Kubernetes Jobs in Tyne and Wear

Kubernetes (k8s)
North East > Tyne and Wear

The table below provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in Tyne and Wear 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 6 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
6 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 42 74 52
Rank change year-on-year +32 -22 -26
Permanent jobs citing Kubernetes 14 25 43
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Tyne and Wear 3.15% 1.88% 4.62%
As % of the Systems Management category 53.85% 22.52% 43.43%
Number of salaries quoted 10 23 38
10th Percentile £46,100 £33,750 £47,125
25th Percentile £48,125 £52,500 £53,125
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,500 £57,500 £69,500
Median % change year-on-year - -17.27% +6.92%
75th Percentile £79,063 £81,209 £80,000
90th Percentile £84,125 £84,919 £86,125
North East median annual salary £60,000 £63,750 £69,000
% change year-on-year -5.88% -7.61% +25.45%

All Systems Management Skills
Tyne and Wear

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 Tyne and Wear.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for systems management skills 26 111 99
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Tyne and Wear 5.86% 8.35% 10.65%
Number of salaries quoted 21 100 83
10th Percentile £41,250 £26,225 £35,200
25th Percentile £46,250 £37,105 £46,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,500 £52,500 £62,500
Median % change year-on-year +9.52% -16.00% +13.64%
75th Percentile £67,500 £67,968 £76,250
90th Percentile £82,500 £77,500 £85,000
North East median annual salary £62,500 £45,250 £55,000
% change year-on-year +38.12% -17.73% +22.22%

Kubernetes
Job Vacancy Trend in Tyne and Wear

Job postings citing Kubernetes as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in Tyne and Wear.

Job vacancy trend for Kubernetes in Tyne and Wear

Kubernetes
Salary Trend in Tyne and Wear

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing Kubernetes in Tyne and Wear.

Salary trend for Kubernetes in Tyne and Wear

Kubernetes
Salary Histogram in Tyne and Wear

Salary distribution for jobs citing Kubernetes in Tyne and Wear over the 6 months to 6 May 2025.

Salary histogram for Kubernetes in Tyne and Wear

Kubernetes
Job Locations in Tyne and Wear

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Kubernetes within the Tyne and Wear region over the 6 months to 6 May 2025. 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
Newcastle upon Tyne +38 14 £57,500 - 17
Kubernetes
North East

