Kubernetes Jobs with Work from Home Options

Kubernetes (k8s)
UK > Work from Home

The table below provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies with an option to work from home (WFH) and a requirement for Kubernetes skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the salaries offered in vacancies that have cited Kubernetes over the 6 months to 9 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
9 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 65 26 20
Rank change year-on-year -39 -6 +3
Permanent jobs citing Kubernetes 1,467 3,612 8,555
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 4.34% 8.71% 12.50%
As % of the Systems Management category 37.73% 54.45% 62.47%
Number of salaries quoted 1,170 2,542 4,565
10th Percentile £50,000 £50,000 £46,250
25th Percentile £59,000 £60,000 £56,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £75,000 £75,000 £75,000
Median % change year-on-year - - +11.11%
75th Percentile £92,359 £93,750 £90,000
90th Percentile £115,000 £110,000 £105,000
UK median annual salary £75,000 £75,000 £75,000
% change year-on-year - - +7.14%

All Systems Management Skills
Work from Home

Kubernetes is in the Systems Management category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all permanent job vacancies with a WFH option and a requirement for systems management skills.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for systems management skills 3,888 6,634 13,695
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 11.51% 15.99% 20.01%
Number of salaries quoted 2,953 4,692 7,742
10th Percentile £37,101 £41,250 £42,500
25th Percentile £47,500 £52,500 £52,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £69,447 £70,000
Median % change year-on-year -6.40% -0.79% +7.69%
75th Percentile £83,750 £88,750 £86,250
90th Percentile £102,500 £105,000 £100,000
UK median annual salary £60,000 £67,500 £70,000
% change year-on-year -11.11% -3.57% +12.00%

Kubernetes
Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

Job vacancies with a work from home option citing Kubernetes as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Kubernetes trend for jobs with a WFH option

Kubernetes
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.

Kubernetes salary trend for jobs with a WFH option

Kubernetes
Salary Histogram for Jobs with a WFH Option

Salary distribution for jobs with a work from home option citing Kubernetes over the 6 months to 9 May 2024.

Kubernetes salary histogram for jobs with a WFH option

Kubernetes
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:

