Kubernetes (k8s)
UK

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 2 December 2023 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
2 Dec 2023
Same period 2022 Same period 2021
Rank 41 32 25
Rank change year-on-year -9 -7 +7
Permanent jobs citing Kubernetes 3,262 9,138 11,416
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 6.11% 7.29% 8.83%
As % of the Systems Management category 40.58% 46.73% 52.81%
Number of salaries quoted 2,603 5,385 7,214
10th Percentile £48,750 £47,500 £46,408
25th Percentile £60,000 £58,750 £55,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £75,000 £77,500 £75,000
Median % change year-on-year -3.23% +3.33% +15.38%
75th Percentile £92,500 £95,000 £92,500
90th Percentile £112,500 £112,500 £110,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £69,447 £67,500 £60,000
% change year-on-year +2.88% +12.50% +9.09%

All Systems Management Skills
UK

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.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for systems management skills 8,038 19,556 21,619
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 15.06% 15.60% 16.71%
Number of salaries quoted 6,386 11,591 14,098
10th Percentile £36,250 £36,250 £37,500
25th Percentile £47,500 £48,091 £50,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £67,500 £67,500
Median % change year-on-year -3.70% - +12.50%
75th Percentile £84,056 £87,500 £87,500
90th Percentile £102,500 £105,000 £102,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £57,500 £57,500 £55,000
% change year-on-year - +4.55% +5.77%

Kubernetes
Job Vacancy Trend

Job postings citing Kubernetes as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Job vacancy trend for Kubernetes in the UK

Kubernetes
Salary Trend

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing Kubernetes.

Salary trend for Kubernetes in the UK

Kubernetes
Salary Histogram

Salary distribution for jobs citing Kubernetes over the 6 months to 2 December 2023.

Salary histogram for Kubernetes in the UK

Kubernetes
Top 18 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 2 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
England -6 2,880 £75,000 -6.25% 1,098
UK excluding London +7 1,755 £69,447 +2.88% 613
Work from Home -15 1,563 £72,000 -4.00% 787
London -9 1,275 £85,000 - 602
North of England +5 522 £67,500 -3.57% 145
South West +32 428 £65,000 +4.00% 87
South East +16 343 £72,500 +3.57% 231
North West +1 291 £70,000 - 86
Yorkshire +9 214 £65,351 -5.90% 43
Scotland -10 197 £70,576 +8.58% 42
Midlands -12 156 £62,500 -10.71% 50
West Midlands -11 88 £64,500 -7.86% 34
East of England +32 86 £82,500 +3.13% 50
East Midlands -2 71 £62,500 -10.71% 16
Wales -16 35 £57,500 -2.82% 9
North East -9 19 £65,000 -7.14% 17
Northern Ireland -34 17 £65,000 +18.18% 7
Channel Islands +7 1 £110,000 +10.00%

