Kubernetes Jobs in the North of England

Kubernetes (k8s)
England > North of England

The table below provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in the North of England 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 120 87 61
Rank change year-on-year -33 -26 -33
Permanent jobs citing Kubernetes 250 478 969
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the North of England 2.28% 2.77% 5.57%
As % of the Systems Management category 23.97% 34.61% 45.05%
Number of salaries quoted 194 340 609
10th Percentile £49,382 £43,750 £45,000
25th Percentile £62,500 £52,188 £55,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £75,250 £62,500 £69,000
Median % change year-on-year +20.40% -9.42% +10.40%
75th Percentile £97,528 £76,250 £80,750
90th Percentile £115,000 £84,919 £90,000
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 of England

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 of England.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for systems management skills 1,043 1,381 2,151
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the North of England 9.52% 7.99% 12.36%
Number of salaries quoted 479 1,074 1,381
10th Percentile £32,500 £29,000 £31,500
25th Percentile £46,250 £37,625 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £67,500 £55,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year +22.73% -8.33% +1.27%
75th Percentile £78,750 £69,875 £76,316
90th Percentile £97,528 £79,625 £87,500
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 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 1 May 2025.

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 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
North West -60 138 £78,810 +26.10% 213
Yorkshire +23 96 £78,810 +28.67% 66
North East +35 16 £60,000 -4.00% 23
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 26 (10.40%) Confluence
2 8 (3.20%) Microsoft Exchange
3 4 (1.60%) SharePoint
4 3 (1.20%) Apache
5 2 (0.80%) Apache Airflow
5 2 (0.80%) Apache Spark
5 2 (0.80%) nginx
5 2 (0.80%) Tomcat
5 2 (0.80%) WebSphere
5 2 (0.80%) WebSphere Application Server
6 1 (0.40%) Apache Solr
6 1 (0.40%) CMS
6 1 (0.40%) Jupyter
Applications
1 1 (0.40%) Microsoft Office
Cloud Services
1 129 (51.60%) Azure
2 112 (44.80%) AWS
3 109 (43.60%) GCP
4 29 (11.60%) GitHub
5 19 (7.60%) Azure DevOps
5 19 (7.60%) GitHub Actions
6 15 (6.00%) Azure AKS
7 12 (4.80%) Amazon EKS
7 12 (4.80%) SaaS
7 12 (4.80%) Serverless
8 11 (4.40%) Azure Machine Learning
8 11 (4.40%) Google Kubernetes Engine
9 9 (3.60%) Microsoft 365
10 8 (3.20%) Amazon S3
10 8 (3.20%) Apigee
11 7 (2.80%) Azure Cosmos DB
12 6 (2.40%) Amazon ECS
12 6 (2.40%) AWS Lambda
13 5 (2.00%) Amazon EC2
14 4 (1.60%) Cloud Computing
Communications & Networking
1 13 (5.20%) Firewall
1 13 (5.20%) TCP/IP
2 9 (3.60%) BGP
2 9 (3.60%) OSPF
3 7 (2.80%) DNS
3 7 (2.80%) WAN
4 6 (2.40%) SAN
4 6 (2.40%) SD-WAN
5 5 (2.00%) MPLS
5 5 (2.00%) Network Security
5 5 (2.00%) VPN
5 5 (2.00%) Wireless
6 4 (1.60%) DAB
6 4 (1.60%) EIGRP
6 4 (1.60%) NAS
7 3 (1.20%) DHCP
8 2 (0.80%) Cisco Nexus
8 2 (0.80%) FCoE
8 2 (0.80%) Fibre Channel
8 2 (0.80%) LAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 29 (11.60%) NoSQL
2 26 (10.40%) PostgreSQL
3 21 (8.40%) SQL Server
