Kubernetes Jobs in England

Kubernetes (k8s)
UK > England

The following table provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in England 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 17 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
17 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 69 33 22
Rank change year-on-year -36 -11 +5
Permanent jobs citing Kubernetes 2,999 6,282 14,252
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 3.47% 7.11% 10.55%
As % of the Systems Management category 35.56% 47.64% 57.88%
Number of salaries quoted 2,391 3,989 6,411
10th Percentile £50,000 £50,000 £46,250
25th Percentile £59,250 £61,180 £57,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £77,500 £77,500 £77,500
Median % change year-on-year - - +10.71%
75th Percentile £95,000 £97,500 £95,000
90th Percentile £115,000 £115,000 £110,000
UK median annual salary £75,000 £75,000 £75,000
% change year-on-year - - +7.14%

All Systems Management Skills
England

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 England with a requirement for systems management skills.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for systems management skills 8,434 13,186 24,622
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 9.76% 14.93% 18.23%
Number of salaries quoted 6,533 8,318 12,534
10th Percentile £32,750 £35,588 £37,500
25th Percentile £45,000 £48,091 £48,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £62,500 £67,500 £70,000
Median % change year-on-year -7.41% -3.57% +7.69%
75th Percentile £83,750 £88,283 £87,500
90th Percentile £101,250 £105,000 £105,000
UK median annual salary £60,500 £67,500 £70,000
% change year-on-year -10.37% -3.57% +12.00%

Kubernetes
Job Vacancy Trend in England

Job postings citing Kubernetes as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in England.

Job vacancy trend for Kubernetes in England

Kubernetes
Salary Trend in England

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing Kubernetes in England.

Salary trend for Kubernetes in England

Kubernetes
Salary Histogram in England

Salary distribution for jobs citing Kubernetes in England over the 6 months to 17 May 2024.

Salary histogram for Kubernetes in England

Kubernetes
Job Locations in England

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Kubernetes within the England region over the 6 months to 17 May 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
London -17 1,275 £87,500 +2.94% 574
South East -16 585 £70,000 - 218
North of England -30 478 £61,206 -11.87% 105
South West -23 366 £70,576 +4.56% 78
North West -25 285 £62,500 -10.00% 57
Midlands -56 177 £60,000 -14.29% 51
Yorkshire -28 162 £60,000 -12.43% 37
West Midlands -38 106 £65,000 -7.14% 29
East of England -68 93 £85,000 +21.43% 27
East Midlands -35 71 £60,000 -14.29% 22
North East -34 31 £63,750 -6.59% 11
Kubernetes
UK

