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

6 months to
30 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 59 74 84
Rank change year-on-year +15 +10 -14
Permanent jobs citing Kubernetes 15 35 17
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Kent 1.85% 2.24% 1.58%
As % of the Systems Management category 36.59% 32.71% 14.53%
Number of salaries quoted 4 32 5
10th Percentile £59,750 £30,500 £46,500
25th Percentile £63,125 £52,500 £56,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £70,000 £55,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year +27.27% -8.33% -17.24%
75th Percentile £75,000 £67,500 -
90th Percentile - £97,500 £76,500
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 41 107 117
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Kent 5.05% 6.84% 10.88%
Number of salaries quoted 19 83 75
10th Percentile £30,250 £36,250 £25,750
25th Percentile £33,750 £40,499 £26,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £40,000 £55,000 £42,500
Median % change year-on-year -27.27% +29.41% -10.53%
75th Percentile £71,125 £58,750 £53,500
90th Percentile £77,500 £67,500 £61,250
South East median annual salary £60,000 £55,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year +9.09% -8.33% -7.69%

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 30 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 - 83
Tunbridge Wells +8 2 £60,000 +81.82% 1
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 (6.67%) Confluence
1 1 (6.67%) Microsoft Exchange
1 1 (6.67%) SharePoint
Cloud Services
1 11 (73.33%) AWS
2 6 (40.00%) Amazon EKS
3 5 (33.33%) Azure
4 4 (26.67%) GCP
5 3 (20.00%) Amazon EC2
5 3 (20.00%) AWS CloudFormation
5 3 (20.00%) Pulumi
5 3 (20.00%) Route 53
5 3 (20.00%) Virtual Private Cloud
6 1 (6.67%) Azure App Service
6 1 (6.67%) Azure DevOps
6 1 (6.67%) Entra ID
6 1 (6.67%) Microsoft 365
6 1 (6.67%) OneDrive
Communications & Networking
1 3 (20.00%) Broadband
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (20.00%) Elasticsearch
1 3 (20.00%) MongoDB
1 3 (20.00%) NoSQL
1 3 (20.00%) RDBMS
1 3 (20.00%) Redis
1 3 (20.00%) Relational Database
2 1 (6.67%) Azure SQL Database
2 1 (6.67%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 3 (20.00%) Jaeger
2 1 (6.67%) Bitbucket
2 1 (6.67%) Cucumber
2 1 (6.67%) GitLab
2 1 (6.67%) JIRA
2 1 (6.67%) Maven
2 1 (6.67%) Selenium
2 1 (6.67%) SonarQube
2 1 (6.67%) Sonatype Nexus
General
1 7 (46.67%) Inclusion and Diversity
2 4 (26.67%) Automotive
3 3 (20.00%) Analytical Skills
4 1 (6.67%) Banking
4 1 (6.67%) Finance
4 1 (6.67%) Legal
4 1 (6.67%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 7 (46.67%) Senior
2 4 (26.67%) Infrastructure Engineer
2 4 (26.67%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
2 4 (26.67%) Software Engineer
3 3 (20.00%) Cloud Engineer
3 3 (20.00%) Cloud Infrastructure Engineer
3 3 (20.00%) Developer
3 3 (20.00%) IT Engineer
3 3 (20.00%) IT Infrastructure Engineer
3 3 (20.00%) Lead
3 3 (20.00%) Senior Cloud Engineer
3 3 (20.00%) Senior IT Engineer
3 3 (20.00%) Senior Software Engineer
3 3 (20.00%) Software Developer
3 3 (20.00%) Team Leader
4 1 (6.67%) Security Engineer
4 1 (6.67%) Senior Systems Engineer
4 1 (6.67%) Systems Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 6 (40.00%) Node.js
2 3 (20.00%) .NET
2 3 (20.00%) Elastic Stack
2 3 (20.00%) GraphQL
2 3 (20.00%) OpenTelemetry
2 3 (20.00%) Pandas
3 1 (6.67%) CSS
3 1 (6.67%) Hibernate
3 1 (6.67%) HTML
3 1 (6.67%) JPA
3 1 (6.67%) Kafka
3 1 (6.67%) React
3 1 (6.67%) Redux
3 1 (6.67%) Spring
3 1 (6.67%) Spring Boot
Miscellaneous
1 3 (20.00%) Cyberattack
2 1 (6.67%) Enterprise Software
2 1 (6.67%) Product Ownership
2 1 (6.67%) Public Cloud
Operating Systems
1 6 (40.00%) Linux
2 3 (20.00%) Android
2 3 (20.00%) Unix
3 1 (6.67%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 8 (53.33%) CI/CD
1 8 (53.33%) DevOps
2 7 (46.67%) Agile
2 7 (46.67%) Containerisation
2 7 (46.67%) Infrastructure as Code
2 7 (46.67%) Software Engineering
3 4 (26.67%) Cloud Security
3 4 (26.67%) Collaborative Working
3 4 (26.67%) Infrastructure Engineering
3 4 (26.67%) Performance Optimisation
3 4 (26.67%) Problem-Solving
4 3 (20.00%) Continuous Integration
4 3 (20.00%) Cost Optimisation
4 3 (20.00%) Design Patterns
4 3 (20.00%) GitOps
4 3 (20.00%) Mathematics
4 3 (20.00%) Resource Management
4 3 (20.00%) Roadmaps
4 3 (20.00%) Statistics
4 3 (20.00%) Task Automation
Programming Languages
1 9 (60.00%) Python
2 7 (46.67%) Java
2 7 (46.67%) JavaScript
3 6 (40.00%) Go
4 3 (20.00%) Bash
4 3 (20.00%) C++
4 3 (20.00%) Rust
4 3 (20.00%) TypeScript
5 2 (13.33%) SQL
Qualifications
1 3 (20.00%) AWS Certification
1 3 (20.00%) DV Cleared
1 3 (20.00%) Security Cleared
2 1 (6.67%) Azure Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (6.67%) QA
System Software
1 10 (66.67%) Docker
2 1 (6.67%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 13 (86.67%) Terraform
2 6 (40.00%) Ansible
3 3 (20.00%) Argo
3 3 (20.00%) Kustomize
3 3 (20.00%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 3 (20.00%) Google
2 1 (6.67%) Citrix
2 1 (6.67%) Microsoft
2 1 (6.67%) Solace
2 1 (6.67%) VMware