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 1 December 2023 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
1 Dec 2023
Same period 2022 Same period 2021
Rank 37 31 25
Rank change year-on-year -6 -6 +9
Permanent jobs citing Kubernetes 2,904 7,819 10,154
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 6.16% 7.13% 8.98%
As % of the Systems Management category 39.87% 45.23% 53.05%
Number of salaries quoted 2,369 4,760 6,437
10th Percentile £50,000 £48,750 £47,500
25th Percentile £60,000 £60,000 £56,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £75,000 £79,632 £75,000
Median % change year-on-year -5.82% +6.18% +11.11%
75th Percentile £95,000 £95,000 £95,000
90th Percentile £112,500 £113,750 £112,500
UK median annual salary £75,000 £77,500 £75,000
% change year-on-year -3.23% +3.33% +15.38%

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 7,284 17,286 19,140
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 15.46% 15.77% 16.92%
Number of salaries quoted 5,921 10,466 12,557
10th Percentile £35,750 £36,250 £37,500
25th Percentile £47,500 £47,500 £50,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £67,500 £67,500
Median % change year-on-year -3.70% - +8.00%
75th Percentile £85,000 £88,750 £87,500
90th Percentile £105,000 £106,250 £105,000
UK median annual salary £65,000 £67,500 £67,500
% change year-on-year -3.70% - +12.50%

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 1 December 2023.

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 1 December 2023. 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 -10 1,287 £85,000 - 602
North of England +2 525 £67,500 -3.57% 138
South West +31 432 £65,000 +4.00% 90
South East +19 345 £72,500 +3.57% 214
North West 0 294 £70,000 - 77
Yorkshire +10 214 £65,351 -4.62% 46
Midlands -14 157 £62,500 -10.71% 42
West Midlands -5 89 £64,500 -7.86% 28
East of England +29 88 £82,500 +3.13% 52
East Midlands +1 71 £62,500 -10.71% 14
North East -12 19 £65,000 -7.14% 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 63 (2.17%) Apache Spark
2 52 (1.79%) nginx
3 50 (1.72%) Apache
4 44 (1.52%) Apache Airflow
5 39 (1.34%) Confluence
6 31 (1.07%) OpenStack
7 27 (0.93%) Jupyter
8 22 (0.76%) SharePoint
9 18 (0.62%) CMS
10 14 (0.48%) JBoss
11 12 (0.41%) IIS
12 11 (0.38%) Apache Solr
13 10 (0.34%) Red Hat Fuse
14 8 (0.28%) Drupal
14 8 (0.28%) Tomcat
15 7 (0.24%) Luigi
16 4 (0.14%) Camunda
16 4 (0.14%) Headless CMS
17 3 (0.10%) Cloud Foundry
17 3 (0.10%) WebSphere
Applications
1 4 (0.14%) Trello
2 2 (0.069%) InDesign
2 2 (0.069%) Microsoft Excel
3 1 (0.034%) Chatbot
3 1 (0.034%) MS Visio
3 1 (0.034%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 12 (0.41%) Oracle EBS
2 6 (0.21%) Dynamics CRM
3 2 (0.069%) EuroRunner
3 2 (0.069%) Magento
3 2 (0.069%) Ripple
4 1 (0.034%) Distributed Ledger
4 1 (0.034%) Dynamics AX
4 1 (0.034%) Payment Gateway
