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 21 April 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
21 Apr 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 100 79 64
Rank change year-on-year -21 -15 -24
Permanent jobs citing Kubernetes 988 2,255 3,161
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 2.71% 3.25% 5.06%
As % of the Systems Management category 34.83% 34.92% 38.99%
Number of salaries quoted 650 1,452 1,953
10th Percentile £47,500 £45,000 £46,250
25th Percentile £56,250 £53,750 £55,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £70,000 £70,000 £67,500
Median % change year-on-year - +3.70% -3.57%
75th Percentile £87,500 £85,000 £82,500
90th Percentile £102,750 £95,000 £92,500
UK median annual salary £82,500 £75,000 £75,000
% change year-on-year +10.00% - -3.23%

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 2,837 6,457 8,107
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 7.77% 9.32% 12.97%
Number of salaries quoted 1,696 4,494 4,629
10th Percentile £34,250 £30,000 £30,000
25th Percentile £45,000 £40,000 £41,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £54,000 £57,500
Median % change year-on-year +11.11% -6.09% -4.17%
75th Percentile £76,840 £70,000 £75,000
90th Percentile £93,778 £85,000 £87,500
UK median annual salary £70,000 £60,000 £67,500
% change year-on-year +16.67% -11.11% -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 21 April 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 21 April 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 +13 343 £65,000 -7.14% 317
North of England -27 249 £75,000 +20.00% 266
North West -61 136 £78,155 +25.05% 176
South West -7 125 £71,991 +2.01% 147
Scotland -17 107 £75,000 +6.27% 113
Yorkshire +24 96 £78,810 +21.25% 63
Midlands -21 80 £67,500 +8.65% 153
East of England +44 79 £57,500 -32.35% 100
West Midlands -13 66 £67,500 +3.85% 99
North East +37 17 £62,500 +8.70% 27
Northern Ireland +31 14 £55,000 -26.67% 58
East Midlands +6 14 £65,000 +8.33% 51
Wales +25 10 £65,000 +52.94% 19
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 58 (5.87%) Confluence
2 29 (2.94%) Apache Spark
3 26 (2.63%) Apache
4 24 (2.43%) Jupyter
5 19 (1.92%) nginx
6 15 (1.52%) Apache Airflow
6 15 (1.52%) Microsoft Exchange
7 13 (1.32%) OpenStack
8 12 (1.21%) JBoss
8 12 (1.21%) Red Hat Fuse
9 11 (1.11%) Tomcat
10 10 (1.01%) Apache Solr
11 9 (0.91%) SharePoint
12 3 (0.30%) CMS
12 3 (0.30%) Oracle SOA Suite
13 2 (0.20%) Adobe Experience Manager
13 2 (0.20%) WebSphere
13 2 (0.20%) WebSphere Application Server
14 1 (0.10%) IIS
14 1 (0.10%) Mendix
Applications
1 2 (0.20%) Adobe XD
1 2 (0.20%) Chatbot
1 2 (0.20%) Microsoft Office
1 2 (0.20%) Moqups
1 2 (0.20%) Sketch
Business Applications
