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 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 67 32 21
Rank change year-on-year -35 -11 +7
Permanent jobs citing Kubernetes 3,671 7,089 17,556
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 3.67% 7.13% 10.78%
As % of the Systems Management category 37.28% 48.49% 58.80%
Number of salaries quoted 2,621 4,364 7,237
10th Percentile £48,750 £50,000 £46,250
25th Percentile £58,750 £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 £95,063 £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% +17.65%

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 9,846 14,620 29,858
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 9.85% 14.70% 18.34%
Number of salaries quoted 7,072 9,072 14,136
10th Percentile £32,500 £35,500 £37,500
25th Percentile £45,000 £48,091 £48,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,500 £67,500 £70,000
Median % change year-on-year -10.37% -3.57% +12.00%
75th Percentile £82,500 £87,500 £86,250
90th Percentile £100,000 £105,000 £101,250
UK excluding London median annual salary £55,000 £59,526 £59,526
% change year-on-year -7.60% - +8.23%

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 20 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 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
England -36 3,013 £77,500 - 1,014
UK excluding London -22 2,247 £68,000 -2.08% 593
Work from Home -34 1,477 £75,000 - 583
London -19 1,281 £87,500 +2.94% 594
South East -15 588 £70,000 - 236
North of England -25 482 £62,500 -10.00% 127
Scotland -16 479 £70,576 +4.35% 39
South West -27 368 £70,576 +4.56% 86
North West -24 287 £62,500 -10.71% 72
Midlands -58 178 £60,000 -14.29% 56
Yorkshire -23 164 £60,000 -12.43% 43
West Midlands -37 107 £65,000 -7.14% 33
East of England -69 93 £85,000 +21.43% 29
East Midlands -46 71 £60,000 -11.11% 23
Wales -29 36 £42,500 -30.89% 13
North East -31 31 £63,750 -6.59% 12
Northern Ireland -22 21 £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
1 208 (5.67%) Apache Spark
2 174 (4.74%) Apache
3 141 (3.84%) Apache Airflow
4 98 (2.67%) FileNet
5 75 (2.04%) OpenStack
6 48 (1.31%) nginx
7 41 (1.12%) Confluence
8 26 (0.71%) Microsoft Exchange
9 25 (0.68%) Jupyter
10 22 (0.60%) JBoss
11 21 (0.57%) Cloud Foundry
12 16 (0.44%) Tomcat
13 15 (0.41%) IIS
14 12 (0.33%) Drupal
15 11 (0.30%) Red Hat Fuse
15 11 (0.30%) SharePoint
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 1,930 (52.57%) AWS
2 1,454 (39.61%) Azure
3 529 (14.41%) GCP
4 418 (11.39%) Amazon S3
5 368 (10.02%) Azure DevOps
6 326 (8.88%) Serverless
7 313 (8.53%) GitHub
8 298 (8.12%) SaaS
9 278 (7.57%) Amazon EKS
10 246 (6.70%) OpenShift
11 196 (5.34%) Amazon ECS
12 194 (5.28%) AWS CloudFormation
12 194 (5.28%) AWS Lambda
13 162 (4.41%) Azure AKS
14 147 (4.00%) Amazon EC2
15 144 (3.92%) PaaS
16 121 (3.30%) Cloud Computing
17 120 (3.27%) GitHub Actions
18 110 (3.00%) IaaS
19 102 (2.78%) IBM Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 192 (5.23%) Firewall
2 118 (3.21%) DNS
3 103 (2.81%) VPN
4 86 (2.34%) Internet
5 73 (1.99%) TCP/IP
6 65 (1.77%) DHCP
6 65 (1.77%) HTTP
7 64 (1.74%) Network Security
8 58 (1.58%) IPsec
9 54 (1.47%) SNMP
10 49 (1.33%) WAN
11 47 (1.28%) SD-WAN
12 40 (1.09%) AMQP
13 19 (0.52%) 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%) SSL
18 7 (0.19%) WLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 415 (11.30%) NoSQL
2 300 (8.17%) PostgreSQL
3 278 (7.57%) Elasticsearch
4 259 (7.06%) Big Data
5 251 (6.84%) MongoDB
6 224 (6.10%) SQL Server
7 193 (5.26%) Amazon RDS
