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 24 July 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
24 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 154 103 153
Rank change year-on-year -51 +50 -40
Permanent jobs citing Kubernetes 113 158 174
As % of all permanent jobs in the Midlands 0.83% 2.80% 1.47%
As % of the Systems Management category 27.90% 35.03% 23.90%
Number of salaries quoted 83 73 142
10th Percentile £47,500 £55,000 £39,075
25th Percentile £54,375 £57,500 £52,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £62,500 £67,500 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -7.41% +12.50% -14.29%
75th Percentile £76,837 £76,250 £75,625
90th Percentile £93,750 £80,000 £88,750
England median annual salary £70,000 £80,000 £77,500
% change year-on-year -12.50% +3.23% -

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 405 451 728
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the Midlands 2.97% 7.99% 6.14%
Number of salaries quoted 327 288 533
10th Percentile £31,250 £32,500 £28,600
25th Percentile £42,500 £41,250 £37,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £57,500 £52,000
Median % change year-on-year -4.35% +10.58% -5.45%
75th Percentile £72,500 £71,343 £65,000
90th Percentile £90,000 £77,500 £79,500
England median annual salary £65,000 £65,000 £62,783
% change year-on-year - +3.53% -6.99%

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 24 July 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 24 July 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 -56 73 £67,153 -0.51% 58
East Midlands -42 39 £60,000 -4.00% 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 8 (7.08%) IIS
2 3 (2.65%) Oracle SOA Suite
3 2 (1.77%) Microsoft Exchange
4 1 (0.88%) Confluence
4 1 (0.88%) Mendix
4 1 (0.88%) SharePoint
Cloud Services
1 89 (78.76%) Azure
2 56 (49.56%) AWS
3 21 (18.58%) GitHub
4 20 (17.70%) Azure AKS
5 17 (15.04%) Azure DevOps
6 14 (12.39%) Azure ExpressRoute
7 13 (11.50%) GCP
7 13 (11.50%) GitHub Copilot
8 11 (9.73%) IaaS
9 9 (7.96%) Entra ID
10 8 (7.08%) Azure AI
10 8 (7.08%) Azure Key Vault
10 8 (7.08%) Azure Storage
11 7 (6.19%) npm
11 7 (6.19%) NuGet
11 7 (6.19%) SaaS
11 7 (6.19%) SonarCloud
12 6 (5.31%) GitHub Actions
13 5 (4.42%) Amazon EKS
13 5 (4.42%) Virtual Private Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 11 (9.73%) DNS
1 11 (9.73%) VPN
2 9 (7.96%) Network Security
3 8 (7.08%) Firewall
4 5 (4.42%) VLAN
5 2 (1.77%) DHCP
6 1 (0.88%) BIG-IP
6 1 (0.88%) HTTP
6 1 (0.88%) SAN
6 1 (0.88%) WAN
6 1 (0.88%) WireGuard
Database & Business Intelligence
1 15 (13.27%) MongoDB
2 14 (12.39%) Azure SQL Database
3 8 (7.08%) SQL Server
4 7 (6.19%) NoSQL
4 7 (6.19%) PostgreSQL
5 5 (4.42%) Elasticsearch
6 4 (3.54%) Amazon RDS
7 2 (1.77%) Amazon Aurora
7 2 (1.77%) KNIME
7 2 (1.77%) MySQL
7 2 (1.77%) Redis
8 1 (0.88%) Data Mining
8 1 (0.88%) Power BI
8 1 (0.88%) Power Query
8 1 (0.88%) TimescaleDB
Development Applications
1 21 (18.58%) Git
2 16 (14.16%) JUnit
3 13 (11.50%) Maven
4 10 (8.85%) Mockito
5 8 (7.08%) Cucumber
5 8 (7.08%) GitLab
6 6 (5.31%) Postman
6 6 (5.31%) Selenium
7 5 (4.42%) Gatling
7 5 (4.42%) Jenkins
8 3 (2.65%) JMeter
8 3 (2.65%) Subversion
9 2 (1.77%) Locust
10 1 (0.88%) Bitbucket
10 1 (0.88%) Cypress.io
10 1 (0.88%) Gradle
10 1 (0.88%) IBM UrbanCode
10 1 (0.88%) REST Assured
10 1 (0.88%) TestNG
10 1 (0.88%) WebDriver
General
1 20 (17.70%) Finance
2 13 (11.50%) Social Skills
3 12 (10.62%) Law
4 6 (5.31%) Advertising
5 5 (4.42%) Analytical Skills
5 5 (4.42%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 5 (4.42%) Manufacturing
5 5 (4.42%) Marketing
5 5 (4.42%) Public Sector
6 3 (2.65%) Retail
7 2 (1.77%) Banking
8 1 (0.88%) Automotive
8 1 (0.88%) Documentation Skills
8 1 (0.88%) Investment Banking
Job Titles
1 29 (25.66%) Developer
2 23 (20.35%) Senior
3 21 (18.58%) DevOps Engineer
4 18 (15.93%) Azure Engineer
5 17 (15.04%) Cloud Engineer
6 14 (12.39%) Architect
7 13 (11.50%) .NET Developer
7 13 (11.50%) Lead
8 9 (7.96%) Technical Architect
9 8 (7.08%) 3rd Line Engineer
