Kubernetes Job Trends in London

Kubernetes (k8s)
England > London

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in London requiring Kubernetes skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 13 July 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
13 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 59 32 44
Rank change year-on-year -27 +12 -17
Permanent jobs citing Kubernetes 753 994 1,236
As % of all permanent jobs in London 3.38% 7.91% 5.33%
As % of the Systems Management category 38.34% 49.01% 41.12%
Number of salaries quoted 459 618 969
10th Percentile £57,500 £60,000 £61,250
25th Percentile £72,500 £75,000 £72,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £90,000 £90,000 £90,000
Median % change year-on-year - - +5.88%
75th Percentile £105,000 £115,000 £110,000
90th Percentile £125,000 £130,000 £122,500
England median annual salary £70,000 £80,000 £77,500
% change year-on-year -12.50% +3.23% -

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 1,964 2,028 3,006
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in London 8.82% 16.14% 12.97%
Number of salaries quoted 1,323 1,429 2,264
10th Percentile £42,500 £41,250 £41,500
25th Percentile £60,000 £57,500 £60,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £77,500 £80,000 £80,000
Median % change year-on-year -3.13% - +6.67%
75th Percentile £95,000 £100,000 £97,500
90th Percentile £115,000 £115,000 £117,500
England median annual salary £65,000 £67,037 £62,500
% change year-on-year -3.04% +7.26% -7.41%

Kubernetes
Job Vacancy Trend in London

Historical trend showing the proportion of permanent IT job postings citing Kubernetes relative to all permanent IT jobs advertised in London.

Kubernetes job vacancy trend in London

Kubernetes
Salary Trend in London

Salary distribution trend for jobs in London citing Kubernetes.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in London citing Kubernetes

Kubernetes
Salary Histogram in London

Salary distribution for jobs citing Kubernetes in London over the 6 months to 13 July 2026.

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 13 July 2026. 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 -6 118 £90,000 +5.88% 63
West London -2 16 £50,000 +2.04% 64
South London -31 7 £105,000 +27.27% 6
East London -6 1 - - 10
Kubernetes
England

Kubernetes
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in London by Category

The following tables expand on the one above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. They cover the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each category:

