Kubernetes Jobs

Kubernetes (k8s)
UK

The following table provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies with a requirement for Kubernetes skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the salaries offered in vacancies that have cited Kubernetes over the 6 months to 2 June 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
2 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 69 35 21
Rank change year-on-year -34 -14 +6
Permanent jobs citing Kubernetes 3,675 6,408 18,569
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 3.49% 6.76% 10.98%
As % of the Systems Management category 37.12% 46.62% 59.06%
Number of salaries quoted 2,596 4,204 7,175
10th Percentile £48,750 £50,000 £46,250
25th Percentile £59,000 £61,180 £57,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £75,000 £75,000 £75,000
Median % change year-on-year - - +7.14%
75th Percentile £95,000 £96,250 £93,750
90th Percentile £115,000 £115,000 £110,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £67,500 £69,447 £70,000
% change year-on-year -2.80% -0.79% +16.67%

All Systems Management Skills
UK

Kubernetes is in the Systems Management category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all permanent job vacancies with a requirement for systems management skills.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for systems management skills 9,899 13,744 31,442
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 9.41% 14.50% 18.59%
Number of salaries quoted 7,032 8,785 14,032
10th Percentile £32,500 £35,100 £37,500
25th Percentile £45,000 £47,500 £48,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £61,206 £67,500 £70,000
Median % change year-on-year -9.32% -3.57% +7.69%
75th Percentile £83,750 £87,500 £85,313
90th Percentile £100,000 £105,000 £101,250
UK excluding London median annual salary £55,000 £58,750 £58,000
% change year-on-year -6.38% +1.29% +5.45%

Kubernetes
Job Vacancy Trend

Job postings citing Kubernetes as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Job vacancy trend for Kubernetes in the UK

Kubernetes
Salary Trend

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

Salary trend for Kubernetes in the UK

Kubernetes
Salary Histogram

Salary distribution for jobs citing Kubernetes over the 6 months to 2 June 2024.

Salary histogram for Kubernetes in the UK

Kubernetes
Top 19 Job Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Kubernetes within the UK 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
England -33 3,038 £77,500 - 950
UK excluding London -24 2,249 £67,500 -2.80% 426
Work from Home -35 1,470 £75,000 - 503
London -22 1,280 £90,000 +5.88% 549
South East -15 595 £70,000 - 103
North of England -23 488 £61,206 -11.87% 98
Scotland -15 456 £74,000 +6.56% 31
South West -24 371 £70,576 +4.56% 98
North West -29 280 £62,500 -10.71% 68
Midlands -37 186 £60,000 -14.29% 45
Yorkshire -10 177 £60,000 -11.11% 25
West Midlands -44 107 £65,000 -7.14% 23
East of England -62 93 £85,000 +21.43% 34
East Midlands -26 79 £60,000 -7.69% 22
Wales -34 37 £42,500 -30.04% 10
North East -20 31 £69,250 +6.54% 5
Northern Ireland -17 21 £72,500 - 12
Isle of Man - 3 - -
Channel Islands - 1 £110,000 -

