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

6 months to
15 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 157 99 156
Rank change year-on-year -58 +57 -40
Permanent jobs citing Kubernetes 103 155 188
As % of all permanent jobs in the Midlands 0.78% 2.76% 1.42%
As % of the Systems Management category 26.21% 33.92% 23.10%
Number of salaries quoted 80 71 153
10th Percentile £47,500 £55,000 £38,950
25th Percentile £54,688 £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 £74,296 £75,625 £81,250
90th Percentile £92,625 £80,000 £88,750
England median annual salary £70,000 £80,000 £77,500
% change year-on-year -12.50% +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 393 457 814
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the Midlands 2.96% 8.14% 6.17%
Number of salaries quoted 322 294 604
10th Percentile £31,250 £32,500 £27,500
25th Percentile £42,500 £41,250 £36,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £57,250 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year -3.93% +14.50% -9.09%
75th Percentile £69,250 £71,250 £65,000
90th Percentile £90,000 £77,500 £79,850
England median annual salary £65,000 £67,037 £62,500
% change year-on-year -3.04% +7.26% -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 15 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 15 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 -53 64 £65,000 -3.70% 65
East Midlands -42 38 £60,000 -4.00% 49
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 (8.74%) IIS
2 2 (1.94%) Microsoft Exchange
2 2 (1.94%) Oracle SOA Suite
3 1 (0.97%) Confluence
3 1 (0.97%) Mendix
3 1 (0.97%) SharePoint
Cloud Services
1 80 (77.67%) Azure
2 48 (46.60%) AWS
3 20 (19.42%) GitHub
4 18 (17.48%) Azure AKS
5 16 (15.53%) Azure DevOps
6 13 (12.62%) GitHub Copilot
7 12 (11.65%) Azure ExpressRoute
7 12 (11.65%) GCP
8 10 (9.71%) IaaS
9 8 (7.77%) Azure AI
9 8 (7.77%) Azure Key Vault
9 8 (7.77%) Azure Storage
9 8 (7.77%) npm
9 8 (7.77%) NuGet
9 8 (7.77%) SonarCloud
10 7 (6.80%) Entra ID
10 7 (6.80%) SaaS
11 6 (5.83%) GitHub Actions
12 5 (4.85%) Amazon EC2
12 5 (4.85%) PaaS
Communications & Networking
1 11 (10.68%) DNS
2 9 (8.74%) VPN
3 8 (7.77%) Firewall
4 7 (6.80%) Network Security
5 5 (4.85%) VLAN
6 2 (1.94%) DHCP
7 1 (0.97%) BIG-IP
7 1 (0.97%) SAN
7 1 (0.97%) WAN
7 1 (0.97%) WireGuard
Database & Business Intelligence
1 15 (14.56%) MongoDB
2 14 (13.59%) Azure SQL Database
3 9 (8.74%) NoSQL
4 8 (7.77%) PostgreSQL
5 7 (6.80%) SQL Server
6 5 (4.85%) Elasticsearch
7 4 (3.88%) Amazon RDS
8 3 (2.91%) Redis
9 2 (1.94%) Amazon Aurora
9 2 (1.94%) KNIME
9 2 (1.94%) MySQL
9 2 (1.94%) TimescaleDB
10 1 (0.97%) Data Mining
Development Applications
1 17 (16.50%) Git
2 11 (10.68%) JUnit
3 10 (9.71%) Maven
4 9 (8.74%) Mockito
5 5 (4.85%) Cucumber
5 5 (4.85%) GitLab
6 3 (2.91%) Subversion
7 2 (1.94%) Gatling
7 2 (1.94%) Jenkins
7 2 (1.94%) JMeter
7 2 (1.94%) Locust
7 2 (1.94%) Postman
7 2 (1.94%) Selenium
8 1 (0.97%) Bitbucket
8 1 (0.97%) JIRA
8 1 (0.97%) SpecFlow
General
1 15 (14.56%) Finance
2 12 (11.65%) Law
3 9 (8.74%) Social Skills
4 6 (5.83%) Advertising
5 5 (4.85%) Analytical Skills
5 5 (4.85%) Manufacturing
5 5 (4.85%) Marketing
6 4 (3.88%) Public Sector
7 3 (2.91%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 3 (2.91%) Retail
8 1 (0.97%) Automotive
8 1 (0.97%) Banking
8 1 (0.97%) Documentation Skills
8 1 (0.97%) Investment Banking
Job Titles
1 29 (28.16%) Developer
2 21 (20.39%) DevOps Engineer
3 20 (19.42%) Senior
4 18 (17.48%) Azure Engineer
5 17 (16.50%) Cloud Engineer
6 13 (12.62%) .NET Developer
6 13 (12.62%) Lead
7 10 (9.71%) Architect
8 8 (7.77%) 3rd Line Engineer
8 8 (7.77%) Azure DevOps Engineer
8 8 (7.77%) Full-Stack Developer
9 7 (6.80%) Senior Developer
9 7 (6.80%) Senior DevOps
9 7 (6.80%) Senior DevOps Engineer
