Kubernetes Jobs in the UK excluding London

Kubernetes (k8s)
UK > UK excluding London

The table below provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in the UK excluding 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 31 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
31 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 100 84 63
Rank change year-on-year -16 -21 -23
Permanent jobs citing Kubernetes 1,167 2,247 2,850
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 2.94% 3.00% 4.97%
As % of the Systems Management category 34.47% 35.21% 39.06%
Number of salaries quoted 544 1,395 1,818
10th Percentile £48,191 £45,000 £46,925
25th Percentile £56,250 £52,500 £55,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £70,000 £67,500 £69,447
Median % change year-on-year +3.70% -2.80% -0.79%
75th Percentile £87,500 £85,000 £82,188
90th Percentile £101,687 £95,000 £92,500
UK median annual salary £80,000 £75,000 £75,000
% change year-on-year +6.67% - -

All Systems Management Skills
UK excluding 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 the UK excluding London.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for systems management skills 3,386 6,382 7,296
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 8.53% 8.52% 12.73%
Number of salaries quoted 1,572 4,306 4,284
10th Percentile £31,250 £30,000 £30,659
25th Percentile £41,250 £40,000 £41,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £55,000 £59,526
Median % change year-on-year +9.09% -7.60% +0.89%
75th Percentile £75,054 £70,000 £76,250
90th Percentile £90,000 £85,000 £87,500
UK median annual salary £67,500 £61,206 £67,500
% change year-on-year +10.28% -9.32% -3.57%

Kubernetes
Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London

Job postings citing Kubernetes as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London.

Job vacancy trend for Kubernetes in the UK excluding London

Kubernetes
Salary Trend in the UK excluding London

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

Salary trend for Kubernetes in the UK excluding London

Kubernetes
Salary Histogram in the UK excluding London

Salary distribution for jobs citing Kubernetes in the UK excluding London over the 6 months to 31 May 2025.

Salary histogram for Kubernetes in the UK excluding London

Kubernetes
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 within the UK excluding London region over the 6 months to 31 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
North of England -22 366 £75,000 +22.54% 238
South East -35 269 £65,000 -7.14% 171
North West -22 261 £75,000 +20.00% 158
Scotland +1 167 £74,870 +1.18% 30
Midlands +26 142 £67,500 +12.50% 83
South West -10 122 £70,000 -0.82% 82
East of England +44 91 £57,500 -32.35% 46
West Midlands +44 89 £67,500 +3.85% 64
Yorkshire -7 88 £79,405 +32.34% 70
East Midlands +22 53 £65,000 +8.33% 18
North East +36 17 £60,000 -13.36% 11
Northern Ireland +30 10 £55,000 -26.67% 19
Wales +13 9 £65,000 +52.94% 10
Isle of Man +12 1 £34,500 -
Kubernetes
UK

Kubernetes
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:

Application Platforms
1 196 (16.80%) Confluence
2 25 (2.14%) Jupyter
3 19 (1.63%) Apache Spark
4 18 (1.54%) Microsoft Exchange
5 17 (1.46%) Apache
6 16 (1.37%) nginx
7 14 (1.20%) JBoss
7 14 (1.20%) Red Hat Fuse
8 12 (1.03%) OpenStack
9 9 (0.77%) Tomcat
10 8 (0.69%) Apache Solr
11 7 (0.60%) Apache Airflow
12 6 (0.51%) SharePoint
13 4 (0.34%) Camunda
13 4 (0.34%) Oracle Workflow
14 3 (0.26%) CMS
15 2 (0.17%) BizTalk Server
15 2 (0.17%) Cloud Foundry
15 2 (0.17%) WebSphere
15 2 (0.17%) WebSphere Application Server
Applications
1 2 (0.17%) Chatbot
2 1 (0.086%) Adobe XD
2 1 (0.086%) Moqups
2 1 (0.086%) Sketch
Business Applications
1 2 (0.17%) Dynamics CRM
2 1 (0.086%) Payment Gateway
Cloud Services
1 785 (67.27%) AWS
2 658 (56.38%) Azure
3 385 (32.99%) GCP
4 104 (8.91%) Amazon EKS
5 92 (7.88%) Serverless
6 81 (6.94%) Azure DevOps
7 74 (6.34%) GitHub
8 68 (5.83%) Pulumi
9 59 (5.06%) Amazon ECS
10 48 (4.11%) AWS CloudFormation
11 45 (3.86%) GitHub Actions
12 39 (3.34%) Amazon EC2
12 39 (3.34%) Amazon S3
12 39 (3.34%) AWS Lambda
12 39 (3.34%) SaaS
13 34 (2.91%) OpenShift
14 21 (1.80%) Azure AKS
15 19 (1.63%) Cloud Computing
15 19 (1.63%) PaaS
16 17 (1.46%) Microsoft 365
Communications & Networking
1 69 (5.91%) Broadband
2 36 (3.08%) DNS
3 28 (2.40%) Firewall
4 27 (2.31%) TCP/IP
5 20 (1.71%) DHCP
6 18 (1.54%) Internet
7 17 (1.46%) SAN
8 15 (1.29%) Network Security
9 13 (1.11%) VPN
10 12 (1.03%) NAS
11 9 (0.77%) BGP
11 9 (0.77%) OSPF
12 8 (0.69%) HTTPS
12 8 (0.69%) IPsec
12 8 (0.69%) Remote Desktop
13 7 (0.60%) WAN
14 6 (0.51%) SD-WAN
14 6 (0.51%) SMTP
14 6 (0.51%) VSAN
15 5 (0.43%) MPLS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 303 (25.96%) SQL Server
2 182 (15.60%) NoSQL
3 131 (11.23%) Relational Database
4 128 (10.97%) PostgreSQL
5 86 (7.37%) MongoDB
6 83 (7.11%) RDBMS
7 53 (4.54%) Big Data
7 53 (4.54%) Elasticsearch
7 53 (4.54%) MySQL
8 24 (2.06%) Amazon RDS
9 23 (1.97%) Redis
10 13 (1.11%) Data Warehouse
10 13 (1.11%) DynamoDB
11 12 (1.03%) Amazon Aurora
11 12 (1.03%) Apache Cassandra
11 12 (1.03%) Azure SQL Database
11 12 (1.03%) Couchbase
12 11 (0.94%) BigQuery
12 11 (0.94%) Cloud Spanner
12 11 (0.94%) Power BI
Development Applications
1 311 (26.65%) GitLab
2 296 (25.36%) JIRA
3 290 (24.85%) SonarQube
4 285 (24.42%) Selenium
5 273 (23.39%) Maven
6 262 (22.45%) Sonatype Nexus
7 261 (22.37%) Bitbucket
8 259 (22.19%) Cucumber
9 175 (15.00%) Jenkins
10 151 (12.94%) Git
11 65 (5.57%) Jaeger
12 60 (5.14%) JUnit
13 26 (2.23%) Mockito
14 17 (1.46%) Octopus Deploy
15 16 (1.37%) JMeter
16 14 (1.20%) Cypress.io
17 13 (1.11%) TeamCity
18 10 (0.86%) CircleCI
18 10 (0.86%) Postman
19 9 (0.77%) webpack
General
1 511 (43.79%) Finance
2 440 (37.70%) Inclusion and Diversity
3 399 (34.19%) Banking
4 191 (16.37%) Social Skills
5 103 (8.83%) Retail
6 100 (8.57%) Analytical Skills
7 98 (8.40%) Investment Banking
8 90 (7.71%) Corporate Banking
9 82 (7.03%) Law
10 66 (5.66%) Public Sector
11 28 (2.40%) Manufacturing