Kubernetes
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in England 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
1 146 (4.87%) Apache
2 109 (3.63%) Apache Spark
3 83 (2.77%) Apache Airflow
4 60 (2.00%) OpenStack
5 48 (1.60%) nginx
6 37 (1.23%) Confluence
7 26 (0.87%) Microsoft Exchange
8 22 (0.73%) Jupyter
9 21 (0.70%) JBoss
10 16 (0.53%) Tomcat
11 15 (0.50%) IIS
12 12 (0.40%) Drupal
12 12 (0.40%) SharePoint
13 10 (0.33%) Red Hat Fuse
14 8 (0.27%) CMS
14 8 (0.27%) WebSphere
15 7 (0.23%) WebLogic
15 7 (0.23%) WildFly
16 5 (0.17%) WordPress
17 4 (0.13%) Cloud Foundry
Applications
1 11 (0.37%) Microsoft Excel
2 2 (0.067%) InDesign
2 2 (0.067%) Microsoft Office
3 1 (0.033%) Blender
Business Applications
1 7 (0.23%) Teamcenter
2 3 (0.10%) Remedy ITSM
2 3 (0.10%) SAP Business One
3 2 (0.067%) Oracle EBS
4 1 (0.033%) Payment Gateway
4 1 (0.033%) Salesforce CRM
4 1 (0.033%) SAP S/4HANA
4 1 (0.033%) Shopify
Cloud Services
1 1,621 (54.05%) AWS
2 1,250 (41.68%) Azure
3 399 (13.30%) GCP
4 339 (11.30%) Azure DevOps
5 307 (10.24%) Serverless
6 266 (8.87%) Amazon S3
7 263 (8.77%) Amazon EKS
8 243 (8.10%) SaaS
9 226 (7.54%) OpenShift
10 225 (7.50%) GitHub
11 183 (6.10%) AWS CloudFormation
12 182 (6.07%) AWS Lambda
13 176 (5.87%) Amazon ECS
14 144 (4.80%) Azure AKS
15 136 (4.53%) Amazon EC2
16 128 (4.27%) PaaS
17 98 (3.27%) IaaS
17 98 (3.27%) IBM Cloud
18 96 (3.20%) Cloud Computing
19 95 (3.17%) GitHub Actions
Communications & Networking
1 160 (5.34%) Firewall
2 108 (3.60%) DNS
3 78 (2.60%) VPN
4 67 (2.23%) TCP/IP
5 65 (2.17%) Internet
6 64 (2.13%) HTTP
7 61 (2.03%) Network Security
8 58 (1.93%) DHCP
9 47 (1.57%) WAN
10 43 (1.43%) SD-WAN
11 40 (1.33%) AMQP
12 38 (1.27%) IPsec
13 34 (1.13%) SNMP
14 19 (0.63%) BGP
15 13 (0.43%) MPLS
16 11 (0.37%) Ethernet VPN
17 7 (0.23%) SSL
17 7 (0.23%) WLAN
18 6 (0.20%) Cisco ASA
19 5 (0.17%) MQTT
Database & Business Intelligence
1 297 (9.90%) NoSQL
2 267 (8.90%) PostgreSQL
3 214 (7.14%) SQL Server
4 192 (6.40%) MongoDB
5 186 (6.20%) Amazon RDS
6 158 (5.27%) MySQL
7 149 (4.97%) Big Data
8 133 (4.43%) Relational Database
9 128 (4.27%) Elasticsearch
10 102 (3.40%) Redis
11 78 (2.60%) Data Lake
12 75 (2.50%) Hadoop
13 63 (2.10%) Amazon Redshift
14 52 (1.73%) Amazon Athena
14 52 (1.73%) BigQuery
14 52 (1.73%) Dremio
15 48 (1.60%) Apache Arrow
16 37 (1.23%) Azure SQL Database
17 29 (0.97%) Apache Cassandra
18 28 (0.93%) Data Warehouse
Development Applications
1 566 (18.87%) Jenkins
2 478 (15.94%) Git
3 219 (7.30%) GitLab
4 157 (5.24%) JIRA
5 121 (4.03%) Selenium
6 84 (2.80%) TeamCity
7 79 (2.63%) Cypress.io
8 56 (1.87%) JUnit
8 56 (1.87%) Octopus Deploy
9 50 (1.67%) Artifactory
10 47 (1.57%) CircleCI
11 45 (1.50%) Cucumber
12 42 (1.40%) Bitbucket
13 36 (1.20%) Sonatype Nexus
14 32 (1.07%) SonarQube
15 28 (0.93%) Maven
16 27 (0.90%) Team Foundation Server
17 24 (0.80%) SoapUI
18 22 (0.73%) Atlassian Bamboo
19 21 (0.70%) TestNG
General
1 609 (20.31%) Finance
2 470 (15.67%) Social Skills
3 250 (8.34%) Public Sector
4 179 (5.97%) Banking
5 138 (4.60%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 117 (3.90%) Analytical Skills
7 109 (3.63%) Aerospace
8 108 (3.60%) Retail
