Kubernetes Jobs in the North West

Kubernetes (k8s)
England > North West

The following table provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in the North West 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 86 56 27
Rank change year-on-year -30 -29 +10
Permanent jobs citing Kubernetes 280 441 825
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the North West 2.62% 5.97% 8.57%
As % of the Systems Management category 40.46% 42.28% 52.61%
Number of salaries quoted 170 294 474
10th Percentile £46,125 £49,125 £42,500
25th Percentile £52,500 £56,219 £52,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £62,500 £70,000 £67,350
Median % change year-on-year -10.71% +3.93% +12.25%
75th Percentile £75,938 £80,000 £85,000
90th Percentile £85,000 £88,750 £90,000
England median annual salary £77,500 £77,500 £77,500
% change year-on-year - - +10.71%

All Systems Management Skills
North West

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 North West with a requirement for systems management skills.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for systems management skills 692 1,043 1,568
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the North West 6.49% 14.11% 16.29%
Number of salaries quoted 517 671 918
10th Percentile £29,000 £33,750 £32,350
25th Percentile £39,720 £46,250 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,500 £60,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -4.17% - +11.11%
75th Percentile £70,500 £77,500 £77,500
90th Percentile £80,000 £86,250 £85,000
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 North West

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

Job vacancy trend for Kubernetes in the North West

Kubernetes
Salary Trend in the North West

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

Salary trend for Kubernetes in the North West

Kubernetes
Salary Histogram in the North West

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

Salary histogram for Kubernetes in the North West

Kubernetes
Job Locations in the North West

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Kubernetes within the North West 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
Manchester -22 213 £64,250 -8.21% 53
Cheshire +8 34 £52,500 -12.50% 3
Merseyside -13 16 £55,000 -33.33% 3
Lancashire -21 12 £65,000 +18.18% 8
Cumbria - 4 £65,000 -
Kubernetes
England

