Kubernetes Job Trends in the Midlands

Kubernetes (k8s)
England > Midlands

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in the Midlands requiring Kubernetes skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 24 August 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
24 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 149 110 128
Rank change year-on-year -39 +18 -33
Permanent jobs citing Kubernetes 131 148 178
As % of all permanent jobs in the Midlands 0.89% 2.54% 1.65%
As % of the Systems Management category 35.89% 34.82% 32.84%
Number of salaries quoted 86 68 135
10th Percentile £47,500 £54,625 £36,250
25th Percentile £55,000 £57,500 £52,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £64,500 £67,500 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -4.44% +12.50% -14.29%
75th Percentile £80,000 £77,813 £72,500
90th Percentile £93,750 £81,125 £88,750
England median annual salary £70,505 £80,000 £77,500
% change year-on-year -11.87% +3.23% +0.65%

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 365 425 542
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the Midlands 2.49% 7.30% 5.03%
Number of salaries quoted 277 260 375
10th Percentile £31,250 £31,250 £30,000
25th Percentile £40,000 £40,000 £36,899
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £55,000 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year - +10.00% -9.09%
75th Percentile £67,500 £71,250 £62,500
90th Percentile £85,000 £76,250 £74,658
England median annual salary £60,000 £62,500 £62,500
% change year-on-year -4.00% - -3.85%

Kubernetes
Job Vacancy Trend in the Midlands

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

Kubernetes job vacancy trend in the Midlands

Kubernetes
Salary Trend in the Midlands

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the Midlands citing Kubernetes.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the Midlands citing Kubernetes

Kubernetes
Salary Histogram in the Midlands

Salary distribution for jobs citing Kubernetes in the Midlands over the 6 months to 24 August 2026.

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 24 August 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
West Midlands -17 89 £70,079 +3.82% 30
East Midlands -37 42 £60,000 -5.88% 14
Kubernetes
England

