Kubernetes Jobs in the South East

Kubernetes (k8s)
England > South East

The table below provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in the South East 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 74 58 42
Rank change year-on-year -16 -16 -5
Permanent jobs citing Kubernetes 592 633 1,358
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the South East 3.20% 4.73% 6.41%
As % of the Systems Management category 34.52% 34.91% 47.65%
Number of salaries quoted 460 491 823
10th Percentile £49,900 £48,750 £46,250
25th Percentile £57,500 £55,000 £55,375
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £70,000 £70,000 £70,000
Median % change year-on-year - - +12.00%
75th Percentile £85,000 £90,625 £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 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 South East.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for systems management skills 1,715 1,813 2,850
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the South East 9.27% 13.55% 13.45%
Number of salaries quoted 1,225 1,201 1,754
10th Percentile £32,500 £29,000 £32,500
25th Percentile £40,250 £41,250 £44,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £60,000 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year -8.33% -7.69% +8.33%
75th Percentile £71,000 £77,500 £82,500
90th Percentile £87,500 £95,000 £87,500
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 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 10 June 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 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
Thames Valley 0 283 £75,000 -3.23% 43
Berkshire +20 235 £75,000 -14.29% 33
Hampshire -17 155 £67,500 - 20
Surrey -50 52 £80,000 -5.88% 14
Kent +6 36 £55,000 -8.33% 3
West Sussex +27 28 £65,000 +18.18% 4
Buckinghamshire -42 26 £65,000 -7.14% 6
East Sussex -19 23 £80,000 +23.08% 4
Oxfordshire -29 22 £72,500 +7.41% 4
Sussex - 2 £67,500 -
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 44 (7.43%) OpenStack
2 27 (4.56%) Microsoft Exchange
3 19 (3.21%) Apache
4 10 (1.69%) Red Hat Fuse
5 9 (1.52%) JBoss
6 7 (1.18%) Confluence
7 6 (1.01%) SharePoint
8 4 (0.68%) nginx
9 2 (0.34%) Tomcat
10 1 (0.17%) Apache Spark
10 1 (0.17%) IIS
10 1 (0.17%) Kinematics
10 1 (0.17%) Oracle SOA Suite
Applications
1 1 (0.17%) Microsoft Excel
Cloud Services
1 229 (38.68%) Azure
2 222 (37.50%) AWS
3 94 (15.88%) Azure DevOps
4 72 (12.16%) Serverless
5 62 (10.47%) Amazon ECS
6 61 (10.30%) Amazon EKS
7 59 (9.97%) SaaS
8 45 (7.60%) Amazon EC2
9 42 (7.09%) Microsoft 365
10 41 (6.93%) Amazon S3
11 40 (6.76%) Azure AI
11 40 (6.76%) IBM Cloud
12 32 (5.41%) AWS Lambda
13 31 (5.24%) AWS CloudFormation
13 31 (5.24%) GCP
14 29 (4.90%) Cloud Computing
14 29 (4.90%) Entra ID
15 28 (4.73%) CloudFront
16 20 (3.38%) Azure Monitor
17 18 (3.04%) Azure Storage
Communications & Networking
1 49 (8.28%) Firewall
2 21 (3.55%) DNS
3 18 (3.04%) DHCP
4 11 (1.86%) HTTP
4 11 (1.86%) Network Security
5 9 (1.52%) Internet
5 9 (1.52%) VPN
6 7 (1.18%) BGP
7 6 (1.01%) IPsec
8 5 (0.84%) SNMP
9 4 (0.68%) OSPF
10 3 (0.51%) iSCSI
10 3 (0.51%) NetScaler
10 3 (0.51%) RIP
10 3 (0.51%) WLAN
11 2 (0.34%) LAN
11 2 (0.34%) TCP/IP
11 2 (0.34%) WAN
12 1 (0.17%) Broadband
Database & Business Intelligence
1 120 (20.27%) NoSQL
2 65 (10.98%) SQL Server
