Kubernetes Jobs in the UK excluding London

Kubernetes (k8s)
UK > UK excluding London

The following table provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in the UK excluding London 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 1 December 2023 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
1 Dec 2023
Same period 2022 Same period 2021
Rank 44 52 43
Rank change year-on-year +8 -9 +3
Permanent jobs citing Kubernetes 1,763 3,637 4,020
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 5.55% 5.45% 6.12%
As % of the Systems Management category 38.44% 38.22% 42.72%
Number of salaries quoted 1,358 2,326 2,861
10th Percentile £46,250 £45,000 £41,250
25th Percentile £55,000 £52,500 £51,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £69,447 £67,500 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year +2.88% +12.50% +9.09%
75th Percentile £82,548 £82,500 £77,500
90th Percentile £92,500 £90,000 £87,500
UK median annual salary £75,000 £77,500 £75,000
% change year-on-year -3.23% +3.33% +15.38%

All Systems Management Skills
UK excluding London

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 UK excluding London with a requirement for systems management skills.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for systems management skills 4,586 9,515 9,411
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 14.43% 14.26% 14.32%
Number of salaries quoted 3,513 5,362 6,494
10th Percentile £31,500 £31,250 £31,830
25th Percentile £42,500 £41,250 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,500 £57,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +0.88% +3.64% +6.28%
75th Percentile £72,500 £75,000 £73,750
90th Percentile £85,000 £87,500 £85,000
UK median annual salary £65,000 £67,500 £67,500
% change year-on-year -3.70% - +12.50%

Kubernetes
Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London

Job postings citing Kubernetes as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London.

Job vacancy trend for Kubernetes in the UK excluding London

Kubernetes
Salary Trend in the UK excluding London

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing Kubernetes in the UK excluding London.

Salary trend for Kubernetes in the UK excluding London

Kubernetes
Salary Histogram in the UK excluding London

Salary distribution for jobs citing Kubernetes in the UK excluding London over the 6 months to 1 December 2023.

Salary histogram for Kubernetes in the UK excluding London

Kubernetes
Job Locations in the UK excluding London

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Kubernetes within the UK excluding London region over the 6 months to 1 December 2023. 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
North of England +2 525 £67,500 -3.57% 138
South West +31 432 £65,000 +4.00% 90
South East +19 345 £72,500 +3.57% 214
North West 0 294 £70,000 - 77
Yorkshire +10 214 £65,351 -4.62% 46
Scotland -10 193 £70,576 +8.58% 40
Midlands -14 157 £62,500 -10.71% 42
West Midlands -5 89 £64,500 -7.86% 28
East of England +29 88 £82,500 +3.13% 52
East Midlands +1 71 £62,500 -10.71% 14
Wales -19 35 £57,500 -2.82% 9
North East -12 19 £65,000 -7.14% 16
Northern Ireland -32 17 £65,000 +18.18% 6
Channel Islands +7 1 £110,000 +10.00%
Kubernetes
UK

