Kubernetes Jobs in the North West

Kubernetes (k8s)
England > North West

The following table provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in the North West 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 19 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
19 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 79 56 28
Rank change year-on-year -23 -28 +7
Permanent jobs citing Kubernetes 286 457 818
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the North West 2.87% 5.91% 8.66%
As % of the Systems Management category 41.15% 43.52% 53.67%
Number of salaries quoted 182 290 480
10th Percentile £46,375 £48,750 £42,500
25th Percentile £52,500 £55,680 £52,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £62,500 £70,000 £67,350
Median % change year-on-year -10.71% +3.93% +12.25%
75th Percentile £77,500 £80,000 £85,000
90th Percentile £85,000 £90,000 £90,000
England median annual salary £77,500 £77,500 £77,500
% change year-on-year - - +10.71%

All Systems Management Skills
North West

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 North West with a requirement for systems management skills.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for systems management skills 695 1,050 1,524
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the North West 6.97% 13.59% 16.13%
Number of salaries quoted 530 689 920
10th Percentile £29,225 £33,750 £32,500
25th Percentile £40,000 £45,000 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,500 £60,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -4.17% - +11.11%
75th Percentile £71,250 £77,500 £77,500
90th Percentile £80,000 £86,250 £85,000
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 North West

Job postings citing Kubernetes as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the North West.

Job vacancy trend for Kubernetes in the North West

Kubernetes
Salary Trend in the North West

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing Kubernetes in the North West.

Salary trend for Kubernetes in the North West

Kubernetes
Salary Histogram in the North West

Salary distribution for jobs citing Kubernetes in the North West over the 6 months to 19 May 2024.

Salary histogram for Kubernetes in the North West

Kubernetes
Job Locations in the North West

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Kubernetes within the North West region over the 6 months to 19 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
Manchester -12 220 £65,000 -7.14% 62
Cheshire +5 33 £52,500 -18.29% 5
Merseyside -24 16 £56,250 -31.82%
Lancashire -16 12 £65,000 +18.18% 6
Cumbria -4 4 £65,000 -
Kubernetes
England

