Kubernetes Jobs in England

Kubernetes (k8s)
UK > England

The following table provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in England 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 69 35 21
Rank change year-on-year -34 -14 +6
Permanent jobs citing Kubernetes 3,033 5,703 15,075
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 3.33% 6.78% 10.67%
As % of the Systems Management category 35.62% 46.10% 58.01%
Number of salaries quoted 2,385 3,851 6,376
10th Percentile £50,000 £50,000 £46,250
25th Percentile £59,250 £61,180 £57,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £77,500 £77,500 £77,500
Median % change year-on-year - - +10.71%
75th Percentile £95,000 £97,500 £95,000
90th Percentile £115,000 £115,000 £110,000
UK median annual salary £75,000 £75,000 £75,000
% change year-on-year - - +7.14%

All Systems Management Skills
England

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 England with a requirement for systems management skills.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for systems management skills 8,515 12,370 25,985
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 9.36% 14.70% 18.40%
Number of salaries quoted 6,500 8,048 12,508
10th Percentile £32,500 £35,000 £37,500
25th Percentile £45,000 £47,500 £48,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £62,500 £67,500 £70,000
Median % change year-on-year -7.41% -3.57% +7.69%
75th Percentile £83,750 £87,500 £87,500
90th Percentile £101,250 £105,000 £102,500
UK median annual salary £61,206 £67,500 £70,000
% change year-on-year -9.32% -3.57% +7.69%

Kubernetes
Job Vacancy Trend in England

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

Job vacancy trend for Kubernetes in England

Kubernetes
Salary Trend in England

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

Salary trend for Kubernetes in England

Kubernetes
Salary Histogram in England

Salary distribution for jobs citing Kubernetes in England over the 6 months to 1 June 2024.

Salary histogram for Kubernetes in England

Kubernetes
Job Locations in England

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Kubernetes within the England 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
London -22 1,277 £90,000 +5.88% 503
South East -19 594 £70,000 - 98
North of England -30 488 £61,206 -11.87% 99
South West -24 371 £70,576 +4.56% 92
North West -30 280 £62,500 -10.71% 65
Midlands -42 185 £60,000 -14.29% 44
Yorkshire -11 177 £60,000 -11.11% 28
West Midlands -46 107 £65,000 -7.14% 22
East of England -57 93 £85,000 +21.43% 30
East Midlands -30 78 £60,000 -7.69% 22
North East -19 31 £69,250 +6.54% 6
Kubernetes
UK