1 2 (0.20%) Sprinklr
Cloud Services
1 498 (50.40%) AWS
2 439 (44.43%) Azure
3 244 (24.70%) GCP
4 130 (13.16%) Serverless
5 120 (12.15%) GitHub
6 107 (10.83%) Amazon EKS
7 99 (10.02%) Azure DevOps
8 82 (8.30%) Amazon S3
9 69 (6.98%) AWS Lambda
10 60 (6.07%) AWS CloudFormation
11 58 (5.87%) Amazon EC2
11 58 (5.87%) Amazon ECS
12 52 (5.26%) GitHub Actions
13 50 (5.06%) SaaS
14 49 (4.96%) Amazon SQS
15 44 (4.45%) Amazon Kinesis
16 41 (4.15%) OpenShift
17 27 (2.73%) Azure AKS
17 27 (2.73%) PaaS
18 20 (2.02%) Cloud Computing
Communications & Networking
1 37 (3.74%) DNS
2 31 (3.14%) Firewall
3 27 (2.73%) TCP/IP
4 16 (1.62%) Internet
5 15 (1.52%) Network Security
5 15 (1.52%) VPN
6 11 (1.11%) DHCP
6 11 (1.11%) SAN
7 10 (1.01%) HTTPS
7 10 (1.01%) IPsec
8 9 (0.91%) BGP
8 9 (0.91%) OSPF
9 8 (0.81%) NAS
10 7 (0.71%) WAN
11 6 (0.61%) SD-WAN
12 5 (0.51%) MPLS
12 5 (0.51%) VLAN
12 5 (0.51%) Wireless
13 4 (0.40%) iSCSI
13 4 (0.40%) Reverse Proxy
Database & Business Intelligence
1 172 (17.41%) PostgreSQL
2 141 (14.27%) NoSQL
3 85 (8.60%) MongoDB
4 83 (8.40%) SQL Server
5 76 (7.69%) Relational Database
6 64 (6.48%) Redis
7 58 (5.87%) MySQL
8 56 (5.67%) Big Data
9 53 (5.36%) Elasticsearch
10 43 (4.35%) DynamoDB
11 26 (2.63%) Azure SQL Database
12 22 (2.23%) Amazon RDS
13 21 (2.13%) Data Warehouse
14 19 (1.92%) RDBMS
15 16 (1.62%) Hadoop
16 14 (1.42%) Data Lake
17 12 (1.21%) BigQuery
17 12 (1.21%) Couchbase
17 12 (1.21%) Delta Lake
17 12 (1.21%) Power BI
Development Applications
1 233 (23.58%) Jenkins
2 206 (20.85%) Git
3 81 (8.20%) GitLab
4 65 (6.58%) JUnit
5 64 (6.48%) JIRA
6 55 (5.57%) SonarQube
7 45 (4.55%) Selenium
8 32 (3.24%) Maven
8 32 (3.24%) Mockito
9 27 (2.73%) Cypress.io
10 24 (2.43%) Bitbucket
11 22 (2.23%) JMeter
11 22 (2.23%) Sonatype Nexus
12 18 (1.82%) CircleCI
13 17 (1.72%) Artifactory
13 17 (1.72%) Octopus Deploy
14 15 (1.52%) Cucumber
14 15 (1.52%) webpack
15 14 (1.42%) Gradle
16 12 (1.21%) TeamCity
General
1 270 (27.33%) Finance
2 217 (21.96%) Social Skills
3 170 (17.21%) Banking
4 122 (12.35%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 103 (10.43%) Analytical Skills
6 84 (8.50%) Public Sector
7 76 (7.69%) Law
8 42 (4.25%) Marketing
9 37 (3.74%) Advertising
10 36 (3.64%) Manufacturing
11 24 (2.43%) Games
12 22 (2.23%) Retail
13 17 (1.72%) Telecoms
14 11 (1.11%) Electronics
14 11 (1.11%) Legal
14 11 (1.11%) Organisational Skills
15 10 (1.01%) Automotive
16 7 (0.71%) Financial Institution
16 7 (0.71%) Presentation Skills
17 6 (0.61%) Military
Job Titles
1 252 (25.51%) Developer
2 244 (24.70%) Senior
3 221 (22.37%) Software Engineer
4 136 (13.77%) DevOps Engineer
5 133 (13.46%) Lead
6 73 (7.39%) Java Developer
7 71 (7.19%) Senior Software Engineer
8 68 (6.88%) Senior Developer
