Kubernetes (k8s)
UK

The following table provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies 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 8 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
8 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 67 32 21
Rank change year-on-year -35 -11 +7
Permanent jobs citing Kubernetes 3,674 7,152 16,914
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 3.70% 7.04% 10.74%
As % of the Systems Management category 37.04% 48.20% 58.67%
Number of salaries quoted 2,621 4,417 7,229
10th Percentile £48,750 £50,000 £46,700
25th Percentile £59,000 £60,713 £57,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £75,000 £75,000 £75,000
Median % change year-on-year - - +7.14%
75th Percentile £95,000 £97,290 £95,000
90th Percentile £115,000 £115,000 £110,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £68,500 £68,790 £70,000
% change year-on-year -0.42% -1.73% +20.18%

All Systems Management Skills
UK

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 with a requirement for systems management skills.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for systems management skills 9,920 14,837 28,830
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 10.00% 14.61% 18.31%
Number of salaries quoted 7,137 9,151 14,123
10th Percentile £32,500 £35,500 £37,500
25th Percentile £45,000 £48,091 £48,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £67,500 £70,000
Median % change year-on-year -11.11% -3.57% +12.00%
75th Percentile £82,500 £87,500 £86,625
90th Percentile £100,000 £105,000 £102,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £55,000 £57,810 £60,000
% change year-on-year -4.86% -3.65% +9.09%

Kubernetes
Job Vacancy Trend

Job postings citing Kubernetes as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Job vacancy trend for Kubernetes in the UK

Kubernetes
Salary Trend

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

Salary trend for Kubernetes in the UK

Kubernetes
Salary Histogram

Salary distribution for jobs citing Kubernetes over the 6 months to 8 May 2024.

Salary histogram for Kubernetes in the UK

Kubernetes
Top 19 Job Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Kubernetes within the UK over the 6 months to 8 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
England -35 3,005 £77,500 - 876
UK excluding London -21 2,251 £68,500 -0.42% 442
Work from Home -39 1,463 £75,000 - 549
London -19 1,274 £87,500 +2.94% 462
South East -16 592 £70,000 - 108
Scotland -16 487 £70,576 +4.56% 37
North of England -26 478 £62,500 -10.00% 108
South West -26 367 £70,576 +4.56% 82
North West -22 283 £62,500 -10.00% 59
Midlands -50 175 £60,000 -14.29% 58
Yorkshire -19 164 £60,000 -12.43% 39
West Midlands -37 106 £65,000 -7.14% 28
East of England -64 95 £85,000 +21.43% 31
East Midlands -37 70 £60,000 -14.29% 30
Wales -23 36 £42,500 -29.17% 9
North East -34 31 £63,750 -7.61% 10
Northern Ireland -22 21 £75,000 +3.45% 14
Isle of Man - 3 - -
Channel Islands - 1 £110,000 -

