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 10 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
10 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 79 55 28
Rank change year-on-year -24 -27 +8
Permanent jobs citing Kubernetes 284 446 816
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the North West 2.88% 5.70% 8.75%
As % of the Systems Management category 41.22% 43.34% 53.86%
Number of salaries quoted 181 287 485
10th Percentile £47,500 £48,750 £42,500
25th Percentile £52,500 £55,000 £52,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £62,500 £69,447 £67,350
Median % change year-on-year -10.00% +3.11% +12.25%
75th Percentile £77,500 £80,000 £85,000
90th Percentile £85,000 £90,000 £90,000
England median annual salary £77,500 £77,500 £77,500
% change year-on-year - - +10.71%

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 689 1,029 1,515
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the North West 6.99% 13.16% 16.24%
Number of salaries quoted 526 676 921
10th Percentile £29,250 £33,250 £32,500
25th Percentile £40,000 £43,750 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,500 £59,526 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -3.40% -0.79% +11.11%
75th Percentile £71,250 £76,250 £77,500
90th Percentile £80,000 £86,250 £86,250
England median annual salary £61,206 £67,500 £70,000
% change year-on-year -9.32% -3.57% +7.69%

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 10 May 2024.

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 10 May 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
Manchester -13 218 £65,000 -6.40% 46
Cheshire +6 33 £52,500 -18.29% 7
Merseyside -23 16 £55,000 -33.33%
Lancashire -17 12 £65,000 +18.18% 5
Cumbria -4 4 £65,000 -
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 25 (8.80%) Apache
2 21 (7.39%) Apache Spark
3 3 (1.06%) Apache Airflow
4 1 (0.35%) Jetty
4 1 (0.35%) nginx
4 1 (0.35%) OpenStack
4 1 (0.35%) WordPress
Business Applications
1 1 (0.35%) Shopify
Cloud Services
1 177 (62.32%) AWS
2 133 (46.83%) Azure
3 56 (19.72%) Amazon EKS
4 50 (17.61%) Amazon S3
5 44 (15.49%) GCP
6 37 (13.03%) OCI
7 36 (12.68%) Amazon ECR
7 36 (12.68%) IBM Cloud
7 36 (12.68%) Route 53
8 32 (11.27%) GitHub
9 29 (10.21%) Azure DevOps
9 29 (10.21%) Serverless
10 19 (6.69%) AWS CloudFormation
11 18 (6.34%) AWS Lambda
11 18 (6.34%) OpenShift
11 18 (6.34%) SaaS
12 10 (3.52%) GitHub Actions
12 10 (3.52%) Google Kubernetes Engine
13 8 (2.82%) Amazon EC2
13 8 (2.82%) Azure AKS
Communications & Networking
1 21 (7.39%) Firewall
2 17 (5.99%) WAN
3 16 (5.63%) SD-WAN
4 11 (3.87%) AMQP
4 11 (3.87%) Internet
4 11 (3.87%) VPN
5 10 (3.52%) IPsec
5 10 (3.52%) SNMP
6 5 (1.76%) DNS
6 5 (1.76%) HTTP
7 4 (1.41%) Network Security
8 2 (0.70%) MQTT
8 2 (0.70%) TCP/IP
9 1 (0.35%) InfiniBand
9 1 (0.35%) LAN
9 1 (0.35%) SAN
9 1 (0.35%) SMTP
9 1 (0.35%) VoIP
9 1 (0.35%) VSAN
9 1 (0.35%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 40 (14.08%) Amazon RDS
2 30 (10.56%) MySQL
3 21 (7.39%) MongoDB
4 17 (5.99%) Elasticsearch
