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 3 July 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
3 Jul 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 49 69 30
Rank change year-on-year +20 -39 -10
Permanent jobs citing Kubernetes 1,118 1,368 2,894
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 5.49% 3.97% 8.05%
As % of the Systems Management category 47.68% 36.89% 53.52%
Number of salaries quoted 474 1,052 2,268
10th Percentile £49,825 £50,000 £51,250
25th Percentile £60,000 £60,000 £60,713
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £78,810 £76,000 £75,000
Median % change year-on-year +3.70% +1.33% -
75th Percentile £102,478 £95,000 £92,500
90th Percentile £130,000 £117,500 £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 3,708 5,407
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 11.51% 10.75% 15.03%
Number of salaries quoted 1,191 2,673 4,174
10th Percentile £36,250 £36,500 £42,155
25th Percentile £48,750 £47,500 £52,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £67,500 £65,000 £70,000
Median % change year-on-year +3.85% -7.14% -
75th Percentile £87,500 £84,919 £87,500
90th Percentile £110,000 £102,500 £105,000
UK median annual salary £67,500 £62,500 £67,500
% change year-on-year +8.00% -7.41% -0.74%

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 3 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
1 181 (16.19%) Confluence
2 53 (4.74%) Apache Airflow
3 51 (4.56%) Apache
4 48 (4.29%) Apache Spark
5 23 (2.06%) Jupyter
6 6 (0.54%) Microsoft Exchange
6 6 (0.54%) nginx
7 5 (0.45%) SharePoint
8 3 (0.27%) Apache Solr
8 3 (0.27%) IIS
9 2 (0.18%) Tomcat
9 2 (0.18%) WebSphere
9 2 (0.18%) WebSphere Application Server
10 1 (0.089%) BizTalk Server
10 1 (0.089%) CMS
10 1 (0.089%) Drupal
10 1 (0.089%) Mendix
10 1 (0.089%) WordPress
Applications
1 1 (0.089%) Adobe XD
1 1 (0.089%) Moqups
1 1 (0.089%) Sketch
Business Applications
1 1 (0.089%) Dynamics CRM
1 1 (0.089%) SAP S/4HANA
1 1 (0.089%) Shopify
Cloud Services
1 828 (74.06%) AWS
2 565 (50.54%) Azure
3 351 (31.40%) GCP
4 216 (19.32%) Pulumi
5 88 (7.87%) Serverless
6 82 (7.33%) Amazon EKS
7 74 (6.62%) AWS Lambda
8 71 (6.35%) AWS CloudFormation
9 68 (6.08%) OpenShift
10 67 (5.99%) GitHub
11 60 (5.37%) Amazon ECS
12 59 (5.28%) Azure DevOps
13 53 (4.74%) SaaS
14 46 (4.11%) dbt
15 40 (3.58%) GitHub Actions
16 23 (2.06%) Azure AKS
17 22 (1.97%) Amazon CloudWatch
18 20 (1.79%) Amazon S3
19 18 (1.61%) Google Kubernetes Engine
20 17 (1.52%) Amazon EC2
Communications & Networking
1 220 (19.68%) Broadband
2 17 (1.52%) Firewall
3 14 (1.25%) DNS
4 12 (1.07%) Internet
5 11 (0.98%) Network Security
6 10 (0.89%) TCP/IP
7 9 (0.81%) DHCP
8 8 (0.72%) 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
1 287 (25.67%) SQL Server
2 274 (24.51%) NoSQL
3 232 (20.75%) Relational Database
4 216 (19.32%) RDBMS
5 65 (5.81%) Elasticsearch
6 46 (4.11%) Apache Iceberg
