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

6 months to
19 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 61 69 33
Rank change year-on-year +8 -36 -11
Permanent jobs citing Kubernetes 2,103 2,999 6,287
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 4.25% 3.47% 7.13%
As % of the Systems Management category 40.30% 35.56% 47.77%
Number of salaries quoted 1,219 2,390 3,988
10th Percentile £51,250 £50,000 £50,000
25th Percentile £62,500 £59,250 £61,180
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £82,500 £77,500 £77,500
Median % change year-on-year +6.45% - -
75th Percentile £107,500 £95,000 £97,500
90th Percentile £125,000 £115,000 £115,000
UK median annual salary £82,500 £75,000 £75,000
% change year-on-year +10.00% - -

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 5,218 8,433 13,162
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 10.56% 9.75% 14.92%
Number of salaries quoted 3,045 6,531 8,304
10th Percentile £36,250 £32,750 £35,400
25th Percentile £47,500 £45,000 £48,091
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £67,500 £62,500 £67,500
Median % change year-on-year +8.00% -7.41% -3.57%
75th Percentile £90,000 £83,750 £88,000
90th Percentile £112,500 £101,250 £105,000
UK median annual salary £67,500 £60,500 £67,500
% change year-on-year +11.57% -10.37% -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 19 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 19 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 +9 992 £95,000 +8.57% 1,553
North of England -21 367 £75,000 +22.54% 438
South East -8 306 £65,000 -7.14% 649
North West -34 255 £78,155 +25.05% 266
Midlands +35 144 £67,500 +12.50% 160
South West -18 116 £71,991 +2.01% 196
East of England +47 104 £57,500 -32.35% 119
Yorkshire +10 94 £78,810 +31.35% 134
West Midlands +31 91 £67,500 +3.85% 103
East Midlands +7 53 £65,000 +8.33% 46
North East +28 18 £57,500 -9.80% 38
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
1 165 (7.85%) Confluence
2 93 (4.42%) Apache Spark
3 91 (4.33%) Apache Airflow
4 88 (4.18%) Apache
5 25 (1.19%) Jupyter
6 17 (0.81%) Microsoft Exchange
6 17 (0.81%) nginx
7 15 (0.71%) JBoss
7 15 (0.71%) OpenStack
8 14 (0.67%) Red Hat Fuse
8 14 (0.67%) Tomcat
9 12 (0.57%) SharePoint
10 7 (0.33%) Apache Solr
11 6 (0.29%) Oracle SOA Suite
12 5 (0.24%) CMS
12 5 (0.24%) IIS
13 3 (0.14%) Mule
13 3 (0.14%) Oracle Coherence
13 3 (0.14%) WebSphere
14 2 (0.095%) WebSphere Application Server
Applications
1 5 (0.24%) InDesign
2 3 (0.14%) MS Visio
3 2 (0.095%) Chatbot
4 1 (0.048%) Adobe XD
4 1 (0.048%) Microsoft Office
4 1 (0.048%) Moqups
4 1 (0.048%) Sketch
Business Applications
1 2 (0.095%) Payment Gateway
1 2 (0.095%) Shopify
1 2 (0.095%) Sprinklr
2 1 (0.048%) Endur
Cloud Services
1 1,349 (64.15%) AWS
