Kubernetes Jobs in Central London

Kubernetes (k8s)
London > Central London

The table below provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in Central London requiring Kubernetes skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the annual salaries offered in vacancies that cited Kubernetes over the 6 months leading up to 30 April 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
30 Apr 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 58 35 18
Rank change year-on-year -23 -17 +3
Permanent jobs citing Kubernetes 121 237 561
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Central London 4.76% 6.26% 10.59%
As % of the Systems Management category 32.70% 39.77% 53.63%
Number of salaries quoted 79 203 499
10th Percentile £65,000 £58,750 £55,000
25th Percentile £75,000 £70,625 £65,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £92,500 £90,000 £85,000
Median % change year-on-year +2.78% +5.88% -5.56%
75th Percentile £120,000 £105,000 £105,000
90th Percentile £131,000 £120,000 £112,500
London median annual salary £95,000 £87,500 £85,000
% change year-on-year +8.57% +2.94% -

All Systems Management Skills
Central London

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 Central London.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for systems management skills 370 596 1,046
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Central London 14.57% 15.75% 19.74%
Number of salaries quoted 302 524 886
10th Percentile £41,250 £47,500 £44,750
25th Percentile £55,313 £62,500 £55,219
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £75,000 £80,000 £75,000
Median % change year-on-year -6.25% +6.67% -6.25%
75th Percentile £95,938 £97,500 £97,500
90th Percentile £117,250 £112,500 £110,000
London median annual salary £80,000 £80,000 £80,000

Kubernetes
Job Vacancy Trend in Central London

Job postings citing Kubernetes as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in Central London.

Job vacancy trend for Kubernetes in Central London

Kubernetes
Salary Trend in Central London

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing Kubernetes in Central London.

Salary trend for Kubernetes in Central London

Kubernetes
Salary Histogram in Central London

Salary distribution for jobs citing Kubernetes in Central London over the 6 months to 30 April 2025.

Salary histogram for Kubernetes in Central London

Kubernetes
Job Locations in Central London

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Kubernetes within the Central London region over the 6 months to 30 April 2025. 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
City of London -21 99 £92,500 +2.78% 36
City of Westminster -4 11 - -
Camden -1 10 - - 1
Southwark -2 5 - -
Kubernetes
London

Kubernetes
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Central 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:

