Kubernetes Jobs in the Thames Valley

Kubernetes (k8s)
South East > Thames Valley

The following table provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in the Thames Valley 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 29 April 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
29 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 45 53 76
Rank change year-on-year +8 +23 -48
Permanent jobs citing Kubernetes 309 326 276
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the Thames Valley 4.59% 5.32% 3.96%
As % of the Systems Management category 39.62% 32.67% 37.25%
Number of salaries quoted 262 182 190
10th Percentile £52,500 £43,750 £38,750
25th Percentile £57,625 £56,563 £52,813
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £75,000 £80,000 £70,000
Median % change year-on-year -6.25% +14.29% +12.00%
75th Percentile £92,188 £95,000 £82,500
90th Percentile £101,750 £104,750 £85,250
South East median annual salary £70,000 £70,000 £70,000
% change year-on-year - - +16.67%

All Systems Management Skills
Thames Valley

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 Thames Valley with a requirement for systems management skills.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for systems management skills 780 998 741
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the Thames Valley 11.58% 16.28% 10.64%
Number of salaries quoted 619 498 492
10th Percentile £33,250 £27,954 £31,250
25th Percentile £40,875 £36,438 £41,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,007 £60,000 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year -4.99% -7.69% +8.33%
75th Percentile £76,250 £82,500 £79,063
90th Percentile £92,500 £95,750 £85,000
South East median annual salary £55,000 £57,500 £65,000
% change year-on-year -4.35% -11.54% +13.04%

Kubernetes
Job Vacancy Trend in the Thames Valley

Job postings citing Kubernetes as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the Thames Valley.

Job vacancy trend for Kubernetes in the Thames Valley

Kubernetes
Salary Trend in the Thames Valley

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

Salary trend for Kubernetes in the Thames Valley

Kubernetes
Salary Histogram in the Thames Valley

Salary distribution for jobs citing Kubernetes in the Thames Valley over the 6 months to 29 April 2024.

Salary histogram for Kubernetes in the Thames Valley

Kubernetes
Job Locations in the Thames Valley

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Kubernetes within the Thames Valley region over the 6 months to 29 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
Berkshire +23 264 £75,000 -16.67% 26
Buckinghamshire -41 25 £65,000 - 14
Oxfordshire -31 20 £72,500 +7.41% 3
Kubernetes
South East

