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 3 February 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
3 Feb 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 74 41 22
Rank change year-on-year -33 -19 -1
Permanent jobs citing Kubernetes 23 71 194
As % of all permanent jobs in Bristol 1.03% 5.44% 8.09%
As % of the Systems Management category 34.85% 53.79% 62.18%
Number of salaries quoted 20 52 190
10th Percentile £51,750 £52,028 £46,250
25th Percentile £61,250 £62,188 £56,219
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £75,000 £77,000 £70,576
Median % change year-on-year -2.60% +9.10% +17.63%
75th Percentile £80,438 £87,500 £84,056
90th Percentile £84,000 £93,778 £91,934
South West median annual salary £62,500 £67,500 £65,000
% change year-on-year -7.41% +3.85% +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 66 132 312
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Bristol 2.96% 10.11% 13.02%
Number of salaries quoted 60 89 280
10th Percentile £36,750 £46,250 £37,104
25th Percentile £42,500 £51,500 £46,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £70,000 £62,500
Median % change year-on-year -21.43% +12.00% +5.00%
75th Percentile £77,500 £83,750 £80,000
90th Percentile £82,625 £90,250 £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 3 February 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 1 (4.35%) Apache
1 1 (4.35%) Apache Airflow
1 1 (4.35%) Apache Spark
1 1 (4.35%) Apache Superset
1 1 (4.35%) IIS
1 1 (4.35%) JBoss
Cloud Services
1 17 (73.91%) Azure
2 16 (69.57%) AWS
3 11 (47.83%) GCP
4 6 (26.09%) GitHub
5 5 (21.74%) Datadog
5 5 (21.74%) GitHub Actions
6 3 (13.04%) Serverless
7 2 (8.70%) Amazon S3
7 2 (8.70%) AWS Lambda
8 1 (4.35%) Amazon EC2
8 1 (4.35%) AWS CloudFormation
8 1 (4.35%) Azure Cosmos DB
8 1 (4.35%) Azure DevOps
8 1 (4.35%) Cloud Run
8 1 (4.35%) Google Kubernetes Engine
8 1 (4.35%) Microsoft 365
8 1 (4.35%) OpenShift
8 1 (4.35%) Power Platform
8 1 (4.35%) Virtual Private Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 2 (8.70%) Firewall
2 1 (4.35%) AMQP
2 1 (4.35%) Cisco IOS
2 1 (4.35%) DHCP
2 1 (4.35%) DNS
2 1 (4.35%) IPsec
2 1 (4.35%) VLAN
2 1 (4.35%) VoIP
2 1 (4.35%) VPN
2 1 (4.35%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (13.04%) Relational Database
2 2 (8.70%) Amazon RDS
2 2 (8.70%) PostgreSQL
2 2 (8.70%) SQL Server
3 1 (4.35%) DB2
3 1 (4.35%) Geospatial Data
3 1 (4.35%) GIS
3 1 (4.35%) InfluxDB
3 1 (4.35%) Metadata
3 1 (4.35%) NoSQL
3 1 (4.35%) Power BI
3 1 (4.35%) Spark SQL
3 1 (4.35%) SQL Server Integration Services
3 1 (4.35%) SQL Server Reporting Services
Development Applications
1 8 (34.78%) Jenkins
2 5 (21.74%) CircleCI
3 1 (4.35%) Atlassian Bamboo
3 1 (4.35%) Git
General
1 12 (52.17%) Social Skills
2 5 (21.74%) Public Sector
3 4 (17.39%) Finance
4 3 (13.04%) Electronics
4 3 (13.04%) Manufacturing
4 3 (13.04%) Marketing
4 3 (13.04%) Telecoms
5 2 (8.70%) Retail
6 1 (4.35%) Analytical Skills
6 1 (4.35%) Games
6 1 (4.35%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 1 (4.35%) Military
6 1 (4.35%) Tech for Good
Job Titles
1 10 (43.48%) Senior
2 6 (26.09%) Developer
3 5 (21.74%) DevSecOps Engineer
