Kubernetes Jobs in the South East

Kubernetes (k8s)
England > South East

The table below provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in the South East 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 28 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
28 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 104 73 55
Rank change year-on-year -31 -18 -13
Permanent jobs citing Kubernetes 268 588 716
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the South East 2.83% 3.39% 5.06%
As % of the Systems Management category 41.74% 34.41% 36.55%
Number of salaries quoted 128 468 495
10th Percentile £47,350 £49,700 £48,750
25th Percentile £56,250 £57,381 £55,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £70,000 £70,000
Median % change year-on-year -7.14% - -
75th Percentile £81,250 £85,000 £90,625
90th Percentile £90,000 £95,000 £102,500
England median annual salary £82,500 £77,500 £77,500
% change year-on-year +6.45% - -

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 642 1,709 1,959
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the South East 6.78% 9.86% 13.84%
Number of salaries quoted 357 1,248 1,220
10th Percentile £35,000 £32,500 £28,500
25th Percentile £43,750 £40,250 £40,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £55,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year +9.09% -8.33% -7.69%
75th Percentile £77,500 £71,250 £77,500
90th Percentile £87,500 £87,500 £95,000
England median annual salary £70,000 £62,500 £67,500
% change year-on-year +12.00% -7.41% -3.57%

Kubernetes
Job Vacancy Trend in the South East

Job postings citing Kubernetes as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the South East.

Job vacancy trend for Kubernetes in the South East

Kubernetes
Salary Trend in the South East

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing Kubernetes in the South East.

Salary trend for Kubernetes in the South East

Kubernetes
Salary Histogram in the South East

Salary distribution for jobs citing Kubernetes in the South East over the 6 months to 28 May 2025.

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 28 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
Thames Valley -38 97 £72,500 -3.33% 108
Berkshire -33 69 £80,000 +6.67% 64
Hampshire -10 49 £61,250 -12.50% 58
Middlesex - 44 £62,500 - 2
Surrey +41 42 £72,500 -9.38% 24
Kent +19 15 £70,000 +27.27% 16
Oxfordshire +39 14 £52,500 -27.59% 32
West Sussex +26 14 £60,000 -7.69% 13
Buckinghamshire +22 14 £55,000 -15.38% 22
East Sussex +7 4 £70,000 -12.50% 11
Kubernetes
England

