Kubernetes Jobs in England

Kubernetes (k8s)
UK > England

The following table provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in England 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 5 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
5 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 69 33 22
Rank change year-on-year -36 -11 +5
Permanent jobs citing Kubernetes 3,004 6,499 13,799
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 3.52% 7.05% 10.40%
As % of the Systems Management category 35.32% 47.45% 57.62%
Number of salaries quoted 2,406 4,116 6,463
10th Percentile £50,000 £50,000 £47,500
25th Percentile £59,438 £61,180 £57,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £77,500 £77,500 £77,500
Median % change year-on-year - - +10.71%
75th Percentile £95,000 £97,500 £95,000
90th Percentile £115,000 £115,000 £110,000
UK median annual salary £75,000 £75,000 £75,000
% change year-on-year - - +7.14%

All Systems Management Skills
England

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 advertised in England with a requirement for systems management skills.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for systems management skills 8,505 13,696 23,949
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 9.98% 14.86% 18.06%
Number of salaries quoted 6,608 8,581 12,676
10th Percentile £32,750 £35,400 £37,500
25th Percentile £45,000 £47,625 £48,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,500 £67,500 £70,000
Median % change year-on-year -10.37% -3.57% +7.69%
75th Percentile £83,750 £88,750 £87,500
90th Percentile £102,500 £105,000 £105,000
UK median annual salary £60,000 £67,500 £70,000
% change year-on-year -11.11% -3.57% +12.00%

Kubernetes
Job Vacancy Trend in England

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

Job vacancy trend for Kubernetes in England

Kubernetes
Salary Trend in England

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

Salary trend for Kubernetes in England

Kubernetes
Salary Histogram in England

Salary distribution for jobs citing Kubernetes in England over the 6 months to 5 May 2024.

Salary histogram for Kubernetes in England

Kubernetes
Job Locations in England

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Kubernetes within the England region over the 6 months to 5 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
London -19 1,272 £87,500 +2.94% 591
South East -13 589 £70,000 - 127
North of England -26 478 £62,500 -9.71% 111
South West -26 362 £70,576 +4.56% 87
North West -23 284 £62,500 -10.00% 62
Midlands -40 180 £60,000 -14.29% 58
Yorkshire -19 163 £60,000 -12.43% 39
West Midlands -30 112 £65,000 -7.14% 29
East of England -59 97 £85,000 +21.43% 35
East Midlands -38 71 £60,000 -14.29% 29
North East -39 31 £63,750 -7.61% 10
Kubernetes
UK

