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

6 months to
6 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 65 32 21
Rank change year-on-year -33 -11 +7
Permanent jobs citing Kubernetes 3,700 7,292 16,802
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 3.75% 7.05% 10.68%
As % of the Systems Management category 37.03% 48.23% 58.59%
Number of salaries quoted 2,655 4,495 7,282
10th Percentile £48,750 £50,000 £47,050
25th Percentile £59,000 £60,457 £57,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £75,000 £75,000 £76,000
Median % change year-on-year - -1.32% +8.57%
75th Percentile £95,000 £96,250 £95,000
90th Percentile £115,000 £115,000 £110,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £69,447 £68,515 £70,000
% change year-on-year +1.36% -2.12% +21.74%

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 9,993 15,118 28,678
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 10.12% 14.62% 18.22%
Number of salaries quoted 7,214 9,326 14,243
10th Percentile £32,715 £35,400 £37,500
25th Percentile £45,000 £48,091 £48,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £67,500 £70,000
Median % change year-on-year -11.11% -3.57% +12.00%
75th Percentile £82,500 £87,500 £87,500
90th Percentile £101,054 £105,000 £102,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £55,000 £57,810 £60,000
% change year-on-year -4.86% -3.65% +9.09%

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 6 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 6 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 -34 3,026 £77,500 - 869
UK excluding London -19 2,261 £69,447 +1.36% 446
Work from Home -37 1,479 £75,000 - 539
London -19 1,284 £87,500 +2.94% 457
South East -15 594 £70,000 - 109
Scotland -17 489 £70,576 +4.56% 41
North of England -27 479 £62,500 -10.00% 107
South West -26 365 £70,576 +4.56% 85
North West -20 284 £62,500 -10.00% 61
Midlands -44 180 £60,000 -14.29% 56
Yorkshire -18 164 £60,000 -12.43% 36
West Midlands -27 112 £65,000 -7.14% 28
East of England -54 98 £85,000 +21.43% 30
East Midlands -40 71 £60,000 -14.29% 28
Wales -17 37 £42,500 -29.17% 8
North East -39 31 £63,750 -7.61% 10
Northern Ireland -23 21 £75,000 +3.45% 15
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
1 200 (5.41%) Apache Spark
2 168 (4.54%) Apache
3 130 (3.51%) Apache Airflow
4 98 (2.65%) FileNet
5 77 (2.08%) OpenStack
6 48 (1.30%) nginx
7 41 (1.11%) Confluence
8 26 (0.70%) Microsoft Exchange
9 24 (0.65%) Jupyter
10 20 (0.54%) JBoss
11 19 (0.51%) Cloud Foundry
12 16 (0.43%) Tomcat
13 15 (0.41%) IIS
14 14 (0.38%) Drupal
15 13 (0.35%) SharePoint
16 11 (0.30%) CMS
17 10 (0.27%) Red Hat Fuse
18 7 (0.19%) WebLogic
18 7 (0.19%) WebSphere
18 7 (0.19%) WildFly
Applications
1 11 (0.30%) Microsoft Excel
2 2 (0.054%) InDesign
2 2 (0.054%) Microsoft Office
3 1 (0.027%) Blender
Business Applications
1 7 (0.19%) Teamcenter
2 3 (0.081%) SAP Business One
3 2 (0.054%) Oracle EBS
