Kubernetes Jobs in England

Kubernetes (k8s)
UK > England

The table below provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in 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 14 June 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
14 Jun 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 58 72 35
Rank change year-on-year +14 -37 -14
Permanent jobs citing Kubernetes 2,125 3,071 5,508
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 4.31% 3.20% 6.74%
As % of the Systems Management category 39.67% 35.63% 45.92%
Number of salaries quoted 1,113 2,363 3,786
10th Percentile £52,100 £49,000 £50,000
25th Percentile £62,500 £59,250 £61,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £82,500 £77,500 £77,500
Median % change year-on-year +6.45% - -
75th Percentile £102,500 £95,000 £97,500
90th Percentile £124,750 £115,000 £115,000
UK median annual salary £80,000 £75,000 £75,000
% change year-on-year +6.67% - -

All Systems Management Skills
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 England.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for systems management skills 5,357 8,618 11,995
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 10.88% 8.99% 14.68%
Number of salaries quoted 2,930 6,442 7,926
10th Percentile £33,238 £32,500 £35,400
25th Percentile £46,250 £45,000 £47,508
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £67,500 £62,500 £67,500
Median % change year-on-year +8.00% -7.41% -3.57%
75th Percentile £87,500 £84,814 £87,500
90th Percentile £110,000 £101,243 £105,000
UK median annual salary £67,500 £61,206 £67,500
% change year-on-year +10.28% -9.32% -3.57%

Kubernetes
Job Vacancy Trend in England

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

Job vacancy trend for Kubernetes in England

Kubernetes
Salary Trend in England

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

Salary trend for Kubernetes in England

Kubernetes
Salary Histogram in England

Salary distribution for jobs citing Kubernetes in England over the 6 months to 14 June 2025.

Salary histogram for Kubernetes in England

Kubernetes
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 within the England region over the 6 months to 14 June 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 +15 1,068 £92,500 +2.78% 1,696
North of England -11 367 £75,000 +20.00% 409
North West -16 265 £75,000 +22.54% 270
South East -35 250 £62,500 -10.71% 669
Midlands +38 150 £65,000 +8.33% 131
South West -11 126 £70,000 -2.15% 191
West Midlands +50 95 £65,000 - 79
East of England +38 90 £57,500 -32.35% 60
Yorkshire -11 85 £80,000 +28.00% 117
East Midlands +26 55 £60,000 +4.35% 48
North East +35 17 £60,000 -14.29% 23
Kubernetes
UK

Kubernetes
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:

Application Platforms
1 154 (7.25%) Confluence
2 95 (4.47%) Apache Spark
3 85 (4.00%) Apache Airflow
4 78 (3.67%) Apache
5 24 (1.13%) Jupyter
6 22 (1.04%) nginx
7 20 (0.94%) Microsoft Exchange
8 15 (0.71%) JBoss
9 14 (0.66%) Red Hat Fuse
10 12 (0.56%) OpenStack
11 11 (0.52%) SharePoint
12 9 (0.42%) Tomcat
13 6 (0.28%) Apache Solr
14 5 (0.24%) CMS
14 5 (0.24%) IIS
15 4 (0.19%) Apache Pulsar
15 4 (0.19%) Traefik
16 3 (0.14%) Mule
16 3 (0.14%) Oracle Coherence
16 3 (0.14%) WebSphere
Applications
1 5 (0.24%) Adobe XD
1 5 (0.24%) InDesign
1 5 (0.24%) Sketch
2 2 (0.094%) MS Visio
3 1 (0.047%) Moqups
3 1 (0.047%) PlantUML
Business Applications
1 2 (0.094%) Payment Gateway
1 2 (0.094%) Shopify
2 1 (0.047%) Dynamics CRM
2 1 (0.047%) Endur
Cloud Services
1 1,392 (65.51%) AWS
2 937 (44.09%) Azure
3 512 (24.09%) GCP
4 242 (11.39%) Pulumi
5 236 (11.11%) Serverless
6 175 (8.24%) Amazon EKS
7 156 (7.34%) GitHub
8 144 (6.78%) Amazon ECS
9 137 (6.45%) AWS Lambda
10 126 (5.93%) Azure DevOps
11 125 (5.88%) AWS CloudFormation
12 98 (4.61%) OpenShift
13 89 (4.19%) Amazon EC2
14 84 (3.95%) GitHub Actions
15 74 (3.48%) Amazon S3
16 73 (3.44%) SaaS
17 58 (2.73%) dbt
18 49 (2.31%) Cloud Computing
19 46 (2.16%) Azure AKS
20 41 (1.93%) Datadog
Communications & Networking
1 221 (10.40%) Broadband
2 67 (3.15%) Firewall
3 62 (2.92%) DNS
4 37 (1.74%) TCP/IP
5 32 (1.51%) Network Security
6 30 (1.41%) DHCP
7 23 (1.08%) SAN
8 18 (0.85%) VPN
9 16 (0.75%) NAS
10 15 (0.71%) WAN
11 14 (0.66%) HTTP
12 12 (0.56%) BGP
13 11 (0.52%) SD-WAN
14 10 (0.47%) Remote Desktop
15 9 (0.42%) OSPF
16 7 (0.33%) iSCSI
17 6 (0.28%) Internet
17 6 (0.28%) Reverse Proxy
17 6 (0.28%) SMTP
17 6 (0.28%) VLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 402 (18.92%) NoSQL
2 311 (14.64%) Relational Database
3 293 (13.79%) SQL Server
4 244 (11.48%) RDBMS
5 196 (9.22%) PostgreSQL
6 112 (5.27%) MongoDB
7 84 (3.95%) Big Data
8 74 (3.48%) Elasticsearch
9 65 (3.06%) Apache Iceberg
10 63 (2.96%) MySQL
11 57 (2.68%) Amazon Athena
12 51 (2.40%) Apache Arrow
12 51 (2.40%) Apache Ignite
12 51 (2.40%) Dremio
13 48 (2.26%) Amazon RDS
14 44 (2.07%) DynamoDB
15 41 (1.93%) Redis
16 23 (1.08%) Azure SQL Database
17 22 (1.04%) Amazon Aurora
17 22 (1.04%) BigQuery
Development Applications
1 345 (16.24%) GitLab
2 271 (12.75%) JIRA
3 262 (12.33%) SonarQube
4 236 (11.11%) Selenium
5 235 (11.06%) Sonatype Nexus
6 227 (10.68%) Maven
7 219 (10.31%) Bitbucket
8 217 (10.21%) Git
8 217 (10.21%) Jenkins
9 215 (10.12%) Jaeger
10 213 (10.02%) Cucumber
11 68 (3.20%) Artifactory
12 59 (2.78%) JUnit
13 32 (1.51%) Mockito
14 30 (1.41%) Octopus Deploy
15 27 (1.27%) CircleCI
16 26 (1.22%) JMeter
17 23 (1.08%) TeamCity
18 22 (1.04%) IntelliJ
19 18 (0.85%) Postman
General
1 804 (37.84%) Finance
2 686 (32.28%) Inclusion and Diversity
3 455 (21.41%) Banking
4 381 (17.93%) Social Skills
5 200 (9.41%) Law
6 142 (6.68%) Analytical Skills
7 118 (5.55%) Retail
8 114 (5.36%) Investment Banking
9 99 (4.66%) Public Sector
10 94 (4.42%) Front Office
11 90 (4.24%) Corporate Banking
