Kubernetes Jobs in the South East

Kubernetes (k8s)
England > South East

The following table provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in the South East 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 73 58 39
Rank change year-on-year -15 -19 -3
Permanent jobs citing Kubernetes 588 707 1,337
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the South East 3.51% 4.91% 6.71%
As % of the Systems Management category 34.47% 35.46% 49.28%
Number of salaries quoted 471 487 849
10th Percentile £50,000 £48,750 £46,250
25th Percentile £57,500 £55,000 £55,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £70,000 £70,000 £70,000
Median % change year-on-year - - +12.00%
75th Percentile £85,000 £91,250 £85,000
90th Percentile £95,000 £102,500 £95,000
England median annual salary £77,500 £77,500 £77,500
% change year-on-year - - +10.71%

All Systems Management Skills
South East

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 South East with a requirement for systems management skills.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for systems management skills 1,706 1,994 2,713
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the South East 10.18% 13.84% 13.61%
Number of salaries quoted 1,262 1,227 1,757
10th Percentile £32,500 £28,500 £32,500
25th Percentile £40,000 £40,000 £46,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £57,500 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year -4.35% -11.54% +13.04%
75th Percentile £72,500 £77,500 £82,500
90th Percentile £87,500 £95,000 £90,000
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 South East

Job postings citing Kubernetes as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the South East.

Job vacancy trend for Kubernetes in the South East

Kubernetes
Salary Trend in the South East

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing Kubernetes in the South East.

Salary trend for Kubernetes in the South East

Kubernetes
Salary Histogram in the South East

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

Salary histogram for Kubernetes in the South East

Kubernetes
Job Locations in the South East

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Kubernetes within the South East 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
Thames Valley +4 301 £75,000 -6.25% 49
Berkshire +17 255 £75,000 -16.67% 32
Hampshire -22 139 £70,000 +1.82% 25
Surrey -45 49 £80,000 - 21
Kent +12 34 £55,000 -6.38% 2
West Sussex +32 28 £65,000 +18.18% 2
Buckinghamshire -40 26 £65,000 -7.14% 12
East Sussex -16 22 £80,000 +30.61% 4
Oxfordshire -32 20 £72,500 +7.41% 5
Sussex - 2 £67,500 - 1
Kubernetes
England

