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 9 July 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
9 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 154 102 159
Rank change year-on-year -52 +57 -44
Permanent jobs citing Kubernetes 105 159 191
As % of all permanent jobs in the Midlands 0.80% 2.88% 1.43%
As % of the Systems Management category 26.72% 34.34% 23.07%
Number of salaries quoted 81 75 153
10th Percentile £47,500 £54,250 £39,750
25th Percentile £53,750 £57,500 £52,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £62,500 £67,500 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -7.41% +12.50% -14.29%
75th Percentile £74,066 £75,000 £82,500
90th Percentile £92,500 £80,000 £89,750
England median annual salary £70,079 £80,000 £77,500
% change year-on-year -12.40% +3.23% -

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 393 463 828
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the Midlands 3.01% 8.39% 6.18%
Number of salaries quoted 323 296 615
10th Percentile £31,250 £32,500 £27,500
25th Percentile £42,500 £41,250 £36,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £57,500 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year -4.35% +15.00% -9.09%
75th Percentile £70,625 £71,250 £65,000
90th Percentile £90,000 £77,500 £79,800
England median annual salary £65,000 £67,500 £62,500
% change year-on-year -3.70% +8.00% -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 9 July 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 9 July 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 -51 66 £65,000 -3.70% 40
East Midlands -45 38 £60,000 -4.00% 6
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 9 (8.57%) IIS
2 3 (2.86%) Oracle SOA Suite
3 2 (1.90%) Microsoft Exchange
4 1 (0.95%) Confluence
4 1 (0.95%) Mendix
4 1 (0.95%) SharePoint
Cloud Services
1 81 (77.14%) Azure
2 50 (47.62%) AWS
3 19 (18.10%) GitHub
4 18 (17.14%) Azure AKS
5 16 (15.24%) Azure DevOps
6 13 (12.38%) GitHub Copilot
7 12 (11.43%) Azure ExpressRoute
7 12 (11.43%) GCP
8 10 (9.52%) IaaS
9 8 (7.62%) Azure AI
9 8 (7.62%) Azure Key Vault
9 8 (7.62%) Azure Storage
9 8 (7.62%) npm
9 8 (7.62%) NuGet
9 8 (7.62%) SonarCloud
10 7 (6.67%) Entra ID
10 7 (6.67%) SaaS
11 6 (5.71%) Amazon EC2
11 6 (5.71%) Virtual Private Cloud
12 5 (4.76%) Amazon S3
Communications & Networking
1 11 (10.48%) DNS
2 9 (8.57%) VPN
3 8 (7.62%) Firewall
4 7 (6.67%) Network Security
5 5 (4.76%) VLAN
6 2 (1.90%) DHCP
7 1 (0.95%) BIG-IP
7 1 (0.95%) SAN
7 1 (0.95%) WAN
7 1 (0.95%) WireGuard
Database & Business Intelligence
1 15 (14.29%) MongoDB
2 14 (13.33%) Azure SQL Database
3 9 (8.57%) NoSQL
4 8 (7.62%) PostgreSQL
5 7 (6.67%) SQL Server
6 5 (4.76%) Amazon RDS
6 5 (4.76%) Elasticsearch
7 3 (2.86%) Redis
8 2 (1.90%) Amazon Aurora
8 2 (1.90%) KNIME
8 2 (1.90%) MySQL
8 2 (1.90%) TimescaleDB
9 1 (0.95%) Data Mining
Development Applications
1 18 (17.14%) Git
2 12 (11.43%) JUnit
3 11 (10.48%) Maven
4 10 (9.52%) Mockito
5 5 (4.76%) Cucumber
6 4 (3.81%) GitLab
7 3 (2.86%) Jenkins
7 3 (2.86%) Subversion
8 2 (1.90%) Gatling
8 2 (1.90%) JMeter
8 2 (1.90%) Locust
8 2 (1.90%) Postman
8 2 (1.90%) Selenium
9 1 (0.95%) Bitbucket
9 1 (0.95%) JIRA
9 1 (0.95%) SpecFlow
General
1 16 (15.24%) Finance
2 12 (11.43%) Law
3 11 (10.48%) Social Skills
4 7 (6.67%) Advertising
5 5 (4.76%) Analytical Skills
5 5 (4.76%) Manufacturing
5 5 (4.76%) Marketing
6 4 (3.81%) Public Sector
7 3 (2.86%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 3 (2.86%) Retail
8 2 (1.90%) Banking
8 2 (1.90%) Investment Banking
9 1 (0.95%) Automotive
Job Titles
1 30 (28.57%) Developer
2 21 (20.00%) Senior
3 20 (19.05%) DevOps Engineer
4 18 (17.14%) Azure Engineer
5 17 (16.19%) Cloud Engineer
6 14 (13.33%) Lead
7 13 (12.38%) .NET Developer
8 10 (9.52%) Architect
9 9 (8.57%) Full-Stack Developer
10 8 (7.62%) 3rd Line Engineer
10 8 (7.62%) Azure DevOps Engineer
