Kubernetes Job Trends in South London

Kubernetes (k8s)
London > South London

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in South London requiring Kubernetes skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 9 January 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
9 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 25 12 10
Rank change year-on-year -13 -2 +53
Permanent jobs citing Kubernetes 22 99 60
As % of all permanent jobs in South London 4.54% 17.37% 15.42%
As % of the Systems Management category 42.31% 79.20% 74.07%
Number of salaries quoted 4 10 41
10th Percentile £56,930 - £55,000
25th Percentile £63,725 £60,000 £66,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £76,250 £62,500 £77,500
Median % change year-on-year +22.00% -19.35% -4.62%
75th Percentile £92,500 £68,750 £83,750
90th Percentile £103,750 £88,375 -
London median annual salary £85,500 £95,000 £85,000
% change year-on-year -10.00% +11.76% -

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 52 125 81
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in South London 10.72% 21.93% 20.82%
Number of salaries quoted 31 32 60
10th Percentile £34,250 £42,881 £36,225
25th Percentile £41,588 £57,063 £54,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £46,000 £66,250 £72,500
Median % change year-on-year -30.57% -8.62% +34.88%
75th Percentile £58,000 £73,750 £82,000
90th Percentile £75,000 - £83,750
London median annual salary £75,000 £80,000 £78,500
% change year-on-year -6.25% +1.91% -1.88%

Kubernetes
Job Vacancy Trend in South London

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

Kubernetes job vacancy trend in South London

Kubernetes
Salary Trend in South London

Salary distribution trend for jobs in South London citing Kubernetes.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in South London citing Kubernetes

Kubernetes
Salary Histogram in South London

Salary distribution for jobs citing Kubernetes in South London over the 6 months to 9 January 2026.

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 9 January 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
Croydon -8 13 £62,600 +0.16% 1
Merton -4 6 £95,000 +1.33%
Bromley -6 3 - - 9
Kubernetes
London

Kubernetes
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in South London 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 1 (4.55%) OpenStack
Cloud Services
1 16 (72.73%) AWS
2 12 (54.55%) Amazon ECS
2 12 (54.55%) Amazon EKS
2 12 (54.55%) Serverless
3 11 (50.00%) Amazon EC2
4 1 (4.55%) Amazon CloudWatch
4 1 (4.55%) GitHub
4 1 (4.55%) OpenShift
4 1 (4.55%) Pulumi
Communications & Networking
1 7 (31.82%) Broadband
Database & Business Intelligence
1 13 (59.09%) PostgreSQL
2 12 (54.55%) RDBMS
2 12 (54.55%) Relational Database
3 2 (9.09%) NoSQL
4 1 (4.55%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 19 (86.36%) Jenkins
2 12 (54.55%) JUnit
3 11 (50.00%) JMeter
3 11 (50.00%) Mockito
4 6 (27.27%) TeamCity
5 2 (9.09%) Git
6 1 (4.55%) Cucumber
6 1 (4.55%) GitLab
6 1 (4.55%) Jaeger
6 1 (4.55%) Selenium
General
1 11 (50.00%) Public Sector
2 2 (9.09%) Finance
2 2 (9.09%) Financial Institution
3 1 (4.55%) Inclusion and Diversity
3 1 (4.55%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 14 (63.64%) Developer
2 12 (54.55%) Full-Stack Developer
2 12 (54.55%) Full-Stack Java Developer
2 12 (54.55%) Java Developer
3 11 (50.00%) Mid-Level Java Developer
4 6 (27.27%) Senior
4 6 (27.27%) Software Engineer
5 4 (18.18%) Scala Engineer
5 4 (18.18%) Scala Software Engineer
6 3 (13.64%) Senior Software Engineer
7 2 (9.09%) Java Engineer
7 2 (9.09%) Java Software Engineer
7 2 (9.09%) Kafka Engineer
7 2 (9.09%) Senior Developer
7 2 (9.09%) Senior Scala Engineer
7 2 (9.09%) Senior Scala Software Engineer
7 2 (9.09%) Senior Software Developer
7 2 (9.09%) Software Developer
8 1 (4.55%) Distributed Systems Engineer
8 1 (4.55%) Lead
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 15 (68.18%) Spring
1 15 (68.18%) Spring Boot
2 12 (54.55%) JSON
2 12 (54.55%) REST
2 12 (54.55%) Web Services
2 12 (54.55%) XML
3 11 (50.00%) ActiveMQ
3 11 (50.00%) Apache Camel
3 11 (50.00%) Hibernate
3 11 (50.00%) HTML
3 11 (50.00%) jQuery
3 11 (50.00%) WireMock
4 8 (36.36%) Akka
5 3 (13.64%) Elastic Stack
6 2 (9.09%) AngularJS
6 2 (9.09%) Kafka
6 2 (9.09%) RxJava
6 2 (9.09%) Spring WebFlux
7 1 (4.55%) Flask
7 1 (4.55%) pytest
Miscellaneous
1 13 (59.09%) Distributed Systems
2 6 (27.27%) Over-the-Top Content
2 6 (27.27%) Video\Live Streaming
3 1 (4.55%) Legacy Systems
Operating Systems
1 1 (4.55%) Linux
1 1 (4.55%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 21 (95.45%) Agile
1 21 (95.45%) TDD
2 15 (68.18%) BDD
2 15 (68.18%) Microservices
3 13 (59.09%) CI/CD
4 12 (54.55%) Full-Stack Development
5 11 (50.00%) Process Management
5 11 (50.00%) SDLC
5 11 (50.00%) Workflow
6 8 (36.36%) Pair Programming
7 7 (31.82%) Kanban
7 7 (31.82%) Scrum
7 7 (31.82%) Software Engineering
8 6 (27.27%) Acceptance Criteria
8 6 (27.27%) Analytics
8 6 (27.27%) Data Analytics
8 6 (27.27%) Open Source
9 3 (13.64%) DevOps
10 2 (9.09%) High Availability
10 2 (9.09%) Mentoring
Programming Languages
1 16 (72.73%) Java
2 13 (59.09%) JavaScript
2 13 (59.09%) Python
3 11 (50.00%) Shell Script
4 6 (27.27%) Scala
5 1 (4.55%) Bash
5 1 (4.55%) Delphi
5 1 (4.55%) Go
Qualifications
1 11 (50.00%) Security Cleared
2 1 (4.55%) AWS Certification
System Software
1 22 (100.00%) Docker
Systems Management
1 11 (50.00%) Kibana
2 2 (9.09%) Ansible
3 1 (4.55%) Argo
3 1 (4.55%) Grafana
3 1 (4.55%) Kustomize
3 1 (4.55%) Prometheus
3 1 (4.55%) Terraform
Vendors
1 11 (50.00%) Dynatrace
1 11 (50.00%) Splunk
2 1 (4.55%) Google
2 1 (4.55%) Oracle