Kubernetes Jobs in Merton

Kubernetes (k8s)
South London > Merton

The table below provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in Merton 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 8 June 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
8 Jun 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 11 28 29
Rank change year-on-year +17 +1 -14
Permanent jobs citing Kubernetes 32 3 3
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Merton 24.81% 2.29% 2.40%
As % of the Systems Management category 88.89% 25.00% 60.00%
Number of salaries quoted 25 3 3
10th Percentile - £86,500 £49,000
25th Percentile £78,750 £92,500 £60,625
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £82,500 £105,000 £80,000
Median % change year-on-year -21.43% +31.25% +6.67%
75th Percentile £111,250 £111,875 -
90th Percentile - £114,500 -
South London median annual salary £82,500 £82,500 £75,000
% change year-on-year - +10.00% +7.14%

All Systems Management Skills
Merton

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 Merton.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for systems management skills 36 12 5
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Merton 27.91% 9.16% 4.00%
Number of salaries quoted 27 8 3
10th Percentile - £31,775 £49,000
25th Percentile £78,750 £38,938 £60,625
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £82,500 £60,000 £80,000
Median % change year-on-year +37.50% -25.00% +18.52%
75th Percentile £111,250 £92,500 -
90th Percentile - £110,125 -
South London median annual salary £82,500 £70,000 £50,000
% change year-on-year +17.86% +40.00% -4.76%

Kubernetes
Job Vacancy Trend in Merton

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

Job vacancy trend for Kubernetes in Merton

Kubernetes
Salary Trend in Merton

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

Salary trend for Kubernetes in Merton

Kubernetes
Salary Histogram in Merton

Salary distribution for jobs citing Kubernetes in Merton over the 6 months to 8 June 2025.

Salary histogram for Kubernetes in Merton

Kubernetes
Job Locations in Merton

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Kubernetes within the Merton region over the 6 months to 8 June 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
Wimbledon +1 28 £82,500 -24.14%
Morden - 2 - -
New Malden - 1 - -
Mitcham - 1 - -
Kubernetes
South London

Kubernetes
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Merton 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 31 (96.88%) AWS
2 5 (15.63%) Pulumi
3 1 (3.13%) Akamai
3 1 (3.13%) Amazon EKS
3 1 (3.13%) AWS CloudFormation
3 1 (3.13%) Azure
Communications & Networking
1 6 (18.75%) Broadband
2 1 (3.13%) BGP
2 1 (3.13%) DNS
2 1 (3.13%) HTTP
2 1 (3.13%) IOS XR
2 1 (3.13%) SSL
2 1 (3.13%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (15.63%) NoSQL
1 5 (15.63%) RDBMS
1 5 (15.63%) Relational Database
2 1 (3.13%) Elasticsearch
Development Applications
1 5 (15.63%) Jaeger
2 1 (3.13%) Git
General
1 25 (78.13%) Finance
1 25 (78.13%) Financial Institution
2 7 (21.88%) Inclusion and Diversity
3 1 (3.13%) Analytical Skills
3 1 (3.13%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 25 (78.13%) Java Engineer
1 25 (78.13%) Java Software Engineer
1 25 (78.13%) Software Engineer
2 12 (37.50%) Senior
3 11 (34.38%) Senior Java Engineer
3 11 (34.38%) Senior Java Software Engineer
3 11 (34.38%) Senior Software Engineer
4 5 (15.63%) Lead
4 5 (15.63%) Team Leader
5 1 (3.13%) Design Engineer
5 1 (3.13%) Developer
5 1 (3.13%) Network Design Engineer
5 1 (3.13%) Network Engineer
5 1 (3.13%) Senior Design Engineer
5 1 (3.13%) Senior Network Design Engineer
5 1 (3.13%) Senior Network Engineer
5 1 (3.13%) Software Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 25 (78.13%) Akka
1 25 (78.13%) AngularJS
1 25 (78.13%) Kafka
1 25 (78.13%) Spring
1 25 (78.13%) Spring Boot
2 15 (46.88%) RxJava
2 15 (46.88%) Spring WebFlux
3 5 (15.63%) Elastic Stack
3 5 (15.63%) OpenTelemetry
4 1 (3.13%) .NET
4 1 (3.13%) Jinja
4 1 (3.13%) Node.js
4 1 (3.13%) Pandas
4 1 (3.13%) YAML
4 1 (3.13%) YANG
Miscellaneous
1 1 (3.13%) Cyberattack
Operating Systems
1 6 (18.75%) Linux
2 5 (15.63%) Unix
3 1 (3.13%) Android
Processes & Methodologies
1 31 (96.88%) Agile
2 26 (81.25%) Software Engineering
3 25 (78.13%) BDD
3 25 (78.13%) Fintech
3 25 (78.13%) Microservices
3 25 (78.13%) Pair Programming
3 25 (78.13%) TDD
4 16 (50.00%) Containerisation
4 16 (50.00%) DevOps
4 16 (50.00%) High Availability
5 15 (46.88%) Concurrent Programming
5 15 (46.88%) Multithreading
6 12 (37.50%) CI/CD
7 6 (18.75%) Roadmaps
8 5 (15.63%) Cost Optimisation
8 5 (15.63%) GitOps
8 5 (15.63%) Infrastructure as Code
8 5 (15.63%) Mentoring
8 5 (15.63%) Performance Optimisation
8 5 (15.63%) Task Automation
Programming Languages
1 31 (96.88%) Java
2 7 (21.88%) Python
3 6 (18.75%) Go
3 6 (18.75%) JavaScript
4 5 (15.63%) Bash
5 1 (3.13%) C++
5 1 (3.13%) Rust
Qualifications
1 5 (15.63%) AWS Certification
2 1 (3.13%) DV Cleared
2 1 (3.13%) Security Cleared
System Software
1 32 (100.00%) Docker
Systems Management
1 7 (21.88%) Ansible
2 6 (18.75%) Terraform
3 5 (15.63%) Argo
3 5 (15.63%) Kustomize
3 5 (15.63%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 5 (15.63%) Google
2 1 (3.13%) Cisco
2 1 (3.13%) Nokia