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The following table provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies 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 9 April 2020 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.
| Kubernetes (k8s) UK |
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6 months to
9 Apr 2020 |
Same period 2019 |
Same period 2018 |
| Rank |
49 |
100 |
233 |
| Rank change year-on-year |
+51 |
+133 |
+272 |
| Permanent jobs citing Kubernetes |
5,771 |
4,799 |
2,642 |
| As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK |
5.01% |
3.22% |
1.49% |
| As % of the Systems Management category |
38.22% |
27.06% |
15.30% |
| Number of salaries quoted |
5,088 |
4,269 |
2,306 |
| Median annual salary |
£70,000 |
£67,500 |
£65,000 |
| Median salary % change year-on-year |
+3.70% |
+3.85% |
-3.70% |
| 10th Percentile |
£42,500 |
£42,500 |
£42,500 |
| 90th Percentile |
£100,000 |
£95,000 |
£95,000 |
| UK excluding London median annual salary |
£55,000 |
£57,500 |
£55,000 |
| % change year-on-year |
-4.35% |
+4.55% |
-4.35% |
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 with a requirement for systems management skills.
| All Systems Management Skills UK |
| Permanent vacancies with a requirement for systems management skills |
15,098 |
17,737 |
17,272 |
| As % of all permanent IT jobs advertised in the UK |
13.11% |
11.90% |
9.75% |
| Number of salaries quoted |
11,692 |
13,807 |
13,752 |
| Median annual salary |
£60,000 |
£57,500 |
£53,730 |
| Median salary % change year-on-year |
+4.35% |
+7.02% |
+2.34% |
| 10th Percentile |
£32,651 |
£32,500 |
£31,250 |
| 90th Percentile |
£95,000 |
£90,000 |
£83,750 |
| UK excluding London median annual salary |
£50,000 |
£50,000 |
£47,500 |
| % change year-on-year |
- |
+5.26% |
+5.56% |
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Kubernetes
Job Vacancy Trend
Job postings citing Kubernetes as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.
Kubernetes
Salary Trend
3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing Kubernetes.
Kubernetes
Salary Histogram
Salary distribution for jobs citing Kubernetes over the 6 months to 9 April 2020.
Kubernetes
Top 17 Job Locations
The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Kubernetes within the UK over the 6 months to 9 April 2020.
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
Job
Vacancies |
| England |
+47 |
5,460 |
£70,000 |
+3.70% |
890 |
| London |
+29 |
3,573 |
£77,500 |
+6.90% |
510 |
| UK excluding London |
+67 |
2,119 |
£55,000 |
-4.35% |
410 |
| South East |
+38 |
629 |
£57,500 |
-4.17% |
109 |
| North of England |
+84 |
583 |
£55,000 |
- |
133 |
| Work from Home |
+17 |
508 |
£65,000 |
-7.14% |
68 |
| North West |
+74 |
329 |
£57,500 |
-4.17% |
87 |
| South West |
+62 |
279 |
£50,250 |
-12.61% |
30 |
| Yorkshire |
+84 |
247 |
£55,000 |
- |
32 |
| Midlands |
+68 |
208 |
£55,000 |
-4.35% |
52 |
| Scotland |
+59 |
184 |
£48,280 |
-12.22% |
16 |
| East of England |
+9 |
157 |
£56,250 |
-6.25% |
55 |
| West Midlands |
+78 |
138 |
£55,000 |
- |
43 |
| Wales |
+19 |
80 |
£45,000 |
-9.13% |
12 |
| East Midlands |
+38 |
66 |
£50,000 |
-16.67% |
9 |
| Northern Ireland |
+5 |
8 |
£45,000 |
-10.00% |
3 |
| North East |
-3 |
7 |
£50,000 |
- |
14 |
For the 6 months to 9 April 2020, IT jobs citing Kubernetes also mentioned the following skills in order of popularity.
The figures indicate the absolute number co-occurrences and as a proportion of all permanent job ads with a requirement for Kubernetes.
| 1 |
4,670 (80.92%) |
Docker |
| 2 |
3,205 (55.54%) |
DevOps |
| 3 |
3,108 (53.86%) |
AWS |
| 4 |
2,612 (45.26%) |
Agile Software Development |
| 5 |
2,194 (38.02%) |
Java |
| 6 |
2,161 (37.45%) |
Python |
| 7 |
2,090 (36.22%) |
Azure |
| 8 |
1,785 (30.93%) |
Microservices |
| 9 |
1,760 (30.50%) |
Terraform |
| 10 |
1,676 (29.04%) |
Linux |
| 11 |
1,533 (26.56%) |
Ansible |
| 12 |
1,398 (24.22%) |
JavaScript |
| 13 |
1,315 (22.79%) |
Software Engineering |
| 14 |
1,306 (22.63%) |
GCP |
| 15 |
1,289 (22.34%) |
Jenkins |
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Kubernetes
Co-occurring IT Skills by Category
The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category.
The same job type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:
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