Kubernetes Jobs in the South West

Kubernetes (k8s)
England > South West

The following table provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in the South 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 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 24 55 54
Rank change year-on-year +31 -1 -5
Permanent jobs citing Kubernetes 432 459 399
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the South West 9.13% 5.67% 5.45%
As % of the Systems Management category 46.15% 34.33% 42.04%
Number of salaries quoted 301 315 251
10th Percentile £46,250 £40,000 £37,500
25th Percentile £51,250 £46,563 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £62,500 £62,500
Median % change year-on-year +4.00% - +19.05%
75th Percentile £80,000 £77,715 £76,875
90th Percentile £91,934 £89,852 £87,500
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 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 South West with a requirement for systems management skills.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for systems management skills 936 1,337 949
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the South West 19.79% 16.53% 12.96%
Number of salaries quoted 666 636 608
10th Percentile £32,500 £32,938 £28,925
25th Percentile £43,750 £41,250 £37,875
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £55,000 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year - +10.00% -
75th Percentile £72,500 £71,248 £72,500
90th Percentile £84,056 £87,500 £85,000
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 West

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

Job vacancy trend for Kubernetes in the South West

Kubernetes
Salary Trend in the South West

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

Salary trend for Kubernetes in the South West

Kubernetes
Salary Histogram in the South West

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

Salary histogram for Kubernetes in the South West

Kubernetes
Job Locations in the South West

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Kubernetes within the South West 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
Bristol +12 209 £69,447 +8.59% 38
Gloucestershire +19 157 £61,750 -3.14% 24
Dorset +27 24 £57,500 +4.55% 4
Devon -8 13 £75,000 +42.86% 9
Wiltshire +21 12 £65,000 -33.33% 3
Somerset +22 11 £58,750 -2.08% 11
Cornwall +25 2 £55,000 +29.41% 1
Kubernetes
England

