Kubernetes Engineer Jobs in the UK excluding London

Kubernetes Engineer (K8s Engineer)
UK > UK excluding London

The median Kubernetes Engineer (K8s Engineer) salary in the UK excluding London is £70,000 per year according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 10 May 2024.

The first table below provides salary benchmarking and summary statistics including a comparison to same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
10 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 734 692 786
Rank change year-on-year -42 +94 -134
Permanent jobs requiring a Kubernetes Engineer 25 58 66
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 0.035% 0.097% 0.093%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.037% 0.11% 0.097%
Number of salaries quoted 19 36 51
10th Percentile - £53,750 £52,500
25th Percentile £56,250 £55,798 £60,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £70,000 £72,500 £70,000
Median % change year-on-year -3.45% +3.57% +21.74%
75th Percentile £80,000 £87,500 £76,875
90th Percentile £92,500 £102,500 £85,000
UK median annual salary £100,000 £95,000 £80,000
% change year-on-year +5.26% +18.75% +6.67%

All Permanent IT Job Vacancies
UK excluding London

The following table is for comparison with the above and includes summary statistics for all permanent IT job vacancies advertised in the UK excluding London. Most job vacancies include a discernible job title that can be normalized. As such, the figures in the second row provide an indication of the number of permanent jobs in our overall sample.

Permanent vacancies in the UK excluding London with a recognized job title 67,288 53,426 67,910
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 94.79% 89.15% 95.77%
Number of salaries quoted 47,613 30,415 42,495
10th Percentile £26,750 £29,750 £28,500
25th Percentile £35,000 £38,750 £37,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £53,000 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year -5.66% +6.00% +5.26%
75th Percentile £63,750 £68,750 £66,250
90th Percentile £76,250 £81,250 £80,000
UK median annual salary £52,500 £60,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year -12.50% - +9.09%

Kubernetes Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London

Job postings that featured Kubernetes Engineer in the job title as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London.

Job vacancy trend for Kubernetes Engineer in the UK excluding London

Kubernetes Engineer
Salary Trend in the UK excluding London

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing Kubernetes Engineer in the UK excluding London.

Salary trend for Kubernetes Engineer in the UK excluding London

Kubernetes Engineer
Salary Histogram in the UK excluding London

Salary distribution for jobs citing Kubernetes Engineer in the UK excluding London over the 6 months to 10 May 2024.

Salary histogram for Kubernetes Engineer in the UK excluding London

Kubernetes Engineer
Job Locations in the UK excluding London

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Kubernetes Engineer within the UK excluding London region over the 6 months to 10 May 2024. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 6 month period last year.

Location Rank Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Matching
Permanent
IT Job Ads
Median Salary
Past 6 Months
Median Salary
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
East of England +5 8 £77,500 -
North of England +31 6 £75,000 +3.45% 6
North West -13 6 £75,000 +3.45% 6
Midlands -18 4 £57,500 -22.44% 1
East Midlands - 4 £57,500 -
Scotland - 3 - -
Northern Ireland - 3 - -
South West -41 1 £65,000 -10.34%
Kubernetes Engineer
UK

Kubernetes Engineer Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the UK excluding London

For the 6 months to 10 May 2024, Kubernetes Engineer job roles required the following skills and capabilities in order of popularity. The figures indicate the absolute number co-occurrences and as a proportion of all permanent job ads across the UK excluding London region featuring Kubernetes Engineer in the job title.

1 25 (100.00%) Kubernetes
2 19 (76.00%) DevOps
3 16 (64.00%) Docker
3 16 (64.00%) AWS
4 15 (60.00%) Python
4 15 (60.00%) Linux
4 15 (60.00%) Terraform
4 15 (60.00%) Containerisation
5 14 (56.00%) CI/CD
6 12 (48.00%) Infrastructure as Code
6 12 (48.00%) Azure
7 10 (40.00%) GitHub
7 10 (40.00%) Law
8 9 (36.00%) Firewall
8 9 (36.00%) Bash
8 9 (36.00%) Ansible
9 8 (32.00%) Jenkins
10 7 (28.00%) Amazon EKS
10 7 (28.00%) Site Reliability Engineering
11 6 (24.00%) Platform Engineering
11 6 (24.00%) Inclusion and Diversity
11 6 (24.00%) Azure AKS
11 6 (24.00%) Google Kubernetes Engine
11 6 (24.00%) Observability
11 6 (24.00%) GitHub Actions
11 6 (24.00%) Azure DevOps
11 6 (24.00%) Microservices
11 6 (24.00%) Go
11 6 (24.00%) Disaster Recovery
11 6 (24.00%) PowerShell

