Kubernetes Jobs in the South East

Kubernetes (k8s)
England > South East

The following table provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in the South East 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 1 June 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
1 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 77 58 41
Rank change year-on-year -19 -17 -4
Permanent jobs citing Kubernetes 594 659 1,338
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the South East 3.34% 4.79% 6.48%
As % of the Systems Management category 34.62% 35.28% 48.29%
Number of salaries quoted 469 492 823
10th Percentile £49,800 £48,750 £46,250
25th Percentile £57,025 £55,000 £55,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £70,000 £70,000 £70,000
Median % change year-on-year - - +12.00%
75th Percentile £85,000 £90,313 £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 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 South East with a requirement for systems management skills.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for systems management skills 1,716 1,868 2,771
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the South East 9.64% 13.58% 13.42%
Number of salaries quoted 1,241 1,209 1,739
10th Percentile £32,500 £29,000 £32,500
25th Percentile £40,500 £41,250 £44,875
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £60,000 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year -8.33% -7.69% +8.33%
75th Percentile £71,250 £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 1 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 1 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 +3 287 £75,000 -3.23% 46
Berkshire +17 239 £75,000 -11.76% 32
Hampshire -18 151 £70,000 +3.70% 19
Surrey -45 53 £80,000 - 12
Kent +14 36 £55,000 -8.33% 5
West Sussex +29 29 £65,000 +18.18% 4
Buckinghamshire -37 26 £65,000 -7.14% 10
East Sussex -17 23 £80,000 +28.00% 4
Oxfordshire -23 22 £72,500 +7.41% 4
Sussex - 2 £67,500 - 1
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 46 (7.74%) OpenStack
2 24 (4.04%) Microsoft Exchange
3 19 (3.20%) Apache
4 10 (1.68%) Red Hat Fuse
5 9 (1.52%) JBoss
6 7 (1.18%) Confluence
7 6 (1.01%) SharePoint
8 4 (0.67%) 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
1 231 (38.89%) Azure
2 223 (37.54%) AWS
3 94 (15.82%) Azure DevOps
4 73 (12.29%) Serverless
5 64 (10.77%) Amazon ECS
6 61 (10.27%) Amazon EKS
7 59 (9.93%) SaaS
8 42 (7.07%) Amazon S3
9 41 (6.90%) Amazon EC2
9 41 (6.90%) Microsoft 365
10 40 (6.73%) IBM Cloud
11 32 (5.39%) AWS Lambda
12 30 (5.05%) AWS CloudFormation
12 30 (5.05%) Cloud Computing
12 30 (5.05%) GCP
13 28 (4.71%) CloudFront
13 28 (4.71%) Entra ID
14 19 (3.20%) Azure Monitor
15 18 (3.03%) Amazon CloudWatch
16 17 (2.86%) Azure Storage
Communications & Networking
1 46 (7.74%) Firewall
2 20 (3.37%) DNS
3 17 (2.86%) DHCP
4 11 (1.85%) Network Security
5 10 (1.68%) HTTP
6 9 (1.52%) Internet
6 9 (1.52%) VPN
7 6 (1.01%) IPsec
8 5 (0.84%) BGP
8 5 (0.84%) SNMP
9 3 (0.51%) WLAN
10 2 (0.34%) LAN
10 2 (0.34%) OSPF
10 2 (0.34%) TCP/IP
10 2 (0.34%) WAN
11 1 (0.17%) Broadband
11 1 (0.17%) iSCSI
11 1 (0.17%) NetScaler
11 1 (0.17%) RIP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 123 (20.71%) NoSQL
