Kubernetes Job Trends in England

Kubernetes (k8s)
UK > England

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in England requiring Kubernetes skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 18 July 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
18 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 85 57 70
Rank change year-on-year -28 +13 -34
Permanent jobs citing Kubernetes 1,792 1,920 2,780
As % of all permanent jobs in England 2.03% 4.44% 3.25%
As % of the Systems Management category 35.85% 37.29% 35.69%
Number of salaries quoted 1,315 1,087 2,174
10th Percentile £47,500 £51,879 £49,000
25th Percentile £57,000 £62,500 £60,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £70,079 £80,000 £77,500
Median % change year-on-year -12.40% +3.23% -
75th Percentile £90,000 £100,000 £95,000
90th Percentile £105,000 £120,000 £115,000
UK median annual salary £70,000 £80,000 £77,500
% change year-on-year -12.50% +3.23% +3.33%

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 4,998 5,149 7,789
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 5.67% 11.91% 9.12%
Number of salaries quoted 3,760 3,101 5,893
10th Percentile £35,000 £32,500 £33,250
25th Percentile £46,250 £45,000 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £65,000 £62,500
Median % change year-on-year - +4.00% -7.41%
75th Percentile £82,500 £86,250 £85,000
90th Percentile £97,500 £105,000 £100,000
UK median annual salary £64,618 £65,000 £62,500
% change year-on-year -0.59% +4.00% -7.41%

Kubernetes
Job Vacancy Trend in England

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

Kubernetes job vacancy trend in England

Kubernetes
Salary Trend in England

Salary distribution trend for jobs in England citing Kubernetes.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in England citing Kubernetes

Kubernetes
Salary Histogram in England

Salary distribution for jobs citing Kubernetes in England over the 6 months to 18 July 2026.

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 18 July 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
London -33 741 £90,000 - 355
South East +3 324 £65,000 -7.14% 123
North of England -30 297 £67,500 -8.16% 111
South West -5 220 £60,000 -16.66% 56
North West -20 177 £71,500 -4.35% 65
Midlands -56 105 £62,500 -7.41% 48
North East -2 68 £60,000 - 18
West Midlands -50 66 £67,153 -0.51% 40
East of England -8 63 £72,500 +31.82% 13
Yorkshire -55 52 £70,000 -6.67% 28
East Midlands -33 38 £60,000 -4.00% 8
Kubernetes
UK

