Kubernetes Jobs in Reading

Kubernetes (k8s)
Berkshire > Reading

The table below provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in Reading 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 2 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
2 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 15 34 47
Rank change year-on-year +19 +13 +8
Permanent jobs citing Kubernetes 58 100 99
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Reading 11.42% 5.85% 6.09%
As % of the Systems Management category 62.37% 32.68% 35.61%
Number of salaries quoted 22 57 51
10th Percentile £61,375 £54,000 £57,500
25th Percentile £66,250 £59,000 £67,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £80,000 £70,000 £82,500
Median % change year-on-year +14.29% -15.15% +10.00%
75th Percentile £112,500 £83,750 £100,000
90th Percentile £115,000 £86,000 -
Berkshire median annual salary £77,500 £75,000 £90,000
% change year-on-year +3.33% -16.67% +28.57%

All Systems Management Skills
Reading

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 Reading.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for systems management skills 93 306 278
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Reading 18.31% 17.91% 17.11%
Number of salaries quoted 52 204 139
10th Percentile £34,000 £33,475 £25,000
25th Percentile £40,000 £39,125 £57,438
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £63,750 £52,550 £70,000
Median % change year-on-year +21.31% -24.93% +16.67%
75th Percentile £92,500 £59,000 £87,500
90th Percentile £112,500 £83,750 £100,000
Berkshire median annual salary £70,000 £59,000 £70,000
% change year-on-year +18.64% -15.71% -

Kubernetes
Job Vacancy Trend in Reading

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

Job vacancy trend for Kubernetes in Reading

Kubernetes
Salary Trend in Reading

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

Salary trend for Kubernetes in Reading

Kubernetes
Salary Histogram in Reading

Salary distribution for jobs citing Kubernetes in Reading over the 6 months to 2 May 2025.

