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

6 months to
3 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 66 32 21
Rank change year-on-year -34 -11 +6
Permanent jobs citing Kubernetes 3,686 7,321 16,600
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 3.74% 7.05% 10.61%
As % of the Systems Management category 36.91% 48.14% 58.48%
Number of salaries quoted 2,643 4,501 7,246
10th Percentile £48,750 £50,000 £47,500
25th Percentile £59,000 £60,000 £57,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £75,000 £75,000 £75,000
Median % change year-on-year - - +7.14%
75th Percentile £95,000 £97,290 £95,000
90th Percentile £115,000 £115,000 £110,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £69,447 £68,515 £70,000
% change year-on-year +1.36% -2.12% +21.74%

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 9,987 15,208 28,384
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 10.13% 14.65% 18.14%
Number of salaries quoted 7,206 9,346 14,192
10th Percentile £32,750 £35,450 £37,500
25th Percentile £45,000 £48,091 £48,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £67,500 £70,000
Median % change year-on-year -11.11% -3.57% +12.00%
75th Percentile £82,500 £87,500 £87,500
90th Percentile £100,000 £105,000 £102,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £55,000 £57,500 £60,000
% change year-on-year -4.35% -4.17% +9.09%

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 3 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 3 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 -35 3,008 £77,500 - 832
UK excluding London -19 2,257 £69,447 +1.36% 430
Work from Home -37 1,472 £75,000 - 525
London -19 1,272 £87,500 +2.94% 430
South East -13 589 £70,000 - 107
Scotland -15 492 £70,576 +4.56% 33
North of England -26 481 £62,500 -9.42% 104
South West -25 362 £70,576 +4.56% 86
North West -25 286 £62,500 -10.00% 57
Midlands -42 180 £60,000 -14.29% 52
Yorkshire -25 163 £60,000 -12.43% 36
West Midlands -35 112 £65,000 -7.14% 27
East of England -58 97 £85,000 +21.43% 30
East Midlands -34 71 £60,000 -14.29% 25
Wales -23 37 £42,500 -30.89% 9
North East -36 32 £67,500 -2.17% 11
Northern Ireland -20 21 £75,000 +7.14% 15
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
1 197 (5.34%) Apache Spark
2 167 (4.53%) Apache
3 124 (3.36%) Apache Airflow
4 98 (2.66%) FileNet
5 77 (2.09%) OpenStack
6 47 (1.28%) nginx
7 41 (1.11%) Confluence
8 26 (0.71%) Microsoft Exchange
9 23 (0.62%) Jupyter
10 20 (0.54%) JBoss
11 19 (0.52%) Cloud Foundry
12 16 (0.43%) Tomcat
13 15 (0.41%) IIS
14 14 (0.38%) Drupal
15 13 (0.35%) SharePoint
16 12 (0.33%) CMS
17 10 (0.27%) Red Hat Fuse
18 7 (0.19%) WebLogic
18 7 (0.19%) WebSphere
18 7 (0.19%) WildFly
Applications
1 11 (0.30%) Microsoft Excel
2 2 (0.054%) InDesign
2 2 (0.054%) Microsoft Office
3 1 (0.027%) Blender
Business Applications
1 7 (0.19%) Teamcenter
2 3 (0.081%) SAP Business One
3 2 (0.054%) Oracle EBS
