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 20 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
20 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 789 779 1033
Rank change year-on-year -10 +254 -353
Permanent jobs requiring a Kubernetes Engineer 95 197 211
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 0.095% 0.20% 0.13%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.10% 0.22% 0.13%
Number of salaries quoted 75 166 153
10th Percentile £60,000 £54,375 £60,000
25th Percentile £80,000 £68,750 £66,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £100,000 £97,500 £80,000
Median % change year-on-year +2.56% +21.88% +6.67%
75th Percentile £112,500 £138,750 £98,750
90th Percentile £138,750 £150,000 £110,000
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 94,627 91,047 156,403
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 94.71% 91.54% 96.08%
Number of salaries quoted 67,562 57,571 85,106
10th Percentile £28,500 £32,500 £32,500
25th Percentile £38,500 £45,000 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £52,500 £60,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -12.50% - +9.09%
75th Percentile £70,750 £80,000 £78,750
90th Percentile £90,000 £100,000 £95,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £50,000 £53,000 £50,000
% change year-on-year -5.66% +6.00% +5.26%

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 20 May 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 20 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
England -18 87 £100,000 -2.44% 11
London +42 68 £105,000 -4.55% 5
Work from Home -12 31 £87,500 -7.89% 11
UK excluding London -34 25 £70,000 -3.45% 7
East of England -7 8 £77,500 -
North of England +20 6 £75,000 +3.45% 4
North West -17 6 £75,000 +3.45% 4
Midlands -6 4 £57,500 -22.44% 1
East Midlands - 4 £57,500 -
Northern Ireland - 3 - -
Scotland - 3 - -
South West -42 1 £65,000 -10.34%

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

For the 6 months to 20 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 featuring Kubernetes Engineer in the job title.

1 95 (100.00%) Kubernetes
2 75 (78.95%) Python
3 71 (74.74%) Terraform
4 66 (69.47%) DevOps
4 66 (69.47%) AWS
5 62 (65.26%) Docker
6 60 (63.16%) CI/CD
7 56 (58.95%) Finance
8 49 (51.58%) Jenkins
9 45 (47.37%) Software Engineering
10 43 (45.26%) Site Reliability Engineering
11 40 (42.11%) Go
11 40 (42.11%) Agile
11 40 (42.11%) Java
12 39 (41.05%) Deployment Automation
13 37 (38.95%) AWS CloudFormation
14 36 (37.89%) Serverless
14 36 (37.89%) Azure
15 35 (36.84%) Amazon S3
16 34 (35.79%) Amazon EC2
16 34 (35.79%) Amazon ECS
16 34 (35.79%) Amazon RDS
17 33 (34.74%) Artifactory
17 33 (34.74%) AWS Lambda
18 32 (33.68%) Open Source
19 31 (32.63%) Asset Management
19 31 (32.63%) OpenShift
20 30 (31.58%) Amazon Redshift
20 30 (31.58%) Decision-Making
20 30 (31.58%) Tandem

