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 1 June 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
1 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 66 30 20
Rank change year-on-year -36 -10 +3
Permanent jobs citing Kubernetes 1,468 3,148 9,486
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 4.23% 8.18% 12.77%
As % of the Systems Management category 37.84% 53.27% 62.44%
Number of salaries quoted 1,161 2,410 4,644
10th Percentile £50,000 £51,250 £46,250
25th Percentile £59,000 £60,713 £56,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £75,000 £75,000 £75,000
Median % change year-on-year - - +11.11%
75th Percentile £93,750 £92,500 £87,500
90th Percentile £116,250 £110,000 £101,250
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 3,880 5,910 15,193
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 11.17% 15.37% 20.45%
Number of salaries quoted 2,896 4,424 7,902
10th Percentile £36,500 £41,250 £42,500
25th Percentile £47,500 £52,725 £51,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £70,000 £70,000
Median % change year-on-year -7.14% - +7.69%
75th Percentile £83,750 £87,500 £85,000
90th Percentile £102,500 £105,000 £100,000
UK median annual salary £61,206 £67,500 £70,000
% change year-on-year -9.32% -3.57% +7.69%

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 1 June 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 (5.93%) Apache
2 74 (5.04%) Apache Airflow
3 53 (3.61%) Apache Spark
4 50 (3.41%) OpenStack
5 20 (1.36%) Microsoft Exchange
6 16 (1.09%) Confluence
7 15 (1.02%) nginx
8 8 (0.54%) IIS
9 6 (0.41%) JBoss
9 6 (0.41%) Red Hat Fuse
10 5 (0.34%) Drupal
11 3 (0.20%) CloudStack
11 3 (0.20%) Jupyter
11 3 (0.20%) Tomcat
11 3 (0.20%) WordPress
12 2 (0.14%) CMS
13 1 (0.068%) Apache Pulsar
13 1 (0.068%) Apache Solr
13 1 (0.068%) Moodle
13 1 (0.068%) Oracle SOA Suite
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
1 847 (57.70%) AWS
2 666 (45.37%) Azure
3 215 (14.65%) GCP
4 160 (10.90%) SaaS
5 157 (10.69%) Amazon S3
6 154 (10.49%) Azure DevOps
6 154 (10.49%) Serverless
7 125 (8.51%) Amazon EKS
8 109 (7.43%) GitHub
9 93 (6.34%) Azure AKS
10 90 (6.13%) AWS Lambda
11 82 (5.59%) AWS CloudFormation
12 81 (5.52%) Amazon EC2
13 78 (5.31%) Amazon ECS
14 66 (4.50%) Snowflake
15 58 (3.95%) dbt
16 54 (3.68%) Cloud Computing
17 42 (2.86%) OpenShift
18 40 (2.72%) Amazon CloudWatch
18 40 (2.72%) PaaS
Communications & Networking
1 118 (8.04%) Firewall
2 74 (5.04%) VPN
3 56 (3.81%) Internet
3 56 (3.81%) IPsec
4 54 (3.68%) SNMP
5 41 (2.79%) DNS
6 37 (2.52%) WAN
7 36 (2.45%) SD-WAN
8 29 (1.98%) DHCP
9 26 (1.77%) Network Security
10 14 (0.95%) TCP/IP
11 13 (0.89%) HTTP
12 12 (0.82%) AMQP
13 7 (0.48%) BGP
14 5 (0.34%) WLAN
15 4 (0.27%) 4G
15 4 (0.27%) 5G
15 4 (0.27%) iSCSI
15 4 (0.27%) OSPF
16 3 (0.20%) GPRS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 131 (8.92%) PostgreSQL
2 125 (8.51%) MongoDB
3 116 (7.90%) Elasticsearch
4 105 (7.15%) MySQL
5 103 (7.02%) NoSQL
6 98 (6.68%) Big Data
7 82 (5.59%) Data Lake
8 76 (5.18%) Amazon RDS
9 72 (4.90%) SQL Server
10 71 (4.84%) Relational Database
11 56 (3.81%) Redis
12 55 (3.75%) Dremio
13 54 (3.68%) Amazon Athena
13 54 (3.68%) Apache Arrow
14 33 (2.25%) BigQuery
14 33 (2.25%) Hadoop
15 28 (1.91%) Data Warehouse
16 24 (1.63%) Azure SQL Database
17 20 (1.36%) Tableau
18 17 (1.16%) Power BI
Development Applications
1 273 (18.60%) Jenkins
2 229 (15.60%) Git
3 92 (6.27%) JIRA
4 90 (6.13%) GitLab
