Kubernetes Jobs in the Midlands

Kubernetes (k8s)
England > Midlands

The following table provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in the Midlands 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 90 76 54
Rank change year-on-year -14 -22 +3
Permanent jobs citing Kubernetes 157 443 541
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the Midlands 3.09% 3.95% 4.99%
As % of the Systems Management category 24.88% 27.24% 36.73%
Number of salaries quoted 129 335 419
10th Percentile £50,200 £46,750 £45,000
25th Percentile £55,000 £55,000 £51,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £62,500 £70,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -10.71% +16.67% +4.35%
75th Percentile £77,500 £85,000 £76,250
90th Percentile £84,200 £90,000 £86,250
England median annual salary £75,000 £79,632 £75,000
% change year-on-year -5.82% +6.18% +11.11%

All Systems Management Skills
Midlands

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 the Midlands with a requirement for systems management skills.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for systems management skills 631 1,626 1,473
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the Midlands 12.43% 14.49% 13.58%
Number of salaries quoted 531 888 1,145
10th Percentile £30,680 £32,500 £35,000
25th Percentile £41,250 £41,250 £42,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £55,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year - - +10.00%
75th Percentile £65,000 £72,500 £72,500
90th Percentile £80,000 £85,000 £86,250
England median annual salary £65,000 £67,500 £67,500
% change year-on-year -3.70% - +8.00%

Kubernetes
Job Vacancy Trend in the Midlands

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

Job vacancy trend for Kubernetes in the Midlands

Kubernetes
Salary Trend in the Midlands

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

Salary trend for Kubernetes in the Midlands

Kubernetes
Salary Histogram in the Midlands

Salary distribution for jobs citing Kubernetes in the Midlands over the 6 months to 1 December 2023.

Salary histogram for Kubernetes in the Midlands

Kubernetes
Job Locations in the Midlands

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Kubernetes within the Midlands 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
West Midlands -5 89 £64,500 -7.86% 28
East Midlands +1 71 £62,500 -10.71% 14
Kubernetes
England