3 2 (0.054%) Remedy ITSM
4 1 (0.027%) Magento
4 1 (0.027%) Salesforce CRM
4 1 (0.027%) SAP S/4HANA
4 1 (0.027%) Shopify
Cloud Services
1 1,942 (52.69%) AWS
2 1,453 (39.42%) Azure
3 526 (14.27%) GCP
4 425 (11.53%) Amazon S3
5 383 (10.39%) Azure DevOps
6 341 (9.25%) Serverless
7 310 (8.41%) GitHub
8 293 (7.95%) SaaS
9 282 (7.65%) Amazon EKS
10 233 (6.32%) OpenShift
11 210 (5.70%) AWS CloudFormation
12 204 (5.53%) AWS Lambda
13 202 (5.48%) Amazon ECS
14 156 (4.23%) Azure AKS
15 153 (4.15%) Amazon EC2
16 139 (3.77%) PaaS
17 124 (3.36%) Cloud Computing
18 115 (3.12%) GitHub Actions
19 110 (2.98%) IaaS
20 101 (2.74%) IBM Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 186 (5.05%) Firewall
2 118 (3.20%) DNS
3 107 (2.90%) VPN
4 85 (2.31%) Internet
5 72 (1.95%) TCP/IP
6 65 (1.76%) DHCP
7 63 (1.71%) Network Security
8 61 (1.65%) HTTP
9 59 (1.60%) IPsec
10 54 (1.47%) SNMP
11 48 (1.30%) SD-WAN
11 48 (1.30%) WAN
12 38 (1.03%) AMQP
13 22 (0.60%) BGP
14 18 (0.49%) DSL
15 17 (0.46%) Kerberos
16 13 (0.35%) MPLS
17 11 (0.30%) Ethernet VPN
18 7 (0.19%) WLAN
19 6 (0.16%) LAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 426 (11.56%) NoSQL
2 314 (8.52%) PostgreSQL
3 286 (7.76%) Elasticsearch
4 250 (6.78%) MongoDB
5 247 (6.70%) Big Data
6 221 (6.00%) SQL Server
7 198 (5.37%) Amazon RDS
8 173 (4.69%) Relational Database
9 169 (4.58%) MySQL
10 134 (3.64%) Redis
11 132 (3.58%) Apache Cassandra
12 98 (2.66%) Data Lake
13 97 (2.63%) Hadoop
14 73 (1.98%) Amazon Redshift
15 59 (1.60%) BigQuery
16 46 (1.25%) Azure SQL Database
17 42 (1.14%) Tableau
18 41 (1.11%) Amazon Athena
18 41 (1.11%) Data Warehouse
19 40 (1.09%) Dremio
Development Applications
1 714 (19.37%) Jenkins
2 518 (14.05%) Git
3 268 (7.27%) GitLab
4 177 (4.80%) JIRA
5 164 (4.45%) JUnit
6 131 (3.55%) Selenium
7 86 (2.33%) Cypress.io
8 82 (2.22%) TeamCity
9 62 (1.68%) Artifactory
10 60 (1.63%) Mockito
11 58 (1.57%) CircleCI
12 53 (1.44%) Jasmine
13 52 (1.41%) Maven
14 51 (1.38%) Cucumber
14 51 (1.38%) Octopus Deploy
15 47 (1.28%) SonarQube
15 47 (1.28%) Sonatype Nexus
16 40 (1.09%) Bitbucket
17 28 (0.76%) SoapUI
18 24 (0.65%) Team Foundation Server
General
1 1,035 (28.08%) Finance
2 555 (15.06%) Social Skills
3 520 (14.11%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 392 (10.63%) Law
5 268 (7.27%) Banking
6 257 (6.97%) Public Sector
7 225 (6.10%) Marketing
8 146 (3.96%) Analytical Skills
9 144 (3.91%) Legal
10 123 (3.34%) Retail
11 93 (2.52%) Aerospace
12 66 (1.79%) Games
13 62 (1.68%) Front Office
14 57 (1.55%) Retail Banking
15 56 (1.52%) Tech for Good
16 48 (1.30%) Investment Banking
17 43 (1.17%) Financial Institution
18 40 (1.09%) Organisational Skills
19 32 (0.87%) Health Technology
20 30 (0.81%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 908 (24.63%) Senior
2 788 (21.38%) Developer
3 697 (18.91%) Software Engineer
4 664 (18.01%) DevOps Engineer
5 532 (14.43%) Lead
6 283 (7.68%) Architect
