Kubernetes Jobs in the North West

Kubernetes (k8s)
England > North West

The following table provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in the North West 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 14 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
14 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 77 58 28
Rank change year-on-year -19 -30 +9
Permanent jobs citing Kubernetes 284 446 820
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the North West 2.88% 5.71% 8.67%
As % of the Systems Management category 41.22% 43.18% 53.56%
Number of salaries quoted 181 286 488
10th Percentile £47,500 £48,750 £42,500
25th Percentile £52,500 £55,125 £52,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £62,500 £70,000 £67,350
Median % change year-on-year -10.71% +3.93% +12.25%
75th Percentile £77,500 £81,250 £85,000
90th Percentile £85,000 £90,000 £90,000
England median annual salary £77,500 £77,500 £77,500
% change year-on-year - - +10.71%

All Systems Management Skills
North West

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 North West with a requirement for systems management skills.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for systems management skills 689 1,033 1,531
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the North West 6.99% 13.24% 16.19%
Number of salaries quoted 526 677 935
10th Percentile £29,250 £33,650 £32,500
25th Percentile £40,000 £45,000 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,500 £59,526 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -3.40% -0.79% +11.11%
75th Percentile £71,250 £77,500 £77,500
90th Percentile £80,000 £86,250 £85,950
England median annual salary £62,125 £67,500 £70,000
% change year-on-year -7.96% -3.57% +7.69%

Kubernetes
Job Vacancy Trend in the North West

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

Job vacancy trend for Kubernetes in the North West

Kubernetes
Salary Trend in the North West

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

Salary trend for Kubernetes in the North West

Kubernetes
Salary Histogram in the North West

Salary distribution for jobs citing Kubernetes in the North West over the 6 months to 14 May 2024.

Salary histogram for Kubernetes in the North West

Kubernetes
Job Locations in the North West

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Kubernetes within the North West region over the 6 months to 14 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
Manchester -12 218 £65,000 -7.14% 52
Cheshire +1 33 £52,500 -18.29% 6
Merseyside -15 16 £56,250 -31.82% 1
Lancashire -20 12 £65,000 +18.18% 6
Cumbria -3 4 £65,000 -
Kubernetes
England

