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 12 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
12 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 69 33 22
Rank change year-on-year -36 -11 +5
Permanent jobs citing Kubernetes 3,006 6,381 13,978
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 3.50% 7.08% 10.50%
As % of the Systems Management category 35.46% 47.58% 57.71%
Number of salaries quoted 2,404 4,075 6,409
10th Percentile £50,000 £50,000 £47,500
25th Percentile £59,813 £61,180 £57,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £77,500 £77,500 £77,500
Median % change year-on-year - - +10.71%
75th Percentile £95,000 £97,500 £95,000
90th Percentile £115,000 £115,000 £110,000
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 8,477 13,412 24,221
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 9.87% 14.87% 18.19%
Number of salaries quoted 6,574 8,482 12,545
10th Percentile £32,750 £35,410 £37,500
25th Percentile £45,000 £47,625 £48,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £61,600 £67,500 £70,000
Median % change year-on-year -8.74% -3.57% +7.69%
75th Percentile £83,750 £88,750 £87,500
90th Percentile £102,125 £105,000 £105,000
UK median annual salary £60,500 £67,500 £70,000
% change year-on-year -10.37% -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 12 May 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 12 May 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 -19 1,280 £87,500 +2.94% 447
South East -14 589 £70,000 - 109
North of England -25 481 £62,500 -10.00% 93
South West -29 359 £70,576 +4.56% 82
North West -24 285 £62,500 -10.00% 56
Midlands -52 176 £60,000 -14.29% 43
Yorkshire -23 165 £60,000 -12.43% 29
West Midlands -27 107 £65,000 -7.14% 20
East of England -62 96 £85,000 +21.43% 23
East Midlands -36 70 £60,000 -14.29% 23
North East -35 31 £63,750 -7.61% 8
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
1 143 (4.76%) Apache
2 107 (3.56%) Apache Spark
3 78 (2.59%) Apache Airflow
4 63 (2.10%) OpenStack
5 48 (1.60%) nginx
6 36 (1.20%) Confluence
7 26 (0.86%) Microsoft Exchange
8 22 (0.73%) Jupyter
9 21 (0.70%) JBoss
10 16 (0.53%) Tomcat
11 15 (0.50%) IIS
12 13 (0.43%) Drupal
13 12 (0.40%) SharePoint
14 11 (0.37%) Red Hat Fuse
15 9 (0.30%) CMS
16 8 (0.27%) WebSphere
17 7 (0.23%) WebLogic
17 7 (0.23%) WildFly
18 5 (0.17%) WordPress
19 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 (0.100%) Remedy ITSM
2 3 (0.100%) SAP Business One
3 2 (0.067%) Oracle EBS
4 1 (0.033%) Payment Gateway
4 1 (0.033%) Salesforce CRM
4 1 (0.033%) SAP S/4HANA
4 1 (0.033%) Shopify
Cloud Services
1 1,624 (54.03%) AWS
2 1,242 (41.32%) Azure
3 396 (13.17%) GCP
4 339 (11.28%) Azure DevOps
5 308 (10.25%) Serverless
6 270 (8.98%) Amazon S3
7 265 (8.82%) Amazon EKS
8 241 (8.02%) SaaS