7 44 (3.94%) PostgreSQL
8 43 (3.85%) Amazon Athena
9 42 (3.76%) Apache Arrow
9 42 (3.76%) Apache Ignite
9 42 (3.76%) Dremio
10 36 (3.22%) Big Data
11 35 (3.13%) MongoDB
12 22 (1.97%) MySQL
13 18 (1.61%) Redis
14 13 (1.16%) Tableau
15 12 (1.07%) Amazon RDS
15 12 (1.07%) Azure SQL Database
16 10 (0.89%) DynamoDB
17 9 (0.81%) Data Warehouse
Development Applications
1 299 (26.74%) SonarQube
2 293 (26.21%) GitLab
3 281 (25.13%) Sonatype Nexus
4 279 (24.96%) JIRA
5 271 (24.24%) Maven
6 255 (22.81%) Selenium
7 252 (22.54%) Bitbucket
8 251 (22.45%) Cucumber
9 215 (19.23%) Jaeger
10 102 (9.12%) Git
11 87 (7.78%) Jenkins
12 51 (4.56%) Artifactory
13 16 (1.43%) JUnit
14 7 (0.63%) IBM UrbanCode
14 7 (0.63%) Octopus Deploy
15 5 (0.45%) Mockito
15 5 (0.45%) Oracle Forms
16 4 (0.36%) Postman
16 4 (0.36%) webpack
17 3 (0.27%) Robot Framework
General
1 562 (50.27%) Inclusion and Diversity
2 466 (41.68%) Finance
3 361 (32.29%) Banking
4 124 (11.09%) Social Skills
5 102 (9.12%) Retail
6 90 (8.05%) Corporate Banking
6 90 (8.05%) Investment Banking
7 70 (6.26%) Analytical Skills
8 55 (4.92%) Front Office
9 27 (2.42%) Public Sector
10 22 (1.97%) Law
11 15 (1.34%) Games
12 13 (1.16%) 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
17 2 (0.18%) Aviation
17 2 (0.18%) Influencing Skills
Job Titles
1 371 (33.18%) Software Engineer
2 293 (26.21%) Lead
3 220 (19.68%) Team Leader
4 181 (16.19%) Senior
5 142 (12.70%) DevOps Engineer
6 139 (12.43%) Developer
7 84 (7.51%) AWS DevOps
7 84 (7.51%) Python Engineer
8 74 (6.62%) AWS Engineer
9 72 (6.44%) AWS DevOps Engineer
10 61 (5.46%) Data Engineer
11 55 (4.92%) Software Developer
12 53 (4.74%) Architect
13 49 (4.38%) Senior Software Engineer
14 35 (3.13%) Solutions Architect
15 33 (2.95%) Senior DevOps
16 31 (2.77%) Java Engineer
17 30 (2.68%) Java Developer
18 29 (2.59%) AWS Architect
19 28 (2.50%) Azure Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 372 (33.27%) Kafka
2 332 (29.70%) Spring
3 325 (29.07%) React
4 301 (26.92%) Spring Boot
5 262 (23.43%) HTML
6 261 (23.35%) CSS
7 255 (22.81%) Redux
8 253 (22.63%) JPA
9 244 (21.82%) Elastic Stack
10 218 (19.50%) OpenTelemetry
11 173 (15.47%) Hibernate
12 166 (14.85%) REST
13 148 (13.24%) RESTful
14 135 (12.08%) .NET
15 98 (8.77%) CSS3
15 98 (8.77%) HTML5
16 95 (8.50%) Jest
16 95 (8.50%) Node.js
17 90 (8.05%) Sass
18 51 (4.56%) Pandas
Miscellaneous
1 286 (25.58%) Product Ownership
2 247 (22.09%) Enterprise Software
3 77 (6.89%) Cloud Native
4 72 (6.44%) Cyberattack
5 40 (3.58%) Algorithms
6 37 (3.31%) Distributed Systems
6 37 (3.31%) Management Information System
7 27 (2.42%) Public Cloud
8 21 (1.88%) Hybrid Cloud
9 17 (1.52%) Onboarding
10 16 (1.43%) Private Cloud
11 13 (1.16%) Data Centre
12 11 (0.98%) Data Structures
12 11 (0.98%) Greenfield Project
12 11 (0.98%) Security Posture
13 10 (0.89%) Mobile App
13 10 (0.89%) Virtual Team
14 9 (0.81%) Self-Motivation
15 8 (0.72%) Online Banking
