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

6 months to
1 Feb 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 163 126 115
Rank change year-on-year -37 -11 -27
Permanent jobs citing Kubernetes 63 123 167
As % of all permanent jobs in the Midlands 0.76% 1.98% 2.12%
As % of the Systems Management category 21.43% 30.00% 24.20%
Number of salaries quoted 44 73 134
10th Percentile £48,575 £42,500 £50,000
25th Percentile £52,475 £60,000 £55,625
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £66,000 £65,000 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year +1.54% - -7.14%
75th Percentile £75,446 £75,000 £78,750
90th Percentile £83,500 £87,500 £89,625
England median annual salary £75,000 £80,000 £75,000
% change year-on-year -6.25% +6.67% -5.44%

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 294 410 690
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the Midlands 3.56% 6.61% 8.77%
Number of salaries quoted 217 240 601
10th Percentile £28,500 £32,500 £28,500
25th Percentile £35,000 £40,938 £37,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £52,500 £52,500 £53,500
Median % change year-on-year - -1.87% +1.90%
75th Percentile £67,500 £66,050 £65,000
90th Percentile £78,766 £75,000 £82,500
England median annual salary £62,500 £70,000 £62,500
% change year-on-year -10.71% +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 1 February 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 1 February 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 -15 43 £70,000 +1.00% 36
East Midlands -18 19 £64,500 -0.77% 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 6 (9.52%) IIS
1 6 (9.52%) Oracle SOA Suite
2 1 (1.59%) SAS
Business Applications
1 1 (1.59%) Dynamics CRM
Cloud Services
1 37 (58.73%) AWS
2 30 (47.62%) Azure
3 9 (14.29%) Serverless
4 8 (12.70%) Azure DevOps
4 8 (12.70%) GitHub
5 7 (11.11%) Amazon CloudWatch
5 7 (11.11%) GCP
5 7 (11.11%) NuGet
5 7 (11.11%) SonarCloud
6 6 (9.52%) AWS Lambda
6 6 (9.52%) npm
6 6 (9.52%) SaaS
7 5 (7.94%) Amazon ECS
7 5 (7.94%) OpenShift
8 4 (6.35%) Amazon S3
8 4 (6.35%) AWS CloudFormation
8 4 (6.35%) PaaS
9 3 (4.76%) Amazon EKS
10 2 (3.17%) Amazon EC2
10 2 (3.17%) Azure Key Vault
Communications & Networking
1 1 (1.59%) Broadband
Database & Business Intelligence
1 9 (14.29%) NoSQL
2 8 (12.70%) PostgreSQL
2 8 (12.70%) SQL Server
3 4 (6.35%) Oracle Database
4 3 (4.76%) Delta Lake
4 3 (4.76%) Relational Database
4 3 (4.76%) TimescaleDB
5 2 (3.17%) Amazon RDS
5 2 (3.17%) Redis
6 1 (1.59%) Geospatial Data
6 1 (1.59%) InfluxDB
6 1 (1.59%) MongoDB
6 1 (1.59%) MySQL
6 1 (1.59%) Neo4j
6 1 (1.59%) Pentaho
6 1 (1.59%) Power BI
6 1 (1.59%) RDBMS
6 1 (1.59%) SQL Server Reporting Services
Development Applications
1 13 (20.63%) Git
2 12 (19.05%) JUnit
3 10 (15.87%) Jenkins
4 9 (14.29%) Mockito
5 8 (12.70%) GitLab
5 8 (12.70%) Maven
6 5 (7.94%) Cucumber
7 3 (4.76%) Selenium
8 2 (3.17%) SonarQube
9 1 (1.59%) Jaeger
9 1 (1.59%) JIRA
9 1 (1.59%) JMeter
9 1 (1.59%) Locust
9 1 (1.59%) MLflow
9 1 (1.59%) Snyk
9 1 (1.59%) SpecFlow
General
1 19 (30.16%) Social Skills
2 10 (15.87%) Finance
3 6 (9.52%) Public Sector
4 3 (4.76%) Analytical Skills
4 3 (4.76%) Military
5 2 (3.17%) Advertising
5 2 (3.17%) Automotive
5 2 (3.17%) Banking
5 2 (3.17%) Investment Banking
5 2 (3.17%) Law
6 1 (1.59%) Documentation Skills
6 1 (1.59%) Inclusion and Diversity
Job Titles
1 22 (34.92%) Senior
2 19 (30.16%) DevOps Engineer
3 14 (22.22%) Developer
4 10 (15.87%) Full-Stack Developer
4 10 (15.87%) Lead
5 9 (14.29%) Azure Engineer
5 9 (14.29%) Java Developer
5 9 (14.29%) Senior Developer
5 9 (14.29%) Senior DevOps
5 9 (14.29%) Senior DevOps Engineer
6 8 (12.70%) Full-Stack Java Developer
7 7 (11.11%) Platform Engineer