Kubernetes
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the North West 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 26 (9.29%) Apache
2 18 (6.43%) Apache Spark
3 3 (1.07%) Apache Airflow
4 2 (0.71%) Confluence
4 2 (0.71%) OpenStack
5 1 (0.36%) Jetty
5 1 (0.36%) nginx
5 1 (0.36%) WordPress
Business Applications
1 1 (0.36%) Shopify
Cloud Services
1 177 (63.21%) AWS
2 130 (46.43%) Azure
3 55 (19.64%) Amazon EKS
4 49 (17.50%) Amazon S3
5 48 (17.14%) GCP
6 39 (13.93%) OCI
7 36 (12.86%) Amazon ECR
7 36 (12.86%) IBM Cloud
7 36 (12.86%) Route 53
8 30 (10.71%) Serverless
9 28 (10.00%) Azure DevOps
9 28 (10.00%) GitHub
10 21 (7.50%) AWS CloudFormation
11 18 (6.43%) SaaS
12 17 (6.07%) AWS Lambda
13 14 (5.00%) OpenShift
14 10 (3.57%) Azure AKS
14 10 (3.57%) GitHub Actions
15 7 (2.50%) Google Kubernetes Engine
15 7 (2.50%) PaaS
Communications & Networking
1 19 (6.79%) Firewall
2 17 (6.07%) WAN
3 16 (5.71%) SD-WAN
4 11 (3.93%) AMQP
4 11 (3.93%) VPN
5 10 (3.57%) Internet
5 10 (3.57%) IPsec
5 10 (3.57%) SNMP
6 6 (2.14%) DNS
6 6 (2.14%) HTTP
7 5 (1.79%) Network Security
8 3 (1.07%) MQTT
9 1 (0.36%) Asterisk PBX
9 1 (0.36%) IMAP
9 1 (0.36%) InfiniBand
9 1 (0.36%) SAN
9 1 (0.36%) SMTP
9 1 (0.36%) Software-Defined Networking
9 1 (0.36%) TCP/IP
9 1 (0.36%) VSAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 38 (13.57%) Amazon RDS
2 28 (10.00%) MySQL
3 17 (6.07%) SQL Server
4 16 (5.71%) Elasticsearch
4 16 (5.71%) MongoDB
5 15 (5.36%) PostgreSQL
6 14 (5.00%) Big Data
6 14 (5.00%) NoSQL
7 11 (3.93%) Cloudera CDH
7 11 (3.93%) Hadoop
8 7 (2.50%) Relational Database
9 4 (1.43%) BigQuery
9 4 (1.43%) Flink
10 3 (1.07%) DocumentDB
10 3 (1.07%) Power BI
11 2 (0.71%) RDBMS
12 1 (0.36%) Azure SQL Database
12 1 (0.36%) CockroachDB
12 1 (0.36%) DynamoDB
12 1 (0.36%) Redis
Development Applications
1 38 (13.57%) Jenkins
2 36 (12.86%) JIRA
3 26 (9.29%) Git
4 25 (8.93%) GitLab
5 7 (2.50%) Gradle
6 5 (1.79%) Team Foundation Server
7 4 (1.43%) Spinnaker
8 3 (1.07%) git-flow
8 3 (1.07%) Maven
8 3 (1.07%) MSBuild
8 3 (1.07%) Octopus Deploy
8 3 (1.07%) Rational DOORS
8 3 (1.07%) SonarQube
8 3 (1.07%) Subversion
8 3 (1.07%) TeamCity
8 3 (1.07%) Visual Studio Team System
9 2 (0.71%) Bitbucket
9 2 (0.71%) Terragrunt
10 1 (0.36%) IBM UrbanCode
10 1 (0.36%) Sonatype Nexus
General
1 47 (16.79%) Public Sector
2 42 (15.00%) Inclusion and Diversity
3 30 (10.71%) Finance
4 28 (10.00%) Aerospace
5 27 (9.64%) Retail
6 19 (6.79%) Social Skills
7 14 (5.00%) Analytical Skills
8 9 (3.21%) Banking
9 4 (1.43%) Marketing
9 4 (1.43%) Publishing
9 4 (1.43%) Tech for Good
9 4 (1.43%) Telecoms
10 3 (1.07%) Automotive
10 3 (1.07%) Law
11 2 (0.71%) Games
11 2 (0.71%) Health Technology
11 2 (0.71%) Legal
12 1 (0.36%) Back Office
12 1 (0.36%) Documentation Skills
12 1 (0.36%) Investment Banking
Job Titles
1 92 (32.86%) Senior
2 85 (30.36%) DevOps Engineer
3 65 (23.21%) Developer
4 44 (15.71%) Software Engineer
5 41 (14.64%) Senior DevOps
5 41 (14.64%) Senior DevOps Engineer
6 29 (10.36%) Lead
7 19 (6.79%) Architect
7 19 (6.79%) Consultant
7 19 (6.79%) Senior Developer
8 17 (6.07%) Software Developer
9 15 (5.36%) Security Architect
10 14 (5.00%) AWS Engineer
10 14 (5.00%) Azure Engineer
11 12 (4.29%) .NET Developer
11 12 (4.29%) C# Developer
11 12 (4.29%) Cloud Engineer
11 12 (4.29%) DV Cleared Software Engineer
12 10 (3.57%) NetApp Consultant
13 9 (3.21%) Full Stack Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 61 (21.79%) React
2 47 (16.79%) Node.js
3 33 (11.79%) Spring
4 32 (11.43%) RabbitMQ
5 30 (10.71%) .NET
6 27 (9.64%) AngularJS
7 25 (8.93%) REST
8 24 (8.57%) Spring Boot
9 15 (5.36%) Kafka
10 14 (5.00%) .NET Core
10 14 (5.00%) CSS
10 14 (5.00%) gRPC
11 13 (4.64%) Swagger
11 13 (4.64%) Vue
12 12 (4.29%) RESTful
13 11 (3.93%) Material-UI
13 11 (3.93%) OpenAPI
