Kubernetes Jobs in the Thames Valley

Kubernetes (k8s)
South East > Thames Valley

The following table provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in the Thames Valley 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 2 June 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
2 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 55 53 82
Rank change year-on-year -2 +29 -51
Permanent jobs citing Kubernetes 287 296 291
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the Thames Valley 4.03% 5.19% 3.97%
As % of the Systems Management category 38.58% 33.64% 37.55%
Number of salaries quoted 236 183 199
10th Percentile £52,500 £47,500 £39,750
25th Percentile £57,500 £62,500 £54,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £75,000 £77,500 £70,000
Median % change year-on-year -3.23% +10.71% +12.00%
75th Percentile £91,250 £95,000 £82,500
90th Percentile £95,000 £106,000 £87,500
South East median annual salary £70,000 £70,000 £70,000
% change year-on-year - - +12.00%

All Systems Management Skills
Thames Valley

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 Thames Valley with a requirement for systems management skills.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for systems management skills 744 880 775
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the Thames Valley 10.45% 15.42% 10.58%
Number of salaries quoted 556 470 499
10th Percentile £34,000 £28,875 £32,400
25th Percentile £42,500 £38,188 £41,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,500 £62,086 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year -10.61% -4.48% +8.33%
75th Percentile £75,000 £83,750 £80,625
90th Percentile £92,500 £97,500 £87,500
South East median annual salary £55,000 £60,000 £65,000
% change year-on-year -8.33% -7.69% +8.33%

Kubernetes
Job Vacancy Trend in the Thames Valley

Job postings citing Kubernetes as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the Thames Valley.

Job vacancy trend for Kubernetes in the Thames Valley

Kubernetes
Salary Trend in the Thames Valley

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing Kubernetes in the Thames Valley.

Salary trend for Kubernetes in the Thames Valley

Kubernetes
Salary Histogram in the Thames Valley

Salary distribution for jobs citing Kubernetes in the Thames Valley over the 6 months to 2 June 2024.

Salary histogram for Kubernetes in the Thames Valley

Kubernetes
Job Locations in the Thames Valley

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Kubernetes within the Thames Valley region over the 6 months to 2 June 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
Berkshire +15 239 £75,000 -11.76% 33
Buckinghamshire -43 26 £65,000 -7.14% 11
Oxfordshire -22 22 £72,500 +7.41% 5
Kubernetes
South East

