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 vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 20 September 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
20 Sep 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 65 70 61
Rank change year-on-year +5 -9 +50
Permanent jobs citing Kubernetes 33 28 23
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Buckinghamshire 2.71% 2.32% 2.54%
As % of the Systems Management category 44.00% 25.00% 20.00%
Number of salaries quoted 26 16 23
10th Percentile £51,250 £46,250 £53,750
25th Percentile - £54,063 £60,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £70,000 £65,000 £70,000
Median % change year-on-year +7.69% -7.14% -
75th Percentile £77,500 £92,000 £80,625
90th Percentile £81,250 £126,000 £95,500
South East median annual salary £70,000 £67,500 £70,000
% change year-on-year +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 75 112 115
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Buckinghamshire 6.16% 9.29% 12.71%
Number of salaries quoted 59 45 76
10th Percentile £36,000 £35,200 £27,500
25th Percentile £36,250 £41,250 £30,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £55,000 £53,750
Median % change year-on-year +18.18% +2.33% -22.38%
75th Percentile £72,500 £68,750 £72,813
90th Percentile £82,500 £89,200 £81,625
South East median annual salary £55,000 £57,500 £57,500
% change year-on-year -4.35% - -3.36%

Kubernetes
Job Vacancy Trend in Buckinghamshire

Job postings citing Kubernetes as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in Buckinghamshire.

Job vacancy trend for Kubernetes 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 20 September 2025.

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 20 September 2025. 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 +16 14 £75,000 -11.76% 6
High Wycombe +10 9 £70,000 +16.67%
Bletchley +8 5 £63,750 - 1
Buckingham - 1 - -
Iver - 1 - -
Newport Pagnell - 1 - -
Kubernetes
South East

