Kubernetes Job Trends in Birmingham

Kubernetes (k8s)
West Midlands > Birmingham

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in Birmingham requiring Kubernetes skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 13 January 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
13 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 83 96 71
Rank change year-on-year +13 -25 -38
Permanent jobs citing Kubernetes 22 37 35
As % of all permanent jobs in Birmingham 1.27% 2.06% 2.57%
As % of the Systems Management category 29.73% 30.83% 20.96%
Number of salaries quoted 13 16 25
10th Percentile £45,700 £48,125 £45,500
25th Percentile £56,250 £63,978 £52,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £70,000 £70,576
Median % change year-on-year -7.14% -0.82% -5.90%
75th Percentile £71,250 £95,938 £78,750
90th Percentile £78,952 £111,250 £83,750
West Midlands median annual salary £70,000 £65,000 £60,500
% change year-on-year +7.69% +7.44% -13.57%

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 74 120 167
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Birmingham 4.27% 6.67% 12.26%
Number of salaries quoted 54 67 153
10th Percentile £46,050 £34,450 £27,760
25th Percentile £56,250 £43,375 £36,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £51,196 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year +26.96% -2.48% -16.00%
75th Percentile £76,628 £68,000 £68,750
90th Percentile £84,163 £83,000 £85,000
West Midlands median annual salary £62,500 £55,000 £52,500
% change year-on-year +13.64% +4.76% -4.55%

Kubernetes
Job Vacancy Trend in Birmingham

Historical trend showing the proportion of permanent IT job postings citing Kubernetes relative to all permanent IT jobs advertised in Birmingham.

Kubernetes job vacancy trend in Birmingham

Kubernetes
Salary Trend in Birmingham

Salary distribution trend for jobs in Birmingham citing Kubernetes.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in Birmingham citing Kubernetes

Kubernetes
Salary Histogram in Birmingham

Salary distribution for jobs citing Kubernetes in Birmingham over the 6 months to 13 January 2026.

Salary histogram for Kubernetes in Birmingham

Kubernetes
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Birmingham by Category

The following tables expand on the one above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. They cover the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each category:

