Kubernetes Job Trends in Exeter

Kubernetes (k8s)
Devon > Exeter

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in Exeter requiring Kubernetes skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 23 November 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
23 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 33 29 31
Rank change year-on-year -4 +2 +22
Permanent jobs citing Kubernetes 2 8 6
As % of all permanent jobs in Exeter 1.03% 2.71% 4.35%
As % of the Systems Management category 20.00% 33.33% 85.71%
Number of salaries quoted 1 6 6
10th Percentile - £42,500 £61,511
25th Percentile £56,250 £45,313 £69,141
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,500 £61,250 £75,174
Median % change year-on-year -6.12% -18.52% +39.86%
75th Percentile £58,750 £69,375 £82,500
90th Percentile - £70,000 £82,587
Devon median annual salary £57,500 £61,250 £75,000
% change year-on-year -6.12% -18.33% +42.86%

All Systems Management Skills
Exeter

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 Exeter.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for systems management skills 10 24 7
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Exeter 5.15% 8.14% 5.07%
Number of salaries quoted 7 17 7
10th Percentile £36,900 £25,750 £46,500
25th Percentile £39,375 £27,598 £61,511
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £45,000 £35,015 £75,000
Median % change year-on-year +28.52% -53.31% +87.50%
75th Percentile £51,250 £61,250 £82,500
90th Percentile £56,500 £69,250 £82,570
Devon median annual salary £42,625 £39,503 £49,000
% change year-on-year +7.90% -19.38% +18.07%

Kubernetes
Job Vacancy Trend in Exeter

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

Kubernetes job vacancy trend in Exeter

Kubernetes
Salary Trend in Exeter

Salary distribution trend for jobs in Exeter citing Kubernetes.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in Exeter citing Kubernetes

Kubernetes
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Exeter 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:

Cloud Services
1 2 (100.00%) Azure
2 1 (50.00%) Amazon Kinesis
2 1 (50.00%) Amazon S3
2 1 (50.00%) AWS
2 1 (50.00%) AWS Lambda
2 1 (50.00%) Azure DevOps
2 1 (50.00%) Azure Monitor
2 1 (50.00%) Serverless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (50.00%) Amazon Aurora
1 1 (50.00%) Data Warehouse
Development Applications
1 1 (50.00%) Git
General
1 1 (50.00%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 1 (50.00%) AWS Engineer
1 1 (50.00%) Azure DevOps Engineer
1 1 (50.00%) Azure Engineer
1 1 (50.00%) Cloud Engineer
1 1 (50.00%) DevOps Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (50.00%) ARM Templates
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (100.00%) CI/CD
1 2 (100.00%) Containerisation
1 2 (100.00%) Infrastructure as Code
2 1 (50.00%) Code Quality
2 1 (50.00%) Configuration Management
2 1 (50.00%) Database Optimisation
2 1 (50.00%) Deployment Automation
2 1 (50.00%) DevOps
2 1 (50.00%) ETL
2 1 (50.00%) High Availability
2 1 (50.00%) Incident Response
2 1 (50.00%) Infrastructure Automation
2 1 (50.00%) Infrastructure Management
2 1 (50.00%) Problem-Solving
2 1 (50.00%) Software Architecture
Programming Languages
1 2 (100.00%) Python
2 1 (50.00%) Bicep
2 1 (50.00%) PowerShell
2 1 (50.00%) SQL
System Software
1 2 (100.00%) Docker
Systems Management
1 1 (50.00%) Terraform