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 27 April 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
27 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 63 27 21
Rank change year-on-year -36 -6 +2
Permanent jobs citing Kubernetes 1,475 3,720 8,150
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 4.37% 8.62% 12.21%
As % of the Systems Management category 37.55% 53.62% 62.04%
Number of salaries quoted 1,178 2,617 4,528
10th Percentile £48,750 £50,000 £46,250
25th Percentile £58,750 £60,000 £57,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £75,000 £75,000 £75,000
Median % change year-on-year - - +11.11%
75th Percentile £91,934 £92,500 £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 3,928 6,938 13,136
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 11.64% 16.08% 19.68%
Number of salaries quoted 2,986 4,869 7,747
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 27 April 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 85 (5.76%) Apache
2 63 (4.27%) Apache Spark
3 55 (3.73%) OpenStack
4 48 (3.25%) Apache Airflow
5 23 (1.56%) Confluence
6 16 (1.08%) Microsoft Exchange
6 16 (1.08%) nginx
7 8 (0.54%) IIS
7 8 (0.54%) JBoss
7 8 (0.54%) Red Hat Fuse
8 6 (0.41%) Drupal
9 4 (0.27%) CMS
9 4 (0.27%) WordPress
10 3 (0.20%) CloudStack
10 3 (0.20%) Jupyter
11 2 (0.14%) Apache Solr
11 2 (0.14%) SharePoint
11 2 (0.14%) Tomcat
12 1 (0.068%) Apache Pulsar
12 1 (0.068%) Oracle SOA Suite
Applications
1 6 (0.41%) Microsoft Excel
2 1 (0.068%) Blender
Business Applications
1 2 (0.14%) Remedy ITSM
2 1 (0.068%) Magento
2 1 (0.068%) Salesforce CRM
2 1 (0.068%) SAP S/4HANA
2 1 (0.068%) Shopify
Cloud Services
1 845 (57.29%) AWS
2 667 (45.22%) Azure
3 257 (17.42%) GCP
4 171 (11.59%) SaaS
5 170 (11.53%) Azure DevOps
5 170 (11.53%) Serverless
6 169 (11.46%) Amazon S3
7 134 (9.08%) Amazon EKS
8 130 (8.81%) GitHub
9 104 (7.05%) AWS Lambda
10 91 (6.17%) Azure AKS
11 81 (5.49%) Amazon ECS
11 81 (5.49%) AWS CloudFormation
12 80 (5.42%) Amazon EC2
13 59 (4.00%) Cloud Computing
14 46 (3.12%) Amazon CloudWatch
15 43 (2.92%) PaaS
15 43 (2.92%) Snowflake
16 41 (2.78%) Amazon SQS
17 39 (2.64%) CloudFront
Communications & Networking
1 118 (8.00%) Firewall
2 79 (5.36%) VPN
3 58 (3.93%) IPsec
4 55 (3.73%) Internet
5 54 (3.66%) SNMP
6 45 (3.05%) DNS
7 37 (2.51%) SD-WAN
7 37 (2.51%) WAN
8 29 (1.97%) Network Security
9 26 (1.76%) DHCP
10 15 (1.02%) TCP/IP
11 12 (0.81%) AMQP
12 11 (0.75%) BGP
13 6 (0.41%) 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
1 139 (9.42%) PostgreSQL
2 128 (8.68%) Elasticsearch
3 117 (7.93%) MongoDB
4 111 (7.53%) MySQL
5 110 (7.46%) NoSQL
6 100 (6.78%) Big Data
7 78 (5.29%) Amazon RDS
8 76 (5.15%) SQL Server
9 67 (4.54%) Relational Database
10 66 (4.47%) Redis
11 56 (3.80%) Data Lake
12 44 (2.98%) Hadoop
13 37 (2.51%) BigQuery
14 32 (2.17%) Dremio
15 30 (2.03%) Amazon Athena
15 30 (2.03%) Apache Arrow
16 29 (1.97%) Data Warehouse
17 23 (1.56%) Scylla
18 20 (1.36%) Azure SQL Database
19 19 (1.29%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 304 (20.61%) Jenkins
2 241 (16.34%) Git
3 94 (6.37%) GitLab
4 92 (6.24%) JIRA
5 47 (3.19%) TeamCity
6 39 (2.64%) JUnit
7 35 (2.37%) Maven
8 34 (2.31%) Selenium
9 25 (1.69%) CircleCI
10 23 (1.56%) Sonatype Nexus
