Kubernetes Jobs in South London

Kubernetes (k8s)
London > South London

The table below provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in South London 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 31 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
31 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 29 31 71
Rank change year-on-year +2 +40 -54
Permanent jobs citing Kubernetes 82 65 15
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in South London 11.53% 7.39% 2.22%
As % of the Systems Management category 69.49% 54.17% 16.67%
Number of salaries quoted 27 37 8
10th Percentile - £67,500 £64,425
25th Percentile £78,750 £76,250 -
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £82,500 £82,500 £75,000
Median % change year-on-year - +10.00% +7.14%
75th Percentile £111,250 £85,000 £80,000
90th Percentile - £110,500 £82,250
London median annual salary £92,500 £90,000 £85,000
% change year-on-year +2.78% +5.88% -

All Systems Management Skills
South London

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 South London.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for systems management skills 118 120 90
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in South London 16.60% 13.64% 13.31%
Number of salaries quoted 48 70 68
10th Percentile £48,125 £29,250 £31,250
25th Percentile £62,500 £41,500 £32,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £82,500 £70,000 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year +17.86% +40.00% -2.44%
75th Percentile £86,250 £83,750 £63,750
90th Percentile £111,250 £86,000 £80,000
London median annual salary £80,000 £80,000 £77,500
% change year-on-year - +3.23% -3.13%

Kubernetes
Job Vacancy Trend in South London

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

Job vacancy trend for Kubernetes in South London

Kubernetes
Salary Trend in South London

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

Salary trend for Kubernetes in South London

Kubernetes
Salary Histogram in South London

Salary distribution for jobs citing Kubernetes in South London over the 6 months to 31 May 2025.

Salary histogram for Kubernetes in South London

Kubernetes
Job Locations in South London

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Kubernetes within the South London region over the 6 months to 31 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
Croydon -9 36 - - 5
Merton +17 32 £82,500 -21.43% 1
Bromley -4 5 - - 3
Kingston Upon Thames +17 4 - -
Sutton - 3 - -
Wandsworth - 1 - -
Kubernetes
London

