Kubernetes Engineer Jobs with Work from Home Options

Kubernetes Engineer (K8s Engineer)
UK > Work from Home

The median Kubernetes Engineer (K8s Engineer) salary for remote or hybrid work is £110,000 per year, according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months leading to 10 November 2024.

The table below provides salary benchmarking and summary statistics, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
10 Nov 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 480 473 720
Rank change year-on-year -7 +247 -74
Permanent jobs requiring a Kubernetes Engineer 15 49 77
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 0.067% 0.20% 0.13%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.070% 0.21% 0.13%
Number of salaries quoted 7 46 68
10th Percentile £83,800 £45,000 £56,480
25th Percentile £88,000 £66,563 £60,188
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £110,000 £75,000 £75,781
Median % change year-on-year +46.67% -1.03% +8.26%
75th Percentile £115,000 £112,500 £90,000
90th Percentile - £138,750 £115,500
UK median annual salary £80,000 £81,250 £80,000
% change year-on-year -1.54% +1.56% +6.67%

All Permanent IT Job Vacancies
Work from Home

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent IT job vacancies with WFH or hybrid options. 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 21,428 23,287 58,256
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 95.60% 96.36% 96.73%
Number of salaries quoted 11,803 17,221 39,338
10th Percentile £35,000 £36,250 £36,500
25th Percentile £45,000 £46,250 £46,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £62,500 £61,757
Median % change year-on-year -4.00% +1.20% +7.40%
75th Percentile £80,000 £80,000 £80,000
90th Percentile £97,500 £97,500 £96,000
UK median annual salary £57,000 £60,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year -5.00% - +4.35%

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 November 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 November 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 15 (100.00%) Kubernetes
1 15 (100.00%) Terraform
2 14 (93.33%) PowerShell
2 14 (93.33%) Azure
2 14 (93.33%) Bash
2 14 (93.33%) Site Reliability Engineering
2 14 (93.33%) Infrastructure as Code
3 12 (80.00%) Platform Engineering
3 12 (80.00%) Ansible
3 12 (80.00%) Docker
4 11 (73.33%) DevOps
5 10 (66.67%) Elastic Stack
5 10 (66.67%) Azure AKS
6 8 (53.33%) Octopus Deploy
6 8 (53.33%) GitHub
6 8 (53.33%) MariaDB
6 8 (53.33%) PaaS
6 8 (53.33%) Redis
6 8 (53.33%) Entra ID
6 8 (53.33%) Private Cloud
6 8 (53.33%) Identity Access Management
6 8 (53.33%) MongoDB
6 8 (53.33%) Azure SQL Database
6 8 (53.33%) Agile
6 8 (53.33%) SQL
6 8 (53.33%) MySQL
6 8 (53.33%) Microsoft
6 8 (53.33%) Active Directory
6 8 (53.33%) SAML
6 8 (53.33%) PostgreSQL

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 14 (93.33%) Azure
2 10 (66.67%) Azure AKS
3 8 (53.33%) Azure Cosmos DB
3 8 (53.33%) Entra ID
3 8 (53.33%) GitHub
3 8 (53.33%) PaaS
4 5 (33.33%) AWS
5 2 (13.33%) Azure DevOps
5 2 (13.33%) Azure Logic Apps
6 1 (6.67%) Amazon EKS
6 1 (6.67%) AWS Lambda
6 1 (6.67%) SaaS
6 1 (6.67%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 2 (13.33%) DNS
1 2 (13.33%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 8 (53.33%) Azure SQL Database
1 8 (53.33%) MariaDB
1 8 (53.33%) MongoDB
1 8 (53.33%) MySQL
1 8 (53.33%) PostgreSQL
1 8 (53.33%) Redis
2 4 (26.67%) InfluxDB
Development Applications
1 8 (53.33%) Octopus Deploy
2 4 (26.67%) Git
2 4 (26.67%) Jenkins
2 4 (26.67%) TeamCity
General
1 4 (26.67%) Finance
2 2 (13.33%) Retail
2 2 (13.33%) Social Skills
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 10 (66.67%) Elastic Stack
2 8 (53.33%) SAML
Miscellaneous
1 8 (53.33%) Private Cloud
2 4 (26.67%) Clustering
2 4 (26.67%) Onboarding
2 4 (26.67%) Replication
3 2 (13.33%) Public Cloud
Operating Systems
1 7 (46.67%) Linux
2 4 (26.67%) Oracle Linux
2 4 (26.67%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
2 4 (26.67%) Solaris
3 2 (13.33%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 14 (93.33%) Infrastructure as Code
1 14 (93.33%) Site Reliability Engineering
2 12 (80.00%) Platform Engineering
3 11 (73.33%) DevOps
4 8 (53.33%) Agile
4 8 (53.33%) Design Patterns
4 8 (53.33%) Identity Access Management
5 4 (26.67%) CI/CD
5 4 (26.67%) Containerisation
5 4 (26.67%) Continuous Improvement
5 4 (26.67%) Deployment Automation
5 4 (26.67%) Disaster Recovery
5 4 (26.67%) High Availability
5 4 (26.67%) Performance Tuning
5 4 (26.67%) Security Hardening
6 3 (20.00%) Infrastructure Engineering
7 2 (13.33%) Backlog Prioritisation
7 2 (13.33%) Coaching
7 2 (13.33%) Load Balancing
7 2 (13.33%) Root Cause Analysis
Programming Languages
1 14 (93.33%) Bash
1 14 (93.33%) PowerShell
2 8 (53.33%) SQL
3 4 (26.67%) C#
3 4 (26.67%) Python
System Software
1 12 (80.00%) Docker
2 8 (53.33%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 15 (100.00%) Kubernetes
1 15 (100.00%) Terraform
2 12 (80.00%) Ansible
3 8 (53.33%) Active Directory Federation Services
4 6 (40.00%) Grafana
5 4 (26.67%) Istio
5 4 (26.67%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 8 (53.33%) Microsoft
2 4 (26.67%) Google
2 4 (26.67%) Oracle
2 4 (26.67%) Serena