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

6 months to
28 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 69 32 21
Rank change year-on-year -37 -11 +6
Permanent jobs citing Kubernetes 3,664 6,908 18,179
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 3.57% 7.10% 10.89%
As % of the Systems Management category 37.19% 48.43% 59.06%
Number of salaries quoted 2,594 4,260 7,219
10th Percentile £48,750 £50,000 £46,250
25th Percentile £58,813 £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 £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 9,853 14,263 30,780
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 9.60% 14.65% 18.44%
Number of salaries quoted 7,027 8,875 14,106
10th Percentile £32,500 £35,400 £37,500
25th Percentile £45,000 £48,000 £48,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £61,000 £67,500 £70,000
Median % change year-on-year -9.63% -3.57% +9.38%
75th Percentile £82,500 £87,500 £86,250
90th Percentile £100,000 £105,000 £101,250
UK excluding London median annual salary £55,000 £59,526 £59,000
% change year-on-year -7.60% +0.89% +7.27%

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 28 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 28 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 -37 3,016 £77,500 - 840
UK excluding London -24 2,249 £68,000 -2.08% 416
Work from Home -38 1,463 £75,000 - 480
London -24 1,269 £90,000 +5.88% 463
South East -15 592 £70,000 - 101
North of England -32 488 £61,206 -11.87% 117
Scotland -15 466 £73,000 +5.12% 30
South West -27 369 £70,576 +4.56% 76
North West -24 283 £62,500 -10.71% 71
Midlands -47 180 £60,000 -14.29% 44
Yorkshire -15 174 £60,000 -12.43% 38
West Midlands -40 104 £65,000 -7.14% 22
East of England -74 93 £85,000 +21.43% 33
East Midlands -40 76 £60,000 -7.69% 22
Wales -34 37 £42,500 -31.59% 10
North East -33 31 £69,250 +4.53% 8
Northern Ireland -27 22 £75,000 +3.45% 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
1 201 (5.49%) Apache Spark
2 177 (4.83%) Apache
3 140 (3.82%) Apache Airflow
4 98 (2.67%) FileNet
5 74 (2.02%) OpenStack
6 48 (1.31%) nginx
7 41 (1.12%) Confluence
8 32 (0.87%) Microsoft Exchange
9 24 (0.66%) Jupyter
10 23 (0.63%) 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 (0.055%) InDesign
2 2 (0.055%) Microsoft Office
3 1 (0.027%) Blender
3 1 (0.027%) Chatbot
Business Applications
1 7 (0.19%) Teamcenter
2 3 (0.082%) Remedy ITSM
2 3 (0.082%) SAP Business One
3 2 (0.055%) 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 1,929 (52.65%) AWS
2 1,479 (40.37%) Azure
3 531 (14.49%) GCP
4 403 (11.00%) Amazon S3
5 374 (10.21%) Azure DevOps
6 322 (8.79%) Serverless
7 304 (8.30%) GitHub
8 287 (7.83%) SaaS
9 277 (7.56%) Amazon EKS
10 242 (6.60%) OpenShift
11 200 (5.46%) AWS CloudFormation
12 188 (5.13%) Amazon ECS
13 185 (5.05%) AWS Lambda
14 159 (4.34%) Azure AKS
15 144 (3.93%) Amazon EC2
16 139 (3.79%) PaaS
17 133 (3.63%) Cloud Computing
18 120 (3.28%) GitHub Actions
19 103 (2.81%) IaaS
20 100 (2.73%) IBM Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 195 (5.32%) Firewall
2 122 (3.33%) DNS
3 99 (2.70%) VPN
4 82 (2.24%) Internet
5 77 (2.10%) TCP/IP
6 72 (1.97%) DHCP
7 69 (1.88%) HTTP
8 67 (1.83%) Network Security
9 57 (1.56%) IPsec
10 54 (1.47%) SNMP
11 52 (1.42%) WAN
12 50 (1.36%) SD-WAN
13 41 (1.12%) AMQP
14 21 (0.57%) BGP
15 17 (0.46%) DSL
15 17 (0.46%) Kerberos
16 15 (0.41%) MPLS
17 11 (0.30%) Ethernet VPN
18 8 (0.22%) SSL
18 8 (0.22%) WLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 408 (11.14%) NoSQL