4 1 (0.034%) SAP Hybris
Cloud Services
1 1,506 (51.86%) AWS
2 1,407 (48.45%) Azure
3 585 (20.14%) GCP
4 418 (14.39%) Azure DevOps
5 306 (10.54%) OpenShift
6 304 (10.47%) GitHub
7 286 (9.85%) Serverless
8 272 (9.37%) PaaS
9 262 (9.02%) SaaS
10 195 (6.71%) IaaS
11 173 (5.96%) AWS CloudFormation
12 125 (4.30%) Amazon S3
13 119 (4.10%) Amazon EKS
14 117 (4.03%) AWS Lambda
15 115 (3.96%) Azure AKS
15 115 (3.96%) Cloud Computing
16 114 (3.93%) Amazon EC2
17 100 (3.44%) Amazon ECS
18 96 (3.31%) Azure Monitor
19 95 (3.27%) Entra ID
Communications & Networking
1 166 (5.72%) DNS
2 111 (3.82%) TCP/IP
3 90 (3.10%) DHCP
4 87 (3.00%) HTTP
5 86 (2.96%) Firewall
6 59 (2.03%) VPN
7 38 (1.31%) Internet
8 28 (0.96%) Network Security
9 22 (0.76%) IPv4
10 18 (0.62%) VLAN
11 17 (0.59%) AMQP
12 15 (0.52%) BGP
13 14 (0.48%) OSPF
13 14 (0.48%) SSL
14 12 (0.41%) WAN
15 11 (0.38%) SD-WAN
16 8 (0.28%) SMTP
17 7 (0.24%) IPv6
17 7 (0.24%) LAN
18 6 (0.21%) FTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 246 (8.47%) NoSQL
2 214 (7.37%) PostgreSQL
3 147 (5.06%) MongoDB
4 132 (4.55%) SQL Server
5 131 (4.51%) Elasticsearch
6 126 (4.34%) MySQL
7 123 (4.24%) Big Data
8 102 (3.51%) Amazon RDS
9 87 (3.00%) Relational Database
10 84 (2.89%) Data Warehouse
10 84 (2.89%) Redis
11 72 (2.48%) Amazon Redshift
11 72 (2.48%) Data Lake
12 58 (2.00%) BigQuery
13 52 (1.79%) Hadoop
14 41 (1.41%) Azure SQL Database
15 32 (1.10%) Apache Cassandra
16 27 (0.93%) Power BI
17 21 (0.72%) DynamoDB
17 21 (0.72%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 721 (24.83%) Jenkins
2 429 (14.77%) Git
3 275 (9.47%) GitLab
4 136 (4.68%) Selenium
5 129 (4.44%) JIRA
6 101 (3.48%) Artifactory
6 101 (3.48%) Cypress.io
7 83 (2.86%) Maven
8 79 (2.72%) Bitbucket
9 77 (2.65%) SonarQube
10 76 (2.62%) Cucumber
11 72 (2.48%) TeamCity
12 71 (2.44%) Atlassian Bamboo
13 63 (2.17%) Sonatype Nexus
14 57 (1.96%) CircleCI
15 51 (1.76%) Octopus Deploy
16 43 (1.48%) Spinnaker
17 37 (1.27%) JUnit
18 31 (1.07%) SoapUI
19 27 (0.93%) Team Foundation Server
General
1 761 (26.21%) Finance
2 472 (16.25%) Social Skills
3 355 (12.22%) Banking
4 197 (6.78%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 146 (5.03%) Retail
6 111 (3.82%) Analytical Skills
7 91 (3.13%) Front Office
8 76 (2.62%) Public Sector
9 61 (2.10%) Aerospace
10 53 (1.83%) Games
11 52 (1.79%) Investment Banking
11 52 (1.79%) Telecoms
12 37 (1.27%) Financial Institution
13 32 (1.10%) Law
14 28 (0.96%) Tech for Good
15 26 (0.90%) Health Technology
15 26 (0.90%) Marketing
16 25 (0.86%) Retail Banking
17 23 (0.79%) Organisational Skills
18 20 (0.69%) Legal
Job Titles
1 801 (27.58%) DevOps Engineer
2 739 (25.45%) Senior
3 622 (21.42%) Developer
4 322 (11.09%) Lead
4 322 (11.09%) Software Engineer
5 237 (8.16%) AWS Engineer
6 220 (7.58%) Java Developer
7 219 (7.54%) Cloud Engineer
8 202 (6.96%) Azure Engineer
9 193 (6.65%) Senior Developer
