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 5 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
5 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 65 26 21
Rank change year-on-year -39 -5 +2
Permanent jobs citing Kubernetes 1,469 3,671 8,356
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 4.35% 8.66% 12.28%
As % of the Systems Management category 37.50% 54.25% 62.15%
Number of salaries quoted 1,173 2,586 4,560
10th Percentile £50,000 £50,000 £46,250
25th Percentile £59,000 £60,000 £57,046
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £75,000 £75,000 £75,000
Median % change year-on-year - - +11.11%
75th Percentile £91,934 £92,500 £90,000
90th Percentile £115,000 £110,000 £105,000
UK median annual salary £75,000 £75,000 £75,000
% change year-on-year - - +7.14%

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 3,917 6,767 13,444
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 11.59% 15.96% 19.76%
Number of salaries quoted 2,973 4,789 7,783
10th Percentile £37,101 £41,250 £42,500
25th Percentile £47,500 £52,500 £52,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £69,447 £70,000
Median % change year-on-year -6.40% -0.79% +7.69%
75th Percentile £83,750 £88,750 £86,250
90th Percentile £102,500 £105,000 £100,000
UK median annual salary £60,000 £67,500 £70,000
% change year-on-year -11.11% -3.57% +12.00%

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 5 May 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 86 (5.85%) Apache
2 66 (4.49%) Apache Spark
3 55 (3.74%) Apache Airflow
3 55 (3.74%) OpenStack
4 18 (1.23%) Confluence
5 16 (1.09%) Microsoft Exchange
6 15 (1.02%) nginx
7 8 (0.54%) IIS
7 8 (0.54%) JBoss
7 8 (0.54%) Red Hat Fuse
8 6 (0.41%) Drupal
9 4 (0.27%) WordPress
10 3 (0.20%) CloudStack
10 3 (0.20%) CMS
10 3 (0.20%) Jupyter
11 2 (0.14%) Apache Solr
11 2 (0.14%) SharePoint
11 2 (0.14%) Tomcat
12 1 (0.068%) Apache Pulsar
12 1 (0.068%) Oracle SOA Suite
Applications
1 6 (0.41%) Microsoft Excel
2 1 (0.068%) Blender
Business Applications
1 2 (0.14%) Remedy ITSM
2 1 (0.068%) Salesforce CRM
2 1 (0.068%) SAP S/4HANA
2 1 (0.068%) Shopify
Cloud Services
1 855 (58.20%) AWS
2 671 (45.68%) Azure
3 255 (17.36%) GCP
4 172 (11.71%) SaaS
5 171 (11.64%) Serverless
6 170 (11.57%) Azure DevOps
7 168 (11.44%) Amazon S3
8 133 (9.05%) Amazon EKS
9 124 (8.44%) GitHub
10 101 (6.88%) AWS Lambda
11 92 (6.26%) Azure AKS
12 82 (5.58%) Amazon ECS
13 81 (5.51%) AWS CloudFormation
14 79 (5.38%) Amazon EC2
15 56 (3.81%) Cloud Computing
16 49 (3.34%) Snowflake
17 45 (3.06%) PaaS
18 44 (3.00%) Amazon CloudWatch
19 41 (2.79%) Amazon SQS
20 40 (2.72%) CloudFront
Communications & Networking
1 117 (7.96%) Firewall
2 78 (5.31%) VPN
3 58 (3.95%) IPsec
4 55 (3.74%) Internet
5 54 (3.68%) SNMP
6 45 (3.06%) DNS
7 37 (2.52%) SD-WAN
7 37 (2.52%) WAN
8 26 (1.77%) DHCP
9 25 (1.70%) Network Security
10 15 (1.02%) TCP/IP
11 12 (0.82%) AMQP
12 10 (0.68%) BGP
13 7 (0.48%) HTTP
14 5 (0.34%) WLAN
15 4 (0.27%) OSPF
16 3 (0.20%) 4G
16 3 (0.20%) 5G
16 3 (0.20%) GPRS
16 3 (0.20%) iSCSI
Database & Business Intelligence
1 140 (9.53%) PostgreSQL
2 127 (8.65%) Elasticsearch
3 121 (8.24%) MongoDB
4 111 (7.56%) NoSQL
5 109 (7.42%) MySQL
6 102 (6.94%) Big Data
7 76 (5.17%) Amazon RDS
8 75 (5.11%) SQL Server
9 70 (4.77%) Relational Database
10 64 (4.36%) Data Lake
10 64 (4.36%) Redis
11 45 (3.06%) Hadoop
12 39 (2.65%) BigQuery
13 38 (2.59%) Dremio
14 36 (2.45%) Amazon Athena
14 36 (2.45%) Apache Arrow
15 30 (2.04%) Data Warehouse
