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 10 December 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
10 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 57 35 16
Rank change year-on-year -22 -19 +16
Permanent jobs citing Kubernetes 31 89 202
As % of all permanent jobs in Bristol 1.71% 5.17% 12.52%
As % of the Systems Management category 40.79% 48.63% 65.16%
Number of salaries quoted 29 71 196
10th Percentile £36,250 £57,500 £46,250
25th Percentile £52,500 £68,750 £55,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £75,000 £75,000 £69,724
Median % change year-on-year - +7.57% +7.27%
75th Percentile £83,750 £87,500 £82,548
90th Percentile £96,250 £93,778 £91,934
South West median annual salary £65,000 £72,500 £65,000
% change year-on-year -10.34% +11.54% +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 76 183 310
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Bristol 4.19% 10.63% 19.22%
Number of salaries quoted 72 134 282
10th Percentile £35,125 £33,500 £41,250
25th Percentile £39,688 £50,125 £46,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £71,991 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year -23.60% +10.76% +4.00%
75th Percentile £75,000 £82,500 £82,500
90th Percentile £87,375 £92,125 £91,934
South West median annual salary £52,500 £60,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year -12.50% +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 10 December 2025.

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 6 (19.35%) IIS
2 1 (3.23%) Apache
2 1 (3.23%) Apache Airflow
2 1 (3.23%) Apache Spark
2 1 (3.23%) Apache Superset
2 1 (3.23%) JBoss
Cloud Services
1 23 (74.19%) Azure
2 16 (51.61%) AWS
3 6 (19.35%) GCP
3 6 (19.35%) Microsoft 365
3 6 (19.35%) Serverless
4 4 (12.90%) Amazon S3
4 4 (12.90%) AWS Lambda
4 4 (12.90%) Azure DevOps
4 4 (12.90%) GitHub
4 4 (12.90%) GitHub Actions
5 3 (9.68%) Amazon EC2
5 3 (9.68%) OpenShift
6 2 (6.45%) Azure Cosmos DB
6 2 (6.45%) Datadog
7 1 (3.23%) AWS CloudFormation
7 1 (3.23%) Azure AKS
7 1 (3.23%) Azure Monitor
7 1 (3.23%) Cloud Run
7 1 (3.23%) Power Platform
7 1 (3.23%) Virtual Private Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 8 (25.81%) Firewall
2 6 (19.35%) Cisco IOS
2 6 (19.35%) DHCP
2 6 (19.35%) DNS
2 6 (19.35%) IPsec
2 6 (19.35%) VLAN
2 6 (19.35%) VoIP
2 6 (19.35%) VPN
2 6 (19.35%) Wireless
3 3 (9.68%) AMQP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 9 (29.03%) Amazon RDS
2 7 (22.58%) SQL Server
3 4 (12.90%) Relational Database
4 3 (9.68%) InfluxDB
5 1 (3.23%) DB2
5 1 (3.23%) Geospatial Data
5 1 (3.23%) GIS
5 1 (3.23%) Metadata
5 1 (3.23%) NoSQL
5 1 (3.23%) PostgreSQL
5 1 (3.23%) Power BI
5 1 (3.23%) Spark SQL
5 1 (3.23%) SQL Server Integration Services
5 1 (3.23%) SQL Server Reporting Services
Development Applications
1 6 (19.35%) Jenkins
2 1 (3.23%) Atlassian Bamboo
2 1 (3.23%) CircleCI
2 1 (3.23%) Git
2 1 (3.23%) Octopus Deploy
General
1 13 (41.94%) Social Skills
2 11 (35.48%) Finance
3 9 (29.03%) Public Sector
4 7 (22.58%) Electronics
4 7 (22.58%) Manufacturing
4 7 (22.58%) Marketing
4 7 (22.58%) Telecoms
5 2 (6.45%) Retail
6 1 (3.23%) Analytical Skills
6 1 (3.23%) Games
6 1 (3.23%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 1 (3.23%) Military
6 1 (3.23%) Tech for Good
Job Titles
1 12 (38.71%) Senior
2 7 (22.58%) Developer
3 6 (19.35%) IT Engineer
3 6 (19.35%) IT Support