Kubernetes
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the North West 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 26 (9.09%) Apache
2 21 (7.34%) Apache Spark
3 3 (1.05%) Apache Airflow
4 1 (0.35%) Jetty
4 1 (0.35%) nginx
4 1 (0.35%) OpenStack
4 1 (0.35%) WordPress
Business Applications
1 1 (0.35%) Shopify
Cloud Services
1 180 (62.94%) AWS
2 131 (45.80%) Azure
3 56 (19.58%) Amazon EKS
4 50 (17.48%) Amazon S3
5 47 (16.43%) GCP
6 37 (12.94%) OCI
7 36 (12.59%) Amazon ECR
7 36 (12.59%) IBM Cloud
7 36 (12.59%) Route 53
8 31 (10.84%) GitHub
9 29 (10.14%) Serverless
10 28 (9.79%) Azure DevOps
11 20 (6.99%) AWS CloudFormation
12 18 (6.29%) AWS Lambda
12 18 (6.29%) OpenShift
12 18 (6.29%) SaaS
13 10 (3.50%) GitHub Actions
13 10 (3.50%) Google Kubernetes Engine
14 9 (3.15%) Azure AKS
15 8 (2.80%) PaaS
Communications & Networking
1 21 (7.34%) Firewall
2 17 (5.94%) WAN
3 16 (5.59%) SD-WAN
4 11 (3.85%) AMQP
4 11 (3.85%) Internet
4 11 (3.85%) VPN
5 10 (3.50%) IPsec
5 10 (3.50%) SNMP
6 7 (2.45%) HTTP
7 5 (1.75%) DNS
8 4 (1.40%) Network Security
9 2 (0.70%) MQTT
9 2 (0.70%) TCP/IP
10 1 (0.35%) InfiniBand
10 1 (0.35%) LAN
10 1 (0.35%) SAN
10 1 (0.35%) SMTP
10 1 (0.35%) VoIP
10 1 (0.35%) VSAN
10 1 (0.35%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 40 (13.99%) Amazon RDS
2 30 (10.49%) MySQL
3 21 (7.34%) MongoDB
4 18 (6.29%) Elasticsearch
5 16 (5.59%) PostgreSQL
5 16 (5.59%) SQL Server
6 14 (4.90%) Big Data
7 12 (4.20%) NoSQL
8 11 (3.85%) Cloudera CDH
8 11 (3.85%) Hadoop
9 6 (2.10%) Relational Database
10 4 (1.40%) BigQuery
10 4 (1.40%) Flink
11 3 (1.05%) Power BI
12 2 (0.70%) DocumentDB
12 2 (0.70%) RDBMS
13 1 (0.35%) Amazon Aurora
13 1 (0.35%) Azure SQL Database
13 1 (0.35%) CockroachDB
13 1 (0.35%) DynamoDB
Development Applications
1 46 (16.08%) Jenkins
2 31 (10.84%) JIRA
3 30 (10.49%) Git
4 23 (8.04%) GitLab
5 7 (2.45%) Gradle
5 7 (2.45%) Spinnaker
6 5 (1.75%) Cypress.io
6 5 (1.75%) Team Foundation Server
7 4 (1.40%) Cucumber
7 4 (1.40%) Selenium
8 3 (1.05%) git-flow
8 3 (1.05%) MSBuild
8 3 (1.05%) Octopus Deploy
8 3 (1.05%) Rational DOORS
8 3 (1.05%) Subversion
8 3 (1.05%) TeamCity
8 3 (1.05%) Visual Studio Team System
9 2 (0.70%) Maven
10 1 (0.35%) RSpec
10 1 (0.35%) SonarQube
General
1 46 (16.08%) Public Sector
2 43 (15.03%) Inclusion and Diversity
3 33 (11.54%) Finance
4 32 (11.19%) Retail
5 28 (9.79%) Aerospace
6 17 (5.94%) Social Skills
7 13 (4.55%) Banking
8 12 (4.20%) Analytical Skills
9 4 (1.40%) Marketing
9 4 (1.40%) Publishing
9 4 (1.40%) Tech for Good
9 4 (1.40%) Telecoms
10 3 (1.05%) Law
11 2 (0.70%) Games
11 2 (0.70%) Health Technology
11 2 (0.70%) Legal
12 1 (0.35%) Automotive
12 1 (0.35%) Back Office
12 1 (0.35%) Documentation Skills
12 1 (0.35%) Investment Banking
Job Titles
1 98 (34.27%) Senior
2 84 (29.37%) DevOps Engineer
3 66 (23.08%) Developer
4 48 (16.78%) Software Engineer
5 42 (14.69%) Senior DevOps
5 42 (14.69%) Senior DevOps Engineer
6 31 (10.84%) Lead
7 20 (6.99%) Senior Developer
8 19 (6.64%) Architect
8 19 (6.64%) Consultant
9 16 (5.59%) Software Developer
10 15 (5.24%) Cloud Engineer
10 15 (5.24%) Security Architect
11 14 (4.90%) AWS Engineer
11 14 (4.90%) Azure Engineer
12 12 (4.20%) .NET Developer
12 12 (4.20%) DV Cleared Software Engineer
13 11 (3.85%) C# Developer
13 11 (3.85%) Full Stack Developer
14 10 (3.50%) NetApp Consultant
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 64 (22.38%) React
2 45 (15.73%) Node.js
3 32 (11.19%) RabbitMQ
4 31 (10.84%) .NET
4 31 (10.84%) Spring
5 29 (10.14%) AngularJS
6 25 (8.74%) REST
7 23 (8.04%) Spring Boot
8 17 (5.94%) Kafka
9 15 (5.24%) CSS
10 14 (4.90%) .NET Core
10 14 (4.90%) gRPC
10 14 (4.90%) Vue
11 13 (4.55%) Swagger
12 12 (4.20%) RESTful
13 11 (3.85%) HTML
