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

6 months to
25 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 67 32 21
Rank change year-on-year -35 -11 +6
Permanent jobs citing Kubernetes 3,680 6,948 17,806
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 3.62% 7.10% 10.84%
As % of the Systems Management category 37.33% 48.48% 58.97%
Number of salaries quoted 2,614 4,283 7,172
10th Percentile £48,750 £50,000 £46,250
25th Percentile £59,000 £61,180 £57,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £75,000 £75,000 £75,000
Median % change year-on-year - - +7.14%
75th Percentile £95,000 £96,250 £93,750
90th Percentile £115,000 £115,000 £110,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £68,000 £69,447 £70,000
% change year-on-year -2.08% -0.79% +16.67%

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 9,858 14,332 30,193
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 9.70% 14.65% 18.38%
Number of salaries quoted 7,056 8,903 14,008
10th Percentile £32,500 £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% +12.00%
75th Percentile £82,500 £87,500 £86,250
90th Percentile £100,000 £105,000 £102,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £55,000 £59,526 £59,000
% change year-on-year -7.60% +0.89% +7.27%

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 25 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 25 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 -37 3,022 £77,500 - 1,112
UK excluding London -24 2,252 £68,000 -2.08% 706
Work from Home -37 1,478 £75,000 - 593
London -20 1,281 £87,500 +2.94% 707
South East -21 588 £70,000 - 375
North of England -25 487 £61,206 -11.87% 119
Scotland -18 476 £73,000 +7.93% 35
South West -27 369 £70,576 +4.56% 75
North West -24 284 £62,500 -10.71% 73
Midlands -58 178 £60,000 -14.29% 45
Yorkshire -15 171 £60,000 -12.43% 36
West Midlands -38 105 £65,000 -7.14% 25
East of England -58 93 £85,000 +21.43% 43
East Midlands -44 73 £60,000 -7.69% 19
Wales -26 37 £42,500 -30.89% 10
North East -34 32 £68,500 +3.40% 10
Northern Ireland -29 22 £75,000 +3.45% 11
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
1 205 (5.57%) Apache Spark
2 175 (4.76%) Apache
3 142 (3.86%) Apache Airflow
4 98 (2.66%) FileNet
5 75 (2.04%) OpenStack
6 49 (1.33%) nginx
7 41 (1.11%) Confluence
8 30 (0.82%) Microsoft Exchange
9 24 (0.65%) Jupyter
10 23 (0.63%) Cloud Foundry
11 22 (0.60%) JBoss
12 15 (0.41%) IIS
12 15 (0.41%) Tomcat
13 12 (0.33%) Drupal
14 11 (0.30%) SharePoint
15 10 (0.27%) Red Hat Fuse
16 8 (0.22%) CMS
16 8 (0.22%) WebSphere
17 7 (0.19%) WebLogic
17 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 (0.082%) Remedy ITSM
2 3 (0.082%) SAP Business One
3 2 (0.054%) Oracle EBS
4 1 (0.027%) Payment Gateway
4 1 (0.027%) Salesforce CRM
4 1 (0.027%) SAP S/4HANA
4 1 (0.027%) Shopify
Cloud Services
1 1,932 (52.50%) AWS
2 1,475 (40.08%) Azure
