Kubernetes Job Trends in Bristol

Kubernetes (k8s)
South West > Bristol

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in Bristol requiring Kubernetes skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 24 July 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
24 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 87 42 39
Rank change year-on-year -45 -3 -17
Permanent jobs citing Kubernetes 25 49 134
As % of all permanent jobs in Bristol 0.92% 4.52% 4.65%
As % of the Systems Management category 24.04% 54.44% 52.76%
Number of salaries quoted 20 38 128
10th Percentile £52,500 £40,625 £53,375
25th Percentile £52,875 £62,500 £66,875
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £62,500 £73,496 £80,000
Median % change year-on-year -14.96% -8.13% +8.84%
75th Percentile £67,500 £98,230 £87,500
90th Percentile £71,875 £102,410 £97,500
South West median annual salary £60,000 £71,991 £75,000
% change year-on-year -16.66% -4.01% +8.00%

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 104 90 254
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Bristol 3.84% 8.31% 8.81%
Number of salaries quoted 81 74 229
10th Percentile £41,250 £38,425 £36,250
25th Percentile £51,250 £46,375 £50,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £58,750 £70,000
Median % change year-on-year +10.64% -16.07% +2.23%
75th Percentile £77,500 £77,500 £87,500
90th Percentile £82,500 £101,229 £88,250
South West median annual salary £55,000 £51,058 £55,000
% change year-on-year +7.72% -7.17% -5.17%

Kubernetes
Job Vacancy Trend in Bristol

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

Kubernetes job vacancy trend in Bristol

Kubernetes
Salary Trend in Bristol

Salary distribution trend for jobs in Bristol citing Kubernetes.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in Bristol citing Kubernetes

Kubernetes
Salary Histogram in Bristol

Salary distribution for jobs citing Kubernetes in Bristol over the 6 months to 24 July 2026.

Salary histogram for Kubernetes in Bristol

Kubernetes
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Bristol 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 1 (4.00%) Apache Spark
Cloud Services
1 9 (36.00%) GCP
2 7 (28.00%) AWS
3 6 (24.00%) Azure
4 4 (16.00%) SaaS
5 3 (12.00%) GitHub
5 3 (12.00%) GitHub Actions
6 2 (8.00%) AWS CloudFormation
6 2 (8.00%) Azure AKS
6 2 (8.00%) Datadog
6 2 (8.00%) Serverless
7 1 (4.00%) Amazon EC2
7 1 (4.00%) Amazon S3
7 1 (4.00%) Google Kubernetes Engine
7 1 (4.00%) OpenShift
7 1 (4.00%) PaaS
7 1 (4.00%) Slack
7 1 (4.00%) Virtual Private Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 1 (4.00%) Internet
1 1 (4.00%) LAN
1 1 (4.00%) TCP/IP
1 1 (4.00%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 6 (24.00%) PostgreSQL
2 4 (16.00%) Relational Database
3 3 (12.00%) SQL Server
4 2 (8.00%) NoSQL
5 1 (4.00%) Big Data
5 1 (4.00%) Hadoop
5 1 (4.00%) MongoDB
Development Applications
1 4 (16.00%) Git
1 4 (16.00%) Jenkins
2 2 (8.00%) CircleCI
3 1 (4.00%) JIRA
General
1 11 (44.00%) Social Skills
2 6 (24.00%) Finance
3 2 (8.00%) Inclusion and Diversity
3 2 (8.00%) Public Sector
3 2 (8.00%) Retail
4 1 (4.00%) Aerospace
4 1 (4.00%) Legal
4 1 (4.00%) Marketing
Job Titles
1 10 (40.00%) Software Engineer
2 7 (28.00%) Senior
3 5 (20.00%) Python Engineer
4 4 (16.00%) Senior Software Engineer
5 3 (12.00%) CUDA Engineer
6 2 (8.00%) .NET Software Engineer
6 2 (8.00%) Cloud Engineer
6 2 (8.00%) DevSecOps Engineer
6 2 (8.00%) Full-Stack Engineer
6 2 (8.00%) Principal Engineer
6 2 (8.00%) Senior .NET Software Engineer
7 1 (4.00%) Architect
7 1 (4.00%) AWS Architect
7 1 (4.00%) AWS Engineer
7 1 (4.00%) Cloud Architect
7 1 (4.00%) Data Engineer
7 1 (4.00%) Full-Stack Software Engineer
7 1 (4.00%) Infrastructure Engineer
7 1 (4.00%) JavaScript Engineer
7 1 (4.00%) Senior Cloud Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 10 (40.00%) Django
1 10 (40.00%) FastAPI
2 8 (32.00%) REST
3 5 (20.00%) .NET
4 4 (16.00%) .NET Core
4 4 (16.00%) Flask
5 3 (12.00%) SQLAlchemy
5 3 (12.00%) Vue
6 2 (8.00%) .NET Framework
6 2 (8.00%) AngularJS
6 2 (8.00%) CSS
6 2 (8.00%) Dapper ORM
6 2 (8.00%) Entity Framework
6 2 (8.00%) Kafka
6 2 (8.00%) React
7 1 (4.00%) Apache NiFi
7 1 (4.00%) OAuth
7 1 (4.00%) RESTful
7 1 (4.00%) Spring
7 1 (4.00%) Spring Boot
Miscellaneous
1 6 (24.00%) Cloud Native
2 4 (16.00%) CUDA
3 1 (4.00%) Algorithms
3 1 (4.00%) Blog
3 1 (4.00%) Distributed Systems
Operating Systems
1 3 (12.00%) Linux
2 1 (4.00%) Ubuntu
2 1 (4.00%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 18 (72.00%) Software Engineering
2 13 (52.00%) CI/CD
3 11 (44.00%) DevOps
4 10 (40.00%) Containerisation
4 10 (40.00%) Infrastructure as Code
5 9 (36.00%) Agile
6 8 (32.00%) AI
6 8 (32.00%) Analytics
7 7 (28.00%) Clean Code
7 7 (28.00%) Full-Stack Development
8 5 (20.00%) Data Science
8 5 (20.00%) Decision-Making
8 5 (20.00%) Problem-Solving
8 5 (20.00%) Test Automation
9 4 (16.00%) Computer Science
9 4 (16.00%) Event-Driven
9 4 (16.00%) Mentoring
9 4 (16.00%) Predictive Analytics
10 3 (12.00%) Microservices
10 3 (12.00%) Performance Engineering
Programming Languages
1 15 (60.00%) Python
2 9 (36.00%) SQL
3 6 (24.00%) JavaScript
4 5 (20.00%) C#
5 3 (12.00%) Bash
6 2 (8.00%) PowerShell
7 1 (4.00%) Java
7 1 (4.00%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 4 (16.00%) Degree
2 3 (12.00%) Computer Science Degree
2 3 (12.00%) SC Cleared
2 3 (12.00%) Security Cleared
3 2 (8.00%) AWS Certification
4 1 (4.00%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
4 1 (4.00%) AWS Certified Developer
4 1 (4.00%) BPSS Clearance
4 1 (4.00%) DV Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (4.00%) Accessibility
1 1 (4.00%) NCSC
System Software
1 14 (56.00%) Docker
2 1 (4.00%) KVM
2 1 (4.00%) QEMU
2 1 (4.00%) VMware Infrastructure
2 1 (4.00%) Xen
Systems Management
1 11 (44.00%) Terraform
2 5 (20.00%) Ansible
3 2 (8.00%) Grafana
4 1 (4.00%) Puppet
Vendors
1 3 (12.00%) OpenAI
2 1 (4.00%) Red Hat
2 1 (4.00%) VMware