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 26 April 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
26 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 79 63 40
Rank change year-on-year -16 -23 -3
Permanent jobs citing Kubernetes 2,271 3,173 4,761
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 3.24% 5.13% 6.74%
As % of the Systems Management category 35.07% 39.53% 47.34%
Number of salaries quoted 1,452 1,934 3,129
10th Percentile £45,125 £46,250 £45,150
25th Percentile £53,750 £55,000 £52,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £70,000 £67,634 £70,000
Median % change year-on-year +3.50% -3.38% +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 6,476 8,026 10,056
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 9.24% 12.98% 14.25%
Number of salaries quoted 4,475 4,575 6,647
10th Percentile £30,000 £30,500 £32,500
25th Percentile £40,000 £41,250 £43,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £57,500 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -4.35% -4.17% +9.09%
75th Percentile £70,000 £75,000 £76,385
90th Percentile £85,000 £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 26 April 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 April 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 -10 593 £70,000 - 95
Scotland -14 494 £70,576 +5.34% 48
North of England -23 475 £62,500 -8.78% 120
South West -24 370 £70,576 +4.56% 84
North West -18 284 £62,500 -10.00% 68
Midlands -45 184 £61,750 -11.79% 55
Yorkshire -19 162 £62,500 -8.78% 36
West Midlands -24 115 £65,000 -7.14% 24
East of England -54 98 £85,000 +21.43% 28
East Midlands -35 72 £60,000 -14.29% 31
Wales -19 38 £42,500 -30.89% 6
North East -35 29 £62,500 -9.42% 16
Northern Ireland -21 21 £75,000 +3.45% 17
Isle of Man - 3 - - 1
Channel Islands - 2 £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
1 157 (6.91%) Apache Spark
2 119 (5.24%) Apache
3 96 (4.23%) FileNet
4 67 (2.95%) OpenStack
5 57 (2.51%) Apache Airflow
6 29 (1.28%) nginx
7 26 (1.14%) Microsoft Exchange
8 22 (0.97%) Confluence
9 19 (0.84%) Jupyter
10 17 (0.75%) Cloud Foundry
11 12 (0.53%) JBoss
12 10 (0.44%) Red Hat Fuse
12 10 (0.44%) SharePoint
13 8 (0.35%) IIS
14 6 (0.26%) CMS
15 4 (0.18%) Apache Solr
16 3 (0.13%) CloudStack
17 2 (0.088%) Drupal
17 2 (0.088%) Tomcat
18 1 (0.044%) Jetty
Applications
1 7 (0.31%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 3 (0.13%) SAP Business One
2 2 (0.088%) Oracle EBS
2 2 (0.088%) Remedy ITSM
3 1 (0.044%) Salesforce CRM
3 1 (0.044%) SAP S/4HANA
3 1 (0.044%) Shopify
Cloud Services
1 1,094 (48.17%) AWS
2 931 (41.00%) Azure
3 311 (13.69%) Amazon S3
4 286 (12.59%) GCP
5 261 (11.49%) Azure DevOps
6 225 (9.91%) SaaS
7 186 (8.19%) GitHub
8 162 (7.13%) Amazon EKS
