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 23 January 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
23 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 66 38 19
Rank change year-on-year -28 -19 +3
Permanent jobs citing Kubernetes 28 72 196
As % of all permanent jobs in Bristol 1.29% 5.30% 9.50%
As % of the Systems Management category 38.89% 53.33% 64.05%
Number of salaries quoted 25 54 191
10th Percentile £39,750 £55,375 £46,250
25th Percentile £61,250 £63,750 £55,610
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £75,000 £77,500 £70,000
Median % change year-on-year -3.23% +10.71% +16.67%
75th Percentile £83,750 £87,500 £82,500
90th Percentile £95,750 £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 72 135 306
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Bristol 3.32% 9.94% 14.83%
Number of salaries quoted 66 93 276
10th Percentile £36,500 £38,516 £37,500
25th Percentile £42,500 £51,250 £46,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £71,991 £62,500
Median % change year-on-year -23.60% +15.19% +4.17%
75th Percentile £77,500 £85,000 £80,000
90th Percentile £89,375 £91,000 £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 23 January 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 3 (10.71%) IIS
2 1 (3.57%) Apache
2 1 (3.57%) Apache Airflow
2 1 (3.57%) Apache Spark
2 1 (3.57%) Apache Superset
2 1 (3.57%) JBoss
Cloud Services
1 21 (75.00%) Azure
2 17 (60.71%) AWS
3 10 (35.71%) GCP
4 7 (25.00%) GitHub
5 6 (21.43%) GitHub Actions
6 4 (14.29%) Datadog
6 4 (14.29%) Serverless
7 3 (10.71%) Amazon S3
7 3 (10.71%) AWS Lambda
7 3 (10.71%) Azure DevOps
7 3 (10.71%) Microsoft 365
8 2 (7.14%) Amazon EC2
8 2 (7.14%) OpenShift
9 1 (3.57%) AWS CloudFormation
9 1 (3.57%) Azure Cosmos DB
9 1 (3.57%) Cloud Run
9 1 (3.57%) Google Kubernetes Engine
9 1 (3.57%) Power Platform
9 1 (3.57%) Virtual Private Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 4 (14.29%) Firewall
2 3 (10.71%) Cisco IOS
2 3 (10.71%) DHCP
2 3 (10.71%) DNS
2 3 (10.71%) IPsec
2 3 (10.71%) VLAN
2 3 (10.71%) VoIP
2 3 (10.71%) VPN
2 3 (10.71%) Wireless
3 2 (7.14%) AMQP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (17.86%) Amazon RDS
2 4 (14.29%) Relational Database
2 4 (14.29%) SQL Server
3 2 (7.14%) InfluxDB
3 2 (7.14%) PostgreSQL
4 1 (3.57%) DB2
4 1 (3.57%) Geospatial Data
4 1 (3.57%) GIS
4 1 (3.57%) Metadata
4 1 (3.57%) NoSQL
4 1 (3.57%) Power BI
4 1 (3.57%) Spark SQL
4 1 (3.57%) SQL Server Integration Services
4 1 (3.57%) SQL Server Reporting Services
Development Applications
1 8 (28.57%) Jenkins
2 4 (14.29%) CircleCI
3 1 (3.57%) Atlassian Bamboo
3 1 (3.57%) Git
General
1 13 (46.43%) Social Skills
2 8 (28.57%) Finance
3 7 (25.00%) Public Sector
4 5 (17.86%) Electronics
4 5 (17.86%) Manufacturing
4 5 (17.86%) Marketing
4 5 (17.86%) Telecoms
5 2 (7.14%) Retail
6 1 (3.57%) Analytical Skills
6 1 (3.57%) Games
6 1 (3.57%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 1 (3.57%) Military
6 1 (3.57%) Tech for Good
Job Titles
1 11 (39.29%) Senior
2 6 (21.43%) Developer
3 4 (14.29%) DevSecOps Engineer
4 3 (10.71%) 2nd Line Engineer
4 3 (10.71%) 2nd Line Support
4 3 (10.71%) 2nd Line Support Engineer
