Kubernetes Job Trends in the East of England

Kubernetes (k8s)
England > East of England

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in the East of England requiring Kubernetes skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 10 April 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
10 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 159 70 122
Rank change year-on-year -89 +52 -43
Permanent jobs citing Kubernetes 26 80 108
As % of all permanent jobs in the East of England 0.44% 3.11% 1.84%
As % of the Systems Management category 12.62% 36.36% 28.65%
Number of salaries quoted 26 55 90
10th Percentile £43,125 £47,500 £57,500
25th Percentile £55,000 £52,527 £73,438
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £67,500 £57,500 £85,000
Median % change year-on-year +17.39% -32.35% +13.33%
75th Percentile £92,500 £78,750 £93,750
90th Percentile £100,000 £86,500 £127,750
England median annual salary £75,000 £85,000 £77,500
% change year-on-year -11.76% +9.68% -

All Systems Management Skills
East of England

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 East of England.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for systems management skills 206 220 377
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the East of England 3.48% 8.56% 6.44%
Number of salaries quoted 161 182 324
10th Percentile £29,750 £31,325 £27,500
25th Percentile £33,500 £43,000 £36,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £46,500 £55,320 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year -15.94% +5.37% -7.89%
75th Percentile £62,250 £65,563 £75,000
90th Percentile £80,000 £78,750 £92,500
England median annual salary £65,000 £70,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year -7.14% +16.67% -11.11%

Kubernetes
Job Vacancy Trend in the East of England

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

Kubernetes job vacancy trend in the East of England

Kubernetes
Salary Trend in the East of England

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the East of England citing Kubernetes.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the East of England citing Kubernetes

Kubernetes
Salary Histogram in the East of England

Salary distribution for jobs citing Kubernetes in the East of England over the 6 months to 10 April 2026.

Salary histogram for Kubernetes in the East of England

Kubernetes
Job Locations in the East of England

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Kubernetes within the East of England region over the 6 months to 10 April 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
Cambridgeshire -27 10 £73,825 +9.37% 9
Essex -30 8 £83,750 +45.65% 7
Hertfordshire -41 7 £60,000 -4.76% 9
Bedfordshire -4 1 £47,500 -5.00% 1
Kubernetes
England

Kubernetes
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the East of England 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:

Application Platforms
1 1 (3.85%) Apache
1 1 (3.85%) Apache Airflow
1 1 (3.85%) Apache Spark
Cloud Services
1 14 (53.85%) AWS
2 11 (42.31%) Azure
3 7 (26.92%) Amazon EC2
3 7 (26.92%) GitHub
4 6 (23.08%) Amazon CloudWatch
4 6 (23.08%) Amazon EKS
5 5 (19.23%) Amazon ElastiCache
5 5 (19.23%) Amazon OpenSearch
5 5 (19.23%) CloudFront
5 5 (19.23%) Virtual Private Cloud
6 4 (15.38%) Azure AKS
6 4 (15.38%) Azure ExpressRoute
6 4 (15.38%) Azure Key Vault
6 4 (15.38%) Azure Storage
6 4 (15.38%) GitHub Actions
6 4 (15.38%) IaaS
7 3 (11.54%) GCP
7 3 (11.54%) GitHub Copilot
8 2 (7.69%) Azure AI
8 2 (7.69%) Datadog
Communications & Networking
1 4 (15.38%) DNS
2 2 (7.69%) SSL
3 1 (3.85%) Firewall
Database & Business Intelligence
1 6 (23.08%) Amazon RDS
2 5 (19.23%) Amazon Aurora
3 3 (11.54%) Azure SQL Database
3 3 (11.54%) MongoDB
4 1 (3.85%) Amazon Redshift
4 1 (3.85%) Big Data
4 1 (3.85%) Elasticsearch
4 1 (3.85%) Electronic Patient Records
4 1 (3.85%) Power BI
4 1 (3.85%) Redis
Development Applications
1 3 (11.54%) Jenkins
2 2 (7.69%) GitLab
3 1 (3.85%) CircleCI
3 1 (3.85%) Git
3 1 (3.85%) gulp
3 1 (3.85%) JIRA
3 1 (3.85%) MSTest
3 1 (3.85%) NUnit
3 1 (3.85%) SpecFlow
3 1 (3.85%) TestNG
3 1 (3.85%) webpack
General
1 6 (23.08%) Social Skills
2 4 (15.38%) Finance
2 4 (15.38%) Law
3 3 (11.54%) Advertising
4 1 (3.85%) Documentation Skills
4 1 (3.85%) Games
4 1 (3.85%) Manufacturing
Job Titles
1 10 (38.46%) Cloud Engineer
2 5 (19.23%) AWS Engineer
2 5 (19.23%) AWS Platform Engineer
2 5 (19.23%) Cloud Platform Engineer
2 5 (19.23%) Platform Engineer
3 4 (15.38%) .NET Developer
3 4 (15.38%) 3rd Line Engineer
3 4 (15.38%) Azure Engineer
3 4 (15.38%) Coordinator
3 4 (15.38%) Developer
3 4 (15.38%) Linux Engineer
4 2 (7.69%) DevOps Engineer
5 1 (3.85%) .NET Software Developer
5 1 (3.85%) IT Administrator
5 1 (3.85%) IT Systems Administrator
5 1 (3.85%) Operations Engineer
5 1 (3.85%) Site Engineer
5 1 (3.85%) Team Leader
5 1 (3.85%) Test Automation Engineer
5 1 (3.85%) Test Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 5 (19.23%) .NET
1 5 (19.23%) Loki
2 3 (11.54%) .NET Core
2 3 (11.54%) ASP.NET
2 3 (11.54%) ASP.NET Core
2 3 (11.54%) CSS
2 3 (11.54%) HTML
3 2 (7.69%) ML.NET
4 1 (3.85%) .NET Framework
4 1 (3.85%) AngularJS
4 1 (3.85%) GraphQL
4 1 (3.85%) MassTransit
4 1 (3.85%) Node.js
4 1 (3.85%) Playwright
4 1 (3.85%) RabbitMQ
4 1 (3.85%) React
4 1 (3.85%) Sass
4 1 (3.85%) Three.js
4 1 (3.85%) Vue
Miscellaneous
1 4 (15.38%) Life Science
1 4 (15.38%) Public Cloud
2 2 (7.69%) Digital TV
2 2 (7.69%) Onboarding
3 1 (3.85%) Cloud Native
Operating Systems
1 9 (34.62%) Linux
2 1 (3.85%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 16 (61.54%) CI/CD
2 12 (46.15%) DevOps
3 9 (34.62%) Agile
3 9 (34.62%) Containerisation
3 9 (34.62%) High Availability
4 8 (30.77%) Deployment Automation
4 8 (30.77%) Infrastructure as Code
5 7 (26.92%) Blue-Green Deployment
5 7 (26.92%) Canary Deployment
5 7 (26.92%) Observability
5 7 (26.92%) Site Reliability Engineering
6 6 (23.08%) Cloud Security
7 5 (19.23%) Auto-Scaling
7 5 (19.23%) Disaster Recovery
7 5 (19.23%) Infrastructure Automation
7 5 (19.23%) Platform Engineering
7 5 (19.23%) Secrets Management
8 4 (15.38%) Load Balancing
8 4 (15.38%) Microservices
8 4 (15.38%) Root Cause Analysis
Programming Languages
1 10 (38.46%) Bash
2 8 (30.77%) Python
3 6 (23.08%) PowerShell
4 5 (19.23%) C#
5 4 (15.38%) SQL
6 1 (3.85%) Data Analysis Expressions
6 1 (3.85%) JavaScript
6 1 (3.85%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 7 (26.92%) Degree
2 4 (15.38%) Azure Certification
3 2 (7.69%) AWS Certification
4 1 (3.85%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
4 1 (3.85%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
4 1 (3.85%) Computer Science Degree
4 1 (3.85%) DBS Check
4 1 (3.85%) Master's Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (3.85%) Accessibility
1 1 (3.85%) GDPR
1 1 (3.85%) ISO/IEC 27001
1 1 (3.85%) QA
System Software
1 10 (38.46%) Docker
Systems Management
1 9 (34.62%) Terraform
2 8 (30.77%) Grafana
3 5 (19.23%) Prometheus
4 2 (7.69%) Argo
4 2 (7.69%) Istio
Vendors
1 4 (15.38%) VMware
2 3 (11.54%) Microsoft
3 1 (3.85%) New Relic