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 2 October 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
2 Oct 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 96 50 32
Rank change year-on-year -46 -18 -12
Permanent jobs citing Kubernetes 28 36 119
As % of all permanent jobs in Bristol 0.85% 3.20% 5.16%
As % of the Systems Management category 28.00% 52.94% 59.80%
Number of salaries quoted 20 33 100
10th Percentile £51,500 £36,250 £54,875
25th Percentile £54,688 £45,000 £67,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £62,500 £65,000 £78,750
Median % change year-on-year -3.85% -17.46% +16.67%
75th Percentile £73,125 £82,500 £87,500
90th Percentile £85,000 £96,250 £93,750
South West median annual salary £67,500 £65,000 £75,000
% change year-on-year +3.85% -13.33% +15.38%

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 100 68 199
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Bristol 3.04% 6.04% 8.64%
Number of salaries quoted 84 60 156
10th Percentile £36,750 £36,250 £30,514
25th Percentile £45,313 £42,500 £50,938
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £57,500 £72,500
Median % change year-on-year +13.04% -20.69% +11.54%
75th Percentile £77,500 £75,000 £87,500
90th Percentile £82,500 £91,625 £90,000
South West median annual salary £60,000 £49,250 £55,000
% change year-on-year +21.83% -10.45% -2.65%

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 2 October 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 3 (10.71%) Apache Spark
2 2 (7.14%) Apache Airflow
3 1 (3.57%) Apache
Cloud Services
1 12 (42.86%) AWS
1 12 (42.86%) Azure
2 8 (28.57%) GCP
3 7 (25.00%) SaaS
4 5 (17.86%) AWS CloudFormation
5 3 (10.71%) Slack
6 2 (7.14%) GitHub
6 2 (7.14%) Serverless
7 1 (3.57%) Amazon EC2
7 1 (3.57%) Amazon S3
7 1 (3.57%) Cloud Run
7 1 (3.57%) GitHub Actions
7 1 (3.57%) Google Kubernetes Engine
7 1 (3.57%) OpenShift
7 1 (3.57%) PaaS
7 1 (3.57%) Vercel
7 1 (3.57%) Virtual Private Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 1 (3.57%) Internet
1 1 (3.57%) LAN
1 1 (3.57%) TCP/IP
1 1 (3.57%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (14.29%) PostgreSQL
2 3 (10.71%) NoSQL
3 2 (7.14%) Big Data
3 2 (7.14%) Data Warehouse
3 2 (7.14%) Hadoop
3 2 (7.14%) Relational Database
4 1 (3.57%) Chroma
4 1 (3.57%) MongoDB
4 1 (3.57%) Pinecone
Development Applications
1 5 (17.86%) Jenkins
2 4 (14.29%) Git
3 2 (7.14%) GitLab
3 2 (7.14%) JIRA
4 1 (3.57%) Eclipse
4 1 (3.57%) Subversion
4 1 (3.57%) Vite
General
1 7 (25.00%) Finance
1 7 (25.00%) Social Skills
2 4 (14.29%) Inclusion and Diversity
2 4 (14.29%) Public Sector
3 3 (10.71%) Legal
4 2 (7.14%) Aerospace
4 2 (7.14%) Marketing
4 2 (7.14%) Retail
5 1 (3.57%) Analytical Skills
Job Titles
1 9 (32.14%) Senior
2 6 (21.43%) Software Engineer
3 5 (17.86%) DevOps Engineer
4 4 (14.29%) Cloud Engineer
4 4 (14.29%) Data Engineer
4 4 (14.29%) Senior DevOps
4 4 (14.29%) Senior DevOps Engineer
5 3 (10.71%) Principal Engineer
5 3 (10.71%) Senior Cloud Engineer
6 2 (7.14%) Architect
6 2 (7.14%) AWS Architect
6 2 (7.14%) Cloud Architect
6 2 (7.14%) Principal Data Engineer
6 2 (7.14%) Python Engineer
7 1 (3.57%) AWS Engineer
7 1 (3.57%) CUDA Engineer
7 1 (3.57%) Front-End Engineer (Client-Side Engineer)
7 1 (3.57%) Full-Stack Engineer
7 1 (3.57%) Gen AI Engineer
7 1 (3.57%) Python Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 14 (50.00%) Terraform
2 6 (21.43%) FastAPI
3 4 (14.29%) Django
3 4 (14.29%) REST
4 3 (10.71%) React
4 3 (10.71%) Vue
5 2 (7.14%) AngularJS
5 2 (7.14%) Apache NiFi
5 2 (7.14%) CSS
5 2 (7.14%) Spring
5 2 (7.14%) Spring Boot
6 1 (3.57%) .NET
6 1 (3.57%) .NET Core
6 1 (3.57%) CrewAI
6 1 (3.57%) LangChain
6 1 (3.57%) LangGraph
6 1 (3.57%) Next.js
6 1 (3.57%) pgvector
6 1 (3.57%) Struts
6 1 (3.57%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 4 (14.29%) Cloud Native
2 3 (10.71%) Blog
3 2 (7.14%) Algorithms
3 2 (7.14%) CUDA
4 1 (3.57%) Distributed Systems
Operating Systems
1 2 (7.14%) Linux
2 1 (3.57%) Ubuntu
2 1 (3.57%) Unix
2 1 (3.57%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 16 (57.14%) CI/CD
2 15 (53.57%) DevOps
3 13 (46.43%) Agile
4 11 (39.29%) Infrastructure as Code
4 11 (39.29%) Software Engineering
5 10 (35.71%) Containerisation
6 7 (25.00%) AI
6 7 (25.00%) Full-Stack Development
6 7 (25.00%) Mentoring
7 5 (17.86%) Data Engineering
7 5 (17.86%) Microservices
7 5 (17.86%) Problem-Solving
8 4 (14.29%) Clean Code
8 4 (14.29%) Data Pipeline
8 4 (14.29%) Data Science
8 4 (14.29%) Software Delivery
8 4 (14.29%) Technical Leadership
8 4 (14.29%) Test Automation
9 3 (10.71%) Analytics
9 3 (10.71%) Stakeholder Engagement
Programming Languages
1 13 (46.43%) Python
2 6 (21.43%) JavaScript
3 5 (17.86%) SQL
4 4 (14.29%) Bash
5 3 (10.71%) Java
6 2 (7.14%) TypeScript
7 1 (3.57%) C#
7 1 (3.57%) C++
7 1 (3.57%) Kotlin
7 1 (3.57%) Perl
7 1 (3.57%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 8 (28.57%) SC Cleared
1 8 (28.57%) Security Cleared
2 5 (17.86%) AWS Certification
3 3 (10.71%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
3 3 (10.71%) AWS Certified Developer
4 2 (7.14%) BPSS Clearance
4 2 (7.14%) Degree
4 2 (7.14%) DV Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (10.71%) NCSC
2 2 (7.14%) Accessibility
System Software
1 14 (50.00%) Docker
2 1 (3.57%) KVM
2 1 (3.57%) QEMU
2 1 (3.57%) VMware Infrastructure
2 1 (3.57%) Xen
Systems Management
1 4 (14.29%) Ansible
2 1 (3.57%) Puppet
Vendors
1 3 (10.71%) OpenAI
2 1 (3.57%) Databricks
2 1 (3.57%) Google
2 1 (3.57%) Mistral
2 1 (3.57%) Red Hat
2 1 (3.57%) VMware