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

6 months to
6 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 72 50 52
Rank change year-on-year -22 +2 +16
Permanent jobs citing Kubernetes 124 307 326
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the Thames Valley 3.74% 4.58% 5.33%
As % of the Systems Management category 50.00% 39.31% 32.96%
Number of salaries quoted 71 261 183
10th Percentile £47,500 £52,500 £43,750
25th Percentile £52,500 £57,500 £58,125
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £72,500 £75,000 £80,000
Median % change year-on-year -3.33% -6.25% +14.29%
75th Percentile £90,000 £91,250 £95,000
90th Percentile £112,500 £95,000 £106,000
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 248 781 989
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the Thames Valley 7.48% 11.66% 16.17%
Number of salaries quoted 162 614 494
10th Percentile £36,250 £33,475 £28,000
25th Percentile £45,313 £41,250 £37,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,500 £57,253 £62,086
Median % change year-on-year +0.43% -7.78% -4.48%
75th Percentile £81,250 £76,250 £83,750
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 6 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 6 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 -26 90 £77,500 +3.33% 40
Oxfordshire +32 19 £50,750 -30.00% 21
Buckinghamshire +29 15 £58,750 -9.62% 16
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 14 (11.29%) Confluence
2 12 (9.68%) JBoss
2 12 (9.68%) Red Hat Fuse
3 7 (5.65%) OpenStack
4 2 (1.61%) Apache
4 2 (1.61%) Apache Spark
5 1 (0.81%) CMS
5 1 (0.81%) Headless CMS
5 1 (0.81%) Strapi
Cloud Services
1 74 (59.68%) AWS
2 45 (36.29%) Amazon EKS
3 41 (33.06%) Serverless
4 36 (29.03%) Amazon ECS
5 32 (25.81%) Azure
6 26 (20.97%) Amazon EC2
7 18 (14.52%) GCP
8 14 (11.29%) Amazon S3
9 6 (4.84%) Amazon ECR
9 6 (4.84%) Amazon SQS
9 6 (4.84%) GitHub
9 6 (4.84%) Slack
9 6 (4.84%) Virtual Private Cloud
10 5 (4.03%) Azure DevOps
11 3 (2.42%) AWS Lambda
11 3 (2.42%) Cloud Computing
11 3 (2.42%) GitHub Actions
12 2 (1.61%) AWS CloudFormation
12 2 (1.61%) Microsoft 365
13 1 (0.81%) IaaS
Communications & Networking
1 2 (1.61%) Broadband
1 2 (1.61%) Internet
1 2 (1.61%) Network Security
2 1 (0.81%) DHCP
2 1 (0.81%) DNS
2 1 (0.81%) iSCSI
2 1 (0.81%) TCP/IP
2 1 (0.81%) VLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 52 (41.94%) PostgreSQL
2 36 (29.03%) Relational Database
3 25 (20.16%) NoSQL
4 19 (15.32%) SQL Server
5 18 (14.52%) RDBMS
6 12 (9.68%) MongoDB
6 12 (9.68%) MySQL
7 3 (2.42%) Pinecone
7 3 (2.42%) Weaviate
8 2 (1.61%) DynamoDB
8 2 (1.61%) Elasticsearch
8 2 (1.61%) Hadoop
8 2 (1.61%) Redis
9 1 (0.81%) Amazon RDS
9 1 (0.81%) GIS
9 1 (0.81%) Power BI
9 1 (0.81%) TimescaleDB
Development Applications
1 54 (43.55%) Git
2 41 (33.06%) Jenkins
3 35 (28.23%) JUnit
4 22 (17.74%) Selenium
5 21 (16.94%) Mockito
6 20 (16.13%) GitLab
7 18 (14.52%) JMeter
8 15 (12.10%) JIRA
9 14 (11.29%) Cypress.io
10 8 (6.45%) SoapUI
11 7 (5.65%) Cucumber
11 7 (5.65%) SonarQube
12 6 (4.84%) Bitbucket
12 6 (4.84%) Maven
12 6 (4.84%) Sonatype Nexus
13 3 (2.42%) MLflow
14 2 (1.61%) Mocha
15 1 (0.81%) Artifactory
General
1 33 (26.61%) Public Sector
2 19 (15.32%) Social Skills
3 11 (8.87%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 10 (8.06%) Finance
5 8 (6.45%) Analytical Skills
6 7 (5.65%) Manufacturing
7 6 (4.84%) Banking
7 6 (4.84%) Electronics
8 5 (4.03%) Presentation Skills
9 3 (2.42%) Law
9 3 (2.42%) Organisational Skills
10 2 (1.61%) Legal
11 1 (0.81%) Pharmaceutical
11 1 (0.81%) Retail
Job Titles
1 63 (50.81%) Developer
2 41 (33.06%) Java Developer
3 22 (17.74%) Software Engineer
4 19 (15.32%) Senior
5 14 (11.29%) Senior Developer
6 13 (10.48%) Software Developer
7 10 (8.06%) Full-Stack Developer
7 10 (8.06%) Lead
8 9 (7.26%) Full-Stack Java Developer
9 8 (6.45%) Development Team Leader
9 8 (6.45%) DevOps Engineer
