Kubernetes Jobs in the East Midlands

Kubernetes (k8s)
England > East Midlands

The table below provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in the East Midlands requiring Kubernetes skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the annual salaries offered in vacancies that cited Kubernetes over the 6 months leading up to 19 July 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
19 Jul 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 103 112 84
Rank change year-on-year +9 -28 -14
Permanent jobs citing Kubernetes 58 91 84
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the East Midlands 2.11% 1.82% 3.30%
As % of the Systems Management category 35.15% 32.04% 30.43%
Number of salaries quoted 12 59 32
10th Percentile £52,500 £34,000 £47,625
25th Percentile £55,313 £43,125 £50,844
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £62,500 £57,500 £63,750
Median % change year-on-year +8.70% -9.80% -5.56%
75th Percentile £76,563 £62,500 £77,500
90th Percentile £77,500 £85,000 £100,000
England median annual salary £80,000 £77,500 £77,500
% change year-on-year +3.23% - -

All Systems Management Skills
East Midlands

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 the East Midlands.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for systems management skills 165 284 276
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the East Midlands 6.00% 5.69% 10.85%
Number of salaries quoted 72 219 133
10th Percentile £31,375 £27,850 £31,500
25th Percentile £34,375 £35,000 £40,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £42,500 £44,225 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year -3.90% -15.76% -4.55%
75th Percentile £58,750 £58,750 £60,000
90th Percentile £67,000 £70,250 £75,000
England median annual salary £65,000 £62,500 £67,500
% change year-on-year +4.00% -7.41% -3.57%

Kubernetes
Job Vacancy Trend in the East Midlands

Job postings citing Kubernetes as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the East Midlands.

Job vacancy trend for Kubernetes in the East Midlands

Kubernetes
Salary Trend in the East Midlands

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing Kubernetes in the East Midlands.

Salary trend for Kubernetes in the East Midlands

Kubernetes
Salary Histogram in the East Midlands

Salary distribution for jobs citing Kubernetes in the East Midlands over the 6 months to 19 July 2025.

Salary histogram for Kubernetes in the East Midlands

Kubernetes
Job Locations in the East Midlands

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Kubernetes within the East Midlands region over the 6 months to 19 July 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
Northamptonshire +38 29 £57,500 -20.69% 3
Derbyshire +12 15 £65,000 +15.56% 2
Leicestershire +7 7 - - 5
Lincolnshire +20 5 £72,500 +61.11% 3
Nottinghamshire +9 2 £56,250 -6.25% 2
Kubernetes
England

