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 16 April 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
16 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 186 134 138
Rank change year-on-year -52 +4 -22
Permanent jobs citing Kubernetes 68 81 194
As % of all permanent jobs in the Midlands 0.57% 1.68% 1.74%
As % of the Systems Management category 22.22% 27.65% 23.49%
Number of salaries quoted 54 69 154
10th Percentile £46,050 £57,000 £47,500
25th Percentile £52,425 £57,500 £52,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £67,500 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year -3.70% +3.85% -7.14%
75th Percentile £74,066 £75,000 £78,750
90th Percentile £85,000 £84,500 £89,625
England median annual salary £75,000 £85,000 £77,500
% change year-on-year -11.76% +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 306 293 826
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the Midlands 2.56% 6.08% 7.39%
Number of salaries quoted 239 236 672
10th Percentile £31,250 £33,250 £27,575
25th Percentile £35,875 £41,250 £36,298
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £52,500 £52,900 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year -0.76% +0.76% -
75th Percentile £68,750 £66,050 £65,000
90th Percentile £82,500 £75,000 £78,750
England median annual salary £65,000 £70,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year -7.14% +16.67% -11.11%

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 16 April 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 16 April 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 -36 42 £66,250 -1.85% 24
East Midlands -42 24 £66,000 +1.54% 19
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 11 (16.18%) IIS
2 5 (7.35%) Oracle SOA Suite
3 1 (1.47%) Confluence
3 1 (1.47%) SAS
Cloud Services
1 41 (60.29%) Azure
2 33 (48.53%) AWS
3 15 (22.06%) Azure DevOps
4 11 (16.18%) NuGet
5 10 (14.71%) npm
5 10 (14.71%) SonarCloud
6 7 (10.29%) SaaS
7 6 (8.82%) Amazon CloudWatch
7 6 (8.82%) GCP
7 6 (8.82%) GitHub
7 6 (8.82%) Serverless
8 5 (7.35%) Azure AKS
8 5 (7.35%) IaaS
8 5 (7.35%) PaaS
9 4 (5.88%) Azure Key Vault
10 3 (4.41%) Amazon EC2
10 3 (4.41%) Azure ExpressRoute
10 3 (4.41%) Azure Sentinel
10 3 (4.41%) Azure Storage
10 3 (4.41%) dbt
Communications & Networking
1 4 (5.88%) DNS
2 3 (4.41%) Firewall
3 2 (2.94%) Network Security
4 1 (1.47%) Broadband
4 1 (1.47%) SAN
4 1 (1.47%) VLAN
4 1 (1.47%) VPN
4 1 (1.47%) WAN
4 1 (1.47%) WireGuard
Database & Business Intelligence
1 12 (17.65%) NoSQL
2 11 (16.18%) SQL Server
3 7 (10.29%) PostgreSQL
4 3 (4.41%) Amazon RDS
4 3 (4.41%) Oracle Database
4 3 (4.41%) Redis
4 3 (4.41%) TimescaleDB
5 2 (2.94%) Delta Lake
5 2 (2.94%) Relational Database
6 1 (1.47%) Azure SQL Database
6 1 (1.47%) Data Mining
6 1 (1.47%) Geospatial Data
6 1 (1.47%) InfluxDB
6 1 (1.47%) MongoDB
6 1 (1.47%) Pentaho
6 1 (1.47%) RDBMS
Development Applications
1 18 (26.47%) Git
2 9 (13.24%) JUnit
3 8 (11.76%) Jenkins
4 7 (10.29%) Cucumber
4 7 (10.29%) Maven
5 6 (8.82%) Mockito
6 5 (7.35%) GitLab
7 3 (4.41%) JMeter
7 3 (4.41%) Locust
7 3 (4.41%) Selenium
8 2 (2.94%) JIRA
9 1 (1.47%) Bitbucket
9 1 (1.47%) Jaeger
9 1 (1.47%) MLflow
9 1 (1.47%) SpecFlow
9 1 (1.47%) Subversion
General
1 19 (27.94%) Social Skills
2 9 (13.24%) Finance
3 4 (5.88%) Advertising
3 4 (5.88%) Analytical Skills
3 4 (5.88%) Law
4 3 (4.41%) Banking
4 3 (4.41%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 3 (4.41%) Investment Banking
4 3 (4.41%) Military
5 2 (2.94%) Automotive
5 2 (2.94%) Retail
6 1 (1.47%) Documentation Skills
6 1 (1.47%) Manufacturing
6 1 (1.47%) Marketing
6 1 (1.47%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 22 (32.35%) Senior
2 17 (25.00%) Azure Engineer
3 16 (23.53%) Developer
3 16 (23.53%) DevOps Engineer
4 12 (17.65%) Lead
5 9 (13.24%) Azure DevOps Engineer
5 9 (13.24%) Full-Stack Developer
5 9 (13.24%) Senior Developer
5 9 (13.24%) Senior DevOps
5 9 (13.24%) Senior DevOps Engineer
