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

6 months to
28 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 101 81 57
Rank change year-on-year -20 -24 -17
Permanent jobs citing Kubernetes 1,141 2,246 3,119
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 2.93% 3.05% 5.34%
As % of the Systems Management category 34.43% 35.33% 41.39%
Number of salaries quoted 537 1,396 1,839
10th Percentile £48,750 £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 3,314 6,358 7,535
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 8.52% 8.63% 12.91%
Number of salaries quoted 1,534 4,318 4,346
10th Percentile £31,250 £30,000 £30,500
25th Percentile £41,258 £40,000 £41,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £55,000 £59,513
Median % change year-on-year +9.09% -7.58% +0.87%
75th Percentile £75,360 £70,000 £76,250
90th Percentile £91,750 £85,000 £87,500
UK median annual salary £69,384 £61,000 £67,500
% change year-on-year +13.74% -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 28 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 28 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 -23 362 £75,000 +22.54% 1,757
South East -31 268 £65,000 -7.14% 2,237
North West -30 256 £75,000 +20.00% 888
Scotland 0 156 £74,870 +1.18% 339
Midlands +24 141 £66,250 +10.42% 1,340
South West -13 114 £71,991 +2.01% 930
East of England +36 91 £60,500 -28.82% 1,061
Yorkshire 0 90 £79,405 +32.34% 675
West Midlands +46 88 £67,500 +3.85% 733
East Midlands +16 53 £65,000 +8.33% 515
North East +33 16 £60,000 -13.36% 196
Northern Ireland +31 10 £55,000 -26.67% 135
Wales +18 8 £65,000 +52.94% 198
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 (17.27%) Confluence
2 25 (2.19%) Jupyter
3 18 (1.58%) Apache Spark
4 17 (1.49%) Microsoft Exchange
5 16 (1.40%) Apache
6 14 (1.23%) 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 (0.53%) SharePoint
12 3 (0.26%) CMS
13 2 (0.18%) Adobe Experience Manager
13 2 (0.18%) BizTalk Server
13 2 (0.18%) Camunda
13 2 (0.18%) Oracle Workflow
13 2 (0.18%) WebSphere
13 2 (0.18%) WebSphere Application Server
Applications
1 2 (0.18%) Chatbot
2 1 (0.088%) Adobe XD
2 1 (0.088%) Moqups
2 1 (0.088%) Sketch
Business Applications
1 2 (0.18%) Dynamics CRM
1 2 (0.18%) Sprinklr
2 1 (0.088%) Payment Gateway
Cloud Services
1 764 (66.96%) AWS
2 645 (56.53%) Azure
3 377 (33.04%) GCP
4 102 (8.94%) Amazon EKS
5 90 (7.89%) Serverless
6 81 (7.10%) Azure DevOps
7 70 (6.13%) GitHub
8 68 (5.96%) Pulumi
9 58 (5.08%) Amazon ECS
10 49 (4.29%) AWS CloudFormation
11 43 (3.77%) GitHub Actions
12 41 (3.59%) Amazon EC2
12 41 (3.59%) SaaS
13 40 (3.51%) AWS Lambda
14 39 (3.42%) Amazon S3
15 34 (2.98%) OpenShift
16 21 (1.84%) Azure AKS
17 19 (1.67%) PaaS
18 17 (1.49%) Amazon SQS
18 17 (1.49%) Cloud Computing
Communications & Networking
1 69 (6.05%) Broadband
2 34 (2.98%) DNS
3 28 (2.45%) Firewall
4 24 (2.10%) TCP/IP
5 20 (1.75%) DHCP
6 16 (1.40%) Internet
7 15 (1.31%) SAN
8 14 (1.23%) Network Security
9 13 (1.14%) VPN
10 12 (1.05%) NAS
11 9 (0.79%) BGP
11 9 (0.79%) OSPF
12 7 (0.61%) HTTPS
12 7 (0.61%) IPsec
12 7 (0.61%) Remote Desktop
12 7 (0.61%) WAN
13 6 (0.53%) SD-WAN
13 6 (0.53%) SMTP
13 6 (0.53%) VSAN
14 5 (0.44%) MPLS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 299 (26.21%) SQL Server
2 173 (15.16%) NoSQL
