Kubernetes Jobs

Kubernetes (k8s)
UK

The table below provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies 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 60 69 32
Rank change year-on-year +9 -37 -11
Permanent jobs citing Kubernetes 2,244 3,664 6,908
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 4.09% 3.57% 7.10%
As % of the Systems Management category 40.35% 37.19% 48.43%
Number of salaries quoted 1,212 2,594 4,260
10th Percentile £51,250 £48,750 £50,000
25th Percentile £62,500 £58,813 £61,180
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £82,500 £75,000 £75,000
Median % change year-on-year +10.00% - -
75th Percentile £102,500 £95,000 £96,250
90th Percentile £125,000 £115,000 £115,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £70,000 £68,000 £69,447
% change year-on-year +2.94% -2.08% -0.79%

All Systems Management Skills
UK

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.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for systems management skills 5,561 9,853 14,263
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 10.14% 9.60% 14.65%
Number of salaries quoted 3,063 7,027 8,875
10th Percentile £35,000 £32,500 £35,400
25th Percentile £47,500 £45,000 £48,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £68,000 £61,000 £67,500
Median % change year-on-year +11.48% -9.63% -3.57%
75th Percentile £88,750 £82,500 £87,500
90th Percentile £111,250 £100,000 £105,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £60,000 £55,000 £59,526
% change year-on-year +9.09% -7.60% +0.89%

Kubernetes
Job Vacancy Trend

Job postings citing Kubernetes as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Job vacancy trend for Kubernetes in the UK

Kubernetes
Salary Trend

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

Salary trend for Kubernetes in the UK

Kubernetes
Salary Histogram

Salary distribution for jobs citing Kubernetes over the 6 months to 29 May 2025.

Salary histogram for Kubernetes in the UK

Kubernetes
Top 18 Job Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Kubernetes within the UK 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
England +9 2,041 £82,500 +6.45% 1,826
Work from Home +22 1,172 £80,000 +6.67% 1,417
UK excluding London -22 1,143 £70,000 +2.94% 977
London +13 984 £93,750 +4.17% 942
North of England -15 364 £75,000 +22.54% 353
South East -29 266 £65,000 -7.14% 194
North West -29 258 £75,000 +20.00% 234
Scotland +1 156 £74,870 +2.56% 71
Midlands +23 141 £66,250 +10.42% 109
South West -17 115 £71,991 +2.01% 145
East of England +37 92 £60,000 -29.41% 62
Yorkshire -2 90 £79,405 +32.34% 97
West Midlands +39 88 £67,500 +3.85% 82
East Midlands +12 53 £65,000 +8.33% 25
North East +31 16 £60,000 -13.36% 23
Northern Ireland +32 10 £55,000 -26.67% 40
Wales +17 8 £65,000 +52.94% 18
Isle of Man +12 1 £34,500 -

Kubernetes
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:

Application Platforms
1 211 (9.40%) Confluence
2 96 (4.28%) Apache Spark
3 90 (4.01%) Apache Airflow
4 87 (3.88%) Apache
5 26 (1.16%) nginx
6 25 (1.11%) Jupyter
7 18 (0.80%) Microsoft Exchange
8 15 (0.67%) Tomcat
9 14 (0.62%) JBoss
9 14 (0.62%) OpenStack
9 14 (0.62%) SharePoint
10 13 (0.58%) Red Hat Fuse
11 8 (0.36%) Apache Solr
12 6 (0.27%) IIS
13 5 (0.22%) CMS
14 3 (0.13%) Camunda
14 3 (0.13%) Mule
14 3 (0.13%) Oracle Coherence
14 3 (0.13%) Oracle SOA Suite
14 3 (0.13%) WebSphere
Applications
1 5 (0.22%) InDesign
2 3 (0.13%) MS Visio
3 2 (0.089%) Adobe XD
3 2 (0.089%) Chatbot
3 2 (0.089%) Sketch
4 1 (0.045%) Moqups
Business Applications
1 2 (0.089%) Dynamics CRM
1 2 (0.089%) Payment Gateway
1 2 (0.089%) Shopify
1 2 (0.089%) Sprinklr
2 1 (0.045%) Endur
2 1 (0.045%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 1,457 (64.93%) AWS
2 1,031 (45.94%) Azure
3 588 (26.20%) GCP
4 256 (11.41%) Serverless
5 246 (10.96%) Pulumi
6 164 (7.31%) Amazon EKS
7 156 (6.95%) AWS Lambda
8 144 (6.42%) Azure DevOps
8 144 (6.42%) GitHub
9 139 (6.19%) Amazon ECS
10 131 (5.84%) AWS CloudFormation
11 118 (5.26%) OpenShift
12 93 (4.14%) Amazon EC2
12 93 (4.14%) SaaS
13 83 (3.70%) GitHub Actions
14 81 (3.61%) Amazon S3
15 66 (2.94%) dbt
16 57 (2.54%) Azure AKS
17 52 (2.32%) Cloud Computing
18 43 (1.92%) PaaS
Communications & Networking
1 221 (9.85%) Broadband
2 68 (3.03%) Firewall
3 62 (2.76%) DNS
4 38 (1.69%) Network Security
5 35 (1.56%) TCP/IP
6 27 (1.20%) DHCP
7 20 (0.89%) SAN
8 18 (0.80%) VPN
9 17 (0.76%) Internet
9 17 (0.76%) NAS
10 15 (0.67%) HTTP
11 14 (0.62%) WAN
12 13 (0.58%) BGP
13 10 (0.45%) OSPF
13 10 (0.45%) SD-WAN
14 7 (0.31%) HTTPS
14 7 (0.31%) IPsec
14 7 (0.31%) Remote Desktop
15 6 (0.27%) MPLS
15 6 (0.27%) SMTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 399 (17.78%) NoSQL
2 356 (15.86%) SQL Server
3 307 (13.68%) Relational Database
4 241 (10.74%) RDBMS
5 207 (9.22%) PostgreSQL
6 126 (5.61%) MongoDB
7 81 (3.61%) Elasticsearch
8 75 (3.34%) MySQL
9 72 (3.21%) Big Data
10 67 (2.99%) Apache Iceberg
11 62 (2.76%) Amazon Athena
12 59 (2.63%) Apache Arrow
12 59 (2.63%) Apache Ignite
12 59 (2.63%) Dremio
13 57 (2.54%) Amazon RDS
14 36 (1.60%) DynamoDB
15 32 (1.43%) Redis
16 23 (1.02%) Azure SQL Database
17 20 (0.89%) Data Warehouse
18 19 (0.85%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 407 (18.14%) GitLab
2 327 (14.57%) JIRA
3 321 (14.30%) SonarQube
4 293 (13.06%) Maven
4 293 (13.06%) Selenium
5 284 (12.66%) Sonatype Nexus
6 271 (12.08%) Bitbucket
7 269 (11.99%) Cucumber
8 260 (11.59%) Jenkins
9 256 (11.41%) Git
10 216 (9.63%) Jaeger
11 76 (3.39%) Artifactory
12 67 (2.99%) JUnit
13 32 (1.43%) Mockito
14 28 (1.25%) Octopus Deploy
15 26 (1.16%) CircleCI
16 25 (1.11%) Postman
16 25 (1.11%) TeamCity
17 23 (1.02%) JMeter
18 22 (0.98%) IntelliJ
General
1 830 (36.99%) Finance
2 662 (29.50%) Inclusion and Diversity
3 497 (22.15%) Banking
4 382 (17.02%) Social Skills
5 141 (6.28%) Analytical Skills
6 137 (6.11%) Law
7 117 (5.21%) Retail
8 109 (4.86%) Investment Banking
9 101 (4.50%) Public Sector
10 100 (4.46%) Front Office
