Kubernetes Jobs in England

Kubernetes (k8s)
UK > England

The following table provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in England 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 27 April 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
27 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 69 33 22
Rank change year-on-year -36 -11 +5
Permanent jobs citing Kubernetes 2,986 6,613 13,333
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 3.52% 7.09% 10.20%
As % of the Systems Management category 35.13% 47.15% 57.09%
Number of salaries quoted 2,403 4,182 6,448
10th Percentile £50,000 £50,000 £47,500
25th Percentile £59,250 £61,180 £57,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £76,000 £77,500 £77,500
Median % change year-on-year -1.94% - +10.71%
75th Percentile £95,000 £97,500 £95,000
90th Percentile £115,000 £115,000 £112,500
UK median annual salary £75,000 £75,000 £75,000
% change year-on-year - - +7.14%

All Systems Management Skills
England

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 England with a requirement for systems management skills.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for systems management skills 8,499 14,025 23,354
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 10.02% 15.04% 17.87%
Number of salaries quoted 6,620 8,726 12,675
10th Percentile £32,750 £35,400 £37,500
25th Percentile £45,000 £47,564 £48,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £67,500 £70,000
Median % change year-on-year -11.11% -3.57% +7.69%
75th Percentile £83,375 £88,750 £87,500
90th Percentile £102,500 £105,000 £105,000
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 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 27 April 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 27 April 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 -20 1,255 £87,500 +2.94% 420
South East -13 583 £70,000 - 94
North of England -23 474 £62,500 -8.78% 114
South West -21 369 £70,576 +4.56% 79
North West -18 284 £62,500 -10.00% 63
Midlands -51 183 £60,875 -13.04% 54
Yorkshire -20 161 £62,500 -8.78% 35
West Midlands -26 114 £65,000 -7.14% 25
East of England -62 97 £85,000 +19.30% 29
East Midlands -35 72 £60,000 -14.29% 29
North East -36 29 £62,500 -9.42% 16
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
1 135 (4.52%) Apache
2 93 (3.11%) Apache Spark
3 65 (2.18%) Apache Airflow
4 63 (2.11%) OpenStack
5 48 (1.61%) nginx
6 36 (1.21%) Confluence
7 26 (0.87%) Microsoft Exchange
8 20 (0.67%) JBoss
8 20 (0.67%) Jupyter
9 16 (0.54%) Tomcat
10 15 (0.50%) IIS
11 14 (0.47%) Drupal
12 13 (0.44%) SharePoint
13 12 (0.40%) CMS
14 10 (0.33%) Red Hat Fuse
15 7 (0.23%) WebLogic
15 7 (0.23%) WebSphere
15 7 (0.23%) WildFly
16 6 (0.20%) WordPress
17 4 (0.13%) Apache Solr
Applications
1 11 (0.37%) Microsoft Excel
2 2 (0.067%) InDesign
2 2 (0.067%) Microsoft Office
3 1 (0.033%) Blender
Business Applications
