Kubernetes Jobs in the South East

Kubernetes (k8s)
England > South East

The following table provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in the South East 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 72 57 40
Rank change year-on-year -15 -17 -6
Permanent jobs citing Kubernetes 588 720 1,342
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the South East 3.48% 5.02% 6.65%
As % of the Systems Management category 34.55% 36.27% 49.23%
Number of salaries quoted 468 495 844
10th Percentile £50,000 £48,750 £46,250
25th Percentile £57,500 £55,000 £55,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £70,000 £70,000 £70,000
Median % change year-on-year - - +12.00%
75th Percentile £85,000 £90,625 £85,000
90th Percentile £95,000 £102,500 £95,000
England median annual salary £77,500 £77,500 £77,500
% change year-on-year - - +10.71%

All Systems Management Skills
South East

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 South East with a requirement for systems management skills.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for systems management skills 1,702 1,985 2,726
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the South East 10.08% 13.84% 13.51%
Number of salaries quoted 1,252 1,223 1,753
10th Percentile £32,500 £28,500 £32,500
25th Percentile £40,000 £40,000 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £60,000 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year -8.33% -7.69% +13.04%
75th Percentile £72,500 £77,500 £82,500
90th Percentile £87,500 £95,000 £90,000
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 South East

Job postings citing Kubernetes as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the South East.

Job vacancy trend for Kubernetes in the South East

Kubernetes
Salary Trend in the South East

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing Kubernetes in the South East.

Salary trend for Kubernetes in the South East

Kubernetes
Salary Histogram in the South East

Salary distribution for jobs citing Kubernetes in the South East over the 6 months to 20 May 2024.

Salary histogram for Kubernetes in the South East

Kubernetes
Job Locations in the South East

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Kubernetes within the South East 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
Thames Valley +3 296 £75,000 -6.25% 49
Berkshire +17 250 £75,000 -14.29% 34
Hampshire -19 142 £70,000 - 23
Surrey -52 51 £80,000 - 19
Kent +12 35 £55,000 -6.38% 2
West Sussex +24 27 £65,000 +18.18% 2
Buckinghamshire -43 26 £65,000 -7.14% 8
East Sussex -17 22 £80,000 +28.00% 4
Oxfordshire -33 20 £72,500 +7.41% 7
Sussex - 2 £67,500 - 1
Kubernetes
England

