Kubernetes Jobs in the Midlands

Kubernetes (k8s)
England > Midlands

The table below provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in the 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 26 April 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
26 Apr 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 174 154 112
Rank change year-on-year -20 -42 -55
Permanent jobs citing Kubernetes 78 186 295
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the Midlands 1.15% 1.60% 3.06%
As % of the Systems Management category 22.81% 22.57% 22.92%
Number of salaries quoted 65 142 174
10th Percentile - £46,375 £51,163
25th Percentile £57,500 £52,500 £56,735
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £67,500 £60,875 £70,000
Median % change year-on-year +10.88% -13.04% -
75th Percentile £75,000 £80,625 £80,938
90th Percentile £86,000 £88,750 £97,425
England median annual salary £85,000 £77,500 £77,500
% change year-on-year +9.68% - -

All Systems Management Skills
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 Midlands.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for systems management skills 342 824 1,287
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the Midlands 5.06% 7.08% 13.34%
Number of salaries quoted 245 656 565
10th Percentile £32,500 £27,500 £30,000
25th Percentile £41,250 £36,298 £37,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £52,500 £50,000 £54,000
Median % change year-on-year +5.00% -7.41% -1.82%
75th Percentile £66,050 £65,000 £71,250
90th Percentile £75,000 £79,500 £81,250
England median annual salary £70,000 £60,000 £67,500
% change year-on-year +16.67% -11.11% -3.57%

Kubernetes
Job Vacancy Trend in the Midlands

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

Job vacancy trend for Kubernetes in the Midlands

Kubernetes
Salary Trend in the Midlands

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

Salary trend for Kubernetes in the Midlands

Kubernetes
Salary Histogram in the Midlands

Salary distribution for jobs citing Kubernetes in the Midlands over the 6 months to 26 April 2025.

Salary histogram for Kubernetes in the Midlands

Kubernetes
Job Locations in the Midlands

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Kubernetes within the Midlands region over the 6 months to 26 April 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
West Midlands +17 65 £67,500 +3.85% 82
East Midlands 0 13 £65,000 +8.33% 31
Kubernetes
England