Kubernetes
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
1 196 (5.33%) Apache Spark
2 177 (4.82%) Apache
3 140 (3.81%) Apache Airflow
4 98 (2.67%) FileNet
5 70 (1.90%) OpenStack
6 48 (1.31%) nginx
7 41 (1.12%) Confluence
8 32 (0.87%) Microsoft Exchange
9 23 (0.63%) Cloud Foundry
9 23 (0.63%) Jupyter
10 22 (0.60%) JBoss
11 16 (0.44%) Tomcat
12 15 (0.41%) IIS
13 12 (0.33%) Drupal
14 11 (0.30%) SharePoint
15 10 (0.27%) Red Hat Fuse
16 8 (0.22%) CMS
16 8 (0.22%) WebSphere
17 7 (0.19%) WebLogic
17 7 (0.19%) WildFly
Applications
1 11 (0.30%) Microsoft Excel
2 2 (0.054%) Chatbot
2 2 (0.054%) InDesign
2 2 (0.054%) Microsoft Office
3 1 (0.027%) Blender
Business Applications
1 7 (0.19%) Teamcenter
2 4 (0.11%) Ripple
3 3 (0.082%) Remedy ITSM
3 3 (0.082%) SAP Business One
4 2 (0.054%) Oracle EBS
5 1 (0.027%) Payment Gateway
5 1 (0.027%) Salesforce CRM
5 1 (0.027%) SAP S/4HANA
5 1 (0.027%) Shopify
Cloud Services
1 1,936 (52.68%) AWS
2 1,480 (40.27%) Azure
3 529 (14.39%) GCP
4 399 (10.86%) Amazon S3
5 373 (10.15%) Azure DevOps
6 321 (8.73%) Serverless
7 302 (8.22%) GitHub
8 289 (7.86%) SaaS
9 275 (7.48%) Amazon EKS
10 240 (6.53%) OpenShift
11 202 (5.50%) AWS CloudFormation
12 187 (5.09%) AWS Lambda
13 185 (5.03%) Amazon ECS
14 163 (4.44%) Azure AKS
15 149 (4.05%) Amazon EC2
16 133 (3.62%) Cloud Computing
16 133 (3.62%) PaaS
17 125 (3.40%) GitHub Actions
18 101 (2.75%) IaaS
19 100 (2.72%) IBM Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 195 (5.31%) Firewall
2 120 (3.27%) DNS
3 98 (2.67%) VPN
4 82 (2.23%) Internet
5 77 (2.10%) TCP/IP
6 72 (1.96%) DHCP
7 70 (1.90%) HTTP
8 68 (1.85%) Network Security
9 56 (1.52%) IPsec
10 54 (1.47%) SNMP
11 53 (1.44%) WAN
12 51 (1.39%) SD-WAN
13 42 (1.14%) AMQP
14 20 (0.54%) BGP
15 17 (0.46%) Kerberos
16 16 (0.44%) DSL
17 15 (0.41%) MPLS
18 11 (0.30%) Ethernet VPN
19 8 (0.22%) SSL
19 8 (0.22%) WLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 404 (10.99%) NoSQL
2 283 (7.70%) PostgreSQL
3 265 (7.21%) Elasticsearch
4 246 (6.69%) Big Data
5 242 (6.59%) MongoDB
6 226 (6.15%) SQL Server
7 194 (5.28%) Amazon RDS
8 173 (4.71%) Relational Database
9 165 (4.49%) MySQL
10 132 (3.59%) Apache Cassandra
11 116 (3.16%) Redis
12 113 (3.07%) Data Lake
13 89 (2.42%) Hadoop
14 61 (1.66%) Amazon Athena
15 60 (1.63%) Amazon Redshift
16 57 (1.55%) BigQuery
16 57 (1.55%) Dremio
17 54 (1.47%) Apache Arrow
18 48 (1.31%) Azure SQL Database
19 41 (1.12%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 667 (18.15%) Jenkins
2 499 (13.58%) Git
3 243 (6.61%) GitLab
4 193 (5.25%) JIRA
5 161 (4.38%) JUnit
6 118 (3.21%) Selenium
7 79 (2.15%) TeamCity
8 73 (1.99%) Cypress.io
9 66 (1.80%) CircleCI
10 60 (1.63%) Mockito
11 53 (1.44%) Jasmine
11 53 (1.44%) Octopus Deploy
12 50 (1.36%) Artifactory
13 49 (1.33%) SonarQube
14 45 (1.22%) Bitbucket
15 41 (1.12%) Sonatype Nexus
16 40 (1.09%) Cucumber
16 40 (1.09%) Maven
17 29 (0.79%) Team Foundation Server
18 24 (0.65%) SoapUI
General
1 1,013 (27.56%) Finance
2 588 (16.00%) Social Skills
3 498 (13.55%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 392 (10.67%) Law
5 272 (7.40%) Public Sector
6 222 (6.04%) Banking
7 217 (5.90%) Marketing
8 151 (4.11%) Legal