Kubernetes
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in England 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
1 140 (4.66%) Apache
2 101 (3.36%) Apache Spark
3 72 (2.40%) Apache Airflow
4 63 (2.10%) OpenStack
5 47 (1.56%) nginx
6 37 (1.23%) Confluence
7 26 (0.87%) Microsoft Exchange
8 21 (0.70%) Jupyter
9 20 (0.67%) JBoss
10 16 (0.53%) Tomcat
11 15 (0.50%) IIS
12 14 (0.47%) Drupal
13 13 (0.43%) SharePoint
14 11 (0.37%) CMS
15 10 (0.33%) Red Hat Fuse
16 7 (0.23%) WebLogic
16 7 (0.23%) WebSphere
16 7 (0.23%) WildFly
17 6 (0.20%) WordPress
18 4 (0.13%) Apache Solr
Applications
1 11 (0.37%) Microsoft Excel
2 2 (0.067%) InDesign
2 2 (0.067%) Microsoft Office
3 1 (0.033%) Blender
Business Applications
1 7 (0.23%) Teamcenter
2 3 (0.100%) SAP Business One
3 2 (0.067%) Oracle EBS
3 2 (0.067%) Remedy ITSM
4 1 (0.033%) Salesforce CRM
4 1 (0.033%) SAP S/4HANA
4 1 (0.033%) Shopify
Cloud Services
1 1,636 (54.46%) AWS
2 1,243 (41.38%) Azure
3 390 (12.98%) GCP
4 345 (11.48%) Azure DevOps
5 310 (10.32%) Serverless
6 271 (9.02%) Amazon S3
7 264 (8.79%) Amazon EKS
8 240 (7.99%) SaaS
9 221 (7.36%) GitHub
10 220 (7.32%) OpenShift
11 190 (6.32%) AWS CloudFormation
12 185 (6.16%) AWS Lambda
13 180 (5.99%) Amazon ECS
14 141 (4.69%) Azure AKS
15 139 (4.63%) Amazon EC2
16 123 (4.09%) PaaS
17 98 (3.26%) Cloud Computing
17 98 (3.26%) IaaS
17 98 (3.26%) IBM Cloud
18 91 (3.03%) GitHub Actions
Communications & Networking
1 155 (5.16%) Firewall
2 108 (3.60%) DNS
3 81 (2.70%) VPN
4 67 (2.23%) TCP/IP
5 65 (2.16%) Internet
6 61 (2.03%) HTTP
7 59 (1.96%) Network Security
8 58 (1.93%) DHCP
9 47 (1.56%) WAN
10 44 (1.46%) SD-WAN
11 38 (1.26%) AMQP
11 38 (1.26%) IPsec
12 34 (1.13%) SNMP
13 21 (0.70%) BGP
14 13 (0.43%) MPLS
15 11 (0.37%) Ethernet VPN
16 7 (0.23%) WLAN
17 6 (0.20%) Cisco ASA
18 5 (0.17%) MQTT
18 5 (0.17%) OSPF
Database & Business Intelligence
1 306 (10.19%) NoSQL
2 278 (9.25%) PostgreSQL
3 212 (7.06%) SQL Server
4 189 (6.29%) Amazon RDS
5 187 (6.23%) MongoDB
6 157 (5.23%) MySQL
7 138 (4.59%) Big Data
8 135 (4.49%) Elasticsearch
9 134 (4.46%) Relational Database
10 104 (3.46%) Redis
11 73 (2.43%) Amazon Redshift
11 73 (2.43%) Hadoop
12 67 (2.23%) Data Lake
13 53 (1.76%) BigQuery
14 40 (1.33%) Amazon Athena
14 40 (1.33%) Dremio
15 36 (1.20%) Apache Arrow
16 34 (1.13%) Azure SQL Database
17 29 (0.97%) Apache Cassandra
17 29 (0.97%) Data Warehouse
Development Applications
1 580 (19.31%) Jenkins
2 480 (15.98%) Git
3 230 (7.66%) GitLab
4 156 (5.19%) JIRA
5 125 (4.16%) Selenium
6 84 (2.80%) Cypress.io
7 82 (2.73%) TeamCity
8 60 (2.00%) JUnit
9 57 (1.90%) Artifactory
10 51 (1.70%) Octopus Deploy
11 48 (1.60%) Cucumber
12 43 (1.43%) CircleCI
13 39 (1.30%) SonarQube
14 38 (1.26%) Bitbucket
15 37 (1.23%) Sonatype Nexus
16 33 (1.10%) Maven
17 28 (0.93%) SoapUI
18 24 (0.80%) Team Foundation Server
19 23 (0.77%) Atlassian Bamboo
19 23 (0.77%) TestNG
General
1 602 (20.04%) Finance
2 453 (15.08%) Social Skills
3 245 (8.16%) Public Sector
4 191 (6.36%) Banking
5 138 (4.59%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 118 (3.93%) Analytical Skills
7 112 (3.73%) Retail
8 93 (3.10%) Aerospace
9 61 (2.03%) Front Office
