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

6 months to
20 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 60 26 20
Rank change year-on-year -34 -6 +2
Permanent jobs citing Kubernetes 1,477 3,549 8,947
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 4.37% 8.75% 12.55%
As % of the Systems Management category 38.01% 54.61% 62.24%
Number of salaries quoted 1,174 2,494 4,632
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 £92,500 £87,500
90th Percentile £115,000 £110,000 £102,500
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 3,886 6,499 14,374
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 11.49% 16.02% 20.17%
Number of salaries quoted 2,931 4,614 7,876
10th Percentile £37,000 £41,250 £42,500
25th Percentile £47,500 £52,725 £51,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £64,000 £70,000 £70,000
Median % change year-on-year -8.57% - +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 20 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 (5.89%) Apache
2 74 (5.01%) Apache Airflow
3 66 (4.47%) Apache Spark
4 52 (3.52%) OpenStack
5 18 (1.22%) Confluence
6 16 (1.08%) Microsoft Exchange
7 14 (0.95%) nginx
8 8 (0.54%) IIS
9 7 (0.47%) JBoss
9 7 (0.47%) Red Hat Fuse
10 5 (0.34%) Drupal
11 3 (0.20%) CloudStack
11 3 (0.20%) Jupyter
11 3 (0.20%) WordPress
12 2 (0.14%) Apache Solr
12 2 (0.14%) CMS
12 2 (0.14%) Tomcat
13 1 (0.068%) Apache Pulsar
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
1 859 (58.16%) AWS
2 676 (45.77%) Azure
3 242 (16.38%) GCP
4 172 (11.65%) SaaS
5 168 (11.37%) Amazon S3
6 163 (11.04%) Serverless
7 159 (10.77%) Azure DevOps
8 128 (8.67%) Amazon EKS
9 123 (8.33%) GitHub
10 97 (6.57%) AWS Lambda
11 93 (6.30%) Azure AKS
12 84 (5.69%) AWS CloudFormation
13 80 (5.42%) Amazon EC2
13 80 (5.42%) Amazon ECS
14 66 (4.47%) Snowflake
15 58 (3.93%) dbt
16 53 (3.59%) Cloud Computing
17 45 (3.05%) PaaS
18 43 (2.91%) OpenShift
19 42 (2.84%) Amazon CloudWatch
Communications & Networking
1 117 (7.92%) Firewall
2 76 (5.15%) VPN
3 58 (3.93%) IPsec
4 55 (3.72%) Internet
5 54 (3.66%) SNMP
6 43 (2.91%) DNS
7 37 (2.51%) WAN
8 36 (2.44%) SD-WAN
9 26 (1.76%) DHCP
10 25 (1.69%) Network Security
11 15 (1.02%) TCP/IP
12 12 (0.81%) AMQP
13 10 (0.68%) 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
1 135 (9.14%) PostgreSQL
2 123 (8.33%) Elasticsearch
2 123 (8.33%) MongoDB
3 111 (7.52%) Big Data
3 111 (7.52%) MySQL
4 109 (7.38%) NoSQL
5 82 (5.55%) Data Lake
6 76 (5.15%) Amazon RDS
7 73 (4.94%) SQL Server
8 71 (4.81%) Relational Database
9 62 (4.20%) Redis
10 56 (3.79%) Dremio
11 54 (3.66%) Amazon Athena
11 54 (3.66%) Apache Arrow
12 43 (2.91%) Hadoop
13 35 (2.37%) BigQuery
14 29 (1.96%) Data Warehouse
15 24 (1.62%) Azure SQL Database
16 22 (1.49%) Scylla
17 19 (1.29%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 289 (19.57%) Jenkins
2 243 (16.45%) Git
3 93 (6.30%) GitLab
4 89 (6.03%) JIRA
5 46 (3.11%) TeamCity
6 36 (2.44%) JUnit
7 31 (2.10%) Selenium
8 27 (1.83%) Maven
9 23 (1.56%) SonarQube
10 21 (1.42%) Sonatype Nexus
10 21 (1.42%) Team Foundation Server
11 20 (1.35%) CircleCI
