Kubernetes Job Trends in Gatwick

Kubernetes (k8s)
West Sussex > Gatwick

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in Gatwick requiring Kubernetes skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 14 May 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
14 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 4 - 6
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Permanent jobs citing Kubernetes 1 0 7
As % of all permanent jobs in Gatwick 16.67% - 43.75%
As % of the Systems Management category 100.00% - 87.50%
Number of salaries quoted 1 0 7
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £62,500 - £66,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 - £67,500
75th Percentile £67,500 - £68,750
90th Percentile - - -
West Sussex median annual salary £65,000 £60,000 £65,000
% change year-on-year +8.33% -7.69% +18.18%

All Systems Management Skills
Gatwick

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 Gatwick.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for systems management skills 1 4 8
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Gatwick 16.67% 33.33% 50.00%
Number of salaries quoted 1 4 7
10th Percentile - £39,500 -
25th Percentile £62,500 £46,250 £66,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £50,000 £67,500
Median % change year-on-year +30.00% -25.93% +12.50%
75th Percentile £67,500 - £68,750
90th Percentile - - -
West Sussex median annual salary £70,000 £60,000 £65,000
% change year-on-year +16.67% -7.69% +18.18%

Kubernetes
Job Vacancy Trend in Gatwick

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

Kubernetes job vacancy trend in Gatwick

Kubernetes
Salary Trend in Gatwick

Salary distribution trend for jobs in Gatwick citing Kubernetes.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in Gatwick citing Kubernetes

Kubernetes
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Gatwick 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:

Cloud Services
1 1 (100.00%) Azure
1 1 (100.00%) Azure AKS
1 1 (100.00%) Azure DevOps
1 1 (100.00%) Azure Event Grid
1 1 (100.00%) Azure Monitor
1 1 (100.00%) IaaS
1 1 (100.00%) PaaS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (100.00%) PostgreSQL
1 1 (100.00%) Redis
General
1 1 (100.00%) Aviation
Job Titles
1 1 (100.00%) DevOps Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (100.00%) YAML
Operating Systems
1 1 (100.00%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (100.00%) Analytics
1 1 (100.00%) CI/CD
1 1 (100.00%) Cloud Security
1 1 (100.00%) DevOps
1 1 (100.00%) Infrastructure as Code
1 1 (100.00%) Load Balancing
1 1 (100.00%) Microservices
1 1 (100.00%) Observability
1 1 (100.00%) Platform Engineering
1 1 (100.00%) Root Cause Analysis
Programming Languages
1 1 (100.00%) Bash
1 1 (100.00%) PowerShell
1 1 (100.00%) Python
1 1 (100.00%) SQL
Qualifications
1 1 (100.00%) SC Cleared
1 1 (100.00%) Security Cleared
Systems Management
1 1 (100.00%) Terraform
Vendors
1 1 (100.00%) Microsoft