Kubernetes
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Tyne and Wear 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 1 (7.14%) Apache
1 1 (7.14%) Apache Airflow
1 1 (7.14%) Apache Spark
1 1 (7.14%) Confluence
Cloud Services
1 9 (64.29%) Azure
2 6 (42.86%) AWS
3 5 (35.71%) GitHub
3 5 (35.71%) GitHub Actions
4 4 (28.57%) GCP
5 1 (7.14%) Amazon Kinesis
5 1 (7.14%) Azure DevOps
5 1 (7.14%) dbt
5 1 (7.14%) Snowflake
Communications & Networking
1 2 (14.29%) SAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (35.71%) SQL Server
2 4 (28.57%) Azure SQL Database
2 4 (28.57%) MongoDB
3 1 (7.14%) Amazon Athena
3 1 (7.14%) Amazon Redshift
3 1 (7.14%) BigQuery
3 1 (7.14%) MySQL
3 1 (7.14%) PostgreSQL
3 1 (7.14%) SQL Server Integration Services
Development Applications
1 4 (28.57%) GitLab
1 4 (28.57%) SonarQube
2 3 (21.43%) Bitbucket
2 3 (21.43%) JIRA
2 3 (21.43%) Maven
2 3 (21.43%) Sonatype Nexus
2 3 (21.43%) TeamCity
3 2 (14.29%) Artifactory
3 2 (14.29%) Cucumber
3 2 (14.29%) Octopus Deploy
3 2 (14.29%) Selenium
4 1 (7.14%) CircleCI
4 1 (7.14%) IntelliJ
4 1 (7.14%) Jenkins
General
1 10 (71.43%) Finance
2 6 (42.86%) Social Skills
3 3 (21.43%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 2 (14.29%) Advertising
4 2 (14.29%) Banking
5 1 (7.14%) Analytical Skills
5 1 (7.14%) Corporate Banking
5 1 (7.14%) Investment Banking
5 1 (7.14%) Retail
Job Titles
1 7 (50.00%) Software Engineer
2 3 (21.43%) DevOps Engineer
2 3 (21.43%) Senior
3 2 (14.29%) Developer
3 2 (14.29%) Java Developer
3 2 (14.29%) Lead
3 2 (14.29%) Senior Developer
3 2 (14.29%) Senior Java Developer
4 1 (7.14%) Data Engineer
4 1 (7.14%) Lead Data Engineer
4 1 (7.14%) Senior Data Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 5 (35.71%) Spring
1 5 (35.71%) Spring Boot
2 4 (28.57%) .NET
2 4 (28.57%) AngularJS
2 4 (28.57%) Kafka
2 4 (28.57%) Node.js
3 3 (21.43%) Elastic Stack
3 3 (21.43%) RESTful
4 2 (14.29%) CSS
4 2 (14.29%) HTML
4 2 (14.29%) JPA
4 2 (14.29%) React
4 2 (14.29%) Redux
5 1 (7.14%) CSS3
5 1 (7.14%) Hibernate
5 1 (7.14%) HTML5
5 1 (7.14%) Jest
5 1 (7.14%) RabbitMQ
5 1 (7.14%) REST
5 1 (7.14%) Sass
Miscellaneous
1 2 (14.29%) Enterprise Software
1 2 (14.29%) Product Ownership
2 1 (7.14%) Cloud Native
2 1 (7.14%) Data Centre
2 1 (7.14%) Hedge funds
2 1 (7.14%) Onboarding
2 1 (7.14%) Private Cloud
Operating Systems
1 4 (28.57%) Linux
2 3 (21.43%) Windows
3 1 (7.14%) Debian
Processes & Methodologies
1 10 (71.43%) Software Engineering
2 7 (50.00%) CI/CD
3 6 (42.86%) Containerisation
3 6 (42.86%) DevOps
4 5 (35.71%) High Availability
4 5 (35.71%) Problem-Solving
5 4 (28.57%) Infrastructure as Code
5 4 (28.57%) Mentoring
5 4 (28.57%) Microservices
6 3 (21.43%) Agile
7 2 (14.29%) Clean Code
7 2 (14.29%) Code Quality
7 2 (14.29%) Computer Science
7 2 (14.29%) Continuous Integration
7 2 (14.29%) Front End Development
7 2 (14.29%) Infrastructure Automation
7 2 (14.29%) Migration
7 2 (14.29%) Performance Optimisation
7 2 (14.29%) SDLC
7 2 (14.29%) Test Automation
Programming Languages
1 9 (64.29%) Java
2 8 (57.14%) C#
3 7 (50.00%) SQL
4 5 (35.71%) TypeScript
5 4 (28.57%) JavaScript
5 4 (28.57%) Python
6 3 (21.43%) PowerShell
7 1 (7.14%) Scala
Qualifications
1 6 (42.86%) Degree
2 2 (14.29%) Computer Science Degree
3 1 (7.14%) AWS Certification
3 1 (7.14%) SC Cleared
3 1 (7.14%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (28.57%) ISO/IEC 27001
1 4 (28.57%) PCI DSS
1 4 (28.57%) SOC 2
2 2 (14.29%) QA
3 1 (7.14%) Accessibility
System Software
1 7 (50.00%) Docker
2 1 (7.14%) VMware Infrastructure
2 1 (7.14%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 9 (64.29%) Terraform
2 4 (28.57%) Ansible
3 3 (21.43%) Docker Swarm
3 3 (21.43%) Grafana
4 1 (7.14%) Control-M
Vendors
1 3 (21.43%) Microsoft
2 2 (14.29%) Atlassian
2 2 (14.29%) Solace
2 2 (14.29%) VMware
3 1 (7.14%) Cisco
3 1 (7.14%) Databricks
3 1 (7.14%) Juniper