Kubernetes Jobs in the UK excluding London

Kubernetes (k8s)
UK > UK excluding London

The following table provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in the UK excluding London 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 80 57 40
Rank change year-on-year -23 -17 -2
Permanent jobs citing Kubernetes 2,239 3,183 4,920
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 3.13% 5.38% 6.83%
As % of the Systems Management category 35.26% 41.47% 48.15%
Number of salaries quoted 1,404 1,875 3,148
10th Percentile £45,000 £46,290 £45,000
25th Percentile £53,750 £55,000 £51,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £68,000 £69,447 £70,000
Median % change year-on-year -2.08% -0.79% +19.66%
75th Percentile £85,000 £81,875 £85,000
90th Percentile £94,625 £92,500 £90,000
UK median annual salary £75,000 £75,000 £75,000
% change year-on-year - - +7.14%

All Systems Management Skills
UK excluding London

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 UK excluding London with a requirement for systems management skills.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for systems management skills 6,350 7,676 10,219
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 8.86% 12.97% 14.18%
Number of salaries quoted 4,340 4,402 6,581
10th Percentile £30,000 £30,500 £32,500
25th Percentile £40,000 £41,250 £43,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £59,526 £59,526
Median % change year-on-year -7.60% - +8.23%
75th Percentile £70,000 £76,250 £76,750
90th Percentile £85,000 £87,500 £85,000
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 the UK excluding London

Job postings citing Kubernetes as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London.

Job vacancy trend for Kubernetes in the UK excluding London

Kubernetes
Salary Trend in the UK excluding London

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing Kubernetes in the UK excluding London.

Salary trend for Kubernetes in the UK excluding London

Kubernetes
Salary Histogram in the UK excluding London

Salary distribution for jobs citing Kubernetes in the UK excluding London over the 6 months to 19 May 2024.

Salary histogram for Kubernetes in the UK excluding London

Kubernetes
Job Locations in the UK excluding London

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Kubernetes within the UK excluding London 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
South East -17 586 £70,000 - 222
Scotland -17 480 £70,576 +4.35% 37
North of England -30 479 £61,206 -11.87% 121
South West -23 365 £70,576 +4.56% 91
North West -23 286 £62,500 -10.71% 70
Midlands -57 177 £60,000 -14.29% 53
Yorkshire -24 162 £60,000 -12.43% 40
West Midlands -37 106 £65,000 -7.14% 32
East of England -69 93 £85,000 +21.43% 26
East Midlands -38 71 £60,000 -11.11% 21
Wales -31 36 £42,500 -30.89% 13
North East -32 31 £63,750 -6.59% 11
Northern Ireland -22 21 £75,000 +3.45% 13
Isle of Man - 3 - -
Channel Islands - 1 £110,000 -
Kubernetes
UK