3 539 (14.65%) GCP
4 408 (11.09%) Amazon S3
5 372 (10.11%) Azure DevOps
6 322 (8.75%) Serverless
7 307 (8.34%) GitHub
8 292 (7.93%) SaaS
9 279 (7.58%) Amazon EKS
10 241 (6.55%) OpenShift
11 202 (5.49%) AWS CloudFormation
12 191 (5.19%) Amazon ECS
13 188 (5.11%) AWS Lambda
14 162 (4.40%) Azure AKS
15 144 (3.91%) Amazon EC2
16 142 (3.86%) PaaS
17 133 (3.61%) Cloud Computing
18 120 (3.26%) GitHub Actions
19 107 (2.91%) IaaS
20 101 (2.74%) IBM Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 194 (5.27%) Firewall
2 121 (3.29%) DNS
3 100 (2.72%) VPN
4 84 (2.28%) Internet
5 77 (2.09%) TCP/IP
6 68 (1.85%) DHCP
6 68 (1.85%) HTTP
7 67 (1.82%) Network Security
8 58 (1.58%) IPsec
9 54 (1.47%) SNMP
10 52 (1.41%) WAN
11 50 (1.36%) SD-WAN
12 41 (1.11%) AMQP
13 21 (0.57%) BGP
14 18 (0.49%) DSL
15 17 (0.46%) Kerberos
16 15 (0.41%) MPLS
17 11 (0.30%) Ethernet VPN
18 8 (0.22%) SSL
19 7 (0.19%) WLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 409 (11.11%) NoSQL
2 294 (7.99%) PostgreSQL
3 268 (7.28%) Elasticsearch
4 254 (6.90%) Big Data
5 245 (6.66%) MongoDB
6 225 (6.11%) SQL Server
7 191 (5.19%) Amazon RDS
8 176 (4.78%) Relational Database
9 163 (4.43%) MySQL
10 132 (3.59%) Apache Cassandra
11 126 (3.42%) Redis
12 117 (3.18%) Data Lake
13 95 (2.58%) Hadoop
14 63 (1.71%) Amazon Redshift
15 60 (1.63%) Amazon Athena
16 58 (1.58%) Dremio
17 57 (1.55%) BigQuery
18 54 (1.47%) Apache Arrow
19 52 (1.41%) Azure SQL Database
20 43 (1.17%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 683 (18.56%) Jenkins
2 508 (13.80%) Git
3 245 (6.66%) GitLab
4 190 (5.16%) JIRA
5 157 (4.27%) JUnit
6 117 (3.18%) Selenium
7 82 (2.23%) TeamCity
8 74 (2.01%) Cypress.io
9 62 (1.68%) CircleCI
10 58 (1.58%) Mockito
11 54 (1.47%) Octopus Deploy
12 53 (1.44%) Jasmine
13 52 (1.41%) Artifactory
14 46 (1.25%) SonarQube
15 44 (1.20%) Bitbucket
16 42 (1.14%) Sonatype Nexus
17 41 (1.11%) Maven
18 39 (1.06%) Cucumber
19 29 (0.79%) Team Foundation Server
20 24 (0.65%) Atlassian Bamboo
General
1 1,030 (27.99%) Finance
2 583 (15.84%) Social Skills
3 513 (13.94%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 396 (10.76%) Law
5 268 (7.28%) Public Sector
6 234 (6.36%) Banking
7 224 (6.09%) Marketing
8 146 (3.97%) Analytical Skills
9 144 (3.91%) Legal
10 115 (3.13%) Aerospace
11 113 (3.07%) Retail
12 61 (1.66%) Games
13 56 (1.52%) Tech for Good
14 53 (1.44%) Front Office
15 48 (1.30%) Organisational Skills
15 48 (1.30%) Retail Banking
16 47 (1.28%) Investment Banking
17 43 (1.17%) Financial Institution
18 32 (0.87%) Health Technology
19 30 (0.82%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 922 (25.05%) Senior
2 767 (20.84%) Developer
3 714 (19.40%) Software Engineer
4 642 (17.45%) DevOps Engineer
5 549 (14.92%) Lead
6 274 (7.45%) Architect
7 273 (7.42%) AWS Engineer
8 261 (7.09%) Java Developer
9 242 (6.58%) Senior Developer