Kubernetes
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in England 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
1 150 (4.95%) Apache
2 111 (3.66%) Apache Spark
3 88 (2.90%) Apache Airflow
4 56 (1.85%) OpenStack
5 48 (1.58%) nginx
6 37 (1.22%) Confluence
7 32 (1.06%) Microsoft Exchange
8 22 (0.73%) JBoss
9 21 (0.69%) Jupyter
10 16 (0.53%) Tomcat
11 15 (0.49%) IIS
12 12 (0.40%) Drupal
13 11 (0.36%) SharePoint
14 10 (0.33%) Red Hat Fuse
15 8 (0.26%) CMS
15 8 (0.26%) WebSphere
16 7 (0.23%) WebLogic
16 7 (0.23%) WildFly
17 6 (0.20%) Apache Pulsar
17 6 (0.20%) Cloud Foundry
Applications
1 11 (0.36%) Microsoft Excel
2 2 (0.066%) Chatbot
2 2 (0.066%) InDesign
2 2 (0.066%) Microsoft Office
3 1 (0.033%) Blender
Business Applications
1 7 (0.23%) Teamcenter
2 3 (0.099%) Remedy ITSM
2 3 (0.099%) SAP Business One
3 2 (0.066%) Oracle EBS
3 2 (0.066%) Ripple
4 1 (0.033%) Payment Gateway
4 1 (0.033%) Salesforce CRM
4 1 (0.033%) SAP S/4HANA
4 1 (0.033%) Shopify
Cloud Services
1 1,650 (54.40%) AWS
2 1,275 (42.04%) Azure
3 410 (13.52%) GCP
4 345 (11.37%) Azure DevOps
5 299 (9.86%) Serverless
6 263 (8.67%) Amazon EKS
7 255 (8.41%) Amazon S3
8 249 (8.21%) SaaS
9 222 (7.32%) OpenShift
10 220 (7.25%) GitHub
11 187 (6.17%) AWS CloudFormation
12 174 (5.74%) AWS Lambda
13 166 (5.47%) Amazon ECS
14 145 (4.78%) Azure AKS
15 136 (4.48%) Amazon EC2
16 118 (3.89%) PaaS
17 104 (3.43%) GitHub Actions
18 100 (3.30%) Cloud Computing
19 98 (3.23%) IBM Cloud
20 89 (2.93%) IaaS
Communications & Networking
1 164 (5.41%) Firewall
2 111 (3.66%) DNS
3 75 (2.47%) VPN
4 72 (2.37%) TCP/IP
5 70 (2.31%) HTTP
6 65 (2.14%) DHCP
7 64 (2.11%) Network Security
8 62 (2.04%) Internet
9 52 (1.71%) WAN
10 47 (1.55%) SD-WAN
11 42 (1.38%) AMQP
12 36 (1.19%) IPsec
13 34 (1.12%) SNMP
14 20 (0.66%) BGP
15 15 (0.49%) MPLS
16 11 (0.36%) Ethernet VPN
17 8 (0.26%) SSL
17 8 (0.26%) WLAN
18 6 (0.20%) Cisco ASA
18 6 (0.20%) OSPF
Database & Business Intelligence
1 282 (9.30%) NoSQL
2 252 (8.31%) PostgreSQL
3 216 (7.12%) SQL Server
4 187 (6.17%) MongoDB
5 185 (6.10%) Amazon RDS
6 157 (5.18%) Big Data
7 154 (5.08%) MySQL
8 134 (4.42%) Relational Database
9 124 (4.09%) Elasticsearch
10 95 (3.13%) Redis
11 82 (2.70%) Data Lake
12 75 (2.47%) Hadoop
13 60 (1.98%) Amazon Athena
13 60 (1.98%) Amazon Redshift
14 57 (1.88%) Dremio
15 54 (1.78%) Apache Arrow
16 53 (1.75%) BigQuery
17 34 (1.12%) Azure SQL Database
18 30 (0.99%) Apache Cassandra
19 29 (0.96%) Cloudera CDH
Development Applications
1 547 (18.03%) Jenkins
2 468 (15.43%) Git
3 217 (7.15%) GitLab
4 167 (5.51%) JIRA
5 114 (3.76%) Selenium
6 79 (2.60%) TeamCity
7 72 (2.37%) Cypress.io
8 59 (1.95%) JUnit
9 55 (1.81%) CircleCI
10 53 (1.75%) Octopus Deploy
11 45 (1.48%) Artifactory
12 44 (1.45%) Bitbucket
13 42 (1.38%) SonarQube
14 38 (1.25%) Cucumber
15 33 (1.09%) Sonatype Nexus
16 29 (0.96%) Team Foundation Server
17 25 (0.82%) Maven
18 24 (0.79%) SoapUI
19 23 (0.76%) Atlassian Bamboo
20 21 (0.69%) TestNG
General
1 610 (20.11%) Finance
2 500 (16.49%) Social Skills
3 262 (8.64%) Public Sector
4 164 (5.41%) Banking
5 137 (4.52%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 121 (3.99%) Analytical Skills
7 119 (3.92%) Aerospace
8 102 (3.36%) Retail
