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 5 November 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
5 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 49 35 17
Rank change year-on-year -14 -18 +15
Permanent jobs citing Kubernetes 33 101 190
As % of all permanent jobs in Bristol 2.47% 4.91% 11.79%
As % of the Systems Management category 44.59% 50.00% 65.97%
Number of salaries quoted 31 83 186
10th Percentile £36,250 £56,250 £46,250
25th Percentile £44,375 £68,125 £55,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £75,000 £75,000 £69,447
Median % change year-on-year - +8.00% +6.84%
75th Percentile £85,000 £87,500 £83,450
90th Percentile £96,250 £93,750 £91,934
South West median annual salary £65,000 £72,500 £65,000
% change year-on-year -10.34% +11.54% +1.63%

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 74 202 288
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Bristol 5.54% 9.81% 17.88%
Number of salaries quoted 69 148 265
10th Percentile £35,000 £30,609 £41,250
25th Percentile £40,000 £50,000 £46,306
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £52,500 £68,750 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year -23.64% +5.77% +1.63%
75th Percentile £75,000 £85,000 £82,548
90th Percentile £88,250 £92,500 £91,934
South West median annual salary £48,500 £60,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year -19.17% +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 5 November 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 (18.18%) IIS
2 1 (3.03%) Apache
2 1 (3.03%) Apache Airflow
2 1 (3.03%) Apache Spark
2 1 (3.03%) Apache Superset
2 1 (3.03%) JBoss
Cloud Services
1 25 (75.76%) Azure
2 18 (54.55%) AWS
3 7 (21.21%) Serverless
4 6 (18.18%) GCP
4 6 (18.18%) Microsoft 365
5 4 (12.12%) Amazon S3
5 4 (12.12%) AWS Lambda
5 4 (12.12%) Azure DevOps
6 3 (9.09%) Amazon EC2
6 3 (9.09%) Azure Cosmos DB
6 3 (9.09%) GitHub
6 3 (9.09%) GitHub Actions
6 3 (9.09%) OpenShift
7 2 (6.06%) Azure AKS
8 1 (3.03%) Amazon EKS
8 1 (3.03%) Azure Functions
8 1 (3.03%) Azure Monitor
8 1 (3.03%) Cloud Run
8 1 (3.03%) Datadog
8 1 (3.03%) Power Platform
Communications & Networking
1 9 (27.27%) Firewall
2 6 (18.18%) Cisco IOS
2 6 (18.18%) DHCP
2 6 (18.18%) DNS
2 6 (18.18%) IPsec
2 6 (18.18%) VLAN
2 6 (18.18%) VoIP
2 6 (18.18%) VPN
2 6 (18.18%) Wireless
3 3 (9.09%) AMQP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 9 (27.27%) Amazon RDS
2 8 (24.24%) SQL Server
3 4 (12.12%) Relational Database
4 3 (9.09%) InfluxDB
4 3 (9.09%) PostgreSQL
5 2 (6.06%) MongoDB
5 2 (6.06%) NoSQL
6 1 (3.03%) DB2
6 1 (3.03%) Geospatial Data
6 1 (3.03%) GIS
6 1 (3.03%) Metadata
6 1 (3.03%) MySQL
6 1 (3.03%) Power BI
6 1 (3.03%) Redis
6 1 (3.03%) Spark SQL
6 1 (3.03%) SQL Server Integration Services
6 1 (3.03%) SQL Server Reporting Services
Development Applications
1 5 (15.15%) Jenkins
2 1 (3.03%) Atlassian Bamboo
2 1 (3.03%) Git
2 1 (3.03%) Octopus Deploy
General
1 12 (36.36%) Social Skills
2 10 (30.30%) Finance
3 8 (24.24%) Public Sector
4 6 (18.18%) Electronics
4 6 (18.18%) Manufacturing
4 6 (18.18%) Marketing
4 6 (18.18%) Telecoms
5 2 (6.06%) Retail
6 1 (3.03%) Analytical Skills
6 1 (3.03%) Games
6 1 (3.03%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 1 (3.03%) Military
6 1 (3.03%) Tech for Good
Job Titles
1 11 (33.33%) Senior
2 9 (27.27%) Developer
3 6 (18.18%) IT Engineer
3 6 (18.18%) IT Support
3 6 (18.18%) IT Support Engineer
3 6 (18.18%) Senior IT Engineer
3 6 (18.18%) Senior IT Support
3 6 (18.18%) Senior Support Engineer
3 6 (18.18%) Support Engineer