3 2 (0.054%) Remedy ITSM
4 1 (0.027%) Salesforce CRM
4 1 (0.027%) SAP S/4HANA
4 1 (0.027%) Shopify
Cloud Services
1 1,952 (52.76%) AWS
2 1,461 (39.49%) Azure
3 527 (14.24%) GCP
4 427 (11.54%) Amazon S3
5 386 (10.43%) Azure DevOps
6 338 (9.14%) Serverless
7 309 (8.35%) GitHub
8 295 (7.97%) SaaS
9 282 (7.62%) Amazon EKS
10 237 (6.41%) OpenShift
11 208 (5.62%) AWS CloudFormation
12 203 (5.49%) AWS Lambda
13 201 (5.43%) Amazon ECS
14 158 (4.27%) Azure AKS
15 153 (4.14%) Amazon EC2
16 142 (3.84%) PaaS
17 124 (3.35%) Cloud Computing
18 115 (3.11%) GitHub Actions
19 112 (3.03%) IaaS
20 102 (2.76%) IBM Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 186 (5.03%) Firewall
2 117 (3.16%) DNS
3 106 (2.86%) VPN
4 85 (2.30%) Internet
5 72 (1.95%) TCP/IP
6 65 (1.76%) DHCP
7 64 (1.73%) Network Security
8 61 (1.65%) HTTP
9 58 (1.57%) IPsec
10 54 (1.46%) SNMP
11 48 (1.30%) SD-WAN
11 48 (1.30%) WAN
12 38 (1.03%) AMQP
13 21 (0.57%) BGP
14 18 (0.49%) DSL
15 17 (0.46%) Kerberos
16 13 (0.35%) MPLS
17 11 (0.30%) Ethernet VPN
18 7 (0.19%) WLAN
19 6 (0.16%) LAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 429 (11.59%) NoSQL
2 316 (8.54%) PostgreSQL
3 287 (7.76%) Elasticsearch
4 253 (6.84%) Big Data
5 252 (6.81%) MongoDB
6 224 (6.05%) SQL Server
7 199 (5.38%) Amazon RDS
8 174 (4.70%) Relational Database
9 169 (4.57%) MySQL
10 135 (3.65%) Redis
11 132 (3.57%) Apache Cassandra
12 104 (2.81%) Data Lake
13 98 (2.65%) Hadoop
14 73 (1.97%) Amazon Redshift
15 59 (1.59%) BigQuery
16 47 (1.27%) Amazon Athena
16 47 (1.27%) Azure SQL Database
17 46 (1.24%) Dremio
18 42 (1.14%) Apache Arrow
18 42 (1.14%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 716 (19.35%) Jenkins
2 520 (14.05%) Git
3 270 (7.30%) GitLab
4 177 (4.78%) JIRA
5 164 (4.43%) JUnit
6 132 (3.57%) Selenium
7 87 (2.35%) Cypress.io
8 83 (2.24%) TeamCity
9 62 (1.68%) Artifactory
10 60 (1.62%) Mockito
11 57 (1.54%) CircleCI
12 53 (1.43%) Jasmine
13 52 (1.41%) Octopus Deploy
14 51 (1.38%) Cucumber
14 51 (1.38%) Maven
15 47 (1.27%) SonarQube
16 45 (1.22%) Sonatype Nexus
17 40 (1.08%) Bitbucket
18 29 (0.78%) SoapUI
19 24 (0.65%) Team Foundation Server
General
1 1,038 (28.05%) Finance
2 555 (15.00%) Social Skills
3 521 (14.08%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 393 (10.62%) Law
5 264 (7.14%) Banking
6 260 (7.03%) Public Sector
7 225 (6.08%) Marketing
8 147 (3.97%) Analytical Skills
9 143 (3.86%) Legal
10 124 (3.35%) Retail
11 93 (2.51%) Aerospace
12 66 (1.78%) Games
13 62 (1.68%) Front Office
14 57 (1.54%) Retail Banking
15 55 (1.49%) Tech for Good
16 48 (1.30%) Investment Banking
17 43 (1.16%) Financial Institution
18 40 (1.08%) Organisational Skills
19 32 (0.86%) Health Technology
20 31 (0.84%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 906 (24.49%) Senior
2 786 (21.24%) Developer
3 696 (18.81%) Software Engineer
4 666 (18.00%) DevOps Engineer
5 537 (14.51%) Lead
6 283 (7.65%) Architect
7 278 (7.51%) Java Developer
