Kubernetes Job Trends in West London

Kubernetes (k8s)
London > West London

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in West London requiring Kubernetes skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 6 January 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
6 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 49 33 34
Rank change year-on-year -16 +1 +32
Permanent jobs citing Kubernetes 5 21 10
As % of all permanent jobs in West London 0.97% 5.54% 3.13%
As % of the Systems Management category 20.00% 46.67% 24.39%
Number of salaries quoted 2 5 5
10th Percentile £82,875 £44,500 £67,000
25th Percentile £89,063 £47,500 £70,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £101,250 £67,500 £78,500
Median % change year-on-year +50.00% -14.01% +51.33%
75th Percentile £111,563 £68,750 £95,000
90th Percentile £116,625 - £105,500
London median annual salary £86,000 £95,000 £85,000
% change year-on-year -9.47% +11.76% -

All Systems Management Skills
West 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 West London.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for systems management skills 25 45 41
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in West London 4.84% 11.87% 12.81%
Number of salaries quoted 21 15 35
10th Percentile £30,000 £40,500 £36,250
25th Percentile £37,000 £45,000 £40,964
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £67,500 £53,500
Median % change year-on-year -11.11% +26.17% +2.88%
75th Percentile £97,500 £77,250 £59,500
90th Percentile £98,750 £82,650 £80,325
London median annual salary £77,500 £80,000 £79,066
% change year-on-year -3.13% +1.18% -1.17%

Kubernetes
Job Vacancy Trend in West London

Historical trend showing the proportion of permanent IT job postings citing Kubernetes relative to all permanent IT jobs advertised in West London.

Kubernetes job vacancy trend in West London

Kubernetes
Salary Trend in West London

Salary distribution trend for jobs in West London citing Kubernetes.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in West London citing Kubernetes

Kubernetes
Salary Histogram in West London

Salary distribution for jobs citing Kubernetes in West London over the 6 months to 6 January 2026.

Salary histogram for Kubernetes in West London

Kubernetes
Job Locations in West London

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Kubernetes within the West London region over the 6 months to 6 January 2026. 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
Hammersmith - 2 - - 1
Harrow -3 1 - - 1
Hillingdon - 1 £120,000 -
Kubernetes
London

Kubernetes
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in West London by Category

The following tables expand on the one above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. They cover the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each category:

Cloud Services
1 3 (60.00%) AWS
2 2 (40.00%) Pulumi
Communications & Networking
1 3 (60.00%) Broadband
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (20.00%) MongoDB
1 1 (20.00%) NoSQL
1 1 (20.00%) RDBMS
1 1 (20.00%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 2 (40.00%) Jenkins
1 2 (40.00%) TeamCity
2 1 (20.00%) Jaeger
General
1 1 (20.00%) Aviation
1 1 (20.00%) Finance
1 1 (20.00%) Financial Institution
1 1 (20.00%) Inclusion and Diversity
Job Titles
1 2 (40.00%) Lead
1 2 (40.00%) Senior
2 1 (20.00%) Cloud Engineer
2 1 (20.00%) CloudOps Engineer
2 1 (20.00%) Developer
2 1 (20.00%) DevOps Engineer
2 1 (20.00%) Java Engineer
2 1 (20.00%) Java Software Engineer
2 1 (20.00%) Kafka Engineer
2 1 (20.00%) Lead Cloud Engineer
2 1 (20.00%) Lead CloudOps Engineer
2 1 (20.00%) Lead DevOps
2 1 (20.00%) Lead DevOps Engineer
2 1 (20.00%) Operations Engineer
2 1 (20.00%) Scala Developer
2 1 (20.00%) Scala Engineer
2 1 (20.00%) Senior Developer
2 1 (20.00%) Senior Scala Developer
2 1 (20.00%) Senior Scala Engineer
2 1 (20.00%) Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (60.00%) Akka
2 1 (20.00%) ActiveMQ
2 1 (20.00%) Elastic Stack
2 1 (20.00%) JMS
2 1 (20.00%) Kafka
2 1 (20.00%) OpenTelemetry
2 1 (20.00%) RabbitMQ
2 1 (20.00%) RxJava
2 1 (20.00%) Spring
2 1 (20.00%) Spring Boot
2 1 (20.00%) Spring WebFlux
Miscellaneous
1 2 (40.00%) Over-the-Top Content
1 2 (40.00%) Video\Live Streaming
Operating Systems
1 1 (20.00%) Linux
1 1 (20.00%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (80.00%) Agile
2 3 (60.00%) Pair Programming
2 3 (60.00%) TDD
3 2 (40.00%) Acceptance Criteria
3 2 (40.00%) Analytics
3 2 (40.00%) Containerisation
3 2 (40.00%) Data Analytics
3 2 (40.00%) DevOps
3 2 (40.00%) High Availability
3 2 (40.00%) Infrastructure as Code
3 2 (40.00%) Kanban
3 2 (40.00%) Mentoring
3 2 (40.00%) Open Source
3 2 (40.00%) Scrum
4 1 (20.00%) BDD
4 1 (20.00%) CI/CD
4 1 (20.00%) Cloud Operations
4 1 (20.00%) DevSecOps
4 1 (20.00%) Roadmaps
4 1 (20.00%) Task Automation
Programming Languages
1 2 (40.00%) Java
1 2 (40.00%) Python
1 2 (40.00%) Scala
2 1 (20.00%) Bash
2 1 (20.00%) Go
2 1 (20.00%) JavaScript
Qualifications
1 1 (20.00%) AWS Certification
System Software
1 4 (80.00%) Docker
Systems Management
1 2 (40.00%) Terraform
2 1 (20.00%) Ansible
2 1 (20.00%) Argo
2 1 (20.00%) Kustomize
2 1 (20.00%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 1 (20.00%) Google