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 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 79 58 39
Rank change year-on-year -21 -19 -1
Permanent jobs citing Kubernetes 2,244 3,115 4,852
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 3.16% 5.20% 6.83%
As % of the Systems Management category 35.10% 40.61% 47.86%
Number of salaries quoted 1,414 1,882 3,120
10th Percentile £45,000 £46,250 £45,000
25th Percentile £53,750 £55,000 £51,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £68,000 £69,447 £70,000
Median % change year-on-year -2.08% -0.79% +21.74%
75th Percentile £85,000 £82,500 £85,000
90th Percentile £95,000 £92,500 £90,000
UK median annual salary £75,000 £75,000 £75,000
% change year-on-year - - +7.14%

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 6,393 7,670 10,138
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 9.00% 12.81% 14.27%
Number of salaries quoted 4,374 4,432 6,566
10th Percentile £30,000 £30,500 £32,625
25th Percentile £40,000 £41,250 £43,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £57,810 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -4.86% -3.65% +9.09%
75th Percentile £70,000 £76,250 £77,500
90th Percentile £84,964 £87,500 £85,000
UK median annual salary £60,000 £67,500 £70,000
% change year-on-year -11.11% -3.57% +12.00%

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 11 May 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 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
South East -14 589 £70,000 - 107
Scotland -15 485 £70,576 +4.56% 35
North of England -24 481 £62,500 -10.00% 92
South West -25 360 £70,576 +4.56% 80
North West -23 285 £62,500 -10.00% 56
Midlands -57 176 £60,000 -14.29% 42
Yorkshire -21 165 £60,000 -12.43% 28
West Midlands -39 107 £65,000 -7.14% 20
East of England -61 96 £85,000 +21.43% 25
East Midlands -38 70 £60,000 -14.29% 22
Wales -22 36 £42,500 -30.89% 7
North East -34 31 £63,750 -7.61% 8
Northern Ireland -22 21 £75,000 +3.45% 12
Isle of Man - 3 - -
Channel Islands - 1 £110,000 -
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
1 158 (7.04%) Apache Spark
2 121 (5.39%) Apache
3 98 (4.37%) FileNet
4 67 (2.99%) OpenStack
5 57 (2.54%) Apache Airflow
6 28 (1.25%) nginx
7 26 (1.16%) Microsoft Exchange
8 21 (0.94%) Jupyter
9 17 (0.76%) Cloud Foundry
10 14 (0.62%) Confluence
11 12 (0.53%) JBoss
12 11 (0.49%) Red Hat Fuse
13 10 (0.45%) SharePoint
14 8 (0.36%) IIS
15 5 (0.22%) CMS
16 4 (0.18%) Apache Solr
17 3 (0.13%) CloudStack
18 2 (0.089%) Drupal
18 2 (0.089%) Tomcat
19 1 (0.045%) Jetty
Applications
1 7 (0.31%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 3 (0.13%) SAP Business One
2 2 (0.089%) Oracle EBS
2 2 (0.089%) Remedy ITSM
3 1 (0.045%) Salesforce CRM
3 1 (0.045%) SAP S/4HANA
3 1 (0.045%) Shopify
Cloud Services
