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 vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 20 September 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
20 Sep 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 49 36 19
Rank change year-on-year -13 -17 +8
Permanent jobs citing Kubernetes 40 117 178
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Bristol 3.57% 4.83% 10.70%
As % of the Systems Management category 51.28% 51.54% 69.26%
Number of salaries quoted 36 99 170
10th Percentile £36,250 £53,500 £46,250
25th Percentile £50,625 £69,375 £55,680
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £67,500 £80,000 £68,474
Median % change year-on-year -15.63% +16.83% -2.18%
75th Percentile £82,751 £87,500 £83,450
90th Percentile £96,250 £93,750 £87,500
South West median annual salary £65,000 £75,000 £65,000
% change year-on-year -13.33% +15.38% -

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 78 227 257
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Bristol 6.96% 9.36% 15.44%
Number of salaries quoted 69 172 241
10th Percentile £36,250 £32,375 £45,000
25th Percentile £42,500 £51,250 £50,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,000 £71,250 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year -20.00% +9.62% -3.49%
75th Percentile £75,000 £87,500 £82,548
90th Percentile £85,250 £91,125 £87,500
South West median annual salary £51,058 £57,000 £57,500
% change year-on-year -10.42% -0.87% +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

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 20 September 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 6 (15.00%) IIS
2 1 (2.50%) Apache
2 1 (2.50%) Apache Airflow
2 1 (2.50%) Apache Spark
2 1 (2.50%) Apache Superset
Cloud Services
1 27 (67.50%) Azure
2 21 (52.50%) AWS
3 7 (17.50%) GCP
4 6 (15.00%) Microsoft 365
4 6 (15.00%) Serverless
5 4 (10.00%) Azure DevOps
6 3 (7.50%) Amazon EC2
6 3 (7.50%) Amazon EKS
6 3 (7.50%) Amazon S3
6 3 (7.50%) AWS Lambda
6 3 (7.50%) Azure Cosmos DB
6 3 (7.50%) GitHub
6 3 (7.50%) GitHub Actions
6 3 (7.50%) OpenShift
7 2 (5.00%) Apigee
7 2 (5.00%) Azure AKS
7 2 (5.00%) Google Kubernetes Engine
8 1 (2.50%) Azure Monitor
8 1 (2.50%) Cloud Run
8 1 (2.50%) Datadog
Communications & Networking
1 8 (20.00%) Firewall
2 6 (15.00%) Cisco IOS
2 6 (15.00%) DHCP
2 6 (15.00%) DNS
2 6 (15.00%) IPsec
2 6 (15.00%) VLAN
2 6 (15.00%) VoIP
2 6 (15.00%) VPN
2 6 (15.00%) Wireless
3 3 (7.50%) AMQP
4 2 (5.00%) Reverse Proxy
Database & Business Intelligence
1 9 (22.50%) Amazon RDS
2 8 (20.00%) SQL Server
3 4 (10.00%) NoSQL
4 3 (7.50%) InfluxDB
4 3 (7.50%) Relational Database
5 2 (5.00%) MongoDB
5 2 (5.00%) PostgreSQL
6 1 (2.50%) Metadata
6 1 (2.50%) MySQL
6 1 (2.50%) Power BI
6 1 (2.50%) Redis
6 1 (2.50%) Spark SQL
6 1 (2.50%) SQL Server Integration Services
6 1 (2.50%) SQL Server Reporting Services
Development Applications
1 9 (22.50%) Jenkins
2 3 (7.50%) Git
3 2 (5.00%) GitLab
3 2 (5.00%) JUnit
3 2 (5.00%) Maven
3 2 (5.00%) SonarQube
3 2 (5.00%) Sonatype Nexus
4 1 (2.50%) Atlassian Bamboo
4 1 (2.50%) Octopus Deploy
General
1 12 (30.00%) Social Skills
2 11 (27.50%) Finance
3 7 (17.50%) Public Sector
4 5 (12.50%) Electronics
4 5 (12.50%) Manufacturing
4 5 (12.50%) Marketing
4 5 (12.50%) Telecoms
5 3 (7.50%) Analytical Skills
6 2 (5.00%) Banking
6 2 (5.00%) Retail
7 1 (2.50%) Games
7 1 (2.50%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 1 (2.50%) Tech for Good
Job Titles
1 13 (32.50%) Senior
2 9 (22.50%) Developer
3 6 (15.00%) DevOps Engineer
3 6 (15.00%) IT Engineer
3 6 (15.00%) IT Support
3 6 (15.00%) IT Support Engineer
3 6 (15.00%) Senior IT Engineer
