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 26 April 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
26 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 149 104 56
Rank change year-on-year -45 -48 +26
Permanent jobs citing Kubernetes 184 291 520
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the Midlands 1.58% 3.02% 4.79%
As % of the Systems Management category 22.49% 22.77% 39.10%
Number of salaries quoted 141 172 403
10th Percentile £46,250 £51,138 £45,000
25th Percentile £52,500 £56,480 £55,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £61,750 £70,000 £70,000
Median % change year-on-year -11.79% - +12.00%
75th Percentile £82,500 £80,313 £82,500
90th Percentile £88,750 £98,475 £85,000
England median annual salary £77,500 £77,500 £77,500
% change year-on-year - - +10.71%

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 818 1,278 1,330
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the Midlands 7.02% 13.28% 12.26%
Number of salaries quoted 650 562 994
10th Percentile £27,500 £30,050 £35,125
25th Percentile £36,298 £37,500 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £54,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -7.41% -1.82% +4.76%
75th Percentile £65,000 £71,250 £72,500
90th Percentile £79,550 £81,250 £85,000
England median annual salary £60,000 £67,500 £70,000
% change year-on-year -11.11% -3.57% +7.69%

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 26 April 2024.

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 26 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
West Midlands -24 115 £65,000 -7.14% 25
East Midlands -35 72 £60,000 -14.29% 31
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 6 (3.26%) Apache
1 6 (3.26%) IIS
2 1 (0.54%) Apache Airflow
2 1 (0.54%) Apache Spark
Business Applications
1 2 (1.09%) Oracle EBS
Cloud Services
1 96 (52.17%) Azure
2 82 (44.57%) AWS
3 37 (20.11%) Azure DevOps
4 36 (19.57%) SaaS
5 19 (10.33%) Cloud Computing
5 19 (10.33%) GitHub
6 18 (9.78%) Amazon S3
7 14 (7.61%) GCP
8 13 (7.07%) Microsoft 365
9 11 (5.98%) Amazon EKS
10 10 (5.43%) Azure Service Bus
10 10 (5.43%) GitHub Actions
11 9 (4.89%) OCI
11 9 (4.89%) Route 53
12 8 (4.35%) Amazon ECR
12 8 (4.35%) Azure AKS
12 8 (4.35%) Entra ID
12 8 (4.35%) IaaS
12 8 (4.35%) IBM Cloud
12 8 (4.35%) PaaS
Communications & Networking
1 16 (8.70%) Firewall
2 5 (2.72%) Internet
2 5 (2.72%) IPsec
2 5 (2.72%) Network Security
2 5 (2.72%) SNMP
2 5 (2.72%) VPN
3 3 (1.63%) GPRS
3 3 (1.63%) SD-WAN
3 3 (1.63%) WAN
4 2 (1.09%) 4G
4 2 (1.09%) 5G
5 1 (0.54%) HTTP
5 1 (0.54%) Software-Defined Networking
Database & Business Intelligence
1 26 (14.13%) Elasticsearch
2 16 (8.70%) SQL Server
3 14 (7.61%) NoSQL
3 14 (7.61%) PostgreSQL
4 10 (5.43%) Amazon RDS
4 10 (5.43%) MongoDB
5 7 (3.80%) Relational Database
