Kubernetes Jobs in the Thames Valley

Kubernetes (k8s)
South East > Thames Valley

The table below provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in the Thames Valley 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 2 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
2 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 63 47 51
Rank change year-on-year -16 +4 +24
Permanent jobs citing Kubernetes 121 311 329
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the Thames Valley 4.01% 4.62% 5.36%
As % of the Systems Management category 49.19% 39.67% 32.90%
Number of salaries quoted 71 264 185
10th Percentile £47,500 £52,500 £43,750
25th Percentile £52,500 £57,500 £57,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £72,500 £75,000 £80,000
Median % change year-on-year -3.33% -6.25% +14.29%
75th Percentile £90,625 £91,563 £95,000
90th Percentile £112,500 £100,250 £105,750
South East median annual salary £65,000 £70,000 £70,000
% change year-on-year -7.14% - -

All Systems Management Skills
Thames Valley

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 Thames Valley.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for systems management skills 246 784 1,000
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the Thames Valley 8.14% 11.64% 16.29%
Number of salaries quoted 165 618 501
10th Percentile £36,250 £33,775 £27,954
25th Percentile £46,250 £41,250 £37,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £57,500 £60,500
Median % change year-on-year +4.35% -4.96% -6.92%
75th Percentile £81,250 £76,250 £82,500
90th Percentile £95,000 £92,500 £97,500
South East median annual salary £60,000 £55,000 £57,500
% change year-on-year +9.09% -4.35% -11.54%

Kubernetes
Job Vacancy Trend in the Thames Valley

Job postings citing Kubernetes as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the Thames Valley.

Job vacancy trend for Kubernetes in the Thames Valley

Kubernetes
Salary Trend in the Thames Valley

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing Kubernetes in the Thames Valley.

Salary trend for Kubernetes in the Thames Valley

Kubernetes
Salary Histogram in the Thames Valley

Salary distribution for jobs citing Kubernetes in the Thames Valley over the 6 months to 2 May 2025.

Salary histogram for Kubernetes in the Thames Valley

Kubernetes
Job Locations in the Thames Valley

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Kubernetes within the Thames Valley region over the 6 months to 2 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
Berkshire -27 90 £77,500 +3.33% 46
Oxfordshire +40 17 £50,750 -30.00% 23
Buckinghamshire +37 14 £58,750 -9.62% 17
Kubernetes
South East