7 280 (7.60%) Java Developer
8 265 (7.19%) AWS Engineer
9 254 (6.89%) Senior Developer
10 209 (5.67%) Cloud Engineer
11 200 (5.43%) Java Engineer
12 189 (5.13%) Azure Engineer
13 170 (4.61%) Senior DevOps
14 168 (4.56%) Software Developer
15 166 (4.50%) AWS DevOps
16 164 (4.45%) Senior DevOps Engineer
16 164 (4.45%) Senior Software Engineer
17 161 (4.37%) Data Engineer
18 153 (4.15%) Lead Software Engineer
19 148 (4.02%) AWS DevOps Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 719 (19.51%) React
2 614 (16.66%) Kafka
3 520 (14.11%) Spring
4 495 (13.43%) .NET
5 374 (10.15%) AngularJS
6 364 (9.88%) Spring Boot
7 327 (8.87%) Node.js
8 310 (8.41%) REST
9 211 (5.72%) HTML
10 209 (5.67%) CSS
11 190 (5.15%) RabbitMQ
12 186 (5.05%) GraphQL
13 182 (4.94%) Hibernate
14 169 (4.58%) RESTful
15 157 (4.26%) JSON
16 152 (4.12%) J2EE
17 142 (3.85%) .NET Core
18 120 (3.26%) Elastic Stack
19 119 (3.23%) YAML
20 115 (3.12%) gRPC
Miscellaneous
1 408 (11.07%) Cloud Native
2 264 (7.16%) Distributed Systems
3 240 (6.51%) Public Cloud
4 178 (4.83%) Algorithms
5 146 (3.96%) Hybrid Cloud
6 142 (3.85%) Data Centre
7 135 (3.66%) Management Information System
8 127 (3.45%) Blockchain
9 121 (3.28%) Greenfield Project
10 120 (3.26%) Product Ownership
11 82 (2.22%) Data Structures
12 76 (2.06%) Private Cloud
13 65 (1.76%) Hedge funds
14 59 (1.60%) Clustering
15 57 (1.55%) e-Learning
16 51 (1.38%) Client/Server
17 49 (1.33%) Linux Command Line
18 47 (1.28%) Mobile App
19 43 (1.17%) Self-Motivation
20 38 (1.03%) Legacy Code
Operating Systems
1 967 (26.23%) Linux
2 371 (10.07%) Windows
3 119 (3.23%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 102 (2.77%) CentOS
5 87 (2.36%) Windows Server
6 72 (1.95%) Debian
7 67 (1.82%) Unix
8 54 (1.47%) Data ONTAP
8 54 (1.47%) Ubuntu
9 40 (1.09%) Alpine Linux
10 34 (0.92%) Windows Server 2016
11 29 (0.79%) VMS
12 26 (0.71%) Android
13 25 (0.68%) Apple iOS
14 20 (0.54%) Windows Server 2019
15 11 (0.30%) Oracle Linux
16 10 (0.27%) Embedded Linux
16 10 (0.27%) Solaris
17 7 (0.19%) CoreOS
17 7 (0.19%) zOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 1,636 (44.38%) DevOps
2 1,622 (44.00%) Agile
3 1,592 (43.19%) CI/CD
4 1,206 (32.72%) Software Engineering
5 911 (24.72%) Microservices
6 858 (23.28%) Containerisation
7 682 (18.50%) Infrastructure as Code
8 618 (16.77%) Problem-Solving
9 586 (15.90%) Artificial Intelligence
10 573 (15.55%) SDLC
11 434 (11.77%) Mentoring
12 412 (11.18%) Computer Science
13 391 (10.61%) Full Stack Development
14 362 (9.82%) Machine Learning
15 339 (9.20%) Scrum
16 329 (8.93%) Continuous Integration
17 317 (8.60%) TDD
18 315 (8.55%) Test Automation
19 302 (8.19%) Continuous Improvement
20 248 (6.73%) Site Reliability Engineering
Programming Languages
1 1,339 (36.33%) Java
2 1,289 (34.97%) Python
3 759 (20.59%) SQL
4 687 (18.64%) JavaScript
5 573 (15.55%) C#
6 439 (11.91%) TypeScript
7 360 (9.77%) Go
8 354 (9.60%) Bash