11 20 (1.35%) 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 (0.81%) MLflow
17 11 (0.74%) Visual Studio Code
18 10 (0.68%) Subversion
General
1 370 (25.05%) Finance
2 261 (17.67%) Social Skills
3 119 (8.06%) Banking
4 82 (5.55%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 64 (4.33%) Retail
6 62 (4.20%) Public Sector
7 51 (3.45%) Aerospace
8 38 (2.57%) Law
9 35 (2.37%) Analytical Skills
10 26 (1.76%) Automotive
10 26 (1.76%) Games
10 26 (1.76%) Tech for Good
11 19 (1.29%) Health Technology
12 16 (1.08%) Back Office
13 11 (0.74%) Marketing
14 10 (0.68%) Front Office
15 9 (0.61%) Investment Banking
15 9 (0.61%) Legal
16 7 (0.47%) Telecoms
17 6 (0.41%) Documentation Skills
Job Titles
1 377 (25.52%) Senior
2 307 (20.79%) Developer
3 297 (20.11%) DevOps Engineer
4 189 (12.80%) Lead
5 168 (11.37%) Software Engineer
6 164 (11.10%) AWS Engineer
7 115 (7.79%) Cloud Engineer
7 115 (7.79%) Senior Developer
8 99 (6.70%) Java Developer
9 97 (6.57%) Architect
10 95 (6.43%) Azure Engineer
11 79 (5.35%) Platform Engineer
12 74 (5.01%) AWS DevOps
13 70 (4.74%) Software Developer
14 68 (4.60%) Site Reliability Engineer
15 66 (4.47%) Site Engineer
16 65 (4.40%) AWS DevOps Engineer
17 63 (4.27%) Consultant
17 63 (4.27%) Data Engineer
18 58 (3.93%) Java Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 187 (12.66%) .NET
2 186 (12.59%) Kafka
3 177 (11.98%) React
4 144 (9.75%) Spring
5 116 (7.85%) Spring Boot
6 111 (7.52%) AngularJS
6 111 (7.52%) Node.js
7 102 (6.91%) RabbitMQ
8 97 (6.57%) REST
9 82 (5.55%) RESTful
10 72 (4.87%) .NET Core
11 67 (4.54%) gRPC
12 63 (4.27%) YAML
13 62 (4.20%) CSS
14 60 (4.06%) Elastic Stack
15 55 (3.72%) Protocol Buffers
16 53 (3.59%) HTML
17 47 (3.18%) ARM Templates
17 47 (3.18%) Hibernate
17 47 (3.18%) JSON
Miscellaneous
1 121 (8.19%) Data Centre
2 79 (5.35%) Product Ownership
3 74 (5.01%) Cloud Native
4 73 (4.94%) Distributed Systems
5 71 (4.81%) Hedge funds
5 71 (4.81%) Management Information System
6 70 (4.74%) Greenfield Project
7 68 (4.60%) Clustering
8 61 (4.13%) Public Cloud
9 56 (3.79%) Algorithms
10 54 (3.66%) Data Structures
11 50 (3.39%) Client/Server
12 46 (3.11%) Private Cloud
13 35 (2.37%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
14 31 (2.10%) Mobile App
15 28 (1.90%) Linux Command Line
16 27 (1.83%) Enterprise Software
17 23 (1.56%) Blog
17 23 (1.56%) PKI
18 22 (1.49%) Onboarding
Operating Systems
1 395 (26.74%) Linux
2 193 (13.07%) Windows
3 54 (3.66%) Data ONTAP
4 48 (3.25%) Windows Server
5 34 (2.30%) Unix
6 27 (1.83%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
7 19 (1.29%) Windows Server 2016
7 19 (1.29%) Windows Server 2019
8 12 (0.81%) VMS
9 11 (0.74%) Solaris
10 10 (0.68%) Oracle Linux
11 7 (0.47%) Android
12 6 (0.41%) 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%) Debian
15 2 (0.14%) Embedded Linux
15 2 (0.14%) Windows Server 2012
Processes & Methodologies
1 747 (50.58%) DevOps
2 602 (40.76%) CI/CD
3 574 (38.86%) Agile
4 381 (25.80%) Software Engineering
5 351 (23.76%) Microservices
6 309 (20.92%) Containerisation
7 289 (19.57%) Problem-Solving
8 286 (19.36%) Infrastructure as Code
9 186 (12.59%) Mentoring
