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 13 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
13 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 30 40 21
Rank change year-on-year +10 -19 -4
Permanent jobs citing Kubernetes 1,015 1,280 3,423
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in London 7.81% 5.41% 9.96%
As % of the Systems Management category 51.06% 40.16% 56.70%
Number of salaries quoted 692 1,076 2,232
10th Percentile £60,000 £60,000 £56,250
25th Percentile £75,000 £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 £107,500
90th Percentile £137,500 £122,500 £135,693
England median annual salary £82,500 £77,500 £77,500
% change year-on-year +6.45% - -

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 1,988 3,187 6,037
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in London 15.29% 13.47% 17.56%
Number of salaries quoted 1,468 2,477 4,131
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 £77,500
Median % change year-on-year - +3.23% -3.13%
75th Percentile £102,500 £97,500 £97,500
90th Percentile £120,000 £115,000 £117,500
England median annual salary £67,500 £61,600 £67,500
% change year-on-year +9.58% -8.74% -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 13 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 13 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 -14 129 £93,750 +4.17% 86
South London +1 86 £82,500 - 13
West London +43 22 £49,000 -20.00% 22
East London -17 13 - - 13
North London +4 7 - - 1
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 88 (8.67%) Apache Airflow
2 83 (8.18%) Apache Spark
3 75 (7.39%) Apache
4 14 (1.38%) Confluence
4 14 (1.38%) JBoss
5 13 (1.28%) Red Hat Fuse
6 9 (0.89%) nginx
7 8 (0.79%) OpenStack
8 7 (0.69%) SharePoint
8 7 (0.69%) 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 (0.099%) Camunda
11 1 (0.099%) Drupal
11 1 (0.099%) WebSphere
Applications
1 5 (0.49%) InDesign
2 3 (0.30%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 2 (0.20%) Payment Gateway
1 2 (0.20%) Shopify
2 1 (0.099%) Endur
Cloud Services
1 635 (62.56%) AWS
2 354 (34.88%) Azure
3 215 (21.18%) Serverless
4 195 (19.21%) GCP
5 147 (14.48%) Amazon ECS
6 139 (13.69%) AWS Lambda
7 104 (10.25%) AWS CloudFormation
8 95 (9.36%) OpenShift
8 95 (9.36%) Pulumi
9 80 (7.88%) Amazon EC2
10 79 (7.78%) Amazon EKS
11 72 (7.09%) dbt
12 69 (6.80%) Azure DevOps
13 61 (6.01%) GitHub
14 60 (5.91%) Amazon S3
15 50 (4.93%) SaaS
16 39 (3.84%) Azure AKS
17 36 (3.55%) Amazon SQS
17 36 (3.55%) GitHub Actions
18 32 (3.15%) Cloud Computing
Communications & Networking
1 67 (6.60%) Broadband
2 32 (3.15%) Firewall
3 29 (2.86%) Network Security
4 20 (1.97%) DNS
5 14 (1.38%) HTTP
6 6 (0.59%) DHCP
7 5 (0.49%) VPN
8 4 (0.39%) TCP/IP
9 3 (0.30%) Cisco ASA
9 3 (0.30%) Wireshark
10 2 (0.20%) NAS
10 2 (0.20%) SAN
10 2 (0.20%) SD-WAN
10 2 (0.20%) WAN
11 1 (0.099%) BGP
11 1 (0.099%) F5 BIG-IP LTM
11 1 (0.099%) Multicast
11 1 (0.099%) Structured Cabling
11 1 (0.099%) Unicast
11 1 (0.099%) Value-Added Service
Database & Business Intelligence
1 127 (12.51%) NoSQL
2 124 (12.22%) Relational Database
3 116 (11.43%) PostgreSQL
4 89 (8.77%) RDBMS
5 68 (6.70%) Amazon Athena
6 67 (6.60%) Apache Arrow
6 67 (6.60%) Apache Iceberg
6 67 (6.60%) Apache Ignite
6 67 (6.60%) Dremio
7 46 (4.53%) Amazon RDS
8 45 (4.43%) SQL Server
