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 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 66 33 21
Rank change year-on-year -33 -12 +7
Permanent jobs citing Kubernetes 3,687 7,415 16,069
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 3.76% 7.08% 10.43%
As % of the Systems Management category 36.82% 47.92% 58.00%
Number of salaries quoted 2,660 4,577 7,216
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 £96,250 £95,000
90th Percentile £115,000 £115,000 £110,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £70,000 £67,634 £70,000
% change year-on-year +3.50% -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 10,014 15,475 27,705
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 10.20% 14.77% 17.98%
Number of salaries quoted 7,250 9,481 14,202
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 £86,813
90th Percentile £101,250 £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 26 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 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
England -36 3,004 £77,500 - 843
UK excluding London -16 2,271 £70,000 +3.50% 446
Work from Home -38 1,482 £75,000 - 563
London -20 1,259 £87,500 +2.94% 437
South East -10 593 £70,000 - 94
Scotland -14 494 £70,576 +5.34% 48
North of England -23 475 £62,500 -8.78% 119
South West -24 370 £70,576 +4.56% 83
North West -18 284 £62,500 -10.00% 67
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
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 (5.18%) Apache Spark
2 162 (4.39%) Apache
3 117 (3.17%) Apache Airflow
4 96 (2.60%) FileNet
5 77 (2.09%) OpenStack
6 48 (1.30%) nginx
7 45 (1.22%) Confluence
8 26 (0.71%) Microsoft Exchange
9 22 (0.60%) Jupyter
10 20 (0.54%) JBoss
11 19 (0.52%) Cloud Foundry
12 16 (0.43%) 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 (0.054%) InDesign
2 2 (0.054%) Microsoft Office
3 1 (0.027%) Blender
Business Applications
1 7 (0.19%) Teamcenter
2 3 (0.081%) SAP Business One
3 2 (0.054%) Oracle EBS
3 2 (0.054%) 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 1,930 (52.35%) AWS
2 1,453 (39.41%) Azure
3 517 (14.02%) GCP
4 424 (11.50%) Amazon S3
5 388 (10.52%) Azure DevOps
6 339 (9.19%) Serverless
7 311 (8.44%) GitHub
8 291 (7.89%) SaaS
9 283 (7.68%) Amazon EKS
10 231 (6.27%) OpenShift
11 213 (5.78%) AWS CloudFormation
12 207 (5.61%) AWS Lambda
13 203 (5.51%) Amazon ECS
14 158 (4.29%) Amazon EC2
15 156 (4.23%) Azure AKS
16 135 (3.66%) PaaS
17 130 (3.53%) Cloud Computing
18 110 (2.98%) GitHub Actions
19 107 (2.90%) IaaS
20 99 (2.69%) IBM Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 187 (5.07%) Firewall
2 114 (3.09%) DNS
3 108 (2.93%) VPN
4 86 (2.33%) Internet
5 70 (1.90%) TCP/IP
6 67 (1.82%) Network Security
7 63 (1.71%) DHCP
8 59 (1.60%) IPsec
9 57 (1.55%) HTTP
10 54 (1.46%) SNMP
11 47 (1.27%) SD-WAN
11 47 (1.27%) WAN
12 37 (1.00%) AMQP
13 23 (0.62%) 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
1 423 (11.47%) NoSQL
2 312 (8.46%) PostgreSQL
3 282 (7.65%) Elasticsearch
4 244 (6.62%) Big Data
4 244 (6.62%) MongoDB
5 219 (5.94%) SQL Server
6 203 (5.51%) Amazon RDS
7 171 (4.64%) MySQL
8 167 (4.53%) Relational Database
9 134 (3.63%) Redis
10 129 (3.50%) Apache Cassandra
11 96 (2.60%) Hadoop
12 90 (2.44%) Data Lake
13 73 (1.98%) Amazon Redshift
14 54 (1.46%) BigQuery
15 45 (1.22%) Azure SQL Database
16 42 (1.14%) Tableau
17 40 (1.08%) Data Warehouse
