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 1 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 66 68 33
Rank change year-on-year +2 -35 -11
Permanent jobs citing Kubernetes 1,792 3,019 6,538
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 3.89% 3.54% 7.07%
As % of the Systems Management category 38.87% 35.30% 47.25%
Number of salaries quoted 1,283 2,424 4,132
10th Percentile £51,698 £50,000 £50,000
25th Percentile £63,750 £59,250 £61,180
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £85,000 £77,500 £79,632
Median % change year-on-year +9.68% -2.68% +2.75%
75th Percentile £110,000 £95,000 £97,500
90th Percentile £127,500 £115,000 £115,000
UK median annual salary £82,500 £75,000 £75,000
% change year-on-year +10.00% - -2.91%

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 4,610 8,552 13,838
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 10.01% 10.04% 14.96%
Number of salaries quoted 3,109 6,659 8,637
10th Percentile £37,450 £32,750 £35,375
25th Percentile £49,598 £45,000 £47,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £69,500 £60,000 £67,500
Median % change year-on-year +15.83% -11.11% -3.57%
75th Percentile £90,000 £83,750 £88,750
90th Percentile £115,000 £102,500 £105,000
UK median annual salary £68,500 £60,000 £67,500
% change year-on-year +14.17% -11.11% -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 1 May 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 1 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 +8 993 £95,000 +8.57% 990
South East 0 300 £65,000 -7.14% 381
North of England -33 250 £75,250 +20.40% 290
North West -60 138 £78,810 +26.10% 202
South West -14 121 £72,500 +2.73% 120
Yorkshire +23 96 £78,810 +28.67% 65
Midlands -12 77 £67,500 +12.50% 124
East of England +31 66 £57,500 -32.35% 88
West Midlands +3 64 £67,500 +3.85% 78
North East +35 16 £60,000 -4.00% 23
East Midlands -9 13 £65,000 +8.33% 33
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
1 112 (6.25%) Apache Spark
2 106 (5.92%) Apache Airflow
3 98 (5.47%) Apache
4 59 (3.29%) Confluence
5 26 (1.45%) Jupyter
6 22 (1.23%) nginx
7 16 (0.89%) Microsoft Exchange
8 15 (0.84%) OpenStack
9 14 (0.78%) Tomcat
10 12 (0.67%) Apache Solr
10 12 (0.67%) JBoss
10 12 (0.67%) Red Hat Fuse
10 12 (0.67%) SharePoint
11 6 (0.33%) Oracle SOA Suite
12 5 (0.28%) CMS
13 4 (0.22%) IIS
14 3 (0.17%) Mule
14 3 (0.17%) Oracle Coherence
15 2 (0.11%) Adobe Experience Manager
15 2 (0.11%) WebSphere
Applications
1 5 (0.28%) InDesign
2 4 (0.22%) MS Visio
3 2 (0.11%) Adobe XD
3 2 (0.11%) Chatbot
3 2 (0.11%) Moqups
3 2 (0.11%) Sketch
4 1 (0.056%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 2 (0.11%) Payment Gateway
1 2 (0.11%) Shopify
1 2 (0.11%) Sprinklr
2 1 (0.056%) Endur
Cloud Services
