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

6 months to
27 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 66 33 21
Rank change year-on-year -33 -12 +7
Permanent jobs citing Kubernetes 3,668 7,413 16,054
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 3.74% 7.08% 10.42%
As % of the Systems Management category 36.82% 47.93% 57.97%
Number of salaries quoted 2,642 4,568 7,220
10th Percentile £48,750 £50,000 £47,500
25th Percentile £59,000 £60,000 £57,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £75,000 £75,000 £75,000
Median % change year-on-year - - +7.14%
75th Percentile £95,000 £95,250 £95,000
90th Percentile £115,000 £115,000 £110,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £69,447 £67,634 £70,000
% change year-on-year +2.68% -3.38% +21.74%

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 9,961 15,465 27,696
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 10.16% 14.78% 17.97%
Number of salaries quoted 7,202 9,470 14,208
10th Percentile £32,500 £35,500 £37,500
25th Percentile £45,000 £48,091 £48,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £67,500 £70,000
Median % change year-on-year -11.11% -3.57% +12.00%
75th Percentile £82,500 £87,500 £86,250
90th Percentile £100,675 £105,000 £102,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £55,000 £57,500 £60,000
% change year-on-year -4.35% -4.17% +9.09%

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 27 April 2024.

Salary histogram for Kubernetes in the UK

Kubernetes
Top 19 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 27 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
England -36 2,986 £76,000 -1.94% 811
UK excluding London -17 2,256 £69,447 +2.68% 435
Work from Home -36 1,475 £75,000 - 524
London -20 1,255 £87,500 +2.94% 420
South East -13 583 £70,000 - 94
Scotland -17 494 £70,576 +5.34% 47
North of England -23 474 £62,500 -8.78% 114
South West -21 369 £70,576 +4.56% 80
North West -18 284 £62,500 -10.00% 63
Midlands -51 183 £60,875 -13.04% 54
Yorkshire -20 161 £62,500 -8.78% 35
West Midlands -26 114 £65,000 -7.14% 25
East of England -62 97 £85,000 +19.30% 28
East Midlands -35 72 £60,000 -14.29% 29
Wales -17 37 £42,500 -30.89% 6
North East -36 29 £62,500 -9.42% 16
Northern Ireland -19 21 £75,000 +3.45% 16
Isle of Man - 3 - - 1
Channel Islands - 2 £110,000 -

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
1 191 (5.21%) Apache Spark
2 162 (4.42%) Apache
3 117 (3.19%) Apache Airflow
4 96 (2.62%) FileNet
5 77 (2.10%) OpenStack
6 48 (1.31%) nginx
7 45 (1.23%) Confluence
8 26 (0.71%) Microsoft Exchange
9 22 (0.60%) Jupyter
10 20 (0.55%) JBoss
11 19 (0.52%) Cloud Foundry
12 16 (0.44%) Tomcat
13 15 (0.41%) IIS
14 14 (0.38%) Drupal
15 13 (0.35%) CMS
15 13 (0.35%) SharePoint
16 10 (0.27%) Red Hat Fuse
17 7 (0.19%) WebLogic
17 7 (0.19%) WebSphere
17 7 (0.19%) WildFly
Applications
1 11 (0.30%) Microsoft Excel
2 2 (0.055%) InDesign
2 2 (0.055%) Microsoft Office
3 1 (0.027%) Blender