Kubernetes
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the 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 5 (3.18%) Apache Spark
2 4 (2.55%) OpenStack
3 3 (1.91%) SharePoint
4 1 (0.64%) Apache
4 1 (0.64%) Apache Airflow
4 1 (0.64%) Confluence
Applications
1 1 (0.64%) MS Visio
Cloud Services
1 105 (66.88%) Azure
2 80 (50.96%) AWS
3 33 (21.02%) Azure DevOps
4 31 (19.75%) GCP
5 24 (15.29%) Cloud Computing
5 24 (15.29%) GitHub
6 13 (8.28%) SaaS
7 9 (5.73%) PaaS
7 9 (5.73%) Serverless
8 7 (4.46%) Amazon S3
8 7 (4.46%) AWS CloudFormation
8 7 (4.46%) OpenShift
9 6 (3.82%) Azure Service Bus
10 4 (2.55%) Amazon ECS
10 4 (2.55%) Azure AKS
10 4 (2.55%) Entra ID
10 4 (2.55%) Snowflake
11 3 (1.91%) Amazon OpenSearch
11 3 (1.91%) AWS Lambda
12 2 (1.27%) Power Platform
Communications & Networking
1 16 (10.19%) DNS
2 12 (7.64%) TCP/IP
3 11 (7.01%) HTTP
4 10 (6.37%) DHCP
5 7 (4.46%) SMTP
6 6 (3.82%) WAN
7 4 (2.55%) 5G
7 4 (2.55%) Internet
7 4 (2.55%) SD-WAN
8 3 (1.91%) FTP
9 2 (1.27%) BGP
9 2 (1.27%) Ethernet VPN
9 2 (1.27%) Firewall
9 2 (1.27%) IPv4
9 2 (1.27%) LAN
9 2 (1.27%) MPLS
9 2 (1.27%) OSPF
9 2 (1.27%) VLAN
9 2 (1.27%) VXLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 20 (12.74%) PostgreSQL
2 14 (8.92%) NoSQL
3 13 (8.28%) SQL Server
4 9 (5.73%) Big Data
5 8 (5.10%) Elasticsearch
6 6 (3.82%) MongoDB
7 4 (2.55%) Apache Cassandra
7 4 (2.55%) Data Lake
7 4 (2.55%) Hadoop
7 4 (2.55%) Relational Database
8 3 (1.91%) MySQL
9 2 (1.27%) Amazon RDS
9 2 (1.27%) Apache Hive
9 2 (1.27%) Azure SQL Database
9 2 (1.27%) Data Warehouse
9 2 (1.27%) Power BI
9 2 (1.27%) Redis
10 1 (0.64%) BigQuery
10 1 (0.64%) DynamoDB
10 1 (0.64%) Looker
Development Applications
1 17 (10.83%) Git
1 17 (10.83%) Jenkins
2 8 (5.10%) Maven
3 7 (4.46%) GitLab
4 6 (3.82%) JIRA
5 2 (1.27%) SonarQube
6 1 (0.64%) CircleCI
6 1 (0.64%) Cucumber
6 1 (0.64%) IntelliJ
6 1 (0.64%) Subversion
6 1 (0.64%) Visual Studio
General
1 33 (21.02%) Finance
2 31 (19.75%) Social Skills
3 16 (10.19%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 9 (5.73%) Retail
5 8 (5.10%) Analytical Skills
6 7 (4.46%) Aerospace
7 6 (3.82%) Law
8 5 (3.18%) Banking
8 5 (3.18%) Legal
9 4 (2.55%) Presentation Skills
10 3 (1.91%) Automotive
10 3 (1.91%) Financial Institution
10 3 (1.91%) Tech for Good
10 3 (1.91%) Telecoms
11 2 (1.27%) Aviation
12 1 (0.64%) Billing
12 1 (0.64%) Games
12 1 (0.64%) Pharmaceutical
12 1 (0.64%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 40 (25.48%) DevOps Engineer
2 36 (22.93%) Developer
3 35 (22.29%) Senior
4 33 (21.02%) Azure Engineer
5 30 (19.11%) Cloud Engineer
6 15 (9.55%) Azure DevOps Engineer
6 15 (9.55%) Senior Developer
6 15 (9.55%) Software Engineer
7 14 (8.92%) Architect
7 14 (8.92%) AWS Engineer
7 14 (8.92%) Java Developer
8 13 (8.28%) Lead
9 10 (6.37%) AWS DevOps
9 10 (6.37%) Infrastructure Engineer
10 9 (5.73%) AWS DevOps Engineer
11 8 (5.10%) Lead DevOps
12 7 (4.46%) C# Developer
12 7 (4.46%) Solutions Architect
13 6 (3.82%) Full Stack Developer
14 5 (3.18%) Senior Full Stack Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 20 (12.74%) Spring Boot
2 19 (12.10%) Spring
3 18 (11.46%) React
4 17 (10.83%) .NET
4 17 (10.83%) Kafka
5 16 (10.19%) RESTful
6 13 (8.28%) AngularJS
7 11 (7.01%) Blazor
8 10 (6.37%) Hibernate
9 9 (5.73%) RabbitMQ
10 8 (5.10%) REST
11 7 (4.46%) ASP.NET
