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 4 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
4 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 61 37 34
Rank change year-on-year -24 -3 +6
Permanent jobs citing Kubernetes 362 503 678
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the South West 3.92% 7.27% 8.45%
As % of the Systems Management category 37.83% 48.09% 51.21%
Number of salaries quoted 260 328 456
10th Percentile £45,000 £45,000 £41,250
25th Percentile £52,500 £52,500 £46,625
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £70,576 £67,500 £67,500
Median % change year-on-year +4.56% - +22.73%
75th Percentile £85,313 £78,750 £82,500
90th Percentile £91,318 £90,000 £90,000
England median annual salary £77,500 £77,500 £77,500
% change year-on-year - - +10.71%

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 957 1,046 1,324
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the South West 10.37% 15.12% 16.51%
Number of salaries quoted 726 629 833
10th Percentile £31,750 £31,000 £32,000
25th Percentile £42,500 £41,250 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £52,500 £57,810 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -9.19% +5.11% +10.00%
75th Percentile £72,433 £76,250 £75,000
90th Percentile £85,000 £87,500 £85,000
England median annual salary £60,500 £67,500 £70,000
% change year-on-year -10.37% -3.57% +7.69%

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 4 May 2024.

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 4 May 2024. 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 -11 168 £79,000 +14.79% 51
Gloucestershire -8 140 £65,000 -5.45% 22
Dorset -27 14 £57,500 - 1
Somerset -11 13 £50,000 -16.67% 6
Wiltshire -4 8 £50,000 -28.57% 6
Cornwall -11 8 £45,000 +9.09% 1
Devon -20 6 £37,500 -22.28% 2
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 39 (10.77%) Apache Spark
2 37 (10.22%) Apache
3 21 (5.80%) nginx
4 20 (5.52%) Jupyter
5 4 (1.10%) Confluence
6 3 (0.83%) CloudStack
7 2 (0.55%) Apache Solr
7 2 (0.55%) JBoss
Cloud Services
1 251 (69.34%) AWS
2 171 (47.24%) Azure
3 96 (26.52%) OpenShift
4 77 (21.27%) GCP
5 48 (13.26%) SaaS
6 39 (10.77%) Amazon S3
7 28 (7.73%) Serverless
8 25 (6.91%) PaaS
9 23 (6.35%) AWS Lambda
9 23 (6.35%) GitHub
10 22 (6.08%) IaaS
11 20 (5.52%) Amazon EKS
11 20 (5.52%) AWS CloudFormation
12 17 (4.70%) MinIO
13 14 (3.87%) Azure DevOps
13 14 (3.87%) Datadog
14 13 (3.59%) Amazon EC2
15 12 (3.31%) GitHub Actions
16 8 (2.21%) Cloud Computing
17 6 (1.66%) Microsoft 365
Communications & Networking
1 43 (11.88%) DNS
2 39 (10.77%) HTTP
2 39 (10.77%) TCP/IP
3 37 (10.22%) DHCP
4 20 (5.52%) AMQP
5 10 (2.76%) Internet
6 9 (2.49%) Network Security
7 8 (2.21%) Firewall
8 6 (1.66%) IPsec
8 6 (1.66%) VPN
9 5 (1.38%) WLAN
10 4 (1.10%) RTP
10 4 (1.10%) SNMP
10 4 (1.10%) VSAN
11 3 (0.83%) iSCSI
12 2 (0.55%) HTTPS
12 2 (0.55%) SSL
13 1 (0.28%) IPv4
13 1 (0.28%) OSPF
13 1 (0.28%) Wireshark
Database & Business Intelligence
1 56 (15.47%) Big Data
2 40 (11.05%) Hadoop
3 31 (8.56%) Relational Database
4 26 (7.18%) MySQL
4 26 (7.18%) SQL Server
5 23 (6.35%) NoSQL
6 21 (5.80%) MongoDB
