Kubernetes Jobs in London

Kubernetes (k8s)
England > London

The table below provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in London 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 7 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
7 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 33 40 21
Rank change year-on-year +7 -19 -3
Permanent jobs citing Kubernetes 993 1,284 3,523
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in London 7.67% 5.43% 10.03%
As % of the Systems Management category 50.13% 39.93% 57.02%
Number of salaries quoted 719 1,084 2,265
10th Percentile £60,000 £60,000 £56,250
25th Percentile £76,250 £72,500 £68,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £95,000 £87,500 £85,000
Median % change year-on-year +8.57% +2.94% -
75th Percentile £115,000 £110,000 £106,250
90th Percentile £138,750 £122,500 £135,000
England median annual salary £85,000 £77,500 £77,500
% change year-on-year +9.68% - -

All Systems Management Skills
London

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 London.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for systems management skills 1,981 3,216 6,178
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in London 15.29% 13.60% 17.58%
Number of salaries quoted 1,508 2,508 4,178
10th Percentile £42,500 £45,000 £46,250
25th Percentile £60,000 £60,000 £58,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £80,000 £80,000 £79,632
Median % change year-on-year - +0.46% -0.46%
75th Percentile £102,500 £97,500 £98,750
90th Percentile £121,250 £115,000 £117,500
England median annual salary £69,384 £61,103 £67,500
% change year-on-year +13.55% -9.48% -3.57%

Kubernetes
Job Vacancy Trend in London

Job postings citing Kubernetes as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in London.

Job vacancy trend for Kubernetes in London

Kubernetes
Salary Trend in London

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

Salary trend for Kubernetes in London

Kubernetes
Salary Histogram in London

Salary distribution for jobs citing Kubernetes in London over the 6 months to 7 May 2025.

Salary histogram for Kubernetes in London

Kubernetes
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 within the London region over the 6 months to 7 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
Central London -19 123 £92,500 +2.78% 86
South London +6 76 £82,500 - 9
West London +45 8 £49,000 -20.00% 18
East London -17 5 - - 12
Kubernetes
England

