Kubernetes Jobs in the UK excluding London

Kubernetes (k8s)
UK > UK excluding London

The following table provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in the UK excluding London 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 84 64 40
Rank change year-on-year -20 -24 -2
Permanent jobs citing Kubernetes 2,247 2,831 5,002
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 2.96% 5.01% 6.76%
As % of the Systems Management category 35.18% 39.09% 47.90%
Number of salaries quoted 1,398 1,811 3,155
10th Percentile £45,000 £47,250 £45,000
25th Percentile £52,813 £55,000 £51,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £67,500 £69,447 £70,000
Median % change year-on-year -2.80% -0.79% +16.67%
75th Percentile £85,000 £81,250 £85,000
90th Percentile £95,000 £92,500 £90,000
UK median annual salary £75,000 £75,000 £75,000
% change year-on-year - - +7.14%

All Systems Management Skills
UK excluding London

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 UK excluding London with a requirement for systems management skills.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for systems management skills 6,387 7,243 10,443
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 8.41% 12.81% 14.12%
Number of salaries quoted 4,310 4,261 6,564
10th Percentile £30,000 £30,625 £32,500
25th Percentile £40,000 £41,250 £43,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £58,000 £58,000
Median % change year-on-year -5.17% - +5.45%
75th Percentile £70,000 £75,000 £77,500
90th Percentile £85,000 £87,500 £85,000
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 the UK excluding London

Job postings citing Kubernetes as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London.

Job vacancy trend for Kubernetes in the UK excluding London

Kubernetes
Salary Trend in the UK excluding London

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing Kubernetes in the UK excluding London.

Salary trend for Kubernetes in the UK excluding London

Kubernetes
Salary Histogram in the UK excluding London

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

Salary histogram for Kubernetes in the UK excluding London

Kubernetes
Job Locations in the UK excluding London

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Kubernetes within the UK excluding London 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
South East -19 594 £70,000 - 98
North of England -30 488 £61,206 -11.87% 99
Scotland -12 456 £74,000 +6.56% 30
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
Wales -31 37 £42,500 -30.04% 9
North East -19 31 £69,250 +6.54% 6
Northern Ireland -16 21 £72,500 - 12
Isle of Man - 3 - -
Channel Islands - 1 £110,000 -
Kubernetes
UK

