Kubernetes Jobs in the West Midlands

Kubernetes (k8s)
England > West Midlands

The following table provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in the West Midlands 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 1 December 2023 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
1 Dec 2023
Same period 2022 Same period 2021
Rank 88 83 45
Rank change year-on-year -5 -38 +2
Permanent jobs citing Kubernetes 89 298 417
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the West Midlands 2.71% 3.64% 5.74%
As % of the Systems Management category 21.14% 25.54% 39.83%
Number of salaries quoted 78 237 341
10th Percentile £49,625 £46,750 £45,000
25th Percentile £52,500 £55,000 £51,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £64,500 £70,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -7.86% +16.67% -
75th Percentile £79,688 £85,000 £75,000
90th Percentile £87,875 £90,000 £87,500
England median annual salary £75,000 £79,632 £75,000
% change year-on-year -5.82% +6.18% +11.11%

All Systems Management Skills
West Midlands

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 West Midlands with a requirement for systems management skills.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for systems management skills 421 1,167 1,047
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the West Midlands 12.80% 14.25% 14.41%
Number of salaries quoted 369 638 821
10th Percentile £30,000 £32,000 £35,000
25th Percentile £37,500 £41,250 £43,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £52,500 £55,000 £57,500
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% -4.35% +9.52%
75th Percentile £65,000 £72,500 £75,000
90th Percentile £80,000 £85,000 £90,000
England median annual salary £65,000 £67,500 £67,500
% change year-on-year -3.70% - +8.00%

Kubernetes
Job Vacancy Trend in the West Midlands

Job postings citing Kubernetes as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the West Midlands.

Job vacancy trend for Kubernetes in the West Midlands

Kubernetes
Salary Trend in the West Midlands

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

Salary trend for Kubernetes in the West Midlands

Kubernetes
Salary Histogram in the West Midlands

Salary distribution for jobs citing Kubernetes in the West Midlands over the 6 months to 1 December 2023.

Salary histogram for Kubernetes in the West Midlands

Kubernetes
Job Locations in the West Midlands

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Kubernetes within the West Midlands region over the 6 months to 1 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
Birmingham -39 34 £70,000 -6.67% 17
Warwickshire +63 18 £60,000 +9.09% 2
Coventry +30 7 £62,500 +25.00% 5
Solihull +11 7 £52,500 -34.38%
Herefordshire +7 5 - - 2
Staffordshire +32 4 £61,250 +53.13%
Shropshire +11 4 £77,500 +40.91%
Wolverhampton +16 3 £95,000 +90.00%
Kubernetes
England