Kubernetes
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities 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
1 204 (5.55%) Apache Spark
2 170 (4.63%) Apache
3 130 (3.54%) Apache Airflow
4 98 (2.67%) FileNet
5 77 (2.10%) OpenStack
6 48 (1.31%) nginx
7 40 (1.09%) Confluence
8 26 (0.71%) Microsoft Exchange
9 24 (0.65%) Jupyter
10 21 (0.57%) JBoss
11 19 (0.52%) Cloud Foundry
12 16 (0.44%) Tomcat
13 15 (0.41%) IIS
14 13 (0.35%) Drupal
15 12 (0.33%) SharePoint
16 11 (0.30%) Red Hat Fuse
17 10 (0.27%) CMS
18 8 (0.22%) WebSphere
19 7 (0.19%) WebLogic
19 7 (0.19%) WildFly
Applications
1 11 (0.30%) Microsoft Excel
2 2 (0.054%) InDesign
2 2 (0.054%) Microsoft Office
3 1 (0.027%) Blender
Business Applications
1 7 (0.19%) Teamcenter
2 3 (0.082%) Remedy ITSM
2 3 (0.082%) SAP Business One
3 2 (0.054%) Oracle EBS
4 1 (0.027%) Payment Gateway
4 1 (0.027%) Salesforce CRM
4 1 (0.027%) SAP S/4HANA
4 1 (0.027%) Shopify
Cloud Services
1 1,935 (52.67%) AWS
2 1,463 (39.82%) Azure
3 525 (14.29%) GCP
4 422 (11.49%) Amazon S3
5 386 (10.51%) Azure DevOps
6 333 (9.06%) Serverless
7 307 (8.36%) GitHub
8 296 (8.06%) SaaS
9 280 (7.62%) Amazon EKS
10 237 (6.45%) OpenShift
11 206 (5.61%) AWS CloudFormation
12 200 (5.44%) AWS Lambda
13 199 (5.42%) Amazon ECS
14 161 (4.38%) Azure AKS
15 149 (4.06%) Amazon EC2
16 142 (3.86%) PaaS
17 122 (3.32%) Cloud Computing
18 114 (3.10%) GitHub Actions
19 111 (3.02%) IaaS
20 102 (2.78%) IBM Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 189 (5.14%) Firewall
2 119 (3.24%) DNS
3 105 (2.86%) VPN
4 85 (2.31%) Internet
5 73 (1.99%) TCP/IP
6 66 (1.80%) DHCP
7 64 (1.74%) Network Security
8 63 (1.71%) HTTP
9 58 (1.58%) IPsec
10 54 (1.47%) SNMP
11 49 (1.33%) WAN
12 48 (1.31%) SD-WAN
13 39 (1.06%) AMQP
14 20 (0.54%) BGP
15 18 (0.49%) DSL
16 17 (0.46%) Kerberos
17 13 (0.35%) MPLS
18 11 (0.30%) Ethernet VPN
19 7 (0.19%) WLAN
20 6 (0.16%) LAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 421 (11.46%) NoSQL
2 303 (8.25%) PostgreSQL
3 283 (7.70%) Elasticsearch
4 252 (6.86%) Big Data
5 251 (6.83%) MongoDB
6 224 (6.10%) SQL Server
7 195 (5.31%) Amazon RDS
8 174 (4.74%) Relational Database
9 165 (4.49%) MySQL
10 133 (3.62%) Redis
11 132 (3.59%) Apache Cassandra
12 105 (2.86%) Data Lake
13 99 (2.69%) Hadoop
14 68 (1.85%) Amazon Redshift
15 57 (1.55%) BigQuery
16 50 (1.36%) Azure SQL Database
17 47 (1.28%) Amazon Athena
18 46 (1.25%) Dremio
19 42 (1.14%) Apache Arrow
19 42 (1.14%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 707 (19.24%) Jenkins
2 515 (14.02%) Git
3 263 (7.16%) GitLab
4 177 (4.82%) JIRA
5 163 (4.44%) JUnit
6 128 (3.48%) Selenium
7 83 (2.26%) Cypress.io
7 83 (2.26%) TeamCity
8 60 (1.63%) Mockito
9 58 (1.58%) Artifactory
10 57 (1.55%) CircleCI
11 53 (1.44%) Jasmine
11 53 (1.44%) Octopus Deploy
12 49 (1.33%) Cucumber
12 49 (1.33%) Maven
13 47 (1.28%) SonarQube
14 44 (1.20%) Sonatype Nexus
15 42 (1.14%) Bitbucket
16 27 (0.73%) SoapUI
17 24 (0.65%) Team Foundation Server
General
1 1,033 (28.12%) Finance
2 555 (15.11%) Social Skills
3 521 (14.18%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 395 (10.75%) Law
5 259 (7.05%) Public Sector
6 258 (7.02%) Banking
7 224 (6.10%) Marketing
