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 £570, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 8 July 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
8 Jul 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 287 340 350
Rank change year-on-year +53 +10 +117
Contract jobs requiring a Kubernetes Engineer 28 12 112
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 0.27% 0.083% 0.46%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.29% 0.088% 0.48%
Number of daily rates quoted 14 6 102
10th Percentile £513 £425 £529
25th Percentile £516 £463 £563
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £570 £500 £750
Median % change year-on-year +14.00% -33.33% +3.45%
75th Percentile £625 £519 £863
90th Percentile £634 £656 -
UK median daily rate £600 £575 £725
% change year-on-year +4.35% -20.69% +7.41%

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 9,565 13,622 23,180
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 93.88% 93.69% 95.09%
Number of daily rates quoted 6,421 9,168 16,367
10th Percentile £325 £325 £350
25th Percentile £413 £425 £440
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £513 £525 £538
Median % change year-on-year -2.38% -2.33% +2.38%
75th Percentile £638 £635 £650
90th Percentile £760 £750 £750
UK median daily rate £500 £525 £538
% change year-on-year -4.76% -2.33% +1.03%
Number of hourly rates quoted 276 535 554
10th Percentile £13.85 £14.13 £16.98
25th Percentile £17.51 £22.50 £25.00
Median hourly rate £34.57 £43.00 £50.00
Median % change year-on-year -19.62% -14.00% +25.00%
75th Percentile £65.00 £63.38 £67.50
90th Percentile £75.00 £74.30 £79.19
UK median hourly rate £26.39 £37.50 £43.00
% change year-on-year -29.64% -12.79% +68.63%

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
Daily Rate Histogram for Jobs with a WFH Option

Daily rate distribution for jobs with remote working options citing Kubernetes Engineer over the 6 months to 8 July 2025.

Kubernetes Engineer daily rate 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 8 July 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 28 (100.00%) Kubernetes
2 21 (75.00%) Ansible
3 19 (67.86%) Terraform
3 19 (67.86%) CI/CD
4 15 (53.57%) Linux
5 14 (50.00%) Infrastructure as Code
6 13 (46.43%) DevOps
6 13 (46.43%) Migration
7 12 (42.86%) Agile
7 12 (42.86%) Containerisation
8 10 (35.71%) Google Kubernetes Engine
8 10 (35.71%) Elasticsearch
8 10 (35.71%) Grafana
8 10 (35.71%) Python
9 9 (32.14%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
9 9 (32.14%) AWS
9 9 (32.14%) Jenkins
9 9 (32.14%) Argo
10 8 (28.57%) Platform Engineering
10 8 (28.57%) Observability
10 8 (28.57%) OpenTelemetry
10 8 (28.57%) Apache Spark
10 8 (28.57%) Big Data
10 8 (28.57%) Hadoop
10 8 (28.57%) Red Hat
11 7 (25.00%) Configuration Management
11 7 (25.00%) Stakeholder Management
11 7 (25.00%) PostgreSQL
11 7 (25.00%) Security Cleared
11 7 (25.00%) PowerShell