9 324 (8.79%) PowerShell
10 117 (3.17%) PHP
11 97 (2.63%) Ruby
12 96 (2.60%) C++
13 79 (2.14%) Scala
14 75 (2.03%) C
15 68 (1.84%) Rust
16 67 (1.82%) PL/SQL
16 67 (1.82%) Shell Script
17 62 (1.68%) Bicep
18 60 (1.63%) Kotlin
19 45 (1.22%) Perl
Qualifications
1 474 (12.86%) Degree
2 464 (12.59%) Security Cleared
3 286 (7.76%) Computer Science Degree
4 272 (7.38%) SC Cleared
5 215 (5.83%) DV Cleared
6 163 (4.42%) Azure Certification
7 152 (4.12%) AWS Certification
8 103 (2.79%) Master's Degree
9 92 (2.50%) Microsoft Certification
10 51 (1.38%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
11 50 (1.36%) CISSP
12 42 (1.14%) CISM
13 40 (1.09%) MCSA
13 40 (1.09%) MCSE
14 39 (1.06%) Cisco Certification
15 37 (1.00%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
16 34 (0.92%) (ISC)2 CCSP
16 34 (0.92%) CCSK
16 34 (0.92%) CCSP
16 34 (0.92%) PhD
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 99 (2.69%) QA
2 55 (1.49%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 45 (1.22%) NIST
4 35 (0.95%) WCAG
5 26 (0.71%) SLA
6 21 (0.57%) GDPR
7 13 (0.35%) PCI DSS
8 12 (0.33%) NCSC
9 11 (0.30%) Accessibility
10 9 (0.24%) Cyber Essentials
11 7 (0.19%) Data Quality
12 5 (0.14%) ISO 9001
12 5 (0.14%) SEPA
13 4 (0.11%) HIPAA
13 4 (0.11%) SOC 2
14 3 (0.081%) ISO 20022
14 3 (0.081%) ISO 9000
15 2 (0.054%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
16 1 (0.027%) California Consumer Privacy Act
16 1 (0.027%) Disclosure Scotland
System Software
1 2,247 (60.96%) Docker
2 156 (4.23%) VMware Infrastructure
3 109 (2.96%) Active Directory
4 106 (2.88%) Hyper-V
5 81 (2.20%) Virtual Machines
6 22 (0.60%) vSphere
7 20 (0.54%) Virtual Desktop
8 14 (0.38%) VMware ESXi
9 11 (0.30%) Firmware
10 8 (0.22%) Ceph
10 8 (0.22%) KVM
11 6 (0.16%) VirtualBox
12 5 (0.14%) NFS
12 5 (0.14%) Slurm Workload Manager
13 4 (0.11%) Embedded Firmware
14 3 (0.081%) Gluster
14 3 (0.081%) oVirt
15 2 (0.054%) Apache ZooKeeper
15 2 (0.054%) Varnish
15 2 (0.054%) Xen
Systems Management
1 1,297 (35.19%) Terraform
2 651 (17.66%) Ansible
3 321 (8.71%) Prometheus
4 240 (6.51%) Puppet
5 197 (5.34%) Grafana
6 107 (2.90%) Progress Chef
7 80 (2.17%) vCenter Server
8 55 (1.49%) Single Sign-On
9 48 (1.30%) Istio
10 34 (0.92%) Kibana
11 31 (0.84%) Docker Swarm
12 29 (0.79%) SCCM
13 25 (0.68%) Consul
13 25 (0.68%) Microsoft Intune
13 25 (0.68%) Packer
14 24 (0.65%) Argo
15 23 (0.62%) Active Directory Federation Services
16 22 (0.60%) Rancher
16 22 (0.60%) Salt
17 21 (0.57%) Nagios
Vendors
1 387 (10.50%) Microsoft
2 371 (10.07%) Oracle
3 293 (7.95%) Google
4 292 (7.92%) Red Hat
5 201 (5.45%) VMware
6 107 (2.90%) IBM
7 88 (2.39%) Dynatrace
8 73 (1.98%) Databricks
9 67 (1.82%) Splunk
10 62 (1.68%) Palo Alto
11 55 (1.49%) NetApp
12 54 (1.47%) SolidFire
13 42 (1.14%) WSO2
14 37 (1.00%) SaltStack
15 35 (0.95%) Cisco
16 31 (0.84%) Atlassian
17 30 (0.81%) Dell
17 30 (0.81%) Sybase
18 21 (0.57%) ForgeRock
18 21 (0.57%) ServiceNow