Kubernetes Jobs in the North West

Kubernetes (k8s)
England > North West

The following table provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in the North West 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 1 December 2023 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
1 Dec 2023
Same period 2022 Same period 2021
Rank 33 33 38
Rank change year-on-year 0 +5 +6
Permanent jobs citing Kubernetes 294 697 562
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the North West 7.12% 7.75% 6.53%
As % of the Systems Management category 49.83% 45.73% 42.97%
Number of salaries quoted 235 345 453
10th Percentile £43,750 £45,000 £45,000
25th Percentile £55,500 £55,000 £52,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £70,000 £70,000 £62,500
Median % change year-on-year - +12.00% +8.70%
75th Percentile £82,548 £86,250 £77,500
90th Percentile £87,419 £97,500 £90,000
England median annual salary £75,000 £79,632 £75,000
% change year-on-year -5.82% +6.18% +11.11%

All Systems Management Skills
North West

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 West with a requirement for systems management skills.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for systems management skills 590 1,524 1,308
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the North West 14.28% 16.94% 15.20%
Number of salaries quoted 501 739 979
10th Percentile £36,250 £31,250 £32,500
25th Percentile £43,750 £41,250 £46,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £59,526 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year +0.80% -0.79% +14.29%
75th Percentile £77,715 £82,500 £76,250
90th Percentile £85,000 £91,250 £90,000
England median annual salary £65,000 £67,500 £67,500
% change year-on-year -3.70% - +8.00%

Kubernetes
Job Vacancy Trend in the North West

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

Job vacancy trend for Kubernetes in the North West

Kubernetes
Salary Trend in the North West

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

Salary trend for Kubernetes in the North West

Kubernetes
Salary Histogram in the North West

Salary distribution for jobs citing Kubernetes in the North West over the 6 months to 1 December 2023.

Salary histogram for Kubernetes in the North West

Kubernetes
Job Locations in the North West

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Kubernetes within the North West region over the 6 months to 1 December 2023. 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
Manchester +3 241 £70,000 - 51
Merseyside -14 32 £57,500 -28.13% 8
Cheshire +23 6 £72,788 +29.40% 4
Lancashire +38 3 £71,250 +4.01% 8
Cumbria +9 3 £82,500 - 3
Kubernetes
England