Kubernetes
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the South East 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 51 (8.67%) OpenStack
2 20 (3.40%) Microsoft Exchange
3 19 (3.23%) Apache
4 11 (1.87%) Red Hat Fuse
5 10 (1.70%) JBoss
6 6 (1.02%) Confluence
6 6 (1.02%) SharePoint
7 4 (0.68%) nginx
8 2 (0.34%) Tomcat
9 1 (0.17%) Apache Spark
9 1 (0.17%) IIS
9 1 (0.17%) Kinematics
9 1 (0.17%) Oracle SOA Suite
Applications
1 1 (0.17%) Microsoft Excel
Cloud Services
1 227 (38.61%) Azure
2 217 (36.90%) AWS
3 93 (15.82%) Azure DevOps
4 77 (13.10%) Serverless
5 70 (11.90%) Amazon ECS
6 64 (10.88%) Amazon EKS
7 59 (10.03%) SaaS
8 42 (7.14%) Amazon S3
9 40 (6.80%) IBM Cloud
10 37 (6.29%) Microsoft 365
11 33 (5.61%) Amazon EC2
12 32 (5.44%) AWS Lambda
13 28 (4.76%) AWS CloudFormation
13 28 (4.76%) Cloud Computing
13 28 (4.76%) CloudFront
14 27 (4.59%) GCP
15 24 (4.08%) Entra ID
16 17 (2.89%) Amazon CloudWatch
16 17 (2.89%) Azure Monitor
17 14 (2.38%) Azure Storage
Communications & Networking
1 42 (7.14%) Firewall
2 17 (2.89%) DNS
3 14 (2.38%) DHCP
4 10 (1.70%) Network Security
4 10 (1.70%) VPN
5 8 (1.36%) Internet
6 7 (1.19%) HTTP
6 7 (1.19%) IPsec
7 5 (0.85%) BGP
7 5 (0.85%) SNMP
8 2 (0.34%) LAN
8 2 (0.34%) OSPF
8 2 (0.34%) TCP/IP
8 2 (0.34%) WAN
8 2 (0.34%) WLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 131 (22.28%) NoSQL
2 62 (10.54%) SQL Server
3 58 (9.86%) PostgreSQL
4 45 (7.65%) Relational Database
5 34 (5.78%) Amazon RDS
6 33 (5.61%) MongoDB
7 28 (4.76%) MySQL
8 22 (3.74%) Elasticsearch
9 16 (2.72%) Redis
10 9 (1.53%) Azure SQL Database
11 8 (1.36%) Amazon Redshift
11 8 (1.36%) CouchDB
12 7 (1.19%) Big Data
13 4 (0.68%) Hadoop
13 4 (0.68%) Power BI
13 4 (0.68%) RDBMS
14 2 (0.34%) BigQuery
14 2 (0.34%) Data Lake
14 2 (0.34%) DynamoDB
15 1 (0.17%) Neo4j
Development Applications
1 206 (35.03%) Git
2 142 (24.15%) Jenkins
3 89 (15.14%) Selenium
4 58 (9.86%) Cypress.io
5 45 (7.65%) GitLab
6 44 (7.48%) JUnit
7 26 (4.42%) JIRA
8 24 (4.08%) SoapUI
9 17 (2.89%) Cucumber
10 15 (2.55%) Octopus Deploy
11 14 (2.38%) TeamCity
12 13 (2.21%) Robot Framework
12 13 (2.21%) WebDriver
13 12 (2.04%) TestNG
14 11 (1.87%) REST Assured
15 10 (1.70%) Team Foundation Server
16 8 (1.36%) Gradle
17 7 (1.19%) Jasmine
17 7 (1.19%) JMeter
17 7 (1.19%) Visual Studio
General
1 103 (17.52%) Social Skills
2 72 (12.24%) Public Sector
3 27 (4.59%) Finance
4 15 (2.55%) Aerospace
5 10 (1.70%) Publishing
6 6 (1.02%) Automotive
6 6 (1.02%) Legal
7 5 (0.85%) Analytical Skills
7 5 (0.85%) Organisational Skills
8 4 (0.68%) Banking
9 3 (0.51%) Games
9 3 (0.51%) Health Technology
9 3 (0.51%) Presentation Skills
10 2 (0.34%) Financial Institution
10 2 (0.34%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 2 (0.34%) Marketing
11 1 (0.17%) Influencing Skills
11 1 (0.17%) Pharmaceutical
11 1 (0.17%) Retail
11 1 (0.17%) Tech for Good
Job Titles
1 219 (37.24%) Developer
2 121 (20.58%) Senior
3 102 (17.35%) Lead
4 83 (14.12%) DevOps Engineer
5 76 (12.93%) Senior Developer
6 72 (12.24%) Java Developer
7 64 (10.88%) Software Developer
8 37 (6.29%) Infrastructure Engineer
9 35 (5.95%) Architect
10 33 (5.61%) Front-End Developer (Client-Side Developer)
11 32 (5.44%) Lead Developer
11 32 (5.44%) Senior Java Developer
12 31 (5.27%) Team Leader
13 30 (5.10%) .NET Developer
14 29 (4.93%) AWS Engineer
14 29 (4.93%) Azure Engineer
15 27 (4.59%) Lead Software Developer
16 26 (4.42%) C# Developer
16 26 (4.42%) Lead DevOps
17 25 (4.25%) C# .NET Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 140 (23.81%) .NET
2 136 (23.13%) React
3 80 (13.61%) Spring
4 73 (12.41%) REST
5 66 (11.22%) HTML
6 60 (10.20%) Spring Boot
7 56 (9.52%) Jest
8 54 (9.18%) Node.js
9 53 (9.01%) AngularJS
10 47 (7.99%) CSS
11 44 (7.48%) Web Services
11 44 (7.48%) XML
12 43 (7.31%) HTML5
13 42 (7.14%) Elastic Stack
14 40 (6.80%) Apache Camel
15 36 (6.12%) CSS3
16 34 (5.78%) Kafka
17 33 (5.61%) JSON
18 28 (4.76%) RabbitMQ
19 27 (4.59%) Hibernate
Miscellaneous
1 79 (13.44%) Distributed Systems
2 46 (7.82%) Hybrid Cloud
3 43 (7.31%) Data Centre
