Kubernetes Jobs with Work from Home Options

Kubernetes (k8s)
UK > Work from Home

The table below provides summary statistics for permanent remote or hybrid work requiring Kubernetes skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the annual salaries offered in vacancies that cited Kubernetes over the 6 months leading up to 26 July 2024, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
26 Jul 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 66 31 21
Rank change year-on-year -35 -10 +2
Permanent jobs citing Kubernetes 1,101 2,570 9,567
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 3.94% 7.83% 12.18%
As % of the Systems Management category 35.49% 52.63% 60.32%
Number of salaries quoted 817 2,060 4,725
10th Percentile £52,500 £52,500 £46,250
25th Percentile £60,000 £61,180 £57,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £77,500 £75,000 £75,000
Median % change year-on-year +3.33% - +11.11%
75th Percentile £95,000 £92,500 £87,500
90th Percentile £115,000 £110,000 £102,500
UK median annual salary £77,500 £75,000 £75,000
% change year-on-year +3.33% - +7.14%

All Systems Management Skills
Work from Home

Kubernetes falls under the Systems Management category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent job vacancies with remote or hybrid options requiring systems management skills.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for systems management skills 3,102 4,883 15,860
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 11.10% 14.88% 20.20%
Number of salaries quoted 2,163 3,893 8,081
10th Percentile £37,000 £42,500 £42,500
25th Percentile £48,500 £53,750 £50,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £70,000 £70,000
Median % change year-on-year -7.14% - +7.69%
75th Percentile £85,000 £87,500 £86,250
90th Percentile £102,500 £105,000 £100,000
UK median annual salary £62,500 £67,500 £67,500
% change year-on-year -7.41% - +3.85%

