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

6 months to
18 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 69 32 21
Rank change year-on-year -37 -11 +7
Permanent jobs citing Kubernetes 3,658 7,070 17,318
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 3.66% 7.13% 10.78%
As % of the Systems Management category 37.13% 48.47% 58.77%
Number of salaries quoted 2,606 4,342 7,160
10th Percentile £48,750 £50,000 £46,250
25th Percentile £59,000 £61,180 £57,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £75,000 £75,000 £75,000
Median % change year-on-year - - +7.14%
75th Percentile £95,000 £95,250 £93,750
90th Percentile £115,000 £115,000 £110,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £68,000 £69,447 £70,000
% change year-on-year -2.08% -0.79% +19.15%

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 9,851 14,586 29,467
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 9.86% 14.71% 18.33%
Number of salaries quoted 7,078 9,021 14,016
10th Percentile £32,500 £35,500 £37,500
25th Percentile £45,000 £48,091 £48,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,500 £67,500 £70,000
Median % change year-on-year -10.37% -3.57% +12.00%
75th Percentile £82,500 £87,500 £86,250
90th Percentile £100,000 £105,000 £102,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £55,000 £59,250 £59,526
% change year-on-year -7.17% -0.46% +8.23%

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 18 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 18 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 -36 2,999 £77,500 - 949
UK excluding London -23 2,238 £68,000 -2.08% 536
Work from Home -37 1,472 £75,000 - 546
London -19 1,275 £87,500 +2.94% 566
South East -17 585 £70,000 - 217
Scotland -17 480 £70,576 +4.35% 37
North of England -30 479 £61,206 -11.87% 109
South West -25 365 £70,576 +4.56% 79
North West -21 286 £62,500 -10.00% 60
Midlands -61 177 £60,000 -14.29% 48
Yorkshire -23 162 £60,000 -12.43% 38
West Midlands -36 106 £65,000 -7.14% 29
East of England -68 93 £85,000 +21.43% 27
East Midlands -35 71 £60,000 -11.11% 19
Wales -29 36 £42,500 -30.89% 11
North East -36 31 £63,750 -6.59% 11
Northern Ireland -25 21 £75,000 +3.45% 12
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
1 206 (5.63%) Apache Spark
2 173 (4.73%) Apache
3 136 (3.72%) Apache Airflow
4 98 (2.68%) FileNet
5 74 (2.02%) OpenStack
6 48 (1.31%) nginx
7 41 (1.12%) Confluence
8 26 (0.71%) Microsoft Exchange
9 24 (0.66%) Jupyter
10 21 (0.57%) Cloud Foundry
10 21 (0.57%) JBoss
11 16 (0.44%) Tomcat
12 15 (0.41%) IIS
13 12 (0.33%) Drupal
13 12 (0.33%) SharePoint
14 10 (0.27%) Red Hat Fuse
15 8 (0.22%) CMS
15 8 (0.22%) WebSphere
16 7 (0.19%) WebLogic
16 7 (0.19%) WildFly
Applications
1 11 (0.30%) Microsoft Excel
2 2 (0.055%) InDesign
2 2 (0.055%) 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 (0.055%) 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 1,920 (52.49%) AWS