5 16 (5.63%) PostgreSQL
5 16 (5.63%) SQL Server
6 14 (4.93%) Big Data
7 12 (4.23%) NoSQL
8 11 (3.87%) Cloudera CDH
8 11 (3.87%) Hadoop
9 6 (2.11%) Relational Database
10 4 (1.41%) BigQuery
11 3 (1.06%) Flink
11 3 (1.06%) Power BI
12 2 (0.70%) DocumentDB
12 2 (0.70%) RDBMS
13 1 (0.35%) Amazon Aurora
13 1 (0.35%) Azure SQL Database
13 1 (0.35%) CockroachDB
13 1 (0.35%) DynamoDB
Development Applications
1 46 (16.20%) Jenkins
2 31 (10.92%) Git
2 31 (10.92%) JIRA
3 22 (7.75%) GitLab
4 7 (2.46%) Gradle
4 7 (2.46%) Spinnaker
5 5 (1.76%) Cypress.io
5 5 (1.76%) Team Foundation Server
6 4 (1.41%) Cucumber
6 4 (1.41%) Selenium
7 3 (1.06%) git-flow
7 3 (1.06%) MSBuild
7 3 (1.06%) Octopus Deploy
7 3 (1.06%) Rational DOORS
7 3 (1.06%) Subversion
7 3 (1.06%) TeamCity
7 3 (1.06%) Visual Studio Team System
8 2 (0.70%) Maven
9 1 (0.35%) RSpec
9 1 (0.35%) SonarQube
General
1 45 (15.85%) Public Sector
2 43 (15.14%) Inclusion and Diversity
3 33 (11.62%) Finance
3 33 (11.62%) Retail
4 28 (9.86%) Aerospace
5 17 (5.99%) Social Skills
6 13 (4.58%) Banking
7 12 (4.23%) Analytical Skills
8 4 (1.41%) Marketing
8 4 (1.41%) Publishing
8 4 (1.41%) Tech for Good
8 4 (1.41%) Telecoms
9 3 (1.06%) Law
10 2 (0.70%) Health Technology
10 2 (0.70%) Legal
11 1 (0.35%) Automotive
11 1 (0.35%) Back Office
11 1 (0.35%) Documentation Skills
11 1 (0.35%) Games
11 1 (0.35%) Investment Banking
Job Titles
1 96 (33.80%) Senior
2 84 (29.58%) DevOps Engineer
3 66 (23.24%) Developer
4 48 (16.90%) Software Engineer
5 41 (14.44%) Senior DevOps
5 41 (14.44%) Senior DevOps Engineer
6 31 (10.92%) Lead
7 20 (7.04%) Senior Developer
8 19 (6.69%) Architect
8 19 (6.69%) Consultant
9 16 (5.63%) Azure Engineer
9 16 (5.63%) Software Developer
10 15 (5.28%) Security Architect
11 14 (4.93%) AWS Engineer
11 14 (4.93%) Cloud Engineer
12 12 (4.23%) .NET Developer
12 12 (4.23%) DV Cleared Software Engineer
13 11 (3.87%) C# Developer
13 11 (3.87%) Full Stack Developer
14 10 (3.52%) NetApp Consultant
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 62 (21.83%) React
2 43 (15.14%) Node.js
3 32 (11.27%) .NET
4 31 (10.92%) RabbitMQ
4 31 (10.92%) Spring
5 29 (10.21%) AngularJS
6 24 (8.45%) REST
7 23 (8.10%) Spring Boot
8 17 (5.99%) Kafka
9 15 (5.28%) CSS
10 14 (4.93%) .NET Core
10 14 (4.93%) gRPC
10 14 (4.93%) Vue
11 13 (4.58%) Swagger
12 11 (3.87%) HTML
12 11 (3.87%) Material-UI
12 11 (3.87%) OpenAPI
13 10 (3.52%) RESTful
13 10 (3.52%) YAML
14 8 (2.82%) ASP.NET
Miscellaneous
1 40 (14.08%) Blockchain
2 37 (13.03%) Hybrid Cloud
3 36 (12.68%) e-Learning
4 19 (6.69%) Cloud Native
4 19 (6.69%) Greenfield Project
5 18 (6.34%) Management Information System
6 15 (5.28%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
7 12 (4.23%) Product Ownership
8 11 (3.87%) Data Centre
9 7 (2.46%) Private Cloud
10 4 (1.41%) Mobile App
10 4 (1.41%) NFT
10 4 (1.41%) Onboarding
10 4 (1.41%) Public Cloud
10 4 (1.41%) Web3
11 3 (1.06%) Algorithms
11 3 (1.06%) Device Driver
11 3 (1.06%) Legacy Systems
12 2 (0.70%) Data Protection Act
