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 2 June 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
2 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 154 110 57
Rank change year-on-year -44 -53 +13
Permanent jobs citing Kubernetes 107 158 356
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the West Midlands 1.33% 2.71% 4.68%
As % of the Systems Management category 19.31% 22.04% 39.34%
Number of salaries quoted 86 117 296
10th Percentile £46,250 £51,250 £46,250
25th Percentile £52,500 £56,000 £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 £82,500 £82,500
90th Percentile £91,875 £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 554 717 905
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the West Midlands 6.90% 12.30% 11.91%
Number of salaries quoted 408 358 637
10th Percentile £29,000 £27,500 £35,494
25th Percentile £38,250 £37,875 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £57,500 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -4.35% +4.55% -
75th Percentile £68,750 £72,500 £75,000
90th Percentile £81,625 £85,000 £84,250
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 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 2 June 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 2 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
Birmingham -50 52 £79,842 +14.06% 12
Warwickshire +13 8 £65,000 +13.04% 4
Staffordshire -18 7 £67,500 +35.00% 2
Worcestershire -25 7 £55,000 -8.33% 1
Herefordshire +4 4 - -
Coventry +26 3 £60,000 +4.35% 1
Wolverhampton +20 2 £40,000 -27.27%
Solihull -5 1 £45,000 - 1
Shropshire -23 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 (5.61%) IIS
2 1 (0.93%) Apache
2 1 (0.93%) Apache Airflow
2 1 (0.93%) Apache Spark
Business Applications
1 2 (1.87%) Oracle EBS
Cloud Services
1 52 (48.60%) Azure
2 32 (29.91%) AWS
2 32 (29.91%) SaaS
3 23 (21.50%) Azure DevOps
4 14 (13.08%) GitHub
5 13 (12.15%) Microsoft 365
6 12 (11.21%) GitHub Actions
7 10 (9.35%) GCP
7 10 (9.35%) IaaS
7 10 (9.35%) PaaS
8 9 (8.41%) Cloud Computing
9 7 (6.54%) Azure AKS
9 7 (6.54%) Azure Service Bus
9 7 (6.54%) Entra ID
10 5 (4.67%) Amazon S3
10 5 (4.67%) AWS Lambda
10 5 (4.67%) Serverless
11 4 (3.74%) Amazon EC2
12 2 (1.87%) AWS CloudFormation
12 2 (1.87%) AWS CodePipeline
Communications & Networking
1 3 (2.80%) SD-WAN
1 3 (2.80%) WAN
2 2 (1.87%) 4G
2 2 (1.87%) 5G
3 1 (0.93%) Software-Defined Networking
Database & Business Intelligence
1 17 (15.89%) Elasticsearch
2 10 (9.35%) NoSQL
3 9 (8.41%) PostgreSQL
4 8 (7.48%) SQL Server
5 7 (6.54%) Relational Database
6 2 (1.87%) Data Lake
6 2 (1.87%) Power BI
7 1 (0.93%) Amazon RDS
7 1 (0.93%) Amazon Redshift
7 1 (0.93%) BigQuery
7 1 (0.93%) DynamoDB
7 1 (0.93%) Electronic Patient Records
7 1 (0.93%) MySQL
Development Applications
1 10 (9.35%) SonarQube
2 8 (7.48%) Git
3 6 (5.61%) Octopus Deploy
3 6 (5.61%) TeamCity
4 5 (4.67%) Postman
5 4 (3.74%) GitLab
6 3 (2.80%) Jenkins
7 2 (1.87%) Fiddler
7 2 (1.87%) GCC
7 2 (1.87%) Maven
7 2 (1.87%) Sonatype Nexus
General
1 18 (16.82%) Finance
2 11 (10.28%) Social Skills
3 7 (6.54%) Automotive
4 5 (4.67%) Retail
5 4 (3.74%) Organisational Skills
5 4 (3.74%) Police
6 3 (2.80%) Analytical Skills
6 3 (2.80%) Public Sector
7 2 (1.87%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 2 (1.87%) Manufacturing
7 2 (1.87%) Marketing
7 2 (1.87%) Telecoms
8 1 (0.93%) Electronics
8 1 (0.93%) Games
8 1 (0.93%) Tech for Good
Job Titles
1 34 (31.78%) Senior
2 28 (26.17%) Developer
3 18 (16.82%) Lead
4 15 (14.02%) Senior Developer
4 15 (14.02%) Software Engineer
5 12 (11.21%) Azure Engineer
6 10 (9.35%) DevOps Engineer
7 9 (8.41%) Head of DevOps