Kubernetes
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the South East 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 51 (8.67%) OpenStack
2 20 (3.40%) Microsoft Exchange
3 19 (3.23%) Apache
4 10 (1.70%) Red Hat Fuse
5 9 (1.53%) JBoss
6 6 (1.02%) SharePoint
7 5 (0.85%) Confluence
7 5 (0.85%) nginx
8 2 (0.34%) Tomcat
9 1 (0.17%) Apache Spark
9 1 (0.17%) IIS
9 1 (0.17%) Kinematics
9 1 (0.17%) Oracle SOA Suite
Applications
1 1 (0.17%) Microsoft Excel
Cloud Services
1 227 (38.61%) Azure
2 219 (37.24%) AWS
3 93 (15.82%) Azure DevOps
4 77 (13.10%) Serverless
5 69 (11.73%) Amazon ECS
6 64 (10.88%) Amazon EKS
7 59 (10.03%) SaaS
8 44 (7.48%) Amazon S3
9 40 (6.80%) IBM Cloud
10 37 (6.29%) Microsoft 365
11 34 (5.78%) Amazon EC2
12 33 (5.61%) AWS Lambda
13 30 (5.10%) CloudFront
14 29 (4.93%) AWS CloudFormation
15 26 (4.42%) Cloud Computing
15 26 (4.42%) GCP
16 24 (4.08%) Entra ID
17 17 (2.89%) Amazon CloudWatch
17 17 (2.89%) Azure Monitor
18 15 (2.55%) Virtual Private Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 40 (6.80%) Firewall
2 17 (2.89%) DNS
3 14 (2.38%) DHCP
4 11 (1.87%) Network Security
5 10 (1.70%) VPN
6 8 (1.36%) Internet
7 7 (1.19%) IPsec
8 6 (1.02%) HTTP
9 5 (0.85%) BGP
9 5 (0.85%) SNMP
10 2 (0.34%) LAN
10 2 (0.34%) OSPF
10 2 (0.34%) TCP/IP
10 2 (0.34%) WAN
10 2 (0.34%) WLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 131 (22.28%) NoSQL
2 61 (10.37%) SQL Server
3 57 (9.69%) PostgreSQL
4 43 (7.31%) Relational Database
5 35 (5.95%) Amazon RDS
6 33 (5.61%) MongoDB
7 27 (4.59%) MySQL
8 23 (3.91%) Elasticsearch
9 16 (2.72%) Redis
10 9 (1.53%) Amazon Redshift
10 9 (1.53%) Azure SQL Database
11 8 (1.36%) CouchDB
12 7 (1.19%) Big Data
13 4 (0.68%) Hadoop
13 4 (0.68%) Power BI
13 4 (0.68%) RDBMS
14 2 (0.34%) BigQuery
14 2 (0.34%) Data Lake
14 2 (0.34%) DynamoDB
15 1 (0.17%) Neo4j
Development Applications
1 203 (34.52%) Git
2 139 (23.64%) Jenkins
3 87 (14.80%) Selenium
4 58 (9.86%) Cypress.io
5 46 (7.82%) GitLab
6 43 (7.31%) JUnit
7 24 (4.08%) SoapUI
8 23 (3.91%) JIRA
9 17 (2.89%) Cucumber
10 14 (2.38%) Octopus Deploy
10 14 (2.38%) TeamCity
11 13 (2.21%) WebDriver
12 12 (2.04%) TestNG
13 11 (1.87%) REST Assured
13 11 (1.87%) Robot Framework
14 10 (1.70%) Team Foundation Server
15 8 (1.36%) Gradle
16 7 (1.19%) Jasmine
16 7 (1.19%) JMeter
16 7 (1.19%) Visual Studio
General
1 101 (17.18%) Social Skills
2 72 (12.24%) Public Sector
3 26 (4.42%) Finance
4 13 (2.21%) Aerospace
5 10 (1.70%) Publishing
6 6 (1.02%) Automotive
6 6 (1.02%) Legal
7 5 (0.85%) Analytical Skills
7 5 (0.85%) Organisational Skills
8 4 (0.68%) Banking
9 3 (0.51%) Games
9 3 (0.51%) Health Technology
9 3 (0.51%) Presentation Skills
10 2 (0.34%) Financial Institution
10 2 (0.34%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 2 (0.34%) Marketing
11 1 (0.17%) Advertising
11 1 (0.17%) Law
11 1 (0.17%) Pharmaceutical
11 1 (0.17%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 219 (37.24%) Developer
2 119 (20.24%) Senior
3 103 (17.52%) Lead
4 85 (14.46%) DevOps Engineer
5 76 (12.93%) Senior Developer
6 71 (12.07%) Java Developer
7 66 (11.22%) Software Developer
8 38 (6.46%) Infrastructure Engineer
9 35 (5.95%) Architect
10 33 (5.61%) Front-End Developer (Client-Side Developer)
10 33 (5.61%) Lead Developer
11 31 (5.27%) Senior Java Developer
11 31 (5.27%) Team Leader
12 29 (4.93%) .NET Developer
12 29 (4.93%) AWS Engineer
12 29 (4.93%) Azure Engineer
13 28 (4.76%) Lead Software Developer
14 26 (4.42%) Lead DevOps
15 25 (4.25%) C# Developer
16 24 (4.08%) C# .NET Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 141 (23.98%) .NET
2 138 (23.47%) React
3 79 (13.44%) Spring
4 71 (12.07%) REST
5 63 (10.71%) HTML
6 59 (10.03%) Spring Boot
7 56 (9.52%) Jest
8 53 (9.01%) Node.js
9 52 (8.84%) AngularJS
10 46 (7.82%) CSS
11 43 (7.31%) HTML5
11 43 (7.31%) Web Services
12 42 (7.14%) Elastic Stack
12 42 (7.14%) XML
13 39 (6.63%) Apache Camel
14 36 (6.12%) CSS3
15 34 (5.78%) Kafka
16 33 (5.61%) JSON
17 28 (4.76%) RabbitMQ
18 27 (4.59%) Hibernate
Miscellaneous
1 78 (13.27%) Distributed Systems
2 46 (7.82%) Hybrid Cloud
