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 2 June 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
2 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 768 730 978
Rank change year-on-year -38 +248 -339
Permanent jobs requiring a Kubernetes Engineer 80 188 192
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 0.088% 0.22% 0.14%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.093% 0.24% 0.14%
Number of salaries quoted 67 164 146
10th Percentile £60,000 £55,000 £60,000
25th Percentile £80,000 £68,750 £68,125
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £100,000 £105,000 £80,000
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% +31.25% +3.23%
75th Percentile £112,500 £138,750 £100,000
90th Percentile £138,750 - £112,500
UK median annual salary £100,000 £105,000 £80,000
% change year-on-year -4.76% +31.25% +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 86,435 76,952 135,807
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 94.72% 91.31% 96.01%
Number of salaries quoted 63,785 50,234 75,047
10th Percentile £28,500 £32,500 £32,500
25th Percentile £38,000 £45,000 £43,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £52,500 £60,567 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -13.32% +0.95% +9.09%
75th Percentile £71,000 £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 2 June 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 2 June 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 +36 61 £105,000 - 8
East of England -18 8 £77,500 -
North of England +18 6 £75,000 +3.45% 5
North West -26 6 £75,000 +3.45% 5
Midlands -8 4 £57,500 -20.69% 1
East Midlands - 4 £57,500 -
South West -45 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 2 June 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 80 (100.00%) Kubernetes
2 65 (81.25%) Python
3 57 (71.25%) DevOps
3 57 (71.25%) Terraform
4 52 (65.00%) CI/CD
4 52 (65.00%) AWS
5 49 (61.25%) Docker
6 46 (57.50%) Finance
7 43 (53.75%) Jenkins
8 37 (46.25%) Software Engineering
9 35 (43.75%) Site Reliability Engineering
10 34 (42.50%) Go
11 33 (41.25%) Agile
11 33 (41.25%) Java
12 32 (40.00%) Deployment Automation
13 31 (38.75%) Azure
14 30 (37.50%) Amazon ECS
15 29 (36.25%) AWS CloudFormation
16 28 (35.00%) Artifactory
16 28 (35.00%) Asset Management
17 27 (33.75%) Open Source
17 27 (33.75%) Amazon S3
17 27 (33.75%) AWS Lambda
17 27 (33.75%) OpenShift
17 27 (33.75%) Serverless
18 26 (32.50%) Decision-Making
18 26 (32.50%) Amazon Redshift
18 26 (32.50%) Amazon EC2
18 26 (32.50%) Financial Modelling
18 26 (32.50%) Amazon RDS

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 (3.75%) Apache
2 2 (2.50%) Apache Airflow
2 2 (2.50%) nginx
Cloud Services
1 52 (65.00%) AWS
2 31 (38.75%) Azure
3 30 (37.50%) Amazon ECS
4 29 (36.25%) AWS CloudFormation
5 27 (33.75%) Amazon S3
5 27 (33.75%) AWS Lambda
5 27 (33.75%) OpenShift
5 27 (33.75%) Serverless
6 26 (32.50%) Amazon EC2
6 26 (32.50%) Amazon SQS
7 14 (17.50%) GitHub
8 8 (10.00%) GitHub Actions
9 7 (8.75%) Amazon EKS
9 7 (8.75%) Azure AKS
10 6 (7.50%) Azure DevOps
11 5 (6.25%) Entra ID
11 5 (6.25%) Google Kubernetes Engine
12 4 (5.00%) Anthos
12 4 (5.00%) OCI
13 2 (2.50%) Azure Cosmos DB
Communications & Networking
1 6 (7.50%) Firewall
2 4 (5.00%) DNS
3 3 (3.75%) TCP/IP
4 2 (2.50%) SAN
5 1 (1.25%) DHCP
5 1 (1.25%) tcpdump
5 1 (1.25%) Wireshark
Database & Business Intelligence
1 26 (32.50%) Amazon RDS
1 26 (32.50%) Amazon Redshift
2 5 (6.25%) InfluxDB