9 40 (3.94%) MongoDB
10 30 (2.96%) Elasticsearch
11 27 (2.66%) DynamoDB
12 26 (2.56%) MySQL
13 24 (2.36%) Amazon Redshift
14 15 (1.48%) Big Data
14 15 (1.48%) Redis
15 11 (1.08%) Amazon Aurora
15 11 (1.08%) Azure SQL Database
Development Applications
1 133 (13.10%) Jenkins
2 111 (10.94%) Git
3 86 (8.47%) GitLab
4 83 (8.18%) Artifactory
5 68 (6.70%) Jaeger
6 40 (3.94%) JUnit
7 30 (2.96%) JIRA
8 27 (2.66%) SonarQube
9 21 (2.07%) JMeter
9 21 (2.07%) Maven
10 20 (1.97%) IntelliJ
10 20 (1.97%) Sonatype Nexus
11 19 (1.87%) Mockito
12 18 (1.77%) Postman
13 17 (1.67%) CircleCI
14 13 (1.28%) Selenium
15 11 (1.08%) Bitbucket
15 11 (1.08%) PowerBuilder
16 10 (0.99%) TeamCity
17 9 (0.89%) Octopus Deploy
General
1 337 (33.20%) Finance
2 196 (19.31%) Social Skills
3 128 (12.61%) Front Office
4 109 (10.74%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 104 (10.25%) Banking
6 57 (5.62%) Public Sector
7 48 (4.73%) Analytical Skills
8 39 (3.84%) Financial Institution
9 37 (3.65%) Law
10 19 (1.87%) Telecoms
11 17 (1.67%) Games
12 16 (1.58%) Marketing
13 13 (1.28%) Manufacturing
14 11 (1.08%) Back Office
14 11 (1.08%) Investment Banking
14 11 (1.08%) Legal
14 11 (1.08%) Retail
15 10 (0.99%) Presentation Skills
16 7 (0.69%) Electronics
16 7 (0.69%) Retail Banking
Job Titles
1 234 (23.05%) Senior
2 198 (19.51%) Lead
3 183 (18.03%) DevOps Engineer
4 168 (16.55%) Software Engineer
5 162 (15.96%) Developer
6 132 (13.00%) Python Engineer
7 129 (12.71%) AWS Engineer
8 125 (12.32%) AWS DevOps
9 118 (11.63%) AWS DevOps Engineer
10 108 (10.64%) Cloud Engineer
11 103 (10.15%) Data Engineer
12 78 (7.68%) Platform Engineer
13 76 (7.49%) Java Engineer
14 72 (7.09%) Team Leader
15 71 (7.00%) Senior Software Engineer
16 65 (6.40%) Azure Engineer
17 62 (6.11%) Java Developer
18 55 (5.42%) Architect
19 40 (3.94%) Infrastructure Engineer
20 39 (3.84%) Kubernetes Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 215 (21.18%) Kafka
2 172 (16.95%) React
3 138 (13.60%) REST
4 116 (11.43%) Elastic Stack
5 112 (11.03%) Spring
6 99 (9.75%) Spring Boot
7 89 (8.77%) .NET
8 88 (8.67%) J2EE
9 79 (7.78%) PySpark
10 76 (7.49%) AngularJS
11 74 (7.29%) OpenTelemetry
12 72 (7.09%) RESTful
13 69 (6.80%) GraphQL
14 54 (5.32%) Node.js
15 41 (4.04%) Web Services
16 36 (3.55%) ARM Templates
17 33 (3.25%) HTML
17 33 (3.25%) Pandas
18 32 (3.15%) Flask
19 30 (2.96%) SOAP
Miscellaneous
1 116 (11.43%) Cloud Native
2 104 (10.25%) Distributed Systems
3 48 (4.73%) Public Cloud
4 47 (4.63%) Management Information System
5 35 (3.45%) Legacy Code
6 33 (3.25%) Product Ownership
7 18 (1.77%) Security Posture
8 16 (1.58%) Data Centre
9 15 (1.48%) Data Structures
10 13 (1.28%) Distributed Computing
10 13 (1.28%) Reinsurance
11 12 (1.18%) Clustering
11 12 (1.18%) Cyberattack
12 11 (1.08%) Hedge funds
12 11 (1.08%) Legacy Systems
12 11 (1.08%) Mobile Games
13 10 (0.99%) Blockchain
13 10 (0.99%) Data Protection Act
14 9 (0.89%) Algorithms
14 9 (0.89%) Greenfield Project
Operating Systems
1 218 (21.48%) Linux
2 81 (7.98%) Unix
3 57 (5.62%) Windows
4 26 (2.56%) Windows Server
5 17 (1.67%) Android
6 8 (0.79%) VMS
7 7 (0.69%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
8 5 (0.49%) Windows Server 2016
9 4 (0.39%) Apple iOS
9 4 (0.39%) CentOS
10 2 (0.20%) Ubuntu
10 2 (0.20%) Windows Server 2019
11 1 (0.099%) Fedora
11 1 (0.099%) Mac OS
