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 6 June 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
6 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 169 107 161
Rank change year-on-year -62 +54 -37
Permanent jobs citing Kubernetes 86 139 181
As % of all permanent jobs in the Midlands 0.69% 2.77% 1.38%
As % of the Systems Management category 24.29% 34.49% 21.91%
Number of salaries quoted 60 62 140
10th Percentile £47,000 - £46,250
25th Percentile £55,000 £57,500 £52,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £64,500 £66,250 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -2.64% +10.42% -14.29%
75th Percentile £74,612 £75,000 £83,105
90th Percentile £85,250 £79,875 £91,250
England median annual salary £73,500 £82,500 £77,500
% change year-on-year -10.91% +6.45% -

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 354 403 826
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the Midlands 2.83% 8.02% 6.29%
Number of salaries quoted 276 254 627
10th Percentile £31,250 £32,500 £27,500
25th Percentile £41,250 £40,000 £36,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £53,688 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year +2.44% +2.26% -4.55%
75th Percentile £71,375 £69,688 £65,000
90th Percentile £90,000 £75,000 £80,000
England median annual salary £65,000 £68,500 £62,500
% change year-on-year -5.11% +9.60% -7.41%

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 6 June 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 6 June 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 -66 51 £70,039 +3.76% 30
East Midlands -44 34 £60,000 -4.00% 12
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 10 (11.63%) IIS
2 6 (6.98%) Oracle SOA Suite
3 1 (1.16%) Confluence
3 1 (1.16%) Mendix
3 1 (1.16%) Microsoft Exchange
Cloud Services
1 67 (77.91%) Azure
2 44 (51.16%) AWS
3 16 (18.60%) Azure DevOps
4 12 (13.95%) Azure AKS
5 10 (11.63%) GCP
6 9 (10.47%) IaaS
6 9 (10.47%) npm
6 9 (10.47%) NuGet
6 9 (10.47%) SonarCloud
7 8 (9.30%) Azure ExpressRoute
7 8 (9.30%) Azure Key Vault
7 8 (9.30%) Azure Storage
8 6 (6.98%) GitHub
9 5 (5.81%) SaaS
9 5 (5.81%) Serverless
10 4 (4.65%) Amazon S3
10 4 (4.65%) AWS CloudFormation
10 4 (4.65%) GitHub Copilot
11 3 (3.49%) Amazon CloudWatch
11 3 (3.49%) Virtual Private Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 10 (11.63%) DNS
2 6 (6.98%) Firewall
3 3 (3.49%) Network Security
3 3 (3.49%) VLAN
3 3 (3.49%) VPN
4 1 (1.16%) Broadband
4 1 (1.16%) DHCP
4 1 (1.16%) SAN
4 1 (1.16%) WAN
4 1 (1.16%) WireGuard
Database & Business Intelligence
1 11 (12.79%) NoSQL
2 8 (9.30%) MongoDB
3 7 (8.14%) SQL Server
4 4 (4.65%) Azure SQL Database
4 4 (4.65%) PostgreSQL
5 3 (3.49%) Amazon RDS
6 2 (2.33%) Elasticsearch
6 2 (2.33%) Redis
6 2 (2.33%) TimescaleDB
7 1 (1.16%) Data Mining
7 1 (1.16%) KNIME
7 1 (1.16%) RDBMS
7 1 (1.16%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 17 (19.77%) Git
2 15 (17.44%) JUnit
3 14 (16.28%) Maven
4 13 (15.12%) Mockito
5 5 (5.81%) Cucumber
6 4 (4.65%) Jenkins
7 3 (3.49%) GitLab
7 3 (3.49%) Subversion
8 2 (2.33%) Gatling
8 2 (2.33%) JMeter
8 2 (2.33%) Locust
8 2 (2.33%) Postman
8 2 (2.33%) Selenium
9 1 (1.16%) Bitbucket
9 1 (1.16%) Jaeger
9 1 (1.16%) JIRA
9 1 (1.16%) SpecFlow
General
1 18 (20.93%) Finance
2 17 (19.77%) Social Skills
3 10 (11.63%) Law
4 4 (4.65%) Advertising
4 4 (4.65%) Analytical Skills
4 4 (4.65%) Manufacturing
5 3 (3.49%) Banking
5 3 (3.49%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 3 (3.49%) Investment Banking
5 3 (3.49%) Retail
6 2 (2.33%) Automotive
6 2 (2.33%) Military
7 1 (1.16%) Marketing
Job Titles
1 22 (25.58%) Developer
2 20 (23.26%) Azure Engineer
2 20 (23.26%) Senior
3 19 (22.09%) DevOps Engineer
4 15 (17.44%) Lead
5 13 (15.12%) Cloud Engineer
6 11 (12.79%) Full-Stack Developer
7 9 (10.47%) Azure DevOps Engineer
7 9 (10.47%) Full-Stack Java Developer
7 9 (10.47%) Java Developer
7 9 (10.47%) Senior Developer
8 8 (9.30%) 3rd Line Engineer
8 8 (9.30%) Senior DevOps