Kubernetes
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the South 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 24 (5.56%) Jupyter
2 18 (4.17%) Apache Spark
3 17 (3.94%) Apache
4 13 (3.01%) nginx
5 9 (2.08%) Confluence
6 4 (0.93%) Apache Airflow
6 4 (0.93%) Luigi
6 4 (0.93%) OpenStack
7 3 (0.69%) SharePoint
8 2 (0.46%) Headless CMS
9 1 (0.23%) Apache Pulsar
9 1 (0.23%) Apache Solr
9 1 (0.23%) ArcGIS
9 1 (0.23%) CMS
9 1 (0.23%) GeoServer
9 1 (0.23%) MS Exchange
Business Applications
1 3 (0.69%) Dynamics CRM
Cloud Services
1 259 (59.95%) AWS
2 220 (50.93%) Azure
3 101 (23.38%) GCP
4 97 (22.45%) OpenShift
5 51 (11.81%) Azure DevOps
6 48 (11.11%) SaaS
7 36 (8.33%) Amazon S3
7 36 (8.33%) PaaS
8 35 (8.10%) Serverless
9 23 (5.32%) IaaS
10 22 (5.09%) Amazon EC2
11 21 (4.86%) GitHub
12 18 (4.17%) AWS Lambda
13 15 (3.47%) Cloud Computing
14 12 (2.78%) AWS CloudFormation
14 12 (2.78%) MinIO
15 10 (2.31%) Entra ID
15 10 (2.31%) Power Platform
16 8 (1.85%) Google Kubernetes Engine
17 7 (1.62%) Azure Logic Apps
Communications & Networking
1 49 (11.34%) DNS
2 42 (9.72%) TCP/IP
3 40 (9.26%) HTTP
4 36 (8.33%) DHCP
5 10 (2.31%) Internet
6 9 (2.08%) IPv4
7 5 (1.16%) Firewall
7 5 (1.16%) Network Security
8 4 (0.93%) 5G
8 4 (0.93%) AMQP
8 4 (0.93%) SD-WAN
8 4 (0.93%) SMTP
8 4 (0.93%) VPN
8 4 (0.93%) WAN
9 2 (0.46%) Wireshark
10 1 (0.23%) HTTPS
10 1 (0.23%) NAS
10 1 (0.23%) SAN
10 1 (0.23%) VLAN
10 1 (0.23%) WLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 58 (13.43%) Big Data
2 26 (6.02%) Elasticsearch
3 24 (5.56%) NoSQL
4 23 (5.32%) MySQL
4 23 (5.32%) PostgreSQL
5 22 (5.09%) BigQuery
6 20 (4.63%) Hadoop
7 19 (4.40%) Amazon RDS
7 19 (4.40%) Data Warehouse
8 17 (3.94%) MongoDB
9 15 (3.47%) Redis
10 14 (3.24%) Relational Database
10 14 (3.24%) SQL Server
11 12 (2.78%) Presto
12 11 (2.55%) Data Lake
13 10 (2.31%) Power BI
14 8 (1.85%) Apache Accumulo
15 6 (1.39%) Delta Lake
15 6 (1.39%) Tableau
16 5 (1.16%) Flink
Development Applications
1 134 (31.02%) Jenkins
2 53 (12.27%) Git
3 30 (6.94%) GitLab
4 24 (5.56%) Sonatype Nexus
5 23 (5.32%) JIRA
6 20 (4.63%) Maven
7 16 (3.70%) Selenium
8 15 (3.47%) Atlassian Bamboo
8 15 (3.47%) Cucumber
8 15 (3.47%) Cypress.io
9 13 (3.01%) Spinnaker
10 9 (2.08%) Artifactory
10 9 (2.08%) TeamCity
11 8 (1.85%) Bitbucket
12 7 (1.62%) SonarQube
13 5 (1.16%) Oracle Forms
14 4 (0.93%) GCC
14 4 (0.93%) IBM UrbanCode
14 4 (0.93%) JUnit
15 2 (0.46%) SpecFlow
General
1 126 (29.17%) Finance
2 72 (16.67%) Banking
3 50 (11.57%) Social Skills
4 43 (9.95%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 22 (5.09%) Retail
6 12 (2.78%) Aerospace
7 11 (2.55%) Public Sector
8 8 (1.85%) Presentation Skills
8 8 (1.85%) Tech for Good
8 8 (1.85%) Telecoms
9 7 (1.62%) Retail Banking
10 6 (1.39%) Analytical Skills
11 4 (0.93%) Health Technology
11 4 (0.93%) Law
12 3 (0.69%) Documentation Skills
12 3 (0.69%) Organisational Skills
13 2 (0.46%) Financial Institution
Job Titles
1 121 (28.01%) DevOps Engineer
2 79 (18.29%) Senior
3 78 (18.06%) Developer
4 53 (12.27%) Lead
4 53 (12.27%) Software Engineer
5 52 (12.04%) Data Engineer
6 41 (9.49%) Infrastructure Engineer
7 33 (7.64%) Cloud Engineer
8 26 (6.02%) Java Developer
8 26 (6.02%) Java Engineer
9 25 (5.79%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
10 23 (5.32%) Architect
11 20 (4.63%) Data Scientist
12 19 (4.40%) AWS DevOps
12 19 (4.40%) Azure Engineer
13 18 (4.17%) Lead Data Engineer
14 17 (3.94%) Senior Data Scientist
14 17 (3.94%) Software Developer
15 16 (3.70%) AWS Engineer
15 16 (3.70%) Platform Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 53 (12.27%) Kafka
2 41 (9.49%) React
2 41 (9.49%) Spring
2 41 (9.49%) Spring Boot
3 31 (7.18%) Elastic Stack
4 30 (6.94%) HTML
5 29 (6.71%) Hibernate
6 25 (5.79%) RESTful
7 24 (5.56%) AngularJS
8 21 (4.86%) RabbitMQ
9 20 (4.63%) REST
10 17 (3.94%) ActiveMQ
10 17 (3.94%) Apache NiFi
11 16 (3.70%) Node.js
11 16 (3.70%) YAML
12 15 (3.47%) Web Services
13 11 (2.55%) .NET
13 11 (2.55%) JSON
14 9 (2.08%) GraphQL
