Kubernetes Job Trends in Northern Ireland

Kubernetes (k8s)
UK > Northern Ireland

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in Northern Ireland requiring Kubernetes skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 7 June 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
7 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 63 22 49
Rank change year-on-year -41 +27 -1
Permanent jobs citing Kubernetes 4 11 15
As % of all permanent jobs in Northern Ireland 0.42% 4.66% 2.54%
As % of the Systems Management category 20.00% 64.71% 42.86%
Number of salaries quoted 3 11 4
10th Percentile - £42,500 £51,625
25th Percentile £61,250 £46,250 £63,438
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £62,500 £55,000 £72,500
Median % change year-on-year +13.64% -24.14% -
75th Percentile £68,750 £60,000 £86,875
90th Percentile £71,750 - £108,250
UK median annual salary £72,500 £80,000 £75,000
% change year-on-year -9.38% +6.67% -

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 20 17 35
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Northern Ireland 2.10% 7.20% 5.92%
Number of salaries quoted 12 12 20
10th Percentile £32,150 £42,500 £50,975
25th Percentile £37,438 £48,125 £51,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £51,750 £55,000 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year -5.91% -15.38% +18.18%
75th Percentile £66,250 £60,000 £90,000
90th Percentile £78,286 £84,750 £107,500
UK median annual salary £65,000 £67,500 £61,206
% change year-on-year -3.70% +10.28% -9.32%

Kubernetes
Job Vacancy Trend in Northern Ireland

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

Kubernetes job vacancy trend in Northern Ireland

Kubernetes
Salary Trend in Northern Ireland

Salary distribution trend for jobs in Northern Ireland citing Kubernetes.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in Northern Ireland citing Kubernetes

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 7 June 2026. 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 -32 4 £62,500 +13.64% 22
Kubernetes
UK

Kubernetes
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Northern Ireland 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 2 (50.00%) Azure
1 2 (50.00%) GitHub
1 2 (50.00%) GitHub Actions
2 1 (25.00%) AWS
2 1 (25.00%) Azure DevOps
2 1 (25.00%) GCP
2 1 (25.00%) OpenShift
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (50.00%) MongoDB
2 1 (25.00%) Pinecone
Development Applications
1 1 (25.00%) Git
1 1 (25.00%) GitLab
1 1 (25.00%) Jenkins
1 1 (25.00%) JIRA
General
1 3 (75.00%) Advertising
2 1 (25.00%) Finance
2 1 (25.00%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 2 (50.00%) Full-Stack Engineer
2 1 (25.00%) Agentic Artificial Intelligence Engineer
2 1 (25.00%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
2 1 (25.00%) Data Scientist
2 1 (25.00%) Developer
2 1 (25.00%) Gen AI Developer
2 1 (25.00%) Lead
2 1 (25.00%) Lead Data Scientist
2 1 (25.00%) Python Developer
2 1 (25.00%) Senior
2 1 (25.00%) Senior Data Scientist
2 1 (25.00%) Senior Developer
2 1 (25.00%) Senior Python Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (75.00%) LangChain
2 2 (50.00%) LlamaIndex
2 2 (50.00%) Next.js
2 2 (50.00%) React
3 1 (25.00%) FastAPI
3 1 (25.00%) GraphQL
3 1 (25.00%) Hugging Face
3 1 (25.00%) NumPy
3 1 (25.00%) Pandas
3 1 (25.00%) pgvector
3 1 (25.00%) PyTorch
3 1 (25.00%) RESTful
3 1 (25.00%) scikit-learn
3 1 (25.00%) TensorFlow
Miscellaneous
1 1 (25.00%) AI Agents
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (75.00%) Agile
1 3 (75.00%) AI
1 3 (75.00%) CI/CD
1 3 (75.00%) Generative AI
2 2 (50.00%) Containerisation
2 2 (50.00%) DevOps
2 2 (50.00%) Full-Stack Development
2 2 (50.00%) LLM
2 2 (50.00%) Machine Learning
2 2 (50.00%) MLOps
2 2 (50.00%) Retrieval-Augmented Generation
3 1 (25.00%) Analytics
3 1 (25.00%) Computer Science
3 1 (25.00%) HOOD
3 1 (25.00%) ITSM
3 1 (25.00%) Natural Language Processing
3 1 (25.00%) SEO
3 1 (25.00%) Service Management
3 1 (25.00%) UX Design
3 1 (25.00%) Workflow
Programming Languages
1 3 (75.00%) Python
2 2 (50.00%) TypeScript
3 1 (25.00%) SQL
Qualifications
1 1 (25.00%) Computer Science Degree
1 1 (25.00%) Degree
1 1 (25.00%) Master's Degree
System Software
1 3 (75.00%) Docker