Kubernetes Engineer Jobs in London

Kubernetes Engineer (K8s Engineer)
England > London

The median Kubernetes Engineer (K8s Engineer) salary in London is £105,000 per year according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 7 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
7 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 458 466 791
Rank change year-on-year +8 +325 -366
Permanent jobs requiring a Kubernetes Engineer 57 135 130
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in London 0.23% 0.43% 0.18%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.25% 0.45% 0.18%
Number of salaries quoted 44 132 101
10th Percentile £88,250 £65,000 £62,500
25th Percentile £95,000 £80,938 £70,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £105,000 £107,500 £87,500
Median % change year-on-year -2.33% +22.86% +9.38%
75th Percentile £138,750 £138,750 £105,000
90th Percentile - £150,000 £112,500
England median annual salary £100,000 £105,000 £80,000
% change year-on-year -4.76% +31.25% +3.23%

All Permanent IT Job Vacancies
London

The following table is for comparison with the above and includes summary statistics for all permanent IT job vacancies advertised in London. 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 London with a recognized job title 23,159 30,059 71,270
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 94.51% 95.02% 96.20%
Number of salaries quoted 17,072 22,540 35,061
10th Percentile £37,500 £41,750 £41,250
25th Percentile £50,000 £54,500 £52,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £70,000 £72,500 £70,000
Median % change year-on-year -3.45% +3.57% -
75th Percentile £93,750 £95,000 £91,250
90th Percentile £115,000 £115,000 £110,000
England median annual salary £52,500 £60,249 £60,000
% change year-on-year -12.86% +0.42% +9.09%

Kubernetes Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend in London

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

Job vacancy trend for Kubernetes Engineer in London

Kubernetes Engineer
Salary Trend in London

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

Salary trend for Kubernetes Engineer in London

Kubernetes Engineer
Salary Histogram in London

Salary distribution for jobs citing Kubernetes Engineer in London over the 6 months to 7 June 2024.

Salary histogram for Kubernetes Engineer in London

Kubernetes Engineer
Job Locations in London

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Kubernetes Engineer within the London region over the 6 months to 7 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
Central London +53 13 £92,500 -15.91% 2
Kubernetes Engineer
England

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

For the 6 months to 7 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 London region featuring Kubernetes Engineer in the job title.

1 57 (100.00%) Kubernetes
2 49 (85.96%) Python
3 45 (78.95%) Terraform
4 44 (77.19%) Finance
5 39 (68.42%) AWS
6 37 (64.91%) DevOps
7 36 (63.16%) Docker
8 35 (61.40%) CI/CD
9 34 (59.65%) Software Engineering
10 32 (56.14%) Jenkins
11 30 (52.63%) Deployment Automation
12 29 (50.88%) Site Reliability Engineering
13 28 (49.12%) Agile
14 27 (47.37%) Java
14 27 (47.37%) AWS CloudFormation
15 26 (45.61%) Asset Management
16 25 (43.86%) Artifactory
16 25 (43.86%) Go
16 25 (43.86%) OpenShift
16 25 (43.86%) Amazon S3
16 25 (43.86%) Open Source
17 24 (42.11%) Financial Modelling
17 24 (42.11%) Amazon SQS
17 24 (42.11%) Amazon EC2
17 24 (42.11%) Amazon Redshift
17 24 (42.11%) Amazon RDS
17 24 (42.11%) Tandem
17 24 (42.11%) Front Office
17 24 (42.11%) J2EE
17 24 (42.11%) Amazon ECS

