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

6 months to
17 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 145 111 131
Rank change year-on-year -34 +20 -39
Permanent jobs citing Kubernetes 135 141 172
As % of all permanent jobs in the Midlands 0.87% 2.52% 1.71%
As % of the Systems Management category 34.62% 33.41% 33.59%
Number of salaries quoted 86 60 103
10th Percentile £47,500 £54,875 £34,000
25th Percentile £55,000 £57,500 £52,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £62,500 £67,500 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -7.41% +12.50% -6.98%
75th Percentile £80,000 £80,000 £68,750
90th Percentile £93,750 £84,625 £87,250
England median annual salary £70,079 £77,500 £77,500
% change year-on-year -9.58% - +3.33%

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 390 422 512
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the Midlands 2.52% 7.54% 5.10%
Number of salaries quoted 289 255 293
10th Percentile £30,800 £31,250 £31,250
25th Percentile £41,250 £39,000 £37,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £52,500 £52,500 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year - +5.00% -9.09%
75th Percentile £65,000 £71,250 £60,250
90th Percentile £83,000 £76,350 £73,500
England median annual salary £60,000 £62,250 £65,000
% change year-on-year -3.61% -4.23% -

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 17 September 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 17 September 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 -32 84 £70,000 +3.70% 77
East Midlands -48 51 £60,000 -5.88% 55
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 7 (5.19%) Oracle SOA Suite
2 4 (2.96%) IIS
3 2 (1.48%) Microsoft Exchange
4 1 (0.74%) Apache Spark
4 1 (0.74%) Mendix
4 1 (0.74%) SharePoint
Cloud Services
1 100 (74.07%) Azure
2 66 (48.89%) AWS
3 21 (15.56%) Azure AKS
4 20 (14.81%) GitHub
5 16 (11.85%) Azure DevOps
6 15 (11.11%) Azure ExpressRoute
7 12 (8.89%) Entra ID
7 12 (8.89%) GitHub Copilot
7 12 (8.89%) IaaS
8 11 (8.15%) GCP
9 9 (6.67%) Amazon EKS
10 7 (5.19%) Azure AI
11 6 (4.44%) Azure Key Vault
11 6 (4.44%) Azure Storage
11 6 (4.44%) GitHub Actions
11 6 (4.44%) SaaS
12 5 (3.70%) Azure Cosmos DB
12 5 (3.70%) Azure Service Bus
12 5 (3.70%) OpenShift
12 5 (3.70%) PaaS
Communications & Networking
1 14 (10.37%) VPN
2 11 (8.15%) DNS
3 10 (7.41%) Network Security
4 7 (5.19%) Firewall
5 5 (3.70%) VLAN
6 2 (1.48%) DHCP
6 2 (1.48%) HTTP
6 2 (1.48%) SSL
7 1 (0.74%) BIG-IP
7 1 (0.74%) SAN
7 1 (0.74%) WAN
7 1 (0.74%) WireGuard
Database & Business Intelligence
1 14 (10.37%) MongoDB
2 13 (9.63%) Azure SQL Database
3 7 (5.19%) SQL Server
4 6 (4.44%) PostgreSQL
5 5 (3.70%) Elasticsearch
5 5 (3.70%) NoSQL
6 3 (2.22%) Amazon RDS
7 2 (1.48%) Amazon Aurora
7 2 (1.48%) KNIME
7 2 (1.48%) MySQL
7 2 (1.48%) Power BI
7 2 (1.48%) Power Query
8 1 (0.74%) Amazon Redshift
8 1 (0.74%) Redis
Development Applications
1 21 (15.56%) Git
1 21 (15.56%) JUnit
2 17 (12.59%) Maven
3 14 (10.37%) Mockito
4 9 (6.67%) GitLab
5 8 (5.93%) Jenkins
6 7 (5.19%) Cucumber
6 7 (5.19%) Postman
6 7 (5.19%) Selenium
7 6 (4.44%) Gatling
8 3 (2.22%) Subversion
9 2 (1.48%) Ant
9 2 (1.48%) Apache Ivy
9 2 (1.48%) IBM UrbanCode
10 1 (0.74%) Cypress.io
10 1 (0.74%) Gradle
10 1 (0.74%) JMeter
10 1 (0.74%) REST Assured
10 1 (0.74%) TestNG
10 1 (0.74%) WebDriver
General
1 27 (20.00%) Finance
2 17 (12.59%) Social Skills
3 10 (7.41%) Law
4 8 (5.93%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 5 (3.70%) Manufacturing
5 5 (3.70%) Public Sector
5 5 (3.70%) Retail
6 4 (2.96%) Advertising
6 4 (2.96%) Analytical Skills
6 4 (2.96%) Marketing
7 1 (0.74%) Banking
7 1 (0.74%) Documentation Skills
Job Titles
1 33 (24.44%) Developer
2 31 (22.96%) Senior
3 29 (21.48%) DevOps Engineer
4 20 (14.81%) Architect
5 16 (11.85%) Cloud Engineer
6 13 (9.63%) Senior Developer
7 12 (8.89%) .NET Developer
7 12 (8.89%) Lead
7 12 (8.89%) Technical Architect
8 11 (8.15%) Azure Engineer