1 7 (0.23%) Teamcenter
2 3 (0.10%) SAP Business One
3 2 (0.067%) Oracle EBS
3 2 (0.067%) Remedy ITSM
4 1 (0.033%) Salesforce CRM
4 1 (0.033%) SAP S/4HANA
4 1 (0.033%) Shopify
Cloud Services
1 1,620 (54.25%) AWS
2 1,242 (41.59%) Azure
3 383 (12.83%) GCP
4 348 (11.65%) Azure DevOps
5 309 (10.35%) Serverless
6 271 (9.08%) Amazon S3
7 261 (8.74%) Amazon EKS
8 236 (7.90%) SaaS
9 222 (7.43%) GitHub
10 218 (7.30%) OpenShift
11 195 (6.53%) AWS CloudFormation
12 186 (6.23%) AWS Lambda
13 181 (6.06%) Amazon ECS
14 143 (4.79%) Amazon EC2
15 142 (4.76%) Azure AKS
16 119 (3.99%) PaaS
17 104 (3.48%) Cloud Computing
18 96 (3.22%) IBM Cloud
19 95 (3.18%) IaaS
20 91 (3.05%) Route 53
Communications & Networking
1 156 (5.22%) Firewall
2 105 (3.52%) DNS
3 83 (2.78%) VPN
4 66 (2.21%) Internet
5 65 (2.18%) TCP/IP
6 59 (1.98%) Network Security
7 58 (1.94%) HTTP
8 56 (1.88%) DHCP
9 46 (1.54%) WAN
10 43 (1.44%) SD-WAN
11 39 (1.31%) IPsec
12 37 (1.24%) AMQP
13 34 (1.14%) SNMP
14 23 (0.77%) BGP
15 13 (0.44%) MPLS
16 11 (0.37%) Ethernet VPN
17 7 (0.23%) WLAN
18 6 (0.20%) Cisco ASA
18 6 (0.20%) OSPF
19 5 (0.17%) LAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 300 (10.05%) NoSQL
2 274 (9.18%) PostgreSQL
3 210 (7.03%) SQL Server
4 190 (6.36%) Amazon RDS
5 180 (6.03%) MongoDB
6 158 (5.29%) MySQL
7 133 (4.45%) Big Data
8 132 (4.42%) Elasticsearch
9 128 (4.29%) Relational Database
10 104 (3.48%) Redis
11 73 (2.44%) Amazon Redshift
12 72 (2.41%) Hadoop
13 60 (2.01%) Data Lake
14 47 (1.57%) BigQuery
15 34 (1.14%) Amazon Athena
15 34 (1.14%) Azure SQL Database
15 34 (1.14%) Dremio
16 30 (1.00%) Apache Arrow
17 29 (0.97%) Data Warehouse
18 28 (0.94%) Apache Cassandra
Development Applications
1 584 (19.56%) Jenkins
2 477 (15.97%) Git
3 221 (7.40%) GitLab
4 153 (5.12%) JIRA
5 124 (4.15%) Selenium
6 83 (2.78%) Cypress.io
7 82 (2.75%) TeamCity
8 59 (1.98%) Artifactory
8 59 (1.98%) JUnit
9 49 (1.64%) Octopus Deploy
10 47 (1.57%) Cucumber
11 39 (1.31%) Bitbucket
11 39 (1.31%) CircleCI
11 39 (1.31%) SonarQube
12 38 (1.27%) Sonatype Nexus
13 35 (1.17%) Maven
14 28 (0.94%) SoapUI
15 25 (0.84%) Atlassian Bamboo
15 25 (0.84%) Team Foundation Server
16 23 (0.77%) TestNG
General
1 596 (19.96%) Finance
2 446 (14.94%) Social Skills
3 237 (7.94%) Public Sector
4 201 (6.73%) Banking
5 130 (4.35%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 121 (4.05%) Analytical Skills
7 115 (3.85%) Retail
8 89 (2.98%) Aerospace
9 64 (2.14%) Front Office
10 48 (1.61%) Tech for Good
11 44 (1.47%) Law
12 42 (1.41%) Retail Banking
13 38 (1.27%) Organisational Skills
14 33 (1.11%) Health Technology
14 33 (1.11%) Marketing
15 30 (1.00%) Games
16 27 (0.90%) Telecoms
17 25 (0.84%) Automotive
17 25 (0.84%) Investment Banking
17 25 (0.84%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 765 (25.62%) Senior
2 729 (24.41%) Developer
3 609 (20.40%) DevOps Engineer
4 361 (12.09%) Lead
5 315 (10.55%) Software Engineer