10 50 (1.66%) Law
11 49 (1.63%) Tech for Good
12 43 (1.43%) Retail Banking
13 40 (1.33%) Organisational Skills
14 32 (1.07%) Marketing
15 30 (1.00%) Games
15 30 (1.00%) Health Technology
16 27 (0.90%) Telecoms
17 26 (0.87%) Automotive
17 26 (0.87%) Presentation Skills
18 25 (0.83%) Influencing Skills
Job Titles
1 771 (25.67%) Senior
2 725 (24.13%) Developer
3 600 (19.97%) DevOps Engineer
4 377 (12.55%) Lead
5 326 (10.85%) Software Engineer
6 256 (8.52%) AWS Engineer
7 247 (8.22%) Java Developer
8 243 (8.09%) Senior Developer
9 242 (8.06%) Architect
10 186 (6.19%) Cloud Engineer
11 163 (5.43%) Azure Engineer
12 160 (5.33%) AWS DevOps
13 159 (5.29%) Software Developer
14 157 (5.23%) Senior DevOps
15 151 (5.03%) Senior DevOps Engineer
16 143 (4.76%) AWS DevOps Engineer
17 136 (4.53%) Platform Engineer
18 119 (3.96%) Infrastructure Engineer
19 110 (3.66%) Java Engineer
20 107 (3.56%) Site Reliability Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 568 (18.91%) React
2 447 (14.88%) .NET
3 341 (11.35%) Kafka
4 301 (10.02%) Spring
5 292 (9.72%) Spring Boot
6 263 (8.75%) REST
7 245 (8.16%) AngularJS
8 239 (7.96%) Node.js
9 163 (5.43%) RabbitMQ
10 144 (4.79%) RESTful
11 141 (4.69%) HTML
12 136 (4.53%) CSS
13 126 (4.19%) .NET Core
14 115 (3.83%) gRPC
15 105 (3.50%) Elastic Stack
16 96 (3.20%) YAML
17 85 (2.83%) Web Services
18 78 (2.60%) JSON
19 75 (2.50%) ARM Templates
20 73 (2.43%) Jest
Miscellaneous
1 238 (7.92%) Distributed Systems
2 228 (7.59%) Cloud Native
3 145 (4.83%) Hybrid Cloud
4 142 (4.73%) Public Cloud
5 118 (3.93%) Blockchain
6 111 (3.70%) Data Centre
7 106 (3.53%) Greenfield Project
8 87 (2.90%) Product Ownership
9 83 (2.76%) Management Information System
10 65 (2.16%) Hedge funds
11 63 (2.10%) Private Cloud
12 59 (1.96%) Clustering
13 58 (1.93%) e-Learning
14 54 (1.80%) Algorithms
15 51 (1.70%) Client/Server
16 48 (1.60%) Linux Command Line
17 45 (1.50%) Mobile App
18 44 (1.46%) Data Structures
19 42 (1.40%) Self-Motivation
20 38 (1.26%) Legacy Code
Operating Systems
1 762 (25.37%) Linux
2 306 (10.19%) Windows
3 118 (3.93%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 102 (3.40%) CentOS
5 74 (2.46%) Windows Server
6 72 (2.40%) Debian
7 53 (1.76%) Ubuntu
7 53 (1.76%) Unix
8 40 (1.33%) Alpine Linux
9 34 (1.13%) Data ONTAP
9 34 (1.13%) Windows Server 2016
10 28 (0.93%) VMS
11 21 (0.70%) Android
12 20 (0.67%) Apple iOS
12 20 (0.67%) Windows Server 2019
13 11 (0.37%) Oracle Linux
14 10 (0.33%) Solaris
15 6 (0.20%) Mac OS
16 5 (0.17%) CoreOS
16 5 (0.17%) Embedded Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 1,488 (49.53%) DevOps
2 1,192 (39.68%) CI/CD
3 1,169 (38.91%) Agile
4 769 (25.60%) Containerisation
5 768 (25.57%) Software Engineering
6 691 (23.00%) Microservices
7 586 (19.51%) Infrastructure as Code
8 480 (15.98%) Problem-Solving
9 380 (12.65%) Artificial Intelligence
10 360 (11.98%) Mentoring
11 313 (10.42%) Computer Science
12 307 (10.22%) Scrum
13 275 (9.15%) Continuous Integration
14 274 (9.12%) Full Stack Development
15 271 (9.02%) TDD
16 261 (8.69%) Test Automation
17 221 (7.36%) SDLC
18 219 (7.29%) Site Reliability Engineering
