Kubernetes Jobs in the North of England

Kubernetes (k8s)
England > North of England

The following table provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in the North of 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 27 April 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
27 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 85 62 29
Rank change year-on-year -23 -33 -1
Permanent jobs citing Kubernetes 474 976 1,400
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the North of England 2.75% 5.58% 7.77%
As % of the Systems Management category 34.52% 44.81% 49.24%
Number of salaries quoted 339 621 970
10th Percentile £43,750 £45,000 £45,000
25th Percentile £52,500 £55,000 £51,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £62,500 £68,515 £62,500
Median % change year-on-year -8.78% +9.62% +8.70%
75th Percentile £77,500 £80,750 £85,000
90th Percentile £84,919 £90,000 £87,500
England median annual salary £76,000 £77,500 £77,500
% change year-on-year -1.94% - +10.71%

All Systems Management Skills
North of 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 the North of England with a requirement for systems management skills.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for systems management skills 1,373 2,178 2,843
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the North of England 7.96% 12.44% 15.78%
Number of salaries quoted 1,069 1,405 1,986
10th Percentile £29,000 £31,954 £32,750
25th Percentile £37,500 £42,500 £42,813
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £60,000 £58,500
Median % change year-on-year -8.33% +2.56% +7.14%
75th Percentile £70,000 £76,316 £75,000
90th Percentile £80,000 £87,500 £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 North of England

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

Job vacancy trend for Kubernetes in the North of England

Kubernetes
Salary Trend in the North of England

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

Salary trend for Kubernetes in the North of England

Kubernetes
Salary Histogram in the North of England

Salary distribution for jobs citing Kubernetes in the North of England over the 6 months to 27 April 2024.

Salary histogram for Kubernetes in the North of England

Kubernetes
Job Locations in the North of England

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Kubernetes within the North of England region over the 6 months to 27 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
North West -18 284 £62,500 -10.00% 63
Yorkshire -20 161 £62,500 -8.78% 35
North East -36 29 £62,500 -9.42% 16
Kubernetes
England