2 958 (45.55%) Azure
3 505 (24.01%) GCP
4 256 (12.17%) Serverless
5 246 (11.70%) Pulumi
6 156 (7.42%) Amazon ECS
7 155 (7.37%) AWS Lambda
8 153 (7.28%) Amazon EKS
9 151 (7.18%) Azure DevOps
10 143 (6.80%) AWS CloudFormation
11 125 (5.94%) GitHub
12 115 (5.47%) OpenShift
13 103 (4.90%) Amazon EC2
14 99 (4.71%) SaaS
15 88 (4.18%) Amazon S3
16 75 (3.57%) GitHub Actions
17 70 (3.33%) dbt
18 62 (2.95%) Azure AKS
19 54 (2.57%) Cloud Computing
20 49 (2.33%) PaaS
Communications & Networking
1 220 (10.46%) Broadband
2 61 (2.90%) Firewall
3 58 (2.76%) DNS
4 43 (2.04%) Network Security
5 27 (1.28%) TCP/IP
6 25 (1.19%) DHCP
7 19 (0.90%) SAN
8 16 (0.76%) NAS
9 15 (0.71%) HTTP
9 15 (0.71%) VPN
10 10 (0.48%) BGP
10 10 (0.48%) WAN
11 9 (0.43%) OSPF
11 9 (0.43%) SD-WAN
12 7 (0.33%) Internet
12 7 (0.33%) Remote Desktop
12 7 (0.33%) VSAN
13 6 (0.29%) HTTPS
13 6 (0.29%) IPsec
13 6 (0.29%) SMTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 380 (18.07%) NoSQL
2 305 (14.50%) SQL Server
3 291 (13.84%) Relational Database
4 236 (11.22%) RDBMS
5 189 (8.99%) PostgreSQL
6 112 (5.33%) MongoDB
7 73 (3.47%) Elasticsearch
8 72 (3.42%) MySQL
9 69 (3.28%) Apache Iceberg
10 65 (3.09%) Big Data
11 64 (3.04%) Amazon Athena
12 63 (3.00%) Amazon RDS
12 63 (3.00%) Apache Arrow
12 63 (3.00%) Apache Ignite
12 63 (3.00%) Dremio
13 40 (1.90%) Redis
14 32 (1.52%) DynamoDB
15 31 (1.47%) Azure SQL Database
16 19 (0.90%) Amazon Redshift
17 18 (0.86%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 342 (16.26%) GitLab
2 279 (13.27%) JIRA
3 267 (12.70%) SonarQube
4 256 (12.17%) Git
5 243 (11.55%) Selenium
6 238 (11.32%) Jenkins
7 235 (11.17%) Sonatype Nexus
8 231 (10.98%) Maven
9 218 (10.37%) Bitbucket
10 216 (10.27%) Jaeger
11 212 (10.08%) Cucumber
12 84 (3.99%) Artifactory
13 52 (2.47%) JUnit
14 27 (1.28%) CircleCI
14 27 (1.28%) Octopus Deploy
15 23 (1.09%) JMeter
16 22 (1.05%) Mockito
17 21 (1.00%) Cypress.io
17 21 (1.00%) IntelliJ
18 20 (0.95%) TeamCity
General
1 706 (33.57%) Finance
2 539 (25.63%) Inclusion and Diversity
3 395 (18.78%) Banking
4 366 (17.40%) Social Skills
5 131 (6.23%) Analytical Skills
6 121 (5.75%) Retail
7 118 (5.61%) Front Office
8 100 (4.76%) Investment Banking
9 93 (4.42%) Public Sector
10 90 (4.28%) Corporate Banking
11 82 (3.90%) Law
12 42 (2.00%) Manufacturing
13 37 (1.76%) Financial Institution
13 37 (1.76%) Telecoms
14 33 (1.57%) Games
15 25 (1.19%) Marketing
16 17 (0.81%) Electronics
17 16 (0.76%) Legal
18 12 (0.57%) Automotive
18 12 (0.57%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 503 (23.92%) Software Engineer
2 451 (21.45%) Lead
3 417 (19.83%) Senior
4 337 (16.02%) Developer
5 289 (13.74%) DevOps Engineer
6 234 (11.13%) Team Leader
7 150 (7.13%) Cloud Engineer
8 132 (6.28%) AWS Engineer
9 131 (6.23%) Python Engineer