Kubernetes
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the UK excluding London 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 59 (3.35%) Apache Spark
2 31 (1.76%) nginx
3 28 (1.59%) Confluence
4 25 (1.42%) Jupyter
5 24 (1.36%) Apache
6 23 (1.30%) OpenStack
7 10 (0.57%) Apache Solr
7 10 (0.57%) JBoss
7 10 (0.57%) Red Hat Fuse
8 7 (0.40%) Apache Airflow
8 7 (0.40%) CMS
8 7 (0.40%) Tomcat
9 6 (0.34%) Drupal
9 6 (0.34%) SharePoint
10 5 (0.28%) Luigi
11 4 (0.23%) IIS
12 2 (0.11%) Headless CMS
12 2 (0.11%) Jetty
13 1 (0.057%) Apache Pulsar
13 1 (0.057%) MS Exchange
Applications
1 4 (0.23%) Trello
2 1 (0.057%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 5 (0.28%) Dynamics CRM
2 1 (0.057%) Distributed Ledger
Cloud Services
1 910 (51.62%) Azure
2 872 (49.46%) AWS
3 385 (21.84%) GCP
4 271 (15.37%) Azure DevOps
5 209 (11.85%) PaaS
6 199 (11.29%) SaaS
7 190 (10.78%) OpenShift
8 164 (9.30%) Serverless
9 154 (8.74%) GitHub
10 142 (8.05%) IaaS
11 88 (4.99%) Amazon S3
12 87 (4.93%) AWS CloudFormation
13 86 (4.88%) Amazon EKS
14 70 (3.97%) Cloud Computing
15 68 (3.86%) Amazon EC2
15 68 (3.86%) Amazon ECS
16 66 (3.74%) AWS Lambda
17 51 (2.89%) Entra ID
18 49 (2.78%) Azure AKS
19 43 (2.44%) Azure Monitor
Communications & Networking
1 136 (7.71%) DNS
2 111 (6.30%) TCP/IP
3 98 (5.56%) DHCP
4 89 (5.05%) HTTP
5 71 (4.03%) Firewall
6 40 (2.27%) VPN
7 26 (1.47%) Network Security
8 23 (1.30%) Internet
9 17 (0.96%) IPv4
10 11 (0.62%) VLAN
10 11 (0.62%) WAN
11 9 (0.51%) SSL
12 8 (0.45%) OSPF
12 8 (0.45%) SMTP
13 7 (0.40%) AMQP
14 6 (0.34%) BGP
14 6 (0.34%) FTP
14 6 (0.34%) Reverse Proxy
14 6 (0.34%) SD-WAN
15 5 (0.28%) LAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 160 (9.08%) NoSQL
2 144 (8.17%) PostgreSQL
3 117 (6.64%) Big Data
4 112 (6.35%) Elasticsearch
5 96 (5.45%) MySQL
6 80 (4.54%) MongoDB
7 62 (3.52%) SQL Server
8 53 (3.01%) Relational Database
9 52 (2.95%) Data Lake
10 50 (2.84%) Redis
11 48 (2.72%) Amazon RDS
11 48 (2.72%) Data Warehouse
12 43 (2.44%) BigQuery
13 40 (2.27%) Hadoop
14 36 (2.04%) Amazon Redshift
15 17 (0.96%) InfluxDB
16 14 (0.79%) Power BI
17 12 (0.68%) Presto
18 10 (0.57%) Tableau
19 9 (0.51%) Apache Cassandra
Development Applications
1 507 (28.76%) Jenkins
2 315 (17.87%) Git
3 145 (8.22%) GitLab
4 107 (6.07%) Selenium
5 97 (5.50%) JIRA
6 90 (5.10%) Cypress.io
7 80 (4.54%) Maven
8 68 (3.86%) Cucumber
9 64 (3.63%) SonarQube
10 52 (2.95%) Sonatype Nexus
11 48 (2.72%) Spinnaker
12 42 (2.38%) Artifactory
13 31 (1.76%) JUnit
14 29 (1.64%) SoapUI
15 22 (1.25%) TeamCity
16 20 (1.13%) Atlassian Bamboo
16 20 (1.13%) IBM UrbanCode
17 18 (1.02%) Bitbucket
18 14 (0.79%) Gradle
19 11 (0.62%) Axure RP
General
1 466 (26.43%) Finance
2 293 (16.62%) Banking
3 272 (15.43%) Social Skills
4 194 (11.00%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 117 (6.64%) Retail
6 68 (3.86%) Aerospace
7 58 (3.29%) Analytical Skills
8 54 (3.06%) Public Sector
9 37 (2.10%) Legal
10 34 (1.93%) Retail Banking
11 33 (1.87%) Law
12 22 (1.25%) Telecoms
13 20 (1.13%) Organisational Skills