10 189 (6.51%) Senior DevOps
11 185 (6.37%) AWS DevOps
12 184 (6.34%) Architect
13 178 (6.13%) Senior DevOps Engineer
14 172 (5.92%) AWS DevOps Engineer
15 131 (4.51%) Azure DevOps Engineer
16 121 (4.17%) Data Engineer
17 118 (4.06%) Infrastructure Engineer
18 98 (3.37%) Senior Software Engineer
19 97 (3.34%) Site Reliability Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 420 (14.46%) React
2 401 (13.81%) Kafka
3 351 (12.09%) .NET
4 228 (7.85%) Spring Boot
5 226 (7.78%) Spring
6 218 (7.51%) Node.js
7 215 (7.40%) AngularJS
8 180 (6.20%) REST
9 139 (4.79%) .NET Core
10 136 (4.68%) Elastic Stack
10 136 (4.68%) RESTful
11 130 (4.48%) HTML
12 101 (3.48%) CSS
13 96 (3.31%) RabbitMQ
14 89 (3.06%) Web Services
15 73 (2.51%) Jest
16 71 (2.44%) .NET Framework
17 68 (2.34%) JSON
18 62 (2.13%) ARM Templates
19 61 (2.10%) GraphQL
Miscellaneous
1 241 (8.30%) Public Cloud
2 202 (6.96%) Cloud Native
3 155 (5.34%) Distributed Systems
4 134 (4.61%) Product Ownership
5 111 (3.82%) Greenfield Project
6 94 (3.24%) Private Cloud
7 71 (2.44%) Algorithms
8 58 (2.00%) Linux Command Line
9 56 (1.93%) Blockchain
10 48 (1.65%) Self-Motivation
11 47 (1.62%) Hedge funds
12 46 (1.58%) PKI
13 42 (1.45%) Mainframe
14 40 (1.38%) Data Centre
15 37 (1.27%) Mobile App
16 34 (1.17%) Hybrid Cloud
16 34 (1.17%) Virtual Team
17 33 (1.14%) Legacy Systems
18 31 (1.07%) Derivative
18 31 (1.07%) Onboarding
Operating Systems
1 638 (21.97%) Linux
2 276 (9.50%) Windows
3 130 (4.48%) Unix
4 81 (2.79%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 55 (1.89%) Windows Server
6 39 (1.34%) Ubuntu
7 25 (0.86%) Android
7 25 (0.86%) Apple iOS
8 18 (0.62%) Debian
9 16 (0.55%) CentOS
9 16 (0.55%) VMS
10 14 (0.48%) Windows Server 2016
11 12 (0.41%) Windows Server 2019
12 8 (0.28%) Solaris
12 8 (0.28%) Windows 10
13 5 (0.17%) CoreOS
13 5 (0.17%) zOS
14 3 (0.10%) Windows Server 2008
15 2 (0.069%) Windows Server 2012
16 1 (0.034%) Mac OS
Processes & Methodologies
1 1,672 (57.58%) DevOps
2 1,247 (42.94%) CI/CD
3 1,226 (42.22%) Agile
4 725 (24.97%) Microservices
5 698 (24.04%) Software Engineering
6 688 (23.69%) Containerisation
7 683 (23.52%) Infrastructure as Code
8 382 (13.15%) Problem-Solving
9 310 (10.67%) Continuous Integration
10 297 (10.23%) Mentoring
11 262 (9.02%) Computer Science
12 245 (8.44%) Artificial Intelligence
13 244 (8.40%) Configuration Management
14 242 (8.33%) Roadmaps
14 242 (8.33%) Scrum
15 239 (8.23%) TDD
16 230 (7.92%) Test Automation
17 206 (7.09%) Platform Engineering
18 201 (6.92%) Fintech
19 194 (6.68%) Site Reliability Engineering
Programming Languages
1 1,145 (39.43%) Python
2 993 (34.19%) Java
3 501 (17.25%) Bash
4 474 (16.32%) JavaScript
5 460 (15.84%) SQL
6 439 (15.12%) PowerShell
7 429 (14.77%) C#
8 321 (11.05%) Go
9 310 (10.67%) TypeScript
10 118 (4.06%) C++
10 118 (4.06%) Ruby
11 83 (2.86%) Groovy
12 80 (2.75%) PHP
13 79 (2.72%) Kotlin
