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 28 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
28 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 44 38 18
Rank change year-on-year -6 -20 +5
Permanent jobs citing Kubernetes 132 230 536
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Central London 5.61% 6.08% 10.52%
As % of the Systems Management category 37.29% 38.85% 53.12%
Number of salaries quoted 80 195 461
10th Percentile £65,000 £59,250 £55,000
25th Percentile £73,750 £73,750 £65,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £90,000 £90,000 £85,000
Median % change year-on-year - +5.88% -5.56%
75th Percentile £120,000 £105,625 £105,000
90th Percentile £130,500 £120,000 £112,500
London median annual salary £95,000 £90,000 £85,000
% change year-on-year +5.56% +5.88% -

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 354 592 1,009
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Central London 15.05% 15.66% 19.80%
Number of salaries quoted 273 519 838
10th Percentile £42,100 £46,850 £41,875
25th Percentile £57,500 £62,500 £55,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £75,000 £80,000 £75,000
Median % change year-on-year -6.25% +6.67% -6.25%
75th Percentile £95,000 £97,500 £95,000
90th Percentile £119,750 £112,500 £110,000
London median annual salary £80,000 £80,000 £77,500
% change year-on-year - +3.23% -3.13%

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 28 May 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 28 May 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 -16 104 £86,250 -4.17% 38
City of Westminster +1 12 - - 1
Camden 0 12 - - 1
Southwark - 7 - -
West End of London - 2 - - 13
Lambeth +3 1 - -
Kensington and Chelsea - 1 - -
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 2 (1.52%) Confluence
1 2 (1.52%) OpenStack
2 1 (0.76%) Alfresco
2 1 (0.76%) Apache
2 1 (0.76%) Apache Spark
2 1 (0.76%) Camunda
2 1 (0.76%) CMS
2 1 (0.76%) IIS
2 1 (0.76%) Microsoft Exchange
2 1 (0.76%) NServiceBus
Business Applications
1 1 (0.76%) Shopify
Cloud Services
1 88 (66.67%) Azure
2 75 (56.82%) AWS
3 45 (34.09%) GCP
4 21 (15.91%) GitHub
5 18 (13.64%) AWS CloudFormation
5 18 (13.64%) Pulumi
6 14 (10.61%) Azure DevOps
6 14 (10.61%) Serverless
7 13 (9.85%) GitHub Actions
8 10 (7.58%) Datadog
9 9 (6.82%) Amazon EKS
10 8 (6.06%) SaaS
11 5 (3.79%) Amazon ECS
11 5 (3.79%) Anthos
11 5 (3.79%) Azure Data Factory
12 4 (3.03%) Amazon CloudWatch
12 4 (3.03%) Amazon S3
12 4 (3.03%) Azure AKS
12 4 (3.03%) IaaS
12 4 (3.03%) PaaS
Communications & Networking
1 7 (5.30%) Broadband
1 7 (5.30%) DNS
2 3 (2.27%) Firewall
3 2 (1.52%) VPN
4 1 (0.76%) Network Security
Database & Business Intelligence
1 24 (18.18%) NoSQL
2 21 (15.91%) PostgreSQL
3 20 (15.15%) MongoDB
4 11 (8.33%) MySQL
5 9 (6.82%) Relational Database
