Kubernetes Jobs with Hybrid/Remote/WFH 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 7 July 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
7 Jul 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 49 66 30
Rank change year-on-year +17 -36 -10
Permanent jobs citing Kubernetes 1,110 1,343 2,913
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 5.38% 3.95% 8.08%
As % of the Systems Management category 47.33% 36.67% 53.67%
Number of salaries quoted 466 1,027 2,288
10th Percentile £49,875 £50,000 £51,750
25th Percentile £60,000 £60,000 £61,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £78,810 £77,500 £75,000
Median % change year-on-year +1.69% +3.33% -
75th Percentile £102,410 £95,000 £92,500
90th Percentile £130,000 £118,750 £110,000
UK median annual salary £80,000 £77,500 £75,000
% change year-on-year +3.23% +3.33% -

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 2,345 3,662 5,428
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 11.36% 10.78% 15.06%
Number of salaries quoted 1,191 2,628 4,222
10th Percentile £36,250 £36,500 £42,250
25th Percentile £48,750 £47,500 £52,725
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £67,500 £65,000 £70,000
Median % change year-on-year +3.85% -7.14% -
75th Percentile £86,250 £84,919 £87,500
90th Percentile £110,000 £105,000 £105,000
UK median annual salary £67,500 £62,500 £67,500
% change year-on-year +8.00% -7.41% -

Kubernetes
Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

Job vacancies with remote working options citing Kubernetes as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Kubernetes trend for jobs with Hybrid/Remote/WFH options

Kubernetes
Salary Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

3-month moving average salary quoted in job vacancies with remote working options 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 remote working options citing Kubernetes over the 6 months to 7 July 2025.