9 160 (7.05%) Serverless
10 130 (5.72%) OpenShift
11 109 (4.80%) Amazon ECS
12 96 (4.23%) AWS CloudFormation
13 93 (4.10%) AWS Lambda
14 90 (3.96%) IBM Cloud
15 86 (3.79%) Cloud Computing
16 78 (3.43%) Amazon EC2
17 72 (3.17%) Microsoft 365
17 72 (3.17%) Route 53
18 70 (3.08%) PaaS
19 67 (2.95%) GitHub Actions
Communications & Networking
1 139 (6.12%) Firewall
2 77 (3.39%) DNS
3 74 (3.26%) VPN
4 62 (2.73%) DHCP
5 59 (2.60%) Internet
6 54 (2.38%) TCP/IP
7 53 (2.33%) IPsec
8 49 (2.16%) Network Security
8 49 (2.16%) SNMP
9 45 (1.98%) HTTP
10 37 (1.63%) SD-WAN
11 36 (1.59%) WAN
12 30 (1.32%) AMQP
13 18 (0.79%) DSL
14 17 (0.75%) Kerberos
15 10 (0.44%) BGP
16 7 (0.31%) WLAN
17 5 (0.22%) OSPF
17 5 (0.22%) VSAN
18 4 (0.18%) RTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 304 (13.39%) NoSQL
2 240 (10.57%) Elasticsearch
3 189 (8.32%) Big Data
4 150 (6.61%) PostgreSQL
5 140 (6.16%) SQL Server
6 136 (5.99%) MongoDB
7 129 (5.68%) Relational Database
8 118 (5.20%) MySQL
9 111 (4.89%) Amazon RDS
10 105 (4.62%) Apache Cassandra
11 77 (3.39%) Hadoop
12 75 (3.30%) Redis
13 40 (1.76%) Data Lake
14 30 (1.32%) BigQuery
15 28 (1.23%) RDBMS
16 25 (1.10%) Amazon Redshift
17 24 (1.06%) Cloudera CDH
18 23 (1.01%) Scylla
19 20 (0.88%) Azure SQL Database
20 19 (0.84%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 433 (19.07%) Jenkins
2 373 (16.42%) Git
3 146 (6.43%) JUnit
4 133 (5.86%) GitLab
5 123 (5.42%) JIRA
6 116 (5.11%) Selenium
7 80 (3.52%) Cypress.io
8 56 (2.47%) Mockito
9 52 (2.29%) Jasmine
10 40 (1.76%) Maven
11 35 (1.54%) Cucumber
11 35 (1.54%) TeamCity
12 32 (1.41%) SonarQube
13 29 (1.28%) CircleCI
14 28 (1.23%) SoapUI
15 27 (1.19%) Octopus Deploy
16 22 (0.97%) Team Foundation Server
17 20 (0.88%) Atlassian Bamboo
18 19 (0.84%) Gradle
19 17 (0.75%) Sonatype Nexus
General
1 605 (26.64%) Finance
2 418 (18.41%) Inclusion and Diversity
3 340 (14.97%) Law
4 301 (13.25%) Social Skills
5 200 (8.81%) Marketing
6 160 (7.05%) Public Sector
7 151 (6.65%) Banking
8 128 (5.64%) Legal
9 87 (3.83%) Aerospace
10 85 (3.74%) Analytical Skills
11 80 (3.52%) Retail
12 32 (1.41%) Tech for Good
13 30 (1.32%) Organisational Skills
14 24 (1.06%) Financial Institution
15 22 (0.97%) Games
15 22 (0.97%) Investment Banking
16 21 (0.92%) Retail Banking
17 17 (0.75%) Influencing Skills
18 16 (0.70%) Telecoms
19 15 (0.66%) Automotive
Job Titles
1 519 (22.85%) Software Engineer
2 514 (22.63%) Senior
3 491 (21.62%) Developer
4 402 (17.70%) DevOps Engineer
5 354 (15.59%) Lead
6 179 (7.88%) Architect
7 175 (7.71%) Senior Developer
8 150 (6.61%) Software Developer
9 136 (5.99%) Java Engineer
10 126 (5.55%) Java Developer
11 123 (5.42%) Lead Software Engineer
12 108 (4.76%) Infrastructure Engineer
13 105 (4.62%) Java Software Engineer
