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

6 months to
3 Oct 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 146 114 140
Rank change year-on-year -32 +26 -50
Permanent jobs citing Kubernetes 140 145 159
As % of all permanent jobs in the Midlands 0.89% 2.58% 1.65%
As % of the Systems Management category 34.74% 34.44% 31.74%
Number of salaries quoted 91 61 87
10th Percentile £47,500 £55,000 £34,000
25th Percentile £55,000 £57,500 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £67,500 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -3.70% +12.50% -4.00%
75th Percentile £76,837 £80,000 £71,875
90th Percentile £93,750 £87,500 £90,750
England median annual salary £70,000 £77,500 £77,500
% change year-on-year -9.68% - +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 403 421 501
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the Midlands 2.55% 7.50% 5.19%
Number of salaries quoted 299 250 263
10th Percentile £29,000 £31,250 £31,300
25th Percentile £40,625 £39,000 £37,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £52,500 £55,000 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% +10.00% -9.09%
75th Percentile £65,000 £72,500 £62,500
90th Percentile £80,000 £77,500 £75,000
England median annual salary £60,000 £60,000 £65,000
% change year-on-year - -7.69% -

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 3 October 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 3 October 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 -42 83 £70,000 +3.70% 137
East Midlands -39 57 £61,250 -3.92% 100
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 (5.00%) Oracle SOA Suite
2 3 (2.14%) IIS
3 2 (1.43%) Microsoft Exchange
4 1 (0.71%) Apache Spark
4 1 (0.71%) Mendix
4 1 (0.71%) SharePoint
Business Applications
1 1 (0.71%) Maximo
Cloud Services
1 104 (74.29%) Azure
2 69 (49.29%) AWS
3 20 (14.29%) Azure AKS
3 20 (14.29%) GitHub
4 14 (10.00%) Azure ExpressRoute
5 13 (9.29%) Azure DevOps
6 12 (8.57%) Entra ID
6 12 (8.57%) GitHub Copilot
7 11 (7.86%) GCP
7 11 (7.86%) IaaS
8 9 (6.43%) Amazon EKS
9 7 (5.00%) Azure AI
10 6 (4.29%) GitHub Actions
10 6 (4.29%) OpenShift
10 6 (4.29%) SaaS
11 5 (3.57%) Azure Cosmos DB
11 5 (3.57%) Azure Key Vault
11 5 (3.57%) Azure Storage
11 5 (3.57%) PaaS
12 4 (2.86%) Azure Logic Apps
Communications & Networking
1 14 (10.00%) VPN
2 10 (7.14%) DNS
2 10 (7.14%) Network Security
3 7 (5.00%) Firewall
4 5 (3.57%) VLAN
5 2 (1.43%) DHCP
5 2 (1.43%) HTTP
5 2 (1.43%) SSL
6 1 (0.71%) BIG-IP
6 1 (0.71%) SAN
6 1 (0.71%) WAN
6 1 (0.71%) WireGuard
Database & Business Intelligence
1 14 (10.00%) MongoDB
2 13 (9.29%) Azure SQL Database
3 5 (3.57%) Elasticsearch
3 5 (3.57%) PostgreSQL
3 5 (3.57%) SQL Server
4 4 (2.86%) NoSQL
5 3 (2.14%) Amazon RDS
6 2 (1.43%) Amazon Aurora
6 2 (1.43%) KNIME
6 2 (1.43%) MySQL
6 2 (1.43%) Power BI
6 2 (1.43%) Power Query
7 1 (0.71%) Amazon Redshift
7 1 (0.71%) Db2
7 1 (0.71%) Redis
Development Applications
1 21 (15.00%) JUnit
2 20 (14.29%) Git
3 17 (12.14%) Maven
4 14 (10.00%) Mockito
5 9 (6.43%) GitLab
5 9 (6.43%) Jenkins
6 7 (5.00%) Cucumber
6 7 (5.00%) Postman
6 7 (5.00%) Selenium
7 6 (4.29%) Gatling
8 3 (2.14%) Subversion
9 2 (1.43%) Ant
9 2 (1.43%) Apache Ivy
9 2 (1.43%) IBM UrbanCode
10 1 (0.71%) Cypress.io
10 1 (0.71%) Gradle
10 1 (0.71%) JMeter
10 1 (0.71%) REST Assured
10 1 (0.71%) TestNG
10 1 (0.71%) WebDriver
General
1 26 (18.57%) Finance
2 18 (12.86%) Social Skills
3 9 (6.43%) Law
4 8 (5.71%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 5 (3.57%) Manufacturing
5 5 (3.57%) Public Sector
6 4 (2.86%) Advertising
6 4 (2.86%) Analytical Skills
6 4 (2.86%) Marketing
6 4 (2.86%) Retail
7 1 (0.71%) Aerospace
7 1 (0.71%) Banking
7 1 (0.71%) Documentation Skills
Job Titles
1 33 (23.57%) DevOps Engineer
1 33 (23.57%) Senior
2 31 (22.14%) Developer
3 21 (15.00%) Architect
4 15 (10.71%) Cloud Engineer
5 12 (8.57%) .NET Developer
5 12 (8.57%) Senior Developer
5 12 (8.57%) Technical Architect
6 11 (7.86%) Full-Stack Developer