12 2 (0.70%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 71 (25.00%) Linux
2 19 (6.69%) Windows
3 15 (5.28%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 12 (4.23%) CentOS
4 12 (4.23%) Ubuntu
5 11 (3.87%) Debian
6 10 (3.52%) Data ONTAP
6 10 (3.52%) Unix
7 7 (2.46%) Android
8 5 (1.76%) Apple iOS
9 3 (1.06%) Embedded Linux
10 2 (0.70%) Windows Server
11 1 (0.35%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 163 (57.39%) Agile
2 144 (50.70%) DevOps
3 125 (44.01%) CI/CD
4 84 (29.58%) Mentoring
5 73 (25.70%) Containerisation
6 71 (25.00%) Software Engineering
7 57 (20.07%) Coaching
7 57 (20.07%) Infrastructure as Code
8 52 (18.31%) Microservices
9 42 (14.79%) Artificial Intelligence
9 42 (14.79%) Observability
10 40 (14.08%) Test Automation
11 38 (13.38%) Scrum
11 38 (13.38%) TDD
12 36 (12.68%) Actionable Insight
12 36 (12.68%) Kanban
12 36 (12.68%) Secrets Management
13 35 (12.32%) Collaborative Working
13 35 (12.32%) Continuous Integration
14 32 (11.27%) Problem-Solving
Programming Languages
1 74 (26.06%) Java
2 66 (23.24%) Python
3 58 (20.42%) JavaScript
4 38 (13.38%) C#
5 24 (8.45%) PowerShell
6 23 (8.10%) TypeScript
7 20 (7.04%) SQL
8 17 (5.99%) Go
9 14 (4.93%) Bash
9 14 (4.93%) PHP
10 12 (4.23%) Ruby
11 9 (3.17%) Perl
12 6 (2.11%) C++
13 4 (1.41%) C
14 1 (0.35%) MATLAB
14 1 (0.35%) Scala
14 1 (0.35%) Shell Script
14 1 (0.35%) T-SQL
14 1 (0.35%) XAML
Qualifications
1 39 (13.73%) Security Cleared
2 30 (10.56%) DV Cleared
3 24 (8.45%) AWS Certification
4 19 (6.69%) Azure Certification
5 15 (5.28%) (ISC)2 CCSP
5 15 (5.28%) CCSK
5 15 (5.28%) CCSP
5 15 (5.28%) Cisco Certification
5 15 (5.28%) CISM
5 15 (5.28%) CISSP
5 15 (5.28%) Degree
5 15 (5.28%) SC Cleared
6 13 (4.58%) Microsoft Certification
7 3 (1.06%) PhD
8 2 (0.70%) Computer Science Degree
9 1 (0.35%) BPSS Clearance
9 1 (0.35%) Master's Degree
9 1 (0.35%) PMI Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 16 (5.63%) NIST
2 7 (2.46%) QA
3 5 (1.76%) Accessibility
4 1 (0.35%) SLA
System Software
1 161 (56.69%) Docker
2 12 (4.23%) VMware Infrastructure
3 4 (1.41%) Hyper-V
4 3 (1.06%) Embedded Firmware
4 3 (1.06%) Firmware
5 2 (0.70%) Active Directory
6 1 (0.35%) Dovecot
6 1 (0.35%) Lustre
6 1 (0.35%) Postfix
6 1 (0.35%) Slurm Workload Manager
6 1 (0.35%) Virtual Machines
6 1 (0.35%) VMware ESXi
Systems Management
1 148 (52.11%) Terraform
2 63 (22.18%) Ansible
3 49 (17.25%) Prometheus
4 20 (7.04%) Puppet
5 16 (5.63%) Single Sign-On
6 10 (3.52%) vCenter Server
7 9 (3.17%) Progress Chef
8 3 (1.06%) Grafana
8 3 (1.06%) Podman
9 1 (0.35%) Icinga
9 1 (0.35%) Kiali
9 1 (0.35%) Kibana
9 1 (0.35%) Proxmox
Vendors
1 60 (21.13%) Red Hat
2 37 (13.03%) IBM
3 36 (12.68%) Dynatrace
4 29 (10.21%) Microsoft
5 27 (9.51%) Google
6 13 (4.58%) VMware
7 12 (4.23%) Oracle
8 11 (3.87%) SaltStack
9 10 (3.52%) NetApp
9 10 (3.52%) Palo Alto
9 10 (3.52%) SolidFire
10 8 (2.82%) Facebook
11 7 (2.46%) Confluent
12 3 (1.06%) Atlassian
12 3 (1.06%) LogicMonitor
12 3 (1.06%) PagerDuty
12 3 (1.06%) Veeam
13 1 (0.35%) Cisco
13 1 (0.35%) Fortinet
13 1 (0.35%) NVIDIA