Kubernetes Engineer Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the UK excluding London 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:

Cloud Services
1 16 (64.00%) AWS
2 12 (48.00%) Azure
3 10 (40.00%) GitHub
4 7 (28.00%) Amazon EKS
5 6 (24.00%) Azure AKS
5 6 (24.00%) Azure DevOps
5 6 (24.00%) GitHub Actions
5 6 (24.00%) Google Kubernetes Engine
6 4 (16.00%) Amazon ECS
6 4 (16.00%) Serverless
7 3 (12.00%) Amazon CloudWatch
7 3 (12.00%) Amazon EC2
7 3 (12.00%) Amazon ElastiCache
7 3 (12.00%) Anthos
7 3 (12.00%) AWS CloudFormation
7 3 (12.00%) Datadog
7 3 (12.00%) Entra ID
7 3 (12.00%) GCP
7 3 (12.00%) Route 53
7 3 (12.00%) Virtual Private Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 9 (36.00%) Firewall
2 3 (12.00%) DNS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (12.00%) Amazon RDS
1 3 (12.00%) Big Data
Development Applications
1 8 (32.00%) Jenkins
2 4 (16.00%) GitLab
3 3 (12.00%) Git
3 3 (12.00%) Octopus Deploy
4 2 (8.00%) CircleCI
General
1 10 (40.00%) Law
2 6 (24.00%) Finance
2 6 (24.00%) Inclusion and Diversity
3 3 (12.00%) Banking
3 3 (12.00%) Investment Banking
3 3 (12.00%) Retail
3 3 (12.00%) Social Skills
4 2 (8.00%) Health Technology
5 1 (4.00%) Tech for Good
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (12.00%) OpenTelemetry
Miscellaneous
1 3 (12.00%) Cloud Native
1 3 (12.00%) Data Centre
1 3 (12.00%) Distributed Computing
1 3 (12.00%) Public Cloud
2 2 (8.00%) Genomics
3 1 (4.00%) Hedge funds
Operating Systems
1 15 (60.00%) Linux
2 3 (12.00%) Unix
2 3 (12.00%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 19 (76.00%) DevOps
2 15 (60.00%) Containerisation
3 14 (56.00%) CI/CD
4 12 (48.00%) Infrastructure as Code
5 7 (28.00%) Site Reliability Engineering
6 6 (24.00%) Agile
6 6 (24.00%) Continuous Integration
6 6 (24.00%) Disaster Recovery
6 6 (24.00%) Microservices
6 6 (24.00%) Observability
6 6 (24.00%) Platform Engineering
7 4 (16.00%) Configuration Management
7 4 (16.00%) Fintech
7 4 (16.00%) OOP
8 3 (12.00%) Deployment Automation
8 3 (12.00%) Infrastructure Engineering
8 3 (12.00%) Key Management
8 3 (12.00%) Mentoring
8 3 (12.00%) RBAC
8 3 (12.00%) Technology Enablement
Programming Languages
1 15 (60.00%) Python
2 9 (36.00%) Bash
3 6 (24.00%) Go
3 6 (24.00%) PowerShell
4 4 (16.00%) Java
4 4 (16.00%) JavaScript
4 4 (16.00%) PHP
5 3 (12.00%) Bicep
5 3 (12.00%) Ruby
Qualifications
1 3 (12.00%) AWS Certification
1 3 (12.00%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
1 3 (12.00%) Azure Certification
1 3 (12.00%) Computer Science Degree
1 3 (12.00%) Degree
1 3 (12.00%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (12.00%) QA
System Software
1 16 (64.00%) Docker
Systems Management
1 25 (100.00%) Kubernetes
2 15 (60.00%) Terraform
3 9 (36.00%) Ansible
4 4 (16.00%) Progress Chef
5 3 (12.00%) Argo
5 3 (12.00%) Docker Swarm
5 3 (12.00%) Grafana
5 3 (12.00%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 6 (24.00%) Microsoft
2 3 (12.00%) Google
2 3 (12.00%) LogicMonitor
2 3 (12.00%) PagerDuty
2 3 (12.00%) Splunk