Kubernetes Jobs in the East Midlands

Kubernetes (k8s)
England > East Midlands

The table below provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in the East Midlands 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 1 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 132 123 79
Rank change year-on-year -9 -44 -11
Permanent jobs citing Kubernetes 13 73 103
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the East Midlands 0.53% 1.69% 3.58%
As % of the Systems Management category 12.75% 27.34% 25.62%
Number of salaries quoted 12 53 36
10th Percentile - £50,250 £47,500
25th Percentile £57,500 £53,750 £58,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £60,000 £70,000
Median % change year-on-year +8.33% -14.29% +3.70%
75th Percentile £73,438 £82,500 £75,000
90th Percentile £81,875 £90,750 £93,250
England median annual salary £85,000 £77,500 £79,632
% change year-on-year +9.68% -2.68% +2.75%

All Systems Management Skills
East Midlands

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 the East Midlands.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for systems management skills 102 267 402
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the East Midlands 4.17% 6.16% 13.97%
Number of salaries quoted 73 223 150
10th Percentile £30,050 £25,500 £32,500
25th Percentile £36,250 £35,750 £37,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £42,500 £47,500 £47,500
Median % change year-on-year -10.53% - -13.64%
75th Percentile £61,250 £60,000 £61,250
90th Percentile £72,250 £71,250 £72,750
England median annual salary £69,500 £60,000 £67,500
% change year-on-year +15.83% -11.11% -3.57%

Kubernetes
Job Vacancy Trend in the East Midlands

Job postings citing Kubernetes as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the East Midlands.

Job vacancy trend for Kubernetes in the East Midlands

Kubernetes
Salary Trend in the East Midlands

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing Kubernetes in the East Midlands.

Salary trend for Kubernetes in the East Midlands

Kubernetes
Salary Histogram in the East Midlands

Salary distribution for jobs citing Kubernetes in the East Midlands over the 6 months to 1 May 2025.

Salary histogram for Kubernetes in the East Midlands

Kubernetes
Job Locations in the East Midlands

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Kubernetes within the East Midlands region over the 6 months to 1 May 2025. 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
Nottinghamshire +13 6 £65,000 -16.13% 11
Derbyshire +17 3 £63,750 +10.87% 5
Lincolnshire +13 1 £72,500 +70.59% 3
Kubernetes
England