4 5 (15.15%) 2nd Line Engineer
4 5 (15.15%) 2nd Line Support
4 5 (15.15%) 2nd Line Support Engineer
4 5 (15.15%) 2nd/3rd Line Support
4 5 (15.15%) 2nd/3rd Line Support Engineer
4 5 (15.15%) 3rd Line Engineer
4 5 (15.15%) 3rd Line Support
4 5 (15.15%) 3rd Line Support Engineer
4 5 (15.15%) Microsoft 365 Engineer
5 4 (12.12%) DevOps Engineer
5 4 (12.12%) Site Reliability Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 7 (21.21%) .NET
2 5 (15.15%) .NET Core
3 4 (12.12%) RabbitMQ
3 4 (12.12%) React
4 3 (9.09%) Kafka
5 2 (6.06%) AngularJS
5 2 (6.06%) RESTful
5 2 (6.06%) Spring
5 2 (6.06%) Spring Boot
6 1 (3.03%) .NET Framework
6 1 (3.03%) ActiveMQ
6 1 (3.03%) EJB
6 1 (3.03%) Entity Framework
6 1 (3.03%) GraphQL
6 1 (3.03%) Node.js
6 1 (3.03%) Redux
6 1 (3.03%) RxJS
6 1 (3.03%) scikit-learn
6 1 (3.03%) TensorFlow
6 1 (3.03%) Vue
Miscellaneous
1 6 (18.18%) Clustering
2 5 (15.15%) Cloud Native
3 3 (9.09%) Legacy Systems
3 3 (9.09%) Linux Command Line
4 1 (3.03%) Data Fabric
4 1 (3.03%) Distributed Systems
4 1 (3.03%) Hybrid Cloud
4 1 (3.03%) Management Information System
4 1 (3.03%) Product Ownership
4 1 (3.03%) Public Cloud
4 1 (3.03%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 11 (33.33%) Linux
2 9 (27.27%) Windows
3 6 (18.18%) Mac OS
3 6 (18.18%) Windows Server
4 1 (3.03%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 19 (57.58%) Containerisation
2 16 (48.48%) CI/CD
3 14 (42.42%) Agile
4 13 (39.39%) DevOps
4 13 (39.39%) Mentoring
5 12 (36.36%) Infrastructure as Code
6 9 (27.27%) Coaching
6 9 (27.27%) Migration
6 9 (27.27%) Software Engineering
7 8 (24.24%) Collaborative Culture
8 7 (21.21%) Business Intelligence
8 7 (21.21%) ITIL
9 6 (18.18%) AI
9 6 (18.18%) Digital Marketing
9 6 (18.18%) Disaster Recovery
9 6 (18.18%) IT Strategy
9 6 (18.18%) Programme Management
9 6 (18.18%) Remote Monitoring and Management
9 6 (18.18%) Server Building
9 6 (18.18%) Server Management
Programming Languages
1 14 (42.42%) Python
2 10 (30.30%) PowerShell
3 9 (27.27%) SQL
4 7 (21.21%) Java
5 5 (15.15%) C#
6 3 (9.09%) Go
6 3 (9.09%) Shell Script
6 3 (9.09%) TypeScript
7 2 (6.06%) Bash
7 2 (6.06%) Bicep
7 2 (6.06%) JavaScript
8 1 (3.03%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 10 (30.30%) Security Cleared
2 9 (27.27%) SC Cleared
3 6 (18.18%) ACMT
3 6 (18.18%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
4 4 (12.12%) Azure Certification
4 4 (12.12%) DV Cleared
5 3 (9.09%) AWS Certification
6 1 (3.03%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
6 1 (3.03%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
6 1 (3.03%) Computer Science Degree
6 1 (3.03%) Degree
6 1 (3.03%) MCSA
6 1 (3.03%) MCSE
6 1 (3.03%) Microsoft Certification
6 1 (3.03%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 6 (18.18%) Cyber Essentials
2 2 (6.06%) PCI DSS
3 1 (3.03%) Data Quality
3 1 (3.03%) GDPR
3 1 (3.03%) HIPAA
System Software
1 24 (72.73%) Docker
2 6 (18.18%) Hyper-V
2 6 (18.18%) VMware ESXi
2 6 (18.18%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 10 (30.30%) Terraform
2 6 (18.18%) Ansible
2 6 (18.18%) Autotask
2 6 (18.18%) Microsoft Intune
2 6 (18.18%) vCenter Server
3 3 (9.09%) Docker Swarm
3 3 (9.09%) Grafana
3 3 (9.09%) Progress Chef
3 3 (9.09%) Prometheus
4 2 (6.06%) Puppet
Vendors
1 9 (27.27%) Oracle
2 8 (24.24%) Microsoft
3 6 (18.18%) Apple
3 6 (18.18%) Cisco
3 6 (18.18%) Datto
3 6 (18.18%) SAP
3 6 (18.18%) Sophos
3 6 (18.18%) Veeam
3 6 (18.18%) VMware
4 1 (3.03%) Databricks
4 1 (3.03%) Extreme Networks
4 1 (3.03%) Google
4 1 (3.03%) Red Hat