Kubernetes
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the East Midlands 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 34 (58.62%) Confluence
2 4 (6.90%) Apache Spark
3 1 (1.72%) Mendix
Cloud Services
1 57 (98.28%) AWS
2 51 (87.93%) Azure
3 41 (70.69%) GCP
4 5 (8.62%) Amazon EKS
5 4 (6.90%) Amazon ELB
5 4 (6.90%) Amazon S3
6 3 (5.17%) Azure DevOps
7 2 (3.45%) GitHub
7 2 (3.45%) GitHub Actions
7 2 (3.45%) Pulumi
8 1 (1.72%) AWS CloudFormation
Communications & Networking
1 2 (3.45%) Broadband
2 1 (1.72%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 39 (67.24%) SQL Server
2 6 (10.34%) Big Data
2 6 (10.34%) DynamoDB
3 4 (6.90%) Delta Lake
3 4 (6.90%) Metadata
3 4 (6.90%) NoSQL
3 4 (6.90%) Spark SQL
4 2 (3.45%) MongoDB
4 2 (3.45%) PostgreSQL
4 2 (3.45%) RDBMS
4 2 (3.45%) Relational Database
4 2 (3.45%) SAP HANA
5 1 (1.72%) Elasticsearch
Development Applications
1 40 (68.97%) GitLab
1 40 (68.97%) JIRA
2 39 (67.24%) Bitbucket
2 39 (67.24%) Cucumber
2 39 (67.24%) Maven
2 39 (67.24%) Selenium
2 39 (67.24%) SonarQube
2 39 (67.24%) Sonatype Nexus
3 5 (8.62%) Git
4 4 (6.90%) MLflow
5 2 (3.45%) Jaeger
6 1 (1.72%) Jenkins
General
1 43 (74.14%) Inclusion and Diversity
2 40 (68.97%) Finance
3 39 (67.24%) Banking
4 6 (10.34%) Social Skills
5 5 (8.62%) Corporate Banking
5 5 (8.62%) Investment Banking
5 5 (8.62%) Retail
6 1 (1.72%) Aerospace
6 1 (1.72%) Analytical Skills
6 1 (1.72%) Electronics
6 1 (1.72%) Manufacturing
Job Titles
1 43 (74.14%) Software Engineer
2 4 (6.90%) Machine Learning Engineer
2 4 (6.90%) Operations Engineer
3 3 (5.17%) Python Engineer
3 3 (5.17%) Python Software Engineer
4 2 (3.45%) Administrator
4 2 (3.45%) Developer
4 2 (3.45%) Lead
4 2 (3.45%) Principal Engineer
4 2 (3.45%) Principal Software Engineer
4 2 (3.45%) Senior
4 2 (3.45%) Systems Administrator
4 2 (3.45%) Team Leader
5 1 (1.72%) Architect
5 1 (1.72%) AWS Engineer
5 1 (1.72%) Backend Developer
5 1 (1.72%) Cloud Engineer
5 1 (1.72%) Senior Software Engineer
5 1 (1.72%) Software Developer
5 1 (1.72%) Technical Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 40 (68.97%) CSS
1 40 (68.97%) HTML
1 40 (68.97%) React
2 39 (67.24%) JPA
2 39 (67.24%) Kafka
2 39 (67.24%) Redux
2 39 (67.24%) Spring
2 39 (67.24%) Spring Boot
3 34 (58.62%) Hibernate
4 7 (12.07%) RESTful
5 6 (10.34%) Django
5 6 (10.34%) Flask
5 6 (10.34%) Jest
5 6 (10.34%) REST
6 5 (8.62%) CSS3
6 5 (8.62%) HTML5
6 5 (8.62%) Pandas
6 5 (8.62%) PyTorch
6 5 (8.62%) Sass
6 5 (8.62%) TensorFlow
Miscellaneous
1 39 (67.24%) Enterprise Software
1 39 (67.24%) Product Ownership
2 7 (12.07%) Cloud Native
3 4 (6.90%) Linux Command Line
4 2 (3.45%) IoT
4 2 (3.45%) Management Information System
5 1 (1.72%) Cyberattack
5 1 (1.72%) Low-Code
Operating Systems
1 6 (10.34%) Linux
1 6 (10.34%) Unix
2 2 (3.45%) AIX
2 2 (3.45%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
2 2 (3.45%) SUSE Linux Enterprise Server
3 1 (1.72%) Android
Processes & Methodologies
1 54 (93.10%) CI/CD
2 52 (89.66%) Agile
3 49 (84.48%) DevOps
4 48 (82.76%) Containerisation
5 44 (75.86%) Software Engineering
6 43 (74.14%) Microservices
7 41 (70.69%) Performance Optimisation
7 41 (70.69%) Test Automation
8 40 (68.97%) Full-Stack Development
8 40 (68.97%) SDLC
9 39 (67.24%) Front End Development
10 34 (58.62%) Clean Code
10 34 (58.62%) Continuous Improvement
10 34 (58.62%) TDD
11 15 (25.86%) Mentoring
12 10 (17.24%) Infrastructure as Code
13 9 (15.52%) Machine Learning
14 6 (10.34%) Artificial Intelligence
14 6 (10.34%) OOP
14 6 (10.34%) User Experience
Programming Languages
1 45 (77.59%) SQL
2 44 (75.86%) JavaScript
3 43 (74.14%) Java
4 14 (24.14%) Python
5 5 (8.62%) TypeScript
6 4 (6.90%) Bash
6 4 (6.90%) Go
7 2 (3.45%) Korn
7 2 (3.45%) Shell Script
8 1 (1.72%) C#
8 1 (1.72%) C++
8 1 (1.72%) PHP
8 1 (1.72%) Rust
Qualifications
1 7 (12.07%) Security Cleared
2 6 (10.34%) SC Cleared
3 2 (3.45%) AWS Certification
4 1 (1.72%) Computer Science Degree
4 1 (1.72%) Degree
4 1 (1.72%) DV Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 39 (67.24%) QA
2 5 (8.62%) Accessibility
System Software
1 56 (96.55%) Docker
2 2 (3.45%) Virtual Machines
2 2 (3.45%) VMware ESXi
2 2 (3.45%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 17 (29.31%) Terraform
2 5 (8.62%) Ansible
3 4 (6.90%) Kubeflow
4 3 (5.17%) Grafana
4 3 (5.17%) Prometheus
5 2 (3.45%) Argo
5 2 (3.45%) Kustomize
5 2 (3.45%) Red Hat Satellite
5 2 (3.45%) ZABBIX
6 1 (1.72%) Marathon
Vendors
1 39 (67.24%) Solace
2 4 (6.90%) Databricks
3 2 (3.45%) Google
3 2 (3.45%) IBM
3 2 (3.45%) Red Hat
3 2 (3.45%) SAP
3 2 (3.45%) VMware