Kubernetes Job Trends in the South East

Kubernetes (k8s)
England > South East

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in the South East requiring Kubernetes skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 18 August 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
18 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 79 114 63
Rank change year-on-year +35 -51 -4
Permanent jobs citing Kubernetes 377 232 469
As % of all permanent jobs in the South East 2.19% 2.60% 3.41%
As % of the Systems Management category 41.20% 33.72% 38.60%
Number of salaries quoted 309 116 343
10th Percentile £50,000 £51,250 £51,250
25th Percentile £55,000 £56,250 £56,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £70,000 £67,500
Median % change year-on-year -7.14% +3.70% -6.90%
75th Percentile £77,500 £82,813 £82,500
90th Percentile £88,750 £90,000 £95,000
England median annual salary £70,932 £80,000 £77,500
% change year-on-year -11.34% +3.23% -

All Systems Management Skills
South East

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 the South East.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for systems management skills 915 688 1,215
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the South East 5.31% 7.70% 8.82%
Number of salaries quoted 752 467 815
10th Percentile £32,500 £31,950 £36,250
25th Percentile £45,000 £37,500 £43,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £57,500 £56,252
Median % change year-on-year +4.35% +2.22% -6.25%
75th Percentile £72,500 £73,875 £72,500
90th Percentile £83,750 £85,000 £85,000
England median annual salary £65,000 £65,000 £65,000
% change year-on-year - - -2.26%

Kubernetes
Job Vacancy Trend in the South East

Historical trend showing the proportion of permanent IT job postings citing Kubernetes relative to all permanent IT jobs advertised in the South East.

Kubernetes job vacancy trend in the South East

Kubernetes
Salary Trend in the South East

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the South East citing Kubernetes.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the South East citing Kubernetes

Kubernetes
Salary Histogram in the South East

Salary distribution for jobs citing Kubernetes in the South East over the 6 months to 18 August 2026.

Salary histogram for Kubernetes in the South East

Kubernetes
Job Locations in the South East

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Kubernetes within the South East region over the 6 months to 18 August 2026. 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
Hampshire +25 137 £67,500 +5.88% 29
Thames Valley +9 123 £62,500 -10.71% 31
Berkshire -5 52 £82,500 +6.45% 18
Surrey -3 48 £65,000 -7.14% 8
Oxfordshire +13 40 £56,500 +0.44% 7
Buckinghamshire -4 31 £60,000 -14.29% 6
West Sussex -5 24 £70,000 +16.67% 2
Kent -8 24 £55,000 -21.43% 6
East Sussex -6 17 £60,000 -14.29% 3
Sussex - 2 £67,500 -
Middlesex +21 1 - - 1
Home Counties - 1 - -
Kubernetes
England

Kubernetes
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the South East by Category

The following tables expand on the one above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. They cover the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each category:

Application Platforms
1 11 (2.92%) OpenStack
2 8 (2.12%) Microsoft Exchange
3 7 (1.86%) OpenEdge
4 6 (1.59%) Confluence
5 5 (1.33%) Apache Airflow
5 5 (1.33%) IIS
5 5 (1.33%) nginx
6 4 (1.06%) Apache
7 2 (0.53%) Apache Spark
7 2 (0.53%) Palantir Foundry
8 1 (0.27%) JBoss
8 1 (0.27%) Red Hat Fuse
Applications
1 2 (0.53%) Lightworks
Cloud Services
1 222 (58.89%) Azure
2 191 (50.66%) AWS
3 85 (22.55%) GitHub
4 56 (14.85%) GCP
5 55 (14.59%) GitHub Copilot
6 35 (9.28%) Amazon EKS
6 35 (9.28%) OpenShift
7 34 (9.02%) Azure AKS
7 34 (9.02%) Serverless
8 26 (6.90%) Microsoft 365
9 25 (6.63%) Azure AI
9 25 (6.63%) GitHub Actions
10 24 (6.37%) Azure DevOps
11 23 (6.10%) SaaS
12 21 (5.57%) IaaS
13 19 (5.04%) Datadog
14 17 (4.51%) Amazon EC2
15 16 (4.24%) AWS CloudFormation
15 16 (4.24%) Azure Key Vault
16 14 (3.71%) Amazon ECS
Communications & Networking
1 22 (5.84%) Firewall
2 21 (5.57%) DNS
3 16 (4.24%) VPN
4 12 (3.18%) MQTT
4 12 (3.18%) Network Security
5 11 (2.92%) SAN
6 10 (2.65%) Internet
7 8 (2.12%) iSCSI
7 8 (2.12%) Remote Desktop
8 4 (1.06%) BGP
8 4 (1.06%) WAN
9 3 (0.80%) DHCP
9 3 (0.80%) NAS
9 3 (0.80%) TCP/IP
10 2 (0.53%) HTTP
10 2 (0.53%) PBX
11 1 (0.27%) MPLS
11 1 (0.27%) Software-Defined Networking
Database & Business Intelligence
1 74 (19.63%) MongoDB
2 54 (14.32%) Azure SQL Database
2 54 (14.32%) PostgreSQL
3 35 (9.28%) Elasticsearch
4 31 (8.22%) MySQL
5 19 (5.04%) Relational Database
6 16 (4.24%) SQL Server
7 14 (3.71%) Redis
8 11 (2.92%) NoSQL
9 5 (1.33%) RDBMS
10 2 (0.53%) Amazon RDS
10 2 (0.53%) DocumentDB
10 2 (0.53%) Electronic Patient Records
10 2 (0.53%) Pinecone
11 1 (0.27%) Flink
11 1 (0.27%) GIS
11 1 (0.27%) Looker
11 1 (0.27%) Oracle Database
11 1 (0.27%) Vitess
Development Applications
1 81 (21.49%) Git
2 50 (13.26%) GitLab
3 34 (9.02%) Jenkins
4 17 (4.51%) JIRA
5 12 (3.18%) Selenium
6 11 (2.92%) JUnit
7 10 (2.65%) Mockito
7 10 (2.65%) SonarQube
8 9 (2.39%) Artifactory
9 7 (1.86%) JMeter
10 6 (1.59%) Cucumber
10 6 (1.59%) Octopus Deploy
11 5 (1.33%) Claude Code
12 4 (1.06%) PHPUnit
13 2 (0.53%) Jasmine
13 2 (0.53%) Mocha
13 2 (0.53%) MSI
13 2 (0.53%) TeamCity
13 2 (0.53%) Visual Studio
13 2 (0.53%) Visual Studio Code
General
1 80 (21.22%) Social Skills
2 41 (10.88%) Finance
3 27 (7.16%) Analytical Skills
4 20 (5.31%) Public Sector
5 13 (3.45%) Law
6 12 (3.18%) Aerospace
6 12 (3.18%) Organisational Skills
7 11 (2.92%) Advertising
7 11 (2.92%) Manufacturing
8 7 (1.86%) Legal
9 6 (1.59%) Documentation Skills
9 6 (1.59%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 5 (1.33%) Automotive
10 5 (1.33%) Games
11 4 (1.06%) Marketing
12 3 (0.80%) Aviation
12 3 (0.80%) Presentation Skills
12 3 (0.80%) Retail
13 2 (0.53%) Military
14 1 (0.27%) Tech for Good
Job Titles
1 97 (25.73%) Developer
2 75 (19.89%) Senior
3 51 (13.53%) .NET Developer
4 44 (11.67%) DevOps Engineer
5 43 (11.41%) Software Engineer
6 36 (9.55%) Azure Engineer
7 29 (7.69%) Cloud Engineer
8 28 (7.43%) Lead
9 27 (7.16%) Architect
10 22 (5.84%) Backend Developer
11 19 (5.04%) Infrastructure Engineer
11 19 (5.04%) Site Engineer
11 19 (5.04%) Site Reliability Engineer
12 17 (4.51%) Platform Engineer
13 16 (4.24%) Senior Developer
14 15 (3.98%) Java Developer
15 14 (3.71%) Senior Backend Developer
16 13 (3.45%) Linux Engineer
16 13 (3.45%) Python Engineer
17 12 (3.18%) Platform Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 68 (18.04%) .NET
2 55 (14.59%) ASP.NET
3 53 (14.06%) .NET Core
3 53 (14.06%) ASP.NET Core
4 43 (11.41%) REST
5 39 (10.34%) HTML
6 37 (9.81%) AngularJS
6 37 (9.81%) Node.js
7 34 (9.02%) Vue
8 32 (8.49%) CSS
9 31 (8.22%) React
10 26 (6.90%) Kafka
11 25 (6.63%) ARM Templates
11 25 (6.63%) ML.NET
11 25 (6.63%) Spring
12 24 (6.37%) RabbitMQ
13 22 (5.84%) Spring Boot
14 20 (5.31%) RESTful
15 17 (4.51%) Hibernate
15 17 (4.51%) JSON
Miscellaneous
1 54 (14.32%) Cloud Native
2 47 (12.47%) Distributed Systems
3 27 (7.16%) Greenfield Project
4 24 (6.37%) Product Ownership