Application Platforms
1 23 (3.05%) Apache Spark
2 20 (2.66%) Apache Airflow
3 12 (1.59%) Apache
4 9 (1.20%) Confluence
5 4 (0.53%) Microsoft Exchange
6 3 (0.40%) Appian
6 3 (0.40%) Camunda
7 2 (0.27%) OpenStack
8 1 (0.13%) Cloud Foundry
8 1 (0.13%) Ethereum
8 1 (0.13%) GeoServer
8 1 (0.13%) Hyperledger
8 1 (0.13%) JBoss
8 1 (0.13%) Oracle Coherence
8 1 (0.13%) Red Hat Fuse
Applications
1 8 (1.06%) Microsoft Excel
2 6 (0.80%) PlantUML
3 4 (0.53%) Chatbot
3 4 (0.53%) Weka
4 1 (0.13%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Business Applications
1 3 (0.40%) Distributed Ledger
1 3 (0.40%) SAP S/4HANA
2 1 (0.13%) R3 Corda
Cloud Services
1 438 (58.17%) AWS
2 330 (43.82%) Azure
3 241 (32.01%) GCP
4 104 (13.81%) Amazon EKS
5 102 (13.55%) Serverless
6 95 (12.62%) GitHub
7 85 (11.29%) AWS CloudFormation
8 60 (7.97%) OpenShift
8 60 (7.97%) SaaS
9 55 (7.30%) Azure AKS
10 52 (6.91%) GitHub Actions
11 45 (5.98%) Amazon S3
11 45 (5.98%) Azure DevOps
12 41 (5.44%) AWS Lambda
13 40 (5.31%) Datadog
14 36 (4.78%) Amazon CloudWatch
14 36 (4.78%) Entra ID
15 34 (4.52%) Amazon EC2
16 29 (3.85%) Amazon ECS
17 27 (3.59%) Pulumi
Communications & Networking
1 38 (5.05%) DNS
1 38 (5.05%) Firewall
1 38 (5.05%) Network Security
2 26 (3.45%) VPN
3 24 (3.19%) TCP/IP
4 17 (2.26%) BGP
5 16 (2.12%) OSPF
6 15 (1.99%) Broadband
6 15 (1.99%) VXLAN
7 14 (1.86%) VLAN
7 14 (1.86%) WAN
8 13 (1.73%) DHCP
9 10 (1.33%) DSL
10 8 (1.06%) HTTPS
10 8 (1.06%) Software-Defined Networking
11 5 (0.66%) LAN
12 4 (0.53%) IPv4
13 3 (0.40%) 3GPP
13 3 (0.40%) SS7
13 3 (0.40%) UMTS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 58 (7.70%) PostgreSQL
2 55 (7.30%) NoSQL
3 53 (7.04%) MongoDB
4 48 (6.37%) Relational Database
5 33 (4.38%) Amazon RDS
6 25 (3.32%) MySQL
7 22 (2.92%) Azure SQL Database
8 21 (2.79%) Elasticsearch
9 18 (2.39%) DynamoDB
9 18 (2.39%) SQL Server
10 16 (2.12%) Pinecone
11 15 (1.99%) Data Warehouse
11 15 (1.99%) RDBMS
11 15 (1.99%) Redis
12 11 (1.46%) BigQuery
12 11 (1.46%) Power BI
13 8 (1.06%) Delta Lake
14 7 (0.93%) Data Lake
15 6 (0.80%) Hadoop
15 6 (0.80%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 120 (15.94%) Jenkins
2 98 (13.01%) Git
3 92 (12.22%) GitLab
4 69 (9.16%) TeamCity
5 27 (3.59%) CircleCI
6 24 (3.19%) Bitbucket
7 14 (1.86%) MLflow
8 12 (1.59%) Atlassian Bamboo
8 12 (1.59%) JIRA
9 10 (1.33%) Claude Code
10 9 (1.20%) Jaeger
10 9 (1.20%) Maven
10 9 (1.20%) Visual Studio Code
10 9 (1.20%) Vite
11 8 (1.06%) JUnit
12 7 (0.93%) JMeter
13 6 (0.80%) Selenium
14 5 (0.66%) Cucumber
14 5 (0.66%) SonarQube
15 4 (0.53%) Metasploit
General
1 249 (33.07%) Finance
2 187 (24.83%) Social Skills
3 153 (20.32%) Banking
4 93 (12.35%) Retail
5 84 (11.16%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 76 (10.09%) Law
7 40 (5.31%) Public Sector
8 34 (4.52%) Financial Institution
9 32 (4.25%) Back Office
10 28 (3.72%) Analytical Skills
11 18 (2.39%) Telecoms
