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 4 December 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
4 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 57 66 71
Rank change year-on-year +9 +5 +10
Permanent jobs citing Kubernetes 26 35 9
As % of all permanent jobs in Buckinghamshire 2.22% 3.41% 1.13%
As % of the Systems Management category 43.33% 38.89% 8.26%
Number of salaries quoted 22 17 9
10th Percentile - £47,500 £47,250
25th Percentile £70,000 £56,250 £60,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £75,000 £65,000 £70,000
Median % change year-on-year +15.38% -7.14% -
75th Percentile £77,500 £92,000 £80,000
90th Percentile £84,250 £126,000 £87,500
South East median annual salary £72,500 £67,500 £72,500
% change year-on-year +7.41% -6.90% +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 60 90 109
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Buckinghamshire 5.13% 8.78% 13.75%
Number of salaries quoted 48 51 62
10th Percentile £33,725 £31,250 £27,550
25th Percentile £52,813 £41,250 £30,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £70,000 £50,000 £47,500
Median % change year-on-year +40.00% +5.26% -28.03%
75th Percentile £77,500 £71,250 £66,875
90th Percentile £81,500 £87,500 £81,800
South East median annual salary £50,500 £60,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year -15.83% +9.09% -4.35%

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 4 December 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 4 December 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 -1 14 £75,000 +3.09% 4
High Wycombe +2 7 £70,000 +16.67%
Bletchley +8 3 £75,000 -
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 7 (26.92%) Microsoft Exchange
2 1 (3.85%) Anypoint
2 1 (3.85%) Camunda
Business Applications
1 1 (3.85%) Shopify
Cloud Services
1 17 (65.38%) Azure
2 15 (57.69%) AWS
3 12 (46.15%) Azure DevOps
4 10 (38.46%) GitHub
4 10 (38.46%) GitHub Actions
5 8 (30.77%) Microsoft 365
6 6 (23.08%) Azure Key Vault
6 6 (23.08%) Entra ID
7 1 (3.85%) Azure Monitor
7 1 (3.85%) Boomi
7 1 (3.85%) GCP
7 1 (3.85%) iPaaS
7 1 (3.85%) OpenShift
7 1 (3.85%) Power Automate
7 1 (3.85%) Workato
Communications & Networking
1 8 (30.77%) Firewall
2 7 (26.92%) iSCSI
2 7 (26.92%) Remote Desktop
2 7 (26.92%) SAN
3 1 (3.85%) HTTP
3 1 (3.85%) Network Security
Database & Business Intelligence
1 8 (30.77%) MySQL
1 8 (30.77%) PostgreSQL
1 8 (30.77%) SQL Server
2 2 (7.69%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 12 (46.15%) Git
1 12 (46.15%) Jenkins
2 4 (15.38%) GitLab
2 4 (15.38%) SonarQube
3 2 (7.69%) Maven
4 1 (3.85%) Ant
4 1 (3.85%) Cucumber
4 1 (3.85%) Cypress.io
4 1 (3.85%) Gradle
4 1 (3.85%) JUnit
4 1 (3.85%) Mockito
4 1 (3.85%) MSBuild
General
1 14 (53.85%) Social Skills
2 7 (26.92%) Organisational Skills
3 1 (3.85%) Law
3 1 (3.85%) Legal
Job Titles
1 11 (42.31%) Platform Engineer
2 10 (38.46%) Lead
3 8 (30.77%) Senior
4 7 (26.92%) Linux Engineer
4 7 (26.92%) Senior Linux Engineer