14 74 (2.55%) Shell Script
15 67 (2.31%) Bicep
16 62 (2.13%) Rust
17 51 (1.76%) Perl
18 43 (1.48%) Scala
19 36 (1.24%) C
Qualifications
1 416 (14.33%) Security Cleared
2 363 (12.50%) Degree
3 235 (8.09%) SC Cleared
4 185 (6.37%) Computer Science Degree
5 148 (5.10%) DV Cleared
6 106 (3.65%) AWS Certification
7 71 (2.44%) Azure Certification
8 51 (1.76%) Master's Degree
9 34 (1.17%) Microsoft Certification
10 26 (0.90%) Cisco Certification
11 25 (0.86%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
12 24 (0.83%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
12 24 (0.83%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
13 19 (0.65%) BPSS Clearance
14 18 (0.62%) CISSP
15 12 (0.41%) MBA
16 11 (0.38%) (ISC)2 CCSP
16 11 (0.38%) CCNA
16 11 (0.38%) PhD
16 11 (0.38%) RHCE
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 131 (4.51%) QA
2 38 (1.31%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 22 (0.76%) GDPR
3 22 (0.76%) WCAG
4 20 (0.69%) PCI DSS
5 15 (0.52%) Data Quality
6 14 (0.48%) NIST
7 13 (0.45%) ISO 20022
8 9 (0.31%) Accessibility
8 9 (0.31%) SEPA
9 7 (0.24%) SLA
10 6 (0.21%) ISO 9000
11 5 (0.17%) Cyber Essentials
12 4 (0.14%) HL7
13 3 (0.10%) California Consumer Privacy Act
13 3 (0.10%) DICOM
14 2 (0.069%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
14 2 (0.069%) NCSC
14 2 (0.069%) Sarbanes-Oxley
14 2 (0.069%) Software Quality Assurance
System Software
1 2,001 (68.90%) Docker
2 138 (4.75%) Active Directory
3 109 (3.75%) VMware Infrastructure
4 81 (2.79%) Hyper-V
5 76 (2.62%) Virtual Machines
6 26 (0.90%) Virtual Desktop
7 14 (0.48%) Ceph
8 12 (0.41%) VMware ESXi
9 11 (0.38%) KVM
10 10 (0.34%) vSphere
11 4 (0.14%) Citrix Hypervisor
11 4 (0.14%) LXC
11 4 (0.14%) VMware NSX
12 3 (0.10%) NFS
13 2 (0.069%) Firmware
13 2 (0.069%) Kamailio
13 2 (0.069%) Microsoft Virtual Server
13 2 (0.069%) pfSense
13 2 (0.069%) Slurm Workload Manager
13 2 (0.069%) VMware Server
Systems Management
1 1,136 (39.12%) Terraform
2 611 (21.04%) Ansible
3 230 (7.92%) Puppet
4 199 (6.85%) Grafana
5 168 (5.79%) Prometheus
6 106 (3.65%) Progress Chef
7 67 (2.31%) Istio
8 59 (2.03%) Argo
9 50 (1.72%) Rancher
10 46 (1.58%) Packer
11 34 (1.17%) SCCM
12 31 (1.07%) Microsoft Intune
12 31 (1.07%) Nagios
13 29 (1.00%) Kibana
14 27 (0.93%) Active Directory Federation Services
15 26 (0.90%) SCOM
15 26 (0.90%) Single Sign-On
15 26 (0.90%) WSUS
16 15 (0.52%) Kustomize
16 15 (0.52%) Salt
Vendors
1 286 (9.85%) Microsoft
2 184 (6.34%) Google
3 135 (4.65%) VMware
4 113 (3.89%) Oracle
5 99 (3.41%) Red Hat
6 85 (2.93%) Splunk
7 47 (1.62%) New Relic
8 35 (1.21%) Atlassian
9 33 (1.14%) AppDynamics
10 32 (1.10%) Databricks
11 29 (1.00%) IBM
12 23 (0.79%) Cisco
13 20 (0.69%) SaltStack
14 19 (0.65%) Confluent
15 18 (0.62%) Dynatrace
16 17 (0.59%) Veracode
17 15 (0.52%) Juniper
17 15 (0.52%) WSO2
18 13 (0.45%) Palo Alto
19 12 (0.41%) Sun