3 125 (10.96%) Relational Database
4 120 (10.52%) PostgreSQL
5 83 (7.27%) MongoDB
6 81 (7.10%) RDBMS
7 53 (4.65%) Big Data
8 49 (4.29%) Elasticsearch
9 48 (4.21%) MySQL
10 25 (2.19%) Amazon RDS
11 19 (1.67%) Redis
12 13 (1.14%) Data Warehouse
12 13 (1.14%) DynamoDB
13 12 (1.05%) Azure SQL Database
14 11 (0.96%) BigQuery
14 11 (0.96%) Cloud Spanner
14 11 (0.96%) Couchbase
14 11 (0.96%) Power BI
15 10 (0.88%) Amazon Aurora
15 10 (0.88%) Apache Cassandra
Development Applications
1 311 (27.26%) GitLab
2 295 (25.85%) JIRA
3 289 (25.33%) SonarQube
4 284 (24.89%) Selenium
5 272 (23.84%) Maven
6 262 (22.96%) Sonatype Nexus
7 260 (22.79%) Bitbucket
8 259 (22.70%) Cucumber
9 169 (14.81%) Jenkins
10 146 (12.80%) Git
11 65 (5.70%) Jaeger
12 57 (5.00%) JUnit
13 25 (2.19%) Mockito
14 16 (1.40%) JMeter
14 16 (1.40%) Octopus Deploy
15 13 (1.14%) Cypress.io
15 13 (1.14%) TeamCity
16 10 (0.88%) CircleCI
16 10 (0.88%) Postman
17 9 (0.79%) webpack
General
1 492 (43.12%) Finance
2 424 (37.16%) Inclusion and Diversity
3 391 (34.27%) Banking
4 187 (16.39%) Social Skills
5 104 (9.11%) Retail
6 96 (8.41%) Investment Banking
7 95 (8.33%) Analytical Skills
8 90 (7.89%) Corporate Banking
9 67 (5.87%) Public Sector
10 66 (5.78%) Law
11 29 (2.54%) Manufacturing
12 21 (1.84%) Games
13 19 (1.67%) Marketing
14 17 (1.49%) Telecoms
15 10 (0.88%) Automotive
16 9 (0.79%) Organisational Skills
17 8 (0.70%) Presentation Skills
18 7 (0.61%) Advertising
18 7 (0.61%) Electronics
18 7 (0.61%) Financial Institution
Job Titles
1 416 (36.46%) Software Engineer
2 202 (17.70%) Developer
3 200 (17.53%) Senior
4 180 (15.78%) Lead
5 119 (10.43%) DevOps Engineer
6 75 (6.57%) Team Leader
7 71 (6.22%) Java Developer
8 56 (4.91%) Senior Software Engineer
9 55 (4.82%) Software Developer
10 54 (4.73%) Architect
11 48 (4.21%) Java Engineer
12 46 (4.03%) Senior Developer
13 38 (3.33%) Cloud Engineer
14 34 (2.98%) Solutions Architect
15 28 (2.45%) Azure Engineer
15 28 (2.45%) Infrastructure Engineer
15 28 (2.45%) Senior DevOps
16 25 (2.19%) Java Software Engineer
16 25 (2.19%) Site Reliability Engineer
17 23 (2.02%) .NET Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 406 (35.58%) React
2 386 (33.83%) Spring
3 379 (33.22%) Spring Boot
4 363 (31.81%) Kafka
5 283 (24.80%) HTML
6 270 (23.66%) CSS
7 260 (22.79%) Redux
8 253 (22.17%) JPA
9 197 (17.27%) REST
10 190 (16.65%) Hibernate
11 178 (15.60%) RESTful
12 143 (12.53%) .NET
13 125 (10.96%) Node.js
14 111 (9.73%) Jest
15 102 (8.94%) HTML5
16 98 (8.59%) CSS3
17 95 (8.33%) Elastic Stack
18 91 (7.98%) Sass
19 66 (5.78%) OpenTelemetry
20 54 (4.73%) AngularJS
Miscellaneous
1 288 (25.24%) Product Ownership
2 252 (22.09%) Enterprise Software
3 90 (7.89%) Distributed Systems
4 82 (7.19%) Cloud Native
5 69 (6.05%) Public Cloud
6 59 (5.17%) Algorithms
6 59 (5.17%) Cyberattack
7 36 (3.16%) Private Cloud
8 25 (2.19%) Management Information System
9 19 (1.67%) Data Structures
9 19 (1.67%) Hybrid Cloud
10 18 (1.58%) Greenfield Project
11 17 (1.49%) Virtual Team
12 15 (1.31%) Clustering
13 14 (1.23%) 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 (19.46%) Linux
2 87 (7.62%) Unix
3 55 (4.82%) Windows
4 44 (3.86%) 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
8 5 (0.44%) VMS
9 2 (0.18%) Debian
9 2 (0.18%) Solaris
10 1 (0.088%) Mac OS
10 1 (0.088%) Windows Server 2003
