Kubernetes Jobs in England

Kubernetes (k8s)
UK > England

The table below provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in England 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 26 October 2024, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
26 Oct 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 54 35 31
Rank change year-on-year -19 -4 -6
Permanent jobs citing Kubernetes 2,667 3,233 9,726
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 4.00% 6.28% 8.06%
As % of the Systems Management category 40.59% 40.66% 48.85%
Number of salaries quoted 1,444 2,554 5,136
10th Percentile £48,750 £50,000 £46,875
25th Percentile £60,000 £60,000 £58,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £77,500 £75,000 £77,500
Median % change year-on-year +3.33% -3.23% +3.33%
75th Percentile £97,500 £92,500 £95,000
90th Percentile £115,000 £112,500 £112,500
UK median annual salary £77,500 £75,000 £77,500
% change year-on-year +3.33% -3.23% +6.90%

All Systems Management Skills
England

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 England.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for systems management skills 6,571 7,951 19,911
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 9.87% 15.44% 16.50%
Number of salaries quoted 3,713 6,274 10,970
10th Percentile £37,566 £35,117 £36,250
25th Percentile £49,250 £47,500 £47,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £67,500 £65,000 £67,500
Median % change year-on-year +3.85% -3.70% -
75th Percentile £87,500 £85,000 £87,500
90th Percentile £105,000 £100,000 £105,000
UK median annual salary £67,500 £65,000 £67,500
% change year-on-year +3.85% -3.70% +3.85%

Kubernetes
Job Vacancy Trend in England

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

Job vacancy trend for Kubernetes in England

Kubernetes
Salary Trend in England

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

Salary trend for Kubernetes in England

Kubernetes
Salary Histogram in England

Salary distribution for jobs citing Kubernetes in England over the 6 months to 26 October 2024.

Salary histogram for Kubernetes in England

Kubernetes
Job Locations in England

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Kubernetes within the England region over the 6 months to 26 October 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
London -1 1,258 £92,500 +8.82% 434
South East +12 554 £67,500 -6.90% 86
North of England -55 314 £65,000 -6.40% 100
South West -20 278 £72,500 +11.54% 75
North West -57 191 £62,500 -10.71% 60
Midlands -48 150 £60,000 -4.00% 35
East of England -38 110 £72,500 -9.38% 43
Yorkshire -46 103 £66,000 +0.99% 30
West Midlands -32 88 £65,000 +0.78% 22
East Midlands -43 62 £41,500 -33.60% 13
North East -30 20 £68,904 +6.01% 11
Kubernetes
UK

