Kubernetes Job Trends in the East Midlands

Kubernetes (k8s)
England > East Midlands

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in the East Midlands requiring Kubernetes skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 16 May 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
16 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 135 86 118
Rank change year-on-year -49 +32 -31
Permanent jobs citing Kubernetes 29 51 65
As % of all permanent jobs in the East Midlands 0.63% 2.67% 1.53%
As % of the Systems Management category 26.13% 38.35% 25.79%
Number of salaries quoted 25 11 51
10th Percentile £55,250 - £50,250
25th Percentile £57,500 £57,500 £53,125
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £67,000 £65,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year +3.08% +8.33% -12.73%
75th Percentile £69,250 £74,375 £82,500
90th Percentile £80,000 £82,500 £91,250
England median annual salary £75,000 £82,500 £77,500
% change year-on-year -9.09% +6.45% -

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 111 133 252
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the East Midlands 2.42% 6.97% 5.93%
Number of salaries quoted 87 72 218
10th Percentile £31,250 £31,375 £25,500
25th Percentile £35,000 £35,313 £35,188
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £51,058 £42,500 £47,500
Median % change year-on-year +20.14% -10.53% -
75th Percentile £69,250 £61,250 £60,000
90th Percentile £83,000 £71,000 £71,250
England median annual salary £65,000 £67,500 £61,206
% change year-on-year -3.70% +10.28% -9.32%

Kubernetes
Job Vacancy Trend in the East Midlands

Historical trend showing the proportion of permanent IT job postings citing Kubernetes relative to all permanent IT jobs advertised in the East Midlands.

Kubernetes job vacancy trend in the East Midlands

Kubernetes
Salary Trend in the East Midlands

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the East Midlands citing Kubernetes.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the East Midlands citing Kubernetes

Kubernetes
Salary Histogram in the East Midlands

Salary distribution for jobs citing Kubernetes in the East Midlands over the 6 months to 16 May 2026.

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 16 May 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
Leicestershire -29 14 £67,500 - 5
Nottinghamshire -17 7 £60,000 -7.69% 8
Northamptonshire -12 5 £80,000 -
Derbyshire -12 3 £47,500 -25.49% 6
Kubernetes
England

Kubernetes
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the East Midlands 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 11 (37.93%) IIS
Cloud Services
1 27 (93.10%) Azure
2 15 (51.72%) Azure DevOps
3 11 (37.93%) npm
3 11 (37.93%) NuGet
3 11 (37.93%) SonarCloud
4 8 (27.59%) AWS
4 8 (27.59%) Azure Key Vault
5 7 (24.14%) Azure AKS
5 7 (24.14%) Azure ExpressRoute
5 7 (24.14%) Azure Storage
5 7 (24.14%) IaaS
6 4 (13.79%) GCP
7 1 (3.45%) Azure AI
7 1 (3.45%) Azure Cosmos DB
7 1 (3.45%) GitHub
7 1 (3.45%) GitHub Copilot
7 1 (3.45%) Pulumi
Communications & Networking
1 7 (24.14%) DNS
2 1 (3.45%) Broadband
Database & Business Intelligence
1 12 (41.38%) NoSQL
2 8 (27.59%) SQL Server
3 1 (3.45%) Azure SQL Database
3 1 (3.45%) PostgreSQL
3 1 (3.45%) RDBMS
3 1 (3.45%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 10 (34.48%) Git
2 1 (3.45%) Jaeger
2 1 (3.45%) Subversion
General
1 7 (24.14%) Law
2 3 (10.34%) Retail
3 2 (6.90%) Analytical Skills
4 1 (3.45%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 1 (3.45%) Manufacturing
Job Titles
1 17 (58.62%) Azure Engineer
2 14 (48.28%) DevOps Engineer
3 10 (34.48%) Azure DevOps Engineer
4 9 (31.03%) Senior
4 9 (31.03%) Senior DevOps
4 9 (31.03%) Senior DevOps Engineer
5 8 (27.59%) Cloud Engineer
6 7 (24.14%) 3rd Line Engineer
7 4 (13.79%) Lead
7 4 (13.79%) Lead DevOps
8 3 (10.34%) Developer
8 3 (10.34%) Lead DevOps Engineer
9 2 (6.90%) Architect
9 2 (6.90%) Software Developer
9 2 (6.90%) Technical Architect
10 1 (3.45%) .NET Developer
10 1 (3.45%) Engineering Manager
10 1 (3.45%) Platform Engineer
10 1 (3.45%) Python Developer
10 1 (3.45%) Team Leader
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 15 (51.72%) .NET
2 14 (48.28%) Node.js
2 14 (48.28%) React
3 11 (37.93%) YAML
4 8 (27.59%) .NET Framework
5 6 (20.69%) .NET Core
5 6 (20.69%) ASP.NET
5 6 (20.69%) ASP.NET Core
6 3 (10.34%) OpenTelemetry
7 1 (3.45%) CSS
7 1 (3.45%) Elastic Stack
7 1 (3.45%) HTML
7 1 (3.45%) Kafka
7 1 (3.45%) ML.NET
7 1 (3.45%) RabbitMQ
7 1 (3.45%) REST
Miscellaneous
1 5 (17.24%) Legacy Systems
2 3 (10.34%) Cloud Native
3 1 (3.45%) Digital TV
Operating Systems
1 13 (44.83%) Linux
2 11 (37.93%) Windows
3 1 (3.45%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 20 (68.97%) DevOps
2 19 (65.52%) CI/CD
3 18 (62.07%) Containerisation
4 16 (55.17%) Infrastructure as Code
5 15 (51.72%) Agile
6 14 (48.28%) DevSecOps
6 14 (48.28%) Microservices
7 12 (41.38%) Test Automation
8 8 (27.59%) High Availability
9 7 (24.14%) Continuous Improvement
9 7 (24.14%) Load Balancing
9 7 (24.14%) Migration
9 7 (24.14%) Root Cause Analysis
10 5 (17.24%) Performance Tuning
10 5 (17.24%) Problem-Solving
11 3 (10.34%) E-Commerce
11 3 (10.34%) Mentoring
11 3 (10.34%) Observability
11 3 (10.34%) Roadmaps
11 3 (10.34%) Software Engineering
Programming Languages
1 20 (68.97%) PowerShell
2 15 (51.72%) C#
3 13 (44.83%) Bash
4 6 (20.69%) JavaScript
5 5 (17.24%) Python
5 5 (17.24%) SQL
6 3 (10.34%) Java
7 2 (6.90%) Go
7 2 (6.90%) TypeScript
8 1 (3.45%) Rust
Qualifications
1 7 (24.14%) Azure Certification
2 1 (3.45%) AWS Certification
System Software
1 20 (68.97%) Docker
Systems Management
1 17 (58.62%) Terraform
2 2 (6.90%) Ansible
2 2 (6.90%) Grafana
3 1 (3.45%) Argo
3 1 (3.45%) Kustomize
3 1 (3.45%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 11 (37.93%) CrowdStrike
2 2 (6.90%) Dynatrace
3 1 (3.45%) Google
3 1 (3.45%) Microsoft