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 1 December 2023 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
1 Dec 2023
Same period 2022 Same period 2021
Rank 42 26 24
Rank change year-on-year -16 -2 +4
Permanent jobs citing Kubernetes 1,581 4,831 5,013
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 6.94% 8.78% 9.91%
As % of the Systems Management category 45.02% 50.75% 57.55%
Number of salaries quoted 1,278 3,132 3,568
10th Percentile £47,500 £46,250 £45,000
25th Percentile £58,775 £57,500 £53,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £72,000 £75,000 £72,500
Median % change year-on-year -4.00% +3.45% +11.54%
75th Percentile £87,500 £92,500 £90,000
90th Percentile £100,000 £110,000 £107,500
UK median annual salary £75,000 £77,500 £75,000
% change year-on-year -3.23% +3.33% +15.38%

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 3,512 9,519 8,710
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 15.42% 17.29% 17.22%
Number of salaries quoted 2,888 6,125 6,344
10th Percentile £41,250 £38,999 £41,250
25th Percentile £51,250 £50,000 £52,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £67,500 £69,447 £70,000
Median % change year-on-year -2.80% -0.79% +16.67%
75th Percentile £85,000 £87,500 £87,500
90th Percentile £97,500 £102,500 £102,500
UK median annual salary £65,000 £67,500 £67,500
% change year-on-year -3.70% - +12.50%

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 1 December 2023.

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 54 (3.42%) Apache Spark
2 28 (1.77%) Apache
3 25 (1.58%) Confluence
4 23 (1.45%) nginx
5 19 (1.20%) OpenStack
6 18 (1.14%) Apache Airflow
7 14 (0.89%) SharePoint
8 13 (0.82%) JBoss
8 13 (0.82%) Jupyter
9 9 (0.57%) Red Hat Fuse
10 7 (0.44%) Luigi
11 5 (0.32%) CMS
11 5 (0.32%) IIS
12 2 (0.13%) ArcGIS
12 2 (0.13%) Headless CMS
12 2 (0.13%) Tomcat
12 2 (0.13%) WebSphere
12 2 (0.13%) WebSphere Application Server
13 1 (0.063%) Apache Solr
13 1 (0.063%) Drupal
Applications
1 2 (0.13%) Campfire
1 2 (0.13%) Microsoft Excel
2 1 (0.063%) MS Visio
2 1 (0.063%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 5 (0.32%) Dynamics CRM
2 2 (0.13%) EuroRunner
2 2 (0.13%) Ripple
3 1 (0.063%) Distributed Ledger
3 1 (0.063%) Magento
Cloud Services
1 868 (54.90%) AWS
2 767 (48.51%) Azure
3 390 (24.67%) GCP
4 240 (15.18%) Azure DevOps
5 217 (13.73%) Serverless
6 178 (11.26%) PaaS
7 156 (9.87%) GitHub
8 147 (9.30%) SaaS
9 140 (8.86%) OpenShift
10 126 (7.97%) IaaS
11 111 (7.02%) AWS CloudFormation
12 91 (5.76%) AWS Lambda
13 89 (5.63%) Amazon EKS
14 77 (4.87%) Amazon ECS
15 75 (4.74%) Amazon S3
16 72 (4.55%) Cloud Computing
17 67 (4.24%) Amazon EC2
18 64 (4.05%) Azure AKS
19 60 (3.80%) Azure Monitor
19 60 (3.80%) Entra ID
Communications & Networking
1 80 (5.06%) DNS
2 77 (4.87%) Firewall
3 42 (2.66%) VPN
4 34 (2.15%) TCP/IP
5 29 (1.83%) Internet
6 27 (1.71%) DHCP
7 20 (1.27%) Network Security
8 18 (1.14%) IPv4
9 15 (0.95%) VLAN
10 12 (0.76%) OSPF
11 11 (0.70%) HTTP
12 10 (0.63%) BGP
13 8 (0.51%) AMQP
13 8 (0.51%) SD-WAN
14 7 (0.44%) WAN
15 5 (0.32%) SMTP
15 5 (0.32%) SSL
16 4 (0.25%) 5G
16 4 (0.25%) IPv6
16 4 (0.25%) Reverse Proxy
Database & Business Intelligence
1 130 (8.22%) PostgreSQL
2 117 (7.40%) Elasticsearch
3 114 (7.21%) Big Data
4 99 (6.26%) NoSQL
5 85 (5.38%) Redis
6 82 (5.19%) Amazon RDS
7 71 (4.49%) MongoDB
8 70 (4.43%) MySQL
9 66 (4.17%) SQL Server
10 47 (2.97%) BigQuery
10 47 (2.97%) Relational Database
11 36 (2.28%) Data Lake
12 35 (2.21%) Hadoop
13 29 (1.83%) Data Warehouse
