Kubernetes Engineer Jobs in the UK excluding London

Kubernetes Engineer (K8s Engineer)
UK > UK excluding London

The median Kubernetes Engineer (K8s Engineer) salary in the UK excluding London is £53,750 per year, according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months leading to 9 May 2025.

The table below provides salary benchmarking and summary statistics, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
9 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 568 733 704
Rank change year-on-year +165 -29 +83
Permanent jobs requiring a Kubernetes Engineer 7 25 58
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 0.018% 0.035% 0.096%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.020% 0.037% 0.11%
Number of salaries quoted 4 19 36
10th Percentile £42,875 - £53,750
25th Percentile £43,438 £56,250 £55,798
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £53,750 £70,000 £72,500
Median % change year-on-year -23.21% -3.45% +3.57%
75th Percentile £62,500 £80,000 £87,500
90th Percentile - £92,500 £102,500
UK median annual salary £90,000 £100,000 £95,000
% change year-on-year -10.00% +5.26% +18.75%

All Permanent IT Job Vacancies
UK excluding London

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent IT job vacancies in the UK excluding London. 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 the UK excluding London with a recognized job title 35,016 67,223 53,634
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 90.55% 94.80% 89.17%
Number of salaries quoted 18,742 47,591 30,483
10th Percentile £27,500 £26,750 £29,750
25th Percentile £37,906 £35,000 £38,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £52,000 £50,000 £53,000
Median % change year-on-year +4.00% -5.66% +6.00%
75th Percentile £65,000 £63,750 £68,750
90th Percentile £78,225 £76,250 £81,250
UK median annual salary £57,500 £52,500 £60,000
% change year-on-year +9.52% -12.50% -

Kubernetes Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London

Job postings that featured Kubernetes Engineer in the job title as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London.

Job vacancy trend for Kubernetes Engineer in the UK excluding London

Kubernetes Engineer
Salary Trend in the UK excluding London

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing Kubernetes Engineer in the UK excluding London.

Salary trend for Kubernetes Engineer in the UK excluding London

Kubernetes Engineer
Salary Histogram in the UK excluding London

Salary distribution for jobs citing Kubernetes Engineer in the UK excluding London over the 6 months to 9 May 2025.

Salary histogram for Kubernetes Engineer in the UK excluding London

Kubernetes Engineer
Job Locations in the UK excluding London

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Kubernetes Engineer within the UK excluding London region over the 6 months to 9 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
South East - 5 £60,000 - 4
Scotland +124 1 - - 1
Midlands +60 1 £45,000 -21.74%
East Midlands +42 1 £45,000 -21.74%
Kubernetes Engineer
UK

Kubernetes Engineer Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the UK excluding London

For the 6 months to 9 May 2025, Kubernetes Engineer job roles required the following skills and capabilities in order of popularity. The figures indicate the absolute number co-occurrences and as a proportion of all permanent job ads across the UK excluding London region featuring Kubernetes Engineer in the job title.

1 7 (100.00%) Kubernetes
2 6 (85.71%) CI/CD
3 5 (71.43%) Azure
4 4 (57.14%) Python
4 4 (57.14%) Docker
4 4 (57.14%) DevOps
5 3 (42.86%) Azure DevOps
5 3 (42.86%) Finance
5 3 (42.86%) Law
5 3 (42.86%) AWS
5 3 (42.86%) Agile
6 2 (28.57%) Pair Programming
6 2 (28.57%) Artificial Intelligence
6 2 (28.57%) Software Engineering
6 2 (28.57%) Linux
6 2 (28.57%) Selenium
6 2 (28.57%) Release Management
6 2 (28.57%) Git
6 2 (28.57%) Test Automation
6 2 (28.57%) Games
6 2 (28.57%) ETL
6 2 (28.57%) Terraform
6 2 (28.57%) Serverless
6 2 (28.57%) ETL Development
6 2 (28.57%) Go
6 2 (28.57%) Machine Learning
6 2 (28.57%) Open Source
6 2 (28.57%) User Experience
6 2 (28.57%) Algorithms
6 2 (28.57%) Jenkins

Kubernetes Engineer Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the UK excluding 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:

Cloud Services
1 5 (71.43%) Azure
2 3 (42.86%) AWS
2 3 (42.86%) Azure DevOps
3 2 (28.57%) Azure Functions
3 2 (28.57%) Serverless
4 1 (14.29%) Azure Logic Apps
4 1 (14.29%) Azure Service Fabric
4 1 (14.29%) Power Platform
4 1 (14.29%) SaaS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (14.29%) Apache Cassandra
1 1 (14.29%) MongoDB
1 1 (14.29%) PostgreSQL
1 1 (14.29%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 2 (28.57%) Git
1 2 (28.57%) Jenkins
1 2 (28.57%) Selenium
2 1 (14.29%) IntelliJ
2 1 (14.29%) PyCharm
2 1 (14.29%) Visual Studio
2 1 (14.29%) Visual Studio Code
General
1 3 (42.86%) Finance
1 3 (42.86%) Law
2 2 (28.57%) Games
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (14.29%) AngularJS
1 1 (14.29%) Node.js
1 1 (14.29%) React
Miscellaneous
1 2 (28.57%) Algorithms
2 1 (14.29%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 2 (28.57%) Linux
2 1 (14.29%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 6 (85.71%) CI/CD
2 4 (57.14%) DevOps
3 3 (42.86%) Agile
4 2 (28.57%) Artificial Intelligence
4 2 (28.57%) Artificial Intelligence Engineering
4 2 (28.57%) Cloud Security
4 2 (28.57%) ETL
4 2 (28.57%) ETL Development
4 2 (28.57%) Generative AI
4 2 (28.57%) Infrastructure as Code
4 2 (28.57%) LLM
4 2 (28.57%) Machine Learning
4 2 (28.57%) Open Source
4 2 (28.57%) Pair Programming
4 2 (28.57%) Release Management
4 2 (28.57%) Software Engineering
4 2 (28.57%) Technical Debt
4 2 (28.57%) Technology Strategy
4 2 (28.57%) Test Automation
4 2 (28.57%) User Experience
Programming Languages
1 4 (57.14%) Python
2 2 (28.57%) Go
3 1 (14.29%) C
3 1 (14.29%) C#
3 1 (14.29%) Java
3 1 (14.29%) JavaScript
3 1 (14.29%) PHP
3 1 (14.29%) Scala
3 1 (14.29%) SQL
3 1 (14.29%) TypeScript
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (28.57%) Accessibility
System Software
1 4 (57.14%) Docker
2 1 (14.29%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 7 (100.00%) Kubernetes
2 2 (28.57%) Ansible
2 2 (28.57%) Terraform
3 1 (14.29%) Rancher
Vendors
1 1 (14.29%) Microsoft
1 1 (14.29%) VMware