1 983 (54.85%) AWS
2 764 (42.63%) Azure
3 415 (23.16%) GCP
4 287 (16.02%) Serverless
5 187 (10.44%) Amazon ECS
6 183 (10.21%) AWS Lambda
7 167 (9.32%) AWS CloudFormation
8 157 (8.76%) Amazon EKS
9 152 (8.48%) Azure DevOps
10 140 (7.81%) GitHub
11 132 (7.37%) OpenShift
12 129 (7.20%) Amazon EC2
13 118 (6.58%) Amazon S3
14 97 (5.41%) SaaS
15 82 (4.58%) GitHub Actions
16 77 (4.30%) dbt
17 64 (3.57%) Azure AKS
18 52 (2.90%) Cloud Computing
19 51 (2.85%) Amazon SQS
20 49 (2.73%) PaaS
Communications & Networking
1 58 (3.24%) DNS
2 56 (3.13%) Firewall
3 46 (2.57%) Network Security
4 32 (1.79%) TCP/IP
5 22 (1.23%) DHCP
6 15 (0.84%) HTTP
6 15 (0.84%) SAN
7 13 (0.73%) NAS
7 13 (0.73%) VPN
8 11 (0.61%) HTTPS
8 11 (0.61%) IPsec
9 10 (0.56%) BGP
10 9 (0.50%) OSPF
10 9 (0.50%) WAN
11 8 (0.45%) SD-WAN
12 7 (0.39%) Internet
13 6 (0.33%) VLAN
13 6 (0.33%) VSAN
14 5 (0.28%) MPLS
14 5 (0.28%) Remote Desktop
Database & Business Intelligence
1 195 (10.88%) PostgreSQL
2 179 (9.99%) NoSQL
3 111 (6.19%) MongoDB
3 111 (6.19%) SQL Server
4 89 (4.97%) Relational Database
5 82 (4.58%) Amazon RDS
6 80 (4.46%) Apache Iceberg
6 80 (4.46%) MySQL
7 75 (4.19%) Elasticsearch
8 73 (4.07%) Amazon Athena
9 71 (3.96%) Apache Arrow
9 71 (3.96%) Apache Ignite
9 71 (3.96%) Dremio
10 68 (3.79%) Big Data
11 54 (3.01%) DynamoDB
12 45 (2.51%) Redis
13 40 (2.23%) Amazon Redshift
14 32 (1.79%) Amazon Aurora
14 32 (1.79%) Azure SQL Database
15 27 (1.51%) RDBMS
Development Applications
1 271 (15.12%) Git
2 257 (14.34%) Jenkins
3 146 (8.15%) GitLab
4 102 (5.69%) Artifactory
5 83 (4.63%) JIRA
6 72 (4.02%) SonarQube
7 59 (3.29%) JUnit
8 46 (2.57%) Selenium
9 38 (2.12%) Maven
10 36 (2.01%) Sonatype Nexus
11 29 (1.62%) CircleCI
11 29 (1.62%) Mockito
12 28 (1.56%) JMeter
13 26 (1.45%) Octopus Deploy
14 25 (1.40%) Cypress.io
15 24 (1.34%) Bitbucket
16 21 (1.17%) Postman
17 19 (1.06%) Gradle
17 19 (1.06%) IntelliJ
18 17 (0.95%) Cucumber
General
1 579 (32.31%) Finance
2 377 (21.04%) Social Skills
3 256 (14.29%) Banking
4 142 (7.92%) Front Office
5 136 (7.59%) Analytical Skills
6 124 (6.92%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 118 (6.58%) Law
8 105 (5.86%) Public Sector
9 57 (3.18%) Financial Institution
10 46 (2.57%) Manufacturing
11 41 (2.29%) Games
12 36 (2.01%) Telecoms
13 32 (1.79%) Retail
14 28 (1.56%) Legal
15 24 (1.34%) Marketing
16 18 (1.00%) Electronics
17 12 (0.67%) Investment Banking
17 12 (0.67%) Organisational Skills
17 12 (0.67%) Presentation Skills
18 11 (0.61%) iGaming
Job Titles
1 447 (24.94%) Senior
2 349 (19.48%) Software Engineer
3 347 (19.36%) Developer
4 321 (17.91%) DevOps Engineer
5 251 (14.01%) Lead
6 160 (8.93%) Python Engineer
7 156 (8.71%) AWS Engineer
8 152 (8.48%) AWS DevOps
9 150 (8.37%) Cloud Engineer