2 63 (10.61%) SQL Server
3 56 (9.43%) PostgreSQL
4 43 (7.24%) Relational Database
5 41 (6.90%) Amazon RDS
6 34 (5.72%) MongoDB
7 32 (5.39%) MySQL
8 22 (3.70%) Elasticsearch
9 17 (2.86%) Redis
10 10 (1.68%) Azure SQL Database
11 8 (1.35%) Amazon Redshift
11 8 (1.35%) CouchDB
12 7 (1.18%) Big Data
13 5 (0.84%) RDBMS
14 4 (0.67%) Hadoop
14 4 (0.67%) Power BI
15 2 (0.34%) Apache Cassandra
15 2 (0.34%) BigQuery
15 2 (0.34%) Data Lake
15 2 (0.34%) DynamoDB
Development Applications
1 198 (33.33%) Git
2 139 (23.40%) Jenkins
3 87 (14.65%) Selenium
4 54 (9.09%) Cypress.io
5 45 (7.58%) GitLab
5 45 (7.58%) JUnit
6 28 (4.71%) JIRA
7 24 (4.04%) SoapUI
8 17 (2.86%) Cucumber
9 16 (2.69%) Octopus Deploy
10 14 (2.36%) TeamCity
11 13 (2.19%) Robot Framework
11 13 (2.19%) WebDriver
12 12 (2.02%) TestNG
13 11 (1.85%) REST Assured
14 10 (1.68%) Team Foundation Server
15 8 (1.35%) Gradle
15 8 (1.35%) JMeter
16 7 (1.18%) NUnit
16 7 (1.18%) Visual Studio
General
1 111 (18.69%) Social Skills
2 69 (11.62%) Public Sector
3 30 (5.05%) Finance
4 15 (2.53%) Aerospace
5 10 (1.68%) Publishing
6 7 (1.18%) Analytical Skills
7 6 (1.01%) Automotive
7 6 (1.01%) Legal
8 4 (0.67%) Banking
8 4 (0.67%) Organisational Skills
9 3 (0.51%) Games
9 3 (0.51%) Health Technology
9 3 (0.51%) Marketing
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
1 208 (35.02%) Developer
2 123 (20.71%) Senior
3 98 (16.50%) Lead
4 84 (14.14%) DevOps Engineer
5 73 (12.29%) Senior Developer
6 67 (11.28%) Java Developer
7 58 (9.76%) Software Developer
8 41 (6.90%) Infrastructure Engineer
9 35 (5.89%) Architect
10 31 (5.22%) .NET Developer
10 31 (5.22%) AWS Engineer
10 31 (5.22%) Senior Java Developer
10 31 (5.22%) Team Leader
11 30 (5.05%) Azure Engineer
11 30 (5.05%) Lead Developer
12 29 (4.88%) Front-End Developer (Client-Side Developer)
13 27 (4.55%) C# Developer
14 26 (4.38%) C# .NET Developer
15 25 (4.21%) Lead Software Developer
16 24 (4.04%) Full Stack Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 133 (22.39%) .NET
2 128 (21.55%) React
3 77 (12.96%) Spring
4 72 (12.12%) REST
5 63 (10.61%) HTML
6 55 (9.26%) Spring Boot
7 52 (8.75%) Jest
8 51 (8.59%) Node.js
9 48 (8.08%) AngularJS
10 43 (7.24%) CSS
11 40 (6.73%) Web Services
11 40 (6.73%) XML
12 39 (6.57%) HTML5
13 37 (6.23%) Elastic Stack
14 36 (6.06%) Apache Camel
15 33 (5.56%) Kafka
16 32 (5.39%) CSS3
17 29 (4.88%) Hibernate
17 29 (4.88%) JSON
17 29 (4.88%) RabbitMQ
Miscellaneous
1 75 (12.63%) Distributed Systems
2 46 (7.74%) Data Centre
2 46 (7.74%) Hybrid Cloud
3 40 (6.73%) Blockchain
4 24 (4.04%) Greenfield Project
5 20 (3.37%) Linux Command Line
6 19 (3.20%) Self-Motivation
7 18 (3.03%) PKI
8 16 (2.69%) Product Ownership
9 15 (2.53%) Enterprise Software
10 12 (2.02%) Cloud Native
10 12 (2.02%) Private Cloud
11 11 (1.85%) Algorithms
12 10 (1.68%) Public Cloud
13 8 (1.35%) Client/Server
13 8 (1.35%) PropTech
14 6 (1.01%) Mobile App
15 4 (0.67%) Legacy Systems
16 3 (0.51%) Cybercrime
16 3 (0.51%) EMC VNX
Operating Systems
1 179 (30.13%) Linux
2 68 (11.45%) Windows
3 59 (9.93%) CentOS
4 43 (7.24%) Debian
5 40 (6.73%) Alpine Linux
6 39 (6.57%) Windows Server
7 31 (5.22%) Windows Server 2016
8 19 (3.20%) Ubuntu
9 17 (2.86%) Windows Server 2019
