Kubernetes Jobs in the North West

Kubernetes (k8s)
England > North West

The table below provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in the North West 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 10 June 2024, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
10 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 86 53 27
Rank change year-on-year -33 -26 +7
Permanent jobs citing Kubernetes 283 446 834
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the North West 2.51% 6.12% 8.48%
As % of the Systems Management category 40.26% 42.72% 51.01%
Number of salaries quoted 169 304 478
10th Percentile £45,000 £50,000 £42,500
25th Percentile £51,250 £56,250 £52,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £61,206 £70,000 £67,350
Median % change year-on-year -12.56% +3.93% +12.25%
75th Percentile £75,000 £80,313 £85,000
90th Percentile £85,000 £88,375 £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 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 North West.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for systems management skills 703 1,044 1,635
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the North West 6.23% 14.33% 16.63%
Number of salaries quoted 515 681 927
10th Percentile £29,000 £33,750 £31,250
25th Percentile £39,720 £46,250 £41,575
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £60,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -8.33% - +9.78%
75th Percentile £70,000 £77,500 £77,500
90th Percentile £80,000 £86,250 £85,000
England median annual salary £62,500 £67,500 £70,000
% change year-on-year -7.41% -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 10 June 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 10 June 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 -28 215 £63,500 -9.29% 50
Cheshire +6 35 £52,500 -41.67% 2
Merseyside -15 16 £55,000 -33.33% 2
Lancashire -21 12 £65,000 +18.18% 7
Cumbria - 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 27 (9.54%) Apache
2 17 (6.01%) Apache Spark
3 3 (1.06%) Apache Airflow
4 2 (0.71%) Confluence
4 2 (0.71%) nginx
4 2 (0.71%) OpenStack
5 1 (0.35%) Jetty
5 1 (0.35%) WildFly
5 1 (0.35%) WordPress
Business Applications
1 1 (0.35%) Shopify
Cloud Services
1 179 (63.25%) AWS
2 128 (45.23%) Azure
3 55 (19.43%) Amazon EKS
4 48 (16.96%) Amazon S3
5 47 (16.61%) GCP
6 39 (13.78%) OCI
7 36 (12.72%) Amazon ECR
7 36 (12.72%) IBM Cloud
7 36 (12.72%) Route 53
8 30 (10.60%) Serverless
9 27 (9.54%) Azure DevOps
10 26 (9.19%) GitHub
11 21 (7.42%) AWS CloudFormation
12 19 (6.71%) SaaS
13 16 (5.65%) AWS Lambda
14 14 (4.95%) OpenShift
15 10 (3.53%) Azure AKS
15 10 (3.53%) GitHub Actions
16 6 (2.12%) Google Kubernetes Engine
16 6 (2.12%) PaaS
Communications & Networking
1 18 (6.36%) Firewall
2 17 (6.01%) WAN
3 16 (5.65%) SD-WAN
4 11 (3.89%) AMQP
4 11 (3.89%) VPN
5 10 (3.53%) Internet
5 10 (3.53%) IPsec
5 10 (3.53%) SNMP
6 6 (2.12%) DNS
6 6 (2.12%) HTTP
7 5 (1.77%) Network Security
8 4 (1.41%) MQTT
9 1 (0.35%) Asterisk PBX
9 1 (0.35%) IMAP
9 1 (0.35%) InfiniBand
9 1 (0.35%) SAN
9 1 (0.35%) SMTP
9 1 (0.35%) Software-Defined Networking
