Kubernetes Jobs in the West Midlands

Kubernetes (k8s)
England > West Midlands

The following table provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in the West Midlands 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 15 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
15 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 146 111 56
Rank change year-on-year -35 -55 +9
Permanent jobs citing Kubernetes 106 180 349
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the West Midlands 1.44% 2.86% 4.76%
As % of the Systems Management category 19.74% 22.81% 39.13%
Number of salaries quoted 84 127 292
10th Percentile £46,250 £50,750 £46,250
25th Percentile £52,500 £56,365 £55,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £70,000 £70,000
Median % change year-on-year -7.14% - +12.00%
75th Percentile £84,919 £81,875 £82,500
90th Percentile £88,750 £100,000 £85,000
England median annual salary £77,500 £77,500 £77,500
% change year-on-year - - +10.71%

All Systems Management Skills
West Midlands

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 West Midlands with a requirement for systems management skills.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for systems management skills 537 789 892
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the West Midlands 7.27% 12.55% 12.17%
Number of salaries quoted 408 382 650
10th Percentile £29,000 £27,775 £35,250
25th Percentile £38,250 £37,995 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £57,500 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -4.35% +4.55% -4.35%
75th Percentile £68,750 £72,500 £75,000
90th Percentile £81,625 £85,000 £85,000
England median annual salary £61,206 £67,500 £70,000
% change year-on-year -9.32% -3.57% +7.69%

Kubernetes
Job Vacancy Trend in the West Midlands

Job postings citing Kubernetes as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the West Midlands.

Job vacancy trend for Kubernetes in the West Midlands

Kubernetes
Salary Trend in the West Midlands

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

Salary trend for Kubernetes in the West Midlands

Kubernetes
Salary Histogram in the West Midlands

Salary distribution for jobs citing Kubernetes in the West Midlands over the 6 months to 15 May 2024.

Salary histogram for Kubernetes in the West Midlands

Kubernetes
Job Locations in the West Midlands

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Kubernetes within the West Midlands region over the 6 months to 15 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
Birmingham -52 49 £79,842 +14.06% 12
Warwickshire +23 9 £65,000 +13.04% 2
Staffordshire -18 7 £67,500 +35.00% 2
Herefordshire +6 6 - -
Worcestershire -27 6 £55,000 -8.33% 1
Coventry +34 4 £59,250 +3.04% 2
Wolverhampton - 2 £40,000 -
Solihull -1 1 £45,000 - 1
Shropshire -22 1 £72,500 +3.57%
Kubernetes
England