11 21 (1.42%) Team Foundation Server
12 20 (1.36%) SonarQube
13 19 (1.29%) Octopus Deploy
14 18 (1.22%) Bitbucket
14 18 (1.22%) Cucumber
14 18 (1.22%) Gradle
15 15 (1.02%) Cypress.io
16 14 (0.95%) Spinnaker
17 11 (0.75%) git-flow
17 11 (0.75%) Visual Studio Code
General
1 376 (25.49%) Finance
2 264 (17.90%) Social Skills
3 149 (10.10%) Banking
4 87 (5.90%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 70 (4.75%) Retail
6 62 (4.20%) Public Sector
7 44 (2.98%) Aerospace
8 41 (2.78%) Analytical Skills
9 38 (2.58%) Law
10 26 (1.76%) Games
10 26 (1.76%) Tech for Good
11 22 (1.49%) Automotive
12 17 (1.15%) Health Technology
12 17 (1.15%) Legal
13 15 (1.02%) Back Office
14 13 (0.88%) Marketing
15 12 (0.81%) Front Office
16 10 (0.68%) Investment Banking
17 8 (0.54%) Retail Banking
17 8 (0.54%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 379 (25.69%) Senior
2 319 (21.63%) Developer
3 306 (20.75%) DevOps Engineer
4 185 (12.54%) Lead
5 167 (11.32%) Software Engineer
6 141 (9.56%) AWS Engineer
7 130 (8.81%) Senior Developer
8 116 (7.86%) Cloud Engineer
9 112 (7.59%) Java Developer
10 111 (7.53%) Architect
11 96 (6.51%) Azure Engineer
12 81 (5.49%) Platform Engineer
13 71 (4.81%) AWS DevOps
13 71 (4.81%) Software Developer
14 64 (4.34%) AWS DevOps Engineer
15 63 (4.27%) Consultant
16 61 (4.14%) Java Engineer
17 59 (4.00%) Full Stack Developer
18 56 (3.80%) Data Engineer
19 55 (3.73%) Senior Java Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 223 (15.12%) Kafka
2 198 (13.42%) React
3 188 (12.75%) .NET
4 168 (11.39%) Spring
5 145 (9.83%) Spring Boot
6 131 (8.88%) AngularJS
7 117 (7.93%) Node.js
8 106 (7.19%) RabbitMQ
9 101 (6.85%) REST
10 86 (5.83%) RESTful
11 74 (5.02%) .NET Core
12 64 (4.34%) YAML
13 63 (4.27%) CSS
14 59 (4.00%) Elastic Stack
15 54 (3.66%) HTML
16 53 (3.59%) Hibernate
17 48 (3.25%) JSON
17 48 (3.25%) Web Services
18 47 (3.19%) ASP.NET
19 46 (3.12%) ARM Templates
Miscellaneous
1 119 (8.07%) Data Centre
2 85 (5.76%) Product Ownership
3 78 (5.29%) Cloud Native
4 76 (5.15%) Distributed Systems
5 72 (4.88%) Greenfield Project
6 71 (4.81%) Management Information System
7 63 (4.27%) Public Cloud
8 56 (3.80%) Algorithms
9 53 (3.59%) Data Structures
10 50 (3.39%) Client/Server
11 48 (3.25%) Hedge funds
12 43 (2.92%) Clustering
13 42 (2.85%) Private Cloud
14 35 (2.37%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
15 34 (2.31%) Linux Command Line
16 31 (2.10%) Mobile App
17 26 (1.76%) Enterprise Software
18 25 (1.69%) Blog
19 24 (1.63%) Virtual Team
20 23 (1.56%) PKI
Operating Systems
1 397 (26.92%) Linux
2 198 (13.42%) Windows
3 54 (3.66%) Data ONTAP
4 48 (3.25%) Windows Server
5 33 (2.24%) Unix
6 25 (1.69%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
7 19 (1.29%) Windows Server 2016
7 19 (1.29%) Windows Server 2019
8 13 (0.88%) VMS
9 10 (0.68%) Solaris
10 9 (0.61%) Android
10 9 (0.61%) Oracle Linux
11 8 (0.54%) Apple iOS
12 4 (0.27%) CentOS
12 4 (0.27%) Mac OS X
12 4 (0.27%) Ubuntu
13 3 (0.20%) SUSE
13 3 (0.20%) SUSE Linux Enterprise Server
14 2 (0.14%) Embedded Linux
14 2 (0.14%) Windows Server 2012
Processes & Methodologies
1 715 (48.47%) DevOps
2 617 (41.83%) CI/CD
3 597 (40.47%) Agile
4 393 (26.64%) Software Engineering
5 375 (25.42%) Microservices