9 1 (0.35%) TCP/IP
9 1 (0.35%) VSAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 37 (13.07%) Amazon RDS
2 27 (9.54%) MySQL
3 17 (6.01%) Elasticsearch
3 17 (6.01%) MongoDB
3 17 (6.01%) SQL Server
4 16 (5.65%) PostgreSQL
5 15 (5.30%) NoSQL
6 14 (4.95%) Big Data
7 11 (3.89%) Cloudera CDH
7 11 (3.89%) Hadoop
8 10 (3.53%) Relational Database
9 4 (1.41%) BigQuery
9 4 (1.41%) DocumentDB
9 4 (1.41%) Flink
10 3 (1.06%) Power BI
11 2 (0.71%) DynamoDB
11 2 (0.71%) RDBMS
12 1 (0.35%) Azure SQL Database
12 1 (0.35%) CockroachDB
12 1 (0.35%) Redis
Development Applications
1 36 (12.72%) Jenkins
1 36 (12.72%) JIRA
2 25 (8.83%) Git
2 25 (8.83%) GitLab
3 7 (2.47%) Gradle
4 5 (1.77%) Maven
4 5 (1.77%) Team Foundation Server
5 3 (1.06%) git-flow
5 3 (1.06%) MSBuild
5 3 (1.06%) Octopus Deploy
5 3 (1.06%) Rational DOORS
5 3 (1.06%) SonarQube
5 3 (1.06%) Spinnaker
5 3 (1.06%) Subversion
5 3 (1.06%) TeamCity
5 3 (1.06%) Visual Studio Team System
6 2 (0.71%) Bitbucket
6 2 (0.71%) Terragrunt
7 1 (0.35%) Capybara
7 1 (0.35%) Jasmine
General
1 47 (16.61%) Public Sector
2 42 (14.84%) Inclusion and Diversity
3 28 (9.89%) Aerospace
3 28 (9.89%) Finance
4 26 (9.19%) Retail
5 21 (7.42%) Social Skills
6 15 (5.30%) Analytical Skills
7 7 (2.47%) Banking
8 6 (2.12%) Telecoms
9 4 (1.41%) Marketing
9 4 (1.41%) Publishing
9 4 (1.41%) Tech for Good
10 3 (1.06%) Automotive
10 3 (1.06%) Games
10 3 (1.06%) Law
11 2 (0.71%) Documentation Skills
11 2 (0.71%) Health Technology
11 2 (0.71%) Legal
12 1 (0.35%) Back Office
12 1 (0.35%) Investment Banking
Job Titles
1 91 (32.16%) Senior
2 85 (30.04%) DevOps Engineer
3 67 (23.67%) Developer
4 46 (16.25%) Software Engineer
5 41 (14.49%) Senior DevOps
5 41 (14.49%) Senior DevOps Engineer
6 29 (10.25%) Lead
7 19 (6.71%) Architect
7 19 (6.71%) Consultant
7 19 (6.71%) Senior Developer
8 17 (6.01%) Software Developer
9 15 (5.30%) AWS Engineer
9 15 (5.30%) Security Architect
10 14 (4.95%) Azure Engineer
11 12 (4.24%) C# Developer
11 12 (4.24%) DV Cleared Software Engineer
12 11 (3.89%) .NET Developer
13 10 (3.53%) Cloud Engineer
13 10 (3.53%) Java Developer
13 10 (3.53%) NetApp Consultant
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 63 (22.26%) React
2 47 (16.61%) Node.js
3 37 (13.07%) Spring
4 33 (11.66%) RabbitMQ
5 29 (10.25%) .NET
5 29 (10.25%) AngularJS
6 27 (9.54%) Spring Boot
7 26 (9.19%) REST
8 16 (5.65%) Kafka
9 15 (5.30%) CSS
10 14 (4.95%) .NET Core
10 14 (4.95%) gRPC
11 13 (4.59%) RESTful
11 13 (4.59%) Swagger
11 13 (4.59%) Vue
12 11 (3.89%) HTML
12 11 (3.89%) Material-UI
12 11 (3.89%) OpenAPI
13 10 (3.53%) YAML
14 8 (2.83%) ASP.NET
Miscellaneous
1 42 (14.84%) Blockchain
2 37 (13.07%) Hybrid Cloud
3 36 (12.72%) e-Learning
4 24 (8.48%) Cloud Native
5 21 (7.42%) Greenfield Project
6 18 (6.36%) Management Information System
7 15 (5.30%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
8 12 (4.24%) Product Ownership
9 11 (3.89%) Data Centre
10 8 (2.83%) Private Cloud
11 7 (2.47%) Onboarding
12 6 (2.12%) NFT
12 6 (2.12%) Web3
13 5 (1.77%) Mobile App
14 4 (1.41%) Legacy Systems
15 3 (1.06%) Algorithms
15 3 (1.06%) Device Driver
16 2 (0.71%) Data Protection Act