6 247 (8.27%) AWS Engineer
6 247 (8.27%) Java Developer
7 244 (8.17%) Architect
8 242 (8.10%) Senior Developer
9 180 (6.03%) Cloud Engineer
10 165 (5.53%) Senior DevOps
11 162 (5.43%) Azure Engineer
12 161 (5.39%) AWS DevOps
13 158 (5.29%) Senior DevOps Engineer
13 158 (5.29%) Software Developer
14 145 (4.86%) AWS DevOps Engineer
15 134 (4.49%) Platform Engineer
16 115 (3.85%) Infrastructure Engineer
17 112 (3.75%) Java Engineer
18 102 (3.42%) Full Stack Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 573 (19.19%) React
2 440 (14.74%) .NET
3 353 (11.82%) Kafka
4 301 (10.08%) Spring
5 294 (9.85%) Spring Boot
6 264 (8.84%) REST
7 256 (8.57%) AngularJS
8 234 (7.84%) Node.js
9 159 (5.32%) RabbitMQ
10 141 (4.72%) HTML
10 141 (4.72%) RESTful
11 139 (4.66%) CSS
12 125 (4.19%) .NET Core
13 109 (3.65%) gRPC
14 106 (3.55%) Elastic Stack
15 94 (3.15%) YAML
16 84 (2.81%) Web Services
17 79 (2.65%) JSON
18 77 (2.58%) ARM Templates
19 72 (2.41%) Jest
Miscellaneous
1 230 (7.70%) Distributed Systems
2 217 (7.27%) Cloud Native
3 144 (4.82%) Hybrid Cloud
4 138 (4.62%) Public Cloud
5 114 (3.82%) Blockchain
6 111 (3.72%) Data Centre
7 103 (3.45%) Greenfield Project
8 90 (3.01%) Product Ownership
9 80 (2.68%) Management Information System
10 62 (2.08%) Private Cloud
11 60 (2.01%) Hedge funds
12 56 (1.88%) e-Learning
13 54 (1.81%) Algorithms
14 53 (1.77%) Clustering
15 51 (1.71%) Client/Server
16 50 (1.67%) Linux Command Line
17 45 (1.51%) Mobile App
18 44 (1.47%) Self-Motivation
19 41 (1.37%) Data Structures
20 39 (1.31%) Tandem
Operating Systems
1 759 (25.42%) Linux
2 306 (10.25%) Windows
3 115 (3.85%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 100 (3.35%) CentOS
5 73 (2.44%) Windows Server
6 72 (2.41%) Debian
7 52 (1.74%) Unix
8 51 (1.71%) Ubuntu
9 40 (1.34%) Alpine Linux
10 34 (1.14%) Data ONTAP
10 34 (1.14%) Windows Server 2016
11 29 (0.97%) VMS
12 22 (0.74%) Android
13 21 (0.70%) Apple iOS
14 20 (0.67%) Windows Server 2019
15 11 (0.37%) Oracle Linux
16 10 (0.33%) Solaris
17 6 (0.20%) Mac OS
18 5 (0.17%) CoreOS
18 5 (0.17%) zOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 1,478 (49.50%) DevOps
2 1,181 (39.55%) CI/CD
3 1,171 (39.22%) Agile
4 763 (25.55%) Containerisation
5 759 (25.42%) Software Engineering
6 688 (23.04%) Microservices
7 578 (19.36%) Infrastructure as Code
8 482 (16.14%) Problem-Solving
9 369 (12.36%) Artificial Intelligence
10 360 (12.06%) Mentoring
11 311 (10.42%) Computer Science
12 305 (10.21%) Scrum
13 279 (9.34%) Full Stack Development
14 274 (9.18%) Continuous Integration
15 267 (8.94%) TDD
16 258 (8.64%) Test Automation
17 217 (7.27%) SDLC
18 216 (7.23%) Site Reliability Engineering
19 203 (6.80%) Configuration Management
20 191 (6.40%) Fintech
Programming Languages
1 975 (32.65%) Python
2 938 (31.41%) Java
3 582 (19.49%) JavaScript
4 537 (17.98%) C#
5 456 (15.27%) SQL
6 367 (12.29%) TypeScript
7 301 (10.08%) PowerShell
8 297 (9.95%) Bash
