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 27 March 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
27 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 81 34 29
Rank change year-on-year -47 -5 -8
Permanent jobs citing Kubernetes 20 63 187
As % of all permanent jobs in Bristol 0.76% 6.22% 6.77%
As % of the Systems Management category 34.48% 64.95% 58.44%
Number of salaries quoted 18 51 182
10th Percentile £52,500 £57,500 £46,250
25th Percentile £58,750 £63,125 £57,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £67,500 £75,000 £75,000
Median % change year-on-year -10.00% - +15.38%
75th Percentile £77,500 £96,126 £87,500
90th Percentile - £115,000 £91,934
South West median annual salary £62,500 £71,991 £70,576
% change year-on-year -13.18% +2.01% +8.58%

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 58 97 320
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Bristol 2.20% 9.58% 11.59%
Number of salaries quoted 54 84 286
10th Percentile £38,750 £46,250 £36,250
25th Percentile £47,500 £55,625 £46,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £58,750 £71,991 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year -18.39% +10.76% +8.33%
75th Percentile £76,875 £87,500 £82,500
90th Percentile £82,500 £102,410 £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 27 March 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 13 (65.00%) GCP
2 11 (55.00%) Azure
3 10 (50.00%) AWS
4 7 (35.00%) GitHub
5 6 (30.00%) Datadog
5 6 (30.00%) GitHub Actions
6 2 (10.00%) Azure AKS
6 2 (10.00%) SaaS
7 1 (5.00%) AWS CloudFormation
7 1 (5.00%) Google Kubernetes Engine
7 1 (5.00%) Serverless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (20.00%) PostgreSQL
1 4 (20.00%) Relational Database
2 2 (10.00%) SQL Server
3 1 (5.00%) Geospatial Data
3 1 (5.00%) GIS
3 1 (5.00%) NoSQL
Development Applications
1 7 (35.00%) Jenkins
2 6 (30.00%) CircleCI
3 3 (15.00%) Git
General
1 12 (60.00%) Social Skills
2 5 (25.00%) Finance
3 2 (10.00%) Electronics
3 2 (10.00%) Manufacturing
3 2 (10.00%) Marketing
3 2 (10.00%) Public Sector
3 2 (10.00%) Telecoms
4 1 (5.00%) Military
4 1 (5.00%) Retail
Job Titles
1 10 (50.00%) Senior
2 6 (30.00%) DevSecOps Engineer
3 5 (25.00%) Software Engineer
4 3 (15.00%) Python Engineer
4 3 (15.00%) Senior Software Engineer
5 2 (10.00%) .NET Software Engineer
5 2 (10.00%) Architect
5 2 (10.00%) CUDA Engineer
5 2 (10.00%) Senior .NET Software Engineer
6 1 (5.00%) Cloud Architect
6 1 (5.00%) Cloud Engineer
6 1 (5.00%) Cloud Infrastructure Architect
6 1 (5.00%) GCP Engineer
6 1 (5.00%) Infrastructure Architect
6 1 (5.00%) Lead
6 1 (5.00%) Machine Learning Engineer
6 1 (5.00%) Senior Cloud Engineer
6 1 (5.00%) Software Team Leader
6 1 (5.00%) Solutions Architect
6 1 (5.00%) Team Leader
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 6 (30.00%) FastAPI
2 5 (25.00%) Django
2 5 (25.00%) REST
3 3 (15.00%) .NET
3 3 (15.00%) .NET Core
3 3 (15.00%) SQLAlchemy
4 2 (10.00%) .NET Framework
4 2 (10.00%) Dapper ORM
4 2 (10.00%) Entity Framework
4 2 (10.00%) Flask
5 1 (5.00%) Keycloak
5 1 (5.00%) OAuth
5 1 (5.00%) OAuth2
5 1 (5.00%) PyTorch
5 1 (5.00%) React
5 1 (5.00%) RESTful
5 1 (5.00%) scikit-learn
5 1 (5.00%) TensorFlow
Miscellaneous
1 4 (20.00%) Cloud Native
2 3 (15.00%) CUDA
3 2 (10.00%) Management Information System
Operating Systems
1 6 (30.00%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 11 (55.00%) CI/CD
2 10 (50.00%) Containerisation
2 10 (50.00%) DevOps
2 10 (50.00%) Infrastructure as Code
2 10 (50.00%) Software Engineering
3 9 (45.00%) Agile
4 7 (35.00%) Cloud Security
4 7 (35.00%) Continuous Improvement
4 7 (35.00%) Problem-Solving
5 6 (30.00%) Analytics
5 6 (30.00%) DevSecOps
5 6 (30.00%) Incident Response
5 6 (30.00%) Security Operations
5 6 (30.00%) Security Testing
5 6 (30.00%) SIEM
5 6 (30.00%) Test Automation
5 6 (30.00%) Threat Detection
6 5 (25.00%) AI
7 4 (20.00%) Computer Science
7 4 (20.00%) Data Science
Programming Languages
1 16 (80.00%) Python
2 7 (35.00%) Bash
3 6 (30.00%) PowerShell
3 6 (30.00%) SQL
4 3 (15.00%) C#
4 3 (15.00%) JavaScript
5 1 (5.00%) Bicep
5 1 (5.00%) Java
5 1 (5.00%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 4 (20.00%) Computer Science Degree
1 4 (20.00%) Degree
2 2 (10.00%) SC Cleared
2 2 (10.00%) Security Cleared
3 1 (5.00%) AWS Certification
3 1 (5.00%) Azure Certification
3 1 (5.00%) DV Cleared
3 1 (5.00%) TOGAF Certification
System Software
1 15 (75.00%) Docker
Systems Management
1 11 (55.00%) Terraform
2 6 (30.00%) Ansible
2 6 (30.00%) Grafana
3 1 (5.00%) Istio
Vendors
1 2 (10.00%) SAP
2 1 (5.00%) Google
2 1 (5.00%) OpenAI