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 23 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
23 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 66 32 21
Rank change year-on-year -34 -11 +6
Permanent jobs citing Kubernetes 3,690 7,004 17,770
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 3.66% 7.11% 10.85%
As % of the Systems Management category 37.45% 48.44% 58.95%
Number of salaries quoted 2,626 4,314 7,186
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 £95,188 £93,750
90th Percentile £115,000 £115,000 £110,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £68,000 £69,447 £70,000
% change year-on-year -2.08% -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 9,854 14,460 30,142
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 9.76% 14.68% 18.40%
Number of salaries quoted 7,058 8,969 14,039
10th Percentile £32,500 £35,400 £37,500
25th Percentile £45,000 £48,091 £48,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £62,500 £67,500 £70,000
Median % change year-on-year -7.41% -3.57% +12.00%
75th Percentile £82,500 £87,500 £86,250
90th Percentile £100,000 £105,000 £102,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £55,000 £59,526 £59,526
% change year-on-year -7.60% - +8.23%

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 23 May 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 23 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 -35 3,031 £77,500 - 1,076
UK excluding London -22 2,259 £68,000 -2.08% 683
Work from Home -36 1,477 £75,000 - 609
London -19 1,285 £87,500 +2.94% 686
South East -13 591 £70,000 - 359
North of England -25 490 £61,206 -11.87% 114
Scotland -16 477 £73,000 +8.15% 36
South West -29 370 £70,576 +4.56% 74
North West -26 289 £62,500 -10.71% 71
Midlands -60 177 £60,000 -14.29% 47
Yorkshire -19 170 £60,000 -12.43% 34
West Midlands -37 104 £65,000 -7.14% 25
East of England -64 93 £85,000 +21.43% 37
East Midlands -35 73 £60,000 -7.69% 21
Wales -26 37 £42,500 -30.89% 10
North East -35 31 £63,750 -6.59% 9
Northern Ireland -23 22 £75,000 +3.45% 10
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
1 206 (5.58%) Apache Spark
2 175 (4.74%) Apache
3 141 (3.82%) Apache Airflow
4 98 (2.66%) FileNet
5 74 (2.01%) OpenStack
6 49 (1.33%) nginx
7 43 (1.17%) Confluence
8 30 (0.81%) Microsoft Exchange
9 24 (0.65%) Jupyter
10 23 (0.62%) Cloud Foundry
11 22 (0.60%) JBoss
12 15 (0.41%) IIS
12 15 (0.41%) Tomcat
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%) InDesign
2 2 (0.054%) Microsoft Office
3 1 (0.027%) Blender
Business Applications
1 7 (0.19%) Teamcenter
2 3 (0.081%) Remedy ITSM
2 3 (0.081%) SAP Business One
3 2 (0.054%) Oracle EBS
4 1 (0.027%) Payment Gateway
4 1 (0.027%) Salesforce CRM
4 1 (0.027%) SAP S/4HANA
4 1 (0.027%) Shopify
Cloud Services
1 1,948 (52.79%) AWS
2 1,477 (40.03%) Azure
3 540 (14.63%) GCP
