Kubernetes Architect Jobs

Kubernetes Architect (K8s Architect)
UK

The median Kubernetes Architect (K8s Architect) salary in the UK is £85,000 per year, according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months leading to 2 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
2 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 684 899 979
Rank change year-on-year +215 +80 +197
Permanent jobs requiring a Kubernetes Architect 7 3 4
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 0.013% 0.003% 0.004%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.015% 0.003% 0.004%
Number of salaries quoted 1 3 2
10th Percentile - £99,000 £72,750
25th Percentile - £99,375 £76,875
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £85,000 £102,500 £87,500
Median % change year-on-year -17.07% +17.14% -12.50%
75th Percentile - £114,375 £101,875
90th Percentile - £119,250 £108,250
UK excluding London median annual salary - £107,500 -

All Permanent IT Job Vacancies
UK

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent IT job vacancies. 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 with a recognized job title 46,967 93,227 95,240
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 90.30% 94.63% 91.55%
Number of salaries quoted 27,330 66,890 59,886
10th Percentile £30,000 £28,500 £32,500
25th Percentile £42,000 £38,500 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,500 £52,900 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year +8.70% -11.83% -
75th Percentile £75,000 £71,250 £81,250
90th Percentile £97,500 £90,000 £100,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £52,000 £50,000 £52,500
% change year-on-year +4.00% -4.76% +5.00%

Kubernetes Architect
Job Vacancy Trend

Job postings that featured Kubernetes Architect in the job title as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Job vacancy trend for Kubernetes Architect in the UK

Kubernetes Architect
Salary Trend

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing Kubernetes Architect.

Salary trend for Kubernetes Architect in the UK

Kubernetes Architect
Top 2 Job Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Kubernetes Architect within the UK over the 6 months to 2 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
England +175 6 - -
London +116 6 - -

Kubernetes Architect Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities

For the 6 months to 2 May 2025, Kubernetes Architect 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 featuring Kubernetes Architect in the job title.

1 7 (100.00%) Ansible
1 7 (100.00%) Azure
1 7 (100.00%) AWS
1 7 (100.00%) Kubernetes
1 7 (100.00%) CI/CD
2 6 (85.71%) Cost Optimisation
2 6 (85.71%) Containerisation
2 6 (85.71%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
2 6 (85.71%) Docker
2 6 (85.71%) DevOps
2 6 (85.71%) AWS Certification
3 4 (57.14%) GCP
3 4 (57.14%) Terraform
3 4 (57.14%) Infrastructure as Code
3 4 (57.14%) Amazon EKS
3 4 (57.14%) Azure AKS
4 3 (42.86%) Cost Management
4 3 (42.86%) ARM Templates
4 3 (42.86%) Social Skills
4 3 (42.86%) Azure Certification
4 3 (42.86%) Cloud Security
4 3 (42.86%) Jenkins
4 3 (42.86%) Translating Business Requirements
4 3 (42.86%) Performance Optimisation
4 3 (42.86%) GitLab
4 3 (42.86%) AWS CloudFormation
4 3 (42.86%) Google
4 3 (42.86%) Disaster Recovery
4 3 (42.86%) Management Information System
4 3 (42.86%) Migration

Kubernetes Architect Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities 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 7 (100.00%) AWS
1 7 (100.00%) Azure
2 4 (57.14%) Amazon EKS
2 4 (57.14%) Azure AKS
2 4 (57.14%) GCP
3 3 (42.86%) AWS CloudFormation
4 1 (14.29%) Google Kubernetes Engine
Development Applications
1 3 (42.86%) GitLab
1 3 (42.86%) Jenkins
General
1 3 (42.86%) Social Skills
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (42.86%) ARM Templates
Miscellaneous
1 3 (42.86%) Management Information System
2 1 (14.29%) Cloud Native
Processes & Methodologies
1 7 (100.00%) CI/CD
2 6 (85.71%) Containerisation
2 6 (85.71%) Cost Optimisation
2 6 (85.71%) DevOps
3 4 (57.14%) Infrastructure as Code
4 3 (42.86%) Cloud Security
4 3 (42.86%) Cost Management
4 3 (42.86%) Disaster Recovery
4 3 (42.86%) Migration
4 3 (42.86%) Performance Optimisation
4 3 (42.86%) Translating Business Requirements
5 1 (14.29%) Analytics
5 1 (14.29%) Artificial Intelligence
5 1 (14.29%) Data Ingestion
5 1 (14.29%) DevSecOps
5 1 (14.29%) Machine Learning
Qualifications
1 6 (85.71%) AWS Certification
1 6 (85.71%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
2 3 (42.86%) Azure Certification
3 1 (14.29%) DV Cleared
3 1 (14.29%) Security Cleared
System Software
1 6 (85.71%) Docker
Systems Management
1 7 (100.00%) Ansible
1 7 (100.00%) Kubernetes
2 4 (57.14%) Terraform
3 1 (14.29%) Grafana
3 1 (14.29%) Istio
3 1 (14.29%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 3 (42.86%) Google