16 23 (1.57%) Scylla
17 21 (1.43%) Azure SQL Database
18 19 (1.29%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 298 (20.29%) Jenkins
2 246 (16.75%) Git
3 98 (6.67%) GitLab
4 89 (6.06%) JIRA
5 47 (3.20%) TeamCity
6 41 (2.79%) JUnit
7 33 (2.25%) Maven
7 33 (2.25%) Selenium
8 22 (1.50%) CircleCI
8 22 (1.50%) Sonatype Nexus
9 21 (1.43%) SonarQube
9 21 (1.43%) Team Foundation Server
10 20 (1.36%) Octopus Deploy
11 18 (1.23%) Cucumber
11 18 (1.23%) Gradle
12 17 (1.16%) Bitbucket
13 14 (0.95%) Cypress.io
14 11 (0.75%) Spinnaker
14 11 (0.75%) Visual Studio Code
15 10 (0.68%) MLflow
General
1 370 (25.19%) Finance
2 266 (18.11%) Social Skills
3 135 (9.19%) Banking
4 88 (5.99%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 68 (4.63%) Retail
6 62 (4.22%) Public Sector
7 46 (3.13%) Aerospace
8 38 (2.59%) Law
9 37 (2.52%) Analytical Skills
10 26 (1.77%) Games
10 26 (1.77%) Tech for Good
11 23 (1.57%) Automotive
12 17 (1.16%) Health Technology
13 16 (1.09%) Back Office
14 13 (0.88%) Marketing
15 12 (0.82%) Front Office
16 11 (0.75%) Legal
17 10 (0.68%) Investment Banking
18 8 (0.54%) Telecoms
19 7 (0.48%) Retail Banking
Job Titles
1 375 (25.53%) Senior
2 310 (21.10%) Developer
3 301 (20.49%) DevOps Engineer
4 189 (12.87%) Lead
5 160 (10.89%) Software Engineer
6 148 (10.07%) AWS Engineer
7 126 (8.58%) Senior Developer
8 116 (7.90%) Cloud Engineer
9 108 (7.35%) Java Developer
10 105 (7.15%) Architect
11 97 (6.60%) Azure Engineer
12 82 (5.58%) Platform Engineer
13 72 (4.90%) AWS DevOps
14 71 (4.83%) Software Developer
15 64 (4.36%) AWS DevOps Engineer
16 63 (4.29%) Consultant
17 62 (4.22%) Data Engineer
18 58 (3.95%) Java Engineer
19 54 (3.68%) Full Stack Developer
19 54 (3.68%) NetApp Consultant
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 207 (14.09%) Kafka
2 192 (13.07%) .NET
3 188 (12.80%) React
4 156 (10.62%) Spring
5 130 (8.85%) Spring Boot
6 117 (7.96%) AngularJS
7 116 (7.90%) Node.js
8 106 (7.22%) RabbitMQ
9 100 (6.81%) REST
10 86 (5.85%) RESTful
11 76 (5.17%) .NET Core
12 65 (4.42%) YAML
13 62 (4.22%) CSS
14 58 (3.95%) Elastic Stack
15 53 (3.61%) HTML
16 52 (3.54%) Hibernate
17 50 (3.40%) Web Services
18 49 (3.34%) gRPC
19 48 (3.27%) JSON
20 46 (3.13%) ASP.NET
Miscellaneous
1 120 (8.17%) Data Centre
2 81 (5.51%) Product Ownership
3 76 (5.17%) Distributed Systems
4 75 (5.11%) Cloud Native
5 72 (4.90%) Greenfield Project
6 71 (4.83%) Management Information System
7 62 (4.22%) Public Cloud
8 56 (3.81%) Algorithms
9 54 (3.68%) Data Structures
10 53 (3.61%) Hedge funds
11 50 (3.40%) Client/Server
12 49 (3.34%) Clustering
13 44 (3.00%) Private Cloud
14 35 (2.38%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
15 32 (2.18%) Linux Command Line
15 32 (2.18%) Mobile App
16 28 (1.91%) Enterprise Software
17 25 (1.70%) Blog
18 23 (1.57%) PKI
19 22 (1.50%) Onboarding
Operating Systems
1 394 (26.82%) Linux
2 197 (13.41%) Windows
3 54 (3.68%) Data ONTAP
4 48 (3.27%) Windows Server
5 34 (2.31%) Unix
6 26 (1.77%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
7 19 (1.29%) Windows Server 2016
7 19 (1.29%) Windows Server 2019
8 13 (0.88%) VMS
9 10 (0.68%) Solaris
10 9 (0.61%) Oracle Linux
11 8 (0.54%) Android
12 7 (0.48%) Apple iOS
13 4 (0.27%) CentOS
13 4 (0.27%) Ubuntu
14 3 (0.20%) SUSE
14 3 (0.20%) SUSE Linux Enterprise Server
15 2 (0.14%) Embedded Linux
15 2 (0.14%) Windows Server 2012
16 1 (0.068%) Mac OS
Processes & Methodologies
1 721 (49.08%) DevOps
2 615 (41.87%) CI/CD
3 580 (39.48%) Agile
4 385 (26.21%) Software Engineering