Application Platforms
1 86 (5.86%) Apache
2 66 (4.50%) Apache Spark
3 61 (4.16%) Apache Airflow
4 55 (3.75%) OpenStack
5 18 (1.23%) Confluence
6 16 (1.09%) Microsoft Exchange
7 15 (1.02%) nginx
8 8 (0.55%) IIS
8 8 (0.55%) JBoss
8 8 (0.55%) Red Hat Fuse
9 5 (0.34%) Drupal
10 3 (0.20%) CloudStack
10 3 (0.20%) Jupyter
10 3 (0.20%) WordPress
11 2 (0.14%) Apache Solr
11 2 (0.14%) CMS
11 2 (0.14%) Tomcat
12 1 (0.068%) Apache Pulsar
12 1 (0.068%) Oracle SOA Suite
12 1 (0.068%) SharePoint
Applications
1 6 (0.41%) Microsoft Excel
2 1 (0.068%) Blender
Business Applications
1 3 (0.20%) Remedy ITSM
2 1 (0.068%) Salesforce CRM
2 1 (0.068%) SAP S/4HANA
2 1 (0.068%) Shopify
Cloud Services
1 855 (58.28%) AWS
2 670 (45.67%) Azure
3 249 (16.97%) GCP
4 171 (11.66%) SaaS
5 170 (11.59%) Amazon S3
6 168 (11.45%) Serverless
7 166 (11.32%) Azure DevOps
8 133 (9.07%) Amazon EKS
9 123 (8.38%) GitHub
10 100 (6.82%) AWS Lambda
11 95 (6.48%) Azure AKS
12 84 (5.73%) Amazon ECS
13 82 (5.59%) AWS CloudFormation
14 81 (5.52%) Amazon EC2
15 54 (3.68%) Cloud Computing
15 54 (3.68%) Snowflake
16 46 (3.14%) dbt
17 45 (3.07%) PaaS
18 43 (2.93%) Amazon CloudWatch
19 41 (2.79%) Amazon SQS
Communications & Networking
1 117 (7.98%) Firewall
2 77 (5.25%) VPN
3 58 (3.95%) IPsec
4 55 (3.75%) Internet
5 54 (3.68%) SNMP
6 45 (3.07%) DNS
7 37 (2.52%) WAN
8 36 (2.45%) SD-WAN
9 26 (1.77%) DHCP
10 25 (1.70%) Network Security
11 15 (1.02%) TCP/IP
12 12 (0.82%) AMQP
13 9 (0.61%) BGP
13 9 (0.61%) HTTP
14 5 (0.34%) WLAN
15 4 (0.27%) OSPF
16 3 (0.20%) 4G
16 3 (0.20%) 5G
16 3 (0.20%) GPRS
16 3 (0.20%) iSCSI
Database & Business Intelligence
1 136 (9.27%) PostgreSQL
2 124 (8.45%) Elasticsearch
3 122 (8.32%) MongoDB
4 110 (7.50%) NoSQL
5 109 (7.43%) MySQL
6 105 (7.16%) Big Data
7 77 (5.25%) Amazon RDS
8 74 (5.04%) SQL Server
9 71 (4.84%) Data Lake
9 71 (4.84%) Relational Database
10 64 (4.36%) Redis
11 45 (3.07%) Hadoop
12 44 (3.00%) Dremio
13 42 (2.86%) Amazon Athena
13 42 (2.86%) Apache Arrow
14 37 (2.52%) BigQuery
15 31 (2.11%) Data Warehouse
16 24 (1.64%) Azure SQL Database
17 23 (1.57%) Scylla
18 19 (1.30%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 294 (20.04%) Jenkins
2 245 (16.70%) Git
3 96 (6.54%) GitLab
4 89 (6.07%) JIRA
5 47 (3.20%) TeamCity
6 39 (2.66%) JUnit
7 32 (2.18%) Selenium
8 29 (1.98%) Maven
9 22 (1.50%) CircleCI
10 21 (1.43%) SonarQube
10 21 (1.43%) Sonatype Nexus
10 21 (1.43%) Team Foundation Server
11 20 (1.36%) Octopus Deploy
12 18 (1.23%) Bitbucket
12 18 (1.23%) Gradle
13 16 (1.09%) Cucumber
14 13 (0.89%) Cypress.io
15 11 (0.75%) MLflow
15 11 (0.75%) Visual Studio Code
16 10 (0.68%) Subversion
General
1 368 (25.09%) Finance
2 264 (18.00%) Social Skills
3 127 (8.66%) Banking
4 86 (5.86%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 67 (4.57%) Retail
6 61 (4.16%) Public Sector
7 48 (3.27%) Aerospace
8 38 (2.59%) Law
9 36 (2.45%) Analytical Skills
10 27 (1.84%) Tech for Good
11 25 (1.70%) Games
12 24 (1.64%) Automotive
13 19 (1.30%) Health Technology
14 16 (1.09%) Back Office