Kubernetes
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in England 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 78 (2.92%) Apache
2 71 (2.66%) Apache Spark
3 59 (2.21%) nginx
4 55 (2.06%) Confluence
5 44 (1.65%) Apache Airflow
6 39 (1.46%) OpenStack
7 22 (0.82%) Microsoft Exchange
8 20 (0.75%) Tomcat
9 16 (0.60%) Jupyter
10 15 (0.56%) CloudStack
11 13 (0.49%) IIS
12 8 (0.30%) Apache Pulsar
12 8 (0.30%) JBoss
13 6 (0.22%) Red Hat Fuse
13 6 (0.22%) Solana
14 5 (0.19%) SharePoint
14 5 (0.19%) WordPress
15 4 (0.15%) Cloud Foundry
16 3 (0.11%) CMS
16 3 (0.11%) Headless CMS
Applications
1 14 (0.52%) Microsoft Excel
2 3 (0.11%) Chatbot
3 1 (0.037%) Microsoft Office
3 1 (0.037%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 30 (1.12%) Ripple
2 18 (0.67%) Payment Gateway
3 2 (0.075%) Dynamics CRM
4 1 (0.037%) Oracle EBS
4 1 (0.037%) Remedy ITSM
4 1 (0.037%) Salesforce CRM
4 1 (0.037%) SAP S/4HANA
4 1 (0.037%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
Cloud Services
1 1,520 (56.99%) AWS
2 1,027 (38.51%) Azure
3 528 (19.80%) GCP
4 422 (15.82%) GitHub
5 416 (15.60%) Serverless
6 385 (14.44%) Amazon S3
7 312 (11.70%) AWS Lambda
8 250 (9.37%) Amazon SQS
9 230 (8.62%) Azure DevOps
10 221 (8.29%) Amazon Kinesis
11 156 (5.85%) SaaS
12 150 (5.62%) GitHub Actions
13 143 (5.36%) PaaS
14 140 (5.25%) Amazon EKS
15 137 (5.14%) Cloud Computing
16 128 (4.80%) OpenShift
17 113 (4.24%) AWS CloudFormation
18 102 (3.82%) Azure AKS
19 97 (3.64%) Amazon ECS
20 86 (3.22%) Amazon EC2
Communications & Networking
1 179 (6.71%) Broadband
2 116 (4.35%) Firewall
3 103 (3.86%) Network Security
4 63 (2.36%) DNS
5 41 (1.54%) TCP/IP
6 39 (1.46%) HTTP
7 35 (1.31%) DHCP
8 20 (0.75%) Internet
9 18 (0.67%) VPN
10 14 (0.52%) WAN
11 13 (0.49%) SSL
12 11 (0.41%) SD-WAN
13 9 (0.34%) MQTT
13 9 (0.34%) SAN
13 9 (0.34%) VSAN
14 7 (0.26%) AMQP
14 7 (0.26%) iSCSI
14 7 (0.26%) OSPF
15 6 (0.22%) BGP
15 6 (0.22%) MPLS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 447 (16.76%) PostgreSQL
2 280 (10.50%) Redis
3 248 (9.30%) DynamoDB
4 229 (8.59%) MongoDB
5 223 (8.36%) NoSQL
6 185 (6.94%) MySQL
7 179 (6.71%) Relational Database
8 146 (5.47%) Amazon RDS
9 118 (4.42%) SQL Server
10 82 (3.07%) Big Data
11 60 (2.25%) Elasticsearch
12 45 (1.69%) Azure SQL Database
13 39 (1.46%) Hadoop
14 36 (1.35%) Amazon Redshift
15 30 (1.12%) Data Lake
16 29 (1.09%) Amazon Athena
17 24 (0.90%) Apache Arrow
17 24 (0.90%) Dremio
18 23 (0.86%) Amazon Aurora
19 20 (0.75%) RDBMS
Development Applications
1 521 (19.54%) Jenkins
2 419 (15.71%) Git
3 263 (9.86%) GitLab
4 100 (3.75%) Selenium
5 98 (3.67%) JIRA
6 71 (2.66%) CircleCI
6 71 (2.66%) Maven
7 64 (2.40%) SonarQube
8 54 (2.02%) Cypress.io
9 41 (1.54%) JUnit
10 39 (1.46%) Bitbucket
11 37 (1.39%) Mockito
12 36 (1.35%) Octopus Deploy
13 34 (1.27%) Cucumber
14 33 (1.24%) Gradle
15 32 (1.20%) Sonatype Nexus
15 32 (1.20%) TeamCity
16 25 (0.94%) Artifactory
17 24 (0.90%) PHPUnit
18 23 (0.86%) SoapUI
General
1 440 (16.50%) Finance
2 399 (14.96%) Social Skills
3 328 (12.30%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 254 (9.52%) Marketing
5 219 (8.21%) Advertising
6 216 (8.10%) Public Sector
7 109 (4.09%) Banking
