Kubernetes Job Trends in Buckinghamshire

Kubernetes (k8s)
South East > Buckinghamshire

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in Buckinghamshire requiring Kubernetes skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 10 October 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
10 Oct 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 74 64 71
Rank change year-on-year -10 +7 -5
Permanent jobs citing Kubernetes 23 32 29
As % of all permanent jobs in Buckinghamshire 1.10% 2.59% 2.48%
As % of the Systems Management category 33.82% 48.48% 27.62%
Number of salaries quoted 22 25 15
10th Percentile £55,000 £59,500 £46,000
25th Percentile £57,500 - £51,875
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £61,000 £70,000 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year -12.86% +7.69% -7.14%
75th Percentile £72,500 £77,500 £92,000
90th Percentile - £82,000 £126,000
South East median annual salary £65,000 £70,000 £67,500
% change year-on-year -7.14% +3.70% -3.57%

All Systems Management Skills
Buckinghamshire

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 Buckinghamshire.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for systems management skills 68 66 105
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Buckinghamshire 3.26% 5.34% 8.99%
Number of salaries quoted 66 55 42
10th Percentile £40,625 £35,500 £28,775
25th Percentile £45,063 £36,250 £40,313
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £67,500 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -11.11% +22.73% +15.79%
75th Percentile £68,750 £72,500 £71,250
90th Percentile £72,500 £77,500 £91,300
South East median annual salary £60,000 £50,000 £57,500
% change year-on-year +20.00% -13.04% +1.72%

Kubernetes
Job Vacancy Trend in Buckinghamshire

Historical trend showing the proportion of permanent IT job postings citing Kubernetes relative to all permanent IT jobs advertised in Buckinghamshire.

Kubernetes job vacancy trend in Buckinghamshire

Kubernetes
Salary Trend in Buckinghamshire

Salary distribution trend for jobs in Buckinghamshire citing Kubernetes.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in Buckinghamshire citing Kubernetes

Kubernetes
Salary Histogram in Buckinghamshire

Salary distribution for jobs citing Kubernetes in Buckinghamshire over the 6 months to 10 October 2026.

Salary histogram for Kubernetes in Buckinghamshire

Kubernetes
Job Locations in Buckinghamshire

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Kubernetes within the Buckinghamshire region over the 6 months to 10 October 2026. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 6 month period last year.

Location Rank Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Matching
Permanent
IT Job Ads
Median Salary
Past 6 Months
Median Salary
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
Milton Keynes -31 19 £60,000 -20.00% 16
High Wycombe -8 4 £66,000 -5.71% 2
Kubernetes
South East

Kubernetes
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Buckinghamshire 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 (8.70%) Microsoft Exchange
Cloud Services
1 19 (82.61%) Azure
2 12 (52.17%) AWS
2 12 (52.17%) Azure AKS
3 7 (30.43%) Azure ExpressRoute
3 7 (30.43%) Azure Key Vault
3 7 (30.43%) Azure Storage
3 7 (30.43%) IaaS
4 6 (26.09%) Azure Monitor
4 6 (26.09%) Datadog
4 6 (26.09%) SaaS
5 2 (8.70%) Microsoft 365
Communications & Networking
1 7 (30.43%) DNS
2 2 (8.70%) Firewall
2 2 (8.70%) iSCSI
2 2 (8.70%) Remote Desktop
2 2 (8.70%) SAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (8.70%) MySQL
1 2 (8.70%) NoSQL
1 2 (8.70%) PostgreSQL
1 2 (8.70%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 2 (8.70%) GitLab
1 2 (8.70%) Jenkins
General
1 7 (30.43%) Law
2 4 (17.39%) Social Skills
3 3 (13.04%) Analytical Skills
4 2 (8.70%) Finance
4 2 (8.70%) Organisational Skills
Job Titles
1 8 (34.78%) Senior
2 7 (30.43%) 3rd Line Engineer
2 7 (30.43%) Azure Engineer
2 7 (30.43%) Cloud Engineer
3 5 (21.74%) Site Engineer
3 5 (21.74%) Site Reliability Engineer
4 4 (17.39%) Architect
4 4 (17.39%) Integration Architect
5 2 (8.70%) DevSecOps Engineer
5 2 (8.70%) Linux Engineer
5 2 (8.70%) Senior Linux Engineer
5 2 (8.70%) Software Engineer
6 1 (4.35%) Applications Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 6 (26.09%) REST
1 6 (26.09%) Terraform
2 4 (17.39%) JSON
2 4 (17.39%) JWT
2 4 (17.39%) Kafka
2 4 (17.39%) Middleware
2 4 (17.39%) OAuth
2 4 (17.39%) OAuth2
2 4 (17.39%) RabbitMQ
2 4 (17.39%) SOAP
2 4 (17.39%) XML
3 3 (13.04%) RESTful
3 3 (13.04%) XML Messaging
4 2 (8.70%) .NET
4 2 (8.70%) .NET Core
4 2 (8.70%) ASP.NET Web API
4 2 (8.70%) React
4 2 (8.70%) WebSockets
Miscellaneous
1 5 (21.74%) Cloud Native
2 4 (17.39%) Distributed Systems
3 3 (13.04%) Onboarding
3 3 (13.04%) Product Ownership
4 2 (8.70%) Greenfield Project
4 2 (8.70%) Management Information System
Operating Systems
1 8 (34.78%) Linux
2 6 (26.09%) Windows
3 2 (8.70%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 13 (56.52%) Agile
2 12 (52.17%) DevOps
3 11 (47.83%) Containerisation
4 10 (43.48%) Load Balancing
5 9 (39.13%) High Availability
6 8 (34.78%) CI/CD
6 8 (34.78%) Microservices
7 7 (30.43%) Root Cause Analysis
8 6 (26.09%) AI
8 6 (26.09%) API Design
8 6 (26.09%) Application Performance Monitoring
8 6 (26.09%) Observability
8 6 (26.09%) Performance Monitoring
8 6 (26.09%) Platform Engineering
8 6 (26.09%) Site Reliability Engineering
9 5 (21.74%) B2B
9 5 (21.74%) Computer Science
9 5 (21.74%) Software Engineering
9 5 (21.74%) Test Automation
10 4 (17.39%) ITIL
Programming Languages
1 9 (39.13%) PowerShell
2 6 (26.09%) SQL
3 4 (17.39%) Java
4 2 (8.70%) Bash
4 2 (8.70%) C
4 2 (8.70%) C#
4 2 (8.70%) Go
4 2 (8.70%) Korn
4 2 (8.70%) Python
4 2 (8.70%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 9 (39.13%) Azure Certification
2 7 (30.43%) Degree
3 5 (21.74%) Computer Science Degree
4 4 (17.39%) AWS Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (13.04%) QA
System Software
1 10 (43.48%) Docker
2 6 (26.09%) Virtual Machines
3 2 (8.70%) Active Directory
3 2 (8.70%) Citrix Hypervisor
Systems Management
1 6 (26.09%) Grafana
1 6 (26.09%) Prometheus
2 2 (8.70%) Argo
Vendors
1 5 (21.74%) Microsoft
2 2 (8.70%) Dell
2 2 (8.70%) Red Hat