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 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 59 69 32
Rank change year-on-year +10 -37 -11
Permanent jobs citing Kubernetes 2,247 3,663 6,943
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 4.11% 3.59% 7.09%
As % of the Systems Management category 40.47% 37.25% 48.37%
Number of salaries quoted 1,219 2,596 4,289
10th Percentile £51,250 £48,750 £50,000
25th Percentile £62,500 £59,000 £61,180
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £82,500 £75,000 £75,000
Median % change year-on-year +10.00% - -
75th Percentile £105,000 £95,000 £96,250
90th Percentile £127,500 £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 5,552 9,834 14,355
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 10.15% 9.63% 14.66%
Number of salaries quoted 3,064 7,033 8,941
10th Percentile £35,000 £32,500 £35,400
25th Percentile £47,500 £45,000 £48,091
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £69,384 £61,000 £67,500
Median % change year-on-year +13.74% -9.63% -3.57%
75th Percentile £90,000 £82,500 £87,500
90th Percentile £111,250 £100,000 £105,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £60,000 £55,000 £59,513
% change year-on-year +9.09% -7.58% +0.87%

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 28 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 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
England +9 2,044 £82,500 +6.45% 2,150
Work from Home +24 1,180 £80,000 +6.67% 1,744
UK excluding London -20 1,141 £70,000 +2.94% 1,248
London +11 990 £95,000 +5.56% 1,055
North of England -23 362 £75,000 +22.54% 408
South East -31 268 £65,000 -7.14% 258
North West -30 256 £75,000 +20.00% 259
Scotland 0 156 £74,870 +1.18% 85
Midlands +24 141 £66,250 +10.42% 149
South West -13 114 £71,991 +2.01% 183
East of England +36 91 £60,500 -28.82% 97
Yorkshire 0 90 £79,405 +32.34% 117
West Midlands +46 88 £67,500 +3.85% 101
East Midlands +16 53 £65,000 +8.33% 43
North East +33 16 £60,000 -13.36% 33
Northern Ireland +31 10 £55,000 -26.67% 43
Wales +18 8 £65,000 +52.94% 25
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 (9.39%) Confluence
2 96 (4.27%) Apache Spark
3 89 (3.96%) Apache Airflow
4 86 (3.83%) Apache
5 25 (1.11%) Jupyter
6 24 (1.07%) nginx
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 1,460 (64.98%) AWS
2 1,028 (45.75%) Azure
3 582 (25.90%) GCP
4 264 (11.75%) Serverless
5 245 (10.90%) Pulumi
6 166 (7.39%) AWS Lambda
7 164 (7.30%) Amazon EKS
8 149 (6.63%) Amazon ECS
8 149 (6.63%) Azure DevOps
9 146 (6.50%) GitHub
10 138 (6.14%) AWS CloudFormation
11 118 (5.25%) OpenShift
12 101 (4.49%) Amazon EC2
13 93 (4.14%) SaaS
14 89 (3.96%) Amazon S3
15 84 (3.74%) GitHub Actions
16 66 (2.94%) dbt
17 57 (2.54%) Azure AKS
18 52 (2.31%) Cloud Computing
19 43 (1.91%) PaaS
Communications & Networking
1 221 (9.84%) Broadband
2 70 (3.12%) Firewall
3 60 (2.67%) DNS
4 36 (1.60%) Network Security
5 34 (1.51%) TCP/IP
6 27 (1.20%) DHCP
7 20 (0.89%) SAN
8 18 (0.80%) VPN
9 17 (0.76%) NAS
10 16 (0.71%) Internet
11 15 (0.67%) HTTP
12 14 (0.62%) WAN
13 13 (0.58%) BGP
14 10 (0.45%) OSPF
14 10 (0.45%) SD-WAN
15 7 (0.31%) HTTPS
15 7 (0.31%) IPsec