14 22 (1.39%) Power BI
15 18 (1.14%) Azure SQL Database
16 16 (1.01%) Amazon Redshift
17 15 (0.95%) Apache Cassandra
18 13 (0.82%) Tableau
19 11 (0.70%) Amazon Aurora
Development Applications
1 433 (27.39%) Jenkins
2 237 (14.99%) Git
3 128 (8.10%) GitLab
4 76 (4.81%) Maven
5 71 (4.49%) JIRA
6 54 (3.42%) Artifactory
7 53 (3.35%) Bitbucket
8 45 (2.85%) Selenium
9 44 (2.78%) Cucumber
9 44 (2.78%) SonarQube
10 40 (2.53%) Atlassian Bamboo
10 40 (2.53%) Cypress.io
10 40 (2.53%) Sonatype Nexus
11 30 (1.90%) Octopus Deploy
12 29 (1.83%) Spinnaker
13 28 (1.77%) CircleCI
14 26 (1.64%) TeamCity
15 25 (1.58%) JUnit
16 19 (1.20%) Team Foundation Server
17 17 (1.08%) IBM UrbanCode
General
1 441 (27.89%) Finance
2 301 (19.04%) Social Skills
3 249 (15.75%) Banking
4 180 (11.39%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 100 (6.33%) Retail
6 62 (3.92%) Public Sector
7 61 (3.86%) Analytical Skills
8 37 (2.34%) Legal
9 32 (2.02%) Front Office
9 32 (2.02%) Retail Banking
10 31 (1.96%) Games
11 28 (1.77%) Aerospace
12 24 (1.52%) Organisational Skills
13 20 (1.27%) Financial Institution
14 17 (1.08%) Influencing Skills
15 14 (0.89%) Telecoms
16 12 (0.76%) Advertising
16 12 (0.76%) Billing
17 11 (0.70%) Law
17 11 (0.70%) Marketing
Job Titles
1 442 (27.96%) DevOps Engineer
2 398 (25.17%) Senior
3 337 (21.32%) Developer
4 237 (14.99%) Software Engineer
5 184 (11.64%) Lead
6 141 (8.92%) Cloud Engineer
7 127 (8.03%) AWS Engineer
8 118 (7.46%) Java Developer
8 118 (7.46%) Senior Developer
9 101 (6.39%) Senior DevOps
10 97 (6.14%) Architect
10 97 (6.14%) Azure Engineer
10 97 (6.14%) Senior DevOps Engineer
11 86 (5.44%) AWS DevOps
12 82 (5.19%) AWS DevOps Engineer
13 77 (4.87%) Data Engineer
14 70 (4.43%) Senior Software Engineer
15 64 (4.05%) Solutions Architect
16 63 (3.98%) Java Engineer
17 52 (3.29%) Security Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 252 (15.94%) Kafka
2 207 (13.09%) React
3 175 (11.07%) Spring Boot
4 164 (10.37%) Spring
5 148 (9.36%) .NET
6 126 (7.97%) Node.js
7 120 (7.59%) AngularJS
8 82 (5.19%) REST
9 69 (4.36%) Elastic Stack
10 68 (4.30%) RESTful
11 66 (4.17%) .NET Core
12 57 (3.61%) HTML
13 50 (3.16%) RabbitMQ
14 48 (3.04%) Hibernate
15 44 (2.78%) .NET Framework
15 44 (2.78%) JSON
16 43 (2.72%) ARM Templates
17 42 (2.66%) Django
18 41 (2.59%) Web Services
19 36 (2.28%) ASP.NET
Miscellaneous
1 146 (9.23%) Public Cloud
2 96 (6.07%) Product Ownership
3 85 (5.38%) Cloud Native
4 75 (4.74%) Distributed Systems
4 75 (4.74%) Greenfield Project
5 50 (3.16%) Algorithms
6 48 (3.04%) Private Cloud
7 45 (2.85%) Linux Command Line
8 39 (2.47%) Onboarding
9 35 (2.21%) Robotics
10 34 (2.15%) Blockchain
11 32 (2.02%) Data Centre
12 29 (1.83%) PKI
12 29 (1.83%) Self-Motivation
13 27 (1.71%) Mobile App
13 27 (1.71%) Virtual Team
14 25 (1.58%) Cyberattack
14 25 (1.58%) Derivative
14 25 (1.58%) Legacy Systems
15 22 (1.39%) Blog
Operating Systems
1 318 (20.11%) Linux
2 130 (8.22%) Windows
3 80 (5.06%) Unix
4 45 (2.85%) Windows Server
5 20 (1.27%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 20 (1.27%) Ubuntu
6 17 (1.08%) Android
6 17 (1.08%) Apple iOS
7 14 (0.89%) VMS
8 13 (0.82%) Windows Server 2016
9 11 (0.70%) CentOS
9 11 (0.70%) Debian
9 11 (0.70%) Windows 10
9 11 (0.70%) Windows Server 2019
10 6 (0.38%) Mac OS
11 5 (0.32%) Solaris
12 4 (0.25%) Mac OS X
13 3 (0.19%) Windows Server 2008
14 1 (0.063%) Windows Server 2012
Processes & Methodologies
1 979 (61.92%) DevOps
2 766 (48.45%) Agile
3 704 (44.53%) CI/CD
4 443 (28.02%) Software Engineering