Kubernetes
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the Thames Valley 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 12 (9.92%) JBoss
1 12 (9.92%) Red Hat Fuse
2 8 (6.61%) Confluence
3 7 (5.79%) OpenStack
4 2 (1.65%) Apache
4 2 (1.65%) Apache Spark
5 1 (0.83%) CMS
5 1 (0.83%) Headless CMS
5 1 (0.83%) Strapi
Cloud Services
1 70 (57.85%) AWS
2 45 (37.19%) Amazon EKS
3 40 (33.06%) Serverless
4 36 (29.75%) Amazon ECS
5 26 (21.49%) Amazon EC2
6 25 (20.66%) Azure
7 14 (11.57%) Amazon S3
8 11 (9.09%) GCP
9 6 (4.96%) Amazon ECR
9 6 (4.96%) Amazon SQS
9 6 (4.96%) GitHub
9 6 (4.96%) Slack
9 6 (4.96%) Virtual Private Cloud
10 5 (4.13%) Azure DevOps
11 3 (2.48%) Cloud Computing
11 3 (2.48%) GitHub Actions
12 2 (1.65%) AWS CloudFormation
12 2 (1.65%) AWS Lambda
12 2 (1.65%) Microsoft 365
13 1 (0.83%) Azure Cosmos DB
Communications & Networking
1 2 (1.65%) Broadband
1 2 (1.65%) Internet
1 2 (1.65%) Network Security
2 1 (0.83%) DHCP
2 1 (0.83%) DNS
2 1 (0.83%) iSCSI
2 1 (0.83%) TCP/IP
2 1 (0.83%) VLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 53 (43.80%) PostgreSQL
2 36 (29.75%) Relational Database
3 28 (23.14%) NoSQL
4 18 (14.88%) RDBMS
5 13 (10.74%) SQL Server
6 12 (9.92%) MongoDB
6 12 (9.92%) MySQL
7 3 (2.48%) Pinecone
7 3 (2.48%) Weaviate
8 2 (1.65%) DynamoDB
8 2 (1.65%) Elasticsearch
8 2 (1.65%) Hadoop
8 2 (1.65%) Redis
9 1 (0.83%) Amazon RDS
9 1 (0.83%) GIS
9 1 (0.83%) Power BI
9 1 (0.83%) TimescaleDB
Development Applications
1 54 (44.63%) Git
2 41 (33.88%) Jenkins
3 35 (28.93%) JUnit
4 21 (17.36%) Mockito
5 18 (14.88%) JMeter
6 16 (13.22%) Selenium
7 14 (11.57%) Cypress.io
7 14 (11.57%) GitLab
8 9 (7.44%) JIRA
9 8 (6.61%) SoapUI
10 3 (2.48%) MLflow
11 2 (1.65%) Mocha
12 1 (0.83%) Artifactory
12 1 (0.83%) Cucumber
12 1 (0.83%) SonarQube
General
1 33 (27.27%) Public Sector
2 19 (15.70%) Social Skills
3 9 (7.44%) Analytical Skills
4 7 (5.79%) Manufacturing
5 6 (4.96%) Electronics
5 6 (4.96%) Finance
6 5 (4.13%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 5 (4.13%) Legal
6 5 (4.13%) Presentation Skills
7 3 (2.48%) Law
7 3 (2.48%) Organisational Skills
8 1 (0.83%) Pharmaceutical
8 1 (0.83%) Retail
Job Titles
1 63 (52.07%) Developer
2 41 (33.88%) Java Developer
3 22 (18.18%) Senior
4 20 (16.53%) Software Engineer
5 14 (11.57%) Senior Developer
6 13 (10.74%) Software Developer
7 10 (8.26%) Full-Stack Developer
7 10 (8.26%) Lead
8 9 (7.44%) Full-Stack Java Developer
9 8 (6.61%) Development Team Leader
9 8 (6.61%) DevOps Engineer
9 8 (6.61%) Software Development Team Leader
9 8 (6.61%) Software Team Leader
9 8 (6.61%) Team Leader
10 7 (5.79%) Principal Engineer
10 7 (5.79%) Principal Software Engineer
11 6 (4.96%) Front-End Developer (Client-Side Developer)
11 6 (4.96%) Senior Front-End Developer
11 6 (4.96%) Senior Software Developer
11 6 (4.96%) Senior Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 47 (38.84%) React
2 41 (33.88%) REST
3 40 (33.06%) Spring
3 40 (33.06%) Spring Boot
4 36 (29.75%) Web Services
5 30 (24.79%) Apache Camel
6 26 (21.49%) HTML
7 22 (18.18%) .NET
8 21 (17.36%) Hibernate
