Kubernetes Jobs in the West Midlands

Kubernetes (k8s)
England > West Midlands

The table below provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in the West Midlands requiring Kubernetes skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the annual salaries offered in vacancies that cited Kubernetes over the 6 months leading up to 26 July 2024, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
26 Jul 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 139 102 62
Rank change year-on-year -37 -40 -8
Permanent jobs citing Kubernetes 90 131 390
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the West Midlands 1.29% 2.58% 4.47%
As % of the Systems Management category 19.52% 25.74% 32.53%
Number of salaries quoted 83 112 312
10th Percentile £46,250 £50,125 £46,250
25th Percentile £52,500 £55,000 £52,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £70,000 £70,000
Median % change year-on-year -14.29% - +12.00%
75th Percentile £84,919 £83,750 £85,000
90th Percentile £88,750 £99,750 £87,375
England median annual salary £77,500 £77,500 £77,500
% change year-on-year - - +10.71%

All Systems Management Skills
West Midlands

Kubernetes falls under the Systems Management category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent job vacancies requiring systems management skills in the West Midlands.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for systems management skills 461 509 1,199
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the West Midlands 6.59% 10.03% 13.73%
Number of salaries quoted 321 350 725
10th Percentile £27,500 £30,342 £35,344
25th Percentile £40,000 £40,688 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £57,500 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -4.35% +4.55% -4.35%
75th Percentile £68,000 £75,000 £75,000
90th Percentile £81,250 £86,250 £85,000
England median annual salary £62,783 £67,500 £70,000
% change year-on-year -6.99% -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 26 July 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 26 July 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 -49 38 £79,842 +12.06% 11
Staffordshire -17 9 £67,500 +12.50% 2
Warwickshire +13 8 £65,000 +8.33% 2
Worcestershire -25 7 £55,000 -8.33% 1
Coventry +20 2 £59,250 +4.41%
Solihull +4 1 £45,000 -41.94%
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 (6.67%) IIS
2 1 (1.11%) Apache
2 1 (1.11%) Apache Airflow
2 1 (1.11%) Apache Spark
Business Applications
1 2 (2.22%) Oracle EBS
Cloud Services
1 51 (56.67%) Azure
2 33 (36.67%) AWS
3 27 (30.00%) Azure DevOps
4 24 (26.67%) SaaS
5 17 (18.89%) GitHub
6 16 (17.78%) GitHub Actions
7 15 (16.67%) IaaS
7 15 (16.67%) PaaS
8 13 (14.44%) Microsoft 365
9 9 (10.00%) Cloud Computing
10 7 (7.78%) Entra ID
11 5 (5.56%) GCP
12 4 (4.44%) Amazon S3
12 4 (4.44%) AWS Lambda
12 4 (4.44%) Serverless
13 3 (3.33%) Amazon EC2
13 3 (3.33%) Amazon EKS
13 3 (3.33%) Azure Service Bus
14 2 (2.22%) Azure AKS
14 2 (2.22%) Google Kubernetes Engine
Communications & Networking
1 3 (3.33%) SD-WAN
1 3 (3.33%) WAN
2 1 (1.11%) 4G
2 1 (1.11%) 5G
2 1 (1.11%) Software-Defined Networking
Database & Business Intelligence
1 10 (11.11%) NoSQL
2 8 (8.89%) SQL Server
3 7 (7.78%) PostgreSQL
3 7 (7.78%) Relational Database
4 4 (4.44%) Elasticsearch
5 1 (1.11%) Amazon RDS
5 1 (1.11%) Amazon Redshift
5 1 (1.11%) BigQuery
5 1 (1.11%) DynamoDB
5 1 (1.11%) Electronic Patient Records
5 1 (1.11%) MySQL
Development Applications
1 15 (16.67%) SonarQube
2 8 (8.89%) Git
3 6 (6.67%) GitLab
3 6 (6.67%) Octopus Deploy
3 6 (6.67%) TeamCity
4 5 (5.56%) Postman
5 2 (2.22%) Fiddler
6 1 (1.11%) GCC
6 1 (1.11%) Jenkins
General
1 12 (13.33%) Finance
2 8 (8.89%) Public Sector
2 8 (8.89%) Social Skills
3 7 (7.78%) Automotive
3 7 (7.78%) Retail
4 4 (4.44%) Organisational Skills
4 4 (4.44%) Police