4 412 (11.17%) Amazon S3
5 370 (10.03%) Azure DevOps
6 325 (8.81%) Serverless
7 312 (8.46%) GitHub
8 292 (7.91%) SaaS
9 279 (7.56%) Amazon EKS
10 247 (6.69%) OpenShift
11 205 (5.56%) AWS CloudFormation
12 192 (5.20%) AWS Lambda
13 191 (5.18%) Amazon ECS
14 160 (4.34%) Azure AKS
15 147 (3.98%) Amazon EC2
16 141 (3.82%) PaaS
17 133 (3.60%) Cloud Computing
18 121 (3.28%) GitHub Actions
19 107 (2.90%) IaaS
20 101 (2.74%) IBM Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 195 (5.28%) Firewall
2 122 (3.31%) DNS
3 101 (2.74%) VPN
4 84 (2.28%) Internet
5 77 (2.09%) TCP/IP
6 68 (1.84%) DHCP
6 68 (1.84%) HTTP
7 65 (1.76%) Network Security
8 58 (1.57%) IPsec
9 54 (1.46%) SNMP
10 52 (1.41%) WAN
11 50 (1.36%) SD-WAN
12 41 (1.11%) AMQP
13 21 (0.57%) BGP
14 18 (0.49%) DSL
15 17 (0.46%) Kerberos
16 15 (0.41%) MPLS
17 11 (0.30%) Ethernet VPN
18 8 (0.22%) OSPF
18 8 (0.22%) SSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 412 (11.17%) NoSQL
2 293 (7.94%) PostgreSQL
3 276 (7.48%) Elasticsearch
4 254 (6.88%) Big Data
5 251 (6.80%) MongoDB
6 224 (6.07%) SQL Server
7 194 (5.26%) Amazon RDS
8 174 (4.72%) Relational Database
9 165 (4.47%) MySQL
10 132 (3.58%) Apache Cassandra
11 126 (3.41%) Redis
12 117 (3.17%) Data Lake
13 96 (2.60%) Hadoop
14 63 (1.71%) Amazon Redshift
15 60 (1.63%) Amazon Athena
16 58 (1.57%) Dremio
17 57 (1.54%) BigQuery
18 54 (1.46%) Apache Arrow
19 51 (1.38%) Azure SQL Database
20 42 (1.14%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 698 (18.92%) Jenkins
2 512 (13.88%) Git
3 245 (6.64%) GitLab
4 193 (5.23%) JIRA
5 157 (4.25%) JUnit
6 125 (3.39%) Selenium
7 82 (2.22%) Cypress.io
8 81 (2.20%) TeamCity
9 63 (1.71%) CircleCI
10 58 (1.57%) Mockito
11 53 (1.44%) Artifactory
11 53 (1.44%) Jasmine
11 53 (1.44%) Octopus Deploy
12 47 (1.27%) SonarQube
13 46 (1.25%) Bitbucket
14 45 (1.22%) Cucumber
14 45 (1.22%) Sonatype Nexus
15 41 (1.11%) Maven
16 29 (0.79%) Team Foundation Server
17 24 (0.65%) Atlassian Bamboo
General
1 1,029 (27.89%) Finance
2 584 (15.83%) Social Skills
3 516 (13.98%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 396 (10.73%) Law
5 269 (7.29%) Public Sector
6 235 (6.37%) Banking
7 224 (6.07%) Marketing
8 145 (3.93%) Analytical Skills
9 144 (3.90%) Legal
10 115 (3.12%) Aerospace
11 114 (3.09%) Retail
12 61 (1.65%) Games
13 55 (1.49%) Tech for Good
14 54 (1.46%) Front Office
15 48 (1.30%) Organisational Skills
15 48 (1.30%) Retail Banking
16 47 (1.27%) Investment Banking
17 43 (1.17%) Financial Institution
18 31 (0.84%) Health Technology
19 30 (0.81%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 920 (24.93%) Senior
2 773 (20.95%) Developer
3 715 (19.38%) Software Engineer
4 645 (17.48%) DevOps Engineer
5 549 (14.88%) Lead
6 277 (7.51%) AWS Engineer
7 274 (7.43%) Architect
8 263 (7.13%) Java Developer
9 245 (6.64%) Senior Developer