15 7 (0.31%) Remote Desktop
16 6 (0.27%) MPLS
16 6 (0.27%) SMTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 396 (17.62%) NoSQL
2 358 (15.93%) SQL Server
3 306 (13.62%) Relational Database
4 240 (10.68%) RDBMS
5 207 (9.21%) PostgreSQL
6 126 (5.61%) MongoDB
7 79 (3.52%) Elasticsearch
8 75 (3.34%) MySQL
9 72 (3.20%) Big Data
10 67 (2.98%) Apache Iceberg
11 65 (2.89%) Amazon RDS
12 62 (2.76%) Amazon Athena
13 59 (2.63%) Apache Arrow
13 59 (2.63%) Apache Ignite
13 59 (2.63%) Dremio
14 36 (1.60%) DynamoDB
15 31 (1.38%) Redis
16 23 (1.02%) Azure SQL Database
17 20 (0.89%) Data Warehouse
18 19 (0.85%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 404 (17.98%) GitLab
2 326 (14.51%) JIRA
3 320 (14.24%) SonarQube
4 294 (13.08%) Selenium
5 293 (13.04%) Maven
6 283 (12.59%) Sonatype Nexus
7 272 (12.11%) Bitbucket
8 269 (11.97%) Cucumber
9 263 (11.70%) Jenkins
10 254 (11.30%) Git
11 216 (9.61%) Jaeger
12 78 (3.47%) Artifactory
13 67 (2.98%) JUnit
14 31 (1.38%) Mockito
15 28 (1.25%) Octopus Deploy
16 26 (1.16%) CircleCI
16 26 (1.16%) TeamCity
17 25 (1.11%) Postman
18 23 (1.02%) JMeter
19 22 (0.98%) IntelliJ
General
1 832 (37.03%) Finance
2 657 (29.24%) Inclusion and Diversity
3 497 (22.12%) Banking
4 382 (17.00%) Social Skills
5 141 (6.28%) Analytical Skills
6 131 (5.83%) Law
7 117 (5.21%) Retail
8 108 (4.81%) Front Office
8 108 (4.81%) Investment Banking
9 100 (4.45%) Public Sector
10 90 (4.01%) Corporate Banking
11 45 (2.00%) Marketing
12 41 (1.82%) Telecoms
13 40 (1.78%) Financial Institution
13 40 (1.78%) Manufacturing
14 37 (1.65%) Games
15 17 (0.76%) Legal
16 15 (0.67%) Electronics
17 14 (0.62%) Presentation Skills
18 11 (0.49%) Organisational Skills
Job Titles
1 613 (27.28%) Software Engineer
2 480 (21.36%) Lead
3 436 (19.40%) Senior
4 351 (15.62%) Developer
5 286 (12.73%) DevOps Engineer
6 231 (10.28%) Team Leader
7 150 (6.68%) Cloud Engineer
8 134 (5.96%) Senior Software Engineer
9 132 (5.87%) Java Engineer
10 130 (5.79%) AWS Engineer
11 127 (5.65%) Python Engineer
12 121 (5.38%) AWS DevOps
13 113 (5.03%) Data Engineer
14 111 (4.94%) Architect
15 110 (4.90%) AWS DevOps Engineer
16 100 (4.45%) Java Developer
17 98 (4.36%) Azure Engineer
18 96 (4.27%) Platform Engineer
19 78 (3.47%) Senior Developer
19 78 (3.47%) Software Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 579 (25.77%) Kafka
2 577 (25.68%) React
3 481 (21.41%) Spring
4 454 (20.20%) Spring Boot
5 311 (13.84%) REST
6 305 (13.57%) HTML
7 299 (13.31%) CSS
8 294 (13.08%) Elastic Stack
9 267 (11.88%) Redux
10 259 (11.53%) JPA
11 256 (11.39%) RESTful
12 243 (10.81%) .NET
13 225 (10.01%) OpenTelemetry
14 201 (8.95%) Hibernate
15 174 (7.74%) Node.js
16 122 (5.43%) AngularJS
17 119 (5.30%) Jest
18 109 (4.85%) HTML5
19 105 (4.67%) CSS3
20 97 (4.32%) Sass
Miscellaneous
1 325 (14.46%) Product Ownership
2 258 (11.48%) Enterprise Software
3 222 (9.88%) Cloud Native
4 168 (7.48%) Distributed Systems
5 131 (5.83%) Public Cloud
6 72 (3.20%) Cyberattack
7 71 (3.16%) Management Information System
8 70 (3.12%) Algorithms
9 41 (1.82%) Private Cloud
10 37 (1.65%) Data Structures
11 36 (1.60%) Legacy Code
12 32 (1.42%) Hybrid Cloud
13 29 (1.29%) Clustering
13 29 (1.29%) Data Centre