8 273 (7.38%) AWS Engineer
9 254 (6.86%) Senior Developer
10 210 (5.68%) Cloud Engineer
11 200 (5.41%) Java Engineer
12 191 (5.16%) Azure Engineer
13 169 (4.57%) Senior DevOps
13 169 (4.57%) Software Developer
14 167 (4.51%) AWS DevOps
15 164 (4.43%) Senior Software Engineer
16 163 (4.41%) Data Engineer
17 162 (4.38%) Senior DevOps Engineer
18 153 (4.14%) Lead Software Engineer
19 149 (4.03%) Platform Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 724 (19.57%) React
2 611 (16.51%) Kafka
3 518 (14.00%) Spring
4 500 (13.51%) .NET
5 374 (10.11%) AngularJS
6 361 (9.76%) Spring Boot
7 326 (8.81%) Node.js
8 307 (8.30%) REST
9 210 (5.68%) HTML
10 208 (5.62%) CSS
11 191 (5.16%) RabbitMQ
12 185 (5.00%) GraphQL
13 178 (4.81%) Hibernate
14 167 (4.51%) RESTful
15 156 (4.22%) JSON
16 152 (4.11%) J2EE
17 142 (3.84%) .NET Core
18 123 (3.32%) Elastic Stack
19 121 (3.27%) gRPC
20 120 (3.24%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 408 (11.03%) Cloud Native
2 264 (7.14%) Distributed Systems
3 240 (6.49%) Public Cloud
4 178 (4.81%) Algorithms
5 148 (4.00%) Hybrid Cloud
6 141 (3.81%) Data Centre
7 135 (3.65%) Management Information System
8 127 (3.43%) Blockchain
9 121 (3.27%) Greenfield Project
10 120 (3.24%) Product Ownership
11 82 (2.22%) Data Structures
12 77 (2.08%) Private Cloud
13 71 (1.92%) Hedge funds
14 66 (1.78%) Clustering
15 58 (1.57%) e-Learning
16 51 (1.38%) Client/Server
17 48 (1.30%) Linux Command Line
18 47 (1.27%) Mobile App
19 43 (1.16%) Self-Motivation
20 38 (1.03%) Legacy Code
Operating Systems
1 971 (26.24%) Linux
2 371 (10.03%) Windows
3 120 (3.24%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 102 (2.76%) CentOS
5 87 (2.35%) Windows Server
6 72 (1.95%) Debian
7 68 (1.84%) Unix
8 54 (1.46%) Data ONTAP
8 54 (1.46%) Ubuntu
9 40 (1.08%) Alpine Linux
10 34 (0.92%) Windows Server 2016
11 28 (0.76%) VMS
12 26 (0.70%) Android
13 25 (0.68%) Apple iOS
14 20 (0.54%) Windows Server 2019
15 12 (0.32%) Oracle Linux
16 11 (0.30%) Solaris
17 10 (0.27%) Embedded Linux
18 7 (0.19%) CoreOS
18 7 (0.19%) zOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 1,645 (44.46%) DevOps
2 1,624 (43.89%) Agile
3 1,593 (43.05%) CI/CD
4 1,206 (32.59%) Software Engineering
5 907 (24.51%) Microservices
6 861 (23.27%) Containerisation
7 686 (18.54%) Infrastructure as Code
8 614 (16.59%) Problem-Solving
9 590 (15.95%) Artificial Intelligence
10 571 (15.43%) SDLC
11 432 (11.68%) Mentoring
12 411 (11.11%) Computer Science
13 390 (10.54%) Full Stack Development
14 362 (9.78%) Machine Learning
15 339 (9.16%) Scrum
16 329 (8.89%) Continuous Integration
17 315 (8.51%) TDD
18 314 (8.49%) Test Automation
19 302 (8.16%) Continuous Improvement
20 256 (6.92%) Site Reliability Engineering
Programming Languages
1 1,343 (36.30%) Java
2 1,298 (35.08%) Python
3 762 (20.59%) SQL
4 694 (18.76%) JavaScript
5 575 (15.54%) C#
6 444 (12.00%) TypeScript
7 366 (9.89%) Go
8 359 (9.70%) Bash