4 3 (10.71%) 2nd/3rd Line Support
4 3 (10.71%) 2nd/3rd Line Support Engineer
4 3 (10.71%) 3rd Line Engineer
4 3 (10.71%) 3rd Line Support
4 3 (10.71%) Architect
4 3 (10.71%) DevOps Engineer
4 3 (10.71%) IT Engineer
4 3 (10.71%) IT Support
4 3 (10.71%) IT Support Engineer
4 3 (10.71%) Microsoft 365 Engineer
4 3 (10.71%) Senior IT Engineer
4 3 (10.71%) Senior IT Support
4 3 (10.71%) Senior Support Engineer
4 3 (10.71%) Support Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (14.29%) React
2 3 (10.71%) .NET
2 3 (10.71%) .NET Core
2 3 (10.71%) RabbitMQ
3 2 (7.14%) Kafka
3 2 (7.14%) Spring
3 2 (7.14%) Spring Boot
4 1 (3.57%) ActiveMQ
4 1 (3.57%) AngularJS
4 1 (3.57%) D3.js
4 1 (3.57%) Keycloak
4 1 (3.57%) OAuth2
4 1 (3.57%) PrimeNG
4 1 (3.57%) PySpark
4 1 (3.57%) PyTorch
4 1 (3.57%) Redux
4 1 (3.57%) REST
4 1 (3.57%) RxJS
4 1 (3.57%) scikit-learn
4 1 (3.57%) TensorFlow
Miscellaneous
1 4 (14.29%) Cloud Native
2 3 (10.71%) Clustering
3 2 (7.14%) Linux Command Line
3 2 (7.14%) Management Information System
4 1 (3.57%) Data Fabric
4 1 (3.57%) Legacy Systems
4 1 (3.57%) Product Ownership
Operating Systems
1 9 (32.14%) Linux
2 4 (14.29%) Windows
3 3 (10.71%) Mac OS
3 3 (10.71%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 17 (60.71%) CI/CD
1 17 (60.71%) Containerisation
2 14 (50.00%) Agile
2 14 (50.00%) DevOps
3 12 (42.86%) Infrastructure as Code
4 8 (28.57%) Software Engineering
5 7 (25.00%) Mentoring
6 6 (21.43%) Business Intelligence
6 6 (21.43%) Coaching
6 6 (21.43%) Continuous Improvement
6 6 (21.43%) Problem-Solving
7 5 (17.86%) AI
7 5 (17.86%) Cloud Security
7 5 (17.86%) DevSecOps
7 5 (17.86%) Digital Marketing
7 5 (17.86%) Full-Stack Development
7 5 (17.86%) Migration
7 5 (17.86%) Programme Management
7 5 (17.86%) Test Automation
8 4 (14.29%) Collaborative Culture
Programming Languages
1 18 (64.29%) Python
2 10 (35.71%) PowerShell
3 6 (21.43%) Bash
3 6 (21.43%) SQL
4 5 (17.86%) Java
5 4 (14.29%) TypeScript
6 3 (10.71%) Bicep
6 3 (10.71%) C#
7 2 (7.14%) Go
7 2 (7.14%) JavaScript
7 2 (7.14%) Shell Script
8 1 (3.57%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 9 (32.14%) Security Cleared
2 8 (28.57%) SC Cleared
3 4 (14.29%) DV Cleared
4 3 (10.71%) ACMT
4 3 (10.71%) Azure Certification
4 3 (10.71%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
5 1 (3.57%) AWS Certification
5 1 (3.57%) Computer Science Degree
5 1 (3.57%) Degree
5 1 (3.57%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (10.71%) Cyber Essentials
2 1 (3.57%) Data Quality
System Software
1 22 (78.57%) Docker
2 3 (10.71%) Hyper-V
2 3 (10.71%) VMware ESXi
2 3 (10.71%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 12 (42.86%) Terraform
2 8 (28.57%) Ansible
3 6 (21.43%) Grafana
4 3 (10.71%) Autotask
4 3 (10.71%) Microsoft Intune
4 3 (10.71%) vCenter Server
5 2 (7.14%) Docker Swarm
5 2 (7.14%) Progress Chef
5 2 (7.14%) Prometheus
5 2 (7.14%) Puppet
6 1 (3.57%) Istio
Vendors
1 5 (17.86%) SAP
2 4 (14.29%) Microsoft
2 4 (14.29%) Oracle
3 3 (10.71%) Apple
3 3 (10.71%) Cisco
3 3 (10.71%) Datto
3 3 (10.71%) Sophos
3 3 (10.71%) Veeam
3 3 (10.71%) VMware
4 2 (7.14%) Google
5 1 (3.57%) Databricks
5 1 (3.57%) Red Hat