12 17 (2.26%) Legal
13 14 (1.86%) Front Office
14 13 (1.73%) Aerospace
15 10 (1.33%) Billing
16 9 (1.20%) Advertising
16 9 (1.20%) Investment Banking
17 7 (0.93%) Influencing Skills
17 7 (0.93%) Organisational Skills
18 5 (0.66%) Marketing
Job Titles
1 239 (31.74%) Senior
2 100 (13.28%) Lead
3 97 (12.88%) Developer
4 92 (12.22%) Software Engineer
5 84 (11.16%) Cloud Engineer
6 78 (10.36%) DevOps Engineer
7 67 (8.90%) Architect
8 59 (7.84%) Platform Engineer
9 50 (6.64%) Java Engineer
10 43 (5.71%) AWS Engineer
11 40 (5.31%) Azure Engineer
12 35 (4.65%) Infrastructure Engineer
13 34 (4.52%) Senior Developer
13 34 (4.52%) Senior Software Engineer
14 33 (4.38%) Java Developer
15 31 (4.12%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
16 27 (3.59%) Kubernetes Engineer
16 27 (3.59%) Senior Cloud Engineer
17 26 (3.45%) Senior Java Engineer
18 25 (3.32%) Security Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 119 (15.80%) Kafka
2 67 (8.90%) Spring
3 64 (8.50%) React
4 61 (8.10%) Spring Boot
5 57 (7.57%) .NET
6 52 (6.91%) REST
7 41 (5.44%) RESTful
8 37 (4.91%) Node.js
9 34 (4.52%) RabbitMQ
10 32 (4.25%) LangChain
11 31 (4.12%) FastAPI
12 29 (3.85%) AngularJS
13 28 (3.72%) Elastic Stack
14 22 (2.92%) LangGraph
15 19 (2.52%) gRPC
15 19 (2.52%) OAuth
16 18 (2.39%) AWS CDK
16 18 (2.39%) web3js
17 16 (2.12%) ASP.NET Core
17 16 (2.12%) OpenTelemetry
Miscellaneous
1 250 (33.20%) Cloud Native
2 67 (8.90%) Distributed Systems
3 48 (6.37%) Data Centre
4 35 (4.65%) Product Ownership
5 29 (3.85%) AI Agents
6 25 (3.32%) PKI
7 24 (3.19%) Blockchain
7 24 (3.19%) Blog
8 18 (2.39%) Hybrid Cloud
8 18 (2.39%) Onboarding
8 18 (2.39%) Web3
9 17 (2.26%) Public Cloud
10 16 (2.12%) Private Cloud
11 14 (1.86%) Management Information System
12 12 (1.59%) Legacy Systems
13 11 (1.46%) Data Protection Act
13 11 (1.46%) Security Posture
14 9 (1.20%) Enterprise Software
15 8 (1.06%) Cyber Threat
15 8 (1.06%) Enterprise Cloud
Operating Systems
1 141 (18.73%) Linux
2 67 (8.90%) Windows
3 29 (3.85%) Windows Server
4 21 (2.79%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 19 (2.52%) Unix
6 16 (2.12%) Ubuntu
7 15 (1.99%) CentOS
8 6 (0.80%) Android
8 6 (0.80%) Apple iOS
9 4 (0.53%) Kali Linux
9 4 (0.53%) VMS
10 3 (0.40%) Windows Server 2016
11 2 (0.27%) Amazon Linux
12 1 (0.13%) Mac OS
12 1 (0.13%) Rocky
Processes & Methodologies
1 428 (56.84%) CI/CD
2 330 (43.82%) Infrastructure as Code
3 321 (42.63%) DevOps
4 285 (37.85%) Containerisation
5 237 (31.47%) Microservices
6 223 (29.61%) Software Engineering
7 181 (24.04%) Agile
8 174 (23.11%) AI
8 174 (23.11%) Mentoring
9 139 (18.46%) Test Automation
10 137 (18.19%) Observability
11 117 (15.54%) Platform Engineering
12 103 (13.68%) Problem-Solving
13 102 (13.55%) Fintech
14 94 (12.48%) Continuous Improvement
15 82 (10.89%) Clean Code
16 80 (10.62%) Full-Stack Development
17 78 (10.36%) Event-Driven