5 442 (27.96%) Infrastructure as Code
6 408 (25.81%) Microservices
7 393 (24.86%) Containerisation
8 238 (15.05%) Problem-Solving
9 199 (12.59%) Continuous Integration
10 196 (12.40%) Mentoring
11 163 (10.31%) Scrum
12 135 (8.54%) DevSecOps
13 131 (8.29%) SDLC
14 128 (8.10%) TDD
15 125 (7.91%) Test Automation
16 122 (7.72%) Open Source
17 121 (7.65%) Fintech
18 119 (7.53%) Configuration Management
18 119 (7.53%) Roadmaps
19 112 (7.08%) Computer Science
Programming Languages
1 654 (41.37%) Python
2 584 (36.94%) Java
3 285 (18.03%) Bash
4 262 (16.57%) SQL
5 240 (15.18%) JavaScript
6 227 (14.36%) PowerShell
7 181 (11.45%) C#
8 137 (8.67%) Go
9 133 (8.41%) TypeScript
10 78 (4.93%) Ruby
11 52 (3.29%) C++
12 49 (3.10%) Groovy
13 41 (2.59%) Bicep
14 40 (2.53%) Shell Script
15 38 (2.40%) Scala
16 36 (2.28%) Perl
16 36 (2.28%) PHP
17 30 (1.90%) Kotlin
18 25 (1.58%) R
19 24 (1.52%) VB
Qualifications
1 266 (16.82%) Security Cleared
2 169 (10.69%) SC Cleared
3 157 (9.93%) Degree
4 87 (5.50%) Computer Science Degree
5 65 (4.11%) DV Cleared
6 52 (3.29%) Azure Certification
7 46 (2.91%) AWS Certification
8 27 (1.71%) BPSS Clearance
9 22 (1.39%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
10 20 (1.27%) Master's Degree
11 19 (1.20%) Microsoft Certification
12 10 (0.63%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
13 9 (0.57%) Cisco Certification
13 9 (0.57%) GIAC
13 9 (0.57%) RHCE
14 8 (0.51%) CCNP
15 6 (0.38%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
15 6 (0.38%) CCNA
15 6 (0.38%) MCP
15 6 (0.38%) MCSE
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 65 (4.11%) QA
2 25 (1.58%) SEPA
3 21 (1.33%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 17 (1.08%) ISO 20022
5 13 (0.82%) GDPR
6 9 (0.57%) NIST
7 8 (0.51%) Accessibility
8 7 (0.44%) Data Quality
9 6 (0.38%) PCI DSS
10 3 (0.19%) California Consumer Privacy Act
10 3 (0.19%) Cyber Essentials
10 3 (0.19%) ISO 9000
11 2 (0.13%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
11 2 (0.13%) HIPAA
11 2 (0.13%) HL7
11 2 (0.13%) ISO 9001
11 2 (0.13%) PSD2
11 2 (0.13%) Sarbanes-Oxley
11 2 (0.13%) SLA
12 1 (0.063%) DICOM
System Software
1 1,079 (68.25%) Docker
2 123 (7.78%) Active Directory
3 58 (3.67%) Virtual Machines
4 27 (1.71%) VMware Infrastructure
5 23 (1.45%) Virtual Desktop
6 10 (0.63%) Ceph
7 8 (0.51%) Hyper-V
8 7 (0.44%) vSphere
9 5 (0.32%) KVM
9 5 (0.32%) VMware ESXi
10 3 (0.19%) Citrix Hypervisor
10 3 (0.19%) LXC
11 2 (0.13%) Firmware
11 2 (0.13%) NFS
11 2 (0.13%) pfSense
12 1 (0.063%) GPFS
12 1 (0.063%) Lustre
12 1 (0.063%) Slurm Workload Manager
Systems Management
1 671 (42.44%) Terraform
2 356 (22.52%) Ansible
3 107 (6.77%) Grafana
4 106 (6.70%) Puppet
5 79 (5.00%) Prometheus
6 51 (3.23%) Progress Chef
7 46 (2.91%) Istio
8 29 (1.83%) SCCM
9 26 (1.64%) Microsoft Intune
10 24 (1.52%) SCOM
11 23 (1.45%) Active Directory Federation Services
11 23 (1.45%) WSUS
12 21 (1.33%) Packer
13 14 (0.89%) Kustomize
13 14 (0.89%) Single Sign-On
14 12 (0.76%) Salt
15 11 (0.70%) Nagios
16 10 (0.63%) Jamf Pro
16 10 (0.63%) Kibana
17 9 (0.57%) Consul
Vendors
1 160 (10.12%) Microsoft
2 157 (9.93%) Google
3 109 (6.89%) Oracle
4 46 (2.91%) VMware
5 38 (2.40%) Splunk
6 33 (2.09%) Red Hat
7 30 (1.90%) Databricks
8 28 (1.77%) New Relic
9 21 (1.33%) SaltStack
10 20 (1.27%) IBM
11 19 (1.20%) Confluent
11 19 (1.20%) Veracode
12 17 (1.08%) Atlassian
13 15 (0.95%) Dell
14 13 (0.82%) AppDynamics
14 13 (0.82%) Cisco
15 11 (0.70%) WSO2
16 10 (0.63%) Palo Alto
17 7 (0.44%) Juniper
18 6 (0.38%) Infoblox