Kubernetes Jobs in the City of London

Kubernetes (k8s)
Central London > City of London

The table below provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in the City of 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 49 33 17
Rank change year-on-year -16 -16 +6
Permanent jobs citing Kubernetes 104 227 523
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the City of London 5.45% 6.79% 11.48%
As % of the Systems Management category 36.11% 40.11% 56.18%
Number of salaries quoted 70 194 450
10th Percentile £65,000 £59,125 £55,000
25th Percentile £73,750 £73,750 £65,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £86,250 £90,000 £85,000
Median % change year-on-year -4.17% +5.88% -5.56%
75th Percentile £114,063 £105,938 £105,000
90th Percentile £130,000 £120,000 £112,500
Central London median annual salary £90,000 £90,000 £85,000
% change year-on-year - +5.88% -5.56%

All Systems Management Skills
City of 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 the City of London.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for systems management skills 288 566 931
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the City of London 15.08% 16.93% 20.43%
Number of salaries quoted 236 496 777
10th Percentile £41,250 £47,500 £42,500
25th Percentile £57,188 £62,500 £55,875
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £75,000 £84,500 £75,000
Median % change year-on-year -11.24% +12.67% -9.09%
75th Percentile £96,250 £97,500 £97,500
90th Percentile £115,000 £112,500 £110,000
Central London median annual salary £75,000 £80,000 £75,000
% change year-on-year -6.25% +6.67% -6.25%

Kubernetes
Job Vacancy Trend in the City of London

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

Job vacancy trend for Kubernetes in the City of London

Kubernetes
Salary Trend in the City of London

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing Kubernetes in the City of London.

Salary trend for Kubernetes in the City of London

Kubernetes
Salary Histogram in the City of London

Salary distribution for jobs citing Kubernetes in the City of London over the 6 months to 28 May 2025.

Salary histogram for Kubernetes in the City of London

Kubernetes
Job Locations in the City of London

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Kubernetes within the City of 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
London Bridge - 6 - -
Kubernetes
Central London

