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 21 April 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
21 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 86 41 34
Rank change year-on-year -45 -7 -15
Permanent jobs citing Kubernetes 22 53 169
As % of all permanent jobs in Bristol 0.77% 5.47% 5.81%
As % of the Systems Management category 36.07% 56.99% 57.29%
Number of salaries quoted 20 40 164
10th Percentile £52,500 £55,795 £48,750
25th Percentile £58,750 £64,375 £57,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £66,250 £78,155 £75,000
Median % change year-on-year -15.23% +4.21% +11.11%
75th Percentile £77,500 £102,410 £87,500
90th Percentile - £115,000 £91,934
South West median annual salary £62,500 £71,991 £70,576
% change year-on-year -13.18% +2.01% +8.58%

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 61 93 295
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Bristol 2.14% 9.60% 10.14%
Number of salaries quoted 56 77 267
10th Percentile £40,625 £45,250 £38,250
25th Percentile £49,188 £51,698 £46,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £62,500 £70,000 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year -10.71% +7.69% +4.00%
75th Percentile £77,500 £82,751 £85,000
90th Percentile £82,500 £102,410 £91,934
South West median annual salary £55,000 £57,443 £52,500
% change year-on-year -4.25% +9.41% -8.70%

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 21 April 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:

Cloud Services
1 14 (63.64%) GCP
2 11 (50.00%) Azure
3 10 (45.45%) AWS
4 7 (31.82%) GitHub
5 6 (27.27%) Datadog
5 6 (27.27%) GitHub Actions
6 2 (9.09%) Azure AKS
6 2 (9.09%) SaaS
6 2 (9.09%) Serverless
7 1 (4.55%) AWS CloudFormation
7 1 (4.55%) Google Kubernetes Engine
Communications & Networking
1 1 (4.55%) Internet
1 1 (4.55%) LAN
1 1 (4.55%) TCP/IP
1 1 (4.55%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 6 (27.27%) PostgreSQL
2 5 (22.73%) Relational Database
3 3 (13.64%) SQL Server
4 2 (9.09%) NoSQL
5 1 (4.55%) Geospatial Data
5 1 (4.55%) GIS
5 1 (4.55%) MongoDB
Development Applications
1 8 (36.36%) Jenkins
2 6 (27.27%) CircleCI
3 4 (18.18%) Git
General
1 14 (63.64%) Social Skills
2 5 (22.73%) Finance
3 2 (9.09%) Public Sector
4 1 (4.55%) Electronics
4 1 (4.55%) Manufacturing
4 1 (4.55%) Marketing
4 1 (4.55%) Military
4 1 (4.55%) Retail
4 1 (4.55%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 10 (45.45%) Senior
2 6 (27.27%) DevSecOps Engineer
3 5 (22.73%) Python Engineer
3 5 (22.73%) Software Engineer
4 3 (13.64%) CUDA Engineer
4 3 (13.64%) Senior Software Engineer
5 2 (9.09%) .NET Software Engineer
5 2 (9.09%) Architect
5 2 (9.09%) Full-Stack Engineer
5 2 (9.09%) Senior .NET Software Engineer
6 1 (4.55%) Cloud Architect
6 1 (4.55%) Cloud Engineer
6 1 (4.55%) Cloud Infrastructure Architect
6 1 (4.55%) Full-Stack Software Engineer
6 1 (4.55%) GCP Engineer
6 1 (4.55%) Infrastructure Architect
6 1 (4.55%) JavaScript Engineer
6 1 (4.55%) Senior Cloud Engineer
6 1 (4.55%) Software Team Leader
6 1 (4.55%) Team Leader
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 7 (31.82%) Django
1 7 (31.82%) FastAPI
1 7 (31.82%) REST
2 4 (18.18%) .NET
2 4 (18.18%) Flask
3 3 (13.64%) .NET Core
3 3 (13.64%) SQLAlchemy
4 2 (9.09%) .NET Framework
4 2 (9.09%) Dapper ORM
4 2 (9.09%) Entity Framework
4 2 (9.09%) OAuth
4 2 (9.09%) React
4 2 (9.09%) RESTful
5 1 (4.55%) AngularJS
5 1 (4.55%) JWT
5 1 (4.55%) Kafka
5 1 (4.55%) Keycloak
5 1 (4.55%) OAuth2
5 1 (4.55%) RabbitMQ
5 1 (4.55%) Vue
Miscellaneous
1 6 (27.27%) Cloud Native
2 4 (18.18%) CUDA
3 2 (9.09%) Management Information System
Operating Systems
1 7 (31.82%) Linux
2 1 (4.55%) Ubuntu
2 1 (4.55%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 13 (59.09%) CI/CD
2 12 (54.55%) DevOps
2 12 (54.55%) Infrastructure as Code
3 11 (50.00%) Containerisation
3 11 (50.00%) Software Engineering
4 10 (45.45%) Agile
5 8 (36.36%) Continuous Improvement
5 8 (36.36%) Problem-Solving
6 7 (31.82%) Analytics
6 7 (31.82%) Cloud Security
6 7 (31.82%) Test Automation
7 6 (27.27%) DevSecOps
7 6 (27.27%) Incident Response
7 6 (27.27%) Security Operations
7 6 (27.27%) Security Testing
7 6 (27.27%) SIEM
7 6 (27.27%) Threat Detection
8 5 (22.73%) Clean Code
8 5 (22.73%) Computer Science
9 4 (18.18%) AI
Programming Languages
1 17 (77.27%) Python
2 7 (31.82%) Bash
2 7 (31.82%) SQL
3 6 (27.27%) PowerShell
4 4 (18.18%) C#
4 4 (18.18%) JavaScript
5 2 (9.09%) TypeScript
6 1 (4.55%) Bicep
6 1 (4.55%) Java
Qualifications
1 4 (18.18%) Computer Science Degree
1 4 (18.18%) Degree
2 2 (9.09%) SC Cleared
2 2 (9.09%) Security Cleared
3 1 (4.55%) AWS Certification
3 1 (4.55%) Azure Certification
3 1 (4.55%) DV Cleared
3 1 (4.55%) TOGAF Certification
System Software
1 16 (72.73%) Docker
2 1 (4.55%) KVM
2 1 (4.55%) QEMU
2 1 (4.55%) VMware Infrastructure
2 1 (4.55%) Xen
Systems Management
1 13 (59.09%) Terraform
2 7 (31.82%) Ansible
3 6 (27.27%) Grafana
4 1 (4.55%) Istio
4 1 (4.55%) Puppet
Vendors
1 1 (4.55%) Google
1 1 (4.55%) OpenAI
1 1 (4.55%) Red Hat
1 1 (4.55%) SAP
1 1 (4.55%) VMware