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

6 months to
18 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 69 35 59
Rank change year-on-year -34 +24 -32
Permanent jobs citing Kubernetes 610 900 1,445
As % of all permanent jobs with remote/hybrid work options 3.44% 6.81% 4.44%
As % of the Systems Management category 38.88% 50.82% 37.36%
Number of salaries quoted 391 631 1,208
10th Percentile £52,400 £51,250 £48,750
25th Percentile £60,000 £62,500 £58,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £72,000 £80,000 £75,000
Median % change year-on-year -10.00% +6.67% -
75th Percentile £88,750 £115,000 £91,934
90th Percentile £120,000 £138,750 £112,500
UK median annual salary £75,000 £82,500 £75,000
% change year-on-year -9.09% +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 1,569 1,771 3,868
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 8.85% 13.40% 11.90%
Number of salaries quoted 1,067 1,353 3,063
10th Percentile £37,500 £41,250 £37,101
25th Percentile £48,750 £52,500 £47,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £70,000 £63,218
Median % change year-on-year -7.14% +10.73% -8.97%
75th Percentile £82,500 £91,000 £83,750
90th Percentile £95,500 £115,000 £102,500
UK median annual salary £65,000 £70,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year -7.14% +16.67% -11.11%

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 April 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 11 (1.80%) Apache Spark
2 10 (1.64%) Apache Airflow
2 10 (1.64%) OpenStack
3 5 (0.82%) Apache Pulsar
4 4 (0.66%) Anypoint
4 4 (0.66%) ArcGIS
4 4 (0.66%) GeoServer
4 4 (0.66%) Microsoft Exchange
4 4 (0.66%) Oracle Spatial
5 3 (0.49%) Apache
5 3 (0.49%) Confluence
6 2 (0.33%) Camunda
6 2 (0.33%) nginx
7 1 (0.16%) Cloud Foundry
7 1 (0.16%) IIS
7 1 (0.16%) JBoss
7 1 (0.16%) Red Hat Fuse
7 1 (0.16%) SAS
7 1 (0.16%) SharePoint
Applications
1 4 (0.66%) Weka
2 2 (0.33%) Chatbot
3 1 (0.16%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 4 (0.66%) Shopify
2 1 (0.16%) Actimize
Cloud Services
1 384 (62.95%) AWS
2 259 (42.46%) Azure
3 188 (30.82%) GCP
4 128 (20.98%) Amazon EKS
5 107 (17.54%) GitHub
6 86 (14.10%) SaaS
7 73 (11.97%) GitHub Actions
8 66 (10.82%) Serverless
9 46 (7.54%) AWS CloudFormation
10 44 (7.21%) Azure DevOps
11 41 (6.72%) Amazon S3
11 41 (6.72%) Azure AKS
12 38 (6.23%) Amazon CloudWatch
13 36 (5.90%) AWS Lambda
14 35 (5.74%) Amazon EC2
14 35 (5.74%) OpenShift
15 29 (4.75%) Amazon ECS
16 26 (4.26%) Datadog
17 19 (3.11%) Pulumi
18 17 (2.79%) PaaS
Communications & Networking
1 44 (7.21%) Broadband
2 38 (6.23%) Firewall
3 18 (2.95%) VPN
4 16 (2.62%) DNS
5 10 (1.64%) DHCP
6 9 (1.48%) Network Security
6 9 (1.48%) TCP/IP
7 5 (0.82%) WAN
8 4 (0.66%) AMQP
8 4 (0.66%) Intrusion Detection
8 4 (0.66%) MQTT
9 3 (0.49%) HTTP
9 3 (0.49%) Internet
9 3 (0.49%) RTP
9 3 (0.49%) SAN
9 3 (0.49%) SCCP
9 3 (0.49%) SD-WAN
9 3 (0.49%) Unified Communications
9 3 (0.49%) VLAN
9 3 (0.49%) Wireshark
Database & Business Intelligence
1 75 (12.30%) PostgreSQL
2 61 (10.00%) NoSQL
3 44 (7.21%) SQL Server
4 42 (6.89%) MongoDB
5 41 (6.72%) Relational Database
6 31 (5.08%) Amazon RDS
7 19 (3.11%) MySQL
7 19 (3.11%) RDBMS
8 12 (1.97%) Azure SQL Database
9 10 (1.64%) Elasticsearch
9 10 (1.64%) Flink
10 9 (1.48%) BigQuery
