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 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 73 40 16
Rank change year-on-year -33 -24 +8
Permanent jobs citing Kubernetes 28 70 199
As % of all permanent jobs in Bristol 1.35% 5.05% 11.14%
As % of the Systems Management category 40.00% 50.72% 65.03%
Number of salaries quoted 26 52 194
10th Percentile £36,250 £57,500 £46,250
25th Percentile £56,563 £66,875 £56,219
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £75,000 £77,500 £70,000
Median % change year-on-year -3.23% +10.71% +12.00%
75th Percentile £85,625 £87,500 £82,188
90th Percentile £96,250 £93,650 £91,934
South West median annual salary £62,500 £70,000 £65,000
% change year-on-year -10.71% +7.69% +4.00%

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 70 138 306
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Bristol 3.38% 9.96% 17.13%
Number of salaries quoted 65 96 278
10th Percentile £36,250 £36,724 £40,000
25th Percentile £42,500 £51,250 £46,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £71,991 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year -23.60% +10.76% +8.33%
75th Percentile £77,500 £85,000 £80,000
90th Percentile £89,750 £90,625 £91,934
South West median annual salary £54,500 £60,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year -9.17% +9.09% -

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 13 January 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 4 (14.29%) IIS
2 1 (3.57%) Apache
2 1 (3.57%) Apache Airflow
2 1 (3.57%) Apache Spark
2 1 (3.57%) Apache Superset
2 1 (3.57%) JBoss
Cloud Services
1 20 (71.43%) Azure
2 16 (57.14%) AWS
3 7 (25.00%) GCP
4 5 (17.86%) Serverless
5 4 (14.29%) Amazon S3
5 4 (14.29%) AWS Lambda
5 4 (14.29%) GitHub
5 4 (14.29%) GitHub Actions
5 4 (14.29%) Microsoft 365
6 3 (10.71%) Amazon EC2
6 3 (10.71%) Azure DevOps
6 3 (10.71%) OpenShift
7 2 (7.14%) Datadog
8 1 (3.57%) AWS CloudFormation
8 1 (3.57%) Azure Cosmos DB
8 1 (3.57%) Cloud Run
8 1 (3.57%) Power Platform
8 1 (3.57%) Virtual Private Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 5 (17.86%) Firewall
2 4 (14.29%) Cisco IOS
2 4 (14.29%) DHCP
2 4 (14.29%) DNS
2 4 (14.29%) IPsec
2 4 (14.29%) VLAN
2 4 (14.29%) VoIP
2 4 (14.29%) VPN
2 4 (14.29%) Wireless
3 3 (10.71%) AMQP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 7 (25.00%) Amazon RDS
2 5 (17.86%) Relational Database
2 5 (17.86%) SQL Server
3 3 (10.71%) InfluxDB
4 2 (7.14%) PostgreSQL
5 1 (3.57%) DB2
5 1 (3.57%) Geospatial Data
5 1 (3.57%) GIS
5 1 (3.57%) Metadata
5 1 (3.57%) NoSQL
5 1 (3.57%) Power BI
5 1 (3.57%) Spark SQL
5 1 (3.57%) SQL Server Integration Services
5 1 (3.57%) SQL Server Reporting Services
Development Applications
1 6 (21.43%) Jenkins
2 2 (7.14%) CircleCI
3 1 (3.57%) Atlassian Bamboo
3 1 (3.57%) Git
General
1 13 (46.43%) Social Skills
2 9 (32.14%) Finance
3 8 (28.57%) Public Sector
4 6 (21.43%) Electronics
4 6 (21.43%) Manufacturing
4 6 (21.43%) Marketing
4 6 (21.43%) Telecoms
5 2 (7.14%) Retail
6 1 (3.57%) Analytical Skills
6 1 (3.57%) Games
6 1 (3.57%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 1 (3.57%) Military
6 1 (3.57%) Tech for Good
Job Titles
1 9 (32.14%) Senior
2 6 (21.43%) Developer
3 4 (14.29%) 2nd Line Engineer
3 4 (14.29%) 2nd Line Support