2 1,453 (39.72%) Azure
3 528 (14.43%) GCP
4 418 (11.43%) Amazon S3
5 369 (10.09%) Azure DevOps
6 330 (9.02%) Serverless
7 311 (8.50%) GitHub
8 295 (8.06%) SaaS
9 277 (7.57%) Amazon EKS
10 245 (6.70%) OpenShift
11 196 (5.36%) Amazon ECS
11 196 (5.36%) AWS Lambda
12 194 (5.30%) AWS CloudFormation
13 160 (4.37%) Azure AKS
14 147 (4.02%) Amazon EC2
15 144 (3.94%) PaaS
16 122 (3.34%) Cloud Computing
17 117 (3.20%) GitHub Actions
18 110 (3.01%) IaaS
19 102 (2.79%) IBM Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 191 (5.22%) Firewall
2 117 (3.20%) DNS
3 103 (2.82%) VPN
4 85 (2.32%) Internet
5 72 (1.97%) TCP/IP
6 65 (1.78%) DHCP
6 65 (1.78%) HTTP
6 65 (1.78%) Network Security
7 58 (1.59%) IPsec
8 54 (1.48%) SNMP
9 48 (1.31%) WAN
10 47 (1.28%) SD-WAN
11 40 (1.09%) AMQP
12 19 (0.52%) BGP
13 18 (0.49%) DSL
14 17 (0.46%) Kerberos
15 13 (0.36%) MPLS
16 11 (0.30%) Ethernet VPN
17 7 (0.19%) SSL
17 7 (0.19%) WLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 417 (11.40%) NoSQL
2 299 (8.17%) PostgreSQL
3 278 (7.60%) Elasticsearch
4 252 (6.89%) Big Data
4 252 (6.89%) MongoDB
5 224 (6.12%) SQL Server
6 193 (5.28%) Amazon RDS
7 174 (4.76%) Relational Database
8 169 (4.62%) MySQL
9 132 (3.61%) Redis
10 131 (3.58%) Apache Cassandra
11 110 (3.01%) Data Lake
12 98 (2.68%) Hadoop
13 63 (1.72%) Amazon Redshift
14 56 (1.53%) BigQuery
15 53 (1.45%) Amazon Athena
16 52 (1.42%) Dremio
17 50 (1.37%) Azure SQL Database
18 48 (1.31%) Apache Arrow
19 42 (1.15%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 687 (18.78%) Jenkins
2 512 (14.00%) Git
3 248 (6.78%) GitLab
4 178 (4.87%) JIRA
5 158 (4.32%) JUnit
6 127 (3.47%) Selenium
7 84 (2.30%) TeamCity
8 80 (2.19%) Cypress.io
9 59 (1.61%) CircleCI
10 58 (1.59%) Mockito
11 56 (1.53%) Octopus Deploy
12 55 (1.50%) Artifactory
13 53 (1.45%) Jasmine
14 47 (1.28%) Cucumber
15 46 (1.26%) Maven
16 44 (1.20%) Bitbucket
16 44 (1.20%) Sonatype Nexus
17 35 (0.96%) SonarQube
18 27 (0.74%) Team Foundation Server
19 24 (0.66%) SoapUI
General
1 1,029 (28.13%) Finance
2 566 (15.47%) Social Skills
3 519 (14.19%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 396 (10.83%) Law
5 261 (7.14%) Public Sector
6 244 (6.67%) Banking
7 225 (6.15%) Marketing
8 145 (3.96%) Analytical Skills
9 144 (3.94%) Legal
10 118 (3.23%) Retail
11 109 (2.98%) Aerospace
12 62 (1.69%) Games
13 57 (1.56%) Front Office
14 55 (1.50%) Tech for Good
15 48 (1.31%) Investment Banking
16 47 (1.28%) Retail Banking
17 44 (1.20%) Organisational Skills
18 43 (1.18%) Financial Institution
19 31 (0.85%) Health Technology
20 30 (0.82%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 907 (24.79%) Senior
2 774 (21.16%) Developer
3 717 (19.60%) Software Engineer
4 632 (17.28%) DevOps Engineer
5 545 (14.90%) Lead
6 274 (7.49%) Architect
7 272 (7.44%) AWS Engineer