Kubernetes
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the 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 7 (5.34%) Oracle SOA Suite
2 6 (4.58%) IIS
3 2 (1.53%) Microsoft Exchange
4 1 (0.76%) Confluence
4 1 (0.76%) Mendix
4 1 (0.76%) SharePoint
Cloud Services
1 100 (76.34%) Azure
2 67 (51.15%) AWS
3 23 (17.56%) Azure AKS
4 21 (16.03%) GitHub
5 18 (13.74%) Azure DevOps
6 17 (12.98%) Azure ExpressRoute
7 14 (10.69%) IaaS
8 13 (9.92%) GitHub Copilot
9 12 (9.16%) Entra ID
9 12 (9.16%) GCP
10 9 (6.87%) SaaS
11 8 (6.11%) Azure AI
11 8 (6.11%) Azure Key Vault
11 8 (6.11%) Azure Storage
12 7 (5.34%) PaaS
12 7 (5.34%) SonarCloud
13 6 (4.58%) Amazon EKS
13 6 (4.58%) GitHub Actions
14 5 (3.82%) Azure Cosmos DB
14 5 (3.82%) npm
Communications & Networking
1 14 (10.69%) VPN
2 13 (9.92%) DNS
3 11 (8.40%) Network Security
4 7 (5.34%) Firewall
5 5 (3.82%) VLAN
6 2 (1.53%) DHCP
6 2 (1.53%) HTTP
6 2 (1.53%) SSL
7 1 (0.76%) BIG-IP
7 1 (0.76%) SAN
7 1 (0.76%) WAN
7 1 (0.76%) WireGuard
Database & Business Intelligence
1 15 (11.45%) MongoDB
2 14 (10.69%) Azure SQL Database
3 9 (6.87%) SQL Server
4 7 (5.34%) NoSQL
4 7 (5.34%) PostgreSQL
5 5 (3.82%) Elasticsearch
6 3 (2.29%) Amazon RDS
7 2 (1.53%) Amazon Aurora
7 2 (1.53%) KNIME
7 2 (1.53%) MySQL
7 2 (1.53%) Power BI
7 2 (1.53%) Power Query
7 2 (1.53%) Redis
8 1 (0.76%) Data Mining
8 1 (0.76%) TimescaleDB
Development Applications
1 23 (17.56%) Git
2 21 (16.03%) JUnit
3 17 (12.98%) Maven
4 14 (10.69%) Mockito
5 9 (6.87%) Cucumber
5 9 (6.87%) GitLab
6 7 (5.34%) Jenkins
6 7 (5.34%) Postman
6 7 (5.34%) Selenium
7 6 (4.58%) Gatling
8 3 (2.29%) JMeter
8 3 (2.29%) Subversion
9 2 (1.53%) Ant
9 2 (1.53%) Apache Ivy
9 2 (1.53%) IBM UrbanCode
9 2 (1.53%) Locust
10 1 (0.76%) Bitbucket
10 1 (0.76%) Cypress.io
10 1 (0.76%) REST Assured
10 1 (0.76%) WebDriver
General
1 25 (19.08%) Finance
2 16 (12.21%) Social Skills
3 12 (9.16%) Law
4 10 (7.63%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 5 (3.82%) Advertising
5 5 (3.82%) Analytical Skills
5 5 (3.82%) Manufacturing
5 5 (3.82%) Marketing
5 5 (3.82%) Public Sector
5 5 (3.82%) Retail
6 1 (0.76%) Banking
6 1 (0.76%) Documentation Skills
Job Titles
1 33 (25.19%) Developer
2 27 (20.61%) Senior
3 22 (16.79%) DevOps Engineer
4 19 (14.50%) Cloud Engineer
5 18 (13.74%) Architect
6 16 (12.21%) Azure Engineer
7 13 (9.92%) .NET Developer
7 13 (9.92%) Lead
8 12 (9.16%) Full-Stack Developer
8 12 (9.16%) Senior Developer
8 12 (9.16%) Technical Architect
9 10 (7.63%) Full-Stack Java Developer
9 10 (7.63%) Java Developer
10 9 (6.87%) Azure Architect
11 8 (6.11%) 3rd Line Engineer
11 8 (6.11%) Platform Engineer
11 8 (6.11%) Senior Full-Stack Developer
12 7 (5.34%) Senior Java Developer
13 6 (4.58%) Azure DevOps Engineer
13 6 (4.58%) Quality Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 58 (44.27%) Terraform
2 31 (23.66%) .NET
3 25 (19.08%) React
4 23 (17.56%) ASP.NET
4 23 (17.56%) ASP.NET Core
5 19 (14.50%) REST
6 17 (12.98%) .NET Core
7 15 (11.45%) Node.js
7 15 (11.45%) Spring
8 11 (8.40%) .NET Framework
9 8 (6.11%) CSS
9 8 (6.11%) HTML
9 8 (6.11%) ML.NET
10 7 (5.34%) Playwright
10 7 (5.34%) YAML
11 6 (4.58%) Blazor
11 6 (4.58%) Kafka
11 6 (4.58%) RESTful