Kubernetes
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in 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 33 (1.84%) Apache Spark
2 27 (1.51%) Apache Airflow
2 27 (1.51%) Confluence
3 23 (1.28%) Apache
4 16 (0.89%) Microsoft Exchange
4 16 (0.89%) OpenStack
5 13 (0.73%) IIS
6 7 (0.39%) OpenEdge
7 5 (0.28%) nginx
8 3 (0.17%) Camunda
8 3 (0.17%) Oracle SOA Suite
9 2 (0.11%) Appian
9 2 (0.11%) WebLogic
10 1 (0.056%) Apache Qpid
10 1 (0.056%) Cloud Foundry
10 1 (0.056%) GeoServer
10 1 (0.056%) JBoss
10 1 (0.056%) Mendix
10 1 (0.056%) Oracle Coherence
10 1 (0.056%) SharePoint
Applications
1 9 (0.50%) Microsoft Excel
2 6 (0.33%) PlantUML
3 5 (0.28%) Chatbot
4 2 (0.11%) Lightworks
4 2 (0.11%) Weka
5 1 (0.056%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Business Applications
1 3 (0.17%) Distributed Ledger
1 3 (0.17%) SAP S/4HANA
2 1 (0.056%) R3 Corda
Cloud Services
1 935 (52.18%) AWS
2 926 (51.67%) Azure
3 400 (22.32%) GCP
4 358 (19.98%) GitHub
5 206 (11.50%) Serverless
6 177 (9.88%) Amazon EKS
7 161 (8.98%) AWS CloudFormation
8 158 (8.82%) Azure AKS
9 157 (8.76%) GitHub Copilot
10 140 (7.81%) GitHub Actions
11 133 (7.42%) Azure DevOps
12 129 (7.20%) OpenShift
13 101 (5.64%) SaaS
14 94 (5.25%) Azure AI
15 89 (4.97%) Amazon EC2
16 85 (4.74%) Amazon S3
17 83 (4.63%) AWS Lambda
18 75 (4.19%) Datadog
19 71 (3.96%) Amazon ECS
20 61 (3.40%) Amazon CloudWatch
Communications & Networking
1 94 (5.25%) Firewall
2 85 (4.74%) DNS
3 62 (3.46%) VPN
4 59 (3.29%) Network Security
5 32 (1.79%) TCP/IP
6 25 (1.40%) BGP
6 25 (1.40%) WAN
7 23 (1.28%) VLAN
8 21 (1.17%) Internet
9 20 (1.12%) MQTT
10 18 (1.00%) Broadband
10 18 (1.00%) DHCP
10 18 (1.00%) OSPF
11 17 (0.95%) VXLAN
12 15 (0.84%) Software-Defined Networking
13 10 (0.56%) SAN
14 9 (0.50%) DSL
14 9 (0.50%) LAN
15 8 (0.45%) HTTP
15 8 (0.45%) HTTPS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 236 (13.17%) MongoDB
2 161 (8.98%) PostgreSQL
3 159 (8.87%) Azure SQL Database
4 104 (5.80%) NoSQL
5 95 (5.30%) Elasticsearch
6 76 (4.24%) Relational Database
7 71 (3.96%) MySQL
8 62 (3.46%) SQL Server
9 60 (3.35%) Amazon RDS
10 36 (2.01%) Redis
11 31 (1.73%) DynamoDB
12 20 (1.12%) RDBMS
13 18 (1.00%) Pinecone
14 16 (0.89%) Data Warehouse
15 12 (0.67%) Neo4j
15 12 (0.67%) Power BI
16 11 (0.61%) Big Data
16 11 (0.61%) Hadoop
17 10 (0.56%) BigQuery
17 10 (0.56%) InfluxDB
Development Applications
1 284 (15.85%) Git
2 237 (13.23%) GitLab
3 234 (13.06%) Jenkins
4 68 (3.79%) TeamCity
5 49 (2.73%) JIRA
6 38 (2.12%) Bitbucket
7 33 (1.84%) JUnit
8 30 (1.67%) CircleCI
9 28 (1.56%) Atlassian Bamboo
10 26 (1.45%) Selenium
11 24 (1.34%) Maven
12 22 (1.23%) Cucumber
12 22 (1.23%) Mockito
13 20 (1.12%) SonarQube
13 20 (1.12%) Subversion
14 16 (0.89%) Claude Code
15 14 (0.78%) JMeter
16 13 (0.73%) MLflow
17 12 (0.67%) Robot Framework
17 12 (0.67%) Vite
General
1 365 (20.37%) Finance
2 351 (19.59%) Social Skills
3 150 (8.37%) Banking
4 119 (6.64%) Public Sector
5 107 (5.97%) Retail
6 102 (5.69%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 102 (5.69%) Law
7 78 (4.35%) Analytical Skills
