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

6 months to
11 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 34 40 21
Rank change year-on-year +6 -19 -3
Permanent jobs citing Kubernetes 975 1,275 3,424
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in London 7.59% 5.40% 9.98%
As % of the Systems Management category 49.59% 40.09% 56.84%
Number of salaries quoted 713 1,072 2,232
10th Percentile £60,000 £60,000 £56,250
25th Percentile £76,000 £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 £138,750 £122,500 £135,693
England median annual salary £83,230 £77,500 £77,500
% change year-on-year +7.39% - -

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 1,966 3,180 6,024
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in London 15.30% 13.46% 17.56%
Number of salaries quoted 1,505 2,473 4,115
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 £98,000
90th Percentile £120,750 £115,000 £117,500
England median annual salary £68,692 £61,206 £67,500
% change year-on-year +12.23% -9.32% -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 11 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 11 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 -21 122 £93,750 +4.17% 101
South London +3 69 £82,500 - 15
West London +34 6 £49,000 -20.00% 25
East London -19 3 - - 17
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 93 (9.54%) Apache Airflow
2 89 (9.13%) Apache Spark
3 79 (8.10%) Apache
4 14 (1.44%) Confluence
4 14 (1.44%) JBoss
5 13 (1.33%) Red Hat Fuse
6 9 (0.92%) nginx
7 8 (0.82%) OpenStack
8 7 (0.72%) SharePoint
8 7 (0.72%) Tomcat
9 3 (0.31%) IIS
9 3 (0.31%) Mule
9 3 (0.31%) Oracle Coherence
9 3 (0.31%) Oracle SOA Suite
10 2 (0.21%) CMS
10 2 (0.21%) Jupyter
10 2 (0.21%) Microsoft Exchange
11 1 (0.10%) Camunda
11 1 (0.10%) Drupal
11 1 (0.10%) WebSphere
Applications
1 5 (0.51%) InDesign
2 3 (0.31%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 2 (0.21%) Payment Gateway
1 2 (0.21%) Shopify
2 1 (0.10%) Endur
Cloud Services
1 580 (59.49%) AWS
2 362 (37.13%) Azure
3 223 (22.87%) Serverless
4 200 (20.51%) GCP
5 155 (15.90%) Amazon ECS
6 143 (14.67%) AWS Lambda
7 104 (10.67%) AWS CloudFormation
8 99 (10.15%) OpenShift
9 84 (8.62%) Amazon EC2
10 82 (8.41%) Amazon EKS
11 76 (7.79%) dbt
12 71 (7.28%) Azure DevOps
13 63 (6.46%) GitHub
14 61 (6.26%) Amazon S3
15 51 (5.23%) SaaS
16 39 (4.00%) Azure AKS
17 36 (3.69%) Amazon SQS
17 36 (3.69%) GitHub Actions
18 32 (3.28%) Cloud Computing
19 30 (3.08%) Pulumi
Communications & Networking
1 32 (3.28%) Firewall
2 29 (2.97%) Network Security
3 20 (2.05%) DNS
4 15 (1.54%) HTTP
5 6 (0.62%) DHCP
6 5 (0.51%) VPN
7 4 (0.41%) TCP/IP
8 3 (0.31%) Cisco ASA
8 3 (0.31%) Wireshark
9 2 (0.21%) NAS
9 2 (0.21%) SAN
9 2 (0.21%) SD-WAN
9 2 (0.21%) WAN
10 1 (0.10%) BGP
10 1 (0.10%) F5 BIG-IP LTM
10 1 (0.10%) Multicast
10 1 (0.10%) SNMP
10 1 (0.10%) Structured Cabling
10 1 (0.10%) Unicast
10 1 (0.10%) Value-Added Service
Database & Business Intelligence
1 120 (12.31%) PostgreSQL
2 72 (7.38%) Amazon Athena
3 71 (7.28%) Apache Arrow
3 71 (7.28%) Apache Iceberg
3 71 (7.28%) Apache Ignite
3 71 (7.28%) Dremio
4 62 (6.36%) Relational Database
5 61 (6.26%) NoSQL
6 47 (4.82%) SQL Server
7 46 (4.72%) Amazon RDS
8 40 (4.10%) MongoDB
9 30 (3.08%) Elasticsearch
10 28 (2.87%) DynamoDB