8 175 (4.77%) Relational Database
9 169 (4.60%) MySQL
10 132 (3.60%) Apache Cassandra
11 130 (3.54%) Redis
12 116 (3.16%) Data Lake
13 98 (2.67%) Hadoop
14 64 (1.74%) 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 50 (1.36%) Azure SQL Database
20 41 (1.12%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 688 (18.74%) Jenkins
2 515 (14.03%) Git
3 245 (6.67%) GitLab
4 178 (4.85%) JIRA
5 159 (4.33%) JUnit
6 130 (3.54%) Selenium
7 83 (2.26%) Cypress.io
8 81 (2.21%) TeamCity
9 61 (1.66%) CircleCI
10 58 (1.58%) Mockito
11 55 (1.50%) Artifactory
12 53 (1.44%) Jasmine
12 53 (1.44%) Octopus Deploy
13 47 (1.28%) Cucumber
14 46 (1.25%) Maven
15 45 (1.23%) Bitbucket
16 44 (1.20%) Sonatype Nexus
17 36 (0.98%) SonarQube
18 27 (0.74%) Team Foundation Server
19 25 (0.68%) SoapUI
General
1 1,034 (28.17%) Finance
2 564 (15.36%) Social Skills
3 517 (14.08%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 396 (10.79%) Law
5 265 (7.22%) Public Sector
6 243 (6.62%) Banking
7 224 (6.10%) Marketing
8 145 (3.95%) Analytical Skills
9 144 (3.92%) Legal
10 116 (3.16%) Retail
11 109 (2.97%) Aerospace
12 62 (1.69%) Games
13 56 (1.53%) Front Office
13 56 (1.53%) Tech for Good
14 47 (1.28%) Investment Banking
14 47 (1.28%) Retail Banking
15 46 (1.25%) Organisational Skills
16 43 (1.17%) Financial Institution
17 32 (0.87%) Health Technology
18 30 (0.82%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 908 (24.73%) Senior
2 777 (21.17%) Developer
3 718 (19.56%) Software Engineer
4 631 (17.19%) DevOps Engineer
5 549 (14.96%) Lead
6 278 (7.57%) AWS Engineer
7 276 (7.52%) Architect
8 268 (7.30%) Java Developer
9 245 (6.67%) Senior Developer
10 206 (5.61%) Cloud Engineer
11 198 (5.39%) Java Engineer
12 181 (4.93%) Senior Software Engineer
13 175 (4.77%) Azure Engineer
14 165 (4.49%) Senior DevOps
15 164 (4.47%) Software Developer
16 162 (4.41%) Data Engineer
17 160 (4.36%) AWS DevOps
18 158 (4.30%) Lead Software Engineer
19 157 (4.28%) Senior DevOps Engineer
20 149 (4.06%) Platform Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 705 (19.20%) React
2 589 (16.04%) Kafka
3 505 (13.76%) Spring
4 489 (13.32%) .NET
5 377 (10.27%) AngularJS
6 349 (9.51%) Spring Boot
7 322 (8.77%) Node.js
8 310 (8.44%) REST
9 214 (5.83%) HTML
10 209 (5.69%) CSS
11 190 (5.18%) RabbitMQ
12 182 (4.96%) GraphQL
13 175 (4.77%) Hibernate
14 169 (4.60%) RESTful
15 157 (4.28%) JSON
16 147 (4.00%) J2EE
17 138 (3.76%) .NET Core
18 131 (3.57%) gRPC
19 119 (3.24%) YAML
20 112 (3.05%) Elastic Stack
Miscellaneous
1 403 (10.98%) Cloud Native
2 254 (6.92%) Distributed Systems
3 233 (6.35%) Public Cloud
4 179 (4.88%) Algorithms
5 145 (3.95%) Data Centre
5 145 (3.95%) Hybrid Cloud
6 135 (3.68%) Management Information System
7 125 (3.41%) Product Ownership
8 122 (3.32%) Greenfield Project
9 121 (3.30%) Blockchain
10 83 (2.26%) Data Structures
10 83 (2.26%) Hedge funds
11 78 (2.12%) Clustering
12 77 (2.10%) Private Cloud
13 59 (1.61%) e-Learning
14 51 (1.39%) Client/Server
15 49 (1.33%) Linux Command Line
16 46 (1.25%) Mobile App
16 46 (1.25%) Self-Motivation
17 35 (0.95%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
Operating Systems
1 953 (25.96%) Linux
2 345 (9.40%) Windows
3 125 (3.41%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 105 (2.86%) CentOS
5 87 (2.37%) Windows Server
6 76 (2.07%) Debian
7 62 (1.69%) Unix
8 61 (1.66%) Ubuntu
9 54 (1.47%) Data ONTAP
10 41 (1.12%) Alpine Linux
11 34 (0.93%) Windows Server 2016
12 26 (0.71%) Android
12 26 (0.71%) VMS
13 24 (0.65%) Apple iOS
14 20 (0.54%) Windows Server 2019