6 11 (7.86%) Lead
6 11 (7.86%) Senior DevOps
6 11 (7.86%) Senior DevOps Engineer
7 10 (7.14%) Full-Stack Java Developer
7 10 (7.14%) Java Developer
8 9 (6.43%) Azure Architect
8 9 (6.43%) Azure Engineer
9 8 (5.71%) Platform Engineer
9 8 (5.71%) Senior Full-Stack Developer
10 7 (5.00%) Senior Java Developer
11 6 (4.29%) Quality Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 55 (39.29%) Terraform
2 30 (21.43%) .NET
3 21 (15.00%) ASP.NET
3 21 (15.00%) ASP.NET Core
4 20 (14.29%) React
5 17 (12.14%) REST
6 15 (10.71%) Spring
7 14 (10.00%) .NET Core
8 10 (7.14%) Node.js
9 9 (6.43%) .NET Framework
10 7 (5.00%) Blazor
10 7 (5.00%) CSS
10 7 (5.00%) HTML
10 7 (5.00%) ML.NET
10 7 (5.00%) Playwright
11 6 (4.29%) RESTful
12 5 (3.57%) AngularJS
12 5 (3.57%) Entity Framework
12 5 (3.57%) Kafka
12 5 (3.57%) Vue
Miscellaneous
1 19 (13.57%) Cloud Native
2 11 (7.86%) Distributed Systems
3 9 (6.43%) Hybrid Cloud
4 8 (5.71%) Onboarding
5 7 (5.00%) Self-Motivation
6 4 (2.86%) Driving Licence
7 3 (2.14%) Digital TV
7 3 (2.14%) Enterprise Software
7 3 (2.14%) Legacy Systems
7 3 (2.14%) Product Ownership
7 3 (2.14%) Public Cloud
7 3 (2.14%) Robotics
8 2 (1.43%) Clustering
8 2 (1.43%) Enterprise Storage
8 2 (1.43%) Management Information System
8 2 (1.43%) Online Gambling
8 2 (1.43%) Private Cloud
8 2 (1.43%) SCADA
8 2 (1.43%) Tandem
8 2 (1.43%) Video\Live Streaming
Operating Systems
1 45 (32.14%) Linux
2 12 (8.57%) Windows
3 6 (4.29%) Windows Server
4 3 (2.14%) Unix
5 2 (1.43%) Solaris
5 2 (1.43%) Ubuntu
6 1 (0.71%) CentOS
6 1 (0.71%) Debian
6 1 (0.71%) Mac OS
Processes & Methodologies
1 95 (67.86%) CI/CD
2 66 (47.14%) Containerisation
3 61 (43.57%) Agile
4 55 (39.29%) DevOps
5 45 (32.14%) Infrastructure as Code
6 44 (31.43%) Microservices
7 40 (28.57%) Mentoring
8 34 (24.29%) AI
9 29 (20.71%) Observability
10 27 (19.29%) Continuous Improvement
10 27 (19.29%) DevSecOps
10 27 (19.29%) Full-Stack Development
10 27 (19.29%) Scrum
11 25 (17.86%) TDD
12 23 (16.43%) Problem-Solving
13 22 (15.71%) Technical Leadership
14 21 (15.00%) Software Engineering
15 17 (12.14%) Stakeholder Engagement
16 16 (11.43%) Cloud Security
16 16 (11.43%) Test Automation
Programming Languages
1 40 (28.57%) SQL
2 36 (25.71%) C#
3 26 (18.57%) JavaScript
4 24 (17.14%) Java
5 21 (15.00%) Python
6 19 (13.57%) Bash
6 19 (13.57%) PowerShell
7 14 (10.00%) PL/SQL
7 14 (10.00%) TypeScript
8 12 (8.57%) Bicep
9 5 (3.57%) Go
10 2 (1.43%) Data Analysis Expressions
10 2 (1.43%) VB.NET
11 1 (0.71%) PHP
11 1 (0.71%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 47 (33.57%) Security Cleared
2 43 (30.71%) SC Cleared
3 15 (10.71%) Azure Certification
4 11 (7.86%) DV Cleared
5 4 (2.86%) Degree
6 3 (2.14%) AWS Certification
6 3 (2.14%) BPSS Clearance
7 2 (1.43%) CISSP
7 2 (1.43%) CompTIA Security+
7 2 (1.43%) Computer Science Degree
8 1 (0.71%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
8 1 (0.71%) IISP
8 1 (0.71%) ISACA
8 1 (0.71%) PMP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 7 (5.00%) Accessibility
2 6 (4.29%) QA
2 6 (4.29%) WCAG
3 4 (2.86%) Cyber Essentials
4 3 (2.14%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 2 (1.43%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
5 2 (1.43%) SLA
6 1 (0.71%) GxP
6 1 (0.71%) SOC 2
System Software
1 97 (69.29%) Docker
2 12 (8.57%) Active Directory
3 11 (7.86%) VMware Infrastructure
4 2 (1.43%) Hyper-V
5 1 (0.71%) Virtual Servers
5 1 (0.71%) VMware NSX
5 1 (0.71%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 16 (11.43%) Ansible
2 8 (5.71%) Grafana
3 6 (4.29%) Prometheus
4 5 (3.57%) Argo
5 3 (2.14%) Istio
5 3 (2.14%) Progress Chef
5 3 (2.14%) Puppet
6 1 (0.71%) Podman
6 1 (0.71%) Salt
Vendors
1 47 (33.57%) Microsoft
2 15 (10.71%) Oracle
3 12 (8.57%) VMware
4 5 (3.57%) Red Hat
5 4 (2.86%) CrowdStrike
5 4 (2.86%) Facebook
5 4 (2.86%) ServiceNow
6 3 (2.14%) Workday
7 2 (1.43%) Dynatrace
7 2 (1.43%) IFS
7 2 (1.43%) OpenAI
7 2 (1.43%) Veracode
8 1 (0.71%) Databricks
8 1 (0.71%) F5