Kubernetes
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the UK excluding London 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
1 144 (6.41%) Apache Spark
2 126 (5.61%) Apache
3 98 (4.36%) FileNet
4 62 (2.76%) OpenStack
5 56 (2.49%) Apache Airflow
6 32 (1.42%) Microsoft Exchange
7 26 (1.16%) nginx
8 20 (0.89%) Jupyter
9 17 (0.76%) Cloud Foundry
9 17 (0.76%) Confluence
10 13 (0.58%) JBoss
11 10 (0.45%) Red Hat Fuse
11 10 (0.45%) SharePoint
12 8 (0.36%) IIS
13 4 (0.18%) CMS
14 3 (0.13%) CloudStack
15 2 (0.089%) Apache Solr
15 2 (0.089%) Tomcat
16 1 (0.045%) Jetty
16 1 (0.045%) Moodle
Applications
1 7 (0.31%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 3 (0.13%) SAP Business One
2 2 (0.089%) Oracle EBS
2 2 (0.089%) Remedy ITSM
3 1 (0.045%) Salesforce CRM
3 1 (0.045%) SAP S/4HANA
3 1 (0.045%) Shopify
Cloud Services
1 1,089 (48.46%) AWS
2 941 (41.88%) Azure
3 298 (13.26%) Amazon S3
4 288 (12.82%) GCP
5 247 (10.99%) Azure DevOps
6 220 (9.79%) SaaS
7 188 (8.37%) GitHub
8 160 (7.12%) Serverless
9 157 (6.99%) Amazon EKS
10 148 (6.59%) OpenShift
11 98 (4.36%) AWS CloudFormation
12 95 (4.23%) Amazon ECS
13 92 (4.09%) Cloud Computing
14 90 (4.01%) AWS Lambda
15 89 (3.96%) IBM Cloud
16 87 (3.87%) GitHub Actions
17 78 (3.47%) Microsoft 365
18 76 (3.38%) Amazon EC2
19 65 (2.89%) PaaS
19 65 (2.89%) Route 53
Communications & Networking
1 144 (6.41%) Firewall
2 82 (3.65%) DNS
3 68 (3.03%) DHCP
4 66 (2.94%) VPN
5 59 (2.63%) Internet
6 57 (2.54%) HTTP
6 57 (2.54%) TCP/IP
7 51 (2.27%) IPsec
8 49 (2.18%) SNMP
9 47 (2.09%) Network Security
10 38 (1.69%) SD-WAN
11 37 (1.65%) WAN
12 35 (1.56%) AMQP
13 17 (0.76%) Kerberos
14 16 (0.71%) DSL
15 9 (0.40%) BGP
16 8 (0.36%) WLAN
17 6 (0.27%) MQTT
17 6 (0.27%) OSPF
18 5 (0.22%) VSAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 293 (13.04%) NoSQL
2 226 (10.06%) Elasticsearch
3 170 (7.57%) Big Data
4 149 (6.63%) SQL Server
5 139 (6.19%) PostgreSQL
6 135 (6.01%) MongoDB
6 135 (6.01%) Relational Database
7 116 (5.16%) MySQL
8 114 (5.07%) Amazon RDS
9 106 (4.72%) Apache Cassandra
10 73 (3.25%) Hadoop
11 70 (3.12%) Redis
12 37 (1.65%) Data Lake
13 29 (1.29%) Cloudera CDH
13 29 (1.29%) RDBMS
14 27 (1.20%) BigQuery
15 21 (0.93%) Azure SQL Database
16 20 (0.89%) Amazon Redshift
17 18 (0.80%) CockroachDB
17 18 (0.80%) DB2
Development Applications
1 393 (17.49%) Jenkins
2 343 (15.26%) Git
3 148 (6.59%) JUnit
4 136 (6.05%) JIRA
5 117 (5.21%) GitLab
6 102 (4.54%) Selenium
7 63 (2.80%) Cypress.io
8 56 (2.49%) Mockito
9 53 (2.36%) Jasmine
10 45 (2.00%) CircleCI
11 37 (1.65%) TeamCity
12 32 (1.42%) Octopus Deploy
12 32 (1.42%) SonarQube
13 27 (1.20%) Cucumber
13 27 (1.20%) Maven
14 24 (1.07%) SoapUI
15 23 (1.02%) Team Foundation Server
16 19 (0.85%) Gradle
17 17 (0.76%) Atlassian Bamboo
17 17 (0.76%) Robot Framework
General
1 543 (24.17%) Finance
2 397 (17.67%) Inclusion and Diversity
3 333 (14.82%) Law
4 324 (14.42%) Social Skills
5 196 (8.72%) Marketing
6 181 (8.06%) Public Sector
7 119 (5.30%) Legal
8 117 (5.21%) Aerospace
9 95 (4.23%) Banking
10 80 (3.56%) Analytical Skills
11 65 (2.89%) Retail
12 42 (1.87%) Organisational Skills