Kubernetes
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 94 (9.47%) Apache Airflow
2 92 (9.26%) Apache Spark
3 79 (7.96%) Apache
4 14 (1.41%) Confluence
5 13 (1.31%) JBoss
6 12 (1.21%) Red Hat Fuse
7 8 (0.81%) nginx
7 8 (0.81%) OpenStack
8 7 (0.70%) SharePoint
8 7 (0.70%) Tomcat
9 3 (0.30%) IIS
9 3 (0.30%) Mule
9 3 (0.30%) Oracle Coherence
9 3 (0.30%) Oracle SOA Suite
10 2 (0.20%) CMS
10 2 (0.20%) Jupyter
10 2 (0.20%) Microsoft Exchange
11 1 (0.10%) Camunda
11 1 (0.10%) GemFire
11 1 (0.10%) NServiceBus
Applications
1 5 (0.50%) InDesign
2 4 (0.40%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 2 (0.20%) Payment Gateway
1 2 (0.20%) Shopify
2 1 (0.10%) Endur
Cloud Services
1 595 (59.92%) AWS
2 364 (36.66%) Azure
3 232 (23.36%) Serverless
4 199 (20.04%) GCP
5 161 (16.21%) Amazon ECS
6 152 (15.31%) AWS Lambda
7 111 (11.18%) AWS CloudFormation
8 99 (9.97%) OpenShift
9 91 (9.16%) Amazon EC2
10 80 (8.06%) Amazon EKS
11 74 (7.45%) dbt
12 71 (7.15%) Azure DevOps
13 69 (6.95%) Amazon S3
14 65 (6.55%) GitHub
15 51 (5.14%) SaaS
16 44 (4.43%) Amazon SQS
17 39 (3.93%) Azure AKS
18 38 (3.83%) GitHub Actions
19 32 (3.22%) Cloud Computing
20 30 (3.02%) Pulumi
Communications & Networking
1 31 (3.12%) Firewall
2 29 (2.92%) Network Security
3 19 (1.91%) DNS
4 15 (1.51%) HTTP
5 6 (0.60%) DHCP
6 5 (0.50%) VPN
7 4 (0.40%) TCP/IP
8 3 (0.30%) Cisco ASA
8 3 (0.30%) Wireshark
9 2 (0.20%) NAS
9 2 (0.20%) SAN
9 2 (0.20%) SD-WAN
9 2 (0.20%) WAN
10 1 (0.10%) BGP
10 1 (0.10%) Multicast
10 1 (0.10%) SNMP
10 1 (0.10%) SSL
10 1 (0.10%) Structured Cabling
10 1 (0.10%) Unicast
10 1 (0.10%) Value-Added Service
Database & Business Intelligence
1 121 (12.19%) PostgreSQL
2 72 (7.25%) Amazon Athena
3 71 (7.15%) Apache Arrow
3 71 (7.15%) Apache Iceberg
3 71 (7.15%) Apache Ignite
3 71 (7.15%) Dremio
4 63 (6.34%) NoSQL
5 61 (6.14%) Relational Database
6 54 (5.44%) Amazon RDS
7 48 (4.83%) SQL Server
8 42 (4.23%) DynamoDB
8 42 (4.23%) MongoDB
9 32 (3.22%) Amazon Redshift
10 31 (3.12%) Elasticsearch
11 29 (2.92%) MySQL
12 25 (2.52%) Amazon Aurora
12 25 (2.52%) RDBMS
13 17 (1.71%) Big Data
14 14 (1.41%) Redis
15 11 (1.11%) Azure SQL Database
Development Applications
1 138 (13.90%) Jenkins
2 112 (11.28%) Git
3 89 (8.96%) Artifactory
4 86 (8.66%) GitLab
5 42 (4.23%) JUnit
6 29 (2.92%) JIRA
7 27 (2.72%) SonarQube
8 24 (2.42%) JMeter
9 23 (2.32%) Maven
10 22 (2.22%) Mockito
11 20 (2.01%) Sonatype Nexus
12 19 (1.91%) IntelliJ
12 19 (1.91%) Postman
13 17 (1.71%) CircleCI
14 14 (1.41%) Selenium
15 11 (1.11%) Bitbucket
15 11 (1.11%) PowerBuilder
16 10 (1.01%) TeamCity
17 9 (0.91%) Octopus Deploy
18 8 (0.81%) webpack
General
1 364 (36.66%) Finance
2 198 (19.94%) Social Skills
3 139 (14.00%) Front Office
4 131 (13.19%) Banking
5 59 (5.94%) Public Sector
6 53 (5.34%) Financial Institution
7 52 (5.24%) Law
8 47 (4.73%) Analytical Skills
9 42 (4.23%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 20 (2.01%) Games
11 19 (1.91%) Telecoms
12 16 (1.61%) Legal
12 16 (1.61%) Marketing
13 13 (1.31%) Manufacturing
14 11 (1.11%) Investment Banking
14 11 (1.11%) Retail
15 10 (1.01%) Back Office
15 10 (1.01%) Presentation Skills
16 8 (0.81%) iGaming
16 8 (0.81%) Publishing
Job Titles
1 244 (24.57%) Senior
2 196 (19.74%) DevOps Engineer
3 190 (19.13%) Software Engineer
4 168 (16.92%) Developer
5 144 (14.50%) Python Engineer
6 140 (14.10%) AWS Engineer
7 137 (13.80%) Lead
8 136 (13.70%) AWS DevOps
9 129 (12.99%) AWS DevOps Engineer
10 111 (11.18%) Cloud Engineer
10 111 (11.18%) Data Engineer
11 79 (7.96%) Platform Engineer
12 75 (7.55%) Java Engineer
13 74 (7.45%) Senior Software Engineer
14 66 (6.65%) Azure Engineer
15 65 (6.55%) Java Developer
16 56 (5.64%) Architect
17 42 (4.23%) Kubernetes Engineer
18 40 (4.03%) Infrastructure Engineer
19 38 (3.83%) Cloud Native Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 226 (22.76%) Kafka
2 189 (19.03%) React
3 141 (14.20%) REST
4 132 (13.29%) Spring
5 117 (11.78%) Spring Boot
6 93 (9.37%) J2EE
7 91 (9.16%) .NET
8 90 (9.06%) AngularJS
9 83 (8.36%) PySpark
10 71 (7.15%) GraphQL
10 71 (7.15%) RESTful
11 70 (7.05%) Node.js
12 50 (5.04%) Elastic Stack
13 43 (4.33%) Web Services
14 39 (3.93%) HTML
15 36 (3.63%) ARM Templates
16 35 (3.52%) Flask
17 33 (3.32%) Pandas
18 29 (2.92%) Apache Camel
19 28 (2.82%) FastAPI
