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 14 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
14 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 24 53 33
Rank change year-on-year +29 -20 -17
Permanent jobs citing Kubernetes 16 27 42
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Southampton 4.85% 3.10% 5.47%
As % of the Systems Management category 57.14% 62.79% 57.53%
Number of salaries quoted 15 20 41
10th Percentile £54,500 £57,125 -
25th Percentile £60,000 £59,250 £62,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £62,500 £70,000
Median % change year-on-year +4.00% -10.71% -
75th Percentile £68,750 £72,813 £105,000
90th Percentile £72,850 £73,875 £115,000
Hampshire median annual salary £62,500 £70,000 £68,750
% change year-on-year -10.71% +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 28 43 73
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Southampton 8.48% 4.94% 9.51%
Number of salaries quoted 23 36 69
10th Percentile £32,550 £31,250 £27,500
25th Percentile £52,500 £39,375 £34,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £60,500 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year +7.44% -6.92% -7.14%
75th Percentile £67,500 £66,875 £88,750
90th Percentile £73,300 £73,750 £115,000
Hampshire median annual salary £60,000 £50,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year +20.00% -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 14 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 (81.25%) Azure
2 10 (62.50%) GCP
3 4 (25.00%) AWS
4 3 (18.75%) Azure DevOps
4 3 (18.75%) Nutanix
5 2 (12.50%) Azure Functions
5 2 (12.50%) Serverless
6 1 (6.25%) Amazon EKS
6 1 (6.25%) Cloud Computing
6 1 (6.25%) GitHub
6 1 (6.25%) Google Kubernetes Engine
Database & Business Intelligence
1 6 (37.50%) MongoDB
Development Applications
1 4 (25.00%) Git
1 4 (25.00%) Jenkins
2 3 (18.75%) Selenium
3 1 (6.25%) git-flow
3 1 (6.25%) GitLab
3 1 (6.25%) SonarQube
General
1 4 (25.00%) Finance
2 2 (12.50%) Social Skills
3 1 (6.25%) Inclusion and Diversity
3 1 (6.25%) Law
3 1 (6.25%) Military
Job Titles
1 8 (50.00%) Developer
2 7 (43.75%) Node.js Developer
3 6 (37.50%) Senior
3 6 (37.50%) Senior Developer
4 3 (18.75%) Azure DevOps Engineer
4 3 (18.75%) Azure Engineer
4 3 (18.75%) DevOps Engineer
4 3 (18.75%) Lead
4 3 (18.75%) Platform Engineer
5 2 (12.50%) Kubernetes Engineer
6 1 (6.25%) C/C++ Software Engineer
6 1 (6.25%) Development Manager
6 1 (6.25%) Full-Stack Developer
6 1 (6.25%) Full-Stack JavaScript Developer
6 1 (6.25%) Graduate Java Developer
6 1 (6.25%) Principal Engineer
6 1 (6.25%) Python Engineer
6 1 (6.25%) Python Software Engineer
6 1 (6.25%) React Developer
6 1 (6.25%) Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 8 (50.00%) Node.js
1 8 (50.00%) React
2 7 (43.75%) Next.js
3 6 (37.50%) .NET
3 6 (37.50%) .NET Core
3 6 (37.50%) Tailwind CSS
4 1 (6.25%) Jest
4 1 (6.25%) Spring
Miscellaneous
1 1 (6.25%) BBC
1 1 (6.25%) Embedded Systems
1 1 (6.25%) Product Ownership
Operating Systems
1 3 (18.75%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 6 (37.50%) CI/CD
2 5 (31.25%) Agile
3 4 (25.00%) DevOps
4 3 (18.75%) Kanban
4 3 (18.75%) Platform Engineering
4 3 (18.75%) Release Management
4 3 (18.75%) Scrum
4 3 (18.75%) Technical Debt
5 2 (12.50%) Full-Stack Development
5 2 (12.50%) Infrastructure as Code
5 2 (12.50%) Microservices
5 2 (12.50%) Software Engineering
6 1 (6.25%) Computer Science
6 1 (6.25%) E-Commerce
6 1 (6.25%) Logistics
6 1 (6.25%) Mentoring
6 1 (6.25%) People Management
6 1 (6.25%) Project Management
6 1 (6.25%) Test Automation
6 1 (6.25%) Unit Testing
Programming Languages
1 9 (56.25%) JavaScript
2 2 (12.50%) Java
3 1 (6.25%) C
3 1 (6.25%) C++
3 1 (6.25%) Python
3 1 (6.25%) SQL
3 1 (6.25%) TypeScript
System Software
1 11 (68.75%) Docker
2 3 (18.75%) Hyper-V
2 3 (18.75%) VMware Infrastructure
2 3 (18.75%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 5 (31.25%) Terraform
2 4 (25.00%) Ansible
3 3 (18.75%) Progress Chef
3 3 (18.75%) Puppet
4 1 (6.25%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 3 (18.75%) Microsoft
1 3 (18.75%) VMware
2 1 (6.25%) Google