5 362 (24.64%) Microservices
6 308 (20.97%) Containerisation
7 299 (20.35%) Problem-Solving
8 289 (19.67%) Infrastructure as Code
9 188 (12.80%) Mentoring
10 177 (12.05%) Continuous Integration
11 174 (11.84%) Scrum
12 150 (10.21%) TDD
13 141 (9.60%) SDLC
14 135 (9.19%) Full Stack Development
15 123 (8.37%) Computer Science
16 117 (7.96%) Fintech
17 112 (7.62%) Platform Engineering
18 104 (7.08%) Continuous Improvement
18 104 (7.08%) Test Automation
19 101 (6.88%) Release Management
Programming Languages
1 533 (36.28%) Python
2 488 (33.22%) Java
3 262 (17.84%) SQL
4 249 (16.95%) JavaScript
5 232 (15.79%) C#
6 153 (10.42%) Go
7 136 (9.26%) PowerShell
8 133 (9.05%) Bash
8 133 (9.05%) TypeScript
9 49 (3.34%) Scala
10 48 (3.27%) PHP
11 41 (2.79%) Ruby
12 36 (2.45%) C
13 31 (2.11%) Groovy
14 23 (1.57%) Kotlin
14 23 (1.57%) Perl
14 23 (1.57%) Shell Script
15 22 (1.50%) Bicep
16 15 (1.02%) C++
17 14 (0.95%) VBScript
Qualifications
1 198 (13.48%) Security Cleared
2 154 (10.48%) Degree
3 108 (7.35%) SC Cleared
4 88 (5.99%) Computer Science Degree
5 78 (5.31%) AWS Certification
6 70 (4.77%) DV Cleared
7 59 (4.02%) Azure Certification
8 38 (2.59%) CISSP
9 33 (2.25%) (ISC)2 CCSP
9 33 (2.25%) CCSK
9 33 (2.25%) CCSP
9 33 (2.25%) Cisco Certification
9 33 (2.25%) CISM
10 24 (1.63%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
11 22 (1.50%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
11 22 (1.50%) Master's Degree
12 20 (1.36%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
12 20 (1.36%) BPSS Clearance
13 10 (0.68%) Microsoft Certification
14 7 (0.48%) PhD
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 40 (2.72%) QA
2 36 (2.45%) NIST
3 23 (1.57%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 8 (0.54%) Cyber Essentials
4 8 (0.54%) NCSC
4 8 (0.54%) PCI DSS
5 5 (0.34%) Data Quality
5 5 (0.34%) SEPA
6 4 (0.27%) SOC 2
7 3 (0.20%) GDPR
7 3 (0.20%) SLA
8 2 (0.14%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
9 1 (0.068%) California Consumer Privacy Act
9 1 (0.068%) HIPAA
9 1 (0.068%) ISO 20022
9 1 (0.068%) ISO 9001
System Software
1 993 (67.60%) Docker
2 80 (5.45%) VMware Infrastructure
3 67 (4.56%) Active Directory
4 47 (3.20%) Hyper-V
5 44 (3.00%) Virtual Machines
6 14 (0.95%) Virtual Desktop
7 7 (0.48%) VMware ESXi
8 5 (0.34%) Ceph
9 3 (0.20%) Gluster
9 3 (0.20%) KVM
9 3 (0.20%) oVirt
10 1 (0.068%) Embedded Firmware
10 1 (0.068%) Firmware
10 1 (0.068%) Lustre
10 1 (0.068%) Slurm Workload Manager
10 1 (0.068%) vCloud
10 1 (0.068%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 559 (38.05%) Terraform
2 306 (20.83%) Ansible
3 150 (10.21%) Prometheus
4 84 (5.72%) Grafana
5 78 (5.31%) Puppet
6 59 (4.02%) vCenter Server
7 52 (3.54%) Progress Chef
8 40 (2.72%) Single Sign-On
9 26 (1.77%) SCCM
10 21 (1.43%) Docker Swarm
11 19 (1.29%) SCOM
12 18 (1.23%) Salt
12 18 (1.23%) WSUS
13 17 (1.16%) Microsoft Intune
14 15 (1.02%) Active Directory Federation Services
14 15 (1.02%) ZABBIX
15 14 (0.95%) Packer
16 13 (0.88%) Istio
16 13 (0.88%) Kibana
17 12 (0.82%) Rancher
Vendors
1 150 (10.21%) Microsoft
2 121 (8.24%) Google
3 106 (7.22%) VMware
4 89 (6.06%) Oracle
5 70 (4.77%) Red Hat
6 55 (3.74%) NetApp
6 55 (3.74%) Palo Alto
7 54 (3.68%) SolidFire
8 27 (1.84%) Databricks
8 27 (1.84%) WSO2
9 26 (1.77%) Dell
10 15 (1.02%) ForgeRock
10 15 (1.02%) Sitecore
11 13 (0.88%) Atlassian
11 13 (0.88%) SolarWinds
12 10 (0.68%) Facebook
12 10 (0.68%) SaltStack
12 10 (0.68%) Splunk
13 9 (0.61%) New Relic
13 9 (0.61%) YouTube