Salary histogram for Kubernetes in Reading

Kubernetes
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Reading 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 12 (20.69%) JBoss
1 12 (20.69%) Red Hat Fuse
2 7 (12.07%) OpenStack
3 2 (3.45%) Apache
3 2 (3.45%) Apache Spark
3 2 (3.45%) Confluence
Cloud Services
1 46 (79.31%) AWS
2 40 (68.97%) Serverless
3 37 (63.79%) Amazon EKS
4 36 (62.07%) Amazon ECS
5 20 (34.48%) Amazon EC2
6 8 (13.79%) Amazon S3
7 6 (10.34%) Amazon SQS
8 5 (8.62%) Azure
8 5 (8.62%) GCP
9 3 (5.17%) GitHub
9 3 (5.17%) GitHub Actions
10 2 (3.45%) AWS Lambda
11 1 (1.72%) Azure Cosmos DB
11 1 (1.72%) Cloud Computing
Communications & Networking
1 1 (1.72%) DHCP
1 1 (1.72%) DNS
1 1 (1.72%) Internet
1 1 (1.72%) iSCSI
1 1 (1.72%) TCP/IP
1 1 (1.72%) VLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 47 (81.03%) PostgreSQL
2 36 (62.07%) Relational Database
3 18 (31.03%) RDBMS
4 4 (6.90%) MySQL
4 4 (6.90%) NoSQL
5 3 (5.17%) MongoDB
5 3 (5.17%) Pinecone
5 3 (5.17%) Weaviate
6 2 (3.45%) Hadoop
6 2 (3.45%) Redis
7 1 (1.72%) Amazon RDS
7 1 (1.72%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 37 (63.79%) Jenkins
2 32 (55.17%) JUnit
3 22 (37.93%) Git
4 18 (31.03%) JMeter
4 18 (31.03%) Mockito
5 3 (5.17%) GitLab
5 3 (5.17%) JIRA
5 3 (5.17%) MLflow
6 2 (3.45%) Mocha
6 2 (3.45%) Selenium
7 1 (1.72%) Artifactory
7 1 (1.72%) Cucumber
7 1 (1.72%) SonarQube
General
1 30 (51.72%) Public Sector
2 11 (18.97%) Social Skills
3 5 (8.62%) Presentation Skills
4 3 (5.17%) Analytical Skills
4 3 (5.17%) Finance
4 3 (5.17%) Organisational Skills
5 1 (1.72%) Manufacturing
5 1 (1.72%) Pharmaceutical
Job Titles
1 38 (65.52%) Developer
2 37 (63.79%) Java Developer
3 10 (17.24%) Full-Stack Developer
4 9 (15.52%) Full-Stack Java Developer
4 9 (15.52%) Software Engineer
5 7 (12.07%) Principal Engineer
5 7 (12.07%) Principal Software Engineer
6 6 (10.34%) Senior
7 4 (6.90%) Senior Software Engineer
8 3 (5.17%) SC Cleared Java Developer
9 2 (3.45%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
9 2 (3.45%) Azure Engineer
9 2 (3.45%) Lead
10 1 (1.72%) AWS DevOps Engineer
10 1 (1.72%) Azure Developer
10 1 (1.72%) Cloud Platform Engineer
10 1 (1.72%) GCP Developer
10 1 (1.72%) NoSQL Developer
10 1 (1.72%) React Developer
10 1 (1.72%) Site Reliability Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 39 (67.24%) REST
2 36 (62.07%) Spring
2 36 (62.07%) Spring Boot
2 36 (62.07%) Web Services
3 30 (51.72%) Apache Camel
4 20 (34.48%) HTML
5 18 (31.03%) ActiveMQ
5 18 (31.03%) Hibernate
5 18 (31.03%) jQuery
5 18 (31.03%) WireMock
6 12 (20.69%) J2EE
6 12 (20.69%) Node.js
6 12 (20.69%) RESTful
6 12 (20.69%) SOAP
7 10 (17.24%) React
8 9 (15.52%) Mustache
9 8 (13.79%) Kafka
10 7 (12.07%) Elastic Stack
10 7 (12.07%) Flutter
11 6 (10.34%) JSON
Miscellaneous
1 37 (63.79%) Distributed Systems
2 5 (8.62%) Cloud Native
3 3 (5.17%) Hackathon
3 3 (5.17%) Public Cloud
4 1 (1.72%) Algorithms
4 1 (1.72%) Greenfield Project
4 1 (1.72%) IoT
4 1 (1.72%) Video Conferencing
4 1 (1.72%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 4 (6.90%) Linux
2 1 (1.72%) Unix
2 1 (1.72%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 46 (79.31%) Microservices
2 43 (74.14%) Agile
3 37 (63.79%) TDD
4 32 (55.17%) CI/CD
5 31 (53.45%) Scrum
6 30 (51.72%) BDD
7 25 (43.10%) Kanban
8 22 (37.93%) Collaborative Working
9 20 (34.48%) Full-Stack Development
10 18 (31.03%) Process Management
10 18 (31.03%) Workflow
11 16 (27.59%) DevOps
12 13 (22.41%) Architectural Design
13 12 (20.69%) SDLC
14 11 (18.97%) Software Engineering
15 10 (17.24%) Problem-Solving
16 7 (12.07%) Roadmaps
17 6 (10.34%) Containerisation
18 5 (8.62%) Analytics
19 4 (6.90%) Machine Learning
Programming Languages
1 42 (72.41%) Java
2 33 (56.90%) Python
3 26 (44.83%) JavaScript
4 19 (32.76%) Shell Script
5 10 (17.24%) C++
5 10 (17.24%) Go
6 8 (13.79%) Perl
7 7 (12.07%) C
7 7 (12.07%) Ruby
7 7 (12.07%) Rust
8 6 (10.34%) SQL
9 3 (5.17%) R
10 1 (1.72%) Groovy
10 1 (1.72%) PHP
10 1 (1.72%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 28 (48.28%) Security Cleared
2 26 (44.83%) SC Cleared
3 4 (6.90%) Degree
4 3 (5.17%) Computer Science Degree
5 1 (1.72%) DV Cleared
5 1 (1.72%) Master's Degree
5 1 (1.72%) PhD
5 1 (1.72%) VCAP
5 1 (1.72%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 12 (20.69%) SLA
2 2 (3.45%) Accessibility
3 1 (1.72%) GMP
3 1 (1.72%) QA
System Software
1 53 (91.38%) Docker
2 2 (3.45%) HDFS
3 1 (1.72%) NFS
3 1 (1.72%) vCloud
3 1 (1.72%) Virtual Machines
3 1 (1.72%) VMware ESXi
3 1 (1.72%) VMware Infrastructure
3 1 (1.72%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 18 (31.03%) Kibana
2 15 (25.86%) Ansible
3 14 (24.14%) Terraform
4 4 (6.90%) Grafana
4 4 (6.90%) Prometheus
5 3 (5.17%) Kubeflow
6 1 (1.72%) Argo
6 1 (1.72%) Packer
6 1 (1.72%) PowerCLI
6 1 (1.72%) vCenter Server
6 1 (1.72%) vRealize
Vendors
1 18 (31.03%) Dynatrace
1 18 (31.03%) Splunk
2 3 (5.17%) Google
3 1 (1.72%) AppDynamics
3 1 (1.72%) Atlassian
3 1 (1.72%) IBM
3 1 (1.72%) VMware