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

6 months to
27 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 144 114 126
Rank change year-on-year -30 +12 -26
Permanent jobs citing Kubernetes 133 149 179
As % of all permanent jobs in the Midlands 0.90% 2.56% 1.66%
As % of the Systems Management category 36.04% 34.81% 33.15%
Number of salaries quoted 88 68 133
10th Percentile £47,500 £54,625 £36,250
25th Percentile £55,000 £57,500 £52,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £63,250 £67,500 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -6.30% +12.50% -14.29%
75th Percentile £80,000 £77,813 £72,500
90th Percentile £93,750 £81,125 £88,750
England median annual salary £70,000 £80,000 £77,500
% change year-on-year -12.50% +3.23% +2.42%

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 369 428 540
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the Midlands 2.50% 7.34% 5.01%
Number of salaries quoted 281 262 370
10th Percentile £31,250 £31,250 £30,000
25th Percentile £41,250 £40,000 £37,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £54,500 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year +0.92% +9.00% -9.09%
75th Percentile £67,500 £71,250 £62,500
90th Percentile £85,000 £76,125 £75,000
England median annual salary £60,000 £62,500 £62,500
% change year-on-year -4.00% - -3.85%

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 27 August 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 27 August 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 -30 88 £70,079 +3.82% 57
East Midlands -31 45 £60,000 -5.88% 39
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 (5.26%) Oracle SOA Suite
2 6 (4.51%) IIS
3 2 (1.50%) Microsoft Exchange
4 1 (0.75%) Confluence
4 1 (0.75%) Mendix
4 1 (0.75%) SharePoint
Cloud Services
1 100 (75.19%) Azure
2 67 (50.38%) AWS
3 23 (17.29%) Azure AKS
4 21 (15.79%) GitHub
5 18 (13.53%) Azure DevOps
6 17 (12.78%) Azure ExpressRoute
7 14 (10.53%) IaaS
8 13 (9.77%) GitHub Copilot
9 12 (9.02%) Entra ID
9 12 (9.02%) GCP
10 9 (6.77%) SaaS
11 8 (6.02%) Azure AI
11 8 (6.02%) Azure Key Vault
11 8 (6.02%) Azure Storage
12 7 (5.26%) Amazon EKS
12 7 (5.26%) PaaS
12 7 (5.26%) SonarCloud
13 6 (4.51%) GitHub Actions
14 5 (3.76%) Azure Cosmos DB
14 5 (3.76%) npm
Communications & Networking
1 14 (10.53%) VPN
2 13 (9.77%) DNS
3 11 (8.27%) Network Security
4 7 (5.26%) Firewall
5 5 (3.76%) VLAN
6 2 (1.50%) DHCP
6 2 (1.50%) HTTP
6 2 (1.50%) SSL
7 1 (0.75%) BIG-IP
7 1 (0.75%) SAN
7 1 (0.75%) WAN
7 1 (0.75%) WireGuard
Database & Business Intelligence
1 15 (11.28%) MongoDB
2 14 (10.53%) Azure SQL Database
3 9 (6.77%) SQL Server
4 7 (5.26%) NoSQL
5 6 (4.51%) PostgreSQL
6 5 (3.76%) Elasticsearch
7 3 (2.26%) Amazon RDS
8 2 (1.50%) Amazon Aurora
8 2 (1.50%) KNIME
8 2 (1.50%) MySQL
8 2 (1.50%) Power BI
8 2 (1.50%) Power Query
9 1 (0.75%) Data Mining
9 1 (0.75%) Redis
Development Applications
1 23 (17.29%) Git
2 21 (15.79%) JUnit
3 17 (12.78%) Maven
4 14 (10.53%) Mockito
5 9 (6.77%) Cucumber
5 9 (6.77%) GitLab
6 8 (6.02%) Jenkins
7 7 (5.26%) Postman
7 7 (5.26%) Selenium
8 6 (4.51%) Gatling
9 3 (2.26%) JMeter
9 3 (2.26%) Subversion
10 2 (1.50%) Ant
10 2 (1.50%) Apache Ivy
10 2 (1.50%) IBM UrbanCode
10 2 (1.50%) Locust
11 1 (0.75%) Cypress.io
11 1 (0.75%) REST Assured
11 1 (0.75%) TestNG
11 1 (0.75%) WebDriver
General
1 25 (18.80%) Finance
2 17 (12.78%) Social Skills
3 12 (9.02%) Law
4 10 (7.52%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 5 (3.76%) Advertising
5 5 (3.76%) Analytical Skills
5 5 (3.76%) Manufacturing
5 5 (3.76%) Marketing
5 5 (3.76%) Public Sector
5 5 (3.76%) Retail
6 1 (0.75%) Banking
6 1 (0.75%) Documentation Skills
Job Titles
1 33 (24.81%) Developer
2 27 (20.30%) Senior
3 23 (17.29%) DevOps Engineer
4 19 (14.29%) Architect
4 19 (14.29%) Cloud Engineer
5 16 (12.03%) Azure Engineer
6 13 (9.77%) .NET Developer
6 13 (9.77%) Lead
7 12 (9.02%) Senior Developer
