Kubernetes Engineer Jobs with Work from Home Options

Kubernetes Engineer (K8s Engineer)
UK > Work from Home

The median Kubernetes Engineer (K8s Engineer) salary in Work from Home is £95,000 per year according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 10 May 2024.

The first table below provides salary benchmarking and summary statistics including a comparison to same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
10 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 564 530 736
Rank change year-on-year -34 +206 -277
Permanent jobs requiring a Kubernetes Engineer 29 128 109
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 0.086% 0.31% 0.16%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.089% 0.32% 0.16%
Number of salaries quoted 17 123 88
10th Percentile - £53,750 £58,750
25th Percentile £56,250 £65,000 £65,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £95,000 £87,500 £70,000
Median % change year-on-year +8.57% +25.00% -12.50%
75th Percentile £102,500 £138,750 £90,000
90th Percentile £105,000 - £100,000
UK median annual salary £100,000 £95,000 £80,000
% change year-on-year +5.26% +18.75% +6.67%

All Permanent IT Job Vacancies
Work from Home

The following table is for comparison with the above and includes summary statistics for all permanent IT job vacancies with a WFH option. Most job vacancies include a discernible job title that can be normalized. As such, the figures in the second row provide an indication of the number of permanent jobs in our overall sample.

Permanent vacancies in Work from Home with a recognized job title 32,448 39,583 66,856
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 95.97% 95.98% 97.39%
Number of salaries quoted 24,900 28,176 41,784
10th Percentile £33,127 £36,750 £36,250
25th Percentile £42,500 £47,447 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £56,000 £62,500 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -10.40% +4.17% +9.09%
75th Percentile £75,000 £81,250 £80,000
90th Percentile £93,750 £100,000 £95,000
UK median annual salary £52,500 £60,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year -12.50% - +9.09%

Kubernetes Engineer
Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

Job vacancies with a work from home option which featured Kubernetes Engineer in the job title as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Kubernetes Engineer trend for jobs with a WFH option

Kubernetes Engineer
Salary Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

3-month moving average salary quoted in job vacancies with a work from home option citing Kubernetes Engineer.

Kubernetes Engineer salary trend for jobs with a WFH option

Kubernetes Engineer
Salary Histogram for Jobs with a WFH Option

Salary distribution for jobs with a work from home option citing Kubernetes Engineer over the 6 months to 10 May 2024.

Kubernetes Engineer salary histogram for jobs with a WFH option

Kubernetes Engineer Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Job Vacancies with WFH Options

For the 6 months to 10 May 2024, Kubernetes Engineer job roles required the following skills and capabilities in order of popularity. The figures indicate the absolute number co-occurrences and as a proportion of all permanent jobs with remote work options featuring Kubernetes Engineer in the job title.

1 29 (100.00%) Kubernetes
2 23 (79.31%) Python
3 20 (68.97%) Azure
3 20 (68.97%) Terraform
4 18 (62.07%) AWS
4 18 (62.07%) Linux
5 17 (58.62%) Infrastructure as Code
5 17 (58.62%) CI/CD
6 16 (55.17%) Ansible
6 16 (55.17%) DevOps
6 16 (55.17%) Finance
7 14 (48.28%) PowerShell
8 13 (44.83%) Docker
8 13 (44.83%) Containerisation
9 11 (37.93%) Jenkins
9 11 (37.93%) Bash
10 9 (31.03%) Amazon EKS
10 9 (31.03%) Deployment Automation
10 9 (31.03%) Fintech
10 9 (31.03%) Git
11 8 (27.59%) Disaster Recovery
11 8 (27.59%) Grafana
11 8 (27.59%) Prometheus
12 7 (24.14%) Private Cloud
12 7 (24.14%) Law
12 7 (24.14%) Platform Engineering
13 6 (20.69%) Technology Strategy
13 6 (20.69%) Firewall
13 6 (20.69%) C#
13 6 (20.69%) TeamCity

