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

6 months to
29 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 103 81 57
Rank change year-on-year -22 -24 -18
Permanent jobs citing Kubernetes 1,143 2,249 3,106
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 2.93% 3.04% 5.35%
As % of the Systems Management category 34.43% 35.27% 41.47%
Number of salaries quoted 536 1,399 1,829
10th Percentile £48,500 £45,000 £47,200
25th Percentile £56,250 £52,500 £55,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £70,000 £68,000 £69,447
Median % change year-on-year +2.94% -2.08% -0.79%
75th Percentile £87,500 £85,000 £82,500
90th Percentile £102,410 £95,000 £92,500
UK median annual salary £82,500 £75,000 £75,000
% change year-on-year +10.00% - -

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 3,320 6,377 7,489
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 8.51% 8.62% 12.89%
Number of salaries quoted 1,535 4,320 4,320
10th Percentile £31,250 £30,000 £30,500
25th Percentile £41,265 £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 £75,360 £70,000 £76,250
90th Percentile £90,000 £85,000 £87,500
UK median annual salary £68,000 £61,000 £67,500
% change year-on-year +11.48% -9.63% -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 29 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 29 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 -15 364 £75,000 +22.54% 364
South East -29 266 £65,000 -7.14% 521
North West -29 258 £75,000 +20.00% 235
Scotland +1 156 £74,870 +2.56% 76
Midlands +23 141 £66,250 +10.42% 132
South West -17 115 £71,991 +2.01% 169
East of England +37 92 £60,000 -29.41% 97
Yorkshire -2 90 £79,405 +32.34% 106
West Midlands +39 88 £67,500 +3.85% 92
East Midlands +12 53 £65,000 +8.33% 31
North East +31 16 £60,000 -13.36% 25
Northern Ireland +32 10 £55,000 -26.67% 40
Wales +17 8 £65,000 +52.94% 21
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
1 197 (17.24%) Confluence
2 25 (2.19%) Jupyter
3 18 (1.57%) Apache Spark
4 17 (1.49%) Microsoft Exchange
5 16 (1.40%) Apache
6 15 (1.31%) nginx
7 13 (1.14%) JBoss
7 13 (1.14%) Red Hat Fuse
8 12 (1.05%) OpenStack
9 9 (0.79%) Tomcat
10 7 (0.61%) Apache Airflow
10 7 (0.61%) Apache Solr
11 6 (0.52%) SharePoint
12 3 (0.26%) CMS
13 2 (0.17%) Adobe Experience Manager
13 2 (0.17%) BizTalk Server
13 2 (0.17%) Cloud Foundry
13 2 (0.17%) Oracle Workflow
13 2 (0.17%) WebSphere
13 2 (0.17%) WebSphere Application Server
Applications
1 2 (0.17%) Chatbot
2 1 (0.087%) Adobe XD
2 1 (0.087%) Moqups
2 1 (0.087%) Sketch
Business Applications
1 2 (0.17%) Dynamics CRM
1 2 (0.17%) Sprinklr
2 1 (0.087%) Payment Gateway
Cloud Services
1 769 (67.28%) AWS