1 1,085 (48.35%) AWS
2 918 (40.91%) Azure
3 313 (13.95%) Amazon S3
4 292 (13.01%) GCP
5 250 (11.14%) Azure DevOps
6 223 (9.94%) SaaS
7 182 (8.11%) GitHub
8 163 (7.26%) Serverless
9 161 (7.17%) Amazon EKS
10 142 (6.33%) OpenShift
11 106 (4.72%) Amazon ECS
12 93 (4.14%) AWS Lambda
13 91 (4.06%) IBM Cloud
14 84 (3.74%) AWS CloudFormation
15 79 (3.52%) Cloud Computing
16 75 (3.34%) Amazon EC2
17 73 (3.25%) GitHub Actions
18 72 (3.21%) Microsoft 365
19 71 (3.16%) PaaS
20 68 (3.03%) Route 53
Communications & Networking
1 140 (6.24%) Firewall
2 75 (3.34%) DNS
3 73 (3.25%) VPN
4 60 (2.67%) DHCP
5 59 (2.63%) Internet
6 53 (2.36%) IPsec
7 52 (2.32%) TCP/IP
8 49 (2.18%) HTTP
8 49 (2.18%) SNMP
9 46 (2.05%) Network Security
10 37 (1.65%) SD-WAN
11 36 (1.60%) WAN
12 32 (1.43%) AMQP
13 18 (0.80%) DSL
14 17 (0.76%) Kerberos
15 9 (0.40%) BGP
16 7 (0.31%) WLAN
17 5 (0.22%) MQTT
17 5 (0.22%) OSPF
17 5 (0.22%) VSAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 303 (13.50%) NoSQL
2 242 (10.78%) Elasticsearch
3 187 (8.33%) Big Data
4 145 (6.46%) PostgreSQL
5 144 (6.42%) SQL Server
6 142 (6.33%) MongoDB
7 134 (5.97%) Relational Database
8 115 (5.12%) MySQL
9 110 (4.90%) Amazon RDS
10 106 (4.72%) Apache Cassandra
11 81 (3.61%) Hadoop
12 76 (3.39%) Redis
13 40 (1.78%) Data Lake
14 31 (1.38%) BigQuery
15 30 (1.34%) RDBMS
16 26 (1.16%) Cloudera CDH
17 23 (1.02%) Amazon Redshift
17 23 (1.02%) Scylla
18 20 (0.89%) Azure SQL Database
18 20 (0.89%) DB2
Development Applications
1 408 (18.18%) Jenkins
2 362 (16.13%) Git
3 148 (6.60%) JUnit
4 121 (5.39%) GitLab
5 115 (5.12%) JIRA
6 111 (4.95%) Selenium
7 73 (3.25%) Cypress.io
8 55 (2.45%) Mockito
9 53 (2.36%) Jasmine
10 35 (1.56%) CircleCI
10 35 (1.56%) TeamCity
11 33 (1.47%) Cucumber
11 33 (1.47%) Maven
12 30 (1.34%) Octopus Deploy
13 24 (1.07%) SoapUI
14 23 (1.02%) Team Foundation Server
15 20 (0.89%) SonarQube
16 19 (0.85%) Atlassian Bamboo
16 19 (0.85%) Gradle
17 13 (0.58%) WebDriver
General
1 582 (25.94%) Finance
2 424 (18.89%) Inclusion and Diversity
3 345 (15.37%) Law
4 306 (13.64%) Social Skills
5 203 (9.05%) Marketing
6 169 (7.53%) Public Sector
7 125 (5.57%) Banking
8 122 (5.44%) Legal
9 98 (4.37%) Aerospace
10 81 (3.61%) Analytical Skills
11 74 (3.30%) Retail
12 34 (1.52%) Organisational Skills
12 34 (1.52%) Tech for Good
13 24 (1.07%) Financial Institution
13 24 (1.07%) Investment Banking
14 22 (0.98%) Games
15 16 (0.71%) Telecoms
16 15 (0.67%) Automotive
16 15 (0.67%) Influencing Skills
17 14 (0.62%) Publishing
Job Titles
1 524 (23.35%) Software Engineer
2 513 (22.86%) Senior
3 489 (21.79%) Developer
4 383 (17.07%) DevOps Engineer
5 362 (16.13%) Lead
6 168 (7.49%) Architect
6 168 (7.49%) Senior Developer
7 146 (6.51%) Software Developer
8 138 (6.15%) Java Engineer
9 125 (5.57%) Lead Software Engineer