9 59 (1.95%) Law
10 50 (1.65%) Front Office
10 50 (1.65%) Organisational Skills
11 48 (1.58%) Tech for Good
12 36 (1.19%) Retail Banking
13 33 (1.09%) Marketing
14 31 (1.02%) Automotive
15 30 (0.99%) Health Technology
16 27 (0.89%) Games
16 27 (0.89%) Legal
17 26 (0.86%) Telecoms
18 25 (0.82%) Influencing Skills
Job Titles
1 799 (26.34%) Senior
2 698 (23.01%) Developer
3 593 (19.55%) DevOps Engineer
4 403 (13.29%) Lead
5 363 (11.97%) Software Engineer
6 259 (8.54%) AWS Engineer
7 234 (7.72%) Architect
8 233 (7.68%) Java Developer
9 231 (7.62%) Senior Developer
10 190 (6.26%) Cloud Engineer
11 165 (5.44%) Senior DevOps
12 158 (5.21%) Azure Engineer
13 154 (5.08%) Senior DevOps Engineer
14 151 (4.98%) AWS DevOps
15 148 (4.88%) Software Developer
16 136 (4.48%) AWS DevOps Engineer
17 135 (4.45%) Platform Engineer
18 134 (4.42%) Senior Software Engineer
19 125 (4.12%) Infrastructure Engineer
20 122 (4.02%) Site Reliability Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 532 (17.54%) React
2 430 (14.18%) .NET
3 323 (10.65%) Kafka
4 289 (9.53%) Spring
5 282 (9.30%) Spring Boot
6 263 (8.67%) REST
7 244 (8.04%) AngularJS
8 236 (7.78%) Node.js
9 166 (5.47%) RabbitMQ
10 151 (4.98%) RESTful
11 142 (4.68%) HTML
12 134 (4.42%) CSS
13 127 (4.19%) gRPC
14 119 (3.92%) .NET Core
15 100 (3.30%) Elastic Stack
16 94 (3.10%) ARM Templates
17 93 (3.07%) YAML
18 79 (2.60%) Web Services
19 74 (2.44%) JSON
20 73 (2.41%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 239 (7.88%) Cloud Native
2 233 (7.68%) Distributed Systems
3 138 (4.55%) Hybrid Cloud
4 134 (4.42%) Public Cloud
5 118 (3.89%) Blockchain
6 116 (3.82%) Data Centre
7 109 (3.59%) Greenfield Project
8 95 (3.13%) Product Ownership
9 87 (2.87%) Management Information System
10 82 (2.70%) Hedge funds
11 81 (2.67%) Clustering
12 61 (2.01%) e-Learning
13 59 (1.95%) Algorithms
14 57 (1.88%) Private Cloud
15 51 (1.68%) Client/Server
16 48 (1.58%) Linux Command Line
16 48 (1.58%) Self-Motivation
17 47 (1.55%) Data Structures
18 46 (1.52%) Mobile App
19 33 (1.09%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
Operating Systems
1 766 (25.26%) Linux
2 300 (9.89%) Windows
3 131 (4.32%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 109 (3.59%) CentOS
5 82 (2.70%) Windows Server
6 80 (2.64%) Debian
7 62 (2.04%) Ubuntu
8 50 (1.65%) Unix
9 42 (1.38%) Alpine Linux
10 37 (1.22%) Windows Server 2016
11 34 (1.12%) Data ONTAP
12 26 (0.86%) VMS
13 23 (0.76%) Windows Server 2019
14 20 (0.66%) Android
15 18 (0.59%) Apple iOS
16 12 (0.40%) Oracle Linux
16 12 (0.40%) Solaris
17 5 (0.16%) Embedded Linux
17 5 (0.16%) Mac OS
18 4 (0.13%) DC/OS
Processes & Methodologies
1 1,530 (50.45%) DevOps
2 1,217 (40.13%) CI/CD
3 1,169 (38.54%) Agile
4 800 (26.38%) Containerisation
5 775 (25.55%) Software Engineering
6 690 (22.75%) Microservices
7 596 (19.65%) Infrastructure as Code
8 484 (15.96%) Problem-Solving
9 395 (13.02%) Artificial Intelligence
10 374 (12.33%) Mentoring
11 308 (10.15%) Scrum
12 301 (9.92%) Computer Science
13 277 (9.13%) Full Stack Development
14 261 (8.61%) TDD
15 260 (8.57%) Test Automation
16 256 (8.44%) Continuous Integration
17 239 (7.88%) Site Reliability Engineering
18 221 (7.29%) SDLC