Kubernetes
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the Thames Valley 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 28 (9.06%) OpenStack
2 18 (5.83%) Apache
3 14 (4.53%) Microsoft Exchange
4 10 (3.24%) JBoss
4 10 (3.24%) Red Hat Fuse
5 6 (1.94%) nginx
6 5 (1.62%) Confluence
7 1 (0.32%) Apache Spark
7 1 (0.32%) Kinematics
7 1 (0.32%) Tomcat
Applications
1 1 (0.32%) Microsoft Excel
Cloud Services
1 87 (28.16%) Azure
2 86 (27.83%) AWS
3 36 (11.65%) Amazon ECS
3 36 (11.65%) Amazon EKS
4 35 (11.33%) Serverless
5 25 (8.09%) Azure DevOps
6 17 (5.50%) Azure Monitor
6 17 (5.50%) Microsoft 365
6 17 (5.50%) SaaS
7 16 (5.18%) Entra ID
8 14 (4.53%) Azure Storage
9 8 (2.59%) Amazon S3
10 7 (2.27%) GCP
11 6 (1.94%) Amazon EC2
12 5 (1.62%) IaaS
12 5 (1.62%) OpenShift
13 4 (1.29%) Azure Pipelines
13 4 (1.29%) GitHub
13 4 (1.29%) Power Platform
14 3 (0.97%) Amazon SQS
Communications & Networking
1 29 (9.39%) Firewall
2 17 (5.50%) DNS
3 14 (4.53%) DHCP
4 10 (3.24%) VPN
5 8 (2.59%) Internet
6 7 (2.27%) IPsec
7 5 (1.62%) BGP
7 5 (1.62%) SNMP
8 3 (0.97%) Network Security
9 2 (0.65%) LAN
9 2 (0.65%) OSPF
9 2 (0.65%) TCP/IP
9 2 (0.65%) WAN
9 2 (0.65%) WLAN
10 1 (0.32%) Reverse Proxy
Database & Business Intelligence
1 100 (32.36%) NoSQL
2 39 (12.62%) SQL Server
3 34 (11.00%) PostgreSQL
4 33 (10.68%) Relational Database
5 17 (5.50%) Elasticsearch
6 13 (4.21%) MySQL
7 8 (2.59%) CouchDB
8 6 (1.94%) MongoDB
9 4 (1.29%) RDBMS
10 3 (0.97%) Amazon RDS
10 3 (0.97%) Power BI
11 2 (0.65%) Data Lake
12 1 (0.32%) Amazon Aurora
12 1 (0.32%) Amazon Redshift
12 1 (0.32%) Big Data
12 1 (0.32%) BigQuery
12 1 (0.32%) DynamoDB
12 1 (0.32%) InfluxDB
12 1 (0.32%) Redis
12 1 (0.32%) SQL Server Integration Services
Development Applications
1 151 (48.87%) Git
2 72 (23.30%) Selenium
3 68 (22.01%) Jenkins
4 59 (19.09%) Cypress.io
5 28 (9.06%) JUnit
6 26 (8.41%) SoapUI
7 15 (4.85%) Cucumber
8 13 (4.21%) TestNG
8 13 (4.21%) WebDriver
9 11 (3.56%) REST Assured
10 10 (3.24%) GitLab
10 10 (3.24%) JIRA
11 8 (2.59%) Gradle
12 6 (1.94%) JMeter
12 6 (1.94%) Mockito
13 3 (0.97%) Postman
13 3 (0.97%) SonarQube
14 2 (0.65%) Artifactory
14 2 (0.65%) Bitbucket
14 2 (0.65%) Burp Suite
General
1 40 (12.94%) Social Skills
2 30 (9.71%) Public Sector
3 8 (2.59%) Finance
4 5 (1.62%) Analytical Skills
5 4 (1.29%) Organisational Skills
6 3 (0.97%) Presentation Skills
7 2 (0.65%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 1 (0.32%) Advertising
8 1 (0.32%) Aerospace
8 1 (0.32%) Banking
8 1 (0.32%) Health Technology
8 1 (0.32%) Influencing Skills
8 1 (0.32%) Law
8 1 (0.32%) Pharmaceutical
8 1 (0.32%) Tech for Good
8 1 (0.32%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 155 (50.16%) Developer
2 70 (22.65%) Senior
3 59 (19.09%) Software Developer
4 58 (18.77%) Senior Developer
5 51 (16.50%) Lead
6 43 (13.92%) Java Developer
7 42 (13.59%) DevOps Engineer
8 34 (11.00%) Front-End Developer (Client-Side Developer)
9 22 (7.12%) Lead Developer
9 22 (7.12%) Senior Software Developer
10 21 (6.80%) Lead Software Developer
11 20 (6.47%) Development Team Leader
11 20 (6.47%) Software Development Team Leader
11 20 (6.47%) Software Team Leader
11 20 (6.47%) Team Leader
12 19 (6.15%) Azure Engineer
13 18 (5.83%) Senior Front-End Developer
14 17 (5.50%) Full Stack Developer
15 15 (4.85%) Senior Java Developer
16 14 (4.53%) Active Directory Specialist
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 124 (40.13%) React
2 87 (28.16%) .NET
3 57 (18.45%) Jest
4 51 (16.50%) Spring Boot
5 48 (15.53%) REST
5 48 (15.53%) Spring
6 39 (12.62%) HTML
7 36 (11.65%) Elastic Stack
7 36 (11.65%) Web Services
8 35 (11.33%) CSS
9 34 (11.00%) AngularJS
9 34 (11.00%) CSS3
9 34 (11.00%) HTML5
10 33 (10.68%) Apache Camel