8 267 (7.30%) Java Developer
9 243 (6.64%) Senior Developer
10 207 (5.66%) Cloud Engineer
11 199 (5.44%) Java Engineer
12 179 (4.89%) Senior Software Engineer
13 175 (4.78%) Azure Engineer
14 166 (4.54%) Senior DevOps
15 162 (4.43%) Data Engineer
15 162 (4.43%) Software Developer
16 161 (4.40%) AWS DevOps
17 158 (4.32%) Senior DevOps Engineer
18 156 (4.26%) Lead Software Engineer
19 149 (4.07%) Platform Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 701 (19.16%) React
2 589 (16.10%) Kafka
3 505 (13.81%) Spring
4 489 (13.37%) .NET
5 375 (10.25%) AngularJS
6 347 (9.49%) Spring Boot
7 322 (8.80%) Node.js
8 309 (8.45%) REST
9 212 (5.80%) HTML
10 207 (5.66%) CSS
11 189 (5.17%) RabbitMQ
12 183 (5.00%) GraphQL
13 174 (4.76%) Hibernate
14 166 (4.54%) RESTful
15 157 (4.29%) JSON
16 147 (4.02%) J2EE
17 138 (3.77%) .NET Core
18 125 (3.42%) gRPC
19 118 (3.23%) YAML
20 111 (3.03%) Elastic Stack
Miscellaneous
1 403 (11.02%) Cloud Native
2 250 (6.83%) Distributed Systems
3 230 (6.29%) Public Cloud
4 181 (4.95%) Algorithms
5 144 (3.94%) Hybrid Cloud
6 143 (3.91%) Data Centre
7 134 (3.66%) Management Information System
8 125 (3.42%) Product Ownership
9 123 (3.36%) Greenfield Project
10 121 (3.31%) Blockchain
11 85 (2.32%) Data Structures
12 77 (2.10%) Hedge funds
12 77 (2.10%) Private Cloud
13 72 (1.97%) Clustering
14 59 (1.61%) e-Learning
15 51 (1.39%) Client/Server
16 49 (1.34%) Linux Command Line
17 48 (1.31%) Mobile App
18 46 (1.26%) Self-Motivation
19 35 (0.96%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
Operating Systems
1 950 (25.97%) Linux
2 347 (9.49%) Windows
3 124 (3.39%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 105 (2.87%) CentOS
5 87 (2.38%) Windows Server
6 76 (2.08%) Debian
7 62 (1.69%) Unix
8 59 (1.61%) Ubuntu
9 54 (1.48%) Data ONTAP
10 41 (1.12%) Alpine Linux
11 34 (0.93%) Windows Server 2016
12 28 (0.77%) VMS
13 26 (0.71%) Android
14 24 (0.66%) Apple iOS
15 20 (0.55%) Windows Server 2019
16 12 (0.33%) Oracle Linux
17 11 (0.30%) Solaris
18 10 (0.27%) Embedded Linux
19 6 (0.16%) Mesosphere
20 5 (0.14%) Mac OS
Processes & Methodologies
1 1,630 (44.56%) DevOps
2 1,608 (43.96%) Agile
3 1,572 (42.97%) CI/CD
4 1,187 (32.45%) Software Engineering
5 887 (24.25%) Microservices
6 854 (23.35%) Containerisation
7 673 (18.40%) Infrastructure as Code
8 609 (16.65%) Problem-Solving
9 598 (16.35%) Artificial Intelligence
10 561 (15.34%) SDLC
11 428 (11.70%) Mentoring
12 402 (10.99%) Computer Science
13 391 (10.69%) Full Stack Development
14 375 (10.25%) Machine Learning
15 324 (8.86%) Scrum
16 311 (8.50%) Continuous Integration
17 310 (8.47%) TDD
18 306 (8.37%) Continuous Improvement
19 302 (8.26%) Test Automation
20 261 (7.14%) Site Reliability Engineering
Programming Languages
1 1,329 (36.33%) Java
2 1,289 (35.24%) Python
3 753 (20.59%) SQL
4 694 (18.97%) JavaScript
5 558 (15.25%) C#
6 434 (11.86%) TypeScript
