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

6 months to
7 Feb 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 74 41 22
Rank change year-on-year -33 -19 +4
Permanent jobs citing Kubernetes 23 69 194
As % of all permanent jobs in Bristol 1.01% 5.37% 7.98%
As % of the Systems Management category 36.51% 53.49% 62.38%
Number of salaries quoted 20 51 190
10th Percentile £52,500 £51,698 £45,000
25th Percentile £61,250 £63,750 £56,219
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £75,000 £76,500 £70,288
Median % change year-on-year -1.96% +8.84% +17.15%
75th Percentile £78,125 £87,500 £83,980
90th Percentile £82,625 £93,778 £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 63 129 311
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Bristol 2.77% 10.04% 12.80%
Number of salaries quoted 57 87 279
10th Percentile £36,750 £46,250 £37,009
25th Percentile £46,250 £51,375 £46,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £71,991 £62,500
Median % change year-on-year -23.60% +15.19% +5.00%
75th Percentile £77,500 £83,125 £80,000
90th Percentile £82,500 £90,500 £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 7 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 (4.35%) IIS
1 1 (4.35%) JBoss
Cloud Services
1 17 (73.91%) Azure
2 15 (65.22%) AWS
3 11 (47.83%) GCP
4 7 (30.43%) GitHub
5 6 (26.09%) Datadog
5 6 (26.09%) GitHub Actions
6 2 (8.70%) Serverless
7 1 (4.35%) Amazon S3
7 1 (4.35%) AWS CloudFormation
7 1 (4.35%) AWS Lambda
7 1 (4.35%) Azure AKS
7 1 (4.35%) Azure Cosmos DB
7 1 (4.35%) Azure DevOps
7 1 (4.35%) Cloud Run
7 1 (4.35%) Google Kubernetes Engine
7 1 (4.35%) Microsoft 365
7 1 (4.35%) SaaS
7 1 (4.35%) Virtual Private Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 2 (8.70%) Firewall
2 1 (4.35%) Cisco IOS
2 1 (4.35%) DHCP
2 1 (4.35%) DNS
2 1 (4.35%) IPsec
2 1 (4.35%) VLAN
2 1 (4.35%) VoIP
2 1 (4.35%) VPN
2 1 (4.35%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (8.70%) PostgreSQL
1 2 (8.70%) Relational Database
1 2 (8.70%) SQL Server
2 1 (4.35%) Amazon RDS
2 1 (4.35%) DB2
2 1 (4.35%) Geospatial Data
2 1 (4.35%) GIS
2 1 (4.35%) NoSQL
Development Applications
1 8 (34.78%) Jenkins
2 6 (26.09%) CircleCI
3 1 (4.35%) Atlassian Bamboo
3 1 (4.35%) Git
General
1 12 (52.17%) Social Skills
2 4 (17.39%) Finance
2 4 (17.39%) Public Sector
3 3 (13.04%) Electronics
3 3 (13.04%) Manufacturing
3 3 (13.04%) Marketing
3 3 (13.04%) Telecoms
4 2 (8.70%) Retail
5 1 (4.35%) Games
5 1 (4.35%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 1 (4.35%) Military
5 1 (4.35%) Tech for Good
Job Titles
1 12 (52.17%) Senior
2 6 (26.09%) Developer
2 6 (26.09%) DevSecOps Engineer
3 3 (13.04%) Architect
4 2 (8.70%) .NET Developer
4 2 (8.70%) Full-Stack Developer
4 2 (8.70%) Full-Stack Python Developer
4 2 (8.70%) Lead
