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

6 months to
15 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 64 26 20
Rank change year-on-year -38 -6 +3
Permanent jobs citing Kubernetes 1,472 3,553 8,788
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 4.36% 8.73% 12.57%
As % of the Systems Management category 37.91% 54.63% 62.41%
Number of salaries quoted 1,168 2,496 4,593
10th Percentile £50,000 £50,000 £46,250
25th Percentile £59,000 £60,000 £56,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £75,000 £75,000 £75,000
Median % change year-on-year - - +11.11%
75th Percentile £93,750 £92,813 £88,750
90th Percentile £115,000 £110,000 £103,300
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 3,883 6,504 14,081
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 11.51% 15.98% 20.14%
Number of salaries quoted 2,935 4,603 7,792
10th Percentile £37,101 £41,250 £42,500
25th Percentile £47,500 £52,500 £52,000
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 £85,000
90th Percentile £102,500 £105,000 £100,000
UK median annual salary £60,500 £67,500 £70,000
% change year-on-year -10.37% -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 15 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 87 (5.91%) Apache
2 67 (4.55%) Apache Airflow
2 67 (4.55%) Apache Spark
3 54 (3.67%) OpenStack
4 18 (1.22%) Confluence
5 16 (1.09%) Microsoft Exchange
6 15 (1.02%) nginx
7 8 (0.54%) IIS
8 7 (0.48%) JBoss
8 7 (0.48%) Red Hat Fuse
9 5 (0.34%) Drupal
10 3 (0.20%) CloudStack
10 3 (0.20%) Jupyter
10 3 (0.20%) WordPress
11 2 (0.14%) Apache Solr
11 2 (0.14%) CMS
11 2 (0.14%) Tomcat
12 1 (0.068%) Moodle
12 1 (0.068%) Oracle SOA Suite
12 1 (0.068%) SharePoint
Applications
1 6 (0.41%) Microsoft Excel
2 1 (0.068%) Blender
Business Applications
1 3 (0.20%) Remedy ITSM
2 1 (0.068%) Salesforce CRM
2 1 (0.068%) SAP S/4HANA
2 1 (0.068%) Shopify
Cloud Services
1 856 (58.15%) AWS
2 675 (45.86%) Azure
3 245 (16.64%) GCP
4 171 (11.62%) SaaS
5 170 (11.55%) Amazon S3
6 166 (11.28%) Serverless
7 161 (10.94%) Azure DevOps
8 131 (8.90%) Amazon EKS
9 122 (8.29%) GitHub
10 99 (6.73%) AWS Lambda
11 91 (6.18%) Azure AKS
12 84 (5.71%) AWS CloudFormation
13 81 (5.50%) Amazon ECS
14 80 (5.43%) Amazon EC2
15 60 (4.08%) Snowflake
16 53 (3.60%) Cloud Computing
17 52 (3.53%) dbt
18 44 (2.99%) PaaS
19 43 (2.92%) OpenShift
20 42 (2.85%) Amazon CloudWatch
Communications & Networking
1 116 (7.88%) Firewall
2 76 (5.16%) VPN
3 58 (3.94%) IPsec
4 55 (3.74%) Internet
5 54 (3.67%) SNMP
6 43 (2.92%) DNS
7 37 (2.51%) WAN
8 36 (2.45%) SD-WAN
9 26 (1.77%) DHCP
10 25 (1.70%) Network Security
11 15 (1.02%) TCP/IP
12 12 (0.82%) AMQP
13 9 (0.61%) HTTP
14 8 (0.54%) BGP
15 5 (0.34%) WLAN
16 4 (0.27%) 4G
16 4 (0.27%) 5G
16 4 (0.27%) OSPF
17 3 (0.20%) GPRS
17 3 (0.20%) iSCSI
Database & Business Intelligence
1 133 (9.04%) PostgreSQL
2 123 (8.36%) Elasticsearch
2 123 (8.36%) MongoDB
3 111 (7.54%) NoSQL
4 110 (7.47%) MySQL
5 108 (7.34%) Big Data
6 76 (5.16%) Amazon RDS
6 76 (5.16%) Data Lake
7 73 (4.96%) SQL Server
8 70 (4.76%) Relational Database
9 62 (4.21%) Redis
10 50 (3.40%) Dremio
11 48 (3.26%) Amazon Athena
11 48 (3.26%) Apache Arrow
12 45 (3.06%) Hadoop
13 35 (2.38%) BigQuery
14 30 (2.04%) Data Warehouse
15 23 (1.56%) Azure SQL Database