4 3 (13.04%) Architect
5 2 (8.70%) .NET Developer
5 2 (8.70%) Full-Stack Developer
5 2 (8.70%) Full-Stack Python Developer
5 2 (8.70%) Lead
5 2 (8.70%) Python Developer
5 2 (8.70%) Senior .NET Developer
5 2 (8.70%) Senior Developer
6 1 (4.35%) 3rd Line Engineer
6 1 (4.35%) Data Engineer
6 1 (4.35%) Full-Stack Engineer
6 1 (4.35%) Full-Stack Software Engineer
6 1 (4.35%) GCP Engineer
6 1 (4.35%) Python Engineer
6 1 (4.35%) Senior .NET Software Developer
6 1 (4.35%) Senior Full-Stack Engineer
6 1 (4.35%) Senior Full-Stack Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (17.39%) React
2 3 (13.04%) .NET
2 3 (13.04%) .NET Core
3 2 (8.70%) Kafka
3 2 (8.70%) RabbitMQ
3 2 (8.70%) Spring
3 2 (8.70%) Spring Boot
4 1 (4.35%) AngularJS
4 1 (4.35%) D3.js
4 1 (4.35%) Keycloak
4 1 (4.35%) OAuth2
4 1 (4.35%) PrimeNG
4 1 (4.35%) PySpark
4 1 (4.35%) PyTorch
4 1 (4.35%) Redux
4 1 (4.35%) REST
4 1 (4.35%) RESTful
4 1 (4.35%) RxJS
4 1 (4.35%) scikit-learn
4 1 (4.35%) TensorFlow
Miscellaneous
1 4 (17.39%) Cloud Native
2 2 (8.70%) Management Information System
3 1 (4.35%) Clustering
3 1 (4.35%) Data Fabric
3 1 (4.35%) Legacy Systems
3 1 (4.35%) Linux Command Line
3 1 (4.35%) Product Ownership
Operating Systems
1 7 (30.43%) Linux
2 2 (8.70%) Windows
3 1 (4.35%) Mac OS
3 1 (4.35%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 15 (65.22%) Agile
2 14 (60.87%) CI/CD
3 13 (56.52%) Containerisation
4 11 (47.83%) DevOps
5 10 (43.48%) Infrastructure as Code
6 8 (34.78%) Software Engineering
7 7 (30.43%) Continuous Improvement
7 7 (30.43%) Problem-Solving
8 6 (26.09%) Cloud Security
8 6 (26.09%) Test Automation
9 5 (21.74%) AI
9 5 (21.74%) DevSecOps
9 5 (21.74%) Full-Stack Development
9 5 (21.74%) Incident Response
9 5 (21.74%) Mentoring
9 5 (21.74%) Security Operations
9 5 (21.74%) Security Testing
9 5 (21.74%) SIEM
9 5 (21.74%) Threat Detection
10 4 (17.39%) Technical Leadership
Programming Languages
1 16 (69.57%) Python
2 7 (30.43%) Bash
2 7 (30.43%) PowerShell
3 5 (21.74%) SQL
4 4 (17.39%) Java
4 4 (17.39%) TypeScript
5 3 (13.04%) C#
6 2 (8.70%) JavaScript
7 1 (4.35%) Bicep
7 1 (4.35%) Go
7 1 (4.35%) Shell Script
7 1 (4.35%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 7 (30.43%) SC Cleared
1 7 (30.43%) Security Cleared
2 2 (8.70%) DV Cleared
3 1 (4.35%) ACMT
3 1 (4.35%) AWS Certification
3 1 (4.35%) Azure Certification
3 1 (4.35%) Computer Science Degree
3 1 (4.35%) Degree
3 1 (4.35%) TOGAF Certification
3 1 (4.35%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (4.35%) Cyber Essentials
1 1 (4.35%) Data Quality
System Software
1 17 (73.91%) Docker
2 1 (4.35%) Hyper-V
2 1 (4.35%) VMware ESXi
2 1 (4.35%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 9 (39.13%) Terraform
2 7 (30.43%) Ansible
3 6 (26.09%) Grafana
4 1 (4.35%) Autotask
4 1 (4.35%) Docker Swarm
4 1 (4.35%) Istio
4 1 (4.35%) Microsoft Intune
4 1 (4.35%) Progress Chef
4 1 (4.35%) Prometheus
4 1 (4.35%) Puppet
4 1 (4.35%) vCenter Server
Vendors
1 3 (13.04%) SAP
2 2 (8.70%) Google
2 2 (8.70%) Microsoft
2 2 (8.70%) Oracle
3 1 (4.35%) Apple
3 1 (4.35%) Cisco
3 1 (4.35%) Databricks
3 1 (4.35%) Datto
3 1 (4.35%) Red Hat
3 1 (4.35%) Sophos
3 1 (4.35%) Veeam
3 1 (4.35%) VMware