Kubernetes Engineer Jobs in London

Kubernetes Engineer (K8s Engineer)
England > London

The median Kubernetes Engineer (K8s Engineer) salary in London is £103,750 per year, according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months leading to 3 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
3 May 2025		 Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 358 438 496
Rank change year-on-year +80 +58 +265
Permanent jobs requiring a Kubernetes Engineer 42 69 135
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in London 0.33% 0.29% 0.38%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.37% 0.31% 0.40%
Number of salaries quoted 30 60 128
10th Percentile £80,000 £86,750 £65,000
25th Percentile £85,000 £95,000 £78,438
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £103,750 £105,000 £115,000
Median % change year-on-year -1.19% -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 £97,500
% change year-on-year - +2.56% +21.88%

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 11,467 22,216 33,633
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 90.18% 94.11% 95.07%
Number of salaries quoted 7,483 16,715 24,685
10th Percentile £41,250 £38,112 £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 £53,500 £60,800
% change year-on-year +7.48% -12.01% +1.33%

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 3 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 3 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 42 (100.00%) Kubernetes
2 39 (92.86%) DevOps
3 36 (85.71%) Terraform
4 35 (83.33%) AWS
5 33 (78.57%) Docker
6 32 (76.19%) CI/CD
7 25 (59.52%) Python
8 24 (57.14%) Finance
9 23 (54.76%) Containerisation
10 18 (42.86%) Go
11 17 (40.48%) Jenkins
11 17 (40.48%) Infrastructure as Code
12 16 (38.10%) AWS CloudFormation
12 16 (38.10%) Azure
12 16 (38.10%) Open Source
13 15 (35.71%) Site Reliability Engineering
14 14 (33.33%) Software Engineering
14 14 (33.33%) OpenShift
14 14 (33.33%) Serverless
14 14 (33.33%) AWS Lambda
15 13 (30.95%) Kafka
15 13 (30.95%) Social Skills
16 12 (28.57%) Amazon EC2
16 12 (28.57%) Amazon S3
16 12 (28.57%) Agile
16 12 (28.57%) Amazon RDS
17 11 (26.19%) GCP
17 11 (26.19%) Java
18 10 (23.81%) Banking
18 10 (23.81%) GitLab

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 35 (83.33%) AWS
2 16 (38.10%) AWS CloudFormation
2 16 (38.10%) Azure
3 14 (33.33%) AWS Lambda
3 14 (33.33%) OpenShift
3 14 (33.33%) Serverless
4 12 (28.57%) Amazon EC2
4 12 (28.57%) Amazon S3
5 11 (26.19%) GCP
6 9 (21.43%) Amazon EKS
7 8 (19.05%) Amazon ECS
7 8 (19.05%) Amazon SQS
8 6 (14.29%) Amazon MSK
9 5 (11.90%) Azure DevOps
10 4 (9.52%) Amazon CloudWatch
10 4 (9.52%) Cloud Computing
10 4 (9.52%) Datadog
11 3 (7.14%) Azure AKS
12 2 (4.76%) GitHub
13 1 (2.38%) Entra ID
Communications & Networking
1 4 (9.52%) Network Security
Database & Business Intelligence
1 12 (28.57%) Amazon RDS
2 8 (19.05%) Amazon Redshift
2 8 (19.05%) PostgreSQL
3 4 (9.52%) DynamoDB
3 4 (9.52%) NoSQL
4 3 (7.14%) MongoDB
5 1 (2.38%) Azure SQL Database
5 1 (2.38%) MariaDB
5 1 (2.38%) MySQL
5 1 (2.38%) Redis
Development Applications
1 17 (40.48%) Jenkins
2 10 (23.81%) GitLab
3 8 (19.05%) Artifactory
4 6 (14.29%) SonarQube
4 6 (14.29%) Sonatype Nexus
5 4 (9.52%) CircleCI
6 3 (7.14%) Liquibase
7 2 (4.76%) NUnit
8 1 (2.38%) Octopus Deploy
General
1 24 (57.14%) Finance
2 13 (30.95%) Social Skills
3 10 (23.81%) Banking
4 8 (19.05%) Front Office
5 4 (9.52%) Analytical Skills
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 13 (30.95%) Kafka
2 8 (19.05%) J2EE
3 6 (14.29%) REST
4 4 (9.52%) Azure Blueprints
4 4 (9.52%) gRPC
4 4 (9.52%) RabbitMQ
4 4 (9.52%) RESTful
4 4 (9.52%) web3js
5 2 (4.76%) .NET
5 2 (4.76%) .NET Core
5 2 (4.76%) Node.js
5 2 (4.76%) React
5 2 (4.76%) Ruby on Rails
6 1 (2.38%) Elastic Stack
6 1 (2.38%) SAML
Miscellaneous
1 8 (19.05%) Cloud Native
1 8 (19.05%) Tandem
2 4 (9.52%) Blockchain
2 4 (9.52%) Security Posture
2 4 (9.52%) Web3
3 1 (2.38%) Private Cloud
Operating Systems
1 4 (9.52%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 39 (92.86%) DevOps
2 32 (76.19%) CI/CD
3 23 (54.76%) Containerisation
4 17 (40.48%) Infrastructure as Code
5 16 (38.10%) Open Source
6 15 (35.71%) Site Reliability Engineering
7 14 (33.33%) Software Engineering
8 12 (28.57%) Agile
9 10 (23.81%) Event-Driven
10 8 (19.05%) Asset Management
10 8 (19.05%) Decision-Making
10 8 (19.05%) Deployment Automation
10 8 (19.05%) Financial Modelling
10 8 (19.05%) High Availability
10 8 (19.05%) Problem-Solving
10 8 (19.05%) Risk Management
11 7 (16.67%) Continuous Integration
11 7 (16.67%) Platform Engineering
12 6 (14.29%) Machine Learning
13 5 (11.90%) Identity Access Management
Programming Languages
1 25 (59.52%) Python
2 18 (42.86%) Go
3 11 (26.19%) Java
4 6 (14.29%) Bash
5 5 (11.90%) PowerShell
6 2 (4.76%) C#
6 2 (4.76%) Ruby
7 1 (2.38%) SQL
Qualifications
1 3 (7.14%) SC Cleared
1 3 (7.14%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 6 (14.29%) GDPR
2 4 (9.52%) NIST
2 4 (9.52%) PCI DSS
2 4 (9.52%) Sarbanes-Oxley
3 2 (4.76%) MiFID
System Software
1 33 (78.57%) Docker
2 6 (14.29%) Virtual Machines
3 1 (2.38%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 42 (100.00%) Kubernetes
2 36 (85.71%) Terraform
3 7 (16.67%) Ansible
4 6 (14.29%) Istio
5 4 (9.52%) CASB
5 4 (9.52%) Prometheus
6 1 (2.38%) Active Directory Federation Services
Vendors
1 6 (14.29%) Confluent
2 5 (11.90%) Google
3 1 (2.38%) Microsoft
17 Kubernetes Engineer jobs in England