3 6 (15.00%) Senior IT Support
3 6 (15.00%) Senior Support Engineer
3 6 (15.00%) Support Engineer
4 5 (12.50%) 2nd Line Engineer
4 5 (12.50%) 2nd Line Support
4 5 (12.50%) 2nd Line Support Engineer
4 5 (12.50%) 2nd/3rd Line Support
4 5 (12.50%) 2nd/3rd Line Support Engineer
4 5 (12.50%) 3rd Line Engineer
4 5 (12.50%) 3rd Line Support
4 5 (12.50%) 3rd Line Support Engineer
4 5 (12.50%) Microsoft 365 Engineer
4 5 (12.50%) Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 7 (17.50%) .NET
2 5 (12.50%) .NET Core
3 4 (10.00%) RabbitMQ
3 4 (10.00%) React
3 4 (10.00%) RESTful
4 3 (7.50%) Kafka
4 3 (7.50%) REST
4 3 (7.50%) Spring
4 3 (7.50%) Spring Boot
5 2 (5.00%) AngularJS
5 2 (5.00%) Hibernate
5 2 (5.00%) JSON
5 2 (5.00%) JWT
5 2 (5.00%) Keycloak
5 2 (5.00%) LDAP
5 2 (5.00%) OAuth
5 2 (5.00%) OAuth2
5 2 (5.00%) OpenID
5 2 (5.00%) SAML
5 2 (5.00%) SOAP
Miscellaneous
1 6 (15.00%) Clustering
2 5 (12.50%) Cloud Native
3 3 (7.50%) Linux Command Line
4 2 (5.00%) Analytical Mindset
4 2 (5.00%) Legacy Systems
4 2 (5.00%) PKI
5 1 (2.50%) Data Fabric
5 1 (2.50%) Distributed Systems
5 1 (2.50%) Hybrid Cloud
5 1 (2.50%) Product Ownership
5 1 (2.50%) Public Cloud
5 1 (2.50%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 13 (32.50%) Linux
2 9 (22.50%) Windows
3 6 (15.00%) Mac OS
3 6 (15.00%) Windows Server
4 2 (5.00%) Unix
5 1 (2.50%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 20 (50.00%) CI/CD
2 18 (45.00%) Containerisation
3 17 (42.50%) DevOps
4 16 (40.00%) Infrastructure as Code
5 14 (35.00%) Agile
5 14 (35.00%) Mentoring
6 12 (30.00%) Software Engineering
7 11 (27.50%) Coaching
8 10 (25.00%) Disaster Recovery
9 9 (22.50%) Migration
10 8 (20.00%) Collaborative Culture
11 7 (17.50%) ITIL
12 6 (15.00%) Business Intelligence
12 6 (15.00%) Event-Driven
12 6 (15.00%) IT Strategy
12 6 (15.00%) Remote Monitoring and Management
12 6 (15.00%) Server Building
12 6 (15.00%) Server Management
13 5 (12.50%) Full-Stack Development
13 5 (12.50%) Microservices
Programming Languages
1 14 (35.00%) Python
2 13 (32.50%) SQL
3 10 (25.00%) Java
3 10 (25.00%) PowerShell
4 5 (12.50%) C#
4 5 (12.50%) Go
5 4 (10.00%) Bash
5 4 (10.00%) JavaScript
6 3 (7.50%) Shell Script
6 3 (7.50%) TypeScript
7 2 (5.00%) Bicep
8 1 (2.50%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 9 (22.50%) Security Cleared
2 8 (20.00%) SC Cleared
3 6 (15.00%) ACMT
3 6 (15.00%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
4 4 (10.00%) DV Cleared
5 3 (7.50%) Azure Certification
6 2 (5.00%) AWS Certification
7 1 (2.50%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
7 1 (2.50%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
7 1 (2.50%) MCSA
7 1 (2.50%) MCSE
7 1 (2.50%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 6 (15.00%) Cyber Essentials
2 2 (5.00%) NIST
2 2 (5.00%) PCI DSS
3 1 (2.50%) Data Quality
3 1 (2.50%) GDPR
3 1 (2.50%) HIPAA
System Software
1 26 (65.00%) Docker
2 6 (15.00%) Hyper-V
2 6 (15.00%) VMware ESXi
2 6 (15.00%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 14 (35.00%) Terraform
2 6 (15.00%) Ansible
2 6 (15.00%) Autotask
2 6 (15.00%) Microsoft Intune
2 6 (15.00%) vCenter Server
3 4 (10.00%) Argo
4 3 (7.50%) Docker Swarm
4 3 (7.50%) Grafana
4 3 (7.50%) Progress Chef
4 3 (7.50%) Prometheus
5 2 (5.00%) Graylog
5 2 (5.00%) Istio
5 2 (5.00%) Puppet
5 2 (5.00%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 9 (22.50%) Oracle
2 8 (20.00%) Microsoft
3 6 (15.00%) Apple
3 6 (15.00%) Cisco
3 6 (15.00%) Datto
3 6 (15.00%) Sophos
3 6 (15.00%) Veeam
3 6 (15.00%) VMware
4 5 (12.50%) SAP
5 2 (5.00%) Splunk
6 1 (2.50%) Databricks
6 1 (2.50%) Extreme Networks
6 1 (2.50%) Google
6 1 (2.50%) Red Hat