3 3 (3.75%) Big Data
3 3 (3.75%) MariaDB
3 3 (3.75%) PostgreSQL
4 2 (2.50%) Azure SQL Database
4 2 (2.50%) Elasticsearch
4 2 (2.50%) MongoDB
4 2 (2.50%) MySQL
4 2 (2.50%) Redis
4 2 (2.50%) Tableau
5 1 (1.25%) Dremio
Development Applications
1 43 (53.75%) Jenkins
2 28 (35.00%) Artifactory
3 8 (10.00%) Git
4 7 (8.75%) Octopus Deploy
5 6 (7.50%) GitLab
6 5 (6.25%) TeamCity
7 2 (2.50%) CircleCI
7 2 (2.50%) JIRA
7 2 (2.50%) SonarQube
7 2 (2.50%) Sonatype Nexus
8 1 (1.25%) NUnit
General
1 46 (57.50%) Finance
2 26 (32.50%) Front Office
3 5 (6.25%) Social Skills
4 4 (5.00%) Law
5 3 (3.75%) Analytical Skills
5 3 (3.75%) Banking
5 3 (3.75%) Retail
6 2 (2.50%) Health Technology
7 1 (1.25%) Tech for Good
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 26 (32.50%) J2EE
2 4 (5.00%) Elastic Stack
3 3 (3.75%) .NET
3 3 (3.75%) .NET Core
4 2 (2.50%) Kafka
4 2 (2.50%) SAML
4 2 (2.50%) Spring
5 1 (1.25%) Keycloak
5 1 (1.25%) Middleware
Miscellaneous
1 26 (32.50%) Tandem
2 9 (11.25%) Private Cloud
3 5 (6.25%) Clustering
3 5 (6.25%) Replication
4 4 (5.00%) Onboarding
5 3 (3.75%) Data Centre
5 3 (3.75%) Distributed Computing
5 3 (3.75%) Hedge funds
6 2 (2.50%) Client/Server
6 2 (2.50%) Cloud Native
6 2 (2.50%) Genomics
7 1 (1.25%) Fixed Income
7 1 (1.25%) Team-Oriented Environment
Operating Systems
1 25 (31.25%) Linux
2 5 (6.25%) Oracle Linux
2 5 (6.25%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
2 5 (6.25%) Solaris
3 1 (1.25%) CentOS
3 1 (1.25%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 57 (71.25%) DevOps
2 52 (65.00%) CI/CD
3 37 (46.25%) Software Engineering
4 35 (43.75%) Site Reliability Engineering
5 33 (41.25%) Agile
6 32 (40.00%) Deployment Automation
7 28 (35.00%) Asset Management
8 27 (33.75%) Open Source
9 26 (32.50%) Decision-Making
9 26 (32.50%) Financial Modelling
10 21 (26.25%) Infrastructure as Code
11 20 (25.00%) Containerisation
12 11 (13.75%) Platform Engineering
13 9 (11.25%) Disaster Recovery
14 8 (10.00%) Fintech
14 8 (10.00%) High Availability
15 7 (8.75%) Technology Strategy
16 6 (7.50%) Configuration Management
16 6 (7.50%) Performance Tuning
16 6 (7.50%) Problem-Solving
Programming Languages
1 65 (81.25%) Python
2 34 (42.50%) Go
3 33 (41.25%) Java
4 23 (28.75%) PowerShell
5 19 (23.75%) Bash
6 9 (11.25%) C#
7 6 (7.50%) SQL
8 5 (6.25%) Ruby
9 4 (5.00%) JavaScript
9 4 (5.00%) PHP
10 3 (3.75%) Bicep
11 2 (2.50%) Rust
12 1 (1.25%) Perl
12 1 (1.25%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 1 (1.25%) Linux+ Certification
1 1 (1.25%) RHCE
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (5.00%) QA
2 2 (2.50%) Data Quality
System Software
1 49 (61.25%) Docker
2 4 (5.00%) VMware Infrastructure
3 2 (2.50%) Active Directory
4 1 (1.25%) Ceph
4 1 (1.25%) KVM
4 1 (1.25%) NFS
4 1 (1.25%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 80 (100.00%) Kubernetes
2 57 (71.25%) Terraform
3 23 (28.75%) Ansible
4 14 (17.50%) Prometheus
5 11 (13.75%) Grafana
6 8 (10.00%) Progress Chef
7 6 (7.50%) Istio
8 4 (5.00%) Argo
9 3 (3.75%) Docker Swarm
10 2 (2.50%) Active Directory Federation Services
10 2 (2.50%) HP Data Protector
10 2 (2.50%) Puppet
10 2 (2.50%) Rancher
10 2 (2.50%) Red Hat Satellite
11 1 (1.25%) Kibana
Vendors
1 5 (6.25%) Microsoft
1 5 (6.25%) Oracle
1 5 (6.25%) Serena
2 4 (5.00%) VMware
3 3 (3.75%) Google
3 3 (3.75%) LogicMonitor
3 3 (3.75%) PagerDuty
3 3 (3.75%) Red Hat
4 2 (2.50%) Dell
4 2 (2.50%) EMC
4 2 (2.50%) HP
5 1 (1.25%) Cisco
5 1 (1.25%) SaltStack
5 1 (1.25%) Splunk