9 225 (7.49%) OpenShift
10 223 (7.42%) GitHub
11 185 (6.15%) AWS Lambda
12 183 (6.09%) AWS CloudFormation
13 179 (5.95%) Amazon ECS
14 145 (4.82%) Azure AKS
15 139 (4.62%) Amazon EC2
16 126 (4.19%) PaaS
17 98 (3.26%) IaaS
17 98 (3.26%) IBM Cloud
18 95 (3.16%) Cloud Computing
19 93 (3.09%) GitHub Actions
Communications & Networking
1 158 (5.26%) Firewall
2 107 (3.56%) DNS
3 80 (2.66%) VPN
4 65 (2.16%) Internet
4 65 (2.16%) TCP/IP
5 61 (2.03%) HTTP
5 61 (2.03%) Network Security
6 56 (1.86%) DHCP
7 48 (1.60%) WAN
8 44 (1.46%) SD-WAN
9 39 (1.30%) AMQP
10 38 (1.26%) IPsec
11 34 (1.13%) SNMP
12 20 (0.67%) BGP
13 13 (0.43%) MPLS
14 11 (0.37%) Ethernet VPN
15 7 (0.23%) WLAN
16 6 (0.20%) Cisco ASA
16 6 (0.20%) SSL
17 5 (0.17%) MQTT
Database & Business Intelligence
1 302 (10.05%) NoSQL
2 269 (8.95%) PostgreSQL
3 214 (7.12%) SQL Server
4 190 (6.32%) MongoDB
5 188 (6.25%) Amazon RDS
6 155 (5.16%) MySQL
7 145 (4.82%) Big Data
8 133 (4.42%) Relational Database
9 132 (4.39%) Elasticsearch
10 102 (3.39%) Redis
11 75 (2.50%) Hadoop
12 73 (2.43%) Data Lake
13 68 (2.26%) Amazon Redshift
14 52 (1.73%) BigQuery
15 46 (1.53%) Amazon Athena
15 46 (1.53%) Dremio
16 42 (1.40%) Apache Arrow
17 37 (1.23%) Azure SQL Database
18 29 (0.96%) Apache Cassandra
18 29 (0.96%) Data Warehouse
Development Applications
1 569 (18.93%) Jenkins
2 478 (15.90%) Git
3 221 (7.35%) GitLab
4 154 (5.12%) JIRA
5 122 (4.06%) Selenium
6 83 (2.76%) TeamCity
7 82 (2.73%) Cypress.io
8 58 (1.93%) JUnit
9 54 (1.80%) Octopus Deploy
10 53 (1.76%) Artifactory
11 46 (1.53%) Cucumber
12 45 (1.50%) CircleCI
13 41 (1.36%) Bitbucket
14 36 (1.20%) Sonatype Nexus
15 32 (1.06%) SonarQube
16 30 (1.00%) Maven
17 26 (0.86%) SoapUI
18 25 (0.83%) Team Foundation Server
19 22 (0.73%) Atlassian Bamboo
19 22 (0.73%) TestNG
General
1 608 (20.23%) Finance
2 462 (15.37%) Social Skills
3 247 (8.22%) Public Sector
4 182 (6.05%) Banking
5 139 (4.62%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 117 (3.89%) Analytical Skills
7 109 (3.63%) Retail
8 101 (3.36%) Aerospace
9 59 (1.96%) Front Office
10 53 (1.76%) Law
11 48 (1.60%) Tech for Good
12 42 (1.40%) Organisational Skills
13 38 (1.26%) Retail Banking
14 32 (1.06%) Health Technology
15 31 (1.03%) Marketing
16 28 (0.93%) Automotive
16 28 (0.93%) Games
16 28 (0.93%) Telecoms
17 27 (0.90%) Presentation Skills
18 25 (0.83%) Influencing Skills
Job Titles
1 771 (25.65%) Senior
2 724 (24.09%) Developer
3 587 (19.53%) DevOps Engineer
4 389 (12.94%) Lead
5 342 (11.38%) Software Engineer
6 260 (8.65%) AWS Engineer
7 242 (8.05%) Java Developer
8 238 (7.92%) Senior Developer
9 236 (7.85%) Architect
10 187 (6.22%) Cloud Engineer
11 159 (5.29%) AWS DevOps
12 158 (5.26%) Azure Engineer
13 157 (5.22%) Senior DevOps
13 157 (5.22%) Software Developer
14 150 (4.99%) Senior DevOps Engineer
