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 1 March 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 78 69 103
Rank change year-on-year -9 +34 -31
Permanent jobs citing Kubernetes 12 24 18
As % of all permanent jobs in Buckinghamshire 0.81% 2.63% 1.10%
As % of the Systems Management category 30.77% 31.17% 21.18%
Number of salaries quoted 9 11 18
10th Percentile £59,750 £47,500 £47,500
25th Percentile £66,000 £56,250 £57,813
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £75,000 £62,500 £70,000
Median % change year-on-year +20.00% -10.71% -6.67%
75th Percentile £77,500 £78,125 £91,250
90th Percentile - £126,000 -
South East median annual salary £67,500 £67,500 £70,000
% change year-on-year - -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 39 77 85
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Buckinghamshire 2.64% 8.43% 5.21%
Number of salaries quoted 33 38 65
10th Percentile £32,100 £31,925 £28,000
25th Percentile £46,250 £41,250 £32,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £67,500 £50,000 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year +35.00% -4.76% +37.25%
75th Percentile £77,500 £63,438 £67,500
90th Percentile £80,000 £82,250 £91,250
South East median annual salary £55,500 £62,500 £55,000
% change year-on-year -11.20% +13.64% -

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 1 March 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 1 March 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 -26 6 £71,000 +7.17% 13
Bletchley - 3 £75,000 -
High Wycombe -5 2 £70,000 +16.67% 10
Aylesbury - 1 £67,500 -
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 (16.67%) Microsoft Exchange
2 1 (8.33%) Anypoint
2 1 (8.33%) Apache
2 1 (8.33%) Camunda
Business Applications
1 1 (8.33%) Shopify
Cloud Services
1 8 (66.67%) AWS
1 8 (66.67%) Azure
2 5 (41.67%) Azure DevOps
3 4 (33.33%) Azure Key Vault
3 4 (33.33%) Entra ID
3 4 (33.33%) GitHub
3 4 (33.33%) GitHub Actions
4 3 (25.00%) GCP
4 3 (25.00%) Microsoft 365
5 1 (8.33%) Amazon SageMaker
5 1 (8.33%) Boomi
5 1 (8.33%) Cloud Computing
5 1 (8.33%) iPaaS
5 1 (8.33%) OpenShift
5 1 (8.33%) Power Automate
5 1 (8.33%) Workato
Communications & Networking
1 2 (16.67%) Firewall
1 2 (16.67%) iSCSI
1 2 (16.67%) Remote Desktop
1 2 (16.67%) SAN
2 1 (8.33%) Network Security
2 1 (8.33%) PBX
2 1 (8.33%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (33.33%) PostgreSQL
2 3 (25.00%) MySQL
3 2 (16.67%) Relational Database
3 2 (16.67%) SQL Server
4 1 (8.33%) DynamoDB
4 1 (8.33%) NoSQL
4 1 (8.33%) TimescaleDB
Development Applications
1 7 (58.33%) Git
2 6 (50.00%) Jenkins
3 1 (8.33%) Ant
3 1 (8.33%) Cucumber
3 1 (8.33%) Cypress.io
3 1 (8.33%) GitLab
3 1 (8.33%) Gradle
3 1 (8.33%) JUnit
3 1 (8.33%) Maven
3 1 (8.33%) Mockito
General
1 5 (41.67%) Social Skills
2 2 (16.67%) Law
2 2 (16.67%) Organisational Skills
3 1 (8.33%) Inclusion and Diversity
3 1 (8.33%) Legal
3 1 (8.33%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 5 (41.67%) Platform Engineer