10 128 (6.09%) AWS DevOps
11 116 (5.52%) AWS DevOps Engineer
11 116 (5.52%) Senior Software Engineer
12 114 (5.42%) Data Engineer
13 104 (4.95%) Platform Engineer
14 100 (4.76%) Azure Engineer
15 98 (4.66%) Java Engineer
16 96 (4.56%) Architect
17 92 (4.37%) Java Developer
18 78 (3.71%) Senior Developer
19 76 (3.61%) Software Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 511 (24.30%) React
2 491 (23.35%) Kafka
3 382 (18.16%) Spring
4 367 (17.45%) Spring Boot
5 289 (13.74%) REST
6 282 (13.41%) Elastic Stack
7 258 (12.27%) HTML
8 251 (11.94%) CSS
9 248 (11.79%) .NET
10 225 (10.70%) OpenTelemetry
11 222 (10.56%) RESTful
12 215 (10.22%) Redux
13 206 (9.80%) JPA
14 174 (8.27%) Node.js
15 145 (6.89%) Hibernate
16 122 (5.80%) AngularJS
17 121 (5.75%) Jest
18 113 (5.37%) HTML5
19 111 (5.28%) CSS3
20 97 (4.61%) Sass
Miscellaneous
1 265 (12.60%) Product Ownership
2 203 (9.65%) Enterprise Software
3 198 (9.42%) Cloud Native
4 152 (7.23%) Distributed Systems
5 108 (5.14%) Public Cloud
6 72 (3.42%) Cyberattack
7 71 (3.38%) Management Information System
8 57 (2.71%) Algorithms
9 34 (1.62%) Legacy Code
10 29 (1.38%) Data Centre
11 28 (1.33%) Clustering
11 28 (1.33%) Greenfield Project
11 28 (1.33%) Hybrid Cloud
11 28 (1.33%) Private Cloud
12 26 (1.24%) Data Structures
13 20 (0.95%) Legacy Systems
14 19 (0.90%) Reinsurance
14 19 (0.90%) Security Posture
15 18 (0.86%) Replication
16 17 (0.81%) Onboarding
Operating Systems
1 526 (25.01%) Linux
2 250 (11.89%) Unix
3 120 (5.71%) Windows
4 58 (2.76%) Android
5 49 (2.33%) Windows Server
6 19 (0.90%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
7 12 (0.57%) Ubuntu
8 11 (0.52%) CentOS
8 11 (0.52%) VMS
9 7 (0.33%) Apple iOS
10 6 (0.29%) SUSE
10 6 (0.29%) Windows Server 2016
11 5 (0.24%) SUSE Linux Enterprise Server
12 3 (0.14%) Debian
13 2 (0.095%) Mac OS
13 2 (0.095%) Solaris
13 2 (0.095%) Windows Server 2019
14 1 (0.048%) Fedora
14 1 (0.048%) Rocky
14 1 (0.048%) Windows Server 2003
Processes & Methodologies
1 1,270 (60.39%) DevOps
2 1,104 (52.50%) CI/CD
3 1,038 (49.36%) Agile
4 1,029 (48.93%) Containerisation
5 817 (38.85%) Software Engineering
6 683 (32.48%) Microservices
7 598 (28.44%) Infrastructure as Code
8 579 (27.53%) Mentoring
9 463 (22.02%) Performance Optimisation
10 373 (17.74%) Full-Stack Development
11 364 (17.31%) Test Automation
12 352 (16.74%) High Availability
13 342 (16.26%) Problem-Solving
14 325 (15.45%) Roadmaps
15 321 (15.26%) Continuous Integration
16 309 (14.69%) SDLC
17 303 (14.41%) TDD
18 260 (12.36%) Front End Development
19 254 (12.08%) Cost Optimisation
20 252 (11.98%) Product Management
Programming Languages
1 1,019 (48.45%) Java
2 950 (45.17%) Python
3 737 (35.05%) JavaScript
4 501 (23.82%) SQL
5 480 (22.82%) Go
6 347 (16.50%) Bash
7 340 (16.17%) TypeScript
