71 (11.08%) SC Cleared
3 52 (8.11%) Degree
4 46 (7.18%) Azure Certification
5 38 (5.93%) AWS Certification
6 22 (3.43%) Computer Science Degree
7 12 (1.87%) DV Cleared
8 7 (1.09%) CISSP
8 7 (1.09%) CREST Certified
8 7 (1.09%) Microsoft Certification
8 7 (1.09%) OSCP
9 6 (0.94%) GIAC
9 6 (0.94%) ISACA
10 5 (0.78%) SANS
11 2 (0.31%) ISTQB
11 2 (0.31%) ISTQB Advanced Certification
11 2 (0.31%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
11 2 (0.31%) Linux+ Certification
11 2 (0.31%) LPIC
11 2 (0.31%) Master's Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 37 (5.77%) QA
2 22 (3.43%) Accessibility
3 15 (2.34%) NIST
4 14 (2.18%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 10 (1.56%) PCI DSS
6 7 (1.09%) WCAG
7 4 (0.62%) Data Quality
7 4 (0.62%) GDPR
7 4 (0.62%) SOC 2
8 3 (0.47%) ISO 9001
9 2 (0.31%) Software Quality Assurance
10 1 (0.16%) Cyber Essentials
10 1 (0.16%) ISO/IEC 42001
10 1 (0.16%) SLA
System Software
1 399 (62.25%) Docker
2 29 (4.52%) Active Directory
3 19 (2.96%) VMware Infrastructure
4 15 (2.34%) Virtual Machines
5 5 (0.78%) VMware NSX
6 4 (0.62%) Firmware
6 4 (0.62%) Slurm Workload Manager
7 3 (0.47%) Citrix Hypervisor
7 3 (0.47%) Kamailio
8 1 (0.16%) Hyper-V
8 1 (0.16%) iptables
8 1 (0.16%) KVM
8 1 (0.16%) QEMU
8 1 (0.16%) Virtual Servers
8 1 (0.16%) vSphere
8 1 (0.16%) Xen
Systems Management
1 298 (46.49%) Terraform
2 119 (18.56%) Grafana
3 112 (17.47%) Ansible
4 79 (12.32%) Prometheus
5 45 (7.02%) Argo
6 24 (3.74%) Kustomize
7 21 (3.28%) Puppet
8 20 (3.12%) Istio
9 16 (2.50%) Progress Chef
10 8 (1.25%) Packer
11 7 (1.09%) Active Directory Federation Services
11 7 (1.09%) Proxmox
11 7 (1.09%) ZABBIX
12 6 (0.94%) Microsoft Intune
13 5 (0.78%) FortiGate
13 5 (0.78%) Kibana
14 3 (0.47%) linkerd
14 3 (0.47%) Nagios
15 2 (0.31%) MIIS
15 2 (0.31%) Podman
Vendors
1 146 (22.78%) Microsoft
2 44 (6.86%) Google
3 34 (5.30%) VMware
4 18 (2.81%) Oracle
4 18 (2.81%) Red Hat
5 13 (2.03%) Splunk
6 12 (1.87%) Facebook
7 11 (1.72%) Palo Alto
8 10 (1.56%) ServiceNow
9 9 (1.40%) Fortinet
9 9 (1.40%) Okta
10 8 (1.25%) Cisco
10 8 (1.25%) Confluent
11 7 (1.09%) Databricks
11 7 (1.09%) EMC
12 6 (0.94%) Citrix
12 6 (0.94%) F5
12 6 (0.94%) OpenAI
13 5 (0.78%) HubSpot
13 5 (0.78%) Zscaler