18 77 (10.23%) Deployment Automation
18 77 (10.23%) Roadmaps
Programming Languages
1 309 (41.04%) Python
2 221 (29.35%) Java
3 108 (14.34%) SQL
4 100 (13.28%) Go
5 88 (11.69%) JavaScript
6 81 (10.76%) Bash
7 71 (9.43%) TypeScript
8 66 (8.76%) PowerShell
9 62 (8.23%) C#
10 17 (2.26%) Rust
11 14 (1.86%) C++
12 11 (1.46%) Bicep
13 10 (1.33%) Kotlin
14 7 (0.93%) Scala
15 6 (0.80%) Google Apps Script
15 6 (0.80%) VBA
16 3 (0.40%) PHP
16 3 (0.40%) Ruby
16 3 (0.40%) Shell Script
16 3 (0.40%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 106 (14.08%) Security Cleared
2 67 (8.90%) Degree
3 60 (7.97%) SC Cleared
4 40 (5.31%) Azure Certification
5 37 (4.91%) AWS Certification
6 31 (4.12%) DV Cleared
7 27 (3.59%) Computer Science Degree
8 24 (3.19%) OSCP
9 19 (2.52%) CISSP
10 17 (2.26%) Cisco Certification
11 10 (1.33%) CCNP
12 9 (1.20%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
12 9 (1.20%) Microsoft Certification
13 7 (0.93%) CompTIA Security+
13 7 (0.93%) GIAC
14 6 (0.80%) AWS Certified Developer
14 6 (0.80%) CREST Certified
15 5 (0.66%) ISTQB
15 5 (0.66%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
15 5 (0.66%) SANS
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 38 (5.05%) QA
2 31 (4.12%) Data Quality
3 25 (3.32%) SOC 2
4 23 (3.05%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 21 (2.79%) GDPR
6 14 (1.86%) PCI DSS
7 13 (1.73%) GRC
8 9 (1.20%) NIST
9 5 (0.66%) Accessibility
9 5 (0.66%) Sarbanes-Oxley
10 4 (0.53%) WCAG
11 2 (0.27%) COBIT
11 2 (0.27%) HIPAA
11 2 (0.27%) MiFID
11 2 (0.27%) NCSC
11 2 (0.27%) PSD2
11 2 (0.27%) SEPA
12 1 (0.13%) Cyber Essentials
12 1 (0.13%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
12 1 (0.13%) ISO/IEC 42001
System Software
1 368 (48.87%) Docker
2 42 (5.58%) Active Directory
3 27 (3.59%) VMware Infrastructure
4 16 (2.12%) Virtual Machines
5 9 (1.20%) VMware NSX
5 9 (1.20%) vSphere
6 7 (0.93%) KVM
7 5 (0.66%) Virtual Servers
8 4 (0.53%) Squid
9 1 (0.13%) Hyper-V
9 1 (0.13%) VMware ESXi
Systems Management
1 392 (52.06%) Terraform
2 130 (17.26%) Grafana
3 125 (16.60%) Ansible
4 94 (12.48%) Prometheus
5 37 (4.91%) Argo
6 18 (2.39%) Istio
7 16 (2.12%) Cilium
7 16 (2.12%) Puppet
8 14 (1.86%) Microsoft Intune
9 13 (1.73%) Progress Chef
10 10 (1.33%) Nagios
10 10 (1.33%) Packer
11 9 (1.20%) ZABBIX
12 8 (1.06%) FortiGate
13 7 (0.93%) Active Directory Federation Services
14 6 (0.80%) Kibana
14 6 (0.80%) Kustomize
15 5 (0.66%) Docker Swarm
16 4 (0.53%) Mesos
16 4 (0.53%) Rancher
Vendors
1 102 (13.55%) Microsoft
2 57 (7.57%) Google
3 49 (6.51%) VMware
4 33 (4.38%) Splunk
5 30 (3.98%) OpenAI
6 23 (3.05%) Red Hat
7 21 (2.79%) Palo Alto
8 17 (2.26%) Databricks
8 17 (2.26%) ServiceNow
9 16 (2.12%) Oracle
10 15 (1.99%) Fortinet
10 15 (1.99%) Zscaler
11 10 (1.33%) Okta
12 9 (1.20%) Confluent
12 9 (1.20%) Dynatrace
13 8 (1.06%) Cisco
14 7 (0.93%) NVIDIA
15 6 (0.80%) EMC
15 6 (0.80%) F5
15 6 (0.80%) OneLogin