10 9 (1.52%) 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
1 324 (54.55%) Agile
2 316 (53.20%) DevOps
3 255 (42.93%) CI/CD
4 185 (31.14%) Artificial Intelligence
5 150 (25.25%) Computer Science
6 133 (22.39%) Containerisation
7 128 (21.55%) Microservices
8 121 (20.37%) Propensity Modelling
9 120 (20.20%) Problem-Solving
10 93 (15.66%) Software Engineering
11 81 (13.64%) TDD
12 77 (12.96%) Infrastructure as Code
13 62 (10.44%) Scrum
14 54 (9.09%) Machine Learning
14 54 (9.09%) Test Automation
15 53 (8.92%) BDD
16 51 (8.59%) Data Science
17 47 (7.91%) Infrastructure Engineering
18 44 (7.41%) Task Automation
19 42 (7.07%) Mentoring
Programming Languages
1 176 (29.63%) C#
2 170 (28.62%) JavaScript
3 137 (23.06%) Java
4 129 (21.72%) Python
5 109 (18.35%) TypeScript
6 98 (16.50%) SQL
7 47 (7.91%) PowerShell
8 43 (7.24%) PHP
9 41 (6.90%) Bash
10 32 (5.39%) Bicep
11 26 (4.38%) Go
12 17 (2.86%) VB
12 17 (2.86%) VBScript
13 16 (2.69%) Groovy
14 12 (2.02%) Shell Script
15 10 (1.68%) R
16 6 (1.01%) C
17 5 (0.84%) C++
17 5 (0.84%) Ruby
18 2 (0.34%) PL/SQL
Qualifications
1 192 (32.32%) Degree
2 123 (20.71%) Security Cleared
3 116 (19.53%) Computer Science Degree
4 107 (18.01%) SC Cleared
5 57 (9.60%) Azure Certification
6 47 (7.91%) AWS Certification
7 43 (7.24%) Microsoft Certification
8 40 (6.73%) MCSA
8 40 (6.73%) MCSE
9 36 (6.06%) DV Cleared
10 27 (4.55%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
11 22 (3.70%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
12 19 (3.20%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
13 14 (2.36%) Master's Degree
14 10 (1.68%) PhD
15 7 (1.18%) AWS Certified Developer
16 3 (0.51%) AWS Certified SysOps Administrator
17 1 (0.17%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
17 1 (0.17%) BPSS Clearance
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 29 (4.88%) WCAG
2 15 (2.53%) QA
3 3 (0.51%) GDPR
3 3 (0.51%) HIPAA
3 3 (0.51%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 1 (0.17%) SOC 2
System Software
1 464 (78.11%) Docker
2 35 (5.89%) Active Directory
3 25 (4.21%) Virtual Machines
4 24 (4.04%) VMware Infrastructure
5 22 (3.70%) Hyper-V
6 18 (3.03%) Virtual Desktop
7 15 (2.53%) vSphere
8 5 (0.84%) VMware ESXi
9 3 (0.51%) Firmware
9 3 (0.51%) VirtualBox
10 2 (0.34%) KVM
10 2 (0.34%) QEMU
10 2 (0.34%) Xen
11 1 (0.17%) NFS
11 1 (0.17%) pfSense
Systems Management
1 175 (29.46%) Terraform
2 91 (15.32%) Ansible
3 38 (6.40%) Puppet
4 22 (3.70%) vCenter Server
5 21 (3.54%) SCCM
6 18 (3.03%) WSUS
7 17 (2.86%) Active Directory Federation Services
7 17 (2.86%) Microsoft Intune
7 17 (2.86%) SCOM
8 12 (2.02%) Prometheus
9 10 (1.68%) Consul
9 10 (1.68%) Kibana
9 10 (1.68%) ZABBIX
10 9 (1.52%) Grafana
10 9 (1.52%) Rancher
11 7 (1.18%) MIIS
12 6 (1.01%) Docker Swarm
13 5 (0.84%) Nessus
14 3 (0.51%) EMC NetWorker
14 3 (0.51%) Nagios
Vendors
1 79 (13.30%) Microsoft
2 62 (10.44%) Red Hat
3 43 (7.24%) VMware
4 41 (6.90%) IBM
5 30 (5.05%) WSO2
6 21 (3.54%) Google
7 14 (2.36%) ServiceNow
8 12 (2.02%) Oracle
8 12 (2.02%) Xamarin
9 10 (1.68%) Apple
10 8 (1.35%) Juniper
10 8 (1.35%) Splunk
11 7 (1.18%) Citrix
12 6 (1.01%) Cisco
12 6 (1.01%) ForgeRock
12 6 (1.01%) NetApp
12 6 (1.01%) Sitecore
13 5 (0.84%) Dynatrace
13 5 (0.84%) Palo Alto
13 5 (0.84%) SolidFire