10 214 (5.80%) Cloud Engineer
11 197 (5.34%) Java Engineer
12 182 (4.93%) Senior Software Engineer
13 178 (4.82%) Azure Engineer
14 171 (4.63%) Senior DevOps
15 166 (4.50%) Software Developer
16 162 (4.39%) Data Engineer
16 162 (4.39%) Senior DevOps Engineer
17 160 (4.34%) Lead Software Engineer
18 159 (4.31%) AWS DevOps
19 151 (4.09%) Platform Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 694 (18.81%) React
2 585 (15.85%) Kafka
3 501 (13.58%) Spring
4 483 (13.09%) .NET
5 374 (10.14%) AngularJS
6 349 (9.46%) Spring Boot
7 333 (9.02%) Node.js
8 310 (8.40%) REST
9 214 (5.80%) HTML
10 210 (5.69%) CSS
11 191 (5.18%) RabbitMQ
12 179 (4.85%) GraphQL
13 174 (4.72%) Hibernate
14 166 (4.50%) RESTful
15 157 (4.25%) JSON
16 143 (3.88%) J2EE
17 135 (3.66%) .NET Core
18 130 (3.52%) gRPC
19 116 (3.14%) YAML
20 113 (3.06%) Elastic Stack
Miscellaneous
1 418 (11.33%) Cloud Native
2 259 (7.02%) Distributed Systems
3 231 (6.26%) Public Cloud
4 178 (4.82%) Algorithms
5 145 (3.93%) Data Centre
6 143 (3.88%) Hybrid Cloud
7 138 (3.74%) Product Ownership
8 135 (3.66%) Management Information System
9 120 (3.25%) Greenfield Project
10 119 (3.22%) Blockchain
11 83 (2.25%) Hedge funds
12 81 (2.20%) Clustering
12 81 (2.20%) Data Structures
13 76 (2.06%) Private Cloud
14 60 (1.63%) e-Learning
15 51 (1.38%) Client/Server
16 49 (1.33%) Linux Command Line
17 47 (1.27%) Mobile App
17 47 (1.27%) Self-Motivation
18 35 (0.95%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
Operating Systems
1 961 (26.04%) Linux
2 350 (9.49%) Windows
3 130 (3.52%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 106 (2.87%) CentOS
5 90 (2.44%) Windows Server
6 78 (2.11%) Debian
7 65 (1.76%) Unix
8 63 (1.71%) Ubuntu
9 54 (1.46%) Data ONTAP
10 41 (1.11%) Alpine Linux
11 35 (0.95%) Windows Server 2016
12 26 (0.70%) VMS
13 25 (0.68%) Android
14 23 (0.62%) Apple iOS
15 21 (0.57%) Windows Server 2019
16 12 (0.33%) Oracle Linux
16 12 (0.33%) Solaris
17 10 (0.27%) Embedded Linux
18 6 (0.16%) Mesosphere
19 5 (0.14%) Mac OS
Processes & Methodologies
1 1,658 (44.93%) DevOps
2 1,620 (43.90%) Agile
3 1,601 (43.39%) CI/CD
4 1,186 (32.14%) Software Engineering
5 888 (24.07%) Microservices
6 866 (23.47%) Containerisation
7 688 (18.64%) Infrastructure as Code
8 607 (16.45%) Problem-Solving
9 602 (16.31%) Artificial Intelligence
10 560 (15.18%) SDLC
11 442 (11.98%) Mentoring
12 404 (10.95%) Computer Science
13 390 (10.57%) Full Stack Development
14 380 (10.30%) Machine Learning
15 339 (9.19%) Scrum
16 323 (8.75%) Continuous Improvement
17 310 (8.40%) Test Automation
18 309 (8.37%) TDD
19 303 (8.21%) Continuous Integration
20 269 (7.29%) Site Reliability Engineering
Programming Languages
1 1,322 (35.83%) Java
2 1,314 (35.61%) Python
3 748 (20.27%) SQL
4 713 (19.32%) JavaScript
5 557 (15.09%) C#
6 435 (11.79%) TypeScript
7 364 (9.86%) Go
