Kubernetes Jobs in the South East

Kubernetes (k8s)
England > South East

The following table provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in the South East 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 1 December 2023 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
1 Dec 2023
Same period 2022 Same period 2021
Rank 58 77 46
Rank change year-on-year +19 -31 +2
Permanent jobs citing Kubernetes 345 735 1,113
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the South East 4.45% 4.22% 6.03%
As % of the Systems Management category 30.08% 34.11% 41.91%
Number of salaries quoted 277 504 743
10th Percentile £47,500 £46,250 £43,750
25th Percentile £56,525 £55,000 £52,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £72,500 £70,000 £67,500
Median % change year-on-year +3.57% +3.70% +22.73%
75th Percentile £83,750 £85,000 £80,000
90th Percentile £110,000 £92,500 £88,750
England median annual salary £75,000 £79,632 £75,000
% change year-on-year -5.82% +6.18% +11.11%

All Systems Management Skills
South East

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 South East with a requirement for systems management skills.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for systems management skills 1,147 2,155 2,656
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the South East 14.80% 12.38% 14.38%
Number of salaries quoted 900 1,414 1,602
10th Percentile £32,500 £30,500 £32,500
25th Percentile £41,250 £41,250 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £56,750 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -3.08% -5.42% +9.09%
75th Percentile £72,750 £75,000 £77,500
90th Percentile £85,000 £87,500 £87,500
England median annual salary £65,000 £67,500 £67,500
% change year-on-year -3.70% - +8.00%

Kubernetes
Job Vacancy Trend in the South East

Job postings citing Kubernetes as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the South East.

Job vacancy trend for Kubernetes in the South East

Kubernetes
Salary Trend in the South East

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing Kubernetes in the South East.

Salary trend for Kubernetes in the South East

Kubernetes
Salary Histogram in the South East

Salary distribution for jobs citing Kubernetes in the South East over the 6 months to 1 December 2023.

Salary histogram for Kubernetes in the South East

Kubernetes
Job Locations in the South East

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Kubernetes within the South East region over the 6 months to 1 December 2023. 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
Thames Valley +29 218 £75,000 - 52
Berkshire +37 194 £75,000 -6.25% 36
Hampshire -36 37 £60,000 -14.29% 9
Surrey +21 29 £65,000 -17.46% 11
West Sussex +61 23 £67,500 +29.81% 6
Kent +53 20 £65,000 +34.02% 13
East Sussex -18 18 £75,000 +30.43% 6
Oxfordshire +15 15 £65,000 -3.70% 8
Buckinghamshire +3 9 £70,000 - 8
Kubernetes
England