8 146 (3.97%) Analytical Skills
9 143 (3.89%) Legal
10 122 (3.32%) Retail
11 100 (2.72%) Aerospace
12 63 (1.71%) Games
13 60 (1.63%) Front Office
14 56 (1.52%) Retail Banking
14 56 (1.52%) Tech for Good
15 48 (1.31%) Investment Banking
16 43 (1.17%) Financial Institution
17 40 (1.09%) Organisational Skills
18 32 (0.87%) Health Technology
18 32 (0.87%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 894 (24.33%) Senior
2 773 (21.04%) Developer
3 701 (19.08%) Software Engineer
4 662 (18.02%) DevOps Engineer
5 539 (14.67%) Lead
6 280 (7.62%) Architect
7 273 (7.43%) Java Developer
8 269 (7.32%) AWS Engineer
9 247 (6.72%) Senior Developer
10 211 (5.74%) Cloud Engineer
11 200 (5.44%) Java Engineer
12 193 (5.25%) Azure Engineer
13 168 (4.57%) Senior DevOps
14 165 (4.49%) Senior Software Engineer
15 164 (4.46%) AWS DevOps
15 164 (4.46%) Software Developer
16 163 (4.44%) Data Engineer
17 161 (4.38%) Senior DevOps Engineer
18 155 (4.22%) Lead Software Engineer
19 149 (4.06%) Platform Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 712 (19.38%) React
2 601 (16.36%) Kafka
3 513 (13.96%) Spring
4 495 (13.47%) .NET
5 373 (10.15%) AngularJS
6 356 (9.69%) Spring Boot
7 326 (8.87%) Node.js
8 306 (8.33%) REST
9 210 (5.72%) HTML
10 207 (5.63%) CSS
11 190 (5.17%) RabbitMQ
12 183 (4.98%) GraphQL
13 176 (4.79%) Hibernate
14 166 (4.52%) RESTful
15 157 (4.27%) JSON
16 150 (4.08%) J2EE
17 140 (3.81%) .NET Core
18 123 (3.35%) Elastic Stack
19 120 (3.27%) YAML
20 118 (3.21%) gRPC
Miscellaneous
1 406 (11.05%) Cloud Native
2 263 (7.16%) Distributed Systems
3 241 (6.56%) Public Cloud
4 178 (4.84%) Algorithms
5 147 (4.00%) Hybrid Cloud
6 142 (3.86%) Data Centre
7 135 (3.67%) Management Information System
8 124 (3.38%) Product Ownership
9 123 (3.35%) Blockchain
10 121 (3.29%) Greenfield Project
11 83 (2.26%) Data Structures
12 77 (2.10%) Private Cloud
13 71 (1.93%) Hedge funds
14 66 (1.80%) Clustering
15 58 (1.58%) e-Learning
16 51 (1.39%) Client/Server
16 51 (1.39%) Linux Command Line
17 47 (1.28%) Mobile App
18 43 (1.17%) Self-Motivation
19 36 (0.98%) Legacy Code
Operating Systems
1 974 (26.51%) Linux
2 372 (10.13%) Windows
3 125 (3.40%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 104 (2.83%) CentOS
5 88 (2.40%) Windows Server
6 74 (2.01%) Debian
7 68 (1.85%) Unix
8 57 (1.55%) Ubuntu
9 54 (1.47%) Data ONTAP
10 40 (1.09%) Alpine Linux
11 34 (0.93%) Windows Server 2016
12 28 (0.76%) VMS
13 25 (0.68%) Android
14 24 (0.65%) Apple iOS
15 20 (0.54%) Windows Server 2019
16 12 (0.33%) Oracle Linux
17 11 (0.30%) Solaris
18 10 (0.27%) Embedded Linux
19 7 (0.19%) CoreOS
19 7 (0.19%) zOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 1,641 (44.67%) DevOps
2 1,618 (44.04%) Agile
3 1,584 (43.11%) CI/CD
4 1,196 (32.55%) Software Engineering
5 901 (24.52%) Microservices
6 860 (23.41%) Containerisation
7 686 (18.67%) Infrastructure as Code
8 609 (16.58%) Problem-Solving
9 581 (15.81%) Artificial Intelligence
10 565 (15.38%) SDLC
11 430 (11.70%) Mentoring
12 401 (10.91%) Computer Science
13 386 (10.51%) Full Stack Development
14 365 (9.93%) Machine Learning
15 338 (9.20%) Scrum
16 323 (8.79%) Continuous Integration
17 310 (8.44%) TDD