15 12 (0.82%) Front Office
16 11 (0.75%) Marketing
17 10 (0.68%) Investment Banking
18 9 (0.61%) Legal
19 7 (0.48%) Presentation Skills
19 7 (0.48%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 371 (25.29%) Senior
2 303 (20.65%) Developer
3 302 (20.59%) DevOps Engineer
4 189 (12.88%) Lead
5 163 (11.11%) Software Engineer
6 154 (10.50%) AWS Engineer
7 120 (8.18%) Senior Developer
8 116 (7.91%) Cloud Engineer
9 104 (7.09%) Java Developer
10 101 (6.88%) Architect
11 99 (6.75%) Azure Engineer
12 82 (5.59%) Platform Engineer
13 75 (5.11%) AWS DevOps
14 69 (4.70%) Software Developer
15 66 (4.50%) AWS DevOps Engineer
16 64 (4.36%) Data Engineer
17 63 (4.29%) Consultant
18 58 (3.95%) Java Engineer
19 57 (3.89%) Site Reliability Engineer
20 55 (3.75%) Site Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 195 (13.29%) Kafka
2 192 (13.09%) .NET
3 184 (12.54%) React
4 150 (10.22%) Spring
5 123 (8.38%) Spring Boot
6 115 (7.84%) AngularJS
7 114 (7.77%) Node.js
8 104 (7.09%) RabbitMQ
9 98 (6.68%) REST
10 84 (5.73%) RESTful
11 76 (5.18%) .NET Core
12 65 (4.43%) YAML
13 62 (4.23%) CSS
14 60 (4.09%) Elastic Stack
15 55 (3.75%) gRPC
16 53 (3.61%) HTML
17 49 (3.34%) Hibernate
17 49 (3.34%) JSON
17 49 (3.34%) Web Services
18 46 (3.14%) ARM Templates
Miscellaneous
1 122 (8.32%) Data Centre
2 81 (5.52%) Product Ownership
3 75 (5.11%) Cloud Native
3 75 (5.11%) Distributed Systems
4 71 (4.84%) Greenfield Project
5 70 (4.77%) Management Information System
6 64 (4.36%) Public Cloud
7 59 (4.02%) Hedge funds
8 56 (3.82%) Algorithms
8 56 (3.82%) Clustering
9 54 (3.68%) Data Structures
10 50 (3.41%) Client/Server
11 45 (3.07%) Private Cloud
12 35 (2.39%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
13 32 (2.18%) Linux Command Line
13 32 (2.18%) Mobile App
14 28 (1.91%) Enterprise Software
15 24 (1.64%) Blog
16 23 (1.57%) PKI
17 22 (1.50%) Onboarding
Operating Systems
1 397 (27.06%) Linux
2 197 (13.43%) Windows
3 54 (3.68%) Data ONTAP
4 48 (3.27%) Windows Server
5 34 (2.32%) Unix
6 28 (1.91%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
7 19 (1.30%) Windows Server 2016
7 19 (1.30%) Windows Server 2019
8 13 (0.89%) VMS
9 11 (0.75%) Solaris
10 10 (0.68%) Oracle Linux
11 7 (0.48%) Android
12 6 (0.41%) Apple iOS
13 4 (0.27%) CentOS
13 4 (0.27%) Ubuntu
14 3 (0.20%) SUSE
14 3 (0.20%) SUSE Linux Enterprise Server
15 2 (0.14%) Embedded Linux
15 2 (0.14%) Windows Server 2012
16 1 (0.068%) Mac OS
Processes & Methodologies
1 729 (49.69%) DevOps
2 610 (41.58%) CI/CD
3 571 (38.92%) Agile
4 381 (25.97%) Software Engineering
5 356 (24.27%) Microservices
6 309 (21.06%) Containerisation
7 295 (20.11%) Problem-Solving
8 290 (19.77%) Infrastructure as Code
9 186 (12.68%) Mentoring
10 173 (11.79%) Continuous Integration
11 169 (11.52%) Scrum
12 147 (10.02%) TDD
13 134 (9.13%) SDLC
14 133 (9.07%) Full Stack Development
15 122 (8.32%) Computer Science
16 113 (7.70%) Fintech
16 113 (7.70%) Platform Engineering
17 106 (7.23%) Continuous Improvement
18 103 (7.02%) Site Reliability Engineering