10 1 (0.088%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 747 (65.47%) DevOps
2 685 (60.04%) CI/CD
3 644 (56.44%) Agile
4 596 (52.23%) Containerisation
5 564 (49.43%) Software Engineering
6 547 (47.94%) Microservices
7 379 (33.22%) Test Automation
8 347 (30.41%) Full-Stack Development
9 326 (28.57%) Mentoring
10 325 (28.48%) Performance Optimisation
11 322 (28.22%) SDLC
12 299 (26.21%) TDD
13 278 (24.36%) Front End Development
14 217 (19.02%) Continuous Improvement
15 200 (17.53%) Infrastructure as Code
16 188 (16.48%) Problem-Solving
17 182 (15.95%) Clean Code
18 141 (12.36%) User Experience
19 140 (12.27%) Roadmaps
20 136 (11.92%) Continuous Integration
Programming Languages
1 655 (57.41%) Java
2 532 (46.63%) JavaScript
3 397 (34.79%) SQL
4 378 (33.13%) Python
5 215 (18.84%) TypeScript
6 147 (12.88%) Go
7 113 (9.90%) C#
8 111 (9.73%) Bash
9 60 (5.26%) PowerShell
10 54 (4.73%) C++
11 45 (3.94%) Rust
12 20 (1.75%) PHP
12 20 (1.75%) Shell Script
13 12 (1.05%) C
14 11 (0.96%) PL/SQL
15 10 (0.88%) Kotlin
16 9 (0.79%) Scala
17 8 (0.70%) Groovy
18 5 (0.44%) Bicep
18 5 (0.44%) R
Qualifications
1 156 (13.67%) Security Cleared
2 112 (9.82%) Degree
3 100 (8.76%) AWS Certification
3 100 (8.76%) DV Cleared
4 63 (5.52%) Computer Science Degree
5 54 (4.73%) SC Cleared
6 40 (3.51%) Azure Certification
7 14 (1.23%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
8 12 (1.05%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
9 10 (0.88%) BPSS Clearance
10 6 (0.53%) Master's Degree
11 5 (0.44%) Microsoft Certification
12 4 (0.35%) Cisco Certification
12 4 (0.35%) OCP
12 4 (0.35%) Oracle Certification
13 3 (0.26%) Linux+ Certification
13 3 (0.26%) RHCE
14 2 (0.18%) (ISC)2 CCSP
14 2 (0.18%) CISM
14 2 (0.18%) CompTIA Security+
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 264 (23.14%) QA
2 117 (10.25%) Accessibility
3 18 (1.58%) GDPR
4 15 (1.31%) HIPAA
4 15 (1.31%) SLA
5 13 (1.14%) Data Quality
6 12 (1.05%) SOC 2
7 9 (0.79%) ISO/IEC 27001
8 8 (0.70%) NIST
9 7 (0.61%) NCSC
10 5 (0.44%) PCI DSS
11 4 (0.35%) GMP
12 2 (0.18%) WCAG
13 1 (0.088%) Actionable Recommendations
13 1 (0.088%) Cyber Essentials
System Software
1 883 (77.39%) Docker
2 41 (3.59%) VMware Infrastructure
3 31 (2.72%) Active Directory
4 29 (2.54%) Hyper-V
5 18 (1.58%) vSphere
6 15 (1.31%) Virtual Machines
7 13 (1.14%) VMware ESXi
8 10 (0.88%) HDFS
9 8 (0.70%) NFS
10 6 (0.53%) BitLocker
10 6 (0.53%) Microsoft App-V
10 6 (0.53%) 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 (0.18%) SRDF
13 2 (0.18%) Veritas Cluster Server
13 2 (0.18%) Xen
Systems Management
1 352 (30.85%) Terraform
2 239 (20.95%) Ansible
3 111 (9.73%) Prometheus
4 79 (6.92%) Argo
5 72 (6.31%) Kustomize
6 53 (4.65%) Grafana
7 29 (2.54%) Puppet
8 16 (1.40%) Kibana
9 14 (1.23%) Istio
9 14 (1.23%) 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 (0.53%) Nagios
15 4 (0.35%) Control-M
Vendors
1 246 (21.56%) Solace
2 143 (12.53%) Google
3 80 (7.01%) Microsoft
4 52 (4.56%) VMware
5 35 (3.07%) Oracle
6 26 (2.28%) Dynatrace
6 26 (2.28%) Splunk
7 24 (2.10%) Red Hat
8 17 (1.49%) Databricks
9 13 (1.14%) Citrix
10 12 (1.05%) HP
11 10 (0.88%) Rackspace
12 9 (0.79%) SAP
13 8 (0.70%) Atlassian
13 8 (0.70%) Veeam
14 7 (0.61%) Adobe
14 7 (0.61%) Cisco
14 7 (0.61%) Ping Identity
15 6 (0.53%) Symantec
16 5 (0.44%) Draytek