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

6 months to
19 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 64 26 20
Rank change year-on-year -38 -6 +2
Permanent jobs citing Kubernetes 1,472 3,559 8,851
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 4.35% 8.77% 12.55%
As % of the Systems Management category 37.85% 54.64% 62.29%
Number of salaries quoted 1,168 2,503 4,584
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 3,889 6,513 14,210
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 11.49% 16.05% 20.15%
Number of salaries quoted 2,934 4,626 7,807
10th Percentile £37,101 £41,250 £42,500
25th Percentile £47,500 £52,725 £51,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £69,474 £70,000
Median % change year-on-year -6.44% -0.75% +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 19 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 68 (4.62%) Apache Airflow
3 66 (4.48%) Apache Spark
4 52 (3.53%) OpenStack
5 18 (1.22%) Confluence
6 16 (1.09%) Microsoft Exchange
7 15 (1.02%) nginx
8 8 (0.54%) IIS
9 7 (0.48%) JBoss
9 7 (0.48%) 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%) Moodle
13 1 (0.068%) Oracle SOA Suite
13 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
1 852 (57.88%) AWS
2 674 (45.79%) Azure
3 243 (16.51%) GCP
4 170 (11.55%) SaaS
5 168 (11.41%) Amazon S3
6 165 (11.21%) Serverless
7 159 (10.80%) Azure DevOps
8 128 (8.70%) Amazon EKS
9 123 (8.36%) GitHub
10 98 (6.66%) AWS Lambda
11 91 (6.18%) Azure AKS
12 84 (5.71%) AWS CloudFormation
13 80 (5.43%) Amazon ECS
14 79 (5.37%) Amazon EC2
15 60 (4.08%) Snowflake
16 53 (3.60%) Cloud Computing
17 52 (3.53%) dbt
18 45 (3.06%) 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 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 (9.17%) PostgreSQL
2 124 (8.42%) MongoDB
3 123 (8.36%) Elasticsearch
4 111 (7.54%) MySQL
5 110 (7.47%) NoSQL
6 106 (7.20%) Big Data
7 76 (5.16%) Data Lake
8 75 (5.10%) Amazon RDS
9 73 (4.96%) SQL Server
10 71 (4.82%) Relational Database
11 63 (4.28%) Redis
12 50 (3.40%) Dremio
13 48 (3.26%) Amazon Athena
13 48 (3.26%) Apache Arrow
14 44 (2.99%) Hadoop
15 35 (2.38%) BigQuery
16 29 (1.97%) Data Warehouse
17 24 (1.63%) Azure SQL Database
18 23 (1.56%) Scylla
19 20 (1.36%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 290 (19.70%) Jenkins
2 244 (16.58%) Git
3 95 (6.45%) GitLab
4 89 (6.05%) JIRA
5 47 (3.19%) TeamCity
6 36 (2.45%) JUnit
7 31 (2.11%) Selenium
8 27 (1.83%) Maven
9 22 (1.49%) SonarQube
10 21 (1.43%) Octopus Deploy
10 21 (1.43%) Sonatype Nexus
10 21 (1.43%) Team Foundation Server
11 20 (1.36%) CircleCI
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%) Subversion
General
1 366 (24.86%) Finance
2 264 (17.93%) Social Skills
3 120 (8.15%) Banking
4 83 (5.64%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 64 (4.35%) Retail
6 60 (4.08%) Public Sector
7 51 (3.46%) Aerospace
8 38 (2.58%) Law
9 34 (2.31%) 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%) Documentation Skills
Job Titles
1 378 (25.68%) Senior
2 308 (20.92%) Developer
3 299 (20.31%) DevOps Engineer
4 189 (12.84%) Lead
5 169 (11.48%) Software Engineer
6 158 (10.73%) AWS Engineer
7 116 (7.88%) Senior Developer
8 114 (7.74%) Cloud Engineer
9 100 (6.79%) Java Developer
10 97 (6.59%) Architect
11 94 (6.39%) Azure Engineer
12 79 (5.37%) Platform Engineer
13 75 (5.10%) AWS DevOps
14 69 (4.69%) Software Developer
15 66 (4.48%) AWS DevOps Engineer
16 64 (4.35%) Data Engineer
17 63 (4.28%) Consultant
18 62 (4.21%) Site Reliability Engineer
19 60 (4.08%) Site Engineer
20 58 (3.94%) Java Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 187 (12.70%) .NET
2 186 (12.64%) Kafka
3 178 (12.09%) React