Kubernetes
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the South East 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 14 (5.22%) Confluence
2 13 (4.85%) Apache Spark
2 13 (4.85%) JBoss
2 13 (4.85%) Red Hat Fuse
3 12 (4.48%) Apache
4 8 (2.99%) Microsoft Exchange
5 7 (2.61%) OpenStack
6 6 (2.24%) Apache Airflow
7 4 (1.49%) Apache Solr
7 4 (1.49%) nginx
8 1 (0.37%) CMS
8 1 (0.37%) Headless CMS
8 1 (0.37%) SharePoint
8 1 (0.37%) Strapi
Business Applications
1 1 (0.37%) Payment Gateway
Cloud Services
1 163 (60.82%) AWS
2 111 (41.42%) Azure
3 58 (21.64%) Amazon EKS
4 54 (20.15%) GCP
5 46 (17.16%) Serverless
6 32 (11.94%) Amazon ECS
7 25 (9.33%) Pulumi
8 24 (8.96%) Azure DevOps
9 20 (7.46%) Amazon EC2
10 18 (6.72%) AWS CloudFormation
11 17 (6.34%) GitHub
12 16 (5.97%) OpenShift
13 13 (4.85%) Amazon S3
14 12 (4.48%) SaaS
15 10 (3.73%) PaaS
16 6 (2.24%) Amazon SQS
16 6 (2.24%) GitHub Actions
17 5 (1.87%) Azure Functions
17 5 (1.87%) Cloud Computing
17 5 (1.87%) Virtual Private Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 28 (10.45%) Broadband
2 19 (7.09%) DNS
3 13 (4.85%) DHCP
4 8 (2.99%) Network Security
5 7 (2.61%) Firewall
5 7 (2.61%) Remote Desktop
5 7 (2.61%) SAN
6 6 (2.24%) NAS
6 6 (2.24%) SMTP
6 6 (2.24%) VSAN
7 5 (1.87%) TCP/IP
8 4 (1.49%) HTTPS
8 4 (1.49%) IPsec
9 2 (0.75%) iSCSI
10 1 (0.37%) Internet
10 1 (0.37%) VLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 65 (24.25%) NoSQL
2 59 (22.01%) Relational Database
3 50 (18.66%) PostgreSQL
4 38 (14.18%) RDBMS
5 31 (11.57%) MongoDB
6 26 (9.70%) SQL Server
7 18 (6.72%) Elasticsearch
7 18 (6.72%) MySQL
8 14 (5.22%) Redis
9 10 (3.73%) Hadoop
10 8 (2.99%) Couchbase
11 7 (2.61%) Amazon RDS
11 7 (2.61%) Big Data
11 7 (2.61%) Data Warehouse
12 6 (2.24%) Apache Hudi
12 6 (2.24%) Apache Iceberg
12 6 (2.24%) Delta Lake
13 3 (1.12%) Azure SQL Database
13 3 (1.12%) Pinecone
13 3 (1.12%) Weaviate
Development Applications
1 70 (26.12%) Jenkins
2 61 (22.76%) Git
3 32 (11.94%) JUnit
4 25 (9.33%) Jaeger
5 24 (8.96%) Selenium
6 20 (7.46%) GitLab
7 17 (6.34%) JIRA
7 17 (6.34%) Mockito
8 14 (5.22%) Bitbucket
8 14 (5.22%) JMeter
8 14 (5.22%) SonarQube
9 11 (4.10%) Octopus Deploy
10 9 (3.36%) Cucumber
10 9 (3.36%) Cypress.io
11 8 (2.99%) Maven
11 8 (2.99%) Sonatype Nexus
12 4 (1.49%) SoapUI
13 3 (1.12%) MLflow
14 2 (0.75%) Mocha
14 2 (0.75%) Vite
General
1 69 (25.75%) Inclusion and Diversity
2 47 (17.54%) Social Skills
3 35 (13.06%) Law
4 31 (11.57%) Finance
5 30 (11.19%) Public Sector
6 27 (10.07%) Analytical Skills
7 15 (5.60%) Banking
8 10 (3.73%) Telecoms
9 8 (2.99%) Games
10 6 (2.24%) Presentation Skills
11 4 (1.49%) Automotive
11 4 (1.49%) Organisational Skills
12 3 (1.12%) Legal
12 3 (1.12%) Manufacturing
13 2 (0.75%) Electronics
13 2 (0.75%) Retail
14 1 (0.37%) Influencing Skills
14 1 (0.37%) Investment Banking
14 1 (0.37%) Military
14 1 (0.37%) Publishing
Job Titles
1 94 (35.07%) Developer
2 52 (19.40%) Senior
3 44 (16.42%) Java Developer
4 43 (16.04%) Lead
5 33 (12.31%) Software Engineer
6 32 (11.94%) DevOps Engineer
7 30 (11.19%) Team Leader
8 25 (9.33%) Software Developer
9 17 (6.34%) Senior Developer
10 12 (4.48%) Cloud Engineer
10 12 (4.48%) Full-Stack Developer
10 12 (4.48%) Support Engineer
11 11 (4.10%) Infrastructure Engineer
12 10 (3.73%) .NET Developer
12 10 (3.73%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
12 10 (3.73%) C# .NET Developer
12 10 (3.73%) C# Developer
12 10 (3.73%) Gen AI Engineer
12 10 (3.73%) Senior Cloud Engineer
13 9 (3.36%) Full-Stack Java Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 57 (21.27%) React
2 56 (20.90%) REST
3 55 (20.52%) Spring Boot
4 54 (20.15%) Node.js
5 50 (18.66%) Spring
6 48 (17.91%) .NET
7 42 (15.67%) Kafka
8 34 (12.69%) Elastic Stack
9 33 (12.31%) Web Services
10 26 (9.70%) Apache Camel
11 25 (9.33%) HTML
11 25 (9.33%) OpenTelemetry
12 24 (8.96%) Hibernate
13 20 (7.46%) Pandas
13 20 (7.46%) RabbitMQ
13 20 (7.46%) RESTful
14 15 (5.60%) ActiveMQ
15 13 (4.85%) J2EE
15 13 (4.85%) jQuery
15 13 (4.85%) WireMock