10 142 (7.92%) AWS DevOps Engineer
11 132 (7.37%) Data Engineer
12 123 (6.86%) Senior Software Engineer
13 105 (5.86%) Platform Engineer
14 99 (5.52%) Architect
15 96 (5.36%) Java Developer
16 95 (5.30%) Azure Engineer
17 87 (4.85%) Java Engineer
18 84 (4.69%) Senior Developer
19 80 (4.46%) Software Developer
20 62 (3.46%) Infrastructure Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 345 (19.25%) React
2 309 (17.24%) Kafka
3 249 (13.90%) .NET
4 205 (11.44%) Spring
5 203 (11.33%) REST
6 200 (11.16%) Node.js
7 199 (11.10%) Spring Boot
8 147 (8.20%) AngularJS
9 131 (7.31%) RESTful
10 98 (5.47%) J2EE
10 98 (5.47%) PySpark
11 86 (4.80%) GraphQL
12 79 (4.41%) RabbitMQ
13 78 (4.35%) Pandas
14 70 (3.91%) HTML
15 69 (3.85%) Elastic Stack
16 66 (3.68%) Web Services
17 57 (3.18%) .NET Core
17 57 (3.18%) CSS
18 55 (3.07%) Flask
Miscellaneous
1 197 (10.99%) Cloud Native
2 168 (9.38%) Distributed Systems
3 112 (6.25%) Public Cloud
4 75 (4.19%) Product Ownership
5 74 (4.13%) Management Information System
6 72 (4.02%) Cyberattack
7 69 (3.85%) Algorithms
8 40 (2.23%) Legacy Code
9 36 (2.01%) Data Structures
10 33 (1.84%) Greenfield Project
11 29 (1.62%) Data Centre
11 29 (1.62%) Hybrid Cloud
12 26 (1.45%) Clustering
13 23 (1.28%) Private Cloud
13 23 (1.28%) Security Posture
14 21 (1.17%) Legacy Systems
15 20 (1.12%) Onboarding
16 18 (1.00%) Reinsurance
16 18 (1.00%) Replication
17 16 (0.89%) Mobile Games
Operating Systems
1 318 (17.75%) Linux
2 116 (6.47%) Windows
3 63 (3.52%) Android
4 45 (2.51%) Windows Server
5 42 (2.34%) Unix
6 18 (1.00%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
7 12 (0.67%) Ubuntu
7 12 (0.67%) VMS
8 11 (0.61%) Apple iOS
8 11 (0.61%) CentOS
9 7 (0.39%) Windows Server 2016
10 6 (0.33%) SUSE
11 5 (0.28%) SUSE Linux Enterprise Server
12 3 (0.17%) Debian
13 2 (0.11%) CoreOS
13 2 (0.11%) Mac OS
13 2 (0.11%) Solaris
13 2 (0.11%) Windows Server 2019
13 2 (0.11%) zOS
14 1 (0.056%) Rocky
Processes & Methodologies
1 952 (53.13%) CI/CD
2 895 (49.94%) DevOps
3 706 (39.40%) Agile
4 690 (38.50%) Software Engineering
5 630 (35.16%) Containerisation
6 494 (27.57%) Microservices
7 379 (21.15%) Infrastructure as Code
8 362 (20.20%) Problem-Solving
9 315 (17.58%) Mentoring
10 220 (12.28%) Site Reliability Engineering
11 218 (12.17%) Computer Science
12 201 (11.22%) TDD
13 184 (10.27%) Artificial Intelligence
14 182 (10.16%) Full-Stack Development
15 175 (9.77%) Test Automation
16 173 (9.65%) Platform Engineering
17 168 (9.38%) Machine Learning
18 145 (8.09%) Analytics
19 141 (7.87%) Continuous Improvement
19 141 (7.87%) SDLC
Programming Languages
1 809 (45.15%) Python
2 655 (36.55%) Java
3 354 (19.75%) JavaScript
4 309 (17.24%) SQL
5 296 (16.52%) Go
6 255 (14.23%) TypeScript
7 213 (11.89%) C#
8 156 (8.71%) Rust