10 120 (5.35%) Java Developer
11 110 (4.90%) Infrastructure Engineer
12 107 (4.77%) Java Software Engineer
13 101 (4.50%) AWS Engineer
14 98 (4.37%) Data Engineer
15 92 (4.10%) Cloud Engineer
15 92 (4.10%) Consultant
16 89 (3.97%) Azure Engineer
17 85 (3.79%) Senior Software Engineer
18 84 (3.74%) Full Stack Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 506 (22.55%) React
2 374 (16.67%) Kafka
3 369 (16.44%) Spring
4 356 (15.86%) .NET
5 318 (14.17%) AngularJS
6 233 (10.38%) Node.js
7 201 (8.96%) Spring Boot
8 198 (8.82%) REST
9 192 (8.56%) HTML
10 181 (8.07%) CSS
11 158 (7.04%) Hibernate
12 153 (6.82%) RabbitMQ
13 147 (6.55%) GraphQL
14 122 (5.44%) JSON
15 112 (4.99%) J2EE
15 112 (4.99%) RESTful
16 100 (4.46%) Spring Integration
17 97 (4.32%) .NET Core
18 89 (3.97%) YAML
19 83 (3.70%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 267 (11.90%) Cloud Native
2 189 (8.42%) Public Cloud
3 155 (6.91%) Algorithms
4 135 (6.02%) Distributed Systems
5 120 (5.35%) Hybrid Cloud
6 119 (5.30%) Data Centre
7 102 (4.55%) Blockchain
8 93 (4.14%) Product Ownership
9 85 (3.79%) Management Information System
10 68 (3.03%) Data Structures
11 64 (2.85%) Greenfield Project
12 52 (2.32%) Private Cloud
13 47 (2.09%) e-Learning
14 34 (1.52%) Linux Command Line
15 29 (1.29%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
16 26 (1.16%) PKI
17 25 (1.11%) Client/Server
18 24 (1.07%) Self-Motivation
19 22 (0.98%) Mobile App
20 19 (0.85%) Enterprise Software
Operating Systems
1 664 (29.59%) Linux
2 247 (11.01%) Windows
3 88 (3.92%) CentOS
4 87 (3.88%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 74 (3.30%) Debian
6 64 (2.85%) Windows Server
7 53 (2.36%) Ubuntu
8 49 (2.18%) Data ONTAP
9 40 (1.78%) Alpine Linux
10 33 (1.47%) Windows Server 2016
11 24 (1.07%) Unix
12 19 (0.85%) Windows Server 2019
13 18 (0.80%) VMS
14 11 (0.49%) Android
15 9 (0.40%) Apple iOS
16 8 (0.36%) Embedded Linux
17 6 (0.27%) Mesosphere
18 5 (0.22%) Mac OS
19 3 (0.13%) SUSE
19 3 (0.13%) SUSE Linux Enterprise Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 1,197 (53.34%) Agile
2 1,024 (45.63%) CI/CD
3 996 (44.39%) DevOps
4 775 (34.54%) Software Engineering
5 553 (24.64%) Microservices
6 527 (23.48%) Containerisation
7 496 (22.10%) Artificial Intelligence
8 459 (20.45%) SDLC
9 386 (17.20%) Problem-Solving
10 371 (16.53%) Infrastructure as Code
11 308 (13.73%) Computer Science
12 285 (12.70%) Machine Learning
13 267 (11.90%) Mentoring
14 257 (11.45%) Full Stack Development
15 232 (10.34%) Continuous Integration
16 230 (10.25%) Operational Stability
17 222 (9.89%) Community of Practice
17 222 (9.89%) Scrum
18 184 (8.20%) Test Automation
19 181 (8.07%) TDD
Programming Languages
1 762 (33.96%) Java
2 712 (31.73%) Python
3 508 (22.64%) SQL
4 488 (21.75%) JavaScript
5 400 (17.83%) C#