9 296 (9.91%) Go
10 110 (3.68%) PHP
11 81 (2.71%) C++
12 78 (2.61%) Ruby
13 67 (2.24%) C
14 65 (2.18%) Bicep
14 65 (2.18%) Rust
15 54 (1.81%) Shell Script
16 49 (1.64%) Kotlin
17 42 (1.41%) Perl
18 38 (1.27%) Groovy
19 35 (1.17%) Scala
Qualifications
1 443 (14.84%) Security Cleared
2 396 (13.26%) Degree
3 255 (8.54%) SC Cleared
4 229 (7.67%) Computer Science Degree
5 207 (6.93%) DV Cleared
6 150 (5.02%) Azure Certification
7 133 (4.45%) AWS Certification
8 87 (2.91%) Microsoft Certification
9 58 (1.94%) Master's Degree
10 42 (1.41%) CISSP
11 41 (1.37%) MCSA
11 41 (1.37%) MCSE
12 37 (1.24%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
13 36 (1.21%) CISM
14 35 (1.17%) Cisco Certification
15 34 (1.14%) (ISC)2 CCSP
15 34 (1.14%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
15 34 (1.14%) CCSK
15 34 (1.14%) CCSP
16 26 (0.87%) PhD
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 81 (2.71%) QA
2 54 (1.81%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 39 (1.31%) NIST
4 34 (1.14%) WCAG
5 13 (0.44%) PCI DSS
6 12 (0.40%) NCSC
7 10 (0.33%) Accessibility
7 10 (0.33%) GDPR
8 9 (0.30%) Cyber Essentials
8 9 (0.30%) SLA
9 5 (0.17%) ISO 20022
10 4 (0.13%) Data Quality
10 4 (0.13%) HIPAA
10 4 (0.13%) ISO 9001
10 4 (0.13%) SOC 2
11 3 (0.10%) ISO 9000
12 2 (0.067%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
12 2 (0.067%) SEPA
13 1 (0.033%) California Consumer Privacy Act
13 1 (0.033%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 2,001 (67.01%) Docker
2 133 (4.45%) VMware Infrastructure
3 98 (3.28%) Hyper-V
4 92 (3.08%) Active Directory
5 74 (2.48%) Virtual Machines
6 22 (0.74%) vSphere
7 20 (0.67%) Virtual Desktop
8 14 (0.47%) VMware ESXi
9 7 (0.23%) KVM
10 6 (0.20%) Ceph
10 6 (0.20%) Firmware
10 6 (0.20%) VirtualBox
11 4 (0.13%) Embedded Firmware
11 4 (0.13%) NFS
11 4 (0.13%) Slurm Workload Manager
12 3 (0.10%) Gluster
12 3 (0.10%) oVirt
13 2 (0.067%) QEMU
13 2 (0.067%) Varnish
13 2 (0.067%) Xen
Systems Management
1 1,140 (38.18%) Terraform
2 544 (18.22%) Ansible
3 264 (8.84%) Prometheus
4 224 (7.50%) Puppet
5 168 (5.63%) Grafana
6 91 (3.05%) Progress Chef
7 60 (2.01%) vCenter Server
8 55 (1.84%) Single Sign-On
9 37 (1.24%) Istio
10 32 (1.07%) Kibana
11 25 (0.84%) Packer
12 24 (0.80%) Consul
13 23 (0.77%) Active Directory Federation Services
13 23 (0.77%) Docker Swarm
14 22 (0.74%) Salt
14 22 (0.74%) SCCM
15 21 (0.70%) Argo
15 21 (0.70%) Microsoft Intune
16 20 (0.67%) Rancher
16 20 (0.67%) ZABBIX
Vendors
1 348 (11.65%) Microsoft
2 265 (8.87%) Red Hat
3 184 (6.16%) Google
4 171 (5.73%) VMware
5 151 (5.06%) Oracle
6 100 (3.35%) IBM
7 72 (2.41%) Dynatrace
8 42 (1.41%) Palo Alto
9 41 (1.37%) WSO2
10 37 (1.24%) Splunk
11 35 (1.17%) NetApp
11 35 (1.17%) SaltStack
12 34 (1.14%) SolidFire
13 31 (1.04%) Cisco
14 30 (1.00%) Atlassian
15 24 (0.80%) Databricks
16 20 (0.67%) ForgeRock
17 19 (0.64%) New Relic
18 17 (0.57%) ServiceNow
19 16 (0.54%) SolarWinds