Kubernetes Engineer Jobs in London

Kubernetes Engineer (K8s Engineer)
England > London

The median Kubernetes Engineer (K8s Engineer) salary in London is £107,500 per year, according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months leading to 1 May 2025.

The table below provides salary benchmarking and summary statistics, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 348 432 498
Rank change year-on-year +84 +66 +260
Permanent jobs requiring a Kubernetes Engineer 44 70 132
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in London 0.35% 0.30% 0.37%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.38% 0.31% 0.39%
Number of salaries quoted 32 61 125
10th Percentile £80,000 £87,500 £65,000
25th Percentile £85,000 £95,000 £78,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £107,500 £105,000 £115,000
Median % change year-on-year +2.38% -8.70% +31.43%
75th Percentile £127,500 £138,750 £138,750
90th Percentile £138,750 - £150,000
England median annual salary £100,000 £100,000 £95,000
% change year-on-year - +5.26% +18.75%

All Permanent IT Job Vacancies
London

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent IT job vacancies in London. Most job vacancies include a discernible job title that can be normalized. As such, the figures in the second row provide an indication of the number of permanent jobs in our overall sample.

Permanent vacancies in London with a recognized job title 11,480 22,230 33,763
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 90.13% 94.12% 95.07%
Number of salaries quoted 7,467 16,731 24,760
10th Percentile £41,250 £38,454 £42,500
25th Percentile £55,000 £51,250 £55,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £75,000 £70,000 £72,500
Median % change year-on-year +7.14% -3.45% +3.57%
75th Percentile £100,000 £93,750 £95,000
90th Percentile £122,500 £115,000 £115,000
England median annual salary £57,500 £53,773 £60,567
% change year-on-year +6.93% -11.22% +0.95%

Kubernetes Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend in London

Job postings that featured Kubernetes Engineer in the job title as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in London.

Job vacancy trend for Kubernetes Engineer in London

Kubernetes Engineer
Salary Trend in London

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

Salary trend for Kubernetes Engineer in London

Kubernetes Engineer
Salary Histogram in London

Salary distribution for jobs citing Kubernetes Engineer in London over the 6 months to 1 May 2025.

Salary histogram for Kubernetes Engineer in London

Kubernetes Engineer Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in London

For the 6 months to 1 May 2025, Kubernetes Engineer job roles required the following skills and capabilities in order of popularity. The figures indicate the absolute number co-occurrences and as a proportion of all permanent job ads across the London region featuring Kubernetes Engineer in the job title.

1 44 (100.00%) Kubernetes
2 41 (93.18%) DevOps
3 38 (86.36%) Terraform
4 37 (84.09%) AWS
5 35 (79.55%) Docker
6 34 (77.27%) CI/CD
7 27 (61.36%) Python
8 26 (59.09%) Finance
9 23 (52.27%) Containerisation
10 20 (45.45%) Go
11 19 (43.18%) Jenkins
12 18 (40.91%) AWS CloudFormation
12 18 (40.91%) Open Source
13 17 (38.64%) Site Reliability Engineering
13 17 (38.64%) Infrastructure as Code
14 16 (36.36%) Azure
14 16 (36.36%) Software Engineering
14 16 (36.36%) OpenShift
14 16 (36.36%) Serverless
14 16 (36.36%) AWS Lambda
15 14 (31.82%) Amazon RDS
15 14 (31.82%) Agile
15 14 (31.82%) Amazon EC2
15 14 (31.82%) Amazon S3
16 13 (29.55%) Kafka
16 13 (29.55%) Java
16 13 (29.55%) Social Skills
17 11 (25.00%) GCP
18 10 (22.73%) GitLab
18 10 (22.73%) Amazon Redshift

Kubernetes Engineer Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in London 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:

Cloud Services
1 37 (84.09%) AWS
2 18 (40.91%) AWS CloudFormation
3 16 (36.36%) AWS Lambda
3 16 (36.36%) Azure
3 16 (36.36%) OpenShift
3 16 (36.36%) Serverless
4 14 (31.82%) Amazon EC2
4 14 (31.82%) Amazon S3
5 11 (25.00%) GCP
6 10 (22.73%) Amazon ECS
6 10 (22.73%) Amazon SQS
7 9 (20.45%) Amazon EKS
8 6 (13.64%) Amazon MSK
9 5 (11.36%) Azure DevOps
10 4 (9.09%) Amazon CloudWatch
10 4 (9.09%) Cloud Computing
10 4 (9.09%) Datadog
11 3 (6.82%) Azure AKS
12 2 (4.55%) GitHub
13 1 (2.27%) PaaS
Communications & Networking
1 4 (9.09%) Network Security
Database & Business Intelligence
1 14 (31.82%) Amazon RDS
2 10 (22.73%) Amazon Redshift
3 8 (18.18%) PostgreSQL
4 4 (9.09%) DynamoDB
4 4 (9.09%) NoSQL
5 3 (6.82%) MongoDB
6 1 (2.27%) Azure SQL Database
6 1 (2.27%) MariaDB
6 1 (2.27%) MySQL
6 1 (2.27%) Redis
Development Applications
1 19 (43.18%) Jenkins
2 10 (22.73%) Artifactory
2 10 (22.73%) GitLab
3 6 (13.64%) SonarQube
3 6 (13.64%) Sonatype Nexus
4 4 (9.09%) CircleCI
5 3 (6.82%) Liquibase
6 2 (4.55%) NUnit
7 1 (2.27%) Octopus Deploy
General
1 26 (59.09%) Finance
2 13 (29.55%) Social Skills
3 10 (22.73%) Banking
3 10 (22.73%) Front Office
4 4 (9.09%) Analytical Skills
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 13 (29.55%) Kafka
2 10 (22.73%) J2EE
3 6 (13.64%) REST
4 4 (9.09%) Azure Blueprints
4 4 (9.09%) gRPC
4 4 (9.09%) RabbitMQ
4 4 (9.09%) RESTful
4 4 (9.09%) web3js
5 2 (4.55%) .NET
5 2 (4.55%) .NET Core
5 2 (4.55%) Node.js
5 2 (4.55%) React
5 2 (4.55%) Ruby on Rails
6 1 (2.27%) Elastic Stack
6 1 (2.27%) SAML
Miscellaneous
1 10 (22.73%) Tandem
2 8 (18.18%) Cloud Native
3 4 (9.09%) Blockchain
3 4 (9.09%) Security Posture
3 4 (9.09%) Web3
4 1 (2.27%) Private Cloud
Operating Systems
1 4 (9.09%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 41 (93.18%) DevOps
2 34 (77.27%) CI/CD
3 23 (52.27%) Containerisation
4 18 (40.91%) Open Source
5 17 (38.64%) Infrastructure as Code
5 17 (38.64%) Site Reliability Engineering
6 16 (36.36%) Software Engineering
7 14 (31.82%) Agile
8 10 (22.73%) Asset Management
8 10 (22.73%) Decision-Making
8 10 (22.73%) Deployment Automation
8 10 (22.73%) Event-Driven
8 10 (22.73%) Financial Modelling
9 8 (18.18%) High Availability
9 8 (18.18%) Problem-Solving
9 8 (18.18%) Risk Management
10 7 (15.91%) Continuous Integration
10 7 (15.91%) Platform Engineering
11 6 (13.64%) Machine Learning
12 5 (11.36%) Cloud Security
Programming Languages
1 27 (61.36%) Python
2 20 (45.45%) Go
3 13 (29.55%) Java
4 6 (13.64%) Bash
5 5 (11.36%) PowerShell
6 2 (4.55%) C#
6 2 (4.55%) Ruby
7 1 (2.27%) SQL
Qualifications
1 3 (6.82%) SC Cleared
1 3 (6.82%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 6 (13.64%) GDPR
2 4 (9.09%) NIST
2 4 (9.09%) PCI DSS
2 4 (9.09%) Sarbanes-Oxley
3 2 (4.55%) MiFID
System Software
1 35 (79.55%) Docker
2 6 (13.64%) Virtual Machines
3 1 (2.27%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 44 (100.00%) Kubernetes
2 38 (86.36%) Terraform
3 7 (15.91%) Ansible
4 6 (13.64%) Istio
5 4 (9.09%) CASB
5 4 (9.09%) Prometheus
6 1 (2.27%) Active Directory Federation Services
Vendors
1 6 (13.64%) Confluent
2 5 (11.36%) Google
3 1 (2.27%) Microsoft