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

6 months to
20 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 69 33 22
Rank change year-on-year -36 -11 +5
Permanent jobs citing Kubernetes 3,013 6,309 14,433
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 3.48% 7.13% 10.54%
As % of the Systems Management category 35.73% 47.82% 57.91%
Number of salaries quoted 2,405 4,013 6,450
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 8,432 13,193 24,924
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 9.75% 14.91% 18.19%
Number of salaries quoted 6,527 8,354 12,597
10th Percentile £32,750 £35,400 £37,500
25th Percentile £45,000 £48,091 £48,750
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 £103,750
UK median annual salary £60,500 £67,500 £70,000
% change year-on-year -10.37% -3.57% +12.00%

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 20 May 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 20 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
London -19 1,281 £87,500 +2.94% 593
South East -15 588 £70,000 - 235
North of England -25 482 £62,500 -10.00% 126
South West -27 368 £70,576 +4.56% 86
North West -24 287 £62,500 -10.71% 71
Midlands -58 178 £60,000 -14.29% 54
Yorkshire -23 164 £60,000 -12.43% 43
West Midlands -37 107 £65,000 -7.14% 33
East of England -69 93 £85,000 +21.43% 29
East Midlands -46 71 £60,000 -11.11% 21
North East -31 31 £63,750 -6.59% 12
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
1 147 (4.88%) Apache
2 112 (3.72%) Apache Spark
3 88 (2.92%) Apache Airflow
4 61 (2.02%) OpenStack
5 48 (1.59%) nginx
6 37 (1.23%) Confluence
7 26 (0.86%) Microsoft Exchange
8 23 (0.76%) Jupyter
9 22 (0.73%) JBoss
10 16 (0.53%) Tomcat
11 15 (0.50%) IIS
12 12 (0.40%) Drupal
13 11 (0.37%) Red Hat Fuse
13 11 (0.37%) SharePoint
14 8 (0.27%) CMS
14 8 (0.27%) WebSphere
15 7 (0.23%) WebLogic
15 7 (0.23%) WildFly
16 5 (0.17%) WordPress
17 4 (0.13%) Cloud Foundry
Applications
1 11 (0.37%) Microsoft Excel
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 (0.100%) Remedy ITSM
2 3 (0.100%) SAP Business One
3 2 (0.066%) Oracle EBS
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 1,633 (54.20%) AWS
2 1,250 (41.49%) Azure
3 401 (13.31%) GCP
4 338 (11.22%) Azure DevOps
5 304 (10.09%) Serverless
6 267 (8.86%) Amazon S3
7 265 (8.80%) Amazon EKS
8 247 (8.20%) SaaS
9 227 (7.53%) GitHub
9 227 (7.53%) OpenShift
10 183 (6.07%) AWS CloudFormation
11 181 (6.01%) AWS Lambda
12 177 (5.87%) Amazon ECS
13 146 (4.85%) Azure AKS
14 136 (4.51%) Amazon EC2
15 128 (4.25%) PaaS
16 98 (3.25%) GitHub Actions
16 98 (3.25%) IaaS
16 98 (3.25%) IBM Cloud
17 94 (3.12%) Cloud Computing
Communications & Networking
1 161 (5.34%) Firewall
2 109 (3.62%) DNS
3 78 (2.59%) VPN
4 68 (2.26%) TCP/IP
5 66 (2.19%) Internet
6 65 (2.16%) HTTP
7 60 (1.99%) Network Security
8 58 (1.92%) DHCP
9 48 (1.59%) WAN
10 43 (1.43%) SD-WAN
11 40 (1.33%) AMQP
12 38 (1.26%) IPsec
13 34 (1.13%) SNMP
14 19 (0.63%) BGP
15 13 (0.43%) MPLS
16 11 (0.37%) Ethernet VPN
17 7 (0.23%) SSL
17 7 (0.23%) WLAN
18 6 (0.20%) Cisco ASA
19 5 (0.17%) MQTT
Database & Business Intelligence
1 295 (9.79%) NoSQL
2 268 (8.89%) PostgreSQL
3 214 (7.10%) SQL Server
4 191 (6.34%) MongoDB
5 186 (6.17%) Amazon RDS
6 158 (5.24%) MySQL
7 156 (5.18%) Big Data
8 134 (4.45%) Relational Database
9 129 (4.28%) Elasticsearch
10 101 (3.35%) Redis
11 84 (2.79%) Data Lake
12 76 (2.52%) Hadoop
13 64 (2.12%) Amazon Redshift
14 59 (1.96%) Amazon Athena
15 58 (1.92%) Dremio
16 54 (1.79%) Apache Arrow
17 53 (1.76%) BigQuery
18 37 (1.23%) Azure SQL Database
19 30 (1.00%) Apache Cassandra