8 11 (8.15%) Full-Stack Developer
9 10 (7.41%) Full-Stack Java Developer
9 10 (7.41%) Java Developer
10 9 (6.67%) Azure Architect
11 8 (5.93%) Platform Engineer
11 8 (5.93%) Senior DevOps
11 8 (5.93%) Senior DevOps Engineer
11 8 (5.93%) Senior Full-Stack Developer
12 7 (5.19%) Senior Java Developer
13 6 (4.44%) Quality Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 56 (41.48%) Terraform
2 29 (21.48%) .NET
3 22 (16.30%) React
4 21 (15.56%) ASP.NET
4 21 (15.56%) ASP.NET Core
5 17 (12.59%) REST
6 15 (11.11%) .NET Core
6 15 (11.11%) Spring
7 12 (8.89%) Node.js
8 10 (7.41%) .NET Framework
9 7 (5.19%) CSS
9 7 (5.19%) HTML
9 7 (5.19%) ML.NET
9 7 (5.19%) Playwright
10 6 (4.44%) Blazor
10 6 (4.44%) Kafka
10 6 (4.44%) RESTful
11 5 (3.70%) AngularJS
11 5 (3.70%) ASP.NET Web API
11 5 (3.70%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 19 (14.07%) Cloud Native
2 9 (6.67%) Hybrid Cloud
3 8 (5.93%) Distributed Systems
3 8 (5.93%) Onboarding
4 7 (5.19%) Self-Motivation
5 4 (2.96%) Driving Licence
5 4 (2.96%) Legacy Systems
6 3 (2.22%) Digital TV
6 3 (2.22%) Product Ownership
6 3 (2.22%) Public Cloud
7 2 (1.48%) Clustering
7 2 (1.48%) Data Centre
7 2 (1.48%) Enterprise Storage
7 2 (1.48%) Management Information System
7 2 (1.48%) Online Gambling
7 2 (1.48%) Private Cloud
7 2 (1.48%) Robotics
7 2 (1.48%) SCADA
7 2 (1.48%) Tandem
7 2 (1.48%) Video\Live Streaming
Operating Systems
1 44 (32.59%) Linux
2 13 (9.63%) Windows
3 6 (4.44%) Windows Server
4 3 (2.22%) Unix
5 2 (1.48%) Solaris
5 2 (1.48%) Ubuntu
6 1 (0.74%) CentOS
6 1 (0.74%) Debian
6 1 (0.74%) Mac OS
Processes & Methodologies
1 89 (65.93%) CI/CD
2 64 (47.41%) Agile
3 63 (46.67%) Containerisation
4 52 (38.52%) DevOps
5 47 (34.81%) Infrastructure as Code
6 43 (31.85%) Microservices
7 40 (29.63%) Mentoring
8 32 (23.70%) AI
9 29 (21.48%) DevSecOps
9 29 (21.48%) Observability
10 27 (20.00%) Continuous Improvement
10 27 (20.00%) Full-Stack Development
10 27 (20.00%) Scrum
11 25 (18.52%) TDD
12 21 (15.56%) Problem-Solving
12 21 (15.56%) Technical Leadership
13 18 (13.33%) Software Engineering
14 17 (12.59%) Stakeholder Engagement
14 17 (12.59%) Test Automation
15 16 (11.85%) Cloud Security
Programming Languages
1 39 (28.89%) SQL
2 36 (26.67%) C#
3 26 (19.26%) JavaScript
4 24 (17.78%) Java
5 21 (15.56%) PowerShell
6 19 (14.07%) Bash
7 18 (13.33%) Python
8 14 (10.37%) PL/SQL
8 14 (10.37%) TypeScript
9 12 (8.89%) Bicep
10 5 (3.70%) Go
11 2 (1.48%) Data Analysis Expressions
11 2 (1.48%) VB.NET
12 1 (0.74%) PHP
12 1 (0.74%) Rust
12 1 (0.74%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 46 (34.07%) Security Cleared
2 42 (31.11%) SC Cleared
3 17 (12.59%) Azure Certification
4 11 (8.15%) DV Cleared
5 4 (2.96%) Degree
6 3 (2.22%) AWS Certification
6 3 (2.22%) BPSS Clearance
7 2 (1.48%) CISSP
7 2 (1.48%) CompTIA Security+
7 2 (1.48%) Computer Science Degree
8 1 (0.74%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
8 1 (0.74%) IISP
8 1 (0.74%) ISACA
8 1 (0.74%) PMP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 7 (5.19%) Accessibility
2 6 (4.44%) QA
2 6 (4.44%) WCAG
3 4 (2.96%) Cyber Essentials
4 3 (2.22%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 2 (1.48%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
5 2 (1.48%) SLA
6 1 (0.74%) GxP
6 1 (0.74%) SOC 2
System Software
1 91 (67.41%) Docker
2 12 (8.89%) Active Directory
3 11 (8.15%) VMware Infrastructure
4 2 (1.48%) Hyper-V
5 1 (0.74%) Virtual Servers
5 1 (0.74%) VMware NSX
5 1 (0.74%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 15 (11.11%) Ansible
2 8 (5.93%) Grafana
3 6 (4.44%) Prometheus
4 5 (3.70%) Argo
5 3 (2.22%) Istio
5 3 (2.22%) Progress Chef
5 3 (2.22%) Puppet
6 1 (0.74%) Podman
6 1 (0.74%) Salt
Vendors
1 43 (31.85%) Microsoft
2 14 (10.37%) Oracle
3 12 (8.89%) VMware
4 5 (3.70%) CrowdStrike
5 4 (2.96%) Facebook
5 4 (2.96%) Red Hat
5 4 (2.96%) ServiceNow
6 3 (2.22%) Workday
7 2 (1.48%) Dynatrace
7 2 (1.48%) IFS
7 2 (1.48%) Veracode
8 1 (0.74%) Databricks
8 1 (0.74%) F5