Kubernetes
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the North West 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 15 (5.10%) Apache Spark
2 4 (1.36%) nginx
3 3 (1.02%) Tomcat
4 1 (0.34%) IIS
4 1 (0.34%) OpenStack
Cloud Services
1 172 (58.50%) Azure
2 140 (47.62%) AWS
3 72 (24.49%) Azure DevOps
4 68 (23.13%) PaaS
5 61 (20.75%) GCP
6 59 (20.07%) IaaS
7 55 (18.71%) GitHub
8 38 (12.93%) OpenShift
9 36 (12.24%) Serverless
10 34 (11.56%) SaaS
11 13 (4.42%) Azure Monitor
12 12 (4.08%) AWS Lambda
13 10 (3.40%) AWS CloudFormation
13 10 (3.40%) Azure Service Bus
13 10 (3.40%) Google Kubernetes Engine
14 9 (3.06%) Amazon EC2
15 8 (2.72%) Amazon S3
15 8 (2.72%) Azure Cosmos DB
16 7 (2.38%) Amazon Kinesis
17 6 (2.04%) Azure App Service
Communications & Networking
1 15 (5.10%) DNS
2 12 (4.08%) Firewall
2 12 (4.08%) TCP/IP
3 11 (3.74%) HTTP
4 10 (3.40%) VPN
5 7 (2.38%) DHCP
6 6 (2.04%) Internet
7 4 (1.36%) IPv4
7 4 (1.36%) OSPF
7 4 (1.36%) VLAN
8 3 (1.02%) Ethernet VPN
8 3 (1.02%) MPLS
8 3 (1.02%) Network Security
8 3 (1.02%) VoIP
8 3 (1.02%) VXLAN
9 2 (0.68%) Asterisk PBX
9 2 (0.68%) PBX
10 1 (0.34%) IPFIX
10 1 (0.34%) Unified Communications
10 1 (0.34%) xDSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 29 (9.86%) MongoDB
2 26 (8.84%) Elasticsearch
3 16 (5.44%) PostgreSQL
4 15 (5.10%) NoSQL
5 11 (3.74%) MySQL
6 10 (3.40%) Data Lake
7 7 (2.38%) Data Warehouse
8 5 (1.70%) Amazon RDS
8 5 (1.70%) Data Hub
8 5 (1.70%) Redis
9 4 (1.36%) Azure SQL Database
9 4 (1.36%) DTS
9 4 (1.36%) DynamoDB
10 3 (1.02%) BigQuery
10 3 (1.02%) Relational Database
11 2 (0.68%) Big Data
11 2 (0.68%) InfluxDB
11 2 (0.68%) SQL Server
12 1 (0.34%) Amazon Aurora
12 1 (0.34%) Neo4j
Development Applications
1 111 (37.76%) Jenkins
2 62 (21.09%) Git
3 32 (10.88%) Cucumber
4 28 (9.52%) Selenium
5 27 (9.18%) Cypress.io
6 20 (6.80%) GitLab
7 19 (6.46%) Spinnaker
8 9 (3.06%) SonarQube
9 7 (2.38%) IBM UrbanCode
10 5 (1.70%) Sonatype Nexus
11 3 (1.02%) Bitbucket
11 3 (1.02%) Grunt
11 3 (1.02%) gulp
11 3 (1.02%) Jasmine
11 3 (1.02%) Karma Test Runner
11 3 (1.02%) PhantomJS
11 3 (1.02%) Protractor
11 3 (1.02%) Vagrant
11 3 (1.02%) WebDriver
11 3 (1.02%) webpack
General
1 67 (22.79%) Finance
2 58 (19.73%) Banking
3 44 (14.97%) Retail
4 40 (13.61%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 38 (12.93%) Social Skills
6 28 (9.52%) Aerospace
7 13 (4.42%) Analytical Skills
8 6 (2.04%) Telecoms
9 5 (1.70%) Public Sector
9 5 (1.70%) Retail Banking
10 4 (1.36%) Billing
10 4 (1.36%) Organisational Skills
11 2 (0.68%) Russian Language
12 1 (0.34%) Automotive
12 1 (0.34%) Games
12 1 (0.34%) Influencing Skills
12 1 (0.34%) Investment Banking
12 1 (0.34%) Pharmaceutical
Job Titles
1 77 (26.19%) DevOps Engineer
2 63 (21.43%) Software Engineer
3 51 (17.35%) Senior
4 44 (14.97%) Developer
5 35 (11.90%) Lead
6 34 (11.56%) Cloud Engineer
7 24 (8.16%) Azure Consultant
7 24 (8.16%) Cloud Consultant
7 24 (8.16%) Consultant
8 20 (6.80%) AWS Engineer
8 20 (6.80%) Senior Software Engineer
9 19 (6.46%) AWS DevOps
9 19 (6.46%) AWS DevOps Engineer
10 18 (6.12%) Azure Engineer
11 14 (4.76%) Security Engineer
12 13 (4.42%) Cloud Security Engineer
13 12 (4.08%) Infrastructure Engineer
13 12 (4.08%) Java Developer
13 12 (4.08%) Lead Software Engineer
13 12 (4.08%) Senior Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 40 (13.61%) Kafka
1 40 (13.61%) React
2 32 (10.88%) AngularJS
3 30 (10.20%) .NET
4 27 (9.18%) Node.js
5 21 (7.14%) Spring
6 18 (6.12%) Spring Boot
7 17 (5.78%) .NET Core
8 14 (4.76%) Jest
8 14 (4.76%) REST
9 12 (4.08%) Next.js
9 12 (4.08%) Web Services
10 10 (3.40%) RESTful
11 9 (3.06%) CSS