13 11 (3.85%) Material-UI
13 11 (3.85%) OpenAPI
14 10 (3.50%) YAML
15 8 (2.80%) ASP.NET
Miscellaneous
1 42 (14.69%) Blockchain
2 37 (12.94%) Hybrid Cloud
3 36 (12.59%) e-Learning
4 20 (6.99%) Cloud Native
5 19 (6.64%) Greenfield Project
6 18 (6.29%) Management Information System
7 15 (5.24%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
8 12 (4.20%) Product Ownership
9 11 (3.85%) Data Centre
10 7 (2.45%) Private Cloud
11 6 (2.10%) NFT
11 6 (2.10%) Onboarding
11 6 (2.10%) Web3
12 4 (1.40%) Mobile App
12 4 (1.40%) Public Cloud
13 3 (1.05%) Algorithms
13 3 (1.05%) Device Driver
13 3 (1.05%) Legacy Systems
14 2 (0.70%) Data Protection Act
14 2 (0.70%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 72 (25.17%) Linux
2 19 (6.64%) Windows
3 15 (5.24%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 12 (4.20%) CentOS
4 12 (4.20%) Ubuntu
5 11 (3.85%) Debian
6 10 (3.50%) Data ONTAP
6 10 (3.50%) Unix
7 7 (2.45%) Android
8 5 (1.75%) Apple iOS
9 3 (1.05%) Embedded Linux
10 2 (0.70%) Windows Server
11 1 (0.35%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 164 (57.34%) Agile
2 144 (50.35%) DevOps
3 125 (43.71%) CI/CD
4 84 (29.37%) Mentoring
5 73 (25.52%) Containerisation
6 72 (25.17%) Software Engineering
7 57 (19.93%) Coaching
7 57 (19.93%) Infrastructure as Code
8 52 (18.18%) Microservices
9 42 (14.69%) Artificial Intelligence
9 42 (14.69%) Observability
10 40 (13.99%) Test Automation
11 38 (13.29%) Scrum
11 38 (13.29%) TDD
12 36 (12.59%) Actionable Insight
12 36 (12.59%) Kanban
12 36 (12.59%) Secrets Management
13 35 (12.24%) Collaborative Working
13 35 (12.24%) Continuous Integration
14 32 (11.19%) Problem-Solving
Programming Languages
1 75 (26.22%) Java
2 66 (23.08%) Python
3 60 (20.98%) JavaScript
4 37 (12.94%) C#
5 24 (8.39%) PowerShell
6 23 (8.04%) TypeScript
7 19 (6.64%) SQL
8 17 (5.94%) Go
9 14 (4.90%) Bash
9 14 (4.90%) PHP
10 12 (4.20%) Ruby
11 9 (3.15%) Perl
12 6 (2.10%) C++
13 4 (1.40%) C
14 1 (0.35%) MATLAB
14 1 (0.35%) Scala
14 1 (0.35%) Shell Script
14 1 (0.35%) T-SQL
14 1 (0.35%) XAML
Qualifications
1 37 (12.94%) Security Cleared
2 30 (10.49%) DV Cleared
3 24 (8.39%) AWS Certification
4 20 (6.99%) Azure Certification
5 15 (5.24%) (ISC)2 CCSP
5 15 (5.24%) CCSK
5 15 (5.24%) CCSP
5 15 (5.24%) Cisco Certification
5 15 (5.24%) CISM
5 15 (5.24%) CISSP
5 15 (5.24%) Degree
5 15 (5.24%) SC Cleared
6 14 (4.90%) Microsoft Certification
7 3 (1.05%) PhD
8 2 (0.70%) Computer Science Degree
9 1 (0.35%) BPSS Clearance
9 1 (0.35%) Master's Degree
9 1 (0.35%) PMI Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 16 (5.59%) NIST
2 7 (2.45%) Accessibility
2 7 (2.45%) QA
3 1 (0.35%) SLA
System Software
1 162 (56.64%) Docker
2 12 (4.20%) VMware Infrastructure
3 4 (1.40%) Hyper-V
4 3 (1.05%) Embedded Firmware
4 3 (1.05%) Firmware
5 2 (0.70%) Active Directory
6 1 (0.35%) Dovecot
6 1 (0.35%) Lustre
6 1 (0.35%) Postfix
6 1 (0.35%) Slurm Workload Manager
6 1 (0.35%) Virtual Machines
6 1 (0.35%) VMware ESXi
Systems Management
1 150 (52.45%) Terraform
2 65 (22.73%) Ansible
3 49 (17.13%) Prometheus
4 21 (7.34%) Puppet
5 16 (5.59%) Single Sign-On
6 10 (3.50%) Progress Chef
6 10 (3.50%) vCenter Server
7 3 (1.05%) Grafana
7 3 (1.05%) Podman
8 1 (0.35%) Icinga
8 1 (0.35%) Kiali
8 1 (0.35%) Kibana
8 1 (0.35%) Proxmox
Vendors
1 60 (20.98%) Red Hat
2 37 (12.94%) IBM
3 36 (12.59%) Dynatrace
4 30 (10.49%) Microsoft
5 29 (10.14%) Google
6 13 (4.55%) VMware
7 12 (4.20%) Oracle
8 11 (3.85%) SaltStack
9 10 (3.50%) NetApp
9 10 (3.50%) Palo Alto
9 10 (3.50%) SolidFire
10 8 (2.80%) Facebook
11 7 (2.45%) Confluent
12 3 (1.05%) Atlassian
12 3 (1.05%) LogicMonitor
12 3 (1.05%) PagerDuty
12 3 (1.05%) Veeam
13 1 (0.35%) Cisco
13 1 (0.35%) Fortinet
13 1 (0.35%) NVIDIA