18 39 (1.06%) Amazon Aurora
19 37 (1.00%) RDBMS
Development Applications
1 725 (19.66%) Jenkins
2 524 (14.21%) Git
3 264 (7.16%) GitLab
4 181 (4.91%) JIRA
5 161 (4.37%) JUnit
6 136 (3.69%) Selenium
7 90 (2.44%) Cypress.io
8 82 (2.22%) TeamCity
9 67 (1.82%) Artifactory
10 58 (1.57%) Mockito
11 56 (1.52%) Maven
12 55 (1.49%) CircleCI
13 52 (1.41%) Jasmine
14 51 (1.38%) Cucumber
15 50 (1.36%) SonarQube
15 50 (1.36%) Sonatype Nexus
16 49 (1.33%) Octopus Deploy
17 41 (1.11%) Bitbucket
18 30 (0.81%) SoapUI
19 25 (0.68%) Team Foundation Server
General
1 1,031 (27.96%) Finance
2 548 (14.86%) Social Skills
3 504 (13.67%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 382 (10.36%) Law
5 282 (7.65%) Banking
6 250 (6.78%) Public Sector
7 224 (6.08%) Marketing
8 153 (4.15%) Analytical Skills
9 142 (3.85%) Legal
10 127 (3.44%) Retail
11 89 (2.41%) Aerospace
12 67 (1.82%) Games
13 65 (1.76%) Front Office
14 57 (1.55%) Retail Banking
15 55 (1.49%) Tech for Good
16 46 (1.25%) Investment Banking
17 44 (1.19%) Financial Institution
18 38 (1.03%) Organisational Skills
19 34 (0.92%) Health Technology
20 29 (0.79%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 902 (24.46%) Senior
2 802 (21.75%) Developer
3 681 (18.47%) Software Engineer
4 676 (18.33%) DevOps Engineer
5 517 (14.02%) Lead
6 288 (7.81%) Architect
7 284 (7.70%) Java Developer
8 258 (7.00%) AWS Engineer
9 256 (6.94%) Senior Developer
10 204 (5.53%) Cloud Engineer
11 196 (5.32%) Java Engineer
12 187 (5.07%) Azure Engineer
13 175 (4.75%) Senior DevOps
14 171 (4.64%) Software Developer
15 170 (4.61%) AWS DevOps
16 168 (4.56%) Senior DevOps Engineer
17 156 (4.23%) Senior Software Engineer
18 154 (4.18%) Data Engineer
19 153 (4.15%) AWS DevOps Engineer
20 144 (3.91%) Platform Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 732 (19.85%) React
2 625 (16.95%) Kafka
3 521 (14.13%) Spring
4 491 (13.32%) .NET
5 386 (10.47%) AngularJS
6 372 (10.09%) Spring Boot
7 323 (8.76%) Node.js
8 312 (8.46%) REST
9 213 (5.78%) CSS
10 212 (5.75%) HTML
11 189 (5.13%) RabbitMQ
12 188 (5.10%) GraphQL
13 182 (4.94%) Hibernate
14 167 (4.53%) RESTful
15 158 (4.29%) JSON
16 152 (4.12%) J2EE
17 140 (3.80%) .NET Core
18 125 (3.39%) Elastic Stack
19 117 (3.17%) YAML
20 112 (3.04%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 397 (10.77%) Cloud Native
2 257 (6.97%) Distributed Systems
3 234 (6.35%) Public Cloud
4 176 (4.77%) Algorithms
5 145 (3.93%) Hybrid Cloud
6 141 (3.82%) Data Centre
7 133 (3.61%) Management Information System
8 125 (3.39%) Product Ownership
9 124 (3.36%) Blockchain
10 119 (3.23%) Greenfield Project
11 79 (2.14%) Data Structures
12 76 (2.06%) Private Cloud
13 60 (1.63%) Hedge funds
14 55 (1.49%) e-Learning
15 53 (1.44%) Clustering
16 51 (1.38%) Client/Server
16 51 (1.38%) Linux Command Line
17 47 (1.27%) Mobile App
18 45 (1.22%) Self-Motivation
19 39 (1.06%) Tandem
Operating Systems
1 969 (26.28%) Linux
2 371 (10.06%) Windows
3 116 (3.15%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 100 (2.71%) CentOS
5 85 (2.31%) Windows Server
6 72 (1.95%) Debian
7 66 (1.79%) Unix
8 54 (1.46%) Data ONTAP
9 52 (1.41%) Ubuntu
10 40 (1.08%) Alpine Linux
11 34 (0.92%) Windows Server 2016
12 29 (0.79%) VMS
13 27 (0.73%) Android
14 26 (0.71%) Apple iOS
15 20 (0.54%) 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 1,641 (44.51%) Agile
2 1,635 (44.34%) DevOps