14 28 (1.25%) Greenfield Project
15 24 (1.07%) Virtual Team
16 23 (1.02%) Mobile App
17 21 (0.93%) Legacy Systems
17 21 (0.93%) Replication
18 17 (0.76%) Reinsurance
Operating Systems
1 543 (24.17%) Linux
2 252 (11.21%) Unix
3 121 (5.38%) Windows
4 63 (2.80%) Android
5 50 (2.23%) Windows Server
6 27 (1.20%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
7 14 (0.62%) Ubuntu
8 13 (0.58%) 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 1,358 (60.44%) DevOps
2 1,217 (54.16%) CI/CD
3 1,119 (49.80%) Agile
4 1,102 (49.04%) Containerisation
5 923 (41.08%) Software Engineering
6 786 (34.98%) Microservices
7 617 (27.46%) Infrastructure as Code
8 583 (25.95%) Mentoring
9 518 (23.05%) Performance Optimisation
10 466 (20.74%) Test Automation
11 434 (19.31%) Full-Stack Development
12 391 (17.40%) SDLC
13 374 (16.64%) TDD
14 358 (15.93%) Problem-Solving
15 356 (15.84%) High Availability
16 346 (15.40%) Roadmaps
17 341 (15.18%) Continuous Integration
18 317 (14.11%) Front End Development
19 278 (12.37%) Continuous Improvement
20 252 (11.21%) Product Management
Programming Languages
1 1,142 (50.82%) Java
2 965 (42.95%) Python
3 796 (35.43%) JavaScript
4 576 (25.63%) SQL
5 491 (21.85%) Go
6 345 (15.35%) Bash
7 337 (15.00%) TypeScript
8 197 (8.77%) C#
9 145 (6.45%) PowerShell
10 144 (6.41%) Rust
11 120 (5.34%) C++
12 53 (2.36%) C
13 40 (1.78%) Scala
14 34 (1.51%) Shell Script
15 33 (1.47%) Bicep
16 29 (1.29%) Kotlin
17 26 (1.16%) PHP
18 22 (0.98%) Ruby
19 17 (0.76%) PL/SQL
20 16 (0.71%) Groovy
Qualifications
1 302 (13.44%) AWS Certification
2 238 (10.59%) Security Cleared
3 235 (10.46%) Degree
4 124 (5.52%) DV Cleared
5 117 (5.21%) Computer Science Degree
6 104 (4.63%) SC Cleared
7 69 (3.07%) Azure Certification
8 56 (2.49%) 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%) Microsoft Certification
14 8 (0.36%) Cisco Certification
14 8 (0.36%) ISTQB
15 5 (0.22%) (ISC)2 CCSP
15 5 (0.22%) TOGAF Certification
16 4 (0.18%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
16 4 (0.18%) OCP
16 4 (0.18%) Oracle Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 311 (13.84%) QA
2 120 (5.34%) Accessibility
3 53 (2.36%) GDPR
4 41 (1.82%) HIPAA
5 24 (1.07%) Data Quality
5 24 (1.07%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 22 (0.98%) SOC 2
7 20 (0.89%) SLA
8 16 (0.71%) NIST
9 13 (0.58%) PCI DSS
10 9 (0.40%) NCSC
11 8 (0.36%) 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 1,631 (72.59%) Docker
2 67 (2.98%) VMware Infrastructure
3 57 (2.54%) Active Directory
4 43 (1.91%) 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
1 948 (42.19%) Terraform
2 550 (24.48%) Ansible
3 348 (15.49%) Prometheus
4 257 (11.44%) Argo
5 229 (10.19%) Kustomize
6 134 (5.96%) Grafana
7 56 (2.49%) 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 10 (0.45%) Failover Clustering
18 8 (0.36%) FortiGate
19 7 (0.31%) vRealize
Vendors
1 376 (16.73%) Google
2 250 (11.13%) Solace
3 151 (6.72%) Microsoft
4 94 (4.18%) VMware
5 59 (2.63%) Oracle
6 51 (2.27%) Databricks
7 49 (2.18%) Splunk
8 48 (2.14%) Red Hat
9 34 (1.51%) Dynatrace
10 31 (1.38%) Cisco
11 23 (1.02%) Citrix
12 20 (0.89%) 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%) Rackspace