2 647 (56.61%) Azure
3 381 (33.33%) GCP
4 102 (8.92%) Amazon EKS
5 89 (7.79%) Serverless
6 79 (6.91%) Azure DevOps
7 70 (6.12%) GitHub
8 68 (5.95%) Pulumi
9 56 (4.90%) Amazon ECS
10 49 (4.29%) AWS CloudFormation
11 43 (3.76%) GitHub Actions
12 41 (3.59%) Amazon EC2
12 41 (3.59%) SaaS
13 39 (3.41%) Amazon S3
14 38 (3.32%) AWS Lambda
15 35 (3.06%) OpenShift
16 20 (1.75%) Azure AKS
17 19 (1.66%) PaaS
18 17 (1.49%) Cloud Computing
19 16 (1.40%) Microsoft 365
Communications & Networking
1 69 (6.04%) Broadband
2 35 (3.06%) DNS
3 28 (2.45%) Firewall
4 25 (2.19%) TCP/IP
5 20 (1.75%) DHCP
6 17 (1.49%) Internet
7 15 (1.31%) Network Security
7 15 (1.31%) SAN
8 13 (1.14%) VPN
9 12 (1.05%) NAS
10 9 (0.79%) BGP
10 9 (0.79%) OSPF
11 7 (0.61%) HTTPS
11 7 (0.61%) IPsec
11 7 (0.61%) Remote Desktop
11 7 (0.61%) WAN
12 6 (0.52%) SD-WAN
12 6 (0.52%) SMTP
12 6 (0.52%) VSAN
13 5 (0.44%) VLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 299 (26.16%) SQL Server
2 175 (15.31%) NoSQL
3 125 (10.94%) Relational Database
4 119 (10.41%) PostgreSQL
5 83 (7.26%) MongoDB
6 81 (7.09%) RDBMS
7 53 (4.64%) Big Data
8 50 (4.37%) Elasticsearch
9 48 (4.20%) MySQL
10 25 (2.19%) Amazon RDS
11 20 (1.75%) Redis
12 13 (1.14%) Data Warehouse
12 13 (1.14%) DynamoDB
13 12 (1.05%) Azure SQL Database
14 11 (0.96%) Apache Cassandra
14 11 (0.96%) BigQuery
14 11 (0.96%) Cloud Spanner
14 11 (0.96%) Couchbase
14 11 (0.96%) Power BI
15 10 (0.87%) Amazon Aurora
Development Applications
1 312 (27.30%) GitLab
2 296 (25.90%) JIRA
3 289 (25.28%) SonarQube
4 283 (24.76%) Selenium
5 272 (23.80%) Maven
6 262 (22.92%) Sonatype Nexus
7 260 (22.75%) Bitbucket
8 259 (22.66%) Cucumber
9 169 (14.79%) Jenkins
10 146 (12.77%) Git
11 65 (5.69%) Jaeger
12 57 (4.99%) JUnit
13 26 (2.27%) Mockito
14 16 (1.40%) JMeter
14 16 (1.40%) Octopus Deploy
15 13 (1.14%) Cypress.io
16 12 (1.05%) TeamCity
17 10 (0.87%) CircleCI
17 10 (0.87%) Postman
18 9 (0.79%) webpack
General
1 495 (43.31%) Finance
2 426 (37.27%) Inclusion and Diversity
3 394 (34.47%) Banking
4 188 (16.45%) Social Skills
5 104 (9.10%) Retail
6 97 (8.49%) Investment Banking
7 95 (8.31%) Analytical Skills
8 90 (7.87%) Corporate Banking
9 68 (5.95%) Law
10 67 (5.86%) Public Sector
11 29 (2.54%) Manufacturing
12 20 (1.75%) Games
12 20 (1.75%) Marketing
13 18 (1.57%) Telecoms
14 11 (0.96%) Automotive
15 9 (0.79%) Organisational Skills
16 8 (0.70%) Presentation Skills
17 7 (0.61%) Advertising
17 7 (0.61%) Electronics
17 7 (0.61%) Financial Institution
Job Titles
1 418 (36.57%) Software Engineer
2 204 (17.85%) Developer
3 203 (17.76%) Senior
4 179 (15.66%) Lead
5 117 (10.24%) DevOps Engineer
6 75 (6.56%) Team Leader
7 72 (6.30%) Java Developer
