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 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 138 112 53
Rank change year-on-year -26 -59 +17
Permanent jobs citing Kubernetes 114 187 354
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the West Midlands 1.58% 2.78% 4.90%
As % of the Systems Management category 20.80% 21.49% 39.55%
Number of salaries quoted 91 135 302
10th Percentile £46,250 £52,500 £46,250
25th Percentile £52,500 £56,480 £55,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £70,000 £70,000
Median % change year-on-year -7.14% - +7.69%
75th Percentile £78,750 £81,875 £82,500
90th Percentile £88,750 £97,500 £85,900
England median annual salary £76,000 £77,500 £77,500
% change year-on-year -1.94% - +10.71%

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 548 870 895
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the West Midlands 7.58% 12.93% 12.38%
Number of salaries quoted 424 410 670
10th Percentile £29,500 £27,500 £35,125
25th Percentile £38,625 £37,875 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £54,500 £55,000 £57,500
Median % change year-on-year -0.91% -4.35% -
75th Percentile £67,500 £72,500 £75,000
90th Percentile £80,000 £83,875 £85,000
England median annual salary £60,000 £67,500 £70,000
% change year-on-year -11.11% -3.57% +7.69%

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 27 April 2024.

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 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
Birmingham -48 52 £77,500 +10.71% 18
Warwickshire +40 11 £65,000 +13.04% 1
Staffordshire -8 9 £67,500 +35.00%
Herefordshire +9 6 - -
Worcestershire -21 6 £55,000 -8.33% 1
Coventry +38 4 £59,250 +3.04% 2
Wolverhampton - 2 £40,000 -
Solihull +1 1 £45,000 - 1
Shropshire -12 1 £72,500 +3.57% 1
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 6 (5.26%) IIS
2 1 (0.88%) Apache
2 1 (0.88%) Apache Airflow
2 1 (0.88%) Apache Spark
Business Applications
1 2 (1.75%) Oracle EBS
Cloud Services
1 59 (51.75%) Azure
2 39 (34.21%) AWS
3 32 (28.07%) SaaS
4 20 (17.54%) Azure DevOps
5 13 (11.40%) GCP
5 13 (11.40%) GitHub
5 13 (11.40%) Microsoft 365
6 12 (10.53%) Cloud Computing
7 10 (8.77%) GitHub Actions
8 9 (7.89%) Azure Service Bus
9 8 (7.02%) Entra ID
9 8 (7.02%) IaaS
9 8 (7.02%) PaaS
10 6 (5.26%) Azure AKS
11 5 (4.39%) Amazon EC2
11 5 (4.39%) Amazon S3
11 5 (4.39%) AWS Lambda
11 5 (4.39%) Serverless
12 3 (2.63%) Amazon OpenSearch
12 3 (2.63%) AWS CodeDeploy
Communications & Networking
1 3 (2.63%) SD-WAN
1 3 (2.63%) WAN
2 2 (1.75%) 4G
2 2 (1.75%) 5G
3 1 (0.88%) HTTP
3 1 (0.88%) Software-Defined Networking
Database & Business Intelligence
1 21 (18.42%) Elasticsearch
2 12 (10.53%) PostgreSQL
3 11 (9.65%) NoSQL
4 8 (7.02%) SQL Server
5 6 (5.26%) Relational Database
6 3 (2.63%) Data Lake
7 2 (1.75%) Amazon RDS
7 2 (1.75%) Power BI
8 1 (0.88%) Amazon Redshift
8 1 (0.88%) Big Data
8 1 (0.88%) DynamoDB
8 1 (0.88%) Electronic Patient Records
8 1 (0.88%) MySQL
Development Applications
1 8 (7.02%) Git
1 8 (7.02%) SonarQube
2 6 (5.26%) Octopus Deploy
2 6 (5.26%) TeamCity
3 5 (4.39%) Postman
4 4 (3.51%) Maven
5 3 (2.63%) GitLab
5 3 (2.63%) Jenkins
6 2 (1.75%) Fiddler
6 2 (1.75%) GCC
6 2 (1.75%) Sonatype Nexus
General
1 21 (18.42%) Finance
2 14 (12.28%) Social Skills
3 7 (6.14%) Analytical Skills
4 6 (5.26%) Automotive
4 6 (5.26%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 5 (4.39%) Retail
6 4 (3.51%) Organisational Skills
6 4 (3.51%) Police
7 3 (2.63%) Telecoms
8 2 (1.75%) Manufacturing
8 2 (1.75%) Marketing
9 1 (0.88%) Banking
9 1 (0.88%) Electronics
9 1 (0.88%) Games
9 1 (0.88%) Legal
9 1 (0.88%) Public Sector
9 1 (0.88%) Tech for Good
Job Titles
1 37 (32.46%) Developer
2 35 (30.70%) Senior
3 20 (17.54%) Senior Developer
4 19 (16.67%) Lead