10 28 (2.87%) MySQL
11 25 (2.56%) RDBMS
12 24 (2.46%) Amazon Redshift
13 17 (1.74%) Big Data
14 15 (1.54%) Redis
15 11 (1.13%) Amazon Aurora
15 11 (1.13%) Azure SQL Database
Development Applications
1 139 (14.26%) Jenkins
2 113 (11.59%) Git
3 87 (8.92%) Artifactory
4 86 (8.82%) GitLab
5 43 (4.41%) JUnit
6 30 (3.08%) JIRA
7 27 (2.77%) SonarQube
8 24 (2.46%) JMeter
9 22 (2.26%) Mockito
10 21 (2.15%) Maven
11 20 (2.05%) IntelliJ
11 20 (2.05%) Sonatype Nexus
12 19 (1.95%) Postman
13 17 (1.74%) CircleCI
14 14 (1.44%) Selenium
15 11 (1.13%) Bitbucket
15 11 (1.13%) PowerBuilder
16 10 (1.03%) TeamCity
17 9 (0.92%) Octopus Deploy
18 8 (0.82%) webpack
General
1 346 (35.49%) Finance
2 196 (20.10%) Social Skills
3 132 (13.54%) Front Office
4 111 (11.38%) Banking
5 60 (6.15%) Public Sector
6 48 (4.92%) Analytical Skills
7 42 (4.31%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 39 (4.00%) Financial Institution
9 37 (3.79%) Law
10 19 (1.95%) Telecoms
11 17 (1.74%) Games
12 16 (1.64%) Marketing
13 13 (1.33%) Legal
13 13 (1.33%) Manufacturing
14 11 (1.13%) Back Office
14 11 (1.13%) Investment Banking
14 11 (1.13%) Retail
15 10 (1.03%) Presentation Skills
16 7 (0.72%) Electronics
16 7 (0.72%) Retail Banking
Job Titles
1 241 (24.72%) Senior
2 189 (19.38%) DevOps Engineer
3 177 (18.15%) Software Engineer
4 168 (17.23%) Developer
5 138 (14.15%) Python Engineer
6 136 (13.95%) Lead
7 133 (13.64%) AWS Engineer
8 129 (13.23%) AWS DevOps
9 122 (12.51%) AWS DevOps Engineer
10 111 (11.38%) Cloud Engineer
11 110 (11.28%) Data Engineer
12 81 (8.31%) Platform Engineer
13 76 (7.79%) Java Engineer
14 74 (7.59%) Senior Software Engineer
15 66 (6.77%) Azure Engineer
16 65 (6.67%) Java Developer
17 55 (5.64%) Architect
18 40 (4.10%) Infrastructure Engineer
18 40 (4.10%) Kubernetes Engineer
19 38 (3.90%) Cloud Native Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 225 (23.08%) Kafka
2 177 (18.15%) React
3 141 (14.46%) REST
4 119 (12.21%) Spring
5 106 (10.87%) Spring Boot
6 92 (9.44%) J2EE
7 90 (9.23%) .NET
8 83 (8.51%) PySpark
9 76 (7.79%) AngularJS
10 72 (7.38%) RESTful
11 71 (7.28%) GraphQL
12 56 (5.74%) Node.js
13 49 (5.03%) Elastic Stack
14 44 (4.51%) Web Services
15 39 (4.00%) HTML
16 36 (3.69%) ARM Templates
17 33 (3.38%) Pandas
18 32 (3.28%) Flask
19 30 (3.08%) Apache Camel
19 30 (3.08%) SOAP
Miscellaneous
1 121 (12.41%) Cloud Native
2 110 (11.28%) Distributed Systems
3 50 (5.13%) Public Cloud
4 47 (4.82%) Management Information System
5 38 (3.90%) Legacy Code
6 33 (3.38%) Product Ownership
7 18 (1.85%) Security Posture
8 17 (1.74%) Data Structures
9 16 (1.64%) Data Centre
10 13 (1.33%) Distributed Computing
10 13 (1.33%) Reinsurance
11 12 (1.23%) Clustering
11 12 (1.23%) Cyberattack
12 11 (1.13%) Hedge funds
12 11 (1.13%) Legacy Systems
12 11 (1.13%) Mobile Games
13 10 (1.03%) Blockchain
13 10 (1.03%) Data Protection Act
13 10 (1.03%) Greenfield Project
14 9 (0.92%) Algorithms
Operating Systems
1 158 (16.21%) Linux
2 58 (5.95%) Windows
3 26 (2.67%) Windows Server
4 17 (1.74%) Android
4 17 (1.74%) Unix
5 8 (0.82%) VMS
6 7 (0.72%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
7 5 (0.51%) Windows Server 2016
8 4 (0.41%) Apple iOS
8 4 (0.41%) CentOS
9 2 (0.21%) Ubuntu
9 2 (0.21%) Windows Server 2019
10 1 (0.10%) Fedora
10 1 (0.10%) Mac OS