14 10 (3.57%) HTML
14 10 (3.57%) YAML
15 8 (2.86%) ASP.NET
Miscellaneous
1 42 (15.00%) Blockchain
2 37 (13.21%) Hybrid Cloud
3 36 (12.86%) e-Learning
4 23 (8.21%) Cloud Native
5 20 (7.14%) Greenfield Project
6 18 (6.43%) Management Information System
7 15 (5.36%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
8 13 (4.64%) Product Ownership
9 11 (3.93%) Data Centre
10 8 (2.86%) Private Cloud
11 6 (2.14%) NFT
11 6 (2.14%) Onboarding
11 6 (2.14%) Web3
12 4 (1.43%) Legacy Systems
12 4 (1.43%) Mobile App
13 3 (1.07%) Algorithms
13 3 (1.07%) Device Driver
13 3 (1.07%) Public Cloud
14 2 (0.71%) Data Protection Act
14 2 (0.71%) Data Structures
Operating Systems
1 75 (26.79%) Linux
2 20 (7.14%) Windows
3 15 (5.36%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 13 (4.64%) CentOS
5 12 (4.29%) Ubuntu
6 11 (3.93%) Debian
7 10 (3.57%) Data ONTAP
7 10 (3.57%) Unix
8 7 (2.50%) Android
9 5 (1.79%) Apple iOS
10 3 (1.07%) Embedded Linux
10 3 (1.07%) Windows Server
11 1 (0.36%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 158 (56.43%) Agile
2 139 (49.64%) DevOps
3 123 (43.93%) CI/CD
4 85 (30.36%) Mentoring
5 69 (24.64%) Containerisation
6 68 (24.29%) Software Engineering
7 57 (20.36%) Coaching
7 57 (20.36%) Infrastructure as Code
8 51 (18.21%) Microservices
9 43 (15.36%) Observability
9 43 (15.36%) Test Automation
10 42 (15.00%) Artificial Intelligence
11 40 (14.29%) Scrum
12 39 (13.93%) TDD
13 36 (12.86%) Actionable Insight
13 36 (12.86%) Kanban
13 36 (12.86%) Secrets Management
14 35 (12.50%) Collaborative Working
15 34 (12.14%) Problem-Solving
16 33 (11.79%) Continuous Integration
Programming Languages
1 69 (24.64%) Java
2 68 (24.29%) Python
3 58 (20.71%) JavaScript
4 35 (12.50%) C#
5 27 (9.64%) PowerShell
6 22 (7.86%) TypeScript
7 20 (7.14%) Go
8 15 (5.36%) Bash
9 14 (5.00%) SQL
10 13 (4.64%) PHP
10 13 (4.64%) Ruby
11 11 (3.93%) Perl
12 5 (1.79%) C
13 3 (1.07%) C++
14 1 (0.36%) MATLAB
14 1 (0.36%) Rust
14 1 (0.36%) Scala
14 1 (0.36%) T-SQL
14 1 (0.36%) XAML
Qualifications
1 36 (12.86%) Security Cleared
2 29 (10.36%) DV Cleared
3 26 (9.29%) AWS Certification
4 22 (7.86%) Azure Certification
5 17 (6.07%) SC Cleared
6 16 (5.71%) Cisco Certification
6 16 (5.71%) Degree
7 15 (5.36%) (ISC)2 CCSP
7 15 (5.36%) CCSK
7 15 (5.36%) CCSP
7 15 (5.36%) CISM
7 15 (5.36%) CISSP
7 15 (5.36%) Microsoft Certification
8 3 (1.07%) Computer Science Degree
8 3 (1.07%) PhD
9 1 (0.36%) CCNA
9 1 (0.36%) CCNP
9 1 (0.36%) ITIL Certification
9 1 (0.36%) PMI Certification
9 1 (0.36%) RHCE
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 18 (6.43%) NIST
2 7 (2.50%) Accessibility
2 7 (2.50%) QA
3 2 (0.71%) Cyber Essentials
3 2 (0.71%) PCI DSS
4 1 (0.36%) SLA
System Software
1 157 (56.07%) Docker
2 13 (4.64%) VMware Infrastructure
3 4 (1.43%) Hyper-V
4 3 (1.07%) Embedded Firmware
4 3 (1.07%) Firmware
5 2 (0.71%) Active Directory
6 1 (0.36%) Dovecot
6 1 (0.36%) Lustre
6 1 (0.36%) Postfix
6 1 (0.36%) Slurm Workload Manager
6 1 (0.36%) Virtual Machines
6 1 (0.36%) VMware ESXi
Systems Management
1 149 (53.21%) Terraform
2 71 (25.36%) Ansible
3 48 (17.14%) Prometheus
4 22 (7.86%) Puppet
5 16 (5.71%) Single Sign-On
6 11 (3.93%) Progress Chef
7 10 (3.57%) vCenter Server
8 3 (1.07%) Podman
9 2 (0.71%) Grafana
10 1 (0.36%) HP Fortify
10 1 (0.36%) Icinga
10 1 (0.36%) Kiali
10 1 (0.36%) Kibana
10 1 (0.36%) Nagios
10 1 (0.36%) Proxmox
Vendors
1 61 (21.79%) Red Hat
2 37 (13.21%) IBM
3 36 (12.86%) Dynatrace
4 31 (11.07%) Microsoft
5 28 (10.00%) Google
6 14 (5.00%) VMware
7 11 (3.93%) Oracle
7 11 (3.93%) SaltStack
8 10 (3.57%) NetApp
8 10 (3.57%) Palo Alto
8 10 (3.57%) SolidFire
9 9 (3.21%) Facebook
10 5 (1.79%) Atlassian
11 4 (1.43%) Confluent
12 3 (1.07%) LogicMonitor
12 3 (1.07%) PagerDuty
12 3 (1.07%) Veeam
13 2 (0.71%) Black Duck
13 2 (0.71%) ServiceNow
14 1 (0.36%) NVIDIA