Kubernetes Job Trends in Gloucester

Kubernetes (k8s)
Gloucestershire > Gloucester

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in Gloucester requiring Kubernetes skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 13 January 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
13 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 17 10 14
Rank change year-on-year -7 +4 +16
Permanent jobs citing Kubernetes 8 28 44
As % of all permanent jobs in Gloucester 5.52% 17.83% 16.54%
As % of the Systems Management category 44.44% 60.87% 66.67%
Number of salaries quoted 3 24 12
10th Percentile - £34,750 -
25th Percentile - £61,250 £52,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £80,000 £65,000 £62,500
Median % change year-on-year +23.08% +4.00% -3.85%
75th Percentile - £69,500 £71,250
90th Percentile - £77,000 £75,000
Gloucestershire median annual salary £67,500 £65,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year +3.85% +8.33% -4.00%

All Systems Management Skills
Gloucester

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 Gloucester.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for systems management skills 18 46 66
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Gloucester 12.41% 29.30% 24.81%
Number of salaries quoted 8 25 33
10th Percentile £32,750 £35,500 £29,440
25th Percentile £36,313 £52,500 £40,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £58,750 £65,000 £51,000
Median % change year-on-year -9.62% +27.45% -21.54%
75th Percentile £80,000 £69,500 £67,500
90th Percentile £81,125 £76,000 £75,000
Gloucestershire median annual salary £58,750 £65,000 £52,500
% change year-on-year -9.62% +23.81% -5.41%

Kubernetes
Job Vacancy Trend in Gloucester

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

Kubernetes job vacancy trend in Gloucester

Kubernetes
Salary Trend in Gloucester

Salary distribution trend for jobs in Gloucester citing Kubernetes.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in Gloucester citing Kubernetes

Kubernetes
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Gloucester 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 3 (37.50%) Azure
1 3 (37.50%) Azure Stack
1 3 (37.50%) Entra ID
2 2 (25.00%) AWS
2 2 (25.00%) OpenShift
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (25.00%) InfluxDB
Development Applications
1 3 (37.50%) Git
1 3 (37.50%) Subversion
2 2 (25.00%) Jenkins
2 2 (25.00%) Robot Framework
2 2 (25.00%) TestRail
General
1 3 (37.50%) Aerospace
1 3 (37.50%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 3 (37.50%) DevOps Engineer
1 3 (37.50%) Infrastructure Engineer
1 3 (37.50%) IT Engineer
1 3 (37.50%) IT Infrastructure Engineer
2 2 (25.00%) Automation Tester
2 2 (25.00%) Tester
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (25.00%) Elastic Stack
Miscellaneous
1 3 (37.50%) Data Centre
1 3 (37.50%) Hybrid Cloud
1 3 (37.50%) Onboarding
Operating Systems
1 8 (100.00%) Linux
2 5 (62.50%) Windows
3 3 (37.50%) Rocky
3 3 (37.50%) Windows Server
3 3 (37.50%) Windows Server 2019
4 2 (25.00%) CentOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 8 (100.00%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 5 (62.50%) Agile
2 5 (62.50%) Containerisation
3 3 (37.50%) Collaborative Working
3 3 (37.50%) DevOps
3 3 (37.50%) Infrastructure as Code
3 3 (37.50%) Kanban
3 3 (37.50%) Scrum
3 3 (37.50%) SDLC
3 3 (37.50%) Validation
4 2 (25.00%) Collaborative Culture
4 2 (25.00%) Software Testing
4 2 (25.00%) Test Automation
4 2 (25.00%) Test Management
Programming Languages
1 5 (62.50%) Bash
2 3 (37.50%) Go
2 3 (37.50%) Java
2 3 (37.50%) Python
3 2 (25.00%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 8 (100.00%) DV Cleared
1 8 (100.00%) Security Cleared
2 3 (37.50%) Azure Certification
2 3 (37.50%) BPSS Clearance
2 3 (37.50%) Network+ Certification
2 3 (37.50%) SC Cleared
3 2 (25.00%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (37.50%) QA
System Software
1 3 (37.50%) Active Directory
1 3 (37.50%) Hyper-V
2 2 (25.00%) Docker
Systems Management
1 3 (37.50%) Argo
1 3 (37.50%) Rancher
1 3 (37.50%) yum
2 2 (25.00%) Grafana
Vendors
1 3 (37.50%) Dell
2 2 (25.00%) Red Hat
2 2 (25.00%) Splunk