9 56 (1.87%) Front Office
10 54 (1.80%) Law
11 47 (1.57%) Tech for Good
12 44 (1.47%) Organisational Skills
13 37 (1.23%) Retail Banking
14 32 (1.07%) Marketing
15 30 (1.00%) Health Technology
16 29 (0.97%) Games
17 28 (0.93%) Automotive
18 27 (0.90%) Presentation Skills
18 27 (0.90%) Telecoms
19 25 (0.83%) Influencing Skills
Job Titles
1 774 (25.81%) Senior
2 714 (23.81%) Developer
3 580 (19.34%) DevOps Engineer
4 390 (13.00%) Lead
5 350 (11.67%) Software Engineer
6 263 (8.77%) AWS Engineer
7 238 (7.94%) Java Developer
8 237 (7.90%) Architect
9 234 (7.80%) Senior Developer
10 187 (6.24%) Cloud Engineer
11 156 (5.20%) AWS DevOps
11 156 (5.20%) Senior DevOps
12 155 (5.17%) Software Developer
13 153 (5.10%) Azure Engineer
14 148 (4.93%) Senior DevOps Engineer
15 140 (4.67%) AWS DevOps Engineer
16 139 (4.63%) Platform Engineer
17 120 (4.00%) Infrastructure Engineer
18 118 (3.93%) Site Reliability Engineer
19 117 (3.90%) Senior Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 552 (18.41%) React
2 440 (14.67%) .NET
3 323 (10.77%) Kafka
4 293 (9.77%) Spring
5 282 (9.40%) Spring Boot
6 264 (8.80%) REST
7 247 (8.24%) AngularJS
8 235 (7.84%) Node.js
9 163 (5.44%) RabbitMQ
10 143 (4.77%) HTML
11 140 (4.67%) RESTful
12 135 (4.50%) CSS
13 125 (4.17%) gRPC
14 121 (4.03%) .NET Core
15 103 (3.43%) Elastic Stack
16 95 (3.17%) YAML
17 82 (2.73%) Web Services
18 78 (2.60%) ARM Templates
18 78 (2.60%) JSON
19 76 (2.53%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 230 (7.67%) Distributed Systems
2 225 (7.50%) Cloud Native
3 142 (4.73%) Hybrid Cloud
4 138 (4.60%) Public Cloud
5 117 (3.90%) Blockchain
6 113 (3.77%) Data Centre
7 109 (3.63%) Greenfield Project
8 94 (3.13%) Product Ownership
9 84 (2.80%) Management Information System
10 77 (2.57%) Hedge funds
11 72 (2.40%) Clustering
12 64 (2.13%) Private Cloud
13 59 (1.97%) e-Learning
14 57 (1.90%) Algorithms
15 51 (1.70%) Client/Server
16 49 (1.63%) Linux Command Line
17 47 (1.57%) Data Structures
18 46 (1.53%) Mobile App
19 45 (1.50%) Self-Motivation
20 34 (1.13%) Legacy Code
Operating Systems
1 755 (25.18%) Linux
2 290 (9.67%) Windows
3 123 (4.10%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 105 (3.50%) CentOS
5 76 (2.53%) Debian
6 75 (2.50%) Windows Server
7 58 (1.93%) Ubuntu
8 50 (1.67%) Unix
9 41 (1.37%) Alpine Linux
10 34 (1.13%) Data ONTAP
10 34 (1.13%) Windows Server 2016
11 28 (0.93%) VMS
12 21 (0.70%) Android
13 20 (0.67%) Windows Server 2019
14 19 (0.63%) Apple iOS
15 12 (0.40%) Oracle Linux
16 11 (0.37%) Solaris
17 5 (0.17%) Embedded Linux
17 5 (0.17%) Mac OS
18 4 (0.13%) DC/OS
Processes & Methodologies
1 1,498 (49.95%) DevOps
2 1,189 (39.65%) CI/CD
3 1,172 (39.08%) Agile
4 781 (26.04%) Containerisation
5 761 (25.38%) Software Engineering
6 682 (22.74%) Microservices
7 590 (19.67%) Infrastructure as Code
8 479 (15.97%) Problem-Solving
9 387 (12.90%) Artificial Intelligence
10 360 (12.00%) Mentoring
11 308 (10.27%) Computer Science
12 301 (10.04%) Scrum
13 276 (9.20%) Full Stack Development
14 267 (8.90%) TDD
15 264 (8.80%) Continuous Integration
16 251 (8.37%) Test Automation
17 233 (7.77%) Site Reliability Engineering
18 215 (7.17%) SDLC
