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 19 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
19 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 68 33 22
Rank change year-on-year -35 -11 +5
Permanent jobs citing Kubernetes 3,000 6,318 14,289
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 3.47% 7.14% 10.53%
As % of the Systems Management category 35.56% 47.78% 57.93%
Number of salaries quoted 2,390 4,019 6,392
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 8,436 13,223 24,668
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 9.75% 14.94% 18.18%
Number of salaries quoted 6,531 8,362 12,497
10th Percentile £32,750 £35,400 £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 £87,500 £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 19 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 19 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 -18 1,276 £87,500 +2.94% 592
South East -17 586 £70,000 - 219
North of England -30 479 £61,206 -11.87% 123
South West -23 365 £70,576 +4.56% 92
North West -23 286 £62,500 -10.71% 71
Midlands -57 177 £60,000 -14.29% 52
Yorkshire -24 162 £60,000 -12.43% 40
West Midlands -37 106 £65,000 -7.14% 31
East of England -69 93 £85,000 +21.43% 26
East Midlands -38 71 £60,000 -11.11% 21
North East -32 31 £63,750 -6.59% 12
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 61 (2.03%) OpenStack
5 48 (1.60%) nginx
6 37 (1.23%) Confluence
7 26 (0.87%) Microsoft Exchange
8 22 (0.73%) JBoss
8 22 (0.73%) Jupyter
9 16 (0.53%) Tomcat
10 15 (0.50%) IIS
11 12 (0.40%) Drupal
11 12 (0.40%) SharePoint
12 11 (0.37%) Red Hat Fuse
13 8 (0.27%) CMS
13 8 (0.27%) WebSphere
14 7 (0.23%) WebLogic
14 7 (0.23%) WildFly
15 5 (0.17%) WordPress
16 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 1,623 (54.10%) AWS
2 1,250 (41.67%) Azure
3 400 (13.33%) GCP
4 339 (11.30%) Azure DevOps
5 308 (10.27%) Serverless
6 266 (8.87%) Amazon S3
7 264 (8.80%) Amazon EKS
8 243 (8.10%) SaaS
9 226 (7.53%) OpenShift
10 225 (7.50%) GitHub
11 183 (6.10%) AWS CloudFormation
12 182 (6.07%) AWS Lambda
13 177 (5.90%) 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 (5.33%) Firewall
2 108 (3.60%) DNS
3 78 (2.60%) VPN
4 67 (2.23%) TCP/IP
5 65 (2.17%) HTTP
5 65 (2.17%) Internet
6 61 (2.03%) Network Security
7 58 (1.93%) DHCP
8 47 (1.57%) WAN
9 43 (1.43%) SD-WAN
10 40 (1.33%) AMQP
11 38 (1.27%) IPsec
12 34 (1.13%) SNMP
13 19 (0.63%) BGP
14 13 (0.43%) MPLS
15 11 (0.37%) Ethernet VPN
16 7 (0.23%) SSL
16 7 (0.23%) WLAN
17 6 (0.20%) Cisco ASA
18 5 (0.17%) MQTT
Database & Business Intelligence
1 297 (9.90%) NoSQL
2 268 (8.93%) PostgreSQL
3 214 (7.13%) SQL Server
4 192 (6.40%) MongoDB
5 186 (6.20%) Amazon RDS
6 158 (5.27%) MySQL
7 148 (4.93%) Big Data
8 134 (4.47%) 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
1 567 (18.90%) Jenkins
2 479 (15.97%) Git
3 219 (7.30%) GitLab
4 157 (5.23%) JIRA
5 121 (4.03%) Selenium
6 84 (2.80%) TeamCity
7 79 (2.63%) Cypress.io
8 57 (1.90%) JUnit
9 56 (1.87%) Octopus Deploy
10 50 (1.67%) Artifactory
11 47 (1.57%) CircleCI
12 45 (1.50%) Cucumber
13 42 (1.40%) Bitbucket
14 36 (1.20%) Sonatype Nexus
15 32 (1.07%) SonarQube
16 28 (0.93%) Maven
17 27 (0.90%) Team Foundation Server
18 24 (0.80%) SoapUI
19 22 (0.73%) Atlassian Bamboo
20 21 (0.70%) Subversion
General
1 608 (20.27%) Finance
2 470 (15.67%) Social Skills
3 250 (8.33%) Public Sector
4 178 (5.93%) Banking
5 138 (4.60%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 117 (3.90%) Analytical Skills
7 109 (3.63%) Aerospace
8 107 (3.57%) 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%) Telecoms
19 26 (0.87%) Presentation Skills
20 25 (0.83%) Influencing Skills
Job Titles
1 775 (25.83%) Senior
2 715 (23.83%) Developer
3 580 (19.33%) DevOps Engineer
4 390 (13.00%) Lead
5 350 (11.67%) Software Engineer
6 263 (8.77%) AWS Engineer
7 239 (7.97%) Java Developer
8 236 (7.87%) Architect
9 234 (7.80%) Senior Developer
10 187 (6.23%) 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
1 553 (18.43%) React
2 440 (14.67%) .NET
3 322 (10.73%) Kafka
4 294 (9.80%) Spring
5 282 (9.40%) Spring Boot
6 265 (8.83%) REST
7 248 (8.27%) AngularJS
8 237 (7.90%) Node.js
9 163 (5.43%) RabbitMQ
10 143 (4.77%) HTML
11 141 (4.70%) RESTful
12 135 (4.50%) CSS
13 125 (4.17%) gRPC
14 121 (4.03%) .NET Core
15 104 (3.47%) Elastic Stack
16 95 (3.17%) YAML
17 83 (2.77%) Web Services
18 78 (2.60%) ARM Templates
18 78 (2.60%) JSON
19 76 (2.53%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 231 (7.70%) 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 (25.17%) 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 1,499 (49.97%) DevOps
2 1,190 (39.67%) CI/CD
3 1,172 (39.07%) Agile
4 781 (26.03%) Containerisation
5 760 (25.33%) Software Engineering
6 682 (22.73%) Microservices
7 590 (19.67%) Infrastructure as Code
8 478 (15.93%) Problem-Solving
9 387 (12.90%) Artificial Intelligence
10 360 (12.00%) Mentoring
11 308 (10.27%) Computer Science
12 302 (10.07%) Scrum
13 277 (9.23%) Full Stack Development
14 268 (8.93%) 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 (32.90%) Python
2 943 (31.43%) Java
3 591 (19.70%) JavaScript
4 518 (17.27%) C#
5 443 (14.77%) SQL
6 359 (11.97%) TypeScript
7 308 (10.27%) Go
8 292 (9.73%) 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
1 456 (15.20%) 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 14 (0.47%) 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 1,961 (65.37%) 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 1,178 (39.27%) Terraform
2 564 (18.80%) Ansible
3 280 (9.33%) Prometheus
4 232 (7.73%) 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%) ZABBIX
Vendors
1 350 (11.67%) Microsoft
2 274 (9.13%) Red Hat
3 183 (6.10%) Google
4 169 (5.63%) 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
9 41 (1.37%) WSO2
10 37 (1.23%) SaltStack
11 35 (1.17%) NetApp
12 34 (1.13%) SolidFire
13 32 (1.07%) Atlassian
14 30 (1.00%) Cisco
15 24 (0.80%) Databricks
16 23 (0.77%) ForgeRock
17 20 (0.67%) ServiceNow
18 19 (0.63%) New Relic
19 16 (0.53%) Sitecore