19 210 (6.92%) Configuration Management
20 195 (6.43%) Fintech
Programming Languages
1 1,001 (33.00%) Python
2 930 (30.66%) Java
3 595 (19.62%) JavaScript
4 509 (16.78%) C#
5 425 (14.01%) SQL
6 355 (11.70%) TypeScript
7 308 (10.15%) Go
7 308 (10.15%) PowerShell
8 292 (9.63%) Bash
9 106 (3.49%) PHP
10 84 (2.77%) C++
11 76 (2.51%) C
12 74 (2.44%) Rust
13 69 (2.27%) Ruby
14 67 (2.21%) Bicep
15 53 (1.75%) Kotlin
16 52 (1.71%) Shell Script
17 40 (1.32%) Perl
17 40 (1.32%) Scala
18 36 (1.19%) Groovy
Qualifications
1 481 (15.86%) Security Cleared
2 383 (12.63%) Degree
3 295 (9.73%) SC Cleared
4 245 (8.08%) DV Cleared
5 216 (7.12%) Computer Science Degree
6 162 (5.34%) Azure Certification
7 153 (5.04%) AWS Certification
8 90 (2.97%) Microsoft Certification
9 59 (1.95%) Master's Degree
10 45 (1.48%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
11 42 (1.38%) CISSP
12 40 (1.32%) MCSA
12 40 (1.32%) MCSE
13 36 (1.19%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
13 36 (1.19%) Cisco Certification
13 36 (1.19%) CISM
14 34 (1.12%) (ISC)2 CCSP
14 34 (1.12%) CCSK
14 34 (1.12%) CCSP
15 28 (0.92%) PhD
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 81 (2.67%) QA
2 51 (1.68%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 41 (1.35%) NIST
4 29 (0.96%) WCAG
5 15 (0.49%) Accessibility
6 14 (0.46%) NCSC
6 14 (0.46%) PCI DSS
7 12 (0.40%) GDPR
7 12 (0.40%) SLA
8 10 (0.33%) Cyber Essentials
9 6 (0.20%) Data Quality
9 6 (0.20%) HIPAA
9 6 (0.20%) SOC 2
10 5 (0.16%) ISO 9001
11 2 (0.066%) ISO 20022
11 2 (0.066%) ISO 9000
12 1 (0.033%) California Consumer Privacy Act
12 1 (0.033%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
12 1 (0.033%) ISO 15022
12 1 (0.033%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 1,964 (64.75%) Docker
2 144 (4.75%) VMware Infrastructure
3 95 (3.13%) Hyper-V
4 93 (3.07%) Active Directory
5 87 (2.87%) Virtual Machines
6 27 (0.89%) Virtual Desktop
7 22 (0.73%) vSphere
8 14 (0.46%) VMware ESXi
9 11 (0.36%) Ceph
9 11 (0.36%) KVM
10 7 (0.23%) Firmware
10 7 (0.23%) NFS
11 6 (0.20%) Slurm Workload Manager
11 6 (0.20%) VirtualBox
12 4 (0.13%) Embedded Firmware
13 3 (0.099%) Gluster
13 3 (0.099%) oVirt
13 3 (0.099%) QEMU
13 3 (0.099%) Virtual Servers
13 3 (0.099%) Xen
Systems Management
1 1,197 (39.47%) Terraform
2 585 (19.29%) Ansible
3 290 (9.56%) Prometheus
4 230 (7.58%) Puppet
5 158 (5.21%) Grafana
6 89 (2.93%) Progress Chef
7 61 (2.01%) vCenter Server
8 60 (1.98%) Single Sign-On
9 37 (1.22%) Istio
10 29 (0.96%) Active Directory Federation Services
11 27 (0.89%) Docker Swarm
12 26 (0.86%) Kibana
12 26 (0.86%) Nagios
12 26 (0.86%) SCCM
13 25 (0.82%) Microsoft Intune
14 23 (0.76%) SCOM
15 22 (0.73%) Argo
15 22 (0.73%) WSUS
16 21 (0.69%) Packer
17 20 (0.66%) Consul
Vendors
1 359 (11.84%) Microsoft
2 285 (9.40%) Red Hat
3 180 (5.93%) Google
3 180 (5.93%) VMware
4 148 (4.88%) Oracle
5 101 (3.33%) IBM
6 72 (2.37%) Dynatrace
7 52 (1.71%) Splunk
8 41 (1.35%) Palo Alto
9 39 (1.29%) SaltStack
10 36 (1.19%) NetApp
11 35 (1.15%) WSO2
12 34 (1.12%) SolidFire
13 33 (1.09%) Atlassian
14 30 (0.99%) Cisco
15 28 (0.92%) ServiceNow
16 23 (0.76%) ForgeRock
17 22 (0.73%) Databricks
17 22 (0.73%) New Relic
18 16 (0.53%) Sitecore