Kubernetes Jobs in Bristol

Kubernetes (k8s)
South West > Bristol

The table below provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in Bristol 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 5 July 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
5 Jul 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 47 41 24
Rank change year-on-year -6 -17 +5
Permanent jobs citing Kubernetes 52 154 246
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Bristol 4.18% 4.46% 10.34%
As % of the Systems Management category 52.53% 53.10% 68.33%
Number of salaries quoted 39 141 178
10th Percentile £45,750 £52,500 £48,091
25th Percentile £61,875 £67,500 £56,219
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £71,991 £80,000 £69,447
Median % change year-on-year -10.01% +15.20% -0.79%
75th Percentile £98,474 £87,500 £83,750
90th Percentile £104,928 £98,474 £93,250
South West median annual salary £71,991 £72,500 £68,823
% change year-on-year -0.70% +5.34% +2.19%

All Systems Management Skills
Bristol

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 Bristol.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for systems management skills 99 290 360
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Bristol 7.96% 8.40% 15.13%
Number of salaries quoted 73 251 248
10th Percentile £42,500 £36,250 £34,625
25th Percentile £46,750 £48,750 £48,091
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £62,500 £67,500 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year -7.41% +3.85% -3.70%
75th Percentile £77,500 £87,500 £82,500
90th Percentile £102,410 £91,934 £93,250
South West median annual salary £52,500 £52,500 £57,500
% change year-on-year - -8.70% +4.55%

Kubernetes
Job Vacancy Trend in Bristol

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

Job vacancy trend for Kubernetes in Bristol

Kubernetes
Salary Trend in Bristol

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

Salary trend for Kubernetes in Bristol

Kubernetes
Salary Histogram in Bristol

Salary distribution for jobs citing Kubernetes in Bristol over the 6 months to 5 July 2025.

