Kubernetes Jobs in the UK excluding London

Kubernetes (k8s)
UK > UK excluding London

The following table provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in the UK excluding London 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 9 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
9 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 78 58 39
Rank change year-on-year -20 -19 -1
Permanent jobs citing Kubernetes 2,249 3,123 4,874
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 3.17% 5.19% 6.88%
As % of the Systems Management category 35.12% 40.48% 48.08%
Number of salaries quoted 1,417 1,881 3,146
10th Percentile £45,000 £46,250 £46,250
25th Percentile £53,750 £55,000 £52,429
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £68,000 £68,823 £70,000
Median % change year-on-year -1.20% -1.68% +19.67%
75th Percentile £85,000 £82,500 £85,000
90th Percentile £95,000 £92,500 £90,000
UK median annual salary £75,000 £75,000 £75,000
% change year-on-year - - +7.14%

All Systems Management Skills
UK excluding London

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 UK excluding London with a requirement for systems management skills.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for systems management skills 6,403 7,715 10,137
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 9.03% 12.83% 14.31%
Number of salaries quoted 4,382 4,427 6,582
10th Percentile £30,000 £30,500 £32,500
25th Percentile £40,000 £41,250 £43,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £57,810 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -4.86% -3.65% +9.09%
75th Percentile £70,000 £75,781 £77,500
90th Percentile £84,996 £87,500 £85,000
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 the UK excluding London

Job postings citing Kubernetes as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London.

Job vacancy trend for Kubernetes in the UK excluding London

Kubernetes
Salary Trend in the UK excluding London

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing Kubernetes in the UK excluding London.

Salary trend for Kubernetes in the UK excluding London

Kubernetes
Salary Histogram in the UK excluding London

Salary distribution for jobs citing Kubernetes in the UK excluding London over the 6 months to 9 May 2024.

Salary histogram for Kubernetes in the UK excluding London

Kubernetes
Job Locations in the UK excluding London

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Kubernetes within the UK excluding London region over the 6 months to 9 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
South East -19 594 £70,000 - 107
Scotland -17 485 £70,576 +4.56% 38
North of England -22 480 £62,500 -10.00% 108
South West -27 362 £70,576 +4.56% 82
North West -26 284 £62,500 -10.00% 59
Midlands -53 176 £60,000 -14.29% 57
Yorkshire -16 165 £60,000 -12.43% 39
West Midlands -43 107 £65,000 -7.14% 29
East of England -59 95 £85,000 +21.43% 30
East Midlands -38 70 £60,000 -14.29% 28
Wales -28 36 £42,500 -29.17% 8
North East -35 31 £63,750 -7.61% 10
Northern Ireland -20 21 £75,000 +3.45% 14
Isle of Man - 3 - -
Channel Islands - 1 £110,000 -
Kubernetes
UK

