Lead and principal Kubernetes jobs in the UK
Live lead and principal Kubernetes jobs in the UK, detected on employer careers pages and updated hourly.
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We are currently tracking 132 live vacancies matching lead and principal Kubernetes jobs in the UK, advertised by 65 different employers. 37 of them were first seen in the last seven days. The most active employers in this slice are Gresearch, Gembaadvantage, Remotefriendly and Wizard Ai. 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 132 roles, 17 publish a salary. The median advertised ceiling is £100,000. The middle half of the market sits between £100,000 and £124,000, so anything above the upper figure is a genuinely strong offer for 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, 39% are fully remote, 33% are hybrid and 1% are contract rather than permanent. 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, React, Java, Docker and Machine Learning. That co-occurrence is counted from the live listings on this page, not from a fixed list, so it moves with the market.
Principal AI Solution Architect
Cloud Architect, Portworx (Northeast)
Cloud Architect, Field Sales (Northeast)
Lead Machine Learning Engineer
Mid/Senior Solution Architect - UK
Staff Engineering Support Engineer
Software Architect
Staff Backend Engineer
Product Safety Engineering Manager
Staff Software Engineer – Identity and Access, Identity Squads | UK | Remote
Staff Software Engineer - Databases, Tempo | United Kingdom | Remote
Staff Software Engineer - Databases SRE | UK | Remote
Software Engineering Manager, Database (SmithDB)
Engineering Manager, FDE Infrastructure (UK)
Engineering Manager, FDE Infrastructure (NORAM)
AI Consultant/ Solution Architect
Full Stack Technical Lead
Lead DevSecOps Engineer
Principal Engineer - Technical Delivery Lead
Cloud Engineer and Architect Engineering Recruiters
Job titles employers are advertising
The exact titles on the live vacancies in this search, most common first.
Questions about these roles
How many lead and principal Kubernetes jobs in the UK are there right now?
We are tracking 132 live vacancies across 65 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 lead and principal Kubernetes jobs in the UK pay?
The median advertised ceiling is £100,000, based on the 17 of these roles that publish a figure. The middle half of the market runs from £100,000 to £124,000. Contract day rates are annualised so they compare against permanent salaries.
Can these roles be done remotely?
39% are advertised as fully remote and 33% as hybrid. The rest are on-site or do not say — where an employer is silent we leave it blank rather than guessing.
Are these contract or permanent roles?
1% are contract or fixed-term and the remainder are permanent or unstated. A quoted day rate is treated as contract even when the advert does not use the word.
Which employers are hiring?
The most active right now are Gresearch, Gembaadvantage, Remotefriendly, Wizard Ai and Grafana Labs. 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, React, Java and Docker. 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: 115 of these adverts name no figure at all, and those are the ones where asking early is worth most.
Can you work from home as a Kubernetes developer in the UK?
96 of the 132 live adverts here offer home working in some form — 52 fully remote and 44 hybrid. Fully remote means the advert states no office requirement; hybrid means it names a split.
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 Technical Product Manager, Technical Project Manager, Staff Backend Engineer, Software Architect and Senior/Principal DevOps Engineer. 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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