5 12 (10.53%) Software Engineer
6 11 (9.65%) Azure Engineer
7 9 (7.89%) C# Developer
7 9 (7.89%) Head of DevOps
8 8 (7.02%) .NET Developer
8 8 (7.02%) DevOps Engineer
8 8 (7.02%) Lead Developer
8 8 (7.02%) Senior .NET Developer
9 7 (6.14%) Identity and Access Management Engineer
9 7 (6.14%) Identity Management Engineer
9 7 (6.14%) Lead DevOps
10 6 (5.26%) Architect
11 5 (4.39%) AWS Engineer
11 5 (4.39%) C# Software Engineer
11 5 (4.39%) Cloud Infrastructure Manager
11 5 (4.39%) Infrastructure Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 24 (21.05%) .NET
2 19 (16.67%) React
3 15 (13.16%) REST
4 14 (12.28%) ARM Templates
5 13 (11.40%) AngularJS
6 11 (9.65%) ASP.NET
6 11 (9.65%) Web Services
7 10 (8.77%) Blazor
7 10 (8.77%) HTML
7 10 (8.77%) Twitter Bootstrap
8 9 (7.89%) CSS
8 9 (7.89%) Entity Framework
8 9 (7.89%) Kafka
9 8 (7.02%) Azure Blueprints
10 7 (6.14%) Node.js
10 7 (6.14%) Spring
10 7 (6.14%) Spring Boot
10 7 (6.14%) Vue
11 6 (5.26%) OAuth
11 6 (5.26%) RabbitMQ
Miscellaneous
1 12 (10.53%) Cloud Native
2 11 (9.65%) Management Information System
3 8 (7.02%) Onboarding
4 7 (6.14%) PKI
4 7 (6.14%) Product Ownership
5 6 (5.26%) Data Centre
6 4 (3.51%) Team-Oriented Environment
7 3 (2.63%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
8 2 (1.75%) Low-Code
9 1 (0.88%) Distributed Computing
9 1 (0.88%) Enterprise Cloud
9 1 (0.88%) Enterprise Software
9 1 (0.88%) Genomics
9 1 (0.88%) Private Cloud
9 1 (0.88%) Self-Motivation
9 1 (0.88%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 17 (14.91%) Windows
2 7 (6.14%) Linux
2 7 (6.14%) Windows Server
3 4 (3.51%) VMS
4 3 (2.63%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 2 (1.75%) Ubuntu
5 2 (1.75%) Unix
6 1 (0.88%) CentOS
6 1 (0.88%) Debian
Processes & Methodologies
1 56 (49.12%) DevOps
2 41 (35.96%) Containerisation
3 38 (33.33%) Software Engineering
4 32 (28.07%) CI/CD
5 24 (21.05%) Mentoring
6 21 (18.42%) Agile
7 20 (17.54%) Microservices
8 18 (15.79%) Site Reliability Engineering
8 18 (15.79%) Test Automation
9 16 (14.04%) Project Delivery
10 14 (12.28%) DevSecOps
10 14 (12.28%) Problem-Solving
10 14 (12.28%) Release Management
11 13 (11.40%) API Development
11 13 (11.40%) Continuous Improvement
12 12 (10.53%) Functional Testing
12 12 (10.53%) ITIL
12 12 (10.53%) Non-Functional Testing
13 11 (9.65%) Event-Driven
13 11 (9.65%) MVC
Programming Languages
1 36 (31.58%) C#
2 23 (20.18%) SQL
3 20 (17.54%) JavaScript
4 19 (16.67%) Python
5 16 (14.04%) TypeScript
6 13 (11.40%) Java
7 8 (7.02%) PowerShell
8 6 (5.26%) Go
9 5 (4.39%) Bash
10 4 (3.51%) VB
11 2 (1.75%) C++
11 2 (1.75%) PHP
11 2 (1.75%) PL/SQL
12 1 (0.88%) R
Qualifications
1 11 (9.65%) Security Cleared
2 10 (8.77%) Degree
3 9 (7.89%) Azure Certification
4 8 (7.02%) BPSS Clearance
5 4 (3.51%) AWS Certification
6 3 (2.63%) (ISC)2 CCSP
6 3 (2.63%) CCSK
6 3 (2.63%) CCSP
6 3 (2.63%) Cisco Certification
6 3 (2.63%) CISM
6 3 (2.63%) CISSP
6 3 (2.63%) SC Cleared
7 2 (1.75%) Microsoft Certification
8 1 (0.88%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
8 1 (0.88%) Computer Science Degree
8 1 (0.88%) Master's Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 11 (9.65%) QA
2 8 (7.02%) NCSC
3 3 (2.63%) NIST
4 2 (1.75%) SLA
5 1 (0.88%) ISO 20022
5 1 (0.88%) SEPA
System Software
1 89 (78.07%) Docker
2 7 (6.14%) Active Directory
2 7 (6.14%) Hyper-V
2 7 (6.14%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 40 (35.09%) Terraform
2 13 (11.40%) Ansible
3 10 (8.77%) Single Sign-On
4 2 (1.75%) Progress Chef
4 2 (1.75%) Puppet
5 1 (0.88%) SCCM
Vendors
1 25 (21.93%) Microsoft
2 7 (6.14%) VMware
3 6 (5.26%) Google
4 2 (1.75%) IFS
4 2 (1.75%) OpenAI
4 2 (1.75%) Oracle
4 2 (1.75%) PeopleSoft
4 2 (1.75%) Workday
5 1 (0.88%) Cisco
5 1 (0.88%) Databricks
5 1 (0.88%) Red Hat