Kubernetes Jobs in Birmingham

Kubernetes (k8s)
West Midlands > Birmingham

The table below provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in Birmingham requiring Kubernetes skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the annual salaries offered in vacancies that cited Kubernetes over the 6 months leading up to 3 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
3 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 91 97 47
Rank change year-on-year +6 -50 -13
Permanent jobs citing Kubernetes 21 51 110
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Birmingham 1.43% 1.87% 5.52%
As % of the Systems Management category 19.09% 24.76% 42.80%
Number of salaries quoted 15 38 100
10th Percentile £64,000 £46,250 £55,900
25th Percentile £66,250 £65,000 £60,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £72,500 £77,500 £71,000
Median % change year-on-year -6.45% +9.15% +1.43%
75th Percentile £90,625 £88,750 £85,000
90th Percentile £105,000 £97,875 £100,000
West Midlands median annual salary £67,500 £65,000 £70,000
% change year-on-year +3.85% -7.14% -

All Systems Management Skills
Birmingham

Kubernetes falls under the Systems Management category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent job vacancies requiring systems management skills in Birmingham.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for systems management skills 110 206 257
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Birmingham 7.48% 7.55% 12.89%
Number of salaries quoted 89 160 227
10th Percentile £34,000 £29,675 £31,150
25th Percentile £42,500 £36,625 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £51,500 £62,000
Median % change year-on-year -2.91% -16.94% -11.43%
75th Percentile £66,050 £80,000 £77,500
90th Percentile £77,750 £97,625 £88,000
West Midlands median annual salary £56,250 £55,000 £56,000
% change year-on-year +2.27% -1.79% -

Kubernetes
Job Vacancy Trend in Birmingham

Job postings citing Kubernetes as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in Birmingham.

Job vacancy trend for Kubernetes in Birmingham

Kubernetes
Salary Trend in Birmingham

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing Kubernetes in Birmingham.

Salary trend for Kubernetes in Birmingham

Kubernetes
Salary Histogram in Birmingham

Salary distribution for jobs citing Kubernetes in Birmingham over the 6 months to 3 May 2025.