Kubernetes
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities 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 83 (2.54%) Apache Spark
2 55 (1.69%) Apache
3 51 (1.56%) nginx
4 49 (1.50%) Confluence
5 46 (1.41%) Apache Airflow
6 29 (0.89%) OpenStack
7 26 (0.80%) Jupyter
8 22 (0.67%) SharePoint
9 20 (0.61%) CMS
10 14 (0.43%) JBoss
11 12 (0.37%) IIS
12 11 (0.34%) Apache Solr
13 10 (0.31%) Red Hat Fuse
13 10 (0.31%) Tomcat
14 8 (0.25%) Drupal
15 7 (0.21%) Luigi
16 5 (0.15%) Cloud Foundry
17 4 (0.12%) Camunda
17 4 (0.12%) Headless CMS
18 3 (0.092%) WebSphere
Applications
1 4 (0.12%) Trello
2 2 (0.061%) Campfire
2 2 (0.061%) InDesign
2 2 (0.061%) Microsoft Excel
3 1 (0.031%) Chatbot
3 1 (0.031%) MS Visio
3 1 (0.031%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 12 (0.37%) Oracle EBS
2 6 (0.18%) Dynamics CRM
3 3 (0.092%) Magento
4 2 (0.061%) EuroRunner
4 2 (0.061%) Ripple
5 1 (0.031%) Distributed Ledger
5 1 (0.031%) Dynamics AX
5 1 (0.031%) Payment Gateway
5 1 (0.031%) SAP Hybris
Cloud Services
1 1,670 (51.20%) AWS
2 1,575 (48.28%) Azure
3 709 (21.74%) GCP
4 463 (14.19%) Azure DevOps
5 347 (10.64%) GitHub
5 347 (10.64%) OpenShift
6 330 (10.12%) Serverless
7 315 (9.66%) SaaS
8 313 (9.60%) PaaS
9 222 (6.81%) IaaS
10 217 (6.65%) AWS CloudFormation
11 152 (4.66%) Amazon EKS
12 149 (4.57%) AWS Lambda
13 144 (4.41%) Amazon S3
14 129 (3.95%) Amazon EC2
15 127 (3.89%) Azure AKS
15 127 (3.89%) Cloud Computing
16 123 (3.77%) Amazon ECS
17 105 (3.22%) Azure Monitor
18 104 (3.19%) Entra ID
Communications & Networking
1 191 (5.86%) DNS
2 137 (4.20%) TCP/IP
3 105 (3.22%) DHCP
4 103 (3.16%) Firewall
5 102 (3.13%) HTTP
6 72 (2.21%) VPN
7 40 (1.23%) Internet
8 34 (1.04%) Network Security
9 24 (0.74%) IPv4
10 22 (0.67%) AMQP
11 20 (0.61%) VLAN
12 15 (0.46%) BGP
13 14 (0.43%) OSPF
13 14 (0.43%) SSL
13 14 (0.43%) WAN
14 11 (0.34%) SD-WAN
15 8 (0.25%) Reverse Proxy
15 8 (0.25%) SMTP
16 7 (0.21%) IPv6
16 7 (0.21%) LAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 275 (8.43%) NoSQL
2 244 (7.48%) PostgreSQL
3 178 (5.46%) MongoDB
4 166 (5.09%) Big Data
5 155 (4.75%) Elasticsearch
6 140 (4.29%) SQL Server
7 135 (4.14%) MySQL
8 113 (3.46%) Amazon RDS
9 112 (3.43%) Redis
10 102 (3.13%) Relational Database
11 91 (2.79%) Data Lake
11 91 (2.79%) Data Warehouse
12 72 (2.21%) Amazon Redshift
12 72 (2.21%) BigQuery
13 66 (2.02%) Hadoop
14 44 (1.35%) Azure SQL Database
15 33 (1.01%) Apache Cassandra
16 27 (0.83%) Power BI
17 23 (0.71%) Tableau
18 22 (0.67%) RDBMS
Development Applications
1 823 (25.23%) Jenkins
2 469 (14.38%) Git
3 299 (9.17%) GitLab
4 142 (4.35%) JIRA
4 142 (4.35%) Selenium
5 113 (3.46%) Maven
6 105 (3.22%) Cypress.io
7 103 (3.16%) Artifactory
8 91 (2.79%) SonarQube
9 83 (2.54%) Cucumber
10 82 (2.51%) Sonatype Nexus
11 81 (2.48%) Bitbucket
12 72 (2.21%) TeamCity
13 70 (2.15%) Atlassian Bamboo
14 67 (2.05%) CircleCI
15 55 (1.69%) Octopus Deploy
16 53 (1.62%) Spinnaker
17 46 (1.41%) JUnit
18 31 (0.95%) SoapUI
19 30 (0.92%) Team Foundation Server
General
1 896 (27.47%) Finance
2 556 (17.04%) Social Skills
3 462 (14.16%) Banking
4 269 (8.25%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 154 (4.72%) Retail
6 127 (3.89%) Analytical Skills