15 142 (4.72%) AWS DevOps Engineer
16 140 (4.66%) Platform Engineer
17 117 (3.89%) Infrastructure Engineer
18 115 (3.83%) Site Reliability Engineer
19 111 (3.69%) Senior Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 564 (18.76%) React
2 447 (14.87%) .NET
3 332 (11.04%) Kafka
4 297 (9.88%) Spring
5 287 (9.55%) Spring Boot
6 260 (8.65%) REST
7 245 (8.15%) AngularJS
8 240 (7.98%) Node.js
9 163 (5.42%) RabbitMQ
10 143 (4.76%) HTML
11 142 (4.72%) RESTful
12 137 (4.56%) CSS
13 124 (4.13%) .NET Core
14 118 (3.93%) gRPC
15 102 (3.39%) Elastic Stack
16 97 (3.23%) YAML
17 84 (2.79%) Web Services
18 78 (2.59%) JSON
19 77 (2.56%) ARM Templates
20 74 (2.46%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 230 (7.65%) Distributed Systems
2 225 (7.49%) Cloud Native
3 144 (4.79%) Hybrid Cloud
4 138 (4.59%) Public Cloud
5 118 (3.93%) Blockchain
6 113 (3.76%) Data Centre
7 108 (3.59%) Greenfield Project
8 94 (3.13%) Product Ownership
9 83 (2.76%) Management Information System
10 71 (2.36%) Hedge funds
11 66 (2.20%) Clustering
12 63 (2.10%) Private Cloud
13 58 (1.93%) e-Learning
14 56 (1.86%) Algorithms
15 51 (1.70%) Client/Server
15 51 (1.70%) Linux Command Line
16 47 (1.56%) Data Structures
17 46 (1.53%) Mobile App
18 43 (1.43%) Self-Motivation
19 36 (1.20%) Legacy Code
Operating Systems
1 755 (25.12%) Linux
2 291 (9.68%) Windows
3 120 (3.99%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 105 (3.49%) CentOS
5 75 (2.50%) Windows Server
6 74 (2.46%) Debian
7 57 (1.90%) Ubuntu
8 50 (1.66%) Unix
9 40 (1.33%) Alpine Linux
10 34 (1.13%) Data ONTAP
10 34 (1.13%) Windows Server 2016
11 28 (0.93%) VMS
12 23 (0.77%) Android
13 21 (0.70%) Apple iOS
14 20 (0.67%) Windows Server 2019
15 12 (0.40%) Oracle Linux
16 11 (0.37%) Solaris
17 6 (0.20%) Mac OS
18 5 (0.17%) Embedded Linux
19 4 (0.13%) DC/OS
Processes & Methodologies
1 1,494 (49.70%) DevOps
2 1,189 (39.55%) CI/CD
3 1,168 (38.86%) Agile
4 767 (25.52%) Containerisation
5 761 (25.32%) Software Engineering
6 681 (22.65%) Microservices
7 585 (19.46%) Infrastructure as Code
8 477 (15.87%) Problem-Solving
9 387 (12.87%) Artificial Intelligence
10 356 (11.84%) Mentoring
11 310 (10.31%) Computer Science
12 299 (9.95%) Scrum
13 273 (9.08%) Full Stack Development
14 267 (8.88%) TDD
15 263 (8.75%) Continuous Integration
16 258 (8.58%) Test Automation
17 229 (7.62%) Site Reliability Engineering
18 215 (7.15%) SDLC
19 204 (6.79%) Configuration Management
20 196 (6.52%) Fintech
Programming Languages
1 985 (32.77%) Python
2 948 (31.54%) Java
3 585 (19.46%) JavaScript
4 526 (17.50%) C#
5 451 (15.00%) SQL
6 366 (12.18%) TypeScript
7 306 (10.18%) Go
8 290 (9.65%) Bash
9 289 (9.61%) PowerShell
10 108 (3.59%) PHP
11 83 (2.76%) C++
12 73 (2.43%) Ruby
13 72 (2.40%) C
14 70 (2.33%) Rust
15 64 (2.13%) Bicep
