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

6 months to
23 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 79 40 61
Rank change year-on-year -39 +21 -35
Permanent jobs citing Kubernetes 596 975 1,385
As % of all permanent jobs with remote/hybrid work options 3.16% 6.72% 4.25%
As % of the Systems Management category 38.53% 46.61% 37.35%
Number of salaries quoted 375 515 1,171
10th Percentile £48,750 £51,250 £50,000
25th Percentile £57,500 £60,000 £59,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £70,000 £80,000 £75,000
Median % change year-on-year -12.50% +6.67% -
75th Percentile £85,000 £115,000 £93,750
90th Percentile £105,000 £138,750 £115,000
UK median annual salary £74,000 £82,500 £75,000
% change year-on-year -10.30% +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 1,547 2,092 3,708
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 8.19% 14.42% 11.38%
Number of salaries quoted 1,060 1,205 2,919
10th Percentile £37,500 £36,700 £36,750
25th Percentile £47,930 £51,068 £47,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £67,626 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year -3.88% +4.04% -6.40%
75th Percentile £80,000 £87,500 £83,750
90th Percentile £95,000 £115,000 £102,500
UK median annual salary £65,000 £69,212 £62,500
% change year-on-year -6.09% +10.74% -7.41%

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 23 May 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 (1.68%) OpenStack
2 7 (1.17%) Apache Spark
3 6 (1.01%) Apache Airflow
4 4 (0.67%) ArcGIS
4 4 (0.67%) GeoServer
4 4 (0.67%) Oracle Spatial
5 3 (0.50%) Confluence
5 3 (0.50%) Microsoft Exchange
6 2 (0.34%) Apache
6 2 (0.34%) Camunda
6 2 (0.34%) nginx
6 2 (0.34%) Oracle SOA Suite
7 1 (0.17%) Apache Pulsar
7 1 (0.17%) Cloud Foundry
7 1 (0.17%) IIS
7 1 (0.17%) JBoss
7 1 (0.17%) Red Hat Fuse
7 1 (0.17%) SAS
7 1 (0.17%) SharePoint
Applications
1 4 (0.67%) Weka
2 2 (0.34%) Chatbot
3 1 (0.17%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 2 (0.34%) SAP S/4HANA
2 1 (0.17%) Actimize
Cloud Services
1 357 (59.90%) AWS
2 268 (44.97%) Azure
3 162 (27.18%) GCP
4 114 (19.13%) Amazon EKS
5 113 (18.96%) GitHub
6 77 (12.92%) SaaS
7 69 (11.58%) Serverless
8 55 (9.23%) GitHub Actions
9 44 (7.38%) GitHub Copilot
10 43 (7.21%) AWS CloudFormation
11 39 (6.54%) Amazon EC2
12 38 (6.38%) Amazon S3
13 37 (6.21%) Azure AKS
14 36 (6.04%) Azure DevOps
15 31 (5.20%) AWS Lambda
16 28 (4.70%) Amazon ECS
17 27 (4.53%) Amazon CloudWatch
18 26 (4.36%) Azure AI
19 25 (4.19%) OpenShift
20 20 (3.36%) Datadog
Communications & Networking
1 48 (8.05%) Broadband
2 29 (4.87%) Firewall
3 20 (3.36%) DNS
4 18 (3.02%) VPN
5 12 (2.01%) TCP/IP
6 10 (1.68%) DHCP
7 8 (1.34%) Network Security
8 6 (1.01%) Internet
8 6 (1.01%) VLAN
9 4 (0.67%) AMQP
9 4 (0.67%) MQTT
9 4 (0.67%) WAN
10 3 (0.50%) BGP
10 3 (0.50%) HTTP
10 3 (0.50%) OSPF
10 3 (0.50%) RTP
10 3 (0.50%) SAN
10 3 (0.50%) SCCP
10 3 (0.50%) Unified Communications
10 3 (0.50%) VXLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 72 (12.08%) MongoDB
2 62 (10.40%) PostgreSQL
3 52 (8.72%) NoSQL
4 42 (7.05%) Azure SQL Database
5 39 (6.54%) Relational Database
6 35 (5.87%) SQL Server
7 31 (5.20%) Amazon RDS
8 23 (3.86%) MySQL
9 21 (3.52%) Elasticsearch
10 18 (3.02%) RDBMS