10 8 (7.62%) Senior Developer
11 7 (6.67%) Infrastructure Engineer
11 7 (6.67%) Senior DevOps
11 7 (6.67%) Senior DevOps Engineer
11 7 (6.67%) Technical Architect
12 6 (5.71%) AWS Engineer
12 6 (5.71%) Full-Stack Java Developer
12 6 (5.71%) Java Developer
13 5 (4.76%) Lead DevOps
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 30 (28.57%) .NET
2 25 (23.81%) React
3 23 (21.90%) ASP.NET
3 23 (21.90%) ASP.NET Core
4 20 (19.05%) Node.js
5 16 (15.24%) .NET Core
6 15 (14.29%) REST
7 12 (11.43%) Spring
8 11 (10.48%) .NET Framework
9 8 (7.62%) CSS
9 8 (7.62%) HTML
9 8 (7.62%) ML.NET
9 8 (7.62%) YAML
10 7 (6.67%) Kafka
11 6 (5.71%) AngularJS
11 6 (5.71%) Vue
12 5 (4.76%) ASP.NET Web API
12 5 (4.76%) Blazor
12 5 (4.76%) Entity Framework
12 5 (4.76%) RESTful
Miscellaneous
1 17 (16.19%) Cloud Native
2 8 (7.62%) Onboarding
3 6 (5.71%) Distributed Systems
4 4 (3.81%) Hybrid Cloud
4 4 (3.81%) Legacy Systems
5 3 (2.86%) Digital TV
5 3 (2.86%) Self-Motivation
6 2 (1.90%) Clustering
6 2 (1.90%) Cyber Threat
6 2 (1.90%) Data Centre
6 2 (1.90%) Enterprise Software
6 2 (1.90%) Enterprise Storage
6 2 (1.90%) Greenfield Project
6 2 (1.90%) Private Cloud
6 2 (1.90%) Product Ownership
6 2 (1.90%) SCADA
7 1 (0.95%) Algorithms
7 1 (0.95%) Data Structures
7 1 (0.95%) Management Information System
7 1 (0.95%) Replication
Operating Systems
1 29 (27.62%) Linux
2 15 (14.29%) Windows
3 4 (3.81%) Windows Server
4 3 (2.86%) Ubuntu
5 2 (1.90%) CentOS
5 2 (1.90%) Debian
6 1 (0.95%) Android
6 1 (0.95%) Apple iOS
6 1 (0.95%) Mac OS
Processes & Methodologies
1 69 (65.71%) CI/CD
2 46 (43.81%) Agile
2 46 (43.81%) Infrastructure as Code
3 45 (42.86%) Containerisation
4 41 (39.05%) DevOps
5 39 (37.14%) Microservices
6 26 (24.76%) Full-Stack Development
6 26 (24.76%) Mentoring
7 24 (22.86%) Continuous Improvement
8 22 (20.95%) AI
9 21 (20.00%) Observability
10 20 (19.05%) High Availability
10 20 (19.05%) Problem-Solving
10 20 (19.05%) Test Automation
11 19 (18.10%) DevSecOps
12 17 (16.19%) TDD
13 16 (15.24%) Scrum
13 16 (15.24%) Technical Leadership
14 13 (12.38%) Infrastructure Engineering
14 13 (12.38%) Roadmaps
Programming Languages
1 34 (32.38%) C#
2 32 (30.48%) SQL
3 24 (22.86%) PowerShell
4 23 (21.90%) Java
5 22 (20.95%) JavaScript
6 19 (18.10%) Bash
7 17 (16.19%) Python
7 17 (16.19%) TypeScript
8 10 (9.52%) PL/SQL
9 9 (8.57%) Bicep
10 4 (3.81%) Go
11 3 (2.86%) C
12 2 (1.90%) C++
12 2 (1.90%) Shell Script
13 1 (0.95%) Kusto Query Language
13 1 (0.95%) PHP
13 1 (0.95%) R
13 1 (0.95%) Rust
Qualifications
1 18 (17.14%) Azure Certification
1 18 (17.14%) Security Cleared
2 15 (14.29%) SC Cleared
3 7 (6.67%) DV Cleared
4 3 (2.86%) AWS Certification
4 3 (2.86%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
5 2 (1.90%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
5 2 (1.90%) AWS Certified SysOps Administrator
5 2 (1.90%) CISSP
5 2 (1.90%) CompTIA Security+
5 2 (1.90%) Degree
6 1 (0.95%) Computer Science Degree
6 1 (0.95%) CREST Certified
6 1 (0.95%) IISP
6 1 (0.95%) ISACA
6 1 (0.95%) OSCP
6 1 (0.95%) PMP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 8 (7.62%) QA
2 7 (6.67%) Accessibility
3 4 (3.81%) Cyber Essentials
3 4 (3.81%) WCAG
4 3 (2.86%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 2 (1.90%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
6 1 (0.95%) GxP
6 1 (0.95%) SOC 2
System Software
1 74 (70.48%) Docker
2 8 (7.62%) Active Directory
3 6 (5.71%) VMware Infrastructure
4 2 (1.90%) Hyper-V
5 1 (0.95%) Virtual Servers
Systems Management
1 45 (42.86%) Terraform
2 9 (8.57%) Ansible
2 9 (8.57%) Grafana
3 7 (6.67%) Prometheus
4 4 (3.81%) Argo
5 3 (2.86%) Istio
6 2 (1.90%) Nagios
6 2 (1.90%) Progress Chef
6 2 (1.90%) Puppet
7 1 (0.95%) Podman
Vendors
1 28 (26.67%) Microsoft
2 10 (9.52%) Oracle
3 8 (7.62%) CrowdStrike
4 6 (5.71%) VMware
5 5 (4.76%) Facebook
6 2 (1.90%) Dynatrace
6 2 (1.90%) Red Hat
7 1 (0.95%) F5