Application Platforms
1 6 (27.27%) Oracle SOA Suite
Cloud Services
1 19 (86.36%) AWS
2 10 (45.45%) Azure
3 6 (27.27%) AWS Lambda
3 6 (27.27%) Serverless
4 4 (18.18%) Amazon ECS
4 4 (18.18%) Amazon S3
4 4 (18.18%) SaaS
5 2 (9.09%) Amazon CloudWatch
5 2 (9.09%) Amazon EC2
5 2 (9.09%) AWS CloudFormation
5 2 (9.09%) GitHub
5 2 (9.09%) PaaS
5 2 (9.09%) Virtual Private Cloud
6 1 (4.55%) Amazon GuardDuty
6 1 (4.55%) Azure Machine Learning
6 1 (4.55%) Azure Sentinel
6 1 (4.55%) Datadog
6 1 (4.55%) Entra ID
6 1 (4.55%) GCP
6 1 (4.55%) IaaS
Communications & Networking
1 2 (9.09%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (9.09%) Amazon RDS
1 2 (9.09%) PostgreSQL
Development Applications
1 8 (36.36%) JUnit
1 8 (36.36%) Maven
1 8 (36.36%) Mockito
2 2 (9.09%) Git
2 2 (9.09%) Jenkins
3 1 (4.55%) Cucumber
3 1 (4.55%) JMeter
3 1 (4.55%) Locust
3 1 (4.55%) MLflow
General
1 8 (36.36%) Finance
2 7 (31.82%) Social Skills
3 4 (18.18%) Advertising
3 4 (18.18%) Public Sector
4 2 (9.09%) Banking
4 2 (9.09%) Investment Banking
5 1 (4.55%) Analytical Skills
5 1 (4.55%) Law
Job Titles
1 8 (36.36%) Developer
1 8 (36.36%) Full-Stack Developer
1 8 (36.36%) Full-Stack Java Developer
1 8 (36.36%) Java Developer
1 8 (36.36%) Senior
2 6 (27.27%) Senior Developer
2 6 (27.27%) Senior Full-Stack Developer
2 6 (27.27%) Senior Java Developer
3 5 (22.73%) DevOps Engineer
4 4 (18.18%) Lead
5 3 (13.64%) Kubernetes Engineer
5 3 (13.64%) Lead DevOps
5 3 (13.64%) Lead DevOps Engineer
5 3 (13.64%) SIEM Engineer
6 2 (9.09%) AWS Engineer
6 2 (9.09%) AWS Infrastructure Engineer
6 2 (9.09%) Full-Stack Engineer
6 2 (9.09%) Full-Stack Software Engineer
6 2 (9.09%) Infrastructure Engineer
6 2 (9.09%) Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 8 (36.36%) REST
2 6 (27.27%) React
2 6 (27.27%) Spring
3 2 (9.09%) AngularJS
3 2 (9.09%) gRPC
3 2 (9.09%) Spring Boot
4 1 (4.55%) Gherkin
4 1 (4.55%) OAuth
4 1 (4.55%) PyTorch
4 1 (4.55%) scikit-learn
4 1 (4.55%) TensorFlow
Miscellaneous
1 6 (27.27%) Self-Motivation
2 4 (18.18%) Management Information System
3 3 (13.64%) Product Ownership
4 2 (9.09%) Cloud Native
4 2 (9.09%) Enterprise Software
5 1 (4.55%) Onboarding
Operating Systems
1 8 (36.36%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 12 (54.55%) Agile
1 12 (54.55%) CI/CD
1 12 (54.55%) DevOps
2 10 (45.45%) Full-Stack Development
2 10 (45.45%) Microservices
3 9 (40.91%) Problem-Solving
4 8 (36.36%) Scrum
4 8 (36.36%) TDD
5 7 (31.82%) Containerisation
5 7 (31.82%) Infrastructure as Code
6 6 (27.27%) Decision-Making
6 6 (27.27%) SDLC
6 6 (27.27%) SOA
6 6 (27.27%) Sprint Planning
6 6 (27.27%) Unit Testing
7 5 (22.73%) Computer Science
8 4 (18.18%) Continuous Integration
8 4 (18.18%) Resource Management
8 4 (18.18%) Service Delivery
8 4 (18.18%) Software Engineering
Programming Languages
1 12 (54.55%) Java
2 8 (36.36%) JavaScript
2 8 (36.36%) PL/SQL
2 8 (36.36%) SQL
3 6 (27.27%) Bash
3 6 (27.27%) TypeScript
4 5 (22.73%) Go
4 5 (22.73%) Python
5 4 (18.18%) C
5 4 (18.18%) R
6 1 (4.55%) C++
6 1 (4.55%) Kusto Query Language
Qualifications
1 9 (40.91%) SC Cleared
1 9 (40.91%) Security Cleared
2 2 (9.09%) AWS Certification
2 2 (9.09%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
2 2 (9.09%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
2 2 (9.09%) AWS Certified SysOps Administrator
2 2 (9.09%) BPSS Clearance
3 1 (4.55%) Computer Science Degree
3 1 (4.55%) Degree
3 1 (4.55%) Master's Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (22.73%) QA
2 1 (4.55%) Accessibility
2 1 (4.55%) Cyber Essentials
2 1 (4.55%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
2 1 (4.55%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 1 (4.55%) WCAG
System Software
1 17 (77.27%) Docker
Systems Management
1 7 (31.82%) Terraform
2 2 (9.09%) Ansible
3 1 (4.55%) Grafana
3 1 (4.55%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 8 (36.36%) Oracle
2 2 (9.09%) Microsoft
3 1 (4.55%) OpenAI