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 16 September 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
16 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 95 44 38
Rank change year-on-year -51 -6 -18
Permanent jobs citing Kubernetes 27 40 115
As % of all permanent jobs in Bristol 0.86% 3.57% 4.70%
As % of the Systems Management category 28.13% 54.05% 59.28%
Number of salaries quoted 18 36 98
10th Percentile £49,500 £36,250 £53,375
25th Percentile £53,188 £50,625 £68,438
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £62,500 £67,500 £80,000
Median % change year-on-year -7.41% -15.63% +15.20%
75th Percentile £66,250 £82,751 £87,500
90th Percentile £71,500 £96,875 £93,750
South West median annual salary £67,500 £67,500 £75,000
% change year-on-year - -10.00% +14.77%

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 96 74 194
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Bristol 3.06% 6.61% 7.93%
Number of salaries quoted 79 65 153
10th Percentile £36,125 £36,450 £30,884
25th Percentile £42,500 £42,500 £50,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £62,500 £57,500 £75,000
Median % change year-on-year +8.70% -23.33% +15.38%
75th Percentile £76,250 £75,000 £87,500
90th Percentile £82,500 £93,500 £92,250
South West median annual salary £60,000 £48,500 £55,000
% change year-on-year +23.71% -11.82% -4.35%

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 16 September 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 2 (7.41%) Apache Spark
2 1 (3.70%) Apache Airflow
Cloud Services
1 13 (48.15%) AWS
2 10 (37.04%) Azure
2 10 (37.04%) GCP
3 5 (18.52%) AWS CloudFormation
4 3 (11.11%) SaaS
4 3 (11.11%) Serverless
4 3 (11.11%) Slack
5 2 (7.41%) GitHub
6 1 (3.70%) Amazon EC2
6 1 (3.70%) Amazon S3
6 1 (3.70%) GitHub Actions
6 1 (3.70%) Google Kubernetes Engine
6 1 (3.70%) OpenShift
6 1 (3.70%) PaaS
6 1 (3.70%) Vercel
6 1 (3.70%) Virtual Private Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 1 (3.70%) Internet
1 1 (3.70%) LAN
1 1 (3.70%) TCP/IP
1 1 (3.70%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 6 (22.22%) PostgreSQL
2 4 (14.81%) NoSQL
3 3 (11.11%) Relational Database
4 2 (7.41%) Big Data
4 2 (7.41%) Hadoop
4 2 (7.41%) MongoDB
5 1 (3.70%) Chroma
5 1 (3.70%) Data Warehouse
5 1 (3.70%) Pinecone
5 1 (3.70%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 5 (18.52%) Git
1 5 (18.52%) Jenkins
2 2 (7.41%) GitLab
2 2 (7.41%) JIRA
3 1 (3.70%) Eclipse
3 1 (3.70%) Subversion
3 1 (3.70%) Vite
General
1 10 (37.04%) Social Skills
2 8 (29.63%) Finance
3 5 (18.52%) Public Sector
4 4 (14.81%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 3 (11.11%) Legal
5 3 (11.11%) Retail
6 2 (7.41%) Aerospace
6 2 (7.41%) Marketing
Job Titles
1 6 (22.22%) Senior
2 5 (18.52%) Software Engineer
3 4 (14.81%) Cloud Engineer
3 4 (14.81%) Python Engineer
4 3 (11.11%) CUDA Engineer
4 3 (11.11%) Data Engineer
4 3 (11.11%) Principal Engineer
4 3 (11.11%) Senior Cloud Engineer
5 2 (7.41%) Architect
5 2 (7.41%) AWS Architect
5 2 (7.41%) Cloud Architect
5 2 (7.41%) DevOps Engineer
5 2 (7.41%) Full-Stack Engineer
5 2 (7.41%) Principal Data Engineer
6 1 (3.70%) AWS Engineer
6 1 (3.70%) Developer
6 1 (3.70%) Gen AI Engineer
6 1 (3.70%) JavaScript Engineer
6 1 (3.70%) Senior DevOps
6 1 (3.70%) Senior DevOps Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 16 (59.26%) Terraform
2 7 (25.93%) Django
2 7 (25.93%) FastAPI
3 6 (22.22%) REST
4 4 (14.81%) Flask
5 3 (11.11%) .NET
5 3 (11.11%) React
5 3 (11.11%) Vue
6 2 (7.41%) .NET Core
6 2 (7.41%) AngularJS
6 2 (7.41%) Apache NiFi
6 2 (7.41%) CSS
6 2 (7.41%) Kafka
6 2 (7.41%) RESTful
6 2 (7.41%) Spring
6 2 (7.41%) Spring Boot
6 2 (7.41%) SQLAlchemy
7 1 (3.70%) JWT
7 1 (3.70%) LangChain
7 1 (3.70%) Next.js
Miscellaneous
1 6 (22.22%) Cloud Native
2 3 (11.11%) Blog
2 3 (11.11%) CUDA
3 2 (7.41%) Algorithms
4 1 (3.70%) Distributed Systems
Operating Systems
1 2 (7.41%) Linux
2 1 (3.70%) Ubuntu
2 1 (3.70%) Unix
2 1 (3.70%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 18 (66.67%) CI/CD
2 14 (51.85%) Software Engineering
3 13 (48.15%) DevOps
3 13 (48.15%) Infrastructure as Code
4 12 (44.44%) Agile
5 10 (37.04%) Containerisation
6 8 (29.63%) Full-Stack Development
7 7 (25.93%) AI
7 7 (25.93%) Mentoring
8 6 (22.22%) Clean Code
8 6 (22.22%) Microservices
9 5 (18.52%) Data Science
9 5 (18.52%) Problem-Solving
10 4 (14.81%) Analytics
10 4 (14.81%) Event-Driven
10 4 (14.81%) Scrum
10 4 (14.81%) Software Delivery
10 4 (14.81%) Stakeholder Engagement
10 4 (14.81%) Technical Leadership
10 4 (14.81%) Test Automation
Programming Languages
1 15 (55.56%) Python
2 7 (25.93%) JavaScript
2 7 (25.93%) SQL
3 4 (14.81%) Bash
4 3 (11.11%) C#
4 3 (11.11%) Java
5 2 (7.41%) TypeScript
6 1 (3.70%) C++
6 1 (3.70%) Kotlin
6 1 (3.70%) Perl
6 1 (3.70%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 8 (29.63%) SC Cleared
1 8 (29.63%) Security Cleared
2 5 (18.52%) AWS Certification
3 4 (14.81%) Degree
4 3 (11.11%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
4 3 (11.11%) AWS Certified Developer
5 2 (7.41%) BPSS Clearance
5 2 (7.41%) Computer Science Degree
5 2 (7.41%) DV Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (11.11%) NCSC
2 2 (7.41%) Accessibility
System Software
1 14 (51.85%) Docker
2 1 (3.70%) KVM
2 1 (3.70%) QEMU
2 1 (3.70%) VMware Infrastructure
2 1 (3.70%) Xen
Systems Management
1 4 (14.81%) Ansible
2 1 (3.70%) Puppet
Vendors
1 3 (11.11%) OpenAI
2 1 (3.70%) Mistral
2 1 (3.70%) Red Hat
2 1 (3.70%) VMware