7 364 (9.95%) Go
8 343 (9.38%) Bash
9 310 (8.47%) PowerShell
10 112 (3.06%) PHP
11 97 (2.65%) C++
12 93 (2.54%) Ruby
13 79 (2.16%) Scala
14 76 (2.08%) C
15 70 (1.91%) Rust
16 65 (1.78%) PL/SQL
17 64 (1.75%) Bicep
17 64 (1.75%) Shell Script
18 63 (1.72%) Kotlin
19 42 (1.15%) Groovy
Qualifications
1 471 (12.88%) Security Cleared
2 460 (12.58%) Degree
3 285 (7.79%) SC Cleared
4 277 (7.57%) Computer Science Degree
5 224 (6.12%) DV Cleared
6 166 (4.54%) Azure Certification
7 156 (4.26%) AWS Certification
8 101 (2.76%) Master's Degree
9 95 (2.60%) Microsoft Certification
10 51 (1.39%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
11 50 (1.37%) CISSP
12 42 (1.15%) CISM
13 40 (1.09%) MCSA
13 40 (1.09%) MCSE
14 39 (1.07%) Cisco Certification
15 38 (1.04%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
16 35 (0.96%) PhD
17 34 (0.93%) (ISC)2 CCSP
17 34 (0.93%) CCSK
17 34 (0.93%) CCSP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 97 (2.65%) QA
2 51 (1.39%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 45 (1.23%) NIST
4 31 (0.85%) WCAG
5 28 (0.77%) SLA
6 21 (0.57%) GDPR
7 14 (0.38%) Accessibility
8 12 (0.33%) NCSC
8 12 (0.33%) PCI DSS
9 8 (0.22%) Cyber Essentials
10 6 (0.16%) 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
14 2 (0.055%) ISO 9000
15 1 (0.027%) Disclosure Scotland
15 1 (0.027%) ISO 15022
15 1 (0.027%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 2,180 (59.60%) Docker
2 155 (4.24%) VMware Infrastructure
3 107 (2.93%) Active Directory
4 102 (2.79%) Hyper-V
5 83 (2.27%) Virtual Machines
6 22 (0.60%) Virtual Desktop
7 21 (0.57%) vSphere
8 13 (0.36%) VMware ESXi
9 11 (0.30%) Ceph
9 11 (0.30%) Firmware
10 9 (0.25%) KVM
11 6 (0.16%) NFS
11 6 (0.16%) Slurm Workload Manager
11 6 (0.16%) VirtualBox
12 4 (0.11%) Embedded Firmware
13 3 (0.082%) Gluster
13 3 (0.082%) oVirt
14 2 (0.055%) Apache ZooKeeper
14 2 (0.055%) QEMU
14 2 (0.055%) Varnish
Systems Management
1 1,310 (35.81%) Terraform
2 658 (17.99%) Ansible
3 326 (8.91%) Prometheus
4 244 (6.67%) Puppet
5 184 (5.03%) Grafana
6 112 (3.06%) Progress Chef
7 80 (2.19%) vCenter Server
8 59 (1.61%) Single Sign-On
9 48 (1.31%) Istio
10 33 (0.90%) Kibana
11 32 (0.87%) Docker Swarm
12 29 (0.79%) SCCM
13 28 (0.77%) Active Directory Federation Services
14 26 (0.71%) Argo
15 24 (0.66%) Microsoft Intune
16 23 (0.63%) Consul
16 23 (0.63%) Nagios
16 23 (0.63%) Packer
17 19 (0.52%) SCOM
17 19 (0.52%) ZABBIX
Vendors
1 387 (10.58%) Microsoft
2 374 (10.22%) Oracle
3 297 (8.12%) Red Hat
4 279 (7.63%) Google
5 198 (5.41%) VMware
6 107 (2.93%) IBM
7 89 (2.43%) Dynatrace
8 73 (2.00%) Databricks
8 73 (2.00%) Splunk
9 61 (1.67%) Palo Alto
10 55 (1.50%) NetApp
11 54 (1.48%) SolidFire
12 41 (1.12%) WSO2
13 38 (1.04%) SaltStack
14 34 (0.93%) Cisco
15 33 (0.90%) Atlassian
16 31 (0.85%) Sybase
17 28 (0.77%) Dell
18 25 (0.68%) ServiceNow
19 23 (0.63%) ForgeRock