14 101 (4.45%) Azure Engineer
15 96 (4.23%) Data Engineer
16 95 (4.18%) AWS Engineer
17 91 (4.01%) Cloud Engineer
18 90 (3.96%) Consultant
19 84 (3.70%) Full Stack Engineer
20 80 (3.52%) Senior Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 517 (22.77%) React
2 393 (17.31%) Kafka
3 374 (16.47%) Spring
4 352 (15.50%) .NET
5 324 (14.27%) AngularJS
6 230 (10.13%) Node.js
7 217 (9.56%) Spring Boot
8 198 (8.72%) REST
9 189 (8.32%) HTML
10 183 (8.06%) CSS
11 163 (7.18%) Hibernate
12 156 (6.87%) RabbitMQ
13 151 (6.65%) GraphQL
14 124 (5.46%) JSON
15 111 (4.89%) RESTful
16 110 (4.84%) J2EE
17 97 (4.27%) Spring Integration
18 92 (4.05%) .NET Core
19 88 (3.87%) YAML
20 85 (3.74%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 262 (11.54%) Cloud Native
2 193 (8.50%) Public Cloud
3 152 (6.69%) Algorithms
4 141 (6.21%) Distributed Systems
5 120 (5.28%) Hybrid Cloud
6 116 (5.11%) Data Centre
7 104 (4.58%) Blockchain
8 97 (4.27%) Product Ownership
9 84 (3.70%) Management Information System
10 67 (2.95%) Data Structures
11 59 (2.60%) Greenfield Project
12 55 (2.42%) Private Cloud
13 46 (2.03%) e-Learning
14 33 (1.45%) Linux Command Line
15 29 (1.28%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
16 26 (1.14%) PKI
17 25 (1.10%) Client/Server
17 25 (1.10%) Self-Motivation
18 22 (0.97%) Mobile App
19 19 (0.84%) Robotics
Operating Systems
1 678 (29.85%) Linux
2 265 (11.67%) Windows
3 85 (3.74%) CentOS
4 83 (3.65%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 72 (3.17%) Debian
6 64 (2.82%) Windows Server
7 49 (2.16%) Data ONTAP
7 49 (2.16%) Ubuntu
8 40 (1.76%) Alpine Linux
9 33 (1.45%) Windows Server 2016
10 29 (1.28%) Unix
11 19 (0.84%) Windows Server 2019
12 18 (0.79%) VMS
13 10 (0.44%) Android
14 9 (0.40%) Apple iOS
15 8 (0.35%) Embedded Linux
16 6 (0.26%) Mesosphere
17 5 (0.22%) CoreOS
17 5 (0.22%) Mac OS
17 5 (0.22%) zOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 1,221 (53.76%) Agile
2 1,031 (45.40%) CI/CD
3 999 (43.99%) DevOps
4 793 (34.92%) Software Engineering
5 589 (25.94%) Microservices
6 539 (23.73%) Containerisation
7 483 (21.27%) Artificial Intelligence
8 467 (20.56%) SDLC
9 395 (17.39%) Problem-Solving
10 381 (16.78%) Infrastructure as Code
11 321 (14.13%) Computer Science
12 274 (12.07%) Machine Learning
13 271 (11.93%) Mentoring
14 259 (11.40%) Full Stack Development
15 239 (10.52%) Continuous Integration
16 235 (10.35%) Scrum
17 226 (9.95%) Operational Stability
18 219 (9.64%) Community of Practice
19 190 (8.37%) Test Automation
20 187 (8.23%) Actionable Insight
Programming Languages
1 779 (34.30%) Java
2 718 (31.62%) Python
3 510 (22.46%) SQL
4 503 (22.15%) JavaScript
5 406 (17.88%) C#
6 326 (14.35%) TypeScript
7 223 (9.82%) Bash
8 203 (8.94%) PowerShell
9 129 (5.68%) Go
