Kubernetes Jobs in the UK excluding London

Kubernetes (k8s)
UK > UK excluding London

The table below provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in the UK excluding London 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 26 July 2024, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
26 Jul 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 76 56 42
Rank change year-on-year -20 -14 -3
Permanent jobs citing Kubernetes 1,914 2,502 4,846
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 2.93% 5.20% 6.19%
As % of the Systems Management category 36.38% 41.23% 44.30%
Number of salaries quoted 1,158 1,714 3,221
10th Percentile £46,250 £47,250 £46,250
25th Percentile £53,750 £55,000 £50,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £67,500 £70,000 £70,000
Median % change year-on-year -3.57% - +16.67%
75th Percentile £84,919 £82,500 £85,000
90th Percentile £93,750 £92,500 £90,000
UK median annual salary £77,500 £75,000 £75,000
% change year-on-year +3.33% - +7.14%

All Systems Management Skills
UK excluding London

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 the UK excluding London.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for systems management skills 5,261 6,068 10,938
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 8.06% 12.60% 13.97%
Number of salaries quoted 3,392 4,054 6,725
10th Percentile £31,250 £31,250 £32,750
25th Percentile £41,250 £42,500 £43,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £60,000 £57,500
Median % change year-on-year -8.33% +4.35% +4.55%
75th Percentile £71,250 £77,500 £77,500
90th Percentile £85,000 £87,500 £85,000
UK median annual salary £62,500 £67,500 £67,500
% change year-on-year -7.41% - +3.85%

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 26 July 2024.

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 26 July 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
South East -12 513 £67,500 -6.90% 58
North of England -25 443 £65,000 -6.40% 41
Scotland -4 364 £71,991 +2.84% 24
South West -28 309 £75,000 +8.00% 31
North West -29 260 £65,000 -8.77% 28
Midlands -43 176 £60,000 -14.29% 31
Yorkshire -6 167 £65,000 -0.54% 10
West Midlands -37 90 £60,000 -14.29% 19
East Midlands -27 86 £55,000 -12.00% 12
East of England -59 69 £78,750 +10.14% 11
Wales -27 24 £48,500 -18.49% 2
North East -34 16 £70,000 +7.69% 3
Northern Ireland -7 13 £70,000 -3.45% 19
Isle of Man - 3 - -
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
1 133 (6.95%) Apache
2 98 (5.12%) Apache Spark
2 98 (5.12%) FileNet
3 44 (2.30%) Apache Airflow
4 38 (1.99%) OpenStack
5 29 (1.52%) Microsoft Exchange
6 28 (1.46%) nginx
7 20 (1.04%) Jupyter
8 17 (0.89%) Cloud Foundry
9 15 (0.78%) Confluence
10 12 (0.63%) IIS
11 9 (0.47%) JBoss
12 8 (0.42%) Tomcat
13 7 (0.37%) Red Hat Fuse
13 7 (0.37%) SharePoint
14 3 (0.16%) CloudStack
15 2 (0.10%) Oracle SOA Suite