6 8 (6.06%) SQL Server
7 7 (5.30%) RDBMS
8 6 (4.55%) Azure SQL Database
8 6 (4.55%) Elasticsearch
9 4 (3.03%) Redis
9 4 (3.03%) Tableau
10 3 (2.27%) BigQuery
10 3 (2.27%) DynamoDB
11 2 (1.52%) Amazon RDS
11 2 (1.52%) Oracle Database
12 1 (0.76%) Flink
12 1 (0.76%) Power BI
Development Applications
1 24 (18.18%) Git
2 9 (6.82%) Jenkins
3 8 (6.06%) Maven
4 7 (5.30%) Jaeger
4 7 (5.30%) JIRA
5 6 (4.55%) GitLab
6 5 (3.79%) CircleCI
6 5 (3.79%) Gradle
7 2 (1.52%) Artifactory
7 2 (1.52%) Atlassian Bamboo
7 2 (1.52%) JUnit
7 2 (1.52%) Mockito
7 2 (1.52%) MSTest
7 2 (1.52%) Octopus Deploy
7 2 (1.52%) Postman
7 2 (1.52%) REST Assured
7 2 (1.52%) SoapUI
7 2 (1.52%) SonarQube
7 2 (1.52%) Xcode
7 2 (1.52%) XCTest
General
1 36 (27.27%) Finance
2 29 (21.97%) Social Skills
3 15 (11.36%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 12 (9.09%) Analytical Skills
5 11 (8.33%) Banking
6 10 (7.58%) Games
6 10 (7.58%) Law
7 2 (1.52%) Back Office
7 2 (1.52%) Front Office
7 2 (1.52%) iGaming
7 2 (1.52%) Investment Banking
7 2 (1.52%) Presentation Skills
7 2 (1.52%) Public Sector
7 2 (1.52%) Publishing
7 2 (1.52%) Retail
8 1 (0.76%) Financial Institution
8 1 (0.76%) Marketing
Job Titles
1 41 (31.06%) Lead
2 33 (25.00%) Developer
2 33 (25.00%) Senior
3 15 (11.36%) Platform Engineer
3 15 (11.36%) Software Engineer
4 13 (9.85%) Site Reliability Engineer
5 12 (9.09%) Lead Developer
6 11 (8.33%) Infrastructure Engineer
7 10 (7.58%) Software Developer
8 9 (6.82%) Cloud Engineer
8 9 (6.82%) Senior Developer
8 9 (6.82%) Senior Software Engineer
8 9 (6.82%) Team Leader
9 8 (6.06%) Data Engineer
9 8 (6.06%) DevOps Engineer
9 8 (6.06%) Lead Data Engineer
9 8 (6.06%) Site Engineer
10 6 (4.55%) .NET Developer
10 6 (4.55%) Consultant
10 6 (4.55%) Senior Software Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 28 (21.21%) .NET
2 20 (15.15%) React
3 17 (12.88%) RESTful
4 15 (11.36%) Kafka
4 15 (11.36%) Node.js
5 13 (9.85%) Elastic Stack
6 12 (9.09%) ARM Templates
6 12 (9.09%) OpenTelemetry
7 11 (8.33%) Spring
8 9 (6.82%) GraphQL
9 8 (6.06%) AngularJS
9 8 (6.06%) HTML
9 8 (6.06%) REST
9 8 (6.06%) WebSockets
10 7 (5.30%) CSS
10 7 (5.30%) Loki
10 7 (5.30%) RabbitMQ
11 6 (4.55%) Pandas
12 5 (3.79%) .NET Framework
12 5 (3.79%) Entity Framework
Miscellaneous
1 20 (15.15%) Cloud Native
2 8 (6.06%) Legacy Systems
3 7 (5.30%) Mobile Games
4 6 (4.55%) Product Ownership
4 6 (4.55%) Public Cloud
5 5 (3.79%) Greenfield Project
5 5 (3.79%) Security Posture
6 4 (3.03%) Cloud Security Posture
6 4 (3.03%) Cyberattack
6 4 (3.03%) Distributed Systems
6 4 (3.03%) Security Operations Centre
7 3 (2.27%) Blog
7 3 (2.27%) Data Structures
8 2 (1.52%) Blockchain
8 2 (1.52%) Online Games
8 2 (1.52%) Private Cloud
8 2 (1.52%) Reinsurance
8 2 (1.52%) Sports Betting
9 1 (0.76%) Data Centre
9 1 (0.76%) Linux Command Line
