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 20 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
20 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 28 30 62
Rank change year-on-year +2 +32 -45
Permanent jobs citing Kubernetes 83 67 22
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in South London 11.08% 7.61% 3.04%
As % of the Systems Management category 70.34% 54.03% 22.22%
Number of salaries quoted 29 39 8
10th Percentile £60,000 £70,500 £64,425
25th Percentile £78,750 £75,625 -
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £82,500 £82,500 £75,000
Median % change year-on-year - +10.00% +3.45%
75th Percentile £111,250 £84,375 £80,000
90th Percentile - £109,000 £82,250
London median annual salary £93,750 £87,500 £85,000
% change year-on-year +7.14% +2.94% -

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 118 124 99
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in South London 15.75% 14.09% 13.69%
Number of salaries quoted 49 74 68
10th Percentile £50,000 £29,625 £31,250
25th Percentile £62,500 £41,500 £32,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £82,500 £71,250 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year +15.79% +42.50% -4.76%
75th Percentile £86,250 £83,750 £64,063
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 20 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 20 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 -12 35 - - 12
Merton +16 32 £82,500 -21.43% 1
Bromley -3 5 - - 2
Kingston Upon Thames +18 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 (16.87%) JBoss
1 14 (16.87%) Red Hat Fuse
2 6 (7.23%) OpenStack
Cloud Services
1 82 (98.80%) AWS
2 35 (42.17%) Serverless
3 33 (39.76%) Amazon EKS
4 31 (37.35%) Amazon ECS
5 20 (24.10%) Pulumi
6 11 (13.25%) Amazon EC2
7 6 (7.23%) Amazon S3
7 6 (7.23%) Amazon SQS
7 6 (7.23%) AWS CloudFormation
8 4 (4.82%) AWS KMS
8 4 (4.82%) AWS Lambda
9 2 (2.41%) Azure
10 1 (1.20%) Akamai
Communications & Networking
1 21 (25.30%) Broadband
2 4 (4.82%) Network Security
3 1 (1.20%) BGP
3 1 (1.20%) DNS
3 1 (1.20%) HTTP
3 1 (1.20%) IOS XR
3 1 (1.20%) SSL
3 1 (1.20%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 51 (61.45%) Relational Database
2 31 (37.35%) PostgreSQL
2 31 (37.35%) RDBMS
3 20 (24.10%) NoSQL
4 2 (2.41%) Elasticsearch
Development Applications
1 31 (37.35%) Jenkins
2 27 (32.53%) JUnit
3 21 (25.30%) Git
4 20 (24.10%) Jaeger
5 11 (13.25%) JMeter
5 11 (13.25%) Mockito
General
1 25 (30.12%) Finance
1 25 (30.12%) Financial Institution
1 25 (30.12%) Public Sector
2 23 (27.71%) Inclusion and Diversity
3 9 (10.84%) Social Skills
4 5 (6.02%) Presentation Skills
5 3 (3.61%) Organisational Skills
6 2 (2.41%) Analytical Skills
7 1 (1.20%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 32 (38.55%) Developer
2 30 (36.14%) Java Developer
3 25 (30.12%) Java Engineer
3 25 (30.12%) Java Software Engineer
3 25 (30.12%) Software Engineer
4 20 (24.10%) Lead
4 20 (24.10%) Team Leader
5 12 (14.46%) Senior
6 11 (13.25%) Senior Java Engineer
6 11 (13.25%) Senior Java Software Engineer
6 11 (13.25%) Senior Software Engineer
7 7 (8.43%) Full-Stack Developer
7 7 (8.43%) Full-Stack Java Developer
8 4 (4.82%) Architect
8 4 (4.82%) AWS Architect
8 4 (4.82%) Cloud Architect
9 2 (2.41%) Software Developer
10 1 (1.20%) Design Engineer
10 1 (1.20%) Network Engineer
10 1 (1.20%) Senior Network Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 56 (67.47%) Spring
1 56 (67.47%) Spring Boot
2 35 (42.17%) Kafka
3 31 (37.35%) REST
3 31 (37.35%) Web Services
4 30 (36.14%) Elastic Stack
5 25 (30.12%) Akka
5 25 (30.12%) AngularJS
5 25 (30.12%) Apache Camel
6 20 (24.10%) OpenTelemetry
7 15 (18.07%) RxJava
7 15 (18.07%) Spring WebFlux
8 14 (16.87%) J2EE
8 14 (16.87%) RESTful
8 14 (16.87%) SOAP
9 11 (13.25%) ActiveMQ
9 11 (13.25%) Hibernate
9 11 (13.25%) HTML
9 11 (13.25%) jQuery
9 11 (13.25%) WireMock
Miscellaneous
1 31 (37.35%) Distributed Systems
2 4 (4.82%) Cloud Native
2 4 (4.82%) Management Information System
3 2 (2.41%) Cyberattack
4 1 (1.20%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 22 (26.51%) Linux
2 20 (24.10%) Unix
3 2 (2.41%) Android
Processes & Methodologies
1 78 (93.98%) Agile
2 60 (72.29%) Microservices
3 56 (67.47%) TDD
4 50 (60.24%) BDD
5 49 (59.04%) DevOps
6 36 (43.37%) Containerisation
7 35 (42.17%) High Availability
8 34 (40.96%) CI/CD
9 31 (37.35%) Software Engineering
10 27 (32.53%) Scrum
11 25 (30.12%) Fintech
11 25 (30.12%) Pair Programming
12 24 (28.92%) Cost Optimisation
12 24 (28.92%) Infrastructure as Code
12 24 (28.92%) Mentoring
12 24 (28.92%) Product Management
12 24 (28.92%) Resource Management
13 23 (27.71%) Kanban
14 21 (25.30%) Roadmaps
15 20 (24.10%) GitOps
Programming Languages
1 82 (98.80%) Java
2 39 (46.99%) JavaScript
3 34 (40.96%) Python
4 22 (26.51%) Go
5 20 (24.10%) Bash
6 11 (13.25%) Shell Script
7 2 (2.41%) C++
7 2 (2.41%) Rust
Qualifications
1 27 (32.53%) Security Cleared
2 25 (30.12%) SC Cleared
3 24 (28.92%) AWS Certification
4 4 (4.82%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
4 4 (4.82%) Computer Science Degree
4 4 (4.82%) Degree
5 2 (2.41%) DV Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 14 (16.87%) SLA
2 4 (4.82%) GDPR
2 4 (4.82%) HIPAA
System Software
1 83 (100.00%) Docker
Systems Management
1 37 (44.58%) Ansible
2 26 (31.33%) Terraform
3 24 (28.92%) Prometheus
4 20 (24.10%) Argo
4 20 (24.10%) Kustomize
5 11 (13.25%) Kibana
6 4 (4.82%) Grafana
Vendors
1 20 (24.10%) Google
2 11 (13.25%) Dynatrace
2 11 (13.25%) Splunk
3 1 (1.20%) Cisco
3 1 (1.20%) Nokia