Kubernetes Jobs in the Thames Valley

Kubernetes (k8s)
South East > Thames Valley

The following table provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in the Thames Valley 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 11 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
11 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 46 52 75
Rank change year-on-year +6 +23 -45
Permanent jobs citing Kubernetes 302 326 280
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the Thames Valley 4.49% 5.46% 4.02%
As % of the Systems Management category 39.27% 33.71% 37.94%
Number of salaries quoted 254 185 191
10th Percentile £52,500 £43,750 £38,750
25th Percentile £57,500 £60,000 £54,375
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £75,000 £80,000 £70,000
Median % change year-on-year -6.25% +14.29% +12.00%
75th Percentile £91,250 £95,000 £82,500
90th Percentile £95,000 £105,750 £87,500
South East median annual salary £70,000 £70,000 £70,000
% change year-on-year - - +14.75%

All Systems Management Skills
Thames Valley

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 Thames Valley with a requirement for systems management skills.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for systems management skills 769 967 738
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the Thames Valley 11.44% 16.21% 10.60%
Number of salaries quoted 596 484 492
10th Percentile £34,000 £28,263 £31,250
25th Percentile £41,250 £37,500 £41,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £56,753 £62,086 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year -8.59% -4.48% +8.33%
75th Percentile £76,250 £83,750 £80,000
90th Percentile £92,500 £97,500 £85,000
South East median annual salary £55,000 £57,500 £65,000
% change year-on-year -4.35% -11.54% +13.04%

Kubernetes
Job Vacancy Trend in the Thames Valley

Job postings citing Kubernetes as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the Thames Valley.

Job vacancy trend for Kubernetes in the Thames Valley

Kubernetes
Salary Trend in the Thames Valley

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing Kubernetes in the Thames Valley.

Salary trend for Kubernetes in the Thames Valley

Kubernetes
Salary Histogram in the Thames Valley

Salary distribution for jobs citing Kubernetes in the Thames Valley over the 6 months to 11 May 2024.

Salary histogram for Kubernetes in the Thames Valley

Kubernetes
Job Locations in the Thames Valley

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Kubernetes within the Thames Valley region over the 6 months to 11 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
Berkshire +21 257 £75,000 -16.67% 30
Buckinghamshire -44 26 £65,000 -7.14% 12
Oxfordshire -31 19 £72,500 +7.41% 5
Kubernetes
South East

