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 26 April 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
26 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 84 61 29
Rank change year-on-year -23 -32 0
Permanent jobs citing Kubernetes 475 971 1,411
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the North of England 2.75% 5.54% 7.83%
As % of the Systems Management category 34.45% 44.79% 49.40%
Number of salaries quoted 341 621 981
10th Percentile £43,750 £45,000 £46,250
25th Percentile £52,500 £53,750 £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 £77,500 £77,500 £77,500
% change year-on-year - - +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 1,379 2,168 2,856
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the North of England 7.98% 12.37% 15.84%
Number of salaries quoted 1,076 1,401 2,000
10th Percentile £29,000 £32,000 £33,500
25th Percentile £38,000 £42,500 £44,813
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £60,000 £59,513
Median % change year-on-year -8.33% +0.82% +8.89%
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 26 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 26 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% 67
Yorkshire -19 162 £62,500 -8.78% 36
North East -35 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 (6.53%) Apache
2 23 (4.84%) Apache Spark
3 6 (1.26%) Apache Airflow
3 6 (1.26%) 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 (55.58%) Azure
2 254 (53.47%) AWS
3 81 (17.05%) Azure DevOps
4 72 (15.16%) GCP
5 62 (13.05%) Amazon S3
5 62 (13.05%) GitHub
6 58 (12.21%) Amazon EKS
7 38 (8.00%) Route 53
8 37 (7.79%) OCI
9 36 (7.58%) Amazon ECR
9 36 (7.58%) IBM Cloud
10 34 (7.16%) Serverless
11 31 (6.53%) AWS CloudFormation
11 31 (6.53%) GitHub Actions
12 30 (6.32%) Azure AKS
13 26 (5.47%) SaaS
14 23 (4.84%) AWS Lambda
15 22 (4.63%) Azure Service Bus
16 20 (4.21%) Cloud Computing
17 18 (3.79%) OpenShift
Communications & Networking
1 42 (8.84%) Firewall
2 31 (6.53%) WAN
3 30 (6.32%) SD-WAN
4 25 (5.26%) VPN
5 16 (3.37%) Internet
5 16 (3.37%) Network Security
6 15 (3.16%) IPsec
6 15 (3.16%) SNMP
7 11 (2.32%) AMQP
7 11 (2.32%) DNS
8 9 (1.89%) TCP/IP
9 5 (1.05%) DHCP
10 3 (0.63%) HTTP
10 3 (0.63%) MQTT
11 2 (0.42%) BGP
11 2 (0.42%) LAN
11 2 (0.42%) MPLS
11 2 (0.42%) OSPF
12 1 (0.21%) SAN
12 1 (0.21%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 45 (9.47%) Amazon RDS
2 39 (8.21%) MySQL
3 35 (7.37%) Elasticsearch
4 33 (6.95%) MongoDB
4 33 (6.95%) PostgreSQL
5 29 (6.11%) SQL Server
6 18 (3.79%) NoSQL
7 17 (3.58%) 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 (1.26%) Azure SQL Database
11 6 (1.26%) 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 81 (17.05%) Jenkins
2 62 (13.05%) Git
3 31 (6.53%) GitLab
3 31 (6.53%) JIRA
4 22 (4.63%) CircleCI
5 10 (2.11%) Spinnaker
6 9 (1.89%) Gradle
6 9 (1.89%) Team Foundation Server
7 7 (1.47%) Octopus Deploy
8 5 (1.05%) Cucumber
8 5 (1.05%) Cypress.io
9 4 (0.84%) Artifactory
9 4 (0.84%) Selenium
9 4 (0.84%) SonarQube
9 4 (0.84%) webpack
10 3 (0.63%) Atlassian Bamboo
10 3 (0.63%) git-flow
10 3 (0.63%) Maven
10 3 (0.63%) Subversion
10 3 (0.63%) Visual Studio Team System
General
1 72 (15.16%) Public Sector
2 63 (13.26%) Finance
3 59 (12.42%) Social Skills
4 47 (9.89%) Retail
5 43 (9.05%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 36 (7.58%) Banking
7 35 (7.37%) Analytical Skills
8 27 (5.68%) Aerospace
9 19 (4.00%) Organisational Skills
10 8 (1.68%) Influencing Skills
11 6 (1.26%) Games
11 6 (1.26%) Marketing
12 5 (1.05%) Tech for Good
12 5 (1.05%) Telecoms
13 4 (0.84%) Publishing
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
1 130 (27.37%) DevOps Engineer
2 128 (26.95%) Senior
3 105 (22.11%) Developer
4 63 (13.26%) Lead
5 61 (12.84%) Software Engineer
6 57 (12.00%) Architect
7 47 (9.89%) Senior DevOps
7 47 (9.89%) Senior DevOps Engineer
8 36 (7.58%) Software Developer
9 35 (7.37%) Azure Engineer
10 34 (7.16%) Senior Developer
11 28 (5.89%) Cloud Engineer
12 26 (5.47%) Security Architect
