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 25 April 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
25 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 439 499 757
Rank change year-on-year +60 +258 -364
Permanent jobs requiring a Kubernetes Engineer 70 136 112
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in London 0.30% 0.38% 0.17%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.32% 0.40% 0.18%
Number of salaries quoted 62 128 84
10th Percentile £87,750 £65,000 £62,500
25th Percentile £95,000 £79,688 £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 £110,000
90th Percentile - £150,000 -
England median annual salary £100,000 £97,500 £80,000
% change year-on-year +2.56% +21.88% +6.67%

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 22,169 34,255 62,848
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 94.11% 95.07% 96.34%
Number of salaries quoted 16,697 25,036 34,819
10th Percentile £38,500 £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 £54,000 £60,567 £60,000
% change year-on-year -10.84% +0.95% +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 25 April 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 25 April 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 +56 10 £92,500 -17.78% 1
Kubernetes Engineer
England

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

For the 6 months to 25 April 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 63 (90.00%) Python
3 57 (81.43%) Terraform
4 55 (78.57%) AWS
5 53 (75.71%) Finance
6 52 (74.29%) DevOps
6 52 (74.29%) Docker
7 51 (72.86%) CI/CD
8 48 (68.57%) Jenkins
9 47 (67.14%) Software Engineering
10 43 (61.43%) Java
11 42 (60.00%) Go
12 41 (58.57%) Artifactory
12 41 (58.57%) Deployment Automation
13 40 (57.14%) Site Reliability Engineering
13 40 (57.14%) AWS CloudFormation
14 38 (54.29%) OpenShift
14 38 (54.29%) Open Source
14 38 (54.29%) Agile
14 38 (54.29%) Asset Management
14 38 (54.29%) Amazon S3
15 37 (52.86%) Serverless
15 37 (52.86%) Amazon EC2
15 37 (52.86%) Amazon RDS
15 37 (52.86%) AWS Lambda
16 36 (51.43%) Amazon Redshift
16 36 (51.43%) Amazon SQS
16 36 (51.43%) Financial Modelling
16 36 (51.43%) Front Office
16 36 (51.43%) Tandem

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 2 (2.86%) Apache
1 2 (2.86%) Apache Airflow
1 2 (2.86%) nginx
Cloud Services
1 55 (78.57%) AWS
2 40 (57.14%) AWS CloudFormation
3 38 (54.29%) Amazon S3
3 38 (54.29%) OpenShift
4 37 (52.86%) Amazon EC2
4 37 (52.86%) AWS Lambda
4 37 (52.86%) Serverless
5 36 (51.43%) Amazon ECS
5 36 (51.43%) Amazon SQS
6 18 (25.71%) Azure
7 5 (7.14%) GitHub
7 5 (7.14%) GitHub Actions
8 3 (4.29%) Amazon EKS
8 3 (4.29%) OCI
9 2 (2.86%) Amazon CloudWatch
9 2 (2.86%) Azure AKS
9 2 (2.86%) dbt
9 2 (2.86%) Google Kubernetes Engine
9 2 (2.86%) Snowflake
10 1 (1.43%) MinIO
Communications & Networking
1 2 (2.86%) SAN
1 2 (2.86%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 37 (52.86%) Amazon RDS
2 36 (51.43%) Amazon Redshift
3 5 (7.14%) InfluxDB
4 2 (2.86%) Dremio
4 2 (2.86%) Elasticsearch
4 2 (2.86%) MariaDB
4 2 (2.86%) PostgreSQL
4 2 (2.86%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 48 (68.57%) Jenkins
2 41 (58.57%) Artifactory
3 5 (7.14%) Git
3 5 (7.14%) GitLab
3 5 (7.14%) JIRA
3 5 (7.14%) SonarQube
3 5 (7.14%) Sonatype Nexus
3 5 (7.14%) TeamCity
4 2 (2.86%) NUnit
4 2 (2.86%) Octopus Deploy
General
1 53 (75.71%) Finance
2 36 (51.43%) Front Office
3 5 (7.14%) Social Skills
4 3 (4.29%) Analytical Skills
4 3 (4.29%) Banking
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 36 (51.43%) J2EE
2 7 (10.00%) .NET
2 7 (10.00%) .NET Core
3 2 (2.86%) Elastic Stack
3 2 (2.86%) Kafka
3 2 (2.86%) Spring
Miscellaneous
1 36 (51.43%) Tandem
2 5 (7.14%) Cloud Native
3 4 (5.71%) Clustering
3 4 (5.71%) Private Cloud
3 4 (5.71%) Replication
4 3 (4.29%) Onboarding
5 2 (2.86%) Client/Server
5 2 (2.86%) Hedge funds
6 1 (1.43%) Fixed Income
Operating Systems
1 14 (20.00%) Linux
2 4 (5.71%) Oracle Linux
2 4 (5.71%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
2 4 (5.71%) Solaris
Processes & Methodologies
1 52 (74.29%) DevOps
2 51 (72.86%) CI/CD
3 47 (67.14%) Software Engineering
4 41 (58.57%) Deployment Automation
5 40 (57.14%) Site Reliability Engineering
6 38 (54.29%) Agile
6 38 (54.29%) Asset Management
6 38 (54.29%) Open Source
7 36 (51.43%) Decision-Making
7 36 (51.43%) Financial Modelling
8 14 (20.00%) Containerisation
9 11 (15.71%) Infrastructure as Code
10 6 (8.57%) Continuous Improvement
10 6 (8.57%) High Availability
10 6 (8.57%) Platform Engineering
11 5 (7.14%) Problem-Solving
12 4 (5.71%) Microservices
12 4 (5.71%) Performance Tuning
12 4 (5.71%) Security Hardening
12 4 (5.71%) Technology Strategy
Programming Languages
1 63 (90.00%) Python
2 43 (61.43%) Java
3 42 (60.00%) Go
4 12 (17.14%) C#
5 11 (15.71%) PowerShell
6 10 (14.29%) Bash
7 5 (7.14%) Ruby
7 5 (7.14%) Rust
7 5 (7.14%) SQL
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (2.86%) Data Quality
2 1 (1.43%) QA
System Software
1 52 (74.29%) Docker
2 3 (4.29%) VMware Infrastructure
3 2 (2.86%) Ceph
4 1 (1.43%) NFS
Systems Management
1 70 (100.00%) Kubernetes
2 57 (81.43%) Terraform
3 15 (21.43%) Ansible
4 13 (18.57%) Prometheus
5 10 (14.29%) Grafana
6 7 (10.00%) Progress Chef
7 5 (7.14%) Istio
8 2 (2.86%) HP Data Protector
8 2 (2.86%) Kibana
8 2 (2.86%) Puppet
8 2 (2.86%) Rancher
8 2 (2.86%) Red Hat Satellite
9 1 (1.43%) Argo
9 1 (1.43%) Salt
Vendors
1 4 (5.71%) Oracle
1 4 (5.71%) Serena
2 3 (4.29%) VMware
3 2 (2.86%) Dell
3 2 (2.86%) EMC
3 2 (2.86%) Google
3 2 (2.86%) HP
3 2 (2.86%) Red Hat
4 1 (1.43%) Cisco