16 2 (0.71%) Data Structures
16 2 (0.71%) Public Cloud
Operating Systems
1 78 (27.56%) Linux
2 20 (7.07%) Windows
3 15 (5.30%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 13 (4.59%) CentOS
5 12 (4.24%) Ubuntu
6 11 (3.89%) Debian
7 10 (3.53%) Data ONTAP
7 10 (3.53%) Unix
8 7 (2.47%) Android
9 5 (1.77%) Apple iOS
10 3 (1.06%) Embedded Linux
10 3 (1.06%) Windows Server
11 1 (0.35%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 159 (56.18%) Agile
2 138 (48.76%) DevOps
3 122 (43.11%) CI/CD
4 84 (29.68%) Mentoring
5 71 (25.09%) Software Engineering
6 68 (24.03%) Containerisation
7 57 (20.14%) Coaching
8 56 (19.79%) Infrastructure as Code
9 52 (18.37%) Microservices
10 44 (15.55%) Observability
10 44 (15.55%) Test Automation
11 42 (14.84%) Artificial Intelligence
11 42 (14.84%) Scrum
12 41 (14.49%) TDD
13 38 (13.43%) Kanban
14 36 (12.72%) Actionable Insight
14 36 (12.72%) Secrets Management
15 35 (12.37%) Collaborative Working
15 35 (12.37%) Problem-Solving
16 32 (11.31%) Continuous Integration
Programming Languages
1 71 (25.09%) Java
2 69 (24.38%) Python
3 60 (21.20%) JavaScript
4 34 (12.01%) C#
5 27 (9.54%) PowerShell
6 24 (8.48%) TypeScript
7 22 (7.77%) Go
8 16 (5.65%) Bash
8 16 (5.65%) SQL
9 13 (4.59%) PHP
9 13 (4.59%) Ruby
10 12 (4.24%) Perl
11 5 (1.77%) C
12 3 (1.06%) C++
13 1 (0.35%) Dart
13 1 (0.35%) MATLAB
13 1 (0.35%) Rust
13 1 (0.35%) Scala
13 1 (0.35%) T-SQL
13 1 (0.35%) XAML
Qualifications
1 37 (13.07%) Security Cleared
2 29 (10.25%) DV Cleared
3 26 (9.19%) AWS Certification
4 22 (7.77%) Azure Certification
5 18 (6.36%) SC Cleared
6 17 (6.01%) Degree
7 16 (5.65%) Cisco Certification
8 15 (5.30%) (ISC)2 CCSP
8 15 (5.30%) CCSK
8 15 (5.30%) CCSP
8 15 (5.30%) CISM
8 15 (5.30%) CISSP
8 15 (5.30%) Microsoft Certification
9 4 (1.41%) Computer Science Degree
10 3 (1.06%) PhD
11 2 (0.71%) Master's Degree
12 1 (0.35%) CCNA
12 1 (0.35%) CCNP
12 1 (0.35%) PMI Certification
12 1 (0.35%) RHCE
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 18 (6.36%) NIST
2 7 (2.47%) Accessibility
2 7 (2.47%) QA
3 2 (0.71%) Cyber Essentials
3 2 (0.71%) PCI DSS
4 1 (0.35%) SLA
System Software
1 158 (55.83%) Docker
2 13 (4.59%) VMware Infrastructure
3 4 (1.41%) Hyper-V
4 3 (1.06%) Embedded Firmware
4 3 (1.06%) Firmware
5 2 (0.71%) 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 (52.30%) Terraform
2 71 (25.09%) Ansible
3 48 (16.96%) Prometheus
4 22 (7.77%) Puppet
5 16 (5.65%) Single Sign-On
6 11 (3.89%) Progress Chef
7 10 (3.53%) vCenter Server
8 3 (1.06%) Podman
9 2 (0.71%) Grafana
10 1 (0.35%) HP Fortify
10 1 (0.35%) Icinga
10 1 (0.35%) Kiali
10 1 (0.35%) Kibana
10 1 (0.35%) Nagios
10 1 (0.35%) Proxmox
Vendors
1 61 (21.55%) Red Hat
2 37 (13.07%) IBM
3 36 (12.72%) Dynatrace
4 31 (10.95%) Microsoft
5 27 (9.54%) Google
6 14 (4.95%) VMware
7 11 (3.89%) Oracle
7 11 (3.89%) SaltStack
8 10 (3.53%) NetApp
8 10 (3.53%) Palo Alto
8 10 (3.53%) SolidFire
9 9 (3.18%) Facebook
10 5 (1.77%) Atlassian
11 3 (1.06%) Confluent
11 3 (1.06%) LogicMonitor
11 3 (1.06%) PagerDuty
11 3 (1.06%) Veeam
12 2 (0.71%) Black Duck
12 2 (0.71%) ServiceNow
13 1 (0.35%) Twitter