Kubernetes Engineer Jobs in England

Kubernetes Engineer (K8s Engineer)
UK > England

The median Kubernetes Engineer (K8s Engineer) salary in England is £100,000 per year according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 23 May 2024.

The first table below provides salary benchmarking and summary statistics including a comparison to same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
23 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 744 732 992
Rank change year-on-year -12 +260 -361
Permanent jobs requiring a Kubernetes Engineer 85 194 181
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 0.097% 0.22% 0.13%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.10% 0.24% 0.14%
Number of salaries quoted 72 165 137
10th Percentile £60,000 £55,000 £60,000
25th Percentile £80,000 £68,750 £70,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £100,000 £105,000 £80,000
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% +31.25% +4.92%
75th Percentile £112,500 £138,750 £100,000
90th Percentile £138,750 £145,500 £110,000
UK median annual salary £100,000 £100,000 £80,000
% change year-on-year - +25.00% +6.67%

All Permanent IT Job Vacancies
England

The following table is for comparison with the above and includes summary statistics for all permanent IT job vacancies advertised in England. 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 England with a recognized job title 82,670 80,142 132,199
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 94.61% 91.50% 96.04%
Number of salaries quoted 61,486 50,956 74,862
10th Percentile £28,500 £32,750 £32,500
25th Percentile £38,250 £45,000 £43,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £52,550 £60,800 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -13.57% +1.33% +9.09%
75th Percentile £71,250 £81,250 £80,000
90th Percentile £90,000 £100,000 £97,500
UK median annual salary £52,500 £60,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year -12.50% - +9.09%

Kubernetes Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend in England

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

Job vacancy trend for Kubernetes Engineer in England

Kubernetes Engineer
Salary Trend in England

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

Salary trend for Kubernetes Engineer in England

Kubernetes Engineer
Salary Histogram in England

Salary distribution for jobs citing Kubernetes Engineer in England over the 6 months to 23 May 2024.

Salary histogram for Kubernetes Engineer in England

Kubernetes Engineer
Job Locations in England

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Kubernetes Engineer within the England region over the 6 months to 23 May 2024. 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
London +47 66 £105,000 -2.33% 7
East of England -5 8 £77,500 -
North of England +22 6 £75,000 +3.45% 4
North West -15 6 £75,000 +3.45% 4
Midlands -8 4 £57,500 -22.44% 1
East Midlands - 4 £57,500 -
South West -35 1 £65,000 -10.34%
Kubernetes Engineer
UK

Kubernetes Engineer Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in England

For the 6 months to 23 May 2024, Kubernetes Engineer 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 across the England region featuring Kubernetes Engineer in the job title.

1 85 (100.00%) Kubernetes
2 69 (81.18%) Python
3 62 (72.94%) Terraform
4 60 (70.59%) DevOps
5 58 (68.24%) CI/CD
6 57 (67.06%) AWS
7 54 (63.53%) Docker
8 48 (56.47%) Finance
9 47 (55.29%) Jenkins
10 40 (47.06%) Software Engineering
11 38 (44.71%) Go
11 38 (44.71%) Site Reliability Engineering
12 36 (42.35%) Java
13 35 (41.18%) Agile
14 34 (40.00%) Deployment Automation
15 32 (37.65%) Amazon ECS
15 32 (37.65%) AWS CloudFormation
15 32 (37.65%) Azure
16 31 (36.47%) Artifactory
17 30 (35.29%) Open Source
17 30 (35.29%) Amazon S3
17 30 (35.29%) Serverless
17 30 (35.29%) AWS Lambda
18 29 (34.12%) OpenShift
18 29 (34.12%) Amazon EC2
18 29 (34.12%) Amazon RDS
18 29 (34.12%) Asset Management
19 28 (32.94%) Front Office
19 28 (32.94%) Tandem
19 28 (32.94%) J2EE