9 146 (8.15%) PowerShell
10 141 (7.87%) Bash
11 123 (6.86%) C++
12 58 (3.24%) C
13 44 (2.46%) Bicep
14 40 (2.23%) Scala
15 34 (1.90%) Ruby
16 32 (1.79%) PHP
16 32 (1.79%) Shell Script
17 16 (0.89%) Kotlin
18 13 (0.73%) Groovy
18 13 (0.73%) Perl
Qualifications
1 263 (14.68%) Degree
2 245 (13.67%) Security Cleared
3 131 (7.31%) Computer Science Degree
4 123 (6.86%) DV Cleared
5 119 (6.64%) SC Cleared
6 84 (4.69%) AWS Certification
7 58 (3.24%) Master's Degree
8 55 (3.07%) Azure Certification
9 43 (2.40%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
10 31 (1.73%) PhD
11 17 (0.95%) BPSS Clearance
12 11 (0.61%) OCP
12 11 (0.61%) Oracle Certification
13 9 (0.50%) Microsoft Certification
13 9 (0.50%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
14 8 (0.45%) (ISC)2 CCSP
14 8 (0.45%) Cisco Certification
14 8 (0.45%) ISTQB
15 7 (0.39%) CISSP
16 5 (0.28%) CCSP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 59 (3.29%) QA
2 56 (3.13%) GDPR
3 48 (2.68%) Accessibility
4 38 (2.12%) HIPAA
5 25 (1.40%) Data Quality
6 22 (1.23%) NIST
7 21 (1.17%) ISO/IEC 27001
8 19 (1.06%) PCI DSS
8 19 (1.06%) SOC 2
9 18 (1.00%) SLA
10 15 (0.84%) Sarbanes-Oxley
11 11 (0.61%) NCSC
12 6 (0.33%) WCAG
13 4 (0.22%) Cyber Essentials
13 4 (0.22%) GMP
14 2 (0.11%) MiFID
15 1 (0.056%) Basel III
15 1 (0.056%) EU AI Act
15 1 (0.056%) IFRS
15 1 (0.056%) IFRS 9
System Software
1 1,205 (67.24%) Docker
2 61 (3.40%) VMware Infrastructure
3 53 (2.96%) Active Directory
4 41 (2.29%) Hyper-V
5 38 (2.12%) Virtual Machines
6 25 (1.40%) vSphere
7 16 (0.89%) VMware ESXi
8 13 (0.73%) HDFS
9 8 (0.45%) NFS
10 5 (0.28%) BitLocker
10 5 (0.28%) Microsoft App-V
10 5 (0.28%) Terminal Services
10 5 (0.28%) VMware NSX
11 4 (0.22%) KVM
12 3 (0.17%) Dovecot
12 3 (0.17%) Firmware
12 3 (0.17%) Postfix
13 2 (0.11%) SRDF
13 2 (0.11%) Veritas Cluster Server
13 2 (0.11%) Xen
Systems Management
1 738 (41.18%) Terraform
2 333 (18.58%) Ansible
3 122 (6.81%) Prometheus
4 108 (6.03%) Grafana
5 59 (3.29%) Puppet
6 57 (3.18%) Progress Chef
7 43 (2.40%) Argo
8 39 (2.18%) Istio
9 25 (1.40%) Kibana
10 24 (1.34%) Microsoft Intune
11 22 (1.23%) Podman
12 18 (1.00%) SCCM
13 15 (0.84%) Packer
14 14 (0.78%) Kustomize
15 13 (0.73%) vCenter Server
16 11 (0.61%) CASB
16 11 (0.61%) Nagios
17 10 (0.56%) vMotion
18 9 (0.50%) Failover Clustering
19 8 (0.45%) FortiGate
Vendors
1 163 (9.10%) Google
2 145 (8.09%) Microsoft
3 84 (4.69%) VMware
4 51 (2.85%) Databricks
5 49 (2.73%) Red Hat
6 38 (2.12%) Oracle
6 38 (2.12%) Splunk
7 37 (2.06%) Dynatrace
8 22 (1.23%) Citrix
9 21 (1.17%) Cisco
10 18 (1.00%) SAP
11 17 (0.95%) Atlassian
11 17 (0.95%) Palo Alto
12 12 (0.67%) IBM
13 10 (0.56%) HP
13 10 (0.56%) New Relic
14 9 (0.50%) Adobe
14 9 (0.50%) NetApp
14 9 (0.50%) Rackspace
14 9 (0.50%) Trayport