8 48 (2.68%) Aerospace
9 45 (2.51%) Advertising
10 35 (1.95%) Financial Institution
11 30 (1.67%) Back Office
12 24 (1.34%) Marketing
13 23 (1.28%) Manufacturing
14 22 (1.23%) Legal
15 20 (1.12%) Telecoms
16 19 (1.06%) Organisational Skills
17 16 (0.89%) Documentation Skills
17 16 (0.89%) Front Office
17 16 (0.89%) Games
Job Titles
1 448 (25.00%) Senior
2 372 (20.76%) Developer
3 271 (15.12%) DevOps Engineer
4 206 (11.50%) Software Engineer
5 199 (11.10%) Cloud Engineer
6 187 (10.44%) Lead
7 152 (8.48%) .NET Developer
8 129 (7.20%) Azure Engineer
8 129 (7.20%) Platform Engineer
9 113 (6.31%) Architect
10 95 (5.30%) Senior Developer
11 87 (4.85%) Infrastructure Engineer
12 86 (4.80%) Java Developer
13 79 (4.41%) Principal Engineer
14 74 (4.13%) AWS Engineer
15 71 (3.96%) Java Engineer
16 67 (3.74%) Senior Software Engineer
17 64 (3.57%) Cloud Platform Engineer
18 55 (3.07%) Senior DevOps
19 48 (2.68%) Python Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 292 (16.29%) .NET
2 192 (10.71%) Kafka
3 185 (10.32%) React
4 176 (9.82%) .NET Core
4 176 (9.82%) Spring
5 156 (8.71%) ASP.NET
6 155 (8.65%) Spring Boot
7 154 (8.59%) ASP.NET Core
8 149 (8.31%) Node.js
9 140 (7.81%) RESTful
10 138 (7.70%) REST
11 119 (6.64%) AngularJS
12 108 (6.03%) HTML
13 102 (5.69%) CSS
14 94 (5.25%) Vue
15 86 (4.80%) RabbitMQ
16 73 (4.07%) ML.NET
17 69 (3.85%) Elastic Stack
18 63 (3.52%) FastAPI
19 53 (2.96%) .NET Framework
Miscellaneous
1 456 (25.45%) Cloud Native
2 161 (8.98%) Distributed Systems
3 76 (4.24%) Product Ownership
4 64 (3.57%) Data Centre
5 57 (3.18%) Hybrid Cloud
6 42 (2.34%) AI Agents
7 40 (2.23%) Greenfield Project
8 39 (2.18%) Onboarding
9 31 (1.73%) Public Cloud
10 30 (1.67%) Legacy Systems
10 30 (1.67%) PKI
10 30 (1.67%) Private Cloud
11 26 (1.45%) Management Information System
12 24 (1.34%) Blockchain
13 22 (1.23%) Algorithms
13 22 (1.23%) Blog
14 20 (1.12%) Data Structures
14 20 (1.12%) Digital TV
15 19 (1.06%) Security Posture
16 18 (1.00%) Web3
Operating Systems
1 395 (22.04%) Linux
2 151 (8.43%) Windows
3 70 (3.91%) Windows Server
4 64 (3.57%) CentOS
5 62 (3.46%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 56 (3.13%) Ubuntu
7 30 (1.67%) Unix
8 18 (1.00%) Debian
9 11 (0.61%) Windows Server 2016
10 7 (0.39%) VMS
11 6 (0.33%) Android
11 6 (0.33%) Apple iOS
12 5 (0.28%) Windows Server 2019
13 4 (0.22%) Kali Linux
13 4 (0.22%) Mac OS
14 3 (0.17%) Rocky
15 2 (0.11%) Amazon Linux
16 1 (0.056%) Embedded Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 1,093 (60.99%) CI/CD
2 807 (45.03%) DevOps
3 739 (41.24%) Infrastructure as Code
4 722 (40.29%) Containerisation
5 615 (34.32%) Agile
6 518 (28.91%) Microservices
7 442 (24.67%) Software Engineering
8 397 (22.15%) AI
9 330 (18.42%) Mentoring
10 326 (18.19%) Observability
11 302 (16.85%) Full-Stack Development
12 293 (16.35%) Platform Engineering
13 290 (16.18%) Problem-Solving
14 282 (15.74%) Continuous Improvement
15 270 (15.07%) Test Automation
16 203 (11.33%) Machine Learning
17 167 (9.32%) Site Reliability Engineering
18 166 (9.26%) Infrastructure Engineering