Kubernetes Engineer Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in England 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 3 (3.53%) Apache
2 2 (2.35%) nginx
3 1 (1.18%) Apache Airflow
Cloud Services
1 57 (67.06%) AWS
2 32 (37.65%) Amazon ECS
2 32 (37.65%) AWS CloudFormation
2 32 (37.65%) Azure
3 30 (35.29%) Amazon S3
3 30 (35.29%) AWS Lambda
3 30 (35.29%) Serverless
4 29 (34.12%) Amazon EC2
4 29 (34.12%) OpenShift
5 28 (32.94%) Amazon SQS
6 15 (17.65%) GitHub
7 9 (10.59%) GitHub Actions
8 7 (8.24%) Amazon EKS
8 7 (8.24%) Azure AKS
9 6 (7.06%) Azure DevOps
10 5 (5.88%) Entra ID
10 5 (5.88%) Google Kubernetes Engine
11 4 (4.71%) Anthos
11 4 (4.71%) OCI
12 2 (2.35%) Azure Cosmos DB
Communications & Networking
1 6 (7.06%) Firewall
2 4 (4.71%) DNS
3 3 (3.53%) TCP/IP
4 2 (2.35%) SAN
5 1 (1.18%) DHCP
5 1 (1.18%) tcpdump
5 1 (1.18%) Wireshark
Database & Business Intelligence
1 29 (34.12%) Amazon RDS
2 28 (32.94%) Amazon Redshift
3 6 (7.06%) InfluxDB
4 4 (4.71%) MariaDB
4 4 (4.71%) PostgreSQL
5 3 (3.53%) Big Data
6 2 (2.35%) Azure SQL Database
6 2 (2.35%) Dremio
6 2 (2.35%) Elasticsearch
6 2 (2.35%) MongoDB
6 2 (2.35%) MySQL
6 2 (2.35%) Redis
7 1 (1.18%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 47 (55.29%) Jenkins
2 31 (36.47%) Artifactory
3 9 (10.59%) Git
4 7 (8.24%) GitLab
4 7 (8.24%) Octopus Deploy
5 6 (7.06%) TeamCity
6 3 (3.53%) JIRA
6 3 (3.53%) SonarQube
6 3 (3.53%) Sonatype Nexus
7 2 (2.35%) CircleCI
7 2 (2.35%) NUnit
General
1 48 (56.47%) Finance
2 28 (32.94%) Front Office
3 6 (7.06%) Social Skills
4 4 (4.71%) Law
5 3 (3.53%) Analytical Skills
5 3 (3.53%) Banking
5 3 (3.53%) Retail
6 2 (2.35%) Health Technology
7 1 (1.18%) Tech for Good
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 28 (32.94%) J2EE
2 5 (5.88%) .NET
2 5 (5.88%) .NET Core
3 4 (4.71%) Elastic Stack
4 2 (2.35%) Kafka
4 2 (2.35%) SAML
4 2 (2.35%) Spring
5 1 (1.18%) Keycloak
5 1 (1.18%) Middleware
Miscellaneous
1 28 (32.94%) Tandem
2 9 (10.59%) Private Cloud
3 5 (5.88%) Clustering
3 5 (5.88%) Replication
4 4 (4.71%) Onboarding
5 3 (3.53%) Cloud Native
5 3 (3.53%) Data Centre
5 3 (3.53%) Distributed Computing
5 3 (3.53%) Hedge funds
6 2 (2.35%) Client/Server
6 2 (2.35%) Genomics
7 1 (1.18%) Fixed Income
7 1 (1.18%) Team-Oriented Environment
Operating Systems
1 26 (30.59%) Linux
2 5 (5.88%) Oracle Linux
2 5 (5.88%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
2 5 (5.88%) Solaris
3 1 (1.18%) CentOS
3 1 (1.18%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 60 (70.59%) DevOps
2 58 (68.24%) CI/CD
3 40 (47.06%) Software Engineering
4 38 (44.71%) Site Reliability Engineering
5 35 (41.18%) Agile
6 34 (40.00%) Deployment Automation
7 30 (35.29%) Open Source
8 29 (34.12%) Asset Management
9 28 (32.94%) Decision-Making
9 28 (32.94%) Financial Modelling
10 23 (27.06%) Infrastructure as Code
11 22 (25.88%) Containerisation
12 13 (15.29%) Platform Engineering
13 9 (10.59%) Disaster Recovery
14 8 (9.41%) Fintech
14 8 (9.41%) High Availability
15 7 (8.24%) Configuration Management
15 7 (8.24%) Continuous Improvement
15 7 (8.24%) Technology Strategy
16 6 (7.06%) Problem-Solving
Programming Languages
1 69 (81.18%) Python
2 38 (44.71%) Go
3 36 (42.35%) Java
4 23 (27.06%) PowerShell
5 20 (23.53%) Bash
6 11 (12.94%) C#
7 6 (7.06%) Ruby
7 6 (7.06%) SQL
8 4 (4.71%) JavaScript
8 4 (4.71%) PHP
9 3 (3.53%) Bicep
9 3 (3.53%) Rust
10 1 (1.18%) Perl
10 1 (1.18%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 1 (1.18%) Linux+ Certification
1 1 (1.18%) RHCE
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (4.71%) QA
2 1 (1.18%) Data Quality
System Software
1 54 (63.53%) Docker
2 4 (4.71%) VMware Infrastructure
3 2 (2.35%) Active Directory
3 2 (2.35%) Ceph
4 1 (1.18%) KVM
4 1 (1.18%) NFS
4 1 (1.18%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 85 (100.00%) Kubernetes
2 62 (72.94%) Terraform
3 26 (30.59%) Ansible
4 15 (17.65%) Prometheus
5 12 (14.12%) Grafana
6 10 (11.76%) Progress Chef
7 6 (7.06%) Istio
8 4 (4.71%) Argo
9 3 (3.53%) Docker Swarm
9 3 (3.53%) Puppet
10 2 (2.35%) Active Directory Federation Services
10 2 (2.35%) HP Data Protector
10 2 (2.35%) Kibana
10 2 (2.35%) Rancher
10 2 (2.35%) Red Hat Satellite
11 1 (1.18%) Salt
Vendors
1 5 (5.88%) Microsoft
1 5 (5.88%) Oracle
1 5 (5.88%) Serena
2 4 (4.71%) VMware
3 3 (3.53%) Google
3 3 (3.53%) LogicMonitor
3 3 (3.53%) PagerDuty
3 3 (3.53%) Red Hat
4 2 (2.35%) Dell
4 2 (2.35%) EMC
4 2 (2.35%) HP
5 1 (1.18%) Cisco
5 1 (1.18%) SaltStack
5 1 (1.18%) Splunk