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 19 August 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
19 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 71 67 70
Rank change year-on-year -4 +3 -6
Permanent jobs citing Kubernetes 31 31 20
As % of all permanent jobs in Buckinghamshire 1.57% 2.66% 1.57%
As % of the Systems Management category 31.63% 44.29% 22.99%
Number of salaries quoted 28 24 20
10th Percentile £55,000 £51,250 £47,250
25th Percentile £57,500 £63,750 £56,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £70,000 £58,750
Median % change year-on-year -14.29% +19.15% -16.07%
75th Percentile £72,500 £75,000 £73,125
90th Percentile - £82,750 £87,950
South East median annual salary £65,000 £70,000 £67,500
% change year-on-year -7.14% +3.70% -6.90%

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 98 70 87
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Buckinghamshire 4.95% 6.00% 6.84%
Number of salaries quoted 87 53 42
10th Percentile £41,250 - £41,250
25th Percentile £46,250 £36,250 £44,063
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £55,000 £57,500
Median % change year-on-year +9.09% -4.35% +15.00%
75th Percentile £68,750 £70,000 £67,500
90th Percentile £72,500 £81,750 £74,750
South East median annual salary £60,000 £57,500 £56,252
% change year-on-year +4.35% +2.22% -6.25%

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 19 August 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 19 August 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 -36 21 £60,000 -20.00% 10
High Wycombe -4 10 £70,000 -
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 8 (25.81%) Microsoft Exchange
2 2 (6.45%) Apache
Cloud Services
1 21 (67.74%) Azure
2 17 (54.84%) AWS
3 14 (45.16%) Azure AKS
4 11 (35.48%) Azure ExpressRoute
4 11 (35.48%) Azure Key Vault
4 11 (35.48%) Azure Storage
4 11 (35.48%) IaaS
5 8 (25.81%) Microsoft 365
6 3 (9.68%) Azure Monitor
6 3 (9.68%) Datadog
6 3 (9.68%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 11 (35.48%) DNS
2 8 (25.81%) Firewall
2 8 (25.81%) iSCSI
2 8 (25.81%) Remote Desktop
2 8 (25.81%) SAN
3 2 (6.45%) Network Security
3 2 (6.45%) PBX
3 2 (6.45%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 8 (25.81%) MySQL
1 8 (25.81%) PostgreSQL
1 8 (25.81%) SQL Server
2 2 (6.45%) NoSQL
Development Applications
1 2 (6.45%) GitLab
1 2 (6.45%) Jenkins
General
1 11 (35.48%) Law
2 10 (32.26%) Social Skills
3 8 (25.81%) Organisational Skills
4 4 (12.90%) Analytical Skills
5 2 (6.45%) Finance
Job Titles
1 11 (35.48%) 3rd Line Engineer
1 11 (35.48%) Azure Engineer
1 11 (35.48%) Cloud Engineer
1 11 (35.48%) Senior
2 8 (25.81%) Linux Engineer
2 8 (25.81%) Senior Linux Engineer
3 5 (16.13%) Architect
3 5 (16.13%) Integration Architect
4 3 (9.68%) Site Engineer
4 3 (9.68%) Site Reliability Engineer
5 2 (6.45%) Applications Architect
5 2 (6.45%) DevSecOps Engineer
5 2 (6.45%) Software Engineer
6 1 (3.23%) Analyst
6 1 (3.23%) Integration Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 7 (22.58%) REST
2 5 (16.13%) JSON
2 5 (16.13%) JWT
2 5 (16.13%) Kafka
2 5 (16.13%) Middleware
2 5 (16.13%) OAuth
2 5 (16.13%) OAuth2
2 5 (16.13%) RabbitMQ
2 5 (16.13%) SOAP
2 5 (16.13%) XML
3 4 (12.90%) RESTful
3 4 (12.90%) XML Messaging
4 2 (6.45%) .NET
4 2 (6.45%) .NET Core
4 2 (6.45%) ASP.NET Web API
4 2 (6.45%) React
4 2 (6.45%) WebSockets
Miscellaneous
1 10 (32.26%) Cloud Native
2 8 (25.81%) Management Information System
3 5 (16.13%) Distributed Systems
4 4 (12.90%) Onboarding
4 4 (12.90%) Product Ownership
5 2 (6.45%) Greenfield Project
Operating Systems
1 11 (35.48%) Linux
2 8 (25.81%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 3 (9.68%) Windows
4 2 (6.45%) CentOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 19 (61.29%) High Availability
2 18 (58.06%) Agile
3 15 (48.39%) Containerisation
3 15 (48.39%) Load Balancing
4 11 (35.48%) Root Cause Analysis
5 10 (32.26%) DevOps
5 10 (32.26%) ITIL
6 9 (29.03%) CI/CD
6 9 (29.03%) Microservices
7 8 (25.81%) Time Management
8 7 (22.58%) API Design
9 6 (19.35%) Computer Science
9 6 (19.35%) Software Engineering
9 6 (19.35%) Test Automation
10 5 (16.13%) CRM
10 5 (16.13%) Data Modelling
10 5 (16.13%) Enterprise Architecture
10 5 (16.13%) ERP
10 5 (16.13%) Event-Driven
10 5 (16.13%) Integration Testing
Programming Languages
1 19 (61.29%) PowerShell
2 8 (25.81%) Bash
3 7 (22.58%) SQL
4 6 (19.35%) Korn
5 5 (16.13%) Java
6 4 (12.90%) C
7 2 (6.45%) C#
7 2 (6.45%) Go
7 2 (6.45%) Python
7 2 (6.45%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 13 (41.94%) Azure Certification
2 12 (38.71%) Degree
3 6 (19.35%) Computer Science Degree
4 4 (12.90%) AWS Certification
5 2 (6.45%) RHCE
5 2 (6.45%) RHCSA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (12.90%) QA
2 2 (6.45%) SLA
System Software
1 17 (54.84%) Docker
2 8 (25.81%) Active Directory
2 8 (25.81%) Citrix Hypervisor
3 3 (9.68%) Virtual Machines
4 2 (6.45%) Samba
Systems Management
1 3 (9.68%) Grafana
1 3 (9.68%) Prometheus
1 3 (9.68%) Terraform
2 2 (6.45%) Argo
Vendors
1 12 (38.71%) Microsoft
2 8 (25.81%) Dell
2 8 (25.81%) Red Hat
3 2 (6.45%) D-Link