10 211 (5.73%) Cloud Engineer
11 197 (5.35%) Java Engineer
12 186 (5.05%) Senior Software Engineer
13 179 (4.86%) Azure Engineer
14 172 (4.67%) Senior DevOps
15 163 (4.43%) Senior DevOps Engineer
15 163 (4.43%) Software Developer
16 162 (4.40%) Data Engineer
17 158 (4.29%) AWS DevOps
18 157 (4.27%) Lead Software Engineer
19 148 (4.02%) Platform Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 688 (18.70%) React
2 582 (15.82%) Kafka
3 499 (13.56%) Spring
4 481 (13.07%) .NET
5 374 (10.16%) AngularJS
6 347 (9.43%) Spring Boot
7 333 (9.05%) Node.js
8 310 (8.42%) REST
9 212 (5.76%) HTML
10 208 (5.65%) CSS
11 192 (5.22%) RabbitMQ
12 178 (4.84%) GraphQL
13 173 (4.70%) Hibernate
14 168 (4.57%) RESTful
15 157 (4.27%) JSON
16 143 (3.89%) J2EE
17 134 (3.64%) .NET Core
18 130 (3.53%) gRPC
19 116 (3.15%) YAML
20 111 (3.02%) Elastic Stack
Miscellaneous
1 419 (11.39%) Cloud Native
2 254 (6.90%) Distributed Systems
3 231 (6.28%) Public Cloud
4 177 (4.81%) Algorithms
5 145 (3.94%) Data Centre
6 143 (3.89%) Hybrid Cloud
7 136 (3.70%) Product Ownership
8 134 (3.64%) Management Information System
9 120 (3.26%) Greenfield Project
10 119 (3.23%) Blockchain
11 82 (2.23%) Hedge funds
12 81 (2.20%) Clustering
13 80 (2.17%) Data Structures
14 76 (2.07%) Private Cloud
15 61 (1.66%) e-Learning
16 51 (1.39%) Client/Server
17 49 (1.33%) Linux Command Line
18 48 (1.30%) Mobile App
19 47 (1.28%) Self-Motivation
20 35 (0.95%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
Operating Systems
1 959 (26.06%) Linux
2 350 (9.51%) Windows
3 130 (3.53%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 106 (2.88%) CentOS
5 90 (2.45%) Windows Server
6 79 (2.15%) Debian
7 65 (1.77%) Unix
8 63 (1.71%) Ubuntu
9 54 (1.47%) Data ONTAP
10 42 (1.14%) Alpine Linux
11 35 (0.95%) Windows Server 2016
12 27 (0.73%) VMS
13 25 (0.68%) Android
14 23 (0.63%) Apple iOS
15 21 (0.57%) Windows Server 2019
16 12 (0.33%) Oracle Linux
16 12 (0.33%) Solaris
17 10 (0.27%) Embedded Linux
18 6 (0.16%) Mesosphere
19 5 (0.14%) Mac OS
Processes & Methodologies
1 1,652 (44.89%) DevOps
2 1,609 (43.72%) Agile
3 1,592 (43.26%) CI/CD
4 1,181 (32.09%) Software Engineering
5 885 (24.05%) Microservices
6 862 (23.42%) Containerisation
7 686 (18.64%) Infrastructure as Code
8 607 (16.49%) Problem-Solving
9 604 (16.41%) Artificial Intelligence
10 560 (15.22%) SDLC
11 442 (12.01%) Mentoring
12 401 (10.90%) Computer Science
13 391 (10.63%) Full Stack Development
14 386 (10.49%) Machine Learning
15 338 (9.18%) Scrum
16 321 (8.72%) Continuous Improvement
17 311 (8.45%) Test Automation
18 309 (8.40%) TDD
19 300 (8.15%) Continuous Integration
20 269 (7.31%) Site Reliability Engineering
Programming Languages
1 1,312 (35.65%) Java
1 1,312 (35.65%) Python
2 743 (20.19%) SQL
3 708 (19.24%) JavaScript
4 549 (14.92%) C#
5 435 (11.82%) TypeScript
6 362 (9.84%) Go
7 336 (9.13%) Bash
8 319 (8.67%) PowerShell