4 19 (7.60%) MongoDB
5 14 (5.60%) MySQL
6 11 (4.40%) Cloud Spanner
7 9 (3.60%) Relational Database
8 8 (3.20%) Azure SQL Database
9 6 (2.40%) Big Data
10 5 (2.00%) BigQuery
11 4 (1.60%) Data Lake
12 3 (1.20%) Amazon Redshift
12 3 (1.20%) DynamoDB
13 2 (0.80%) Amazon Aurora
13 2 (0.80%) Redis
14 1 (0.40%) Amazon Athena
14 1 (0.40%) Couchbase
14 1 (0.40%) Oracle Exadata
14 1 (0.40%) SQL Server Integration Services
14 1 (0.40%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 41 (16.40%) Git
2 38 (15.20%) Jenkins
3 28 (11.20%) JIRA
4 23 (9.20%) SonarQube
5 19 (7.60%) GitLab
6 14 (5.60%) Sonatype Nexus
7 11 (4.40%) CircleCI
8 9 (3.60%) Maven
9 8 (3.20%) JUnit
9 8 (3.20%) Selenium
10 6 (2.40%) Oracle Forms
11 5 (2.00%) TeamCity
12 4 (1.60%) IBM UrbanCode
12 4 (1.60%) Octopus Deploy
13 3 (1.20%) Artifactory
13 3 (1.20%) Bitbucket
14 2 (0.80%) Atlassian Bamboo
14 2 (0.80%) LoadRunner
14 2 (0.80%) Mocha
14 2 (0.80%) WebDriver
General
1 104 (41.60%) Finance
2 89 (35.60%) Social Skills
3 81 (32.40%) Banking
4 25 (10.00%) Analytical Skills
5 13 (5.20%) Public Sector
5 13 (5.20%) Retail
6 11 (4.40%) Law
7 6 (2.40%) Manufacturing
7 6 (2.40%) Organisational Skills
8 5 (2.00%) Marketing
9 4 (1.60%) Documentation Skills
10 3 (1.20%) Games
10 3 (1.20%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 3 (1.20%) Telecoms
11 2 (0.80%) Advertising
11 2 (0.80%) Electronics
11 2 (0.80%) Retail Banking
12 1 (0.40%) Health Technology
12 1 (0.40%) Influencing Skills
12 1 (0.40%) Legal
Job Titles
1 69 (27.60%) Software Engineer
2 66 (26.40%) Senior
3 63 (25.20%) Lead
4 36 (14.40%) DevOps Engineer
5 32 (12.80%) Developer
6 25 (10.00%) Senior Software Engineer
7 20 (8.00%) Architect
8 18 (7.20%) Solutions Architect
9 16 (6.40%) Senior Developer
10 12 (4.80%) Cloud Engineer
10 12 (4.80%) Lead DevOps
10 12 (4.80%) Senior DevOps
11 11 (4.40%) Java Developer
11 11 (4.40%) Lead Software Engineer
12 9 (3.60%) Azure Engineer
13 8 (3.20%) Lead DevOps Engineer
14 7 (2.80%) C# Developer
14 7 (2.80%) Infrastructure Engineer
14 7 (2.80%) Senior DevOps Engineer
14 7 (2.80%) Senior Java Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 55 (22.00%) React
2 48 (19.20%) Node.js
3 39 (15.60%) Spring Boot
4 35 (14.00%) Spring
5 32 (12.80%) Kafka
6 31 (12.40%) .NET
7 28 (11.20%) RESTful
8 19 (7.60%) AngularJS
9 12 (4.80%) .NET Core
10 10 (4.00%) Hibernate
10 10 (4.00%) REST
11 8 (3.20%) ARM Templates
11 8 (3.20%) Express.js
11 8 (3.20%) JWT
11 8 (3.20%) OAuth
11 8 (3.20%) OAuth2
12 7 (2.80%) Elastic Stack
13 6 (2.40%) .NET Framework
13 6 (2.40%) Redux
13 6 (2.40%) Vue
Miscellaneous
1 38 (15.20%) Distributed Systems
2 31 (12.40%) Product Ownership
3 29 (11.60%) Cloud Native
4 28 (11.20%) Public Cloud
5 12 (4.80%) Private Cloud
6 10 (4.00%) Algorithms
6 10 (4.00%) Hybrid Cloud
7 4 (1.60%) Data Centre
7 4 (1.60%) Distributed Architecture
7 4 (1.60%) Replication
7 4 (1.60%) Team-Oriented Environment
8 3 (1.20%) Clustering
8 3 (1.20%) Data Protection Act
8 3 (1.20%) Data Structures
8 3 (1.20%) Greenfield Project
8 3 (1.20%) Legacy Systems
8 3 (1.20%) Mainframe
8 3 (1.20%) Management Information System
9 2 (0.80%) Credit Risk
9 2 (0.80%) Wiki
Operating Systems
1 35 (14.00%) Linux
2 16 (6.40%) Windows
3 11 (4.40%) Unix
4 4 (1.60%) CentOS