20 29 (0.96%) Data Warehouse
Development Applications
1 567 (18.82%) Jenkins
2 481 (15.96%) Git
3 217 (7.20%) GitLab
4 157 (5.21%) JIRA
5 124 (4.12%) Selenium
6 82 (2.72%) Cypress.io
7 81 (2.69%) TeamCity
8 57 (1.89%) JUnit
9 53 (1.76%) Octopus Deploy
10 50 (1.66%) Artifactory
11 49 (1.63%) CircleCI
12 45 (1.49%) Cucumber
13 43 (1.43%) Bitbucket
14 36 (1.19%) Sonatype Nexus
15 33 (1.10%) SonarQube
16 28 (0.93%) Maven
17 27 (0.90%) Team Foundation Server
18 25 (0.83%) SoapUI
19 23 (0.76%) Atlassian Bamboo
20 21 (0.70%) Subversion
General
1 613 (20.35%) Finance
2 469 (15.57%) Social Skills
3 254 (8.43%) Public Sector
4 177 (5.87%) Banking
5 137 (4.55%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 117 (3.88%) Analytical Skills
7 109 (3.62%) Aerospace
8 105 (3.48%) Retail
9 55 (1.83%) Front Office
10 54 (1.79%) Law
11 48 (1.59%) Tech for Good
12 46 (1.53%) Organisational Skills
13 37 (1.23%) Retail Banking
14 31 (1.03%) Health Technology
14 31 (1.03%) Marketing
15 29 (0.96%) Automotive
15 29 (0.96%) Games
16 27 (0.90%) Telecoms
17 26 (0.86%) Presentation Skills
18 25 (0.83%) Influencing Skills
Job Titles
1 776 (25.76%) Senior
2 717 (23.80%) Developer
3 580 (19.25%) DevOps Engineer
4 394 (13.08%) Lead
5 352 (11.68%) Software Engineer
6 270 (8.96%) AWS Engineer
7 239 (7.93%) Java Developer
8 238 (7.90%) Architect
9 236 (7.83%) Senior Developer
10 186 (6.17%) Cloud Engineer
11 157 (5.21%) Software Developer
12 156 (5.18%) AWS DevOps
13 155 (5.14%) Senior DevOps
14 153 (5.08%) Azure Engineer
15 147 (4.88%) Senior DevOps Engineer
16 140 (4.65%) AWS DevOps Engineer
17 139 (4.61%) Platform Engineer
18 124 (4.12%) Site Reliability Engineer
19 120 (3.98%) Infrastructure Engineer
20 119 (3.95%) Senior Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 558 (18.52%) React
2 440 (14.60%) .NET
3 323 (10.72%) Kafka
4 293 (9.72%) Spring
5 283 (9.39%) Spring Boot
6 265 (8.80%) REST
7 249 (8.26%) AngularJS
8 236 (7.83%) Node.js
9 164 (5.44%) RabbitMQ
10 145 (4.81%) HTML
11 144 (4.78%) RESTful
12 137 (4.55%) CSS
13 131 (4.35%) gRPC
14 121 (4.02%) .NET Core
15 104 (3.45%) Elastic Stack
16 96 (3.19%) YAML
17 83 (2.75%) Web Services
18 78 (2.59%) ARM Templates
18 78 (2.59%) JSON
19 76 (2.52%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 234 (7.77%) Distributed Systems
2 225 (7.47%) Cloud Native
3 143 (4.75%) Hybrid Cloud
4 141 (4.68%) Public Cloud
5 117 (3.88%) Blockchain
6 114 (3.78%) Data Centre
7 108 (3.58%) Greenfield Project
8 94 (3.12%) Product Ownership
9 85 (2.82%) Management Information System
10 83 (2.75%) Hedge funds
11 78 (2.59%) Clustering
12 64 (2.12%) Private Cloud
13 59 (1.96%) e-Learning
14 56 (1.86%) Algorithms
15 51 (1.69%) Client/Server
16 49 (1.63%) Linux Command Line
17 46 (1.53%) Data Structures
18 45 (1.49%) Self-Motivation
19 44 (1.46%) Mobile App
20 34 (1.13%) Legacy Code
Operating Systems
1 757 (25.12%) Linux
2 287 (9.53%) Windows
3 123 (4.08%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 105 (3.48%) CentOS
5 76 (2.52%) Debian
6 75 (2.49%) Windows Server
7 59 (1.96%) Ubuntu
8 50 (1.66%) Unix
9 41 (1.36%) Alpine Linux
10 34 (1.13%) Data ONTAP
10 34 (1.13%) Windows Server 2016
11 26 (0.86%) VMS
12 21 (0.70%) Android
13 20 (0.66%) Windows Server 2019
14 19 (0.63%) Apple iOS
15 12 (0.40%) Oracle Linux
15 12 (0.40%) Solaris
16 5 (0.17%) Embedded Linux
16 5 (0.17%) Mac OS
17 4 (0.13%) DC/OS
Processes & Methodologies
1 1,507 (50.02%) DevOps
2 1,194 (39.63%) CI/CD
3 1,175 (39.00%) Agile
4 785 (26.05%) Containerisation
5 763 (25.32%) Software Engineering
6 686 (22.77%) Microservices