19 161 (8.98%) Event-Driven
20 154 (8.59%) TDD
Programming Languages
1 691 (38.56%) Python
2 429 (23.94%) Java
3 342 (19.08%) SQL
4 310 (17.30%) C#
5 240 (13.39%) Bash
6 226 (12.61%) JavaScript
7 224 (12.50%) TypeScript
8 221 (12.33%) PowerShell
9 145 (8.09%) Go
10 65 (3.63%) Bicep
11 44 (2.46%) C++
12 40 (2.23%) Rust
13 33 (1.84%) PHP
14 20 (1.12%) Groovy
15 19 (1.06%) Scala
15 19 (1.06%) Shell Script
16 16 (0.89%) C
17 14 (0.78%) PL/SQL
18 13 (0.73%) Perl
19 12 (0.67%) Kotlin
Qualifications
1 400 (22.32%) Security Cleared
2 228 (12.72%) SC Cleared
3 170 (9.49%) Degree
4 135 (7.53%) DV Cleared
5 99 (5.52%) Azure Certification
6 96 (5.36%) Computer Science Degree
7 60 (3.35%) AWS Certification
8 28 (1.56%) CISSP
9 27 (1.51%) OSCP
10 24 (1.34%) Cisco Certification
11 15 (0.84%) Microsoft Certification
12 13 (0.73%) RHCSA
13 12 (0.67%) CCNP
13 12 (0.67%) Master's Degree
13 12 (0.67%) RHCE
14 11 (0.61%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
14 11 (0.61%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
15 10 (0.56%) CompTIA Security+
15 10 (0.56%) GIAC
16 9 (0.50%) ISTQB
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 103 (5.75%) QA
2 44 (2.46%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 38 (2.12%) SOC 2
4 34 (1.90%) Data Quality
5 31 (1.73%) Accessibility
6 29 (1.62%) PCI DSS
7 23 (1.28%) NIST
8 21 (1.17%) GDPR
9 19 (1.06%) WCAG
10 13 (0.73%) GRC
11 8 (0.45%) SLA
12 7 (0.39%) Cyber Essentials
12 7 (0.39%) NCSC
13 5 (0.28%) Sarbanes-Oxley
14 4 (0.22%) HIPAA
15 3 (0.17%) ISO 9001
16 2 (0.11%) COBIT
16 2 (0.11%) JSP 440
16 2 (0.11%) MiFID
16 2 (0.11%) SEPA
System Software
1 1,043 (58.20%) Docker
2 73 (4.07%) VMware Infrastructure
3 72 (4.02%) Active Directory
4 35 (1.95%) Virtual Machines
5 24 (1.34%) vSphere
6 13 (0.73%) Hyper-V
6 13 (0.73%) VMware NSX
7 9 (0.50%) Citrix Hypervisor
8 8 (0.45%) Squid
9 7 (0.39%) KVM
9 7 (0.39%) Virtual Servers
10 6 (0.33%) Firmware
10 6 (0.33%) Slurm Workload Manager
11 3 (0.17%) iptables
11 3 (0.17%) Xen
12 2 (0.11%) Kamailio
12 2 (0.11%) Samba
13 1 (0.056%) Embedded Firmware
13 1 (0.056%) QEMU
13 1 (0.056%) VMware ESXi
Systems Management
1 834 (46.54%) Terraform
2 355 (19.81%) Ansible
3 233 (13.00%) Grafana
4 176 (9.82%) Prometheus
5 84 (4.69%) Argo
6 57 (3.18%) Puppet
7 38 (2.12%) Istio
8 32 (1.79%) Progress Chef
9 27 (1.51%) Kibana
10 26 (1.45%) Nagios
11 21 (1.17%) Packer
12 18 (1.00%) Microsoft Intune
12 18 (1.00%) ZABBIX
13 17 (0.95%) Cilium
14 16 (0.89%) Kustomize
15 14 (0.78%) Docker Swarm
15 14 (0.78%) Rancher
16 13 (0.73%) vCenter Server
17 12 (0.67%) linkerd
17 12 (0.67%) Podman
Vendors
1 343 (19.14%) Microsoft
2 113 (6.31%) VMware
3 100 (5.58%) Google
4 78 (4.35%) Red Hat
5 67 (3.74%) Splunk
6 41 (2.29%) OpenAI
7 39 (2.18%) Oracle
8 34 (1.90%) Dynatrace
9 26 (1.45%) Databricks
10 23 (1.28%) Palo Alto
11 20 (1.12%) Facebook
11 20 (1.12%) Fortinet
12 17 (0.95%) ServiceNow
12 17 (0.95%) Zscaler
13 13 (0.73%) Confluent
14 12 (0.67%) AppDynamics
14 12 (0.67%) Atlassian
14 12 (0.67%) Cisco
14 12 (0.67%) Dell
14 12 (0.67%) NVIDIA