Kubernetes
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the UK excluding London 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
1 158 (7.06%) Apache Spark
2 124 (5.54%) Apache
3 98 (4.38%) FileNet
4 66 (2.95%) OpenStack
5 57 (2.55%) Apache Airflow
6 28 (1.25%) nginx
7 26 (1.16%) Microsoft Exchange
8 21 (0.94%) Jupyter
9 17 (0.76%) Cloud Foundry
10 14 (0.63%) Confluence
11 13 (0.58%) JBoss
12 11 (0.49%) Red Hat Fuse
13 10 (0.45%) SharePoint
14 8 (0.36%) IIS
15 4 (0.18%) CMS
16 3 (0.13%) Apache Solr
16 3 (0.13%) CloudStack
17 2 (0.089%) Tomcat
18 1 (0.045%) Jetty
18 1 (0.045%) Moodle
Applications
1 7 (0.31%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 3 (0.13%) SAP Business One
2 2 (0.089%) Oracle EBS
2 2 (0.089%) Remedy ITSM
3 1 (0.045%) Salesforce CRM
3 1 (0.045%) SAP S/4HANA
3 1 (0.045%) Shopify
Cloud Services
1 1,086 (48.50%) AWS
2 921 (41.13%) Azure
3 313 (13.98%) Amazon S3
4 292 (13.04%) GCP
5 247 (11.03%) Azure DevOps
6 224 (10.00%) SaaS
7 185 (8.26%) GitHub
8 163 (7.28%) Serverless
9 160 (7.15%) Amazon EKS
10 148 (6.61%) OpenShift
11 105 (4.69%) Amazon ECS
12 93 (4.15%) AWS Lambda
13 91 (4.06%) IBM Cloud
14 87 (3.89%) AWS CloudFormation
15 80 (3.57%) Cloud Computing
16 76 (3.39%) GitHub Actions
17 74 (3.31%) Amazon EC2
18 72 (3.22%) Microsoft 365
19 70 (3.13%) PaaS
20 67 (2.99%) Route 53
Communications & Networking
1 140 (6.25%) Firewall
2 76 (3.39%) DNS
3 71 (3.17%) VPN
4 62 (2.77%) DHCP
5 59 (2.64%) Internet
6 54 (2.41%) TCP/IP
7 53 (2.37%) HTTP
7 53 (2.37%) IPsec
8 49 (2.19%) SNMP
9 46 (2.05%) Network Security
10 36 (1.61%) SD-WAN
11 35 (1.56%) WAN
12 33 (1.47%) AMQP
13 18 (0.80%) DSL
14 17 (0.76%) Kerberos
15 8 (0.36%) BGP
16 7 (0.31%) WLAN
17 5 (0.22%) MQTT
17 5 (0.22%) OSPF
17 5 (0.22%) VSAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 301 (13.44%) NoSQL
2 240 (10.72%) Elasticsearch
3 185 (8.26%) Big Data
4 146 (6.52%) SQL Server
5 144 (6.43%) PostgreSQL
6 143 (6.39%) MongoDB
7 136 (6.07%) Relational Database
8 117 (5.23%) MySQL
9 111 (4.96%) Amazon RDS
10 105 (4.69%) Apache Cassandra
11 81 (3.62%) Hadoop
12 77 (3.44%) Redis
13 40 (1.79%) Data Lake
14 30 (1.34%) RDBMS
15 29 (1.30%) BigQuery
16 27 (1.21%) Cloudera CDH
17 23 (1.03%) Scylla
18 22 (0.98%) Amazon Redshift
19 20 (0.89%) Azure SQL Database
19 20 (0.89%) DB2
Development Applications
1 409 (18.27%) Jenkins
2 359 (16.03%) Git
3 147 (6.57%) JUnit
4 120 (5.36%) GitLab
5 118 (5.27%) JIRA
6 111 (4.96%) Selenium
7 70 (3.13%) Cypress.io
8 55 (2.46%) Mockito
9 53 (2.37%) Jasmine
10 37 (1.65%) CircleCI
11 36 (1.61%) TeamCity
12 33 (1.47%) Cucumber
13 32 (1.43%) Maven
14 31 (1.38%) Octopus Deploy
15 23 (1.03%) SoapUI
15 23 (1.03%) Team Foundation Server
16 21 (0.94%) SonarQube
17 19 (0.85%) Gradle
18 18 (0.80%) Atlassian Bamboo
19 16 (0.71%) Robot Framework
General
1 575 (25.68%) Finance
2 421 (18.80%) Inclusion and Diversity
3 345 (15.41%) Law
4 310 (13.85%) Social Skills
5 203 (9.07%) Marketing
6 171 (7.64%) Public Sector
7 121 (5.40%) Legal
8 119 (5.31%) Banking
9 107 (4.78%) Aerospace
10 79 (3.53%) Analytical Skills
11 71 (3.17%) Retail