13 36 (1.60%) Tech for Good
14 23 (1.02%) Games
15 22 (0.98%) Financial Institution
15 22 (0.98%) Investment Banking
16 17 (0.76%) Automotive
17 14 (0.62%) Influencing Skills
17 14 (0.62%) Publishing
17 14 (0.62%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 524 (23.32%) Senior
2 513 (22.83%) Software Engineer
3 474 (21.09%) Developer
4 393 (17.49%) DevOps Engineer
5 366 (16.29%) Lead
6 164 (7.30%) Architect
7 163 (7.25%) Senior Developer
8 138 (6.14%) Software Developer
9 136 (6.05%) Java Engineer
10 121 (5.38%) Infrastructure Engineer
11 120 (5.34%) Lead Software Engineer
12 110 (4.90%) Java Developer
13 105 (4.67%) AWS Engineer
14 104 (4.63%) Java Software Engineer
15 97 (4.32%) Senior Software Engineer
16 94 (4.18%) Consultant
17 93 (4.14%) Cloud Engineer
18 91 (4.05%) Data Engineer
19 83 (3.69%) Azure Engineer
19 83 (3.69%) Senior DevOps
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 494 (21.98%) React
2 360 (16.02%) Spring
3 351 (15.62%) Kafka
4 349 (15.53%) .NET
5 316 (14.06%) AngularJS
6 241 (10.73%) Node.js
7 200 (8.90%) REST
8 193 (8.59%) HTML
9 190 (8.46%) Spring Boot
10 179 (7.97%) CSS
11 154 (6.85%) Hibernate
12 153 (6.81%) RabbitMQ
13 137 (6.10%) GraphQL
14 116 (5.16%) RESTful
15 111 (4.94%) JSON
16 110 (4.90%) J2EE
17 100 (4.45%) Spring Integration
18 99 (4.41%) .NET Core
19 84 (3.74%) YAML
20 76 (3.38%) jQuery
Miscellaneous
1 275 (12.24%) Cloud Native
2 181 (8.06%) Public Cloud
3 144 (6.41%) Algorithms
4 143 (6.36%) Distributed Systems
5 122 (5.43%) Data Centre
6 119 (5.30%) Hybrid Cloud
7 98 (4.36%) Blockchain
8 90 (4.01%) Product Ownership
9 86 (3.83%) Management Information System
10 66 (2.94%) Greenfield Project
11 59 (2.63%) Data Structures
12 50 (2.23%) e-Learning
13 46 (2.05%) Private Cloud
14 34 (1.51%) Linux Command Line
15 29 (1.29%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
16 28 (1.25%) PKI
16 28 (1.25%) Self-Motivation
17 25 (1.11%) Client/Server
18 22 (0.98%) Enterprise Software
18 22 (0.98%) Mobile App
Operating Systems
1 675 (30.04%) Linux
2 256 (11.39%) Windows
3 102 (4.54%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 92 (4.09%) CentOS
5 80 (3.56%) Debian
6 69 (3.07%) Windows Server
7 58 (2.58%) Ubuntu
8 49 (2.18%) Data ONTAP
9 42 (1.87%) Alpine Linux
10 36 (1.60%) Windows Server 2016
11 25 (1.11%) Unix
12 22 (0.98%) Windows Server 2019
13 17 (0.76%) VMS
14 10 (0.45%) Android
15 8 (0.36%) Apple iOS
15 8 (0.36%) Embedded Linux
16 6 (0.27%) Mesosphere
17 4 (0.18%) Mac OS
18 3 (0.13%) SUSE
18 3 (0.13%) SUSE Linux Enterprise Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 1,186 (52.78%) Agile
2 1,038 (46.19%) CI/CD
3 1,021 (45.44%) DevOps
4 775 (34.49%) Software Engineering
5 546 (24.30%) Microservices
6 532 (23.68%) Containerisation
7 494 (21.98%) Artificial Intelligence
8 446 (19.85%) SDLC
9 383 (17.04%) Problem-Solving
10 377 (16.78%) Infrastructure as Code
11 302 (13.44%) Computer Science
12 290 (12.91%) Machine Learning
13 283 (12.59%) Mentoring
14 268 (11.93%) Full Stack Development
15 236 (10.50%) Scrum
16 221 (9.84%) Continuous Integration
17 220 (9.79%) Operational Stability