15 12 (0.33%) Oracle Linux
15 12 (0.33%) Solaris
16 10 (0.27%) Embedded Linux
17 6 (0.16%) Mesosphere
18 5 (0.14%) Mac OS
Processes & Methodologies
1 1,639 (44.65%) DevOps
2 1,612 (43.91%) Agile
3 1,575 (42.90%) CI/CD
4 1,189 (32.39%) Software Engineering
5 892 (24.30%) Microservices
6 858 (23.37%) Containerisation
7 676 (18.41%) Infrastructure as Code
8 608 (16.56%) Problem-Solving
9 600 (16.34%) Artificial Intelligence
10 560 (15.25%) SDLC
11 429 (11.69%) Mentoring
12 405 (11.03%) Computer Science
13 394 (10.73%) Full Stack Development
14 376 (10.24%) Machine Learning
15 324 (8.83%) Scrum
16 310 (8.44%) Continuous Integration
17 308 (8.39%) TDD
18 306 (8.34%) Continuous Improvement
19 303 (8.25%) Test Automation
20 269 (7.33%) Site Reliability Engineering
Programming Languages
1 1,334 (36.34%) Java
2 1,293 (35.22%) Python
3 751 (20.46%) SQL
4 704 (19.18%) JavaScript
5 559 (15.23%) C#
6 438 (11.93%) TypeScript
7 369 (10.05%) Go
8 340 (9.26%) Bash
9 308 (8.39%) PowerShell
10 114 (3.11%) PHP
11 98 (2.67%) C++
12 91 (2.48%) Ruby
13 79 (2.15%) Scala
14 77 (2.10%) C
15 71 (1.93%) Rust
16 65 (1.77%) PL/SQL
16 65 (1.77%) Shell Script
17 63 (1.72%) Bicep
17 63 (1.72%) Kotlin
18 42 (1.14%) Perl
Qualifications
1 473 (12.88%) Security Cleared
2 464 (12.64%) Degree
3 284 (7.74%) SC Cleared
4 278 (7.57%) Computer Science Degree
5 227 (6.18%) DV Cleared
6 166 (4.52%) Azure Certification
7 157 (4.28%) AWS Certification
8 102 (2.78%) Master's Degree
9 95 (2.59%) Microsoft Certification
10 52 (1.42%) 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 38 (1.04%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
16 35 (0.95%) PhD
17 34 (0.93%) (ISC)2 CCSP
17 34 (0.93%) CCSK
17 34 (0.93%) CCSP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 99 (2.70%) QA
2 51 (1.39%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 46 (1.25%) NIST
4 33 (0.90%) WCAG
5 28 (0.76%) SLA
6 21 (0.57%) GDPR
7 15 (0.41%) Accessibility
8 13 (0.35%) NCSC
8 13 (0.35%) PCI DSS
9 9 (0.25%) Cyber Essentials
10 6 (0.16%) Data Quality
11 5 (0.14%) ISO 9001
12 4 (0.11%) HIPAA
12 4 (0.11%) SEPA
12 4 (0.11%) SOC 2
13 3 (0.082%) ISO 20022
14 2 (0.054%) ISO 9000
15 1 (0.027%) Disclosure Scotland
15 1 (0.027%) ISO 15022
15 1 (0.027%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 2,186 (59.55%) Docker
2 157 (4.28%) VMware Infrastructure
3 107 (2.91%) Active Directory
4 103 (2.81%) Hyper-V
5 82 (2.23%) Virtual Machines
6 22 (0.60%) Virtual Desktop
7 21 (0.57%) vSphere
8 14 (0.38%) VMware ESXi
9 12 (0.33%) Ceph
10 11 (0.30%) Firmware
11 10 (0.27%) KVM
12 6 (0.16%) 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 1,315 (35.82%) Terraform
2 668 (18.20%) Ansible
3 333 (9.07%) Prometheus
4 245 (6.67%) Puppet
5 185 (5.04%) Grafana
6 112 (3.05%) Progress Chef
7 80 (2.18%) vCenter Server
8 59 (1.61%) Single Sign-On
9 48 (1.31%) Istio
10 33 (0.90%) Docker Swarm
11 32 (0.87%) Kibana
12 29 (0.79%) SCCM
13 28 (0.76%) Active Directory Federation Services
14 26 (0.71%) Argo
15 24 (0.65%) Microsoft Intune
16 23 (0.63%) Consul
16 23 (0.63%) Nagios
16 23 (0.63%) Packer
17 20 (0.54%) HAProxy
17 20 (0.54%) SCOM
Vendors
1 386 (10.51%) Microsoft
2 373 (10.16%) Oracle
3 299 (8.14%) Red Hat
4 279 (7.60%) Google
5 199 (5.42%) VMware
6 107 (2.91%) IBM
7 89 (2.42%) Dynatrace
8 73 (1.99%) Databricks
8 73 (1.99%) Splunk
9 61 (1.66%) Palo Alto
10 55 (1.50%) NetApp
11 54 (1.47%) SolidFire
12 42 (1.14%) WSO2
13 38 (1.04%) SaltStack
14 34 (0.93%) Atlassian
14 34 (0.93%) Cisco
15 31 (0.84%) Sybase
16 28 (0.76%) Dell
17 25 (0.68%) ServiceNow
18 23 (0.63%) ForgeRock