Kubernetes Job Trends in Northampton

Kubernetes (k8s)
Northamptonshire > Northampton

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in Northampton requiring Kubernetes skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 29 December 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
29 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 33 - 28
Rank change year-on-year - - +11
Permanent jobs citing Kubernetes 5 0 7
As % of all permanent jobs in Northampton 1.95% - 3.30%
As % of the Systems Management category 35.71% - 25.93%
Number of salaries quoted 3 0 7
10th Percentile £62,500 - £50,250
25th Percentile £64,375 - £61,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £70,000 - £62,500
Median % change year-on-year - - +19.05%
75th Percentile £72,500 - £64,375
90th Percentile - - £65,000
Northamptonshire median annual salary £70,000 - £62,500
% change year-on-year - - +19.05%

All Systems Management Skills
Northampton

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 Northampton.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for systems management skills 14 6 27
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Northampton 5.45% 2.44% 12.74%
Number of salaries quoted 9 2 26
10th Percentile £47,500 £37,750 £36,250
25th Percentile £53,750 £41,875 £47,813
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £62,500 £50,000 £62,500
Median % change year-on-year +25.00% -20.00% +42.05%
75th Percentile £72,500 £59,375 £64,313
90th Percentile £88,000 £64,250 £66,250
Northamptonshire median annual salary £50,000 £65,000 £62,500
% change year-on-year -23.08% +4.00% +40.45%

Kubernetes
Job Vacancy Trend in Northampton

Historical trend showing the proportion of permanent IT job postings citing Kubernetes relative to all permanent IT jobs advertised in Northampton.

Kubernetes job vacancy trend in Northampton

Kubernetes
Salary Trend in Northampton

Salary distribution trend for jobs in Northampton citing Kubernetes.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in Northampton citing Kubernetes

Kubernetes
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Northampton by Category

The following tables expand on the one above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. They cover the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each category:

Cloud Services
1 5 (100.00%) AWS
2 3 (60.00%) Azure
3 2 (40.00%) Amazon CloudWatch
3 2 (40.00%) AWS CloudFormation
3 2 (40.00%) OpenShift
3 2 (40.00%) PaaS
Development Applications
1 3 (60.00%) GitLab
1 3 (60.00%) Jenkins
2 2 (40.00%) SonarQube
3 1 (20.00%) Git
3 1 (20.00%) JUnit
3 1 (20.00%) Mockito
General
1 1 (20.00%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 3 (60.00%) Cloud Engineer
1 3 (60.00%) DevOps Engineer
2 2 (40.00%) AWS DevOps
2 2 (40.00%) AWS DevOps Engineer
2 2 (40.00%) AWS Engineer
2 2 (40.00%) Technical Engineer
3 1 (20.00%) Cloud Platform Engineer
3 1 (20.00%) Developer
3 1 (20.00%) Integration Engineer
3 1 (20.00%) Java Developer
3 1 (20.00%) Platform Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (20.00%) CSS
1 1 (20.00%) Hibernate
1 1 (20.00%) HTML
1 1 (20.00%) J2EE
1 1 (20.00%) Jest
1 1 (20.00%) JPA
1 1 (20.00%) Node.js
1 1 (20.00%) React
1 1 (20.00%) Redux
1 1 (20.00%) REST
1 1 (20.00%) RESTful
1 1 (20.00%) SOAP
1 1 (20.00%) Spring
1 1 (20.00%) Spring Boot
1 1 (20.00%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 1 (20.00%) Cloud Native
Processes & Methodologies
1 5 (100.00%) Agile
1 5 (100.00%) CI/CD
1 5 (100.00%) DevOps
2 3 (60.00%) Infrastructure as Code
3 2 (40.00%) Containerisation
3 2 (40.00%) Continuous Integration
3 2 (40.00%) Observability
3 2 (40.00%) Problem-Solving
3 2 (40.00%) SDLC
3 2 (40.00%) TDD
3 2 (40.00%) Test Automation
4 1 (20.00%) API Development
4 1 (20.00%) Code Quality
4 1 (20.00%) Continuous Improvement
4 1 (20.00%) Customer Experience
4 1 (20.00%) Design Patterns
4 1 (20.00%) Front End Development
4 1 (20.00%) Platform Engineering
4 1 (20.00%) Sprint Planning
4 1 (20.00%) Task Automation
Programming Languages
1 3 (60.00%) Java
2 2 (40.00%) Bash
2 2 (40.00%) Go
2 2 (40.00%) JavaScript
2 2 (40.00%) PowerShell
2 2 (40.00%) Python
Qualifications
1 1 (20.00%) SC Cleared
1 1 (20.00%) Security Cleared
System Software
1 5 (100.00%) Docker
Systems Management
1 4 (80.00%) Terraform
2 2 (40.00%) Ansible
Vendors
1 2 (40.00%) AppDynamics