11 8 (1.34%) BigQuery
12 7 (1.17%) Amazon Aurora
12 7 (1.17%) Redis
13 6 (1.01%) DynamoDB
14 5 (0.84%) Flink
15 4 (0.67%) GIS
15 4 (0.67%) QGIS
16 3 (0.50%) Apache Cassandra
17 2 (0.34%) SQL Server Integration Services
17 2 (0.34%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 79 (13.26%) TeamCity
2 68 (11.41%) Git
3 63 (10.57%) Jenkins
4 53 (8.89%) GitLab
5 18 (3.02%) Jaeger
6 12 (2.01%) Visual Studio Code
7 11 (1.85%) JUnit
7 11 (1.85%) Maven
8 10 (1.68%) JIRA
9 8 (1.34%) JMeter
9 8 (1.34%) Mockito
10 6 (1.01%) Cucumber
10 6 (1.01%) Locust
10 6 (1.01%) Visual Studio
11 5 (0.84%) Bitbucket
11 5 (0.84%) SonarQube
12 4 (0.67%) CircleCI
12 4 (0.67%) MLflow
12 4 (0.67%) Selenium
13 3 (0.50%) Atlassian Bamboo
General
1 145 (24.33%) Finance
2 114 (19.13%) Social Skills
3 99 (16.61%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 92 (15.44%) Retail
5 90 (15.10%) Banking
6 82 (13.76%) Law
7 44 (7.38%) Financial Institution
8 38 (6.38%) Back Office
9 34 (5.70%) Public Sector
10 17 (2.85%) Analytical Skills
11 11 (1.85%) Advertising
12 10 (1.68%) Organisational Skills
13 8 (1.34%) Front Office
13 8 (1.34%) Telecoms
14 6 (1.01%) Aerospace
14 6 (1.01%) Legal
14 6 (1.01%) Military
15 5 (0.84%) Games
16 4 (0.67%) Marketing
16 4 (0.67%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 182 (30.54%) Senior
2 121 (20.30%) Developer
3 113 (18.96%) Software Engineer
4 112 (18.79%) Lead
5 71 (11.91%) DevOps Engineer
6 54 (9.06%) Cloud Engineer
7 49 (8.22%) Platform Engineer
8 42 (7.05%) Azure Engineer
9 40 (6.71%) .NET Developer
10 39 (6.54%) Senior Software Engineer
11 35 (5.87%) Senior Developer
12 33 (5.54%) Java Developer
13 31 (5.20%) Java Engineer
14 30 (5.03%) AWS Engineer
14 30 (5.03%) Cloud Platform Engineer
14 30 (5.03%) Lead Software Engineer
14 30 (5.03%) Senior DevOps
15 29 (4.87%) Team Leader
16 26 (4.36%) Python Engineer
17 24 (4.03%) Java Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 93 (15.60%) .NET
2 66 (11.07%) Spring
3 65 (10.91%) React
4 57 (9.56%) .NET Core
4 57 (9.56%) Kafka
5 48 (8.05%) Spring Boot
6 46 (7.72%) Node.js
6 46 (7.72%) REST
7 44 (7.38%) ASP.NET
8 42 (7.05%) ASP.NET Core
9 35 (5.87%) AngularJS
10 34 (5.70%) RESTful
11 30 (5.03%) Elastic Stack
12 26 (4.36%) CSS
12 26 (4.36%) HTML
13 25 (4.19%) Django
13 25 (4.19%) Vue
14 24 (4.03%) OpenTelemetry
15 23 (3.86%) Akka
16 22 (3.69%) ML.NET
Miscellaneous
1 178 (29.87%) Cloud Native
2 50 (8.39%) Product Ownership
3 45 (7.55%) Distributed Systems
4 24 (4.03%) Blog
5 22 (3.69%) Over-the-Top Content
5 22 (3.69%) Video\Live Streaming
6 18 (3.02%) Hybrid Cloud
6 18 (3.02%) Private Cloud
7 15 (2.52%) Data Centre
8 13 (2.18%) Onboarding
9 12 (2.01%) Public Cloud
10 10 (1.68%) AI Agents
10 10 (1.68%) Security Posture
11 9 (1.51%) Digital TV
11 9 (1.51%) Management Information System
12 7 (1.17%) Self-Motivation
13 6 (1.01%) Algorithms
13 6 (1.01%) CMDB
13 6 (1.01%) Greenfield Project
13 6 (1.01%) Legacy Systems
Operating Systems
1 133 (22.32%) Linux
2 33 (5.54%) Windows
3 18 (3.02%) Unix
3 18 (3.02%) Windows Server
4 17 (2.85%) Android
5 13 (2.18%) Apple iOS
5 13 (2.18%) Ubuntu
6 11 (1.85%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
7 7 (1.17%) CentOS
8 5 (0.84%) VMS
9 4 (0.67%) Debian
10 3 (0.50%) Windows Server 2016
11 2 (0.34%) Mac OS