3 4 (14.29%) 2nd Line Support Engineer
3 4 (14.29%) 2nd/3rd Line Support
3 4 (14.29%) 2nd/3rd Line Support Engineer
3 4 (14.29%) 3rd Line Engineer
3 4 (14.29%) 3rd Line Support
3 4 (14.29%) 3rd Line Support Engineer
3 4 (14.29%) IT Engineer
3 4 (14.29%) IT Support
3 4 (14.29%) IT Support Engineer
3 4 (14.29%) Microsoft 365 Engineer
3 4 (14.29%) Senior IT Engineer
3 4 (14.29%) Senior IT Support
3 4 (14.29%) Senior Support Engineer
3 4 (14.29%) Support Engineer
4 3 (10.71%) DevOps Engineer
4 3 (10.71%) Site Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (14.29%) RabbitMQ
1 4 (14.29%) React
2 3 (10.71%) .NET
2 3 (10.71%) .NET Core
3 2 (7.14%) Kafka
3 2 (7.14%) Spring
3 2 (7.14%) Spring Boot
4 1 (3.57%) AngularJS
4 1 (3.57%) FastAPI
4 1 (3.57%) Keycloak
4 1 (3.57%) OAuth
4 1 (3.57%) OpenAPI
4 1 (3.57%) PrimeNG
4 1 (3.57%) PySpark
4 1 (3.57%) PyTorch
4 1 (3.57%) Redux
4 1 (3.57%) RESTful
4 1 (3.57%) RxJS
4 1 (3.57%) scikit-learn
4 1 (3.57%) TensorFlow
Miscellaneous
1 4 (14.29%) Cloud Native
1 4 (14.29%) Clustering
2 3 (10.71%) Linux Command Line
3 2 (7.14%) Legacy Systems
3 2 (7.14%) Management Information System
4 1 (3.57%) Data Fabric
4 1 (3.57%) Hybrid Cloud
4 1 (3.57%) Product Ownership
Operating Systems
1 9 (32.14%) Linux
2 5 (17.86%) Windows
3 4 (14.29%) Mac OS
3 4 (14.29%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 17 (60.71%) Containerisation
2 16 (57.14%) CI/CD
3 13 (46.43%) Agile
4 12 (42.86%) DevOps
4 12 (42.86%) Infrastructure as Code
5 8 (28.57%) Mentoring
5 8 (28.57%) Software Engineering
6 7 (25.00%) Business Intelligence
6 7 (25.00%) Coaching
7 6 (21.43%) Collaborative Culture
7 6 (21.43%) Digital Marketing
7 6 (21.43%) Migration
7 6 (21.43%) Programme Management
8 5 (17.86%) AI
8 5 (17.86%) Continuous Improvement
8 5 (17.86%) Full-Stack Development
8 5 (17.86%) ITIL
9 4 (14.29%) Remote Monitoring and Management
9 4 (14.29%) Server Building
9 4 (14.29%) Server Management
Programming Languages
1 16 (57.14%) Python
2 9 (32.14%) PowerShell
3 7 (25.00%) SQL
4 6 (21.43%) Java
5 4 (14.29%) Bash
5 4 (14.29%) TypeScript
6 3 (10.71%) Bicep
6 3 (10.71%) C#
6 3 (10.71%) Go
6 3 (10.71%) Shell Script
7 2 (7.14%) JavaScript
8 1 (3.57%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 10 (35.71%) Security Cleared
2 9 (32.14%) SC Cleared
3 5 (17.86%) DV Cleared
4 4 (14.29%) ACMT
4 4 (14.29%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
5 3 (10.71%) Azure Certification
6 1 (3.57%) AWS Certification
6 1 (3.57%) Computer Science Degree
6 1 (3.57%) Degree
6 1 (3.57%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (14.29%) Cyber Essentials
2 1 (3.57%) Data Quality
System Software
1 22 (78.57%) Docker
2 4 (14.29%) Hyper-V
2 4 (14.29%) VMware ESXi
2 4 (14.29%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 10 (35.71%) Terraform
2 7 (25.00%) Ansible
3 5 (17.86%) Grafana
4 4 (14.29%) Autotask
4 4 (14.29%) Microsoft Intune
4 4 (14.29%) vCenter Server
5 3 (10.71%) Docker Swarm
5 3 (10.71%) Progress Chef
5 3 (10.71%) Prometheus
6 2 (7.14%) Puppet
Vendors
1 6 (21.43%) SAP
2 5 (17.86%) Microsoft
2 5 (17.86%) Oracle
3 4 (14.29%) Apple
3 4 (14.29%) Cisco
3 4 (14.29%) Datto
3 4 (14.29%) Sophos
3 4 (14.29%) Veeam
3 4 (14.29%) VMware
4 1 (3.57%) Databricks
4 1 (3.57%) Google
4 1 (3.57%) Red Hat