2 4 (33.33%) Lead
3 2 (16.67%) Linux Engineer
3 2 (16.67%) Senior
3 2 (16.67%) Senior Linux Engineer
4 1 (8.33%) Architect
4 1 (8.33%) Automation Engineer
4 1 (8.33%) Developer
4 1 (8.33%) Integration Engineer
4 1 (8.33%) Machine Learning Engineer
4 1 (8.33%) Platform Integration Engineer
4 1 (8.33%) Python Engineer
4 1 (8.33%) Technical Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (33.33%) ARM Templates
2 2 (16.67%) React
2 2 (16.67%) Spring
3 1 (8.33%) .NET
3 1 (8.33%) AngularJS
3 1 (8.33%) ASP.NET
3 1 (8.33%) Bootstrap
3 1 (8.33%) CSS
3 1 (8.33%) Entity Framework
3 1 (8.33%) GStreamer
3 1 (8.33%) Hibernate
3 1 (8.33%) HTML
3 1 (8.33%) JSON
3 1 (8.33%) Laravel
3 1 (8.33%) REST
3 1 (8.33%) RESTful
3 1 (8.33%) SOAP
3 1 (8.33%) Spring Boot
3 1 (8.33%) Spring MVC
3 1 (8.33%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 4 (33.33%) Linux Command Line
1 4 (33.33%) Onboarding
2 2 (16.67%) Cloud Native
2 2 (16.67%) Management Information System
3 1 (8.33%) Algorithms
3 1 (8.33%) Distributed Systems
3 1 (8.33%) IoT
3 1 (8.33%) Low-Code
Operating Systems
1 5 (41.67%) Linux
2 4 (33.33%) VMS
3 3 (25.00%) Unix
4 2 (16.67%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 1 (8.33%) CentOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 8 (66.67%) Containerisation
2 7 (58.33%) CI/CD
3 6 (50.00%) DevOps
4 4 (33.33%) Agile
4 4 (33.33%) Matrix Management
4 4 (33.33%) Network Virtualisation
4 4 (33.33%) Observability
4 4 (33.33%) Platform Engineering
4 4 (33.33%) RBAC
4 4 (33.33%) Resource Management
4 4 (33.33%) Servant Leadership
4 4 (33.33%) Task Automation
4 4 (33.33%) Technical Leadership
5 3 (25.00%) Problem-Solving
6 2 (16.67%) Cloud Security
6 2 (16.67%) Continuous Improvement
6 2 (16.67%) High Availability
6 2 (16.67%) ITIL
6 2 (16.67%) Time Management
7 1 (8.33%) Statistical Modelling
Programming Languages
1 7 (58.33%) Bash
2 6 (50.00%) PowerShell
3 4 (33.33%) Python
4 2 (16.67%) C#
4 2 (16.67%) C++
4 2 (16.67%) Shell Script
4 2 (16.67%) SQL
5 1 (8.33%) C
5 1 (8.33%) Go
5 1 (8.33%) Java
5 1 (8.33%) JavaScript
5 1 (8.33%) Korn
Qualifications
1 3 (25.00%) Degree
2 2 (16.67%) SC Cleared
2 2 (16.67%) Security Cleared
3 1 (8.33%) Computer Science Degree
3 1 (8.33%) RHCE
3 1 (8.33%) RHCSA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (8.33%) GDPR
1 1 (8.33%) NCSC
1 1 (8.33%) SLA
System Software
1 12 (100.00%) Docker
2 6 (50.00%) Active Directory
3 2 (16.67%) Citrix Hypervisor
4 1 (8.33%) Samba
Systems Management
1 5 (41.67%) Terraform
2 1 (8.33%) Ansible
2 1 (8.33%) Grafana
2 1 (8.33%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 6 (50.00%) Microsoft
2 4 (33.33%) Red Hat
3 3 (25.00%) Dell
4 1 (8.33%) D-Link
4 1 (8.33%) Epicor
4 1 (8.33%) Google
4 1 (8.33%) IBM
4 1 (8.33%) IFS
4 1 (8.33%) Infor
4 1 (8.33%) Informatica
4 1 (8.33%) Jitterbit
4 1 (8.33%) MuleSoft
4 1 (8.33%) NVIDIA
4 1 (8.33%) Oracle
4 1 (8.33%) SAP
4 1 (8.33%) SnapLogic
4 1 (8.33%) Software AG
4 1 (8.33%) Talend
4 1 (8.33%) TIBCO
4 1 (8.33%) Workday