5 45 (3.07%) TeamCity
6 37 (2.52%) JUnit
7 28 (1.91%) Selenium
8 23 (1.57%) SonarQube
9 22 (1.50%) Octopus Deploy
10 21 (1.43%) Team Foundation Server
11 20 (1.36%) Maven
12 19 (1.29%) CircleCI
13 18 (1.23%) Gradle
13 18 (1.23%) Sonatype Nexus
14 16 (1.09%) Bitbucket
14 16 (1.09%) Cucumber
15 13 (0.89%) Cypress.io
15 13 (0.89%) MLflow
16 11 (0.75%) Visual Studio Code
17 10 (0.68%) Visual Studio
General
1 344 (23.43%) Finance
2 263 (17.92%) Social Skills
3 97 (6.61%) Banking
4 74 (5.04%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 61 (4.16%) Public Sector
5 61 (4.16%) Retail
6 56 (3.81%) Aerospace
7 38 (2.59%) Law
8 36 (2.45%) Analytical Skills
9 26 (1.77%) Automotive
9 26 (1.77%) Tech for Good
10 24 (1.63%) Games
11 21 (1.43%) Health Technology
12 16 (1.09%) Back Office
13 11 (0.75%) Marketing
14 10 (0.68%) Front Office
15 8 (0.54%) Investment Banking
16 7 (0.48%) Legal
16 7 (0.48%) Telecoms
17 5 (0.34%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 388 (26.43%) Senior
2 299 (20.37%) DevOps Engineer
3 295 (20.10%) Developer
4 194 (13.22%) Lead
5 165 (11.24%) Software Engineer
6 160 (10.90%) AWS Engineer
7 111 (7.56%) Senior Developer
8 107 (7.29%) Cloud Engineer
9 96 (6.54%) Azure Engineer
10 93 (6.34%) Java Developer
11 92 (6.27%) Architect
12 77 (5.25%) AWS DevOps
13 75 (5.11%) Platform Engineer
14 69 (4.70%) Site Reliability Engineer
15 67 (4.56%) AWS DevOps Engineer
15 67 (4.56%) Software Developer
16 66 (4.50%) Site Engineer
17 63 (4.29%) Consultant
17 63 (4.29%) Senior Software Engineer
18 61 (4.16%) Data Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 185 (12.60%) .NET
2 169 (11.51%) Kafka
3 165 (11.24%) React
4 134 (9.13%) Spring
5 106 (7.22%) Spring Boot
6 105 (7.15%) AngularJS
6 105 (7.15%) Node.js
7 103 (7.02%) RabbitMQ
8 96 (6.54%) REST
9 81 (5.52%) RESTful
10 68 (4.63%) .NET Core
11 67 (4.56%) gRPC
12 64 (4.36%) CSS
13 62 (4.22%) YAML
14 59 (4.02%) Elastic Stack
15 55 (3.75%) Protocol Buffers
16 54 (3.68%) HTML
17 53 (3.61%) ARM Templates
18 44 (3.00%) Hibernate
19 42 (2.86%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 122 (8.31%) Data Centre
2 75 (5.11%) Cloud Native
3 72 (4.90%) Management Information System
4 71 (4.84%) Distributed Systems
4 71 (4.84%) Hedge funds
5 69 (4.70%) Clustering
5 69 (4.70%) Greenfield Project
5 69 (4.70%) Product Ownership
6 50 (3.41%) Algorithms
6 50 (3.41%) Client/Server
7 48 (3.27%) Public Cloud
8 46 (3.13%) Data Structures
9 39 (2.66%) Private Cloud
10 35 (2.38%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
11 31 (2.11%) Mobile App
12 27 (1.84%) Linux Command Line
13 26 (1.77%) Enterprise Software
14 25 (1.70%) PKI
15 23 (1.57%) Blog
15 23 (1.57%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 405 (27.59%) Linux
2 198 (13.49%) Windows
3 54 (3.68%) Data ONTAP
4 52 (3.54%) Windows Server
5 37 (2.52%) Unix
6 29 (1.98%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
7 22 (1.50%) Windows Server 2016
7 22 (1.50%) Windows Server 2019
8 11 (0.75%) Solaris
8 11 (0.75%) VMS
9 10 (0.68%) Oracle Linux
10 5 (0.34%) Android
11 4 (0.27%) Apple iOS
11 4 (0.27%) CentOS
11 4 (0.27%) Debian
11 4 (0.27%) Ubuntu
12 3 (0.20%) SUSE
12 3 (0.20%) SUSE Linux Enterprise Server
13 2 (0.14%) Alpine Linux
13 2 (0.14%) Embedded Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 760 (51.77%) DevOps
2 600 (40.87%) CI/CD
3 550 (37.47%) Agile
4 376 (25.61%) Software Engineering
5 342 (23.30%) Microservices
6 304 (20.71%) Containerisation
