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

6 months to
21 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 176 107 161
Rank change year-on-year -69 +54 -56
Permanent jobs citing Kubernetes 83 138 172
As % of all permanent jobs in the Midlands 0.63% 2.70% 1.44%
As % of the Systems Management category 25.23% 34.41% 21.74%
Number of salaries quoted 60 62 136
10th Percentile £48,400 - £46,875
25th Percentile £57,500 £57,500 £52,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £67,500 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -3.70% +12.50% -14.29%
75th Percentile £74,066 £75,000 £82,500
90th Percentile £85,000 £83,625 £90,625
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 329 401 791
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the Midlands 2.50% 7.84% 6.64%
Number of salaries quoted 258 250 625
10th Percentile £31,250 £32,500 £27,500
25th Percentile £41,375 £40,000 £36,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,500 £52,500 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year +9.52% +5.00% -9.09%
75th Percentile £70,000 £67,500 £65,000
90th Percentile £87,500 £75,000 £80,000
England median annual salary £65,000 £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 21 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 21 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 -75 49 £68,750 +1.85% 22
East Midlands -40 32 £64,500 -0.77% 18
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
Cloud Services
1 67 (80.72%) Azure
2 40 (48.19%) AWS
3 18 (21.69%) Azure DevOps
4 12 (14.46%) NuGet
5 11 (13.25%) Azure AKS
5 11 (13.25%) GCP
5 11 (13.25%) npm
5 11 (13.25%) SonarCloud
6 9 (10.84%) IaaS
7 8 (9.64%) Azure ExpressRoute
7 8 (9.64%) Azure Key Vault
7 8 (9.64%) Azure Storage
8 6 (7.23%) GitHub
8 6 (7.23%) Serverless
9 5 (6.02%) SaaS
10 4 (4.82%) GitHub Copilot
11 3 (3.61%) Amazon EC2
11 3 (3.61%) Azure Logic Apps
11 3 (3.61%) Azure Service Bus
11 3 (3.61%) PaaS
Communications & Networking
1 9 (10.84%) DNS
2 4 (4.82%) Firewall
3 3 (3.61%) Network Security
4 1 (1.20%) Broadband
4 1 (1.20%) SAN
4 1 (1.20%) VLAN
4 1 (1.20%) VPN
4 1 (1.20%) WAN
4 1 (1.20%) WireGuard
Database & Business Intelligence
1 13 (15.66%) NoSQL
2 8 (9.64%) SQL Server
3 7 (8.43%) MongoDB
4 4 (4.82%) Azure SQL Database
4 4 (4.82%) PostgreSQL
5 3 (3.61%) Amazon RDS
5 3 (3.61%) Redis
5 3 (3.61%) TimescaleDB
6 2 (2.41%) Elasticsearch
7 1 (1.20%) Data Mining
7 1 (1.20%) InfluxDB
7 1 (1.20%) RDBMS
7 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%) Finance
1 16 (19.28%) Social Skills
2 10 (12.05%) Law
3 5 (6.02%) Analytical Skills
4 4 (4.82%) Advertising
5 3 (3.61%) Banking
5 3 (3.61%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 3 (3.61%) Investment Banking
5 3 (3.61%) Military
5 3 (3.61%) Retail
6 2 (2.41%) Automotive
7 1 (1.20%) Documentation Skills
7 1 (1.20%) Manufacturing
7 1 (1.20%) Marketing
Job Titles
1 23 (27.71%) Azure Engineer
2 21 (25.30%) Developer
2 21 (25.30%) Senior
3 18 (21.69%) DevOps Engineer
4 14 (16.87%) Cloud Engineer
4 14 (16.87%) Lead
5 12 (14.46%) Full-Stack Developer
6 10 (12.05%) Azure DevOps Engineer
7 9 (10.84%) Full-Stack Java Developer
7 9 (10.84%) Java Developer
7 9 (10.84%) Senior Developer
7 9 (10.84%) Senior DevOps
7 9 (10.84%) Senior DevOps Engineer
8 8 (9.64%) 3rd Line Engineer
9 6 (7.23%) Lead DevOps
9 6 (7.23%) Senior Full-Stack Developer
9 6 (7.23%) Senior Java Developer
10 5 (6.02%) Platform Engineer
11 4 (4.82%) .NET Developer
11 4 (4.82%) Lead DevOps 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%) REST
5 13 (15.66%) ASP.NET
5 13 (15.66%) ASP.NET Core
6 12 (14.46%) .NET Framework
7 11 (13.25%) YAML
8 10 (12.05%) Spring
9 9 (10.84%) .NET Core
10 6 (7.23%) Kafka
11 4 (4.82%) ASP.NET Web API
11 4 (4.82%) 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 10 (12.05%) Cloud Native
2 6 (7.23%) Self-Motivation
3 5 (6.02%) Legacy Systems
4 4 (4.82%) Distributed 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 Structures
6 1 (1.20%) Digital TV
6 1 (1.20%) Distributed Computing
6 1 (1.20%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 29 (34.94%) Linux
2 13 (15.66%) 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
Processes & Methodologies
1 52 (62.65%) CI/CD
2 48 (57.83%) Agile
3 43 (51.81%) DevOps
4 42 (50.60%) Microservices
5 40 (48.19%) Containerisation
6 36 (43.37%) Infrastructure as Code
7 21 (25.30%) Problem-Solving
8 20 (24.10%) Continuous Improvement
9 19 (22.89%) Mentoring
10 18 (21.69%) Full-Stack Development
10 18 (21.69%) High Availability
10 18 (21.69%) Test Automation
11 17 (20.48%) DevSecOps
12 15 (18.07%) AI
12 15 (18.07%) Scrum
13 14 (16.87%) TDD
13 14 (16.87%) Technical Leadership
14 13 (15.66%) Observability
15 12 (14.46%) Migration
16 11 (13.25%) Sprint Planning
Programming Languages
1 26 (31.33%) C#
2 25 (30.12%) Bash
2 25 (30.12%) Java
3 24 (28.92%) SQL
4 22 (26.51%) PowerShell
5 21 (25.30%) JavaScript
6 19 (22.89%) Python
7 13 (15.66%) 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 2 (2.41%) Bicep
11 2 (2.41%) Shell Script
12 1 (1.20%) Kusto Query Language
12 1 (1.20%) Rust
Qualifications
1 15 (18.07%) Azure Certification
1 15 (18.07%) SC Cleared
1 15 (18.07%) Security Cleared
2 4 (4.82%) AWS Certification
3 3 (3.61%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
3 3 (3.61%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
3 3 (3.61%) AWS Certified SysOps Administrator
4 2 (2.41%) Computer Science Degree
4 2 (2.41%) Degree
4 2 (2.41%) DV Cleared
5 1 (1.20%) CISSP
5 1 (1.20%) CREST Certified
5 1 (1.20%) IISP
5 1 (1.20%) ISACA
5 1 (1.20%) Master's Degree
5 1 (1.20%) Microsoft Certification
5 1 (1.20%) OSCP
5 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%) GDPR
4 1 (1.20%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 1 (1.20%) SOC 2
System Software
1 61 (73.49%) Docker
2 1 (1.20%) Active Directory
2 1 (1.20%) Virtual Servers
Systems Management
1 38 (45.78%) Terraform
2 12 (14.46%) 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 14 (16.87%) 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