Kubernetes
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the UK excluding London 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
1 158 (7.03%) Apache Spark
2 121 (5.38%) Apache
3 98 (4.36%) FileNet
4 67 (2.98%) OpenStack
5 57 (2.53%) Apache Airflow
6 28 (1.24%) nginx
7 26 (1.16%) Microsoft Exchange
8 21 (0.93%) Jupyter
9 17 (0.76%) Cloud Foundry
10 15 (0.67%) Confluence
11 12 (0.53%) JBoss
12 11 (0.49%) Red Hat Fuse
13 10 (0.44%) SharePoint
14 8 (0.36%) IIS
15 5 (0.22%) CMS
16 4 (0.18%) Apache Solr
17 3 (0.13%) CloudStack
18 2 (0.089%) Drupal
18 2 (0.089%) Tomcat
19 1 (0.044%) Jetty
Applications
1 7 (0.31%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 3 (0.13%) SAP Business One
2 2 (0.089%) Oracle EBS
2 2 (0.089%) Remedy ITSM
3 1 (0.044%) Salesforce CRM
3 1 (0.044%) SAP S/4HANA
3 1 (0.044%) Shopify
Cloud Services
1 1,088 (48.38%) AWS
2 922 (41.00%) Azure
3 313 (13.92%) Amazon S3
4 291 (12.94%) GCP
5 262 (11.65%) Azure DevOps
6 224 (9.96%) SaaS
7 182 (8.09%) GitHub
8 163 (7.25%) Serverless
9 161 (7.16%) Amazon EKS
10 135 (6.00%) OpenShift
11 106 (4.71%) Amazon ECS
12 94 (4.18%) AWS CloudFormation
13 93 (4.14%) AWS Lambda
14 91 (4.05%) IBM Cloud
15 80 (3.56%) Cloud Computing
16 75 (3.33%) Amazon EC2
17 73 (3.25%) GitHub Actions
18 72 (3.20%) Microsoft 365
19 71 (3.16%) PaaS
20 68 (3.02%) Route 53
Communications & Networking
1 140 (6.22%) Firewall
2 76 (3.38%) DNS
3 73 (3.25%) VPN
4 61 (2.71%) DHCP
5 59 (2.62%) Internet
6 53 (2.36%) IPsec
6 53 (2.36%) TCP/IP
7 49 (2.18%) HTTP
7 49 (2.18%) SNMP
8 46 (2.05%) Network Security
9 37 (1.65%) SD-WAN
10 36 (1.60%) WAN
11 32 (1.42%) AMQP
12 18 (0.80%) DSL
13 17 (0.76%) Kerberos
14 9 (0.40%) BGP
15 7 (0.31%) WLAN
16 5 (0.22%) MQTT
16 5 (0.22%) OSPF
16 5 (0.22%) VSAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 303 (13.47%) NoSQL
2 242 (10.76%) Elasticsearch
3 188 (8.36%) Big Data
4 145 (6.45%) PostgreSQL
5 143 (6.36%) SQL Server
6 141 (6.27%) MongoDB
7 134 (5.96%) Relational Database
8 115 (5.11%) MySQL
9 110 (4.89%) Amazon RDS
10 106 (4.71%) Apache Cassandra
11 81 (3.60%) Hadoop
12 76 (3.38%) Redis
13 40 (1.78%) Data Lake
14 31 (1.38%) BigQuery
15 30 (1.33%) RDBMS
16 26 (1.16%) Cloudera CDH
17 23 (1.02%) Amazon Redshift
17 23 (1.02%) Scylla
18 20 (0.89%) Azure SQL Database
18 20 (0.89%) DB2
Development Applications
1 419 (18.63%) Jenkins
2 363 (16.14%) Git
3 148 (6.58%) JUnit
4 132 (5.87%) GitLab
5 116 (5.16%) JIRA
6 111 (4.94%) Selenium
7 73 (3.25%) Cypress.io
8 55 (2.45%) Mockito
9 53 (2.36%) Jasmine
10 35 (1.56%) CircleCI
10 35 (1.56%) TeamCity
11 33 (1.47%) Cucumber
11 33 (1.47%) Maven
12 30 (1.33%) Octopus Deploy
13 29 (1.29%) SonarQube
14 24 (1.07%) SoapUI
15 22 (0.98%) Team Foundation Server
16 19 (0.84%) Atlassian Bamboo
16 19 (0.84%) Gradle
17 13 (0.58%) Robot Framework
General
1 582 (25.88%) Finance
2 424 (18.85%) Inclusion and Diversity
3 345 (15.34%) Law
4 306 (13.61%) Social Skills
5 203 (9.03%) Marketing
6 169 (7.51%) Public Sector
7 125 (5.56%) Banking
8 122 (5.42%) Legal
9 98 (4.36%) Aerospace
10 81 (3.60%) Analytical Skills
11 75 (3.33%) Retail
