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 15 July 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
15 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 90 38 46
Rank change year-on-year -52 +8 -24
Permanent jobs citing Kubernetes 23 50 136
As % of all permanent jobs in Bristol 0.85% 4.63% 4.26%
As % of the Systems Management category 23.23% 54.95% 52.11%
Number of salaries quoted 20 39 130
10th Percentile £52,500 £45,750 £52,450
25th Percentile £52,875 £61,875 £64,688
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £62,500 £71,991 £80,000
Median % change year-on-year -13.18% -10.01% +12.28%
75th Percentile £67,500 £98,474 £87,500
90th Percentile £77,500 £104,928 £97,500
South West median annual salary £57,500 £71,991 £75,000
% change year-on-year -20.13% -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 99 91 261
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Bristol 3.67% 8.43% 8.18%
Number of salaries quoted 78 75 233
10th Percentile £42,125 £42,500 £36,250
25th Percentile £52,500 £46,750 £50,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £60,000 £67,500
Median % change year-on-year +8.33% -11.11% +2.34%
75th Percentile £77,500 £77,500 £87,500
90th Percentile £82,500 £102,410 -
South West median annual salary £55,000 £51,058 £52,500
% change year-on-year +7.72% -2.75% -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 15 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:

Cloud Services
1 10 (43.48%) GCP
2 6 (26.09%) Azure
3 5 (21.74%) AWS
3 5 (21.74%) GitHub
4 4 (17.39%) GitHub Actions
4 4 (17.39%) SaaS
5 3 (13.04%) Datadog
6 2 (8.70%) Azure AKS
6 2 (8.70%) Google Kubernetes Engine
7 1 (4.35%) Amazon EC2
7 1 (4.35%) Amazon S3
7 1 (4.35%) PaaS
7 1 (4.35%) Serverless
7 1 (4.35%) Virtual Private Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 1 (4.35%) Internet
1 1 (4.35%) LAN
1 1 (4.35%) TCP/IP
1 1 (4.35%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (21.74%) PostgreSQL
2 4 (17.39%) Relational Database
3 3 (13.04%) SQL Server
4 1 (4.35%) MongoDB
4 1 (4.35%) NoSQL
Development Applications
1 5 (21.74%) Jenkins
2 4 (17.39%) Git
3 3 (13.04%) CircleCI
General
1 11 (47.83%) Social Skills
2 4 (17.39%) Finance
3 2 (8.70%) Retail
4 1 (4.35%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 9 (39.13%) Software Engineer
2 8 (34.78%) Senior
3 5 (21.74%) Python Engineer
4 4 (17.39%) Senior Software Engineer
5 3 (13.04%) CUDA Engineer
5 3 (13.04%) DevSecOps Engineer
6 2 (8.70%) .NET Software Engineer
6 2 (8.70%) Cloud Engineer
6 2 (8.70%) Full-Stack Engineer
6 2 (8.70%) Senior .NET Software Engineer
7 1 (4.35%) AWS Engineer
7 1 (4.35%) Full-Stack Software Engineer
7 1 (4.35%) GCP Engineer
7 1 (4.35%) Infrastructure Engineer
7 1 (4.35%) JavaScript Engineer
7 1 (4.35%) Principal Engineer
7 1 (4.35%) Principal Software Engineer
7 1 (4.35%) Senior Cloud Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 10 (43.48%) Django
1 10 (43.48%) FastAPI
2 7 (30.43%) REST
3 5 (21.74%) .NET
4 4 (17.39%) .NET Core
4 4 (17.39%) Flask
5 3 (13.04%) SQLAlchemy
5 3 (13.04%) Vue
6 2 (8.70%) .NET Framework
6 2 (8.70%) AngularJS
6 2 (8.70%) CSS
6 2 (8.70%) Dapper ORM
6 2 (8.70%) Entity Framework
6 2 (8.70%) React
7 1 (4.35%) JWT
7 1 (4.35%) Kafka
7 1 (4.35%) OAuth
7 1 (4.35%) RabbitMQ
7 1 (4.35%) RESTful
7 1 (4.35%) Sass
Miscellaneous
1 6 (26.09%) Cloud Native
2 4 (17.39%) CUDA
3 1 (4.35%) Distributed Systems
Operating Systems
1 4 (17.39%) Linux
2 1 (4.35%) Ubuntu
2 1 (4.35%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 16 (69.57%) Software Engineering
2 11 (47.83%) DevOps
3 10 (43.48%) CI/CD
4 9 (39.13%) Containerisation
4 9 (39.13%) Infrastructure as Code
5 8 (34.78%) Analytics
6 7 (30.43%) Agile
7 6 (26.09%) AI
7 6 (26.09%) Clean Code
7 6 (26.09%) Full-Stack Development
8 4 (17.39%) Computer Science
8 4 (17.39%) Continuous Improvement
8 4 (17.39%) Data Science
8 4 (17.39%) Decision-Making
8 4 (17.39%) Event-Driven
8 4 (17.39%) Predictive Analytics
8 4 (17.39%) Problem-Solving
8 4 (17.39%) Test Automation
9 3 (13.04%) Security Operations
9 3 (13.04%) Threat Detection
Programming Languages
1 15 (65.22%) Python
2 8 (34.78%) SQL
3 5 (21.74%) C#
3 5 (21.74%) JavaScript
4 3 (13.04%) Bash
4 3 (13.04%) PowerShell
5 1 (4.35%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 3 (13.04%) Computer Science Degree
1 3 (13.04%) Degree
2 1 (4.35%) SC Cleared
2 1 (4.35%) Security Cleared
System Software
1 14 (60.87%) Docker
2 1 (4.35%) KVM
2 1 (4.35%) QEMU
2 1 (4.35%) VMware Infrastructure
2 1 (4.35%) Xen
Systems Management
1 10 (43.48%) Terraform
2 5 (21.74%) Ansible
3 3 (13.04%) Grafana
4 1 (4.35%) Istio
4 1 (4.35%) Puppet
Vendors
1 3 (13.04%) OpenAI
2 1 (4.35%) Google
2 1 (4.35%) Red Hat
2 1 (4.35%) VMware