Kubernetes Jobs in the North West

Kubernetes (k8s)
England > North West

The following table provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in the North West 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 27 April 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
27 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 75 57 29
Rank change year-on-year -18 -28 +7
Permanent jobs citing Kubernetes 284 458 802
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the North West 2.93% 5.75% 8.52%
As % of the Systems Management category 41.22% 43.41% 52.66%
Number of salaries quoted 186 300 479
10th Percentile £47,500 £48,684 £45,000
25th Percentile £52,813 £53,750 £52,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £62,500 £69,447 £67,350
Median % change year-on-year -10.00% +3.11% +12.25%
75th Percentile £77,500 £81,250 £85,000
90th Percentile £84,959 £90,000 £90,000
England median annual salary £76,000 £77,500 £77,500
% change year-on-year -1.94% - +10.71%

All Systems Management Skills
North West

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 the North West with a requirement for systems management skills.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for systems management skills 689 1,055 1,523
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the North West 7.11% 13.25% 16.18%
Number of salaries quoted 532 698 939
10th Percentile £29,250 £33,350 £32,750
25th Percentile £40,000 £42,500 £45,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,500 £57,655 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -0.27% -3.91% +11.11%
75th Percentile £71,250 £76,250 £77,500
90th Percentile £80,000 £86,250 £87,500
England median annual salary £60,000 £67,500 £70,000
% change year-on-year -11.11% -3.57% +7.69%

Kubernetes
Job Vacancy Trend in the North West

Job postings citing Kubernetes as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the North West.

Job vacancy trend for Kubernetes in the North West

Kubernetes
Salary Trend in the North West

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

Salary trend for Kubernetes in the North West

Kubernetes
Salary Histogram in the North West

Salary distribution for jobs citing Kubernetes in the North West over the 6 months to 27 April 2024.

Salary histogram for Kubernetes in the North West

Kubernetes
Job Locations in the North West

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Kubernetes within the North West region over the 6 months to 27 April 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
Manchester -8 219 £65,000 -6.40% 55
Cheshire -5 31 £52,500 -18.29% 4
Merseyside -16 18 £55,000 -33.33% 1
Lancashire -20 11 £65,000 +18.18% 5
Cumbria -7 4 £65,000 -
Kubernetes
England