8 210 (9.99%) C#
9 151 (7.18%) PowerShell
10 143 (6.80%) Rust
11 114 (5.42%) C++
12 48 (2.28%) C
13 37 (1.76%) Bicep
13 37 (1.76%) Scala
14 29 (1.38%) PHP
15 28 (1.33%) Shell Script
16 26 (1.24%) Ruby
17 14 (0.67%) Groovy
17 14 (0.67%) PL/SQL
18 13 (0.62%) Kotlin
Qualifications
1 296 (14.08%) AWS Certification
2 254 (12.08%) Degree
3 241 (11.46%) Security Cleared
4 125 (5.94%) Computer Science Degree
5 123 (5.85%) DV Cleared
6 113 (5.37%) SC Cleared
7 64 (3.04%) Azure Certification
8 57 (2.71%) Master's Degree
9 45 (2.14%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
10 31 (1.47%) PhD
11 14 (0.67%) BPSS Clearance
12 11 (0.52%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
13 9 (0.43%) Microsoft Certification
14 8 (0.38%) ISTQB
15 7 (0.33%) Cisco Certification
16 6 (0.29%) (ISC)2 CCSP
16 6 (0.29%) OCP
16 6 (0.29%) Oracle Certification
17 5 (0.24%) CISSP
17 5 (0.24%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 250 (11.89%) QA
2 124 (5.90%) Accessibility
3 54 (2.57%) GDPR
4 42 (2.00%) HIPAA
5 24 (1.14%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 21 (1.00%) Data Quality
6 21 (1.00%) SLA
6 21 (1.00%) SOC 2
7 19 (0.90%) NIST
8 14 (0.67%) PCI DSS
9 10 (0.48%) NCSC
9 10 (0.48%) Sarbanes-Oxley
10 5 (0.24%) WCAG
11 4 (0.19%) Cyber Essentials
11 4 (0.19%) GMP
12 2 (0.095%) MiFID
13 1 (0.048%) EU AI Act
System Software
1 1,554 (73.89%) Docker
2 64 (3.04%) VMware Infrastructure
3 56 (2.66%) Active Directory
4 43 (2.04%) Hyper-V
5 36 (1.71%) Virtual Machines
6 26 (1.24%) vSphere
7 18 (0.86%) VMware ESXi
8 10 (0.48%) HDFS
9 8 (0.38%) NFS
10 6 (0.29%) BitLocker
10 6 (0.29%) KVM
10 6 (0.29%) Microsoft App-V
10 6 (0.29%) Terminal Services
11 5 (0.24%) VMware NSX
12 4 (0.19%) Xen
13 3 (0.14%) Dovecot
13 3 (0.14%) Firmware
13 3 (0.14%) Postfix
14 2 (0.095%) SRDF
14 2 (0.095%) Veritas Cluster Server
Systems Management
1 905 (43.03%) Terraform
2 538 (25.58%) Ansible
3 338 (16.07%) Prometheus
4 255 (12.13%) Argo
5 226 (10.75%) Kustomize
6 114 (5.42%) Grafana
7 58 (2.76%) Puppet
8 51 (2.43%) Progress Chef
9 34 (1.62%) Istio
10 24 (1.14%) Microsoft Intune
11 19 (0.90%) Kibana
11 19 (0.90%) Podman
12 18 (0.86%) SCCM
13 16 (0.76%) vCenter Server
14 13 (0.62%) Packer
15 12 (0.57%) Nagios
15 12 (0.57%) vMotion
16 9 (0.43%) Failover Clustering
17 8 (0.38%) FortiGate
18 7 (0.33%) vRealize
Vendors
1 370 (17.59%) Google
2 201 (9.56%) Solace
3 147 (6.99%) Microsoft
4 89 (4.23%) VMware
5 47 (2.23%) Databricks
6 44 (2.09%) Oracle
7 42 (2.00%) Red Hat
8 35 (1.66%) Splunk
9 28 (1.33%) Dynatrace
10 24 (1.14%) Citrix
11 22 (1.05%) Cisco
12 18 (0.86%) SAP
13 17 (0.81%) Palo Alto
14 15 (0.71%) Atlassian
15 14 (0.67%) Trayport
16 12 (0.57%) HP
17 10 (0.48%) Rackspace
18 9 (0.43%) Confluent
18 9 (0.43%) New Relic
19 8 (0.38%) Veeam