9 109 (2.96%) PHP
10 95 (2.58%) C++
11 93 (2.53%) Ruby
12 78 (2.12%) C
13 76 (2.07%) Scala
14 71 (1.93%) Rust
15 64 (1.74%) Bicep
15 64 (1.74%) PL/SQL
16 63 (1.71%) Kotlin
16 63 (1.71%) Shell Script
17 42 (1.14%) Perl
Qualifications
1 492 (13.37%) Security Cleared
2 458 (12.45%) Degree
3 304 (8.26%) SC Cleared
4 276 (7.50%) Computer Science Degree
5 237 (6.44%) DV Cleared
6 181 (4.92%) Azure Certification
7 173 (4.70%) AWS Certification
8 103 (2.80%) Master's Degree
9 96 (2.61%) Microsoft Certification
10 55 (1.49%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
11 50 (1.36%) CISSP
12 42 (1.14%) CISM
13 40 (1.09%) Cisco Certification
13 40 (1.09%) MCSA
13 40 (1.09%) MCSE
14 37 (1.01%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
15 36 (0.98%) PhD
16 34 (0.92%) (ISC)2 CCSP
16 34 (0.92%) CCSK
16 34 (0.92%) CCSP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 97 (2.64%) QA
2 52 (1.41%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 47 (1.28%) NIST
4 31 (0.84%) WCAG
5 29 (0.79%) SLA
6 22 (0.60%) GDPR
7 14 (0.38%) Accessibility
7 14 (0.38%) PCI DSS
8 13 (0.35%) NCSC
9 10 (0.27%) Cyber Essentials
10 7 (0.19%) Data Quality
11 5 (0.14%) HIPAA
11 5 (0.14%) ISO 9001
11 5 (0.14%) SOC 2
12 3 (0.082%) SEPA
13 2 (0.054%) ISO 20022
13 2 (0.054%) ISO 9000
14 1 (0.027%) Disclosure Scotland
14 1 (0.027%) ISO 15022
14 1 (0.027%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 2,188 (59.46%) Docker
2 162 (4.40%) VMware Infrastructure
3 108 (2.93%) Active Directory
4 107 (2.91%) Hyper-V
5 85 (2.31%) Virtual Machines
6 25 (0.68%) Virtual Desktop
7 22 (0.60%) vSphere
8 14 (0.38%) VMware ESXi
9 12 (0.33%) Ceph
9 12 (0.33%) Firmware
10 10 (0.27%) KVM
11 7 (0.19%) NFS
12 6 (0.16%) Slurm Workload Manager
12 6 (0.16%) VirtualBox
13 4 (0.11%) Embedded Firmware
14 3 (0.082%) Gluster
14 3 (0.082%) oVirt
14 3 (0.082%) QEMU
14 3 (0.082%) Virtual Servers
14 3 (0.082%) Xen
Systems Management
1 1,334 (36.25%) Terraform
2 681 (18.51%) Ansible
3 332 (9.02%) Prometheus
4 242 (6.58%) Puppet
5 184 (5.00%) Grafana
6 108 (2.93%) Progress Chef
7 80 (2.17%) vCenter Server
8 60 (1.63%) Single Sign-On
9 45 (1.22%) Istio
10 33 (0.90%) Docker Swarm
11 31 (0.84%) SCCM
12 30 (0.82%) Active Directory Federation Services
13 29 (0.79%) Kibana
14 27 (0.73%) Microsoft Intune
15 25 (0.68%) Argo
16 24 (0.65%) Nagios
17 21 (0.57%) Consul
17 21 (0.57%) Packer
17 21 (0.57%) SCOM
17 21 (0.57%) WSUS
Vendors
1 395 (10.73%) Microsoft
2 369 (10.03%) Oracle
3 303 (8.23%) Red Hat
4 274 (7.45%) Google
5 206 (5.60%) VMware
6 106 (2.88%) IBM
7 87 (2.36%) Dynatrace
8 76 (2.07%) Databricks
9 74 (2.01%) Splunk
10 61 (1.66%) Palo Alto
11 56 (1.52%) NetApp
12 54 (1.47%) SolidFire
13 41 (1.11%) WSO2
14 39 (1.06%) SaltStack
15 37 (1.01%) ServiceNow
16 35 (0.95%) Cisco
17 33 (0.90%) Atlassian
18 31 (0.84%) Sybase
19 25 (0.68%) Dell
20 23 (0.63%) ForgeRock