7 92 (2.82%) Front Office
8 89 (2.73%) Public Sector
9 81 (2.48%) Aerospace
10 75 (2.30%) Games
11 55 (1.69%) Investment Banking
12 54 (1.66%) Telecoms
13 46 (1.41%) Law
14 45 (1.38%) Legal
15 42 (1.29%) Retail Banking
16 40 (1.23%) Financial Institution
17 36 (1.10%) Marketing
18 28 (0.86%) Tech for Good
19 27 (0.83%) Influencing Skills
19 27 (0.83%) Organisational Skills
Job Titles
1 877 (26.89%) DevOps Engineer
2 807 (24.74%) Senior
3 690 (21.15%) Developer
4 393 (12.05%) Software Engineer
5 346 (10.61%) Lead
6 255 (7.82%) Cloud Engineer
7 251 (7.69%) Java Developer
8 249 (7.63%) AWS Engineer
9 226 (6.93%) Architect
10 222 (6.81%) Azure Engineer
11 208 (6.38%) Senior Developer
12 198 (6.07%) Senior DevOps
13 188 (5.76%) AWS DevOps
14 186 (5.70%) Senior DevOps Engineer
15 174 (5.33%) AWS DevOps Engineer
16 138 (4.23%) Azure DevOps Engineer
17 135 (4.14%) Infrastructure Engineer
18 126 (3.86%) Data Engineer
19 120 (3.68%) Senior Software Engineer
20 106 (3.25%) Site Reliability Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 465 (14.26%) Kafka
2 459 (14.07%) React
3 372 (11.40%) .NET
4 298 (9.14%) Spring
5 293 (8.98%) Spring Boot
6 242 (7.42%) Node.js
7 235 (7.20%) AngularJS
8 207 (6.35%) REST
9 159 (4.87%) RESTful
10 152 (4.66%) Elastic Stack
11 142 (4.35%) .NET Core
12 132 (4.05%) HTML
13 109 (3.34%) Web Services
14 103 (3.16%) RabbitMQ
15 102 (3.13%) CSS
16 87 (2.67%) JSON
17 83 (2.54%) .NET Framework
18 81 (2.48%) Jest
19 70 (2.15%) ARM Templates
19 70 (2.15%) GraphQL
Miscellaneous
1 292 (8.95%) Public Cloud
2 237 (7.27%) Cloud Native
3 180 (5.52%) Distributed Systems
4 157 (4.81%) Product Ownership
5 125 (3.83%) Greenfield Project
6 97 (2.97%) Private Cloud
7 90 (2.76%) Algorithms
8 87 (2.67%) Blockchain
9 64 (1.96%) Linux Command Line
10 57 (1.75%) Self-Motivation
11 51 (1.56%) Data Centre
12 50 (1.53%) Mainframe
13 49 (1.50%) Virtual Team
14 48 (1.47%) Hedge funds
15 46 (1.41%) PKI
16 42 (1.29%) Onboarding
17 38 (1.16%) Robotics
18 36 (1.10%) Hybrid Cloud
18 36 (1.10%) Legacy Systems
18 36 (1.10%) Mobile App
Operating Systems
1 727 (22.29%) Linux
2 328 (10.06%) Windows
3 162 (4.97%) Unix
4 104 (3.19%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 64 (1.96%) Windows Server
6 52 (1.59%) Ubuntu
7 24 (0.74%) Android
7 24 (0.74%) Apple iOS
8 23 (0.71%) Debian
9 22 (0.67%) CentOS
10 16 (0.49%) VMS
11 14 (0.43%) Windows Server 2016
12 12 (0.37%) Windows 10
12 12 (0.37%) Windows Server 2019
13 8 (0.25%) Solaris
14 7 (0.21%) CoreOS
14 7 (0.21%) Mac OS
14 7 (0.21%) zOS
15 5 (0.15%) Mac OS X
16 2 (0.061%) Windows Server 2008
Processes & Methodologies
1 1,845 (56.56%) DevOps
2 1,454 (44.57%) Agile
3 1,386 (42.49%) CI/CD
4 816 (25.02%) Microservices
5 797 (24.43%) Infrastructure as Code
5 797 (24.43%) Software Engineering
6 771 (23.64%) Containerisation
7 450 (13.80%) Problem-Solving
8 369 (11.31%) Continuous Integration
9 350 (10.73%) Mentoring
10 303 (9.29%) Scrum
11 280 (8.58%) Test Automation
12 279 (8.55%) Computer Science
13 274 (8.40%) Artificial Intelligence
14 272 (8.34%) Roadmaps
15 261 (8.00%) TDD
16 258 (7.91%) Configuration Management
17 237 (7.27%) Fintech
18 218 (6.68%) DevSecOps
18 218 (6.68%) SDLC
