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 16 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
16 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 108 85 61
Rank change year-on-year -23 -24 -33
Permanent jobs citing Kubernetes 366 477 948
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the North of England 3.15% 2.72% 5.57%
As % of the Systems Management category 25.74% 34.67% 45.12%
Number of salaries quoted 192 336 591
10th Percentile £50,000 £44,375 £46,250
25th Percentile £62,500 £51,250 £55,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £75,000 £61,853 £69,447
Median % change year-on-year +21.26% -10.93% +6.84%
75th Percentile £97,528 £75,000 £80,000
90th Percentile £115,000 £84,919 £90,000
England median annual salary £82,500 £77,500 £77,500
% change year-on-year +6.45% - -

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 1,422 1,376 2,101
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the North of England 12.23% 7.85% 12.35%
Number of salaries quoted 486 1,068 1,343
10th Percentile £31,250 £29,000 £31,597
25th Percentile £45,000 £38,563 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £67,269 £55,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year +22.31% -8.33% +4.35%
75th Percentile £78,750 £69,500 £77,500
90th Percentile £97,528 £80,000 £87,500
England median annual salary £67,500 £61,206 £67,500
% change year-on-year +10.28% -9.32% -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 16 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 16 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 -34 253 £78,810 +26.10% 217
Yorkshire +12 94 £78,810 +31.35% 96
North East +33 19 £60,000 -5.88% 27
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 67 (18.31%) Confluence
2 8 (2.19%) Microsoft Exchange
3 4 (1.09%) SharePoint
4 2 (0.55%) Apache
4 2 (0.55%) Jupyter
4 2 (0.55%) nginx
4 2 (0.55%) Tomcat
4 2 (0.55%) WebSphere
4 2 (0.55%) WebSphere Application Server
5 1 (0.27%) Apache Airflow
5 1 (0.27%) Apache Solr
5 1 (0.27%) Apache Spark
5 1 (0.27%) CMS
Applications
1 1 (0.27%) Microsoft Office
Cloud Services
1 241 (65.85%) Azure
2 233 (63.66%) AWS
3 142 (38.80%) GCP
4 28 (7.65%) GitHub
5 23 (6.28%) Azure DevOps
6 19 (5.19%) GitHub Actions
7 15 (4.10%) Azure AKS
8 13 (3.55%) Amazon EKS
8 13 (3.55%) SaaS
9 12 (3.28%) Serverless
10 10 (2.73%) Azure Machine Learning
10 10 (2.73%) Google Kubernetes Engine
11 9 (2.46%) Microsoft 365
12 7 (1.91%) Amazon ECS
12 7 (1.91%) Amazon S3
12 7 (1.91%) Apigee
12 7 (1.91%) AWS Lambda
13 6 (1.64%) Azure Cosmos DB
14 5 (1.37%) Pulumi
15 4 (1.09%) Azure Monitor
Communications & Networking
1 14 (3.83%) Firewall
2 13 (3.55%) TCP/IP
3 9 (2.46%) BGP
3 9 (2.46%) OSPF
4 7 (1.91%) DNS
4 7 (1.91%) WAN
5 6 (1.64%) SAN
5 6 (1.64%) SD-WAN
5 6 (1.64%) VPN
6 5 (1.37%) Broadband
6 5 (1.37%) MPLS
6 5 (1.37%) Network Security
6 5 (1.37%) Wireless
7 4 (1.09%) DAB
7 4 (1.09%) DHCP
7 4 (1.09%) EIGRP
7 4 (1.09%) NAS
8 2 (0.55%) FCoE
8 2 (0.55%) Fibre Channel
8 2 (0.55%) Multicast
Database & Business Intelligence
1 130 (35.52%) SQL Server
2 33 (9.02%) NoSQL
3 28 (7.65%) PostgreSQL
4 21 (5.74%) MongoDB
5 13 (3.55%) MySQL
5 13 (3.55%) Relational Database
6 11 (3.01%) Cloud Spanner
