Kubernetes Jobs in the East of England

Kubernetes (k8s)
England > East of England

The table below provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in the East of England 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 15 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
15 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 88 136 65
Rank change year-on-year +48 -71 +4
Permanent jobs citing Kubernetes 104 94 222
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the East of England 3.08% 1.54% 4.24%
As % of the Systems Management category 40.63% 25.00% 38.14%
Number of salaries quoted 42 80 100
10th Percentile £47,050 £55,000 £45,000
25th Percentile £51,563 £63,750 £50,313
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,500 £85,000 £70,000
Median % change year-on-year -32.35% +21.43% -
75th Percentile £78,125 £93,750 £85,000
90th Percentile £87,250 £130,000 £92,500
England median annual salary £82,500 £77,500 £77,500
% change year-on-year +6.45% - -

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 256 376 582
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the East of England 7.57% 6.15% 11.11%
Number of salaries quoted 161 323 350
10th Percentile £27,500 £28,697 £32,000
25th Percentile £41,250 £36,250 £40,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £52,500 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +4.76% -4.55% -4.35%
75th Percentile £63,750 £73,250 £71,563
90th Percentile £78,750 £92,500 £80,125
England median annual salary £67,500 £62,125 £67,500
% change year-on-year +8.65% -7.96% -3.57%

Kubernetes
Job Vacancy Trend in the East of England

Job postings citing Kubernetes as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the East of England.

Job vacancy trend for Kubernetes in the East of England

Kubernetes
Salary Trend in the East of England

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing Kubernetes in the East of England.

Salary trend for Kubernetes in the East of England

Kubernetes
Salary Histogram in the East of England

Salary distribution for jobs citing Kubernetes in the East of England over the 6 months to 15 May 2025.

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 15 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
Hertfordshire +34 36 £63,000 -25.88% 12
Essex +32 22 £57,500 -9.80% 19
Cambridgeshire +17 21 £62,500 -26.47% 37
Bedfordshire -5 16 £50,000 -29.82% 10
Norfolk +25 6 - - 2
Suffolk -18 3 £67,500 +10.20% 4
Kubernetes
England

