Kubernetes Engineer Jobs in the Midlands

Kubernetes Engineer (K8s Engineer)
England > Midlands

The median Kubernetes Engineer (K8s Engineer) salary in the Midlands is £45,000 per year, according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months leading to 1 May 2025.

The table below provides salary benchmarking and summary statistics, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 242 321 312
Rank change year-on-year +79 -9 +19
Permanent jobs requiring a Kubernetes Engineer 1 4 11
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the Midlands 0.014% 0.034% 0.12%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.016% 0.036% 0.13%
Number of salaries quoted 1 4 10
10th Percentile - £48,375 -
25th Percentile £42,500 £53,438 £56,480
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £45,000 £57,500 £74,141
Median % change year-on-year -21.74% -22.44% +5.92%
75th Percentile £47,500 £58,750 £75,781
90th Percentile - - -
England median annual salary £100,000 £100,000 £95,000
% change year-on-year - +5.26% +18.75%

All Permanent IT Job Vacancies
Midlands

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent IT job vacancies in the Midlands. Most job vacancies include a discernible job title that can be normalized. As such, the figures in the second row provide an indication of the number of permanent jobs in our overall sample.

Permanent vacancies in the Midlands with a recognized job title 6,335 11,010 8,542
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 91.20% 94.31% 89.44%
Number of salaries quoted 2,843 8,239 4,748
10th Percentile £27,500 £26,250 £28,750
25th Percentile £34,000 £33,750 £37,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £47,500 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year +5.26% -9.52% +5.00%
75th Percentile £63,750 £60,741 £67,500
90th Percentile £75,000 £75,000 £77,500
England median annual salary £57,500 £53,773 £60,567
% change year-on-year +6.93% -11.22% +0.95%

Kubernetes Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend in the Midlands

Job postings that featured Kubernetes Engineer in the job title as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the Midlands.

Job vacancy trend for Kubernetes Engineer in the Midlands

Kubernetes Engineer
Salary Trend in the Midlands

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing Kubernetes Engineer in the Midlands.

Salary trend for Kubernetes Engineer in the Midlands

Kubernetes Engineer
Job Locations in the Midlands

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Kubernetes Engineer within the Midlands region over the 6 months to 1 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
East Midlands +47 1 £45,000 -21.74%
Kubernetes Engineer
England

Kubernetes Engineer Skill Set
Top 13 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the Midlands

For the 6 months to 1 May 2025, Kubernetes Engineer job roles required the following skills and capabilities in order of popularity. The figures indicate the absolute number co-occurrences and as a proportion of all permanent job ads across the Midlands region featuring Kubernetes Engineer in the job title.

1 1 (100.00%) Linux
1 1 (100.00%) Law
1 1 (100.00%) VMware
1 1 (100.00%) VMware Infrastructure
1 1 (100.00%) Azure
1 1 (100.00%) AWS
1 1 (100.00%) Docker
1 1 (100.00%) DevOps
1 1 (100.00%) Kubernetes
1 1 (100.00%) Rancher
1 1 (100.00%) Site Reliability Engineering
1 1 (100.00%) Infrastructure as Code
1 1 (100.00%) Containerisation

Kubernetes Engineer Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the Midlands 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 1 (100.00%) AWS
1 1 (100.00%) Azure
General
1 1 (100.00%) Law
Operating Systems
1 1 (100.00%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (100.00%) Containerisation
1 1 (100.00%) DevOps
1 1 (100.00%) Infrastructure as Code
1 1 (100.00%) Site Reliability Engineering
System Software
1 1 (100.00%) Docker
1 1 (100.00%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 1 (100.00%) Kubernetes
1 1 (100.00%) Rancher
Vendors
1 1 (100.00%) VMware