11 8 (1.31%) Amazon Aurora
12 7 (1.15%) Redis
13 5 (0.82%) DynamoDB
13 5 (0.82%) Power BI
14 4 (0.66%) Data Warehouse
14 4 (0.66%) GIS
14 4 (0.66%) InfluxDB
14 4 (0.66%) QGIS
Development Applications
1 85 (13.93%) TeamCity
2 75 (12.30%) Jenkins
3 71 (11.64%) Git
4 59 (9.67%) GitLab
5 19 (3.11%) Jaeger
6 14 (2.30%) Cucumber
6 14 (2.30%) Visual Studio Code
7 12 (1.97%) Selenium
8 11 (1.80%) JUnit
9 10 (1.64%) JIRA
9 10 (1.64%) JMeter
10 9 (1.48%) SonarQube
11 6 (0.98%) Bitbucket
11 6 (0.98%) CircleCI
11 6 (0.98%) Locust
11 6 (0.98%) Robot Framework
11 6 (0.98%) Visual Studio
12 4 (0.66%) MLflow
13 3 (0.49%) REST Assured
13 3 (0.49%) TestRail
General
1 151 (24.75%) Finance
2 136 (22.30%) Social Skills
3 102 (16.72%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 100 (16.39%) Banking
5 96 (15.74%) Retail
6 91 (14.92%) Law
7 57 (9.34%) Financial Institution
8 48 (7.87%) Back Office
9 37 (6.07%) Public Sector
10 23 (3.77%) Telecoms
11 17 (2.79%) Analytical Skills
12 13 (2.13%) Front Office
13 9 (1.48%) Legal
14 8 (1.31%) Organisational Skills
15 7 (1.15%) Military
16 5 (0.82%) Advertising
16 5 (0.82%) Esports
16 5 (0.82%) Manufacturing
17 4 (0.66%) Aviation
17 4 (0.66%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 193 (31.64%) Senior
2 125 (20.49%) Software Engineer
3 121 (19.84%) Lead
4 89 (14.59%) Developer
5 85 (13.93%) DevOps Engineer
6 61 (10.00%) Cloud Engineer
7 50 (8.20%) Azure Engineer
7 50 (8.20%) Platform Engineer
8 46 (7.54%) Senior Software Engineer
9 36 (5.90%) Senior Developer
10 35 (5.74%) Infrastructure Engineer
10 35 (5.74%) Java Engineer
11 34 (5.57%) Python Engineer
12 31 (5.08%) AWS Engineer
13 30 (4.92%) Cloud Platform Engineer
14 27 (4.43%) Java Software Engineer
14 27 (4.43%) Lead Software Engineer
15 26 (4.26%) Senior DevOps
16 25 (4.10%) Java Developer
16 25 (4.10%) Lead DevOps
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 69 (11.31%) Kafka
2 68 (11.15%) .NET
2 68 (11.15%) Spring
3 65 (10.66%) React
4 55 (9.02%) Spring Boot
5 48 (7.87%) Elastic Stack
5 48 (7.87%) REST
5 48 (7.87%) RESTful
6 41 (6.72%) Node.js
7 35 (5.74%) Django
8 26 (4.26%) .NET Core
9 25 (4.10%) Akka
10 24 (3.93%) Flask
11 22 (3.61%) AngularJS
11 22 (3.61%) FastAPI
11 22 (3.61%) OpenTelemetry
12 21 (3.44%) gRPC
12 21 (3.44%) RabbitMQ
13 20 (3.28%) OAuth
14 14 (2.30%) ADO
Miscellaneous
1 193 (31.64%) Cloud Native
2 48 (7.87%) Distributed Systems
3 45 (7.38%) Product Ownership
4 25 (4.10%) Blog
5 23 (3.77%) Over-the-Top Content
5 23 (3.77%) Video\Live Streaming
6 19 (3.11%) Private Cloud
7 17 (2.79%) Hybrid Cloud
7 17 (2.79%) Onboarding
8 16 (2.62%) Data Centre
8 16 (2.62%) Legacy Systems
9 14 (2.30%) AI Agents
9 14 (2.30%) Public Cloud
10 12 (1.97%) Security Posture
11 10 (1.64%) Virtual Team
12 8 (1.31%) Fixed Income
13 7 (1.15%) Management Information System
14 6 (0.98%) CUDA
14 6 (0.98%) Distributed Architecture
15 5 (0.82%) Analytical Mindset
Operating Systems
1 138 (22.62%) Linux
2 40 (6.56%) Windows
3 29 (4.75%) Unix
4 23 (3.77%) Android
5 16 (2.62%) Windows Server
6 14 (2.30%) Apple iOS
6 14 (2.30%) Ubuntu
7 13 (2.13%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
8 11 (1.80%) CentOS
9 8 (1.31%) VMS
10 4 (0.66%) Debian
11 3 (0.49%) Windows Server 2016
12 2 (0.33%) Mac OS
Processes & Methodologies
1 381 (62.46%) CI/CD