Kubernetes
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the North West 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 25 (8.80%) Apache
2 22 (7.75%) Apache Spark
3 3 (1.06%) Apache Airflow
4 1 (0.35%) Jetty
4 1 (0.35%) nginx
4 1 (0.35%) OpenStack
4 1 (0.35%) WordPress
Business Applications
1 1 (0.35%) Shopify
Cloud Services
1 176 (61.97%) AWS
2 133 (46.83%) Azure
3 56 (19.72%) Amazon EKS
4 50 (17.61%) Amazon S3
5 44 (15.49%) GCP
6 37 (13.03%) OCI
7 36 (12.68%) Amazon ECR
7 36 (12.68%) IBM Cloud
7 36 (12.68%) Route 53
8 35 (12.32%) GitHub
9 30 (10.56%) Azure DevOps
10 26 (9.15%) Serverless
11 21 (7.39%) AWS CloudFormation
12 18 (6.34%) AWS Lambda
13 16 (5.63%) OpenShift
13 16 (5.63%) SaaS
14 11 (3.87%) Google Kubernetes Engine
15 10 (3.52%) GitHub Actions
16 8 (2.82%) Amazon EC2
16 8 (2.82%) Azure Cosmos DB
Communications & Networking
1 22 (7.75%) Firewall
2 17 (5.99%) WAN
3 16 (5.63%) SD-WAN
4 11 (3.87%) AMQP
4 11 (3.87%) Internet
4 11 (3.87%) VPN
5 10 (3.52%) IPsec
5 10 (3.52%) SNMP
6 5 (1.76%) DNS
7 4 (1.41%) HTTP
7 4 (1.41%) Network Security
8 2 (0.70%) TCP/IP
9 1 (0.35%) Asterisk PBX
9 1 (0.35%) IMAP
9 1 (0.35%) LAN
9 1 (0.35%) SAN
9 1 (0.35%) SMTP
9 1 (0.35%) VoIP
9 1 (0.35%) VSAN
9 1 (0.35%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 40 (14.08%) Amazon RDS
2 30 (10.56%) MySQL
3 20 (7.04%) MongoDB
4 15 (5.28%) Elasticsearch
4 15 (5.28%) PostgreSQL
4 15 (5.28%) SQL Server
5 14 (4.93%) Big Data
6 11 (3.87%) Cloudera CDH
6 11 (3.87%) Hadoop
7 10 (3.52%) NoSQL
8 6 (2.11%) Relational Database
9 4 (1.41%) BigQuery
10 3 (1.06%) Flink
10 3 (1.06%) Power BI
11 2 (0.70%) InfluxDB
11 2 (0.70%) RDBMS
12 1 (0.35%) Amazon Aurora
12 1 (0.35%) Azure SQL Database
12 1 (0.35%) DynamoDB
12 1 (0.35%) Redis
Development Applications
1 51 (17.96%) Jenkins
2 32 (11.27%) Git
3 30 (10.56%) JIRA
4 21 (7.39%) GitLab
5 10 (3.52%) Spinnaker
6 7 (2.46%) Gradle
7 5 (1.76%) Cypress.io
8 4 (1.41%) Cucumber
8 4 (1.41%) Selenium
8 4 (1.41%) Team Foundation Server
9 3 (1.06%) git-flow
9 3 (1.06%) MSBuild
9 3 (1.06%) Octopus Deploy
9 3 (1.06%) Rational DOORS
9 3 (1.06%) Subversion
9 3 (1.06%) TeamCity
9 3 (1.06%) Visual Studio Team System
10 2 (0.70%) Maven
10 2 (0.70%) SonarQube
11 1 (0.35%) RSpec
General
1 45 (15.85%) Public Sector
2 43 (15.14%) Inclusion and Diversity
3 37 (13.03%) Retail
4 36 (12.68%) Finance
5 27 (9.51%) Aerospace
6 16 (5.63%) Banking
7 14 (4.93%) Social Skills
8 11 (3.87%) Analytical Skills
9 4 (1.41%) Marketing
9 4 (1.41%) Publishing
9 4 (1.41%) Tech for Good
9 4 (1.41%) Telecoms
10 3 (1.06%) Law
11 2 (0.70%) Legal
12 1 (0.35%) Automotive
12 1 (0.35%) Back Office
12 1 (0.35%) Documentation Skills
12 1 (0.35%) Games
12 1 (0.35%) Investment Banking
12 1 (0.35%) Retail Banking
Job Titles
1 97 (34.15%) Senior
2 87 (30.63%) DevOps Engineer
3 63 (22.18%) Developer
4 50 (17.61%) Software Engineer
5 41 (14.44%) Senior DevOps
5 41 (14.44%) Senior DevOps Engineer
6 30 (10.56%) Lead
7 19 (6.69%) Architect
7 19 (6.69%) Consultant
7 19 (6.69%) Senior Developer
8 18 (6.34%) Azure Engineer
9 16 (5.63%) Software Developer
10 15 (5.28%) Security Architect
11 14 (4.93%) Cloud Engineer
12 13 (4.58%) .NET Developer
13 12 (4.23%) AWS Engineer
13 12 (4.23%) DV Cleared Software Engineer
13 12 (4.23%) Full Stack Developer
14 11 (3.87%) Azure DevOps Engineer
14 11 (3.87%) C# Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 62 (21.83%) React
2 41 (14.44%) Node.js
3 33 (11.62%) .NET
4 32 (11.27%) AngularJS
5 31 (10.92%) RabbitMQ
5 31 (10.92%) Spring
6 23 (8.10%) Spring Boot
7 22 (7.75%) REST
8 20 (7.04%) Kafka
9 15 (5.28%) .NET Core
10 14 (4.93%) CSS
10 14 (4.93%) gRPC
10 14 (4.93%) Vue
11 11 (3.87%) Material-UI
11 11 (3.87%) OpenAPI
11 11 (3.87%) Swagger
12 10 (3.52%) HTML