Kubernetes
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the West Midlands 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 5 (5.62%) Apache Spark
2 2 (2.25%) SharePoint
3 1 (1.12%) Apache
3 1 (1.12%) Apache Airflow
Applications
1 1 (1.12%) MS Visio
Cloud Services
1 51 (57.30%) Azure
2 47 (52.81%) AWS
3 24 (26.97%) GCP
4 11 (12.36%) SaaS
5 7 (7.87%) Amazon S3
5 7 (7.87%) Serverless
6 6 (6.74%) Azure Service Bus
6 6 (6.74%) PaaS
7 5 (5.62%) AWS CloudFormation
7 5 (5.62%) Azure DevOps
7 5 (5.62%) Cloud Computing
8 4 (4.49%) Entra ID
8 4 (4.49%) GitHub
8 4 (4.49%) OpenShift
8 4 (4.49%) Snowflake
9 3 (3.37%) Amazon ECS
9 3 (3.37%) Amazon OpenSearch
9 3 (3.37%) AWS Lambda
9 3 (3.37%) Azure AKS
10 2 (2.25%) Dynamics 365
Communications & Networking
1 6 (6.74%) DNS
2 4 (4.49%) DHCP
2 4 (4.49%) HTTP
3 2 (2.25%) Ethernet VPN
3 2 (2.25%) IPv4
3 2 (2.25%) MPLS
3 2 (2.25%) TCP/IP
3 2 (2.25%) VXLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 11 (12.36%) PostgreSQL
2 9 (10.11%) NoSQL
3 8 (8.99%) Elasticsearch
4 7 (7.87%) Big Data
4 7 (7.87%) SQL Server
5 6 (6.74%) MongoDB
6 4 (4.49%) Apache Cassandra
6 4 (4.49%) Hadoop
7 3 (3.37%) MySQL
7 3 (3.37%) Relational Database
8 2 (2.25%) Amazon RDS
8 2 (2.25%) Apache Hive
8 2 (2.25%) Azure SQL Database
8 2 (2.25%) Data Lake
8 2 (2.25%) Data Warehouse
8 2 (2.25%) Power BI
8 2 (2.25%) Redis
9 1 (1.12%) DynamoDB
9 1 (1.12%) Looker
9 1 (1.12%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 9 (10.11%) Git
1 9 (10.11%) Jenkins
2 8 (8.99%) Maven
3 3 (3.37%) GitLab
3 3 (3.37%) JIRA
4 1 (1.12%) Cucumber
4 1 (1.12%) SonarQube
4 1 (1.12%) Subversion
General
1 28 (31.46%) Finance
2 20 (22.47%) Social Skills
3 13 (14.61%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 5 (5.62%) Banking
4 5 (5.62%) Law
4 5 (5.62%) Legal
5 4 (4.49%) Analytical Skills
6 3 (3.37%) Automotive
6 3 (3.37%) Financial Institution
6 3 (3.37%) Telecoms
7 2 (2.25%) Aviation
7 2 (2.25%) Retail
8 1 (1.12%) Billing
8 1 (1.12%) Games
8 1 (1.12%) Pharmaceutical
8 1 (1.12%) Tech for Good
Job Titles
1 27 (30.34%) Developer
2 22 (24.72%) Senior
3 15 (16.85%) Software Engineer
4 12 (13.48%) Architect
4 12 (13.48%) Java Developer
5 10 (11.24%) DevOps Engineer
6 8 (8.99%) Senior Developer
7 6 (6.74%) C# Developer
7 6 (6.74%) Lead
7 6 (6.74%) Solutions Architect
8 5 (5.62%) AWS Engineer
8 5 (5.62%) Data Engineer
8 5 (5.62%) Infrastructure Engineer
9 4 (4.49%) AWS DevOps
9 4 (4.49%) AWS DevOps Engineer
9 4 (4.49%) Cloud Architect
9 4 (4.49%) Cloud Engineer
9 4 (4.49%) Senior Software Engineer
10 3 (3.37%) .NET Developer
10 3 (3.37%) Senior Data Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 19 (21.35%) Spring Boot
2 18 (20.22%) Spring
3 15 (16.85%) React
4 14 (15.73%) .NET
5 13 (14.61%) AngularJS
5 13 (14.61%) Kafka
6 12 (13.48%) RESTful
7 11 (12.36%) Blazor
8 10 (11.24%) Hibernate
9 5 (5.62%) ASP.NET
10 4 (4.49%) GraphQL
10 4 (4.49%) gRPC
10 4 (4.49%) RabbitMQ
11 3 (3.37%) OAuth
11 3 (3.37%) OpenID