10 33 (10.68%) Node.js
11 21 (6.80%) Kafka
12 20 (6.47%) JSON
13 18 (5.83%) XML
14 16 (5.18%) WireMock
15 15 (4.85%) ARM Templates
Miscellaneous
1 34 (11.00%) Distributed Systems
2 16 (5.18%) PKI
3 15 (4.85%) Product Ownership
3 15 (4.85%) Self-Motivation
4 14 (4.53%) Data Centre
5 10 (3.24%) Algorithms
6 8 (2.59%) Client/Server
6 8 (2.59%) PropTech
7 4 (1.29%) Legacy Systems
8 2 (0.65%) Cloud Native
8 2 (0.65%) EMC VNX
8 2 (0.65%) IoT
8 2 (0.65%) Low-Code
8 2 (0.65%) Virtual Team
9 1 (0.32%) Embedded Systems
9 1 (0.32%) Greenfield Project
9 1 (0.32%) Hackathon
9 1 (0.32%) Hybrid Cloud
9 1 (0.32%) Public Cloud
9 1 (0.32%) Robotics
Operating Systems
1 69 (22.33%) Linux
2 29 (9.39%) Windows
3 18 (5.83%) Windows Server
4 14 (4.53%) Windows Server 2016
4 14 (4.53%) Windows Server 2019
5 5 (1.62%) Data ONTAP
6 4 (1.29%) CentOS
7 3 (0.97%) Ubuntu
8 2 (0.65%) Rocky
8 2 (0.65%) VMS
8 2 (0.65%) Windows Server 2012
9 1 (0.32%) Debian
9 1 (0.32%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 223 (72.17%) Agile
2 136 (44.01%) Artificial Intelligence
2 136 (44.01%) Propensity Modelling
3 120 (38.83%) Computer Science
4 112 (36.25%) DevOps
5 88 (28.48%) CI/CD
6 65 (21.04%) Microservices
7 47 (15.21%) Machine Learning
7 47 (15.21%) Scrum
7 47 (15.21%) TDD
8 45 (14.56%) BDD
9 44 (14.24%) Software Engineering
10 41 (13.27%) Infrastructure as Code
11 38 (12.30%) Containerisation
12 36 (11.65%) Front End Development
12 36 (11.65%) Test Automation
13 35 (11.33%) Kanban
14 29 (9.39%) Continuous Integration
14 29 (9.39%) Release Management
15 28 (9.06%) Problem-Solving
Programming Languages
1 159 (51.46%) JavaScript
2 158 (51.13%) C#
3 121 (39.16%) TypeScript
4 76 (24.60%) Java
5 67 (21.68%) SQL
6 58 (18.77%) Python
7 34 (11.00%) PHP
8 26 (8.41%) PowerShell
9 16 (5.18%) Bicep
10 14 (4.53%) VB
10 14 (4.53%) VBScript
11 13 (4.21%) Bash
12 12 (3.88%) Groovy
12 12 (3.88%) Shell Script
13 10 (3.24%) R
14 7 (2.27%) Go
15 3 (0.97%) Ruby
16 2 (0.65%) C++
16 2 (0.65%) PL/SQL
17 1 (0.32%) Perl
Qualifications
1 158 (51.13%) Degree
2 81 (26.21%) Computer Science Degree
3 71 (22.98%) Security Cleared
4 59 (19.09%) SC Cleared
5 14 (4.53%) DV Cleared
5 14 (4.53%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
6 12 (3.88%) AWS Certification
7 11 (3.56%) Azure Certification
7 11 (3.56%) Master's Degree
8 10 (3.24%) PhD
9 3 (0.97%) Microsoft Certification
10 1 (0.32%) BPSS Clearance
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 34 (11.00%) WCAG
2 7 (2.27%) QA
3 2 (0.65%) ISO/IEC 27001
System Software
1 265 (85.76%) Docker
2 20 (6.47%) Hyper-V
3 19 (6.15%) Active Directory
4 15 (4.85%) Virtual Machines
5 14 (4.53%) Virtual Desktop
6 9 (2.91%) VMware Infrastructure
7 4 (1.29%) VMware ESXi
8 2 (0.65%) KVM
8 2 (0.65%) QEMU
8 2 (0.65%) Xen
9 1 (0.32%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 67 (21.68%) Ansible
1 67 (21.68%) Terraform
2 16 (5.18%) SCCM
2 16 (5.18%) WSUS
3 15 (4.85%) Rancher
4 14 (4.53%) Active Directory Federation Services
4 14 (4.53%) Microsoft Intune
4 14 (4.53%) SCOM
5 11 (3.56%) Kibana
6 7 (2.27%) vCenter Server
7 6 (1.94%) Docker Swarm
7 6 (1.94%) Prometheus
8 5 (1.62%) Grafana
9 2 (0.65%) EMC NetWorker
9 2 (0.65%) Nagios
9 2 (0.65%) Nessus
9 2 (0.65%) Progress Chef
9 2 (0.65%) Puppet
9 2 (0.65%) SolarWinds Orion
10 1 (0.32%) FortiGate
Vendors
1 29 (9.39%) Microsoft
2 28 (9.06%) WSO2
3 22 (7.12%) VMware
4 12 (3.88%) Xamarin
5 8 (2.59%) Red Hat
6 5 (1.62%) Juniper
6 5 (1.62%) NetApp
6 5 (1.62%) Palo Alto
6 5 (1.62%) SolidFire
6 5 (1.62%) Splunk
7 4 (1.29%) Dynatrace
7 4 (1.29%) SolarWinds
8 3 (0.97%) Oracle
8 3 (0.97%) Veeam
9 2 (0.65%) Aruba
9 2 (0.65%) Atlassian
9 2 (0.65%) Cisco
9 2 (0.65%) Dell
9 2 (0.65%) EMC
9 2 (0.65%) Google