19 199 (6.62%) Configuration Management
20 196 (6.52%) Fintech
Programming Languages
1 980 (32.62%) Python
2 946 (31.49%) Java
3 577 (19.21%) JavaScript
4 532 (17.71%) C#
5 449 (14.95%) SQL
6 364 (12.12%) TypeScript
7 303 (10.09%) Go
8 298 (9.92%) PowerShell
9 296 (9.85%) Bash
10 112 (3.73%) PHP
11 84 (2.80%) C++
12 74 (2.46%) Ruby
13 72 (2.40%) C
14 68 (2.26%) Rust
15 62 (2.06%) Bicep
16 55 (1.83%) Kotlin
17 54 (1.80%) Shell Script
18 44 (1.46%) Perl
19 38 (1.26%) Scala
20 36 (1.20%) Groovy
Qualifications
1 446 (14.85%) Security Cleared
2 399 (13.28%) Degree
3 257 (8.56%) SC Cleared
4 229 (7.62%) Computer Science Degree
5 213 (7.09%) DV Cleared
6 149 (4.96%) Azure Certification
7 133 (4.43%) AWS Certification
8 87 (2.90%) Microsoft Certification
9 59 (1.96%) Master's Degree
10 42 (1.40%) CISSP
11 40 (1.33%) MCSA
11 40 (1.33%) MCSE
12 38 (1.26%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
13 36 (1.20%) CISM
14 35 (1.17%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
14 35 (1.17%) Cisco Certification
15 34 (1.13%) (ISC)2 CCSP
15 34 (1.13%) CCSK
15 34 (1.13%) CCSP
16 26 (0.87%) PhD
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 81 (2.70%) QA
2 55 (1.83%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 39 (1.30%) NIST
4 35 (1.17%) WCAG
5 13 (0.43%) PCI DSS
6 12 (0.40%) NCSC
7 11 (0.37%) Accessibility
8 10 (0.33%) GDPR
9 9 (0.30%) Cyber Essentials
10 8 (0.27%) SLA
11 5 (0.17%) Data Quality
11 5 (0.17%) ISO 9001
12 4 (0.13%) HIPAA
12 4 (0.13%) SOC 2
13 3 (0.100%) ISO 20022
13 3 (0.100%) ISO 9000
14 2 (0.067%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
15 1 (0.033%) California Consumer Privacy Act
15 1 (0.033%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 2,004 (66.71%) Docker
2 135 (4.49%) VMware Infrastructure
3 98 (3.26%) Hyper-V
4 91 (3.03%) Active Directory
5 79 (2.63%) Virtual Machines
6 22 (0.73%) vSphere
7 20 (0.67%) Virtual Desktop
8 13 (0.43%) VMware ESXi
9 8 (0.27%) Ceph
9 8 (0.27%) KVM
10 6 (0.20%) Firmware
10 6 (0.20%) VirtualBox
11 5 (0.17%) NFS
11 5 (0.17%) Slurm Workload Manager
12 4 (0.13%) Embedded Firmware
13 3 (0.100%) Gluster
13 3 (0.100%) oVirt
14 2 (0.067%) QEMU
14 2 (0.067%) Varnish
14 2 (0.067%) Xen
Systems Management
1 1,156 (38.48%) Terraform
2 554 (18.44%) Ansible
3 271 (9.02%) Prometheus
4 228 (7.59%) Puppet
5 165 (5.49%) Grafana
6 91 (3.03%) Progress Chef
7 60 (2.00%) vCenter Server
8 55 (1.83%) Single Sign-On
9 38 (1.26%) Istio
10 31 (1.03%) Kibana
11 25 (0.83%) Consul
11 25 (0.83%) Docker Swarm
11 25 (0.83%) Packer
12 23 (0.77%) Active Directory Federation Services
13 22 (0.73%) Argo
13 22 (0.73%) Salt
13 22 (0.73%) SCCM
14 21 (0.70%) Microsoft Intune
14 21 (0.70%) Nagios
15 20 (0.67%) ZABBIX
Vendors
1 349 (11.62%) Microsoft
2 270 (8.99%) Red Hat
3 188 (6.26%) Google
4 171 (5.69%) VMware
5 151 (5.03%) Oracle
6 102 (3.40%) IBM
7 73 (2.43%) Dynatrace
8 42 (1.40%) Palo Alto
9 41 (1.36%) WSO2
10 37 (1.23%) Splunk
11 36 (1.20%) SaltStack
12 35 (1.17%) NetApp
13 34 (1.13%) SolidFire
14 30 (1.00%) Atlassian
14 30 (1.00%) Cisco
15 25 (0.83%) Databricks
16 21 (0.70%) ForgeRock
17 17 (0.57%) New Relic
18 16 (0.53%) ServiceNow
19 15 (0.50%) SolarWinds