2 285 (7.78%) PostgreSQL
3 267 (7.29%) Elasticsearch
4 250 (6.82%) Big Data
5 245 (6.69%) MongoDB
6 226 (6.17%) SQL Server
7 189 (5.16%) Amazon RDS
8 174 (4.75%) Relational Database
9 163 (4.45%) MySQL
10 132 (3.60%) Apache Cassandra
11 120 (3.28%) Redis
12 114 (3.11%) Data Lake
13 92 (2.51%) Hadoop
14 61 (1.66%) Amazon Athena
15 60 (1.64%) Amazon Redshift
16 57 (1.56%) BigQuery
16 57 (1.56%) Dremio
17 54 (1.47%) Apache Arrow
18 48 (1.31%) Azure SQL Database
19 42 (1.15%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 676 (18.45%) Jenkins
2 504 (13.76%) Git
3 241 (6.58%) GitLab
4 193 (5.27%) JIRA
5 158 (4.31%) JUnit
6 117 (3.19%) Selenium
7 80 (2.18%) TeamCity
8 75 (2.05%) Cypress.io
9 64 (1.75%) CircleCI
10 58 (1.58%) Mockito
11 54 (1.47%) Octopus Deploy
12 53 (1.45%) Jasmine
13 50 (1.36%) Artifactory
14 47 (1.28%) SonarQube
15 44 (1.20%) Bitbucket
16 42 (1.15%) Sonatype Nexus
17 40 (1.09%) Maven
18 39 (1.06%) Cucumber
19 29 (0.79%) Team Foundation Server
20 24 (0.66%) SoapUI
General
1 1,016 (27.73%) Finance
2 591 (16.13%) Social Skills
3 507 (13.84%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 392 (10.70%) Law
5 270 (7.37%) Public Sector
6 226 (6.17%) Banking
7 220 (6.00%) Marketing
8 145 (3.96%) Legal
9 143 (3.90%) Analytical Skills
10 118 (3.22%) Aerospace
11 114 (3.11%) Retail
12 59 (1.61%) Games
13 56 (1.53%) Tech for Good
14 51 (1.39%) Front Office
15 50 (1.36%) Organisational Skills
16 47 (1.28%) Retail Banking
17 45 (1.23%) Investment Banking
18 42 (1.15%) Financial Institution
19 29 (0.79%) Automotive
19 29 (0.79%) Health Technology
Job Titles
1 922 (25.16%) Senior
2 763 (20.82%) Developer
3 702 (19.16%) Software Engineer
4 637 (17.39%) DevOps Engineer
5 556 (15.17%) Lead
6 273 (7.45%) Architect
7 269 (7.34%) AWS Engineer
8 261 (7.12%) Java Developer
9 240 (6.55%) Senior Developer
10 208 (5.68%) Cloud Engineer
11 195 (5.32%) Java Engineer
12 184 (5.02%) Senior Software Engineer
13 177 (4.83%) Azure Engineer
14 173 (4.72%) Senior DevOps
15 163 (4.45%) Senior DevOps Engineer
16 160 (4.37%) Software Developer
17 157 (4.28%) Lead Software Engineer
18 156 (4.26%) AWS DevOps
18 156 (4.26%) Data Engineer
19 148 (4.04%) Platform Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 679 (18.53%) React
2 575 (15.69%) Kafka
3 495 (13.51%) Spring
4 482 (13.16%) .NET
5 374 (10.21%) AngularJS
6 344 (9.39%) Spring Boot
7 328 (8.95%) Node.js
8 306 (8.35%) REST
9 213 (5.81%) HTML
10 209 (5.70%) CSS
11 192 (5.24%) RabbitMQ
12 174 (4.75%) GraphQL
13 172 (4.69%) Hibernate
14 171 (4.67%) RESTful
15 155 (4.23%) JSON
16 141 (3.85%) J2EE
17 134 (3.66%) .NET Core
18 126 (3.44%) gRPC
19 116 (3.17%) YAML
20 109 (2.97%) Elastic Stack
Miscellaneous
1 414 (11.30%) Cloud Native
2 251 (6.85%) Distributed Systems
3 228 (6.22%) Public Cloud
4 175 (4.78%) Algorithms
5 147 (4.01%) Data Centre
6 142 (3.88%) Hybrid Cloud
7 134 (3.66%) Management Information System
7 134 (3.66%) Product Ownership
8 120 (3.28%) Greenfield Project
9 118 (3.22%) Blockchain
10 82 (2.24%) Hedge funds
11 81 (2.21%) Clustering
12 79 (2.16%) Data Structures
13 69 (1.88%) Private Cloud
14 61 (1.66%) e-Learning
15 51 (1.39%) Client/Server
16 49 (1.34%) Self-Motivation
17 48 (1.31%) Linux Command Line
17 48 (1.31%) Mobile App
18 35 (0.96%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
Operating Systems
1 959 (26.17%) Linux
2 354 (9.66%) Windows
3 131 (3.58%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 107 (2.92%) CentOS
5 93 (2.54%) Windows Server
6 79 (2.16%) Debian
