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 20 January 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
20 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 64 40 20
Rank change year-on-year -24 -20 +2
Permanent jobs citing Kubernetes 29 69 196
As % of all permanent jobs in Bristol 1.36% 5.10% 9.98%
As % of the Systems Management category 39.73% 51.49% 64.26%
Number of salaries quoted 26 51 191
10th Percentile £40,625 £56,250 £46,250
25th Percentile £61,250 £65,625 £55,610
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £75,000 £77,500 £70,000
Median % change year-on-year -3.23% +10.71% +14.29%
75th Percentile £85,625 £87,500 £80,625
90th Percentile £96,250 £93,778 £91,934
South West median annual salary £63,950 £70,000 £65,000
% change year-on-year -8.64% +7.69% +8.33%

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 73 134 305
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Bristol 3.43% 9.90% 15.54%
Number of salaries quoted 67 92 276
10th Percentile £36,550 £37,231 £37,500
25th Percentile £42,500 £51,063 £46,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £71,991 £62,500
Median % change year-on-year -23.60% +15.19% +4.17%
75th Percentile £77,500 £85,000 £80,000
90th Percentile £92,750 £89,875 £91,934
South West median annual salary £55,000 £60,000 £52,500
% change year-on-year -8.33% +14.29% -4.55%

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 20 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 3 (10.34%) IIS
2 1 (3.45%) Apache
2 1 (3.45%) Apache Airflow
2 1 (3.45%) Apache Spark
2 1 (3.45%) Apache Superset
2 1 (3.45%) JBoss
Cloud Services
1 20 (68.97%) Azure
2 17 (58.62%) AWS
3 9 (31.03%) GCP
4 6 (20.69%) GitHub
5 5 (17.24%) GitHub Actions
5 5 (17.24%) Serverless
6 4 (13.79%) Amazon S3
6 4 (13.79%) AWS Lambda
7 3 (10.34%) Amazon EC2
7 3 (10.34%) Azure DevOps
7 3 (10.34%) Datadog
7 3 (10.34%) Microsoft 365
7 3 (10.34%) OpenShift
8 1 (3.45%) AWS CloudFormation
8 1 (3.45%) Azure Cosmos DB
8 1 (3.45%) Cloud Run
8 1 (3.45%) Google Kubernetes Engine
8 1 (3.45%) Power Platform
8 1 (3.45%) Virtual Private Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 4 (13.79%) Firewall
2 3 (10.34%) AMQP
2 3 (10.34%) Cisco IOS
2 3 (10.34%) DHCP
2 3 (10.34%) DNS
2 3 (10.34%) IPsec
2 3 (10.34%) VLAN
2 3 (10.34%) VoIP
2 3 (10.34%) VPN
2 3 (10.34%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 6 (20.69%) Amazon RDS
2 5 (17.24%) Relational Database
3 4 (13.79%) SQL Server
4 3 (10.34%) InfluxDB
5 2 (6.90%) PostgreSQL
6 1 (3.45%) DB2
6 1 (3.45%) Geospatial Data
6 1 (3.45%) GIS
6 1 (3.45%) Metadata
6 1 (3.45%) NoSQL
6 1 (3.45%) Power BI
6 1 (3.45%) Spark SQL
6 1 (3.45%) SQL Server Integration Services
6 1 (3.45%) SQL Server Reporting Services
Development Applications
1 8 (27.59%) Jenkins
2 3 (10.34%) CircleCI
3 1 (3.45%) Atlassian Bamboo
3 1 (3.45%) Git
General
1 13 (44.83%) Social Skills
2 8 (27.59%) Finance
3 7 (24.14%) Public Sector
4 5 (17.24%) Electronics
4 5 (17.24%) Manufacturing
4 5 (17.24%) Marketing
4 5 (17.24%) Telecoms
5 2 (6.90%) Retail
6 1 (3.45%) Analytical Skills
6 1 (3.45%) Games
6 1 (3.45%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 1 (3.45%) Military
6 1 (3.45%) Tech for Good
Job Titles
1 10 (34.48%) Senior
2 6 (20.69%) Developer
3 3 (10.34%) 2nd Line Support