Salary histogram for Kubernetes in Bristol

Kubernetes
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Bristol 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 5 (9.62%) OpenStack
2 2 (3.85%) IIS
3 1 (1.92%) Apache Airflow
3 1 (1.92%) CMS
Cloud Services
1 32 (61.54%) Azure
2 30 (57.69%) AWS
3 21 (40.38%) GCP
4 5 (9.62%) Azure DevOps
4 5 (9.62%) Power Platform
5 4 (7.69%) Amazon EKS
5 4 (7.69%) Serverless
6 3 (5.77%) Azure Monitor
7 2 (3.85%) Apigee
7 2 (3.85%) Azure AKS
7 2 (3.85%) Azure Cosmos DB
7 2 (3.85%) Google Kubernetes Engine
7 2 (3.85%) Microsoft 365
7 2 (3.85%) Pulumi
7 2 (3.85%) Stackdriver
8 1 (1.92%) AWS CloudFormation
8 1 (1.92%) Azure Functions
8 1 (1.92%) Datadog
8 1 (1.92%) GitHub
8 1 (1.92%) GitHub Actions
Communications & Networking
1 4 (7.69%) Firewall
2 3 (5.77%) VPN
3 2 (3.85%) Cisco IOS
3 2 (3.85%) DHCP
3 2 (3.85%) DNS
3 2 (3.85%) IPsec
3 2 (3.85%) Reverse Proxy
3 2 (3.85%) VLAN
3 2 (3.85%) VoIP
3 2 (3.85%) Wireless
4 1 (1.92%) Broadband
Database & Business Intelligence
1 7 (13.46%) Big Data
1 7 (13.46%) NoSQL
2 6 (11.54%) MongoDB
3 5 (9.62%) BigQuery
3 5 (9.62%) Data Hub
3 5 (9.62%) Data Warehouse
3 5 (9.62%) Looker
3 5 (9.62%) PostgreSQL
3 5 (9.62%) Power BI
3 5 (9.62%) SQL Server
3 5 (9.62%) Tableau
4 3 (5.77%) Relational Database
5 2 (3.85%) Amazon RDS
5 2 (3.85%) MySQL
6 1 (1.92%) Oracle Exadata
6 1 (1.92%) RDBMS
6 1 (1.92%) Redis
Development Applications
1 15 (28.85%) Jenkins
2 7 (13.46%) Git
3 5 (9.62%) GitLab
4 4 (7.69%) IBM UrbanCode
5 2 (3.85%) Fiddler
5 2 (3.85%) JUnit
5 2 (3.85%) Maven
5 2 (3.85%) Postman
5 2 (3.85%) SonarQube
5 2 (3.85%) Sonatype Nexus
5 2 (3.85%) TeamCity
5 2 (3.85%) Visual Studio
6 1 (1.92%) Jaeger
6 1 (1.92%) Octopus Deploy
General
1 23 (44.23%) Finance
2 18 (34.62%) Banking
3 9 (17.31%) Social Skills
4 5 (9.62%) Analytical Skills
5 2 (3.85%) Electronics
5 2 (3.85%) Manufacturing
5 2 (3.85%) Marketing
5 2 (3.85%) Presentation Skills
5 2 (3.85%) Public Sector
5 2 (3.85%) Telecoms
6 1 (1.92%) Games
6 1 (1.92%) Health Technology
6 1 (1.92%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 1 (1.92%) Military
Job Titles
1 14 (26.92%) Software Engineer
2 13 (25.00%) Lead
3 11 (21.15%) Senior
4 9 (17.31%) DevOps Engineer
5 6 (11.54%) Developer
6 5 (9.62%) Data Engineer
6 5 (9.62%) Lead Data Engineer
6 5 (9.62%) Provisioning Engineer
6 5 (9.62%) Senior Software Engineer
7 4 (7.69%) Analyst
7 4 (7.69%) Automation Engineer
7 4 (7.69%) Cloud Engineer
7 4 (7.69%) DevOps Automation Engineer
7 4 (7.69%) Quality Engineer
8 3 (5.77%) Disaster Recovery Analyst
8 3 (5.77%) Senior Cloud Engineer
8 3 (5.77%) Senior Systems Engineer
8 3 (5.77%) Site Reliability Engineer
8 3 (5.77%) Systems Engineer
9 2 (3.85%) Identity Management Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 7 (13.46%) REST
2 6 (11.54%) .NET
2 6 (11.54%) RESTful
2 6 (11.54%) Spring
2 6 (11.54%) Spring Boot
3 4 (7.69%) .NET Core
3 4 (7.69%) JSON
3 4 (7.69%) Kafka
3 4 (7.69%) React
4 3 (5.77%) .NET Framework
4 3 (5.77%) Elastic Stack
4 3 (5.77%) Entity Framework
4 3 (5.77%) JPA
4 3 (5.77%) OpenCL
4 3 (5.77%) PySpark
5 2 (3.85%) Hibernate
5 2 (3.85%) jQuery
5 2 (3.85%) JWT
5 2 (3.85%) Keycloak
5 2 (3.85%) OAuth
Miscellaneous
1 5 (9.62%) Data Centre
1 5 (9.62%) Public Cloud
2 4 (7.69%) Reinsurance
3 3 (5.77%) Cloud Native
3 3 (5.77%) CUDA
3 3 (5.77%) Device Driver
3 3 (5.77%) Distributed Systems
3 3 (5.77%) PCIe
4 2 (3.85%) Analytical Mindset
4 2 (3.85%) Clustering
4 2 (3.85%) Data Structures
4 2 (3.85%) PKI
4 2 (3.85%) Private Cloud
4 2 (3.85%) Reference Data
4 2 (3.85%) Replication
5 1 (1.92%) Hybrid Cloud
5 1 (1.92%) Legacy Systems
5 1 (1.92%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 12 (23.08%) Linux
2 7 (13.46%) Windows
3 3 (5.77%) Unix
4 2 (3.85%) Mac OS
4 2 (3.85%) Windows Server
5 1 (1.92%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 29 (55.77%) DevOps
2 28 (53.85%) Mentoring
3 27 (51.92%) CI/CD
4 22 (42.31%) Software Engineering
5 21 (40.38%) Containerisation
6 18 (34.62%) Agile
7 14 (26.92%) Infrastructure as Code
8 13 (25.00%) Test Automation
9 11 (21.15%) Microservices
10 10 (19.23%) Coaching
11 9 (17.31%) Data Engineering
11 9 (17.31%) Problem-Solving
12 7 (13.46%) Business Intelligence
12 7 (13.46%) Site Reliability Engineering
12 7 (13.46%) Validation
13 6 (11.54%) Artificial Intelligence
13 6 (11.54%) Benchmarking
13 6 (11.54%) Disaster Recovery
13 6 (11.54%) Event-Driven
13 6 (11.54%) Software Delivery
Programming Languages
1 15 (28.85%) Java
1 15 (28.85%) Python
2 14 (26.92%) SQL
3 8 (15.38%) Bash
4 7 (13.46%) JavaScript
5 5 (9.62%) Go
5 5 (9.62%) PowerShell
6 4 (7.69%) C#
7 3 (5.77%) C
7 3 (5.77%) C++
7 3 (5.77%) TypeScript
8 1 (1.92%) PHP
Qualifications
1 3 (5.77%) AWS Certification
1 3 (5.77%) Security Cleared
2 2 (3.85%) ACMT
2 2 (3.85%) DV Cleared
2 2 (3.85%) SC Cleared
2 2 (3.85%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
3 1 (1.92%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
3 1 (1.92%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
3 1 (1.92%) Azure Certification
3 1 (1.92%) MCSA
3 1 (1.92%) MCSE
3 1 (1.92%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (3.85%) Cyber Essentials
1 2 (3.85%) NIST
1 2 (3.85%) PCI DSS
2 1 (1.92%) GDPR
2 1 (1.92%) HIPAA
System Software
1 34 (65.38%) Docker
2 3 (5.77%) Firmware
3 2 (3.85%) Hyper-V
3 2 (3.85%) VMware ESXi
3 2 (3.85%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 20 (38.46%) Terraform
2 6 (11.54%) Argo
3 3 (5.77%) Ansible
4 2 (3.85%) Autotask
4 2 (3.85%) Graylog
4 2 (3.85%) Istio
4 2 (3.85%) Microsoft Intune
4 2 (3.85%) Podman
4 2 (3.85%) Single Sign-On
4 2 (3.85%) vCenter Server
5 1 (1.92%) Kustomize
5 1 (1.92%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 11 (21.15%) Google
2 5 (9.62%) Graphcore
2 5 (9.62%) Oracle
3 4 (7.69%) Databricks
4 3 (5.77%) Microsoft
5 2 (3.85%) Apple
5 2 (3.85%) Cisco
5 2 (3.85%) Datto
5 2 (3.85%) Dynatrace
5 2 (3.85%) SAP
5 2 (3.85%) Sophos
5 2 (3.85%) Splunk
5 2 (3.85%) Veeam
5 2 (3.85%) VMware
6 1 (1.92%) Extreme Networks