5 13 (3.45%) IoT
6 12 (3.18%) Hybrid Cloud
7 11 (2.92%) Enterprise Software
7 11 (2.92%) Management Information System
8 10 (2.65%) Data Structures
8 10 (2.65%) Legacy Systems
9 9 (2.39%) Private Cloud
9 9 (2.39%) Robotics
9 9 (2.39%) Security Posture
10 8 (2.12%) AI Agents
10 8 (2.12%) Public Cloud
11 6 (1.59%) Algorithms
11 6 (1.59%) Analytical Mindset
12 5 (1.33%) Cyber Kill Chain
12 5 (1.33%) Data Centre
12 5 (1.33%) Life Science
Operating Systems
1 111 (29.44%) Linux
2 40 (10.61%) Windows
3 24 (6.37%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 23 (6.10%) Windows Server
5 19 (5.04%) CentOS
6 18 (4.77%) Ubuntu
7 9 (2.39%) Debian
8 8 (2.12%) Windows Server 2016
9 4 (1.06%) VMS
9 4 (1.06%) Windows Server 2019
10 2 (0.53%) Rocky
11 1 (0.27%) Embedded Linux
11 1 (0.27%) Mac OS
Processes & Methodologies
1 220 (58.36%) CI/CD
2 178 (47.21%) Agile
3 151 (40.05%) DevOps
4 120 (31.83%) Microservices
5 115 (30.50%) Infrastructure as Code
6 113 (29.97%) Containerisation
7 82 (21.75%) AI
8 81 (21.49%) Problem-Solving
9 80 (21.22%) Software Engineering
10 73 (19.36%) Full-Stack Development
11 69 (18.30%) Observability
12 62 (16.45%) Machine Learning
13 60 (15.92%) TDD
14 56 (14.85%) DevSecOps
15 54 (14.32%) Continuous Improvement
16 52 (13.79%) Platform Engineering
17 45 (11.94%) Mentoring
18 44 (11.67%) Test Automation
19 43 (11.41%) High Availability
20 42 (11.14%) Scrum
Programming Languages
1 132 (35.01%) Python
2 88 (23.34%) SQL
3 82 (21.75%) C#
4 74 (19.63%) PowerShell
5 70 (18.57%) TypeScript
6 61 (16.18%) Bash
7 55 (14.59%) Java
8 38 (10.08%) JavaScript
9 28 (7.43%) PHP
10 25 (6.63%) Go
11 16 (4.24%) Rust
12 15 (3.98%) C++
13 14 (3.71%) Bicep
14 13 (3.45%) Shell Script
15 7 (1.86%) Perl
16 6 (1.59%) Groovy
16 6 (1.59%) Korn
17 4 (1.06%) C
17 4 (1.06%) PL/SQL
Qualifications
1 102 (27.06%) Security Cleared
2 64 (16.98%) SC Cleared
3 58 (15.38%) Degree
4 34 (9.02%) Computer Science Degree
5 20 (5.31%) Azure Certification
6 17 (4.51%) DV Cleared
7 9 (2.39%) AWS Certification
7 9 (2.39%) Master's Degree
8 6 (1.59%) CISSP
9 5 (1.33%) BPSS Clearance
9 5 (1.33%) CEH
9 5 (1.33%) CISM
9 5 (1.33%) GIAC
9 5 (1.33%) PhD
10 4 (1.06%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
10 4 (1.06%) TOGAF Certification
11 2 (0.53%) RHCE
11 2 (0.53%) RHCSA
12 1 (0.27%) ITIL Certification
12 1 (0.27%) PMI Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 22 (5.84%) QA
2 17 (4.51%) NIST
3 10 (2.65%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 10 (2.65%) PCI DSS
4 6 (1.59%) SLA
5 5 (1.33%) Cyber Essentials
5 5 (1.33%) SOC 2
6 3 (0.80%) JSP 440
6 3 (0.80%) NIST 800
7 2 (0.53%) Accessibility
7 2 (0.53%) GDPR
7 2 (0.53%) HIPAA
8 1 (0.27%) Data Quality
8 1 (0.27%) ISO 22301
8 1 (0.27%) ISO/IEC 27005
System Software
1 227 (60.21%) Docker
2 21 (5.57%) VMware Infrastructure
3 13 (3.45%) Active Directory
3 13 (3.45%) Virtual Machines
4 8 (2.12%) Citrix Hypervisor
5 7 (1.86%) vSphere
6 6 (1.59%) Hyper-V
7 5 (1.33%) Slurm Workload Manager
8 3 (0.80%) KVM
9 2 (0.53%) Lustre
9 2 (0.53%) Samba
9 2 (0.53%) Xen
10 1 (0.27%) Firmware
Systems Management
1 151 (40.05%) Terraform
2 88 (23.34%) Ansible
3 50 (13.26%) Grafana
4 44 (11.67%) Prometheus
5 20 (5.31%) Argo
6 16 (4.24%) Puppet
7 15 (3.98%) Kibana
8 9 (2.39%) Istio
8 9 (2.39%) Kustomize
8 9 (2.39%) Nessus
8 9 (2.39%) Podman
8 9 (2.39%) ZABBIX
9 7 (1.86%) Nagios
9 7 (1.86%) vCenter Server
10 6 (1.59%) Packer
11 4 (1.06%) Docker Swarm
11 4 (1.06%) Single Sign-On
12 3 (0.80%) Proxmox
13 2 (0.53%) FlexNet
13 2 (0.53%) Rancher
Vendors
1 104 (27.59%) Microsoft
2 31 (8.22%) Red Hat
3 25 (6.63%) Google
3 25 (6.63%) VMware
4 20 (5.31%) Splunk
5 18 (4.77%) Dynatrace
6 9 (2.39%) AppDynamics
7 8 (2.12%) Dell
7 8 (2.12%) IBM
8 5 (1.33%) Databricks
8 5 (1.33%) New Relic
8 5 (1.33%) OpenAI
8 5 (1.33%) Oracle
8 5 (1.33%) Qualys
9 4 (1.06%) Facebook
9 4 (1.06%) NVIDIA
9 4 (1.06%) SolarWinds
9 4 (1.06%) Tenable
9 4 (1.06%) Zerto
10 3 (0.80%) Salesforce