Kubernetes
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the South East 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 18 (5.22%) OpenStack
2 9 (2.61%) JBoss
2 9 (2.61%) Red Hat Fuse
3 8 (2.32%) Confluence
3 8 (2.32%) nginx
4 6 (1.74%) Apache Spark
5 4 (1.16%) Apache
6 3 (0.87%) Apache Solr
7 2 (0.58%) Tomcat
8 1 (0.29%) Apache Airflow
8 1 (0.29%) IIS
8 1 (0.29%) Jupyter
8 1 (0.29%) Luigi
Business Applications
1 1 (0.29%) Distributed Ledger
Cloud Services
1 151 (43.77%) AWS
1 151 (43.77%) Azure
2 44 (12.75%) Serverless
3 39 (11.30%) Amazon EKS
4 38 (11.01%) GCP
5 31 (8.99%) Entra ID
6 30 (8.70%) PaaS
6 30 (8.70%) SaaS
7 26 (7.54%) Azure DevOps
8 24 (6.96%) Amazon ECS
8 24 (6.96%) Azure Monitor
9 22 (6.38%) Azure Storage
10 20 (5.80%) IaaS
11 19 (5.51%) GitHub
11 19 (5.51%) Microsoft 365
12 17 (4.93%) Azure AKS
13 16 (4.64%) Cloud Computing
14 15 (4.35%) Amazon S3
14 15 (4.35%) AWS CloudFormation
15 14 (4.06%) AWS Lambda
Communications & Networking
1 33 (9.57%) DNS
2 28 (8.12%) Firewall
3 26 (7.54%) DHCP
4 17 (4.93%) TCP/IP
5 12 (3.48%) HTTP
6 9 (2.61%) SSL
7 6 (1.74%) Network Security
8 2 (0.58%) Ethernet VPN
8 2 (0.58%) FTP
8 2 (0.58%) MPLS
8 2 (0.58%) Reverse Proxy
8 2 (0.58%) VPN
8 2 (0.58%) VXLAN
9 1 (0.29%) BGP
9 1 (0.29%) Broadband
9 1 (0.29%) Internet
9 1 (0.29%) IPsec
9 1 (0.29%) LAN
9 1 (0.29%) OSPF
9 1 (0.29%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 70 (20.29%) NoSQL
2 30 (8.70%) PostgreSQL
3 22 (6.38%) Relational Database
4 18 (5.22%) SQL Server
5 10 (2.90%) Big Data
6 9 (2.61%) Amazon RDS
7 8 (2.32%) Elasticsearch
7 8 (2.32%) MySQL
8 6 (1.74%) Hadoop
9 5 (1.45%) MongoDB
10 4 (1.16%) Redis
11 3 (0.87%) Amazon Redshift
11 3 (0.87%) CouchDB
12 2 (0.58%) Apache Cassandra
12 2 (0.58%) Couchbase
12 2 (0.58%) InfluxDB
12 2 (0.58%) Oracle Database
13 1 (0.29%) Apache Hive
13 1 (0.29%) MariaDB
13 1 (0.29%) Neo4j
Development Applications
1 114 (33.04%) Git
2 83 (24.06%) Jenkins
3 57 (16.52%) Selenium
4 42 (12.17%) Cypress.io
5 38 (11.01%) GitLab
6 36 (10.43%) JIRA
7 29 (8.41%) SoapUI
8 16 (4.64%) SonarQube
9 13 (3.77%) JUnit
9 13 (3.77%) Maven
10 11 (3.19%) Artifactory
10 11 (3.19%) Axure RP
10 11 (3.19%) Cucumber
11 10 (2.90%) JMeter
12 8 (2.32%) TeamCity
12 8 (2.32%) TestLink
13 5 (1.45%) Gradle
14 3 (0.87%) Postman
15 2 (0.58%) Locust
15 2 (0.58%) REST Assured
General
1 53 (15.36%) Social Skills
2 43 (12.46%) Finance
3 25 (7.25%) Public Sector
4 11 (3.19%) Aviation
5 8 (2.32%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 6 (1.74%) Analytical Skills
6 6 (1.74%) Financial Institution
6 6 (1.74%) Retail
7 4 (1.16%) Aerospace
7 4 (1.16%) Billing
7 4 (1.16%) Telecoms
8 2 (0.58%) Games
8 2 (0.58%) Law
8 2 (0.58%) Military
9 1 (0.29%) Avionics
9 1 (0.29%) Health Technology
9 1 (0.29%) Marketing
9 1 (0.29%) Organisational Skills
9 1 (0.29%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 107 (31.01%) Developer
2 75 (21.74%) DevOps Engineer
3 65 (18.84%) Senior
4 35 (10.14%) Software Developer
5 34 (9.86%) Senior Developer
6 30 (8.70%) Lead
7 28 (8.12%) Azure Engineer
7 28 (8.12%) Software Engineer
8 23 (6.67%) Java Developer
9 21 (6.09%) Front-End Developer (Client-Side Developer)
10 18 (5.22%) Azure DevOps Engineer
11 16 (4.64%) Development Manager
11 16 (4.64%) Software Development Manager
11 16 (4.64%) Software Manager
12 15 (4.35%) Architect
13 13 (3.77%) Active Directory Specialist
13 13 (3.77%) Active Directory Support
14 12 (3.48%) AWS Engineer
15 11 (3.19%) Senior Software Developer
15 11 (3.19%) Senior Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 88 (25.51%) React
2 78 (22.61%) .NET
3 42 (12.17%) Node.js
4 39 (11.30%) Jest
5 33 (9.57%) AngularJS
5 33 (9.57%) REST
6 32 (9.28%) Spring
7 31 (8.99%) Elastic Stack
8 29 (8.41%) CSS
8 29 (8.41%) HTML
9 26 (7.54%) Spring Boot
10 23 (6.67%) RabbitMQ
11 21 (6.09%) CSS3
11 21 (6.09%) HTML5
12 20 (5.80%) ARM Templates
12 20 (5.80%) Kafka
13 18 (5.22%) Web Services
14 17 (4.93%) RESTful
15 14 (4.06%) Apache Camel
16 13 (3.77%) JSON
Miscellaneous
1 36 (10.43%) PKI
2 26 (7.54%) Distributed Systems
3 17 (4.93%) Product Ownership
4 15 (4.35%) Self-Motivation
