Kubernetes Jobs in Durham

Kubernetes (k8s)
North East > Durham

The table below provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in Durham requiring Kubernetes skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the annual salaries offered in vacancies that cited Kubernetes over the 6 months leading up to 6 July 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
6 Jul 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 37 47 38
Rank change year-on-year +10 -9 +11
Permanent jobs citing Kubernetes 2 6 4
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Durham 0.32% 1.24% 1.67%
As % of the Systems Management category 16.67% 10.91% 30.77%
Number of salaries quoted 2 2 2
10th Percentile £68,025 £53,325 £51,020
25th Percentile £68,813 £55,688 £52,550
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £72,750 £61,750 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year +17.81% +2.92% -7.69%
75th Percentile £76,813 £68,188 £67,350
90th Percentile £77,675 £70,775 £68,820
North East median annual salary £60,000 £75,000 £65,000
% change year-on-year -20.00% +15.38% +4.00%

All Systems Management Skills
Durham

Kubernetes falls under the Systems Management category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent job vacancies requiring systems management skills in Durham.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for systems management skills 12 55 13
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Durham 1.93% 11.36% 5.44%
Number of salaries quoted 8 33 10
10th Percentile £24,500 £25,650 £32,450
25th Percentile £34,250 £26,250 £34,125
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £69,384 £45,000 £41,250
Median % change year-on-year +54.19% +9.09% +3.13%
75th Percentile £74,258 £47,500 £58,125
90th Percentile £75,456 £74,500 £62,105
North East median annual salary £58,750 £45,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year +30.56% -25.00% +14.29%

Kubernetes
Job Vacancy Trend in Durham

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

Job vacancy trend for Kubernetes in Durham

Kubernetes
Salary Trend in Durham

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

Salary trend for Kubernetes in Durham

Kubernetes
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Durham 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:

Cloud Services
1 2 (100.00%) Azure
2 1 (50.00%) AWS
2 1 (50.00%) Azure DevOps
General
1 2 (100.00%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 1 (50.00%) Azure Engineer
1 1 (50.00%) Azure Platform Engineer
1 1 (50.00%) Cloud Engineer
1 1 (50.00%) Cloud Platform Engineer
1 1 (50.00%) DevSecOps Engineer
1 1 (50.00%) Lead
1 1 (50.00%) Lead Cloud Engineer
1 1 (50.00%) Platform Engineer
1 1 (50.00%) Senior
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (50.00%) .NET
1 1 (50.00%) .NET Core
1 1 (50.00%) .NET Framework
1 1 (50.00%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 1 (50.00%) Cloud Native
Operating Systems
1 1 (50.00%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (100.00%) CI/CD
1 2 (100.00%) Cloud Security
1 2 (100.00%) DevOps
1 2 (100.00%) DevSecOps
1 2 (100.00%) Infrastructure as Code
2 1 (50.00%) B2C
2 1 (50.00%) Cloud Operations
2 1 (50.00%) Coaching
2 1 (50.00%) Code Quality
2 1 (50.00%) Containerisation
2 1 (50.00%) Continuous Delivery
2 1 (50.00%) Don't repeat yourself (DRY)
2 1 (50.00%) Mentoring
2 1 (50.00%) Platform Engineering
2 1 (50.00%) Problem-Solving
2 1 (50.00%) Roadmaps
2 1 (50.00%) Security Operations
2 1 (50.00%) SOLID
2 1 (50.00%) Stakeholder Management
2 1 (50.00%) Technology Roadmap
Programming Languages
1 1 (50.00%) Bash
1 1 (50.00%) Bicep
1 1 (50.00%) C#
1 1 (50.00%) PowerShell
1 1 (50.00%) Python
Systems Management
1 2 (100.00%) Terraform