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
1 179 (16.13%) Confluence
2 50 (4.50%) Apache Airflow
3 48 (4.32%) Apache
4 45 (4.05%) Apache Spark
5 23 (2.07%) Jupyter
6 7 (0.63%) nginx
7 6 (0.54%) Microsoft Exchange
8 5 (0.45%) SharePoint
9 4 (0.36%) IIS
10 3 (0.27%) Apache Solr
11 2 (0.18%) Tomcat
11 2 (0.18%) WebSphere
11 2 (0.18%) WebSphere Application Server
12 1 (0.090%) BizTalk Server
12 1 (0.090%) CMS
12 1 (0.090%) Drupal
12 1 (0.090%) Mendix
12 1 (0.090%) WordPress
Applications
1 1 (0.090%) Adobe XD
1 1 (0.090%) Moqups
1 1 (0.090%) Sketch
Business Applications
1 1 (0.090%) Dynamics CRM
1 1 (0.090%) SAP S/4HANA
1 1 (0.090%) Shopify
Cloud Services
1 827 (74.50%) AWS
2 562 (50.63%) Azure
3 346 (31.17%) GCP
4 216 (19.46%) Pulumi
5 85 (7.66%) Serverless
6 82 (7.39%) Amazon EKS
7 71 (6.40%) AWS CloudFormation
7 71 (6.40%) AWS Lambda
8 67 (6.04%) GitHub
9 66 (5.95%) OpenShift
10 60 (5.41%) Azure DevOps
11 57 (5.14%) Amazon ECS
12 53 (4.77%) SaaS
13 43 (3.87%) dbt
14 40 (3.60%) GitHub Actions
15 24 (2.16%) Azure AKS
16 22 (1.98%) Amazon CloudWatch
17 20 (1.80%) Amazon S3
18 18 (1.62%) Google Kubernetes Engine
19 17 (1.53%) Amazon EC2
Communications & Networking
1 220 (19.82%) Broadband
2 17 (1.53%) Firewall
3 14 (1.26%) DNS
4 12 (1.08%) Internet
5 11 (0.99%) Network Security
6 10 (0.90%) TCP/IP
7 9 (0.81%) DHCP
8 7 (0.63%) VPN
9 3 (0.27%) HTTP
9 3 (0.27%) LAN
9 3 (0.27%) NAS
9 3 (0.27%) SAN
10 2 (0.18%) BGP
10 2 (0.18%) Cisco Nexus
10 2 (0.18%) FCoE
10 2 (0.18%) Fibre Channel
10 2 (0.18%) HTTPS
10 2 (0.18%) iSCSI
10 2 (0.18%) SSL
10 2 (0.18%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 288 (25.95%) SQL Server
2 273 (24.59%) NoSQL
3 232 (20.90%) Relational Database
4 216 (19.46%) RDBMS
5 64 (5.77%) Elasticsearch
6 43 (3.87%) Apache Iceberg
7 41 (3.69%) PostgreSQL
8 40 (3.60%) Amazon Athena
9 39 (3.51%) Apache Arrow
9 39 (3.51%) Apache Ignite
9 39 (3.51%) Dremio
10 36 (3.24%) Big Data
11 33 (2.97%) MongoDB
12 22 (1.98%) MySQL
13 18 (1.62%) Redis
14 13 (1.17%) Azure SQL Database
14 13 (1.17%) Tableau
15 12 (1.08%) Amazon RDS
16 10 (0.90%) DynamoDB
17 9 (0.81%) Data Warehouse
Development Applications
1 297 (26.76%) SonarQube
2 292 (26.31%) GitLab
3 281 (25.32%) Sonatype Nexus
4 277 (24.95%) JIRA
5 271 (24.41%) Maven
6 255 (22.97%) Selenium
7 252 (22.70%) Bitbucket
8 251 (22.61%) Cucumber
9 215 (19.37%) Jaeger
10 101 (9.10%) Git
11 86 (7.75%) Jenkins
12 48 (4.32%) Artifactory
13 16 (1.44%) JUnit
14 8 (0.72%) Octopus Deploy
15 7 (0.63%) IBM UrbanCode
16 5 (0.45%) Mockito
16 5 (0.45%) Oracle Forms
17 4 (0.36%) Postman
17 4 (0.36%) webpack
18 3 (0.27%) Robot Framework
General
1 561 (50.54%) Inclusion and Diversity
2 456 (41.08%) Finance
3 354 (31.89%) Banking
4 118 (10.63%) Social Skills
5 102 (9.19%) Retail
6 90 (8.11%) Corporate Banking
6 90 (8.11%) Investment Banking
7 70 (6.31%) Analytical Skills
8 52 (4.68%) Front Office
9 27 (2.43%) Public Sector
10 22 (1.98%) Law
11 15 (1.35%) Games
12 13 (1.17%) Telecoms
13 7 (0.63%) Automotive
14 6 (0.54%) Manufacturing
14 6 (0.54%) Marketing
15 5 (0.45%) Electronics
16 3 (0.27%) Presentation Skills
16 3 (0.27%) Tech for Good
17 2 (0.18%) Aviation
Job Titles
1 364 (32.79%) Software Engineer
2 293 (26.40%) Lead
3 220 (19.82%) Team Leader
4 179 (16.13%) Senior
5 140 (12.61%) DevOps Engineer
6 139 (12.52%) Developer
7 82 (7.39%) AWS DevOps
8 81 (7.30%) Python Engineer
9 71 (6.40%) AWS Engineer
10 69 (6.22%) AWS DevOps Engineer
11 58 (5.23%) Data Engineer
12 55 (4.95%) Software Developer
13 54 (4.86%) Architect
14 47 (4.23%) Senior Software Engineer
15 36 (3.24%) Solutions Architect
16 34 (3.06%) Senior DevOps
17 31 (2.79%) Java Engineer
18 30 (2.70%) AWS Architect
18 30 (2.70%) Java Developer
19 29 (2.61%) Azure Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 369 (33.24%) Kafka
2 326 (29.37%) React
3 325 (29.28%) Spring
4 297 (26.76%) Spring Boot
5 262 (23.60%) HTML
6 261 (23.51%) CSS
7 255 (22.97%) Redux
8 253 (22.79%) JPA
9 244 (21.98%) Elastic Stack
10 218 (19.64%) OpenTelemetry
11 173 (15.59%) Hibernate
12 165 (14.86%) REST
13 148 (13.33%) RESTful
14 136 (12.25%) .NET
15 98 (8.83%) CSS3
15 98 (8.83%) HTML5
16 95 (8.56%) Jest
17 93 (8.38%) Node.js
18 90 (8.11%) Sass
19 51 (4.59%) Pandas
Miscellaneous
1 286 (25.77%) Product Ownership
2 247 (22.25%) Enterprise Software
