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 14 January 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
14 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 119 97 60
Rank change year-on-year -22 -37 -3
Permanent jobs citing Kubernetes 16 31 69
As % of all permanent jobs in the East Midlands 0.64% 1.40% 3.64%
As % of the Systems Management category 12.31% 26.50% 38.55%
Number of salaries quoted 13 14 58
10th Percentile - £34,000 £53,750
25th Percentile £48,750 £39,875 £57,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £62,500 £62,500 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year - -3.85% -7.14%
75th Percentile £69,500 £71,563 £73,750
90th Percentile £72,500 £79,500 £86,625
England median annual salary £75,000 £80,000 £75,000
% change year-on-year -6.25% +6.67% -5.44%

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 130 117 179
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the East Midlands 5.17% 5.29% 9.44%
Number of salaries quoted 94 57 158
10th Percentile £25,875 £27,500 £32,125
25th Percentile £29,063 £31,250 £47,759
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £41,750 £40,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year +4.38% -33.33% +14.29%
75th Percentile £55,813 £62,500 £67,500
90th Percentile £69,425 £70,250 £84,675
England median annual salary £62,500 £70,000 £65,000
% change year-on-year -10.71% +7.69% -3.70%

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 14 January 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 14 January 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
Northamptonshire +10 6 £70,000 - 13
Derbyshire -12 5 £52,500 - 20
Leicestershire +1 4 £67,250 +97.79% 17
Lincolnshire -13 1 £46,000 - 13
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 3 (18.75%) IIS
Cloud Services
1 9 (56.25%) AWS
2 7 (43.75%) Azure
3 3 (18.75%) Amazon CloudWatch
3 3 (18.75%) Azure DevOps
3 3 (18.75%) npm
3 3 (18.75%) NuGet
3 3 (18.75%) OpenShift
3 3 (18.75%) SonarCloud
4 2 (12.50%) AWS CloudFormation
4 2 (12.50%) PaaS
5 1 (6.25%) Amazon ECS
5 1 (6.25%) Azure Key Vault
5 1 (6.25%) GitHub
5 1 (6.25%) Pulumi
Communications & Networking
1 1 (6.25%) Broadband
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (25.00%) NoSQL
1 4 (25.00%) Oracle Database
2 3 (18.75%) SQL Server
3 1 (6.25%) PostgreSQL
3 1 (6.25%) RDBMS
3 1 (6.25%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 5 (31.25%) Git
2 4 (25.00%) GitLab
2 4 (25.00%) Jenkins
3 2 (12.50%) JUnit
3 2 (12.50%) SonarQube
4 1 (6.25%) Cucumber
4 1 (6.25%) Jaeger
4 1 (6.25%) Mockito
4 1 (6.25%) Selenium
General
1 2 (12.50%) Social Skills
2 1 (6.25%) Inclusion and Diversity
2 1 (6.25%) Law
Job Titles
1 7 (43.75%) DevOps Engineer
2 5 (31.25%) Lead
3 4 (25.00%) Infrastructure Support
3 4 (25.00%) IT Support
3 4 (25.00%) Senior
3 4 (25.00%) Technical Leader
3 4 (25.00%) Technical Support
4 3 (18.75%) AWS DevOps
4 3 (18.75%) AWS DevOps Engineer
4 3 (18.75%) AWS Engineer
4 3 (18.75%) Cloud Engineer
4 3 (18.75%) Senior DevOps
4 3 (18.75%) Senior DevOps Engineer
5 2 (12.50%) Azure DevOps Engineer
5 2 (12.50%) Azure Engineer
5 2 (12.50%) Developer
5 2 (12.50%) Technical Engineer
6 1 (6.25%) Engineering Manager
6 1 (6.25%) Senior Developer
6 1 (6.25%) Software Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (25.00%) Node.js
1 4 (25.00%) React
2 3 (18.75%) .NET
2 3 (18.75%) YAML
3 2 (12.50%) .NET Core
3 2 (12.50%) .NET Framework
3 2 (12.50%) Elastic Stack
3 2 (12.50%) Spring
3 2 (12.50%) Spring Boot
4 1 (6.25%) Django
4 1 (6.25%) Flask
4 1 (6.25%) Hibernate
4 1 (6.25%) HTML
4 1 (6.25%) J2EE
4 1 (6.25%) Jest
4 1 (6.25%) JPA
4 1 (6.25%) pytest
4 1 (6.25%) Redux
4 1 (6.25%) REST
4 1 (6.25%) RESTful
Miscellaneous
1 3 (18.75%) Legacy Systems
2 1 (6.25%) Cloud Native
Operating Systems
1 9 (56.25%) Linux
2 7 (43.75%) Windows
3 1 (6.25%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 16 (100.00%) DevOps
2 10 (62.50%) CI/CD
3 9 (56.25%) Containerisation
4 7 (43.75%) Agile
4 7 (43.75%) Infrastructure as Code
5 6 (37.50%) Mentoring
6 5 (31.25%) High Availability
6 5 (31.25%) Microservices
6 5 (31.25%) Test Automation
7 4 (25.00%) Coaching
7 4 (25.00%) Line Management
7 4 (25.00%) Problem-Solving
7 4 (25.00%) Project Delivery
8 3 (18.75%) Continuous Improvement
8 3 (18.75%) Continuous Integration
8 3 (18.75%) DevSecOps
8 3 (18.75%) TDD
9 2 (12.50%) Migration
9 2 (12.50%) Observability
9 2 (12.50%) Task Automation
Programming Languages
1 6 (37.50%) Bash
1 6 (37.50%) PowerShell
2 5 (31.25%) Java
2 5 (31.25%) JavaScript
2 5 (31.25%) Python
3 3 (18.75%) C#
3 3 (18.75%) Go
4 1 (6.25%) Delphi
4 1 (6.25%) PHP
4 1 (6.25%) SQL
Qualifications
1 5 (31.25%) SC Cleared
1 5 (31.25%) Security Cleared
2 1 (6.25%) AWS Certification
System Software
1 14 (87.50%) Docker
Systems Management
1 10 (62.50%) Terraform
2 4 (25.00%) Ansible
3 2 (12.50%) Argo
4 1 (6.25%) Grafana
4 1 (6.25%) Kustomize
4 1 (6.25%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 5 (31.25%) Oracle
2 3 (18.75%) CrowdStrike
3 2 (12.50%) AppDynamics
4 1 (6.25%) Google