9 65 (6.58%) Software Developer
10 50 (5.06%) Architect
11 40 (4.05%) Principal Engineer
12 36 (3.64%) Cloud Engineer
13 32 (3.24%) Solutions Architect
14 31 (3.14%) .NET Developer
15 30 (3.04%) Full-Stack Developer
16 28 (2.83%) Senior DevOps
17 27 (2.73%) Azure Engineer
17 27 (2.73%) C# Developer
18 26 (2.63%) Java Engineer
19 25 (2.53%) Data Scientist
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 235 (23.79%) React
2 178 (18.02%) .NET
3 173 (17.51%) Node.js
4 157 (15.89%) REST
5 146 (14.78%) Spring Boot
6 137 (13.87%) Spring
7 123 (12.45%) Kafka
8 104 (10.53%) AngularJS
9 99 (10.02%) RESTful
10 69 (6.98%) Web Services
11 64 (6.48%) RabbitMQ
12 56 (5.67%) HTML
13 48 (4.86%) .NET Core
14 45 (4.55%) Pandas
15 42 (4.25%) Tailwind CSS
16 39 (3.95%) .NET Framework
17 38 (3.85%) CSS
17 38 (3.85%) Elastic Stack
17 38 (3.85%) Hibernate
18 37 (3.74%) Jest
Miscellaneous
1 102 (10.32%) Distributed Systems
2 73 (7.39%) Public Cloud
3 72 (7.29%) Algorithms
4 71 (7.19%) Cloud Native
5 59 (5.97%) Cyberattack
6 52 (5.26%) Product Ownership
7 36 (3.64%) Management Information System
8 33 (3.34%) Blog
8 33 (3.34%) Digital Media
8 33 (3.34%) Private Cloud
9 26 (2.63%) Greenfield Project
10 25 (2.53%) Data Structures
11 20 (2.02%) Onboarding
12 18 (1.82%) Mobile App
13 17 (1.72%) Virtual Team
14 14 (1.42%) Hybrid Cloud
15 13 (1.32%) IoT
15 13 (1.32%) Replication
16 12 (1.21%) Data Centre
16 12 (1.21%) PKI
Operating Systems
1 183 (18.52%) Linux
2 59 (5.97%) Windows
3 53 (5.36%) Android
4 34 (3.44%) Unix
5 16 (1.62%) Windows Server
6 12 (1.21%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
7 10 (1.01%) Ubuntu
8 8 (0.81%) VMS
9 7 (0.71%) Apple iOS
9 7 (0.71%) CentOS
10 5 (0.51%) SUSE
10 5 (0.51%) SUSE Linux Enterprise Server
11 4 (0.40%) Debian
12 2 (0.20%) CoreOS
12 2 (0.20%) Solaris
12 2 (0.20%) Windows Server 2016
12 2 (0.20%) zOS
13 1 (0.10%) Windows 10
13 1 (0.10%) Windows Server 2012
13 1 (0.10%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 491 (49.70%) CI/CD
2 484 (48.99%) DevOps
3 433 (43.83%) Agile
4 388 (39.27%) Software Engineering
5 338 (34.21%) Microservices
6 326 (33.00%) Containerisation
7 216 (21.86%) Problem-Solving
8 204 (20.65%) Mentoring
9 159 (16.09%) Test Automation
10 154 (15.59%) TDD
11 152 (15.38%) Infrastructure as Code
12 145 (14.68%) Full-Stack Development
13 131 (13.26%) Computer Science
14 126 (12.75%) Artificial Intelligence
14 126 (12.75%) Scrum
15 110 (11.13%) Machine Learning
16 94 (9.51%) Collaborative Working
17 92 (9.31%) SDLC
18 88 (8.91%) Continuous Delivery
19 84 (8.50%) Kanban
Programming Languages
1 383 (38.77%) Python
2 352 (35.63%) Java
3 272 (27.53%) JavaScript
4 186 (18.83%) TypeScript
5 179 (18.12%) SQL
6 153 (15.49%) C#
7 102 (10.32%) Go
