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 19 October 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
19 Oct 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 109 133 96
Rank change year-on-year +24 -37 -23
Permanent jobs citing Kubernetes 142 148 155
As % of all permanent jobs in the Midlands 2.57% 1.63% 2.92%
As % of the Systems Management category 31.07% 28.30% 23.85%
Number of salaries quoted 58 87 134
10th Percentile £52,500 £34,000 £50,000
25th Percentile £57,500 £40,000 £53,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £67,500 £60,000 £62,500
Median % change year-on-year +12.50% -4.00% -10.71%
75th Percentile £80,000 £72,500 £80,000
90th Percentile £93,250 £90,000 £88,375
England median annual salary £77,500 £77,500 £75,000
% change year-on-year - +3.33% -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 457 523 650
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the Midlands 8.26% 5.74% 12.26%
Number of salaries quoted 287 284 522
10th Percentile £30,750 £32,650 £30,680
25th Percentile £39,000 £38,750 £41,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £52,500 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +4.76% -4.55% -
75th Percentile £72,500 £66,000 £67,500
90th Percentile £80,000 £75,000 £81,125
England median annual salary £60,000 £67,500 £65,000
% change year-on-year -11.11% +3.85% -4.83%

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 19 October 2025.

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 19 October 2025. 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 +52 84 £70,000 +7.69% 62
East Midlands +8 58 £57,500 +38.55% 10
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 47 (33.10%) Confluence
2 6 (4.23%) Apache Spark
3 1 (0.70%) Apache Solr
3 1 (0.70%) nginx
3 1 (0.70%) Oracle SOA Suite
Business Applications
1 2 (1.41%) Dynamics CRM
Cloud Services
1 114 (80.28%) AWS
2 105 (73.94%) Azure
3 63 (44.37%) GCP
4 12 (8.45%) Amazon EKS
5 9 (6.34%) Entra ID
6 8 (5.63%) Amazon ECS
6 8 (5.63%) Amazon S3
6 8 (5.63%) Azure Stack
6 8 (5.63%) GitHub
6 8 (5.63%) Serverless
7 6 (4.23%) Amazon ELB
7 6 (4.23%) Azure DevOps
7 6 (4.23%) GitHub Actions
7 6 (4.23%) SaaS
8 4 (2.82%) AWS Lambda
8 4 (2.82%) Azure AKS
8 4 (2.82%) PaaS
9 2 (1.41%) Amazon EC2
9 2 (1.41%) IaaS
9 2 (1.41%) OpenShift
Communications & Networking
1 4 (2.82%) TCP/IP
2 1 (0.70%) Calico
2 1 (0.70%) DNS
2 1 (0.70%) Firewall
2 1 (0.70%) HTTPS
2 1 (0.70%) IPsec
2 1 (0.70%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 65 (45.77%) SQL Server
2 8 (5.63%) Delta Lake
2 8 (5.63%) DynamoDB
3 7 (4.93%) NoSQL
3 7 (4.93%) PostgreSQL
4 6 (4.23%) Big Data
4 6 (4.23%) Metadata
4 6 (4.23%) Spark SQL
5 5 (3.52%) MongoDB
5 5 (3.52%) Relational Database
6 3 (2.11%) Hazelcast
6 3 (2.11%) RDBMS
7 2 (1.41%) MySQL
7 2 (1.41%) Power BI
7 2 (1.41%) SAP HANA
7 2 (1.41%) SQL Server Reporting Services
8 1 (0.70%) Amazon RDS
8 1 (0.70%) Neo4j
8 1 (0.70%) Oracle Database
8 1 (0.70%) TimescaleDB
Development Applications
1 72 (50.70%) GitLab
2 66 (46.48%) Maven
3 65 (45.77%) SonarQube
4 63 (44.37%) Bitbucket
4 63 (44.37%) Cucumber
4 63 (44.37%) JIRA
4 63 (44.37%) Selenium
4 63 (44.37%) Sonatype Nexus
5 8 (5.63%) Git
6 7 (4.93%) MLflow
7 6 (4.23%) Jenkins
8 5 (3.52%) JUnit
8 5 (3.52%) Mockito
9 2 (1.41%) JMeter
10 1 (0.70%) Gatling
10 1 (0.70%) Snyk
10 1 (0.70%) Team Foundation Server
General
1 72 (50.70%) Finance
2 64 (45.07%) Banking
3 63 (44.37%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 16 (11.27%) Corporate Banking
4 16 (11.27%) Investment Banking
4 16 (11.27%) Public Sector
4 16 (11.27%) Retail
5 15 (10.56%) Social Skills
6 5 (3.52%) Analytical Skills
7 4 (2.82%) Advertising
8 3 (2.11%) Financial Institution
9 2 (1.41%) Automotive
10 1 (0.70%) Law
10 1 (0.70%) Manufacturing
Job Titles
1 73 (51.41%) Software Engineer
2 17 (11.97%) DevOps Engineer
3 16 (11.27%) Developer
4 13 (9.15%) Senior
5 12 (8.45%) Java Developer
6 9 (6.34%) Operations Engineer
7 8 (5.63%) Infrastructure Engineer
7 8 (5.63%) IT Engineer
7 8 (5.63%) IT Infrastructure Engineer