9 325 (8.78%) PowerShell
10 116 (3.14%) PHP
11 97 (2.62%) Ruby
12 96 (2.59%) C++
13 81 (2.19%) Scala
14 75 (2.03%) C
15 69 (1.86%) Shell Script
16 68 (1.84%) Rust
17 67 (1.81%) PL/SQL
18 63 (1.70%) Bicep
19 62 (1.68%) Kotlin
20 45 (1.22%) Perl
Qualifications
1 474 (12.81%) Degree
2 469 (12.68%) Security Cleared
3 286 (7.73%) Computer Science Degree
4 274 (7.41%) SC Cleared
5 218 (5.89%) DV Cleared
6 164 (4.43%) Azure Certification
7 150 (4.05%) AWS Certification
8 103 (2.78%) Master's Degree
9 92 (2.49%) Microsoft Certification
10 51 (1.38%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
11 50 (1.35%) CISSP
12 42 (1.14%) CISM
13 40 (1.08%) MCSA
13 40 (1.08%) MCSE
14 39 (1.05%) Cisco Certification
15 37 (1.00%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
16 34 (0.92%) (ISC)2 CCSP
16 34 (0.92%) CCSK
16 34 (0.92%) CCSP
16 34 (0.92%) PhD
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 99 (2.68%) QA
2 55 (1.49%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 45 (1.22%) NIST
4 35 (0.95%) WCAG
5 26 (0.70%) SLA
6 21 (0.57%) GDPR
7 13 (0.35%) PCI DSS
8 12 (0.32%) NCSC
9 11 (0.30%) Accessibility
10 9 (0.24%) Cyber Essentials
11 7 (0.19%) Data Quality
12 5 (0.14%) ISO 9001
12 5 (0.14%) SEPA
13 4 (0.11%) HIPAA
13 4 (0.11%) SOC 2
14 3 (0.081%) ISO 20022
14 3 (0.081%) ISO 9000
15 2 (0.054%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
16 1 (0.027%) California Consumer Privacy Act
16 1 (0.027%) Disclosure Scotland
System Software
1 2,252 (60.86%) Docker
2 156 (4.22%) VMware Infrastructure
3 109 (2.95%) Active Directory
4 105 (2.84%) Hyper-V
5 81 (2.19%) Virtual Machines
6 22 (0.59%) vSphere
7 20 (0.54%) Virtual Desktop
8 13 (0.35%) VMware ESXi
9 11 (0.30%) Firmware
10 8 (0.22%) Ceph
10 8 (0.22%) KVM
11 6 (0.16%) VirtualBox
12 5 (0.14%) NFS
12 5 (0.14%) Slurm Workload Manager
13 4 (0.11%) Embedded Firmware
14 3 (0.081%) Gluster
14 3 (0.081%) oVirt
15 2 (0.054%) Apache ZooKeeper
15 2 (0.054%) QEMU
15 2 (0.054%) Varnish
Systems Management
1 1,307 (35.32%) Terraform
2 657 (17.76%) Ansible
3 330 (8.92%) Prometheus
4 241 (6.51%) Puppet
5 199 (5.38%) Grafana
6 107 (2.89%) Progress Chef
7 80 (2.16%) vCenter Server
8 55 (1.49%) Single Sign-On
9 49 (1.32%) Istio
10 34 (0.92%) Kibana
11 31 (0.84%) Docker Swarm
12 29 (0.78%) SCCM
13 25 (0.68%) Consul
13 25 (0.68%) Microsoft Intune
13 25 (0.68%) Packer
14 24 (0.65%) Active Directory Federation Services
14 24 (0.65%) Argo
15 22 (0.59%) Rancher
15 22 (0.59%) Salt
16 21 (0.57%) Nagios
Vendors
1 388 (10.49%) Microsoft
2 373 (10.08%) Oracle
3 293 (7.92%) Google
3 293 (7.92%) Red Hat
4 202 (5.46%) VMware
5 108 (2.92%) IBM
6 89 (2.41%) Dynatrace
7 73 (1.97%) Databricks
8 67 (1.81%) Splunk
9 62 (1.68%) Palo Alto
10 55 (1.49%) NetApp
11 54 (1.46%) SolidFire
12 42 (1.14%) WSO2
13 37 (1.00%) SaltStack
14 34 (0.92%) Cisco
15 31 (0.84%) Atlassian
15 31 (0.84%) Sybase
16 29 (0.78%) Dell
17 21 (0.57%) ForgeRock
17 21 (0.57%) ServiceNow