12 34 (1.51%) Organisational Skills
12 34 (1.51%) Tech for Good
13 24 (1.07%) Financial Institution
13 24 (1.07%) Investment Banking
14 22 (0.98%) Games
15 15 (0.67%) Automotive
15 15 (0.67%) Influencing Skills
15 15 (0.67%) Telecoms
16 14 (0.62%) Publishing
Job Titles
1 523 (23.25%) Software Engineer
2 514 (22.85%) Senior
3 480 (21.34%) Developer
4 394 (17.52%) DevOps Engineer
5 362 (16.10%) Lead
6 170 (7.56%) Architect
7 169 (7.51%) Senior Developer
8 145 (6.45%) Software Developer
9 139 (6.18%) Java Engineer
10 125 (5.56%) Lead Software Engineer
11 121 (5.38%) Java Developer
12 111 (4.94%) Infrastructure Engineer
13 107 (4.76%) Java Software Engineer
14 101 (4.49%) AWS Engineer
15 100 (4.45%) Azure Engineer
16 98 (4.36%) Data Engineer
17 92 (4.09%) Cloud Engineer
17 92 (4.09%) Consultant
18 85 (3.78%) Senior Software Engineer
19 84 (3.73%) Full Stack Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 505 (22.45%) React
2 377 (16.76%) Kafka
3 369 (16.41%) Spring
4 356 (15.83%) .NET
5 318 (14.14%) AngularJS
6 231 (10.27%) Node.js
7 204 (9.07%) Spring Boot
8 198 (8.80%) REST
9 191 (8.49%) HTML
10 180 (8.00%) CSS
11 158 (7.03%) Hibernate
12 153 (6.80%) RabbitMQ
13 147 (6.54%) GraphQL
14 122 (5.42%) JSON
15 112 (4.98%) J2EE
16 111 (4.94%) RESTful
17 100 (4.45%) Spring Integration
18 97 (4.31%) .NET Core
19 89 (3.96%) YAML
20 83 (3.69%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 267 (11.87%) Cloud Native
2 199 (8.85%) Public Cloud
3 154 (6.85%) Algorithms
4 145 (6.45%) Distributed Systems
5 120 (5.34%) Hybrid Cloud
6 119 (5.29%) Data Centre
7 102 (4.54%) Blockchain
8 92 (4.09%) Product Ownership
9 85 (3.78%) Management Information System
10 67 (2.98%) Data Structures
11 64 (2.85%) Greenfield Project
12 53 (2.36%) Private Cloud
13 47 (2.09%) e-Learning
14 34 (1.51%) Linux Command Line
15 29 (1.29%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
16 26 (1.16%) PKI
17 25 (1.11%) Client/Server
18 24 (1.07%) Self-Motivation
19 22 (0.98%) Mobile App
20 19 (0.84%) Enterprise Software
Operating Systems
1 674 (29.97%) Linux
2 258 (11.47%) Windows
3 88 (3.91%) CentOS
3 88 (3.91%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 74 (3.29%) Debian
5 64 (2.85%) Windows Server
6 53 (2.36%) Ubuntu
7 49 (2.18%) Data ONTAP
8 40 (1.78%) Alpine Linux
9 33 (1.47%) Windows Server 2016
10 24 (1.07%) Unix
11 19 (0.84%) Windows Server 2019
12 18 (0.80%) VMS
13 10 (0.44%) Android
14 9 (0.40%) Apple iOS
15 8 (0.36%) Embedded Linux
16 6 (0.27%) Mesosphere
17 5 (0.22%) Mac OS
18 3 (0.13%) SUSE
18 3 (0.13%) SUSE Linux Enterprise Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 1,198 (53.27%) Agile
2 1,033 (45.93%) CI/CD
3 1,000 (44.46%) DevOps
4 785 (34.90%) Software Engineering
5 567 (25.21%) Microservices
6 537 (23.88%) Containerisation
7 487 (21.65%) Artificial Intelligence
8 458 (20.36%) SDLC
9 388 (17.25%) Problem-Solving
10 383 (17.03%) Infrastructure as Code
11 308 (13.69%) Computer Science
12 285 (12.67%) Machine Learning
13 267 (11.87%) Mentoring
14 256 (11.38%) Full Stack Development
15 232 (10.32%) Continuous Integration
16 231 (10.27%) Scrum