9 7 (6.80%) Technical Architect
10 6 (5.83%) Infrastructure Engineer
11 5 (4.85%) AWS Engineer
11 5 (4.85%) Full-Stack Java Developer
11 5 (4.85%) Java Developer
11 5 (4.85%) Principal Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 30 (29.13%) .NET
2 25 (24.27%) React
3 23 (22.33%) ASP.NET
3 23 (22.33%) ASP.NET Core
4 20 (19.42%) Node.js
5 16 (15.53%) .NET Core
6 14 (13.59%) REST
7 12 (11.65%) Spring
8 11 (10.68%) .NET Framework
9 8 (7.77%) CSS
9 8 (7.77%) HTML
9 8 (7.77%) ML.NET
9 8 (7.77%) YAML
10 7 (6.80%) Kafka
11 6 (5.83%) AngularJS
11 6 (5.83%) Vue
12 5 (4.85%) ASP.NET Web API
12 5 (4.85%) Blazor
12 5 (4.85%) Entity Framework
12 5 (4.85%) RESTful
Miscellaneous
1 18 (17.48%) Cloud Native
2 8 (7.77%) Onboarding
3 6 (5.83%) Distributed Systems
4 4 (3.88%) Hybrid Cloud
4 4 (3.88%) Legacy Systems
5 3 (2.91%) Digital TV
6 2 (1.94%) Clustering
6 2 (1.94%) Cyber Threat
6 2 (1.94%) Data Centre
6 2 (1.94%) Enterprise Storage
6 2 (1.94%) Greenfield Project
6 2 (1.94%) Private Cloud
6 2 (1.94%) SCADA
6 2 (1.94%) Self-Motivation
7 1 (0.97%) Algorithms
7 1 (0.97%) Data Structures
7 1 (0.97%) Distributed Computing
7 1 (0.97%) Enterprise Software
7 1 (0.97%) Product Ownership
7 1 (0.97%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 28 (27.18%) Linux
2 15 (14.56%) Windows
3 4 (3.88%) Windows Server
4 3 (2.91%) Ubuntu
5 2 (1.94%) CentOS
5 2 (1.94%) Debian
6 1 (0.97%) Android
6 1 (0.97%) Apple iOS
6 1 (0.97%) Mac OS
Processes & Methodologies
1 68 (66.02%) CI/CD
2 46 (44.66%) Infrastructure as Code
3 45 (43.69%) Containerisation
4 44 (42.72%) Agile
5 40 (38.83%) DevOps
6 38 (36.89%) Microservices
7 26 (25.24%) Mentoring
8 25 (24.27%) Continuous Improvement
8 25 (24.27%) Full-Stack Development
9 22 (21.36%) AI
9 22 (21.36%) Observability
10 20 (19.42%) DevSecOps
10 20 (19.42%) Test Automation
11 19 (18.45%) High Availability
12 18 (17.48%) Problem-Solving
13 16 (15.53%) TDD
13 16 (15.53%) Technical Leadership
14 15 (14.56%) Scrum
15 13 (12.62%) Roadmaps
15 13 (12.62%) Software Engineering
Programming Languages
1 34 (33.01%) C#
2 31 (30.10%) SQL
3 24 (23.30%) PowerShell
4 22 (21.36%) Java
5 21 (20.39%) JavaScript
6 18 (17.48%) Bash
7 17 (16.50%) Python
7 17 (16.50%) TypeScript
8 9 (8.74%) Bicep
8 9 (8.74%) PL/SQL
9 3 (2.91%) Go
10 2 (1.94%) C
10 2 (1.94%) C++
10 2 (1.94%) Shell Script
11 1 (0.97%) Kusto Query Language
11 1 (0.97%) PHP
11 1 (0.97%) Rust
Qualifications
1 18 (17.48%) Azure Certification
1 18 (17.48%) Security Cleared
2 15 (14.56%) SC Cleared
3 8 (7.77%) DV Cleared
4 2 (1.94%) AWS Certification
4 2 (1.94%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
4 2 (1.94%) CISSP
4 2 (1.94%) CompTIA Security+
4 2 (1.94%) Degree
5 1 (0.97%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
5 1 (0.97%) AWS Certified SysOps Administrator
5 1 (0.97%) Computer Science Degree
5 1 (0.97%) CREST Certified
5 1 (0.97%) IISP
5 1 (0.97%) ISACA
5 1 (0.97%) OSCP
5 1 (0.97%) PMP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 7 (6.80%) Accessibility
1 7 (6.80%) QA
2 4 (3.88%) Cyber Essentials
2 4 (3.88%) WCAG
3 3 (2.91%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 2 (1.94%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
5 1 (0.97%) GxP
5 1 (0.97%) SOC 2
System Software
1 71 (68.93%) Docker
2 8 (7.77%) Active Directory
3 6 (5.83%) VMware Infrastructure
4 2 (1.94%) Hyper-V
5 1 (0.97%) Virtual Servers
Systems Management
1 45 (43.69%) Terraform
2 9 (8.74%) Grafana
3 8 (7.77%) Ansible
4 7 (6.80%) Prometheus
5 5 (4.85%) Argo
6 3 (2.91%) Istio
7 2 (1.94%) Nagios
7 2 (1.94%) Progress Chef
7 2 (1.94%) Puppet
8 1 (0.97%) Podman
Vendors
1 28 (27.18%) Microsoft
2 9 (8.74%) Oracle
3 8 (7.77%) CrowdStrike
4 6 (5.83%) VMware
5 5 (4.85%) Facebook
6 2 (1.94%) Dynatrace
6 2 (1.94%) Red Hat
7 1 (0.97%) F5