Kubernetes
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the East of England 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 13 (12.50%) Confluence
2 3 (2.88%) Oracle SOA Suite
2 3 (2.88%) Tomcat
3 2 (1.92%) Adobe Experience Manager
4 1 (0.96%) Apache Spark
Business Applications
1 2 (1.92%) Sprinklr
Cloud Services
1 77 (74.04%) AWS
2 49 (47.12%) Azure
3 26 (25.00%) Pulumi
4 16 (15.38%) Amazon EKS
4 16 (15.38%) AWS CloudFormation
4 16 (15.38%) GCP
5 6 (5.77%) Azure DevOps
6 4 (3.85%) Azure Pipelines
6 4 (3.85%) Cloud Computing
7 3 (2.88%) Amazon EC2
7 3 (2.88%) Amazon S3
7 3 (2.88%) AWS Lambda
7 3 (2.88%) SaaS
7 3 (2.88%) Serverless
8 2 (1.92%) Amazon CloudWatch
8 2 (1.92%) Amazon Cognito
8 2 (1.92%) OpenShift
9 1 (0.96%) Microsoft 365
9 1 (0.96%) Twilio
9 1 (0.96%) Virtual Private Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 26 (25.00%) Broadband
2 6 (5.77%) Firewall
3 3 (2.88%) DNS
3 3 (2.88%) VLAN
4 2 (1.92%) DHCP
4 2 (1.92%) TCP/IP
5 1 (0.96%) 3GPP
5 1 (0.96%) 5G
5 1 (0.96%) LAN
5 1 (0.96%) VPN
5 1 (0.96%) WLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 34 (32.69%) NoSQL
2 26 (25.00%) RDBMS
2 26 (25.00%) Relational Database
3 25 (24.04%) SQL Server
4 19 (18.27%) Elasticsearch
5 7 (6.73%) Big Data
6 6 (5.77%) MongoDB
6 6 (5.77%) PostgreSQL
7 5 (4.81%) Redis
8 3 (2.88%) MariaDB
8 3 (2.88%) MySQL
9 1 (0.96%) Amazon RDS
9 1 (0.96%) Amazon Redshift
Development Applications
1 26 (25.00%) Jaeger
2 19 (18.27%) GitLab
3 18 (17.31%) Maven
4 17 (16.35%) Git
4 17 (16.35%) Sonatype Nexus
5 15 (14.42%) Bitbucket
5 15 (14.42%) Cucumber
5 15 (14.42%) JIRA
5 15 (14.42%) Selenium
5 15 (14.42%) SonarQube
6 4 (3.85%) Subversion
7 3 (2.88%) Eclipse
7 3 (2.88%) Gradle
7 3 (2.88%) Visual Studio
8 2 (1.92%) Artifactory
9 1 (0.96%) CircleCI
9 1 (0.96%) Jenkins
General
1 57 (54.81%) Inclusion and Diversity
2 17 (16.35%) Banking
3 16 (15.38%) Analytical Skills
3 16 (15.38%) Finance
4 5 (4.81%) Automotive
4 5 (4.81%) Retail
4 5 (4.81%) Social Skills
5 2 (1.92%) Corporate Banking
5 2 (1.92%) Investment Banking
5 2 (1.92%) Public Sector
6 1 (0.96%) Aviation
6 1 (0.96%) Legal
6 1 (0.96%) Manufacturing
Job Titles
1 30 (28.85%) Developer
2 26 (25.00%) Lead
2 26 (25.00%) Team Leader
3 23 (22.12%) Software Engineer
4 15 (14.42%) Software Developer
5 7 (6.73%) .NET Developer
5 7 (6.73%) DevOps Engineer
6 6 (5.77%) Senior
7 4 (3.85%) Senior DevOps
7 4 (3.85%) Senior DevOps Engineer
8 3 (2.88%) .NET Software Engineer
8 3 (2.88%) C# Software Engineer
8 3 (2.88%) Cloud Developer
8 3 (2.88%) DevOps Platform Engineer
8 3 (2.88%) Java Developer
8 3 (2.88%) Platform Engineer
9 2 (1.92%) Full-Stack Engineer
9 2 (1.92%) Full-Stack Java Developer
9 2 (1.92%) Full-Stack Software Engineer
9 2 (1.92%) IT Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 31 (29.81%) .NET
1 31 (29.81%) Elastic Stack
2 26 (25.00%) OpenTelemetry
3 21 (20.19%) CSS
3 21 (20.19%) HTML
4 20 (19.23%) React
5 19 (18.27%) Kafka
5 19 (18.27%) Spring
6 17 (16.35%) Node.js
7 16 (15.38%) Spring Boot
8 15 (14.42%) .NET Framework
8 15 (14.42%) JPA
8 15 (14.42%) Pandas
8 15 (14.42%) Redux
9 14 (13.46%) Entity Framework
10 13 (12.50%) Hibernate
10 13 (12.50%) Web Services
11 12 (11.54%) REST
12 11 (10.58%) ASP.NET
13 10 (9.62%) LINQ
Miscellaneous
1 15 (14.42%) Cyberattack
1 15 (14.42%) Enterprise Software
1 15 (14.42%) Product Ownership
2 5 (4.81%) PKI
2 5 (4.81%) Private Cloud
3 3 (2.88%) Data Structures
3 3 (2.88%) Greenfield Project
3 3 (2.88%) Mobile App
3 3 (2.88%) Robotics
4 2 (1.92%) Algorithms
4 2 (1.92%) Client/Server
4 2 (1.92%) Cloud Security Posture
4 2 (1.92%) Distributed Systems
4 2 (1.92%) Enterprise Storage
4 2 (1.92%) LIMS
4 2 (1.92%) Public Cloud
4 2 (1.92%) Reference Data
4 2 (1.92%) Replication
4 2 (1.92%) Security Posture
5 1 (0.96%) Life Science
Operating Systems
1 59 (56.73%) Linux
2 28 (26.92%) Unix
3 18 (17.31%) Android
4 6 (5.77%) Windows
5 5 (4.81%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 3 (2.88%) Apple iOS
6 3 (2.88%) Windows Server
7 1 (0.96%) CentOS
7 1 (0.96%) Debian
7 1 (0.96%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 75 (72.12%) Agile
2 70 (67.31%) Containerisation
3 65 (62.50%) DevOps
4 55 (52.88%) CI/CD
5 41 (39.42%) Performance Optimisation
5 41 (39.42%) Software Engineering
6 38 (36.54%) Mentoring
7 34 (32.69%) Infrastructure as Code
8 31 (29.81%) Microservices
9 30 (28.85%) High Availability
10 27 (25.96%) Continuous Integration
10 27 (25.96%) Cost Optimisation
10 27 (25.96%) Resource Management
10 27 (25.96%) Roadmaps
11 26 (25.00%) Budget Control
11 26 (25.00%) GitOps
11 26 (25.00%) Product Management
11 26 (25.00%) Task Automation
12 21 (20.19%) OOP
12 21 (20.19%) Test Automation
Programming Languages
1 65 (62.50%) Java
2 59 (56.73%) Python
3 58 (55.77%) JavaScript
4 42 (40.38%) Go
5 34 (32.69%) Bash
6 27 (25.96%) SQL
7 18 (17.31%) C#
8 16 (15.38%) C++
9 15 (14.42%) Rust
10 7 (6.73%) TypeScript
11 5 (4.81%) PowerShell
12 4 (3.85%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 27 (25.96%) AWS Certification
2 21 (20.19%) DV Cleared
2 21 (20.19%) Security Cleared
3 5 (4.81%) Degree
4 4 (3.85%) SC Cleared
5 1 (0.96%) Computer Science Degree
5 1 (0.96%) MCSA
5 1 (0.96%) Microsoft Certification
5 1 (0.96%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 16 (15.38%) QA
2 2 (1.92%) Accessibility
3 1 (0.96%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 1 (0.96%) SOC 2
System Software
1 100 (96.15%) Docker
2 1 (0.96%) Virtual Machines
2 1 (0.96%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 53 (50.96%) Terraform
2 51 (49.04%) Ansible
3 27 (25.96%) Prometheus
4 26 (25.00%) Argo
4 26 (25.00%) Kustomize
5 2 (1.92%) Rancher
6 1 (0.96%) Grafana
6 1 (0.96%) Proxmox
Vendors
1 27 (25.96%) Google
2 15 (14.42%) Solace
3 11 (10.58%) Microsoft
4 5 (4.81%) Oracle
5 4 (3.85%) VMware
6 2 (1.92%) Adobe
6 2 (1.92%) NetApp
6 2 (1.92%) Red Hat
7 1 (0.96%) CheckPoint
7 1 (0.96%) Facebook
7 1 (0.96%) IBM
7 1 (0.96%) Palo Alto