Programming Languages
1 1,301 (39.88%) Python
2 1,156 (35.44%) Java
3 585 (17.93%) Bash
4 517 (15.85%) SQL
5 509 (15.60%) JavaScript
6 500 (15.33%) PowerShell
7 455 (13.95%) C#
8 341 (10.45%) Go
9 327 (10.02%) TypeScript
10 131 (4.02%) Ruby
11 121 (3.71%) C++
12 103 (3.16%) Groovy
13 95 (2.91%) Shell Script
14 82 (2.51%) PHP
15 79 (2.42%) Kotlin
16 77 (2.36%) Bicep
17 62 (1.90%) Scala
18 61 (1.87%) Rust
19 56 (1.72%) Perl
20 36 (1.10%) C
Qualifications
1 449 (13.76%) Security Cleared
2 387 (11.86%) Degree
3 264 (8.09%) SC Cleared
4 200 (6.13%) Computer Science Degree
5 147 (4.51%) DV Cleared
6 120 (3.68%) AWS Certification
7 80 (2.45%) Azure Certification
8 59 (1.81%) Master's Degree
9 38 (1.16%) Microsoft Certification
10 30 (0.92%) BPSS Clearance
11 28 (0.86%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
12 26 (0.80%) Cisco Certification
13 25 (0.77%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
14 24 (0.74%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
15 19 (0.58%) CISSP
16 12 (0.37%) MBA
17 11 (0.34%) (ISC)2 CCSP
17 11 (0.34%) CCNA
17 11 (0.34%) PhD
17 11 (0.34%) RHCE
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 146 (4.48%) QA
2 41 (1.26%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 28 (0.86%) SEPA
4 22 (0.67%) GDPR
4 22 (0.67%) WCAG
5 20 (0.61%) PCI DSS
6 19 (0.58%) ISO 20022
7 15 (0.46%) Data Quality
8 14 (0.43%) NIST
9 12 (0.37%) Accessibility
10 9 (0.28%) SLA
11 6 (0.18%) ISO 9000
12 5 (0.15%) Cyber Essentials
13 4 (0.12%) HL7
13 4 (0.12%) ISO 9001
14 3 (0.092%) California Consumer Privacy Act
14 3 (0.092%) DICOM
15 2 (0.061%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
15 2 (0.061%) HIPAA
15 2 (0.061%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 2,183 (66.92%) Docker
2 168 (5.15%) Active Directory
3 126 (3.86%) VMware Infrastructure
4 98 (3.00%) Hyper-V
5 84 (2.58%) Virtual Machines
6 26 (0.80%) Virtual Desktop
7 14 (0.43%) Ceph
8 12 (0.37%) KVM
8 12 (0.37%) VMware ESXi
9 11 (0.34%) vSphere
10 5 (0.15%) Citrix Hypervisor
11 4 (0.12%) LXC
11 4 (0.12%) VMware NSX
12 3 (0.092%) NFS
13 2 (0.061%) Firmware
13 2 (0.061%) Kamailio
13 2 (0.061%) Microsoft Virtual Server
13 2 (0.061%) OpenSIPS
13 2 (0.061%) Virtual Servers
13 2 (0.061%) VMware Server
Systems Management
1 1,295 (39.70%) Terraform
2 697 (21.37%) Ansible
3 267 (8.19%) Puppet
4 227 (6.96%) Grafana
5 187 (5.73%) Prometheus
6 113 (3.46%) Progress Chef
7 81 (2.48%) Istio
8 59 (1.81%) Argo
9 54 (1.66%) Rancher
10 50 (1.53%) Packer
11 39 (1.20%) Kibana
12 34 (1.04%) SCCM
13 31 (0.95%) Microsoft Intune
13 31 (0.95%) Nagios
14 29 (0.89%) Single Sign-On
15 27 (0.83%) Active Directory Federation Services
16 26 (0.80%) SCOM
16 26 (0.80%) WSUS
17 16 (0.49%) Salt
18 15 (0.46%) Consul
Vendors
1 307 (9.41%) Microsoft
2 250 (7.66%) Google
3 160 (4.90%) VMware
4 143 (4.38%) Oracle
5 124 (3.80%) Red Hat
6 93 (2.85%) Splunk
7 51 (1.56%) New Relic
8 42 (1.29%) Atlassian
9 38 (1.16%) Databricks
10 33 (1.01%) AppDynamics
10 33 (1.01%) IBM
11 25 (0.77%) SaltStack
12 23 (0.71%) Dynatrace
13 20 (0.61%) Cisco
13 20 (0.61%) Dell
14 19 (0.58%) Confluent
14 19 (0.58%) Veracode
15 15 (0.46%) WSO2
16 12 (0.37%) Juniper
16 12 (0.37%) Sun