8 103 (3.86%) Law
9 94 (3.52%) Legal
10 86 (3.22%) Analytical Skills
11 62 (2.32%) Organisational Skills
12 51 (1.91%) Tech for Good
13 47 (1.76%) Financial Institution
14 46 (1.72%) Retail
15 40 (1.50%) Aerospace
16 38 (1.42%) Front Office
16 38 (1.42%) Games
17 28 (1.05%) Telecoms
18 18 (0.67%) Influencing Skills
18 18 (0.67%) Manufacturing
Job Titles
1 746 (27.97%) Senior
2 592 (22.20%) Software Engineer
3 457 (17.14%) Developer
4 397 (14.89%) DevOps Engineer
5 288 (10.80%) Lead
6 206 (7.72%) Cloud Engineer
7 177 (6.64%) Senior Developer
8 172 (6.45%) Senior Software Engineer
9 151 (5.66%) Java Developer
10 137 (5.14%) Architect
11 133 (4.99%) Senior DevOps
12 128 (4.80%) AWS Engineer
12 128 (4.80%) Senior DevOps Engineer
13 120 (4.50%) Azure Engineer
14 106 (3.97%) Platform Engineer
15 104 (3.90%) Infrastructure Engineer
16 98 (3.67%) Product Manager
17 95 (3.56%) Technical Manager
17 95 (3.56%) Technical Product Manager
18 84 (3.15%) Site Reliability Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 656 (24.60%) React
2 366 (13.72%) REST
3 357 (13.39%) AngularJS
4 340 (12.75%) Node.js
5 266 (9.97%) .NET
6 225 (8.44%) Spring
6 225 (8.44%) Tailwind CSS
7 196 (7.35%) Kafka
8 178 (6.67%) Spring Boot
9 177 (6.64%) RESTful
10 134 (5.02%) RabbitMQ
11 105 (3.94%) CSS
12 102 (3.82%) HTML
13 76 (2.85%) GraphQL
14 73 (2.74%) .NET Core
15 71 (2.66%) Elastic Stack
16 70 (2.62%) ARM Templates
17 64 (2.40%) Web Services
18 61 (2.29%) Django
19 59 (2.21%) Flask
Miscellaneous
1 377 (14.14%) Cloud Native
2 234 (8.77%) Distributed Systems
3 223 (8.36%) Blog
4 214 (8.02%) Digital Media
5 173 (6.49%) Product Ownership
6 162 (6.07%) Public Cloud
7 154 (5.77%) Hybrid Cloud
8 111 (4.16%) Blockchain
9 85 (3.19%) Cyber Threat
10 67 (2.51%) e-Learning
11 66 (2.47%) Cyberattack
11 66 (2.47%) Social Media
12 51 (1.91%) Data Centre
13 50 (1.87%) Algorithms
13 50 (1.87%) Greenfield Project
14 49 (1.84%) Linux Command Line
15 48 (1.80%) Onboarding
16 47 (1.76%) Data Structures
17 38 (1.42%) Clustering
18 35 (1.31%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 509 (19.09%) Linux
2 204 (7.65%) Windows
3 88 (3.30%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 62 (2.32%) Windows Server
5 57 (2.14%) Ubuntu
6 38 (1.42%) CentOS
7 37 (1.39%) Unix
8 22 (0.82%) Debian
8 22 (0.82%) VMS
9 19 (0.71%) Android
10 17 (0.64%) Windows Server 2016
11 14 (0.52%) SUSE
12 12 (0.45%) Windows Server 2019
13 11 (0.41%) Apple iOS
13 11 (0.41%) Solaris
14 6 (0.22%) Oracle Linux
15 5 (0.19%) Windows 10
16 4 (0.15%) Embedded Linux
16 4 (0.15%) Rocky
16 4 (0.15%) SUSE Linux Enterprise Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 1,197 (44.88%) DevOps
2 1,035 (38.81%) CI/CD
3 1,025 (38.43%) Agile
4 977 (36.63%) Software Engineering
5 735 (27.56%) Containerisation
6 629 (23.58%) Microservices
7 571 (21.41%) Infrastructure as Code
8 454 (17.02%) Full-Stack Development
9 414 (15.52%) Continuous Delivery
10 411 (15.41%) Mentoring
11 355 (13.31%) Scrum
12 341 (12.79%) Artificial Intelligence
13 320 (12.00%) Problem-Solving
14 271 (10.16%) Continuous Integration
15 268 (10.05%) User Experience
16 263 (9.86%) E-Commerce
17 244 (9.15%) SDLC
