Kubernetes Engineer Jobs in London

Kubernetes Engineer (K8s Engineer)
England > London

The median Kubernetes Engineer (K8s Engineer) salary in London is £105,000 per year according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 11 May 2024.

The first table below provides salary benchmarking and summary statistics including a comparison to same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
11 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 445 509 755
Rank change year-on-year +64 +246 -354
Permanent jobs requiring a Kubernetes Engineer 70 133 117
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in London 0.30% 0.39% 0.17%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.31% 0.41% 0.18%
Number of salaries quoted 58 126 88
10th Percentile £85,250 £65,000 £62,500
25th Percentile £95,000 £77,813 £70,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £105,000 £115,000 £87,500
Median % change year-on-year -8.70% +31.43% +9.38%
75th Percentile £138,750 £138,750 £106,250
90th Percentile - £150,000 £112,500
England median annual salary £100,000 £97,500 £80,000
% change year-on-year +2.56% +21.88% +3.23%

All Permanent IT Job Vacancies
London

The following table is for comparison with the above and includes summary statistics for all permanent IT job vacancies advertised 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 22,249 32,570 65,049
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 94.13% 95.05% 96.32%
Number of salaries quoted 16,679 24,002 34,556
10th Percentile £38,000 £42,500 £41,250
25th Percentile £51,250 £55,000 £52,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £70,000 £72,500 £70,000
Median % change year-on-year -3.45% +3.57% -
75th Percentile £93,750 £95,000 £91,250
90th Percentile £115,000 £115,000 £110,000
England median annual salary £53,500 £60,800 £60,000
% change year-on-year -12.01% +1.33% +9.09%

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 11 May 2024.

Salary histogram for Kubernetes Engineer in London

Kubernetes Engineer
Job Locations in London

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Kubernetes Engineer within the London region over the 6 months to 11 May 2024. 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
Central London +59 13 £92,500 -15.91%
Kubernetes Engineer
England

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

For the 6 months to 11 May 2024, 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 70 (100.00%) Kubernetes
2 62 (88.57%) Python
3 56 (80.00%) Terraform
4 53 (75.71%) Finance
5 51 (72.86%) AWS
6 48 (68.57%) Docker
6 48 (68.57%) CI/CD
7 47 (67.14%) DevOps
8 44 (62.86%) Software Engineering
9 43 (61.43%) Jenkins
10 38 (54.29%) Deployment Automation
11 37 (52.86%) Site Reliability Engineering
11 37 (52.86%) Java
12 36 (51.43%) Go
12 36 (51.43%) AWS CloudFormation
13 35 (50.00%) Artifactory
13 35 (50.00%) Agile
14 34 (48.57%) Asset Management
14 34 (48.57%) OpenShift
14 34 (48.57%) Open Source
14 34 (48.57%) Amazon S3
15 33 (47.14%) Serverless
15 33 (47.14%) AWS Lambda
15 33 (47.14%) Amazon EC2
15 33 (47.14%) Amazon RDS
16 32 (45.71%) Amazon Redshift
16 32 (45.71%) Amazon SQS
16 32 (45.71%) Financial Modelling
16 32 (45.71%) Tandem
16 32 (45.71%) Front Office

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:

Application Platforms
1 3 (4.29%) Apache
2 2 (2.86%) Apache Airflow
2 2 (2.86%) nginx
Cloud Services
1 51 (72.86%) AWS
2 36 (51.43%) AWS CloudFormation
3 34 (48.57%) Amazon S3
3 34 (48.57%) OpenShift
4 33 (47.14%) Amazon EC2
4 33 (47.14%) AWS Lambda
4 33 (47.14%) Serverless
5 32 (45.71%) Amazon ECS
5 32 (45.71%) Amazon SQS
6 22 (31.43%) Azure
7 4 (5.71%) GitHub
7 4 (5.71%) OCI
8 3 (4.29%) Amazon EKS
8 3 (4.29%) Azure AKS
8 3 (4.29%) GitHub Actions
9 2 (2.86%) Amazon CloudWatch
9 2 (2.86%) dbt
9 2 (2.86%) Google Kubernetes Engine
9 2 (2.86%) Snowflake
10 1 (1.43%) Azure Cosmos DB
Communications & Networking
1 3 (4.29%) TCP/IP
2 2 (2.86%) SAN
3 1 (1.43%) DHCP
3 1 (1.43%) DNS
3 1 (1.43%) tcpdump
3 1 (1.43%) Wireshark
Database & Business Intelligence
1 33 (47.14%) Amazon RDS
2 32 (45.71%) Amazon Redshift
3 6 (8.57%) InfluxDB
4 3 (4.29%) MariaDB
4 3 (4.29%) PostgreSQL
5 2 (2.86%) Dremio
5 2 (2.86%) Elasticsearch
5 2 (2.86%) Tableau
6 1 (1.43%) Azure SQL Database
6 1 (1.43%) MongoDB
6 1 (1.43%) MySQL
6 1 (1.43%) Redis
Development Applications
1 43 (61.43%) Jenkins
2 35 (50.00%) Artifactory
3 6 (8.57%) Git
3 6 (8.57%) TeamCity
4 3 (4.29%) GitLab
4 3 (4.29%) JIRA
4 3 (4.29%) Octopus Deploy
4 3 (4.29%) SonarQube
4 3 (4.29%) Sonatype Nexus
5 2 (2.86%) NUnit
General
1 53 (75.71%) Finance
2 32 (45.71%) Front Office
3 6 (8.57%) Social Skills
4 3 (4.29%) Analytical Skills
4 3 (4.29%) Banking
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 32 (45.71%) J2EE
2 5 (7.14%) .NET
2 5 (7.14%) .NET Core
3 3 (4.29%) Elastic Stack
4 2 (2.86%) Kafka
4 2 (2.86%) Spring
5 1 (1.43%) Keycloak
5 1 (1.43%) Middleware
5 1 (1.43%) SAML
Miscellaneous
1 32 (45.71%) Tandem
2 8 (11.43%) Private Cloud
3 5 (7.14%) Clustering
3 5 (7.14%) Replication
4 4 (5.71%) Onboarding
5 3 (4.29%) Cloud Native
6 2 (2.86%) Client/Server
6 2 (2.86%) Hedge funds
7 1 (1.43%) Fixed Income
7 1 (1.43%) Team-Oriented Environment
Operating Systems
1 14 (20.00%) Linux
2 5 (7.14%) Oracle Linux
2 5 (7.14%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
2 5 (7.14%) Solaris
3 1 (1.43%) CentOS
3 1 (1.43%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 48 (68.57%) CI/CD
2 47 (67.14%) DevOps
3 44 (62.86%) Software Engineering
4 38 (54.29%) Deployment Automation
5 37 (52.86%) Site Reliability Engineering
6 35 (50.00%) Agile
7 34 (48.57%) Asset Management
7 34 (48.57%) Open Source
8 32 (45.71%) Decision-Making
8 32 (45.71%) Financial Modelling
9 13 (18.57%) Containerisation
9 13 (18.57%) Infrastructure as Code
10 9 (12.86%) Platform Engineering
11 8 (11.43%) High Availability
12 7 (10.00%) Continuous Improvement
12 7 (10.00%) Fintech
12 7 (10.00%) Technology Strategy
13 6 (8.57%) Disaster Recovery
13 6 (8.57%) Performance Tuning
13 6 (8.57%) Problem-Solving
Programming Languages
1 62 (88.57%) Python
2 37 (52.86%) Java
3 36 (51.43%) Go
4 16 (22.86%) PowerShell
5 13 (18.57%) Bash
6 11 (15.71%) C#
7 6 (8.57%) SQL
8 3 (4.29%) Ruby
8 3 (4.29%) Rust
9 1 (1.43%) Perl
9 1 (1.43%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 1 (1.43%) Linux+ Certification
1 1 (1.43%) RHCE
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (2.86%) Data Quality
2 1 (1.43%) QA
System Software
1 48 (68.57%) Docker
2 4 (5.71%) VMware Infrastructure
3 2 (2.86%) Ceph
4 1 (1.43%) Active Directory
4 1 (1.43%) KVM
4 1 (1.43%) NFS
4 1 (1.43%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 70 (100.00%) Kubernetes
2 56 (80.00%) Terraform
3 16 (22.86%) Ansible
4 15 (21.43%) Prometheus
5 12 (17.14%) Grafana
6 6 (8.57%) Istio
6 6 (8.57%) Progress Chef
7 3 (4.29%) Puppet
8 2 (2.86%) HP Data Protector
8 2 (2.86%) Kibana
8 2 (2.86%) Rancher
8 2 (2.86%) Red Hat Satellite
9 1 (1.43%) Active Directory Federation Services
9 1 (1.43%) Argo
9 1 (1.43%) Salt
Vendors
1 5 (7.14%) Oracle
1 5 (7.14%) Serena
2 4 (5.71%) VMware
3 3 (4.29%) Google
3 3 (4.29%) Red Hat
4 2 (2.86%) Dell
4 2 (2.86%) EMC
4 2 (2.86%) HP
5 1 (1.43%) Cisco
5 1 (1.43%) Microsoft
5 1 (1.43%) SaltStack
5 1 (1.43%) Splunk