Kubernetes
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the Thames Valley 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 23 (8.01%) OpenStack
2 18 (6.27%) Apache
3 17 (5.92%) Microsoft Exchange
4 10 (3.48%) Red Hat Fuse
5 9 (3.14%) JBoss
6 4 (1.39%) nginx
7 1 (0.35%) Apache Spark
7 1 (0.35%) Confluence
7 1 (0.35%) Kinematics
7 1 (0.35%) Oracle SOA Suite
7 1 (0.35%) Tomcat
Applications
1 1 (0.35%) Microsoft Excel
Cloud Services
1 88 (30.66%) Azure
2 77 (26.83%) AWS
3 34 (11.85%) Amazon EKS
4 33 (11.50%) Amazon ECS
5 32 (11.15%) Serverless
6 21 (7.32%) Azure DevOps
6 21 (7.32%) Microsoft 365
7 20 (6.97%) Entra ID
8 19 (6.62%) Azure Monitor
9 17 (5.92%) Azure Storage
9 17 (5.92%) SaaS
10 9 (3.14%) Amazon S3
11 8 (2.79%) GCP
12 6 (2.09%) Amazon EC2
12 6 (2.09%) OpenShift
13 5 (1.74%) Cloud Computing
14 4 (1.39%) Azure Pipelines
14 4 (1.39%) IaaS
14 4 (1.39%) Power Platform
15 3 (1.05%) Amazon CloudWatch
Communications & Networking
1 32 (11.15%) Firewall
2 19 (6.62%) DNS
3 17 (5.92%) DHCP
4 9 (3.14%) Internet
4 9 (3.14%) VPN
5 6 (2.09%) IPsec
6 5 (1.74%) SNMP
7 4 (1.39%) BGP
8 3 (1.05%) Network Security
8 3 (1.05%) WLAN
9 2 (0.70%) LAN
9 2 (0.70%) TCP/IP
9 2 (0.70%) WAN
10 1 (0.35%) Broadband
10 1 (0.35%) OSPF
Database & Business Intelligence
1 87 (30.31%) NoSQL
2 38 (13.24%) SQL Server
3 31 (10.80%) PostgreSQL
4 30 (10.45%) Relational Database
5 16 (5.57%) Elasticsearch
6 14 (4.88%) MySQL
7 8 (2.79%) CouchDB
8 5 (1.74%) MongoDB
8 5 (1.74%) RDBMS
9 3 (1.05%) Amazon RDS
9 3 (1.05%) Power BI
10 2 (0.70%) Big Data
10 2 (0.70%) Data Lake
10 2 (0.70%) Hadoop
11 1 (0.35%) Amazon Aurora
11 1 (0.35%) Amazon Redshift
11 1 (0.35%) BigQuery
11 1 (0.35%) DynamoDB
11 1 (0.35%) GIS
11 1 (0.35%) SQL Server Integration Services
Development Applications
1 136 (47.39%) Git
2 65 (22.65%) Selenium
3 61 (21.25%) Jenkins
4 53 (18.47%) Cypress.io
5 27 (9.41%) JUnit
6 24 (8.36%) SoapUI
7 14 (4.88%) Cucumber
8 13 (4.53%) WebDriver
9 12 (4.18%) TestNG
10 11 (3.83%) REST Assured
11 8 (2.79%) GitLab
11 8 (2.79%) Gradle
12 7 (2.44%) JIRA
12 7 (2.44%) JMeter
13 6 (2.09%) Mockito
14 3 (1.05%) Bitbucket
15 2 (0.70%) Artifactory
15 2 (0.70%) Burp Suite
15 2 (0.70%) Postman
15 2 (0.70%) SonarQube
General
1 42 (14.63%) Social Skills
2 26 (9.06%) Public Sector
3 9 (3.14%) Finance
4 5 (1.74%) Analytical Skills
5 4 (1.39%) Organisational Skills
6 2 (0.70%) Aerospace
6 2 (0.70%) Health Technology
6 2 (0.70%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 2 (0.70%) Presentation Skills
7 1 (0.35%) Advertising
7 1 (0.35%) Banking
7 1 (0.35%) Influencing Skills
7 1 (0.35%) Law
7 1 (0.35%) Pharmaceutical
7 1 (0.35%) Retail
7 1 (0.35%) Tech for Good
Job Titles
1 135 (47.04%) Developer
2 57 (19.86%) Senior
3 50 (17.42%) Lead
3 50 (17.42%) Software Developer
4 47 (16.38%) Senior Developer
5 38 (13.24%) DevOps Engineer
6 36 (12.54%) Java Developer
7 29 (10.10%) Front-End Developer (Client-Side Developer)
8 21 (7.32%) Development Team Leader
8 21 (7.32%) Software Development Team Leader
8 21 (7.32%) Software Team Leader
8 21 (7.32%) Team Leader
9 19 (6.62%) Lead Developer
10 18 (6.27%) Azure Engineer
10 18 (6.27%) Lead Software Developer
10 18 (6.27%) Senior Software Developer
11 17 (5.92%) Active Directory Specialist
11 17 (5.92%) Active Directory Support
11 17 (5.92%) Azure Specialist
11 17 (5.92%) Full Stack Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 107 (37.28%) React
2 78 (27.18%) .NET
3 52 (18.12%) Jest
4 44 (15.33%) REST
5 43 (14.98%) Spring Boot
6 41 (14.29%) Spring
7 35 (12.20%) HTML
8 31 (10.80%) Web Services
9 30 (10.45%) CSS
10 29 (10.10%) Apache Camel
10 29 (10.10%) CSS3
10 29 (10.10%) HTML5
11 28 (9.76%) Elastic Stack
11 28 (9.76%) Node.js
12 27 (9.41%) AngularJS