15 2 (0.10%) WildFly
15 2 (0.10%) WordPress
16 1 (0.052%) Moodle
Applications
1 10 (0.52%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 2 (0.10%) Oracle EBS
1 2 (0.10%) Salesforce CRM
1 2 (0.10%) SAP S/4HANA
1 2 (0.10%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
2 1 (0.052%) SAP Business One
Cloud Services
1 949 (49.58%) AWS
2 795 (41.54%) Azure
3 301 (15.73%) Amazon S3
4 226 (11.81%) GCP
5 203 (10.61%) Azure DevOps
6 190 (9.93%) GitHub
7 168 (8.78%) Amazon EKS
8 151 (7.89%) SaaS
9 144 (7.52%) Serverless
10 140 (7.31%) OpenShift
11 114 (5.96%) IBM Cloud
12 108 (5.64%) GitHub Actions
13 90 (4.70%) OCI
14 84 (4.39%) AWS CloudFormation
15 83 (4.34%) Route 53
16 76 (3.97%) Amazon ECR
16 76 (3.97%) AWS Lambda
17 73 (3.81%) Cloud Computing
18 67 (3.50%) Microsoft 365
19 66 (3.45%) Amazon EC2
Communications & Networking
1 132 (6.90%) Firewall
2 64 (3.34%) DNS
3 57 (2.98%) VPN
4 56 (2.93%) Internet
5 49 (2.56%) DHCP
5 49 (2.56%) IPsec
5 49 (2.56%) SNMP
6 48 (2.51%) Network Security
7 43 (2.25%) HTTP
8 41 (2.14%) TCP/IP
9 35 (1.83%) AMQP
10 27 (1.41%) SD-WAN
10 27 (1.41%) WAN
11 17 (0.89%) Kerberos
12 7 (0.37%) iSCSI
13 6 (0.31%) BGP
13 6 (0.31%) OSPF
14 5 (0.26%) 5G
14 5 (0.26%) MQTT
14 5 (0.26%) WLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 259 (13.53%) NoSQL
2 185 (9.67%) Elasticsearch
3 133 (6.95%) Amazon RDS
4 122 (6.37%) SQL Server
5 115 (6.01%) Big Data
6 108 (5.64%) Relational Database
7 106 (5.54%) MongoDB
8 103 (5.38%) Apache Cassandra
9 81 (4.23%) PostgreSQL
10 71 (3.71%) MySQL
11 62 (3.24%) Hadoop
12 41 (2.14%) Redis
13 29 (1.52%) Cloudera CDH
14 23 (1.20%) RDBMS
15 20 (1.04%) Amazon Aurora
16 19 (0.99%) Azure SQL Database
17 18 (0.94%) CockroachDB
18 17 (0.89%) Presto
19 12 (0.63%) BigQuery
20 10 (0.52%) Amazon Redshift
Development Applications
1 284 (14.84%) Jenkins
2 254 (13.27%) Git
3 139 (7.26%) JUnit
4 115 (6.01%) JIRA
5 93 (4.86%) Selenium
6 83 (4.34%) GitLab
7 64 (3.34%) CircleCI
8 59 (3.08%) Cypress.io
9 56 (2.93%) Mockito
10 53 (2.77%) Jasmine
11 36 (1.88%) SonarQube
12 33 (1.72%) TeamCity
13 32 (1.67%) Octopus Deploy
14 25 (1.31%) Cucumber
15 24 (1.25%) SoapUI
16 17 (0.89%) Bitbucket
16 17 (0.89%) Maven
16 17 (0.89%) Robot Framework
17 16 (0.84%) Atlassian Bamboo
18 13 (0.68%) Visual Studio Code
General
1 407 (21.26%) Finance
2 346 (18.08%) Inclusion and Diversity
3 282 (14.73%) Social Skills
4 268 (14.00%) Law
5 220 (11.49%) Public Sector
6 152 (7.94%) Marketing
7 111 (5.80%) Aerospace
8 100 (5.22%) Legal
9 57 (2.98%) Analytical Skills
10 56 (2.93%) Organisational Skills
11 52 (2.72%) Tech for Good
12 38 (1.99%) Retail
13 34 (1.78%) Banking
14 17 (0.89%) Automotive
14 17 (0.89%) Games
15 16 (0.84%) Telecoms
16 14 (0.73%) Health Technology
17 11 (0.57%) Retail Banking
18 10 (0.52%) Influencing Skills
19 8 (0.42%) Documentation Skills
Job Titles
1 443 (23.15%) Senior
2 428 (22.36%) Software Engineer