3 3 (10.34%) 2nd Line Support Engineer
3 3 (10.34%) 2nd/3rd Line Support
3 3 (10.34%) 2nd/3rd Line Support Engineer
3 3 (10.34%) 3rd Line Engineer
3 3 (10.34%) 3rd Line Support
3 3 (10.34%) 3rd Line Support Engineer
3 3 (10.34%) Architect
3 3 (10.34%) DevOps Engineer
3 3 (10.34%) IT Engineer
3 3 (10.34%) IT Support
3 3 (10.34%) IT Support Engineer
3 3 (10.34%) Microsoft 365 Engineer
3 3 (10.34%) Senior IT Engineer
3 3 (10.34%) Senior IT Support
3 3 (10.34%) Senior Support Engineer
3 3 (10.34%) Site Engineer
3 3 (10.34%) Support Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (13.79%) RabbitMQ
1 4 (13.79%) React
2 3 (10.34%) .NET
2 3 (10.34%) .NET Core
3 2 (6.90%) Kafka
3 2 (6.90%) Spring
3 2 (6.90%) Spring Boot
4 1 (3.45%) ActiveMQ
4 1 (3.45%) AngularJS
4 1 (3.45%) D3.js
4 1 (3.45%) EJB
4 1 (3.45%) OAuth
4 1 (3.45%) OAuth2
4 1 (3.45%) PrimeNG
4 1 (3.45%) Redux
4 1 (3.45%) REST
4 1 (3.45%) RESTful
4 1 (3.45%) RxJS
4 1 (3.45%) scikit-learn
4 1 (3.45%) TensorFlow
Miscellaneous
1 4 (13.79%) Cloud Native
2 3 (10.34%) Clustering
2 3 (10.34%) Linux Command Line
3 2 (6.90%) Legacy Systems
3 2 (6.90%) Management Information System
4 1 (3.45%) Data Fabric
4 1 (3.45%) Hybrid Cloud
4 1 (3.45%) Product Ownership
Operating Systems
1 9 (31.03%) Linux
2 4 (13.79%) Windows
3 3 (10.34%) Mac OS
3 3 (10.34%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 17 (58.62%) CI/CD
1 17 (58.62%) Containerisation
2 14 (48.28%) Agile
2 14 (48.28%) DevOps
3 13 (44.83%) Infrastructure as Code
4 8 (27.59%) Software Engineering
5 7 (24.14%) Mentoring
6 6 (20.69%) Business Intelligence
6 6 (20.69%) Coaching
6 6 (20.69%) Continuous Improvement
7 5 (17.24%) AI
7 5 (17.24%) Collaborative Culture
7 5 (17.24%) Digital Marketing
7 5 (17.24%) Full-Stack Development
7 5 (17.24%) Migration
7 5 (17.24%) Problem-Solving
7 5 (17.24%) Programme Management
8 4 (13.79%) Cloud Security
8 4 (13.79%) DevSecOps
8 4 (13.79%) Technical Leadership
Programming Languages
1 18 (62.07%) Python
2 9 (31.03%) PowerShell
3 7 (24.14%) SQL
4 6 (20.69%) Java
5 5 (17.24%) Bash
6 4 (13.79%) TypeScript
7 3 (10.34%) Bicep
7 3 (10.34%) C#
7 3 (10.34%) Go
7 3 (10.34%) Shell Script
8 2 (6.90%) JavaScript
9 1 (3.45%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 10 (34.48%) Security Cleared
2 9 (31.03%) SC Cleared
3 5 (17.24%) DV Cleared
4 3 (10.34%) ACMT
4 3 (10.34%) Azure Certification
4 3 (10.34%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
5 1 (3.45%) AWS Certification
5 1 (3.45%) Computer Science Degree
5 1 (3.45%) Degree
5 1 (3.45%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (10.34%) Cyber Essentials
2 1 (3.45%) Data Quality
System Software
1 22 (75.86%) Docker
2 3 (10.34%) Hyper-V
2 3 (10.34%) VMware ESXi
2 3 (10.34%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 12 (41.38%) Terraform
2 8 (27.59%) Ansible
3 6 (20.69%) Grafana
4 3 (10.34%) Autotask
4 3 (10.34%) Docker Swarm
4 3 (10.34%) Microsoft Intune
4 3 (10.34%) Progress Chef
4 3 (10.34%) Prometheus
4 3 (10.34%) vCenter Server
5 2 (6.90%) Puppet
6 1 (3.45%) Istio
Vendors
1 5 (17.24%) SAP
2 4 (13.79%) Microsoft
2 4 (13.79%) Oracle
3 3 (10.34%) Apple
3 3 (10.34%) Cisco
3 3 (10.34%) Datto
3 3 (10.34%) Sophos
3 3 (10.34%) Veeam
3 3 (10.34%) VMware
4 2 (6.90%) Google
5 1 (3.45%) Databricks
5 1 (3.45%) Red Hat