Kubernetes
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the Thames Valley 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 28 (9.27%) OpenStack
2 18 (5.96%) Apache
3 14 (4.64%) Microsoft Exchange
4 11 (3.64%) Red Hat Fuse
5 10 (3.31%) JBoss
6 5 (1.66%) nginx
7 2 (0.66%) Confluence
8 1 (0.33%) Apache Spark
8 1 (0.33%) Kinematics
8 1 (0.33%) Oracle SOA Suite
8 1 (0.33%) Tomcat
Applications
1 1 (0.33%) Microsoft Excel
Cloud Services
1 86 (28.48%) Azure
2 81 (26.82%) AWS
3 37 (12.25%) Amazon EKS
4 36 (11.92%) Amazon ECS
4 36 (11.92%) Serverless
5 21 (6.95%) Azure DevOps
6 17 (5.63%) Azure Monitor
6 17 (5.63%) Microsoft 365
6 17 (5.63%) SaaS
7 16 (5.30%) Entra ID
8 14 (4.64%) Azure Storage
9 8 (2.65%) Amazon S3
10 7 (2.32%) GCP
11 5 (1.66%) Amazon EC2
11 5 (1.66%) IaaS
12 4 (1.32%) Azure Pipelines
12 4 (1.32%) OpenShift
12 4 (1.32%) Power Platform
13 3 (0.99%) Cloud Computing
14 2 (0.66%) PaaS
Communications & Networking
1 29 (9.60%) Firewall
2 17 (5.63%) DNS
3 14 (4.64%) DHCP
4 10 (3.31%) VPN
5 8 (2.65%) Internet
6 7 (2.32%) IPsec
7 5 (1.66%) BGP
7 5 (1.66%) SNMP
8 3 (0.99%) Network Security
9 2 (0.66%) LAN
9 2 (0.66%) OSPF
9 2 (0.66%) TCP/IP
9 2 (0.66%) WAN
9 2 (0.66%) WLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 98 (32.45%) NoSQL
2 39 (12.91%) SQL Server
3 34 (11.26%) PostgreSQL
4 33 (10.93%) Relational Database
5 17 (5.63%) Elasticsearch
6 13 (4.30%) MySQL
7 8 (2.65%) CouchDB
8 6 (1.99%) MongoDB
9 4 (1.32%) RDBMS
10 3 (0.99%) Power BI
11 2 (0.66%) Amazon RDS
11 2 (0.66%) Big Data
11 2 (0.66%) Data Lake
11 2 (0.66%) Hadoop
12 1 (0.33%) Amazon Aurora
12 1 (0.33%) Amazon Redshift
12 1 (0.33%) DynamoDB
12 1 (0.33%) Redis
12 1 (0.33%) SQL Server Analysis Services
12 1 (0.33%) SQL Server Integration Services
Development Applications
1 147 (48.68%) Git
2 69 (22.85%) Selenium
3 65 (21.52%) Jenkins
4 57 (18.87%) Cypress.io
5 27 (8.94%) JUnit
6 24 (7.95%) SoapUI
7 14 (4.64%) Cucumber
8 13 (4.30%) WebDriver
9 12 (3.97%) TestNG
10 11 (3.64%) REST Assured
11 8 (2.65%) GitLab
11 8 (2.65%) Gradle
12 7 (2.32%) JIRA
13 6 (1.99%) JMeter
14 5 (1.66%) Mockito
15 3 (0.99%) Bitbucket
16 2 (0.66%) Artifactory
16 2 (0.66%) Burp Suite
16 2 (0.66%) Postman
17 1 (0.33%) Bitbucket Server
General
1 39 (12.91%) Social Skills
2 30 (9.93%) Public Sector
3 8 (2.65%) Finance
4 5 (1.66%) Analytical Skills
5 4 (1.32%) Organisational Skills
6 3 (0.99%) Presentation Skills
7 2 (0.66%) Aerospace
7 2 (0.66%) Health Technology
7 2 (0.66%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 1 (0.33%) Advertising
8 1 (0.33%) Banking
8 1 (0.33%) Influencing Skills
8 1 (0.33%) Law
8 1 (0.33%) Pharmaceutical
8 1 (0.33%) Tech for Good
8 1 (0.33%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 153 (50.66%) Developer
2 65 (21.52%) Senior
3 58 (19.21%) Software Developer
4 55 (18.21%) Senior Developer
5 52 (17.22%) Lead
6 43 (14.24%) Java Developer
7 41 (13.58%) DevOps Engineer
8 33 (10.93%) Front-End Developer (Client-Side Developer)
9 22 (7.28%) Lead Developer
10 21 (6.95%) Development Team Leader
10 21 (6.95%) Lead Software Developer
10 21 (6.95%) Senior Software Developer
10 21 (6.95%) Software Development Team Leader
10 21 (6.95%) Software Team Leader
10 21 (6.95%) Team Leader
11 19 (6.29%) Azure Engineer
12 17 (5.63%) Senior Front-End Developer
13 16 (5.30%) Full Stack Developer
14 14 (4.64%) Active Directory Support
14 14 (4.64%) Azure Specialist
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 120 (39.74%) React
2 86 (28.48%) .NET
3 56 (18.54%) Jest
4 48 (15.89%) Spring Boot
5 47 (15.56%) REST
6 46 (15.23%) Spring
7 38 (12.58%) HTML
8 35 (11.59%) Web Services
9 34 (11.26%) CSS
9 34 (11.26%) Elastic Stack
10 33 (10.93%) AngularJS
10 33 (10.93%) Apache Camel
10 33 (10.93%) CSS3