12 75 (3.53%) Marketing
13 42 (1.98%) Financial Institution
14 34 (1.60%) Manufacturing
14 34 (1.60%) Telecoms
15 28 (1.32%) Games
15 28 (1.32%) Legal
16 17 (0.80%) Electronics
17 15 (0.71%) Automotive
18 12 (0.56%) Back Office
Job Titles
1 614 (28.89%) Software Engineer
2 506 (23.81%) Lead
3 409 (19.25%) Senior
4 326 (15.34%) Developer
5 242 (11.39%) DevOps Engineer
6 231 (10.87%) Team Leader
7 136 (6.40%) Cloud Engineer
7 136 (6.40%) Java Engineer
8 132 (6.21%) Senior Software Engineer
9 131 (6.16%) Python Engineer
10 120 (5.65%) AWS Engineer
11 114 (5.36%) Data Engineer
12 102 (4.80%) AWS DevOps
12 102 (4.80%) Lead Software Engineer
13 97 (4.56%) Platform Engineer
14 94 (4.42%) Java Developer
15 91 (4.28%) Java Software Engineer
16 88 (4.14%) AWS DevOps Engineer
17 86 (4.05%) Architect
17 86 (4.05%) Azure Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 541 (25.46%) Kafka
2 500 (23.53%) React
3 445 (20.94%) Spring
4 417 (19.62%) Spring Boot
5 288 (13.55%) REST
6 273 (12.85%) Elastic Stack
7 262 (12.33%) RESTful
8 254 (11.95%) HTML
9 244 (11.48%) CSS
10 230 (10.82%) .NET
11 229 (10.78%) OpenTelemetry
12 213 (10.02%) JPA
13 211 (9.93%) Redux
14 156 (7.34%) Hibernate
15 153 (7.20%) Node.js
16 119 (5.60%) AngularJS
17 114 (5.36%) Jest
18 109 (5.13%) HTML5
19 105 (4.94%) CSS3
20 97 (4.56%) Sass
Miscellaneous
1 277 (13.04%) Product Ownership
2 270 (12.71%) Cloud Native
3 209 (9.84%) Enterprise Software
4 174 (8.19%) Distributed Systems
5 123 (5.79%) Public Cloud
6 72 (3.39%) Cyberattack
7 70 (3.29%) Algorithms
8 55 (2.59%) Management Information System
9 43 (2.02%) Data Structures
10 34 (1.60%) Legacy Code
11 33 (1.55%) Hybrid Cloud
12 31 (1.46%) Private Cloud
13 30 (1.41%) Data Centre
14 29 (1.36%) Greenfield Project
15 25 (1.18%) Legacy Systems
16 24 (1.13%) Clustering
17 22 (1.04%) Mobile App
18 18 (0.85%) Onboarding
19 17 (0.80%) Reinsurance
19 17 (0.80%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 515 (24.24%) Linux
2 249 (11.72%) Unix
3 111 (5.22%) Windows
4 56 (2.64%) Android
5 52 (2.45%) Windows Server
6 34 (1.60%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
7 11 (0.52%) Ubuntu
8 10 (0.47%) Windows Server 2019
9 7 (0.33%) SUSE Linux Enterprise Server
9 7 (0.33%) VMS
10 6 (0.28%) CentOS
10 6 (0.28%) SUSE
11 5 (0.24%) Windows Server 2016
12 4 (0.19%) Apple iOS
13 3 (0.14%) Mac OS
14 2 (0.094%) AIX
14 2 (0.094%) Debian
14 2 (0.094%) Rocky
14 2 (0.094%) Solaris
15 1 (0.047%) Windows Server 2003
Processes & Methodologies
1 1,228 (57.79%) DevOps
2 1,145 (53.88%) CI/CD
3 1,060 (49.88%) Agile
4 1,032 (48.56%) Containerisation
5 895 (42.12%) Software Engineering
6 728 (34.26%) Microservices
7 615 (28.94%) Infrastructure as Code
8 577 (27.15%) Mentoring
9 473 (22.26%) Performance Optimisation
10 396 (18.64%) Test Automation
11 374 (17.60%) SDLC
12 367 (17.27%) Full-Stack Development
13 365 (17.18%) Problem-Solving
14 344 (16.19%) High Availability
15 328 (15.44%) Continuous Integration
15 328 (15.44%) Roadmaps
16 307 (14.45%) TDD
