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 3 May 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
3 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 84 37 37
Rank change year-on-year -47 0 -18
Permanent jobs citing Kubernetes 23 54 163
As % of all permanent jobs in Bristol 0.80% 5.64% 5.58%
As % of the Systems Management category 35.38% 58.06% 58.21%
Number of salaries quoted 21 40 157
10th Percentile £52,500 £55,795 £50,000
25th Percentile £58,750 £65,000 £60,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £77,500 £78,000
Median % change year-on-year -16.13% -0.64% +13.33%
75th Percentile £77,500 £102,410 £87,500
90th Percentile - £115,000 £93,776
South West median annual salary £62,500 £71,991 £70,576
% change year-on-year -13.18% +2.01% +4.56%

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 65 93 280
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Bristol 2.27% 9.72% 9.59%
Number of salaries quoted 61 75 257
10th Percentile £42,500 £46,250 £38,750
25th Percentile £52,500 £51,698 £47,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £70,000 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year -7.14% +7.69% -
75th Percentile £77,500 £82,751 £85,000
90th Percentile £80,000 £102,410 £90,000
South West median annual salary £55,000 £57,000 £52,500
% change year-on-year -3.51% +8.57% -9.19%

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 3 May 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:

Cloud Services
1 14 (60.87%) GCP
2 11 (47.83%) Azure
3 9 (39.13%) AWS
4 8 (34.78%) GitHub
5 7 (30.43%) GitHub Actions
6 6 (26.09%) Datadog
7 2 (8.70%) Azure AKS
7 2 (8.70%) SaaS
7 2 (8.70%) Serverless
8 1 (4.35%) AWS CloudFormation
8 1 (4.35%) Google Kubernetes Engine
Communications & Networking
1 1 (4.35%) Internet
1 1 (4.35%) LAN
1 1 (4.35%) TCP/IP
1 1 (4.35%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 6 (26.09%) PostgreSQL
2 5 (21.74%) Relational Database
3 3 (13.04%) SQL Server
4 2 (8.70%) NoSQL
5 1 (4.35%) MongoDB
Development Applications
1 8 (34.78%) Jenkins
2 6 (26.09%) CircleCI
3 4 (17.39%) Git
General
1 15 (65.22%) Social Skills
2 5 (21.74%) Finance
3 2 (8.70%) Public Sector
3 2 (8.70%) Retail
4 1 (4.35%) Electronics
4 1 (4.35%) Manufacturing
4 1 (4.35%) Marketing
4 1 (4.35%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 10 (43.48%) Senior
2 6 (26.09%) DevSecOps Engineer
2 6 (26.09%) Software Engineer
3 5 (21.74%) Python Engineer
4 3 (13.04%) CUDA Engineer
4 3 (13.04%) Senior Software Engineer
5 2 (8.70%) .NET Software Engineer
5 2 (8.70%) Full-Stack Engineer
5 2 (8.70%) Senior .NET Software Engineer
6 1 (4.35%) Architect
6 1 (4.35%) Cloud Architect
6 1 (4.35%) Cloud Engineer
6 1 (4.35%) Cloud Infrastructure Architect
6 1 (4.35%) GCP Engineer
6 1 (4.35%) Infrastructure Architect
6 1 (4.35%) Infrastructure Engineer
6 1 (4.35%) JavaScript Engineer
6 1 (4.35%) Senior Cloud Engineer
6 1 (4.35%) Software Team Leader
6 1 (4.35%) Team Leader
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 8 (34.78%) Django
1 8 (34.78%) FastAPI
2 7 (30.43%) REST
3 5 (21.74%) .NET
4 4 (17.39%) .NET Core
4 4 (17.39%) Flask
5 3 (13.04%) React
5 3 (13.04%) SQLAlchemy
6 2 (8.70%) .NET Framework
6 2 (8.70%) AngularJS
6 2 (8.70%) Dapper ORM
6 2 (8.70%) Entity Framework
6 2 (8.70%) OAuth
6 2 (8.70%) RESTful
6 2 (8.70%) Vue
7 1 (4.35%) JWT
7 1 (4.35%) Kafka
7 1 (4.35%) Keycloak
7 1 (4.35%) OAuth2
7 1 (4.35%) Sass
Miscellaneous
1 6 (26.09%) Cloud Native
2 4 (17.39%) CUDA
3 1 (4.35%) Management Information System
Operating Systems
1 7 (30.43%) Linux
2 1 (4.35%) Ubuntu
2 1 (4.35%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 14 (60.87%) CI/CD
2 13 (56.52%) DevOps
2 13 (56.52%) Software Engineering
3 12 (52.17%) Infrastructure as Code
4 10 (43.48%) Agile
4 10 (43.48%) Containerisation
5 8 (34.78%) Continuous Improvement
5 8 (34.78%) Problem-Solving
6 7 (30.43%) Analytics
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%) Clean Code
8 5 (21.74%) Full-Stack Development
9 4 (17.39%) Event-Driven
Programming Languages
1 18 (78.26%) Python
2 8 (34.78%) SQL
3 7 (30.43%) Bash
4 6 (26.09%) PowerShell
5 5 (21.74%) C#
6 4 (17.39%) JavaScript
7 2 (8.70%) TypeScript
8 1 (4.35%) Bicep
8 1 (4.35%) Java
Qualifications
1 3 (13.04%) Computer Science Degree
1 3 (13.04%) Degree
2 1 (4.35%) DV Cleared
2 1 (4.35%) SC Cleared
2 1 (4.35%) Security Cleared
System Software
1 16 (69.57%) Docker
2 1 (4.35%) KVM
2 1 (4.35%) QEMU
2 1 (4.35%) VMware Infrastructure
2 1 (4.35%) Xen
Systems Management
1 13 (56.52%) Terraform
2 7 (30.43%) Ansible
3 6 (26.09%) Grafana
4 1 (4.35%) Istio
4 1 (4.35%) Puppet
Vendors
1 2 (8.70%) OpenAI
2 1 (4.35%) Google
2 1 (4.35%) Red Hat
2 1 (4.35%) SAP
2 1 (4.35%) VMware