6 8 (11.76%) Cloud Engineer
7 6 (8.82%) Full-Stack Java Developer
7 6 (8.82%) Java Developer
7 6 (8.82%) Lead DevOps
7 6 (8.82%) Platform Engineer
8 5 (7.35%) Senior Full-Stack Developer
8 5 (7.35%) Senior Java Developer
9 4 (5.88%) Infrastructure Engineer
9 4 (5.88%) Lead DevOps Engineer
9 4 (5.88%) Software Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 19 (27.94%) React
2 16 (23.53%) Node.js
3 15 (22.06%) .NET
4 11 (16.18%) REST
5 10 (14.71%) YAML
6 7 (10.29%) .NET Framework
6 7 (10.29%) Spring
7 6 (8.82%) .NET Core
8 5 (7.35%) ASP.NET
8 5 (7.35%) ASP.NET Core
9 4 (5.88%) Elastic Stack
9 4 (5.88%) GraphQL
9 4 (5.88%) Spring Boot
10 3 (4.41%) Django
10 3 (4.41%) Flask
10 3 (4.41%) Gherkin
10 3 (4.41%) OpenTelemetry
10 3 (4.41%) pytest
11 2 (2.94%) Kafka
11 2 (2.94%) RabbitMQ
Miscellaneous
1 8 (11.76%) Legacy Systems
2 6 (8.82%) Cloud Native
3 5 (7.35%) Self-Motivation
4 4 (5.88%) Management Information System
4 4 (5.88%) Product Ownership
5 3 (4.41%) Enterprise Software
6 1 (1.47%) Algorithms
6 1 (1.47%) Clustering
6 1 (1.47%) Cyber Threat
6 1 (1.47%) Data Structures
6 1 (1.47%) Distributed Computing
6 1 (1.47%) Legacy Applications
6 1 (1.47%) Onboarding
6 1 (1.47%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 28 (41.18%) Linux
2 15 (22.06%) Windows
3 2 (2.94%) Ubuntu
4 1 (1.47%) Android
4 1 (1.47%) Apple iOS
4 1 (1.47%) CentOS
4 1 (1.47%) Debian
4 1 (1.47%) Mac OS
4 1 (1.47%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 43 (63.24%) DevOps
2 39 (57.35%) CI/CD
3 31 (45.59%) Agile
3 31 (45.59%) Containerisation
4 29 (42.65%) Infrastructure as Code
5 28 (41.18%) Microservices
6 23 (33.82%) Problem-Solving
7 17 (25.00%) Test Automation
8 15 (22.06%) Continuous Improvement
8 15 (22.06%) DevSecOps
9 12 (17.65%) Full-Stack Development
9 12 (17.65%) Mentoring
9 12 (17.65%) Migration
10 11 (16.18%) High Availability
11 9 (13.24%) Infrastructure Engineering
11 9 (13.24%) Platform Engineering
11 9 (13.24%) TDD
12 8 (11.76%) Cloud Security
12 8 (11.76%) Scrum
12 8 (11.76%) Sprint Planning
Programming Languages
1 23 (33.82%) Python
2 21 (30.88%) Bash
3 20 (29.41%) Java
4 17 (25.00%) PowerShell
5 14 (20.59%) C#
5 14 (20.59%) SQL
6 10 (14.71%) JavaScript
7 7 (10.29%) C
8 6 (8.82%) PL/SQL
8 6 (8.82%) TypeScript
9 5 (7.35%) Go
10 4 (5.88%) C++
10 4 (5.88%) R
11 3 (4.41%) Delphi
12 2 (2.94%) Bicep
12 2 (2.94%) Kusto Query Language
13 1 (1.47%) Rust
13 1 (1.47%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 18 (26.47%) Security Cleared
2 16 (23.53%) SC Cleared
3 8 (11.76%) Azure Certification
4 4 (5.88%) AWS Certification
4 4 (5.88%) DV Cleared
5 3 (4.41%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
5 3 (4.41%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
5 3 (4.41%) AWS Certified SysOps Administrator
5 3 (4.41%) Computer Science Degree
5 3 (4.41%) Degree
6 1 (1.47%) BPSS Clearance
6 1 (1.47%) CISSP
6 1 (1.47%) CREST Certified
6 1 (1.47%) IISP
6 1 (1.47%) ISACA
6 1 (1.47%) Master's Degree
6 1 (1.47%) Microsoft Certification
6 1 (1.47%) OSCP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 8 (11.76%) QA
2 5 (7.35%) Accessibility
3 3 (4.41%) WCAG
4 2 (2.94%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 1 (1.47%) Cyber Essentials
5 1 (1.47%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
5 1 (1.47%) Data Quality
5 1 (1.47%) GDPR
5 1 (1.47%) SOC 2
System Software
1 54 (79.41%) Docker
2 1 (1.47%) Active Directory
2 1 (1.47%) Virtual Servers
Systems Management
1 31 (45.59%) Terraform
2 11 (16.18%) Ansible
3 8 (11.76%) Grafana
4 4 (5.88%) Prometheus
5 3 (4.41%) Nagios
6 1 (1.47%) Argo
6 1 (1.47%) Kustomize
6 1 (1.47%) Podman
6 1 (1.47%) Progress Chef
6 1 (1.47%) Puppet
6 1 (1.47%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 13 (19.12%) Oracle
2 10 (14.71%) CrowdStrike
3 6 (8.82%) Microsoft
4 2 (2.94%) Dynatrace
5 1 (1.47%) Denodo
5 1 (1.47%) Facebook
5 1 (1.47%) Google
5 1 (1.47%) OpenAI
5 1 (1.47%) Red Hat
5 1 (1.47%) Salesforce
5 1 (1.47%) Talend