7 12 (9.02%) Technical Architect
8 11 (8.27%) Full-Stack Developer
9 10 (7.52%) Full-Stack Java Developer
9 10 (7.52%) Java Developer
10 9 (6.77%) Azure Architect
11 8 (6.02%) 3rd Line Engineer
11 8 (6.02%) Platform Engineer
11 8 (6.02%) Senior Full-Stack Developer
12 7 (5.26%) Senior Java Developer
13 6 (4.51%) Azure DevOps Engineer
13 6 (4.51%) Quality Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 60 (45.11%) Terraform
2 32 (24.06%) .NET
3 24 (18.05%) React
4 23 (17.29%) ASP.NET
4 23 (17.29%) ASP.NET Core
5 18 (13.53%) REST
6 17 (12.78%) .NET Core
7 15 (11.28%) Spring
8 14 (10.53%) Node.js
9 11 (8.27%) .NET Framework
10 8 (6.02%) CSS
10 8 (6.02%) HTML
10 8 (6.02%) ML.NET
11 7 (5.26%) Blazor
11 7 (5.26%) Playwright
11 7 (5.26%) YAML
12 6 (4.51%) Kafka
12 6 (4.51%) RESTful
13 5 (3.76%) AngularJS
13 5 (3.76%) Vue
Miscellaneous
1 21 (15.79%) Cloud Native
2 9 (6.77%) Hybrid Cloud
3 8 (6.02%) Distributed Systems
3 8 (6.02%) Onboarding
4 7 (5.26%) Self-Motivation
5 5 (3.76%) Legacy Systems
6 3 (2.26%) Digital TV
6 3 (2.26%) Product Ownership
6 3 (2.26%) Public Cloud
7 2 (1.50%) Clustering
7 2 (1.50%) Data Centre
7 2 (1.50%) Driving Licence
7 2 (1.50%) Enterprise Storage
7 2 (1.50%) Legacy Applications
7 2 (1.50%) Management Information System
7 2 (1.50%) Online Gambling
7 2 (1.50%) Robotics
7 2 (1.50%) SCADA
7 2 (1.50%) Tandem
7 2 (1.50%) Video\Live Streaming
Operating Systems
1 43 (32.33%) Linux
2 15 (11.28%) Windows
3 6 (4.51%) Windows Server
4 3 (2.26%) Unix
5 2 (1.50%) Solaris
5 2 (1.50%) Ubuntu
6 1 (0.75%) CentOS
6 1 (0.75%) Debian
6 1 (0.75%) Mac OS
Processes & Methodologies
1 88 (66.17%) CI/CD
2 66 (49.62%) Agile
3 63 (47.37%) Containerisation
4 51 (38.35%) Infrastructure as Code
5 48 (36.09%) DevOps
6 45 (33.83%) Microservices
7 41 (30.83%) Mentoring
8 32 (24.06%) AI
9 29 (21.80%) Continuous Improvement
9 29 (21.80%) DevSecOps
10 28 (21.05%) Observability
10 28 (21.05%) Scrum
11 27 (20.30%) Full-Stack Development
12 25 (18.80%) TDD
13 23 (17.29%) Problem-Solving
13 23 (17.29%) Technical Leadership
14 21 (15.79%) Test Automation
15 17 (12.78%) High Availability
15 17 (12.78%) Stakeholder Engagement
16 16 (12.03%) Software Engineering
Programming Languages
1 37 (27.82%) C#
1 37 (27.82%) SQL
2 27 (20.30%) Java
2 27 (20.30%) PowerShell
3 26 (19.55%) JavaScript
4 21 (15.79%) Bash
5 20 (15.04%) Python
6 15 (11.28%) TypeScript
7 14 (10.53%) Bicep
7 14 (10.53%) PL/SQL
8 5 (3.76%) Go
9 2 (1.50%) Data Analysis Expressions
9 2 (1.50%) VB.NET
10 1 (0.75%) Kusto Query Language
10 1 (0.75%) PHP
10 1 (0.75%) Rust
10 1 (0.75%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 45 (33.83%) Security Cleared
2 41 (30.83%) SC Cleared
3 20 (15.04%) Azure Certification
4 13 (9.77%) DV Cleared
5 5 (3.76%) Degree
6 3 (2.26%) AWS Certification
6 3 (2.26%) BPSS Clearance
6 3 (2.26%) Computer Science Degree
7 2 (1.50%) CISSP
7 2 (1.50%) CompTIA Security+
8 1 (0.75%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
8 1 (0.75%) IISP
8 1 (0.75%) ISACA
8 1 (0.75%) PMP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 9 (6.77%) Accessibility
2 8 (6.02%) QA
2 8 (6.02%) WCAG
3 4 (3.01%) Cyber Essentials
4 3 (2.26%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 2 (1.50%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
5 2 (1.50%) SLA
6 1 (0.75%) GxP
6 1 (0.75%) SOC 2
System Software
1 86 (64.66%) Docker
2 12 (9.02%) Active Directory
3 11 (8.27%) VMware Infrastructure
4 2 (1.50%) Hyper-V
5 1 (0.75%) Virtual Servers
Systems Management
1 14 (10.53%) Ansible
2 10 (7.52%) Grafana
3 5 (3.76%) Argo
3 5 (3.76%) Prometheus
4 3 (2.26%) Istio
4 3 (2.26%) Progress Chef
4 3 (2.26%) Puppet
5 1 (0.75%) Podman
Vendors
1 42 (31.58%) Microsoft
2 14 (10.53%) Oracle
3 11 (8.27%) VMware
4 7 (5.26%) CrowdStrike
5 5 (3.76%) Facebook
6 4 (3.01%) Red Hat
6 4 (3.01%) ServiceNow
7 3 (2.26%) Dynatrace
7 3 (2.26%) Workday
8 2 (1.50%) IFS
8 2 (1.50%) Veracode
9 1 (0.75%) F5