9 8 (6.45%) Software Development Team Leader
9 8 (6.45%) Software Team Leader
9 8 (6.45%) Team Leader
10 6 (4.84%) Administrator
10 6 (4.84%) Front-End Developer (Client-Side Developer)
10 6 (4.84%) Principal Engineer
10 6 (4.84%) Senior Front-End Developer
10 6 (4.84%) Senior Software Developer
10 6 (4.84%) Systems Administrator
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 53 (42.74%) React
2 46 (37.10%) Spring
2 46 (37.10%) Spring Boot
3 41 (33.06%) REST
4 36 (29.03%) Web Services
5 32 (25.81%) HTML
6 30 (24.19%) Apache Camel
7 27 (21.77%) Hibernate
8 22 (17.74%) .NET
9 19 (15.32%) Kafka
10 18 (14.52%) ActiveMQ
10 18 (14.52%) jQuery
10 18 (14.52%) WireMock
11 16 (12.90%) Jest
11 16 (12.90%) RESTful
12 15 (12.10%) Node.js
13 14 (11.29%) CSS
14 12 (9.68%) J2EE
14 12 (9.68%) SOAP
15 9 (7.26%) Mustache
Miscellaneous
1 37 (29.84%) Distributed Systems
2 7 (5.65%) Cloud Native
3 6 (4.84%) Enterprise Software
3 6 (4.84%) Molecular Biology
3 6 (4.84%) Product Ownership
4 3 (2.42%) Hackathon
4 3 (2.42%) Public Cloud
5 2 (1.61%) Algorithms
5 2 (1.61%) Cyberattack
5 2 (1.61%) IoT
5 2 (1.61%) Learning Management System
6 1 (0.81%) Greenfield Project
6 1 (0.81%) Management Information System
6 1 (0.81%) Onboarding
6 1 (0.81%) Video Conferencing
6 1 (0.81%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 16 (12.90%) Linux
2 5 (4.03%) SUSE
2 5 (4.03%) SUSE Linux Enterprise Server
3 3 (2.42%) Windows
4 2 (1.61%) Android
4 2 (1.61%) Unix
5 1 (0.81%) Mac OS
5 1 (0.81%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 87 (70.16%) Agile
2 57 (45.97%) Microservices
3 55 (44.35%) CI/CD
4 45 (36.29%) TDD
5 40 (32.26%) DevOps
6 37 (29.84%) Software Engineering
7 33 (26.61%) Artificial Intelligence
8 31 (25.00%) BDD
8 31 (25.00%) Containerisation
8 31 (25.00%) Scrum
9 28 (22.58%) Full-Stack Development
10 27 (21.77%) Computer Science
10 27 (21.77%) Kanban
11 26 (20.97%) Propensity Modelling
12 23 (18.55%) Collaborative Working
13 21 (16.94%) SDLC
14 18 (14.52%) Process Management
14 18 (14.52%) Workflow
15 16 (12.90%) Machine Learning
15 16 (12.90%) Problem-Solving
Programming Languages
1 67 (54.03%) JavaScript
2 57 (45.97%) Java
3 51 (41.13%) Python
4 36 (29.03%) TypeScript
5 27 (21.77%) C#
6 24 (19.35%) SQL
7 20 (16.13%) Shell Script
8 12 (9.68%) C++
9 11 (8.87%) Go
10 9 (7.26%) Rust
11 8 (6.45%) Bash
12 7 (5.65%) Perl
12 7 (5.65%) PHP
13 6 (4.84%) C
13 6 (4.84%) PowerShell
13 6 (4.84%) Ruby
14 3 (2.42%) R
15 1 (0.81%) Groovy
Qualifications
1 36 (29.03%) Security Cleared
2 35 (28.23%) Degree
3 31 (25.00%) SC Cleared
4 17 (13.71%) Computer Science Degree
5 3 (2.42%) DV Cleared
6 1 (0.81%) AWS Certification
6 1 (0.81%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
6 1 (0.81%) Master's Degree
6 1 (0.81%) Microsoft Certification
6 1 (0.81%) PhD
6 1 (0.81%) VCAP
6 1 (0.81%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 12 (9.68%) SLA
2 7 (5.65%) QA
3 6 (4.84%) WCAG
4 2 (1.61%) Accessibility
5 1 (0.81%) GDPR
5 1 (0.81%) GMP
5 1 (0.81%) HIPAA
5 1 (0.81%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 1 (0.81%) SOC 2
System Software
1 102 (82.26%) Docker
2 7 (5.65%) VMware Infrastructure
3 6 (4.84%) NFS
4 2 (1.61%) HDFS
5 1 (0.81%) Active Directory
5 1 (0.81%) vCloud
5 1 (0.81%) Virtual Machines
5 1 (0.81%) VMware ESXi
5 1 (0.81%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 26 (20.97%) Terraform
2 22 (17.74%) Ansible
3 18 (14.52%) Kibana
4 6 (4.84%) Kustomize
5 5 (4.03%) Grafana
5 5 (4.03%) Prometheus
6 3 (2.42%) Kubeflow
6 3 (2.42%) Puppet
7 2 (1.61%) Kubespray
8 1 (0.81%) Argo
8 1 (0.81%) FortiGate
8 1 (0.81%) Packer
8 1 (0.81%) PowerCLI
8 1 (0.81%) vCenter Server
8 1 (0.81%) vRealize
Vendors
1 18 (14.52%) Dynatrace
1 18 (14.52%) Splunk
2 7 (5.65%) VMware
3 6 (4.84%) Sawtooth Software
3 6 (4.84%) Solace
4 5 (4.03%) SAP
5 3 (2.42%) Google
6 2 (1.61%) Microsoft
7 1 (0.81%) AppDynamics
7 1 (0.81%) Atlassian
7 1 (0.81%) IBM
7 1 (0.81%) NVIDIA
7 1 (0.81%) Veeam