14 14 (0.79%) Aviation
14 14 (0.79%) Financial Institution
14 14 (0.79%) Games
15 13 (0.74%) Billing
15 13 (0.74%) Tech for Good
16 12 (0.68%) Influencing Skills
17 11 (0.62%) Marketing
Job Titles
1 453 (25.69%) DevOps Engineer
2 353 (20.02%) Senior
3 347 (19.68%) Developer
4 270 (15.31%) Software Engineer
5 185 (10.49%) Lead
6 157 (8.91%) Cloud Engineer
7 131 (7.43%) Azure Engineer
8 114 (6.47%) Architect
9 107 (6.07%) Senior Developer
10 92 (5.22%) Infrastructure Engineer
10 92 (5.22%) Java Developer
11 84 (4.76%) AWS Engineer
12 81 (4.59%) Azure DevOps Engineer
13 79 (4.48%) AWS DevOps
14 78 (4.42%) Software Developer
15 70 (3.97%) AWS DevOps Engineer
15 70 (3.97%) Data Engineer
16 68 (3.86%) Senior Software Engineer
17 65 (3.69%) Security Engineer
18 56 (3.18%) Cloud Security Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 254 (14.41%) React
2 215 (12.20%) Kafka
3 187 (10.61%) .NET
4 176 (9.98%) Spring Boot
5 170 (9.64%) Spring
6 141 (8.00%) AngularJS
6 141 (8.00%) Node.js
7 117 (6.64%) REST
8 98 (5.56%) Elastic Stack
9 88 (4.99%) HTML
10 82 (4.65%) RESTful
11 75 (4.25%) RabbitMQ
12 71 (4.03%) Web Services
13 65 (3.69%) CSS
14 64 (3.63%) .NET Core
14 64 (3.63%) Jest
15 62 (3.52%) JSON
16 54 (3.06%) Hibernate
17 41 (2.33%) YAML
18 40 (2.27%) Vue
Miscellaneous
1 216 (12.25%) Public Cloud
2 122 (6.92%) Cloud Native
3 105 (5.96%) Product Ownership
4 80 (4.54%) Distributed Systems
5 66 (3.74%) Greenfield Project
6 57 (3.23%) Private Cloud
7 55 (3.12%) Algorithms
8 54 (3.06%) Blockchain
9 38 (2.16%) PKI
10 35 (1.99%) Mainframe
11 34 (1.93%) Linux Command Line
11 34 (1.93%) Robotics
12 29 (1.64%) Self-Motivation
13 26 (1.47%) Data Centre
13 26 (1.47%) Onboarding
14 25 (1.42%) Cyberattack
15 22 (1.25%) Hybrid Cloud
16 20 (1.13%) Legacy Systems
17 18 (1.02%) Data Structures
18 16 (0.91%) Enterprise Software
Operating Systems
1 434 (24.62%) Linux
2 225 (12.76%) Windows
3 97 (5.50%) Unix
4 76 (4.31%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 43 (2.44%) Windows Server
6 33 (1.87%) Ubuntu
7 14 (0.79%) Debian
7 14 (0.79%) Windows Server 2016
8 13 (0.74%) CentOS
9 12 (0.68%) Windows Server 2019
10 11 (0.62%) Android
10 11 (0.62%) Apple iOS
11 8 (0.45%) Mac OS
12 6 (0.34%) Windows 10
13 5 (0.28%) CoreOS
13 5 (0.28%) Solaris
13 5 (0.28%) zOS
14 4 (0.23%) Mac OS X
15 3 (0.17%) Windows Server 2008
16 2 (0.11%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 1,042 (59.10%) DevOps
2 916 (51.96%) Agile
3 740 (41.97%) CI/CD
4 456 (25.87%) Infrastructure as Code
5 452 (25.64%) Software Engineering
6 451 (25.58%) Microservices
7 394 (22.35%) Containerisation
8 236 (13.39%) Problem-Solving
9 214 (12.14%) Continuous Integration
10 212 (12.02%) Mentoring
11 197 (11.17%) Roadmaps
12 181 (10.27%) Scrum
13 173 (9.81%) Computer Science
14 168 (9.53%) Artificial Intelligence
15 160 (9.08%) Actionable Insight
16 155 (8.79%) TDD
17 141 (8.00%) SDLC
18 138 (7.83%) Test Automation
19 137 (7.77%) Infrastructure Engineering
20 124 (7.03%) Machine Learning
Programming Languages
1 725 (41.12%) Python