Miscellaneous
1 123 (12.39%) Cloud Native
2 111 (11.18%) Distributed Systems
3 50 (5.04%) Public Cloud
4 47 (4.73%) Management Information System
5 38 (3.83%) Legacy Code
6 35 (3.52%) Product Ownership
7 18 (1.81%) Security Posture
8 17 (1.71%) Data Structures
9 16 (1.61%) Data Centre
10 14 (1.41%) Mobile Games
11 13 (1.31%) Distributed Computing
11 13 (1.31%) Reinsurance
12 12 (1.21%) Clustering
12 12 (1.21%) Cyberattack
12 12 (1.21%) Legacy Systems
13 11 (1.11%) Greenfield Project
14 10 (1.01%) Data Protection Act
14 10 (1.01%) Hedge funds
15 9 (0.91%) Algorithms
15 9 (0.91%) Blockchain
Operating Systems
1 156 (15.71%) Linux
2 58 (5.84%) Windows
3 26 (2.62%) Windows Server
4 17 (1.71%) Android
5 16 (1.61%) Unix
6 8 (0.81%) VMS
7 7 (0.70%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
8 5 (0.50%) Windows Server 2016
9 4 (0.40%) Apple iOS
9 4 (0.40%) CentOS
10 2 (0.20%) Ubuntu
10 2 (0.20%) Windows Server 2019
11 1 (0.10%) Fedora
11 1 (0.10%) Mac OS
11 1 (0.10%) Rocky
Processes & Methodologies
1 554 (55.79%) CI/CD
2 486 (48.94%) DevOps
3 389 (39.17%) Agile
4 380 (38.27%) Software Engineering
5 342 (34.44%) Containerisation
6 258 (25.98%) Microservices
7 246 (24.77%) Infrastructure as Code
8 176 (17.72%) Problem-Solving
9 163 (16.41%) Site Reliability Engineering
10 123 (12.39%) Mentoring
11 120 (12.08%) Asset Management
12 118 (11.88%) TDD
13 113 (11.38%) Fintech
13 113 (11.38%) Full-Stack Development
14 110 (11.08%) Platform Engineering
15 104 (10.47%) Open Source
16 100 (10.07%) Computer Science
17 99 (9.97%) Data Engineering
18 93 (9.37%) Analytics
19 81 (8.16%) Event-Driven
Programming Languages
1 480 (48.34%) Python
2 385 (38.77%) Java
3 197 (19.84%) Go
4 162 (16.31%) SQL
5 146 (14.70%) JavaScript
6 112 (11.28%) TypeScript
7 102 (10.27%) Rust
8 89 (8.96%) Bash
9 82 (8.26%) PowerShell
10 81 (8.16%) C#
11 65 (6.55%) C++
12 44 (4.43%) C
13 37 (3.73%) Bicep
14 29 (2.92%) Scala
15 27 (2.72%) Shell Script
16 21 (2.11%) Ruby
17 9 (0.91%) Kotlin
18 8 (0.81%) Groovy
19 5 (0.50%) Kusto Query Language
20 4 (0.40%) PHP
Qualifications
1 129 (12.99%) Degree
2 96 (9.67%) Security Cleared
3 75 (7.55%) SC Cleared
4 61 (6.14%) Computer Science Degree
5 51 (5.14%) AWS Certification
5 51 (5.14%) Master's Degree
6 35 (3.52%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
7 29 (2.92%) Azure Certification
7 29 (2.92%) PhD
8 20 (2.01%) DV Cleared
9 8 (0.81%) ISTQB
10 6 (0.60%) Microsoft Certification
11 5 (0.50%) TOGAF Certification
12 4 (0.40%) (ISC)2 CCSP
12 4 (0.40%) Cisco Certification
13 3 (0.30%) CCSP
13 3 (0.30%) CISSP
13 3 (0.30%) GIAC
13 3 (0.30%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
14 2 (0.20%) BPSS Clearance
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 43 (4.33%) GDPR
2 36 (3.63%) QA
3 28 (2.82%) HIPAA
4 17 (1.71%) SLA
5 14 (1.41%) NIST
6 13 (1.31%) PCI DSS
6 13 (1.31%) Sarbanes-Oxley
7 12 (1.21%) ISO/IEC 27001
8 11 (1.11%) Data Quality
9 10 (1.01%) SOC 2
10 8 (0.81%) Accessibility
11 3 (0.30%) Cyber Essentials
12 2 (0.20%) MiFID
12 2 (0.20%) NCSC
13 1 (0.10%) EU AI Act
System Software
1 674 (67.88%) Docker
2 27 (2.72%) Active Directory
3 24 (2.42%) Virtual Machines
4 21 (2.11%) VMware Infrastructure
5 12 (1.21%) Hyper-V
6 5 (0.50%) VMware ESXi
6 5 (0.50%) vSphere
7 2 (0.20%) KVM
8 1 (0.10%) Apache ZooKeeper
8 1 (0.10%) Virtual Desktop
8 1 (0.10%) Xen
Systems Management
1 446 (44.91%) Terraform
2 163 (16.41%) Ansible
3 75 (7.55%) Prometheus
4 65 (6.55%) Grafana
5 40 (4.03%) Progress Chef
6 33 (3.32%) Puppet
7 24 (2.42%) Argo
8 23 (2.32%) Kibana
9 22 (2.22%) Istio
10 21 (2.11%) Podman
11 19 (1.91%) Microsoft Intune
12 16 (1.61%) SCCM
13 10 (1.01%) Packer
14 9 (0.91%) CASB
15 8 (0.81%) Failover Clustering
16 7 (0.70%) Kustomize
17 6 (0.60%) Nagios
18 5 (0.50%) Active Directory Federation Services
18 5 (0.50%) Consul
19 4 (0.40%) linkerd
Vendors
1 91 (9.16%) Google
2 60 (6.04%) Microsoft
3 36 (3.63%) Databricks
4 35 (3.52%) Splunk
5 33 (3.32%) VMware
6 24 (2.42%) Dynatrace
7 18 (1.81%) Red Hat
8 17 (1.71%) Oracle
9 16 (1.61%) Palo Alto
10 14 (1.41%) Cisco
11 11 (1.11%) Citrix
11 11 (1.11%) Trayport
12 9 (0.91%) New Relic
13 7 (0.70%) Atlassian
13 7 (0.70%) SAP
14 6 (0.60%) Confluent
14 6 (0.60%) Hitachi
15 5 (0.50%) Adobe
15 5 (0.50%) NetApp
16 4 (0.40%) Rapid7