9 8 (7.08%) Azure DevOps Engineer
9 8 (7.08%) Full-Stack Developer
9 8 (7.08%) Senior Developer
10 6 (5.31%) Azure Architect
10 6 (5.31%) Full-Stack Java Developer
10 6 (5.31%) Infrastructure Engineer
10 6 (5.31%) Java Developer
10 6 (5.31%) Senior DevOps
10 6 (5.31%) Senior DevOps Engineer
11 5 (4.42%) Administrator
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 30 (26.55%) .NET
2 23 (20.35%) React
3 22 (19.47%) ASP.NET
3 22 (19.47%) ASP.NET Core
4 17 (15.04%) Node.js
5 16 (14.16%) .NET Core
6 13 (11.50%) REST
7 12 (10.62%) Spring
8 10 (8.85%) .NET Framework
9 8 (7.08%) CSS
9 8 (7.08%) HTML
9 8 (7.08%) ML.NET
10 7 (6.19%) YAML
11 6 (5.31%) Blazor
11 6 (5.31%) Kafka
11 6 (5.31%) Playwright
11 6 (5.31%) RESTful
12 5 (4.42%) AngularJS
12 5 (4.42%) ASP.NET Web API
12 5 (4.42%) Entity Framework
Miscellaneous
1 20 (17.70%) Cloud Native
2 8 (7.08%) Onboarding
3 7 (6.19%) Distributed Systems
4 6 (5.31%) Hybrid Cloud
5 5 (4.42%) Legacy Systems
6 3 (2.65%) Digital TV
6 3 (2.65%) Self-Motivation
7 2 (1.77%) Clustering
7 2 (1.77%) Cyber Threat
7 2 (1.77%) Data Centre
7 2 (1.77%) Enterprise Software
7 2 (1.77%) Enterprise Storage
7 2 (1.77%) Greenfield Project
7 2 (1.77%) Private Cloud
7 2 (1.77%) SCADA
8 1 (0.88%) Algorithms
8 1 (0.88%) Data Structures
8 1 (0.88%) Online Gambling
8 1 (0.88%) Public Cloud
8 1 (0.88%) Robotics
Operating Systems
1 32 (28.32%) Linux
2 15 (13.27%) Windows
3 5 (4.42%) Windows Server
4 3 (2.65%) Ubuntu
5 2 (1.77%) CentOS
5 2 (1.77%) Debian
6 1 (0.88%) Mac OS
6 1 (0.88%) Solaris
6 1 (0.88%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 76 (67.26%) CI/CD
2 51 (45.13%) Agile
2 51 (45.13%) Containerisation
3 47 (41.59%) Infrastructure as Code
4 41 (36.28%) DevOps
5 39 (34.51%) Microservices
6 32 (28.32%) Mentoring
7 27 (23.89%) Continuous Improvement
8 25 (22.12%) AI
8 25 (22.12%) Full-Stack Development
9 23 (20.35%) DevSecOps
9 23 (20.35%) Observability
10 22 (19.47%) Test Automation
11 21 (18.58%) Problem-Solving
12 20 (17.70%) TDD
13 19 (16.81%) High Availability
13 19 (16.81%) Scrum
14 18 (15.93%) Technical Leadership
15 14 (12.39%) Roadmaps
16 13 (11.50%) Stakeholder Engagement
Programming Languages
1 35 (30.97%) C#
2 31 (27.43%) SQL
3 24 (21.24%) PowerShell
4 22 (19.47%) Java
4 22 (19.47%) JavaScript
5 18 (15.93%) Bash
6 17 (15.04%) Python
7 16 (14.16%) TypeScript
8 11 (9.73%) Bicep
9 10 (8.85%) PL/SQL
10 4 (3.54%) Go
11 2 (1.77%) Shell Script
12 1 (0.88%) C
12 1 (0.88%) C++
12 1 (0.88%) Data Analysis Expressions
12 1 (0.88%) Kusto Query Language
12 1 (0.88%) PHP
12 1 (0.88%) Rust
12 1 (0.88%) VB.NET
Qualifications
1 28 (24.78%) Security Cleared
2 24 (21.24%) SC Cleared
3 19 (16.81%) Azure Certification
4 10 (8.85%) DV Cleared
5 3 (2.65%) AWS Certification
5 3 (2.65%) Degree
6 2 (1.77%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
6 2 (1.77%) CISSP
6 2 (1.77%) CompTIA Security+
6 2 (1.77%) Computer Science Degree
7 1 (0.88%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
7 1 (0.88%) AWS Certified SysOps Administrator
7 1 (0.88%) BPSS Clearance
7 1 (0.88%) CREST Certified
7 1 (0.88%) IISP
7 1 (0.88%) ISACA
7 1 (0.88%) OSCP
7 1 (0.88%) PMP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 9 (7.96%) Accessibility
2 7 (6.19%) WCAG
3 6 (5.31%) QA
4 4 (3.54%) Cyber Essentials
5 3 (2.65%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 2 (1.77%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
7 1 (0.88%) GxP
7 1 (0.88%) SLA
7 1 (0.88%) SOC 2
System Software
1 76 (67.26%) Docker
2 10 (8.85%) Active Directory
3 8 (7.08%) VMware Infrastructure
4 2 (1.77%) Hyper-V
5 1 (0.88%) Virtual Servers
Systems Management
1 49 (43.36%) Terraform
2 10 (8.85%) Ansible
3 9 (7.96%) Grafana
4 6 (5.31%) Prometheus
5 5 (4.42%) Argo
6 3 (2.65%) Istio
6 3 (2.65%) Progress Chef
6 3 (2.65%) Puppet
7 1 (0.88%) Nagios
7 1 (0.88%) Podman
Vendors
1 33 (29.20%) Microsoft
2 10 (8.85%) Oracle
3 8 (7.08%) VMware
4 7 (6.19%) CrowdStrike
5 5 (4.42%) Facebook
6 3 (2.65%) Red Hat
7 2 (1.77%) Dynatrace
8 1 (0.88%) F5
8 1 (0.88%) ServiceNow
8 1 (0.88%) Workday