7 17 (4.70%) Presto
8 15 (4.14%) Amazon RDS
9 14 (3.87%) Cloudera CDH
10 13 (3.59%) Elasticsearch
10 13 (3.59%) PostgreSQL
11 11 (3.04%) BigQuery
11 11 (3.04%) Data Lake
11 11 (3.04%) Data Warehouse
12 8 (2.21%) Flink
13 6 (1.66%) InfluxDB
14 3 (0.83%) OLAP
14 3 (0.83%) OLAP Cube
14 3 (0.83%) Star Schema
Development Applications
1 78 (21.55%) Jenkins
2 46 (12.71%) Git
3 38 (10.50%) JIRA
4 17 (4.70%) Atlassian Bamboo
5 16 (4.42%) Selenium
6 15 (4.14%) GitLab
7 10 (2.76%) Maven
8 8 (2.21%) Cucumber
9 7 (1.93%) Cypress.io
9 7 (1.93%) Oracle Forms
10 6 (1.66%) SonarQube
11 5 (1.38%) Sonatype Nexus
12 4 (1.10%) TeamCity
13 3 (0.83%) Bitbucket
14 2 (0.55%) Octopus Deploy
14 2 (0.55%) Team Foundation Server
15 1 (0.28%) GCC
15 1 (0.28%) JUnit
15 1 (0.28%) Robot Framework
15 1 (0.28%) webpack
General
1 53 (14.64%) Aerospace
2 51 (14.09%) Finance
3 31 (8.56%) Banking
4 23 (6.35%) Social Skills
5 20 (5.52%) Tech for Good
6 17 (4.70%) Retail
7 6 (1.66%) Public Sector
7 6 (1.66%) Telecoms
8 5 (1.38%) Presentation Skills
9 4 (1.10%) Analytical Skills
9 4 (1.10%) Documentation Skills
9 4 (1.10%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 4 (1.10%) Retail Banking
10 3 (0.83%) Financial Institution
10 3 (0.83%) Influencing Skills
10 3 (0.83%) Organisational Skills
11 2 (0.55%) Games
Job Titles
1 110 (30.39%) DevOps Engineer
2 98 (27.07%) Senior
3 68 (18.78%) Developer
4 48 (13.26%) Infrastructure Engineer
5 45 (12.43%) Software Engineer
6 35 (9.67%) Architect
6 35 (9.67%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
7 26 (7.18%) Data Engineer
7 26 (7.18%) Java Developer
7 26 (7.18%) Software Developer
8 25 (6.91%) Consultant
9 21 (5.80%) Senior Developer
10 19 (5.25%) DV Cleared Software Engineer
11 18 (4.97%) AWS DevOps
11 18 (4.97%) Cloud Architect
12 17 (4.70%) AWS Architect
12 17 (4.70%) AWS Engineer
12 17 (4.70%) Cloud Consultant
12 17 (4.70%) Senior DevOps
12 17 (4.70%) Senior DevOps Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 87 (24.03%) React
2 51 (14.09%) AngularJS
3 48 (13.26%) Spring
4 42 (11.60%) RabbitMQ
4 42 (11.60%) Spring Boot
5 34 (9.39%) Kafka
6 30 (8.29%) REST
7 28 (7.73%) Node.js
8 23 (6.35%) .NET
9 21 (5.80%) YAML
10 20 (5.52%) Elastic Stack
11 19 (5.25%) ActiveMQ
12 18 (4.97%) gRPC
13 17 (4.70%) Apache NiFi
13 17 (4.70%) OpenAPI
13 17 (4.70%) Swagger
14 16 (4.42%) CSS
14 16 (4.42%) Hibernate
14 16 (4.42%) HTML
15 15 (4.14%) Vue
Miscellaneous
1 45 (12.43%) Public Cloud
2 41 (11.33%) Cloud Native
3 23 (6.35%) Hybrid Cloud
4 17 (4.70%) Enterprise Cloud
5 14 (3.87%) Private Cloud
5 14 (3.87%) Product Ownership
6 9 (2.49%) Data Structures
7 8 (2.21%) Blockchain
8 7 (1.93%) Algorithms
8 7 (1.93%) Distributed Systems
9 5 (1.38%) EMC VNX
9 5 (1.38%) Greenfield Project
9 5 (1.38%) Linux Command Line
9 5 (1.38%) Robotics
9 5 (1.38%) Self-Motivation
9 5 (1.38%) Virtual Team
10 4 (1.10%) Data Centre
10 4 (1.10%) Mobile App
11 3 (0.83%) e-Learning
11 3 (0.83%) Hedge funds
Operating Systems
1 178 (49.17%) Linux
2 62 (17.13%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 59 (16.30%) Windows
4 18 (4.97%) Debian
5 17 (4.70%) Ubuntu
6 14 (3.87%) CentOS
7 5 (1.38%) Windows Server