Application Platforms
1 3 (2.48%) Microsoft Exchange
2 2 (1.65%) Apache Spark
2 2 (1.65%) Confluence
2 2 (1.65%) OpenStack
3 1 (0.83%) Alfresco
3 1 (0.83%) Apache
3 1 (0.83%) Apache Airflow
3 1 (0.83%) Camunda
3 1 (0.83%) CMS
3 1 (0.83%) NServiceBus
Business Applications
1 1 (0.83%) Shopify
Cloud Services
1 84 (69.42%) Azure
2 65 (53.72%) AWS
3 42 (34.71%) GCP
4 19 (15.70%) GitHub
5 16 (13.22%) AWS CloudFormation
6 14 (11.57%) Azure DevOps
7 13 (10.74%) GitHub Actions
8 12 (9.92%) Serverless
9 10 (8.26%) Datadog
10 9 (7.44%) Amazon EKS
10 9 (7.44%) SaaS
11 8 (6.61%) Amazon ECS
11 8 (6.61%) Pulumi
12 6 (4.96%) Azure AKS
13 5 (4.13%) Anthos
13 5 (4.13%) Azure Data Factory
13 5 (4.13%) IaaS
13 5 (4.13%) PaaS
14 4 (3.31%) Amazon EC2
14 4 (3.31%) Amazon S3
Communications & Networking
1 7 (5.79%) DNS
2 3 (2.48%) Firewall
3 2 (1.65%) VPN
4 1 (0.83%) HTTP
4 1 (0.83%) Network Security
Database & Business Intelligence
1 20 (16.53%) PostgreSQL
2 16 (13.22%) MongoDB
3 15 (12.40%) NoSQL
4 10 (8.26%) MySQL
5 9 (7.44%) SQL Server
6 6 (4.96%) Elasticsearch
7 5 (4.13%) Azure SQL Database
8 4 (3.31%) DynamoDB
8 4 (3.31%) Redis
8 4 (3.31%) Tableau
9 3 (2.48%) BigQuery
10 2 (1.65%) Amazon RDS
10 2 (1.65%) Data Lake
10 2 (1.65%) Oracle Database
10 2 (1.65%) Relational Database
11 1 (0.83%) Amazon Aurora
11 1 (0.83%) Flink
11 1 (0.83%) Power BI
Development Applications
1 20 (16.53%) Git
2 11 (9.09%) Jenkins
3 8 (6.61%) Maven
4 7 (5.79%) CircleCI
4 7 (5.79%) GitLab
4 7 (5.79%) JIRA
5 5 (4.13%) Gradle
6 3 (2.48%) Postman
7 2 (1.65%) Artifactory
7 2 (1.65%) Atlassian Bamboo
7 2 (1.65%) JUnit
7 2 (1.65%) Mockito
7 2 (1.65%) MSTest
7 2 (1.65%) NUnit
7 2 (1.65%) Octopus Deploy
7 2 (1.65%) REST Assured
7 2 (1.65%) SoapUI
7 2 (1.65%) SonarQube
7 2 (1.65%) Xcode
7 2 (1.65%) XCTest
General
1 34 (28.10%) Finance
2 30 (24.79%) Social Skills
3 15 (12.40%) Banking
4 12 (9.92%) Analytical Skills
5 10 (8.26%) Games
5 10 (8.26%) Law
6 9 (7.44%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 4 (3.31%) Investment Banking
8 3 (2.48%) Retail
9 2 (1.65%) Back Office
9 2 (1.65%) Front Office
9 2 (1.65%) iGaming
9 2 (1.65%) Presentation Skills
9 2 (1.65%) Publishing
10 1 (0.83%) Financial Institution
10 1 (0.83%) Manufacturing
10 1 (0.83%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 34 (28.10%) Lead
2 30 (24.79%) Developer
3 28 (23.14%) Senior
4 14 (11.57%) Platform Engineer
5 13 (10.74%) Software Engineer
6 11 (9.09%) Infrastructure Engineer
6 11 (9.09%) Site Reliability Engineer
7 10 (8.26%) Lead Developer
8 9 (7.44%) Cloud Engineer
8 9 (7.44%) Data Engineer
8 9 (7.44%) Lead Data Engineer
8 9 (7.44%) Software Developer
9 8 (6.61%) Architect
9 8 (6.61%) Senior Developer
9 8 (6.61%) Site Engineer
10 7 (5.79%) Senior Software Engineer
11 6 (4.96%) .NET Developer
11 6 (4.96%) Consultant
11 6 (4.96%) DevOps Engineer
11 6 (4.96%) Technical Leader
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 28 (23.14%) .NET
2 20 (16.53%) React
3 15 (12.40%) Kafka
3 15 (12.40%) RESTful
4 13 (10.74%) Spring
5 12 (9.92%) ARM Templates
6 11 (9.09%) Node.js
7 9 (7.44%) HTML
7 9 (7.44%) REST
8 8 (6.61%) AngularJS
8 8 (6.61%) CSS
9 7 (5.79%) GraphQL
9 7 (5.79%) RabbitMQ
10 6 (4.96%) Elastic Stack
10 6 (4.96%) Entity Framework
10 6 (4.96%) OpenTelemetry
10 6 (4.96%) Pandas