13 19 (6.62%) ARM Templates
14 17 (5.92%) Kafka
14 17 (5.92%) WireMock
15 16 (5.57%) JSON
16 14 (4.88%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 28 (9.76%) Distributed Systems
2 19 (6.62%) Self-Motivation
3 18 (6.27%) PKI
4 16 (5.57%) Product Ownership
5 14 (4.88%) Data Centre
6 11 (3.83%) Algorithms
7 8 (2.79%) Client/Server
7 8 (2.79%) PropTech
8 4 (1.39%) Cloud Native
8 4 (1.39%) Legacy Systems
9 3 (1.05%) EMC VNX
10 2 (0.70%) Greenfield Project
10 2 (0.70%) IoT
10 2 (0.70%) Low-Code
11 1 (0.35%) FPGA
11 1 (0.35%) Hackathon
11 1 (0.35%) Hybrid Cloud
11 1 (0.35%) NHS
11 1 (0.35%) Robotics
11 1 (0.35%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 67 (23.34%) Linux
2 30 (10.45%) Windows
3 21 (7.32%) Windows Server
4 17 (5.92%) Windows Server 2016
4 17 (5.92%) Windows Server 2019
5 5 (1.74%) CentOS
5 5 (1.74%) Data ONTAP
6 4 (1.39%) Ubuntu
7 3 (1.05%) Rocky
8 2 (0.70%) Debian
8 2 (0.70%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
9 1 (0.35%) VMS
9 1 (0.35%) Windows Server 2012
Processes & Methodologies
1 211 (73.52%) Agile
2 126 (43.90%) Artificial Intelligence
3 121 (42.16%) Propensity Modelling
4 108 (37.63%) DevOps
5 106 (36.93%) Computer Science
6 87 (30.31%) CI/CD
7 54 (18.82%) Microservices
8 46 (16.03%) Machine Learning
9 44 (15.33%) TDD
10 43 (14.98%) Infrastructure as Code
10 43 (14.98%) Scrum
10 43 (14.98%) Software Engineering
11 41 (14.29%) BDD
12 40 (13.94%) Containerisation
13 36 (12.54%) Test Automation
14 32 (11.15%) Front End Development
15 30 (10.45%) Kanban
16 29 (10.10%) Problem-Solving
17 28 (9.76%) Release Management
18 26 (9.06%) Analytics
Programming Languages
1 147 (51.22%) C#
2 138 (48.08%) JavaScript
3 105 (36.59%) TypeScript
4 70 (24.39%) Java
5 62 (21.60%) SQL
6 58 (20.21%) Python
7 29 (10.10%) PHP
8 26 (9.06%) PowerShell
9 19 (6.62%) Bicep
10 17 (5.92%) VB
10 17 (5.92%) VBScript
11 12 (4.18%) Groovy
12 11 (3.83%) Bash
12 11 (3.83%) Shell Script
13 10 (3.48%) R
14 7 (2.44%) Go
15 2 (0.70%) Ruby
16 1 (0.35%) Kotlin
16 1 (0.35%) Perl
16 1 (0.35%) PL/SQL
Qualifications
1 145 (50.52%) Degree
2 72 (25.09%) Computer Science Degree
3 68 (23.69%) Security Cleared
4 56 (19.51%) SC Cleared
5 17 (5.92%) DV Cleared
5 17 (5.92%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
6 15 (5.23%) AWS Certification
7 11 (3.83%) Azure Certification
7 11 (3.83%) Master's Degree
8 10 (3.48%) PhD
9 3 (1.05%) Microsoft Certification
10 1 (0.35%) BPSS Clearance
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 29 (10.10%) WCAG
2 7 (2.44%) QA
3 2 (0.70%) ISO/IEC 27001
System Software
1 242 (84.32%) Docker
2 22 (7.67%) Active Directory
3 18 (6.27%) Virtual Machines
4 17 (5.92%) Virtual Desktop
5 15 (5.23%) Hyper-V
6 8 (2.79%) VMware Infrastructure
7 4 (1.39%) VMware ESXi
8 2 (0.70%) KVM
8 2 (0.70%) QEMU
8 2 (0.70%) Xen
Systems Management
1 58 (20.21%) Ansible
2 57 (19.86%) Terraform
3 20 (6.97%) SCCM
4 18 (6.27%) WSUS
5 17 (5.92%) Active Directory Federation Services
5 17 (5.92%) Microsoft Intune
5 17 (5.92%) SCOM
6 10 (3.48%) Kibana
7 9 (3.14%) Rancher
8 8 (2.79%) vCenter Server
9 6 (2.09%) Docker Swarm
9 6 (2.09%) Prometheus
10 3 (1.05%) EMC NetWorker
10 3 (1.05%) Grafana
10 3 (1.05%) Nagios
11 2 (0.70%) Kustomize
11 2 (0.70%) Progress Chef
11 2 (0.70%) Puppet
12 1 (0.35%) FortiGate
12 1 (0.35%) Packer
Vendors
1 33 (11.50%) Microsoft
2 23 (8.01%) WSO2
3 19 (6.62%) VMware
4 12 (4.18%) Xamarin
5 8 (2.79%) Red Hat
6 6 (2.09%) Splunk
7 5 (1.74%) Dynatrace
7 5 (1.74%) NetApp
7 5 (1.74%) Oracle
7 5 (1.74%) Palo Alto
7 5 (1.74%) SolidFire
8 4 (1.39%) Juniper
8 4 (1.39%) SolarWinds
8 4 (1.39%) Veeam
9 3 (1.05%) Aruba
9 3 (1.05%) EMC
9 3 (1.05%) Meraki
10 2 (0.70%) Atlassian
10 2 (0.70%) Google
10 2 (0.70%) OpenAI