12 36 (1.61%) Organisational Skills
13 35 (1.56%) Tech for Good
14 24 (1.07%) Financial Institution
14 24 (1.07%) Investment Banking
15 23 (1.03%) Games
16 15 (0.67%) Automotive
16 15 (0.67%) Telecoms
17 14 (0.63%) Influencing Skills
17 14 (0.63%) Publishing
Job Titles
1 528 (23.58%) Software Engineer
2 519 (23.18%) Senior
3 486 (21.71%) Developer
4 379 (16.93%) DevOps Engineer
5 359 (16.03%) Lead
6 167 (7.46%) Architect
7 166 (7.41%) Senior Developer
8 143 (6.39%) Software Developer
9 139 (6.21%) Java Engineer
10 124 (5.54%) Lead Software Engineer
11 120 (5.36%) Java Developer
12 113 (5.05%) Infrastructure Engineer
13 108 (4.82%) Java Software Engineer
14 103 (4.60%) AWS Engineer
15 97 (4.33%) Data Engineer
16 94 (4.20%) Consultant
17 93 (4.15%) Cloud Engineer
18 90 (4.02%) Senior Software Engineer
19 84 (3.75%) Azure Engineer
19 84 (3.75%) Full Stack Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 500 (22.33%) React
2 370 (16.53%) Kafka
3 367 (16.39%) Spring
4 351 (15.68%) .NET
5 320 (14.29%) AngularJS
6 233 (10.41%) Node.js
7 201 (8.98%) REST
8 199 (8.89%) Spring Boot
9 193 (8.62%) HTML
10 180 (8.04%) CSS
11 156 (6.97%) Hibernate
12 152 (6.79%) RabbitMQ
13 146 (6.52%) GraphQL
14 120 (5.36%) JSON
15 113 (5.05%) RESTful
16 111 (4.96%) J2EE
17 100 (4.47%) Spring Integration
18 97 (4.33%) .NET Core
19 87 (3.89%) YAML
20 82 (3.66%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 269 (12.01%) Cloud Native
2 189 (8.44%) Public Cloud
3 155 (6.92%) Algorithms
4 136 (6.07%) Distributed Systems
5 120 (5.36%) Hybrid Cloud
6 119 (5.31%) Data Centre
7 100 (4.47%) Blockchain
8 90 (4.02%) Product Ownership
9 86 (3.84%) Management Information System
10 68 (3.04%) Data Structures
11 65 (2.90%) Greenfield Project
12 52 (2.32%) Private Cloud
13 48 (2.14%) e-Learning
14 34 (1.52%) Linux Command Line
15 29 (1.30%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
16 26 (1.16%) PKI
17 25 (1.12%) Client/Server
17 25 (1.12%) Self-Motivation
18 22 (0.98%) Mobile App
19 19 (0.85%) Enterprise Software
Operating Systems
1 665 (29.70%) Linux
2 247 (11.03%) Windows
3 92 (4.11%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 88 (3.93%) CentOS
5 76 (3.39%) Debian
6 64 (2.86%) Windows Server
7 54 (2.41%) Ubuntu
8 49 (2.19%) Data ONTAP
9 41 (1.83%) Alpine Linux
10 33 (1.47%) Windows Server 2016
11 24 (1.07%) Unix
12 19 (0.85%) Windows Server 2019
13 18 (0.80%) VMS
14 11 (0.49%) Android
15 9 (0.40%) Apple iOS
16 8 (0.36%) Embedded Linux
17 6 (0.27%) Mesosphere
18 4 (0.18%) Mac OS
19 3 (0.13%) SUSE
19 3 (0.13%) SUSE Linux Enterprise Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 1,196 (53.42%) Agile
2 1,025 (45.78%) CI/CD
3 997 (44.53%) DevOps
4 779 (34.79%) Software Engineering
5 553 (24.70%) Microservices
6 532 (23.76%) Containerisation
7 493 (22.02%) Artificial Intelligence
8 457 (20.41%) SDLC
9 387 (17.28%) Problem-Solving
10 373 (16.66%) Infrastructure as Code
11 306 (13.67%) Computer Science
12 286 (12.77%) Machine Learning
13 267 (11.92%) Mentoring
14 262 (11.70%) Full Stack Development
15 233 (10.41%) Continuous Integration