10 1 (0.10%) Rocky
Processes & Methodologies
1 547 (56.10%) CI/CD
2 479 (49.13%) DevOps
3 363 (37.23%) Agile
4 358 (36.72%) Software Engineering
5 340 (34.87%) Containerisation
6 258 (26.46%) Microservices
7 246 (25.23%) Infrastructure as Code
8 179 (18.36%) Problem-Solving
9 155 (15.90%) Site Reliability Engineering
10 119 (12.21%) TDD
11 113 (11.59%) Full-Stack Development
12 112 (11.49%) Asset Management
12 112 (11.49%) Platform Engineering
13 111 (11.38%) Mentoring
14 108 (11.08%) Fintech
15 102 (10.46%) Open Source
16 97 (9.95%) Data Engineering
17 93 (9.54%) Analytics
18 85 (8.72%) Computer Science
19 78 (8.00%) Event-Driven
Programming Languages
1 471 (48.31%) Python
2 369 (37.85%) Java
3 197 (20.21%) Go
4 160 (16.41%) SQL
5 143 (14.67%) JavaScript
6 115 (11.79%) TypeScript
7 102 (10.46%) Rust
8 90 (9.23%) Bash
9 83 (8.51%) PowerShell
10 81 (8.31%) C#
11 65 (6.67%) C++
12 43 (4.41%) C
13 37 (3.79%) Bicep
14 30 (3.08%) Scala
15 28 (2.87%) Shell Script
16 20 (2.05%) Ruby
17 9 (0.92%) Kotlin
18 8 (0.82%) Groovy
19 5 (0.51%) Kusto Query Language
19 5 (0.51%) PHP
Qualifications
1 127 (13.03%) Degree
2 98 (10.05%) Security Cleared
3 76 (7.79%) SC Cleared
4 59 (6.05%) Computer Science Degree
5 50 (5.13%) Master's Degree
6 49 (5.03%) AWS Certification
7 33 (3.38%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
8 29 (2.97%) Azure Certification
8 29 (2.97%) PhD
9 20 (2.05%) DV Cleared
10 8 (0.82%) ISTQB
11 6 (0.62%) Microsoft Certification
12 5 (0.51%) Cisco Certification
12 5 (0.51%) TOGAF Certification
13 4 (0.41%) (ISC)2 CCSP
14 3 (0.31%) CCSP
14 3 (0.31%) CISSP
14 3 (0.31%) GIAC
14 3 (0.31%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
15 2 (0.21%) BPSS Clearance
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 42 (4.31%) GDPR
2 35 (3.59%) QA
3 27 (2.77%) HIPAA
4 18 (1.85%) SLA
5 14 (1.44%) NIST
6 13 (1.33%) PCI DSS
6 13 (1.33%) Sarbanes-Oxley
7 12 (1.23%) ISO/IEC 27001
8 10 (1.03%) Data Quality
8 10 (1.03%) SOC 2
9 5 (0.51%) Accessibility
10 3 (0.31%) Cyber Essentials
11 2 (0.21%) MiFID
11 2 (0.21%) NCSC
12 1 (0.10%) EU AI Act
System Software
1 655 (67.18%) Docker
2 26 (2.67%) Active Directory
3 23 (2.36%) Virtual Machines
4 21 (2.15%) VMware Infrastructure
5 12 (1.23%) Hyper-V
6 5 (0.51%) VMware ESXi
6 5 (0.51%) vSphere
7 2 (0.21%) KVM
8 1 (0.10%) Apache ZooKeeper
8 1 (0.10%) Virtual Desktop
8 1 (0.10%) Xen
Systems Management
1 442 (45.33%) Terraform
2 166 (17.03%) Ansible
3 74 (7.59%) Prometheus
4 66 (6.77%) Grafana
5 40 (4.10%) Progress Chef
6 33 (3.38%) Puppet
7 22 (2.26%) Argo
7 22 (2.26%) Istio
7 22 (2.26%) Kibana
8 21 (2.15%) Podman
9 19 (1.95%) Microsoft Intune
10 16 (1.64%) SCCM
11 10 (1.03%) Packer
12 9 (0.92%) CASB
13 8 (0.82%) Failover Clustering
14 6 (0.62%) Kustomize
14 6 (0.62%) Nagios
15 5 (0.51%) Active Directory Federation Services
15 5 (0.51%) Consul
16 4 (0.41%) linkerd
Vendors
1 90 (9.23%) Google
2 60 (6.15%) Microsoft
3 35 (3.59%) Splunk
4 33 (3.38%) Databricks
4 33 (3.38%) VMware
5 24 (2.46%) Dynatrace
6 18 (1.85%) Red Hat
7 17 (1.74%) Oracle
8 16 (1.64%) Palo Alto
9 14 (1.44%) Cisco
10 12 (1.23%) Trayport
11 11 (1.13%) Citrix
12 8 (0.82%) New Relic
13 7 (0.72%) Atlassian
13 7 (0.72%) SAP
14 6 (0.62%) Confluent
14 6 (0.62%) Hitachi
15 5 (0.51%) Adobe
15 5 (0.51%) NetApp
16 4 (0.41%) Rapid7