15 23 (1.56%) Scylla
16 20 (1.36%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 292 (19.84%) Jenkins
2 245 (16.64%) Git
3 95 (6.45%) GitLab
4 88 (5.98%) JIRA
5 47 (3.19%) TeamCity
6 37 (2.51%) JUnit
7 31 (2.11%) Selenium
8 28 (1.90%) Maven
9 22 (1.49%) SonarQube
10 21 (1.43%) CircleCI
10 21 (1.43%) Sonatype Nexus
10 21 (1.43%) Team Foundation Server
11 20 (1.36%) Octopus Deploy
12 18 (1.22%) Gradle
13 17 (1.15%) Bitbucket
14 15 (1.02%) Cucumber
15 13 (0.88%) Cypress.io
16 12 (0.82%) MLflow
17 11 (0.75%) Visual Studio Code
18 10 (0.68%) Visual Studio
General
1 370 (25.14%) Finance
2 264 (17.93%) Social Skills
3 122 (8.29%) Banking
4 85 (5.77%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 64 (4.35%) Retail
6 61 (4.14%) Public Sector
7 50 (3.40%) Aerospace
8 38 (2.58%) Law
9 35 (2.38%) Analytical Skills
10 26 (1.77%) Games
10 26 (1.77%) Tech for Good
11 25 (1.70%) Automotive
12 18 (1.22%) Health Technology
13 16 (1.09%) Back Office
14 11 (0.75%) Front Office
14 11 (0.75%) Marketing
15 10 (0.68%) Investment Banking
16 9 (0.61%) Legal
17 7 (0.48%) Telecoms
18 6 (0.41%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 371 (25.20%) Senior
2 310 (21.06%) Developer
3 299 (20.31%) DevOps Engineer
4 188 (12.77%) Lead
5 164 (11.14%) Software Engineer
6 160 (10.87%) AWS Engineer
7 117 (7.95%) Senior Developer
8 116 (7.88%) Cloud Engineer
9 101 (6.86%) Java Developer
10 98 (6.66%) Architect
11 95 (6.45%) Azure Engineer
12 80 (5.43%) Platform Engineer
13 75 (5.10%) AWS DevOps
14 70 (4.76%) Software Developer
15 66 (4.48%) AWS DevOps Engineer
16 63 (4.28%) Consultant
16 63 (4.28%) Data Engineer
17 62 (4.21%) Site Reliability Engineer
18 60 (4.08%) Site Engineer
19 58 (3.94%) Java Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 189 (12.84%) .NET
1 189 (12.84%) Kafka
2 179 (12.16%) React
3 147 (9.99%) Spring
4 120 (8.15%) Spring Boot
5 112 (7.61%) AngularJS
5 112 (7.61%) Node.js
6 104 (7.07%) RabbitMQ
7 98 (6.66%) REST
8 82 (5.57%) RESTful
9 74 (5.03%) .NET Core
10 64 (4.35%) YAML
11 62 (4.21%) CSS
12 61 (4.14%) Elastic Stack
12 61 (4.14%) gRPC
13 53 (3.60%) HTML
14 49 (3.33%) Hibernate
14 49 (3.33%) Protocol Buffers
15 48 (3.26%) JSON
16 47 (3.19%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 122 (8.29%) Data Centre
2 80 (5.43%) Product Ownership
3 75 (5.10%) Cloud Native
4 74 (5.03%) Distributed Systems
5 71 (4.82%) Management Information System
6 70 (4.76%) Greenfield Project
7 65 (4.42%) Hedge funds
8 62 (4.21%) Clustering
8 62 (4.21%) Public Cloud
9 58 (3.94%) Algorithms
10 56 (3.80%) Data Structures
11 50 (3.40%) Client/Server
12 45 (3.06%) Private Cloud
13 35 (2.38%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
14 32 (2.17%) Mobile App
15 29 (1.97%) Linux Command Line
16 28 (1.90%) Enterprise Software
17 24 (1.63%) Blog
18 23 (1.56%) PKI
19 22 (1.49%) Onboarding
Operating Systems
1 398 (27.04%) Linux
2 196 (13.32%) Windows
3 54 (3.67%) Data ONTAP
4 48 (3.26%) Windows Server
5 35 (2.38%) Unix
6 27 (1.83%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
7 19 (1.29%) Windows Server 2016
7 19 (1.29%) Windows Server 2019
8 13 (0.88%) VMS
9 11 (0.75%) Solaris
10 10 (0.68%) 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
1 736 (50.00%) DevOps