10 93 (4.10%) PHP
11 62 (2.73%) PL/SQL
12 53 (2.33%) Scala
13 50 (2.20%) Ruby
14 47 (2.07%) Bicep
15 45 (1.98%) Shell Script
16 35 (1.54%) C++
17 30 (1.32%) Groovy
18 25 (1.10%) Kotlin
19 22 (0.97%) C
20 18 (0.79%) VB
Qualifications
1 353 (15.54%) Degree
2 350 (15.41%) Security Cleared
3 214 (9.42%) Computer Science Degree
4 188 (8.28%) DV Cleared
5 182 (8.01%) SC Cleared
6 125 (5.50%) Azure Certification
7 107 (4.71%) AWS Certification
8 71 (3.13%) Microsoft Certification
9 62 (2.73%) Master's Degree
10 42 (1.85%) CISSP
11 41 (1.81%) MCSA
11 41 (1.81%) MCSE
12 35 (1.54%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
12 35 (1.54%) CISM
13 33 (1.45%) Cisco Certification
14 29 (1.28%) (ISC)2 CCSP
14 29 (1.28%) CCSK
14 29 (1.28%) CCSP
15 26 (1.14%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
16 24 (1.06%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 71 (3.13%) QA
2 36 (1.59%) NIST
2 36 (1.59%) WCAG
3 22 (0.97%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 21 (0.92%) SLA
5 10 (0.44%) SEPA
6 8 (0.35%) NCSC
7 5 (0.22%) GDPR
8 4 (0.18%) Accessibility
8 4 (0.18%) HIPAA
9 3 (0.13%) ISO 20022
10 1 (0.044%) California Consumer Privacy Act
10 1 (0.044%) Data Quality
10 1 (0.044%) Disclosure Scotland
10 1 (0.044%) PCI DSS
10 1 (0.044%) Sarbanes-Oxley
10 1 (0.044%) SOC 2
System Software
1 1,442 (63.50%) Docker
2 128 (5.64%) VMware Infrastructure
3 95 (4.18%) Hyper-V
4 73 (3.21%) Active Directory
5 35 (1.54%) Virtual Machines
6 19 (0.84%) vSphere
7 16 (0.70%) Virtual Desktop
8 12 (0.53%) VMware ESXi
9 11 (0.48%) Firmware
10 6 (0.26%) KVM
11 4 (0.18%) Embedded Firmware
12 3 (0.13%) Ceph
12 3 (0.13%) Gluster
12 3 (0.13%) oVirt
12 3 (0.13%) Slurm Workload Manager
12 3 (0.13%) VirtualBox
13 2 (0.088%) NFS
13 2 (0.088%) QEMU
13 2 (0.088%) Xen
14 1 (0.044%) Postfix
Systems Management
1 725 (31.92%) Terraform
2 450 (19.82%) Ansible
3 204 (8.98%) Prometheus
4 163 (7.18%) Puppet
5 111 (4.89%) Grafana
6 74 (3.26%) vCenter Server
7 47 (2.07%) Progress Chef
8 38 (1.67%) Single Sign-On
9 29 (1.28%) SCCM
10 27 (1.19%) Docker Swarm
11 24 (1.06%) Microsoft Intune
12 21 (0.92%) Istio
13 20 (0.88%) Kibana
14 19 (0.84%) Rancher
14 19 (0.84%) SCOM
15 18 (0.79%) WSUS
16 17 (0.75%) HAProxy
17 16 (0.70%) Active Directory Federation Services
18 14 (0.62%) Consul
19 13 (0.57%) ZABBIX
Vendors
1 273 (12.02%) Oracle
2 236 (10.39%) Microsoft
3 233 (10.26%) Red Hat
4 197 (8.67%) Google
5 161 (7.09%) VMware
6 94 (4.14%) IBM
7 67 (2.95%) Dynatrace
8 49 (2.16%) NetApp
8 49 (2.16%) Palo Alto
8 49 (2.16%) SolidFire
9 44 (1.94%) Databricks
9 44 (1.94%) Splunk
10 35 (1.54%) WSO2
11 31 (1.37%) Dell
12 30 (1.32%) SaltStack
13 19 (0.84%) Sybase
14 18 (0.79%) Alteryx
14 18 (0.79%) Cognos
15 16 (0.70%) ServiceNow
16 14 (0.62%) SolarWinds