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

6 months to
18 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 65 56 71
Rank change year-on-year -9 +15 +16
Permanent jobs citing Kubernetes 23 34 6
As % of all permanent jobs in Buckinghamshire 1.87% 3.59% 0.79%
As % of the Systems Management category 42.59% 40.96% 6.74%
Number of salaries quoted 20 16 6
10th Percentile £60,500 £50,000 £46,875
25th Percentile £70,000 £56,250 £50,625
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £75,000 £65,000 £71,250
Median % change year-on-year +15.38% -8.77% +1.79%
75th Percentile £77,500 £92,000 £83,750
90th Percentile £78,250 £126,000 £91,250
South East median annual salary £75,000 £70,000 £71,250
% change year-on-year +7.14% -1.75% +1.79%

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 54 83 89
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Buckinghamshire 4.39% 8.77% 11.71%
Number of salaries quoted 47 50 54
10th Percentile £33,300 £30,950 £28,000
25th Percentile £59,375 £41,250 £30,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £70,000 £50,000 £47,500
Median % change year-on-year +40.00% +5.26% -26.92%
75th Percentile £77,500 £71,250 £64,375
90th Percentile £80,000 £87,950 £82,000
South East median annual salary £52,500 £62,500 £55,000
% change year-on-year -16.00% +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 18 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 18 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 -11 12 £75,000 +3.09% 17
High Wycombe 0 5 £70,000 +16.67% 12
Bletchley +8 3 £75,000 -
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 5 (21.74%) Microsoft Exchange
2 1 (4.35%) Anypoint
2 1 (4.35%) Camunda
Business Applications
1 1 (4.35%) Shopify
Cloud Services
1 16 (69.57%) Azure
2 15 (65.22%) AWS
3 9 (39.13%) Azure DevOps
4 8 (34.78%) GitHub
4 8 (34.78%) GitHub Actions
5 6 (26.09%) Azure Key Vault
5 6 (26.09%) Entra ID
5 6 (26.09%) Microsoft 365
6 3 (13.04%) GCP
7 1 (4.35%) Boomi
7 1 (4.35%) Cloud Computing
7 1 (4.35%) iPaaS
7 1 (4.35%) OpenShift
7 1 (4.35%) Power Automate
7 1 (4.35%) Workato
Communications & Networking
1 5 (21.74%) Firewall
1 5 (21.74%) iSCSI
1 5 (21.74%) Remote Desktop
1 5 (21.74%) SAN
2 1 (4.35%) HTTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 6 (26.09%) MySQL
1 6 (26.09%) PostgreSQL
2 5 (21.74%) SQL Server
3 2 (8.70%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 12 (52.17%) Git
2 11 (47.83%) Jenkins
3 4 (17.39%) GitLab
3 4 (17.39%) SonarQube
4 1 (4.35%) Ant
4 1 (4.35%) Cucumber
4 1 (4.35%) Cypress.io
4 1 (4.35%) Gradle
4 1 (4.35%) JUnit
4 1 (4.35%) Maven
4 1 (4.35%) Mockito
General
1 13 (56.52%) Social Skills
2 5 (21.74%) Organisational Skills
3 2 (8.70%) Law
4 1 (4.35%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 1 (4.35%) Legal
4 1 (4.35%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 9 (39.13%) Platform Engineer
2 8 (34.78%) Lead
3 5 (21.74%) Automation Engineer
3 5 (21.74%) Linux Engineer
3 5 (21.74%) Senior