Kubernetes
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the North of 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 31 (6.54%) Apache
2 23 (4.85%) Apache Spark
3 6 (1.27%) Apache Airflow
3 6 (1.27%) Microsoft Exchange
4 5 (1.05%) CMS
5 4 (0.84%) SharePoint
6 2 (0.42%) Apache Solr
6 2 (0.42%) Drupal
6 2 (0.42%) OpenStack
7 1 (0.21%) IIS
7 1 (0.21%) Jetty
7 1 (0.21%) nginx
7 1 (0.21%) WordPress
Applications
1 2 (0.42%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 3 (0.63%) SAP Business One
2 2 (0.42%) Remedy ITSM
3 1 (0.21%) Shopify
Cloud Services
1 264 (55.70%) Azure
2 254 (53.59%) AWS
3 81 (17.09%) Azure DevOps
4 73 (15.40%) GCP
5 62 (13.08%) Amazon S3
5 62 (13.08%) GitHub
6 57 (12.03%) Amazon EKS
7 37 (7.81%) OCI
7 37 (7.81%) Route 53
8 36 (7.59%) Amazon ECR
8 36 (7.59%) IBM Cloud
9 34 (7.17%) Serverless
10 31 (6.54%) AWS CloudFormation
10 31 (6.54%) GitHub Actions
11 30 (6.33%) Azure AKS
12 26 (5.49%) SaaS
13 23 (4.85%) AWS Lambda
14 22 (4.64%) Azure Service Bus
15 20 (4.22%) Cloud Computing
16 18 (3.80%) OpenShift
Communications & Networking
1 42 (8.86%) Firewall
2 31 (6.54%) WAN
3 30 (6.33%) SD-WAN
4 25 (5.27%) VPN
5 16 (3.38%) Internet
5 16 (3.38%) Network Security
6 15 (3.16%) IPsec
6 15 (3.16%) SNMP
7 11 (2.32%) AMQP
7 11 (2.32%) DNS
8 9 (1.90%) TCP/IP
9 5 (1.05%) DHCP
10 4 (0.84%) HTTP
11 3 (0.63%) MQTT
12 2 (0.42%) BGP
12 2 (0.42%) LAN
12 2 (0.42%) MPLS
12 2 (0.42%) OSPF
13 1 (0.21%) SAN
13 1 (0.21%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 44 (9.28%) Amazon RDS
2 38 (8.02%) MySQL
3 34 (7.17%) Elasticsearch
4 33 (6.96%) MongoDB
4 33 (6.96%) PostgreSQL
5 29 (6.12%) SQL Server
6 18 (3.80%) NoSQL
7 17 (3.59%) Big Data
8 15 (3.16%) Redis
9 12 (2.53%) BigQuery
9 12 (2.53%) Hadoop
9 12 (2.53%) Relational Database
10 11 (2.32%) Cloudera CDH
11 6 (1.27%) Azure SQL Database
11 6 (1.27%) RDBMS
12 5 (1.05%) Apache Cassandra
12 5 (1.05%) Data Warehouse
12 5 (1.05%) MariaDB
13 3 (0.63%) DynamoDB
13 3 (0.63%) InfluxDB
Development Applications
1 80 (16.88%) Jenkins
2 60 (12.66%) Git
3 30 (6.33%) GitLab
3 30 (6.33%) JIRA
4 22 (4.64%) CircleCI
5 10 (2.11%) Spinnaker
6 9 (1.90%) Gradle
6 9 (1.90%) Team Foundation Server
7 7 (1.48%) Octopus Deploy
8 5 (1.05%) Cucumber
8 5 (1.05%) Cypress.io
9 4 (0.84%) Selenium
9 4 (0.84%) webpack
10 3 (0.63%) Artifactory
10 3 (0.63%) Atlassian Bamboo
10 3 (0.63%) git-flow
10 3 (0.63%) SonarQube
10 3 (0.63%) Subversion
10 3 (0.63%) TeamCity
10 3 (0.63%) Visual Studio Team System
General
1 72 (15.19%) Public Sector
2 64 (13.50%) Finance
3 59 (12.45%) Social Skills
4 46 (9.70%) Retail
5 44 (9.28%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 36 (7.59%) Banking
7 35 (7.38%) Analytical Skills
8 27 (5.70%) Aerospace
9 19 (4.01%) Organisational Skills
10 8 (1.69%) Influencing Skills
11 6 (1.27%) Games
11 6 (1.27%) Marketing
12 5 (1.05%) Tech for Good
13 4 (0.84%) Publishing
13 4 (0.84%) Telecoms
14 3 (0.63%) Law
14 3 (0.63%) Legal
14 3 (0.63%) Retail Banking
15 1 (0.21%) Automotive
15 1 (0.21%) Investment Banking
Job Titles
1 129 (27.22%) DevOps Engineer
1 129 (27.22%) Senior
2 104 (21.94%) Developer
3 63 (13.29%) Lead
4 61 (12.87%) Software Engineer
5 57 (12.03%) Architect
6 47 (9.92%) Senior DevOps
6 47 (9.92%) Senior DevOps Engineer
7 36 (7.59%) Software Developer
8 35 (7.38%) Azure Engineer
9 34 (7.17%) Senior Developer
10 28 (5.91%) Cloud Engineer
11 26 (5.49%) Security Architect
12 25 (5.27%) Consultant
13 23 (4.85%) .NET Developer
13 23 (4.85%) C# Developer
14 21 (4.43%) Full Stack Developer
14 21 (4.43%) Platform Engineer
15 20 (4.22%) Lead Architect
15 20 (4.22%) Lead Security Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 93 (19.62%) .NET
1 93 (19.62%) React
2 62 (13.08%) AngularJS
3 60 (12.66%) Node.js
4 49 (10.34%) .NET Core
5 45 (9.49%) RabbitMQ
6 44 (9.28%) Spring
7 39 (8.23%) RESTful
8 34 (7.17%) Kafka
8 34 (7.17%) Spring Boot
9 30 (6.33%) ASP.NET
10 29 (6.12%) .NET Framework
10 29 (6.12%) REST
10 29 (6.12%) YAML
11 28 (5.91%) CSS
12 24 (5.06%) Entity Framework
12 24 (5.06%) HTML
13 19 (4.01%) ASP.NET Web API
14 16 (3.38%) Razor View Engine
14 16 (3.38%) Vue
Miscellaneous