17 230 (10.23%) Operational Stability
18 222 (9.87%) Community of Practice
19 184 (8.18%) Test Automation
20 183 (8.14%) Actionable Insight
Programming Languages
1 756 (33.61%) Java
2 713 (31.70%) Python
3 508 (22.59%) SQL
4 487 (21.65%) JavaScript
5 399 (17.74%) C#
6 312 (13.87%) TypeScript
7 225 (10.00%) Bash
8 197 (8.76%) PowerShell
9 125 (5.56%) Go
10 90 (4.00%) PHP
11 61 (2.71%) PL/SQL
12 53 (2.36%) Scala
13 47 (2.09%) Ruby
14 46 (2.05%) Bicep
15 44 (1.96%) Shell Script
16 32 (1.42%) C++
17 29 (1.29%) Groovy
18 23 (1.02%) Kotlin
19 21 (0.93%) C
20 18 (0.80%) VB
Qualifications
1 352 (15.65%) Security Cleared
2 336 (14.94%) Degree
3 202 (8.98%) Computer Science Degree
4 194 (8.63%) DV Cleared
5 188 (8.36%) SC Cleared
6 124 (5.51%) Azure Certification
7 107 (4.76%) AWS Certification
8 71 (3.16%) Microsoft Certification
9 58 (2.58%) Master's Degree
10 42 (1.87%) CISSP
11 40 (1.78%) MCSA
11 40 (1.78%) MCSE
12 35 (1.56%) CISM
13 34 (1.51%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
14 33 (1.47%) Cisco Certification
15 29 (1.29%) (ISC)2 CCSP
15 29 (1.29%) CCSK
15 29 (1.29%) CCSP
16 26 (1.16%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
17 24 (1.07%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 69 (3.07%) QA
2 36 (1.60%) NIST
3 33 (1.47%) WCAG
4 22 (0.98%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 21 (0.93%) SLA
6 8 (0.36%) NCSC
7 7 (0.31%) Accessibility
8 5 (0.22%) GDPR
9 4 (0.18%) HIPAA
9 4 (0.18%) SEPA
10 1 (0.044%) California Consumer Privacy Act
10 1 (0.044%) Data Quality
10 1 (0.044%) Disclosure Scotland
10 1 (0.044%) Sarbanes-Oxley
10 1 (0.044%) SOC 2
System Software
1 1,409 (62.65%) Docker
2 130 (5.78%) VMware Infrastructure
3 94 (4.18%) Hyper-V
4 70 (3.11%) Active Directory
5 37 (1.65%) Virtual Machines
6 19 (0.84%) vSphere
7 16 (0.71%) Virtual Desktop
8 12 (0.53%) VMware ESXi
9 11 (0.49%) Firmware
10 6 (0.27%) KVM
11 5 (0.22%) Slurm Workload Manager
12 4 (0.18%) Embedded Firmware
12 4 (0.18%) NFS
13 3 (0.13%) Ceph
13 3 (0.13%) Gluster
13 3 (0.13%) oVirt
13 3 (0.13%) VirtualBox
14 2 (0.089%) Apache ZooKeeper
14 2 (0.089%) QEMU
14 2 (0.089%) Xen
Systems Management
1 724 (32.19%) Terraform
2 456 (20.28%) Ansible
3 205 (9.12%) Prometheus
4 166 (7.38%) Puppet
5 112 (4.98%) Grafana
6 74 (3.29%) vCenter Server
7 47 (2.09%) Progress Chef
8 38 (1.69%) Single Sign-On
9 29 (1.29%) Docker Swarm
9 29 (1.29%) SCCM
10 24 (1.07%) Microsoft Intune
11 21 (0.93%) Istio
12 19 (0.84%) Kibana
12 19 (0.84%) SCOM
13 18 (0.80%) Rancher
13 18 (0.80%) WSUS
14 17 (0.76%) HAProxy
15 16 (0.71%) Active Directory Federation Services
16 13 (0.58%) Consul
16 13 (0.58%) ZABBIX
Vendors
1 279 (12.41%) Oracle
2 238 (10.58%) Microsoft
3 235 (10.45%) Red Hat
4 188 (8.36%) Google
5 163 (7.25%) VMware
6 95 (4.22%) IBM
7 68 (3.02%) Dynatrace
8 49 (2.18%) NetApp
8 49 (2.18%) Palo Alto
8 49 (2.18%) SolidFire
9 45 (2.00%) Databricks
10 44 (1.96%) Splunk
11 35 (1.56%) WSO2
12 32 (1.42%) SaltStack
13 27 (1.20%) Dell
14 20 (0.89%) Sybase
15 18 (0.80%) Alteryx
15 18 (0.80%) Cognos
16 17 (0.76%) ServiceNow
17 14 (0.62%) SolarWinds