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 26 July 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 79 (7.18%) Apache
2 68 (6.18%) Apache Airflow
3 29 (2.63%) OpenStack
4 25 (2.27%) Apache Spark
5 20 (1.82%) Microsoft Exchange
6 14 (1.27%) nginx
7 12 (1.09%) IIS
8 9 (0.82%) Confluence
9 3 (0.27%) CloudStack
9 3 (0.27%) Tomcat
10 2 (0.18%) Drupal
10 2 (0.18%) JBoss
10 2 (0.18%) Jupyter
10 2 (0.18%) Red Hat Fuse
11 1 (0.091%) Apache Pig
11 1 (0.091%) Apache Pulsar
11 1 (0.091%) Appian
11 1 (0.091%) Cloud Foundry
11 1 (0.091%) Moodle
11 1 (0.091%) Oracle SOA Suite
Applications
1 1 (0.091%) Blender
1 1 (0.091%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 2 (0.18%) Salesforce CRM
1 2 (0.18%) SAP S/4HANA
2 1 (0.091%) Remedy ITSM
Cloud Services
1 653 (59.31%) AWS
2 489 (44.41%) Azure
3 123 (11.17%) Amazon S3
4 120 (10.90%) Azure DevOps
5 113 (10.26%) GCP
6 111 (10.08%) SaaS
7 101 (9.17%) Serverless
8 96 (8.72%) Amazon EKS
9 81 (7.36%) Azure AKS
10 71 (6.45%) GitHub
11 64 (5.81%) Snowflake
12 59 (5.36%) dbt
13 58 (5.27%) Amazon EC2
14 56 (5.09%) AWS CloudFormation
15 55 (5.00%) AWS Lambda
16 52 (4.72%) Amazon ECS
17 36 (3.27%) Cloud Computing
18 33 (3.00%) CloudFront
18 33 (3.00%) PaaS
19 32 (2.91%) Entra ID
Communications & Networking
1 112 (10.17%) Firewall
2 61 (5.54%) VPN
3 55 (5.00%) Internet
4 54 (4.90%) IPsec
4 54 (4.90%) SNMP
5 35 (3.18%) DNS
6 26 (2.36%) WAN
7 25 (2.27%) SD-WAN
8 24 (2.18%) DHCP
8 24 (2.18%) Network Security
9 14 (1.27%) HTTP
10 11 (1.00%) AMQP
10 11 (1.00%) TCP/IP
11 7 (0.64%) iSCSI
12 4 (0.36%) BGP
12 4 (0.36%) NetScaler
12 4 (0.36%) OSPF
12 4 (0.36%) RIP
13 3 (0.27%) 4G
13 3 (0.27%) 5G
Database & Business Intelligence
1 113 (10.26%) MongoDB
2 85 (7.72%) Elasticsearch
3 77 (6.99%) NoSQL
4 74 (6.72%) Big Data
5 73 (6.63%) Data Lake
6 61 (5.54%) PostgreSQL
7 56 (5.09%) SQL Server
8 55 (5.00%) Dremio
9 54 (4.90%) Amazon Athena
9 54 (4.90%) Apache Arrow
10 52 (4.72%) Amazon RDS
11 51 (4.63%) MySQL
12 45 (4.09%) Relational Database
13 37 (3.36%) Redis
14 23 (2.09%) Azure SQL Database
15 21 (1.91%) Data Warehouse
16 17 (1.54%) BigQuery
17 12 (1.09%) Amazon Redshift
17 12 (1.09%) Tableau
18 11 (1.00%) Hadoop
Development Applications
1 152 (13.81%) Jenkins
2 136 (12.35%) Git
3 71 (6.45%) JIRA
4 57 (5.18%) GitLab
5 53 (4.81%) TeamCity
6 28 (2.54%) JUnit
7 24 (2.18%) SonarQube
8 23 (2.09%) Octopus Deploy
9 21 (1.91%) Selenium
10 15 (1.36%) Cucumber
11 14 (1.27%) MLflow
12 12 (1.09%) Team Foundation Server
13 11 (1.00%) CircleCI
14 9 (0.82%) Cypress.io
14 9 (0.82%) TestNG
15 8 (0.73%) Visual Studio Code
16 7 (0.64%) Jasmine
16 7 (0.64%) Mockito
16 7 (0.64%) REST Assured
16 7 (0.64%) WebDriver
General
1 250 (22.71%) Finance
2 170 (15.44%) Social Skills
3 61 (5.54%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 53 (4.81%) Retail
5 52 (4.72%) Banking
6 48 (4.36%) Aerospace
7 37 (3.36%) Law
8 36 (3.27%) Public Sector
9 30 (2.72%) Analytical Skills
10 26 (2.36%) Automotive
11 20 (1.82%) Health Technology
12 19 (1.73%) Tech for Good
13 18 (1.63%) Back Office
14 15 (1.36%) Games
15 10 (0.91%) Marketing
16 7 (0.64%) Front Office
16 7 (0.64%) Manufacturing
16 7 (0.64%) Telecoms
17 5 (0.45%) Legal
18 4 (0.36%) Investment Banking
Job Titles
1 283 (25.70%) Senior
2 218 (19.80%) DevOps Engineer
3 205 (18.62%) Developer
4 147 (13.35%) Lead
5 136 (12.35%) Software Engineer
6 121 (10.99%) AWS Engineer
7 86 (7.81%) Azure Engineer
8 80 (7.27%) Cloud Engineer
9 72 (6.54%) Senior Developer
10 70 (6.36%) Site Reliability Engineer
11 67 (6.09%) Site Engineer
12 61 (5.54%) Senior Software Engineer
13 59 (5.36%) Consultant
13 59 (5.36%) Platform Engineer
14 54 (4.90%) Big Data Engineer
14 54 (4.90%) NetApp Consultant
15 53 (4.81%) AWS DevOps
15 53 (4.81%) Java Developer
16 51 (4.63%) Architect
17 43 (3.91%) Software Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 136 (12.35%) .NET
2 111 (10.08%) React
3 100 (9.08%) Kafka
4 91 (8.27%) RabbitMQ
5 69 (6.27%) gRPC
6 68 (6.18%) Node.js
7 67 (6.09%) REST
8 63 (5.72%) Spring
9 61 (5.54%) AngularJS
10 60 (5.45%) YAML
11 58 (5.27%) RESTful
12 54 (4.90%) Protocol Buffers
12 54 (4.90%) Spring Boot
13 49 (4.45%) ARM Templates
14 40 (3.63%) .NET Core
15 35 (3.18%) CSS
16 33 (3.00%) HTML
17 28 (2.54%) Entity Framework
17 28 (2.54%) Web Services
18 27 (2.45%) .NET Framework
Miscellaneous
1 115 (10.45%) Data Centre
2 65 (5.90%) Clustering
3 64 (5.81%) Cloud Native
3 64 (5.81%) Hedge funds
4 53 (4.81%) Management Information System
5 41 (3.72%) Distributed Systems