1 40 (8.44%) Public Cloud
2 39 (8.23%) Blockchain
3 38 (8.02%) Hybrid Cloud
4 36 (7.59%) e-Learning
5 34 (7.17%) Management Information System
6 26 (5.49%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
7 24 (5.06%) Distributed Systems
7 24 (5.06%) Product Ownership
8 22 (4.64%) Data Centre
8 22 (4.64%) Greenfield Project
9 21 (4.43%) Cloud Native
10 12 (2.53%) Private Cloud
11 11 (2.32%) Linux Command Line
12 10 (2.11%) Podcast
13 8 (1.69%) IoT
14 6 (1.27%) Client/Server
14 6 (1.27%) NHS
15 5 (1.05%) Online Games
16 4 (0.84%) Distributed Applications
16 4 (0.84%) Mobile App
Operating Systems
1 110 (23.21%) Linux
2 51 (10.76%) Windows
3 17 (3.59%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 15 (3.16%) Data ONTAP
5 14 (2.95%) Ubuntu
5 14 (2.95%) Unix
6 13 (2.74%) CentOS
6 13 (2.74%) Debian
7 6 (1.27%) Android
8 5 (1.05%) Apple iOS
9 4 (0.84%) Mac OS
10 3 (0.63%) CoreOS
10 3 (0.63%) Embedded Linux
10 3 (0.63%) zOS
11 2 (0.42%) VMS
11 2 (0.42%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 256 (54.01%) DevOps
2 231 (48.73%) Agile
3 227 (47.89%) CI/CD
4 143 (30.17%) Containerisation
5 112 (23.63%) Infrastructure as Code
6 109 (23.00%) Microservices
6 109 (23.00%) Software Engineering
7 106 (22.36%) Mentoring
8 78 (16.46%) Problem-Solving
9 62 (13.08%) Coaching
10 59 (12.45%) Scrum
11 58 (12.24%) Continuous Integration
12 57 (12.03%) TDD
13 54 (11.39%) Full Stack Development
14 49 (10.34%) Test Automation
15 47 (9.92%) Observability
16 45 (9.49%) Secrets Management
17 44 (9.28%) Actionable Insight
17 44 (9.28%) Artificial Intelligence
18 43 (9.07%) Configuration Management
Programming Languages
1 110 (23.21%) Python
2 98 (20.68%) C#
3 97 (20.46%) Java
4 86 (18.14%) JavaScript
5 61 (12.87%) PowerShell
5 61 (12.87%) SQL
6 46 (9.70%) TypeScript
7 35 (7.38%) Bash
8 25 (5.27%) Go
9 23 (4.85%) Ruby
10 19 (4.01%) PHP
11 9 (1.90%) C++
11 9 (1.90%) Perl
11 9 (1.90%) T-SQL
12 7 (1.48%) Bicep
13 5 (1.05%) Groovy
14 4 (0.84%) C
15 3 (0.63%) Shell Script
16 1 (0.21%) Scala
16 1 (0.21%) XAML
Qualifications
1 42 (8.86%) Azure Certification
2 41 (8.65%) Security Cleared
3 37 (7.81%) AWS Certification
4 33 (6.96%) Degree
5 31 (6.54%) CISSP
6 29 (6.12%) DV Cleared
7 26 (5.49%) (ISC)2 CCSP
7 26 (5.49%) CCSK
7 26 (5.49%) CCSP
7 26 (5.49%) Cisco Certification
7 26 (5.49%) CISM
8 18 (3.80%) Microsoft Certification
9 17 (3.59%) SC Cleared
10 13 (2.74%) Computer Science Degree
11 5 (1.05%) TOGAF Certification
12 3 (0.63%) PhD
13 1 (0.21%) BPSS Clearance
13 1 (0.21%) ITIL Certification
13 1 (0.21%) Master's Degree
13 1 (0.21%) PMI Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 27 (5.70%) NIST
2 13 (2.74%) QA
3 6 (1.27%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 3 (0.63%) Accessibility
5 1 (0.21%) GDPR
5 1 (0.21%) ISO 20022
5 1 (0.21%) Sarbanes-Oxley
5 1 (0.21%) SEPA
5 1 (0.21%) SLA
System Software
1 301 (63.50%) Docker
2 18 (3.80%) VMware Infrastructure
3 12 (2.53%) Hyper-V
4 9 (1.90%) Active Directory
5 3 (0.63%) Embedded Firmware
5 3 (0.63%) Firmware
5 3 (0.63%) Virtual Machines
6 1 (0.21%) Dovecot
6 1 (0.21%) KVM
6 1 (0.21%) Lustre
6 1 (0.21%) Postfix
6 1 (0.21%) Slurm Workload Manager
6 1 (0.21%) VMware ESXi
6 1 (0.21%) VMware Server
Systems Management
1 202 (42.62%) Terraform
2 79 (16.67%) Ansible
3 76 (16.03%) Prometheus
4 32 (6.75%) Puppet
5 27 (5.70%) Grafana
6 26 (5.49%) Single Sign-On
7 17 (3.59%) Progress Chef
8 15 (3.16%) vCenter Server
9 6 (1.27%) Istio
9 6 (1.27%) Microsoft Intune
10 5 (1.05%) Proxmox
10 5 (1.05%) SCOM
11 4 (0.84%) Kibana
11 4 (0.84%) Podman
12 3 (0.63%) CA Endevor
13 2 (0.42%) Failover Clustering
13 2 (0.42%) WSUS
14 1 (0.21%) Kiali
14 1 (0.21%) Salt
14 1 (0.21%) Sysdig
Vendors
1 67 (14.14%) Red Hat
2 65 (13.71%) Microsoft
3 40 (8.44%) Google
4 37 (7.81%) IBM
5 36 (7.59%) Dynatrace
6 24 (5.06%) Oracle
7 22 (4.64%) VMware
8 16 (3.38%) SaltStack
9 15 (3.16%) NetApp
9 15 (3.16%) Palo Alto
9 15 (3.16%) SolidFire
10 8 (1.69%) Confluent
10 8 (1.69%) Facebook
11 7 (1.48%) SAP
12 6 (1.27%) Splunk
13 5 (1.05%) New Relic
13 5 (1.05%) SolarWinds
14 3 (0.63%) LogicMonitor
14 3 (0.63%) PagerDuty
14 3 (0.63%) Veeam