11 7 (4.46%) Elastic Stack
11 7 (4.46%) Node.js
12 5 (3.18%) .NET Core
12 5 (3.18%) GraphQL
12 5 (3.18%) JSON
12 5 (3.18%) Vue
12 5 (3.18%) XML
12 5 (3.18%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 13 (8.28%) Greenfield Project
2 8 (5.10%) Distributed Systems
3 6 (3.82%) Cloud Native
3 6 (3.82%) Public Cloud
4 5 (3.18%) Hybrid Cloud
4 5 (3.18%) Product Ownership
4 5 (3.18%) Self-Motivation
5 4 (2.55%) GNSS
5 4 (2.55%) Management Information System
5 4 (2.55%) Tandem
6 3 (1.91%) Data Centre
6 3 (1.91%) Legacy Code
6 3 (1.91%) Mobile App
6 3 (1.91%) PKI
7 2 (1.27%) Clustering
7 2 (1.27%) Cyber Kill Chain
7 2 (1.27%) Private Cloud
7 2 (1.27%) Renewable Energy
7 2 (1.27%) Replication
8 1 (0.64%) Derivative
Operating Systems
1 34 (21.66%) Linux
2 24 (15.29%) Windows
3 12 (7.64%) Unix
4 6 (3.82%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 5 (3.18%) Windows Server
6 3 (1.91%) Windows Server 2008
7 2 (1.27%) Windows 10
7 2 (1.27%) Windows Server 2016
Processes & Methodologies
1 94 (59.87%) DevOps
2 50 (31.85%) Agile
3 48 (30.57%) Containerisation
4 47 (29.94%) Microservices
5 46 (29.30%) CI/CD
6 41 (26.11%) Infrastructure as Code
7 28 (17.83%) Software Engineering
8 26 (16.56%) Problem-Solving
9 20 (12.74%) Test Automation
10 19 (12.10%) DevSecOps
10 19 (12.10%) Scrum
11 18 (11.46%) Full Stack Development
12 15 (9.55%) B2B
12 15 (9.55%) Cloud Security
13 14 (8.92%) Continuous Integration
13 14 (8.92%) Event-Driven
14 13 (8.28%) API Development
14 13 (8.28%) Computer Science
14 13 (8.28%) Fintech
14 13 (8.28%) Mentoring
Programming Languages
1 48 (30.57%) PowerShell
2 38 (24.20%) Python
3 36 (22.93%) Java
4 27 (17.20%) SQL
5 25 (15.92%) C#
6 19 (12.10%) Bash
7 13 (8.28%) Go
8 12 (7.64%) JavaScript
8 12 (7.64%) TypeScript
9 11 (7.01%) Bicep
10 9 (5.73%) Ruby
11 2 (1.27%) PHP
12 1 (0.64%) Perl
12 1 (0.64%) T-SQL
12 1 (0.64%) VB
Qualifications
1 24 (15.29%) Degree
2 14 (8.92%) Azure Certification
3 13 (8.28%) Computer Science Degree
4 12 (7.64%) SC Cleared
4 12 (7.64%) Security Cleared
5 5 (3.18%) AWS Certification
5 5 (3.18%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
6 4 (2.55%) Cisco Certification
7 3 (1.91%) Microsoft Certification
8 2 (1.27%) CCIE
8 2 (1.27%) CCNP
8 2 (1.27%) JNCIE
9 1 (0.64%) ITIL Certification
9 1 (0.64%) Master's Degree
9 1 (0.64%) MCP
9 1 (0.64%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (3.18%) ISO 20022
1 5 (3.18%) SEPA
2 4 (2.55%) GDPR
2 4 (2.55%) NIST
2 4 (2.55%) PCI DSS
3 3 (1.91%) QA
4 2 (1.27%) California Consumer Privacy Act
4 2 (1.27%) HIPAA
4 2 (1.27%) Sarbanes-Oxley
5 1 (0.64%) SLA
System Software
1 111 (70.70%) Docker
2 11 (7.01%) Active Directory
3 7 (4.46%) VMware Infrastructure
4 6 (3.82%) Hyper-V
5 2 (1.27%) Ceph
5 2 (1.27%) NFS
6 1 (0.64%) VMware ESXi
Systems Management
1 69 (43.95%) Terraform
2 25 (15.92%) Ansible
3 6 (3.82%) Puppet
4 4 (2.55%) Grafana
4 4 (2.55%) Single Sign-On
5 2 (1.27%) Hadoop YARN
5 2 (1.27%) Mesos
5 2 (1.27%) Prometheus
6 1 (0.64%) Progress Chef
6 1 (0.64%) Rancher
6 1 (0.64%) SCCM
6 1 (0.64%) vCenter Server
Vendors
1 14 (8.92%) Microsoft
2 13 (8.28%) Google
3 7 (4.46%) Red Hat
3 7 (4.46%) VMware
4 5 (3.18%) Databricks
5 4 (2.55%) Oracle
5 4 (2.55%) Rackspace
6 3 (1.91%) Splunk
7 2 (1.27%) Veracode
8 1 (0.64%) Checkmarx
8 1 (0.64%) Citrix
8 1 (0.64%) Klarna
8 1 (0.64%) Sparx
8 1 (0.64%) Sun