Business Applications
1 7 (0.19%) Teamcenter
2 3 (0.082%) SAP Business One
3 2 (0.055%) Oracle EBS
3 2 (0.055%) Remedy ITSM
4 1 (0.027%) Magento
4 1 (0.027%) Salesforce CRM
4 1 (0.027%) SAP S/4HANA
4 1 (0.027%) Shopify
Cloud Services
1 1,922 (52.40%) AWS
2 1,449 (39.50%) Azure
3 518 (14.12%) GCP
4 424 (11.56%) Amazon S3
5 386 (10.52%) Azure DevOps
6 338 (9.21%) Serverless
7 309 (8.42%) GitHub
8 291 (7.93%) SaaS
9 281 (7.66%) Amazon EKS
10 232 (6.32%) OpenShift
11 213 (5.81%) AWS CloudFormation
12 206 (5.62%) AWS Lambda
13 203 (5.53%) Amazon ECS
14 157 (4.28%) Amazon EC2
15 156 (4.25%) Azure AKS
16 135 (3.68%) PaaS
17 130 (3.54%) Cloud Computing
18 110 (3.00%) GitHub Actions
19 107 (2.92%) IaaS
20 100 (2.73%) IBM Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 187 (5.10%) Firewall
2 114 (3.11%) DNS
3 108 (2.94%) VPN
4 86 (2.34%) Internet
5 70 (1.91%) TCP/IP
6 67 (1.83%) Network Security
7 63 (1.72%) DHCP
8 59 (1.61%) IPsec
9 58 (1.58%) HTTP
10 54 (1.47%) SNMP
11 47 (1.28%) SD-WAN
11 47 (1.28%) WAN
12 37 (1.01%) AMQP
13 23 (0.63%) BGP
14 18 (0.49%) DSL
15 17 (0.46%) Kerberos
16 13 (0.35%) MPLS
17 11 (0.30%) Ethernet VPN
18 7 (0.19%) WLAN
19 6 (0.16%) LAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 418 (11.40%) NoSQL
2 311 (8.48%) PostgreSQL
3 279 (7.61%) Elasticsearch
4 245 (6.68%) MongoDB
5 244 (6.65%) Big Data
6 219 (5.97%) SQL Server
7 200 (5.45%) Amazon RDS
8 169 (4.61%) MySQL
9 167 (4.55%) Relational Database
10 134 (3.65%) Redis
11 129 (3.52%) Apache Cassandra
12 96 (2.62%) Hadoop
13 90 (2.45%) Data Lake
14 73 (1.99%) Amazon Redshift
15 54 (1.47%) BigQuery
16 45 (1.23%) Azure SQL Database
17 42 (1.15%) Tableau
18 40 (1.09%) Data Warehouse
19 39 (1.06%) Amazon Aurora
20 38 (1.04%) RDBMS
Development Applications
1 720 (19.63%) Jenkins
2 515 (14.04%) Git
3 260 (7.09%) GitLab
4 178 (4.85%) JIRA
5 161 (4.39%) JUnit
6 130 (3.54%) Selenium
7 86 (2.34%) Cypress.io
8 82 (2.24%) TeamCity
9 64 (1.74%) Artifactory
10 58 (1.58%) Mockito
11 55 (1.50%) CircleCI
12 53 (1.44%) Maven
13 52 (1.42%) Jasmine
14 51 (1.39%) Cucumber
15 50 (1.36%) Sonatype Nexus
16 49 (1.34%) Octopus Deploy
17 47 (1.28%) SonarQube
18 41 (1.12%) Bitbucket
19 28 (0.76%) SoapUI
20 25 (0.68%) Team Foundation Server
General
1 1,029 (28.05%) Finance
2 548 (14.94%) Social Skills
3 506 (13.79%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 380 (10.36%) Law
5 282 (7.69%) Banking
6 251 (6.84%) Public Sector
7 224 (6.11%) Marketing
8 153 (4.17%) Analytical Skills
9 142 (3.87%) Legal
10 126 (3.44%) Retail
11 89 (2.43%) Aerospace
12 67 (1.83%) Games
13 65 (1.77%) Front Office
14 57 (1.55%) Retail Banking
15 55 (1.50%) Tech for Good
16 46 (1.25%) Investment Banking
17 43 (1.17%) Financial Institution
18 38 (1.04%) Organisational Skills
19 34 (0.93%) Health Technology
20 29 (0.79%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 898 (24.48%) Senior
2 793 (21.62%) Developer
3 681 (18.57%) Software Engineer
4 672 (18.32%) DevOps Engineer