Kubernetes
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the West Midlands 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 6 (5.66%) IIS
2 1 (0.94%) Apache
2 1 (0.94%) Apache Airflow
2 1 (0.94%) Apache Spark
Business Applications
1 2 (1.89%) Oracle EBS
Cloud Services
1 53 (50.00%) Azure
2 32 (30.19%) AWS
3 31 (29.25%) SaaS
4 20 (18.87%) Azure DevOps
5 13 (12.26%) Microsoft 365
6 12 (11.32%) GitHub
7 11 (10.38%) GCP
8 10 (9.43%) GitHub Actions
9 9 (8.49%) Azure Service Bus
9 9 (8.49%) Cloud Computing
10 8 (7.55%) IaaS
10 8 (7.55%) PaaS
11 7 (6.60%) Entra ID
12 6 (5.66%) Azure AKS
13 5 (4.72%) Amazon S3
13 5 (4.72%) AWS Lambda
13 5 (4.72%) Serverless
14 4 (3.77%) Amazon EC2
15 2 (1.89%) AWS CodePipeline
15 2 (1.89%) Power Platform
Communications & Networking
1 3 (2.83%) SD-WAN
1 3 (2.83%) WAN
2 2 (1.89%) 4G
2 2 (1.89%) 5G
3 1 (0.94%) HTTP
3 1 (0.94%) Software-Defined Networking
Database & Business Intelligence
1 17 (16.04%) Elasticsearch
2 11 (10.38%) NoSQL
3 9 (8.49%) PostgreSQL
4 8 (7.55%) SQL Server
5 6 (5.66%) Relational Database
6 3 (2.83%) Data Lake
7 2 (1.89%) Power BI
8 1 (0.94%) Amazon RDS
8 1 (0.94%) Amazon Redshift
8 1 (0.94%) Big Data
8 1 (0.94%) BigQuery
8 1 (0.94%) DynamoDB
8 1 (0.94%) Electronic Patient Records
8 1 (0.94%) MySQL
Development Applications
1 8 (7.55%) Git
1 8 (7.55%) SonarQube
2 6 (5.66%) Octopus Deploy
2 6 (5.66%) TeamCity
3 5 (4.72%) Postman
4 4 (3.77%) GitLab
5 3 (2.83%) Jenkins
5 3 (2.83%) Maven
6 2 (1.89%) Fiddler
6 2 (1.89%) GCC
6 2 (1.89%) Sonatype Nexus
General
1 19 (17.92%) Finance
2 13 (12.26%) Social Skills
3 6 (5.66%) Automotive
4 5 (4.72%) Retail
5 4 (3.77%) Analytical Skills
5 4 (3.77%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 4 (3.77%) Organisational Skills
5 4 (3.77%) Police
6 3 (2.83%) Telecoms
7 2 (1.89%) Manufacturing
7 2 (1.89%) Marketing
8 1 (0.94%) Electronics
8 1 (0.94%) Games
8 1 (0.94%) Public Sector
8 1 (0.94%) Tech for Good
Job Titles
1 33 (31.13%) Senior
2 31 (29.25%) Developer
3 18 (16.98%) Lead
4 16 (15.09%) Senior Developer
5 12 (11.32%) Software Engineer
6 11 (10.38%) Azure Engineer
7 9 (8.49%) C# Developer
7 9 (8.49%) Head of DevOps
8 7 (6.60%) DevOps Engineer
8 7 (6.60%) Identity and Access Management Engineer
8 7 (6.60%) Identity Management Engineer
8 7 (6.60%) Lead DevOps
9 6 (5.66%) Lead Developer
10 5 (4.72%) .NET Developer
10 5 (4.72%) Architect
10 5 (4.72%) C# Software Engineer
10 5 (4.72%) Cloud Infrastructure Manager
10 5 (4.72%) Infrastructure Manager
10 5 (4.72%) Lead DevOps Engineer
10 5 (4.72%) Senior .NET Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 21 (19.81%) .NET
2 18 (16.98%) React
3 14 (13.21%) ARM Templates
4 13 (12.26%) REST
5 12 (11.32%) AngularJS
6 11 (10.38%) Web Services
7 10 (9.43%) Blazor
7 10 (9.43%) HTML
7 10 (9.43%) Twitter Bootstrap
8 9 (8.49%) CSS
8 9 (8.49%) Entity Framework
9 8 (7.55%) ASP.NET
9 8 (7.55%) Azure Blueprints
10 7 (6.60%) Node.js
10 7 (6.60%) Vue
11 6 (5.66%) .NET Core
11 6 (5.66%) jQuery
12 5 (4.72%) WinForms
12 5 (4.72%) WPF
13 4 (3.77%) Spring
Miscellaneous
1 12 (11.32%) Cloud Native
2 11 (10.38%) Management Information System
3 8 (7.55%) Onboarding
4 7 (6.60%) PKI
4 7 (6.60%) Product Ownership
5 6 (5.66%) Data Centre
6 4 (3.77%) Team-Oriented Environment
7 3 (2.83%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
8 2 (1.89%) Low-Code
9 1 (0.94%) Distributed Computing
9 1 (0.94%) Enterprise Cloud
9 1 (0.94%) Enterprise Software
9 1 (0.94%) Genomics
9 1 (0.94%) Private Cloud
9 1 (0.94%) Self-Motivation
9 1 (0.94%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 16 (15.09%) Windows
2 7 (6.60%) Windows Server
3 6 (5.66%) Linux
4 4 (3.77%) VMS
5 3 (2.83%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 2 (1.89%) Ubuntu
6 2 (1.89%) Unix
7 1 (0.94%) CentOS
7 1 (0.94%) Debian
Processes & Methodologies
1 54 (50.94%) DevOps
2 41 (38.68%) Containerisation
3 38 (35.85%) Software Engineering
4 28 (26.42%) CI/CD
5 24 (22.64%) Mentoring
6 18 (16.98%) Site Reliability Engineering
7 17 (16.04%) Test Automation
8 16 (15.09%) Microservices
8 16 (15.09%) Project Delivery
9 14 (13.21%) Agile
9 14 (13.21%) DevSecOps
9 14 (13.21%) Release Management
10 12 (11.32%) API Development
10 12 (11.32%) Continuous Improvement
10 12 (11.32%) Functional Testing
10 12 (11.32%) ITIL
10 12 (11.32%) Non-Functional Testing
11 11 (10.38%) Problem-Solving
12 10 (9.43%) Application Security
12 10 (9.43%) Identity Management
Programming Languages
1 33 (31.13%) C#
2 20 (18.87%) JavaScript
2 20 (18.87%) SQL
3 17 (16.04%) Python
4 13 (12.26%) TypeScript
5 10 (9.43%) Java
6 8 (7.55%) PowerShell
7 6 (5.66%) Go
8 5 (4.72%) Bash
9 4 (3.77%) VB
10 2 (1.89%) C++
10 2 (1.89%) PHP
10 2 (1.89%) PL/SQL
11 1 (0.94%) R
Qualifications
1 12 (11.32%) Security Cleared
2 10 (9.43%) Degree
3 9 (8.49%) Azure Certification
4 8 (7.55%) BPSS Clearance
5 4 (3.77%) AWS Certification
5 4 (3.77%) SC Cleared
6 3 (2.83%) (ISC)2 CCSP
6 3 (2.83%) CCSK
6 3 (2.83%) CCSP
6 3 (2.83%) Cisco Certification
6 3 (2.83%) CISM
6 3 (2.83%) CISSP
7 2 (1.89%) Microsoft Certification
8 1 (0.94%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
8 1 (0.94%) Computer Science Degree
8 1 (0.94%) DV Cleared
8 1 (0.94%) Master's Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 11 (10.38%) QA
2 8 (7.55%) NCSC
3 3 (2.83%) NIST
4 2 (1.89%) SLA
System Software
1 80 (75.47%) Docker
2 7 (6.60%) Active Directory
2 7 (6.60%) Hyper-V
2 7 (6.60%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 39 (36.79%) Terraform
2 14 (13.21%) Ansible
3 10 (9.43%) Single Sign-On
4 2 (1.89%) Progress Chef
4 2 (1.89%) Puppet
5 1 (0.94%) SCCM
Vendors
1 25 (23.58%) Microsoft
2 7 (6.60%) VMware
3 3 (2.83%) Google
4 2 (1.89%) IFS
4 2 (1.89%) OpenAI
4 2 (1.89%) Oracle
4 2 (1.89%) PeopleSoft
4 2 (1.89%) Workday
5 1 (0.94%) Cisco
5 1 (0.94%) Databricks
5 1 (0.94%) Red Hat