18 213 (9.48%) Community of Practice
19 194 (8.63%) Test Automation
20 186 (8.28%) Continuous Improvement
Programming Languages
1 724 (32.22%) Java
2 716 (31.86%) Python
3 489 (21.76%) JavaScript
4 485 (21.58%) SQL
5 396 (17.62%) C#
6 311 (13.84%) TypeScript
7 207 (9.21%) Bash
8 194 (8.63%) PowerShell
9 118 (5.25%) Go
10 90 (4.01%) PHP
11 57 (2.54%) PL/SQL
12 49 (2.18%) Bicep
13 46 (2.05%) Ruby
14 41 (1.82%) Scala
14 41 (1.82%) Shell Script
15 30 (1.34%) C++
16 26 (1.16%) Groovy
17 21 (0.93%) C
17 21 (0.93%) VB
18 19 (0.85%) Kotlin
Qualifications
1 377 (16.78%) Security Cleared
2 329 (14.64%) Degree
3 219 (9.75%) DV Cleared
4 214 (9.52%) SC Cleared
5 198 (8.81%) Computer Science Degree
6 135 (6.01%) Azure Certification
7 114 (5.07%) AWS Certification
8 75 (3.34%) Microsoft Certification
9 61 (2.71%) Master's Degree
10 42 (1.87%) CISSP
11 40 (1.78%) MCSA
11 40 (1.78%) MCSE
12 35 (1.56%) CISM
13 34 (1.51%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
13 34 (1.51%) Cisco Certification
14 29 (1.29%) (ISC)2 CCSP
14 29 (1.29%) CCSK
14 29 (1.29%) CCSP
15 27 (1.20%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
16 24 (1.07%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 72 (3.20%) QA
2 38 (1.69%) NIST
3 29 (1.29%) WCAG
4 22 (0.98%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 19 (0.85%) SLA
6 10 (0.45%) NCSC
7 9 (0.40%) Accessibility
8 5 (0.22%) GDPR
9 4 (0.18%) HIPAA
10 2 (0.089%) Cyber Essentials
10 2 (0.089%) PCI DSS
10 2 (0.089%) SEPA
11 1 (0.045%) California Consumer Privacy Act
11 1 (0.045%) Data Quality
11 1 (0.045%) Disclosure Scotland
11 1 (0.045%) Sarbanes-Oxley
11 1 (0.045%) SOC 2
System Software
1 1,394 (62.04%) Docker
2 136 (6.05%) VMware Infrastructure
3 95 (4.23%) Hyper-V
4 74 (3.29%) Active Directory
5 40 (1.78%) Virtual Machines
6 22 (0.98%) Virtual Desktop
7 19 (0.85%) vSphere
8 13 (0.58%) VMware ESXi
9 12 (0.53%) Firmware
10 6 (0.27%) KVM
11 5 (0.22%) NFS
11 5 (0.22%) Slurm Workload Manager
12 4 (0.18%) Embedded Firmware
13 3 (0.13%) Ceph
13 3 (0.13%) Gluster
13 3 (0.13%) oVirt
13 3 (0.13%) VirtualBox
14 2 (0.089%) Apache ZooKeeper
14 2 (0.089%) QEMU
14 2 (0.089%) Xen
Systems Management
1 731 (32.53%) Terraform
2 475 (21.14%) Ansible
3 197 (8.77%) Prometheus
4 171 (7.61%) Puppet
5 105 (4.67%) Grafana
6 75 (3.34%) vCenter Server
7 50 (2.23%) Progress Chef
8 41 (1.82%) Single Sign-On
9 33 (1.47%) SCCM
10 30 (1.34%) Docker Swarm
11 29 (1.29%) Microsoft Intune
12 23 (1.02%) SCOM
13 22 (0.98%) WSUS
14 21 (0.93%) Active Directory Federation Services
15 17 (0.76%) Kibana
15 17 (0.76%) Nagios
16 16 (0.71%) HAProxy
17 15 (0.67%) Istio
18 13 (0.58%) ZABBIX
19 12 (0.53%) Rancher
Vendors
1 272 (12.11%) Oracle
2 251 (11.17%) Microsoft
3 247 (10.99%) Red Hat
4 172 (7.65%) Google
5 169 (7.52%) VMware
6 94 (4.18%) IBM
7 69 (3.07%) Dynatrace
8 53 (2.36%) Splunk
9 50 (2.23%) NetApp
10 49 (2.18%) Palo Alto
10 49 (2.18%) SolidFire
11 42 (1.87%) Databricks
12 35 (1.56%) SaltStack
13 30 (1.34%) WSO2
14 28 (1.25%) ServiceNow
15 18 (0.80%) Sybase
16 17 (0.76%) Dell
17 16 (0.71%) Alteryx
17 16 (0.71%) Atlassian
17 16 (0.71%) Cognos