5 12 (3.48%) Public Cloud
6 11 (3.19%) Digital Media
6 11 (3.19%) Greenfield Project
6 11 (3.19%) Private Cloud
7 6 (1.74%) Cloud Native
8 4 (1.16%) Data Centre
8 4 (1.16%) Hybrid Cloud
8 4 (1.16%) Linux Command Line
9 3 (0.87%) CUDA
9 3 (0.87%) Enterprise Software
9 3 (0.87%) Equities
9 3 (0.87%) IoT
10 2 (0.58%) Algorithms
11 1 (0.29%) Augmented Reality
11 1 (0.29%) SWIFT Messaging Network
11 1 (0.29%) Tandem
Operating Systems
1 72 (20.87%) Linux
2 50 (14.49%) Windows
3 15 (4.35%) Windows Server
4 11 (3.19%) Windows Server 2016
4 11 (3.19%) Windows Server 2019
5 10 (2.90%) Ubuntu
6 5 (1.45%) CentOS
6 5 (1.45%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
7 4 (1.16%) Debian
8 2 (0.58%) Unix
9 1 (0.29%) Rocky
9 1 (0.29%) VMS
9 1 (0.29%) Windows Server 2012
Processes & Methodologies
1 192 (55.65%) Agile
2 170 (49.28%) DevOps
3 129 (37.39%) CI/CD
4 90 (26.09%) Microservices
5 78 (22.61%) Containerisation
6 74 (21.45%) Computer Science
7 69 (20.00%) Propensity Modelling
8 67 (19.42%) Artificial Intelligence
9 66 (19.13%) Software Engineering
10 59 (17.10%) Infrastructure as Code
11 51 (14.78%) Problem-Solving
12 40 (11.59%) Analytics
13 39 (11.30%) TDD
14 36 (10.43%) Continuous Integration
15 33 (9.57%) DevSecOps
16 32 (9.28%) Scrum
17 29 (8.41%) ITIL
17 29 (8.41%) Release Management
17 29 (8.41%) Test Automation
18 26 (7.54%) Identity Management
Programming Languages
1 129 (37.39%) C#
2 117 (33.91%) JavaScript
3 104 (30.14%) Python
4 97 (28.12%) TypeScript
5 77 (22.32%) Java
6 55 (15.94%) PowerShell
7 48 (13.91%) SQL
8 36 (10.43%) Bash
8 36 (10.43%) Go
9 32 (9.28%) PHP
10 24 (6.96%) VB
10 24 (6.96%) VBScript
11 21 (6.09%) Bicep
12 14 (4.06%) Groovy
12 14 (4.06%) Shell Script
13 12 (3.48%) Perl
14 10 (2.90%) C
15 9 (2.61%) Ruby
16 8 (2.32%) C++
17 3 (0.87%) PL/SQL
Qualifications
1 110 (31.88%) Degree
2 68 (19.71%) Security Cleared
3 60 (17.39%) SC Cleared
4 44 (12.75%) Computer Science Degree
5 30 (8.70%) DV Cleared
6 24 (6.96%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
7 14 (4.06%) Azure Certification
8 10 (2.90%) AWS Certification
9 4 (1.16%) Master's Degree
10 3 (0.87%) Cisco Certification
10 3 (0.87%) PhD
11 2 (0.58%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
11 2 (0.58%) CCIE
11 2 (0.58%) JNCIE
12 1 (0.29%) (ISC)2 CCSP
12 1 (0.29%) AWS Certified Developer
12 1 (0.29%) AWS Certified SysOps Administrator
12 1 (0.29%) CCSK
12 1 (0.29%) CCSP
12 1 (0.29%) ISTQB
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 22 (6.38%) WCAG
2 13 (3.77%) QA
3 6 (1.74%) GDPR
4 5 (1.45%) NIST
5 3 (0.87%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 1 (0.29%) Accessibility
6 1 (0.29%) Cyber Essentials
6 1 (0.29%) Data Quality
6 1 (0.29%) ISO 9001
6 1 (0.29%) ISO/IEC 20000
6 1 (0.29%) NCSC
6 1 (0.29%) SLA
System Software
1 256 (74.20%) Docker
2 37 (10.72%) Active Directory
3 27 (7.83%) Virtual Machines
4 24 (6.96%) Virtual Desktop
5 9 (2.61%) Hyper-V
6 7 (2.03%) VMware Infrastructure
7 3 (0.87%) KVM
8 1 (0.29%) Ceph
8 1 (0.29%) Citrix Hypervisor
8 1 (0.29%) GPFS
8 1 (0.29%) Lustre
8 1 (0.29%) LXC
8 1 (0.29%) Microsoft Virtual Server
8 1 (0.29%) Slurm Workload Manager
8 1 (0.29%) Virtual Servers
8 1 (0.29%) VMware ESXi
8 1 (0.29%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 116 (33.62%) Terraform
2 75 (21.74%) Ansible
3 25 (7.25%) Microsoft Intune
3 25 (7.25%) WSUS
4 24 (6.96%) SCCM
4 24 (6.96%) SCOM
5 22 (6.38%) Active Directory Federation Services
6 17 (4.93%) Puppet
7 10 (2.90%) Grafana
8 7 (2.03%) Packer
8 7 (2.03%) Prometheus
8 7 (2.03%) Rancher
9 6 (1.74%) Progress Chef
10 5 (1.45%) Kustomize
11 4 (1.16%) Kibana
11 4 (1.16%) Single Sign-On
12 3 (0.87%) Consul
12 3 (0.87%) Docker Swarm
13 2 (0.58%) HAProxy
13 2 (0.58%) Salt
Vendors
1 41 (11.88%) Microsoft
2 14 (4.06%) WSO2
3 13 (3.77%) Google
3 13 (3.77%) VMware
4 11 (3.19%) AppDynamics
5 9 (2.61%) Atlassian
5 9 (2.61%) Oracle
5 9 (2.61%) Red Hat
5 9 (2.61%) Splunk
6 7 (2.03%) IBM
7 4 (1.16%) Databricks
7 4 (1.16%) New Relic
7 4 (1.16%) Veracode
8 3 (0.87%) Dynatrace
9 2 (0.58%) Cisco
9 2 (0.58%) IFS
9 2 (0.58%) Juniper
9 2 (0.58%) MuleSoft
9 2 (0.58%) ServiceNow
9 2 (0.58%) SolarWinds