8 56 (4.90%) Architect
8 56 (4.90%) Senior Software Engineer
8 56 (4.90%) Software Developer
9 50 (4.37%) Java Engineer
10 48 (4.20%) Senior Developer
11 37 (3.24%) Cloud Engineer
12 35 (3.06%) Solutions Architect
13 29 (2.54%) Senior DevOps
14 27 (2.36%) Azure Engineer
14 27 (2.36%) Infrastructure Engineer
14 27 (2.36%) Java Software Engineer
15 26 (2.27%) Site Reliability Engineer
16 23 (2.01%) .NET Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 406 (35.52%) React
2 388 (33.95%) Spring
3 381 (33.33%) Spring Boot
4 365 (31.93%) Kafka
5 284 (24.85%) HTML
6 271 (23.71%) CSS
7 260 (22.75%) Redux
8 253 (22.13%) JPA
9 198 (17.32%) REST
10 190 (16.62%) Hibernate
11 181 (15.84%) RESTful
12 145 (12.69%) .NET
13 124 (10.85%) Node.js
14 111 (9.71%) Jest
15 103 (9.01%) HTML5
16 99 (8.66%) CSS3
17 96 (8.40%) Elastic Stack
18 91 (7.96%) Sass
19 66 (5.77%) OpenTelemetry
20 55 (4.81%) AngularJS
Miscellaneous
1 288 (25.20%) Product Ownership
2 253 (22.13%) Enterprise Software
3 90 (7.87%) Distributed Systems
4 83 (7.26%) Cloud Native
5 71 (6.21%) Public Cloud
6 59 (5.16%) Cyberattack
7 58 (5.07%) Algorithms
8 37 (3.24%) Private Cloud
9 26 (2.27%) Management Information System
10 19 (1.66%) Data Structures
10 19 (1.66%) Hybrid Cloud
11 18 (1.57%) Greenfield Project
12 17 (1.49%) Virtual Team
13 15 (1.31%) Clustering
14 13 (1.14%) Mobile App
14 13 (1.14%) PKI
14 13 (1.14%) Replication
15 12 (1.05%) IoT
16 11 (0.96%) Onboarding
16 11 (0.96%) Reference Data
Operating Systems
1 222 (19.42%) Linux
2 87 (7.61%) Unix
3 55 (4.81%) Windows
4 44 (3.85%) Android
5 20 (1.75%) Windows Server
6 12 (1.05%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
7 8 (0.70%) Ubuntu
8 5 (0.44%) CentOS
8 5 (0.44%) SUSE
8 5 (0.44%) SUSE Linux Enterprise Server
9 4 (0.35%) VMS
10 2 (0.17%) Debian
10 2 (0.17%) Solaris
11 1 (0.087%) Mac OS
11 1 (0.087%) Windows Server 2003
11 1 (0.087%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 750 (65.62%) DevOps
2 685 (59.93%) CI/CD
3 649 (56.78%) Agile
4 598 (52.32%) Containerisation
5 566 (49.52%) Software Engineering
6 549 (48.03%) Microservices
7 379 (33.16%) Test Automation
8 347 (30.36%) Full-Stack Development
9 327 (28.61%) Mentoring
10 325 (28.43%) Performance Optimisation
11 323 (28.26%) SDLC
12 300 (26.25%) TDD
13 279 (24.41%) Front End Development
14 217 (18.99%) Continuous Improvement
15 200 (17.50%) Infrastructure as Code
16 189 (16.54%) Problem-Solving
17 183 (16.01%) Clean Code
18 141 (12.34%) Roadmaps
19 140 (12.25%) User Experience
20 136 (11.90%) Continuous Integration
Programming Languages
1 659 (57.66%) Java
2 531 (46.46%) JavaScript
3 399 (34.91%) SQL
4 375 (32.81%) Python
5 216 (18.90%) TypeScript