Kubernetes
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the North West 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 26 (9.15%) Apache
2 21 (7.39%) Apache Spark
3 3 (1.06%) Apache Airflow
4 1 (0.35%) Jetty
4 1 (0.35%) nginx
4 1 (0.35%) OpenStack
4 1 (0.35%) WordPress
Business Applications
1 1 (0.35%) Shopify
Cloud Services
1 179 (63.03%) AWS
2 130 (45.77%) Azure
3 56 (19.72%) Amazon EKS
4 50 (17.61%) Amazon S3
5 46 (16.20%) GCP
6 37 (13.03%) OCI
7 36 (12.68%) Amazon ECR
7 36 (12.68%) IBM Cloud
7 36 (12.68%) Route 53
8 31 (10.92%) GitHub
9 29 (10.21%) Serverless
10 27 (9.51%) Azure DevOps
11 20 (7.04%) AWS CloudFormation
12 18 (6.34%) AWS Lambda
12 18 (6.34%) OpenShift
12 18 (6.34%) SaaS
13 10 (3.52%) GitHub Actions
13 10 (3.52%) Google Kubernetes Engine
14 8 (2.82%) Amazon EC2
14 8 (2.82%) Azure AKS
Communications & Networking
1 21 (7.39%) Firewall
2 17 (5.99%) WAN
3 16 (5.63%) SD-WAN
4 11 (3.87%) AMQP
4 11 (3.87%) Internet
4 11 (3.87%) VPN
5 10 (3.52%) IPsec
5 10 (3.52%) SNMP
6 6 (2.11%) HTTP
7 5 (1.76%) DNS
8 4 (1.41%) Network Security
9 2 (0.70%) MQTT
9 2 (0.70%) TCP/IP
10 1 (0.35%) Asterisk PBX
10 1 (0.35%) IMAP
10 1 (0.35%) InfiniBand
10 1 (0.35%) LAN
10 1 (0.35%) SMTP
10 1 (0.35%) VoIP
10 1 (0.35%) VSAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 40 (14.08%) Amazon RDS
2 30 (10.56%) MySQL
3 21 (7.39%) MongoDB
4 18 (6.34%) Elasticsearch
5 16 (5.63%) PostgreSQL
5 16 (5.63%) SQL Server
6 14 (4.93%) Big Data
7 12 (4.23%) NoSQL
8 11 (3.87%) Cloudera CDH
8 11 (3.87%) Hadoop
9 6 (2.11%) Relational Database
10 4 (1.41%) BigQuery
10 4 (1.41%) Flink
11 3 (1.06%) Power BI
12 2 (0.70%) DocumentDB
12 2 (0.70%) RDBMS
13 1 (0.35%) Amazon Aurora
13 1 (0.35%) Azure SQL Database
13 1 (0.35%) CockroachDB
13 1 (0.35%) DynamoDB
Development Applications
1 46 (16.20%) Jenkins
2 31 (10.92%) JIRA
3 30 (10.56%) Git
4 23 (8.10%) GitLab
5 7 (2.46%) Gradle
5 7 (2.46%) Spinnaker
6 5 (1.76%) Cypress.io
6 5 (1.76%) Team Foundation Server
7 4 (1.41%) Cucumber
7 4 (1.41%) Selenium
8 3 (1.06%) git-flow
8 3 (1.06%) MSBuild
8 3 (1.06%) Octopus Deploy
8 3 (1.06%) Rational DOORS
8 3 (1.06%) Subversion
8 3 (1.06%) TeamCity
8 3 (1.06%) Visual Studio Team System
9 2 (0.70%) Maven
10 1 (0.35%) Capybara
10 1 (0.35%) Jasmine
General
1 46 (16.20%) Public Sector
2 43 (15.14%) Inclusion and Diversity
3 33 (11.62%) Finance
4 32 (11.27%) Retail
5 28 (9.86%) Aerospace
6 17 (5.99%) Social Skills
7 13 (4.58%) Banking
8 12 (4.23%) Analytical Skills
9 4 (1.41%) Marketing
9 4 (1.41%) Publishing
9 4 (1.41%) Tech for Good
9 4 (1.41%) Telecoms
10 3 (1.06%) Law
11 2 (0.70%) Games
11 2 (0.70%) Health Technology
11 2 (0.70%) Legal
12 1 (0.35%) Automotive
12 1 (0.35%) Back Office
12 1 (0.35%) Documentation Skills
12 1 (0.35%) Investment Banking
Job Titles
1 97 (34.15%) Senior
2 84 (29.58%) DevOps Engineer
3 66 (23.24%) Developer
4 48 (16.90%) Software Engineer
5 42 (14.79%) Senior DevOps
5 42 (14.79%) Senior DevOps Engineer
6 31 (10.92%) Lead
7 20 (7.04%) Senior Developer
8 19 (6.69%) Architect
8 19 (6.69%) Consultant
9 16 (5.63%) Software Developer
10 15 (5.28%) Security Architect
11 14 (4.93%) AWS Engineer
11 14 (4.93%) Cloud Engineer
12 13 (4.58%) Azure Engineer
13 12 (4.23%) .NET Developer
13 12 (4.23%) DV Cleared Software Engineer
14 11 (3.87%) C# Developer
14 11 (3.87%) Full Stack Developer
15 10 (3.52%) NetApp Consultant
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 63 (22.18%) React
2 44 (15.49%) Node.js
3 32 (11.27%) RabbitMQ
4 31 (10.92%) .NET
4 31 (10.92%) Spring
5 29 (10.21%) AngularJS
6 25 (8.80%) REST
7 23 (8.10%) Spring Boot
8 17 (5.99%) Kafka
9 15 (5.28%) CSS
10 14 (4.93%) .NET Core
10 14 (4.93%) gRPC
10 14 (4.93%) Vue
11 13 (4.58%) Swagger
12 11 (3.87%) HTML