11 28 (2.40%) Marketing
12 20 (1.71%) Games
13 18 (1.54%) Telecoms
14 12 (1.03%) Automotive
15 11 (0.94%) Organisational Skills
16 8 (0.69%) Financial Institution
16 8 (0.69%) Presentation Skills
17 7 (0.60%) Advertising
18 6 (0.51%) Electronics
Job Titles
1 430 (36.85%) Software Engineer
2 214 (18.34%) Developer
3 207 (17.74%) Senior
4 186 (15.94%) Lead
5 118 (10.11%) DevOps Engineer
6 75 (6.43%) Team Leader
7 74 (6.34%) Java Developer
8 58 (4.97%) Senior Software Engineer
9 57 (4.88%) Software Developer
10 56 (4.80%) Java Engineer
11 53 (4.54%) Architect
12 50 (4.28%) Senior Developer
13 37 (3.17%) Cloud Engineer
14 33 (2.83%) Java Software Engineer
14 33 (2.83%) Solutions Architect
15 29 (2.49%) Senior DevOps
16 28 (2.40%) Azure Engineer
16 28 (2.40%) Full-Stack Developer
17 27 (2.31%) Infrastructure Engineer
17 27 (2.31%) Site Reliability Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 416 (35.65%) React
2 398 (34.10%) Spring
3 391 (33.50%) Spring Boot
4 370 (31.71%) Kafka
5 288 (24.68%) HTML
6 275 (23.56%) CSS
7 260 (22.28%) Redux
8 253 (21.68%) JPA
9 202 (17.31%) REST
10 192 (16.45%) Hibernate
11 191 (16.37%) RESTful
12 154 (13.20%) .NET
13 127 (10.88%) Node.js
14 111 (9.51%) Jest
15 107 (9.17%) HTML5
16 101 (8.65%) CSS3
17 98 (8.40%) Elastic Stack
18 91 (7.80%) Sass
19 66 (5.66%) OpenTelemetry
20 61 (5.23%) AngularJS
Miscellaneous
1 290 (24.85%) Product Ownership
2 253 (21.68%) Enterprise Software
3 93 (7.97%) Distributed Systems
4 91 (7.80%) Cloud Native
5 74 (6.34%) Public Cloud
6 65 (5.57%) Algorithms
7 59 (5.06%) Cyberattack
8 36 (3.08%) Private Cloud
9 27 (2.31%) Management Information System
10 21 (1.80%) Data Structures
11 19 (1.63%) Hybrid Cloud
12 18 (1.54%) Greenfield Project
13 17 (1.46%) Virtual Team
14 15 (1.29%) Clustering
15 13 (1.11%) Mobile App
15 13 (1.11%) PKI
15 13 (1.11%) Replication
16 12 (1.03%) IoT
17 11 (0.94%) Onboarding
17 11 (0.94%) Reference Data
Operating Systems
1 226 (19.37%) Linux
2 87 (7.46%) Unix
3 58 (4.97%) Windows
4 44 (3.77%) Android
5 20 (1.71%) Windows Server
6 14 (1.20%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
7 9 (0.77%) Ubuntu
8 5 (0.43%) CentOS
8 5 (0.43%) SUSE
8 5 (0.43%) SUSE Linux Enterprise Server
9 4 (0.34%) VMS
10 2 (0.17%) Debian
10 2 (0.17%) Solaris
10 2 (0.17%) Windows Server 2019
11 1 (0.086%) Mac OS
11 1 (0.086%) Windows Server 2003
Processes & Methodologies
1 758 (64.95%) DevOps
2 705 (60.41%) CI/CD
3 665 (56.98%) Agile
4 600 (51.41%) Containerisation
5 580 (49.70%) Software Engineering
6 557 (47.73%) Microservices
7 381 (32.65%) Test Automation
8 357 (30.59%) Full-Stack Development
9 334 (28.62%) SDLC
10 333 (28.53%) Mentoring
11 325 (27.85%) Performance Optimisation
12 303 (25.96%) TDD
13 282 (24.16%) Front End Development
14 222 (19.02%) Continuous Improvement
15 200 (17.14%) Infrastructure as Code
15 200 (17.14%) Problem-Solving
16 187 (16.02%) Clean Code
17 145 (12.43%) User Experience
