Kubernetes Jobs in the North East

Kubernetes (k8s)
England > North East

The table below provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in the North East requiring Kubernetes skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the annual salaries offered in vacancies that cited Kubernetes over the 6 months leading up to 1 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 52 87 48
Rank change year-on-year +35 -39 -24
Permanent jobs citing Kubernetes 16 31 69
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the North East 2.27% 1.69% 5.40%
As % of the Systems Management category 44.44% 18.45% 45.10%
Number of salaries quoted 14 24 40
10th Percentile £46,625 £35,625 £45,875
25th Percentile £50,000 £52,500 £50,938
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £62,500 £69,000
Median % change year-on-year -4.00% -9.42% +25.45%
75th Percentile £76,813 £79,355 £80,000
90th Percentile £83,375 £84,919 £85,375
England median annual salary £85,000 £77,500 £79,632
% change year-on-year +9.68% -2.68% +2.75%

All Systems Management Skills
North East

Kubernetes falls under the Systems Management category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent job vacancies requiring systems management skills in the North East.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for systems management skills 36 168 153
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the North East 5.11% 9.18% 11.98%
Number of salaries quoted 31 135 109
10th Percentile £37,500 £26,000 £33,000
25th Percentile £45,500 £30,000 £39,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £62,500 £45,000 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year +38.89% -14.29% +16.67%
75th Percentile £70,625 £67,968 £72,500
90th Percentile £78,250 £75,000 £83,000
England median annual salary £69,500 £60,000 £67,500
% change year-on-year +15.83% -11.11% -3.57%

Kubernetes
Job Vacancy Trend in the North East

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

Job vacancy trend for Kubernetes in the North East

Kubernetes
Salary Trend in the North East

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

Salary trend for Kubernetes in the North East

Kubernetes
Salary Histogram in the North East

Salary distribution for jobs citing Kubernetes in the North East over the 6 months to 1 May 2025.

Salary histogram for Kubernetes in the North East

Kubernetes
Job Locations in the North East

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Kubernetes within the North East region over the 6 months to 1 May 2025. 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
Tyne and Wear +32 12 £57,500 - 20
Durham +16 2 £72,750 +7.78%
Northumberland - 2 £62,500 -
Kubernetes
England