5 5 (19.23%) Automation Engineer
6 2 (7.69%) Developer
6 2 (7.69%) DevOps Engineer
7 1 (3.85%) DevOps Automation Engineer
7 1 (3.85%) Integration Engineer
7 1 (3.85%) Java Developer
7 1 (3.85%) Platform Integration Engineer
7 1 (3.85%) Senior DevOps
7 1 (3.85%) Senior DevOps Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 6 (23.08%) ARM Templates
2 2 (7.69%) REST
2 2 (7.69%) Spring
3 1 (3.85%) .NET
3 1 (3.85%) AngularJS
3 1 (3.85%) Bootstrap
3 1 (3.85%) CSS
3 1 (3.85%) HTML
3 1 (3.85%) JSON
3 1 (3.85%) Nightwatchjs
3 1 (3.85%) OAuth
3 1 (3.85%) OpenID
3 1 (3.85%) React
3 1 (3.85%) RESTful
3 1 (3.85%) SAML
3 1 (3.85%) SOAP
3 1 (3.85%) Spring Boot
3 1 (3.85%) Vue
3 1 (3.85%) Web Services
3 1 (3.85%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 11 (42.31%) Cloud Native
2 10 (38.46%) Onboarding
3 7 (26.92%) Management Information System
4 6 (23.08%) Linux Command Line
5 1 (3.85%) Distributed Systems
5 1 (3.85%) Low-Code
Operating Systems
1 13 (50.00%) Linux
2 11 (42.31%) Windows
3 7 (26.92%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 7 (26.92%) Windows Server 2019
4 6 (23.08%) VMS
5 2 (7.69%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 17 (65.38%) Containerisation
2 15 (57.69%) CI/CD
3 14 (53.85%) DevOps
4 10 (38.46%) Observability
4 10 (38.46%) Platform Engineering
4 10 (38.46%) Resource Management
5 9 (34.62%) Infrastructure as Code
5 9 (34.62%) Task Automation
6 7 (26.92%) ITIL
6 7 (26.92%) RBAC
6 7 (26.92%) Time Management
7 6 (23.08%) Infrastructure Automation
7 6 (23.08%) Matrix Management
7 6 (23.08%) Mentoring
7 6 (23.08%) Network Virtualisation
7 6 (23.08%) Servant Leadership
7 6 (23.08%) Technical Leadership
8 5 (19.23%) Agile
8 5 (19.23%) Configuration Management
9 4 (15.38%) Validation
Programming Languages
1 19 (73.08%) Bash
2 11 (42.31%) PowerShell
3 8 (30.77%) Python
4 7 (26.92%) Korn
5 2 (7.69%) C#
5 2 (7.69%) Java
5 2 (7.69%) JavaScript
5 2 (7.69%) SQL
6 1 (3.85%) Go
6 1 (3.85%) Groovy
6 1 (3.85%) Kusto Query Language
6 1 (3.85%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 8 (30.77%) Degree
2 1 (3.85%) Computer Science Degree
2 1 (3.85%) SC Cleared
2 1 (3.85%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (7.69%) GDPR
2 1 (3.85%) HIPAA
2 1 (3.85%) NCSC
System Software
1 26 (100.00%) Docker
2 13 (50.00%) Active Directory
3 7 (26.92%) Citrix Hypervisor
4 4 (15.38%) vCloud
Systems Management
1 11 (42.31%) Terraform
2 5 (19.23%) Ansible
3 4 (15.38%) Docker Swarm
3 4 (15.38%) Rundeck
4 1 (3.85%) Grafana
4 1 (3.85%) PingFederate
4 1 (3.85%) Prometheus
4 1 (3.85%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 18 (69.23%) Microsoft
2 9 (34.62%) Red Hat
3 8 (30.77%) Dell
4 7 (26.92%) Splunk
5 4 (15.38%) VMware
6 1 (3.85%) Epicor
6 1 (3.85%) IBM
6 1 (3.85%) IFS
6 1 (3.85%) Infor
6 1 (3.85%) Informatica
6 1 (3.85%) Jitterbit
6 1 (3.85%) MuleSoft
6 1 (3.85%) Oracle
6 1 (3.85%) SAP
6 1 (3.85%) SnapLogic
6 1 (3.85%) Software AG
6 1 (3.85%) Talend
6 1 (3.85%) TIBCO
6 1 (3.85%) Workday