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 2 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
2 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 41 64 27
Rank change year-on-year +23 -37 -6
Permanent jobs citing Kubernetes 841 1,481 3,685
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 5.62% 4.38% 8.63%
As % of the Systems Management category 48.92% 37.59% 54.09%
Number of salaries quoted 611 1,186 2,594
10th Percentile £51,250 £48,750 £50,000
25th Percentile £61,250 £59,000 £60,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £80,000 £75,000 £75,000
Median % change year-on-year +6.67% - -
75th Percentile £115,000 £91,934 £93,750
90th Percentile £138,750 £115,000 £110,000
UK median annual salary £82,500 £75,000 £75,000
% change year-on-year +10.00% - -3.23%

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 1,719 3,940 6,813
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 11.49% 11.64% 15.96%
Number of salaries quoted 1,337 3,000 4,815
10th Percentile £41,000 £37,101 £41,250
25th Percentile £51,698 £47,500 £52,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £70,000 £65,000 £69,447
Median % change year-on-year +7.69% -6.40% -0.79%
75th Percentile £90,000 £83,750 £88,750
90th Percentile £115,000 £102,500 £105,000
UK median annual salary £67,813 £60,000 £67,500
% change year-on-year +13.02% -11.11% -3.57%

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 2 May 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 97 (11.53%) Apache Airflow
2 90 (10.70%) Apache Spark
3 85 (10.11%) Apache
4 39 (4.64%) Confluence
5 24 (2.85%) Jupyter
6 11 (1.31%) Apache Solr
6 11 (1.31%) nginx
7 6 (0.71%) Microsoft Exchange
8 4 (0.48%) SharePoint
9 2 (0.24%) Tomcat
9 2 (0.24%) WebSphere
9 2 (0.24%) WebSphere Application Server
10 1 (0.12%) CMS
10 1 (0.12%) Mendix
Applications
1 2 (0.24%) Adobe XD
1 2 (0.24%) Chatbot
1 2 (0.24%) Moqups
1 2 (0.24%) Sketch
Business Applications
1 1 (0.12%) Shopify
Cloud Services
1 441 (52.44%) AWS
2 377 (44.83%) Azure
3 243 (28.89%) GCP
4 160 (19.02%) Serverless
5 130 (15.46%) AWS Lambda
6 111 (13.20%) Amazon ECS
7 107 (12.72%) OpenShift
8 98 (11.65%) AWS CloudFormation
9 82 (9.75%) Amazon EKS
10 77 (9.16%) dbt
11 72 (8.56%) GitHub
12 71 (8.44%) Azure DevOps
13 68 (8.09%) SaaS
14 51 (6.06%) Amazon S3
15 46 (5.47%) Amazon EC2
16 41 (4.88%) GitHub Actions
17 36 (4.28%) Azure AKS
18 28 (3.33%) PaaS
19 25 (2.97%) Amazon SQS
20 21 (2.50%) Google Kubernetes Engine
Communications & Networking
1 18 (2.14%) Firewall
2 17 (2.02%) DNS
2 17 (2.02%) Network Security
3 15 (1.78%) TCP/IP
4 11 (1.31%) Internet
5 10 (1.19%) HTTPS
5 10 (1.19%) IPsec
6 9 (1.07%) VPN
7 5 (0.59%) DHCP
8 4 (0.48%) DAB
9 3 (0.36%) LAN
9 3 (0.36%) NAS
9 3 (0.36%) SAN
10 2 (0.24%) Broadband
10 2 (0.24%) Cisco Nexus
10 2 (0.24%) FCoE
10 2 (0.24%) Fibre Channel
10 2 (0.24%) iSCSI
10 2 (0.24%) Multicast
10 2 (0.24%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 80 (9.51%) Apache Iceberg
2 79 (9.39%) NoSQL
2 79 (9.39%) PostgreSQL
3 72 (8.56%) Amazon Athena
4 71 (8.44%) Apache Arrow
4 71 (8.44%) Apache Ignite
4 71 (8.44%) Dremio
5 65 (7.73%) Elasticsearch
6 50 (5.95%) SQL Server
7 47 (5.59%) MySQL
8 45 (5.35%) MongoDB
9 36 (4.28%) Big Data
10 31 (3.69%) Amazon RDS
11 28 (3.33%) Amazon Redshift
12 27 (3.21%) Relational Database
13 26 (3.09%) Redis
14 16 (1.90%) Data Warehouse
15 15 (1.78%) Azure SQL Database
