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

6 months to
24 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 173 105 162
Rank change year-on-year -68 +57 -49
Permanent jobs citing Kubernetes 83 135 170
As % of all permanent jobs in the Midlands 0.63% 2.75% 1.40%
As % of the Systems Management category 24.85% 34.62% 21.55%
Number of salaries quoted 60 59 136
10th Percentile £48,400 - £46,875
25th Percentile £57,500 £57,500 £52,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £66,000 £67,500 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -2.22% +12.50% -14.29%
75th Percentile £74,925 £75,000 £82,500
90th Percentile £85,250 £79,500 £91,250
England median annual salary £75,000 £82,500 £77,500
% change year-on-year -9.09% +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 334 390 789
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the Midlands 2.52% 7.94% 6.48%
Number of salaries quoted 262 241 625
10th Percentile £31,250 £32,500 £27,500
25th Percentile £41,375 £40,000 £36,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,000 £52,000 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year +9.62% +4.00% -9.09%
75th Percentile £70,000 £67,500 £65,000
90th Percentile £87,500 £75,000 £80,000
England median annual salary £65,000 £70,000 £62,500
% change year-on-year -7.14% +12.00% -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 24 May 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 May 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 -62 49 £70,000 +3.70% 19
East Midlands -45 33 £64,500 -0.77% 17
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 12 (14.46%) IIS
2 6 (7.23%) Oracle SOA Suite
3 1 (1.20%) Confluence
3 1 (1.20%) Mendix
3 1 (1.20%) Microsoft Exchange
Cloud Services
1 68 (81.93%) Azure
2 39 (46.99%) AWS
3 17 (20.48%) Azure DevOps
4 11 (13.25%) Azure AKS
4 11 (13.25%) GCP
4 11 (13.25%) npm
4 11 (13.25%) NuGet
4 11 (13.25%) SonarCloud
5 9 (10.84%) IaaS
6 8 (9.64%) Azure ExpressRoute
6 8 (9.64%) Azure Key Vault
6 8 (9.64%) Azure Storage
7 6 (7.23%) Serverless
8 5 (6.02%) GitHub
9 4 (4.82%) GitHub Copilot
9 4 (4.82%) SaaS
10 3 (3.61%) Amazon EC2
10 3 (3.61%) Azure Logic Apps
10 3 (3.61%) Azure Service Bus
10 3 (3.61%) PaaS
Communications & Networking
1 10 (12.05%) DNS
2 5 (6.02%) Firewall
3 3 (3.61%) Network Security
4 2 (2.41%) VLAN
4 2 (2.41%) VPN
5 1 (1.20%) Broadband
5 1 (1.20%) DHCP
5 1 (1.20%) SAN
5 1 (1.20%) WAN
5 1 (1.20%) WireGuard
Database & Business Intelligence
1 13 (15.66%) NoSQL
2 8 (9.64%) MongoDB
2 8 (9.64%) SQL Server
3 4 (4.82%) Azure SQL Database
3 4 (4.82%) PostgreSQL
4 3 (3.61%) Amazon RDS
4 3 (3.61%) Redis
4 3 (3.61%) TimescaleDB
5 2 (2.41%) Elasticsearch
6 1 (1.20%) Data Mining
6 1 (1.20%) InfluxDB
6 1 (1.20%) KNIME
6 1 (1.20%) RDBMS
6 1 (1.20%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 15 (18.07%) Git
2 13 (15.66%) Maven
3 12 (14.46%) JUnit
3 12 (14.46%) Mockito
4 4 (4.82%) Jenkins
5 3 (3.61%) Cucumber
6 2 (2.41%) GitLab
6 2 (2.41%) JMeter
6 2 (2.41%) Locust
7 1 (1.20%) Bitbucket
7 1 (1.20%) Jaeger
7 1 (1.20%) JIRA
7 1 (1.20%) MLflow
7 1 (1.20%) SpecFlow
7 1 (1.20%) Subversion
General
1 16 (19.28%) Social Skills
2 15 (18.07%) Finance
3 10 (12.05%) Law
4 5 (6.02%) Analytical Skills
5 4 (4.82%) Advertising
6 3 (3.61%) Banking
6 3 (3.61%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 3 (3.61%) Investment Banking
6 3 (3.61%) Military
6 3 (3.61%) Retail
7 2 (2.41%) Automotive
8 1 (1.20%) Manufacturing
8 1 (1.20%) Marketing
Job Titles
1 22 (26.51%) Azure Engineer
2 21 (25.30%) Developer
3 20 (24.10%) Senior
4 18 (21.69%) DevOps Engineer
5 14 (16.87%) Lead
6 13 (15.66%) Cloud Engineer
7 12 (14.46%) Full-Stack Developer
8 10 (12.05%) Azure DevOps Engineer
9 9 (10.84%) Full-Stack Java Developer
9 9 (10.84%) Java Developer
9 9 (10.84%) Senior Developer
9 9 (10.84%) Senior DevOps