8 338 (9.16%) Bash
9 318 (8.62%) PowerShell
10 111 (3.01%) PHP
11 101 (2.74%) C++
12 93 (2.52%) Ruby
13 78 (2.11%) C
14 77 (2.09%) Scala
15 72 (1.95%) Rust
16 64 (1.73%) Bicep
16 64 (1.73%) Kotlin
16 64 (1.73%) PL/SQL
16 64 (1.73%) Shell Script
17 43 (1.17%) Groovy
Qualifications
1 490 (13.28%) Security Cleared
2 461 (12.49%) Degree
3 301 (8.16%) SC Cleared
4 277 (7.51%) Computer Science Degree
5 233 (6.31%) DV Cleared
6 181 (4.91%) Azure Certification
7 173 (4.69%) AWS Certification
8 103 (2.79%) Master's Degree
9 96 (2.60%) Microsoft Certification
10 55 (1.49%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
11 50 (1.36%) CISSP
12 42 (1.14%) CISM
13 40 (1.08%) MCSA
13 40 (1.08%) MCSE
14 39 (1.06%) Cisco Certification
15 37 (1.00%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
16 36 (0.98%) PhD
17 34 (0.92%) (ISC)2 CCSP
17 34 (0.92%) CCSK
17 34 (0.92%) CCSP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 97 (2.63%) QA
2 51 (1.38%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 47 (1.27%) NIST
4 33 (0.89%) WCAG
5 29 (0.79%) SLA
6 22 (0.60%) GDPR
7 15 (0.41%) Accessibility
8 14 (0.38%) PCI DSS
9 13 (0.35%) NCSC
10 10 (0.27%) Cyber Essentials
11 6 (0.16%) Data Quality
12 5 (0.14%) HIPAA
12 5 (0.14%) ISO 9001
12 5 (0.14%) SOC 2
13 3 (0.081%) SEPA
14 2 (0.054%) ISO 20022
14 2 (0.054%) ISO 9000
15 1 (0.027%) Disclosure Scotland
15 1 (0.027%) ISO 15022
15 1 (0.027%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 2,206 (59.78%) Docker
2 162 (4.39%) VMware Infrastructure
3 109 (2.95%) Active Directory
4 107 (2.90%) Hyper-V
5 84 (2.28%) Virtual Machines
6 25 (0.68%) Virtual Desktop
7 22 (0.60%) vSphere
8 14 (0.38%) VMware ESXi
9 12 (0.33%) Ceph
9 12 (0.33%) Firmware
10 10 (0.27%) 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 (0.081%) Gluster
14 3 (0.081%) oVirt
14 3 (0.081%) QEMU
14 3 (0.081%) Virtual Servers
14 3 (0.081%) Xen
Systems Management
1 1,338 (36.26%) Terraform
2 687 (18.62%) Ansible
3 334 (9.05%) Prometheus
4 246 (6.67%) Puppet
5 185 (5.01%) Grafana
6 112 (3.04%) Progress Chef
7 80 (2.17%) vCenter Server
8 60 (1.63%) Single Sign-On
9 45 (1.22%) Istio
10 33 (0.89%) Docker Swarm
11 32 (0.87%) Kibana
12 31 (0.84%) SCCM
13 30 (0.81%) Active Directory Federation Services
14 27 (0.73%) Microsoft Intune
15 25 (0.68%) Argo
16 24 (0.65%) Nagios
17 23 (0.62%) Packer
18 21 (0.57%) Consul
18 21 (0.57%) SCOM
18 21 (0.57%) WSUS
Vendors
1 391 (10.60%) Microsoft
2 369 (10.00%) Oracle
3 303 (8.21%) Red Hat
4 276 (7.48%) Google
5 206 (5.58%) VMware
6 106 (2.87%) IBM
7 89 (2.41%) Dynatrace
8 75 (2.03%) Databricks
9 74 (2.01%) Splunk
10 61 (1.65%) Palo Alto
11 56 (1.52%) NetApp
12 54 (1.46%) SolidFire
13 41 (1.11%) WSO2
14 39 (1.06%) SaltStack
15 37 (1.00%) ServiceNow
16 35 (0.95%) Atlassian
16 35 (0.95%) Cisco
17 31 (0.84%) Sybase
18 26 (0.70%) Dell
19 23 (0.62%) ForgeRock