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 13 October 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
13 Oct 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 93 53 28
Rank change year-on-year -40 -25 -8
Permanent jobs citing Kubernetes 33 34 117
As % of all permanent jobs in Bristol 0.99% 2.97% 5.39%
As % of the Systems Management category 30.00% 50.75% 60.31%
Number of salaries quoted 23 32 97
10th Percentile £52,600 £36,250 £55,750
25th Percentile £56,250 £44,688 £67,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £70,000 £67,500 £77,500
Median % change year-on-year +3.70% -12.90% +14.81%
75th Percentile £81,250 £82,813 £87,500
90th Percentile £85,000 £96,250 £93,750
South West median annual salary £67,500 £65,000 £72,500
% change year-on-year +3.85% -10.34% +11.54%

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 110 67 194
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Bristol 3.29% 5.86% 8.94%
Number of salaries quoted 91 60 151
10th Percentile £40,750 £36,250 £30,279
25th Percentile £47,500 £41,875 £51,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £56,250 £72,500
Median % change year-on-year +15.56% -22.41% +11.54%
75th Percentile £78,125 £75,000 £85,000
90th Percentile £85,000 £91,625 £91,250
South West median annual salary £60,000 £50,000 £57,500
% change year-on-year +20.00% -13.04% +2.68%

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 13 October 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 4 (12.12%) Apache Spark
2 3 (9.09%) Apache Airflow
3 1 (3.03%) Apache
Cloud Services
1 15 (45.45%) AWS
1 15 (45.45%) Azure
2 11 (33.33%) SaaS
3 7 (21.21%) GCP
4 5 (15.15%) AWS CloudFormation
5 3 (9.09%) GitHub
5 3 (9.09%) Slack
6 2 (6.06%) GitHub Actions
6 2 (6.06%) Serverless
7 1 (3.03%) Amazon EC2
7 1 (3.03%) Amazon S3
7 1 (3.03%) Cloud Run
7 1 (3.03%) Google Kubernetes Engine
7 1 (3.03%) OpenShift
7 1 (3.03%) PaaS
7 1 (3.03%) Vercel
7 1 (3.03%) Virtual Private Cloud
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (12.12%) NoSQL
1 4 (12.12%) PostgreSQL
2 3 (9.09%) Data Warehouse
3 2 (6.06%) Big Data
3 2 (6.06%) Hadoop
3 2 (6.06%) MongoDB
4 1 (3.03%) BigQuery
4 1 (3.03%) Chroma
4 1 (3.03%) Pinecone
4 1 (3.03%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 5 (15.15%) Jenkins
2 4 (12.12%) JIRA
3 3 (9.09%) Git
4 2 (6.06%) GitLab
5 1 (3.03%) Eclipse
5 1 (3.03%) Subversion
5 1 (3.03%) Vite
General
1 9 (27.27%) Social Skills
2 7 (21.21%) Finance
3 5 (15.15%) Public Sector
4 4 (12.12%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 3 (9.09%) Legal
6 2 (6.06%) Aerospace
6 2 (6.06%) Marketing
6 2 (6.06%) Retail
7 1 (3.03%) Analytical Skills
Job Titles
1 13 (39.39%) Senior
2 7 (21.21%) DevOps Engineer
2 7 (21.21%) Software Engineer
3 6 (18.18%) Senior DevOps
3 6 (18.18%) Senior DevOps Engineer
4 5 (15.15%) Data Engineer
5 4 (12.12%) Cloud Engineer
6 3 (9.09%) Architect
6 3 (9.09%) Principal Engineer
6 3 (9.09%) Senior Cloud Engineer
7 2 (6.06%) AWS Architect
7 2 (6.06%) Cloud Architect
7 2 (6.06%) Engineering Manager
7 2 (6.06%) Full-Stack Engineer
7 2 (6.06%) Principal Data Engineer
7 2 (6.06%) Senior Software Engineer
8 1 (3.03%) Front-End Engineer (Client-Side Engineer)
8 1 (3.03%) Full-Stack Software Engineer
8 1 (3.03%) Senior Full-Stack Engineer
8 1 (3.03%) Senior Full-Stack Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 13 (39.39%) Terraform
2 5 (15.15%) FastAPI
3 4 (12.12%) Spring
3 4 (12.12%) Spring Boot
4 3 (9.09%) Django
4 3 (9.09%) React
4 3 (9.09%) REST
4 3 (9.09%) Vue
5 2 (6.06%) .NET
5 2 (6.06%) AngularJS
5 2 (6.06%) Apache NiFi
5 2 (6.06%) CSS
5 2 (6.06%) Kafka
6 1 (3.03%) .NET Core
6 1 (3.03%) Handlebars
6 1 (3.03%) hapi
6 1 (3.03%) Jest
6 1 (3.03%) Next.js
6 1 (3.03%) Node-RED
6 1 (3.03%) Nunjucks
Miscellaneous
1 6 (18.18%) Cloud Native
2 3 (9.09%) Blog
3 2 (6.06%) Algorithms
4 1 (3.03%) CUDA
4 1 (3.03%) Distributed Systems
Operating Systems
1 1 (3.03%) Linux
1 1 (3.03%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 20 (60.61%) DevOps
2 19 (57.58%) Agile
3 18 (54.55%) CI/CD
4 13 (39.39%) Software Engineering
5 10 (30.30%) Containerisation
5 10 (30.30%) Infrastructure as Code
6 9 (27.27%) AI
7 8 (24.24%) Full-Stack Development
8 7 (21.21%) Microservices
9 6 (18.18%) Data Engineering
9 6 (18.18%) Data Pipeline
9 6 (18.18%) Mentoring
9 6 (18.18%) Software Delivery
10 5 (15.15%) Problem-Solving
11 4 (12.12%) Collaborative Working
11 4 (12.12%) Continuous Improvement
11 4 (12.12%) SDLC
11 4 (12.12%) Technical Leadership
11 4 (12.12%) Test Automation
12 3 (9.09%) Release Management
Programming Languages
1 12 (36.36%) Python
2 7 (21.21%) JavaScript
3 6 (18.18%) Java
4 5 (15.15%) SQL
5 4 (12.12%) Bash
6 3 (9.09%) TypeScript
7 1 (3.03%) C#
7 1 (3.03%) C++
7 1 (3.03%) Kotlin
7 1 (3.03%) Perl
7 1 (3.03%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 9 (27.27%) Security Cleared
2 8 (24.24%) SC Cleared
3 5 (15.15%) AWS Certification
4 3 (9.09%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
4 3 (9.09%) AWS Certified Developer
5 2 (6.06%) BPSS Clearance
5 2 (6.06%) Degree
5 2 (6.06%) DV Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (9.09%) NCSC
2 2 (6.06%) Accessibility
System Software
1 14 (42.42%) Docker
Systems Management
1 3 (9.09%) Ansible
Vendors
1 3 (9.09%) OpenAI
2 1 (3.03%) Databricks
2 1 (3.03%) Google
2 1 (3.03%) Microsoft
2 1 (3.03%) Mistral