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 24 September 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
24 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 101 47 34
Rank change year-on-year -54 -13 -14
Permanent jobs citing Kubernetes 28 36 116
As % of all permanent jobs in Bristol 0.86% 3.25% 4.91%
As % of the Systems Management category 28.28% 52.17% 59.49%
Number of salaries quoted 19 33 97
10th Percentile £50,500 £36,250 £53,250
25th Percentile £55,625 £45,000 £67,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £62,500 £65,000 £80,000
Median % change year-on-year -3.85% -18.75% +18.52%
75th Percentile £71,250 £82,500 £87,500
90th Percentile £85,000 £96,250 £93,750
South West median annual salary £67,500 £65,000 £75,000
% change year-on-year +3.85% -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 99 69 195
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Bristol 3.06% 6.23% 8.25%
Number of salaries quoted 82 61 152
10th Percentile £36,300 £36,250 £30,817
25th Percentile £42,500 £42,500 £49,875
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £57,500 £72,500
Median % change year-on-year +13.04% -20.69% +11.54%
75th Percentile £77,500 £75,000 £87,500
90th Percentile £82,500 £91,250 £91,000
South West median annual salary £60,000 £48,500 £55,000
% change year-on-year +23.71% -11.82% -2.65%

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 24 September 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 2 (7.14%) Apache Airflow
1 2 (7.14%) Apache Spark
Cloud Services
1 13 (46.43%) AWS
2 12 (42.86%) Azure
3 9 (32.14%) GCP
4 6 (21.43%) SaaS
5 5 (17.86%) AWS CloudFormation
6 3 (10.71%) Serverless
6 3 (10.71%) Slack
7 2 (7.14%) GitHub
8 1 (3.57%) Amazon EC2
8 1 (3.57%) Amazon S3
8 1 (3.57%) GitHub Actions
8 1 (3.57%) Google Kubernetes Engine
8 1 (3.57%) OpenShift
8 1 (3.57%) PaaS
8 1 (3.57%) Vercel
8 1 (3.57%) Virtual Private Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 1 (3.57%) Internet
1 1 (3.57%) LAN
1 1 (3.57%) TCP/IP
1 1 (3.57%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (17.86%) PostgreSQL
2 4 (14.29%) NoSQL
3 2 (7.14%) Big Data
3 2 (7.14%) Data Warehouse
3 2 (7.14%) Hadoop
3 2 (7.14%) MongoDB
3 2 (7.14%) Relational Database
4 1 (3.57%) Chroma
4 1 (3.57%) Pinecone
4 1 (3.57%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 5 (17.86%) Jenkins
2 4 (14.29%) Git
3 2 (7.14%) GitLab
3 2 (7.14%) JIRA
4 1 (3.57%) Eclipse
4 1 (3.57%) Subversion
4 1 (3.57%) Vite
General
1 8 (28.57%) Social Skills
2 7 (25.00%) Finance
3 5 (17.86%) Public Sector
4 4 (14.29%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 3 (10.71%) Legal
6 2 (7.14%) Aerospace
6 2 (7.14%) Marketing
6 2 (7.14%) Retail
Job Titles
1 8 (28.57%) Senior
2 5 (17.86%) Software Engineer
3 4 (14.29%) Cloud Engineer
3 4 (14.29%) Data Engineer
3 4 (14.29%) DevOps Engineer
4 3 (10.71%) Principal Engineer
4 3 (10.71%) Python Engineer
4 3 (10.71%) Senior Cloud Engineer
4 3 (10.71%) Senior DevOps
4 3 (10.71%) Senior DevOps Engineer
5 2 (7.14%) Architect
5 2 (7.14%) AWS Architect
5 2 (7.14%) Cloud Architect
5 2 (7.14%) CUDA Engineer
5 2 (7.14%) Full-Stack Engineer
5 2 (7.14%) Principal Data Engineer
6 1 (3.57%) Developer
6 1 (3.57%) Infrastructure Engineer
6 1 (3.57%) Senior Developer
6 1 (3.57%) Senior Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 15 (53.57%) Terraform
2 6 (21.43%) Django
2 6 (21.43%) FastAPI
3 5 (17.86%) REST
4 3 (10.71%) Flask
4 3 (10.71%) React
4 3 (10.71%) Vue
5 2 (7.14%) .NET
5 2 (7.14%) AngularJS
5 2 (7.14%) Apache NiFi
5 2 (7.14%) CSS
5 2 (7.14%) Kafka
5 2 (7.14%) RESTful
5 2 (7.14%) Spring
5 2 (7.14%) Spring Boot
6 1 (3.57%) Jakarta EE
6 1 (3.57%) RabbitMQ
6 1 (3.57%) SQLAlchemy
6 1 (3.57%) Struts
6 1 (3.57%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 5 (17.86%) Cloud Native
2 3 (10.71%) Blog
3 2 (7.14%) Algorithms
3 2 (7.14%) CUDA
4 1 (3.57%) Distributed Systems
Operating Systems
1 2 (7.14%) Linux
2 1 (3.57%) Ubuntu
2 1 (3.57%) Unix
2 1 (3.57%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 17 (60.71%) CI/CD
2 15 (53.57%) DevOps
3 13 (46.43%) Agile
4 12 (42.86%) Infrastructure as Code
4 12 (42.86%) Software Engineering
5 10 (35.71%) Containerisation
6 8 (28.57%) Full-Stack Development
7 7 (25.00%) AI
7 7 (25.00%) Mentoring
8 6 (21.43%) Microservices
9 5 (17.86%) Clean Code
9 5 (17.86%) Problem-Solving
10 4 (14.29%) Data Engineering
10 4 (14.29%) Data Pipeline
10 4 (14.29%) Data Science
10 4 (14.29%) Scrum
10 4 (14.29%) Software Delivery
10 4 (14.29%) Technical Leadership
10 4 (14.29%) Test Automation
11 3 (10.71%) Kanban
Programming Languages
1 14 (50.00%) Python
2 7 (25.00%) JavaScript
3 6 (21.43%) SQL
4 4 (14.29%) Bash
5 3 (10.71%) Java
6 2 (7.14%) C#
6 2 (7.14%) TypeScript
7 1 (3.57%) C++
7 1 (3.57%) Kotlin
7 1 (3.57%) Perl
7 1 (3.57%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 8 (28.57%) SC Cleared
1 8 (28.57%) Security Cleared
2 5 (17.86%) AWS Certification
3 3 (10.71%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
3 3 (10.71%) AWS Certified Developer
3 3 (10.71%) Degree
4 2 (7.14%) BPSS Clearance
4 2 (7.14%) DV Cleared
5 1 (3.57%) Computer Science Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (10.71%) NCSC
2 2 (7.14%) Accessibility
System Software
1 14 (50.00%) Docker
2 1 (3.57%) KVM
2 1 (3.57%) QEMU
2 1 (3.57%) VMware Infrastructure
2 1 (3.57%) Xen
Systems Management
1 4 (14.29%) Ansible
2 1 (3.57%) Puppet
Vendors
1 3 (10.71%) OpenAI
2 1 (3.57%) Mistral
2 1 (3.57%) Red Hat
2 1 (3.57%) VMware