3 54 (9.12%) PostgreSQL
4 44 (7.43%) Amazon RDS
5 42 (7.09%) Relational Database
6 36 (6.08%) MySQL
7 34 (5.74%) MongoDB
8 22 (3.72%) Elasticsearch
9 17 (2.87%) Redis
10 10 (1.69%) Azure SQL Database
11 8 (1.35%) Amazon Redshift
11 8 (1.35%) CouchDB
12 7 (1.18%) Big Data
13 6 (1.01%) RDBMS
14 4 (0.68%) Hadoop
14 4 (0.68%) Power BI
15 3 (0.51%) MariaDB
16 2 (0.34%) Apache Cassandra
16 2 (0.34%) BigQuery
16 2 (0.34%) DynamoDB
Development Applications
1 197 (33.28%) Git
2 133 (22.47%) Jenkins
3 89 (15.03%) Selenium
4 55 (9.29%) Cypress.io
5 46 (7.77%) JUnit
6 42 (7.09%) GitLab
7 28 (4.73%) JIRA
8 25 (4.22%) SoapUI
9 17 (2.87%) Cucumber
10 16 (2.70%) Octopus Deploy
11 14 (2.36%) TeamCity
12 13 (2.20%) Robot Framework
12 13 (2.20%) WebDriver
13 12 (2.03%) TestNG
14 11 (1.86%) REST Assured
15 10 (1.69%) Team Foundation Server
16 9 (1.52%) JMeter
17 8 (1.35%) Gradle
17 8 (1.35%) Mockito
18 7 (1.18%) Jasmine
General
1 113 (19.09%) Social Skills
2 69 (11.66%) Public Sector
3 32 (5.41%) Finance
4 15 (2.53%) Aerospace
5 10 (1.69%) Publishing
6 7 (1.18%) Analytical Skills
7 6 (1.01%) Automotive
7 6 (1.01%) Legal
8 4 (0.68%) Banking
8 4 (0.68%) Marketing
8 4 (0.68%) Organisational Skills
9 3 (0.51%) Games
9 3 (0.51%) Health Technology
10 2 (0.34%) Financial Institution
10 2 (0.34%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 2 (0.34%) Presentation Skills
10 2 (0.34%) Retail
11 1 (0.17%) Influencing Skills
11 1 (0.17%) Law
11 1 (0.17%) Tech for Good
Job Titles
1 205 (34.63%) Developer
2 127 (21.45%) Senior
3 97 (16.39%) Lead
4 79 (13.34%) DevOps Engineer
5 74 (12.50%) Senior Developer
6 65 (10.98%) Java Developer
7 56 (9.46%) Software Developer
8 45 (7.60%) Infrastructure Engineer
9 33 (5.57%) Architect
10 32 (5.41%) Team Leader
11 31 (5.24%) .NET Developer
11 31 (5.24%) AWS Engineer
11 31 (5.24%) Azure Engineer
11 31 (5.24%) Senior Java Developer
12 29 (4.90%) Front-End Developer (Client-Side Developer)
12 29 (4.90%) Lead Developer
13 27 (4.56%) C# Developer
14 26 (4.39%) C# .NET Developer
15 25 (4.22%) Software Engineer
16 24 (4.05%) Full Stack Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 131 (22.13%) .NET
2 127 (21.45%) React
3 76 (12.84%) Spring
4 71 (11.99%) REST
5 64 (10.81%) HTML
6 54 (9.12%) Spring Boot
7 53 (8.95%) Jest
8 49 (8.28%) Node.js
9 46 (7.77%) AngularJS
10 43 (7.26%) CSS
11 39 (6.59%) HTML5
11 39 (6.59%) Web Services
12 38 (6.42%) XML
13 35 (5.91%) Apache Camel
13 35 (5.91%) Elastic Stack
14 33 (5.57%) Kafka
15 32 (5.41%) CSS3
16 30 (5.07%) Hibernate
17 29 (4.90%) RabbitMQ
18 27 (4.56%) JSON
Miscellaneous
1 74 (12.50%) Distributed Systems
2 47 (7.94%) Data Centre
3 46 (7.77%) Hybrid Cloud
4 40 (6.76%) Blockchain
5 24 (4.05%) Greenfield Project
6 20 (3.38%) Linux Command Line
6 20 (3.38%) Self-Motivation
7 19 (3.21%) PKI
8 15 (2.53%) Enterprise Software
9 14 (2.36%) Product Ownership
10 12 (2.03%) Algorithms
10 12 (2.03%) Cloud Native
11 10 (1.69%) Private Cloud
11 10 (1.69%) Public Cloud
12 8 (1.35%) Client/Server
12 8 (1.35%) PropTech
13 6 (1.01%) Mobile App
14 4 (0.68%) Cybercrime
14 4 (0.68%) Legacy Systems
15 3 (0.51%) EMC VNX
Operating Systems
1 178 (30.07%) Linux
2 71 (11.99%) Windows
3 59 (9.97%) CentOS
4 45 (7.60%) Debian
5 42 (7.09%) Windows Server
6 40 (6.76%) Alpine Linux
7 32 (5.41%) Windows Server 2016