Kubernetes
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the North East 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 1 (6.25%) Apache
1 1 (6.25%) Apache Airflow
1 1 (6.25%) Apache Spark
Cloud Services
1 9 (56.25%) Azure
2 7 (43.75%) AWS
3 5 (31.25%) GitHub
3 5 (31.25%) GitHub Actions
4 3 (18.75%) Amazon Kinesis
4 3 (18.75%) GCP
5 2 (12.50%) Amazon S3
5 2 (12.50%) AWS Lambda
5 2 (12.50%) Azure DevOps
5 2 (12.50%) Serverless
6 1 (6.25%) dbt
6 1 (6.25%) Snowflake
Communications & Networking
1 2 (12.50%) SAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (25.00%) Azure SQL Database
1 4 (25.00%) MongoDB
2 3 (18.75%) Amazon Redshift
2 3 (18.75%) PostgreSQL
2 3 (18.75%) SQL Server
3 2 (12.50%) Data Lake
4 1 (6.25%) Amazon Athena
4 1 (6.25%) BigQuery
4 1 (6.25%) MySQL
4 1 (6.25%) SQL Server Integration Services
Development Applications
1 3 (18.75%) TeamCity
2 2 (12.50%) Artifactory
2 2 (12.50%) GitLab
2 2 (12.50%) Octopus Deploy
2 2 (12.50%) SonarQube
3 1 (6.25%) Bitbucket
3 1 (6.25%) CircleCI
3 1 (6.25%) IntelliJ
3 1 (6.25%) Jenkins
3 1 (6.25%) JIRA
3 1 (6.25%) Maven
3 1 (6.25%) Sonatype Nexus
General
1 8 (50.00%) Finance
1 8 (50.00%) Social Skills
2 2 (12.50%) Advertising
3 1 (6.25%) Analytical Skills
3 1 (6.25%) Inclusion and Diversity
Job Titles
1 6 (37.50%) Senior
2 5 (31.25%) Software Engineer
3 3 (18.75%) Data Engineer
3 3 (18.75%) DevOps Engineer
3 3 (18.75%) Lead
3 3 (18.75%) Senior Data Engineer
4 2 (12.50%) Developer
4 2 (12.50%) Java Developer
4 2 (12.50%) Senior Developer
4 2 (12.50%) Senior Java Developer
5 1 (6.25%) Azure Engineer
5 1 (6.25%) Azure Platform Engineer
5 1 (6.25%) Cloud Engineer
5 1 (6.25%) Cloud Platform Engineer
5 1 (6.25%) DevSecOps Engineer
5 1 (6.25%) Lead Cloud Engineer
5 1 (6.25%) Lead Data Engineer
5 1 (6.25%) Platform Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 5 (31.25%) .NET
2 4 (25.00%) AngularJS
2 4 (25.00%) Kafka
2 4 (25.00%) Node.js
3 3 (18.75%) Elastic Stack
3 3 (18.75%) Spring
3 3 (18.75%) Spring Boot
4 2 (12.50%) PySpark
4 2 (12.50%) RESTful
5 1 (6.25%) .NET Core
5 1 (6.25%) .NET Framework
5 1 (6.25%) RabbitMQ
5 1 (6.25%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 2 (12.50%) Cloud Native
2 1 (6.25%) Data Centre
2 1 (6.25%) Hedge funds
2 1 (6.25%) Onboarding
2 1 (6.25%) Private Cloud
Operating Systems
1 5 (31.25%) Linux
2 3 (18.75%) Windows
3 1 (6.25%) Debian
Processes & Methodologies
1 8 (50.00%) Problem-Solving
1 8 (50.00%) Software Engineering
2 7 (43.75%) CI/CD
2 7 (43.75%) Containerisation
3 6 (37.50%) DevOps
3 6 (37.50%) Infrastructure as Code
3 6 (37.50%) Mentoring
4 5 (31.25%) High Availability
5 3 (18.75%) Cloud Security
5 3 (18.75%) Code Quality
5 3 (18.75%) Data Engineering
5 3 (18.75%) Data Governance
5 3 (18.75%) Data Pipeline
5 3 (18.75%) ETL
5 3 (18.75%) Machine Learning
6 2 (12.50%) Batch Processing
6 2 (12.50%) DataOps
6 2 (12.50%) Infrastructure Automation
6 2 (12.50%) MLOps
6 2 (12.50%) Platform Engineering
Programming Languages
1 9 (56.25%) C#
1 9 (56.25%) Java
2 7 (43.75%) Python
2 7 (43.75%) SQL
3 4 (25.00%) PowerShell
3 4 (25.00%) TypeScript
4 3 (18.75%) Scala
5 2 (12.50%) JavaScript
6 1 (6.25%) Bash
6 1 (6.25%) Bicep
Qualifications
1 6 (37.50%) Degree
2 2 (12.50%) Computer Science Degree
3 1 (6.25%) AWS Certification
3 1 (6.25%) SC Cleared
3 1 (6.25%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (25.00%) ISO/IEC 27001
1 4 (25.00%) PCI DSS
1 4 (25.00%) SOC 2
2 2 (12.50%) Data Quality
System Software
1 7 (43.75%) Docker
2 1 (6.25%) VMware Infrastructure
2 1 (6.25%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 11 (68.75%) Terraform
2 4 (25.00%) Ansible
3 3 (18.75%) Docker Swarm
3 3 (18.75%) Grafana
4 1 (6.25%) Control-M
Vendors
1 3 (18.75%) Databricks
1 3 (18.75%) Microsoft
2 2 (12.50%) Atlassian
2 2 (12.50%) VMware
3 1 (6.25%) Cisco
3 1 (6.25%) Juniper