6 312 (13.90%) TypeScript
7 213 (9.49%) Bash
8 185 (8.24%) PowerShell
9 126 (5.61%) Go
10 90 (4.01%) PHP
11 61 (2.72%) PL/SQL
12 53 (2.36%) Scala
13 47 (2.09%) Ruby
14 46 (2.05%) Bicep
15 44 (1.96%) Shell Script
16 33 (1.47%) C++
17 29 (1.29%) Groovy
18 23 (1.02%) Kotlin
19 21 (0.94%) C
20 18 (0.80%) VB
Qualifications
1 350 (15.60%) Security Cleared
2 336 (14.97%) Degree
3 202 (9.00%) Computer Science Degree
4 193 (8.60%) DV Cleared
5 186 (8.29%) SC Cleared
6 124 (5.53%) Azure Certification
7 107 (4.77%) AWS Certification
8 71 (3.16%) Microsoft Certification
9 58 (2.58%) Master's Degree
10 42 (1.87%) CISSP
11 40 (1.78%) MCSA
11 40 (1.78%) MCSE
12 35 (1.56%) CISM
13 34 (1.52%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
14 33 (1.47%) Cisco Certification
15 29 (1.29%) (ISC)2 CCSP
15 29 (1.29%) CCSK
15 29 (1.29%) CCSP
16 26 (1.16%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
17 24 (1.07%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 69 (3.07%) QA
2 36 (1.60%) NIST
3 33 (1.47%) WCAG
4 22 (0.98%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 21 (0.94%) SLA
6 8 (0.36%) Accessibility
6 8 (0.36%) NCSC
7 5 (0.22%) GDPR
8 4 (0.18%) HIPAA
8 4 (0.18%) SEPA
9 1 (0.045%) California Consumer Privacy Act
9 1 (0.045%) Data Quality
9 1 (0.045%) Disclosure Scotland
9 1 (0.045%) Sarbanes-Oxley
9 1 (0.045%) SOC 2
System Software
1 1,394 (62.12%) Docker
2 129 (5.75%) VMware Infrastructure
3 93 (4.14%) Hyper-V
4 70 (3.12%) Active Directory
5 37 (1.65%) Virtual Machines
6 19 (0.85%) vSphere
7 16 (0.71%) Virtual Desktop
8 12 (0.53%) VMware ESXi
9 11 (0.49%) Firmware
10 6 (0.27%) KVM
11 5 (0.22%) Slurm Workload Manager
12 4 (0.18%) Embedded Firmware
12 4 (0.18%) NFS
13 3 (0.13%) Ceph
13 3 (0.13%) Gluster
13 3 (0.13%) oVirt
13 3 (0.13%) VirtualBox
14 2 (0.089%) Apache ZooKeeper
14 2 (0.089%) QEMU
14 2 (0.089%) Xen
Systems Management
1 722 (32.17%) Terraform
2 454 (20.23%) Ansible
3 195 (8.69%) Prometheus
4 165 (7.35%) Puppet
5 102 (4.55%) Grafana
6 74 (3.30%) vCenter Server
7 47 (2.09%) Progress Chef
8 39 (1.74%) Single Sign-On
9 29 (1.29%) Docker Swarm
9 29 (1.29%) SCCM
10 24 (1.07%) Microsoft Intune
11 21 (0.94%) Istio
12 19 (0.85%) Kibana
12 19 (0.85%) SCOM
13 18 (0.80%) Rancher
13 18 (0.80%) WSUS
14 17 (0.76%) HAProxy
15 16 (0.71%) Active Directory Federation Services
16 13 (0.58%) Consul
16 13 (0.58%) ZABBIX
Vendors
1 279 (12.43%) Oracle
2 237 (10.56%) Microsoft
3 234 (10.43%) Red Hat
4 190 (8.47%) Google
5 162 (7.22%) VMware
6 95 (4.23%) IBM
7 68 (3.03%) Dynatrace
8 49 (2.18%) NetApp
8 49 (2.18%) Palo Alto
8 49 (2.18%) SolidFire
9 45 (2.01%) Databricks
10 44 (1.96%) Splunk
11 35 (1.56%) WSO2
12 32 (1.43%) SaltStack
13 27 (1.20%) Dell
14 20 (0.89%) Sybase
15 18 (0.80%) Alteryx
15 18 (0.80%) Cognos
16 17 (0.76%) ServiceNow
17 14 (0.62%) SolarWinds