Kubernetes Engineer Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities with WFH Options by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same employment type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Cloud Services
1 20 (68.97%) Azure
2 18 (62.07%) AWS
3 9 (31.03%) Amazon EKS
4 5 (17.24%) AWS CloudFormation
4 5 (17.24%) Azure AKS
4 5 (17.24%) GitHub
5 4 (13.79%) OCI
6 3 (10.34%) Amazon EC2
6 3 (10.34%) Amazon ECS
6 3 (10.34%) Amazon ElastiCache
6 3 (10.34%) Amazon S3
6 3 (10.34%) Cloud Computing
6 3 (10.34%) GCP
6 3 (10.34%) Google Kubernetes Engine
6 3 (10.34%) Route 53
6 3 (10.34%) Virtual Private Cloud
7 2 (6.90%) Amazon CloudWatch
8 1 (3.45%) Azure Cosmos DB
8 1 (3.45%) Entra ID
8 1 (3.45%) PaaS
Communications & Networking
1 6 (20.69%) Firewall
Database & Business Intelligence
1 6 (20.69%) InfluxDB
2 3 (10.34%) Amazon RDS
2 3 (10.34%) MariaDB
3 2 (6.90%) Azure SQL Database
3 2 (6.90%) Dremio
3 2 (6.90%) MongoDB
3 2 (6.90%) MySQL
3 2 (6.90%) PostgreSQL
4 1 (3.45%) Redis
Development Applications
1 11 (37.93%) Jenkins
2 9 (31.03%) Git
3 6 (20.69%) TeamCity
4 4 (13.79%) GitLab
5 3 (10.34%) Octopus Deploy
General
1 16 (55.17%) Finance
2 7 (24.14%) Law
3 5 (17.24%) Social Skills
4 3 (10.34%) Inclusion and Diversity
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (10.34%) Elastic Stack
2 1 (3.45%) SAML
Miscellaneous
1 7 (24.14%) Private Cloud
2 5 (17.24%) Clustering
2 5 (17.24%) Replication
3 4 (13.79%) Onboarding
4 3 (10.34%) Cloud Native
4 3 (10.34%) Data Centre
5 2 (6.90%) Client/Server
5 2 (6.90%) Hedge funds
6 1 (3.45%) Fixed Income
Operating Systems
1 18 (62.07%) Linux
2 5 (17.24%) Oracle Linux
2 5 (17.24%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
2 5 (17.24%) Solaris
3 3 (10.34%) Unix
3 3 (10.34%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 17 (58.62%) CI/CD
1 17 (58.62%) Infrastructure as Code
2 16 (55.17%) DevOps
3 13 (44.83%) Containerisation
4 9 (31.03%) Deployment Automation
4 9 (31.03%) Fintech
5 8 (27.59%) Disaster Recovery
6 7 (24.14%) Platform Engineering
7 6 (20.69%) Agile
7 6 (20.69%) Continuous Improvement
7 6 (20.69%) High Availability
7 6 (20.69%) Software Engineering
7 6 (20.69%) Technology Strategy
8 5 (17.24%) Configuration Management
8 5 (17.24%) Microservices
8 5 (17.24%) Performance Tuning
8 5 (17.24%) Security Hardening
9 4 (13.79%) Migration
9 4 (13.79%) Problem-Solving
9 4 (13.79%) Site Reliability Engineering
Programming Languages
1 23 (79.31%) Python
2 14 (48.28%) PowerShell
3 11 (37.93%) Bash
4 6 (20.69%) C#
5 4 (13.79%) JavaScript
5 4 (13.79%) PHP
6 2 (6.90%) SQL
7 1 (3.45%) Java
Qualifications
1 3 (10.34%) AWS Certification
1 3 (10.34%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
1 3 (10.34%) Azure Certification
1 3 (10.34%) Computer Science Degree
1 3 (10.34%) Degree
1 3 (10.34%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (13.79%) QA
System Software
1 13 (44.83%) Docker
2 2 (6.90%) Ceph
2 2 (6.90%) VMware Infrastructure
3 1 (3.45%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 29 (100.00%) Kubernetes
2 20 (68.97%) Terraform
3 16 (55.17%) Ansible
4 8 (27.59%) Grafana
4 8 (27.59%) Prometheus
5 5 (17.24%) Progress Chef
6 4 (13.79%) Istio
7 3 (10.34%) Docker Swarm
8 2 (6.90%) Kibana
8 2 (6.90%) Rancher
9 1 (3.45%) Active Directory Federation Services
9 1 (3.45%) Argo
9 1 (3.45%) Puppet
Vendors
1 6 (20.69%) Google
2 5 (17.24%) Oracle
2 5 (17.24%) Serena
3 4 (13.79%) Microsoft
4 2 (6.90%) VMware