7 284 (19.35%) Problem-Solving
8 278 (18.94%) Infrastructure as Code
9 181 (12.33%) Mentoring
10 168 (11.44%) Scrum
11 158 (10.76%) Continuous Integration
12 136 (9.26%) TDD
13 135 (9.20%) Full Stack Development
14 133 (9.06%) SDLC
15 128 (8.72%) Computer Science
16 113 (7.70%) Site Reliability Engineering
17 108 (7.36%) Platform Engineering
18 107 (7.29%) Fintech
19 102 (6.95%) Machine Learning
20 101 (6.88%) Release Management
Programming Languages
1 536 (36.51%) Python
2 454 (30.93%) Java
3 277 (18.87%) JavaScript
4 250 (17.03%) SQL
5 232 (15.80%) C#
6 159 (10.83%) Go
7 149 (10.15%) TypeScript
8 138 (9.40%) PowerShell
9 113 (7.70%) Bash
10 43 (2.93%) PHP
11 40 (2.72%) Ruby
11 40 (2.72%) Scala
12 34 (2.32%) C
13 31 (2.11%) Groovy
14 25 (1.70%) Bicep
15 22 (1.50%) Kotlin
16 19 (1.29%) Shell Script
17 17 (1.16%) Perl
17 17 (1.16%) VB
17 17 (1.16%) VBScript
Qualifications
1 224 (15.26%) Security Cleared
2 158 (10.76%) Degree
3 130 (8.86%) SC Cleared
4 99 (6.74%) DV Cleared
5 90 (6.13%) Computer Science Degree
6 89 (6.06%) AWS Certification
7 61 (4.16%) Azure Certification
8 38 (2.59%) CISSP
9 34 (2.32%) Cisco Certification
10 33 (2.25%) (ISC)2 CCSP
10 33 (2.25%) CCSK
10 33 (2.25%) CCSP
10 33 (2.25%) CISM
11 27 (1.84%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
12 25 (1.70%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
13 23 (1.57%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
14 22 (1.50%) Master's Degree
15 15 (1.02%) BPSS Clearance
16 13 (0.89%) Microsoft Certification
17 8 (0.54%) PhD
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 44 (3.00%) QA
2 37 (2.52%) NIST
3 20 (1.36%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 10 (0.68%) NCSC
5 9 (0.61%) PCI DSS
6 8 (0.54%) Cyber Essentials
7 6 (0.41%) SOC 2
8 5 (0.34%) Data Quality
9 4 (0.27%) GDPR
9 4 (0.27%) SLA
10 3 (0.20%) HIPAA
11 2 (0.14%) Accessibility
11 2 (0.14%) SEPA
12 1 (0.068%) California Consumer Privacy Act
12 1 (0.068%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
12 1 (0.068%) ISO 9001
System Software
1 948 (64.58%) Docker
2 83 (5.65%) VMware Infrastructure
3 65 (4.43%) Active Directory
4 45 (3.07%) Virtual Machines
5 43 (2.93%) Hyper-V
6 18 (1.23%) Virtual Desktop
7 6 (0.41%) VMware ESXi
8 4 (0.27%) Ceph
9 3 (0.20%) Gluster
9 3 (0.20%) KVM
9 3 (0.20%) oVirt
10 2 (0.14%) Firmware
10 2 (0.14%) vSphere
11 1 (0.068%) Embedded Firmware
11 1 (0.068%) Lustre
11 1 (0.068%) NFS
11 1 (0.068%) pfSense
11 1 (0.068%) Slurm Workload Manager
11 1 (0.068%) vCloud
Systems Management
1 591 (40.26%) Terraform
2 316 (21.53%) Ansible
3 172 (11.72%) Prometheus
4 85 (5.79%) Grafana
5 74 (5.04%) Puppet
6 59 (4.02%) vCenter Server
7 45 (3.07%) Progress Chef
8 40 (2.72%) Single Sign-On
9 30 (2.04%) SCCM
10 23 (1.57%) Docker Swarm
11 22 (1.50%) SCOM
12 20 (1.36%) Active Directory Federation Services
12 20 (1.36%) WSUS
13 19 (1.29%) Microsoft Intune
14 14 (0.95%) ZABBIX
15 12 (0.82%) Packer
16 11 (0.75%) Kibana
16 11 (0.75%) Rancher
17 10 (0.68%) Consul
17 10 (0.68%) Istio
Vendors
1 154 (10.49%) Microsoft
2 108 (7.36%) VMware
3 92 (6.27%) Google
4 83 (5.65%) Oracle
5 71 (4.84%) Red Hat
6 56 (3.81%) NetApp
7 54 (3.68%) Palo Alto
7 54 (3.68%) SolidFire
8 25 (1.70%) Databricks
9 23 (1.57%) WSO2
10 16 (1.09%) ForgeRock
10 16 (1.09%) Sitecore
10 16 (1.09%) Splunk
11 15 (1.02%) Dell
12 13 (0.89%) Atlassian
13 12 (0.82%) SolarWinds
14 10 (0.68%) Facebook
14 10 (0.68%) Serena
15 9 (0.61%) New Relic
15 9 (0.61%) Veeam