4 40 (6.80%) Blockchain
5 24 (4.08%) Greenfield Project
6 20 (3.40%) Linux Command Line
7 16 (2.72%) PKI
7 16 (2.72%) Self-Motivation
8 15 (2.55%) Product Ownership
9 14 (2.38%) Enterprise Software
10 12 (2.04%) Private Cloud
11 10 (1.70%) Algorithms
11 10 (1.70%) Cloud Native
11 10 (1.70%) Public Cloud
12 8 (1.36%) Client/Server
12 8 (1.36%) PropTech
13 6 (1.02%) Mobile App
14 4 (0.68%) Legacy Systems
15 3 (0.51%) Clustering
16 2 (0.34%) IoT
Operating Systems
1 172 (29.25%) Linux
2 64 (10.88%) Windows
3 58 (9.86%) CentOS
4 42 (7.14%) Debian
5 40 (6.80%) Alpine Linux
6 35 (5.95%) Windows Server
7 28 (4.76%) Windows Server 2016
8 18 (3.06%) Ubuntu
9 14 (2.38%) Windows Server 2019
10 8 (1.36%) VMS
11 6 (1.02%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
12 5 (0.85%) Data ONTAP
13 3 (0.51%) Unix
14 2 (0.34%) Rocky
14 2 (0.34%) Windows Server 2012
Processes & Methodologies
1 325 (55.27%) Agile
2 309 (52.55%) DevOps
3 249 (42.35%) CI/CD
4 192 (32.65%) Artificial Intelligence
5 162 (27.55%) Computer Science
6 134 (22.79%) Microservices
7 131 (22.28%) Containerisation
7 131 (22.28%) Propensity Modelling
8 118 (20.07%) Problem-Solving
9 85 (14.46%) Software Engineering
10 82 (13.95%) TDD
11 70 (11.90%) Infrastructure as Code
12 65 (11.05%) Scrum
13 57 (9.69%) BDD
14 53 (9.01%) Machine Learning
15 52 (8.84%) Test Automation
16 51 (8.67%) Data Science
17 44 (7.48%) Task Automation
18 41 (6.97%) Infrastructure Engineering
18 41 (6.97%) Kanban
Programming Languages
1 181 (30.78%) C#
1 181 (30.78%) JavaScript
2 140 (23.81%) Java
3 125 (21.26%) Python
4 116 (19.73%) TypeScript
5 101 (17.18%) SQL
6 45 (7.65%) PHP
7 43 (7.31%) PowerShell
8 39 (6.63%) Bash
9 29 (4.93%) Bicep
10 24 (4.08%) Go
11 16 (2.72%) Groovy
12 14 (2.38%) VB
12 14 (2.38%) VBScript
13 13 (2.21%) Shell Script
14 10 (1.70%) R
15 7 (1.19%) C
16 5 (0.85%) Ruby
17 4 (0.68%) C++
18 2 (0.34%) PL/SQL
Qualifications
1 201 (34.18%) Degree
2 123 (20.92%) Computer Science Degree
3 121 (20.58%) Security Cleared
4 105 (17.86%) SC Cleared
5 57 (9.69%) Azure Certification
6 48 (8.16%) AWS Certification
7 43 (7.31%) Microsoft Certification
8 40 (6.80%) MCSA
8 40 (6.80%) MCSE
9 31 (5.27%) DV Cleared
10 24 (4.08%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
10 24 (4.08%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
11 19 (3.23%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
12 14 (2.38%) Master's Degree
13 10 (1.70%) PhD
14 7 (1.19%) AWS Certified Developer
15 3 (0.51%) AWS Certified SysOps Administrator
16 1 (0.17%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
16 1 (0.17%) BPSS Clearance
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 33 (5.61%) WCAG
2 15 (2.55%) QA
3 3 (0.51%) GDPR
3 3 (0.51%) HIPAA
3 3 (0.51%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 1 (0.17%) SOC 2
System Software
1 469 (79.76%) Docker
2 32 (5.44%) Active Directory
3 27 (4.59%) Hyper-V
4 24 (4.08%) VMware Infrastructure
5 22 (3.74%) Virtual Machines
6 14 (2.38%) Virtual Desktop
6 14 (2.38%) vSphere
7 5 (0.85%) VMware ESXi
8 3 (0.51%) VirtualBox
9 2 (0.34%) Firmware
9 2 (0.34%) KVM
9 2 (0.34%) QEMU
9 2 (0.34%) Xen
Systems Management
1 179 (30.44%) Terraform
2 96 (16.33%) Ansible
3 36 (6.12%) Puppet
4 21 (3.57%) vCenter Server
5 16 (2.72%) SCCM
5 16 (2.72%) WSUS
6 14 (2.38%) Active Directory Federation Services
6 14 (2.38%) Microsoft Intune
6 14 (2.38%) SCOM
7 12 (2.04%) Consul
7 12 (2.04%) Prometheus
8 11 (1.87%) Rancher
9 10 (1.70%) Grafana
9 10 (1.70%) ZABBIX
10 9 (1.53%) Kibana
11 7 (1.19%) MIIS
12 6 (1.02%) Docker Swarm
12 6 (1.02%) Nessus
13 2 (0.34%) Progress Chef
13 2 (0.34%) SolarWinds Orion
Vendors
1 73 (12.41%) Microsoft
2 62 (10.54%) Red Hat
3 42 (7.14%) VMware
4 41 (6.97%) IBM
5 35 (5.95%) WSO2
6 22 (3.74%) Google
7 13 (2.21%) ServiceNow
8 12 (2.04%) Xamarin
9 11 (1.87%) Oracle
10 10 (1.70%) Apple
11 9 (1.53%) Juniper
12 7 (1.19%) Splunk
13 6 (1.02%) Cisco
13 6 (1.02%) Citrix
13 6 (1.02%) ForgeRock
13 6 (1.02%) Sitecore
14 5 (0.85%) NetApp
14 5 (0.85%) Palo Alto
14 5 (0.85%) SolidFire
15 4 (0.68%) Dynatrace