Kubernetes
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the 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 8 (10.26%) Confluence
2 2 (2.56%) Jupyter
3 1 (1.28%) Apache
3 1 (1.28%) Mendix
3 1 (1.28%) Tomcat
Applications
1 2 (2.56%) Adobe XD
1 2 (2.56%) Chatbot
1 2 (2.56%) Moqups
1 2 (2.56%) Sketch
Cloud Services
1 63 (80.77%) Azure
2 51 (65.38%) AWS
3 20 (25.64%) Azure DevOps
4 18 (23.08%) GCP
4 18 (23.08%) GitHub
5 17 (21.79%) GitHub Actions
6 16 (20.51%) SaaS
7 12 (15.38%) Amazon ECS
8 11 (14.10%) IaaS
8 11 (14.10%) PaaS
9 5 (6.41%) Serverless
10 4 (5.13%) AWS CloudFormation
10 4 (5.13%) Azure Data Factory
10 4 (5.13%) Cloud Computing
11 3 (3.85%) Amazon EKS
11 3 (3.85%) AWS Lambda
11 3 (3.85%) Azure AKS
11 3 (3.85%) Azure Service Bus
12 2 (2.56%) Azure API Management
12 2 (2.56%) Azure Synapse Analytics
Communications & Networking
1 3 (3.85%) DNS
2 2 (2.56%) TCP/IP
3 1 (1.28%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 9 (11.54%) PostgreSQL
2 7 (8.97%) Azure SQL Database
2 7 (8.97%) NoSQL
2 7 (8.97%) SQL Server
3 6 (7.69%) Redis
4 5 (6.41%) MongoDB
5 4 (5.13%) Big Data
6 3 (3.85%) MySQL
7 2 (2.56%) Elasticsearch
7 2 (2.56%) Relational Database
8 1 (1.28%) Amazon RDS
8 1 (1.28%) Data Lake
8 1 (1.28%) DB2
8 1 (1.28%) DynamoDB
8 1 (1.28%) Power BI
8 1 (1.28%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 15 (19.23%) Git
1 15 (19.23%) SonarQube
2 12 (15.38%) JIRA
3 4 (5.13%) Cypress.io
3 4 (5.13%) Jenkins
4 3 (3.85%) webpack
5 2 (2.56%) Babel
5 2 (2.56%) GitLab
5 2 (2.56%) Mocha
6 1 (1.28%) Atlassian Bamboo
6 1 (1.28%) Octopus Deploy
6 1 (1.28%) Subversion
General
1 16 (20.51%) Public Sector
2 15 (19.23%) Social Skills
3 14 (17.95%) Manufacturing
4 6 (7.69%) Finance
5 5 (6.41%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 4 (5.13%) Automotive
7 3 (3.85%) Analytical Skills
7 3 (3.85%) Games
8 2 (2.56%) Banking
9 1 (1.28%) Aerospace
9 1 (1.28%) Documentation Skills
9 1 (1.28%) Electronics
9 1 (1.28%) iGaming
9 1 (1.28%) Law
9 1 (1.28%) Marketing
9 1 (1.28%) Retail
Job Titles
1 17 (21.79%) Developer
2 16 (20.51%) Senior
3 15 (19.23%) DevOps Engineer
4 13 (16.67%) Software Engineer
5 12 (15.38%) Site Engineer
5 12 (15.38%) Site Reliability Engineer
6 7 (8.97%) Lead
6 7 (8.97%) Senior Developer
7 6 (7.69%) Backend Developer
7 6 (7.69%) Senior Backend Developer
8 5 (6.41%) Architect
8 5 (6.41%) Java Engineer
8 5 (6.41%) Java Software Engineer
9 4 (5.13%) Software Developer
10 3 (3.85%) Front-End Developer (Client-Side Developer)
10 3 (3.85%) Lead Developer
10 3 (3.85%) Platform Engineer
10 3 (3.85%) Solutions Architect
11 2 (2.56%) Data Scientist
11 2 (2.56%) Senior DevOps Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 21 (26.92%) .NET
2 13 (16.67%) React
3 12 (15.38%) Loki
3 12 (15.38%) RESTful
4 10 (12.82%) ARM Templates
5 9 (11.54%) Azure Blueprints
6 8 (10.26%) Node.js
6 8 (10.26%) OAuth
7 7 (8.97%) Spring
7 7 (8.97%) WebSockets
8 6 (7.69%) Django
8 6 (7.69%) FastAPI
8 6 (7.69%) Flask
8 6 (7.69%) GraphQL
8 6 (7.69%) Jest
8 6 (7.69%) Keycloak
8 6 (7.69%) pytest
8 6 (7.69%) SQLAlchemy
9 5 (6.41%) AngularJS
9 5 (6.41%) Vue
Miscellaneous
1 15 (19.23%) Onboarding
2 9 (11.54%) Cloud Native
2 9 (11.54%) Management Information System
3 6 (7.69%) Algorithms
4 4 (5.13%) Cyberattack
4 4 (5.13%) Data Structures
4 4 (5.13%) Distributed Systems
5 3 (3.85%) Self-Motivation
6 2 (2.56%) CUDA
6 2 (2.56%) IoT
6 2 (2.56%) Legacy Code
6 2 (2.56%) Low-Code
6 2 (2.56%) Public Cloud
6 2 (2.56%) Reference Data
6 2 (2.56%) Replication
6 2 (2.56%) SIMD
6 2 (2.56%) Virtual Team
7 1 (1.28%) Hybrid Cloud
7 1 (1.28%) Legacy Systems
7 1 (1.28%) Linux Command Line
Operating Systems
1 6 (7.69%) Linux
2 2 (2.56%) Android
3 1 (1.28%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 1 (1.28%) Ubuntu
3 1 (1.28%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 54 (69.23%) DevOps
2 44 (56.41%) Containerisation
3 32 (41.03%) Software Engineering
4 29 (37.18%) CI/CD
5 20 (25.64%) Mentoring
6 18 (23.08%) Microservices
6 18 (23.08%) Problem-Solving
7 16 (20.51%) Agile
7 16 (20.51%) Continuous Delivery
8 15 (19.23%) Computer Science
8 15 (19.23%) Deployment Automation
9 13 (16.67%) Site Reliability Engineering
10 12 (15.38%) Front End Development
11 11 (14.10%) Project Management
11 11 (14.10%) Test Automation
12 10 (12.82%) Cybersecurity
13 9 (11.54%) Functional Testing
13 9 (11.54%) Non-Functional Testing
13 9 (11.54%) Performance Analysis
13 9 (11.54%) Release Management
Programming Languages
1 23 (29.49%) Python
2 22 (28.21%) C#
3 21 (26.92%) TypeScript
4 19 (24.36%) JavaScript
5 18 (23.08%) SQL
6 16 (20.51%) Java
7 4 (5.13%) C++
7 4 (5.13%) Go
8 2 (2.56%) Bash
8 2 (2.56%) PowerShell
8 2 (2.56%) Rust
9 1 (1.28%) Kotlin
9 1 (1.28%) PHP
Qualifications
1 24 (30.77%) Security Cleared
2 17 (21.79%) Degree
3 15 (19.23%) BPSS Clearance
3 15 (19.23%) Computer Science Degree
4 5 (6.41%) DV Cleared
5 3 (3.85%) SC Cleared
6 2 (2.56%) AWS Certification
6 2 (2.56%) Azure Certification
7 1 (1.28%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
7 1 (1.28%) Master's Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 10 (12.82%) NCSC
2 2 (2.56%) QA
2 2 (2.56%) SLA
3 1 (1.28%) Accessibility
3 1 (1.28%) Cyber Essentials
3 1 (1.28%) Data Quality
3 1 (1.28%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 1 (1.28%) NIST
System Software
1 52 (66.67%) Docker
2 1 (1.28%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 36 (46.15%) Terraform
2 19 (24.36%) Grafana
2 19 (24.36%) Prometheus
3 13 (16.67%) Ansible
4 1 (1.28%) Argo
4 1 (1.28%) Consul
4 1 (1.28%) Marathon
4 1 (1.28%) Packer
4 1 (1.28%) Rancher
4 1 (1.28%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 15 (19.23%) Microsoft
2 3 (3.85%) Databricks
2 3 (3.85%) Google
3 2 (2.56%) Adobe
4 1 (1.28%) Atlassian
4 1 (1.28%) IBM
4 1 (1.28%) Oracle
4 1 (1.28%) VMware