Kubernetes Engineer Job Trends in Sussex

Kubernetes Engineer (K8s Engineer)
South East > Sussex

The median Kubernetes Engineer (K8s Engineer) salary in Sussex is £70,000 per year, according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months leading to 15 June 2026.

The table below compares current salary benchmarking and summary statistics with the previous two years.

6 months to
15 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 20 - -
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Permanent jobs requiring a Kubernetes Engineer 1 0 0
As % of all permanent jobs in Sussex 0.88% - -
As % of the Job Titles category 0.89% - -
Number of salaries quoted 1 0 0
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £70,000 - -
South East median annual salary £70,000 £53,750 -
% change year-on-year +30.23% - -

All Permanent IT Job Roles
Sussex

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent IT job vacancies in Sussex. Most job vacancies include a discernible job title that can be normalized. As such, the figures in the second row provide an indication of the number of permanent jobs in our overall sample.

Permanent vacancies in Sussex with a recognized job title 112 34 270
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 98.25% 91.89% 97.47%
Number of salaries quoted 93 26 240
10th Percentile £27,000 £26,000 £30,000
25th Percentile £29,750 £31,250 £35,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £45,000 £37,625 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year +19.60% -24.75% -28.57%
75th Percentile £70,000 £43,750 £62,500
90th Percentile £83,000 £77,500 £75,000
South East median annual salary £52,500 £52,500 £50,000
% change year-on-year - +5.00% -9.09%

Kubernetes Engineer Skill Set
Top 30 Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Sussex

For the 6 months to 15 June 2026, Kubernetes Engineer job roles required the following skills and capabilities in order of popularity. The figures indicate the absolute number of co-occurrences and as a proportion of all permanent job ads across the Sussex region featuring Kubernetes Engineer in the job title.

1 1 (100.00%) Analytics
1 1 (100.00%) Azure
1 1 (100.00%) Azure AKS
1 1 (100.00%) Azure DevOps
1 1 (100.00%) Azure Event Grid
1 1 (100.00%) Azure Monitor
1 1 (100.00%) Bash
1 1 (100.00%) CI/CD
1 1 (100.00%) Cloud Security
1 1 (100.00%) DevOps
1 1 (100.00%) IaaS
1 1 (100.00%) Infrastructure as Code
1 1 (100.00%) Kubernetes
1 1 (100.00%) Linux
1 1 (100.00%) Load Balancing
1 1 (100.00%) Microservices
1 1 (100.00%) Microsoft
1 1 (100.00%) Observability
1 1 (100.00%) PaaS
1 1 (100.00%) Platform Engineering
1 1 (100.00%) PostgreSQL
1 1 (100.00%) PowerShell
1 1 (100.00%) Python
1 1 (100.00%) Redis
1 1 (100.00%) Root Cause Analysis
1 1 (100.00%) SC Cleared
1 1 (100.00%) Security Cleared
1 1 (100.00%) SQL
1 1 (100.00%) Terraform
1 1 (100.00%) YAML

Kubernetes Engineer Skill Set
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Sussex 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:

Cloud Services
1 1 (100.00%) Azure
1 1 (100.00%) Azure AKS
1 1 (100.00%) Azure DevOps
1 1 (100.00%) Azure Event Grid
1 1 (100.00%) Azure Monitor
1 1 (100.00%) IaaS
1 1 (100.00%) PaaS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (100.00%) PostgreSQL
1 1 (100.00%) Redis
General
1 1 (100.00%) Aviation
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (100.00%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 1 (100.00%) Hybrid Cloud
Operating Systems
1 1 (100.00%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (100.00%) Analytics
1 1 (100.00%) CI/CD
1 1 (100.00%) Cloud Security
1 1 (100.00%) DevOps
1 1 (100.00%) Infrastructure as Code
1 1 (100.00%) Load Balancing
1 1 (100.00%) Microservices
1 1 (100.00%) Observability
1 1 (100.00%) Platform Engineering
1 1 (100.00%) Root Cause Analysis
Programming Languages
1 1 (100.00%) Bash
1 1 (100.00%) PowerShell
1 1 (100.00%) Python
1 1 (100.00%) SQL
Qualifications
1 1 (100.00%) SC Cleared
1 1 (100.00%) Security Cleared
Systems Management
1 1 (100.00%) Kubernetes
1 1 (100.00%) Terraform
Vendors
1 1 (100.00%) Microsoft