Kubernetes Job Trends in Basildon

Kubernetes (k8s)
Essex > Basildon

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in Basildon requiring Kubernetes skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 18 December 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
18 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 11 8 15
Rank change year-on-year -3 +7 +2
Permanent jobs citing Kubernetes 3 2 1
As % of all permanent jobs in Basildon 2.91% 6.90% 2.27%
As % of the Systems Management category 33.33% 100.00% 50.00%
Number of salaries quoted 3 1 1
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £66,250 £53,000 -
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £67,500 £54,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year +25.00% -10.00% -
75th Percentile £68,750 £55,000 -
90th Percentile - - -
Essex median annual salary £67,500 £57,500 £82,500
% change year-on-year +17.39% -30.30% -

All Systems Management Skills
Basildon

Kubernetes falls under the Systems Management category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent job vacancies requiring systems management skills in Basildon.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for systems management skills 9 2 2
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Basildon 8.74% 6.90% 4.55%
Number of salaries quoted 8 1 2
10th Percentile - - £33,000
25th Percentile £40,500 £53,000 £37,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £53,500 £54,000 £45,000
Median % change year-on-year -0.93% +20.00% +73.91%
75th Percentile £68,750 £55,000 £52,500
90th Percentile - - £57,000
Essex median annual salary £41,000 £57,500 £80,000
% change year-on-year -28.70% -28.13% +33.33%

Kubernetes
Job Vacancy Trend in Basildon

Historical trend showing the proportion of permanent IT job postings citing Kubernetes relative to all permanent IT jobs advertised in Basildon.

Kubernetes job vacancy trend in Basildon

Kubernetes
Salary Trend in Basildon

Salary distribution trend for jobs in Basildon citing Kubernetes.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in Basildon citing Kubernetes

Kubernetes
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Basildon by Category

The following tables expand on the one above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. They cover the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each category:

Cloud Services
1 3 (100.00%) AWS
2 2 (66.67%) Amazon EC2
3 1 (33.33%) Azure
3 1 (33.33%) GCP
Communications & Networking
1 2 (66.67%) SSL
Development Applications
1 2 (66.67%) GitLab
General
1 3 (100.00%) Advertising
2 2 (66.67%) Finance
Job Titles
1 1 (33.33%) Cloud Engineer
1 1 (33.33%) CloudOps Engineer
1 1 (33.33%) DevOps Engineer
1 1 (33.33%) Operations Engineer
Miscellaneous
1 2 (66.67%) Onboarding
Operating Systems
1 2 (66.67%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (100.00%) CI/CD
1 3 (100.00%) DevOps
2 2 (66.67%) Blue-Green Deployment
2 2 (66.67%) Canary Deployment
2 2 (66.67%) Client Onboarding
2 2 (66.67%) Cloud Operations
2 2 (66.67%) Continuous Delivery
2 2 (66.67%) Deployment Automation
2 2 (66.67%) Microservices
2 2 (66.67%) Problem Management
3 1 (33.33%) Incident Response
3 1 (33.33%) Infrastructure as Code
3 1 (33.33%) Site Reliability Engineering
3 1 (33.33%) Software Delivery
Programming Languages
1 3 (100.00%) Bash
2 1 (33.33%) Python
Systems Management
1 2 (66.67%) Argo
1 2 (66.67%) Istio
2 1 (33.33%) Terraform