3 379 (19.80%) DevOps Engineer
4 367 (19.17%) Developer
5 323 (16.88%) Lead
6 120 (6.27%) Senior Developer
7 113 (5.90%) Architect
8 110 (5.75%) Senior DevOps
8 110 (5.75%) Senior DevOps Engineer
9 109 (5.69%) Java Engineer
10 104 (5.43%) AWS Engineer
11 101 (5.28%) Lead Software Engineer
12 100 (5.22%) Software Developer
13 98 (5.12%) Infrastructure Engineer
14 94 (4.91%) Senior Software Engineer
15 92 (4.81%) Cloud Engineer
16 91 (4.75%) Consultant
17 88 (4.60%) Java Software Engineer
18 78 (4.08%) Full Stack Engineer
19 75 (3.92%) Azure Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 446 (23.30%) React
2 298 (15.57%) .NET
3 291 (15.20%) Spring
4 275 (14.37%) AngularJS
5 271 (14.16%) Kafka
6 204 (10.66%) Node.js
7 171 (8.93%) HTML
8 156 (8.15%) CSS
8 156 (8.15%) REST
9 149 (7.78%) RabbitMQ
10 141 (7.37%) Spring Boot
11 138 (7.21%) Hibernate
12 125 (6.53%) GraphQL
13 123 (6.43%) RESTful
14 103 (5.38%) J2EE
15 100 (5.22%) Spring Integration
16 90 (4.70%) .NET Core
17 88 (4.60%) JSON
18 87 (4.55%) YAML
19 73 (3.81%) jQuery
Miscellaneous
1 238 (12.43%) Cloud Native
2 163 (8.52%) Public Cloud
3 149 (7.78%) Hybrid Cloud
4 139 (7.26%) Distributed Systems
5 120 (6.27%) Blockchain
6 115 (6.01%) Data Centre
7 108 (5.64%) Algorithms
8 80 (4.18%) e-Learning
9 62 (3.24%) Management Information System
10 46 (2.40%) Product Ownership
11 42 (2.19%) Greenfield Project
12 39 (2.04%) Data Structures
13 38 (1.99%) Linux Command Line
14 26 (1.36%) PKI
15 25 (1.31%) Self-Motivation
16 22 (1.15%) Onboarding
17 21 (1.10%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
18 19 (0.99%) Mobile App
19 17 (0.89%) Enterprise Cloud
20 15 (0.78%) Reference Data
Operating Systems
1 596 (31.14%) Linux
2 230 (12.02%) Windows
3 110 (5.75%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 92 (4.81%) CentOS
5 86 (4.49%) Debian
6 70 (3.66%) Ubuntu
7 54 (2.82%) Windows Server
8 49 (2.56%) Data ONTAP
9 42 (2.19%) Alpine Linux
10 33 (1.72%) Windows Server 2016
11 22 (1.15%) VMS
12 18 (0.94%) Windows Server 2019
13 16 (0.84%) Unix
14 12 (0.63%) Android
15 10 (0.52%) Apple iOS
16 6 (0.31%) Embedded Linux
16 6 (0.31%) Rocky
16 6 (0.31%) SUSE Linux Enterprise Server
17 3 (0.16%) SUSE
18 2 (0.10%) Mesosphere
Processes & Methodologies
1 953 (49.79%) Agile
2 898 (46.92%) CI/CD
3 880 (45.98%) DevOps
4 636 (33.23%) Software Engineering
5 506 (26.44%) Containerisation
6 465 (24.29%) Artificial Intelligence
7 419 (21.89%) Microservices
8 362 (18.91%) Infrastructure as Code
9 347 (18.13%) SDLC
10 312 (16.30%) Problem-Solving
11 272 (14.21%) Mentoring
12 252 (13.17%) Machine Learning
13 240 (12.54%) Computer Science
14 236 (12.33%) Full Stack Development
15 214 (11.18%) Test Automation
16 187 (9.77%) Scrum
17 179 (9.35%) Continuous Improvement
18 163 (8.52%) Operational Stability
19 158 (8.25%) Observability
20 152 (7.94%) Continuous Integration
Programming Languages