9 18 (14.88%) ActiveMQ
9 18 (14.88%) jQuery
9 18 (14.88%) WireMock
10 16 (13.22%) Jest
10 16 (13.22%) RESTful
11 15 (12.40%) Node.js
12 13 (10.74%) Kafka
13 12 (9.92%) J2EE
13 12 (9.92%) SOAP
14 9 (7.44%) Elastic Stack
14 9 (7.44%) Mustache
Miscellaneous
1 37 (30.58%) Distributed Systems
2 6 (4.96%) Cloud Native
2 6 (4.96%) Molecular Biology
3 5 (4.13%) Algorithms
4 4 (3.31%) IoT
5 3 (2.48%) Data Structures
5 3 (2.48%) Hackathon
5 3 (2.48%) Public Cloud
5 3 (2.48%) Virtual Team
6 2 (1.65%) Cyberattack
6 2 (1.65%) Learning Management System
6 2 (1.65%) Product Ownership
7 1 (0.83%) Greenfield Project
7 1 (0.83%) Onboarding
7 1 (0.83%) Video Conferencing
Operating Systems
1 16 (13.22%) Linux
2 5 (4.13%) Android
2 5 (4.13%) SUSE
2 5 (4.13%) SUSE Linux Enterprise Server
3 3 (2.48%) Apple iOS
3 3 (2.48%) Windows
4 2 (1.65%) Unix
5 1 (0.83%) Mac OS
5 1 (0.83%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 82 (67.77%) Agile
2 51 (42.15%) Microservices
3 49 (40.50%) CI/CD
4 39 (32.23%) TDD
5 34 (28.10%) DevOps
5 34 (28.10%) Software Engineering
6 33 (27.27%) Artificial Intelligence
7 31 (25.62%) BDD
7 31 (25.62%) Scrum
8 28 (23.14%) Computer Science
9 27 (22.31%) Kanban
10 26 (21.49%) Propensity Modelling
11 24 (19.83%) Collaborative Working
11 24 (19.83%) Containerisation
12 22 (18.18%) Full-Stack Development
13 19 (15.70%) Problem-Solving
14 18 (14.88%) Process Management
14 18 (14.88%) Workflow
15 16 (13.22%) Machine Learning
16 15 (12.40%) SDLC
Programming Languages
1 61 (50.41%) JavaScript
2 52 (42.98%) Python
3 50 (41.32%) Java
4 36 (29.75%) TypeScript
5 27 (22.31%) C#
6 20 (16.53%) Shell Script
7 18 (14.88%) SQL
8 15 (12.40%) Go
9 13 (10.74%) C++
10 10 (8.26%) Ruby
10 10 (8.26%) Rust
11 8 (6.61%) Bash
11 8 (6.61%) Perl
12 7 (5.79%) C
12 7 (5.79%) PHP
13 6 (4.96%) PowerShell
14 3 (2.48%) R
15 1 (0.83%) Groovy
Qualifications
1 36 (29.75%) Degree
2 35 (28.93%) Security Cleared
3 31 (25.62%) SC Cleared
4 16 (13.22%) Computer Science Degree
5 3 (2.48%) DV Cleared
6 1 (0.83%) Master's Degree
6 1 (0.83%) Microsoft Certification
6 1 (0.83%) PhD
6 1 (0.83%) VCAP
6 1 (0.83%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 12 (9.92%) SLA
2 6 (4.96%) WCAG
3 4 (3.31%) QA
4 2 (1.65%) Accessibility
5 1 (0.83%) GMP
System Software
1 96 (79.34%) Docker
2 7 (5.79%) VMware Infrastructure
3 6 (4.96%) NFS
4 2 (1.65%) HDFS
5 1 (0.83%) Active Directory
5 1 (0.83%) vCloud
5 1 (0.83%) Virtual Machines
5 1 (0.83%) VMware ESXi
5 1 (0.83%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 27 (22.31%) Terraform
2 22 (18.18%) Ansible
3 18 (14.88%) Kibana
4 6 (4.96%) Kustomize
5 4 (3.31%) Grafana
5 4 (3.31%) Prometheus
6 3 (2.48%) Kubeflow
6 3 (2.48%) Puppet
7 2 (1.65%) Kubespray
8 1 (0.83%) Argo
8 1 (0.83%) FortiGate
8 1 (0.83%) Packer
8 1 (0.83%) PowerCLI
8 1 (0.83%) vCenter Server
8 1 (0.83%) vRealize
Vendors
1 18 (14.88%) Dynatrace
1 18 (14.88%) Splunk
2 7 (5.79%) VMware
3 6 (4.96%) Sawtooth Software
4 5 (4.13%) SAP
5 3 (2.48%) Google
6 2 (1.65%) Microsoft
7 1 (0.83%) AppDynamics
7 1 (0.83%) Atlassian
7 1 (0.83%) IBM
7 1 (0.83%) NVIDIA
7 1 (0.83%) Veeam