15 8 (1.85%) .NET Core
Miscellaneous
1 79 (18.29%) Public Cloud
2 33 (7.64%) Algorithms
3 30 (6.94%) Cloud Native
4 27 (6.25%) Product Ownership
5 26 (6.02%) Private Cloud
6 25 (5.79%) Cyberattack
7 20 (4.63%) Greenfield Project
8 13 (3.01%) Legacy Systems
9 12 (2.78%) Hybrid Cloud
10 9 (2.08%) Blockchain
10 9 (2.08%) Distributed Applications
11 8 (1.85%) Enterprise Cloud
11 8 (1.85%) Linux Command Line
12 7 (1.62%) Mobile App
12 7 (1.62%) Onboarding
12 7 (1.62%) Self-Motivation
13 6 (1.39%) Mainframe
13 6 (1.39%) Reinsurance
13 6 (1.39%) Team-Oriented Environment
13 6 (1.39%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 159 (36.81%) Linux
2 64 (14.81%) Windows
3 38 (8.80%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 22 (5.09%) Unix
5 11 (2.55%) Android
5 11 (2.55%) Apple iOS
6 10 (2.31%) Windows Server
7 5 (1.16%) Solaris
8 2 (0.46%) Debian
8 2 (0.46%) Ubuntu
9 1 (0.23%) CentOS
9 1 (0.23%) CoreOS
9 1 (0.23%) Windows Server 2016
9 1 (0.23%) Windows Server 2019
9 1 (0.23%) zOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 288 (66.67%) DevOps
2 193 (44.68%) Agile
3 180 (41.67%) CI/CD
4 138 (31.94%) Infrastructure as Code
5 119 (27.55%) Software Engineering
6 108 (25.00%) Containerisation
7 93 (21.53%) Microservices
8 82 (18.98%) Mentoring
9 68 (15.74%) Actionable Insight
10 58 (13.43%) Infrastructure Engineering
11 55 (12.73%) Computer Science
12 52 (12.04%) Continuous Integration
12 52 (12.04%) Machine Learning
13 48 (11.11%) Data Engineering
13 48 (11.11%) Problem-Solving
14 43 (9.95%) Scrum
15 41 (9.49%) Artificial Intelligence
16 40 (9.26%) Test Automation
17 39 (9.03%) Configuration Management
17 39 (9.03%) SDLC
Programming Languages
1 242 (56.02%) Python
2 204 (47.22%) Java
3 137 (31.71%) Bash
4 87 (20.14%) PowerShell
5 86 (19.91%) JavaScript
6 63 (14.58%) SQL
7 30 (6.94%) Go
8 25 (5.79%) C++
8 25 (5.79%) R
9 21 (4.86%) TypeScript
10 18 (4.17%) Shell Script
11 16 (3.70%) C#
12 14 (3.24%) Scala
13 13 (3.01%) Groovy
14 9 (2.08%) PHP
14 9 (2.08%) Ruby
15 7 (1.62%) Kotlin
15 7 (1.62%) Rust
16 6 (1.39%) Perl
17 5 (1.16%) C
Qualifications
1 167 (38.66%) Security Cleared
2 96 (22.22%) DV Cleared
3 73 (16.90%) SC Cleared
4 60 (13.89%) Degree
5 42 (9.72%) Computer Science Degree
6 21 (4.86%) AWS Certification
7 12 (2.78%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
8 10 (2.31%) Microsoft Certification
9 6 (1.39%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
9 6 (1.39%) Azure Certification
10 2 (0.46%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
10 2 (0.46%) MCSA
10 2 (0.46%) MCSE
11 1 (0.23%) BPSS Clearance
11 1 (0.23%) CESG Certified Professional
11 1 (0.23%) Chartered Engineer
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 12 (2.78%) QA
2 6 (1.39%) Data Quality
3 2 (0.46%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 2 (0.46%) PCI DSS
4 1 (0.23%) Accessibility
4 1 (0.23%) GDPR
4 1 (0.23%) NCSC
4 1 (0.23%) NIST
System Software
1 333 (77.08%) Docker
2 41 (9.49%) VMware Infrastructure
3 37 (8.56%) Hyper-V
4 15 (3.47%) Active Directory
5 3 (0.69%) VMware ESXi
6 2 (0.46%) Virtual Machines
7 1 (0.23%) KVM
Systems Management
1 151 (34.95%) Terraform
2 142 (32.87%) Ansible
3 72 (16.67%) Puppet
4 29 (6.71%) Grafana
5 26 (6.02%) Prometheus
6 14 (3.24%) Packer
6 14 (3.24%) Progress Chef
7 12 (2.78%) HAProxy
7 12 (2.78%) Istio
8 8 (1.85%) Nagios
9 4 (0.93%) Docker Swarm
9 4 (0.93%) Podman
10 3 (0.69%) Single Sign-On
11 2 (0.46%) Argo
11 2 (0.46%) BMC PATROL
11 2 (0.46%) Check_MK
11 2 (0.46%) SCCM
11 2 (0.46%) SCOM
11 2 (0.46%) vCenter Server
12 1 (0.23%) CA Endevor
Vendors
1 44 (10.19%) Google
2 42 (9.72%) VMware
3 41 (9.49%) Red Hat
4 26 (6.02%) Microsoft
5 23 (5.32%) Oracle
6 8 (1.85%) Atlassian
7 6 (1.39%) Databricks
8 5 (1.16%) Splunk
8 5 (1.16%) Teradata
9 4 (0.93%) New Relic
9 4 (0.93%) Rackspace
10 3 (0.69%) Veracode
11 2 (0.46%) Dynatrace
11 2 (0.46%) Extreme Networks
11 2 (0.46%) IBM
11 2 (0.46%) SolarWinds
12 1 (0.23%) Cisco
12 1 (0.23%) EMC
12 1 (0.23%) Ivanti
12 1 (0.23%) Veeam