18 140 (12.00%) Roadmaps
19 138 (11.83%) Continuous Integration
Programming Languages
1 672 (57.58%) Java
2 538 (46.10%) JavaScript
3 407 (34.88%) SQL
4 381 (32.65%) Python
5 217 (18.59%) TypeScript
6 146 (12.51%) Go
7 123 (10.54%) C#
8 112 (9.60%) Bash
9 61 (5.23%) PowerShell
10 54 (4.63%) C++
11 45 (3.86%) Rust
12 21 (1.80%) PHP
13 20 (1.71%) Shell Script
14 11 (0.94%) C
14 11 (0.94%) PL/SQL
15 10 (0.86%) Kotlin
16 9 (0.77%) Scala
17 8 (0.69%) Groovy
18 5 (0.43%) R
19 4 (0.34%) Elixir
Qualifications
1 157 (13.45%) Security Cleared
2 113 (9.68%) Degree
3 101 (8.65%) AWS Certification
4 100 (8.57%) DV Cleared
5 63 (5.40%) Computer Science Degree
6 55 (4.71%) SC Cleared
7 40 (3.43%) Azure Certification
8 14 (1.20%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
9 12 (1.03%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
10 10 (0.86%) BPSS Clearance
11 6 (0.51%) Master's Degree
12 5 (0.43%) Cisco Certification
12 5 (0.43%) Microsoft Certification
13 4 (0.34%) OCP
13 4 (0.34%) Oracle Certification
14 3 (0.26%) CCNA
14 3 (0.26%) Linux+ Certification
14 3 (0.26%) RHCE
15 2 (0.17%) CCNP
15 2 (0.17%) CISM
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 265 (22.71%) QA
2 116 (9.94%) Accessibility
3 20 (1.71%) GDPR
4 16 (1.37%) HIPAA
4 16 (1.37%) SLA
5 14 (1.20%) Data Quality
6 12 (1.03%) SOC 2
7 9 (0.77%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 9 (0.77%) NIST
8 7 (0.60%) NCSC
9 5 (0.43%) PCI DSS
10 4 (0.34%) GMP
11 2 (0.17%) WCAG
12 1 (0.086%) Actionable Recommendations
12 1 (0.086%) Cyber Essentials
System Software
1 902 (77.29%) Docker
2 42 (3.60%) VMware Infrastructure
3 32 (2.74%) Active Directory
4 29 (2.49%) Hyper-V
5 19 (1.63%) vSphere
6 15 (1.29%) Virtual Machines
7 13 (1.11%) VMware ESXi
8 10 (0.86%) HDFS
9 8 (0.69%) NFS
10 6 (0.51%) BitLocker
10 6 (0.51%) Microsoft App-V
10 6 (0.51%) Terminal Services
11 4 (0.34%) VMware NSX
12 3 (0.26%) Dovecot
12 3 (0.26%) Firmware
12 3 (0.26%) KVM
12 3 (0.26%) Postfix
13 2 (0.17%) Citrix Hypervisor
13 2 (0.17%) SRDF
13 2 (0.17%) Veritas Cluster Server
Systems Management
1 356 (30.51%) Terraform
2 241 (20.65%) Ansible
3 112 (9.60%) Prometheus
4 79 (6.77%) Argo
5 71 (6.08%) Kustomize
6 56 (4.80%) Grafana
7 28 (2.40%) Puppet
8 16 (1.37%) Kibana
9 14 (1.20%) Istio
9 14 (1.20%) vCenter Server
10 12 (1.03%) Progress Chef
10 12 (1.03%) vMotion
11 8 (0.69%) Packer
12 7 (0.60%) FortiGate
12 7 (0.60%) Microsoft Intune
12 7 (0.60%) PowerCLI
12 7 (0.60%) vRealize
12 7 (0.60%) WSUS
13 6 (0.51%) Nagios
14 5 (0.43%) Control-M
Vendors
1 246 (21.08%) Solace
2 147 (12.60%) Google
3 78 (6.68%) Microsoft
4 53 (4.54%) VMware
5 43 (3.68%) Oracle
6 31 (2.66%) Splunk
7 29 (2.49%) Dynatrace
8 26 (2.23%) Red Hat
9 17 (1.46%) Databricks
10 13 (1.11%) Citrix
11 12 (1.03%) HP
12 9 (0.77%) Atlassian
12 9 (0.77%) Rackspace
12 9 (0.77%) SAP
13 8 (0.69%) Veeam
14 7 (0.60%) Cisco
14 7 (0.60%) Ping Identity
15 6 (0.51%) Symantec
16 5 (0.43%) Adobe
16 5 (0.43%) IBM