Kubernetes
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the East Midlands 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 1 (7.69%) Mendix
Applications
1 2 (15.38%) Adobe XD
1 2 (15.38%) Chatbot
1 2 (15.38%) Moqups
1 2 (15.38%) Sketch
Cloud Services
1 9 (69.23%) AWS
2 7 (53.85%) Azure
3 4 (30.77%) GCP
4 2 (15.38%) Figma
4 2 (15.38%) Google Workspace
4 2 (15.38%) SaaS
4 2 (15.38%) Serverless
5 1 (7.69%) Amazon EKS
5 1 (7.69%) AWS CloudFormation
5 1 (7.69%) Azure DevOps
5 1 (7.69%) Cloud Computing
5 1 (7.69%) GitHub
5 1 (7.69%) GitHub Actions
Communications & Networking
1 1 (7.69%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (23.08%) PostgreSQL
2 2 (15.38%) MongoDB
2 2 (15.38%) MySQL
2 2 (15.38%) NoSQL
2 2 (15.38%) SQL Server
3 1 (7.69%) Elasticsearch
Development Applications
1 3 (23.08%) Git
1 3 (23.08%) JIRA
2 2 (15.38%) Babel
2 2 (15.38%) Cypress.io
2 2 (15.38%) GitLab
2 2 (15.38%) Jenkins
2 2 (15.38%) Mocha
2 2 (15.38%) webpack
General
1 4 (30.77%) Social Skills
2 2 (15.38%) Games
2 2 (15.38%) Inclusion and Diversity
3 1 (7.69%) Aerospace
3 1 (7.69%) Analytical Skills
3 1 (7.69%) Electronics
3 1 (7.69%) Finance
3 1 (7.69%) Law
3 1 (7.69%) Manufacturing
Job Titles
1 3 (23.08%) Developer
1 3 (23.08%) Lead
2 2 (15.38%) AWS Engineer
2 2 (15.38%) DevOps Engineer
2 2 (15.38%) Lead Developer
2 2 (15.38%) Senior
3 1 (7.69%) AWS DevOps
3 1 (7.69%) AWS DevOps Engineer
3 1 (7.69%) Cloud Engineer
3 1 (7.69%) Front-End Developer (Client-Side Developer)
3 1 (7.69%) Front-End Engineer (Client-Side Engineer)
3 1 (7.69%) Full-Stack Developer
3 1 (7.69%) Junior DevOps
3 1 (7.69%) Junior DevOps Engineer
3 1 (7.69%) Kubernetes Engineer
3 1 (7.69%) Lead Full-Stack Developer
3 1 (7.69%) Principal Engineer
3 1 (7.69%) Principal Software Engineer
3 1 (7.69%) Software Developer
3 1 (7.69%) Technical Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 6 (46.15%) React
2 5 (38.46%) Jest
2 5 (38.46%) Node.js
3 3 (23.08%) RESTful
4 2 (15.38%) .NET
4 2 (15.38%) Enzyme
4 2 (15.38%) Express.js
4 2 (15.38%) JWT
4 2 (15.38%) LangChain
4 2 (15.38%) MERN Stack
4 2 (15.38%) Microsoft Graph
4 2 (15.38%) OAuth
4 2 (15.38%) Redux
5 1 (7.69%) AngularJS
5 1 (7.69%) Kafka
5 1 (7.69%) Pandas
5 1 (7.69%) REST
5 1 (7.69%) Spring Boot
5 1 (7.69%) TensorFlow
5 1 (7.69%) Vue
Miscellaneous
1 2 (15.38%) Cloud Native
1 2 (15.38%) Legacy Code
1 2 (15.38%) Self-Motivation
2 1 (7.69%) Cyberattack
2 1 (7.69%) Low-Code
Operating Systems
1 3 (23.08%) Linux
2 1 (7.69%) Android
2 1 (7.69%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 7 (53.85%) DevOps
2 6 (46.15%) Containerisation
3 5 (38.46%) Agile
3 5 (38.46%) CI/CD
3 5 (38.46%) Mentoring
3 5 (38.46%) Software Engineering
3 5 (38.46%) User Experience
4 4 (30.77%) Collaborative Working
4 4 (30.77%) Front End Development
4 4 (30.77%) Microservices
4 4 (30.77%) UX Design
5 3 (23.08%) Problem-Solving
6 2 (15.38%) API Development
6 2 (15.38%) Clean Code
6 2 (15.38%) Conversational UI
6 2 (15.38%) Full-Stack Development
6 2 (15.38%) High Availability
6 2 (15.38%) Infrastructure as Code
6 2 (15.38%) Stakeholder Management
6 2 (15.38%) Storage Management
Programming Languages
1 10 (76.92%) JavaScript
2 5 (38.46%) TypeScript
3 3 (23.08%) Java
3 3 (23.08%) Python
4 2 (15.38%) SQL
5 1 (7.69%) C#
5 1 (7.69%) C++
5 1 (7.69%) Go
5 1 (7.69%) PHP
5 1 (7.69%) Rust
Qualifications
1 2 (15.38%) Security Cleared
2 1 (7.69%) Computer Science Degree
2 1 (7.69%) Degree
2 1 (7.69%) DV Cleared
2 1 (7.69%) SC Cleared
System Software
1 8 (61.54%) Docker
2 1 (7.69%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 3 (23.08%) Terraform
2 2 (15.38%) Ansible
3 1 (7.69%) Consul
3 1 (7.69%) Marathon
3 1 (7.69%) Packer
3 1 (7.69%) Rancher
Vendors
1 2 (15.38%) Adobe
1 2 (15.38%) Google
1 2 (15.38%) Microsoft
2 1 (7.69%) VMware