16 57 (1.90%) Kotlin
17 54 (1.80%) Shell Script
18 43 (1.43%) Perl
19 38 (1.26%) Scala
20 37 (1.23%) Groovy
Qualifications
1 448 (14.90%) Security Cleared
2 393 (13.07%) Degree
3 264 (8.78%) SC Cleared
4 226 (7.52%) Computer Science Degree
5 213 (7.09%) DV Cleared
6 150 (4.99%) Azure Certification
7 137 (4.56%) AWS Certification
8 88 (2.93%) Microsoft Certification
9 58 (1.93%) Master's Degree
10 42 (1.40%) CISSP
11 40 (1.33%) MCSA
11 40 (1.33%) MCSE
12 39 (1.30%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
13 36 (1.20%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
13 36 (1.20%) CISM
14 35 (1.16%) Cisco Certification
15 34 (1.13%) (ISC)2 CCSP
15 34 (1.13%) CCSK
15 34 (1.13%) CCSP
16 26 (0.86%) PhD
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 79 (2.63%) QA
2 52 (1.73%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 39 (1.30%) NIST
4 33 (1.10%) WCAG
5 13 (0.43%) Accessibility
6 12 (0.40%) NCSC
6 12 (0.40%) PCI DSS
7 10 (0.33%) GDPR
7 10 (0.33%) SLA
8 8 (0.27%) Cyber Essentials
9 5 (0.17%) Data Quality
9 5 (0.17%) ISO 9001
10 4 (0.13%) HIPAA
10 4 (0.13%) SOC 2
11 3 (0.100%) ISO 20022
12 2 (0.067%) ISO 9000
13 1 (0.033%) California Consumer Privacy Act
13 1 (0.033%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
13 1 (0.033%) ISO 15022
13 1 (0.033%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 1,975 (65.70%) Docker
2 134 (4.46%) VMware Infrastructure
3 94 (3.13%) Hyper-V
4 93 (3.09%) Active Directory
5 80 (2.66%) Virtual Machines
6 22 (0.73%) vSphere
7 21 (0.70%) Virtual Desktop
8 13 (0.43%) VMware ESXi
9 10 (0.33%) Ceph
10 9 (0.30%) KVM
11 6 (0.20%) Firmware
11 6 (0.20%) NFS
11 6 (0.20%) Slurm Workload Manager
11 6 (0.20%) VirtualBox
12 4 (0.13%) Embedded Firmware
13 3 (0.100%) Gluster
13 3 (0.100%) oVirt
14 2 (0.067%) QEMU
14 2 (0.067%) Varnish
14 2 (0.067%) Xen
Systems Management
1 1,173 (39.02%) Terraform
2 561 (18.66%) Ansible
3 275 (9.15%) Prometheus
4 229 (7.62%) Puppet
5 160 (5.32%) Grafana
6 94 (3.13%) Progress Chef
7 60 (2.00%) vCenter Server
8 57 (1.90%) Single Sign-On
9 40 (1.33%) Istio
10 31 (1.03%) Kibana
11 26 (0.86%) Active Directory Federation Services
11 26 (0.86%) Docker Swarm
12 24 (0.80%) Consul
13 23 (0.77%) Argo
13 23 (0.77%) Packer
14 22 (0.73%) Nagios
14 22 (0.73%) SCCM
15 21 (0.70%) Salt
16 20 (0.67%) Microsoft Intune
17 19 (0.63%) ZABBIX
Vendors
1 347 (11.54%) Microsoft
2 270 (8.98%) Red Hat
3 178 (5.92%) Google
4 171 (5.69%) VMware
5 152 (5.06%) Oracle
6 101 (3.36%) IBM
7 73 (2.43%) Dynatrace
8 41 (1.36%) Palo Alto
8 41 (1.36%) Splunk
8 41 (1.36%) WSO2
9 36 (1.20%) SaltStack
10 35 (1.16%) NetApp
11 34 (1.13%) SolidFire
12 30 (1.00%) Atlassian
13 29 (0.96%) Cisco
14 25 (0.83%) Databricks
15 22 (0.73%) ForgeRock
16 19 (0.63%) ServiceNow
17 18 (0.60%) New Relic
18 16 (0.53%) Sitecore