3 43 (7.31%) Data Centre
4 40 (6.80%) Blockchain
5 23 (3.91%) Greenfield Project
6 18 (3.06%) Linux Command Line
7 16 (2.72%) PKI
7 16 (2.72%) Product Ownership
7 16 (2.72%) Self-Motivation
8 14 (2.38%) Enterprise Software
9 12 (2.04%) Private Cloud
10 10 (1.70%) Algorithms
10 10 (1.70%) Cloud Native
10 10 (1.70%) Public Cloud
11 8 (1.36%) Client/Server
11 8 (1.36%) PropTech
12 6 (1.02%) Mobile App
13 4 (0.68%) Legacy Systems
14 3 (0.51%) Clustering
15 2 (0.34%) IoT
Operating Systems
1 172 (29.25%) Linux
2 65 (11.05%) Windows
3 58 (9.86%) CentOS
4 42 (7.14%) Debian
5 40 (6.80%) Alpine Linux
6 35 (5.95%) Windows Server
7 28 (4.76%) Windows Server 2016
8 18 (3.06%) Ubuntu
9 14 (2.38%) Windows Server 2019
10 8 (1.36%) VMS
11 5 (0.85%) Data ONTAP
11 5 (0.85%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
12 3 (0.51%) Unix
13 2 (0.34%) Rocky
13 2 (0.34%) Windows Server 2012
Processes & Methodologies
1 322 (54.76%) Agile
2 307 (52.21%) DevOps
3 248 (42.18%) CI/CD
4 193 (32.82%) Artificial Intelligence
5 164 (27.89%) Computer Science
6 133 (22.62%) Propensity Modelling
7 132 (22.45%) Microservices
8 130 (22.11%) Containerisation
9 116 (19.73%) Problem-Solving
10 84 (14.29%) Software Engineering
11 78 (13.27%) TDD
12 71 (12.07%) Infrastructure as Code
13 64 (10.88%) Scrum
14 56 (9.52%) BDD
15 53 (9.01%) Machine Learning
16 52 (8.84%) Test Automation
17 51 (8.67%) Data Science
18 44 (7.48%) Task Automation
19 41 (6.97%) Continuous Integration
19 41 (6.97%) Infrastructure Engineering
Programming Languages
1 182 (30.95%) C#
2 181 (30.78%) JavaScript
3 139 (23.64%) Java
4 123 (20.92%) Python
5 118 (20.07%) TypeScript
6 102 (17.35%) SQL
7 44 (7.48%) PHP
8 43 (7.31%) PowerShell
9 37 (6.29%) Bash
10 29 (4.93%) Bicep
11 24 (4.08%) Go
12 17 (2.89%) Groovy
13 14 (2.38%) VB
13 14 (2.38%) VBScript
14 13 (2.21%) Shell Script
15 10 (1.70%) R
16 7 (1.19%) C
17 6 (1.02%) Ruby
18 4 (0.68%) C++
19 2 (0.34%) PL/SQL
Qualifications
1 203 (34.52%) Degree
2 125 (21.26%) Computer Science Degree
3 123 (20.92%) Security Cleared
4 108 (18.37%) SC Cleared
5 57 (9.69%) Azure Certification
6 47 (7.99%) AWS Certification
7 43 (7.31%) Microsoft Certification
8 40 (6.80%) MCSA
8 40 (6.80%) MCSE
9 30 (5.10%) DV Cleared
10 24 (4.08%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
10 24 (4.08%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
11 19 (3.23%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
12 14 (2.38%) Master's Degree
13 10 (1.70%) PhD
14 7 (1.19%) AWS Certified Developer
15 3 (0.51%) AWS Certified SysOps Administrator
16 1 (0.17%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
16 1 (0.17%) BPSS Clearance
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 33 (5.61%) WCAG
2 14 (2.38%) QA
3 3 (0.51%) GDPR
3 3 (0.51%) HIPAA
3 3 (0.51%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 1 (0.17%) SOC 2
System Software
1 470 (79.93%) Docker
2 33 (5.61%) Active Directory
3 27 (4.59%) Hyper-V
4 24 (4.08%) VMware Infrastructure
5 22 (3.74%) Virtual Machines
6 14 (2.38%) Virtual Desktop
6 14 (2.38%) vSphere
7 5 (0.85%) VMware ESXi
8 3 (0.51%) VirtualBox
9 2 (0.34%) Firmware
9 2 (0.34%) KVM
9 2 (0.34%) QEMU
9 2 (0.34%) Xen
Systems Management
1 183 (31.12%) Terraform
2 97 (16.50%) Ansible
3 35 (5.95%) Puppet
4 21 (3.57%) vCenter Server
5 16 (2.72%) SCCM
5 16 (2.72%) WSUS
6 14 (2.38%) Active Directory Federation Services
6 14 (2.38%) Microsoft Intune
6 14 (2.38%) SCOM
7 13 (2.21%) Rancher
8 12 (2.04%) Consul
8 12 (2.04%) Prometheus
9 10 (1.70%) Grafana
9 10 (1.70%) Kibana
9 10 (1.70%) ZABBIX
10 7 (1.19%) MIIS
11 6 (1.02%) Docker Swarm
11 6 (1.02%) Nessus
12 2 (0.34%) Argo
12 2 (0.34%) Podman
Vendors
1 73 (12.41%) Microsoft
2 62 (10.54%) Red Hat
3 43 (7.31%) VMware
4 41 (6.97%) IBM
5 34 (5.78%) WSO2
6 21 (3.57%) Google
7 12 (2.04%) Xamarin
8 11 (1.87%) ServiceNow
9 10 (1.70%) Apple
9 10 (1.70%) Oracle
10 9 (1.53%) Juniper
11 7 (1.19%) Splunk
12 6 (1.02%) Cisco
12 6 (1.02%) Citrix
12 6 (1.02%) ForgeRock
12 6 (1.02%) Sitecore
13 5 (0.85%) NetApp
13 5 (0.85%) Palo Alto
13 5 (0.85%) SolidFire
14 4 (0.68%) Dynatrace