8 7 (6.54%) C# Developer
8 7 (6.54%) Identity and Access Management Engineer
8 7 (6.54%) Identity Management Engineer
8 7 (6.54%) Lead DevOps
9 6 (5.61%) C# Software Engineer
9 6 (5.61%) Lead Developer
10 5 (4.67%) .NET Developer
10 5 (4.67%) Azure DevOps Engineer
10 5 (4.67%) Cloud Infrastructure Manager
10 5 (4.67%) Infrastructure Manager
10 5 (4.67%) Senior .NET Developer
10 5 (4.67%) Senior Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 20 (18.69%) .NET
2 17 (15.89%) React
3 16 (14.95%) ARM Templates
4 13 (12.15%) REST
5 11 (10.28%) AngularJS
5 11 (10.28%) Web Services
6 10 (9.35%) Azure Blueprints
6 10 (9.35%) HTML
6 10 (9.35%) Twitter Bootstrap
7 9 (8.41%) CSS
7 9 (8.41%) Entity Framework
8 8 (7.48%) ASP.NET
9 7 (6.54%) Blazor
9 7 (6.54%) Node.js
9 7 (6.54%) Vue
10 6 (5.61%) .NET Core
10 6 (5.61%) jQuery
10 6 (5.61%) WinForms
10 6 (5.61%) WPF
11 4 (3.74%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 13 (12.15%) Cloud Native
1 13 (12.15%) Management Information System
2 10 (9.35%) Onboarding
3 7 (6.54%) PKI
3 7 (6.54%) Product Ownership
4 6 (5.61%) Data Centre
5 4 (3.74%) Team-Oriented Environment
6 3 (2.80%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
7 2 (1.87%) Low-Code
8 1 (0.93%) Distributed Computing
8 1 (0.93%) Enterprise Cloud
8 1 (0.93%) Enterprise Software
8 1 (0.93%) Genomics
8 1 (0.93%) Private Cloud
8 1 (0.93%) Self-Motivation
8 1 (0.93%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 17 (15.89%) Windows
2 7 (6.54%) Windows Server
3 5 (4.67%) Linux
4 4 (3.74%) VMS
5 2 (1.87%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 2 (1.87%) Ubuntu
6 1 (0.93%) CentOS
6 1 (0.93%) Debian
6 1 (0.93%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 59 (55.14%) DevOps
2 42 (39.25%) Software Engineering
3 40 (37.38%) Containerisation
4 27 (25.23%) CI/CD
5 25 (23.36%) Mentoring
6 19 (17.76%) Site Reliability Engineering
7 18 (16.82%) Test Automation
8 16 (14.95%) DevSecOps
8 16 (14.95%) Project Delivery
8 16 (14.95%) Release Management
9 15 (14.02%) Microservices
10 14 (13.08%) Functional Testing
10 14 (13.08%) Non-Functional Testing
11 13 (12.15%) Agile
12 12 (11.21%) Continuous Improvement
12 12 (11.21%) ITIL
13 11 (10.28%) Cybersecurity
14 10 (9.35%) Continuous Delivery
14 10 (9.35%) Performance Analysis
14 10 (9.35%) Static Application Security Testing
Programming Languages
1 32 (29.91%) C#
2 23 (21.50%) JavaScript
3 20 (18.69%) Python
3 20 (18.69%) SQL
4 15 (14.02%) TypeScript
5 10 (9.35%) Java
6 8 (7.48%) PowerShell
7 6 (5.61%) Go
8 5 (4.67%) Bash
9 4 (3.74%) VB
10 2 (1.87%) C++
10 2 (1.87%) PHP
10 2 (1.87%) PL/SQL
11 1 (0.93%) R
Qualifications
1 17 (15.89%) Security Cleared
2 10 (9.35%) BPSS Clearance
2 10 (9.35%) Degree
3 9 (8.41%) Azure Certification
4 7 (6.54%) SC Cleared
5 4 (3.74%) DV Cleared
6 3 (2.80%) (ISC)2 CCSP
6 3 (2.80%) AWS Certification
6 3 (2.80%) CCSK
6 3 (2.80%) CCSP
6 3 (2.80%) Cisco Certification
6 3 (2.80%) CISM
6 3 (2.80%) CISSP
7 2 (1.87%) Microsoft Certification
8 1 (0.93%) Computer Science Degree
8 1 (0.93%) Master's Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 11 (10.28%) QA
2 10 (9.35%) NCSC
3 3 (2.80%) NIST
4 2 (1.87%) SLA
System Software
1 80 (74.77%) Docker
2 7 (6.54%) Active Directory
2 7 (6.54%) Hyper-V
2 7 (6.54%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 42 (39.25%) Terraform
2 15 (14.02%) Ansible
3 10 (9.35%) Single Sign-On
4 2 (1.87%) Progress Chef
4 2 (1.87%) Puppet
Vendors
1 25 (23.36%) Microsoft
2 7 (6.54%) VMware
3 3 (2.80%) Google
4 2 (1.87%) IFS
4 2 (1.87%) OpenAI
4 2 (1.87%) Oracle
4 2 (1.87%) PeopleSoft
4 2 (1.87%) Workday
5 1 (0.93%) Cisco
5 1 (0.93%) Red Hat