7 593 (19.68%) Infrastructure as Code
8 478 (15.86%) Problem-Solving
9 389 (12.91%) Artificial Intelligence
10 361 (11.98%) Mentoring
11 310 (10.29%) Computer Science
12 301 (9.99%) Scrum
13 279 (9.26%) Full Stack Development
14 265 (8.80%) TDD
15 263 (8.73%) Continuous Integration
16 252 (8.36%) Test Automation
17 240 (7.97%) Site Reliability Engineering
18 214 (7.10%) SDLC
19 203 (6.74%) Configuration Management
20 191 (6.34%) Platform Engineering
Programming Languages
1 992 (32.92%) Python
2 948 (31.46%) Java
3 601 (19.95%) JavaScript
4 519 (17.23%) C#
5 441 (14.64%) SQL
6 363 (12.05%) TypeScript
7 314 (10.42%) Go
8 291 (9.66%) Bash
9 288 (9.56%) PowerShell
10 110 (3.65%) PHP
11 86 (2.85%) C++
12 74 (2.46%) C
13 71 (2.36%) Rust
14 68 (2.26%) Ruby
15 63 (2.09%) Bicep
16 56 (1.86%) Kotlin
17 54 (1.79%) Shell Script
18 41 (1.36%) Perl
19 38 (1.26%) Scala
20 36 (1.19%) Groovy
Qualifications
1 457 (15.17%) Security Cleared
2 393 (13.04%) Degree
3 271 (8.99%) SC Cleared
4 225 (7.47%) DV Cleared
5 224 (7.43%) Computer Science Degree
6 152 (5.04%) Azure Certification
7 141 (4.68%) AWS Certification
8 90 (2.99%) Microsoft Certification
9 59 (1.96%) Master's Degree
10 42 (1.39%) CISSP
11 40 (1.33%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
11 40 (1.33%) MCSA
11 40 (1.33%) MCSE
12 37 (1.23%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
13 36 (1.19%) CISM
14 35 (1.16%) Cisco Certification
15 34 (1.13%) (ISC)2 CCSP
15 34 (1.13%) CCSK
15 34 (1.13%) CCSP
16 27 (0.90%) PhD
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 81 (2.69%) QA
2 51 (1.69%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 40 (1.33%) NIST
4 33 (1.10%) WCAG
5 15 (0.50%) Accessibility
6 13 (0.43%) NCSC
6 13 (0.43%) PCI DSS
7 10 (0.33%) GDPR
7 10 (0.33%) SLA
8 9 (0.30%) Cyber Essentials
9 5 (0.17%) ISO 9001
10 4 (0.13%) Data Quality
10 4 (0.13%) HIPAA
10 4 (0.13%) SOC 2
11 3 (0.100%) ISO 20022
12 2 (0.066%) ISO 9000
13 1 (0.033%) California Consumer Privacy Act
13 1 (0.033%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
13 1 (0.033%) ISO 15022
13 1 (0.033%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 1,967 (65.28%) Docker
2 137 (4.55%) VMware Infrastructure
3 96 (3.19%) Hyper-V
4 92 (3.05%) Active Directory
5 80 (2.66%) Virtual Machines
6 22 (0.73%) Virtual Desktop
7 21 (0.70%) vSphere
8 14 (0.46%) VMware ESXi
9 12 (0.40%) Ceph
10 10 (0.33%) KVM
11 6 (0.20%) Firmware
11 6 (0.20%) NFS
11 6 (0.20%) Slurm Workload Manager
11 6 (0.20%) VirtualBox
12 4 (0.13%) Embedded Firmware
13 3 (0.100%) Gluster
13 3 (0.100%) oVirt
13 3 (0.100%) QEMU
13 3 (0.100%) Virtual Servers
13 3 (0.100%) Xen
Systems Management
1 1,183 (39.26%) Terraform
2 572 (18.98%) Ansible
3 287 (9.53%) Prometheus
4 233 (7.73%) Puppet
5 159 (5.28%) Grafana
6 95 (3.15%) Progress Chef
7 60 (1.99%) vCenter Server
8 59 (1.96%) Single Sign-On
9 38 (1.26%) Istio
10 29 (0.96%) Kibana
11 28 (0.93%) Active Directory Federation Services
12 27 (0.90%) Docker Swarm
13 24 (0.80%) Argo
14 23 (0.76%) Consul
14 23 (0.76%) Nagios
14 23 (0.76%) Packer
15 22 (0.73%) SCCM
16 20 (0.66%) HAProxy
16 20 (0.66%) Microsoft Intune
16 20 (0.66%) SCOM
Vendors
1 349 (11.58%) Microsoft
2 276 (9.16%) Red Hat
3 183 (6.07%) Google
4 170 (5.64%) VMware
5 152 (5.04%) Oracle
6 101 (3.35%) IBM
7 73 (2.42%) Dynatrace
8 43 (1.43%) Splunk
9 41 (1.36%) Palo Alto
9 41 (1.36%) WSO2
10 37 (1.23%) SaltStack
11 35 (1.16%) NetApp
12 34 (1.13%) SolidFire
13 33 (1.10%) Atlassian
14 30 (1.00%) Cisco
15 24 (0.80%) Databricks
16 23 (0.76%) ForgeRock
17 20 (0.66%) ServiceNow
18 19 (0.63%) New Relic
19 16 (0.53%) Sitecore