19 100 (6.82%) Actionable Insight
Programming Languages
1 537 (36.61%) Python
2 483 (32.92%) Java
3 263 (17.93%) SQL
4 259 (17.66%) JavaScript
5 230 (15.68%) C#
6 158 (10.77%) Go
7 137 (9.34%) TypeScript
8 135 (9.20%) PowerShell
9 133 (9.07%) Bash
10 48 (3.27%) Scala
11 45 (3.07%) PHP
12 40 (2.73%) Ruby
13 35 (2.39%) C
14 32 (2.18%) Groovy
15 23 (1.57%) Kotlin
15 23 (1.57%) Shell Script
16 22 (1.50%) Bicep
16 22 (1.50%) Perl
17 15 (1.02%) C++
18 14 (0.95%) VBScript
Qualifications
1 203 (13.84%) Security Cleared
2 152 (10.36%) Degree
3 113 (7.70%) SC Cleared
4 87 (5.93%) Computer Science Degree
5 81 (5.52%) AWS Certification
6 75 (5.11%) DV Cleared
7 59 (4.02%) Azure Certification
8 38 (2.59%) CISSP
9 33 (2.25%) (ISC)2 CCSP
9 33 (2.25%) CCSK
9 33 (2.25%) CCSP
9 33 (2.25%) Cisco Certification
9 33 (2.25%) CISM
10 24 (1.64%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
11 23 (1.57%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
12 21 (1.43%) Master's Degree
13 20 (1.36%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
14 17 (1.16%) BPSS Clearance
15 11 (0.75%) Microsoft Certification
16 7 (0.48%) PhD
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 40 (2.73%) QA
2 36 (2.45%) NIST
3 21 (1.43%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 8 (0.55%) NCSC
4 8 (0.55%) PCI DSS
5 7 (0.48%) Cyber Essentials
6 5 (0.34%) Data Quality
7 4 (0.27%) SEPA
7 4 (0.27%) SLA
7 4 (0.27%) SOC 2
8 2 (0.14%) GDPR
9 1 (0.068%) California Consumer Privacy Act
9 1 (0.068%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
9 1 (0.068%) HIPAA
9 1 (0.068%) ISO 9001
System Software
1 978 (66.67%) Docker
2 80 (5.45%) VMware Infrastructure
3 66 (4.50%) Active Directory
4 46 (3.14%) Hyper-V
5 41 (2.79%) Virtual Machines
6 14 (0.95%) Virtual Desktop
7 7 (0.48%) VMware ESXi
8 5 (0.34%) Ceph
9 3 (0.20%) Gluster
9 3 (0.20%) KVM
9 3 (0.20%) oVirt
10 1 (0.068%) Embedded Firmware
10 1 (0.068%) Firmware
10 1 (0.068%) Lustre
10 1 (0.068%) Slurm Workload Manager
10 1 (0.068%) vCloud
10 1 (0.068%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 569 (38.79%) Terraform
2 308 (21.00%) Ansible
3 156 (10.63%) Prometheus
4 83 (5.66%) Grafana
5 79 (5.39%) Puppet
6 59 (4.02%) vCenter Server
7 52 (3.54%) Progress Chef
8 40 (2.73%) Single Sign-On
9 26 (1.77%) SCCM
10 22 (1.50%) Docker Swarm
11 19 (1.30%) SCOM
12 18 (1.23%) WSUS
13 17 (1.16%) Salt
14 16 (1.09%) Active Directory Federation Services
14 16 (1.09%) Microsoft Intune
15 14 (0.95%) Istio
15 14 (0.95%) Packer
15 14 (0.95%) ZABBIX
16 13 (0.89%) Kibana
17 12 (0.82%) Rancher
Vendors
1 149 (10.16%) Microsoft
2 116 (7.91%) Google
3 107 (7.29%) VMware
4 89 (6.07%) Oracle
5 70 (4.77%) Red Hat
6 55 (3.75%) NetApp
7 54 (3.68%) Palo Alto
7 54 (3.68%) SolidFire
8 28 (1.91%) Databricks
9 27 (1.84%) WSO2
10 26 (1.77%) Dell
11 16 (1.09%) ForgeRock
11 16 (1.09%) Sitecore
12 14 (0.95%) Atlassian
13 13 (0.89%) SolarWinds
14 11 (0.75%) Splunk
15 10 (0.68%) Facebook
15 10 (0.68%) Serena
16 9 (0.61%) New Relic
16 9 (0.61%) Veeam