Kubernetes Jobs in Bristol

Kubernetes (k8s)
South West > Bristol

The table below provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in Bristol requiring Kubernetes skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the annual salaries offered in vacancies that cited Kubernetes over the 6 months leading up to 2 July 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
2 Jul 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 45 43 23
Rank change year-on-year -2 -20 +5
Permanent jobs citing Kubernetes 51 154 245
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Bristol 4.23% 4.41% 10.21%
As % of the Systems Management category 53.13% 54.04% 68.44%
Number of salaries quoted 38 141 177
10th Percentile £46,936 £52,500 £48,091
25th Percentile £62,500 £63,750 £56,219
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £73,496 £80,000 £69,447
Median % change year-on-year -8.13% +15.20% -0.79%
75th Percentile £98,474 £87,500 £83,750
90th Percentile £106,187 £98,474 £93,500
South West median annual salary £71,991 £72,500 £68,823
% change year-on-year -0.70% +5.34% +2.19%

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 96 285 358
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Bristol 7.97% 8.17% 14.92%
Number of salaries quoted 70 247 246
10th Percentile £42,500 £36,250 £34,375
25th Percentile £47,798 £49,375 £48,091
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £62,500 £67,500 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year -7.41% +3.85% -3.60%
75th Percentile £77,500 £87,500 £81,250
90th Percentile £102,410 £90,774 £92,035
South West median annual salary £52,500 £52,500 £57,500
% change year-on-year - -8.70% +4.55%

Kubernetes
Job Vacancy Trend in Bristol

Job postings citing Kubernetes as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in Bristol.

Job vacancy trend for Kubernetes in Bristol

Kubernetes
Salary Trend in Bristol

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing Kubernetes in Bristol.

Salary trend for Kubernetes in Bristol

Kubernetes
Salary Histogram in Bristol

Salary distribution for jobs citing Kubernetes in Bristol over the 6 months to 2 July 2025.