16 7 (0.63%) Cloud Security Posture
Operating Systems
1 362 (32.38%) Linux
2 240 (21.47%) Unix
3 57 (5.10%) Android
4 46 (4.11%) Windows
5 17 (1.52%) 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%) VMS
9 3 (0.27%) Windows Server 2016
10 2 (0.18%) Solaris
11 1 (0.089%) Debian
Processes & Methodologies
1 863 (77.19%) DevOps
2 741 (66.28%) Containerisation
3 727 (65.03%) Agile
4 633 (56.62%) CI/CD
5 552 (49.37%) Software Engineering
6 484 (43.29%) Microservices
7 476 (42.58%) Performance Optimisation
8 451 (40.34%) Mentoring
9 352 (31.48%) Infrastructure as Code
10 315 (28.18%) Test Automation
11 299 (26.74%) Full-Stack Development
12 288 (25.76%) SDLC
13 281 (25.13%) Roadmaps
14 259 (23.17%) Front End Development
14 259 (23.17%) High Availability
15 258 (23.08%) Continuous Integration
16 231 (20.66%) Cost Optimisation
16 231 (20.66%) Resource Management
16 231 (20.66%) TDD
17 227 (20.30%) Product Management
Programming Languages
1 765 (68.43%) Java
2 629 (56.26%) JavaScript
3 571 (51.07%) Python
4 375 (33.54%) SQL
5 353 (31.57%) Go
6 269 (24.06%) Bash
7 151 (13.51%) TypeScript
8 82 (7.33%) C#
9 60 (5.37%) C++
10 55 (4.92%) Rust
11 50 (4.47%) PowerShell
12 12 (1.07%) Groovy
13 10 (0.89%) Bicep
13 10 (0.89%) C
13 10 (0.89%) Kotlin
14 9 (0.81%) PHP
15 8 (0.72%) Shell Script
16 6 (0.54%) Scala
17 5 (0.45%) Perl
17 5 (0.45%) PL/SQL
Qualifications
1 270 (24.15%) AWS Certification
2 140 (12.52%) Security Cleared
3 88 (7.87%) DV Cleared
4 77 (6.89%) Degree
5 44 (3.94%) Computer Science Degree
5 44 (3.94%) SC Cleared
6 32 (2.86%) Azure Certification
7 28 (2.50%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
8 12 (1.07%) 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 (23.97%) QA
2 101 (9.03%) Accessibility
3 35 (3.13%) GDPR
4 30 (2.68%) HIPAA
5 13 (1.16%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 13 (1.16%) NIST
6 7 (0.63%) Data Quality
6 7 (0.63%) SOC 2
7 5 (0.45%) NCSC
7 5 (0.45%) PCI DSS
8 4 (0.36%) SLA
9 1 (0.089%) Actionable Recommendations
9 1 (0.089%) Cyber Essentials
9 1 (0.089%) GMP
9 1 (0.089%) ISO/IEC 27005
9 1 (0.089%) NIST 800
System Software
1 958 (85.69%) Docker
2 24 (2.15%) Active Directory
3 16 (1.43%) Hyper-V
4 15 (1.34%) VMware Infrastructure
5 14 (1.25%) Virtual Machines
6 4 (0.36%) Dovecot
6 4 (0.36%) HDFS
6 4 (0.36%) Postfix
7 3 (0.27%) KVM
7 3 (0.27%) Xen
8 2 (0.18%) NFS
8 2 (0.18%) SRDF
8 2 (0.18%) Veritas Cluster Server
8 2 (0.18%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 516 (46.15%) Terraform
2 359 (32.11%) Ansible
3 279 (24.96%) Prometheus
4 231 (20.66%) Argo
5 217 (19.41%) Kustomize
6 56 (5.01%) Grafana
7 20 (1.79%) Istio
8 8 (0.72%) 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
1 291 (26.03%) Google
2 247 (22.09%) Solace
3 54 (4.83%) Microsoft
4 24 (2.15%) Oracle
5 20 (1.79%) VMware
6 14 (1.25%) Red Hat
7 13 (1.16%) Databricks
8 10 (0.89%) 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