11 3 (3.37%) REST
12 2 (2.25%) Django
12 2 (2.25%) Node.js
12 2 (2.25%) Protocol Buffers
12 2 (2.25%) React Native
Miscellaneous
1 6 (6.74%) Cloud Native
2 3 (3.37%) Data Centre
2 3 (3.37%) Greenfield Project
2 3 (3.37%) Legacy Code
2 3 (3.37%) Management Information System
2 3 (3.37%) PKI
3 2 (2.25%) Clustering
3 2 (2.25%) Cyber Kill Chain
3 2 (2.25%) Distributed Systems
3 2 (2.25%) Mobile App
3 2 (2.25%) Private Cloud
3 2 (2.25%) Public Cloud
3 2 (2.25%) Replication
4 1 (1.12%) CMDB
4 1 (1.12%) Enterprise Cloud
4 1 (1.12%) Hybrid Cloud
4 1 (1.12%) Renewable Energy
4 1 (1.12%) Security Posture
4 1 (1.12%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 12 (13.48%) Linux
2 5 (5.62%) Unix
2 5 (5.62%) Windows
3 3 (3.37%) Windows Server
3 3 (3.37%) Windows Server 2008
4 2 (2.25%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 39 (43.82%) Agile
1 39 (43.82%) DevOps
2 35 (39.33%) Microservices
3 26 (29.21%) CI/CD
4 24 (26.97%) Software Engineering
5 17 (19.10%) Containerisation
6 14 (15.73%) Problem-Solving
6 14 (15.73%) Scrum
7 13 (14.61%) API Development
7 13 (14.61%) Event-Driven
7 13 (14.61%) Fintech
8 12 (13.48%) Mentoring
8 12 (13.48%) Test Automation
9 11 (12.36%) Event-Driven Architecture
10 10 (11.24%) Continuous Integration
10 10 (11.24%) Full Stack Development
11 9 (10.11%) Coaching
11 9 (10.11%) Infrastructure as Code
11 9 (10.11%) Integration Testing
11 9 (10.11%) Test Planning
Programming Languages
1 30 (33.71%) Java
2 23 (25.84%) Python
3 21 (23.60%) C#
4 19 (21.35%) SQL
5 11 (12.36%) PowerShell
5 11 (12.36%) TypeScript
6 10 (11.24%) JavaScript
7 8 (8.99%) Bash
8 7 (7.87%) Go
9 3 (3.37%) Ruby
10 2 (2.25%) PHP
Qualifications
1 7 (7.87%) SC Cleared
1 7 (7.87%) Security Cleared
2 6 (6.74%) Degree
3 3 (3.37%) Azure Certification
4 2 (2.25%) CCIE
4 2 (2.25%) Cisco Certification
4 2 (2.25%) JNCIE
4 2 (2.25%) Microsoft Certification
5 1 (1.12%) AWS Certification
5 1 (1.12%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
5 1 (1.12%) Computer Science Degree
5 1 (1.12%) ITIL Certification
5 1 (1.12%) Master's Degree
5 1 (1.12%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (5.62%) ISO 20022
1 5 (5.62%) SEPA
2 4 (4.49%) GDPR
2 4 (4.49%) NIST
2 4 (4.49%) PCI DSS
3 2 (2.25%) California Consumer Privacy Act
3 2 (2.25%) HIPAA
3 2 (2.25%) Sarbanes-Oxley
4 1 (1.12%) SLA
System Software
1 56 (62.92%) Docker
2 6 (6.74%) Active Directory
3 2 (2.25%) Ceph
3 2 (2.25%) NFS
4 1 (1.12%) VMware ESXi
4 1 (1.12%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 21 (23.60%) Terraform
2 8 (8.99%) Ansible
3 4 (4.49%) Single Sign-On
4 3 (3.37%) Puppet
5 2 (2.25%) Hadoop YARN
5 2 (2.25%) Mesos
6 1 (1.12%) Progress Chef
6 1 (1.12%) Rancher
6 1 (1.12%) SCCM
6 1 (1.12%) vCenter Server
Vendors
1 13 (14.61%) Google
2 8 (8.99%) Microsoft
3 5 (5.62%) Databricks
4 3 (3.37%) Red Hat
5 2 (2.25%) Veracode
6 1 (1.12%) Checkmarx
6 1 (1.12%) Citrix
6 1 (1.12%) Klarna
6 1 (1.12%) Oracle
6 1 (1.12%) Sparx
6 1 (1.12%) VMware