7 6 (1.64%) Azure SQL Database
8 5 (1.37%) Big Data
8 5 (1.37%) BigQuery
8 5 (1.37%) DynamoDB
9 4 (1.09%) RDBMS
10 3 (0.82%) Amazon Redshift
10 3 (0.82%) Data Lake
10 3 (0.82%) Redis
11 2 (0.55%) Amazon Aurora
11 2 (0.55%) Amazon RDS
12 1 (0.27%) Amazon Athena
12 1 (0.27%) Couchbase
12 1 (0.27%) Elasticsearch
Development Applications
1 140 (38.25%) JIRA
2 133 (36.34%) SonarQube
3 131 (35.79%) GitLab
4 125 (34.15%) Sonatype Nexus
5 121 (33.06%) Selenium
6 120 (32.79%) Maven
7 115 (31.42%) Bitbucket
8 113 (30.87%) Cucumber
9 39 (10.66%) Git
10 37 (10.11%) Jenkins
11 9 (2.46%) CircleCI
12 7 (1.91%) JUnit
13 6 (1.64%) Oracle Forms
14 4 (1.09%) IBM UrbanCode
14 4 (1.09%) Jaeger
14 4 (1.09%) TeamCity
15 3 (0.82%) Octopus Deploy
16 2 (0.55%) Artifactory
16 2 (0.55%) NeoLoad
16 2 (0.55%) Team Foundation Server
General
1 212 (57.92%) Finance
2 186 (50.82%) Banking
3 119 (32.51%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 87 (23.77%) Social Skills
5 82 (22.40%) Retail
6 72 (19.67%) Corporate Banking
6 72 (19.67%) Investment Banking
7 27 (7.38%) Analytical Skills
8 11 (3.01%) Law
8 11 (3.01%) Public Sector
9 6 (1.64%) Marketing
10 5 (1.37%) Games
10 5 (1.37%) Organisational Skills
11 4 (1.09%) Documentation Skills
11 4 (1.09%) Manufacturing
11 4 (1.09%) Telecoms
12 3 (0.82%) Advertising
13 2 (0.55%) Electronics
14 1 (0.27%) Aerospace
14 1 (0.27%) Legal
Job Titles
1 180 (49.18%) Software Engineer
2 70 (19.13%) Senior
3 68 (18.58%) Lead
4 37 (10.11%) DevOps Engineer
5 31 (8.47%) Developer
6 25 (6.83%) Senior Software Engineer
7 20 (5.46%) Architect
8 18 (4.92%) Solutions Architect
9 16 (4.37%) Senior Developer
10 15 (4.10%) Cloud Engineer
11 13 (3.55%) Senior DevOps
12 12 (3.28%) Azure Engineer
12 12 (3.28%) Java Developer
12 12 (3.28%) Lead Software Engineer
13 9 (2.46%) Lead DevOps
13 9 (2.46%) Team Leader
14 8 (2.19%) Infrastructure Engineer
14 8 (2.19%) Senior Cloud Engineer
14 8 (2.19%) Senior Java Developer
15 7 (1.91%) Senior DevOps Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 170 (46.45%) React
2 148 (40.44%) Spring Boot
3 146 (39.89%) Kafka
3 146 (39.89%) Spring
4 119 (32.51%) Redux
5 117 (31.97%) CSS
5 117 (31.97%) HTML
6 112 (30.60%) JPA
7 97 (26.50%) RESTful
8 81 (22.13%) REST
9 75 (20.49%) Jest
10 74 (20.22%) HTML5
11 73 (19.95%) Sass
12 72 (19.67%) CSS3
13 49 (13.39%) Hibernate
13 49 (13.39%) Node.js
14 31 (8.47%) .NET
15 19 (5.19%) AngularJS
16 13 (3.55%) .NET Core
17 10 (2.73%) ARM Templates
Miscellaneous
1 143 (39.07%) Product Ownership
2 113 (30.87%) Enterprise Software
3 34 (9.29%) Distributed Systems
4 31 (8.47%) Cloud Native
5 26 (7.10%) Public Cloud
6 12 (3.28%) Hybrid Cloud
6 12 (3.28%) Private Cloud
7 10 (2.73%) Algorithms
8 4 (1.09%) Data Centre
8 4 (1.09%) Distributed Architecture
8 4 (1.09%) Management Information System
8 4 (1.09%) Replication
8 4 (1.09%) Team-Oriented Environment
9 3 (0.82%) Clustering
9 3 (0.82%) Data Protection Act
9 3 (0.82%) Greenfield Project
9 3 (0.82%) Legacy Systems
9 3 (0.82%) Low-Code
9 3 (0.82%) Mainframe
9 3 (0.82%) Wiki
Operating Systems
1 37 (10.11%) Linux
2 15 (4.10%) Windows
3 12 (3.28%) Unix
4 4 (1.09%) CentOS
4 4 (1.09%) Ubuntu
4 4 (1.09%) Windows Server
5 2 (0.55%) Debian