11 90 (4.01%) Corporate Banking
12 47 (2.09%) Marketing
13 44 (1.96%) Telecoms
14 41 (1.83%) Manufacturing
15 40 (1.78%) Financial Institution
16 36 (1.60%) Games
17 17 (0.76%) Legal
18 16 (0.71%) Electronics
19 14 (0.62%) Presentation Skills
20 12 (0.53%) Automotive
Job Titles
1 616 (27.45%) Software Engineer
2 480 (21.39%) Lead
3 438 (19.52%) Senior
4 356 (15.86%) Developer
5 277 (12.34%) DevOps Engineer
6 231 (10.29%) Team Leader
7 147 (6.55%) Cloud Engineer
8 134 (5.97%) Java Engineer
9 133 (5.93%) Senior Software Engineer
10 123 (5.48%) AWS Engineer
10 123 (5.48%) Python Engineer
11 115 (5.12%) AWS DevOps
12 113 (5.04%) Architect
12 113 (5.04%) Data Engineer
13 103 (4.59%) AWS DevOps Engineer
14 101 (4.50%) Java Developer
15 96 (4.28%) Azure Engineer
15 96 (4.28%) Platform Engineer
16 83 (3.70%) Senior Developer
17 79 (3.52%) Software Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 584 (26.02%) Kafka
2 576 (25.67%) React
3 484 (21.57%) Spring
4 458 (20.41%) Spring Boot
5 316 (14.08%) REST
6 306 (13.64%) HTML
7 300 (13.37%) CSS
8 293 (13.06%) Elastic Stack
9 267 (11.90%) Redux
10 260 (11.59%) JPA
10 260 (11.59%) RESTful
11 246 (10.96%) .NET
12 225 (10.03%) OpenTelemetry
13 202 (9.00%) Hibernate
14 173 (7.71%) Node.js
15 123 (5.48%) AngularJS
16 119 (5.30%) Jest
17 110 (4.90%) HTML5
18 106 (4.72%) CSS3
19 97 (4.32%) Sass
Miscellaneous
1 325 (14.48%) Product Ownership
2 260 (11.59%) Enterprise Software
3 225 (10.03%) Cloud Native
4 169 (7.53%) Distributed Systems
5 135 (6.02%) Public Cloud
6 72 (3.21%) Cyberattack
7 70 (3.12%) Algorithms
8 69 (3.07%) Management Information System
9 44 (1.96%) Private Cloud
10 37 (1.65%) Data Structures
11 36 (1.60%) Legacy Code
12 32 (1.43%) Hybrid Cloud
13 30 (1.34%) Greenfield Project
14 27 (1.20%) Clustering
14 27 (1.20%) Data Centre
15 25 (1.11%) Mobile App
16 23 (1.02%) Virtual Team
17 22 (0.98%) Legacy Systems
18 19 (0.85%) Replication
19 17 (0.76%) Reinsurance
Operating Systems
1 542 (24.15%) Linux
2 252 (11.23%) Unix
3 118 (5.26%) Windows
4 63 (2.81%) Android
5 50 (2.23%) Windows Server
6 27 (1.20%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
7 14 (0.62%) Ubuntu
8 12 (0.53%) VMS
9 9 (0.40%) CentOS
10 6 (0.27%) SUSE
11 5 (0.22%) Apple iOS
11 5 (0.22%) SUSE Linux Enterprise Server
11 5 (0.22%) Windows Server 2016
12 4 (0.18%) Windows Server 2019
13 3 (0.13%) Debian
14 2 (0.089%) Mac OS
14 2 (0.089%) Solaris
15 1 (0.045%) Windows Server 2003
Processes & Methodologies
1 1,355 (60.38%) DevOps
2 1,211 (53.97%) CI/CD
3 1,116 (49.73%) Agile
4 1,108 (49.38%) Containerisation
5 918 (40.91%) Software Engineering
6 793 (35.34%) Microservices
7 622 (27.72%) Infrastructure as Code
8 587 (26.16%) Mentoring
9 518 (23.08%) Performance Optimisation
10 468 (20.86%) Test Automation
11 433 (19.30%) Full-Stack Development
12 392 (17.47%) SDLC
13 375 (16.71%) TDD
14 361 (16.09%) Problem-Solving
15 358 (15.95%) High Availability
16 348 (15.51%) Roadmaps
17 342 (15.24%) Continuous Integration
18 319 (14.22%) Front End Development
19 279 (12.43%) Continuous Improvement