1 605 (31.61%) Python
2 550 (28.74%) Java
3 413 (21.58%) JavaScript
4 378 (19.75%) SQL
5 329 (17.19%) C#
6 286 (14.94%) TypeScript
7 176 (9.20%) Bash
8 150 (7.84%) PowerShell
9 72 (3.76%) Go
10 63 (3.29%) PHP
11 51 (2.66%) Bicep
12 37 (1.93%) C++
13 34 (1.78%) Shell Script
14 32 (1.67%) Perl
15 28 (1.46%) Ruby
16 27 (1.41%) PL/SQL
17 20 (1.04%) VB
18 16 (0.84%) Groovy
18 16 (0.84%) VBScript
19 12 (0.63%) C
Qualifications
1 333 (17.40%) Security Cleared
2 283 (14.79%) Degree
3 205 (10.71%) DV Cleared
4 180 (9.40%) SC Cleared
5 143 (7.47%) Computer Science Degree
6 107 (5.59%) Azure Certification
7 73 (3.81%) Microsoft Certification
8 68 (3.55%) AWS Certification
9 55 (2.87%) Master's Degree
10 41 (2.14%) MCSA
10 41 (2.14%) MCSE
11 33 (1.72%) CISSP
11 33 (1.72%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
12 26 (1.36%) CISM
13 24 (1.25%) Cisco Certification
14 20 (1.04%) (ISC)2 CCSP
14 20 (1.04%) CCSK
14 20 (1.04%) CCSP
15 18 (0.94%) BPSS Clearance
16 13 (0.68%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 58 (3.03%) QA
2 31 (1.62%) NIST
3 27 (1.41%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 27 (1.41%) WCAG
4 15 (0.78%) NCSC
5 12 (0.63%) Accessibility
6 10 (0.52%) GDPR
7 8 (0.42%) PCI DSS
8 7 (0.37%) ISO 9001
9 5 (0.26%) Data Quality
9 5 (0.26%) HIPAA
10 3 (0.16%) SLA
11 2 (0.10%) California Consumer Privacy Act
11 2 (0.10%) Cyber Essentials
12 1 (0.052%) Disclosure Scotland
System Software
1 1,115 (58.25%) Docker
2 123 (6.43%) VMware Infrastructure
3 67 (3.50%) Active Directory
4 52 (2.72%) Hyper-V
5 41 (2.14%) Virtual Machines
6 24 (1.25%) Virtual Desktop
7 23 (1.20%) vSphere
8 12 (0.63%) Firmware
8 12 (0.63%) VMware ESXi
9 8 (0.42%) NFS
9 8 (0.42%) Slurm Workload Manager
10 7 (0.37%) KVM
11 6 (0.31%) Ceph
12 4 (0.21%) Lustre
12 4 (0.21%) pfSense
13 3 (0.16%) Gluster
13 3 (0.16%) GPFS
13 3 (0.16%) oVirt
14 2 (0.10%) Apache ZooKeeper
14 2 (0.10%) Xen
Systems Management
1 678 (35.42%) Terraform
2 419 (21.89%) Ansible
3 230 (12.02%) Prometheus
4 146 (7.63%) Puppet
5 101 (5.28%) Grafana
6 75 (3.92%) vCenter Server
7 43 (2.25%) Progress Chef
8 32 (1.67%) Single Sign-On
9 28 (1.46%) SCCM
10 26 (1.36%) Docker Swarm
11 23 (1.20%) SCOM
12 22 (1.15%) Microsoft Intune
13 20 (1.04%) Active Directory Federation Services
14 18 (0.94%) Istio
14 18 (0.94%) WSUS
15 17 (0.89%) HAProxy
16 16 (0.84%) Salt
17 14 (0.73%) Nagios
18 13 (0.68%) ZABBIX
19 12 (0.63%) Kibana
Vendors
1 256 (13.38%) Red Hat
2 208 (10.87%) Oracle
3 190 (9.93%) Microsoft
4 148 (7.73%) VMware
5 120 (6.27%) IBM
6 116 (6.06%) Google
7 99 (5.17%) Dynatrace
8 55 (2.87%) Splunk
9 53 (2.77%) NetApp
10 49 (2.56%) Palo Alto
10 49 (2.56%) SolidFire
11 29 (1.52%) SaltStack
12 26 (1.36%) ServiceNow
13 23 (1.20%) Databricks
14 16 (0.84%) Atlassian
15 12 (0.63%) Cisco
16 10 (0.52%) Black Duck
16 10 (0.52%) Citrix
16 10 (0.52%) SolarWinds
16 10 (0.52%) WSO2