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 (3.16%) Apache
2 2 (2.11%) nginx
3 1 (1.05%) Apache Airflow
Cloud Services
1 66 (69.47%) AWS
2 37 (38.95%) AWS CloudFormation
3 36 (37.89%) Azure
3 36 (37.89%) Serverless
4 35 (36.84%) Amazon S3
5 34 (35.79%) Amazon EC2
5 34 (35.79%) Amazon ECS
6 33 (34.74%) AWS Lambda
7 31 (32.63%) OpenShift
8 30 (31.58%) Amazon SQS
9 15 (15.79%) GitHub
10 11 (11.58%) Amazon EKS
11 10 (10.53%) Azure AKS
12 9 (9.47%) GitHub Actions
13 8 (8.42%) Google Kubernetes Engine
14 6 (6.32%) Azure DevOps
15 5 (5.26%) Amazon CloudWatch
15 5 (5.26%) Entra ID
16 4 (4.21%) Anthos
16 4 (4.21%) Virtual Private Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 9 (9.47%) Firewall
2 4 (4.21%) DNS
3 3 (3.16%) TCP/IP
4 2 (2.11%) SAN
5 1 (1.05%) DHCP
5 1 (1.05%) tcpdump
5 1 (1.05%) Wireshark
Database & Business Intelligence
1 34 (35.79%) Amazon RDS
2 30 (31.58%) Amazon Redshift
3 6 (6.32%) InfluxDB
4 5 (5.26%) PostgreSQL
5 4 (4.21%) MariaDB
6 3 (3.16%) Azure SQL Database
6 3 (3.16%) Big Data
6 3 (3.16%) MongoDB
6 3 (3.16%) MySQL
7 2 (2.11%) Dremio
7 2 (2.11%) Elasticsearch
7 2 (2.11%) Redis
8 1 (1.05%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 49 (51.58%) Jenkins
2 33 (34.74%) Artifactory
3 9 (9.47%) Git
4 7 (7.37%) GitLab
4 7 (7.37%) Octopus Deploy
5 6 (6.32%) TeamCity
6 3 (3.16%) JIRA
6 3 (3.16%) SonarQube
6 3 (3.16%) Sonatype Nexus
7 2 (2.11%) CircleCI
7 2 (2.11%) NUnit
General
1 56 (58.95%) Finance
2 30 (31.58%) Front Office
3 10 (10.53%) Law
4 9 (9.47%) Social Skills
5 6 (6.32%) Banking
5 6 (6.32%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 3 (3.16%) Analytical Skills
6 3 (3.16%) Investment Banking
6 3 (3.16%) Retail
7 2 (2.11%) Health Technology
8 1 (1.05%) Tech for Good
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 30 (31.58%) J2EE
2 5 (5.26%) .NET
2 5 (5.26%) .NET Core
3 4 (4.21%) Elastic Stack
4 3 (3.16%) OpenTelemetry
5 2 (2.11%) Kafka
5 2 (2.11%) SAML
5 2 (2.11%) Spring
6 1 (1.05%) Keycloak
6 1 (1.05%) Middleware
Miscellaneous
1 30 (31.58%) Tandem
2 9 (9.47%) Private Cloud
3 6 (6.32%) Cloud Native
4 5 (5.26%) Clustering
4 5 (5.26%) Replication
5 4 (4.21%) Onboarding
6 3 (3.16%) Data Centre
6 3 (3.16%) Distributed Computing
6 3 (3.16%) Hedge funds
6 3 (3.16%) Public Cloud
7 2 (2.11%) Client/Server
7 2 (2.11%) Genomics
8 1 (1.05%) Fixed Income
8 1 (1.05%) Team-Oriented Environment
Operating Systems
1 30 (31.58%) Linux
2 5 (5.26%) Oracle Linux
2 5 (5.26%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
2 5 (5.26%) Solaris
3 3 (3.16%) Unix
3 3 (3.16%) Windows
4 1 (1.05%) CentOS
4 1 (1.05%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 66 (69.47%) DevOps
2 60 (63.16%) CI/CD
3 45 (47.37%) Software Engineering
4 43 (45.26%) Site Reliability Engineering
5 40 (42.11%) Agile
6 39 (41.05%) Deployment Automation
7 32 (33.68%) Open Source
8 31 (32.63%) Asset Management
9 30 (31.58%) Decision-Making
9 30 (31.58%) Financial Modelling
10 28 (29.47%) Containerisation
11 26 (27.37%) Infrastructure as Code
12 16 (16.84%) Platform Engineering
13 12 (12.63%) Disaster Recovery
14 11 (11.58%) Fintech
15 10 (10.53%) Microservices
16 9 (9.47%) Problem-Solving
17 8 (8.42%) High Availability
18 7 (7.37%) Configuration Management
18 7 (7.37%) Continuous Improvement
Programming Languages
1 75 (78.95%) Python
2 40 (42.11%) Go
2 40 (42.11%) Java
3 23 (24.21%) Bash
3 23 (24.21%) PowerShell
4 11 (11.58%) C#
5 7 (7.37%) SQL
6 6 (6.32%) Ruby
7 4 (4.21%) JavaScript
7 4 (4.21%) PHP
8 3 (3.16%) Bicep
8 3 (3.16%) Rust
9 1 (1.05%) Perl
9 1 (1.05%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 3 (3.16%) AWS Certification
1 3 (3.16%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
1 3 (3.16%) Azure Certification
1 3 (3.16%) Computer Science Degree
1 3 (3.16%) Degree
1 3 (3.16%) Microsoft Certification
2 1 (1.05%) Linux+ Certification
2 1 (1.05%) RHCE
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (4.21%) QA
2 1 (1.05%) Data Quality
System Software
1 62 (65.26%) Docker
2 4 (4.21%) VMware Infrastructure
3 2 (2.11%) Active Directory
3 2 (2.11%) Ceph
4 1 (1.05%) KVM
4 1 (1.05%) NFS
4 1 (1.05%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 95 (100.00%) Kubernetes
2 71 (74.74%) Terraform
3 26 (27.37%) Ansible
4 18 (18.95%) Prometheus
5 15 (15.79%) Grafana
6 10 (10.53%) Progress Chef
7 6 (6.32%) Istio
8 4 (4.21%) Argo
9 3 (3.16%) Docker Swarm
9 3 (3.16%) Puppet
10 2 (2.11%) Active Directory Federation Services
10 2 (2.11%) HP Data Protector
10 2 (2.11%) Kibana
10 2 (2.11%) Rancher
10 2 (2.11%) Red Hat Satellite
11 1 (1.05%) Salt
Vendors
1 8 (8.42%) Microsoft
2 6 (6.32%) Google
3 5 (5.26%) Oracle
3 5 (5.26%) Serena
4 4 (4.21%) Splunk
4 4 (4.21%) VMware
5 3 (3.16%) LogicMonitor
5 3 (3.16%) PagerDuty
5 3 (3.16%) Red Hat
6 2 (2.11%) Dell
6 2 (2.11%) EMC
6 2 (2.11%) HP
7 1 (1.05%) Cisco
7 1 (1.05%) SaltStack