6 35 (3.18%) Product Ownership
7 34 (3.09%) Greenfield Project
8 32 (2.91%) Blog
9 27 (2.45%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
10 26 (2.36%) Mobile App
11 25 (2.27%) Public Cloud
12 23 (2.09%) Algorithms
12 23 (2.09%) Onboarding
12 23 (2.09%) PKI
13 20 (1.82%) Data Structures
14 19 (1.73%) Self-Motivation
15 16 (1.45%) Client/Server
16 14 (1.27%) Private Cloud
17 13 (1.18%) Enterprise Software
Operating Systems
1 326 (29.61%) Linux
2 180 (16.35%) Windows
3 54 (4.90%) Data ONTAP
4 45 (4.09%) Windows Server
5 29 (2.63%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 27 (2.45%) Unix
7 19 (1.73%) Windows Server 2016
8 18 (1.63%) Windows Server 2019
9 11 (1.00%) Solaris
10 10 (0.91%) Oracle Linux
11 9 (0.82%) Debian
12 8 (0.73%) VMS
13 7 (0.64%) Android
14 6 (0.54%) Apple iOS
14 6 (0.54%) Ubuntu
15 3 (0.27%) Alpine Linux
15 3 (0.27%) CentOS
15 3 (0.27%) SUSE
15 3 (0.27%) SUSE Linux Enterprise Server
16 1 (0.091%) Windows Server 2012
Processes & Methodologies
1 573 (52.04%) DevOps
2 437 (39.69%) CI/CD
3 340 (30.88%) Agile
4 270 (24.52%) Software Engineering
5 223 (20.25%) Containerisation
6 216 (19.62%) Microservices
7 203 (18.44%) Problem-Solving
8 196 (17.80%) Infrastructure as Code
9 124 (11.26%) Scrum
10 121 (10.99%) Mentoring
11 105 (9.54%) Machine Learning
12 102 (9.26%) SDLC
13 97 (8.81%) Artificial Intelligence
14 95 (8.63%) Fintech
14 95 (8.63%) Site Reliability Engineering
15 94 (8.54%) Platform Engineering
16 93 (8.45%) Release Management
17 92 (8.36%) Project Management
18 88 (7.99%) Actionable Insight
19 87 (7.90%) Continuous Integration
Programming Languages
1 400 (36.33%) Python
2 306 (27.79%) Java
3 204 (18.53%) JavaScript
4 157 (14.26%) C#
5 145 (13.17%) SQL
6 122 (11.08%) Go
7 110 (9.99%) PowerShell
8 106 (9.63%) TypeScript
9 65 (5.90%) Bash
10 29 (2.63%) Kotlin
11 27 (2.45%) Bicep
12 26 (2.36%) Ruby
13 20 (1.82%) Scala
14 17 (1.54%) PHP
15 16 (1.45%) VB
15 16 (1.45%) VBScript
16 14 (1.27%) Perl
17 12 (1.09%) C++
17 12 (1.09%) Groovy
18 11 (1.00%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 182 (16.53%) Security Cleared
2 111 (10.08%) Degree
3 98 (8.90%) SC Cleared
4 92 (8.36%) DV Cleared
5 66 (5.99%) AWS Certification
6 60 (5.45%) Computer Science Degree
7 43 (3.91%) Azure Certification
8 29 (2.63%) CISSP
9 26 (2.36%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
10 25 (2.27%) Cisco Certification
11 24 (2.18%) (ISC)2 CCSP
11 24 (2.18%) CCSK
11 24 (2.18%) CCSP
11 24 (2.18%) CISM
12 16 (1.45%) BPSS Clearance
13 15 (1.36%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
14 14 (1.27%) Master's Degree
15 13 (1.18%) Microsoft Certification
16 12 (1.09%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
17 6 (0.54%) PhD
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 49 (4.45%) QA
2 29 (2.63%) NIST
3 15 (1.36%) NCSC
4 14 (1.27%) PCI DSS
5 11 (1.00%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 7 (0.64%) SOC 2
7 6 (0.54%) Cyber Essentials
7 6 (0.54%) GDPR
7 6 (0.54%) HIPAA
8 5 (0.45%) Data Quality
9 4 (0.36%) SLA
10 2 (0.18%) Accessibility
10 2 (0.18%) California Consumer Privacy Act
11 1 (0.091%) ISO 9001
System Software
1 644 (58.49%) Docker
2 77 (6.99%) VMware Infrastructure
3 48 (4.36%) Active Directory
4 45 (4.09%) Virtual Machines
5 20 (1.82%) Virtual Desktop
6 19 (1.73%) Hyper-V
7 6 (0.54%) vSphere
8 4 (0.36%) Ceph
8 4 (0.36%) Firmware
8 4 (0.36%) KVM
8 4 (0.36%) NFS
8 4 (0.36%) pfSense
9 3 (0.27%) Gluster
9 3 (0.27%) oVirt
10 2 (0.18%) VMware ESXi
11 1 (0.091%) Lustre
11 1 (0.091%) Slurm Workload Manager
11 1 (0.091%) vCloud
Systems Management
1 461 (41.87%) Terraform
2 246 (22.34%) Ansible
3 156 (14.17%) Prometheus
4 73 (6.63%) Grafana
5 56 (5.09%) vCenter Server
6 45 (4.09%) Puppet
7 31 (2.82%) Single Sign-On
8 25 (2.27%) SCCM
9 24 (2.18%) Progress Chef
10 23 (2.09%) Docker Swarm
11 21 (1.91%) SCOM
12 19 (1.73%) Active Directory Federation Services
13 16 (1.45%) Microsoft Intune
13 16 (1.45%) WSUS
14 14 (1.27%) ZABBIX
15 9 (0.82%) Istio
16 8 (0.73%) Argo
17 7 (0.64%) Consul
17 7 (0.64%) MIIS
18 5 (0.45%) Nagios
Vendors
1 104 (9.45%) Microsoft
2 94 (8.54%) VMware
3 69 (6.27%) Red Hat
4 59 (5.36%) NetApp
5 54 (4.90%) Palo Alto
5 54 (4.90%) SolidFire
6 48 (4.36%) Oracle
7 37 (3.36%) Google
8 23 (2.09%) Databricks
9 17 (1.54%) Splunk
10 16 (1.45%) ForgeRock
10 16 (1.45%) Sitecore
11 10 (0.91%) Facebook
11 10 (0.91%) Serena
12 8 (0.73%) Citrix
12 8 (0.73%) SolarWinds
13 6 (0.54%) Aruba
13 6 (0.54%) Atlassian
13 6 (0.54%) Salesforce
13 6 (0.54%) WSO2