6 146 (12.77%) Go
7 116 (10.15%) C#
8 111 (9.71%) Bash
9 59 (5.16%) PowerShell
10 54 (4.72%) C++
11 45 (3.94%) Rust
12 20 (1.75%) PHP
12 20 (1.75%) Shell Script
13 11 (0.96%) C
13 11 (0.96%) PL/SQL
14 10 (0.87%) Kotlin
15 9 (0.79%) Scala
16 8 (0.70%) Groovy
17 5 (0.44%) R
18 4 (0.35%) Clojure
Qualifications
1 156 (13.65%) Security Cleared
2 112 (9.80%) Degree
3 101 (8.84%) AWS Certification
4 100 (8.75%) DV Cleared
5 63 (5.51%) Computer Science Degree
6 54 (4.72%) SC Cleared
7 40 (3.50%) Azure Certification
8 15 (1.31%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
9 12 (1.05%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
10 10 (0.87%) BPSS Clearance
11 6 (0.52%) Master's Degree
12 5 (0.44%) Cisco Certification
12 5 (0.44%) Microsoft Certification
13 4 (0.35%) OCP
13 4 (0.35%) Oracle Certification
14 3 (0.26%) CCNA
14 3 (0.26%) Linux+ Certification
14 3 (0.26%) RHCE
15 2 (0.17%) (ISC)2 CCSP
15 2 (0.17%) CompTIA Security+
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 264 (23.10%) QA
2 116 (10.15%) Accessibility
3 19 (1.66%) GDPR
4 16 (1.40%) HIPAA
5 15 (1.31%) SLA
6 13 (1.14%) Data Quality
7 12 (1.05%) SOC 2
8 9 (0.79%) ISO/IEC 27001
8 9 (0.79%) NIST
9 7 (0.61%) NCSC
10 5 (0.44%) PCI DSS
11 4 (0.35%) GMP
12 2 (0.17%) WCAG
13 1 (0.087%) Actionable Recommendations
13 1 (0.087%) Cyber Essentials
System Software
1 887 (77.60%) Docker
2 41 (3.59%) VMware Infrastructure
3 31 (2.71%) Active Directory
4 29 (2.54%) Hyper-V
5 18 (1.57%) vSphere
6 15 (1.31%) Virtual Machines
7 13 (1.14%) VMware ESXi
8 10 (0.87%) HDFS
9 8 (0.70%) NFS
10 6 (0.52%) BitLocker
10 6 (0.52%) Microsoft App-V
10 6 (0.52%) Terminal Services
11 4 (0.35%) 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%) SRDF
13 2 (0.17%) Veritas Cluster Server
13 2 (0.17%) Xen
Systems Management
1 350 (30.62%) Terraform
2 239 (20.91%) Ansible
3 111 (9.71%) Prometheus
4 79 (6.91%) Argo
5 72 (6.30%) Kustomize
6 54 (4.72%) Grafana
7 29 (2.54%) Puppet
8 16 (1.40%) Kibana
9 14 (1.22%) Istio
9 14 (1.22%) vCenter Server
10 13 (1.14%) Progress Chef
11 12 (1.05%) vMotion
12 8 (0.70%) Packer
13 7 (0.61%) FortiGate
13 7 (0.61%) Microsoft Intune
13 7 (0.61%) PowerCLI
13 7 (0.61%) vRealize
13 7 (0.61%) WSUS
14 6 (0.52%) Nagios
15 4 (0.35%) Control-M
Vendors
1 246 (21.52%) Solace
2 145 (12.69%) Google
3 79 (6.91%) Microsoft
4 52 (4.55%) VMware
5 37 (3.24%) Oracle
6 27 (2.36%) Dynatrace
6 27 (2.36%) Splunk
7 24 (2.10%) Red Hat
8 15 (1.31%) Databricks
9 13 (1.14%) Citrix
10 12 (1.05%) HP
11 9 (0.79%) Rackspace
11 9 (0.79%) SAP
12 8 (0.70%) Atlassian
12 8 (0.70%) Veeam
13 7 (0.61%) Adobe
13 7 (0.61%) Cisco
13 7 (0.61%) Ping Identity
14 6 (0.52%) Symantec
15 5 (0.44%) Draytek