4 2 (8.70%) Python Developer
4 2 (8.70%) Senior .NET Developer
4 2 (8.70%) Senior Developer
4 2 (8.70%) Senior Software Engineer
4 2 (8.70%) Software Engineer
5 1 (4.35%) 2nd Line Engineer
5 1 (4.35%) 2nd/3rd Line Support
5 1 (4.35%) 3rd Line Engineer
5 1 (4.35%) IT Engineer
5 1 (4.35%) Machine Learning Engineer
5 1 (4.35%) Senior .NET Software Developer
5 1 (4.35%) Senior IT Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (17.39%) .NET
1 4 (17.39%) .NET Core
1 4 (17.39%) React
2 2 (8.70%) REST
2 2 (8.70%) Spring
2 2 (8.70%) Spring Boot
3 1 (4.35%) AngularJS
3 1 (4.35%) Dapper ORM
3 1 (4.35%) Entity Framework
3 1 (4.35%) FastAPI
3 1 (4.35%) Keycloak
3 1 (4.35%) OAuth2
3 1 (4.35%) OpenAPI
3 1 (4.35%) PrimeNG
3 1 (4.35%) PyTorch
3 1 (4.35%) RabbitMQ
3 1 (4.35%) Redux
3 1 (4.35%) RxJS
3 1 (4.35%) scikit-learn
3 1 (4.35%) TensorFlow
Miscellaneous
1 4 (17.39%) Cloud Native
2 2 (8.70%) Management Information System
3 1 (4.35%) Clustering
3 1 (4.35%) Legacy Systems
3 1 (4.35%) Product Ownership
Operating Systems
1 7 (30.43%) Linux
2 2 (8.70%) Windows
3 1 (4.35%) Mac OS
3 1 (4.35%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 16 (69.57%) Agile
2 13 (56.52%) CI/CD
2 13 (56.52%) Containerisation
3 11 (47.83%) DevOps
4 10 (43.48%) Infrastructure as Code
5 8 (34.78%) Continuous Improvement
5 8 (34.78%) Problem-Solving
5 8 (34.78%) Software Engineering
6 7 (30.43%) Cloud Security
6 7 (30.43%) Test Automation
7 6 (26.09%) DevSecOps
7 6 (26.09%) Incident Response
7 6 (26.09%) Security Operations
7 6 (26.09%) Security Testing
7 6 (26.09%) SIEM
7 6 (26.09%) Threat Detection
8 5 (21.74%) Full-Stack Development
8 5 (21.74%) Mentoring
9 4 (17.39%) AI
9 4 (17.39%) Coaching
Programming Languages
1 15 (65.22%) Python
2 8 (34.78%) Bash
2 8 (34.78%) PowerShell
3 4 (17.39%) C#
3 4 (17.39%) SQL
3 4 (17.39%) TypeScript
4 3 (13.04%) Java
5 2 (8.70%) JavaScript
6 1 (4.35%) Bicep
Qualifications
1 5 (21.74%) SC Cleared
1 5 (21.74%) Security Cleared
2 1 (4.35%) ACMT
2 1 (4.35%) AWS Certification
2 1 (4.35%) Azure Certification
2 1 (4.35%) Computer Science Degree
2 1 (4.35%) Degree
2 1 (4.35%) DV Cleared
2 1 (4.35%) TOGAF Certification
2 1 (4.35%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (4.35%) Cyber Essentials
System Software
1 17 (73.91%) Docker
2 1 (4.35%) Hyper-V
2 1 (4.35%) VMware ESXi
2 1 (4.35%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 9 (39.13%) Terraform
2 7 (30.43%) Ansible
3 6 (26.09%) Grafana
4 1 (4.35%) Autotask
4 1 (4.35%) Istio
4 1 (4.35%) Microsoft Intune
4 1 (4.35%) Puppet
4 1 (4.35%) vCenter Server
Vendors
1 3 (13.04%) SAP
2 2 (8.70%) Google
3 1 (4.35%) Apple
3 1 (4.35%) Cisco
3 1 (4.35%) Datto
3 1 (4.35%) Microsoft
3 1 (4.35%) Oracle
3 1 (4.35%) Red Hat
3 1 (4.35%) Sophos
3 1 (4.35%) Veeam
3 1 (4.35%) VMware