3 5 (21.74%) Senior Linux Engineer
4 2 (8.70%) Developer
5 1 (4.35%) Architect
5 1 (4.35%) DevOps Automation Engineer
5 1 (4.35%) DevOps Engineer
5 1 (4.35%) Integration Engineer
5 1 (4.35%) Java Developer
5 1 (4.35%) Platform Integration Engineer
5 1 (4.35%) Python Engineer
5 1 (4.35%) Technical Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 6 (26.09%) ARM Templates
2 3 (13.04%) Spring
3 2 (8.70%) REST
4 1 (4.35%) .NET
4 1 (4.35%) AngularJS
4 1 (4.35%) ASP.NET
4 1 (4.35%) Bootstrap
4 1 (4.35%) CSS
4 1 (4.35%) Entity Framework
4 1 (4.35%) Hibernate
4 1 (4.35%) HTML
4 1 (4.35%) JSON
4 1 (4.35%) OAuth
4 1 (4.35%) OpenID
4 1 (4.35%) React
4 1 (4.35%) RESTful
4 1 (4.35%) SAML
4 1 (4.35%) SOAP
4 1 (4.35%) Spring Boot
4 1 (4.35%) Spring MVC
Miscellaneous
1 8 (34.78%) Onboarding
2 7 (30.43%) Cloud Native
3 6 (26.09%) Linux Command Line
4 5 (21.74%) Management Information System
5 1 (4.35%) Distributed Systems
5 1 (4.35%) Low-Code
Operating Systems
1 11 (47.83%) Linux
2 9 (39.13%) Windows
3 6 (26.09%) VMS
4 5 (21.74%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 5 (21.74%) Windows Server 2019
5 2 (8.70%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 16 (69.57%) Containerisation
2 13 (56.52%) CI/CD
3 11 (47.83%) DevOps
4 9 (39.13%) Task Automation
5 8 (34.78%) Observability
5 8 (34.78%) Platform Engineering
5 8 (34.78%) Resource Management
6 7 (30.43%) Agile
6 7 (30.43%) Infrastructure as Code
7 6 (26.09%) Matrix Management
7 6 (26.09%) Network Virtualisation
7 6 (26.09%) RBAC
7 6 (26.09%) Servant Leadership
7 6 (26.09%) Technical Leadership
8 5 (21.74%) Configuration Management
8 5 (21.74%) Infrastructure Automation
8 5 (21.74%) ITIL
8 5 (21.74%) Time Management
9 4 (17.39%) Runbook
9 4 (17.39%) Validation
Programming Languages
1 14 (60.87%) Bash
2 8 (34.78%) PowerShell
2 8 (34.78%) Python
3 5 (21.74%) Korn
4 2 (8.70%) C#
4 2 (8.70%) Java
4 2 (8.70%) SQL
5 1 (4.35%) C++
5 1 (4.35%) Go
5 1 (4.35%) Groovy
5 1 (4.35%) JavaScript
5 1 (4.35%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 7 (30.43%) Degree
2 2 (8.70%) SC Cleared
2 2 (8.70%) Security Cleared
3 1 (4.35%) Computer Science Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (4.35%) GDPR
1 1 (4.35%) NCSC
System Software
1 23 (100.00%) Docker
2 11 (47.83%) Active Directory
3 5 (21.74%) Citrix Hypervisor
4 4 (17.39%) vCloud
Systems Management
1 9 (39.13%) Terraform
2 5 (21.74%) Ansible
3 4 (17.39%) Docker Swarm
3 4 (17.39%) Rundeck
4 1 (4.35%) Grafana
4 1 (4.35%) PingFederate
4 1 (4.35%) Prometheus
4 1 (4.35%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 13 (56.52%) Microsoft
2 7 (30.43%) Red Hat
3 6 (26.09%) Dell
4 5 (21.74%) Splunk
5 4 (17.39%) VMware
6 1 (4.35%) Epicor
6 1 (4.35%) Google
6 1 (4.35%) IBM
6 1 (4.35%) IFS
6 1 (4.35%) Infor
6 1 (4.35%) Informatica
6 1 (4.35%) Jitterbit
6 1 (4.35%) MuleSoft
6 1 (4.35%) Oracle
6 1 (4.35%) SAP
6 1 (4.35%) SnapLogic
6 1 (4.35%) Software AG
6 1 (4.35%) Talend
6 1 (4.35%) TIBCO
6 1 (4.35%) Workday