Kubernetes Engineer Jobs with Work from Home Options

Kubernetes Engineer (K8s Engineer)
UK > Work from Home

The median Kubernetes Engineer (K8s Engineer) salary for remote or hybrid work is £90,000 per year, according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months leading to 12 June 2024.

The table below provides salary benchmarking and summary statistics, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
12 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 573 506 782
Rank change year-on-year -67 +276 -304
Permanent jobs requiring a Kubernetes Engineer 29 127 119
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 0.082% 0.34% 0.16%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.085% 0.35% 0.16%
Number of salaries quoted 16 123 93
10th Percentile - £55,000 £60,000
25th Percentile £56,250 £67,500 £67,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £90,000 £105,000 £70,000
Median % change year-on-year -14.29% +50.00% -12.50%
75th Percentile £102,500 £138,750 £90,000
90th Percentile £105,000 - £109,000
UK median annual salary £100,000 £105,000 £80,000
% change year-on-year -4.76% +31.25% +3.23%

All Permanent IT Job Vacancies
Work from Home

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent IT job vacancies with WFH or hybrid options. Most job vacancies include a discernible job title that can be normalized. As such, the figures in the second row provide an indication of the number of permanent jobs in our overall sample.

Permanent vacancies in Work from Home with a recognized job title 34,224 35,954 73,616
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 96.28% 95.93% 97.29%
Number of salaries quoted 25,903 26,270 42,683
10th Percentile £33,250 £36,875 £36,250
25th Percentile £42,500 £47,447 £45,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £62,500 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -12.00% +4.17% +9.09%
75th Percentile £75,000 £81,250 £80,000
90th Percentile £93,750 £100,000 £95,000
UK median annual salary £52,500 £60,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year -12.50% - +9.09%

Kubernetes Engineer
Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

Job vacancies with a work from home option which featured Kubernetes Engineer in the job title as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Kubernetes Engineer trend for jobs with a WFH option

Kubernetes Engineer
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 Engineer.

Kubernetes Engineer salary trend for jobs with a WFH option

Kubernetes Engineer
Salary Histogram for Jobs with a WFH Option

Salary distribution for jobs with a work from home option citing Kubernetes Engineer over the 6 months to 12 June 2024.

Kubernetes Engineer salary histogram for jobs with a WFH option

Kubernetes Engineer Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Job Vacancies with WFH Options

For the 6 months to 12 June 2024, Kubernetes Engineer job roles required the following skills and capabilities in order of popularity. The figures indicate the absolute number co-occurrences and as a proportion of all permanent jobs with remote work options featuring Kubernetes Engineer in the job title.

1 29 (100.00%) Kubernetes
2 22 (75.86%) Python
3 21 (72.41%) Terraform
4 20 (68.97%) Azure
5 18 (62.07%) AWS
5 18 (62.07%) Linux
5 18 (62.07%) DevOps
6 17 (58.62%) Infrastructure as Code
7 16 (55.17%) CI/CD
7 16 (55.17%) Ansible
7 16 (55.17%) Finance
8 15 (51.72%) PowerShell
9 13 (44.83%) Docker
10 12 (41.38%) Bash
10 12 (41.38%) Containerisation
11 11 (37.93%) Jenkins
12 10 (34.48%) Amazon EKS
13 9 (31.03%) Fintech
14 8 (27.59%) Deployment Automation
14 8 (27.59%) Private Cloud
14 8 (27.59%) Git
14 8 (27.59%) Disaster Recovery
15 7 (24.14%) Law
15 7 (24.14%) Agile
15 7 (24.14%) Prometheus
15 7 (24.14%) Grafana
15 7 (24.14%) Platform Engineering
16 6 (20.69%) Azure AKS
16 6 (20.69%) Technology Strategy
16 6 (20.69%) GitHub

Kubernetes Engineer Skill Set
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:

Cloud Services
1 20 (68.97%) Azure
2 18 (62.07%) AWS
3 10 (34.48%) Amazon EKS
4 6 (20.69%) Azure AKS
4 6 (20.69%) GitHub
5 5 (17.24%) AWS CloudFormation
6 4 (13.79%) OCI
7 3 (10.34%) Amazon EC2
7 3 (10.34%) Amazon ECS
7 3 (10.34%) Amazon ElastiCache
7 3 (10.34%) Amazon S3
7 3 (10.34%) Cloud Computing
7 3 (10.34%) GCP
7 3 (10.34%) Google Kubernetes Engine
7 3 (10.34%) Route 53
7 3 (10.34%) Virtual Private Cloud
8 2 (6.90%) Amazon CloudWatch
8 2 (6.90%) Azure Cosmos DB
8 2 (6.90%) Entra ID
8 2 (6.90%) PaaS
Communications & Networking
1 6 (20.69%) Firewall
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (17.24%) InfluxDB
2 3 (10.34%) Amazon RDS
2 3 (10.34%) Azure SQL Database
2 3 (10.34%) MariaDB
2 3 (10.34%) MongoDB
2 3 (10.34%) MySQL
2 3 (10.34%) PostgreSQL
3 2 (6.90%) Redis
4 1 (3.45%) Dremio
Development Applications
1 11 (37.93%) Jenkins
2 8 (27.59%) Git
3 5 (17.24%) TeamCity
4 4 (13.79%) GitLab
4 4 (13.79%) Octopus Deploy
General
1 16 (55.17%) Finance
2 7 (24.14%) Law
3 5 (17.24%) Social Skills
4 3 (10.34%) Inclusion and Diversity
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (13.79%) Elastic Stack
2 2 (6.90%) SAML
Miscellaneous
1 8 (27.59%) Private Cloud
2 5 (17.24%) Clustering
2 5 (17.24%) Replication
3 4 (13.79%) Onboarding
4 3 (10.34%) Cloud Native
4 3 (10.34%) Data Centre
5 2 (6.90%) Client/Server
5 2 (6.90%) Hedge funds
6 1 (3.45%) Fixed Income
Operating Systems
1 18 (62.07%) Linux
2 5 (17.24%) Oracle Linux
2 5 (17.24%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
2 5 (17.24%) Solaris
3 3 (10.34%) Unix
3 3 (10.34%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 18 (62.07%) DevOps
2 17 (58.62%) Infrastructure as Code
3 16 (55.17%) CI/CD
4 12 (41.38%) Containerisation
5 9 (31.03%) Fintech
6 8 (27.59%) Deployment Automation
6 8 (27.59%) Disaster Recovery
7 7 (24.14%) Agile
7 7 (24.14%) Platform Engineering
8 6 (20.69%) High Availability
8 6 (20.69%) Software Engineering
8 6 (20.69%) Technology Strategy
9 5 (17.24%) Continuous Improvement
9 5 (17.24%) Microservices
9 5 (17.24%) Performance Tuning
9 5 (17.24%) Security Hardening
10 4 (13.79%) Configuration Management
10 4 (13.79%) Infrastructure Engineering
10 4 (13.79%) OOP
10 4 (13.79%) Problem-Solving
Programming Languages
1 22 (75.86%) Python
2 15 (51.72%) PowerShell
3 12 (41.38%) Bash
4 6 (20.69%) C#
5 4 (13.79%) JavaScript
5 4 (13.79%) PHP
6 3 (10.34%) SQL
7 1 (3.45%) Java
Qualifications
1 3 (10.34%) AWS Certification
1 3 (10.34%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
1 3 (10.34%) Azure Certification
1 3 (10.34%) Computer Science Degree
1 3 (10.34%) Degree
1 3 (10.34%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (13.79%) QA
System Software
1 13 (44.83%) Docker
2 2 (6.90%) Active Directory
2 2 (6.90%) VMware Infrastructure
3 1 (3.45%) Ceph
Systems Management
1 29 (100.00%) Kubernetes
2 21 (72.41%) Terraform
3 16 (55.17%) Ansible
4 7 (24.14%) Grafana
4 7 (24.14%) Prometheus
5 4 (13.79%) Istio
5 4 (13.79%) Progress Chef
6 3 (10.34%) Docker Swarm
7 2 (6.90%) Active Directory Federation Services
7 2 (6.90%) Rancher
8 1 (3.45%) Argo
8 1 (3.45%) Kibana
Vendors
1 6 (20.69%) Google
2 5 (17.24%) Microsoft
2 5 (17.24%) Oracle
2 5 (17.24%) Serena
3 2 (6.90%) VMware