8 65 (6.58%) Bash
8 65 (6.58%) PowerShell
9 60 (6.07%) C++
10 59 (5.97%) Rust
11 28 (2.83%) PHP
12 25 (2.53%) Shell Script
13 22 (2.23%) C
14 18 (1.82%) Scala
15 16 (1.62%) Kotlin
16 14 (1.42%) Ruby
17 12 (1.21%) Perl
18 9 (0.91%) Clojure
18 9 (0.91%) PL/SQL
Qualifications
1 171 (17.31%) Security Cleared
2 150 (15.18%) Degree
3 99 (10.02%) DV Cleared
4 77 (7.79%) Computer Science Degree
5 63 (6.38%) SC Cleared
6 29 (2.94%) AWS Certification
7 27 (2.73%) Azure Certification
8 18 (1.82%) BPSS Clearance
9 13 (1.32%) OCP
9 13 (1.32%) Oracle Certification
10 12 (1.21%) Master's Degree
11 8 (0.81%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
12 7 (0.71%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
13 4 (0.40%) Microsoft Certification
14 3 (0.30%) Linux+ Certification
14 3 (0.30%) PhD
14 3 (0.30%) RHCE
15 2 (0.20%) Cisco Certification
16 1 (0.10%) CCNA
16 1 (0.10%) CISSP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 48 (4.86%) Accessibility
2 24 (2.43%) QA
3 18 (1.82%) Data Quality
4 14 (1.42%) SLA
5 13 (1.32%) GDPR
6 11 (1.11%) NCSC
7 10 (1.01%) SOC 2
8 9 (0.91%) HIPAA
9 7 (0.71%) ISO/IEC 27001
9 7 (0.71%) WCAG
10 5 (0.51%) NIST
11 4 (0.40%) GMP
11 4 (0.40%) PCI DSS
12 1 (0.10%) Actionable Recommendations
12 1 (0.10%) Basel III
12 1 (0.10%) Cyber Essentials
12 1 (0.10%) IFRS
12 1 (0.10%) IFRS 9
System Software
1 690 (69.84%) Docker
2 37 (3.74%) VMware Infrastructure
3 24 (2.43%) Hyper-V
4 22 (2.23%) Active Directory
5 16 (1.62%) HDFS
6 15 (1.52%) vSphere
7 13 (1.32%) Virtual Machines
8 8 (0.81%) NFS
9 7 (0.71%) VMware ESXi
10 5 (0.51%) VMware NSX
11 3 (0.30%) BitLocker
11 3 (0.30%) Dovecot
11 3 (0.30%) Firmware
11 3 (0.30%) KVM
11 3 (0.30%) Microsoft App-V
11 3 (0.30%) Postfix
11 3 (0.30%) Terminal Services
12 2 (0.20%) SRDF
12 2 (0.20%) Veritas Cluster Server
12 2 (0.20%) Xen
Systems Management
1 321 (32.49%) Terraform
2 190 (19.23%) Ansible
3 50 (5.06%) Prometheus
4 48 (4.86%) Grafana
5 28 (2.83%) Puppet
6 23 (2.33%) Kibana
7 20 (2.02%) Progress Chef
8 16 (1.62%) Argo
8 16 (1.62%) Istio
9 12 (1.21%) Kustomize
10 9 (0.91%) vCenter Server
11 8 (0.81%) Packer
12 7 (0.71%) FortiGate
12 7 (0.71%) Microsoft Intune
13 6 (0.61%) vMotion
14 5 (0.51%) Single Sign-On
14 5 (0.51%) WSUS
15 4 (0.40%) Control-M
15 4 (0.40%) Rancher
15 4 (0.40%) vRealize
Vendors
1 88 (8.91%) Microsoft
2 74 (7.49%) Google
3 48 (4.86%) VMware
4 34 (3.44%) Red Hat
5 32 (3.24%) Dynatrace
6 27 (2.73%) Oracle
6 27 (2.73%) Splunk
7 24 (2.43%) Databricks
8 10 (1.01%) Atlassian
9 9 (0.91%) Cisco
9 9 (0.91%) IBM
9 9 (0.91%) Rackspace
9 9 (0.91%) SAP
10 8 (0.81%) Adobe
11 7 (0.71%) Citrix
12 6 (0.61%) HP
12 6 (0.61%) Sawtooth Software
13 5 (0.51%) NVIDIA
13 5 (0.51%) Ping Identity
13 5 (0.51%) Ubiquiti