Hybrid lead and principal Kubernetes jobs in the UK
Live hybrid lead and principal Kubernetes jobs in the UK, detected on employer careers pages and updated hourly. Every role splits time between home and an office.
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We are currently tracking 44 live vacancies matching hybrid lead and principal Kubernetes jobs in the UK, advertised by 24 different employers. 10 of them were first seen in the last seven days. The most active employers in this slice are Gembaadvantage, Michaelbaileyassociates, Mainframemaster and Mwb Me. Every role is detected on the employer's own careers page rather than reposted from another board, so what you see here is the vacancy as the employer wrote it.
Of the 44 roles, 10 publish a salary. The median advertised ceiling is £100,000. The middle half of the market sits between £97,250 and £100,000, so anything above the upper figure is a genuinely strong offer for hybrid lead and principal Kubernetes jobs in the UK. Contract day rates are annualised at 230 working days a year, so permanent and contract pay compare like for like.
On working pattern, 100% are hybrid. By seniority, 100% at lead or principal level. Filter by any of these on the left.
Employers hiring for Kubernetes in this slice most often ask for it alongside AWS, Python, Terraform, Java, React and SQL. That co-occurrence is counted from the live listings on this page, not from a fixed list, so it moves with the market.
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Job titles employers are advertising
The exact titles on the live vacancies in this search, most common first.
Questions about these roles
How many hybrid lead and principal Kubernetes jobs in the UK are there right now?
We are tracking 44 live vacancies across 24 employers. The crawler revisits employer careers pages continuously and roles disappear from this page as soon as they come down, so the count reflects what is genuinely open today.
What do hybrid lead and principal Kubernetes jobs in the UK pay?
The median advertised ceiling is £100,000, based on the 10 of these roles that publish a figure. The middle half of the market runs from £97,250 to £100,000. Contract day rates are annualised so they compare against permanent salaries.
Are these contract or permanent roles?
Every role here that states a basis is permanent. Contract vacancies are listed separately.
Which employers are hiring?
The most active right now are Gembaadvantage, Michaelbaileyassociates, Mainframemaster, Mwb Me and Bodyandmindfitnesscompany. Every vacancy links straight to that employer's own careers page — we are an aggregator, not the hiring company, and there is no middleman between you and the application.
What other skills do these roles ask for?
Most often AWS, Python, Terraform, Java and React. That is counted from the live adverts on this page rather than a fixed list, so it tracks what employers are asking for this month.
How much does a Kubernetes developer earn in the UK?
£100,000 is the middle of what is advertised here, which is 82% above the £55,000 median across UK IT as a whole. Read it as the ceiling an employer is advertising towards rather than an offer: 34 of these adverts name no figure at all, and those are the ones where asking early is worth most.
Are there entry-level or graduate Kubernetes developer jobs in the UK?
Not right now — every live advert here signals mid-level experience or above. Graduate intakes are seasonal, so this is worth checking again rather than reading as a permanent state of the market.
What job titles are used for this role?
Employers on this page advertise it as Senior/Principal DevOps Engineer, Senior/Principal Software Engineer, ML Lead Technical Architect, 🔹 5. CRM & Retention Manager — London / Remote Hybrid and Data Architect / Data Modeler. Searching one wording and not another is the most common way people miss vacancies, which is why this page groups them.
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