3 78 (7.03%) Cloud Native
4 72 (6.49%) Cyberattack
5 40 (3.60%) Algorithms
6 37 (3.33%) Distributed Systems
6 37 (3.33%) Management Information System
7 26 (2.34%) Public Cloud
8 21 (1.89%) Hybrid Cloud
9 17 (1.53%) Onboarding
10 16 (1.44%) Private Cloud
11 13 (1.17%) Data Centre
12 11 (0.99%) Data Structures
12 11 (0.99%) Greenfield Project
12 11 (0.99%) Security Posture
13 10 (0.90%) Virtual Team
14 9 (0.81%) Mobile App
14 9 (0.81%) Self-Motivation
15 8 (0.72%) Online Banking
16 7 (0.63%) Cloud Security Posture
Operating Systems
1 362 (32.61%) Linux
2 240 (21.62%) Unix
3 57 (5.14%) Android
4 47 (4.23%) Windows
5 17 (1.53%) Windows Server
6 7 (0.63%) Ubuntu
7 5 (0.45%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
7 5 (0.45%) Windows Server 2019
8 4 (0.36%) CentOS
8 4 (0.36%) Rocky
9 3 (0.27%) Windows Server 2016
10 2 (0.18%) Solaris
10 2 (0.18%) VMS
11 1 (0.090%) Debian
Processes & Methodologies
1 857 (77.21%) DevOps
2 738 (66.49%) Containerisation
3 720 (64.86%) Agile
4 626 (56.40%) CI/CD
5 543 (48.92%) Software Engineering
6 480 (43.24%) Microservices
7 476 (42.88%) Performance Optimisation
8 449 (40.45%) Mentoring
9 352 (31.71%) Infrastructure as Code
10 311 (28.02%) Test Automation
11 299 (26.94%) Full-Stack Development
12 286 (25.77%) SDLC
13 282 (25.41%) Roadmaps
14 259 (23.33%) Front End Development
14 259 (23.33%) High Availability
15 258 (23.24%) Continuous Integration
16 231 (20.81%) Cost Optimisation
16 231 (20.81%) Resource Management
17 227 (20.45%) Product Management
18 224 (20.18%) TDD
Programming Languages
1 757 (68.20%) Java
2 629 (56.67%) JavaScript
3 569 (51.26%) Python
4 377 (33.96%) SQL
5 350 (31.53%) Go
6 269 (24.23%) Bash
7 152 (13.69%) TypeScript
8 84 (7.57%) C#
9 60 (5.41%) C++
10 55 (4.95%) Rust
11 51 (4.59%) PowerShell
12 12 (1.08%) Groovy
13 11 (0.99%) Bicep
14 10 (0.90%) C
14 10 (0.90%) Kotlin
15 9 (0.81%) PHP
16 8 (0.72%) Shell Script
17 6 (0.54%) Scala
18 5 (0.45%) Perl
18 5 (0.45%) PL/SQL
Qualifications
1 271 (24.41%) AWS Certification
2 140 (12.61%) Security Cleared
3 88 (7.93%) DV Cleared
4 77 (6.94%) Degree
5 44 (3.96%) Computer Science Degree
5 44 (3.96%) SC Cleared
6 33 (2.97%) Azure Certification
7 29 (2.61%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
8 12 (1.08%) BPSS Clearance
9 8 (0.72%) Master's Degree
10 6 (0.54%) (ISC)2 CCSP
10 6 (0.54%) Cisco Certification
10 6 (0.54%) PhD
11 5 (0.45%) CISM
11 5 (0.45%) CISSP
11 5 (0.45%) CompTIA Security+
12 4 (0.36%) Linux+ Certification
12 4 (0.36%) Network+ Certification
12 4 (0.36%) RHCE
13 3 (0.27%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 268 (24.14%) QA
2 101 (9.10%) Accessibility
3 36 (3.24%) GDPR
4 31 (2.79%) HIPAA
5 14 (1.26%) NIST
6 13 (1.17%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 7 (0.63%) Data Quality
7 7 (0.63%) SOC 2
8 5 (0.45%) NCSC
8 5 (0.45%) PCI DSS
9 4 (0.36%) SLA
10 1 (0.090%) Actionable Recommendations
10 1 (0.090%) Cyber Essentials
10 1 (0.090%) GMP
10 1 (0.090%) ISO/IEC 27005
10 1 (0.090%) NIST 800
System Software
1 952 (85.77%) Docker
2 24 (2.16%) Active Directory
3 16 (1.44%) Hyper-V
4 15 (1.35%) Virtual Machines
4 15 (1.35%) VMware Infrastructure
5 4 (0.36%) Dovecot
5 4 (0.36%) HDFS
5 4 (0.36%) Postfix
6 3 (0.27%) KVM
6 3 (0.27%) Xen
7 2 (0.18%) NFS
7 2 (0.18%) SRDF
7 2 (0.18%) Veritas Cluster Server
7 2 (0.18%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 513 (46.22%) Terraform
2 359 (32.34%) Ansible
3 279 (25.14%) Prometheus
4 231 (20.81%) Argo
5 217 (19.55%) Kustomize
6 56 (5.05%) Grafana
7 20 (1.80%) Istio
8 7 (0.63%) Puppet
9 6 (0.54%) Kibana
10 5 (0.45%) Microsoft Data Protection Manager
10 5 (0.45%) Packer
10 5 (0.45%) Progress Chef
10 5 (0.45%) SCCM
10 5 (0.45%) SCOM
10 5 (0.45%) WSUS
11 3 (0.27%) Active Directory Federation Services
11 3 (0.27%) logstash
11 3 (0.27%) Nagios
12 2 (0.18%) FortiGate
12 2 (0.18%) Microsoft Intune
Vendors
1 290 (26.13%) Google
2 247 (22.25%) Solace
3 54 (4.86%) Microsoft
4 24 (2.16%) Oracle
5 20 (1.80%) VMware
6 14 (1.26%) Red Hat
7 13 (1.17%) Databricks
8 10 (0.90%) Dynatrace
9 9 (0.81%) Splunk
10 7 (0.63%) Atlassian
10 7 (0.63%) Ping Identity
11 6 (0.54%) Confluent
11 6 (0.54%) IBM
11 6 (0.54%) Trayport
12 5 (0.45%) Adobe
12 5 (0.45%) Okta
13 4 (0.36%) AppDynamics
13 4 (0.36%) Cisco
13 4 (0.36%) Dell
13 4 (0.36%) Tealium