Kubernetes Job Trends in East London

Kubernetes (k8s)
London > East London

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in East London requiring Kubernetes skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 13 August 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
13 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 37 25 22
Rank change year-on-year -12 -3 +22
Permanent jobs citing Kubernetes 1 3 3
As % of all permanent jobs in East London 0.33% 1.82% 2.08%
As % of the Systems Management category 3.57% 10.71% 14.29%
Number of salaries quoted 1 0 2
10th Percentile - - £59,125
25th Percentile - - £63,438
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £130,000 - £73,750
Median % change year-on-year - - -2.64%
75th Percentile - - £85,938
90th Percentile - - £91,375
London median annual salary £90,000 £90,000 £91,250
% change year-on-year - -1.37% +7.35%

All Systems Management Skills
East 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 East London.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for systems management skills 28 28 21
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in East London 9.36% 16.97% 14.58%
Number of salaries quoted 24 24 20
10th Percentile £56,250 £32,000 £38,625
25th Percentile £62,500 £46,438 £38,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £75,000 £90,000 £56,250
Median % change year-on-year -16.67% +60.00% +50.00%
75th Percentile £105,625 £107,500 £77,500
90th Percentile £109,250 - £79,250
London median annual salary £78,000 £77,500 £80,000
% change year-on-year +0.65% -3.13% +6.67%

Kubernetes
Job Vacancy Trend in East London

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

Kubernetes job vacancy trend in East London

Kubernetes
Salary Trend in East London

Salary distribution trend for jobs in East London citing Kubernetes.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in East London citing Kubernetes

Kubernetes
Job Locations in East London

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Kubernetes within the East London region over the 6 months to 13 August 2026. 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
Tower Hamlets - 1 £130,000 -
Kubernetes
London

Kubernetes
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in East London 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 1 (100.00%) Azure
1 1 (100.00%) Azure DevOps
1 1 (100.00%) GitHub
1 1 (100.00%) GitHub Actions
General
1 1 (100.00%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 1 (100.00%) DevSecOps Engineer
1 1 (100.00%) Senior
Miscellaneous
1 1 (100.00%) Cloud Native
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (100.00%) AI
1 1 (100.00%) Application Security
1 1 (100.00%) CI/CD
1 1 (100.00%) Cloud Security
1 1 (100.00%) Collaborative Working
1 1 (100.00%) Containerisation
1 1 (100.00%) DevOps
1 1 (100.00%) DevSecOps
1 1 (100.00%) Identity Access Management
1 1 (100.00%) Infrastructure as Code
1 1 (100.00%) Offensive Security
1 1 (100.00%) Penetration Testing
1 1 (100.00%) Roadmaps
1 1 (100.00%) SDLC
1 1 (100.00%) Security Testing
1 1 (100.00%) Software Engineering
1 1 (100.00%) Stakeholder Management
1 1 (100.00%) Threat and Vulnerability Management
1 1 (100.00%) Threat Modelling
1 1 (100.00%) Vulnerability Management
Vendors
1 1 (100.00%) Microsoft