Miscellaneous
1 38 (14.18%) Distributed Systems
2 25 (9.33%) Cloud Native
3 18 (6.72%) Cyberattack
3 18 (6.72%) Public Cloud
4 12 (4.48%) Clustering
4 12 (4.48%) Product Ownership
5 10 (3.73%) Algorithms
6 9 (3.36%) Greenfield Project
6 9 (3.36%) Management Information System
7 8 (2.99%) Enterprise Software
8 6 (2.24%) Legacy Systems
8 6 (2.24%) PKI
9 4 (1.49%) Hackathon
10 3 (1.12%) Self-Motivation
10 3 (1.12%) Virtual Team
11 2 (0.75%) BBC
11 2 (0.75%) Hybrid Cloud
11 2 (0.75%) IoT
11 2 (0.75%) Molecular Biology
12 1 (0.37%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
Operating Systems
1 78 (29.10%) Linux
2 34 (12.69%) Unix
3 25 (9.33%) Windows
4 18 (6.72%) Android
5 12 (4.48%) Windows Server
6 5 (1.87%) SUSE
6 5 (1.87%) SUSE Linux Enterprise Server
7 1 (0.37%) Mac OS
7 1 (0.37%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
7 1 (0.37%) Ubuntu
7 1 (0.37%) VMS
7 1 (0.37%) Windows Server 2003
7 1 (0.37%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 150 (55.97%) Agile
2 138 (51.49%) CI/CD
3 119 (44.40%) DevOps
4 85 (31.72%) Containerisation
5 78 (29.10%) Microservices
6 68 (25.37%) Software Engineering
7 60 (22.39%) TDD
8 55 (20.52%) High Availability
8 55 (20.52%) Infrastructure as Code
9 46 (17.16%) Problem-Solving
10 45 (16.79%) Kanban
11 37 (13.81%) Collaborative Working
11 37 (13.81%) Scrum
11 37 (13.81%) Task Automation
12 36 (13.43%) Artificial Intelligence
12 36 (13.43%) Full-Stack Development
12 36 (13.43%) Performance Optimisation
13 35 (13.06%) Computer Science
14 34 (12.69%) Mentoring
15 32 (11.94%) Roadmaps
Programming Languages
1 127 (47.39%) Java
2 124 (46.27%) Python
3 106 (39.55%) JavaScript
4 64 (23.88%) Go
5 40 (14.93%) SQL
6 34 (12.69%) Bash
7 33 (12.31%) TypeScript
8 29 (10.82%) C#
9 25 (9.33%) C++
10 24 (8.96%) Rust
11 20 (7.46%) PowerShell
12 15 (5.60%) Shell Script
13 10 (3.73%) PHP
14 6 (2.24%) Scala
15 5 (1.87%) Perl
15 5 (1.87%) Ruby
16 4 (1.49%) C
16 4 (1.49%) Clojure
16 4 (1.49%) Elixir
17 3 (1.12%) R
Qualifications
1 63 (23.51%) Security Cleared
2 39 (14.55%) Degree
3 34 (12.69%) DV Cleared
4 30 (11.19%) SC Cleared
5 28 (10.45%) AWS Certification
6 14 (5.22%) Computer Science Degree
7 7 (2.61%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
8 5 (1.87%) Master's Degree
9 3 (1.12%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
9 3 (1.12%) Azure Certification
10 1 (0.37%) Microsoft Certification
10 1 (0.37%) OCP
10 1 (0.37%) Oracle Certification
10 1 (0.37%) PhD
10 1 (0.37%) VCAP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 27 (10.07%) Accessibility
2 13 (4.85%) SLA
3 9 (3.36%) Data Quality
3 9 (3.36%) QA
4 2 (0.75%) WCAG
5 1 (0.37%) GDPR
5 1 (0.37%) GMP
5 1 (0.37%) HIPAA
5 1 (0.37%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 1 (0.37%) SOC 2
System Software
1 187 (69.78%) Docker
2 20 (7.46%) VMware Infrastructure
3 15 (5.60%) Active Directory
4 14 (5.22%) vSphere
5 13 (4.85%) Hyper-V
5 13 (4.85%) VMware ESXi
6 10 (3.73%) HDFS
7 6 (2.24%) BitLocker
7 6 (2.24%) Microsoft App-V
7 6 (2.24%) NFS
7 6 (2.24%) Terminal Services
8 3 (1.12%) Virtual Machines
9 1 (0.37%) Citrix Hypervisor
9 1 (0.37%) vCloud
Systems Management
1 95 (35.45%) Ansible
2 92 (34.33%) Terraform
3 34 (12.69%) Prometheus
4 27 (10.07%) Kustomize
5 26 (9.70%) Argo
6 17 (6.34%) Puppet
7 13 (4.85%) Kibana
7 13 (4.85%) vCenter Server
8 12 (4.48%) vMotion
9 9 (3.36%) Grafana
10 7 (2.61%) PowerCLI
10 7 (2.61%) vRealize
11 6 (2.24%) Nagios
12 3 (1.12%) Kubeflow
13 2 (0.75%) Hadoop YARN
13 2 (0.75%) Kubespray
13 2 (0.75%) Progress Chef
14 1 (0.37%) FortiGate
14 1 (0.37%) Packer
Vendors
1 40 (14.93%) Google
2 22 (8.21%) Microsoft
3 21 (7.84%) VMware
4 14 (5.22%) Splunk
5 13 (4.85%) Citrix
5 13 (4.85%) Dynatrace
6 12 (4.48%) HP
7 10 (3.73%) Rackspace
8 8 (2.99%) Solace
9 7 (2.61%) Red Hat
9 7 (2.61%) Veeam
10 6 (2.24%) Symantec
11 5 (1.87%) SAP
12 4 (1.49%) Oracle
13 3 (1.12%) Atlassian
14 2 (0.75%) Cloudera
14 2 (0.75%) Confluent
14 2 (0.75%) Dataiku
14 2 (0.75%) MapR
14 2 (0.75%) Sawtooth Software