12 10 (3.52%) YAML
13 9 (3.17%) RESTful
14 8 (2.82%) ASP.NET
Miscellaneous
1 39 (13.73%) Blockchain
2 37 (13.03%) Hybrid Cloud
3 36 (12.68%) e-Learning
4 18 (6.34%) Management Information System
5 16 (5.63%) Cloud Native
5 16 (5.63%) Greenfield Project
6 15 (5.28%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
7 12 (4.23%) Product Ownership
8 11 (3.87%) Data Centre
9 7 (2.46%) Private Cloud
10 6 (2.11%) Public Cloud
11 4 (1.41%) Mobile App
12 3 (1.06%) Algorithms
12 3 (1.06%) Device Driver
12 3 (1.06%) Legacy Systems
12 3 (1.06%) NFT
12 3 (1.06%) Onboarding
12 3 (1.06%) Web3
13 2 (0.70%) Data Protection Act
13 2 (0.70%) Distributed Systems
Operating Systems
1 73 (25.70%) Linux
2 22 (7.75%) Windows
3 15 (5.28%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 12 (4.23%) CentOS
4 12 (4.23%) Ubuntu
5 11 (3.87%) Debian
5 11 (3.87%) Unix
6 10 (3.52%) Data ONTAP
7 6 (2.11%) Android
8 5 (1.76%) Apple iOS
9 3 (1.06%) Embedded Linux
10 2 (0.70%) Windows Server
11 1 (0.35%) CoreOS
11 1 (0.35%) VMS
11 1 (0.35%) zOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 164 (57.75%) Agile
2 144 (50.70%) DevOps
3 127 (44.72%) CI/CD
4 87 (30.63%) Mentoring
5 77 (27.11%) Software Engineering
6 76 (26.76%) Containerisation
7 57 (20.07%) Coaching
7 57 (20.07%) Infrastructure as Code
8 56 (19.72%) Microservices
9 42 (14.79%) Test Automation
10 40 (14.08%) Artificial Intelligence
10 40 (14.08%) Observability
10 40 (14.08%) TDD
11 39 (13.73%) Scrum
12 38 (13.38%) Actionable Insight
13 37 (13.03%) Kanban
14 36 (12.68%) Secrets Management
15 35 (12.32%) Continuous Integration
15 35 (12.32%) Problem-Solving
16 34 (11.97%) Collaborative Working
Programming Languages
1 75 (26.41%) Java
2 64 (22.54%) Python
3 57 (20.07%) JavaScript
4 38 (13.38%) C#
5 26 (9.15%) PowerShell
6 24 (8.45%) TypeScript
7 22 (7.75%) SQL
8 15 (5.28%) Go
9 14 (4.93%) Bash
9 14 (4.93%) PHP
10 12 (4.23%) Ruby
11 9 (3.17%) Perl
12 6 (2.11%) C++
13 4 (1.41%) C
14 1 (0.35%) Scala
14 1 (0.35%) Shell Script
14 1 (0.35%) T-SQL
14 1 (0.35%) XAML
Qualifications
1 39 (13.73%) Security Cleared
2 29 (10.21%) DV Cleared
3 24 (8.45%) AWS Certification
4 18 (6.34%) Azure Certification
5 15 (5.28%) (ISC)2 CCSP
5 15 (5.28%) CCSK
5 15 (5.28%) CCSP
5 15 (5.28%) Cisco Certification
5 15 (5.28%) CISM
5 15 (5.28%) CISSP
5 15 (5.28%) Degree
5 15 (5.28%) SC Cleared
6 12 (4.23%) Microsoft Certification
7 3 (1.06%) PhD
8 2 (0.70%) Computer Science Degree
9 1 (0.35%) BPSS Clearance
9 1 (0.35%) Master's Degree
9 1 (0.35%) PMI Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 16 (5.63%) NIST
2 7 (2.46%) QA
3 3 (1.06%) Accessibility
4 1 (0.35%) SLA
System Software
1 164 (57.75%) Docker
2 12 (4.23%) VMware Infrastructure
3 4 (1.41%) Hyper-V
4 3 (1.06%) Embedded Firmware
4 3 (1.06%) Firmware
5 2 (0.70%) Active Directory
6 1 (0.35%) Dovecot
6 1 (0.35%) Lustre
6 1 (0.35%) Postfix
6 1 (0.35%) Slurm Workload Manager
6 1 (0.35%) Virtual Machines
6 1 (0.35%) VMware ESXi
Systems Management
1 144 (50.70%) Terraform
2 62 (21.83%) Ansible
3 51 (17.96%) Prometheus
4 20 (7.04%) Puppet
5 15 (5.28%) Single Sign-On
6 10 (3.52%) vCenter Server
7 9 (3.17%) Progress Chef
8 5 (1.76%) Grafana
9 3 (1.06%) Podman
10 1 (0.35%) CA Endevor
10 1 (0.35%) Icinga
10 1 (0.35%) Kiali
10 1 (0.35%) Kibana
10 1 (0.35%) Proxmox
Vendors
1 60 (21.13%) Red Hat
2 37 (13.03%) IBM
3 36 (12.68%) Dynatrace
4 27 (9.51%) Microsoft
5 26 (9.15%) Google
6 13 (4.58%) VMware
7 12 (4.23%) Oracle
8 11 (3.87%) SaltStack
9 10 (3.52%) NetApp
9 10 (3.52%) Palo Alto
9 10 (3.52%) SolidFire
10 8 (2.82%) Confluent
10 8 (2.82%) Facebook
11 3 (1.06%) LogicMonitor
11 3 (1.06%) PagerDuty
11 3 (1.06%) Veeam
12 2 (0.70%) Atlassian
13 1 (0.35%) Cisco
13 1 (0.35%) Fortinet
13 1 (0.35%) NVIDIA