Kubernetes Engineer Contracts with Hybrid/Remote/WFH Options

Kubernetes Engineer (K8s Engineer)
UK > Work from Home

The median Kubernetes Engineer (K8s Engineer) daily rate for remote or hybrid work is £600, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 1 May 2025.

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

 6 months to
1 May 2025		 Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 280 337 377
Rank change year-on-year +57 +40 +117
Contract jobs requiring a Kubernetes Engineer 24 8 100
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 0.24% 0.052% 0.39%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.26% 0.056% 0.41%
Number of daily rates quoted 13 5 87
10th Percentile - £420 £548
25th Percentile £560 £450 £569
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £600 £525 £725
Median % change year-on-year +14.29% -27.59% -6.45%
75th Percentile £638 £538 £863
90th Percentile - £560 -
UK median daily rate £600 £550 £650
% change year-on-year +9.09% -15.38% -7.14%

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
Work from Home

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract 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 contract jobs in our overall sample.

Contract vacancies in Work from Home with a recognized job title 9,288 14,354 24,650
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 93.77% 93.54% 95.33%
Number of daily rates quoted 6,350 9,595 17,415
10th Percentile £337 £325 £360
25th Percentile £414 £425 £444
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £525 £540
Median % change year-on-year - -2.69% +2.76%
75th Percentile £638 £638 £650
90th Percentile £763 £750 £750
UK median daily rate £515 £525 £540
% change year-on-year -1.90% -2.78% +2.86%
Number of hourly rates quoted 228 579 565
10th Percentile £14.00 £14.38 £18.50
25th Percentile £18.19 £23.39 £26.00
Median hourly rate £38.00 £44.74 £55.00
Median % change year-on-year -15.06% -18.65% +57.14%
75th Percentile £66.00 £63.00 £68.75
90th Percentile £75.00 £75.25 £80.25
UK median hourly rate £29.00 £36.42 £45.00
% change year-on-year -20.37% -19.07% +91.49%

Kubernetes Engineer
Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

Job vacancies with remote working options which featured Kubernetes Engineer in the job title as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Kubernetes Engineer trend for jobs with Hybrid/Remote/WFH options

Kubernetes Engineer
Daily Rate Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in job vacancies with remote working options citing Kubernetes Engineer.

Kubernetes Engineer daily rate 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 1 May 2025, Kubernetes Engineer contract 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 contract jobs with a WFH option featuring Kubernetes Engineer in the job title.

1 24 (100.00%) Kubernetes
2 20 (83.33%) Terraform
3 19 (79.17%) Ansible
4 18 (75.00%) CI/CD
5 16 (66.67%) Linux
6 14 (58.33%) DevOps
7 11 (45.83%) Elasticsearch
7 11 (45.83%) Containerisation
8 10 (41.67%) Infrastructure as Code
8 10 (41.67%) Apache Spark
8 10 (41.67%) Agile
8 10 (41.67%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
8 10 (41.67%) AWS
9 9 (37.50%) Hadoop
9 9 (37.50%) Migration
9 9 (37.50%) Microservices
9 9 (37.50%) Grafana
9 9 (37.50%) Observability
10 8 (33.33%) Argo
11 7 (29.17%) Docker
11 7 (29.17%) Big Data
11 7 (29.17%) Cloud Native
11 7 (29.17%) PostgreSQL
11 7 (29.17%) Batch Processing
11 7 (29.17%) Google Kubernetes Engine
11 7 (29.17%) OpenTelemetry
12 6 (25.00%) Social Skills
12 6 (25.00%) Problem-Solving
12 6 (25.00%) Stakeholder Management
12 6 (25.00%) Banking

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:

Application Platforms
1 10 (41.67%) Apache Spark
2 1 (4.17%) Apache
2 1 (4.17%) Confluence
2 1 (4.17%) nginx
2 1 (4.17%) OpenStack
Cloud Services
1 10 (41.67%) AWS
2 7 (29.17%) Google Kubernetes Engine
3 3 (12.50%) Amazon EC2
3 3 (12.50%) Amazon S3
3 3 (12.50%) Azure
3 3 (12.50%) GCP
4 2 (8.33%) Amazon EKS
4 2 (8.33%) AWS CloudFormation
5 1 (4.17%) Amazon CloudWatch
5 1 (4.17%) Amazon EMR
5 1 (4.17%) Datadog
5 1 (4.17%) GitHub
5 1 (4.17%) Snowflake
5 1 (4.17%) Virtual Private Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 4 (16.67%) OpenLDAP
2 3 (12.50%) TCP/IP
3 2 (8.33%) DNS
3 2 (8.33%) HTTP
4 1 (4.17%) SAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 11 (45.83%) Elasticsearch
2 9 (37.50%) Hadoop
3 7 (29.17%) Big Data
3 7 (29.17%) PostgreSQL
4 4 (16.67%) Data Warehouse
5 3 (12.50%) Data Lake
6 2 (8.33%) Amazon Aurora
6 2 (8.33%) Amazon RDS
6 2 (8.33%) Redis
7 1 (4.17%) SAP HANA
Development Applications
1 6 (25.00%) Jenkins
2 4 (16.67%) GitLab
3 1 (4.17%) Artifactory
3 1 (4.17%) Git
3 1 (4.17%) JIRA
General
1 6 (25.00%) Banking
1 6 (25.00%) Social Skills
2 5 (20.83%) Analytical Skills
3 3 (12.50%) Finance
4 2 (8.33%) Financial Institution
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 7 (29.17%) OpenTelemetry
2 4 (16.67%) Keycloak
2 4 (16.67%) LDAP
2 4 (16.67%) OAuth
2 4 (16.67%) OAuth2
2 4 (16.67%) OpenID
2 4 (16.67%) SAML
3 3 (12.50%) Kafka
4 2 (8.33%) Elastic Stack
4 2 (8.33%) GraphQL
4 2 (8.33%) Node.js
4 2 (8.33%) React
4 2 (8.33%) RESTful
Miscellaneous
1 7 (29.17%) Cloud Native
Operating Systems
1 16 (66.67%) Linux
2 10 (41.67%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 18 (75.00%) CI/CD
2 14 (58.33%) DevOps
3 11 (45.83%) Containerisation
4 10 (41.67%) Agile
4 10 (41.67%) Infrastructure as Code
5 9 (37.50%) Microservices
5 9 (37.50%) Migration
5 9 (37.50%) Observability
6 7 (29.17%) Batch Processing
7 6 (25.00%) Analytics
7 6 (25.00%) Problem-Solving
7 6 (25.00%) Stakeholder Management
8 5 (20.83%) Test Automation
9 4 (16.67%) Configuration Management
9 4 (16.67%) Deployment Automation
9 4 (16.67%) GitOps
9 4 (16.67%) Identity Access Management
9 4 (16.67%) RBAC
9 4 (16.67%) Secrets Management
9 4 (16.67%) Storage Management
Programming Languages
1 6 (25.00%) Python
2 4 (16.67%) Bash
3 3 (12.50%) SQL
4 2 (8.33%) JavaScript
4 2 (8.33%) Shell Script
4 2 (8.33%) TypeScript
5 1 (4.17%) Java
5 1 (4.17%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 4 (16.67%) Security Cleared
2 3 (12.50%) SC Cleared
3 1 (4.17%) BPSS Clearance
3 1 (4.17%) Computer Science Degree
3 1 (4.17%) Degree
System Software
1 7 (29.17%) Docker
2 4 (16.67%) Active Directory
3 2 (8.33%) Virtual Machines
4 1 (4.17%) Apache ZooKeeper
Systems Management
1 24 (100.00%) Kubernetes
2 20 (83.33%) Terraform
3 19 (79.17%) Ansible
4 9 (37.50%) Grafana
5 8 (33.33%) Argo
6 4 (16.67%) Puppet
6 4 (16.67%) Single Sign-On
7 3 (12.50%) Progress Chef
7 3 (12.50%) Prometheus
8 1 (4.17%) Consul
8 1 (4.17%) HP Data Protector
8 1 (4.17%) logstash
8 1 (4.17%) Red Hat Satellite
Vendors
1 3 (12.50%) Red Hat
2 2 (8.33%) Dynatrace
3 1 (4.17%) Databricks
3 1 (4.17%) Dell
3 1 (4.17%) EMC
3 1 (4.17%) Google
3 1 (4.17%) HP
3 1 (4.17%) New Relic
3 1 (4.17%) SAP
3 1 (4.17%) Splunk
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