9 147 (4.00%) Analytical Skills
10 119 (3.24%) Aerospace
11 113 (3.07%) Retail
12 58 (1.58%) Games
13 56 (1.52%) Tech for Good
14 50 (1.36%) Front Office
14 50 (1.36%) Organisational Skills
15 47 (1.28%) Financial Institution
15 47 (1.28%) Retail Banking
16 44 (1.20%) Investment Banking
17 32 (0.87%) Health Technology
18 31 (0.84%) Automotive
Job Titles
1 932 (25.36%) Senior
2 756 (20.57%) Developer
3 713 (19.40%) Software Engineer
4 644 (17.52%) DevOps Engineer
5 557 (15.16%) Lead
6 270 (7.35%) Architect
7 267 (7.27%) AWS Engineer
8 258 (7.02%) Java Developer
9 241 (6.56%) Senior Developer
10 208 (5.66%) Cloud Engineer
11 196 (5.33%) Senior Software Engineer
12 195 (5.31%) Java Engineer
13 180 (4.90%) Azure Engineer
14 175 (4.76%) Senior DevOps
15 164 (4.46%) Senior DevOps Engineer
16 157 (4.27%) Lead Software Engineer
17 155 (4.22%) AWS DevOps
17 155 (4.22%) Software Developer
18 154 (4.19%) Data Engineer
19 145 (3.95%) Platform Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 679 (18.48%) React
2 572 (15.56%) Kafka
3 494 (13.44%) Spring
4 478 (13.01%) .NET
5 370 (10.07%) AngularJS
6 342 (9.31%) Spring Boot
7 328 (8.93%) Node.js
8 305 (8.30%) REST
9 212 (5.77%) HTML
10 207 (5.63%) CSS
11 192 (5.22%) RabbitMQ
12 173 (4.71%) Hibernate
12 173 (4.71%) RESTful
13 172 (4.68%) GraphQL
14 151 (4.11%) JSON
15 141 (3.84%) J2EE
16 135 (3.67%) .NET Core
17 127 (3.46%) gRPC
18 116 (3.16%) YAML
19 106 (2.88%) Elastic Stack
Miscellaneous
1 415 (11.29%) Cloud Native
2 253 (6.88%) Distributed Systems
3 219 (5.96%) Public Cloud
4 171 (4.65%) Algorithms
5 147 (4.00%) Data Centre
6 140 (3.81%) Hybrid Cloud
7 134 (3.65%) Management Information System
8 128 (3.48%) Product Ownership
9 122 (3.32%) Blockchain
9 122 (3.32%) Greenfield Project
10 82 (2.23%) Hedge funds
11 81 (2.20%) Clustering
12 76 (2.07%) Data Structures
13 69 (1.88%) Private Cloud
14 61 (1.66%) e-Learning
15 51 (1.39%) Client/Server
16 49 (1.33%) Self-Motivation
17 48 (1.31%) Linux Command Line
17 48 (1.31%) Mobile App
18 35 (0.95%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
Operating Systems
1 959 (26.10%) Linux
2 356 (9.69%) Windows
3 133 (3.62%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 109 (2.97%) CentOS
5 94 (2.56%) Windows Server
6 80 (2.18%) Debian
7 64 (1.74%) Ubuntu
7 64 (1.74%) Unix
8 54 (1.47%) Data ONTAP
9 42 (1.14%) Alpine Linux
10 37 (1.01%) Windows Server 2016
11 26 (0.71%) VMS
12 25 (0.68%) Android
13 23 (0.63%) Apple iOS
13 23 (0.63%) Windows Server 2019
14 12 (0.33%) Oracle Linux
14 12 (0.33%) Solaris
15 10 (0.27%) Embedded Linux
16 6 (0.16%) Mesosphere
17 5 (0.14%) Mac OS
Processes & Methodologies
1 1,661 (45.20%) DevOps
2 1,593 (43.35%) CI/CD
3 1,592 (43.32%) Agile
4 1,182 (32.16%) Software Engineering
5 891 (24.24%) Microservices
6 871 (23.70%) Containerisation
7 676 (18.39%) Infrastructure as Code
8 605 (16.46%) Problem-Solving
9 604 (16.44%) Artificial Intelligence
10 554 (15.07%) SDLC
11 448 (12.19%) Mentoring
12 400 (10.88%) Computer Science
13 391 (10.64%) Full Stack Development
14 389 (10.59%) Machine Learning
15 336 (9.14%) Scrum
16 311 (8.46%) Continuous Improvement
16 311 (8.46%) Test Automation
17 304 (8.27%) TDD