17 254 (11.95%) Product Management
18 252 (11.86%) Front End Development
19 243 (11.44%) Cost Optimisation
Programming Languages
1 1,105 (52.00%) Java
2 939 (44.19%) Python
3 692 (32.56%) JavaScript
4 525 (24.71%) SQL
5 495 (23.29%) Go
6 340 (16.00%) Bash
7 315 (14.82%) TypeScript
8 189 (8.89%) C#
9 142 (6.68%) PowerShell
10 141 (6.64%) Rust
11 120 (5.65%) C++
12 50 (2.35%) C
13 46 (2.16%) Kotlin
13 46 (2.16%) Scala
14 44 (2.07%) Shell Script
15 27 (1.27%) Bicep
16 19 (0.89%) PHP
17 18 (0.85%) Groovy
18 16 (0.75%) PL/SQL
19 15 (0.71%) Ruby
Qualifications
1 311 (14.64%) AWS Certification
2 241 (11.34%) Security Cleared
3 208 (9.79%) Degree
4 127 (5.98%) DV Cleared
5 112 (5.27%) SC Cleared
6 105 (4.94%) Computer Science Degree
7 62 (2.92%) Azure Certification
8 51 (2.40%) Master's Degree
9 48 (2.26%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
10 28 (1.32%) PhD
11 14 (0.66%) BPSS Clearance
12 10 (0.47%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
13 9 (0.42%) Microsoft Certification
14 8 (0.38%) ISTQB
15 7 (0.33%) Cisco Certification
16 4 (0.19%) (ISC)2 CCSP
16 4 (0.19%) OCP
16 4 (0.19%) Oracle Certification
16 4 (0.19%) TOGAF Certification
17 3 (0.14%) Numerate Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 251 (11.81%) QA
2 109 (5.13%) Accessibility
3 50 (2.35%) GDPR
4 42 (1.98%) HIPAA
5 23 (1.08%) Data Quality
6 22 (1.04%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 22 (1.04%) SLA
7 20 (0.94%) SOC 2
8 16 (0.75%) NIST
9 9 (0.42%) PCI DSS
10 7 (0.33%) NCSC
11 4 (0.19%) Cyber Essentials
11 4 (0.19%) Sarbanes-Oxley
12 1 (0.047%) EU AI Act
12 1 (0.047%) GMP
12 1 (0.047%) MiFID
System Software
1 1,523 (71.67%) Docker
2 70 (3.29%) VMware Infrastructure
3 60 (2.82%) Active Directory
4 40 (1.88%) Hyper-V
5 32 (1.51%) Virtual Machines
6 25 (1.18%) vSphere
7 20 (0.94%) VMware ESXi
8 14 (0.66%) NFS
9 10 (0.47%) HDFS
10 6 (0.28%) BitLocker
10 6 (0.28%) Microsoft App-V
10 6 (0.28%) Terminal Services
11 5 (0.24%) KVM
12 4 (0.19%) Citrix Hypervisor
12 4 (0.19%) VMware NSX
12 4 (0.19%) Xen
13 3 (0.14%) Dovecot
13 3 (0.14%) Firmware
13 3 (0.14%) Postfix
14 2 (0.094%) SRDF
Systems Management
1 899 (42.31%) Terraform
2 523 (24.61%) Ansible
3 348 (16.38%) Prometheus
4 260 (12.24%) Argo
5 222 (10.45%) Kustomize
6 134 (6.31%) Grafana
7 45 (2.12%) Puppet
8 38 (1.79%) Progress Chef
9 28 (1.32%) Istio
10 26 (1.22%) Kibana
11 24 (1.13%) Microsoft Intune
12 19 (0.89%) SCCM
13 14 (0.66%) vCenter Server
14 13 (0.61%) Podman
15 12 (0.56%) vMotion
16 11 (0.52%) Packer
17 10 (0.47%) Nagios
18 8 (0.38%) FortiGate
18 8 (0.38%) Mesos
18 8 (0.38%) WSUS
Vendors
1 378 (17.79%) Google
2 201 (9.46%) Solace
3 135 (6.35%) Microsoft
4 95 (4.47%) VMware
5 59 (2.78%) Oracle
6 50 (2.35%) Splunk
7 49 (2.31%) Databricks
8 45 (2.12%) Red Hat
9 34 (1.60%) Dynatrace
10 33 (1.55%) Cisco
11 24 (1.13%) SAP
12 23 (1.08%) Citrix
13 21 (0.99%) Trayport
14 17 (0.80%) Palo Alto
15 12 (0.56%) Commvault
15 12 (0.56%) HP
16 10 (0.47%) Adobe
16 10 (0.47%) Atlassian
16 10 (0.47%) Hitachi
16 10 (0.47%) Rackspace