Kubernetes
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the City of 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 (1.92%) Confluence
2 1 (0.96%) Alfresco
2 1 (0.96%) Apache
2 1 (0.96%) Apache Spark
2 1 (0.96%) Camunda
2 1 (0.96%) CMS
2 1 (0.96%) IIS
2 1 (0.96%) Microsoft Exchange
2 1 (0.96%) NServiceBus
Business Applications
1 1 (0.96%) Shopify
Cloud Services
1 70 (67.31%) Azure
2 54 (51.92%) AWS
3 28 (26.92%) GCP
4 16 (15.38%) GitHub
5 14 (13.46%) AWS CloudFormation
5 14 (13.46%) Azure DevOps
6 13 (12.50%) Pulumi
7 10 (9.62%) Datadog
8 8 (7.69%) Amazon EKS
8 8 (7.69%) GitHub Actions
9 6 (5.77%) SaaS
9 6 (5.77%) Serverless
10 5 (4.81%) Amazon ECS
10 5 (4.81%) Azure Data Factory
11 4 (3.85%) Amazon CloudWatch
11 4 (3.85%) Amazon S3
12 3 (2.88%) Amazon EC2
12 3 (2.88%) Azure AKS
12 3 (2.88%) Azure Monitor
12 3 (2.88%) Azure Service Bus
Communications & Networking
1 5 (4.81%) DNS
2 2 (1.92%) Broadband
2 2 (1.92%) VPN
3 1 (0.96%) Firewall
3 1 (0.96%) Network Security
Database & Business Intelligence
1 9 (8.65%) NoSQL
2 8 (7.69%) PostgreSQL
2 8 (7.69%) SQL Server
3 7 (6.73%) MongoDB
4 6 (5.77%) Azure SQL Database
4 6 (5.77%) MySQL
5 5 (4.81%) Elasticsearch
6 4 (3.85%) Relational Database
6 4 (3.85%) Tableau
7 3 (2.88%) DynamoDB
8 2 (1.92%) Amazon RDS
8 2 (1.92%) RDBMS
8 2 (1.92%) Redis
9 1 (0.96%) BigQuery
9 1 (0.96%) Flink
9 1 (0.96%) Power BI
Development Applications
1 17 (16.35%) Git
2 6 (5.77%) GitLab
3 5 (4.81%) JIRA
4 4 (3.85%) Jenkins
5 2 (1.92%) Artifactory
5 2 (1.92%) CircleCI
5 2 (1.92%) Jaeger
5 2 (1.92%) MSTest
5 2 (1.92%) NUnit
5 2 (1.92%) Octopus Deploy
6 1 (0.96%) Bitbucket
6 1 (0.96%) NeoLoad
6 1 (0.96%) SpecFlow
6 1 (0.96%) Team Foundation Server
6 1 (0.96%) TeamCity
6 1 (0.96%) Vagrant
6 1 (0.96%) Visual Studio
6 1 (0.96%) Visual Studio Code
General
1 33 (31.73%) Finance
2 20 (19.23%) Social Skills
3 11 (10.58%) Analytical Skills
4 10 (9.62%) Law
5 9 (8.65%) Banking
5 9 (8.65%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 2 (1.92%) Back Office
6 2 (1.92%) Investment Banking
6 2 (1.92%) Public Sector
6 2 (1.92%) Retail
7 1 (0.96%) Financial Institution
7 1 (0.96%) Front Office
7 1 (0.96%) Marketing
Job Titles
1 29 (27.88%) Lead
2 28 (26.92%) Senior
3 21 (20.19%) Developer
4 15 (14.42%) Platform Engineer
4 15 (14.42%) Software Engineer
5 13 (12.50%) Site Reliability Engineer
6 9 (8.65%) Senior Software Engineer
7 8 (7.69%) Data Engineer
7 8 (7.69%) DevOps Engineer
7 8 (7.69%) Lead Data Engineer
7 8 (7.69%) Site Engineer
8 7 (6.73%) Cloud Engineer
9 6 (5.77%) .NET Developer
9 6 (5.77%) Infrastructure Engineer
9 6 (5.77%) Lead Developer
10 5 (4.81%) Lead .NET Developer
11 4 (3.85%) Azure Engineer
11 4 (3.85%) Java Engineer
11 4 (3.85%) Senior Developer
11 4 (3.85%) Software Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 26 (25.00%) .NET
2 15 (14.42%) React
3 9 (8.65%) ARM Templates
3 9 (8.65%) Node.js
4 8 (7.69%) Kafka
5 7 (6.73%) Loki
5 7 (6.73%) OpenTelemetry
5 7 (6.73%) RESTful
6 6 (5.77%) AngularJS
6 6 (5.77%) HTML
7 5 (4.81%) .NET Framework
7 5 (4.81%) CSS
7 5 (4.81%) Entity Framework
7 5 (4.81%) Pandas
7 5 (4.81%) REST
8 4 (3.85%) AWS CDK
8 4 (3.85%) GraphQL
8 4 (3.85%) Spring
9 3 (2.88%) Elastic Stack
9 3 (2.88%) WebSockets
Miscellaneous