10 33 (10.93%) HTML5
11 32 (10.60%) Node.js
12 20 (6.62%) JSON
13 18 (5.96%) Kafka
13 18 (5.96%) XML
14 16 (5.30%) WireMock
15 15 (4.97%) ARM Templates
Miscellaneous
1 32 (10.60%) Distributed Systems
2 16 (5.30%) PKI
2 16 (5.30%) Product Ownership
3 15 (4.97%) Self-Motivation
4 14 (4.64%) Data Centre
5 10 (3.31%) Algorithms
6 8 (2.65%) Client/Server
6 8 (2.65%) PropTech
7 4 (1.32%) Legacy Systems
8 2 (0.66%) Cloud Native
8 2 (0.66%) EMC VNX
8 2 (0.66%) IoT
8 2 (0.66%) Low-Code
8 2 (0.66%) Virtual Team
9 1 (0.33%) Embedded Systems
9 1 (0.33%) FPGA
9 1 (0.33%) Greenfield Project
9 1 (0.33%) Hybrid Cloud
9 1 (0.33%) NHS
9 1 (0.33%) Robotics
Operating Systems
1 68 (22.52%) Linux
2 27 (8.94%) Windows
3 18 (5.96%) Windows Server
4 14 (4.64%) Windows Server 2016
4 14 (4.64%) Windows Server 2019
5 5 (1.66%) CentOS
5 5 (1.66%) Data ONTAP
6 4 (1.32%) Ubuntu
7 2 (0.66%) Debian
7 2 (0.66%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
7 2 (0.66%) Rocky
7 2 (0.66%) VMS
7 2 (0.66%) Windows Server 2012
Processes & Methodologies
1 220 (72.85%) Agile
2 136 (45.03%) Artificial Intelligence
3 133 (44.04%) Propensity Modelling
4 119 (39.40%) Computer Science
5 112 (37.09%) DevOps
6 85 (28.15%) CI/CD
7 59 (19.54%) Microservices
8 48 (15.89%) Machine Learning
8 48 (15.89%) TDD
9 46 (15.23%) Scrum
10 45 (14.90%) BDD
11 41 (13.58%) Software Engineering
12 38 (12.58%) Containerisation
13 37 (12.25%) Infrastructure as Code
14 36 (11.92%) Test Automation
15 35 (11.59%) Front End Development
16 34 (11.26%) Kanban
17 28 (9.27%) Problem-Solving
18 27 (8.94%) Continuous Integration
18 27 (8.94%) Release Management
Programming Languages
1 155 (51.32%) C#
2 154 (50.99%) JavaScript
3 117 (38.74%) TypeScript
4 75 (24.83%) Java
5 66 (21.85%) SQL
6 57 (18.87%) Python
7 33 (10.93%) PHP
8 23 (7.62%) PowerShell
9 16 (5.30%) Bicep
10 14 (4.64%) VB
10 14 (4.64%) VBScript
11 13 (4.30%) Groovy
12 12 (3.97%) Shell Script
13 10 (3.31%) Bash
13 10 (3.31%) R
14 7 (2.32%) Go
15 3 (0.99%) Ruby
16 2 (0.66%) Kotlin
17 1 (0.33%) Perl
17 1 (0.33%) PL/SQL
Qualifications
1 155 (51.32%) Degree
2 80 (26.49%) Computer Science Degree
3 71 (23.51%) Security Cleared
4 60 (19.87%) SC Cleared
5 14 (4.64%) DV Cleared
5 14 (4.64%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
6 13 (4.30%) AWS Certification
7 11 (3.64%) Azure Certification
7 11 (3.64%) Master's Degree
8 10 (3.31%) PhD
9 3 (0.99%) Microsoft Certification
10 1 (0.33%) BPSS Clearance
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 33 (10.93%) WCAG
2 7 (2.32%) QA
3 2 (0.66%) ISO/IEC 27001
System Software
1 258 (85.43%) Docker
2 20 (6.62%) Hyper-V
3 19 (6.29%) Active Directory
4 15 (4.97%) Virtual Machines
5 14 (4.64%) Virtual Desktop
6 9 (2.98%) VMware Infrastructure
7 4 (1.32%) VMware ESXi
8 2 (0.66%) KVM
8 2 (0.66%) QEMU
8 2 (0.66%) Xen
9 1 (0.33%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 66 (21.85%) Ansible
2 64 (21.19%) Terraform
3 16 (5.30%) SCCM
3 16 (5.30%) WSUS
4 14 (4.64%) Active Directory Federation Services
4 14 (4.64%) Microsoft Intune
4 14 (4.64%) Rancher
4 14 (4.64%) SCOM
5 10 (3.31%) Kibana
6 7 (2.32%) vCenter Server
7 6 (1.99%) Docker Swarm
7 6 (1.99%) Prometheus
8 4 (1.32%) Grafana
9 2 (0.66%) EMC NetWorker
9 2 (0.66%) Kustomize
9 2 (0.66%) Nagios
9 2 (0.66%) Nessus
9 2 (0.66%) Progress Chef
9 2 (0.66%) Puppet
9 2 (0.66%) SolarWinds Orion
Vendors
1 29 (9.60%) Microsoft
2 28 (9.27%) WSO2
3 21 (6.95%) VMware
4 12 (3.97%) Xamarin
5 8 (2.65%) Red Hat
6 5 (1.66%) Juniper
6 5 (1.66%) NetApp
6 5 (1.66%) Palo Alto
6 5 (1.66%) SolidFire
6 5 (1.66%) Splunk
7 4 (1.32%) Dynatrace
7 4 (1.32%) Oracle
7 4 (1.32%) SolarWinds
8 3 (0.99%) Veeam
9 2 (0.66%) Aruba
9 2 (0.66%) Atlassian
9 2 (0.66%) Cisco
9 2 (0.66%) Dell
9 2 (0.66%) EMC
9 2 (0.66%) Google