17 244 (9.15%) Test Automation
18 236 (8.85%) Machine Learning
19 234 (8.77%) Computer Science
Programming Languages
1 821 (30.78%) Python
2 606 (22.72%) Java
3 550 (20.62%) TypeScript
4 441 (16.54%) JavaScript
5 309 (11.59%) C#
6 306 (11.47%) SQL
7 234 (8.77%) PowerShell
8 223 (8.36%) Go
9 185 (6.94%) Bash
10 140 (5.25%) Rust
11 113 (4.24%) C++
12 79 (2.96%) C
13 74 (2.77%) PHP
14 59 (2.21%) Scala
15 55 (2.06%) Kotlin
16 53 (1.99%) Perl
17 48 (1.80%) Bicep
18 42 (1.57%) Shell Script
19 31 (1.16%) Solidity
20 29 (1.09%) Ruby
Qualifications
1 383 (14.36%) Security Cleared
2 290 (10.87%) Degree
3 166 (6.22%) SC Cleared
4 149 (5.59%) DV Cleared
5 116 (4.35%) Computer Science Degree
6 61 (2.29%) Azure Certification
7 55 (2.06%) AWS Certification
8 34 (1.27%) BPSS Clearance
9 33 (1.24%) Master's Degree
10 26 (0.97%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
10 26 (0.97%) Microsoft Certification
11 17 (0.64%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
12 15 (0.56%) Cisco Certification
13 11 (0.41%) CCIE
14 10 (0.37%) TOGAF Certification
15 9 (0.34%) CCIE Data Center
15 9 (0.34%) RHCA
15 9 (0.34%) VCDX
16 8 (0.30%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
17 6 (0.22%) PhD
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 177 (6.64%) QA
2 93 (3.49%) GDPR
3 89 (3.34%) NIST
4 85 (3.19%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 76 (2.85%) HIPAA
6 31 (1.16%) Accessibility
6 31 (1.16%) Data Quality
7 25 (0.94%) WCAG
8 22 (0.82%) SOC 2
9 19 (0.71%) NCSC
10 15 (0.56%) PCI DSS
11 12 (0.45%) ISO 9001
12 7 (0.26%) SLA
13 6 (0.22%) Cyber Essentials
14 3 (0.11%) MiFID
15 2 (0.075%) Sarbanes-Oxley
16 1 (0.037%) California Consumer Privacy Act
16 1 (0.037%) HL7
16 1 (0.037%) ISO 15022
16 1 (0.037%) ISO 20022
System Software
1 1,822 (68.32%) Docker
2 88 (3.30%) VMware Infrastructure
3 86 (3.22%) Active Directory
4 65 (2.44%) Virtual Machines
5 27 (1.01%) vSphere
6 20 (0.75%) Hyper-V
7 18 (0.67%) pfSense
7 18 (0.67%) Virtual Desktop
8 14 (0.52%) VMware ESXi
9 10 (0.37%) Ceph
9 10 (0.37%) VMware NSX
10 7 (0.26%) KVM
11 6 (0.22%) HDFS
11 6 (0.22%) NFS
11 6 (0.22%) Slurm Workload Manager
12 5 (0.19%) Virtual Servers
13 4 (0.15%) Firmware
13 4 (0.15%) Lustre
14 3 (0.11%) GPFS
15 2 (0.075%) Xen
Systems Management
1 961 (36.03%) Terraform
2 403 (15.11%) Ansible
3 222 (8.32%) Prometheus
4 149 (5.59%) Grafana
5 113 (4.24%) Puppet
6 53 (1.99%) Progress Chef
7 37 (1.39%) Argo
8 35 (1.31%) Istio
9 28 (1.05%) Kibana
10 27 (1.01%) Active Directory Federation Services
11 25 (0.94%) Packer
12 20 (0.75%) SCCM
13 17 (0.64%) Microsoft Intune
13 17 (0.64%) Salt
14 16 (0.60%) vCenter Server
15 15 (0.56%) Rancher
16 14 (0.52%) HAProxy
17 13 (0.49%) Nagios
18 12 (0.45%) SCOM
18 12 (0.45%) WSUS
Vendors
1 225 (8.44%) Microsoft
2 182 (6.82%) Red Hat
3 163 (6.11%) Google
4 124 (4.65%) VMware
5 69 (2.59%) Dynatrace
6 64 (2.40%) IBM
7 56 (2.10%) Oracle
8 49 (1.84%) Splunk
9 35 (1.31%) Atlassian
10 30 (1.12%) OpenAI
11 27 (1.01%) Cisco
12 24 (0.90%) ServiceNow
13 23 (0.86%) Databricks
14 14 (0.52%) Citrix
15 11 (0.41%) New Relic
15 11 (0.41%) SAP
16 10 (0.37%) AppDynamics
17 9 (0.34%) Dell
17 9 (0.34%) HP
18 8 (0.30%) ForgeRock