6 3 (1.63%) Data Lake
6 3 (1.63%) MySQL
7 2 (1.09%) Power BI
8 1 (0.54%) Amazon Redshift
8 1 (0.54%) Azure SQL Database
8 1 (0.54%) Big Data
8 1 (0.54%) BigQuery
8 1 (0.54%) DynamoDB
8 1 (0.54%) Electronic Patient Records
8 1 (0.54%) InfluxDB
8 1 (0.54%) MariaDB
8 1 (0.54%) Redis
Development Applications
1 24 (13.04%) Git
2 9 (4.89%) SonarQube
3 7 (3.80%) GitLab
3 7 (3.80%) Jenkins
4 6 (3.26%) Octopus Deploy
4 6 (3.26%) TeamCity
5 5 (2.72%) Postman
6 4 (2.17%) Maven
7 3 (1.63%) JIRA
8 2 (1.09%) Fiddler
8 2 (1.09%) GCC
8 2 (1.09%) Sonatype Nexus
9 1 (0.54%) Bitbucket
9 1 (0.54%) Cypress.io
9 1 (0.54%) Team Foundation Server
9 1 (0.54%) Visual Studio
General
1 31 (16.85%) Finance
2 25 (13.59%) Social Skills
3 14 (7.61%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 12 (6.52%) Analytical Skills
5 9 (4.89%) Public Sector
6 8 (4.35%) Retail
7 6 (3.26%) Automotive
8 4 (2.17%) Organisational Skills
8 4 (2.17%) Police
9 3 (1.63%) Back Office
9 3 (1.63%) Law
9 3 (1.63%) Telecoms
10 2 (1.09%) Banking
10 2 (1.09%) Games
10 2 (1.09%) Manufacturing
10 2 (1.09%) Marketing
11 1 (0.54%) Aviation
11 1 (0.54%) Electronics
11 1 (0.54%) Legal
11 1 (0.54%) Tech for Good
Job Titles
1 43 (23.37%) Developer
2 42 (22.83%) Senior
3 31 (16.85%) DevOps Engineer
4 25 (13.59%) Lead
5 23 (12.50%) Senior Developer
6 22 (11.96%) AWS Engineer
7 21 (11.41%) Azure Engineer
7 21 (11.41%) Cloud Engineer
8 18 (9.78%) AWS DevOps
9 16 (8.70%) AWS DevOps Engineer
10 12 (6.52%) Architect
10 12 (6.52%) Azure DevOps Engineer
10 12 (6.52%) Software Engineer
11 11 (5.98%) Infrastructure Engineer
12 10 (5.43%) Lead DevOps
13 9 (4.89%) C# Developer
13 9 (4.89%) Head of DevOps
14 8 (4.35%) .NET Developer
14 8 (4.35%) Linux Engineer
14 8 (4.35%) Senior .NET Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 34 (18.48%) .NET
2 22 (11.96%) React
3 18 (9.78%) REST
4 16 (8.70%) AngularJS
5 15 (8.15%) ARM Templates
5 15 (8.15%) HTML
6 14 (7.61%) CSS
7 11 (5.98%) .NET Core
7 11 (5.98%) ASP.NET
7 11 (5.98%) Kafka
7 11 (5.98%) RabbitMQ
7 11 (5.98%) Web Services
7 11 (5.98%) YAML
8 10 (5.43%) Blazor
8 10 (5.43%) Node.js
8 10 (5.43%) Twitter Bootstrap
9 9 (4.89%) Entity Framework
10 8 (4.35%) Azure Blueprints
11 7 (3.80%) Spring Boot
11 7 (3.80%) Vue
Miscellaneous
1 16 (8.70%) Cloud Native
2 15 (8.15%) Data Centre
3 11 (5.98%) Management Information System
4 9 (4.89%) Hybrid Cloud
5 8 (4.35%) Blockchain
5 8 (4.35%) e-Learning
5 8 (4.35%) Onboarding
5 8 (4.35%) Product Ownership
6 7 (3.80%) PKI
7 5 (2.72%) Distributed Systems
8 4 (2.17%) Team-Oriented Environment
9 3 (1.63%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
9 3 (1.63%) IoT
10 2 (1.09%) Low-Code
11 1 (0.54%) Distributed Computing
11 1 (0.54%) Enterprise Cloud
11 1 (0.54%) Genomics
11 1 (0.54%) Private Cloud
11 1 (0.54%) Public Cloud