Operating Systems
1 23 (17.42%) Linux
2 10 (7.58%) Unix
3 5 (3.79%) Windows
4 4 (3.03%) Android
5 3 (2.27%) Windows Server
6 2 (1.52%) CentOS
6 2 (1.52%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
7 1 (0.76%) VMS
7 1 (0.76%) Windows Server 2016
7 1 (0.76%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 74 (56.06%) DevOps
2 73 (55.30%) Containerisation
3 66 (50.00%) CI/CD
4 60 (45.45%) Infrastructure as Code
5 47 (35.61%) Agile
6 39 (29.55%) Microservices
7 37 (28.03%) Software Engineering
8 31 (23.48%) Mentoring
9 29 (21.97%) Problem-Solving
10 22 (16.67%) Observability
11 21 (15.91%) Platform Engineering
12 20 (15.15%) Continuous Integration
13 19 (14.39%) Roadmaps
13 19 (14.39%) Site Reliability Engineering
14 18 (13.64%) Analytics
15 17 (12.88%) Performance Optimisation
16 16 (12.12%) Artificial Intelligence
16 16 (12.12%) Incident Response
17 15 (11.36%) Migration
17 15 (11.36%) Root Cause Analysis
Programming Languages
1 69 (52.27%) Python
2 55 (41.67%) Java
3 33 (25.00%) SQL
4 32 (24.24%) JavaScript
5 25 (18.94%) Bash
6 23 (17.42%) C#
7 21 (15.91%) Go
8 14 (10.61%) TypeScript
9 11 (8.33%) PowerShell
10 8 (6.06%) Rust
10 8 (6.06%) Scala
11 5 (3.79%) C++
12 4 (3.03%) Ruby
13 3 (2.27%) Groovy
13 3 (2.27%) Shell Script
14 2 (1.52%) Bicep
14 2 (1.52%) Kotlin
14 2 (1.52%) MATLAB
14 2 (1.52%) PL/SQL
15 1 (0.76%) Solidity
Qualifications
1 27 (20.45%) Degree
2 16 (12.12%) AWS Certification
3 14 (10.61%) Computer Science Degree
4 12 (9.09%) Master's Degree
5 10 (7.58%) Security Cleared
6 6 (4.55%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
6 6 (4.55%) DV Cleared
7 4 (3.03%) PhD
8 3 (2.27%) Azure Certification
8 3 (2.27%) GIAC
9 2 (1.52%) SC Cleared
10 1 (0.76%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
10 1 (0.76%) AWS Certified SysOps Administrator
10 1 (0.76%) ISTQB
10 1 (0.76%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 9 (6.82%) QA
2 1 (0.76%) NIST
System Software
1 84 (63.64%) Docker
2 6 (4.55%) VMware Infrastructure
3 4 (3.03%) Active Directory
4 1 (0.76%) Apache ZooKeeper
Systems Management
1 60 (45.45%) Terraform
2 36 (27.27%) Ansible
3 25 (18.94%) Prometheus
4 16 (12.12%) Argo
5 15 (11.36%) Grafana
6 7 (5.30%) Kustomize
6 7 (5.30%) Progress Chef
7 5 (3.79%) Consul
7 5 (3.79%) Puppet
8 4 (3.03%) Istio
9 2 (1.52%) Microsoft Intune
9 2 (1.52%) Nagios
9 2 (1.52%) Packer
10 1 (0.76%) NetBackup
10 1 (0.76%) Salt
Vendors
1 24 (18.18%) Google
2 17 (12.88%) Microsoft
3 9 (6.82%) VMware
4 8 (6.06%) New Relic
5 6 (4.55%) Hitachi
6 5 (3.79%) Dynatrace
7 4 (3.03%) Cisco
7 4 (3.03%) Oracle
7 4 (3.03%) Red Hat
7 4 (3.03%) Splunk
8 3 (2.27%) Databricks
9 2 (1.52%) CA Agile Central
9 2 (1.52%) Commvault
9 2 (1.52%) Palo Alto
9 2 (1.52%) Pure Storage
9 2 (1.52%) Rapid7
10 1 (0.76%) BiZZdesign
10 1 (0.76%) EMC
10 1 (0.76%) NetApp