Kubernetes Jobs in Kent

Kubernetes (k8s)
South East > Kent

The table below provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in Kent 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 2 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
2 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 56 75 90
Rank change year-on-year +19 +15 -28
Permanent jobs citing Kubernetes 8 33 16
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Kent 1.12% 2.22% 1.39%
As % of the Systems Management category 25.00% 32.35% 13.01%
Number of salaries quoted 5 30 5
10th Percentile £60,500 £30,500 £43,500
25th Percentile £65,000 £52,500 £48,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £70,000 £55,000 £57,500
Median % change year-on-year +27.27% -4.35% -14.81%
75th Percentile £75,000 £67,500 £60,000
90th Percentile £77,250 £99,250 -
South East median annual salary £65,000 £70,000 £70,000
% change year-on-year -7.14% - -

All Systems Management Skills
Kent

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 Kent.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for systems management skills 32 102 123
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Kent 4.46% 6.85% 10.68%
Number of salaries quoted 21 83 79
10th Percentile £30,250 £36,250 £25,750
25th Percentile £30,500 £40,499 £26,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £50,000 £42,500
Median % change year-on-year - +17.65% -15.00%
75th Percentile £75,000 £57,500 £53,500
90th Percentile £79,500 £67,500 £60,250
South East median annual salary £60,000 £55,000 £57,500
% change year-on-year +9.09% -4.35% -11.54%

Kubernetes
Job Vacancy Trend in Kent

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

Job vacancy trend for Kubernetes in Kent

Kubernetes
Salary Trend in Kent

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

Salary trend for Kubernetes in Kent

Kubernetes
Job Locations in Kent

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Kubernetes within the Kent region over the 6 months to 2 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
Maidstone - 3 £70,000 - 4
Tunbridge Wells +5 1 £60,000 +81.82%
Kubernetes
South East

Kubernetes
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Kent 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 1 (12.50%) Microsoft Exchange
1 1 (12.50%) SharePoint
Cloud Services
1 5 (62.50%) Azure
2 4 (50.00%) AWS
3 3 (37.50%) Amazon EKS
3 3 (37.50%) AWS CloudFormation
3 3 (37.50%) GCP
4 1 (12.50%) AWS Fargate
4 1 (12.50%) Azure App Service
4 1 (12.50%) Azure DevOps
4 1 (12.50%) Entra ID
4 1 (12.50%) Microsoft 365
4 1 (12.50%) OneDrive
4 1 (12.50%) SaaS
4 1 (12.50%) Serverless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (37.50%) Elasticsearch
1 3 (37.50%) MongoDB
1 3 (37.50%) Redis
2 1 (12.50%) Azure SQL Database
Development Applications
1 1 (12.50%) Git
General
1 3 (37.50%) Analytical Skills
1 3 (37.50%) Inclusion and Diversity
2 1 (12.50%) Legal
Job Titles
1 4 (50.00%) Developer
1 4 (50.00%) Senior
2 3 (37.50%) Senior Software Engineer
2 3 (37.50%) Software Developer
2 3 (37.50%) Software Engineer
3 1 (12.50%) Full-Stack Developer
3 1 (12.50%) Infrastructure Engineer
3 1 (12.50%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
3 1 (12.50%) Senior Systems Engineer
3 1 (12.50%) Systems Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 6 (75.00%) Node.js
2 4 (50.00%) .NET
3 3 (37.50%) GraphQL
3 3 (37.50%) Pandas
4 1 (12.50%) AngularJS
4 1 (12.50%) Blazor
4 1 (12.50%) Razor View Engine
4 1 (12.50%) React
4 1 (12.50%) Vue
Miscellaneous
1 3 (37.50%) Cyberattack
2 1 (12.50%) Public Cloud
Operating Systems
1 3 (37.50%) Android
1 3 (37.50%) Linux
2 1 (12.50%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 6 (75.00%) Software Engineering
2 3 (37.50%) Agile
2 3 (37.50%) Android Development
2 3 (37.50%) CI/CD
2 3 (37.50%) Collaborative Working
2 3 (37.50%) Containerisation
2 3 (37.50%) Design Patterns
2 3 (37.50%) Kanban
2 3 (37.50%) Line Management
2 3 (37.50%) Mathematics
2 3 (37.50%) OO
2 3 (37.50%) OOP
2 3 (37.50%) OWASP
2 3 (37.50%) Secure Coding
2 3 (37.50%) Statistics
3 1 (12.50%) API Management
3 1 (12.50%) Front End Development
3 1 (12.50%) Full-Stack Development
3 1 (12.50%) Infrastructure Engineering
3 1 (12.50%) SDLC
Programming Languages
1 6 (75.00%) Python
2 3 (37.50%) C++
2 3 (37.50%) Go
2 3 (37.50%) Java
2 3 (37.50%) JavaScript
2 3 (37.50%) Rust
2 3 (37.50%) TypeScript
3 1 (12.50%) C#
3 1 (12.50%) SQL
Qualifications
1 3 (37.50%) DV Cleared
1 3 (37.50%) Security Cleared
2 1 (12.50%) Azure Certification
2 1 (12.50%) Computer Science Degree
2 1 (12.50%) Degree
System Software
1 7 (87.50%) Docker
2 1 (12.50%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 6 (75.00%) Terraform
2 3 (37.50%) Ansible
Vendors
1 1 (12.50%) Citrix
1 1 (12.50%) Microsoft
1 1 (12.50%) VMware