5 516 (14.07%) Lead
6 288 (7.85%) Architect
7 283 (7.72%) Java Developer
8 255 (6.95%) AWS Engineer
9 254 (6.92%) Senior Developer
10 204 (5.56%) Cloud Engineer
11 196 (5.34%) Java Engineer
12 187 (5.10%) Azure Engineer
13 174 (4.74%) Senior DevOps
14 167 (4.55%) AWS DevOps
14 167 (4.55%) Senior DevOps Engineer
14 167 (4.55%) Software Developer
15 156 (4.25%) Senior Software Engineer
16 154 (4.20%) Data Engineer
17 150 (4.09%) AWS DevOps Engineer
18 144 (3.93%) Platform Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 725 (19.77%) React
2 623 (16.98%) Kafka
3 520 (14.18%) Spring
4 486 (13.25%) .NET
5 384 (10.47%) AngularJS
6 370 (10.09%) Spring Boot
7 324 (8.83%) Node.js
8 310 (8.45%) REST
9 210 (5.73%) CSS
10 209 (5.70%) HTML
11 188 (5.13%) GraphQL
12 186 (5.07%) RabbitMQ
13 182 (4.96%) Hibernate
14 167 (4.55%) RESTful
15 156 (4.25%) JSON
16 152 (4.14%) J2EE
17 140 (3.82%) .NET Core
18 122 (3.33%) Elastic Stack
19 117 (3.19%) YAML
20 112 (3.05%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 397 (10.82%) Cloud Native
2 256 (6.98%) Distributed Systems
3 234 (6.38%) Public Cloud
4 176 (4.80%) Algorithms
5 146 (3.98%) Hybrid Cloud
6 141 (3.84%) Data Centre
7 133 (3.63%) Management Information System
8 126 (3.44%) Blockchain
9 124 (3.38%) Product Ownership
10 118 (3.22%) Greenfield Project
11 79 (2.15%) Data Structures
12 75 (2.04%) Private Cloud
13 60 (1.64%) Hedge funds
14 56 (1.53%) e-Learning
15 53 (1.44%) Clustering
16 51 (1.39%) Client/Server
16 51 (1.39%) Linux Command Line
17 47 (1.28%) Mobile App
18 45 (1.23%) Self-Motivation
19 39 (1.06%) Tandem
Operating Systems
1 964 (26.28%) Linux
2 370 (10.09%) Windows
3 116 (3.16%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 100 (2.73%) CentOS
5 85 (2.32%) Windows Server
6 72 (1.96%) Debian
7 66 (1.80%) Unix
8 54 (1.47%) Data ONTAP
9 52 (1.42%) Ubuntu
10 40 (1.09%) Alpine Linux
11 34 (0.93%) Windows Server 2016
12 29 (0.79%) VMS
13 27 (0.74%) Android
14 26 (0.71%) Apple iOS
15 20 (0.55%) Windows Server 2019
16 11 (0.30%) Oracle Linux
17 10 (0.27%) Embedded Linux
17 10 (0.27%) Solaris
18 7 (0.19%) CoreOS
18 7 (0.19%) zOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 1,628 (44.38%) Agile
1 1,628 (44.38%) DevOps
2 1,579 (43.05%) CI/CD
3 1,198 (32.66%) Software Engineering
4 909 (24.78%) Microservices
5 852 (23.23%) Containerisation
6 672 (18.32%) Infrastructure as Code
7 618 (16.85%) Problem-Solving
8 575 (15.68%) Artificial Intelligence
9 571 (15.57%) SDLC
10 431 (11.75%) Mentoring
11 410 (11.18%) Computer Science
12 394 (10.74%) Full Stack Development
13 352 (9.60%) Machine Learning
14 340 (9.27%) Scrum
15 330 (9.00%) Continuous Integration
16 313 (8.53%) Test Automation
17 310 (8.45%) TDD
18 294 (8.02%) Continuous Improvement
19 243 (6.62%) Site Reliability Engineering
Programming Languages
1 1,333 (36.34%) Java
2 1,285 (35.03%) Python
3 760 (20.72%) SQL
4 692 (18.87%) JavaScript
5 574 (15.65%) C#
6 442 (12.05%) TypeScript