20 253 (11.27%) Product Management
Programming Languages
1 1,147 (51.11%) Java
2 957 (42.65%) Python
3 788 (35.12%) JavaScript
4 579 (25.80%) SQL
5 492 (21.93%) Go
6 342 (15.24%) Bash
7 334 (14.88%) TypeScript
8 200 (8.91%) C#
9 145 (6.46%) PowerShell
10 143 (6.37%) Rust
11 119 (5.30%) C++
12 52 (2.32%) C
13 40 (1.78%) Scala
14 34 (1.52%) Shell Script
15 32 (1.43%) Bicep
16 29 (1.29%) Kotlin
17 26 (1.16%) PHP
18 21 (0.94%) Ruby
19 17 (0.76%) PL/SQL
20 16 (0.71%) Groovy
Qualifications
1 303 (13.50%) AWS Certification
2 239 (10.65%) Security Cleared
3 233 (10.38%) Degree
4 124 (5.53%) DV Cleared
5 115 (5.12%) Computer Science Degree
6 104 (4.63%) SC Cleared
7 68 (3.03%) Azure Certification
8 56 (2.50%) Master's Degree
9 48 (2.14%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
10 30 (1.34%) PhD
11 13 (0.58%) BPSS Clearance
12 12 (0.53%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
13 10 (0.45%) Cisco Certification
13 10 (0.45%) Microsoft Certification
14 8 (0.36%) ISTQB
15 5 (0.22%) (ISC)2 CCSP
15 5 (0.22%) CCNA
15 5 (0.22%) TOGAF Certification
16 4 (0.18%) CCNP
16 4 (0.18%) CISSP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 312 (13.90%) QA
2 118 (5.26%) Accessibility
3 54 (2.41%) GDPR
4 42 (1.87%) HIPAA
5 24 (1.07%) Data Quality
5 24 (1.07%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 22 (0.98%) SOC 2
7 21 (0.94%) SLA
8 17 (0.76%) NIST
9 12 (0.53%) PCI DSS
10 9 (0.40%) NCSC
11 7 (0.31%) Sarbanes-Oxley
12 4 (0.18%) Cyber Essentials
12 4 (0.18%) GMP
13 2 (0.089%) WCAG
14 1 (0.045%) Actionable Recommendations
14 1 (0.045%) EU AI Act
14 1 (0.045%) ISO/IEC 27005
14 1 (0.045%) MiFID
14 1 (0.045%) NIST 800
System Software
1 1,628 (72.55%) Docker
2 67 (2.99%) VMware Infrastructure
3 55 (2.45%) Active Directory
4 41 (1.83%) Hyper-V
5 35 (1.56%) Virtual Machines
6 24 (1.07%) vSphere
7 18 (0.80%) VMware ESXi
8 13 (0.58%) NFS
9 10 (0.45%) HDFS
10 6 (0.27%) BitLocker
10 6 (0.27%) KVM
10 6 (0.27%) Microsoft App-V
10 6 (0.27%) Terminal Services
11 4 (0.18%) VMware NSX
11 4 (0.18%) Xen
12 3 (0.13%) Dovecot
12 3 (0.13%) Firmware
12 3 (0.13%) Postfix
13 2 (0.089%) SRDF
13 2 (0.089%) Veritas Cluster Server
Systems Management
1 937 (41.76%) Terraform
2 550 (24.51%) Ansible
3 346 (15.42%) Prometheus
4 257 (11.45%) Argo
5 229 (10.20%) Kustomize
6 136 (6.06%) Grafana
7 56 (2.50%) Puppet
8 48 (2.14%) Progress Chef
9 33 (1.47%) Istio
10 26 (1.16%) Microsoft Intune
11 23 (1.02%) Kibana
12 19 (0.85%) Packer
12 19 (0.85%) SCCM
13 17 (0.76%) Podman
14 14 (0.62%) vCenter Server
15 13 (0.58%) Nagios
16 12 (0.53%) vMotion
17 8 (0.36%) Failover Clustering
17 8 (0.36%) FortiGate
18 7 (0.31%) WSUS
Vendors
1 378 (16.84%) Google
2 250 (11.14%) Solace
3 150 (6.68%) Microsoft
4 93 (4.14%) VMware
5 61 (2.72%) Oracle
6 50 (2.23%) Splunk
7 49 (2.18%) Databricks
8 48 (2.14%) Red Hat
9 35 (1.56%) Dynatrace
10 32 (1.43%) Cisco
11 23 (1.02%) Citrix
12 21 (0.94%) SAP
13 18 (0.80%) Palo Alto
13 18 (0.80%) Trayport
14 15 (0.67%) Atlassian
15 13 (0.58%) Adobe
16 12 (0.53%) HP
17 11 (0.49%) New Relic
18 10 (0.45%) Commvault
18 10 (0.45%) Hitachi