4 4 (1.60%) Ubuntu
5 3 (1.20%) Windows Server
6 2 (0.80%) CoreOS
6 2 (0.80%) Debian
6 2 (0.80%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 2 (0.80%) Solaris
6 2 (0.80%) zOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 154 (61.60%) DevOps
2 135 (54.00%) CI/CD
3 111 (44.40%) Microservices
4 107 (42.80%) Containerisation
5 105 (42.00%) Software Engineering
6 88 (35.20%) Agile
7 86 (34.40%) Mentoring
8 64 (25.60%) Problem-Solving
9 61 (24.40%) Infrastructure as Code
10 48 (19.20%) Test Automation
11 41 (16.40%) Roadmaps
12 37 (14.80%) TDD
13 35 (14.00%) Continuous Integration
14 30 (12.00%) Continuous Improvement
14 30 (12.00%) Event-Driven
15 28 (11.20%) SDLC
16 27 (10.80%) Code Quality
17 26 (10.40%) Coaching
17 26 (10.40%) Deployment Automation
17 26 (10.40%) Full-Stack Development
Programming Languages
1 100 (40.00%) Java
2 81 (32.40%) Python
3 53 (21.20%) JavaScript
3 53 (21.20%) SQL
4 46 (18.40%) TypeScript
5 35 (14.00%) C#
6 26 (10.40%) PowerShell
7 17 (6.80%) Bash
8 16 (6.40%) Go
9 6 (2.40%) Groovy
9 6 (2.40%) PL/SQL
10 4 (1.60%) Scala
11 3 (1.20%) Bicep
11 3 (1.20%) PHP
12 2 (0.80%) Rust
12 2 (0.80%) Shell Script
13 1 (0.40%) C++
13 1 (0.40%) Perl
13 1 (0.40%) VBA
Qualifications
1 27 (10.80%) Degree
2 19 (7.60%) Azure Certification
3 17 (6.80%) AWS Certification
4 13 (5.20%) Security Cleared
5 10 (4.00%) SC Cleared
6 9 (3.60%) Computer Science Degree
7 6 (2.40%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
8 3 (1.20%) DV Cleared
8 3 (1.20%) Linux+ Certification
8 3 (1.20%) Master's Degree
8 3 (1.20%) OCP
8 3 (1.20%) Oracle Certification
8 3 (1.20%) RHCE
9 2 (0.80%) PhD
9 2 (0.80%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
10 1 (0.40%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 11 (4.40%) GDPR
2 10 (4.00%) HIPAA
3 9 (3.60%) QA
4 8 (3.20%) SOC 2
5 4 (1.60%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 4 (1.60%) PCI DSS
6 3 (1.20%) NIST
7 2 (0.80%) Accessibility
7 2 (0.80%) Data Quality
8 1 (0.40%) Basel III
8 1 (0.40%) IFRS
8 1 (0.40%) IFRS 9
System Software
1 174 (69.60%) Docker
2 15 (6.00%) Hyper-V
3 14 (5.60%) VMware Infrastructure
4 13 (5.20%) Active Directory
5 7 (2.80%) Virtual Machines
6 4 (1.60%) VMware NSX
7 3 (1.20%) Dovecot
7 3 (1.20%) KVM
7 3 (1.20%) Postfix
8 2 (0.80%) NFS
8 2 (0.80%) SRDF
8 2 (0.80%) Veritas Cluster Server
8 2 (0.80%) vSphere
8 2 (0.80%) Xen
Systems Management
1 83 (33.20%) Terraform
2 39 (15.60%) Ansible
3 12 (4.80%) Grafana
3 12 (4.80%) Istio
4 9 (3.60%) Prometheus
5 7 (2.80%) Puppet
5 7 (2.80%) WSUS
6 6 (2.40%) FortiGate
6 6 (2.40%) Progress Chef
7 5 (2.00%) Microsoft Intune
8 4 (1.60%) Argo
9 3 (1.20%) Docker Swarm
10 2 (0.80%) CA Endevor
10 2 (0.80%) Microsoft Data Protection Manager
10 2 (0.80%) SCCM
10 2 (0.80%) SCOM
11 1 (0.40%) Consul
11 1 (0.40%) Failover Clustering
11 1 (0.40%) Kibana
11 1 (0.40%) Rancher
Vendors
1 37 (14.80%) Google
2 25 (10.00%) Microsoft
3 21 (8.40%) VMware
4 13 (5.20%) Oracle
5 7 (2.80%) Cisco
5 7 (2.80%) Red Hat
6 6 (2.40%) Atlassian
7 5 (2.00%) Databricks
7 5 (2.00%) Draytek
7 5 (2.00%) Dynatrace
7 5 (2.00%) Ubiquiti
8 4 (1.60%) IBM
8 4 (1.60%) Ping Identity
9 3 (1.20%) Okta
10 2 (0.80%) EMC
10 2 (0.80%) F5
10 2 (0.80%) Hitachi
10 2 (0.80%) NetApp
10 2 (0.80%) SAP
11 1 (0.40%) New Relic