Kubernetes
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Buckinghamshire by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same employment type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Application Platforms
1 9 (27.27%) Microsoft Exchange
2 4 (12.12%) Confluence
Cloud Services
1 22 (66.67%) AWS
1 22 (66.67%) Azure
2 10 (30.30%) Azure DevOps
3 9 (27.27%) GitHub
3 9 (27.27%) GitHub Actions
3 9 (27.27%) Microsoft 365
4 7 (21.21%) GCP
5 5 (15.15%) Azure Key Vault
5 5 (15.15%) Entra ID
6 1 (3.03%) Amazon EKS
6 1 (3.03%) AWS CloudFormation
6 1 (3.03%) Azure Monitor
Communications & Networking
1 10 (30.30%) Firewall
2 9 (27.27%) iSCSI
2 9 (27.27%) Remote Desktop
2 9 (27.27%) SAN
3 1 (3.03%) HTTP
3 1 (3.03%) Network Security
Database & Business Intelligence
1 14 (42.42%) SQL Server
2 12 (36.36%) PostgreSQL
3 9 (27.27%) MySQL
4 3 (9.09%) MongoDB
5 1 (3.03%) Elasticsearch
Development Applications
1 13 (39.39%) Jenkins
2 10 (30.30%) GitLab
3 9 (27.27%) Git
4 8 (24.24%) SonarQube
5 5 (15.15%) Maven
6 4 (12.12%) Bitbucket
6 4 (12.12%) Cucumber
6 4 (12.12%) JIRA
6 4 (12.12%) Selenium
6 4 (12.12%) Sonatype Nexus
7 3 (9.09%) JUnit
7 3 (9.09%) Mockito
8 1 (3.03%) MSBuild
General
1 17 (51.52%) Social Skills
2 9 (27.27%) Organisational Skills
3 8 (24.24%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 4 (12.12%) Analytical Skills
4 4 (12.12%) Banking
4 4 (12.12%) Finance
5 3 (9.09%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 10 (30.30%) Senior
2 9 (27.27%) Lead
2 9 (27.27%) Linux Engineer
2 9 (27.27%) Platform Engineer
2 9 (27.27%) Senior Linux Engineer
3 5 (15.15%) Developer
3 5 (15.15%) Software Engineer
4 4 (12.12%) Automation Engineer
4 4 (12.12%) Java Developer
5 2 (6.06%) DevOps Engineer
6 1 (3.03%) DevOps Automation Engineer
6 1 (3.03%) Open Source Engineer
6 1 (3.03%) Python Engineer
6 1 (3.03%) Python Software Engineer
6 1 (3.03%) Senior DevOps
6 1 (3.03%) Senior DevOps Engineer
6 1 (3.03%) Software Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 8 (24.24%) Spring
2 7 (21.21%) Hibernate
2 7 (21.21%) Kafka
2 7 (21.21%) React
2 7 (21.21%) Spring Boot
3 5 (15.15%) ARM Templates
4 4 (12.12%) AngularJS
4 4 (12.12%) CSS
4 4 (12.12%) HTML
4 4 (12.12%) JPA
4 4 (12.12%) OAuth
4 4 (12.12%) Redux
5 3 (9.09%) OAuth2
5 3 (9.09%) RabbitMQ
5 3 (9.09%) RESTful
5 3 (9.09%) Vue
6 2 (6.06%) .NET
7 1 (3.03%) Node.js
7 1 (3.03%) OpenID
7 1 (3.03%) Pandas
Miscellaneous
1 13 (39.39%) Cloud Native
2 9 (27.27%) Management Information System
2 9 (27.27%) Onboarding
3 5 (15.15%) Linux Command Line
4 4 (12.12%) Enterprise Software
4 4 (12.12%) Product Ownership
5 1 (3.03%) Cyberattack
5 1 (3.03%) Distributed Systems
Operating Systems
1 14 (42.42%) Linux
2 13 (39.39%) Windows
3 9 (27.27%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 9 (27.27%) Windows Server 2019
4 5 (15.15%) VMS
5 1 (3.03%) Android
Processes & Methodologies
1 23 (69.70%) Containerisation
2 21 (63.64%) CI/CD
3 18 (54.55%) DevOps
4 11 (33.33%) Agile
5 9 (27.27%) ITIL
5 9 (27.27%) Observability
5 9 (27.27%) Platform Engineering
5 9 (27.27%) Resource Management
5 9 (27.27%) Time Management
6 8 (24.24%) Infrastructure as Code
6 8 (24.24%) Microservices
6 8 (24.24%) Task Automation
7 7 (21.21%) SDLC
8 6 (18.18%) Mentoring
8 6 (18.18%) RBAC
8 6 (18.18%) Software Engineering
9 5 (15.15%) Infrastructure Automation
9 5 (15.15%) Matrix Management
9 5 (15.15%) Servant Leadership
9 5 (15.15%) TDD
Programming Languages
1 19 (57.58%) Bash
2 10 (30.30%) PowerShell
3 9 (27.27%) Java
3 9 (27.27%) Korn
4 8 (24.24%) Python
5 7 (21.21%) SQL
6 6 (18.18%) JavaScript
7 1 (3.03%) C#
7 1 (3.03%) C++
7 1 (3.03%) Go
7 1 (3.03%) Groovy
7 1 (3.03%) Kusto Query Language
7 1 (3.03%) Rust
7 1 (3.03%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 9 (27.27%) Degree
2 4 (12.12%) Security Cleared
3 3 (9.09%) SC Cleared
4 1 (3.03%) DV Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (12.12%) QA
2 1 (3.03%) GDPR
2 1 (3.03%) HIPAA
System Software
1 32 (96.97%) Docker
2 14 (42.42%) Active Directory
3 9 (27.27%) Citrix Hypervisor
4 4 (12.12%) vCloud
Systems Management
1 10 (30.30%) Terraform
2 5 (15.15%) Ansible
3 4 (12.12%) Docker Swarm
3 4 (12.12%) Rundeck
4 1 (3.03%) PingFederate
4 1 (3.03%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 19 (57.58%) Microsoft
2 9 (27.27%) Dell
2 9 (27.27%) Red Hat
2 9 (27.27%) Splunk
3 4 (12.12%) Solace
3 4 (12.12%) VMware