12 5 (3.82%) ASP.NET Web API
12 5 (3.82%) Vue
Miscellaneous
1 21 (16.03%) Cloud Native
2 9 (6.87%) Hybrid Cloud
3 8 (6.11%) Onboarding
4 7 (5.34%) Distributed Systems
4 7 (5.34%) Self-Motivation
5 5 (3.82%) Legacy Systems
6 3 (2.29%) Digital TV
6 3 (2.29%) Product Ownership
6 3 (2.29%) Public Cloud
7 2 (1.53%) Clustering
7 2 (1.53%) Data Centre
7 2 (1.53%) Enterprise Storage
7 2 (1.53%) Greenfield Project
7 2 (1.53%) Legacy Applications
7 2 (1.53%) Linux Command Line
7 2 (1.53%) Management Information System
7 2 (1.53%) Online Gambling
7 2 (1.53%) SCADA
7 2 (1.53%) Tandem
7 2 (1.53%) Video\Live Streaming
Operating Systems
1 40 (30.53%) Linux
2 15 (11.45%) Windows
3 6 (4.58%) Windows Server
4 3 (2.29%) Unix
5 2 (1.53%) Solaris
5 2 (1.53%) Ubuntu
6 1 (0.76%) CentOS
6 1 (0.76%) Debian
6 1 (0.76%) Mac OS
Processes & Methodologies
1 87 (66.41%) CI/CD
2 64 (48.85%) Agile
3 62 (47.33%) Containerisation
4 51 (38.93%) Infrastructure as Code
5 47 (35.88%) DevOps
6 45 (34.35%) Microservices
7 39 (29.77%) Mentoring
8 31 (23.66%) AI
9 28 (21.37%) Continuous Improvement
9 28 (21.37%) DevSecOps
9 28 (21.37%) Full-Stack Development
9 28 (21.37%) Scrum
10 26 (19.85%) Observability
11 25 (19.08%) TDD
12 23 (17.56%) Problem-Solving
13 22 (16.79%) Technical Leadership
14 21 (16.03%) Test Automation
15 17 (12.98%) High Availability
15 17 (12.98%) Stakeholder Engagement
16 16 (12.21%) Roadmaps
Programming Languages
1 37 (28.24%) SQL
2 36 (27.48%) C#
3 28 (21.37%) Java
4 27 (20.61%) PowerShell
5 26 (19.85%) JavaScript
6 20 (15.27%) Bash
7 19 (14.50%) Python
8 16 (12.21%) TypeScript
9 14 (10.69%) Bicep
9 14 (10.69%) PL/SQL
10 5 (3.82%) Go
11 2 (1.53%) Data Analysis Expressions
11 2 (1.53%) VB.NET
12 1 (0.76%) C
12 1 (0.76%) C++
12 1 (0.76%) Kusto Query Language
12 1 (0.76%) PHP
12 1 (0.76%) Rust
12 1 (0.76%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 43 (32.82%) Security Cleared
2 39 (29.77%) SC Cleared
3 20 (15.27%) Azure Certification
4 13 (9.92%) DV Cleared
5 4 (3.05%) Degree
6 3 (2.29%) AWS Certification
6 3 (2.29%) Computer Science Degree
7 2 (1.53%) BPSS Clearance
7 2 (1.53%) CISSP
7 2 (1.53%) CompTIA Security+
8 1 (0.76%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
8 1 (0.76%) IISP
8 1 (0.76%) ISACA
8 1 (0.76%) PMP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 9 (6.87%) Accessibility
2 8 (6.11%) QA
2 8 (6.11%) WCAG
3 4 (3.05%) Cyber Essentials
4 3 (2.29%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 2 (1.53%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
5 2 (1.53%) SLA
6 1 (0.76%) GxP
6 1 (0.76%) SOC 2
System Software
1 84 (64.12%) Docker
2 12 (9.16%) Active Directory
3 11 (8.40%) VMware Infrastructure
4 2 (1.53%) Hyper-V
5 1 (0.76%) Virtual Servers
Systems Management
1 13 (9.92%) Ansible
2 10 (7.63%) Grafana
3 6 (4.58%) Prometheus
4 5 (3.82%) Argo
5 3 (2.29%) Istio
5 3 (2.29%) Progress Chef
5 3 (2.29%) Puppet
6 1 (0.76%) Nagios
6 1 (0.76%) Podman
Vendors
1 42 (32.06%) Microsoft
2 14 (10.69%) Oracle
3 11 (8.40%) VMware
4 7 (5.34%) CrowdStrike
5 5 (3.82%) Facebook
6 4 (3.05%) Red Hat
6 4 (3.05%) ServiceNow
7 3 (2.29%) Dynatrace
7 3 (2.29%) Workday
8 2 (1.53%) IFS
8 2 (1.53%) Veracode
9 1 (0.76%) F5