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 14 February 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
14 Feb 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 75 41 25
Rank change year-on-year -34 -16 +1
Permanent jobs citing Kubernetes 22 70 191
As % of all permanent jobs in Bristol 0.93% 5.53% 7.84%
As % of the Systems Management category 36.67% 54.69% 61.61%
Number of salaries quoted 19 51 187
10th Percentile £54,500 £56,250 £45,000
25th Percentile £61,250 £65,625 £56,219
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £75,000 £76,500 £70,576
Median % change year-on-year -1.96% +8.39% +17.63%
75th Percentile £77,500 £87,500 £85,000
90th Percentile £82,150 £98,474 £91,934
South West median annual salary £62,500 £69,000 £65,000
% change year-on-year -9.42% +6.15% +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 60 128 310
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Bristol 2.54% 10.12% 12.73%
Number of salaries quoted 55 86 279
10th Percentile £37,550 £46,250 £36,250
25th Percentile £46,250 £51,550 £46,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,500 £71,991 £62,500
Median % change year-on-year -20.13% +15.19% +5.00%
75th Percentile £77,500 £83,438 £80,000
90th Percentile £82,200 £91,875 £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 14 February 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 1 (4.55%) JBoss
Cloud Services
1 16 (72.73%) Azure
2 14 (63.64%) AWS
3 11 (50.00%) GCP
4 7 (31.82%) GitHub
5 6 (27.27%) Datadog
5 6 (27.27%) GitHub Actions
6 2 (9.09%) Serverless
7 1 (4.55%) Amazon S3
7 1 (4.55%) AWS CloudFormation
7 1 (4.55%) AWS Lambda
7 1 (4.55%) Azure AKS
7 1 (4.55%) Azure Cosmos DB
7 1 (4.55%) Azure DevOps
7 1 (4.55%) Cloud Run
7 1 (4.55%) Google Kubernetes Engine
7 1 (4.55%) SaaS
7 1 (4.55%) Virtual Private Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 1 (4.55%) Firewall
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (9.09%) PostgreSQL
1 2 (9.09%) Relational Database
2 1 (4.55%) DB2
2 1 (4.55%) Geospatial Data
2 1 (4.55%) GIS
2 1 (4.55%) NoSQL
2 1 (4.55%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 8 (36.36%) Jenkins
2 6 (27.27%) CircleCI
3 1 (4.55%) Atlassian Bamboo
3 1 (4.55%) Git
General
1 10 (45.45%) Social Skills
2 3 (13.64%) Finance
2 3 (13.64%) Public Sector
3 2 (9.09%) Electronics
3 2 (9.09%) Manufacturing
3 2 (9.09%) Marketing
3 2 (9.09%) Retail
3 2 (9.09%) Telecoms
4 1 (4.55%) Games
4 1 (4.55%) Military
Job Titles
1 11 (50.00%) Senior
2 6 (27.27%) Developer
2 6 (27.27%) DevSecOps Engineer
3 3 (13.64%) Architect
3 3 (13.64%) Software Engineer
4 2 (9.09%) .NET Developer
4 2 (9.09%) Full-Stack Developer
4 2 (9.09%) Full-Stack Engineer
4 2 (9.09%) Full-Stack Python Developer
4 2 (9.09%) Full-Stack Software Engineer
4 2 (9.09%) Python Developer
4 2 (9.09%) Senior .NET Developer
4 2 (9.09%) Senior Developer
4 2 (9.09%) Senior Software Engineer
5 1 (4.55%) Backend Developer
5 1 (4.55%) GCP Engineer
5 1 (4.55%) Lead
5 1 (4.55%) Python Engineer
5 1 (4.55%) Senior Full-Stack Engineer
5 1 (4.55%) Senior Full-Stack Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (18.18%) .NET
1 4 (18.18%) .NET Core
1 4 (18.18%) React
2 2 (9.09%) FastAPI
2 2 (9.09%) REST
3 1 (4.55%) AngularJS
3 1 (4.55%) D3.js
3 1 (4.55%) Dapper ORM
3 1 (4.55%) Entity Framework
3 1 (4.55%) Keycloak
3 1 (4.55%) OAuth2
3 1 (4.55%) OpenAPI
3 1 (4.55%) PrimeNG
3 1 (4.55%) PyTorch
3 1 (4.55%) Redux
3 1 (4.55%) RESTful
3 1 (4.55%) RxJS
3 1 (4.55%) scikit-learn
3 1 (4.55%) Spring Boot
3 1 (4.55%) TensorFlow
Miscellaneous
1 4 (18.18%) Cloud Native
2 2 (9.09%) Management Information System
3 1 (4.55%) Legacy Systems
Operating Systems
1 6 (27.27%) Linux
2 1 (4.55%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 15 (68.18%) Agile
2 13 (59.09%) CI/CD
3 12 (54.55%) Containerisation
3 12 (54.55%) DevOps
4 10 (45.45%) Infrastructure as Code
5 9 (40.91%) Software Engineering
6 8 (36.36%) Continuous Improvement
6 8 (36.36%) Problem-Solving
7 7 (31.82%) Cloud Security
7 7 (31.82%) Test Automation
8 6 (27.27%) DevSecOps
8 6 (27.27%) Incident Response
8 6 (27.27%) Security Operations
8 6 (27.27%) Security Testing
8 6 (27.27%) SIEM
8 6 (27.27%) Threat Detection
9 5 (22.73%) AI
9 5 (22.73%) Full-Stack Development
10 3 (13.64%) Mentoring
10 3 (13.64%) Scrum
Programming Languages
1 16 (72.73%) Python
2 8 (36.36%) Bash
3 7 (31.82%) PowerShell
4 5 (22.73%) SQL
5 4 (18.18%) C#
5 4 (18.18%) TypeScript
6 3 (13.64%) JavaScript
7 2 (9.09%) Java
8 1 (4.55%) Bicep
Qualifications
1 5 (22.73%) SC Cleared
1 5 (22.73%) Security Cleared
2 1 (4.55%) AWS Certification
2 1 (4.55%) Azure Certification
2 1 (4.55%) Computer Science Degree
2 1 (4.55%) Degree
2 1 (4.55%) DV Cleared
2 1 (4.55%) TOGAF Certification
System Software
1 16 (72.73%) Docker
Systems Management
1 9 (40.91%) Terraform
2 7 (31.82%) Ansible
3 6 (27.27%) Grafana
4 1 (4.55%) Istio
4 1 (4.55%) Puppet
Vendors
1 2 (9.09%) Google
1 2 (9.09%) SAP
2 1 (4.55%) Red Hat