3 6 (19.35%) IT Support Engineer
3 6 (19.35%) Senior IT Engineer
3 6 (19.35%) Senior IT Support
3 6 (19.35%) Senior Support Engineer
3 6 (19.35%) Support Engineer
4 5 (16.13%) 2nd Line Engineer
4 5 (16.13%) 2nd Line Support
4 5 (16.13%) 2nd Line Support Engineer
4 5 (16.13%) 2nd/3rd Line Support
4 5 (16.13%) 2nd/3rd Line Support Engineer
4 5 (16.13%) 3rd Line Engineer
4 5 (16.13%) 3rd Line Support
4 5 (16.13%) 3rd Line Support Engineer
4 5 (16.13%) Microsoft 365 Engineer
5 4 (12.90%) DevOps Engineer
5 4 (12.90%) Site Reliability Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 5 (16.13%) .NET
2 4 (12.90%) .NET Core
2 4 (12.90%) RabbitMQ
3 3 (9.68%) React
4 2 (6.45%) Kafka
4 2 (6.45%) Spring
4 2 (6.45%) Spring Boot
5 1 (3.23%) AngularJS
5 1 (3.23%) ARM Templates
5 1 (3.23%) D3.js
5 1 (3.23%) FastAPI
5 1 (3.23%) OpenAPI
5 1 (3.23%) PrimeNG
5 1 (3.23%) PySpark
5 1 (3.23%) PyTorch
5 1 (3.23%) Redux
5 1 (3.23%) REST
5 1 (3.23%) RxJS
5 1 (3.23%) scikit-learn
5 1 (3.23%) TensorFlow
Miscellaneous
1 6 (19.35%) Clustering
2 5 (16.13%) Cloud Native
3 3 (9.68%) Legacy Systems
3 3 (9.68%) Linux Command Line
4 1 (3.23%) Data Fabric
4 1 (3.23%) Hybrid Cloud
4 1 (3.23%) Management Information System
4 1 (3.23%) Product Ownership
4 1 (3.23%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 11 (35.48%) Linux
2 8 (25.81%) Windows
3 6 (19.35%) Mac OS
3 6 (19.35%) Windows Server
4 1 (3.23%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 19 (61.29%) Containerisation
2 15 (48.39%) CI/CD
3 14 (45.16%) Agile
4 13 (41.94%) Infrastructure as Code
5 12 (38.71%) DevOps
6 10 (32.26%) Mentoring
7 9 (29.03%) Coaching
7 9 (29.03%) Migration
7 9 (29.03%) Software Engineering
8 8 (25.81%) Business Intelligence
8 8 (25.81%) Collaborative Culture
9 7 (22.58%) Digital Marketing
9 7 (22.58%) ITIL
9 7 (22.58%) Programme Management
10 6 (19.35%) AI
10 6 (19.35%) Disaster Recovery
10 6 (19.35%) IT Strategy
10 6 (19.35%) Remote Monitoring and Management
10 6 (19.35%) Server Building
10 6 (19.35%) Server Management
Programming Languages
1 15 (48.39%) Python
2 11 (35.48%) PowerShell
3 9 (29.03%) SQL
4 5 (16.13%) Java
5 4 (12.90%) Bash
5 4 (12.90%) C#
6 3 (9.68%) Bicep
6 3 (9.68%) Go
6 3 (9.68%) Shell Script
6 3 (9.68%) TypeScript
7 1 (3.23%) JavaScript
7 1 (3.23%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 10 (32.26%) Security Cleared
2 9 (29.03%) SC Cleared
3 6 (19.35%) ACMT
3 6 (19.35%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
4 5 (16.13%) DV Cleared
5 4 (12.90%) Azure Certification
6 1 (3.23%) AWS Certification
6 1 (3.23%) Computer Science Degree
6 1 (3.23%) Degree
6 1 (3.23%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 6 (19.35%) Cyber Essentials
2 1 (3.23%) Data Quality
2 1 (3.23%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 23 (74.19%) Docker
2 6 (19.35%) Hyper-V
2 6 (19.35%) VMware ESXi
2 6 (19.35%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 11 (35.48%) Terraform
2 7 (22.58%) Ansible
3 6 (19.35%) Autotask
3 6 (19.35%) Microsoft Intune
3 6 (19.35%) vCenter Server
4 4 (12.90%) Grafana
5 3 (9.68%) Docker Swarm
5 3 (9.68%) Progress Chef
5 3 (9.68%) Prometheus
6 2 (6.45%) Puppet
Vendors
1 8 (25.81%) Microsoft
1 8 (25.81%) Oracle
2 7 (22.58%) SAP
3 6 (19.35%) Apple
3 6 (19.35%) Cisco
3 6 (19.35%) Datto
3 6 (19.35%) Sophos
3 6 (19.35%) Veeam
3 6 (19.35%) VMware
4 1 (3.23%) Databricks
4 1 (3.23%) Google
4 1 (3.23%) Red Hat