10 6 (4.96%) WebSockets
11 5 (4.13%) .NET Framework
11 5 (4.13%) AWS CDK
Miscellaneous
1 18 (14.88%) Cloud Native
2 8 (6.61%) Legacy Systems
3 7 (5.79%) Mobile Games
4 6 (4.96%) Greenfield Project
4 6 (4.96%) Product Ownership
4 6 (4.96%) Security Posture
5 5 (4.13%) Public Cloud
6 4 (3.31%) Cyberattack
6 4 (3.31%) Data Structures
6 4 (3.31%) Distributed Systems
6 4 (3.31%) Management Information System
7 3 (2.48%) Blog
7 3 (2.48%) Cloud Security Posture
7 3 (2.48%) Security Operations Centre
8 2 (1.65%) Blockchain
8 2 (1.65%) Online Games
8 2 (1.65%) Reinsurance
8 2 (1.65%) Sports Betting
9 1 (0.83%) Linux Command Line
9 1 (0.83%) Low-Code
Operating Systems
1 15 (12.40%) Linux
2 5 (4.13%) Unix
2 5 (4.13%) Windows
3 4 (3.31%) Android
4 3 (2.48%) Windows Server
4 3 (2.48%) Windows Server 2016
4 3 (2.48%) Windows Server 2019
5 2 (1.65%) CentOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 63 (52.07%) CI/CD
2 61 (50.41%) Containerisation
3 59 (48.76%) DevOps
4 48 (39.67%) Infrastructure as Code
5 41 (33.88%) Agile
6 39 (32.23%) Microservices
7 33 (27.27%) Software Engineering
8 27 (22.31%) Problem-Solving
9 25 (20.66%) Mentoring
10 20 (16.53%) Observability
11 19 (15.70%) Analytics
11 19 (15.70%) Platform Engineering
12 17 (14.05%) Computer Science
12 17 (14.05%) Site Reliability Engineering
13 15 (12.40%) Data Science
14 14 (11.57%) Design Patterns
14 14 (11.57%) Incident Response
14 14 (11.57%) Migration
14 14 (11.57%) Roadmaps
14 14 (11.57%) Stakeholder Management
Programming Languages
1 62 (51.24%) Python
2 48 (39.67%) Java
3 31 (25.62%) SQL
4 24 (19.83%) C#
5 22 (18.18%) JavaScript
6 18 (14.88%) Bash
7 11 (9.09%) Go
7 11 (9.09%) PowerShell
7 11 (9.09%) TypeScript
8 8 (6.61%) Rust
8 8 (6.61%) Scala
9 5 (4.13%) C++
10 4 (3.31%) Ruby
11 3 (2.48%) Groovy
11 3 (2.48%) Shell Script
12 2 (1.65%) Bicep
12 2 (1.65%) MATLAB
12 2 (1.65%) PL/SQL
13 1 (0.83%) Kotlin
13 1 (0.83%) Solidity
Qualifications
1 29 (23.97%) Degree
2 16 (13.22%) Computer Science Degree
3 13 (10.74%) Master's Degree
4 10 (8.26%) AWS Certification
5 9 (7.44%) Security Cleared
6 6 (4.96%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
7 4 (3.31%) DV Cleared
7 4 (3.31%) PhD
8 3 (2.48%) SC Cleared
9 2 (1.65%) Azure Certification
9 2 (1.65%) GIAC
10 1 (0.83%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
10 1 (0.83%) AWS Certified SysOps Administrator
10 1 (0.83%) ISTQB
10 1 (0.83%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 9 (7.44%) QA
2 2 (1.65%) Accessibility
3 1 (0.83%) NIST
System Software
1 80 (66.12%) Docker
2 4 (3.31%) Active Directory
2 4 (3.31%) VMware Infrastructure
3 1 (0.83%) Apache ZooKeeper
Systems Management
1 45 (37.19%) Terraform
2 25 (20.66%) Ansible
3 18 (14.88%) Prometheus
4 14 (11.57%) Grafana
5 8 (6.61%) Argo
6 6 (4.96%) Progress Chef
7 5 (4.13%) Consul
7 5 (4.13%) Puppet
8 4 (3.31%) Istio
8 4 (3.31%) Microsoft Intune
9 3 (2.48%) NetBackup
10 2 (1.65%) Nagios
10 2 (1.65%) Packer
11 1 (0.83%) Salt
Vendors
1 19 (15.70%) Google
2 17 (14.05%) Microsoft
3 8 (6.61%) New Relic
4 7 (5.79%) VMware
5 5 (4.13%) Dynatrace
6 4 (3.31%) Databricks
6 4 (3.31%) Hitachi
6 4 (3.31%) Oracle
6 4 (3.31%) Splunk
7 3 (2.48%) EMC
7 3 (2.48%) NetApp
8 2 (1.65%) CA Agile Central
8 2 (1.65%) Palo Alto
8 2 (1.65%) Rapid7
8 2 (1.65%) Red Hat
9 1 (0.83%) BiZZdesign