2 610 (34.60%) Java
3 360 (20.42%) Bash
4 338 (19.17%) JavaScript
5 312 (17.70%) PowerShell
6 254 (14.41%) SQL
7 217 (12.31%) C#
8 200 (11.34%) TypeScript
9 152 (8.62%) Go
10 67 (3.80%) Groovy
11 66 (3.74%) Ruby
12 64 (3.63%) C++
13 61 (3.46%) Shell Script
14 60 (3.40%) PHP
15 44 (2.50%) Bicep
16 43 (2.44%) Kotlin
17 41 (2.33%) Perl
18 40 (2.27%) Scala
19 27 (1.53%) R
20 25 (1.42%) VB
Qualifications
1 343 (19.46%) Security Cleared
2 237 (13.44%) Degree
3 191 (10.83%) SC Cleared
4 131 (7.43%) DV Cleared
5 121 (6.86%) Computer Science Degree
6 62 (3.52%) AWS Certification
7 53 (3.01%) Azure Certification
8 24 (1.36%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
9 16 (0.91%) Microsoft Certification
10 14 (0.79%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
11 12 (0.68%) BPSS Clearance
12 9 (0.51%) Master's Degree
13 8 (0.45%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
14 6 (0.34%) Cisco Certification
14 6 (0.34%) RHCE
15 5 (0.28%) GIAC
16 4 (0.23%) OCP
16 4 (0.23%) Oracle Certification
17 3 (0.17%) PhD
18 2 (0.11%) MCSE
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 72 (4.08%) QA
2 28 (1.59%) SEPA
3 22 (1.25%) WCAG
4 15 (0.85%) ISO 20022
5 11 (0.62%) GDPR
5 11 (0.62%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 8 (0.45%) NIST
7 7 (0.40%) Data Quality
8 6 (0.34%) PCI DSS
9 4 (0.23%) Accessibility
9 4 (0.23%) ISO 9001
10 3 (0.17%) SLA
11 2 (0.11%) California Consumer Privacy Act
11 2 (0.11%) HIPAA
11 2 (0.11%) NCSC
11 2 (0.11%) Sarbanes-Oxley
12 1 (0.057%) Cyber Essentials
12 1 (0.057%) HL7
12 1 (0.057%) ISO 22301
12 1 (0.057%) ISO/IEC 20000
System Software
1 1,232 (69.88%) Docker
2 112 (6.35%) Active Directory
3 88 (4.99%) VMware Infrastructure
4 81 (4.59%) Hyper-V
5 42 (2.38%) Virtual Machines
6 24 (1.36%) Virtual Desktop
7 6 (0.34%) Ceph
7 6 (0.34%) KVM
7 6 (0.34%) VMware ESXi
8 5 (0.28%) Citrix Hypervisor
9 4 (0.23%) LXC
9 4 (0.23%) vSphere
10 3 (0.17%) NFS
11 2 (0.11%) Kamailio
11 2 (0.11%) OpenSIPS
11 2 (0.11%) pfSense
11 2 (0.11%) VMware Server
12 1 (0.057%) Gluster
12 1 (0.057%) GPFS
12 1 (0.057%) QEMU
Systems Management
1 687 (38.97%) Terraform
2 411 (23.31%) Ansible
3 155 (8.79%) Puppet
4 96 (5.45%) Grafana
5 80 (4.54%) Prometheus
6 62 (3.52%) Istio
7 38 (2.16%) Progress Chef
8 34 (1.93%) SCCM
9 26 (1.47%) SCOM
10 25 (1.42%) Microsoft Intune
10 25 (1.42%) WSUS
11 24 (1.36%) Packer
12 22 (1.25%) Active Directory Federation Services
13 16 (0.91%) HAProxy
13 16 (0.91%) Nagios
14 15 (0.85%) Kustomize
15 14 (0.79%) Kibana
16 13 (0.74%) Argo
16 13 (0.74%) Rancher
17 11 (0.62%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 170 (9.64%) Microsoft
2 168 (9.53%) Google
3 95 (5.39%) VMware
4 94 (5.33%) Red Hat
5 73 (4.14%) Oracle
6 41 (2.33%) Splunk
7 26 (1.47%) IBM
8 24 (1.36%) Atlassian
9 22 (1.25%) AppDynamics
10 17 (0.96%) Databricks
10 17 (0.96%) Dell
10 17 (0.96%) New Relic
10 17 (0.96%) Veracode
11 15 (0.85%) Confluent
12 14 (0.79%) WSO2
13 12 (0.68%) Dynatrace
14 10 (0.57%) Sun
15 6 (0.34%) Adobe
15 6 (0.34%) SolarWinds
15 6 (0.34%) Zscaler