7 355 (9.68%) Bash
8 353 (9.62%) Go
9 326 (8.89%) PowerShell
10 115 (3.14%) PHP
11 101 (2.75%) Ruby
12 94 (2.56%) C++
13 78 (2.13%) Scala
14 70 (1.91%) C
15 68 (1.85%) Shell Script
16 67 (1.83%) PL/SQL
17 65 (1.77%) Bicep
17 65 (1.77%) Rust
18 56 (1.53%) Kotlin
19 44 (1.20%) Groovy
Qualifications
1 472 (12.87%) Degree
2 462 (12.60%) Security Cleared
3 288 (7.85%) Computer Science Degree
4 271 (7.39%) SC Cleared
5 209 (5.70%) DV Cleared
6 164 (4.47%) Azure Certification
7 150 (4.09%) AWS Certification
8 106 (2.89%) Master's Degree
9 92 (2.51%) Microsoft Certification
10 50 (1.36%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
10 50 (1.36%) CISSP
11 42 (1.15%) CISM
12 41 (1.12%) MCSA
12 41 (1.12%) MCSE
13 39 (1.06%) Cisco Certification
14 36 (0.98%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
15 34 (0.93%) (ISC)2 CCSP
15 34 (0.93%) CCSK
15 34 (0.93%) CCSP
15 34 (0.93%) PhD
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 99 (2.70%) QA
2 54 (1.47%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 45 (1.23%) NIST
4 34 (0.93%) WCAG
5 27 (0.74%) SLA
6 21 (0.57%) GDPR
7 13 (0.35%) PCI DSS
8 12 (0.33%) NCSC
9 10 (0.27%) Accessibility
9 10 (0.27%) SEPA
10 9 (0.25%) Cyber Essentials
11 6 (0.16%) Data Quality
11 6 (0.16%) ISO 20022
12 4 (0.11%) HIPAA
12 4 (0.11%) ISO 9001
12 4 (0.11%) SOC 2
13 3 (0.082%) ISO 9000
14 2 (0.055%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
15 1 (0.027%) California Consumer Privacy Act
15 1 (0.027%) Disclosure Scotland
System Software
1 2,242 (61.12%) Docker
2 153 (4.17%) VMware Infrastructure
3 110 (3.00%) Active Directory
4 105 (2.86%) Hyper-V
5 76 (2.07%) Virtual Machines
6 22 (0.60%) vSphere
7 20 (0.55%) Virtual Desktop
8 14 (0.38%) VMware ESXi
9 11 (0.30%) Firmware
10 7 (0.19%) KVM
11 6 (0.16%) Ceph
11 6 (0.16%) VirtualBox
12 4 (0.11%) Embedded Firmware
12 4 (0.11%) NFS
12 4 (0.11%) Slurm Workload Manager
13 3 (0.082%) Gluster
13 3 (0.082%) oVirt
14 2 (0.055%) QEMU
14 2 (0.055%) Varnish
14 2 (0.055%) Xen
Systems Management
1 1,281 (34.92%) Terraform
2 646 (17.61%) Ansible
3 314 (8.56%) Prometheus
4 236 (6.43%) Puppet
5 198 (5.40%) Grafana
6 107 (2.92%) Progress Chef
7 80 (2.18%) vCenter Server
8 55 (1.50%) Single Sign-On
9 47 (1.28%) Istio
10 35 (0.95%) Kibana
11 29 (0.79%) Docker Swarm
11 29 (0.79%) SCCM
12 25 (0.68%) Microsoft Intune
12 25 (0.68%) Packer
13 24 (0.65%) Consul
14 23 (0.63%) Active Directory Federation Services
14 23 (0.63%) Argo
14 23 (0.63%) Rancher
15 22 (0.60%) Salt
16 20 (0.55%) ZABBIX
Vendors
1 385 (10.50%) Microsoft
2 368 (10.03%) Oracle
3 291 (7.93%) Google
4 288 (7.85%) Red Hat
5 200 (5.45%) VMware
6 105 (2.86%) IBM
7 88 (2.40%) Dynatrace
8 71 (1.94%) Databricks
9 66 (1.80%) Splunk
10 62 (1.69%) Palo Alto
11 55 (1.50%) NetApp
12 54 (1.47%) SolidFire
13 42 (1.15%) WSO2
14 36 (0.98%) SaltStack
15 35 (0.95%) Atlassian
15 35 (0.95%) Cisco
16 34 (0.93%) Dell
17 29 (0.79%) Sybase
18 22 (0.60%) ServiceNow
19 20 (0.55%) ForgeRock