7 66 (1.80%) Unix
8 63 (1.72%) Ubuntu
9 54 (1.47%) Data ONTAP
10 42 (1.15%) Alpine Linux
11 37 (1.01%) Windows Server 2016
12 27 (0.74%) VMS
13 25 (0.68%) Android
14 23 (0.63%) Apple iOS
14 23 (0.63%) Windows Server 2019
15 12 (0.33%) Oracle Linux
15 12 (0.33%) Solaris
16 10 (0.27%) Embedded Linux
17 6 (0.16%) Mesosphere
18 5 (0.14%) Mac OS
Processes & Methodologies
1 1,659 (45.28%) DevOps
2 1,600 (43.67%) Agile
3 1,596 (43.56%) CI/CD
4 1,166 (31.82%) Software Engineering
5 888 (24.24%) Microservices
6 864 (23.58%) Containerisation
7 683 (18.64%) Infrastructure as Code
8 604 (16.48%) Artificial Intelligence
9 601 (16.40%) Problem-Solving
10 554 (15.12%) SDLC
11 441 (12.04%) Mentoring
12 399 (10.89%) Computer Science
13 392 (10.70%) Full Stack Development
14 386 (10.53%) Machine Learning
15 338 (9.22%) Scrum
16 317 (8.65%) Continuous Improvement
17 310 (8.46%) Test Automation
18 305 (8.32%) TDD
19 294 (8.02%) Continuous Integration
20 268 (7.31%) Site Reliability Engineering
Programming Languages
1 1,302 (35.53%) Java
2 1,301 (35.51%) Python
3 733 (20.01%) SQL
4 706 (19.27%) JavaScript
5 554 (15.12%) C#
6 427 (11.65%) TypeScript
7 350 (9.55%) Go
8 334 (9.12%) Bash
9 325 (8.87%) PowerShell
10 111 (3.03%) PHP
11 94 (2.57%) Ruby
12 92 (2.51%) C++
13 76 (2.07%) C
14 74 (2.02%) Scala
15 68 (1.86%) Rust
16 67 (1.83%) Bicep
17 64 (1.75%) Shell Script
18 63 (1.72%) PL/SQL
19 62 (1.69%) Kotlin
20 42 (1.15%) Perl
Qualifications
1 500 (13.65%) Security Cleared
2 459 (12.53%) Degree
3 309 (8.43%) SC Cleared
4 274 (7.48%) Computer Science Degree
5 243 (6.63%) DV Cleared
6 181 (4.94%) Azure Certification
7 173 (4.72%) AWS Certification
8 102 (2.78%) Master's Degree
9 95 (2.59%) Microsoft Certification
10 57 (1.56%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
11 50 (1.36%) CISSP
12 42 (1.15%) 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 (2.73%) QA
2 51 (1.39%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 47 (1.28%) NIST
4 31 (0.85%) 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 8 (0.22%) Data Quality
12 5 (0.14%) HIPAA
12 5 (0.14%) ISO 9001
12 5 (0.14%) SOC 2
13 2 (0.055%) ISO 20022
13 2 (0.055%) ISO 9000
13 2 (0.055%) SEPA
14 1 (0.027%) Disclosure Scotland
14 1 (0.027%) ISO 15022
14 1 (0.027%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 2,180 (59.50%) Docker
2 164 (4.48%) VMware Infrastructure
3 108 (2.95%) Active Directory
4 107 (2.92%) Hyper-V
5 88 (2.40%) Virtual Machines
6 27 (0.74%) Virtual Desktop
7 22 (0.60%) vSphere
8 15 (0.41%) 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 1,329 (36.27%) Terraform
2 685 (18.70%) Ansible
3 333 (9.09%) Prometheus
4 242 (6.60%) Puppet
5 182 (4.97%) Grafana
6 107 (2.92%) Progress Chef
7 81 (2.21%) vCenter Server
8 60 (1.64%) Single Sign-On
9 45 (1.23%) Istio
10 34 (0.93%) SCCM
11 33 (0.90%) Docker Swarm
12 29 (0.79%) Active Directory Federation Services
12 29 (0.79%) Microsoft Intune
13 28 (0.76%) Kibana
14 25 (0.68%) Nagios
15 24 (0.66%) Argo
16 23 (0.63%) SCOM
16 23 (0.63%) WSUS
17 21 (0.57%) Packer
18 20 (0.55%) Consul
Vendors
1 394 (10.75%) Microsoft
2 365 (9.96%) Oracle
3 304 (8.30%) Red Hat
4 271 (7.40%) Google
5 209 (5.70%) VMware
6 105 (2.87%) IBM
7 87 (2.37%) Dynatrace
8 78 (2.13%) Splunk
9 71 (1.94%) Databricks
10 61 (1.66%) Palo Alto
11 56 (1.53%) NetApp
12 54 (1.47%) SolidFire
13 40 (1.09%) WSO2
14 39 (1.06%) SaltStack
15 38 (1.04%) ServiceNow
16 35 (0.96%) Cisco
17 33 (0.90%) Atlassian
18 30 (0.82%) Sybase
19 23 (0.63%) Dell
19 23 (0.63%) ForgeRock