8 6 (9.52%) Senior Full-Stack Developer
8 6 (9.52%) Senior Java Developer
9 5 (7.94%) AWS Engineer
9 5 (7.94%) Azure DevOps Engineer
9 5 (7.94%) Cloud Engineer
9 5 (7.94%) Kubernetes Engineer
9 5 (7.94%) Lead DevOps
10 4 (6.35%) Cloud Platform Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 17 (26.98%) React
2 11 (17.46%) REST
2 11 (17.46%) Spring
3 10 (15.87%) .NET
3 10 (15.87%) Node.js
4 6 (9.52%) Spring Boot
4 6 (9.52%) YAML
5 5 (7.94%) .NET Framework
6 4 (6.35%) AngularJS
6 4 (6.35%) Elastic Stack
7 3 (4.76%) .NET Core
7 3 (4.76%) Django
7 3 (4.76%) Flask
7 3 (4.76%) GraphQL
7 3 (4.76%) gRPC
7 3 (4.76%) pytest
8 2 (3.17%) ASP.NET Core
8 2 (3.17%) HTML
8 2 (3.17%) OpenTelemetry
8 2 (3.17%) RESTful
Miscellaneous
1 6 (9.52%) Legacy Systems
1 6 (9.52%) Self-Motivation
2 5 (7.94%) Cloud Native
2 5 (7.94%) Product Ownership
3 4 (6.35%) Management Information System
4 2 (3.17%) Enterprise Software
4 2 (3.17%) Onboarding
5 1 (1.59%) Data Centre
5 1 (1.59%) Data Structures
5 1 (1.59%) Derivative
5 1 (1.59%) Hybrid Cloud
5 1 (1.59%) Legacy Applications
5 1 (1.59%) PKI
5 1 (1.59%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 27 (42.86%) Linux
2 11 (17.46%) Windows
3 1 (1.59%) Android
3 1 (1.59%) Apple iOS
3 1 (1.59%) Rocky
3 1 (1.59%) Unix
3 1 (1.59%) Windows Server
3 1 (1.59%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 48 (76.19%) DevOps
2 39 (61.90%) CI/CD
3 29 (46.03%) Agile
4 28 (44.44%) Microservices
5 25 (39.68%) Containerisation
6 23 (36.51%) Problem-Solving
7 22 (34.92%) Infrastructure as Code
8 13 (20.63%) Full-Stack Development
8 13 (20.63%) TDD
8 13 (20.63%) Test Automation
9 12 (19.05%) Continuous Improvement
10 11 (17.46%) Mentoring
11 9 (14.29%) DevSecOps
11 9 (14.29%) Scrum
11 9 (14.29%) SDLC
11 9 (14.29%) Software Engineering
11 9 (14.29%) Sprint Planning
12 8 (12.70%) Decision-Making
12 8 (12.70%) Platform Engineering
12 8 (12.70%) Project Delivery
Programming Languages
1 23 (36.51%) Java
1 23 (36.51%) Python
2 18 (28.57%) Bash
3 16 (25.40%) JavaScript
4 15 (23.81%) SQL
5 10 (15.87%) TypeScript
6 9 (14.29%) Go
6 9 (14.29%) PowerShell
7 8 (12.70%) C#
7 8 (12.70%) PL/SQL
8 6 (9.52%) C
9 4 (6.35%) R
10 3 (4.76%) C++
10 3 (4.76%) Delphi
11 1 (1.59%) Kusto Query Language
11 1 (1.59%) PHP
11 1 (1.59%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 24 (38.10%) Security Cleared
2 20 (31.75%) SC Cleared
3 5 (7.94%) DV Cleared
4 4 (6.35%) AWS Certification
5 3 (4.76%) Azure Certification
5 3 (4.76%) BPSS Clearance
6 2 (3.17%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
6 2 (3.17%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
6 2 (3.17%) AWS Certified SysOps Administrator
6 2 (3.17%) Computer Science Degree
6 2 (3.17%) Degree
7 1 (1.59%) CISSP
7 1 (1.59%) Master's Degree
7 1 (1.59%) Microsoft Certification
7 1 (1.59%) Network+ Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 6 (9.52%) QA
2 2 (3.17%) Accessibility
2 2 (3.17%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 1 (1.59%) Cyber Essentials
3 1 (1.59%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
3 1 (1.59%) Data Quality
3 1 (1.59%) GDPR
3 1 (1.59%) Government Security Classifications
3 1 (1.59%) SOC 2
3 1 (1.59%) WCAG
System Software
1 50 (79.37%) Docker
2 1 (1.59%) Active Directory
2 1 (1.59%) Hyper-V
Systems Management
1 26 (41.27%) Terraform
2 13 (20.63%) Ansible
3 6 (9.52%) Grafana
4 4 (6.35%) Argo
5 3 (4.76%) Prometheus
6 2 (3.17%) Kustomize
6 2 (3.17%) Nagios
7 1 (1.59%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 16 (25.40%) Oracle
2 6 (9.52%) CrowdStrike
3 3 (4.76%) Microsoft
4 2 (3.17%) AppDynamics
4 2 (3.17%) Google
5 1 (1.59%) Dell
5 1 (1.59%) Denodo
5 1 (1.59%) Dynatrace
5 1 (1.59%) OpenAI
5 1 (1.59%) Salesforce
5 1 (1.59%) Talend