Salary histogram for Kubernetes in Birmingham

Kubernetes
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Birmingham 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 1 (4.76%) Confluence
Cloud Services
1 16 (76.19%) Azure
2 7 (33.33%) AWS
3 5 (23.81%) GCP
4 4 (19.05%) Azure DevOps
4 4 (19.05%) SaaS
5 3 (14.29%) Azure Data Factory
5 3 (14.29%) Azure Service Bus
6 2 (9.52%) Azure AKS
6 2 (9.52%) Azure API Management
6 2 (9.52%) Cloud Computing
6 2 (9.52%) IaaS
6 2 (9.52%) OpenShift
6 2 (9.52%) PaaS
7 1 (4.76%) Amazon EventBridge
7 1 (4.76%) Amazon SQS
7 1 (4.76%) Azure Monitor
7 1 (4.76%) GitHub
7 1 (4.76%) GitHub Actions
7 1 (4.76%) GitHub Copilot
7 1 (4.76%) Microsoft Purview
Communications & Networking
1 3 (14.29%) DNS
2 1 (4.76%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 6 (28.57%) Azure SQL Database
2 3 (14.29%) MongoDB
2 3 (14.29%) NoSQL
2 3 (14.29%) SQL Server
3 2 (9.52%) Big Data
4 1 (4.76%) Data Lake
4 1 (4.76%) DB2
4 1 (4.76%) Hazelcast
4 1 (4.76%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 2 (9.52%) Git
2 1 (4.76%) GitLab
2 1 (4.76%) Jenkins
2 1 (4.76%) JIRA
2 1 (4.76%) Octopus Deploy
General
1 4 (19.05%) Automotive
1 4 (19.05%) Finance
2 3 (14.29%) Banking
2 3 (14.29%) Social Skills
3 1 (4.76%) Analytical Skills
3 1 (4.76%) Financial Institution
3 1 (4.76%) Games
3 1 (4.76%) Manufacturing
3 1 (4.76%) Marketing
3 1 (4.76%) Public Sector
3 1 (4.76%) Retail
Job Titles
1 6 (28.57%) Software Engineer
2 5 (23.81%) Developer
2 5 (23.81%) Senior
3 4 (19.05%) DevOps Engineer
3 4 (19.05%) Lead
4 3 (14.29%) Architect
4 3 (14.29%) Solutions Architect
5 2 (9.52%) Azure DevOps Engineer
5 2 (9.52%) Azure Engineer
5 2 (9.52%) C++ Developer
5 2 (9.52%) C++ Software Developer
5 2 (9.52%) Full-Stack Developer
5 2 (9.52%) Lead Software Engineer
5 2 (9.52%) Platform Engineer
5 2 (9.52%) Python Developer
5 2 (9.52%) Senior DevOps
5 2 (9.52%) Senior DevOps Engineer
5 2 (9.52%) Senior Software Engineer
5 2 (9.52%) Software Developer
6 1 (4.76%) Azure Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 6 (28.57%) React
2 5 (23.81%) .NET
3 4 (19.05%) AngularJS
3 4 (19.05%) Vue
4 3 (14.29%) Kafka
5 2 (9.52%) .NET Core
5 2 (9.52%) Blazor
5 2 (9.52%) gRPC
5 2 (9.52%) OpenMP
5 2 (9.52%) REST
5 2 (9.52%) RESTful
5 2 (9.52%) Spring
5 2 (9.52%) Web Services
6 1 (4.76%) ADO
6 1 (4.76%) CSS
6 1 (4.76%) Hibernate
6 1 (4.76%) HTML
6 1 (4.76%) jQuery
6 1 (4.76%) Middleware
6 1 (4.76%) Spring Boot
Miscellaneous
1 6 (28.57%) Cloud Native
2 4 (19.05%) Distributed Systems
3 2 (9.52%) Algorithms
3 2 (9.52%) CUDA
3 2 (9.52%) Data Structures
3 2 (9.52%) IoT
3 2 (9.52%) Public Cloud
3 2 (9.52%) Reference Data
3 2 (9.52%) Replication
3 2 (9.52%) SIMD
4 1 (4.76%) Hybrid Cloud
4 1 (4.76%) Linux Command Line
4 1 (4.76%) Low-Code
Operating Systems
1 1 (4.76%) Linux
1 1 (4.76%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
1 1 (4.76%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 12 (57.14%) Containerisation
2 10 (47.62%) DevOps
3 9 (42.86%) CI/CD
3 9 (42.86%) Software Engineering
4 6 (28.57%) Microservices
5 5 (23.81%) Agile
6 4 (19.05%) Full-Stack Development
6 4 (19.05%) Infrastructure as Code
6 4 (19.05%) SOA
7 3 (14.29%) Code Quality
7 3 (14.29%) Continuous Improvement
7 3 (14.29%) High Availability
7 3 (14.29%) Mentoring
7 3 (14.29%) Platform Engineering
7 3 (14.29%) Problem-Solving
7 3 (14.29%) Scrum
7 3 (14.29%) TDD
8 2 (9.52%) Multithreading
8 2 (9.52%) Test Automation
8 2 (9.52%) Unit Testing
Programming Languages
1 9 (42.86%) SQL
2 8 (38.10%) C#
2 8 (38.10%) Python
3 5 (23.81%) Java
4 3 (14.29%) JavaScript
5 2 (9.52%) Bash
5 2 (9.52%) C++
5 2 (9.52%) PowerShell
6 1 (4.76%) Go
6 1 (4.76%) PL/SQL
6 1 (4.76%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 3 (14.29%) Security Cleared
2 1 (4.76%) AWS Certification
2 1 (4.76%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
2 1 (4.76%) Azure Certification
2 1 (4.76%) Degree
2 1 (4.76%) DV Cleared
2 1 (4.76%) SC Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (4.76%) Cyber Essentials
1 1 (4.76%) ISO/IEC 27001
1 1 (4.76%) NCSC
1 1 (4.76%) NIST
1 1 (4.76%) QA
System Software
1 15 (71.43%) Docker
Systems Management
1 8 (38.10%) Terraform
2 1 (4.76%) Ansible
2 1 (4.76%) Grafana
2 1 (4.76%) Prometheus
2 1 (4.76%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 5 (23.81%) Microsoft
2 3 (14.29%) Databricks
3 1 (4.76%) Google
3 1 (4.76%) IBM
3 1 (4.76%) Oracle