12 11 (3.87%) Material-UI
12 11 (3.87%) OpenAPI
12 11 (3.87%) RESTful
13 10 (3.52%) YAML
14 8 (2.82%) ASP.NET
Miscellaneous
1 41 (14.44%) Blockchain
2 37 (13.03%) Hybrid Cloud
3 36 (12.68%) e-Learning
4 19 (6.69%) Cloud Native
4 19 (6.69%) Greenfield Project
5 18 (6.34%) Management Information System
6 15 (5.28%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
7 12 (4.23%) Product Ownership
8 11 (3.87%) Data Centre
9 7 (2.46%) Private Cloud
10 5 (1.76%) NFT
10 5 (1.76%) Onboarding
10 5 (1.76%) Web3
11 4 (1.41%) Mobile App
11 4 (1.41%) Public Cloud
12 3 (1.06%) Algorithms
12 3 (1.06%) Device Driver
12 3 (1.06%) Legacy Systems
13 2 (0.70%) Data Protection Act
13 2 (0.70%) Data Structures
Operating Systems
1 72 (25.35%) Linux
2 19 (6.69%) Windows
3 15 (5.28%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 12 (4.23%) CentOS
4 12 (4.23%) Ubuntu
5 11 (3.87%) Debian
6 10 (3.52%) Data ONTAP
6 10 (3.52%) Unix
7 7 (2.46%) Android
8 5 (1.76%) Apple iOS
9 3 (1.06%) Embedded Linux
10 2 (0.70%) Windows Server
11 1 (0.35%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 164 (57.75%) Agile
2 143 (50.35%) DevOps
3 124 (43.66%) CI/CD
4 84 (29.58%) Mentoring
5 73 (25.70%) Containerisation
6 72 (25.35%) Software Engineering
7 57 (20.07%) Coaching
8 56 (19.72%) Infrastructure as Code
9 52 (18.31%) Microservices
10 42 (14.79%) Artificial Intelligence
10 42 (14.79%) Observability
11 40 (14.08%) Test Automation
12 38 (13.38%) Scrum
12 38 (13.38%) TDD
13 36 (12.68%) Actionable Insight
13 36 (12.68%) Kanban
13 36 (12.68%) Secrets Management
14 35 (12.32%) Collaborative Working
14 35 (12.32%) Continuous Integration
15 32 (11.27%) Problem-Solving
Programming Languages
1 75 (26.41%) Java
2 66 (23.24%) Python
3 59 (20.77%) JavaScript
4 37 (13.03%) C#
5 24 (8.45%) PowerShell
6 23 (8.10%) TypeScript
7 19 (6.69%) SQL
8 17 (5.99%) Go
9 14 (4.93%) Bash
9 14 (4.93%) PHP
10 12 (4.23%) Ruby
11 9 (3.17%) Perl
12 6 (2.11%) C++
13 4 (1.41%) C
14 1 (0.35%) MATLAB
14 1 (0.35%) Scala
14 1 (0.35%) Shell Script
14 1 (0.35%) T-SQL
14 1 (0.35%) XAML
Qualifications
1 37 (13.03%) Security Cleared
2 30 (10.56%) DV Cleared
3 24 (8.45%) AWS Certification
4 19 (6.69%) Azure Certification
5 15 (5.28%) (ISC)2 CCSP
5 15 (5.28%) CCSK
5 15 (5.28%) CCSP
5 15 (5.28%) Cisco Certification
5 15 (5.28%) CISM
5 15 (5.28%) CISSP
5 15 (5.28%) Degree
5 15 (5.28%) SC Cleared
6 13 (4.58%) Microsoft Certification
7 3 (1.06%) PhD
8 2 (0.70%) Computer Science Degree
9 1 (0.35%) BPSS Clearance
9 1 (0.35%) Master's Degree
9 1 (0.35%) PMI Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 16 (5.63%) NIST
2 7 (2.46%) QA
3 6 (2.11%) Accessibility
4 1 (0.35%) SLA
System Software
1 161 (56.69%) Docker
2 12 (4.23%) VMware Infrastructure
3 4 (1.41%) Hyper-V
4 3 (1.06%) Embedded Firmware
4 3 (1.06%) Firmware
5 2 (0.70%) Active Directory
6 1 (0.35%) Dovecot
6 1 (0.35%) Lustre
6 1 (0.35%) Postfix
6 1 (0.35%) Slurm Workload Manager
6 1 (0.35%) Virtual Machines
6 1 (0.35%) VMware ESXi
Systems Management
1 148 (52.11%) Terraform
2 65 (22.89%) Ansible
3 49 (17.25%) Prometheus
4 21 (7.39%) Puppet
5 16 (5.63%) Single Sign-On
6 10 (3.52%) Progress Chef
6 10 (3.52%) vCenter Server
7 3 (1.06%) Grafana
7 3 (1.06%) Podman
8 1 (0.35%) Icinga
8 1 (0.35%) Kiali
8 1 (0.35%) Kibana
8 1 (0.35%) Proxmox
Vendors
1 60 (21.13%) Red Hat
2 37 (13.03%) IBM
3 36 (12.68%) Dynatrace
4 29 (10.21%) Microsoft
5 28 (9.86%) Google
6 13 (4.58%) VMware
7 12 (4.23%) Oracle
8 11 (3.87%) SaltStack
9 10 (3.52%) NetApp
9 10 (3.52%) Palo Alto
9 10 (3.52%) SolidFire
10 8 (2.82%) Facebook
11 7 (2.46%) Confluent
12 3 (1.06%) Atlassian
12 3 (1.06%) LogicMonitor
12 3 (1.06%) PagerDuty
12 3 (1.06%) Veeam
13 1 (0.35%) Cisco
13 1 (0.35%) Fortinet
13 1 (0.35%) NVIDIA