10 169 (11.44%) Continuous Integration
11 167 (11.31%) Scrum
12 145 (9.82%) TDD
13 136 (9.21%) Full Stack Development
14 132 (8.94%) SDLC
15 127 (8.60%) Computer Science
16 113 (7.65%) Site Reliability Engineering
17 111 (7.52%) Platform Engineering
18 110 (7.45%) Fintech
19 107 (7.24%) Continuous Improvement
20 99 (6.70%) Release Management
Programming Languages
1 542 (36.70%) Python
2 488 (33.04%) Java
3 271 (18.35%) JavaScript
4 258 (17.47%) SQL
5 227 (15.37%) C#
6 167 (11.31%) Go
7 142 (9.61%) TypeScript
8 133 (9.00%) PowerShell
9 127 (8.60%) Bash
10 48 (3.25%) Scala
11 45 (3.05%) PHP
12 38 (2.57%) Ruby
13 35 (2.37%) C
14 31 (2.10%) Groovy
15 24 (1.62%) Kotlin
16 22 (1.49%) Bicep
17 20 (1.35%) Perl
17 20 (1.35%) Shell Script
18 15 (1.02%) C++
19 14 (0.95%) VBScript
Qualifications
1 207 (14.01%) Security Cleared
2 156 (10.56%) Degree
3 117 (7.92%) SC Cleared
4 89 (6.03%) Computer Science Degree
5 84 (5.69%) AWS Certification
6 81 (5.48%) DV Cleared
7 59 (3.99%) Azure Certification
8 38 (2.57%) CISSP
9 33 (2.23%) (ISC)2 CCSP
9 33 (2.23%) CCSK
9 33 (2.23%) CCSP
9 33 (2.23%) Cisco Certification
9 33 (2.23%) CISM
10 24 (1.62%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
10 24 (1.62%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
11 21 (1.42%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
11 21 (1.42%) Master's Degree
12 16 (1.08%) BPSS Clearance
13 13 (0.88%) Microsoft Certification
14 7 (0.47%) PhD
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 43 (2.91%) QA
2 36 (2.44%) NIST
3 20 (1.35%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 9 (0.61%) NCSC
5 8 (0.54%) PCI DSS
6 7 (0.47%) Cyber Essentials
7 5 (0.34%) Data Quality
8 4 (0.27%) SEPA
8 4 (0.27%) SLA
8 4 (0.27%) SOC 2
9 2 (0.14%) GDPR
10 1 (0.068%) Accessibility
10 1 (0.068%) California Consumer Privacy Act
10 1 (0.068%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
10 1 (0.068%) HIPAA
10 1 (0.068%) ISO 9001
System Software
1 960 (65.00%) Docker
2 80 (5.42%) VMware Infrastructure
3 64 (4.33%) Active Directory
4 46 (3.11%) Hyper-V
5 40 (2.71%) Virtual Machines
6 14 (0.95%) Virtual Desktop
7 7 (0.47%) 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
1 589 (39.88%) Terraform
2 320 (21.67%) Ansible
3 167 (11.31%) Prometheus
4 82 (5.55%) Grafana
5 79 (5.35%) Puppet
6 59 (3.99%) vCenter Server
7 53 (3.59%) Progress Chef
8 40 (2.71%) Single Sign-On
9 26 (1.76%) SCCM
10 23 (1.56%) Docker Swarm
11 19 (1.29%) SCOM
12 18 (1.22%) WSUS
13 17 (1.15%) Active Directory Federation Services
14 16 (1.08%) Microsoft Intune
15 14 (0.95%) Packer
15 14 (0.95%) Salt
15 14 (0.95%) ZABBIX
16 12 (0.81%) Istio
16 12 (0.81%) Kibana
17 11 (0.74%) Argo
Vendors
1 149 (10.09%) Microsoft
2 111 (7.52%) Google
3 105 (7.11%) VMware
4 88 (5.96%) Oracle
5 70 (4.74%) Red Hat
6 55 (3.72%) NetApp
7 54 (3.66%) Palo Alto
7 54 (3.66%) SolidFire
8 27 (1.83%) Databricks
9 26 (1.76%) WSO2
10 24 (1.62%) Dell
11 16 (1.08%) ForgeRock
11 16 (1.08%) Sitecore
12 15 (1.02%) Atlassian
13 13 (0.88%) SolarWinds
14 12 (0.81%) Splunk
15 10 (0.68%) Facebook
15 10 (0.68%) Serena
16 9 (0.61%) New Relic
16 9 (0.61%) Veeam