Kubernetes Jobs in Northern Ireland

Kubernetes (k8s)
UK > Northern Ireland

The table below provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in Northern Ireland requiring Kubernetes skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the annual salaries offered in vacancies that cited Kubernetes over the 6 months leading up to 20 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
20 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 27 53 31
Rank change year-on-year +26 -22 -7
Permanent jobs citing Kubernetes 10 21 95
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Northern Ireland 3.73% 2.98% 10.88%
As % of the Systems Management category 55.56% 45.65% 73.64%
Number of salaries quoted 10 5 9
10th Percentile £42,500 £54,250 £33,000
25th Percentile £50,000 £70,000 £52,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £75,000 £72,500
Median % change year-on-year -26.67% +3.45% +38.10%
75th Percentile £60,000 £77,500 £78,750
90th Percentile £62,750 £104,500 £82,500
UK median annual salary £82,500 £75,000 £75,000
% change year-on-year +10.00% - -

All Systems Management Skills
Northern Ireland

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 Northern Ireland.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for systems management skills 18 46 129
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Northern Ireland 6.72% 6.52% 14.78%
Number of salaries quoted 11 24 20
10th Percentile £42,500 £49,325 £31,250
25th Percentile £50,000 £51,250 £32,875
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £65,000 £45,000
Median % change year-on-year -15.38% +44.44% -14.29%
75th Percentile £60,000 £90,000 £78,750
90th Percentile £87,500 £103,750 £82,500
UK median annual salary £67,500 £60,500 £67,500
% change year-on-year +11.57% -10.37% -3.57%

Kubernetes
Job Vacancy Trend in Northern Ireland

Job postings citing Kubernetes as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in Northern Ireland.

Job vacancy trend for Kubernetes in Northern Ireland

Kubernetes
Salary Trend in Northern Ireland

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing Kubernetes in Northern Ireland.

Salary trend for Kubernetes in Northern Ireland

Kubernetes
Salary Histogram in Northern Ireland

Salary distribution for jobs citing Kubernetes in Northern Ireland over the 6 months to 20 May 2025.

Salary histogram for Kubernetes in Northern Ireland

Kubernetes
Job Locations in Northern Ireland

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Kubernetes within the Northern Ireland region over the 6 months to 20 May 2025. 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
County Antrim +29 10 £55,000 -26.67% 41
Kubernetes
UK

Kubernetes
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Northern Ireland 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 6 (60.00%) nginx
2 5 (50.00%) Tomcat
3 1 (10.00%) Apache Solr
3 1 (10.00%) Apache Spark
Cloud Services
1 9 (90.00%) AWS
2 5 (50.00%) Amazon ElastiCache
2 5 (50.00%) Amazon OpenSearch
2 5 (50.00%) Amazon SQS
3 3 (30.00%) Azure
4 2 (20.00%) Azure DevOps
Communications & Networking
1 1 (10.00%) DNS
1 1 (10.00%) HTTPS
1 1 (10.00%) IPsec
1 1 (10.00%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 7 (70.00%) PostgreSQL
2 6 (60.00%) Elasticsearch
3 5 (50.00%) Amazon Aurora
3 5 (50.00%) Amazon RDS
4 2 (20.00%) Apache Cassandra
4 2 (20.00%) DB2
4 2 (20.00%) NoSQL
5 1 (10.00%) Apache Hive
5 1 (10.00%) Couchbase
5 1 (10.00%) MySQL
Development Applications
1 8 (80.00%) Jenkins
2 5 (50.00%) Bitbucket
2 5 (50.00%) Cucumber
2 5 (50.00%) JUnit
2 5 (50.00%) Maven
2 5 (50.00%) Mockito
2 5 (50.00%) Postman
2 5 (50.00%) Selenium
2 5 (50.00%) SonarQube
2 5 (50.00%) TestNG
General
1 8 (80.00%) Finance
2 7 (70.00%) Analytical Skills
2 7 (70.00%) Social Skills
3 5 (50.00%) Manufacturing
3 5 (50.00%) Public Sector
4 3 (30.00%) Advertising
5 1 (10.00%) Financial Institution
Job Titles
1 8 (80.00%) Java Engineer
2 3 (30.00%) Support Engineer
3 1 (10.00%) Developer
3 1 (10.00%) DevOps Engineer
3 1 (10.00%) GCP DevOps
3 1 (10.00%) GCP DevOps Engineer
3 1 (10.00%) GCP Engineer
3 1 (10.00%) Java Developer
3 1 (10.00%) Java Software Developer
3 1 (10.00%) Site Reliability Engineer
3 1 (10.00%) Software Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 9 (90.00%) Spring
1 9 (90.00%) Spring Boot
2 7 (70.00%) Kafka
3 6 (60.00%) Elastic Stack
4 5 (50.00%) Gherkin
4 5 (50.00%) Guice
4 5 (50.00%) JAX-RS
4 5 (50.00%) Mustache
4 5 (50.00%) OpenAPI
4 5 (50.00%) REST
4 5 (50.00%) RESTful
4 5 (50.00%) Swagger
4 5 (50.00%) WireMock
5 3 (30.00%) AngularJS
6 2 (20.00%) Middleware
6 2 (20.00%) React
7 1 (10.00%) JSON
7 1 (10.00%) Keycloak
7 1 (10.00%) RabbitMQ
Miscellaneous
1 5 (50.00%) Life Science
2 2 (20.00%) Analytical Mindset
Processes & Methodologies
1 9 (90.00%) Problem-Solving
2 7 (70.00%) CI/CD
3 6 (60.00%) Test Automation
4 5 (50.00%) Auto-Scaling
4 5 (50.00%) BDD
4 5 (50.00%) Code Quality
4 5 (50.00%) Dependency Injection
4 5 (50.00%) Innovative Thinking
4 5 (50.00%) Multithreading
4 5 (50.00%) MVC
4 5 (50.00%) OO
4 5 (50.00%) OOP
4 5 (50.00%) Unit Testing
5 4 (40.00%) DevOps
6 3 (30.00%) Data Pipeline
6 3 (30.00%) Trade Surveillance
7 2 (20.00%) Case Management
7 2 (20.00%) Microservices
7 2 (20.00%) Problem Management
8 1 (10.00%) Performance Testing
Programming Languages
1 9 (90.00%) Java
2 3 (30.00%) PL/SQL
3 2 (20.00%) JavaScript
3 2 (20.00%) Python
3 2 (20.00%) Shell Script
3 2 (20.00%) SQL
4 1 (10.00%) Bash
4 1 (10.00%) PHP
System Software
1 8 (80.00%) Docker
Systems Management
1 6 (60.00%) Ansible
1 6 (60.00%) Terraform
2 5 (50.00%) Kustomize
2 5 (50.00%) Packer
3 3 (30.00%) Control-M
3 3 (30.00%) Prometheus
4 2 (20.00%) Grafana
4 2 (20.00%) Kibana
Vendors
1 5 (50.00%) Red Hat
2 3 (30.00%) Oracle
3 2 (20.00%) Dynatrace
3 2 (20.00%) Splunk
4 1 (10.00%) AppDynamics
4 1 (10.00%) BMC
4 1 (10.00%) ServiceNow