8 7 (4.93%) Full-Stack Developer
9 6 (4.23%) Full-Stack Java Developer
9 6 (4.23%) Java Engineer
9 6 (4.23%) Machine Learning Engineer
10 5 (3.52%) Java Software Engineer
11 4 (2.82%) Architect
11 4 (2.82%) Lead
11 4 (2.82%) Senior DevOps
11 4 (2.82%) Senior DevOps Engineer
12 3 (2.11%) AWS DevOps
12 3 (2.11%) AWS DevOps Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 85 (59.86%) Spring
2 75 (52.82%) Spring Boot
3 73 (51.41%) React
4 69 (48.59%) HTML
5 67 (47.18%) CSS
6 65 (45.77%) JPA
7 64 (45.07%) Kafka
7 64 (45.07%) Redux
8 53 (37.32%) Hibernate
9 26 (18.31%) REST
10 24 (16.90%) RESTful
11 17 (11.97%) Jest
12 16 (11.27%) CSS3
12 16 (11.27%) HTML5
12 16 (11.27%) Sass
13 9 (6.34%) Web Services
14 7 (4.93%) AngularJS
15 6 (4.23%) Flask
15 6 (4.23%) NumPy
15 6 (4.23%) Pandas
Miscellaneous
1 64 (45.07%) Product Ownership
2 63 (44.37%) Enterprise Software
3 12 (8.45%) Cloud Native
4 9 (6.34%) Onboarding
5 8 (5.63%) Data Centre
5 8 (5.63%) Hybrid Cloud
6 6 (4.23%) Linux Command Line
7 4 (2.82%) Greenfield Project
7 4 (2.82%) IoT
8 3 (2.11%) Legacy Systems
8 3 (2.11%) Self-Motivation
9 2 (1.41%) Distributed Systems
9 2 (1.41%) Life Science
9 2 (1.41%) Management Information System
10 1 (0.70%) Data Structures
10 1 (0.70%) Derivative
10 1 (0.70%) Mobile App
10 1 (0.70%) PKI
10 1 (0.70%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 21 (14.79%) Linux
2 9 (6.34%) Windows
3 8 (5.63%) Rocky
3 8 (5.63%) Windows Server
3 8 (5.63%) Windows Server 2019
4 6 (4.23%) Unix
5 2 (1.41%) AIX
5 2 (1.41%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 2 (1.41%) SUSE Linux Enterprise Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 113 (79.58%) CI/CD
2 108 (76.06%) DevOps
3 94 (66.20%) Containerisation
4 91 (64.08%) Agile
5 90 (63.38%) Microservices
6 76 (53.52%) Software Engineering
7 74 (52.11%) Full-Stack Development
8 71 (50.00%) Test Automation
9 66 (46.48%) SDLC
9 66 (46.48%) TDD
10 64 (45.07%) Front End Development
11 63 (44.37%) Performance Optimisation
12 57 (40.14%) Continuous Improvement
13 53 (37.32%) Clean Code
14 30 (21.13%) Mentoring
15 21 (14.79%) Infrastructure as Code
16 19 (13.38%) Migration
16 19 (13.38%) User Experience
17 18 (12.68%) Strategic Thinking
18 16 (11.27%) Responsive Web Design
Programming Languages
1 88 (61.97%) Java
2 86 (60.56%) SQL
3 76 (53.52%) JavaScript
4 27 (19.01%) Python
5 23 (16.20%) TypeScript
6 7 (4.93%) Go
7 6 (4.23%) Bash
7 6 (4.23%) C#
7 6 (4.23%) PL/SQL
8 4 (2.82%) Shell Script
9 3 (2.11%) Bicep
10 2 (1.41%) Korn
10 2 (1.41%) PHP
10 2 (1.41%) T-SQL
11 1 (0.70%) Kusto Query Language
11 1 (0.70%) PowerShell
11 1 (0.70%) Scala
Qualifications
1 28 (19.72%) Security Cleared
2 23 (16.20%) SC Cleared
3 13 (9.15%) DV Cleared
4 12 (8.45%) Azure Certification
5 9 (6.34%) BPSS Clearance
6 8 (5.63%) Network+ Certification
7 5 (3.52%) AWS Certification
8 3 (2.11%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
9 2 (1.41%) CCNA
9 2 (1.41%) Cisco Certification
10 1 (0.70%) Computer Science Degree
10 1 (0.70%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 64 (45.07%) QA
2 16 (11.27%) Accessibility
3 1 (0.70%) Cyber Essentials
3 1 (0.70%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
3 1 (0.70%) GDPR
3 1 (0.70%) Government Security Classifications
3 1 (0.70%) ISO/IEC 27001
System Software
1 117 (82.39%) Docker
2 8 (5.63%) Active Directory
2 8 (5.63%) Hyper-V
3 2 (1.41%) Virtual Machines
3 2 (1.41%) VMware ESXi
3 2 (1.41%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 35 (24.65%) Terraform
2 12 (8.45%) Ansible
3 6 (4.23%) Grafana
3 6 (4.23%) Kubeflow
4 3 (2.11%) Argo
5 2 (1.41%) Kibana
5 2 (1.41%) Prometheus
5 2 (1.41%) Red Hat Satellite
5 2 (1.41%) ZABBIX
6 1 (0.70%) Istio
6 1 (0.70%) Kustomize
6 1 (0.70%) Progress Chef
6 1 (0.70%) Puppet
6 1 (0.70%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 63 (44.37%) Solace
2 8 (5.63%) Dell
3 6 (4.23%) Databricks
4 5 (3.52%) Oracle
5 4 (2.82%) Microsoft
5 4 (2.82%) Splunk
6 3 (2.11%) IBM
7 2 (1.41%) AppDynamics
7 2 (1.41%) Dynatrace
7 2 (1.41%) Red Hat
7 2 (1.41%) SAP
7 2 (1.41%) VMware
8 1 (0.70%) Google