8 8 (9.30%) Senior DevOps Engineer
9 6 (6.98%) Infrastructure Engineer
9 6 (6.98%) Lead DevOps
9 6 (6.98%) Senior Full-Stack Developer
9 6 (6.98%) Senior Java Developer
10 5 (5.81%) Principal Engineer
10 5 (5.81%) Team Leader
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 25 (29.07%) React
2 22 (25.58%) .NET
3 17 (19.77%) Node.js
3 17 (19.77%) REST
4 14 (16.28%) ASP.NET
4 14 (16.28%) ASP.NET Core
5 12 (13.95%) .NET Framework
6 11 (12.79%) Spring
7 9 (10.47%) YAML
8 8 (9.30%) .NET Core
9 7 (8.14%) Kafka
10 5 (5.81%) ASP.NET Web API
10 5 (5.81%) Entity Framework
11 3 (3.49%) AngularJS
11 3 (3.49%) GraphQL
11 3 (3.49%) OpenTelemetry
11 3 (3.49%) RabbitMQ
11 3 (3.49%) RESTful
11 3 (3.49%) Vue
12 2 (2.33%) ML.NET
Miscellaneous
1 10 (11.63%) Cloud Native
2 6 (6.98%) Self-Motivation
3 5 (5.81%) Distributed Systems
4 4 (4.65%) Legacy Systems
4 4 (4.65%) Management Information System
4 4 (4.65%) Onboarding
5 3 (3.49%) Enterprise Software
5 3 (3.49%) Product Ownership
6 1 (1.16%) Algorithms
6 1 (1.16%) Clustering
6 1 (1.16%) Cyber Threat
6 1 (1.16%) Data Centre
6 1 (1.16%) Data Structures
6 1 (1.16%) Digital TV
6 1 (1.16%) Distributed Computing
6 1 (1.16%) Enterprise Storage
6 1 (1.16%) Greenfield Project
6 1 (1.16%) Private Cloud
6 1 (1.16%) SCADA
6 1 (1.16%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 30 (34.88%) Linux
2 13 (15.12%) Windows
3 3 (3.49%) Ubuntu
4 2 (2.33%) CentOS
4 2 (2.33%) Debian
4 2 (2.33%) Windows Server
5 1 (1.16%) Android
5 1 (1.16%) Apple iOS
5 1 (1.16%) Mac OS
5 1 (1.16%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 55 (63.95%) CI/CD
2 48 (55.81%) Agile
3 43 (50.00%) DevOps
4 39 (45.35%) Microservices
5 38 (44.19%) Containerisation
6 36 (41.86%) Infrastructure as Code
7 23 (26.74%) Mentoring
8 22 (25.58%) Continuous Improvement
9 21 (24.42%) Problem-Solving
10 20 (23.26%) High Availability
11 19 (22.09%) Full-Stack Development
11 19 (22.09%) Test Automation
12 17 (19.77%) TDD
13 16 (18.60%) Observability
13 16 (18.60%) Scrum
13 16 (18.60%) Technical Leadership
14 15 (17.44%) AI
14 15 (17.44%) DevSecOps
15 11 (12.79%) Sprint Planning
15 11 (12.79%) Unit Testing
Programming Languages
1 25 (29.07%) C#
2 24 (27.91%) Java
2 24 (27.91%) JavaScript
2 24 (27.91%) SQL
3 23 (26.74%) Bash
4 21 (24.42%) PowerShell
5 17 (19.77%) Python
6 13 (15.12%) PL/SQL
6 13 (15.12%) TypeScript
7 6 (6.98%) C
7 6 (6.98%) Go
8 4 (4.65%) R
9 3 (3.49%) Bicep
10 2 (2.33%) C++
10 2 (2.33%) Shell Script
11 1 (1.16%) Kusto Query Language
11 1 (1.16%) PHP
11 1 (1.16%) Rust
Qualifications
1 15 (17.44%) Azure Certification
1 15 (17.44%) SC Cleared
1 15 (17.44%) Security Cleared
2 4 (4.65%) AWS Certification
3 3 (3.49%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
3 3 (3.49%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
3 3 (3.49%) AWS Certified SysOps Administrator
4 2 (2.33%) CISSP
4 2 (2.33%) DV Cleared
5 1 (1.16%) CompTIA Security+
5 1 (1.16%) Computer Science Degree
5 1 (1.16%) CREST Certified
5 1 (1.16%) Degree
5 1 (1.16%) IISP
5 1 (1.16%) ISACA
5 1 (1.16%) OSCP
5 1 (1.16%) PMP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 9 (10.47%) QA
2 6 (6.98%) Accessibility
3 4 (4.65%) WCAG
4 2 (2.33%) Cyber Essentials
4 2 (2.33%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 1 (1.16%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
5 1 (1.16%) GDPR
5 1 (1.16%) SOC 2
System Software
1 64 (74.42%) Docker
2 2 (2.33%) Active Directory
3 1 (1.16%) Hyper-V
3 1 (1.16%) Virtual Servers
3 1 (1.16%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 37 (43.02%) Terraform
2 10 (11.63%) Ansible
3 6 (6.98%) Grafana
4 5 (5.81%) Prometheus
5 3 (3.49%) Argo
6 2 (2.33%) Istio
6 2 (2.33%) Nagios
6 2 (2.33%) Progress Chef
6 2 (2.33%) Puppet
7 1 (1.16%) Kustomize
7 1 (1.16%) Podman
Vendors
1 14 (16.28%) Microsoft
2 13 (15.12%) Oracle
3 9 (10.47%) CrowdStrike
4 2 (2.33%) Dynatrace
4 2 (2.33%) Red Hat
5 1 (1.16%) Facebook
5 1 (1.16%) Google
5 1 (1.16%) Salesforce
5 1 (1.16%) VMware