9 9 (10.84%) Senior DevOps Engineer
10 8 (9.64%) 3rd Line Engineer
11 6 (7.23%) Lead DevOps
11 6 (7.23%) Senior Full-Stack Developer
11 6 (7.23%) Senior Java Developer
12 5 (6.02%) Infrastructure Engineer
12 5 (6.02%) Platform Engineer
12 5 (6.02%) Principal Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 27 (32.53%) React
2 24 (28.92%) .NET
3 20 (24.10%) Node.js
4 14 (16.87%) ASP.NET
4 14 (16.87%) ASP.NET Core
4 14 (16.87%) REST
5 13 (15.66%) .NET Framework
6 11 (13.25%) YAML
7 10 (12.05%) Spring
8 9 (10.84%) .NET Core
9 7 (8.43%) Kafka
10 5 (6.02%) ASP.NET Web API
10 5 (6.02%) Entity Framework
11 4 (4.82%) GraphQL
11 4 (4.82%) RESTful
12 3 (3.61%) AngularJS
12 3 (3.61%) OpenTelemetry
12 3 (3.61%) Vue
13 2 (2.41%) Gherkin
13 2 (2.41%) ML.NET
Miscellaneous
1 11 (13.25%) Cloud Native
2 6 (7.23%) Self-Motivation
3 5 (6.02%) Distributed Systems
3 5 (6.02%) Legacy Systems
4 4 (4.82%) Management Information System
5 3 (3.61%) Enterprise Software
5 3 (3.61%) Onboarding
5 3 (3.61%) Product Ownership
6 1 (1.20%) Algorithms
6 1 (1.20%) Clustering
6 1 (1.20%) Cyber Threat
6 1 (1.20%) Data Centre
6 1 (1.20%) Data Structures
6 1 (1.20%) Digital TV
6 1 (1.20%) Distributed Computing
6 1 (1.20%) Private Cloud
6 1 (1.20%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 30 (36.14%) Linux
2 14 (16.87%) Windows
3 3 (3.61%) Ubuntu
4 2 (2.41%) CentOS
4 2 (2.41%) Debian
5 1 (1.20%) Android
5 1 (1.20%) Apple iOS
5 1 (1.20%) Mac OS
5 1 (1.20%) Unix
5 1 (1.20%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 52 (62.65%) CI/CD
2 48 (57.83%) Agile
3 43 (51.81%) DevOps
4 42 (50.60%) Microservices
5 38 (45.78%) Containerisation
6 37 (44.58%) Infrastructure as Code
7 22 (26.51%) Continuous Improvement
8 21 (25.30%) Problem-Solving
9 20 (24.10%) Mentoring
10 19 (22.89%) High Availability
11 18 (21.69%) Full-Stack Development
11 18 (21.69%) Test Automation
12 16 (19.28%) DevSecOps
13 15 (18.07%) AI
13 15 (18.07%) Scrum
13 15 (18.07%) Technical Leadership
14 14 (16.87%) Observability
14 14 (16.87%) TDD
15 12 (14.46%) Migration
16 11 (13.25%) Sprint Planning
Programming Languages
1 27 (32.53%) C#
2 25 (30.12%) Bash
2 25 (30.12%) Java
3 24 (28.92%) SQL
4 23 (27.71%) PowerShell
5 22 (26.51%) JavaScript
6 19 (22.89%) Python
7 14 (16.87%) TypeScript
8 12 (14.46%) PL/SQL
9 7 (8.43%) C
10 4 (4.82%) C++
10 4 (4.82%) Go
10 4 (4.82%) R
11 3 (3.61%) Bicep
12 2 (2.41%) Shell Script
13 1 (1.20%) Kusto Query Language
13 1 (1.20%) Rust
Qualifications
1 15 (18.07%) Azure Certification
2 14 (16.87%) SC Cleared
2 14 (16.87%) Security Cleared
3 4 (4.82%) AWS Certification
4 3 (3.61%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
4 3 (3.61%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
4 3 (3.61%) AWS Certified SysOps Administrator
5 2 (2.41%) Computer Science Degree
5 2 (2.41%) Degree
5 2 (2.41%) DV Cleared
6 1 (1.20%) CISSP
6 1 (1.20%) CREST Certified
6 1 (1.20%) IISP
6 1 (1.20%) ISACA
6 1 (1.20%) Master's Degree
6 1 (1.20%) OSCP
6 1 (1.20%) PMP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 8 (9.64%) QA
2 4 (4.82%) Accessibility
3 2 (2.41%) WCAG
4 1 (1.20%) Cyber Essentials
4 1 (1.20%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
4 1 (1.20%) GDPR
4 1 (1.20%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 1 (1.20%) SOC 2
System Software
1 60 (72.29%) Docker
2 2 (2.41%) Active Directory
3 1 (1.20%) Virtual Servers
Systems Management
1 38 (45.78%) Terraform
2 11 (13.25%) Ansible
3 5 (6.02%) Grafana
3 5 (6.02%) Prometheus
4 3 (3.61%) Nagios
5 2 (2.41%) Argo
5 2 (2.41%) Progress Chef
5 2 (2.41%) Puppet
6 1 (1.20%) Istio
6 1 (1.20%) Kustomize
6 1 (1.20%) Podman
Vendors
1 15 (18.07%) Microsoft
2 12 (14.46%) Oracle
3 11 (13.25%) CrowdStrike
4 2 (2.41%) Dynatrace
4 2 (2.41%) Red Hat
5 1 (1.20%) Facebook
5 1 (1.20%) Google
5 1 (1.20%) OpenAI
5 1 (1.20%) Salesforce