Kubernetes Engineer Jobs

Kubernetes Engineer (K8s Engineer)
UK

The median Kubernetes Engineer (K8s Engineer) salary in the UK is £100,000 per year according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 1 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
1 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 819 756 1037
Rank change year-on-year -63 +281 -371
Permanent jobs requiring a Kubernetes Engineer 88 193 225
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 0.084% 0.20% 0.13%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.088% 0.22% 0.14%
Number of salaries quoted 68 167 162
10th Percentile £60,000 £55,000 £60,000
25th Percentile £80,000 £68,750 £67,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £100,000 £105,000 £80,000
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% +31.25% +6.67%
75th Percentile £112,500 £138,750 £100,000
90th Percentile £138,750 - £112,250
UK excluding London median annual salary £70,000 £72,500 £70,000
% change year-on-year -3.45% +3.57% +21.74%

All Permanent IT Job Vacancies
UK

The following table is for comparison with the above and includes summary statistics for all permanent IT job vacancies. 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 the UK with a recognized job title 99,552 86,380 162,088
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 94.85% 91.27% 96.05%
Number of salaries quoted 70,786 55,655 84,889
10th Percentile £28,500 £32,500 £32,500
25th Percentile £38,500 £45,000 £42,625
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £52,500 £60,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -12.50% - +9.09%
75th Percentile £70,000 £80,000 £78,750
90th Percentile £90,000 £100,000 £95,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £50,000 £53,500 £50,244
% change year-on-year -6.54% +6.48% +5.78%

Kubernetes Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend

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

Job vacancy trend for Kubernetes Engineer in the UK

Kubernetes Engineer
Salary Trend

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

Salary trend for Kubernetes Engineer in the UK

Kubernetes Engineer
Salary Histogram

Salary distribution for jobs citing Kubernetes Engineer over the 6 months to 1 June 2024.

Salary histogram for Kubernetes Engineer in the UK

Kubernetes Engineer
Top 12 Job Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Kubernetes Engineer within the UK over the 6 months to 1 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
England -71 80 £100,000 -4.76% 12
London +42 61 £105,000 - 7
Work from Home -56 30 £80,000 -20.00% 7
UK excluding London -55 25 £70,000 -3.45% 5
East of England -14 8 £77,500 -
North of England +19 6 £75,000 +3.45% 3
North West -17 6 £75,000 +3.45% 3
Midlands -10 4 £57,500 -20.69%
East Midlands - 4 £57,500 -
Northern Ireland - 3 - -
Scotland - 3 - -
South West -43 1 £65,000 -10.34%

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

For the 6 months to 1 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 featuring Kubernetes Engineer in the job title.

1 88 (100.00%) Kubernetes
2 69 (78.41%) Python
3 64 (72.73%) Terraform
4 61 (69.32%) DevOps
5 59 (67.05%) AWS
6 55 (62.50%) Docker
7 52 (59.09%) CI/CD
7 52 (59.09%) Finance
8 43 (48.86%) Jenkins
9 40 (45.45%) Software Engineering
10 38 (43.18%) Site Reliability Engineering
11 36 (40.91%) Agile
12 35 (39.77%) Azure
12 35 (39.77%) Java
12 35 (39.77%) Deployment Automation
13 34 (38.64%) Go
14 32 (36.36%) AWS CloudFormation
15 31 (35.23%) Serverless
16 30 (34.09%) Amazon ECS
16 30 (34.09%) Amazon S3
17 29 (32.95%) Amazon EC2
17 29 (32.95%) Linux
17 29 (32.95%) Amazon RDS
18 28 (31.82%) Artifactory
18 28 (31.82%) AWS Lambda
18 28 (31.82%) Asset Management
19 27 (30.68%) Open Source
19 27 (30.68%) OpenShift
20 26 (29.55%) Amazon Redshift
20 26 (29.55%) Decision-Making