11 9 (3.06%) HTML
11 9 (3.06%) Vue
12 8 (2.72%) OpenID
13 7 (2.38%) jQuery
13 7 (2.38%) JSON
13 7 (2.38%) JWT
Miscellaneous
1 37 (12.59%) Public Cloud
2 29 (9.86%) Cloud Native
3 24 (8.16%) Product Ownership
4 17 (5.78%) Private Cloud
5 13 (4.42%) Data Centre
6 10 (3.40%) Onboarding
7 8 (2.72%) Mainframe
8 7 (2.38%) Blockchain
9 6 (2.04%) Distributed Systems
10 5 (1.70%) Enterprise Software
11 4 (1.36%) Linux Command Line
11 4 (1.36%) Online Banking
11 4 (1.36%) Robotics
12 3 (1.02%) Distributed Applications
12 3 (1.02%) Legacy Systems
13 2 (0.68%) Greenfield Project
13 2 (0.68%) Hackathon
13 2 (0.68%) Replication
13 2 (0.68%) Security Posture
14 1 (0.34%) Management Information System
Operating Systems
1 39 (13.27%) Linux
2 20 (6.80%) Unix
3 13 (4.42%) Windows
4 8 (2.72%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 6 (2.04%) CentOS
6 1 (0.34%) CoreOS
6 1 (0.34%) Fedora
6 1 (0.34%) Ubuntu
6 1 (0.34%) zOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 204 (69.39%) DevOps
2 178 (60.54%) Agile
3 160 (54.42%) CI/CD
4 88 (29.93%) Software Engineering
5 74 (25.17%) Microservices
6 70 (23.81%) Infrastructure as Code
7 53 (18.03%) Containerisation
8 51 (17.35%) Roadmaps
9 49 (16.67%) TDD
10 37 (12.59%) Deployment Automation
11 35 (11.90%) Mentoring
12 32 (10.88%) Continuous Integration
12 32 (10.88%) Problem-Solving
13 29 (9.86%) Project Delivery
14 28 (9.52%) Customer Experience
15 24 (8.16%) Customer Requirements
15 24 (8.16%) Open Source
15 24 (8.16%) Scrum
16 22 (7.48%) Cloud Security
17 21 (7.14%) Digital Transformation Programme
Programming Languages
1 124 (42.18%) Python
2 102 (34.69%) Java
3 63 (21.43%) JavaScript
4 50 (17.01%) Bash
5 47 (15.99%) SQL
6 37 (12.59%) TypeScript
7 35 (11.90%) PowerShell
8 24 (8.16%) C++
9 17 (5.78%) C#
9 17 (5.78%) Go
10 8 (2.72%) PHP
10 8 (2.72%) Scala
11 6 (2.04%) Perl
11 6 (2.04%) Ruby
12 4 (1.36%) Groovy
12 4 (1.36%) Shell Script
13 2 (0.68%) Bicep
Qualifications
1 57 (19.39%) Security Cleared
2 12 (4.08%) SC Cleared
3 6 (2.04%) Degree
4 5 (1.70%) Azure Certification
4 5 (1.70%) Computer Science Degree
4 5 (1.70%) DV Cleared
5 4 (1.36%) AWS Certification
5 4 (1.36%) GIAC
5 4 (1.36%) RHCE
6 3 (1.02%) BPSS Clearance
7 2 (0.68%) CCIE
7 2 (0.68%) Cisco Certification
7 2 (0.68%) JNCIE
8 1 (0.34%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 10 (3.40%) QA
2 2 (0.68%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 1 (0.34%) GDPR
3 1 (0.34%) ISO 22301
System Software
1 207 (70.41%) Docker
2 13 (4.42%) Active Directory
3 9 (3.06%) VMware Infrastructure
4 7 (2.38%) Hyper-V
5 3 (1.02%) Citrix Hypervisor
5 3 (1.02%) LXC
6 2 (0.68%) Kamailio
6 2 (0.68%) OpenSIPS
6 2 (0.68%) Virtual Machines
7 1 (0.34%) KVM
7 1 (0.34%) NFS
7 1 (0.34%) Samba
Systems Management
1 132 (44.90%) Terraform
2 51 (17.35%) Ansible
3 15 (5.10%) Grafana
4 13 (4.42%) Puppet
5 10 (3.40%) Istio
5 10 (3.40%) Prometheus
6 7 (2.38%) SCCM
7 6 (2.04%) Argo
7 6 (2.04%) Nagios
8 4 (1.36%) ZABBIX
9 3 (1.02%) Cacti
9 3 (1.02%) Progress Chef
10 2 (0.68%) linkerd
10 2 (0.68%) Podman
11 1 (0.34%) CloudForms
11 1 (0.34%) FortiGate
11 1 (0.34%) HP Fortify
11 1 (0.34%) Kibana
11 1 (0.34%) logstash
11 1 (0.34%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 35 (11.90%) Microsoft
2 22 (7.48%) Google
3 16 (5.44%) Red Hat
4 15 (5.10%) Confluent
5 14 (4.76%) Oracle
6 9 (3.06%) VMware
7 6 (2.04%) IBM
8 4 (1.36%) Splunk
8 4 (1.36%) Veracode
9 3 (1.02%) Adobe
10 1 (0.34%) Arista
10 1 (0.34%) BT
10 1 (0.34%) Dell
10 1 (0.34%) Dynatrace
10 1 (0.34%) EMC
10 1 (0.34%) Juniper
10 1 (0.34%) NetApp
10 1 (0.34%) New Relic
10 1 (0.34%) Salesforce
10 1 (0.34%) SolarWinds