18 297 (8.08%) Continuous Integration
19 267 (7.27%) Site Reliability Engineering
Programming Languages
1 1,294 (35.21%) Java
1 1,294 (35.21%) Python
2 726 (19.76%) SQL
3 706 (19.21%) JavaScript
4 548 (14.91%) C#
5 429 (11.67%) TypeScript
6 355 (9.66%) Go
7 332 (9.03%) Bash
8 327 (8.90%) PowerShell
9 111 (3.02%) PHP
10 97 (2.64%) C++
11 94 (2.56%) Ruby
12 79 (2.15%) C
13 76 (2.07%) Rust
14 72 (1.96%) Scala
15 67 (1.82%) Bicep
16 62 (1.69%) Shell Script
17 60 (1.63%) PL/SQL
18 59 (1.61%) Kotlin
19 42 (1.14%) Perl
Qualifications
1 500 (13.61%) Security Cleared
2 453 (12.33%) Degree
3 311 (8.46%) SC Cleared
4 271 (7.37%) Computer Science Degree
5 247 (6.72%) DV Cleared
6 181 (4.93%) Azure Certification
7 172 (4.68%) AWS Certification
8 103 (2.80%) Master's Degree
9 95 (2.59%) Microsoft Certification
10 57 (1.55%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
11 50 (1.36%) CISSP
12 42 (1.14%) CISM
13 40 (1.09%) Cisco Certification
13 40 (1.09%) MCSA
13 40 (1.09%) MCSE
14 37 (1.01%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
15 36 (0.98%) PhD
16 34 (0.93%) (ISC)2 CCSP
16 34 (0.93%) CCSK
16 34 (0.93%) CCSP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 100 (2.72%) QA
2 51 (1.39%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 47 (1.28%) NIST
4 29 (0.79%) WCAG
5 28 (0.76%) SLA
6 23 (0.63%) GDPR
7 15 (0.41%) Accessibility
8 14 (0.38%) NCSC
8 14 (0.38%) PCI DSS
9 10 (0.27%) Cyber Essentials
10 8 (0.22%) Data Quality
11 6 (0.16%) HIPAA
11 6 (0.16%) SOC 2
12 5 (0.14%) ISO 9001
13 2 (0.054%) ISO 20022
13 2 (0.054%) ISO 9000
13 2 (0.054%) SEPA
14 1 (0.027%) Disclosure Scotland
14 1 (0.027%) ISO 15022
14 1 (0.027%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 2,183 (59.40%) Docker
2 164 (4.46%) VMware Infrastructure
3 107 (2.91%) Active Directory
4 102 (2.78%) Hyper-V
5 89 (2.42%) Virtual Machines
6 27 (0.73%) Virtual Desktop
7 22 (0.60%) vSphere
8 14 (0.38%) VMware ESXi
9 12 (0.33%) Firmware
10 11 (0.30%) Ceph
10 11 (0.30%) KVM
11 7 (0.19%) NFS
12 6 (0.16%) Slurm Workload Manager
12 6 (0.16%) VirtualBox
13 4 (0.11%) Embedded Firmware
14 3 (0.082%) Gluster
14 3 (0.082%) oVirt
14 3 (0.082%) QEMU
14 3 (0.082%) Virtual Servers
14 3 (0.082%) Xen
Systems Management
1 1,328 (36.14%) Terraform
2 684 (18.61%) Ansible
3 336 (9.14%) Prometheus
4 242 (6.59%) Puppet
5 184 (5.01%) Grafana
6 106 (2.88%) Progress Chef
7 81 (2.20%) vCenter Server
8 60 (1.63%) Single Sign-On
9 45 (1.22%) Istio
10 33 (0.90%) Docker Swarm
10 33 (0.90%) SCCM
11 29 (0.79%) Active Directory Federation Services
11 29 (0.79%) Kibana
11 29 (0.79%) Microsoft Intune
12 26 (0.71%) Nagios
13 24 (0.65%) Argo
14 23 (0.63%) SCOM
15 22 (0.60%) WSUS
16 21 (0.57%) Packer
17 20 (0.54%) Consul
Vendors
1 394 (10.72%) Microsoft
2 360 (9.80%) Oracle
3 308 (8.38%) Red Hat
4 263 (7.16%) Google
5 209 (5.69%) VMware
6 105 (2.86%) IBM
7 88 (2.39%) Dynatrace
8 82 (2.23%) Splunk
9 70 (1.90%) Databricks
10 61 (1.66%) Palo Alto
11 56 (1.52%) NetApp
12 54 (1.47%) SolidFire
13 40 (1.09%) SaltStack
14 38 (1.03%) ServiceNow
15 36 (0.98%) WSO2
16 34 (0.93%) Cisco
17 33 (0.90%) Atlassian
18 29 (0.79%) Sybase
19 23 (0.63%) ForgeRock
20 22 (0.60%) New Relic