According to The State of Kubernetes Jobs in 2024 Q4 report by Kube Careers:

- The average salaries for Kubernetes-related jobs* are $139,056-$200,838 (for North America) and €66,176-€87,720 (Europe).
- 65% of the jobs allow some sort of remote work.
- The most popular technologies mentioned in the jobs are Docker (59%), PostgreSQL (18%), Kafka (17%), MySQL (11%), and Helm (9%).
- The most popular programming languages are Python (56%), Java (36%), JavaScript (34%), and Go (30%).
- The most popular CI/CD tools are Jenkins (35%), GitLab (28%), and GitHub Actions (11%).
- The most popular observability tools are Grafana (20%), Prometheus (19%), and Datadog (11%).

* Note that they include various roles, such as software engineers, DevOps engineers, platform engineers, etc.

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