13 25 (5.26%) Consultant
14 23 (4.84%) .NET Developer
14 23 (4.84%) C# Developer
15 22 (4.63%) Full Stack Developer
16 21 (4.42%) Platform Engineer
17 20 (4.21%) Lead Architect
17 20 (4.21%) Lead Security Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 93 (19.58%) .NET
1 93 (19.58%) React
2 63 (13.26%) AngularJS
3 59 (12.42%) Node.js
4 49 (10.32%) .NET Core
5 46 (9.68%) RabbitMQ
6 44 (9.26%) Spring
7 39 (8.21%) RESTful
8 34 (7.16%) Kafka
8 34 (7.16%) Spring Boot
9 30 (6.32%) ASP.NET
10 29 (6.11%) .NET Framework
10 29 (6.11%) CSS
10 29 (6.11%) REST
10 29 (6.11%) YAML
11 25 (5.26%) HTML
12 24 (5.05%) Entity Framework
13 19 (4.00%) ASP.NET Web API
14 17 (3.58%) Vue
15 16 (3.37%) Razor View Engine
Miscellaneous
1 40 (8.42%) Public Cloud
2 38 (8.00%) Blockchain
2 38 (8.00%) Hybrid Cloud
3 36 (7.58%) e-Learning
4 34 (7.16%) Management Information System
5 26 (5.47%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
6 24 (5.05%) Distributed Systems
6 24 (5.05%) Product Ownership
7 22 (4.63%) Data Centre
7 22 (4.63%) Greenfield Project
8 21 (4.42%) Cloud Native
9 12 (2.53%) Private Cloud
10 11 (2.32%) Linux Command Line
11 10 (2.11%) Podcast
12 8 (1.68%) IoT
13 6 (1.26%) Client/Server
13 6 (1.26%) NHS
14 5 (1.05%) Online Games
15 4 (0.84%) Distributed Applications
15 4 (0.84%) Mobile App
Operating Systems
1 111 (23.37%) Linux
2 51 (10.74%) Windows
3 17 (3.58%) 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 (1.26%) 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
1 257 (54.11%) DevOps
2 232 (48.84%) Agile
3 227 (47.79%) CI/CD
4 144 (30.32%) Containerisation
5 112 (23.58%) Infrastructure as Code
6 111 (23.37%) Microservices
7 109 (22.95%) Software Engineering
8 106 (22.32%) Mentoring
9 78 (16.42%) Problem-Solving
10 62 (13.05%) Coaching
11 59 (12.42%) Scrum
12 58 (12.21%) Continuous Integration
13 57 (12.00%) TDD
14 55 (11.58%) Full Stack Development
15 49 (10.32%) Test Automation
16 47 (9.89%) Observability
17 45 (9.47%) Secrets Management
18 44 (9.26%) Actionable Insight
18 44 (9.26%) Artificial Intelligence
19 43 (9.05%) Configuration Management
Programming Languages
1 111 (23.37%) Python
2 98 (20.63%) C#
2 98 (20.63%) Java
3 86 (18.11%) JavaScript
4 61 (12.84%) PowerShell
4 61 (12.84%) SQL
5 46 (9.68%) TypeScript
6 35 (7.37%) Bash
7 25 (5.26%) Go
8 23 (4.84%) Ruby
9 20 (4.21%) PHP
10 10 (2.11%) Perl
11 9 (1.89%) C++
11 9 (1.89%) T-SQL
12 7 (1.47%) 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 (8.84%) Azure Certification
1 42 (8.84%) Security Cleared
2 37 (7.79%) AWS Certification
3 33 (6.95%) Degree
4 31 (6.53%) CISSP
5 29 (6.11%) DV Cleared
6 26 (5.47%) (ISC)2 CCSP
6 26 (5.47%) CCSK
6 26 (5.47%) CCSP
6 26 (5.47%) Cisco Certification
6 26 (5.47%) CISM
7 18 (3.79%) Microsoft Certification
7 18 (3.79%) SC Cleared
8 13 (2.74%) Computer Science Degree
9 5 (1.05%) TOGAF Certification
10 3 (0.63%) PhD
11 1 (0.21%) BPSS Clearance
11 1 (0.21%) ITIL Certification
11 1 (0.21%) Master's Degree
11 1 (0.21%) PMI Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 27 (5.68%) NIST
2 14 (2.95%) QA
3 6 (1.26%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 2 (0.42%) 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
1 302 (63.58%) Docker
2 18 (3.79%) VMware Infrastructure
3 12 (2.53%) Hyper-V
4 10 (2.11%) 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 (42.53%) Terraform
2 80 (16.84%) Ansible
3 76 (16.00%) Prometheus
4 32 (6.74%) Puppet
5 27 (5.68%) Grafana
6 26 (5.47%) Single Sign-On
7 17 (3.58%) Progress Chef
8 15 (3.16%) vCenter Server
9 6 (1.26%) Istio
9 6 (1.26%) 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%) Kustomize
14 1 (0.21%) Sysdig
Vendors
1 67 (14.11%) Red Hat
2 65 (13.68%) Microsoft
3 39 (8.21%) Google
4 37 (7.79%) IBM
5 36 (7.58%) Dynatrace
6 24 (5.05%) Oracle
7 22 (4.63%) VMware
8 16 (3.37%) SaltStack
9 15 (3.16%) NetApp
9 15 (3.16%) Palo Alto
9 15 (3.16%) SolidFire
10 8 (1.68%) Confluent
10 8 (1.68%) Facebook
11 7 (1.47%) SAP
12 6 (1.26%) 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