11 1 (0.54%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 31 (16.85%) Linux
2 27 (14.67%) Windows
3 7 (3.80%) Windows Server
4 5 (2.72%) Data ONTAP
4 5 (2.72%) VMS
5 4 (2.17%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 2 (1.09%) Ubuntu
6 2 (1.09%) Unix
7 1 (0.54%) Android
7 1 (0.54%) Apple iOS
7 1 (0.54%) CentOS
7 1 (0.54%) Debian
Processes & Methodologies
1 105 (57.07%) DevOps
2 75 (40.76%) Containerisation
3 58 (31.52%) CI/CD
4 57 (30.98%) Agile
5 50 (27.17%) Software Engineering
6 36 (19.57%) Microservices
7 32 (17.39%) Infrastructure as Code
7 32 (17.39%) Mentoring
8 27 (14.67%) Test Automation
9 26 (14.13%) Problem-Solving
10 24 (13.04%) Scrum
11 23 (12.50%) Site Reliability Engineering
12 19 (10.33%) Continuous Improvement
12 19 (10.33%) Release Management
13 18 (9.78%) DevSecOps
14 17 (9.24%) Artificial Intelligence
15 16 (8.70%) Infrastructure Management
15 16 (8.70%) Project Delivery
16 15 (8.15%) Coaching
16 15 (8.15%) Infrastructure Engineering
Programming Languages
1 49 (26.63%) C#
2 35 (19.02%) Python
3 29 (15.76%) JavaScript
4 27 (14.67%) SQL
5 23 (12.50%) TypeScript
6 21 (11.41%) PowerShell
7 16 (8.70%) Bash
8 15 (8.15%) Java
9 7 (3.80%) Bicep
9 7 (3.80%) Go
10 4 (2.17%) PHP
10 4 (2.17%) Ruby
10 4 (2.17%) VB
11 3 (1.63%) C++
12 2 (1.09%) PL/SQL
13 1 (0.54%) Groovy
13 1 (0.54%) R
13 1 (0.54%) Swift
Qualifications
1 16 (8.70%) Azure Certification
1 16 (8.70%) Degree
2 11 (5.98%) Security Cleared
3 9 (4.89%) AWS Certification
4 8 (4.35%) BPSS Clearance
5 7 (3.80%) Computer Science Degree
6 6 (3.26%) Microsoft Certification
7 5 (2.72%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
7 5 (2.72%) Master's Degree
8 3 (1.63%) (ISC)2 CCSP
8 3 (1.63%) CCSK
8 3 (1.63%) CCSP
8 3 (1.63%) Cisco Certification
8 3 (1.63%) CISM
8 3 (1.63%) CISSP
8 3 (1.63%) SC Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 20 (10.87%) QA
2 8 (4.35%) NCSC
3 5 (2.72%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 3 (1.63%) NIST
5 2 (1.09%) SLA
6 1 (0.54%) ISO 20022
6 1 (0.54%) SEPA
System Software
1 145 (78.80%) Docker
2 12 (6.52%) VMware Infrastructure
3 7 (3.80%) Active Directory
3 7 (3.80%) Hyper-V
Systems Management
1 66 (35.87%) Terraform
2 31 (16.85%) Ansible
3 19 (10.33%) Prometheus
4 10 (5.43%) Docker Swarm
4 10 (5.43%) Single Sign-On
5 6 (3.26%) Grafana
6 5 (2.72%) vCenter Server
7 4 (2.17%) Progress Chef
8 3 (1.63%) Puppet
9 1 (0.54%) Argo
9 1 (0.54%) SCCM
Vendors
1 44 (23.91%) Microsoft
2 15 (8.15%) Red Hat
3 12 (6.52%) VMware
4 8 (4.35%) Dynatrace
4 8 (4.35%) IBM
5 7 (3.80%) Google
6 5 (2.72%) NetApp
6 5 (2.72%) Palo Alto
6 5 (2.72%) SolidFire
7 4 (2.17%) Splunk
8 3 (1.63%) Salesforce
9 2 (1.09%) IFS
9 2 (1.09%) New Relic
9 2 (1.09%) OpenAI
9 2 (1.09%) Oracle
9 2 (1.09%) PeopleSoft
9 2 (1.09%) Workday
10 1 (0.54%) Cisco
10 1 (0.54%) Databricks
10 1 (0.54%) SaltStack