16 14 (1.66%) Tableau
17 12 (1.43%) Hadoop
Development Applications
1 148 (17.60%) Git
2 110 (13.08%) Jenkins
3 77 (9.16%) Artifactory
4 65 (7.73%) SonarQube
5 55 (6.54%) GitLab
6 48 (5.71%) JIRA
7 32 (3.80%) Maven
8 30 (3.57%) Sonatype Nexus
9 23 (2.73%) JUnit
10 19 (2.26%) Selenium
11 16 (1.90%) webpack
12 10 (1.19%) Bitbucket
13 9 (1.07%) Cypress.io
14 8 (0.95%) Oracle Forms
15 7 (0.83%) Gradle
15 7 (0.83%) IBM UrbanCode
16 6 (0.71%) Atlassian Bamboo
17 5 (0.59%) MLflow
17 5 (0.59%) Mockito
17 5 (0.59%) TestNG
General
1 338 (40.19%) Finance
2 186 (22.12%) Banking
3 154 (18.31%) Social Skills
4 106 (12.60%) Front Office
4 106 (12.60%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 70 (8.32%) Analytical Skills
6 68 (8.09%) Law
7 30 (3.57%) Games
8 26 (3.09%) Public Sector
9 22 (2.62%) Telecoms
10 17 (2.02%) Retail
11 11 (1.31%) Manufacturing
11 11 (1.31%) Marketing
12 10 (1.19%) Electronics
12 10 (1.19%) Legal
13 9 (1.07%) Automotive
14 4 (0.48%) Military
15 3 (0.36%) Influencing Skills
15 3 (0.36%) Investment Banking
16 2 (0.24%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 233 (27.71%) Senior
2 197 (23.42%) DevOps Engineer
3 167 (19.86%) Developer
4 162 (19.26%) Software Engineer
5 144 (17.12%) Python Engineer
6 124 (14.74%) AWS DevOps
7 120 (14.27%) AWS Engineer
8 118 (14.03%) AWS DevOps Engineer
9 108 (12.84%) Lead
10 103 (12.25%) Data Engineer
11 63 (7.49%) Software Developer
12 60 (7.13%) Senior Software Engineer
13 48 (5.71%) Architect
14 44 (5.23%) Cloud Engineer
15 38 (4.52%) Azure Engineer
16 37 (4.40%) Java Developer
16 37 (4.40%) Senior DevOps
17 34 (4.04%) Senior Developer
18 31 (3.69%) Platform Engineer
18 31 (3.69%) Senior DevOps Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 180 (21.40%) Kafka
2 129 (15.34%) .NET
3 125 (14.86%) Node.js
4 120 (14.27%) React
5 102 (12.13%) Spring
6 84 (9.99%) PySpark
7 74 (8.80%) REST
8 73 (8.68%) J2EE
9 70 (8.32%) Spring Boot
10 69 (8.20%) RESTful
11 53 (6.30%) Pandas
12 45 (5.35%) Elastic Stack
13 39 (4.64%) AngularJS
14 36 (4.28%) RabbitMQ
15 35 (4.16%) Flask
16 28 (3.33%) FastAPI
17 27 (3.21%) .NET Core
18 26 (3.09%) HTML
19 25 (2.97%) CSS
20 24 (2.85%) OAuth
Miscellaneous
1 72 (8.56%) Cyberattack
2 65 (7.73%) Cloud Native
3 59 (7.02%) Management Information System
4 51 (6.06%) Algorithms
5 47 (5.59%) Product Ownership
6 41 (4.88%) Public Cloud
7 40 (4.76%) Distributed Systems
8 21 (2.50%) Greenfield Project
9 20 (2.38%) Private Cloud
10 18 (2.14%) Onboarding
11 17 (2.02%) Data Structures
12 13 (1.55%) Mobile App
13 12 (1.43%) Hybrid Cloud
13 12 (1.43%) Virtual Team
14 11 (1.31%) Data Centre
14 11 (1.31%) Security Posture
15 8 (0.95%) Legacy Systems
15 8 (0.95%) Online Banking
16 7 (0.83%) IoT
17 6 (0.71%) Educational Technology
Operating Systems
1 159 (18.91%) Linux
2 60 (7.13%) Android
3 47 (5.59%) Windows
4 32 (3.80%) Unix
5 10 (1.19%) VMS
6 9 (1.07%) Windows Server
7 5 (0.59%) CentOS
7 5 (0.59%) Ubuntu
8 3 (0.36%) Apple iOS
8 3 (0.36%) Windows Server 2016
9 2 (0.24%) CoreOS
9 2 (0.24%) Debian
9 2 (0.24%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
9 2 (0.24%) Solaris
9 2 (0.24%) Windows Server 2019
9 2 (0.24%) zOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 505 (60.05%) DevOps
2 474 (56.36%) CI/CD
3 430 (51.13%) Software Engineering
4 366 (43.52%) Agile
5 302 (35.91%) Containerisation
6 277 (32.94%) Microservices