5 2 (2.22%) Manufacturing
5 2 (2.22%) Marketing
6 1 (1.11%) Analytical Skills
6 1 (1.11%) Tech for Good
6 1 (1.11%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 29 (32.22%) Senior
2 25 (27.78%) Developer
3 16 (17.78%) Lead
4 14 (15.56%) DevOps Engineer
5 13 (14.44%) Senior Developer
6 12 (13.33%) Software Engineer
7 10 (11.11%) Azure Engineer
8 7 (7.78%) Identity and Access Management Engineer
8 7 (7.78%) Identity Management Engineer
8 7 (7.78%) Lead DevOps
9 6 (6.67%) C# Software Engineer
9 6 (6.67%) Machine Learning Engineer
10 5 (5.56%) .NET Developer
10 5 (5.56%) Azure DevOps Engineer
10 5 (5.56%) Cloud Infrastructure Manager
10 5 (5.56%) Infrastructure Manager
10 5 (5.56%) Lead Developer
10 5 (5.56%) Lead DevOps Engineer
10 5 (5.56%) Senior .NET Developer
10 5 (5.56%) Senior Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 20 (22.22%) .NET
2 18 (20.00%) React
3 15 (16.67%) ARM Templates
3 15 (16.67%) Azure Blueprints
4 13 (14.44%) REST
4 13 (14.44%) Web Services
5 12 (13.33%) AngularJS
6 10 (11.11%) HTML
6 10 (11.11%) Twitter Bootstrap
7 9 (10.00%) CSS
7 9 (10.00%) Entity Framework
7 9 (10.00%) Node.js
8 8 (8.89%) ASP.NET
9 7 (7.78%) Vue
10 6 (6.67%) .NET Core
10 6 (6.67%) jQuery
10 6 (6.67%) WinForms
10 6 (6.67%) WPF
11 4 (4.44%) Kafka
11 4 (4.44%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 18 (20.00%) Management Information System
2 15 (16.67%) Onboarding
3 13 (14.44%) Cloud Native
4 7 (7.78%) PKI
4 7 (7.78%) Product Ownership
5 6 (6.67%) Data Centre
6 4 (4.44%) Team-Oriented Environment
7 3 (3.33%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
8 2 (2.22%) Smartphone
9 1 (1.11%) Distributed Computing
9 1 (1.11%) Enterprise Cloud
9 1 (1.11%) Enterprise Software
9 1 (1.11%) Private Cloud
9 1 (1.11%) Self-Motivation
9 1 (1.11%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 17 (18.89%) Windows
2 7 (7.78%) Windows Server
3 4 (4.44%) VMS
4 3 (3.33%) Linux
5 1 (1.11%) CentOS
5 1 (1.11%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 1 (1.11%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 51 (56.67%) DevOps
2 36 (40.00%) Software Engineering
3 31 (34.44%) Containerisation
4 27 (30.00%) Mentoring
5 21 (23.33%) Release Management
6 20 (22.22%) DevSecOps
6 20 (22.22%) Test Automation
7 19 (21.11%) CI/CD
7 19 (21.11%) Functional Testing
7 19 (21.11%) Non-Functional Testing
8 16 (17.78%) Cybersecurity
8 16 (17.78%) Project Delivery
9 15 (16.67%) Continuous Delivery
9 15 (16.67%) Deployment Automation
9 15 (16.67%) Dynamic Application Security Testing
9 15 (16.67%) Microservices
9 15 (16.67%) Performance Analysis
9 15 (16.67%) Project Management
9 15 (16.67%) Static Application Security Testing
10 12 (13.33%) ITIL
Programming Languages
1 27 (30.00%) C#
2 25 (27.78%) JavaScript
3 18 (20.00%) SQL
4 16 (17.78%) Python
4 16 (17.78%) TypeScript
5 7 (7.78%) Java
6 5 (5.56%) Go
6 5 (5.56%) PowerShell
7 4 (4.44%) PHP
7 4 (4.44%) VB
8 2 (2.22%) PL/SQL
9 1 (1.11%) Bash
Qualifications
1 21 (23.33%) Security Cleared
2 15 (16.67%) BPSS Clearance
3 9 (10.00%) Degree
4 7 (7.78%) Azure Certification
5 6 (6.67%) SC Cleared
6 5 (5.56%) DV Cleared
7 3 (3.33%) (ISC)2 CCSP
7 3 (3.33%) AWS Certification
7 3 (3.33%) CCSK
7 3 (3.33%) CCSP
7 3 (3.33%) Cisco Certification
7 3 (3.33%) CISM
7 3 (3.33%) CISSP
8 1 (1.11%) Computer Science Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 15 (16.67%) NCSC
2 10 (11.11%) QA
3 3 (3.33%) NIST
4 2 (2.22%) SLA
System Software
1 70 (77.78%) Docker
2 7 (7.78%) Active Directory
2 7 (7.78%) Hyper-V
2 7 (7.78%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 33 (36.67%) Terraform
2 17 (18.89%) Ansible
3 10 (11.11%) Single Sign-On
4 1 (1.11%) Grafana
Vendors
1 22 (24.44%) Microsoft
2 7 (7.78%) VMware
3 3 (3.33%) Google
3 3 (3.33%) Oracle
4 2 (2.22%) IFS
4 2 (2.22%) PeopleSoft
4 2 (2.22%) Workday