6 307 (20.81%) Containerisation
7 301 (20.41%) Problem-Solving
8 291 (19.73%) Infrastructure as Code
9 185 (12.54%) Mentoring
10 179 (12.14%) Continuous Integration
11 175 (11.86%) Scrum
12 151 (10.24%) SDLC
12 151 (10.24%) TDD
13 142 (9.63%) Full Stack Development
14 122 (8.27%) Computer Science
15 120 (8.14%) Fintech
16 109 (7.39%) Platform Engineering
17 107 (7.25%) Test Automation
18 102 (6.92%) Release Management
19 101 (6.85%) Actionable Insight
Programming Languages
1 533 (36.14%) Python
2 495 (33.56%) Java
3 262 (17.76%) SQL
4 254 (17.22%) JavaScript
5 230 (15.59%) C#
6 150 (10.17%) Go
7 140 (9.49%) TypeScript
8 136 (9.22%) PowerShell
9 135 (9.15%) Bash
10 48 (3.25%) PHP
11 46 (3.12%) Scala
12 44 (2.98%) Ruby
13 35 (2.37%) C
14 31 (2.10%) Groovy
15 25 (1.69%) Shell Script
16 23 (1.56%) Bicep
17 22 (1.49%) Perl
18 21 (1.42%) Kotlin
19 16 (1.08%) C++
20 14 (0.95%) VBScript
Qualifications
1 197 (13.36%) Security Cleared
2 152 (10.31%) Degree
3 108 (7.32%) SC Cleared
4 89 (6.03%) Computer Science Degree
5 77 (5.22%) AWS Certification
6 67 (4.54%) DV Cleared
7 60 (4.07%) Azure Certification
8 38 (2.58%) CISSP
9 33 (2.24%) (ISC)2 CCSP
9 33 (2.24%) CCSK
9 33 (2.24%) CCSP
9 33 (2.24%) Cisco Certification
9 33 (2.24%) CISM
10 25 (1.69%) Master's Degree
11 24 (1.63%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
12 21 (1.42%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
12 21 (1.42%) BPSS Clearance
13 19 (1.29%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
14 10 (0.68%) Microsoft Certification
15 7 (0.47%) PhD
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 39 (2.64%) QA
2 36 (2.44%) NIST
3 23 (1.56%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 10 (0.68%) SEPA
5 8 (0.54%) Cyber Essentials
5 8 (0.54%) NCSC
6 7 (0.47%) PCI DSS
7 4 (0.27%) Data Quality
7 4 (0.27%) ISO 20022
7 4 (0.27%) SOC 2
8 3 (0.20%) GDPR
8 3 (0.20%) SLA
9 2 (0.14%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
10 1 (0.068%) California Consumer Privacy Act
10 1 (0.068%) HIPAA
10 1 (0.068%) ISO 9001
System Software
1 1,004 (68.07%) Docker
2 80 (5.42%) VMware Infrastructure
3 68 (4.61%) Active Directory
4 47 (3.19%) Hyper-V
5 43 (2.92%) Virtual Machines
6 14 (0.95%) Virtual Desktop
7 7 (0.47%) 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
1 552 (37.42%) Terraform
2 307 (20.81%) Ansible
3 146 (9.90%) Prometheus
4 87 (5.90%) Grafana
5 77 (5.22%) Puppet
6 59 (4.00%) vCenter Server
7 53 (3.59%) Progress Chef
8 40 (2.71%) Single Sign-On
9 26 (1.76%) SCCM
10 20 (1.36%) Docker Swarm
11 19 (1.29%) SCOM
12 18 (1.22%) Salt
12 18 (1.22%) WSUS
13 17 (1.15%) Microsoft Intune
14 15 (1.02%) Active Directory Federation Services
14 15 (1.02%) ZABBIX
15 14 (0.95%) Kibana
15 14 (0.95%) Packer
16 13 (0.88%) Rancher
17 12 (0.81%) Istio
Vendors
1 150 (10.17%) Microsoft
2 125 (8.47%) Google
3 108 (7.32%) VMware
4 90 (6.10%) Oracle
5 70 (4.75%) Red Hat
6 55 (3.73%) NetApp
6 55 (3.73%) Palo Alto
7 54 (3.66%) SolidFire
8 30 (2.03%) Dell
9 27 (1.83%) WSO2
10 25 (1.69%) Databricks
11 17 (1.15%) Atlassian
12 14 (0.95%) ForgeRock
12 14 (0.95%) Sitecore
13 13 (0.88%) SolarWinds
14 11 (0.75%) Splunk
15 10 (0.68%) Facebook
15 10 (0.68%) SaltStack
16 9 (0.61%) New Relic
16 9 (0.61%) Veeam