Kubernetes Engineer Skill Set
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 3 (3.41%) Apache
2 2 (2.27%) Apache Airflow
2 2 (2.27%) nginx
Cloud Services
1 59 (67.05%) AWS
2 35 (39.77%) Azure
3 32 (36.36%) AWS CloudFormation
4 31 (35.23%) Serverless
5 30 (34.09%) Amazon ECS
5 30 (34.09%) Amazon S3
6 29 (32.95%) Amazon EC2
7 28 (31.82%) AWS Lambda
8 27 (30.68%) OpenShift
9 26 (29.55%) Amazon SQS
10 14 (15.91%) GitHub
11 11 (12.50%) Amazon EKS
12 10 (11.36%) Azure AKS
13 8 (9.09%) GitHub Actions
13 8 (9.09%) Google Kubernetes Engine
14 6 (6.82%) Azure DevOps
15 5 (5.68%) Amazon CloudWatch
15 5 (5.68%) Entra ID
16 4 (4.55%) Anthos
16 4 (4.55%) GCP
Communications & Networking
1 9 (10.23%) Firewall
2 4 (4.55%) DNS
3 3 (3.41%) TCP/IP
4 2 (2.27%) SAN
5 1 (1.14%) DHCP
5 1 (1.14%) tcpdump
5 1 (1.14%) Wireshark
Database & Business Intelligence
1 29 (32.95%) Amazon RDS
2 26 (29.55%) Amazon Redshift
3 5 (5.68%) InfluxDB
4 4 (4.55%) PostgreSQL
5 3 (3.41%) Azure SQL Database
5 3 (3.41%) Big Data
5 3 (3.41%) MariaDB
5 3 (3.41%) MongoDB
5 3 (3.41%) MySQL
6 2 (2.27%) Elasticsearch
6 2 (2.27%) Redis
6 2 (2.27%) Tableau
7 1 (1.14%) Dremio
Development Applications
1 43 (48.86%) Jenkins
2 28 (31.82%) Artifactory
3 8 (9.09%) Git
4 7 (7.95%) Octopus Deploy
5 6 (6.82%) GitLab
6 5 (5.68%) TeamCity
7 2 (2.27%) CircleCI
7 2 (2.27%) JIRA
7 2 (2.27%) SonarQube
7 2 (2.27%) Sonatype Nexus
8 1 (1.14%) NUnit
General
1 52 (59.09%) Finance
2 26 (29.55%) Front Office
3 10 (11.36%) Law
4 8 (9.09%) Social Skills
5 6 (6.82%) Banking
5 6 (6.82%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 3 (3.41%) Analytical Skills
6 3 (3.41%) Investment Banking
6 3 (3.41%) Retail
7 2 (2.27%) Health Technology
8 1 (1.14%) Tech for Good
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 26 (29.55%) J2EE
2 4 (4.55%) Elastic Stack
3 3 (3.41%) .NET
3 3 (3.41%) .NET Core
3 3 (3.41%) OpenTelemetry
4 2 (2.27%) Kafka
4 2 (2.27%) SAML
4 2 (2.27%) Spring
5 1 (1.14%) Keycloak
5 1 (1.14%) Middleware
Miscellaneous
1 26 (29.55%) Tandem
2 9 (10.23%) Private Cloud
3 5 (5.68%) Cloud Native
3 5 (5.68%) Clustering
3 5 (5.68%) Replication
4 4 (4.55%) Onboarding
5 3 (3.41%) Data Centre
5 3 (3.41%) Distributed Computing
5 3 (3.41%) Hedge funds
5 3 (3.41%) Public Cloud
6 2 (2.27%) Client/Server
6 2 (2.27%) Genomics
7 1 (1.14%) Fixed Income
7 1 (1.14%) Team-Oriented Environment
Operating Systems
1 29 (32.95%) Linux
2 5 (5.68%) Oracle Linux
2 5 (5.68%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
2 5 (5.68%) Solaris
3 3 (3.41%) Unix
3 3 (3.41%) Windows
4 1 (1.14%) CentOS
4 1 (1.14%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 61 (69.32%) DevOps
2 52 (59.09%) CI/CD
3 40 (45.45%) Software Engineering
4 38 (43.18%) Site Reliability Engineering
5 36 (40.91%) Agile
6 35 (39.77%) Deployment Automation
7 28 (31.82%) Asset Management
8 27 (30.68%) Open Source
9 26 (29.55%) Containerisation
9 26 (29.55%) Decision-Making
9 26 (29.55%) Financial Modelling
10 24 (27.27%) Infrastructure as Code
11 14 (15.91%) Platform Engineering
12 12 (13.64%) Disaster Recovery
13 11 (12.50%) Fintech
14 10 (11.36%) Microservices
15 9 (10.23%) Problem-Solving
16 8 (9.09%) High Availability
17 7 (7.95%) Observability
17 7 (7.95%) Technology Strategy
Programming Languages
1 69 (78.41%) Python
2 35 (39.77%) Java
3 34 (38.64%) Go
4 23 (26.14%) PowerShell
5 22 (25.00%) Bash
6 9 (10.23%) C#
7 7 (7.95%) SQL
8 5 (5.68%) Ruby
9 4 (4.55%) JavaScript
9 4 (4.55%) PHP
10 3 (3.41%) Bicep
11 2 (2.27%) Rust
12 1 (1.14%) Perl
12 1 (1.14%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 3 (3.41%) AWS Certification
1 3 (3.41%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
1 3 (3.41%) Azure Certification
1 3 (3.41%) Computer Science Degree
1 3 (3.41%) Degree
1 3 (3.41%) Microsoft Certification
2 1 (1.14%) Linux+ Certification
2 1 (1.14%) RHCE
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (4.55%) QA
2 2 (2.27%) Data Quality
System Software
1 55 (62.50%) Docker
2 4 (4.55%) VMware Infrastructure
3 2 (2.27%) Active Directory
4 1 (1.14%) Ceph
4 1 (1.14%) KVM
4 1 (1.14%) NFS
4 1 (1.14%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 88 (100.00%) Kubernetes
2 64 (72.73%) Terraform
3 23 (26.14%) Ansible
4 17 (19.32%) Prometheus
5 14 (15.91%) Grafana
6 8 (9.09%) Progress Chef
7 6 (6.82%) Istio
8 4 (4.55%) Argo
9 3 (3.41%) Docker Swarm
10 2 (2.27%) Active Directory Federation Services
10 2 (2.27%) HP Data Protector
10 2 (2.27%) Puppet
10 2 (2.27%) Rancher
10 2 (2.27%) Red Hat Satellite
11 1 (1.14%) Kibana
Vendors
1 8 (9.09%) Microsoft
2 6 (6.82%) Google
3 5 (5.68%) Oracle
3 5 (5.68%) Serena
4 4 (4.55%) Splunk
4 4 (4.55%) VMware
5 3 (3.41%) LogicMonitor
5 3 (3.41%) PagerDuty
5 3 (3.41%) Red Hat
6 2 (2.27%) Dell
6 2 (2.27%) EMC
6 2 (2.27%) HP
7 1 (1.14%) Cisco
7 1 (1.14%) SaltStack