1 14 (13.46%) Cloud Native
2 6 (5.77%) Product Ownership
3 5 (4.81%) Greenfield Project
3 5 (4.81%) Security Posture
4 4 (3.85%) Cloud Security Posture
4 4 (3.85%) Security Operations Centre
5 3 (2.88%) Cyberattack
5 3 (2.88%) Data Structures
5 3 (2.88%) Public Cloud
6 2 (1.92%) Blockchain
6 2 (1.92%) Distributed Systems
6 2 (1.92%) Legacy Systems
6 2 (1.92%) Private Cloud
6 2 (1.92%) Reinsurance
7 1 (0.96%) Blog
7 1 (0.96%) Data Centre
7 1 (0.96%) Enterprise Software
7 1 (0.96%) EPoS
7 1 (0.96%) Linux Command Line
7 1 (0.96%) Management Information System
Operating Systems
1 13 (12.50%) Linux
2 4 (3.85%) Windows
3 3 (2.88%) Android
3 3 (2.88%) Windows Server
4 2 (1.92%) CentOS
4 2 (1.92%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 2 (1.92%) Unix
5 1 (0.96%) VMS
5 1 (0.96%) Windows Server 2016
5 1 (0.96%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 52 (50.00%) DevOps
2 51 (49.04%) CI/CD
2 51 (49.04%) Containerisation
3 50 (48.08%) Infrastructure as Code
4 31 (29.81%) Agile
5 30 (28.85%) Software Engineering
6 24 (23.08%) Microservices
7 21 (20.19%) Mentoring
7 21 (20.19%) Platform Engineering
8 19 (18.27%) Observability
8 19 (18.27%) Site Reliability Engineering
9 18 (17.31%) Analytics
10 16 (15.38%) Artificial Intelligence
10 16 (15.38%) Problem-Solving
11 15 (14.42%) Data Science
12 14 (13.46%) Stakeholder Management
13 13 (12.50%) Incident Response
13 13 (12.50%) Roadmaps
14 12 (11.54%) Continuous Integration
14 12 (11.54%) Root Cause Analysis
Programming Languages
1 58 (55.77%) Python
2 38 (36.54%) Java
3 22 (21.15%) C#
4 19 (18.27%) Bash
4 19 (18.27%) JavaScript
4 19 (18.27%) SQL
5 15 (14.42%) Go
6 10 (9.62%) PowerShell
7 9 (8.65%) TypeScript
8 8 (7.69%) Scala
9 7 (6.73%) Rust
10 3 (2.88%) C++
11 2 (1.92%) Bicep
11 2 (1.92%) Kotlin
11 2 (1.92%) MATLAB
11 2 (1.92%) PL/SQL
12 1 (0.96%) Groovy
12 1 (0.96%) PHP
12 1 (0.96%) R
12 1 (0.96%) Ruby
Qualifications
1 15 (14.42%) Degree
2 12 (11.54%) Master's Degree
3 9 (8.65%) Computer Science Degree
3 9 (8.65%) Security Cleared
4 6 (5.77%) AWS Certification
5 5 (4.81%) DV Cleared
6 4 (3.85%) PhD
7 3 (2.88%) Azure Certification
7 3 (2.88%) GIAC
8 2 (1.92%) SC Cleared
9 1 (0.96%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
9 1 (0.96%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
9 1 (0.96%) AWS Certified SysOps Administrator
9 1 (0.96%) ISTQB
9 1 (0.96%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (3.85%) QA
System Software
1 60 (57.69%) Docker
2 3 (2.88%) Active Directory
2 3 (2.88%) VMware Infrastructure
3 1 (0.96%) Apache ZooKeeper
Systems Management
1 50 (48.08%) Terraform
2 26 (25.00%) Ansible
3 12 (11.54%) Grafana
3 12 (11.54%) Prometheus
4 4 (3.85%) Progress Chef
5 3 (2.88%) Argo
6 2 (1.92%) Consul
6 2 (1.92%) Kustomize
6 2 (1.92%) Nagios
6 2 (1.92%) Packer
6 2 (1.92%) Puppet
7 1 (0.96%) Istio
7 1 (0.96%) Microsoft Intune
7 1 (0.96%) NetBackup
7 1 (0.96%) Salt
Vendors
1 16 (15.38%) Microsoft
2 12 (11.54%) Google
3 6 (5.77%) Hitachi
3 6 (5.77%) VMware
4 4 (3.85%) Cisco
4 4 (3.85%) Red Hat
5 3 (2.88%) Databricks
5 3 (2.88%) Dynatrace
6 2 (1.92%) Commvault
6 2 (1.92%) Oracle
6 2 (1.92%) Pure Storage
6 2 (1.92%) Rapid7
6 2 (1.92%) Splunk
7 1 (0.96%) BiZZdesign
7 1 (0.96%) EMC
7 1 (0.96%) NetApp