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 8 (28.57%) Apache Spark
2 1 (3.57%) Apache
2 1 (3.57%) Confluence
2 1 (3.57%) nginx
2 1 (3.57%) OpenStack
Cloud Services
1 10 (35.71%) Google Kubernetes Engine
2 9 (32.14%) AWS
3 7 (25.00%) Amazon EKS
4 6 (21.43%) Azure
5 5 (17.86%) OpenShift
6 4 (14.29%) GCP
7 3 (10.71%) Amazon S3
8 2 (7.14%) Amazon EC2
8 2 (7.14%) AWS CloudFormation
9 1 (3.57%) Amazon CloudWatch
9 1 (3.57%) Datadog
9 1 (3.57%) GitHub
9 1 (3.57%) Virtual Private Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 4 (14.29%) OpenLDAP
2 3 (10.71%) TCP/IP
3 2 (7.14%) DNS
3 2 (7.14%) HTTP
4 1 (3.57%) Kerberos
4 1 (3.57%) SAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 10 (35.71%) Elasticsearch
2 8 (28.57%) Big Data
2 8 (28.57%) Hadoop
3 7 (25.00%) PostgreSQL
4 6 (21.43%) Data Lake
4 6 (21.43%) Data Warehouse
5 2 (7.14%) Amazon Aurora
5 2 (7.14%) Amazon RDS
6 1 (3.57%) NewSQL
6 1 (3.57%) OLTP
6 1 (3.57%) SAP HANA
Development Applications
1 9 (32.14%) Jenkins
2 2 (7.14%) GitLab
3 1 (3.57%) Artifactory
3 1 (3.57%) Git
3 1 (3.57%) JIRA
General
1 7 (25.00%) Social Skills
2 6 (21.43%) Analytical Skills
3 3 (10.71%) Banking
4 2 (7.14%) Finance
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 8 (28.57%) OpenTelemetry
2 5 (17.86%) Middleware
2 5 (17.86%) OAuth
2 5 (17.86%) OpenID
2 5 (17.86%) React
2 5 (17.86%) SAML
3 4 (14.29%) Keycloak
3 4 (14.29%) LDAP
3 4 (14.29%) OAuth2
4 2 (7.14%) Elastic Stack
Miscellaneous
1 5 (17.86%) Cloud Native
1 5 (17.86%) Private Cloud
Operating Systems
1 15 (53.57%) Linux
2 9 (32.14%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 1 (3.57%) Mac OS
3 1 (3.57%) Ubuntu
3 1 (3.57%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 19 (67.86%) CI/CD
2 14 (50.00%) Infrastructure as Code
3 13 (46.43%) DevOps
3 13 (46.43%) Migration
4 12 (42.86%) Agile
4 12 (42.86%) Containerisation
5 8 (28.57%) Observability
5 8 (28.57%) Platform Engineering
6 7 (25.00%) Configuration Management
6 7 (25.00%) Stakeholder Management
7 6 (21.43%) Analytics
7 6 (21.43%) Batch Processing
7 6 (21.43%) Microservices
7 6 (21.43%) Test Automation
8 4 (14.29%) GitOps
8 4 (14.29%) Identity Access Management
8 4 (14.29%) Problem-Solving
8 4 (14.29%) RBAC
8 4 (14.29%) Secrets Management
8 4 (14.29%) Storage Management
Programming Languages
1 10 (35.71%) Python
2 7 (25.00%) PowerShell
3 6 (21.43%) C#
3 6 (21.43%) Java
3 6 (21.43%) SQL
4 5 (17.86%) JavaScript
5 2 (7.14%) Bash
6 1 (3.57%) ANSI SQL
Qualifications
1 7 (25.00%) Security Cleared
2 6 (21.43%) SC Cleared
3 1 (3.57%) BPSS Clearance
3 1 (3.57%) Computer Science Degree
3 1 (3.57%) Degree
System Software
1 6 (21.43%) Docker
2 4 (14.29%) Active Directory
3 1 (3.57%) Apache ZooKeeper
Systems Management
1 28 (100.00%) Kubernetes
2 21 (75.00%) Ansible
3 19 (67.86%) Terraform
4 10 (35.71%) Grafana
5 9 (32.14%) Argo
6 4 (14.29%) Single Sign-On
7 3 (10.71%) Progress Chef
7 3 (10.71%) Prometheus
8 2 (7.14%) Puppet
9 1 (3.57%) Consul
9 1 (3.57%) HP Data Protector
9 1 (3.57%) logstash
9 1 (3.57%) Red Hat Satellite
Vendors
1 8 (28.57%) Red Hat
2 2 (7.14%) Dynatrace
3 1 (3.57%) Dell
3 1 (3.57%) EMC
3 1 (3.57%) Google
3 1 (3.57%) HP
3 1 (3.57%) New Relic
3 1 (3.57%) SAP
3 1 (3.57%) Splunk
3 1 (3.57%) Zscaler