7 173 (20.57%) Mentoring
8 163 (19.38%) Problem-Solving
9 153 (18.19%) Infrastructure as Code
10 139 (16.53%) Site Reliability Engineering
11 106 (12.60%) Data Engineering
12 103 (12.25%) Asset Management
13 100 (11.89%) Machine Learning
14 98 (11.65%) Test Automation
15 95 (11.30%) Open Source
16 94 (11.18%) Design Patterns
17 93 (11.06%) Collaborative Working
18 92 (10.94%) TDD
19 90 (10.70%) Computer Science
20 82 (9.75%) Artificial Intelligence
Programming Languages
1 468 (55.65%) Python
2 372 (44.23%) Java
3 223 (26.52%) JavaScript
4 198 (23.54%) Go
5 146 (17.36%) SQL
6 96 (11.41%) TypeScript
7 78 (9.27%) C#
8 70 (8.32%) C++
8 70 (8.32%) Rust
9 49 (5.83%) Bash
10 40 (4.76%) PowerShell
11 18 (2.14%) C
12 15 (1.78%) PHP
12 15 (1.78%) Scala
13 14 (1.66%) Kotlin
14 11 (1.31%) Bicep
14 11 (1.31%) Perl
14 11 (1.31%) Ruby
15 9 (1.07%) Groovy
16 7 (0.83%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 143 (17.00%) Security Cleared
2 103 (12.25%) Degree
3 81 (9.63%) DV Cleared
4 60 (7.13%) Computer Science Degree
5 46 (5.47%) AWS Certification
6 41 (4.88%) SC Cleared
7 28 (3.33%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
8 21 (2.50%) Azure Certification
9 17 (2.02%) BPSS Clearance
10 10 (1.19%) Master's Degree
11 6 (0.71%) (ISC)2 CCSP
11 6 (0.71%) Cisco Certification
12 5 (0.59%) CISSP
13 3 (0.36%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
13 3 (0.36%) CCSP
13 3 (0.36%) Linux+ Certification
13 3 (0.36%) OCP
13 3 (0.36%) Oracle Certification
13 3 (0.36%) PhD
13 3 (0.36%) RHCE
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 40 (4.76%) Accessibility
2 30 (3.57%) GDPR
3 29 (3.45%) QA
4 23 (2.73%) HIPAA
5 16 (1.90%) Data Quality
6 11 (1.31%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 10 (1.19%) NIST
8 9 (1.07%) NCSC
8 9 (1.07%) PCI DSS
9 5 (0.59%) Sarbanes-Oxley
9 5 (0.59%) SOC 2
10 4 (0.48%) SLA
11 1 (0.12%) Actionable Recommendations
11 1 (0.12%) Basel III
11 1 (0.12%) Cyber Essentials
11 1 (0.12%) GMP
11 1 (0.12%) IFRS
11 1 (0.12%) IFRS 9
11 1 (0.12%) ISO/IEC 27005
11 1 (0.12%) NIST 800
System Software
1 591 (70.27%) Docker
2 21 (2.50%) Active Directory
3 15 (1.78%) Virtual Machines
3 15 (1.78%) VMware Infrastructure
4 13 (1.55%) Hyper-V
5 9 (1.07%) HDFS
6 5 (0.59%) vSphere
7 3 (0.36%) Dovecot
7 3 (0.36%) Postfix
8 2 (0.24%) KVM
8 2 (0.24%) NFS
8 2 (0.24%) SRDF
8 2 (0.24%) Veritas Cluster Server
8 2 (0.24%) Xen
Systems Management
1 392 (46.61%) Terraform
2 159 (18.91%) Ansible
3 66 (7.85%) Prometheus
4 48 (5.71%) Grafana
5 28 (3.33%) Istio
6 17 (2.02%) Argo
7 15 (1.78%) Puppet
8 11 (1.31%) Progress Chef
9 7 (0.83%) Kustomize
10 6 (0.71%) Packer
11 4 (0.48%) Failover Clustering
11 4 (0.48%) Kibana
11 4 (0.48%) Nagios
12 3 (0.36%) Active Directory Federation Services
12 3 (0.36%) CASB
12 3 (0.36%) linkerd
12 3 (0.36%) Microsoft Intune
13 2 (0.24%) logstash
13 2 (0.24%) Microsoft Data Protection Manager
13 2 (0.24%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 87 (10.34%) Google
2 70 (8.32%) Microsoft
3 24 (2.85%) VMware
4 21 (2.50%) Databricks
5 20 (2.38%) Red Hat
6 18 (2.14%) Oracle
7 14 (1.66%) Dynatrace
8 11 (1.31%) Atlassian
9 9 (1.07%) New Relic
9 9 (1.07%) Splunk
10 7 (0.83%) Confluent
11 6 (0.71%) Adobe
11 6 (0.71%) Cisco
11 6 (0.71%) IBM
11 6 (0.71%) Ping Identity
11 6 (0.71%) Sawtooth Software
12 4 (0.48%) AppDynamics
12 4 (0.48%) EMC
12 4 (0.48%) NetApp
12 4 (0.48%) Tealium