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

6 months to
6 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 78 58 28
Rank change year-on-year -20 -30 +10
Permanent jobs citing Kubernetes 284 450 821
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the North West 2.91% 5.66% 8.73%
As % of the Systems Management category 41.04% 43.65% 53.66%
Number of salaries quoted 181 288 491
10th Percentile £47,500 £48,750 £45,000
25th Percentile £52,500 £54,688 £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 £81,250 £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 692 1,031 1,530
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the North West 7.09% 12.98% 16.27%
Number of salaries quoted 529 677 937
10th Percentile £29,250 £32,800 £32,500
25th Percentile £40,000 £42,500 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,500 £57,810 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -0.54% -3.65% +11.11%
75th Percentile £71,250 £76,250 £77,500
90th Percentile £80,000 £86,250 £86,550
England median annual salary £61,103 £67,500 £70,000
% change year-on-year -9.48% -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 6 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 6 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 -8 218 £65,000 -6.40% 47
Cheshire 0 33 £52,500 -18.29% 8
Merseyside -13 17 £55,000 -33.33% 1
Lancashire -18 11 £65,000 +18.18% 6
Cumbria -3 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
1 178 (62.68%) 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 31 (10.92%) Azure DevOps
10 29 (10.21%) Serverless
11 21 (7.39%) AWS CloudFormation
12 18 (6.34%) AWS Lambda
12 18 (6.34%) SaaS
13 16 (5.63%) OpenShift
14 10 (3.52%) GitHub Actions
14 10 (3.52%) Google Kubernetes Engine
15 8 (2.82%) Amazon EC2
15 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 20 (7.04%) MongoDB
4 17 (5.99%) Elasticsearch
5 16 (5.63%) PostgreSQL
6 15 (5.28%) SQL Server
7 14 (4.93%) Big Data
8 12 (4.23%) NoSQL
9 11 (3.87%) Cloudera CDH
9 11 (3.87%) Hadoop
10 6 (2.11%) Relational Database
11 4 (1.41%) BigQuery
12 3 (1.06%) Flink
12 3 (1.06%) Power BI
13 2 (0.70%) DocumentDB
13 2 (0.70%) InfluxDB
13 2 (0.70%) RDBMS
14 1 (0.35%) Azure SQL Database
14 1 (0.35%) DynamoDB
14 1 (0.35%) Redis
Development Applications
1 48 (16.90%) Jenkins
2 31 (10.92%) Git
2 31 (10.92%) JIRA
3 24 (8.45%) GitLab
4 8 (2.82%) Spinnaker
5 7 (2.46%) Gradle
6 5 (1.76%) Cypress.io
7 4 (1.41%) Cucumber
7 4 (1.41%) Selenium
7 4 (1.41%) Team Foundation Server
8 3 (1.06%) git-flow
8 3 (1.06%) MSBuild
8 3 (1.06%) Octopus Deploy
8 3 (1.06%) Rational DOORS
8 3 (1.06%) Subversion
8 3 (1.06%) TeamCity
8 3 (1.06%) Visual Studio Team System
9 2 (0.70%) Maven
9 2 (0.70%) SonarQube
10 1 (0.35%) RSpec
General
1 45 (15.85%) Public Sector
2 43 (15.14%) Inclusion and Diversity
3 34 (11.97%) Finance
3 34 (11.97%) Retail
4 28 (9.86%) Aerospace
5 16 (5.63%) Social Skills
6 14 (4.93%) Banking
7 11 (3.87%) 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%) 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
11 1 (0.35%) Retail Banking
Job Titles
1 96 (33.80%) Senior
2 87 (30.63%) DevOps Engineer
3 62 (21.83%) 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 19 (6.69%) Architect
7 19 (6.69%) Azure Engineer
7 19 (6.69%) Consultant
8 18 (6.34%) Senior Developer
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%) Azure DevOps Engineer
13 11 (3.87%) C# Developer
13 11 (3.87%) Full Stack Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 62 (21.83%) React
2 43 (15.14%) Node.js
3 33 (11.62%) .NET
4 31 (10.92%) RabbitMQ
4 31 (10.92%) Spring
5 30 (10.56%) AngularJS
6 23 (8.10%) REST
6 23 (8.10%) Spring Boot
7 18 (6.34%) Kafka
8 15 (5.28%) .NET Core
9 14 (4.93%) CSS
9 14 (4.93%) gRPC
9 14 (4.93%) Vue
10 11 (3.87%) Material-UI
10 11 (3.87%) OpenAPI
10 11 (3.87%) Swagger
11 10 (3.52%) HTML
11 10 (3.52%) RESTful
11 10 (3.52%) YAML
12 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 11 (3.87%) Data Centre
7 11 (3.87%) Product Ownership
8 7 (2.46%) Private Cloud
9 6 (2.11%) Public Cloud
10 4 (1.41%) Mobile App
10 4 (1.41%) NFT
10 4 (1.41%) Onboarding
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%) Data Structures
Operating Systems
1 74 (26.06%) Linux
2 22 (7.75%) Windows
3 15 (5.28%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 12 (4.23%) CentOS
4 12 (4.23%) Ubuntu
5 11 (3.87%) Debian
5 11 (3.87%) Unix
6 10 (3.52%) Data ONTAP
7 6 (2.11%) Android
8 5 (1.76%) Apple iOS
9 3 (1.06%) Embedded Linux
10 2 (0.70%) Windows Server
11 1 (0.35%) CoreOS
11 1 (0.35%) VMS
11 1 (0.35%) zOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 164 (57.75%) Agile
2 145 (51.06%) DevOps
3 128 (45.07%) CI/CD
4 86 (30.28%) Mentoring
5 76 (26.76%) Containerisation
6 73 (25.70%) Software Engineering
7 60 (21.13%) Infrastructure as Code
8 57 (20.07%) Coaching
9 56 (19.72%) Microservices
10 42 (14.79%) Observability
11 41 (14.44%) Test Automation
12 40 (14.08%) Artificial Intelligence
12 40 (14.08%) Scrum
12 40 (14.08%) TDD
13 38 (13.38%) Actionable Insight
13 38 (13.38%) Kanban
14 36 (12.68%) Continuous Integration
14 36 (12.68%) Secrets Management
15 35 (12.32%) Collaborative Working
16 33 (11.62%) Problem-Solving
Programming Languages
1 72 (25.35%) Java
2 64 (22.54%) Python
3 57 (20.07%) JavaScript
4 38 (13.38%) C#
5 26 (9.15%) PowerShell
6 22 (7.75%) TypeScript
7 21 (7.39%) SQL
8 16 (5.63%) Bash
8 16 (5.63%) Go
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%) 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 4 (1.41%) Accessibility
4 1 (0.35%) SLA
System Software
1 164 (57.75%) 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 51 (17.96%) Prometheus
4 20 (7.04%) Puppet
5 15 (5.28%) Single Sign-On
6 10 (3.52%) vCenter Server
7 9 (3.17%) Progress Chef
8 5 (1.76%) Grafana
9 3 (1.06%) Podman
10 1 (0.35%) CA Endevor
10 1 (0.35%) Icinga
10 1 (0.35%) Kiali
10 1 (0.35%) Kibana
10 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%) LogicMonitor
12 3 (1.06%) PagerDuty
12 3 (1.06%) Veeam
13 2 (0.70%) Atlassian
14 1 (0.35%) Cisco
14 1 (0.35%) Fortinet
14 1 (0.35%) NVIDIA