4 145 (9.85%) Spring
5 117 (7.95%) Spring Boot
6 112 (7.61%) AngularJS
7 111 (7.54%) Node.js
8 102 (6.93%) RabbitMQ
9 98 (6.66%) REST
10 82 (5.57%) RESTful
11 72 (4.89%) .NET Core
12 63 (4.28%) YAML
13 62 (4.21%) CSS
14 61 (4.14%) Elastic Stack
14 61 (4.14%) gRPC
15 53 (3.60%) HTML
16 49 (3.33%) Protocol Buffers
17 47 (3.19%) Hibernate
17 47 (3.19%) JSON
18 46 (3.13%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 121 (8.22%) Data Centre
2 79 (5.37%) Product Ownership
3 74 (5.03%) Cloud Native
4 73 (4.96%) Distributed Systems
5 71 (4.82%) Greenfield Project
6 70 (4.76%) Management Information System
7 65 (4.42%) Hedge funds
8 62 (4.21%) Clustering
9 61 (4.14%) Public Cloud
10 58 (3.94%) Algorithms
11 56 (3.80%) Data Structures
12 50 (3.40%) Client/Server
13 46 (3.13%) Private Cloud
14 35 (2.38%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
15 32 (2.17%) Mobile App
16 28 (1.90%) Linux Command Line
17 27 (1.83%) Enterprise Software
18 24 (1.63%) Blog
19 23 (1.56%) PKI
20 21 (1.43%) Onboarding
Operating Systems
1 397 (26.97%) Linux
2 194 (13.18%) 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 7 (0.48%) 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
1 739 (50.20%) DevOps
2 600 (40.76%) CI/CD
3 573 (38.93%) Agile
4 380 (25.82%) Software Engineering
5 349 (23.71%) Microservices
6 308 (20.92%) Containerisation
7 290 (19.70%) Problem-Solving
8 285 (19.36%) Infrastructure as Code
9 185 (12.57%) Mentoring
10 171 (11.62%) Continuous Integration
11 167 (11.35%) Scrum
12 144 (9.78%) TDD
13 135 (9.17%) Full Stack Development
14 134 (9.10%) SDLC
15 127 (8.63%) Computer Science
16 111 (7.54%) Platform Engineering
17 110 (7.47%) Fintech
18 107 (7.27%) Continuous Improvement
18 107 (7.27%) Site Reliability Engineering
19 99 (6.73%) Actionable Insight
Programming Languages
1 540 (36.68%) Python
2 485 (32.95%) Java
3 266 (18.07%) JavaScript
4 259 (17.60%) SQL
5 227 (15.42%) C#
6 164 (11.14%) Go
7 141 (9.58%) TypeScript
8 134 (9.10%) PowerShell
9 130 (8.83%) Bash
10 48 (3.26%) Scala
11 45 (3.06%) PHP
12 39 (2.65%) Ruby
13 35 (2.38%) C
14 31 (2.11%) Groovy
15 23 (1.56%) Kotlin
16 22 (1.49%) Bicep
17 20 (1.36%) Perl
17 20 (1.36%) Shell Script
18 15 (1.02%) C++
19 14 (0.95%) VBScript
Qualifications
1 207 (14.06%) Security Cleared
2 156 (10.60%) Degree
3 117 (7.95%) SC Cleared
4 89 (6.05%) Computer Science Degree
5 83 (5.64%) AWS Certification
6 81 (5.50%) 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%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
10 24 (1.63%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
11 21 (1.43%) Master's Degree
12 20 (1.36%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
13 16 (1.09%) BPSS Clearance
14 12 (0.82%) Microsoft Certification
15 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
1 961 (65.29%) Docker
2 80 (5.43%) VMware Infrastructure
3 64 (4.35%) 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
1 584 (39.67%) Terraform
2 318 (21.60%) Ansible
3 161 (10.94%) Prometheus
4 82 (5.57%) Grafana
5 79 (5.37%) Puppet
6 59 (4.01%) vCenter Server
7 53 (3.60%) 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 17 (1.15%) Active Directory Federation Services
14 16 (1.09%) Microsoft Intune
15 14 (0.95%) Packer
15 14 (0.95%) Salt
15 14 (0.95%) ZABBIX
16 13 (0.88%) Kibana
17 12 (0.82%) Istio
18 11 (0.75%) Argo
Vendors
1 149 (10.12%) Microsoft
2 112 (7.61%) 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%) WSO2
10 25 (1.70%) Dell
11 16 (1.09%) ForgeRock
11 16 (1.09%) Sitecore
12 15 (1.02%) Atlassian
13 13 (0.88%) SolarWinds
14 12 (0.82%) Splunk
15 10 (0.68%) Facebook
15 10 (0.68%) Serena
16 9 (0.61%) New Relic
16 9 (0.61%) Veeam