Kubernetes Engineer Jobs with Hybrid/Remote/WFH Options

Kubernetes Engineer (K8s Engineer)
UK > Work from Home

The median Kubernetes Engineer (K8s Engineer) salary for remote or hybrid work is £80,000 per year, according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months leading to 1 May 2025.

The table below provides salary 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 375 567 545
Rank change year-on-year +192 -22 +202
Permanent jobs requiring a Kubernetes Engineer 22 25 128
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 0.15% 0.074% 0.30%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.16% 0.077% 0.31%
Number of salaries quoted 15 16 123
10th Percentile £49,250 - £53,750
25th Percentile £68,750 £56,250 £65,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £80,000 £80,000 £85,000
Median % change year-on-year - -5.88% +21.43%
75th Percentile £127,500 £102,500 £122,500
90th Percentile - £105,000 £138,750
UK median annual salary £100,000 £100,000 £95,000
% change year-on-year - +5.26% +18.75%

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 13,554 32,482 41,080
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 90.64% 95.99% 96.08%
Number of salaries quoted 9,860 24,960 29,208
10th Percentile £30,000 £33,000 £36,500
25th Percentile £43,750 £42,500 £47,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £56,000 £62,500
Median % change year-on-year +7.14% -10.40% +4.17%
75th Percentile £77,500 £75,000 £81,250
90th Percentile £100,000 £92,500 £100,000
UK median annual salary £57,500 £52,777 £60,000
% change year-on-year +8.95% -12.04% -

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
Salary Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

3-month moving average salary quoted in job vacancies with remote working options 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 remote working options citing Kubernetes Engineer over the 6 months to 1 May 2025.

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 1 May 2025, 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 hybrid or remote work options featuring Kubernetes Engineer in the job title.

1 22 (100.00%) Kubernetes
2 19 (86.36%) DevOps
2 19 (86.36%) Docker
3 16 (72.73%) AWS
4 15 (68.18%) Python
4 15 (68.18%) Terraform
5 13 (59.09%) Containerisation
5 13 (59.09%) Azure
6 12 (54.55%) CI/CD
7 9 (40.91%) Infrastructure as Code
7 9 (40.91%) Go
7 9 (40.91%) Finance
8 8 (36.36%) Machine Learning
8 8 (36.36%) Ansible
8 8 (36.36%) Open Source
8 8 (36.36%) Site Reliability Engineering
8 8 (36.36%) Platform Engineering
9 7 (31.82%) GitLab
9 7 (31.82%) REST
9 7 (31.82%) OpenShift
9 7 (31.82%) Banking
10 6 (27.27%) Kafka
10 6 (27.27%) GCP
10 6 (27.27%) SonarQube
10 6 (27.27%) Sonatype Nexus
10 6 (27.27%) Virtual Machines
10 6 (27.27%) Istio
10 6 (27.27%) Confluent
10 6 (27.27%) Amazon MSK
10 6 (27.27%) Event-Driven

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 16 (72.73%) AWS
2 13 (59.09%) Azure
3 7 (31.82%) OpenShift
4 6 (27.27%) Amazon EKS
4 6 (27.27%) Amazon MSK
4 6 (27.27%) GCP
5 3 (13.64%) Azure DevOps
6 2 (9.09%) Azure Functions
6 2 (9.09%) Serverless
7 1 (4.55%) Azure AKS
7 1 (4.55%) Azure Cosmos DB
7 1 (4.55%) Azure Logic Apps
7 1 (4.55%) Azure Service Fabric
7 1 (4.55%) Entra ID
7 1 (4.55%) GitHub
7 1 (4.55%) PaaS
7 1 (4.55%) Power Platform
Communications & Networking
1 1 (4.55%) 3GPP
1 1 (4.55%) 4G
1 1 (4.55%) 5G
1 1 (4.55%) Diameter Protocol
1 1 (4.55%) HTTP
1 1 (4.55%) SCTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (9.09%) MongoDB
1 2 (9.09%) PostgreSQL
2 1 (4.55%) Apache Cassandra
2 1 (4.55%) Azure SQL Database
2 1 (4.55%) MariaDB
2 1 (4.55%) MySQL
2 1 (4.55%) Redis
2 1 (4.55%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 7 (31.82%) GitLab
2 6 (27.27%) SonarQube
2 6 (27.27%) Sonatype Nexus
3 3 (13.64%) Jenkins
4 2 (9.09%) Git
4 2 (9.09%) Selenium
5 1 (4.55%) Octopus Deploy
5 1 (4.55%) Robot Framework
General
1 9 (40.91%) Finance
2 7 (31.82%) Banking
3 3 (13.64%) Law
4 2 (9.09%) Games
5 1 (4.55%) Telecoms
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 7 (31.82%) REST
2 6 (27.27%) Kafka
3 1 (4.55%) AngularJS
3 1 (4.55%) Elastic Stack
3 1 (4.55%) gRPC
3 1 (4.55%) Node.js
3 1 (4.55%) OpenAPI
3 1 (4.55%) React
3 1 (4.55%) RESTful
3 1 (4.55%) SAML
3 1 (4.55%) Swagger
Miscellaneous
1 2 (9.09%) Algorithms
2 1 (4.55%) Cloud Native
2 1 (4.55%) Life Science
2 1 (4.55%) Private Cloud
2 1 (4.55%) Public Cloud
Operating Systems
1 2 (9.09%) Linux
2 1 (4.55%) Debian
2 1 (4.55%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 19 (86.36%) DevOps
2 13 (59.09%) Containerisation
3 12 (54.55%) CI/CD
4 9 (40.91%) Infrastructure as Code
5 8 (36.36%) Machine Learning
5 8 (36.36%) Open Source
5 8 (36.36%) Platform Engineering
5 8 (36.36%) Site Reliability Engineering
6 6 (27.27%) Event-Driven
7 3 (13.64%) Agile
8 2 (9.09%) Artificial Intelligence
8 2 (9.09%) ETL
8 2 (9.09%) ETL Development
8 2 (9.09%) MLOps
8 2 (9.09%) Pair Programming
8 2 (9.09%) Release Management
8 2 (9.09%) Software Engineering
8 2 (9.09%) Technical Debt
8 2 (9.09%) Test Automation
8 2 (9.09%) User Experience
Programming Languages
1 15 (68.18%) Python
2 9 (40.91%) Go
3 2 (9.09%) Java
4 1 (4.55%) Bash
4 1 (4.55%) C#
4 1 (4.55%) C++
4 1 (4.55%) JavaScript
4 1 (4.55%) PHP
4 1 (4.55%) PowerShell
4 1 (4.55%) Scala
4 1 (4.55%) SQL
4 1 (4.55%) TypeScript
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (9.09%) Accessibility
System Software
1 19 (86.36%) Docker
2 6 (27.27%) Virtual Machines
3 1 (4.55%) Active Directory
3 1 (4.55%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 22 (100.00%) Kubernetes
2 15 (68.18%) Terraform
3 8 (36.36%) Ansible
4 6 (27.27%) Istio
5 1 (4.55%) Active Directory Federation Services
5 1 (4.55%) Rancher
Vendors
1 6 (27.27%) Confluent
2 2 (9.09%) Microsoft
3 1 (4.55%) VMware