11 1 (0.099%) Rocky
Processes & Methodologies
1 535 (52.71%) DevOps
2 530 (52.22%) CI/CD
3 419 (41.28%) Agile
4 401 (39.51%) Containerisation
5 345 (33.99%) Software Engineering
6 312 (30.74%) Infrastructure as Code
7 247 (24.33%) Microservices
8 174 (17.14%) Mentoring
8 174 (17.14%) Problem-Solving
9 149 (14.68%) Site Reliability Engineering
10 134 (13.20%) High Availability
11 121 (11.92%) Roadmaps
12 117 (11.53%) Continuous Integration
13 110 (10.84%) TDD
14 109 (10.74%) Platform Engineering
15 108 (10.64%) Asset Management
16 106 (10.44%) Full-Stack Development
17 105 (10.34%) Fintech
18 99 (9.75%) Cost Optimisation
19 98 (9.66%) Performance Optimisation
Programming Languages
1 523 (51.53%) Python
2 421 (41.48%) Java
3 252 (24.83%) Go
4 203 (20.00%) JavaScript
5 156 (15.37%) SQL
6 155 (15.27%) Bash
7 112 (11.03%) TypeScript
8 97 (9.56%) Rust
9 82 (8.08%) PowerShell
10 80 (7.88%) C#
11 62 (6.11%) C++
12 40 (3.94%) C
13 35 (3.45%) Bicep
14 28 (2.76%) Scala
15 25 (2.46%) Shell Script
16 19 (1.87%) Ruby
17 9 (0.89%) Kotlin
18 6 (0.59%) Groovy
19 5 (0.49%) Kusto Query Language
19 5 (0.49%) PHP
Qualifications
1 127 (12.51%) Degree
2 116 (11.43%) AWS Certification
3 95 (9.36%) Security Cleared
4 73 (7.19%) SC Cleared
5 59 (5.81%) Computer Science Degree
6 50 (4.93%) Master's Degree
7 33 (3.25%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
8 29 (2.86%) Azure Certification
8 29 (2.86%) PhD
9 20 (1.97%) DV Cleared
10 8 (0.79%) ISTQB
11 6 (0.59%) Microsoft Certification
12 5 (0.49%) Cisco Certification
12 5 (0.49%) TOGAF Certification
13 4 (0.39%) (ISC)2 CCSP
14 3 (0.30%) CCSP
14 3 (0.30%) CISSP
14 3 (0.30%) GIAC
14 3 (0.30%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
15 2 (0.20%) BPSS Clearance
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 42 (4.14%) GDPR
2 34 (3.35%) QA
3 27 (2.66%) HIPAA
4 18 (1.77%) SLA
5 14 (1.38%) NIST
6 13 (1.28%) PCI DSS
6 13 (1.28%) Sarbanes-Oxley
7 12 (1.18%) ISO/IEC 27001
8 10 (0.99%) Data Quality
8 10 (0.99%) SOC 2
9 4 (0.39%) Accessibility
10 3 (0.30%) Cyber Essentials
11 2 (0.20%) MiFID
11 2 (0.20%) NCSC
12 1 (0.099%) EU AI Act
System Software
1 705 (69.46%) Docker
2 26 (2.56%) Active Directory
3 23 (2.27%) Virtual Machines
4 21 (2.07%) VMware Infrastructure
5 12 (1.18%) Hyper-V
6 5 (0.49%) VMware ESXi
6 5 (0.49%) vSphere
7 2 (0.20%) KVM
8 1 (0.099%) Apache ZooKeeper
8 1 (0.099%) Virtual Desktop
8 1 (0.099%) Xen
Systems Management
1 503 (49.56%) Terraform
2 232 (22.86%) Ansible
3 141 (13.89%) Prometheus
4 89 (8.77%) Argo
5 73 (7.19%) Kustomize
6 66 (6.50%) Grafana
7 38 (3.74%) Progress Chef
8 31 (3.05%) Puppet
9 20 (1.97%) Istio
10 19 (1.87%) Kibana
10 19 (1.87%) Microsoft Intune
10 19 (1.87%) Podman
11 16 (1.58%) SCCM
12 10 (0.99%) Packer
13 9 (0.89%) CASB
14 8 (0.79%) Failover Clustering
15 6 (0.59%) Nagios
16 5 (0.49%) Active Directory Federation Services
16 5 (0.49%) Consul
17 4 (0.39%) linkerd
Vendors
1 157 (15.47%) Google
2 59 (5.81%) Microsoft
3 34 (3.35%) VMware
4 32 (3.15%) Databricks
4 32 (3.15%) Splunk
5 21 (2.07%) Dynatrace
6 19 (1.87%) Red Hat
7 16 (1.58%) Palo Alto
8 15 (1.48%) Cisco
8 15 (1.48%) Oracle
9 12 (1.18%) Trayport
10 11 (1.08%) Citrix
11 8 (0.79%) New Relic
12 7 (0.69%) Atlassian
12 7 (0.69%) SAP
13 6 (0.59%) Confluent
13 6 (0.59%) Hitachi
14 5 (0.49%) Adobe
14 5 (0.49%) NetApp
15 4 (0.39%) Rapid7