2 343 (56.23%) DevOps
3 231 (37.87%) Containerisation
4 227 (37.21%) Agile
5 215 (35.25%) Infrastructure as Code
6 183 (30.00%) Microservices
7 169 (27.70%) Software Engineering
8 134 (21.97%) Test Automation
9 127 (20.82%) Mentoring
10 123 (20.16%) Continuous Improvement
11 99 (16.23%) Platform Engineering
12 97 (15.90%) Clean Code
13 96 (15.74%) Observability
14 89 (14.59%) Problem-Solving
15 88 (14.43%) Deployment Automation
16 85 (13.93%) AI
17 77 (12.62%) Site Reliability Engineering
18 71 (11.64%) Infrastructure Engineering
19 70 (11.48%) TDD
20 63 (10.33%) Scrum
Programming Languages
1 254 (41.64%) Python
2 199 (32.62%) Java
3 95 (15.57%) Go
4 92 (15.08%) JavaScript
5 86 (14.10%) SQL
6 75 (12.30%) Bash
7 60 (9.84%) C#
8 50 (8.20%) TypeScript
9 47 (7.70%) PowerShell
10 32 (5.25%) Scala
11 29 (4.75%) Bicep
12 14 (2.30%) C++
13 8 (1.31%) Delphi
13 8 (1.31%) PHP
14 6 (0.98%) Rust
15 5 (0.82%) C
15 5 (0.82%) Shell Script
16 4 (0.66%) Perl
17 3 (0.49%) Korn
18 2 (0.33%) Ruby
Qualifications
1 79 (12.95%) Degree
2 77 (12.62%) Security Cleared
3 58 (9.51%) SC Cleared
4 48 (7.87%) Computer Science Degree
5 39 (6.39%) Azure Certification
6 33 (5.41%) AWS Certification
7 18 (2.95%) DV Cleared
8 8 (1.31%) CREST Certified
8 8 (1.31%) OSCP
9 6 (0.98%) CISSP
9 6 (0.98%) ISACA
9 6 (0.98%) Microsoft Certification
10 5 (0.82%) GIAC
10 5 (0.82%) SANS
11 3 (0.49%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
11 3 (0.49%) LPIC
11 3 (0.49%) Master's Degree
12 2 (0.33%) ISTQB
12 2 (0.33%) ITIL Certification
12 2 (0.33%) Linux+ Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 38 (6.23%) QA
2 22 (3.61%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 18 (2.95%) NIST
3 18 (2.95%) PCI DSS
4 13 (2.13%) Accessibility
5 11 (1.80%) SOC 2
6 9 (1.48%) Data Quality
7 8 (1.31%) GDPR
8 5 (0.82%) WCAG
9 4 (0.66%) GRC
10 3 (0.49%) ISO 9001
10 3 (0.49%) SLA
11 2 (0.33%) ECSS
11 2 (0.33%) Software Quality Assurance
12 1 (0.16%) ISO/IEC 42001
12 1 (0.16%) MiFID
System Software
1 352 (57.70%) Docker
2 29 (4.75%) Active Directory
3 15 (2.46%) VMware Infrastructure
4 12 (1.97%) Virtual Machines
5 7 (1.15%) VMware NSX
6 5 (0.82%) Firmware
7 4 (0.66%) Hyper-V
7 4 (0.66%) Slurm Workload Manager
8 3 (0.49%) Citrix Hypervisor
8 3 (0.49%) Kamailio
8 3 (0.49%) vSphere
9 1 (0.16%) KVM
9 1 (0.16%) QEMU
9 1 (0.16%) vCloud
9 1 (0.16%) Virtual Desktop
9 1 (0.16%) Virtual Servers
9 1 (0.16%) Xen
Systems Management
1 319 (52.30%) Terraform
2 144 (23.61%) Grafana
3 126 (20.66%) Ansible
4 85 (13.93%) Prometheus
5 47 (7.70%) Argo
6 21 (3.44%) Kustomize
7 18 (2.95%) Puppet
8 10 (1.64%) Istio
9 9 (1.48%) Progress Chef
10 7 (1.15%) Proxmox
10 7 (1.15%) ZABBIX
11 6 (0.98%) Active Directory Federation Services
11 6 (0.98%) Microsoft Intune
11 6 (0.98%) Packer
12 5 (0.82%) Kibana
13 4 (0.66%) Cilium
13 4 (0.66%) logstash
14 2 (0.33%) FortiGate
14 2 (0.33%) MIIS
14 2 (0.33%) Nagios
Vendors
1 68 (11.15%) Microsoft
2 37 (6.07%) Google
3 32 (5.25%) VMware
4 21 (3.44%) Oracle
4 21 (3.44%) Red Hat
5 16 (2.62%) Splunk
6 9 (1.48%) Dell
6 9 (1.48%) Okta
7 8 (1.31%) Cisco
7 8 (1.31%) Confluent
7 8 (1.31%) Databricks
8 6 (0.98%) EMC
8 6 (0.98%) F5
8 6 (0.98%) Palo Alto
8 6 (0.98%) SAP
8 6 (0.98%) ServiceNow
9 5 (0.82%) Ericsson
9 5 (0.82%) Fortinet
9 5 (0.82%) IBM
9 5 (0.82%) Nokia