Kubernetes Engineer Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in London 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 (5.26%) Apache
2 2 (3.51%) Apache Airflow
2 2 (3.51%) nginx
Cloud Services
1 39 (68.42%) AWS
2 27 (47.37%) AWS CloudFormation
3 25 (43.86%) Amazon S3
3 25 (43.86%) OpenShift
4 24 (42.11%) Amazon EC2
4 24 (42.11%) Amazon ECS
4 24 (42.11%) Amazon SQS
4 24 (42.11%) AWS Lambda
4 24 (42.11%) Serverless
5 20 (35.09%) Azure
6 4 (7.02%) Azure AKS
6 4 (7.02%) OCI
7 3 (5.26%) Amazon EKS
7 3 (5.26%) GitHub
8 2 (3.51%) Amazon CloudWatch
8 2 (3.51%) Azure Cosmos DB
8 2 (3.51%) Entra ID
8 2 (3.51%) Google Kubernetes Engine
8 2 (3.51%) PaaS
8 2 (3.51%) Snowflake
Communications & Networking
1 3 (5.26%) TCP/IP
2 2 (3.51%) SAN
3 1 (1.75%) DHCP
3 1 (1.75%) DNS
3 1 (1.75%) tcpdump
3 1 (1.75%) Wireshark
Database & Business Intelligence
1 24 (42.11%) Amazon RDS
1 24 (42.11%) Amazon Redshift
2 5 (8.77%) InfluxDB
3 3 (5.26%) MariaDB
3 3 (5.26%) PostgreSQL
4 2 (3.51%) Azure SQL Database
4 2 (3.51%) Elasticsearch
4 2 (3.51%) MongoDB
4 2 (3.51%) MySQL
4 2 (3.51%) Redis
4 2 (3.51%) Tableau
5 1 (1.75%) Dremio
Development Applications
1 32 (56.14%) Jenkins
2 25 (43.86%) Artifactory
3 5 (8.77%) Git
3 5 (8.77%) TeamCity
4 4 (7.02%) Octopus Deploy
5 1 (1.75%) GitLab
5 1 (1.75%) JIRA
5 1 (1.75%) NUnit
5 1 (1.75%) SonarQube
5 1 (1.75%) Sonatype Nexus
General
1 44 (77.19%) Finance
2 24 (42.11%) Front Office
3 5 (8.77%) Social Skills
4 3 (5.26%) Banking
5 2 (3.51%) Analytical Skills
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 24 (42.11%) J2EE
2 4 (7.02%) Elastic Stack
3 2 (3.51%) .NET
3 2 (3.51%) .NET Core
3 2 (3.51%) Kafka
3 2 (3.51%) SAML
3 2 (3.51%) Spring
4 1 (1.75%) Keycloak
4 1 (1.75%) Middleware
Miscellaneous
1 24 (42.11%) Tandem
2 9 (15.79%) Private Cloud
3 5 (8.77%) Clustering
3 5 (8.77%) Replication
4 4 (7.02%) Onboarding
5 2 (3.51%) Client/Server
5 2 (3.51%) Hedge funds
6 1 (1.75%) Cloud Native
6 1 (1.75%) Fixed Income
6 1 (1.75%) Team-Oriented Environment
Operating Systems
1 12 (21.05%) Linux
2 5 (8.77%) Oracle Linux
2 5 (8.77%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
2 5 (8.77%) Solaris
3 1 (1.75%) CentOS
3 1 (1.75%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 37 (64.91%) DevOps
2 35 (61.40%) CI/CD
3 34 (59.65%) Software Engineering
4 30 (52.63%) Deployment Automation
5 29 (50.88%) Site Reliability Engineering
6 28 (49.12%) Agile
7 26 (45.61%) Asset Management
8 25 (43.86%) Open Source
9 24 (42.11%) Decision-Making
9 24 (42.11%) Financial Modelling
10 12 (21.05%) Infrastructure as Code
11 10 (17.54%) Containerisation
12 8 (14.04%) High Availability
12 8 (14.04%) Platform Engineering
13 7 (12.28%) Fintech
13 7 (12.28%) Technology Strategy
14 6 (10.53%) Disaster Recovery
14 6 (10.53%) Performance Tuning
15 5 (8.77%) Continuous Improvement
15 5 (8.77%) Security Hardening
Programming Languages
1 49 (85.96%) Python
2 27 (47.37%) Java
3 25 (43.86%) Go
4 17 (29.82%) PowerShell
5 13 (22.81%) Bash
6 8 (14.04%) C#
7 5 (8.77%) SQL
8 1 (1.75%) Perl
8 1 (1.75%) Ruby
8 1 (1.75%) Rust
8 1 (1.75%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 1 (1.75%) Linux+ Certification
1 1 (1.75%) RHCE
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (3.51%) Data Quality
2 1 (1.75%) QA
System Software
1 36 (63.16%) Docker
2 4 (7.02%) VMware Infrastructure
3 2 (3.51%) Active Directory
4 1 (1.75%) Ceph
4 1 (1.75%) KVM
4 1 (1.75%) NFS
4 1 (1.75%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 57 (100.00%) Kubernetes
2 45 (78.95%) Terraform
3 13 (22.81%) Ansible
3 13 (22.81%) Prometheus
4 10 (17.54%) Grafana
5 6 (10.53%) Istio
6 3 (5.26%) Progress Chef
7 2 (3.51%) Active Directory Federation Services
7 2 (3.51%) HP Data Protector
7 2 (3.51%) Puppet
7 2 (3.51%) Rancher
7 2 (3.51%) Red Hat Satellite
8 1 (1.75%) Argo
8 1 (1.75%) Kibana
Vendors
1 5 (8.77%) Oracle
1 5 (8.77%) Serena
2 4 (7.02%) VMware
3 3 (5.26%) Google
3 3 (5.26%) Red Hat
4 2 (3.51%) Dell
4 2 (3.51%) EMC
4 2 (3.51%) HP
4 2 (3.51%) Microsoft
5 1 (1.75%) Cisco
5 1 (1.75%) SaltStack
5 1 (1.75%) Splunk