2 603 (40.96%) CI/CD
3 576 (39.13%) Agile
4 379 (25.75%) Software Engineering
5 350 (23.78%) Microservices
6 310 (21.06%) Containerisation
7 291 (19.77%) Problem-Solving
8 286 (19.43%) Infrastructure as Code
9 185 (12.57%) Mentoring
10 171 (11.62%) Continuous Integration
11 168 (11.41%) Scrum
12 144 (9.78%) TDD
13 134 (9.10%) Full Stack Development
14 133 (9.04%) SDLC
15 125 (8.49%) Computer Science
16 111 (7.54%) Fintech
16 111 (7.54%) Platform Engineering
17 107 (7.27%) Continuous Improvement
17 107 (7.27%) Site Reliability Engineering
18 99 (6.73%) Release Management
Programming Languages
1 535 (36.35%) Python
2 491 (33.36%) Java
3 261 (17.73%) JavaScript
4 258 (17.53%) SQL
5 228 (15.49%) C#
6 165 (11.21%) Go
7 135 (9.17%) TypeScript
8 134 (9.10%) PowerShell
9 130 (8.83%) Bash
10 49 (3.33%) Scala
11 45 (3.06%) PHP
12 39 (2.65%) Ruby
13 35 (2.38%) C
14 32 (2.17%) Groovy
15 23 (1.56%) Kotlin
16 22 (1.49%) Bicep
16 22 (1.49%) Shell Script
17 21 (1.43%) Perl
18 16 (1.09%) C++
19 14 (0.95%) VBScript
Qualifications
1 202 (13.72%) Security Cleared
2 154 (10.46%) Degree
3 113 (7.68%) SC Cleared
4 87 (5.91%) Computer Science Degree
5 82 (5.57%) AWS Certification
6 75 (5.10%) DV Cleared
7 59 (4.01%) Azure Certification
8 38 (2.58%) CISSP
9 33 (2.24%) (ISC)2 CCSP
9 33 (2.24%) CCSK
9 33 (2.24%) CCSP
9 33 (2.24%) Cisco Certification
9 33 (2.24%) CISM
10 24 (1.63%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
11 23 (1.56%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
12 21 (1.43%) Master's Degree
13 20 (1.36%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
14 17 (1.15%) BPSS Clearance
15 12 (0.82%) Microsoft Certification
16 7 (0.48%) PhD
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 41 (2.79%) QA
2 36 (2.45%) NIST
3 20 (1.36%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 8 (0.54%) NCSC
4 8 (0.54%) PCI DSS
5 7 (0.48%) Cyber Essentials
6 5 (0.34%) Data Quality
7 4 (0.27%) SEPA
7 4 (0.27%) SLA
7 4 (0.27%) SOC 2
8 2 (0.14%) GDPR
9 1 (0.068%) California Consumer Privacy Act
9 1 (0.068%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
9 1 (0.068%) HIPAA
9 1 (0.068%) ISO 9001
System Software
1 965 (65.56%) Docker
2 80 (5.43%) VMware Infrastructure
3 66 (4.48%) Active Directory
4 46 (3.13%) Hyper-V
5 41 (2.79%) 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
1 583 (39.61%) Terraform
2 316 (21.47%) Ansible
3 161 (10.94%) Prometheus
4 81 (5.50%) Grafana
5 77 (5.23%) Puppet
6 59 (4.01%) vCenter Server
7 52 (3.53%) Progress Chef
8 40 (2.72%) Single Sign-On
9 26 (1.77%) SCCM
10 22 (1.49%) Docker Swarm
11 19 (1.29%) SCOM
12 18 (1.22%) WSUS
13 16 (1.09%) Active Directory Federation Services
13 16 (1.09%) Microsoft Intune
14 15 (1.02%) Salt
15 14 (0.95%) Packer
15 14 (0.95%) ZABBIX
16 13 (0.88%) Istio
16 13 (0.88%) Kibana
17 12 (0.82%) Rancher
Vendors
1 148 (10.05%) Microsoft
2 114 (7.74%) Google
3 106 (7.20%) VMware
4 89 (6.05%) Oracle
5 70 (4.76%) Red Hat
6 55 (3.74%) NetApp
7 54 (3.67%) Palo Alto
7 54 (3.67%) SolidFire
8 27 (1.83%) Databricks
9 26 (1.77%) Dell
9 26 (1.77%) WSO2
10 16 (1.09%) ForgeRock
10 16 (1.09%) Sitecore
11 15 (1.02%) Atlassian
12 13 (0.88%) SolarWinds
13 12 (0.82%) Splunk
14 10 (0.68%) Facebook
14 10 (0.68%) Serena
15 9 (0.61%) New Relic
15 9 (0.61%) Veeam