5 2 (0.55%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 2 (0.55%) Solaris
Processes & Methodologies
1 275 (75.14%) DevOps
2 247 (67.49%) CI/CD
3 220 (60.11%) Containerisation
3 220 (60.11%) Microservices
4 215 (58.74%) Software Engineering
5 206 (56.28%) Agile
6 157 (42.90%) Mentoring
6 157 (42.90%) Test Automation
7 139 (37.98%) SDLC
8 138 (37.70%) Full-Stack Development
9 121 (33.06%) Performance Optimisation
10 117 (31.97%) Front End Development
11 88 (24.04%) User Experience
12 87 (23.77%) Migration
13 77 (21.04%) TDD
14 74 (20.22%) Strategic Thinking
15 73 (19.95%) Responsive Web Design
16 68 (18.58%) Continuous Improvement
17 66 (18.03%) Problem-Solving
18 65 (17.76%) Infrastructure as Code
Programming Languages
1 217 (59.29%) Java
2 170 (46.45%) JavaScript
3 165 (45.08%) SQL
4 121 (33.06%) TypeScript
5 85 (23.22%) Python
6 37 (10.11%) C#
7 26 (7.10%) PowerShell
8 22 (6.01%) Go
9 20 (5.46%) Bash
10 6 (1.64%) PL/SQL
11 5 (1.37%) Groovy
12 3 (0.82%) PHP
12 3 (0.82%) Scala
13 2 (0.55%) Bicep
13 2 (0.55%) Rust
13 2 (0.55%) Shell Script
14 1 (0.27%) C++
14 1 (0.27%) R
14 1 (0.27%) VBA
Qualifications
1 27 (7.38%) Degree
2 23 (6.28%) AWS Certification
2 23 (6.28%) Azure Certification
3 12 (3.28%) Security Cleared
4 10 (2.73%) Computer Science Degree
5 9 (2.46%) SC Cleared
6 7 (1.91%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
7 3 (0.82%) DV Cleared
7 3 (0.82%) Linux+ Certification
7 3 (0.82%) OCP
7 3 (0.82%) Oracle Certification
7 3 (0.82%) RHCE
8 2 (0.55%) Master's Degree
8 2 (0.55%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
9 1 (0.27%) Microsoft Certification
9 1 (0.27%) PhD
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 120 (32.79%) QA
2 74 (20.22%) Accessibility
3 12 (3.28%) GDPR
4 11 (3.01%) HIPAA
5 8 (2.19%) SOC 2
6 4 (1.09%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 4 (1.09%) NIST
6 4 (1.09%) PCI DSS
7 2 (0.55%) Data Quality
8 1 (0.27%) Basel III
8 1 (0.27%) IFRS
8 1 (0.27%) IFRS 9
System Software
1 287 (78.42%) Docker
2 15 (4.10%) Hyper-V
2 15 (4.10%) VMware Infrastructure
3 14 (3.83%) Active Directory
4 8 (2.19%) Virtual Machines
5 4 (1.09%) VMware NSX
6 3 (0.82%) Dovecot
6 3 (0.82%) KVM
6 3 (0.82%) Postfix
6 3 (0.82%) vSphere
7 2 (0.55%) NFS
7 2 (0.55%) SRDF
7 2 (0.55%) Veritas Cluster Server
7 2 (0.55%) Xen
Systems Management
1 90 (24.59%) Terraform
2 45 (12.30%) Ansible
3 15 (4.10%) Prometheus
4 13 (3.55%) Grafana
5 11 (3.01%) Istio
6 9 (2.46%) Argo
7 7 (1.91%) WSUS
8 6 (1.64%) FortiGate
8 6 (1.64%) Puppet
9 5 (1.37%) Microsoft Intune
9 5 (1.37%) Progress Chef
10 4 (1.09%) Kustomize
11 3 (0.82%) Docker Swarm
12 2 (0.55%) Microsoft Data Protection Manager
12 2 (0.55%) SCCM
12 2 (0.55%) SCOM
13 1 (0.27%) Consul
13 1 (0.27%) Control-M
13 1 (0.27%) Failover Clustering
13 1 (0.27%) Rancher
Vendors
1 112 (30.60%) Solace
2 41 (11.20%) Google
3 28 (7.65%) Microsoft
4 22 (6.01%) VMware
5 13 (3.55%) Oracle
6 7 (1.91%) Cisco
6 7 (1.91%) Red Hat
7 5 (1.37%) Atlassian
7 5 (1.37%) Databricks
7 5 (1.37%) Draytek
7 5 (1.37%) Dynatrace
7 5 (1.37%) Ubiquiti
8 4 (1.09%) Ping Identity
9 3 (0.82%) IBM
9 3 (0.82%) Okta
10 2 (0.55%) EMC
10 2 (0.55%) F5
10 2 (0.55%) NetApp
10 2 (0.55%) SAP
11 1 (0.27%) New Relic