8 21 (3.55%) Ubuntu
9 18 (3.04%) Windows Server 2019
10 10 (1.69%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
11 7 (1.18%) VMS
12 5 (0.84%) Data ONTAP
13 3 (0.51%) Rocky
13 3 (0.51%) Unix
14 1 (0.17%) Windows Server 2012
Processes & Methodologies
1 322 (54.39%) Agile
2 311 (52.53%) DevOps
3 252 (42.57%) CI/CD
4 185 (31.25%) Artificial Intelligence
5 147 (24.83%) Computer Science
6 131 (22.13%) Containerisation
7 126 (21.28%) Microservices
8 119 (20.10%) Propensity Modelling
9 117 (19.76%) Problem-Solving
10 96 (16.22%) Software Engineering
11 81 (13.68%) TDD
12 80 (13.51%) Infrastructure as Code
13 61 (10.30%) Scrum
14 55 (9.29%) Machine Learning
15 52 (8.78%) BDD
15 52 (8.78%) Test Automation
16 51 (8.61%) Data Science
16 51 (8.61%) Infrastructure Engineering
17 44 (7.43%) Task Automation
18 41 (6.93%) Mentoring
Programming Languages
1 175 (29.56%) C#
2 169 (28.55%) JavaScript
3 136 (22.97%) Java
4 128 (21.62%) Python
5 109 (18.41%) TypeScript
6 96 (16.22%) SQL
7 48 (8.11%) PowerShell
8 44 (7.43%) PHP
9 42 (7.09%) Bash
10 33 (5.57%) Bicep
11 27 (4.56%) Go
12 18 (3.04%) VB
12 18 (3.04%) VBScript
13 14 (2.36%) Groovy
14 11 (1.86%) Shell Script
15 10 (1.69%) R
16 6 (1.01%) C
17 5 (0.84%) C++
17 5 (0.84%) Ruby
18 1 (0.17%) PL/SQL
Qualifications
1 191 (32.26%) Degree
2 117 (19.76%) Security Cleared
3 113 (19.09%) Computer Science Degree
4 101 (17.06%) SC Cleared
5 56 (9.46%) Azure Certification
6 45 (7.60%) AWS Certification
7 43 (7.26%) Microsoft Certification
8 40 (6.76%) MCSA
8 40 (6.76%) MCSE
9 38 (6.42%) DV Cleared
10 28 (4.73%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
11 21 (3.55%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
12 19 (3.21%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
13 14 (2.36%) Master's Degree
14 10 (1.69%) PhD
15 7 (1.18%) AWS Certified Developer
16 3 (0.51%) AWS Certified SysOps Administrator
17 1 (0.17%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 29 (4.90%) WCAG
2 15 (2.53%) QA
3 3 (0.51%) GDPR
3 3 (0.51%) HIPAA
4 2 (0.34%) ISO/IEC 27001
System Software
1 460 (77.70%) Docker
2 36 (6.08%) Active Directory
3 26 (4.39%) Virtual Machines
3 26 (4.39%) VMware Infrastructure
4 21 (3.55%) Virtual Desktop
5 20 (3.38%) Hyper-V
6 17 (2.87%) vSphere
7 5 (0.84%) Firmware
7 5 (0.84%) VMware ESXi
8 3 (0.51%) NFS
8 3 (0.51%) pfSense
8 3 (0.51%) VirtualBox
9 2 (0.34%) KVM
9 2 (0.34%) QEMU
9 2 (0.34%) Xen
Systems Management
1 168 (28.38%) Terraform
2 85 (14.36%) Ansible
3 38 (6.42%) Puppet
4 24 (4.05%) SCCM
5 22 (3.72%) vCenter Server
6 19 (3.21%) WSUS
7 18 (3.04%) Active Directory Federation Services
7 18 (3.04%) Microsoft Intune
7 18 (3.04%) SCOM
8 12 (2.03%) Prometheus
9 11 (1.86%) Kibana
10 10 (1.69%) ZABBIX
11 9 (1.52%) Consul
11 9 (1.52%) Grafana
12 7 (1.18%) MIIS
13 6 (1.01%) Docker Swarm
13 6 (1.01%) Rancher
14 5 (0.84%) Nessus
15 3 (0.51%) EMC NetWorker
15 3 (0.51%) Nagios
Vendors
1 79 (13.34%) Microsoft
2 62 (10.47%) Red Hat
3 45 (7.60%) VMware
4 41 (6.93%) IBM
5 28 (4.73%) WSO2
6 21 (3.55%) Google
7 14 (2.36%) ServiceNow
8 11 (1.86%) Oracle
8 11 (1.86%) Xamarin
9 10 (1.69%) Apple
10 9 (1.52%) Citrix
10 9 (1.52%) Splunk
11 8 (1.35%) Cisco
11 8 (1.35%) Juniper
11 8 (1.35%) NetApp
12 6 (1.01%) Aruba
12 6 (1.01%) Dynatrace
12 6 (1.01%) ForgeRock
12 6 (1.01%) Sitecore
13 5 (0.84%) Palo Alto