Kubernetes
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in South London 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 (17.07%) JBoss
1 14 (17.07%) Red Hat Fuse
2 6 (7.32%) OpenStack
Cloud Services
1 81 (98.78%) AWS
2 34 (41.46%) Amazon EKS
2 34 (41.46%) Serverless
3 32 (39.02%) Amazon ECS
4 20 (24.39%) Pulumi
5 12 (14.63%) Amazon EC2
6 6 (7.32%) Amazon S3
6 6 (7.32%) Amazon SQS
7 4 (4.88%) AWS CloudFormation
8 2 (2.44%) AWS KMS
8 2 (2.44%) AWS Lambda
8 2 (2.44%) Azure
9 1 (1.22%) Akamai
Communications & Networking
1 21 (25.61%) Broadband
2 2 (2.44%) Network Security
3 1 (1.22%) BGP
3 1 (1.22%) DNS
3 1 (1.22%) HTTP
3 1 (1.22%) IOS XR
3 1 (1.22%) SSL
3 1 (1.22%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 52 (63.41%) Relational Database
2 32 (39.02%) PostgreSQL
2 32 (39.02%) RDBMS
3 20 (24.39%) NoSQL
4 2 (2.44%) Elasticsearch
Development Applications
1 32 (39.02%) Jenkins
2 28 (34.15%) JUnit
3 21 (25.61%) Git
4 20 (24.39%) Jaeger
5 12 (14.63%) JMeter
5 12 (14.63%) Mockito
General
1 26 (31.71%) Public Sector
2 25 (30.49%) Finance
2 25 (30.49%) Financial Institution
3 23 (28.05%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 7 (8.54%) Social Skills
5 5 (6.10%) Presentation Skills
6 3 (3.66%) Organisational Skills
7 2 (2.44%) Analytical Skills
8 1 (1.22%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 33 (40.24%) Developer
2 31 (37.80%) Java Developer
3 25 (30.49%) Java Engineer
3 25 (30.49%) Java Software Engineer
3 25 (30.49%) Software Engineer
4 20 (24.39%) Lead
4 20 (24.39%) Team Leader
5 12 (14.63%) Senior
6 11 (13.41%) Senior Java Engineer
6 11 (13.41%) Senior Java Software Engineer
6 11 (13.41%) Senior Software Engineer
7 7 (8.54%) Full-Stack Developer
7 7 (8.54%) Full-Stack Java Developer
8 2 (2.44%) Architect
8 2 (2.44%) AWS Architect
8 2 (2.44%) Cloud Architect
8 2 (2.44%) Software Developer
9 1 (1.22%) Design Engineer
9 1 (1.22%) Network Engineer
9 1 (1.22%) Senior Network Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 57 (69.51%) Spring
1 57 (69.51%) Spring Boot
2 33 (40.24%) Kafka
3 32 (39.02%) REST
3 32 (39.02%) Web Services
4 28 (34.15%) Elastic Stack
5 26 (31.71%) Apache Camel
6 25 (30.49%) Akka
6 25 (30.49%) AngularJS
7 20 (24.39%) OpenTelemetry
8 15 (18.29%) RxJava
8 15 (18.29%) Spring WebFlux
9 14 (17.07%) J2EE
9 14 (17.07%) RESTful
9 14 (17.07%) SOAP
10 12 (14.63%) ActiveMQ
10 12 (14.63%) Hibernate
10 12 (14.63%) HTML
10 12 (14.63%) jQuery
10 12 (14.63%) WireMock
Miscellaneous
1 32 (39.02%) Distributed Systems
2 2 (2.44%) Cloud Native
2 2 (2.44%) Cyberattack
2 2 (2.44%) Management Information System
3 1 (1.22%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 22 (26.83%) Linux
2 20 (24.39%) Unix
3 2 (2.44%) Android
Processes & Methodologies
1 79 (96.34%) Agile
2 59 (71.95%) Microservices
3 57 (69.51%) TDD
4 51 (62.20%) BDD
5 47 (57.32%) DevOps
6 34 (41.46%) Containerisation
7 33 (40.24%) CI/CD
7 33 (40.24%) High Availability
8 29 (35.37%) Software Engineering
9 28 (34.15%) Scrum
10 25 (30.49%) Fintech
10 25 (30.49%) Pair Programming
11 24 (29.27%) Kanban
12 22 (26.83%) Cost Optimisation
12 22 (26.83%) Infrastructure as Code
12 22 (26.83%) Mentoring
12 22 (26.83%) Product Management
12 22 (26.83%) Resource Management
13 21 (25.61%) Roadmaps
14 20 (24.39%) GitOps
Programming Languages
1 81 (98.78%) Java
2 40 (48.78%) JavaScript
3 35 (42.68%) Python
4 22 (26.83%) Go
5 20 (24.39%) Bash
6 12 (14.63%) Shell Script
7 2 (2.44%) C++
7 2 (2.44%) Rust
Qualifications
1 26 (31.71%) Security Cleared
2 24 (29.27%) SC Cleared
3 22 (26.83%) AWS Certification
4 2 (2.44%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
4 2 (2.44%) Computer Science Degree
4 2 (2.44%) Degree
4 2 (2.44%) DV Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 14 (17.07%) SLA
2 2 (2.44%) GDPR
2 2 (2.44%) HIPAA
System Software
1 82 (100.00%) Docker
Systems Management
1 37 (45.12%) Ansible
2 24 (29.27%) Terraform
3 22 (26.83%) Prometheus
4 20 (24.39%) Argo
4 20 (24.39%) Kustomize
5 12 (14.63%) Kibana
6 2 (2.44%) Grafana
Vendors
1 20 (24.39%) Google
2 12 (14.63%) Dynatrace
2 12 (14.63%) Splunk
3 1 (1.22%) Cisco
3 1 (1.22%) Nokia