Processes & Methodologies
1 380 (63.76%) CI/CD
2 312 (52.35%) DevOps
3 238 (39.93%) Agile
4 215 (36.07%) Infrastructure as Code
5 199 (33.39%) Containerisation
6 188 (31.54%) Microservices
7 166 (27.85%) Software Engineering
8 148 (24.83%) Mentoring
9 129 (21.64%) Test Automation
10 125 (20.97%) Continuous Improvement
11 105 (17.62%) AI
12 102 (17.11%) Platform Engineering
13 100 (16.78%) Clean Code
14 99 (16.61%) Observability
15 89 (14.93%) Full-Stack Development
16 86 (14.43%) Deployment Automation
17 83 (13.93%) TDD
18 79 (13.26%) Scrum
19 73 (12.25%) Problem-Solving
20 69 (11.58%) Analytics
Programming Languages
1 229 (38.42%) Python
2 191 (32.05%) Java
3 115 (19.30%) SQL
4 92 (15.44%) C#
5 89 (14.93%) JavaScript
6 77 (12.92%) Go
7 75 (12.58%) Bash
8 67 (11.24%) TypeScript
9 48 (8.05%) PowerShell
10 31 (5.20%) Scala
11 18 (3.02%) Bicep
12 11 (1.85%) C++
13 9 (1.51%) PL/SQL
14 8 (1.34%) PHP
15 7 (1.17%) C
15 7 (1.17%) Rust
16 4 (0.67%) Groovy
16 4 (0.67%) Perl
16 4 (0.67%) Ruby
17 3 (0.50%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 79 (13.26%) Security Cleared
2 65 (10.91%) SC Cleared
3 62 (10.40%) Degree
4 47 (7.89%) Azure Certification
5 36 (6.04%) AWS Certification
6 29 (4.87%) Computer Science Degree
7 12 (2.01%) DV Cleared
8 9 (1.51%) CREST Certified
8 9 (1.51%) OSCP
9 7 (1.17%) CISSP
10 6 (1.01%) GIAC
10 6 (1.01%) ISACA
10 6 (1.01%) Microsoft Certification
11 5 (0.84%) SANS
12 3 (0.50%) LPIC
12 3 (0.50%) Master's Degree
13 2 (0.34%) CISM
13 2 (0.34%) ISTQB
13 2 (0.34%) ISTQB Advanced Certification
13 2 (0.34%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 41 (6.88%) QA
2 16 (2.68%) Accessibility
3 15 (2.52%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 15 (2.52%) NIST
4 10 (1.68%) PCI DSS
5 7 (1.17%) Data Quality
6 5 (0.84%) WCAG
7 4 (0.67%) GDPR
7 4 (0.67%) SOC 2
8 3 (0.50%) ISO 9001
9 2 (0.34%) Software Quality Assurance
10 1 (0.17%) Cyber Essentials
10 1 (0.17%) ISO/IEC 42001
10 1 (0.17%) SLA
System Software
1 355 (59.56%) Docker
2 31 (5.20%) Active Directory
3 18 (3.02%) VMware Infrastructure
4 14 (2.35%) Virtual Machines
5 6 (1.01%) VMware NSX
6 5 (0.84%) Firmware
7 4 (0.67%) Slurm Workload Manager
8 3 (0.50%) Citrix Hypervisor
8 3 (0.50%) Kamailio
9 2 (0.34%) vSphere
10 1 (0.17%) Hyper-V
10 1 (0.17%) KVM
10 1 (0.17%) QEMU
10 1 (0.17%) Virtual Desktop
10 1 (0.17%) Virtual Servers
10 1 (0.17%) Xen
Systems Management
1 307 (51.51%) Terraform
2 125 (20.97%) Grafana
3 118 (19.80%) Ansible
4 79 (13.26%) Prometheus
5 46 (7.72%) Argo
6 22 (3.69%) Kustomize
7 18 (3.02%) Puppet
8 15 (2.52%) Istio
9 13 (2.18%) Progress Chef
10 8 (1.34%) Packer
11 7 (1.17%) Microsoft Intune
11 7 (1.17%) Proxmox
11 7 (1.17%) ZABBIX
12 6 (1.01%) Active Directory Federation Services
13 4 (0.67%) FortiGate
13 4 (0.67%) Kibana
14 3 (0.50%) logstash
15 2 (0.34%) MIIS
15 2 (0.34%) Nagios
15 2 (0.34%) Podman
Vendors
1 101 (16.95%) Microsoft
2 37 (6.21%) Google
3 33 (5.54%) VMware
4 18 (3.02%) Oracle
4 18 (3.02%) Red Hat
5 9 (1.51%) Okta
5 9 (1.51%) Palo Alto
5 9 (1.51%) ServiceNow
5 9 (1.51%) Splunk
6 8 (1.34%) Cisco
6 8 (1.34%) Confluent
6 8 (1.34%) Fortinet
7 7 (1.17%) Databricks
7 7 (1.17%) EMC
8 6 (1.01%) Citrix
8 6 (1.01%) F5
8 6 (1.01%) OpenAI
9 5 (0.84%) ForgeRock
9 5 (0.84%) HubSpot
10 4 (0.67%) Facebook