Kubernetes Jobs in Southampton

Kubernetes (k8s)
Hampshire > Southampton

The table below provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in Southampton 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 5 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
5 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 25 54 36
Rank change year-on-year +29 -18 -20
Permanent jobs citing Kubernetes 18 24 42
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Southampton 5.33% 2.80% 5.39%
As % of the Systems Management category 56.25% 60.00% 54.55%
Number of salaries quoted 17 17 41
10th Percentile £55,500 £56,000 -
25th Percentile £62,500 £57,500 £62,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £60,500 £70,000
Median % change year-on-year +7.44% -13.57% -
75th Percentile £71,500 £72,500 £97,500
90th Percentile £73,750 £75,500 £115,000
Hampshire median annual salary £65,000 £70,000 £68,750
% change year-on-year -7.14% +1.82% -1.79%

All Systems Management Skills
Southampton

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 Southampton.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for systems management skills 32 40 77
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Southampton 9.47% 4.67% 9.88%
Number of salaries quoted 28 33 72
10th Percentile £35,800 £31,250 £27,500
25th Percentile £52,500 £37,500 £31,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £62,500 £60,500 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year +3.31% -6.92% -7.14%
75th Percentile £68,125 £65,000 £74,688
90th Percentile £73,750 £74,750 £115,000
Hampshire median annual salary £62,000 £50,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year +24.00% -16.67% -14.29%

Kubernetes
Job Vacancy Trend in Southampton

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

Job vacancy trend for Kubernetes in Southampton

Kubernetes
Salary Trend in Southampton

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

Salary trend for Kubernetes in Southampton

Kubernetes
Salary Histogram in Southampton

Salary distribution for jobs citing Kubernetes in Southampton over the 6 months to 5 May 2025.

Salary histogram for Kubernetes in Southampton

Kubernetes
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Southampton 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:

Cloud Services
1 13 (72.22%) Azure
2 10 (55.56%) GCP
3 4 (22.22%) AWS
4 3 (16.67%) Azure DevOps
4 3 (16.67%) Nutanix
5 2 (11.11%) Azure Functions
5 2 (11.11%) Serverless
6 1 (5.56%) Amazon EKS
6 1 (5.56%) Cloud Computing
6 1 (5.56%) GitHub
6 1 (5.56%) Google Kubernetes Engine
Database & Business Intelligence
1 6 (33.33%) MongoDB
Development Applications
1 6 (33.33%) Jenkins
2 4 (22.22%) Git
3 3 (16.67%) GitLab
3 3 (16.67%) Selenium
4 1 (5.56%) git-flow
4 1 (5.56%) SonarQube
General
1 4 (22.22%) Finance
2 3 (16.67%) Law
2 3 (16.67%) Military
3 2 (11.11%) Social Skills
4 1 (5.56%) Inclusion and Diversity
Job Titles
1 8 (44.44%) Developer
2 7 (38.89%) Node.js Developer
3 6 (33.33%) Senior
3 6 (33.33%) Senior Developer
4 3 (16.67%) Azure DevOps Engineer
4 3 (16.67%) Azure Engineer
4 3 (16.67%) C Software Engineer
4 3 (16.67%) C/C++ Software Engineer
4 3 (16.67%) C++ Software Engineer
4 3 (16.67%) DevOps Engineer
4 3 (16.67%) Lead
4 3 (16.67%) Platform Engineer
4 3 (16.67%) Principal Engineer
4 3 (16.67%) Principal Software Engineer
4 3 (16.67%) Python Engineer
4 3 (16.67%) Python Software Engineer
4 3 (16.67%) Software Engineer
5 2 (11.11%) Kubernetes Engineer
6 1 (5.56%) Full-Stack JavaScript Developer
6 1 (5.56%) React Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 8 (44.44%) Node.js
1 8 (44.44%) React
2 7 (38.89%) Next.js
3 6 (33.33%) .NET
3 6 (33.33%) .NET Core
3 6 (33.33%) Tailwind CSS
4 2 (11.11%) AngularJS
5 1 (5.56%) Jest
5 1 (5.56%) Spring
Miscellaneous
1 3 (16.67%) Embedded Systems
2 1 (5.56%) BBC
2 1 (5.56%) Product Ownership
Operating Systems
1 3 (16.67%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 8 (44.44%) CI/CD
2 5 (27.78%) Agile
3 4 (22.22%) DevOps
3 4 (22.22%) Full-Stack Development
3 4 (22.22%) Infrastructure as Code
3 4 (22.22%) Software Engineering
4 3 (16.67%) Kanban
4 3 (16.67%) Mentoring
4 3 (16.67%) Platform Engineering
4 3 (16.67%) Release Management
4 3 (16.67%) Scrum
4 3 (16.67%) Technical Debt
5 2 (11.11%) Microservices
5 2 (11.11%) Physics
5 2 (11.11%) Technical Leadership
6 1 (5.56%) Computer Science
6 1 (5.56%) Event-Driven
6 1 (5.56%) GitOps
6 1 (5.56%) People Management
6 1 (5.56%) Unit Testing
Programming Languages
1 9 (50.00%) JavaScript
2 4 (22.22%) Java
3 3 (16.67%) C
3 3 (16.67%) C++
3 3 (16.67%) Python
4 2 (11.11%) Rust
5 1 (5.56%) SQL
5 1 (5.56%) TypeScript
System Software
1 11 (61.11%) Docker
2 3 (16.67%) Hyper-V
2 3 (16.67%) VMware Infrastructure
2 3 (16.67%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 7 (38.89%) Terraform
2 6 (33.33%) Ansible
3 3 (16.67%) Progress Chef
3 3 (16.67%) Prometheus
3 3 (16.67%) Puppet
Vendors
1 3 (16.67%) Microsoft
1 3 (16.67%) VMware
2 1 (5.56%) Google