18 309 (8.41%) Test Automation
19 302 (8.22%) Continuous Improvement
20 257 (7.00%) Site Reliability Engineering
Programming Languages
1 1,331 (36.23%) Java
2 1,287 (35.03%) Python
3 760 (20.69%) SQL
4 687 (18.70%) JavaScript
5 565 (15.38%) C#
6 434 (11.81%) TypeScript
7 360 (9.80%) Bash
8 359 (9.77%) Go
9 326 (8.87%) PowerShell
10 111 (3.02%) PHP
11 95 (2.59%) Ruby
12 94 (2.56%) C++
13 80 (2.18%) Scala
14 75 (2.04%) C
15 70 (1.91%) Rust
16 67 (1.82%) PL/SQL
16 67 (1.82%) Shell Script
17 64 (1.74%) Bicep
18 62 (1.69%) Kotlin
19 44 (1.20%) Perl
Qualifications
1 472 (12.85%) Security Cleared
2 461 (12.55%) Degree
3 278 (7.57%) Computer Science Degree
3 278 (7.57%) SC Cleared
4 218 (5.93%) DV Cleared
5 164 (4.46%) Azure Certification
6 152 (4.14%) AWS Certification
7 100 (2.72%) Master's Degree
8 93 (2.53%) Microsoft Certification
9 51 (1.39%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
10 50 (1.36%) CISSP
11 42 (1.14%) CISM
12 40 (1.09%) MCSA
12 40 (1.09%) MCSE
13 39 (1.06%) Cisco Certification
14 36 (0.98%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
15 34 (0.93%) (ISC)2 CCSP
15 34 (0.93%) CCSK
15 34 (0.93%) CCSP
15 34 (0.93%) PhD
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 96 (2.61%) QA
2 53 (1.44%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 45 (1.22%) NIST
4 33 (0.90%) WCAG
5 28 (0.76%) SLA
6 20 (0.54%) GDPR
7 13 (0.35%) PCI DSS
8 12 (0.33%) Accessibility
8 12 (0.33%) NCSC
9 8 (0.22%) Cyber Essentials
10 7 (0.19%) Data Quality
11 5 (0.14%) ISO 9001
12 4 (0.11%) HIPAA
12 4 (0.11%) SEPA
12 4 (0.11%) SOC 2
13 3 (0.082%) ISO 20022
13 3 (0.082%) ISO 9000
14 1 (0.027%) Disclosure Scotland
14 1 (0.027%) ISO 15022
14 1 (0.027%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 2,223 (60.51%) Docker
2 157 (4.27%) VMware Infrastructure
3 111 (3.02%) Active Directory
4 105 (2.86%) Hyper-V
5 81 (2.20%) Virtual Machines
6 22 (0.60%) vSphere
7 21 (0.57%) Virtual Desktop
8 13 (0.35%) VMware ESXi
9 11 (0.30%) Firmware
10 10 (0.27%) Ceph
11 8 (0.22%) KVM
12 6 (0.16%) NFS
12 6 (0.16%) Slurm Workload Manager
12 6 (0.16%) VirtualBox
13 4 (0.11%) Embedded Firmware
14 3 (0.082%) Gluster
14 3 (0.082%) oVirt
15 2 (0.054%) Apache ZooKeeper
15 2 (0.054%) Varnish
15 2 (0.054%) Xen
Systems Management
1 1,307 (35.57%) Terraform
2 662 (18.02%) Ansible
3 329 (8.95%) Prometheus
4 241 (6.56%) Puppet
5 195 (5.31%) Grafana
6 108 (2.94%) Progress Chef
7 80 (2.18%) vCenter Server
8 56 (1.52%) Single Sign-On
9 50 (1.36%) Istio
10 34 (0.93%) Kibana
11 32 (0.87%) Docker Swarm
12 29 (0.79%) SCCM
13 26 (0.71%) Active Directory Federation Services
14 24 (0.65%) Argo
14 24 (0.65%) Consul
14 24 (0.65%) Microsoft Intune
15 23 (0.63%) Packer
16 22 (0.60%) Nagios
16 22 (0.60%) Rancher
16 22 (0.60%) Salt
Vendors
1 388 (10.56%) Microsoft
2 373 (10.15%) Oracle
3 296 (8.06%) Red Hat
4 284 (7.73%) Google
5 203 (5.53%) VMware
6 107 (2.91%) IBM
7 89 (2.42%) Dynatrace
8 74 (2.01%) Databricks
9 69 (1.88%) Splunk
10 61 (1.66%) Palo Alto
11 55 (1.50%) NetApp
12 54 (1.47%) SolidFire
13 42 (1.14%) WSO2
14 36 (0.98%) SaltStack
15 33 (0.90%) Cisco
16 31 (0.84%) Sybase
17 30 (0.82%) Atlassian
18 29 (0.79%) Dell
19 24 (0.65%) ServiceNow
20 22 (0.60%) ForgeRock