3 1,584 (42.96%) CI/CD
4 1,201 (32.57%) Software Engineering
5 920 (24.95%) Microservices
6 856 (23.22%) Containerisation
7 676 (18.33%) Infrastructure as Code
8 618 (16.76%) Problem-Solving
9 579 (15.70%) Artificial Intelligence
10 571 (15.49%) SDLC
11 433 (11.74%) Mentoring
12 415 (11.26%) Computer Science
13 396 (10.74%) Full Stack Development
14 353 (9.57%) Machine Learning
15 341 (9.25%) Scrum
16 331 (8.98%) Continuous Integration
17 315 (8.54%) Test Automation
18 312 (8.46%) TDD
19 294 (7.97%) Continuous Improvement
20 244 (6.62%) Site Reliability Engineering
Programming Languages
1 1,338 (36.29%) Java
2 1,292 (35.04%) Python
3 763 (20.69%) SQL
4 702 (19.04%) JavaScript
5 583 (15.81%) C#
6 450 (12.21%) TypeScript
7 357 (9.68%) Bash
8 354 (9.60%) Go
9 328 (8.90%) PowerShell
10 119 (3.23%) PHP
11 101 (2.74%) Ruby
12 95 (2.58%) C++
13 78 (2.12%) Scala
14 70 (1.90%) C
15 68 (1.84%) Shell Script
16 67 (1.82%) PL/SQL
17 66 (1.79%) Rust
18 65 (1.76%) Bicep
19 56 (1.52%) Kotlin
20 46 (1.25%) Perl
Qualifications
1 481 (13.05%) Degree
2 466 (12.64%) Security Cleared
3 291 (7.89%) Computer Science Degree
4 275 (7.46%) SC Cleared
5 209 (5.67%) DV Cleared
6 164 (4.45%) Azure Certification
7 150 (4.07%) AWS Certification
8 106 (2.87%) Master's Degree
9 92 (2.50%) Microsoft Certification
10 50 (1.36%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
10 50 (1.36%) CISSP
11 42 (1.14%) CISM
12 41 (1.11%) MCSA
12 41 (1.11%) MCSE
13 39 (1.06%) Cisco Certification
14 36 (0.98%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
15 34 (0.92%) (ISC)2 CCSP
15 34 (0.92%) CCSK
15 34 (0.92%) CCSP
15 34 (0.92%) PhD
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 102 (2.77%) QA
2 54 (1.46%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 45 (1.22%) NIST
4 36 (0.98%) WCAG
5 27 (0.73%) SLA
6 21 (0.57%) GDPR
7 13 (0.35%) PCI DSS
8 12 (0.33%) NCSC
9 10 (0.27%) SEPA
10 9 (0.24%) Accessibility
10 9 (0.24%) 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 (0.081%) ISO 9000
14 2 (0.054%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
15 1 (0.027%) California Consumer Privacy Act
15 1 (0.027%) Disclosure Scotland
System Software
1 2,259 (61.27%) Docker
2 153 (4.15%) VMware Infrastructure
3 113 (3.06%) Active Directory
4 105 (2.85%) Hyper-V
5 76 (2.06%) Virtual Machines
6 22 (0.60%) vSphere
7 20 (0.54%) 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 (0.081%) Gluster
13 3 (0.081%) oVirt
14 2 (0.054%) QEMU
14 2 (0.054%) Varnish
14 2 (0.054%) Xen
Systems Management
1 1,286 (34.88%) Terraform
2 649 (17.60%) Ansible
3 313 (8.49%) Prometheus
4 236 (6.40%) Puppet
5 198 (5.37%) Grafana
6 107 (2.90%) Progress Chef
7 80 (2.17%) vCenter Server
8 55 (1.49%) Single Sign-On
9 47 (1.27%) 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%) Argo
13 24 (0.65%) Consul
14 23 (0.62%) Active Directory Federation Services
14 23 (0.62%) Rancher
15 22 (0.60%) Salt
16 20 (0.54%) ZABBIX
Vendors
1 385 (10.44%) Microsoft
2 369 (10.01%) Oracle
3 290 (7.87%) Google
4 287 (7.78%) Red Hat
5 200 (5.42%) VMware
6 104 (2.82%) IBM
7 87 (2.36%) Dynatrace
8 71 (1.93%) Databricks
9 66 (1.79%) Splunk
10 62 (1.68%) Palo Alto
11 55 (1.49%) NetApp
12 54 (1.46%) SolidFire
13 42 (1.14%) WSO2
14 36 (0.98%) SaltStack
15 35 (0.95%) Atlassian
15 35 (0.95%) Cisco
16 34 (0.92%) Dell
17 28 (0.76%) Sybase
18 22 (0.60%) ServiceNow
19 20 (0.54%) ForgeRock