Kubernetes Engineer Jobs in England

Kubernetes Engineer (K8s Engineer)
UK > England

The median Kubernetes Engineer (K8s Engineer) salary in England is £100,000 per year, according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months leading to 3 May 2025.

The table below provides salary benchmarking and summary statistics, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
3 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 606 755 731
Rank change year-on-year +149 -24 +231
Permanent jobs requiring a Kubernetes Engineer 49 88 199
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 0.11% 0.10% 0.22%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.12% 0.11% 0.24%
Number of salaries quoted 35 79 170
10th Percentile £64,500 £60,000 £55,000
25th Percentile £80,000 £80,000 £68,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £100,000 £100,000 £97,500
Median % change year-on-year - +2.56% +21.88%
75th Percentile £127,500 £112,500 £138,750
90th Percentile £134,250 £138,750 £150,000
UK median annual salary £100,000 £100,000 £95,000
% change year-on-year - +5.26% +18.75%

All Permanent IT Job Vacancies
England

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent IT job vacancies in England. Most job vacancies include a discernible job title that can be normalized. As such, the figures in the second row provide an indication of the number of permanent jobs in our overall sample.

Permanent vacancies in England with a recognized job title 41,862 80,543 84,589
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 90.30% 94.48% 91.52%
Number of salaries quoted 24,654 60,279 53,593
10th Percentile £30,000 £28,500 £32,626
25th Percentile £42,500 £38,250 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,500 £53,500 £60,800
Median % change year-on-year +7.48% -12.01% +1.33%
75th Percentile £75,000 £71,942 £82,500
90th Percentile £97,500 £91,000 £100,000
UK median annual salary £57,500 £52,550 £60,000
% change year-on-year +9.42% -12.42% -

Kubernetes Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend in England

Job postings that featured Kubernetes Engineer in the job title as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in England.

Job vacancy trend for Kubernetes Engineer in England

Kubernetes Engineer
Salary Trend in England

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing Kubernetes Engineer in England.

Salary trend for Kubernetes Engineer in England

Kubernetes Engineer
Salary Histogram in England

Salary distribution for jobs citing Kubernetes Engineer in England over the 6 months to 3 May 2025.

Salary histogram for Kubernetes Engineer in England

Kubernetes Engineer
Job Locations in England

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Kubernetes Engineer within the England region over the 6 months to 3 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 +80 42 £103,750 -1.19% 8
South East - 5 £60,000 - 2
North of England +67 1 £100,000 +33.33% 7
Midlands +64 1 £45,000 -21.74%
East Midlands +46 1 £45,000 -21.74%
North West +21 1 £100,000 +33.33% 7
Kubernetes Engineer
UK

Kubernetes Engineer Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in England

For the 6 months to 3 May 2025, Kubernetes Engineer job roles required the following skills and capabilities in order of popularity. The figures indicate the absolute number co-occurrences and as a proportion of all permanent job ads across the England region featuring Kubernetes Engineer in the job title.

1 49 (100.00%) Kubernetes
2 43 (87.76%) DevOps
3 38 (77.55%) Docker
3 38 (77.55%) AWS
4 37 (75.51%) Terraform
4 37 (75.51%) CI/CD
5 29 (59.18%) Python
6 26 (53.06%) Finance
7 25 (51.02%) Containerisation
8 21 (42.86%) Azure
9 20 (40.82%) Go
10 19 (38.78%) Jenkins
10 19 (38.78%) Infrastructure as Code
11 18 (36.73%) Open Source
12 16 (32.65%) Software Engineering
12 16 (32.65%) Site Reliability Engineering
12 16 (32.65%) Serverless
12 16 (32.65%) AWS CloudFormation
13 14 (28.57%) AWS Lambda
13 14 (28.57%) Agile
13 14 (28.57%) OpenShift
14 13 (26.53%) Kafka
14 13 (26.53%) Social Skills
15 12 (24.49%) Amazon RDS
15 12 (24.49%) GCP
15 12 (24.49%) Java
15 12 (24.49%) Amazon EC2
15 12 (24.49%) Amazon S3
16 10 (20.41%) Banking
16 10 (20.41%) GitLab

Kubernetes Engineer Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in 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:

Cloud Services
1 38 (77.55%) AWS
2 21 (42.86%) Azure
3 16 (32.65%) AWS CloudFormation
3 16 (32.65%) Serverless
4 14 (28.57%) AWS Lambda
4 14 (28.57%) OpenShift
5 12 (24.49%) Amazon EC2
5 12 (24.49%) Amazon S3
5 12 (24.49%) GCP
6 9 (18.37%) Amazon EKS
7 8 (16.33%) Amazon ECS
7 8 (16.33%) Amazon SQS
7 8 (16.33%) Azure DevOps
8 6 (12.24%) Amazon MSK
9 4 (8.16%) Amazon CloudWatch
9 4 (8.16%) Cloud Computing
9 4 (8.16%) Datadog
10 3 (6.12%) Azure AKS
11 2 (4.08%) Azure Functions
11 2 (4.08%) GitHub
Communications & Networking
1 4 (8.16%) Network Security
Database & Business Intelligence
1 12 (24.49%) Amazon RDS
2 9 (18.37%) PostgreSQL
3 8 (16.33%) Amazon Redshift
4 4 (8.16%) DynamoDB
4 4 (8.16%) MongoDB
4 4 (8.16%) NoSQL
5 1 (2.04%) Apache Cassandra
5 1 (2.04%) Azure SQL Database
5 1 (2.04%) Big Data
5 1 (2.04%) MariaDB
5 1 (2.04%) MySQL
5 1 (2.04%) Redis
5 1 (2.04%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 19 (38.78%) Jenkins
2 10 (20.41%) GitLab
3 8 (16.33%) Artifactory
4 6 (12.24%) SonarQube
4 6 (12.24%) Sonatype Nexus
5 4 (8.16%) CircleCI
6 3 (6.12%) Liquibase
7 2 (4.08%) Git
7 2 (4.08%) NUnit
7 2 (4.08%) Selenium
8 1 (2.04%) MLflow
8 1 (2.04%) Octopus Deploy
General
1 26 (53.06%) Finance
2 13 (26.53%) Social Skills
3 10 (20.41%) Banking
4 8 (16.33%) Front Office
5 4 (8.16%) Analytical Skills
6 3 (6.12%) Law
7 2 (4.08%) Games
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 13 (26.53%) Kafka
2 8 (16.33%) J2EE
3 6 (12.24%) REST
4 4 (8.16%) Azure Blueprints
4 4 (8.16%) gRPC
4 4 (8.16%) RabbitMQ
4 4 (8.16%) RESTful
4 4 (8.16%) web3js
5 3 (6.12%) Node.js
5 3 (6.12%) React
6 2 (4.08%) .NET
6 2 (4.08%) .NET Core
6 2 (4.08%) Ruby on Rails
7 1 (2.04%) AngularJS
7 1 (2.04%) Elastic Stack
7 1 (2.04%) PyTorch
7 1 (2.04%) SAML
7 1 (2.04%) TensorFlow
Miscellaneous
1 8 (16.33%) Cloud Native
1 8 (16.33%) Tandem
2 4 (8.16%) Blockchain
2 4 (8.16%) Security Posture
2 4 (8.16%) Web3
3 2 (4.08%) Algorithms
4 1 (2.04%) Private Cloud
Operating Systems
1 4 (8.16%) Windows
2 1 (2.04%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 43 (87.76%) DevOps
2 37 (75.51%) CI/CD
3 25 (51.02%) Containerisation
4 19 (38.78%) Infrastructure as Code
5 18 (36.73%) Open Source
6 16 (32.65%) Site Reliability Engineering
6 16 (32.65%) Software Engineering
7 14 (28.57%) Agile
8 10 (20.41%) Event-Driven
9 9 (18.37%) Machine Learning
9 9 (18.37%) Problem-Solving
10 8 (16.33%) Asset Management
10 8 (16.33%) Decision-Making
10 8 (16.33%) Deployment Automation
10 8 (16.33%) Financial Modelling
10 8 (16.33%) High Availability
10 8 (16.33%) Risk Management
11 7 (14.29%) Cloud Security
11 7 (14.29%) Continuous Integration
11 7 (14.29%) Platform Engineering
Programming Languages
1 29 (59.18%) Python
2 20 (40.82%) Go
3 12 (24.49%) Java
4 6 (12.24%) Bash
5 5 (10.20%) PowerShell
6 3 (6.12%) C#
7 2 (4.08%) Ruby
8 1 (2.04%) JavaScript
8 1 (2.04%) PHP
8 1 (2.04%) Scala
8 1 (2.04%) SQL
8 1 (2.04%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 3 (6.12%) SC Cleared
1 3 (6.12%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 6 (12.24%) GDPR
2 4 (8.16%) NIST
2 4 (8.16%) PCI DSS
2 4 (8.16%) Sarbanes-Oxley
3 2 (4.08%) Accessibility
3 2 (4.08%) MiFID
System Software
1 38 (77.55%) Docker
2 6 (12.24%) Virtual Machines
3 1 (2.04%) Active Directory
3 1 (2.04%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 49 (100.00%) Kubernetes
2 37 (75.51%) Terraform
3 8 (16.33%) Ansible
4 6 (12.24%) Istio
5 4 (8.16%) CASB
5 4 (8.16%) Prometheus
6 1 (2.04%) Active Directory Federation Services
6 1 (2.04%) Kubeflow
6 1 (2.04%) Rancher
Vendors
1 6 (12.24%) Confluent
1 6 (12.24%) Google
2 2 (4.08%) Microsoft
3 1 (2.04%) Hitachi
3 1 (2.04%) VMware