Salary histogram for Kubernetes in Bristol

Kubernetes
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Bristol by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same employment type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Application Platforms
1 5 (9.80%) OpenStack
2 1 (1.96%) Apache Airflow
2 1 (1.96%) CMS
2 1 (1.96%) IIS
Cloud Services
1 31 (60.78%) Azure
2 30 (58.82%) AWS
3 21 (41.18%) GCP
4 5 (9.80%) Azure DevOps
4 5 (9.80%) Power Platform
5 4 (7.84%) Amazon EKS
5 4 (7.84%) Serverless
6 3 (5.88%) Azure Monitor
7 2 (3.92%) Apigee
7 2 (3.92%) Azure AKS
7 2 (3.92%) Azure Cosmos DB
7 2 (3.92%) Google Kubernetes Engine
7 2 (3.92%) Pulumi
7 2 (3.92%) Stackdriver
8 1 (1.96%) AWS CloudFormation
8 1 (1.96%) Azure Functions
8 1 (1.96%) Dagster
8 1 (1.96%) Datadog
8 1 (1.96%) GitHub Actions
8 1 (1.96%) OCI
Communications & Networking
1 3 (5.88%) Firewall
2 2 (3.92%) Reverse Proxy
2 2 (3.92%) VPN
3 1 (1.96%) Broadband
3 1 (1.96%) Cisco IOS
3 1 (1.96%) DHCP
3 1 (1.96%) DNS
3 1 (1.96%) IPsec
3 1 (1.96%) VLAN
3 1 (1.96%) VoIP
3 1 (1.96%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 7 (13.73%) Big Data
1 7 (13.73%) NoSQL
2 6 (11.76%) MongoDB
3 5 (9.80%) BigQuery
3 5 (9.80%) Data Hub
3 5 (9.80%) Data Warehouse
3 5 (9.80%) Looker
3 5 (9.80%) PostgreSQL
3 5 (9.80%) Power BI
3 5 (9.80%) Tableau
4 4 (7.84%) SQL Server
5 3 (5.88%) Relational Database
6 2 (3.92%) MySQL
7 1 (1.96%) Amazon RDS
7 1 (1.96%) Oracle Exadata
7 1 (1.96%) RDBMS
7 1 (1.96%) Redis
Development Applications
1 15 (29.41%) Jenkins
2 7 (13.73%) Git
3 5 (9.80%) GitLab
4 4 (7.84%) IBM UrbanCode
5 2 (3.92%) Fiddler
5 2 (3.92%) JUnit
5 2 (3.92%) Maven
5 2 (3.92%) Postman
5 2 (3.92%) SonarQube
5 2 (3.92%) Sonatype Nexus
5 2 (3.92%) TeamCity
5 2 (3.92%) Visual Studio
6 1 (1.96%) Jaeger
6 1 (1.96%) Octopus Deploy
General
1 23 (45.10%) Finance
2 18 (35.29%) Banking
3 8 (15.69%) Social Skills
4 5 (9.80%) Analytical Skills
5 2 (3.92%) Electronics
5 2 (3.92%) Manufacturing
5 2 (3.92%) Marketing
5 2 (3.92%) Presentation Skills
5 2 (3.92%) Public Sector
5 2 (3.92%) Telecoms
6 1 (1.96%) Games
6 1 (1.96%) Health Technology
6 1 (1.96%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 1 (1.96%) Military
Job Titles
1 14 (27.45%) Software Engineer
2 13 (25.49%) Lead
3 10 (19.61%) Senior
4 9 (17.65%) DevOps Engineer
5 6 (11.76%) Developer
6 5 (9.80%) Data Engineer
6 5 (9.80%) Lead Data Engineer
6 5 (9.80%) Provisioning Engineer
6 5 (9.80%) Senior Software Engineer
7 4 (7.84%) Analyst
7 4 (7.84%) Automation Engineer
7 4 (7.84%) Cloud Engineer
7 4 (7.84%) DevOps Automation Engineer
7 4 (7.84%) Quality Engineer
8 3 (5.88%) Disaster Recovery Analyst
8 3 (5.88%) Senior Cloud Engineer
8 3 (5.88%) Senior Systems Engineer
8 3 (5.88%) Site Reliability Engineer
8 3 (5.88%) Systems Engineer
9 2 (3.92%) Identity Management Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 7 (13.73%) REST
2 6 (11.76%) .NET
2 6 (11.76%) RESTful
2 6 (11.76%) Spring
2 6 (11.76%) Spring Boot
3 4 (7.84%) .NET Core
3 4 (7.84%) JSON
3 4 (7.84%) Kafka
3 4 (7.84%) React
4 3 (5.88%) .NET Framework
4 3 (5.88%) Elastic Stack
4 3 (5.88%) Entity Framework
4 3 (5.88%) JPA
4 3 (5.88%) OpenCL
4 3 (5.88%) PySpark
5 2 (3.92%) ASP.NET MVC
5 2 (3.92%) HTML
5 2 (3.92%) jQuery
5 2 (3.92%) OAuth
5 2 (3.92%) OpenID
Miscellaneous
1 5 (9.80%) Data Centre
1 5 (9.80%) Public Cloud
2 4 (7.84%) Reinsurance
3 3 (5.88%) Cloud Native
3 3 (5.88%) CUDA
3 3 (5.88%) Device Driver
3 3 (5.88%) Distributed Systems
3 3 (5.88%) PCIe
4 2 (3.92%) Analytical Mindset
4 2 (3.92%) Data Structures
4 2 (3.92%) PKI
4 2 (3.92%) Private Cloud
4 2 (3.92%) Reference Data
4 2 (3.92%) Replication
5 1 (1.96%) Clustering
5 1 (1.96%) Hybrid Cloud
5 1 (1.96%) Legacy Systems
5 1 (1.96%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 11 (21.57%) Linux
2 6 (11.76%) Windows
3 3 (5.88%) Unix
4 1 (1.96%) Mac OS
4 1 (1.96%) VMS
4 1 (1.96%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 29 (56.86%) DevOps
2 27 (52.94%) CI/CD
2 27 (52.94%) Mentoring
3 22 (43.14%) Software Engineering
4 20 (39.22%) Containerisation
5 18 (35.29%) Agile
6 14 (27.45%) Infrastructure as Code
7 13 (25.49%) Test Automation
8 11 (21.57%) Microservices
9 9 (17.65%) Coaching
9 9 (17.65%) Data Engineering
9 9 (17.65%) Problem-Solving
10 7 (13.73%) Business Intelligence
10 7 (13.73%) Site Reliability Engineering
10 7 (13.73%) Validation
11 6 (11.76%) Artificial Intelligence
11 6 (11.76%) Benchmarking
11 6 (11.76%) Event-Driven
11 6 (11.76%) Full-Stack Development
11 6 (11.76%) Software Delivery
Programming Languages
1 15 (29.41%) Java
1 15 (29.41%) Python
2 14 (27.45%) SQL
3 8 (15.69%) Bash
4 7 (13.73%) JavaScript
5 5 (9.80%) Go
6 4 (7.84%) C#
6 4 (7.84%) PowerShell
7 3 (5.88%) C
7 3 (5.88%) C++
7 3 (5.88%) TypeScript
8 1 (1.96%) PHP
Qualifications
1 3 (5.88%) AWS Certification
1 3 (5.88%) Security Cleared
2 2 (3.92%) DV Cleared
2 2 (3.92%) SC Cleared
3 1 (1.96%) ACMT
3 1 (1.96%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
3 1 (1.96%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
3 1 (1.96%) Azure Certification
3 1 (1.96%) MCSA
3 1 (1.96%) MCSE
3 1 (1.96%) Microsoft Certification
3 1 (1.96%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (3.92%) NIST
1 2 (3.92%) PCI DSS
2 1 (1.96%) Cyber Essentials
2 1 (1.96%) GDPR
2 1 (1.96%) HIPAA
System Software
1 33 (64.71%) Docker
2 3 (5.88%) Firmware
3 1 (1.96%) Hyper-V
3 1 (1.96%) VMware ESXi
3 1 (1.96%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 20 (39.22%) Terraform
2 6 (11.76%) Argo
3 3 (5.88%) Ansible
4 2 (3.92%) Graylog
4 2 (3.92%) Istio
4 2 (3.92%) Podman
4 2 (3.92%) Single Sign-On
5 1 (1.96%) Autotask
5 1 (1.96%) Kustomize
5 1 (1.96%) Microsoft Intune
5 1 (1.96%) Prometheus
5 1 (1.96%) vCenter Server
Vendors
1 11 (21.57%) Google
2 5 (9.80%) Graphcore
3 4 (7.84%) Databricks
3 4 (7.84%) Oracle
4 2 (3.92%) Dynatrace
4 2 (3.92%) Microsoft
4 2 (3.92%) SAP
4 2 (3.92%) Splunk
5 1 (1.96%) Apple
5 1 (1.96%) Cisco
5 1 (1.96%) Datto
5 1 (1.96%) Extreme Networks
5 1 (1.96%) Sophos
5 1 (1.96%) Veeam
5 1 (1.96%) VMware