7 5 (1.38%) Windows Server 2016
7 5 (1.38%) Windows Server 2019
8 4 (1.10%) Data ONTAP
9 3 (0.83%) SUSE
9 3 (0.83%) SUSE Linux Enterprise Server
9 3 (0.83%) VMS
10 2 (0.55%) Android
10 2 (0.55%) Apple iOS
11 1 (0.28%) CoreOS
11 1 (0.28%) Unix
11 1 (0.28%) zOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 220 (60.77%) DevOps
2 166 (45.86%) Agile
3 134 (37.02%) CI/CD
4 105 (29.01%) Containerisation
5 93 (25.69%) Infrastructure as Code
6 89 (24.59%) Software Engineering
7 87 (24.03%) Actionable Insight
8 77 (21.27%) Microservices
9 75 (20.72%) Continuous Integration
10 69 (19.06%) Infrastructure Engineering
11 66 (18.23%) Collaborative Working
12 64 (17.68%) Scrum
13 48 (13.26%) Kanban
14 47 (12.98%) Problem-Solving
15 46 (12.71%) SDLC
16 44 (12.15%) Full Stack Development
17 40 (11.05%) Continuous Deployment
17 40 (11.05%) Observability
18 39 (10.77%) Software Architecture
19 36 (9.94%) Configuration Management
Programming Languages
1 178 (49.17%) Python
2 158 (43.65%) Java
3 83 (22.93%) JavaScript
4 79 (21.82%) Bash
5 47 (12.98%) PowerShell
6 38 (10.50%) SQL
7 32 (8.84%) TypeScript
8 23 (6.35%) Shell Script
9 22 (6.08%) Go
10 18 (4.97%) PHP
11 14 (3.87%) C#
12 9 (2.49%) Ruby
12 9 (2.49%) Scala
13 8 (2.21%) C++
14 3 (0.83%) Delphi
14 3 (0.83%) Perl
15 2 (0.55%) Bicep
15 2 (0.55%) Kotlin
15 2 (0.55%) Lisp
15 2 (0.55%) Rust
Qualifications
1 168 (46.41%) Security Cleared
2 133 (36.74%) DV Cleared
3 50 (13.81%) SC Cleared
4 13 (3.59%) Degree
5 5 (1.38%) Computer Science Degree
6 3 (0.83%) AWS Certification
7 2 (0.55%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
8 1 (0.28%) AWS Certified Developer
8 1 (0.28%) AWS Certified SysOps Administrator
8 1 (0.28%) Master's Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 6 (1.66%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 3 (0.83%) QA
3 2 (0.55%) Accessibility
System Software
1 271 (74.86%) Docker
2 56 (15.47%) VMware Infrastructure
3 44 (12.15%) Hyper-V
4 9 (2.49%) Virtual Machines
5 8 (2.21%) Active Directory
6 6 (1.66%) VMware ESXi
7 4 (1.10%) vSphere
8 3 (0.83%) Ceph
8 3 (0.83%) Gluster
8 3 (0.83%) KVM
8 3 (0.83%) NFS
8 3 (0.83%) oVirt
8 3 (0.83%) Slurm Workload Manager
9 2 (0.55%) Virtual Desktop
Systems Management
1 167 (46.13%) Ansible
2 149 (41.16%) Terraform
3 88 (24.31%) Puppet
4 50 (13.81%) Prometheus
5 38 (10.50%) Grafana
6 17 (4.70%) HAProxy
7 13 (3.59%) vCenter Server
8 12 (3.31%) Progress Chef
9 10 (2.76%) Nagios
10 5 (1.38%) Argo
10 5 (1.38%) Docker Swarm
10 5 (1.38%) EMC NetWorker
10 5 (1.38%) SCCM
11 4 (1.10%) Istio
11 4 (1.10%) Podman
12 3 (0.83%) Graylog
12 3 (0.83%) HP Fortify
12 3 (0.83%) Observium
12 3 (0.83%) ZABBIX
13 2 (0.55%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 70 (19.34%) Red Hat
2 56 (15.47%) VMware
3 39 (10.77%) Google
4 22 (6.08%) Oracle
5 18 (4.97%) Microsoft
6 14 (3.87%) SaltStack
7 8 (2.21%) Teradata
8 5 (1.38%) Aruba
8 5 (1.38%) EMC
8 5 (1.38%) Meraki
8 5 (1.38%) SolarWinds
8 5 (1.38%) Veeam
9 4 (1.10%) Dynatrace
9 4 (1.10%) NetApp
9 4 (1.10%) Palo Alto
9 4 (1.10%) SolidFire
9 4 (1.10%) Veracode
10 3 (0.83%) IBM
11 2 (0.55%) Atlassian
11 2 (0.55%) Sybase