19 204 (6.80%) Configuration Management
20 191 (6.37%) Fintech
Programming Languages
1 987 (32.91%) Python
2 943 (31.44%) Java
3 589 (19.64%) JavaScript
4 518 (17.27%) C#
5 443 (14.77%) SQL
6 359 (11.97%) TypeScript
7 308 (10.27%) Go
8 292 (9.74%) Bash
9 290 (9.67%) PowerShell
10 108 (3.60%) PHP
11 85 (2.83%) C++
12 73 (2.43%) C
13 70 (2.33%) Ruby
13 70 (2.33%) Rust
14 64 (2.13%) Bicep
15 56 (1.87%) Kotlin
16 53 (1.77%) Shell Script
17 41 (1.37%) Perl
18 37 (1.23%) Scala
19 36 (1.20%) Groovy
Qualifications
1 455 (15.17%) Security Cleared
2 390 (13.00%) Degree
3 272 (9.07%) SC Cleared
4 224 (7.47%) Computer Science Degree
5 222 (7.40%) DV Cleared
6 152 (5.07%) Azure Certification
7 140 (4.67%) AWS Certification
8 90 (3.00%) Microsoft Certification
9 59 (1.97%) Master's Degree
10 42 (1.40%) CISSP
11 40 (1.33%) MCSA
11 40 (1.33%) MCSE
12 39 (1.30%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
13 37 (1.23%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
14 36 (1.20%) CISM
15 35 (1.17%) Cisco Certification
16 34 (1.13%) (ISC)2 CCSP
16 34 (1.13%) CCSK
16 34 (1.13%) CCSP
17 27 (0.90%) PhD
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 79 (2.63%) QA
2 51 (1.70%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 39 (1.30%) NIST
4 31 (1.03%) WCAG
5 13 (0.43%) Accessibility
6 12 (0.40%) NCSC
6 12 (0.40%) PCI DSS
7 10 (0.33%) GDPR
7 10 (0.33%) SLA
8 8 (0.27%) Cyber Essentials
9 5 (0.17%) ISO 9001
10 4 (0.13%) Data Quality
10 4 (0.13%) HIPAA
10 4 (0.13%) SOC 2
11 3 (0.10%) ISO 20022
12 2 (0.067%) ISO 9000
13 1 (0.033%) California Consumer Privacy Act
13 1 (0.033%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
13 1 (0.033%) ISO 15022
13 1 (0.033%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 1,960 (65.36%) Docker
2 135 (4.50%) VMware Infrastructure
3 95 (3.17%) Hyper-V
4 92 (3.07%) Active Directory
5 81 (2.70%) Virtual Machines
6 22 (0.73%) Virtual Desktop
7 21 (0.70%) vSphere
8 13 (0.43%) VMware ESXi
9 11 (0.37%) Ceph
10 9 (0.30%) KVM
11 6 (0.20%) Firmware
11 6 (0.20%) NFS
11 6 (0.20%) Slurm Workload Manager
11 6 (0.20%) VirtualBox
12 4 (0.13%) Embedded Firmware
13 3 (0.10%) Gluster
13 3 (0.10%) oVirt
14 2 (0.067%) QEMU
14 2 (0.067%) Varnish
14 2 (0.067%) Xen
Systems Management
1 1,177 (39.25%) Terraform
2 563 (18.77%) Ansible
3 280 (9.34%) Prometheus
4 232 (7.74%) Puppet
5 158 (5.27%) Grafana
6 95 (3.17%) Progress Chef
7 60 (2.00%) vCenter Server
8 59 (1.97%) Single Sign-On
9 38 (1.27%) Istio
10 30 (1.00%) Kibana
11 28 (0.93%) Active Directory Federation Services
12 26 (0.87%) Docker Swarm
13 24 (0.80%) Argo
14 23 (0.77%) Consul
14 23 (0.77%) Nagios
14 23 (0.77%) Packer
15 22 (0.73%) SCCM
16 20 (0.67%) Microsoft Intune
17 19 (0.63%) HAProxy
17 19 (0.63%) SCOM
Vendors
1 350 (11.67%) Microsoft
2 274 (9.14%) Red Hat
3 182 (6.07%) Google
4 169 (5.64%) VMware
5 153 (5.10%) Oracle
6 101 (3.37%) IBM
7 73 (2.43%) Dynatrace
8 43 (1.43%) Splunk
9 41 (1.37%) Palo Alto
10 40 (1.33%) WSO2
11 37 (1.23%) SaltStack
12 35 (1.17%) NetApp
13 34 (1.13%) SolidFire
14 32 (1.07%) Atlassian
15 30 (1.00%) Cisco
16 24 (0.80%) Databricks
17 23 (0.77%) ForgeRock
18 20 (0.67%) ServiceNow
19 19 (0.63%) New Relic
20 16 (0.53%) Sitecore