16 230 (10.27%) Operational Stability
17 222 (9.92%) Community of Practice
17 222 (9.92%) Scrum
18 185 (8.26%) TDD
19 183 (8.17%) Test Automation
Programming Languages
1 760 (33.94%) Java
2 714 (31.89%) Python
3 503 (22.47%) SQL
4 488 (21.80%) JavaScript
5 394 (17.60%) C#
6 307 (13.71%) TypeScript
7 214 (9.56%) Bash
8 185 (8.26%) PowerShell
9 125 (5.58%) Go
10 90 (4.02%) PHP
11 61 (2.72%) PL/SQL
12 52 (2.32%) Scala
13 46 (2.05%) Bicep
14 45 (2.01%) Ruby
15 44 (1.97%) Shell Script
16 33 (1.47%) C++
17 28 (1.25%) Groovy
18 22 (0.98%) Kotlin
19 21 (0.94%) C
20 18 (0.80%) VB
Qualifications
1 353 (15.77%) Security Cleared
2 332 (14.83%) Degree
3 200 (8.93%) Computer Science Degree
3 200 (8.93%) DV Cleared
4 191 (8.53%) SC Cleared
5 125 (5.58%) Azure Certification
6 108 (4.82%) AWS Certification
7 73 (3.26%) Microsoft Certification
8 58 (2.59%) Master's Degree
9 42 (1.88%) CISSP
10 40 (1.79%) MCSA
10 40 (1.79%) MCSE
11 35 (1.56%) CISM
12 34 (1.52%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
13 33 (1.47%) Cisco Certification
14 29 (1.30%) (ISC)2 CCSP
14 29 (1.30%) CCSK
14 29 (1.30%) CCSP
15 26 (1.16%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
16 24 (1.07%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 70 (3.13%) QA
2 36 (1.61%) NIST
3 31 (1.38%) WCAG
4 22 (0.98%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 21 (0.94%) SLA
6 9 (0.40%) Accessibility
7 8 (0.36%) NCSC
8 5 (0.22%) GDPR
9 4 (0.18%) HIPAA
9 4 (0.18%) SEPA
10 1 (0.045%) California Consumer Privacy Act
10 1 (0.045%) Data Quality
10 1 (0.045%) Disclosure Scotland
10 1 (0.045%) Sarbanes-Oxley
10 1 (0.045%) SOC 2
System Software
1 1,387 (61.95%) Docker
2 130 (5.81%) VMware Infrastructure
3 94 (4.20%) Hyper-V
4 69 (3.08%) Active Directory
5 37 (1.65%) Virtual Machines
6 18 (0.80%) vSphere
7 17 (0.76%) Virtual Desktop
8 12 (0.54%) VMware ESXi
9 11 (0.49%) Firmware
10 6 (0.27%) KVM
11 5 (0.22%) Slurm Workload Manager
12 4 (0.18%) Embedded Firmware
12 4 (0.18%) NFS
13 3 (0.13%) Ceph
13 3 (0.13%) Gluster
13 3 (0.13%) oVirt
13 3 (0.13%) VirtualBox
14 2 (0.089%) Apache ZooKeeper
14 2 (0.089%) QEMU
14 2 (0.089%) Xen
Systems Management
1 721 (32.20%) Terraform
2 456 (20.37%) Ansible
3 194 (8.66%) Prometheus
4 168 (7.50%) Puppet
5 102 (4.56%) Grafana
6 74 (3.31%) vCenter Server
7 50 (2.23%) Progress Chef
8 40 (1.79%) Single Sign-On
9 29 (1.30%) Docker Swarm
9 29 (1.30%) SCCM
10 24 (1.07%) Microsoft Intune
11 19 (0.85%) Istio
11 19 (0.85%) SCOM
12 18 (0.80%) Kibana
12 18 (0.80%) WSUS
13 17 (0.76%) Active Directory Federation Services
13 17 (0.76%) HAProxy
14 14 (0.63%) Nagios
14 14 (0.63%) Rancher
15 13 (0.58%) ZABBIX
Vendors
1 281 (12.55%) Oracle
2 238 (10.63%) Microsoft
2 238 (10.63%) Red Hat
3 188 (8.40%) Google
4 161 (7.19%) VMware
5 95 (4.24%) IBM
6 68 (3.04%) Dynatrace
7 49 (2.19%) NetApp
7 49 (2.19%) Palo Alto
7 49 (2.19%) SolidFire
8 46 (2.05%) Splunk
9 45 (2.01%) Databricks
10 35 (1.56%) WSO2
11 33 (1.47%) SaltStack
12 26 (1.16%) Dell
13 20 (0.89%) Sybase
14 18 (0.80%) Alteryx
14 18 (0.80%) Cognos
14 18 (0.80%) ServiceNow
15 14 (0.63%) SolarWinds