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 1 May 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 188 143 149
Rank change year-on-year -45 +6 -38
Permanent jobs citing Kubernetes 68 76 178
As % of all permanent jobs in the Midlands 0.53% 1.52% 1.55%
As % of the Systems Management category 22.59% 24.60% 22.03%
Number of salaries quoted 54 64 141
10th Percentile £46,050 - £46,250
25th Percentile £52,813 £57,500 £52,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £67,500 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -3.70% +12.50% -14.29%
75th Percentile £73,438 £75,000 £82,500
90th Percentile £84,250 £86,375 £88,750
England median annual salary £75,000 £85,000 £77,500
% change year-on-year -11.76% +9.68% -2.68%

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 301 309 808
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the Midlands 2.36% 6.18% 7.02%
Number of salaries quoted 241 245 649
10th Percentile £31,250 £32,500 £27,500
25th Percentile £36,250 £40,000 £36,298
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £52,000 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year +5.77% +4.00% -7.83%
75th Percentile £69,250 £66,050 £65,000
90th Percentile £85,000 £75,000 £79,500
England median annual salary £65,000 £70,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year -7.14% +16.67% -11.11%

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 1 May 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 1 May 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 -51 41 £65,000 -3.70% 26
East Midlands -33 25 £67,500 +3.85% 17
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 12 (17.65%) IIS
2 5 (7.35%) Oracle SOA Suite
3 1 (1.47%) Confluence
3 1 (1.47%) SAS
Cloud Services
1 46 (67.65%) Azure
2 32 (47.06%) AWS
3 18 (26.47%) Azure DevOps
4 12 (17.65%) NuGet
5 11 (16.18%) npm
5 11 (16.18%) SonarCloud
6 7 (10.29%) GCP
7 6 (8.82%) Amazon CloudWatch
7 6 (8.82%) Azure AKS
7 6 (8.82%) GitHub
7 6 (8.82%) Serverless
8 5 (7.35%) Azure Key Vault
8 5 (7.35%) IaaS
8 5 (7.35%) SaaS
9 4 (5.88%) Azure ExpressRoute
9 4 (5.88%) Azure Storage
10 3 (4.41%) Amazon EC2
10 3 (4.41%) Azure Logic Apps
10 3 (4.41%) Azure Service Bus
10 3 (4.41%) PaaS
Communications & Networking
1 5 (7.35%) DNS
2 4 (5.88%) Firewall
3 3 (4.41%) Network Security
4 1 (1.47%) Broadband
4 1 (1.47%) SAN
4 1 (1.47%) VLAN
4 1 (1.47%) VPN
4 1 (1.47%) WAN
4 1 (1.47%) WireGuard
Database & Business Intelligence
1 13 (19.12%) NoSQL
2 11 (16.18%) SQL Server
3 7 (10.29%) PostgreSQL
4 3 (4.41%) Amazon RDS
4 3 (4.41%) Redis
4 3 (4.41%) TimescaleDB
5 2 (2.94%) Relational Database
6 1 (1.47%) Azure SQL Database
6 1 (1.47%) Data Mining
6 1 (1.47%) Geospatial Data
6 1 (1.47%) InfluxDB
6 1 (1.47%) MongoDB
6 1 (1.47%) Oracle Database
6 1 (1.47%) Pentaho
6 1 (1.47%) RDBMS
Development Applications
1 19 (27.94%) Git
2 9 (13.24%) JUnit
3 8 (11.76%) Jenkins
4 7 (10.29%) Maven
5 6 (8.82%) Cucumber
5 6 (8.82%) Mockito
6 5 (7.35%) GitLab
7 3 (4.41%) Selenium
8 2 (2.94%) JIRA
8 2 (2.94%) JMeter
8 2 (2.94%) Locust
9 1 (1.47%) Bitbucket
9 1 (1.47%) Jaeger
9 1 (1.47%) MLflow
9 1 (1.47%) SpecFlow
9 1 (1.47%) Subversion
General
1 19 (27.94%) Social Skills
2 10 (14.71%) Finance
3 5 (7.35%) Analytical Skills
3 5 (7.35%) Law
4 4 (5.88%) Advertising
5 3 (4.41%) Banking
5 3 (4.41%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 3 (4.41%) Investment Banking
5 3 (4.41%) Military
5 3 (4.41%) Retail
6 2 (2.94%) Automotive
7 1 (1.47%) Documentation Skills
7 1 (1.47%) Manufacturing
7 1 (1.47%) Marketing
7 1 (1.47%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 22 (32.35%) Senior
2 19 (27.94%) Azure Engineer
3 18 (26.47%) DevOps Engineer
4 17 (25.00%) Developer
5 10 (14.71%) Azure DevOps Engineer
5 10 (14.71%) Lead
5 10 (14.71%) Senior Developer
6 9 (13.24%) Cloud Engineer
6 9 (13.24%) Full-Stack Developer
6 9 (13.24%) Senior DevOps
6 9 (13.24%) Senior DevOps Engineer
7 7 (10.29%) Lead DevOps
8 6 (8.82%) Full-Stack Java Developer
8 6 (8.82%) Java Developer
9 5 (7.35%) Lead DevOps Engineer
9 5 (7.35%) Senior Full-Stack Developer
9 5 (7.35%) Senior Java Developer
10 4 (5.88%) Infrastructure Engineer
10 4 (5.88%) Platform Engineer
10 4 (5.88%) Software Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 21 (30.88%) React
2 18 (26.47%) Node.js
3 17 (25.00%) .NET
4 11 (16.18%) REST
4 11 (16.18%) YAML
5 8 (11.76%) .NET Framework
6 7 (10.29%) Spring
7 6 (8.82%) .NET Core
7 6 (8.82%) ASP.NET
7 6 (8.82%) ASP.NET Core
8 4 (5.88%) Elastic Stack
8 4 (5.88%) GraphQL
8 4 (5.88%) Spring Boot
9 3 (4.41%) Django
9 3 (4.41%) Flask
9 3 (4.41%) OpenTelemetry
9 3 (4.41%) pytest
10 2 (2.94%) Gherkin
10 2 (2.94%) Kafka
10 2 (2.94%) RabbitMQ
Miscellaneous
1 8 (11.76%) Legacy Systems
2 7 (10.29%) Cloud Native
3 5 (7.35%) Self-Motivation
4 4 (5.88%) Management Information System
4 4 (5.88%) Product Ownership
5 3 (4.41%) Enterprise Software
6 1 (1.47%) Algorithms
6 1 (1.47%) Clustering
6 1 (1.47%) Cyber Threat
6 1 (1.47%) Data Structures
6 1 (1.47%) Distributed Computing
6 1 (1.47%) Legacy Applications
6 1 (1.47%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 26 (38.24%) Linux
2 14 (20.59%) Windows
3 3 (4.41%) Ubuntu
4 2 (2.94%) CentOS
4 2 (2.94%) Debian
5 1 (1.47%) Android
5 1 (1.47%) Apple iOS
5 1 (1.47%) Mac OS
5 1 (1.47%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 42 (61.76%) DevOps
2 41 (60.29%) CI/CD
3 32 (47.06%) Agile
3 32 (47.06%) Containerisation
4 31 (45.59%) Infrastructure as Code
5 29 (42.65%) Microservices
6 23 (33.82%) Problem-Solving
7 18 (26.47%) Test Automation
8 17 (25.00%) DevSecOps
9 15 (22.06%) Continuous Improvement
10 12 (17.65%) Full-Stack Development
10 12 (17.65%) Migration
11 11 (16.18%) High Availability
11 11 (16.18%) Mentoring
12 9 (13.24%) TDD
13 8 (11.76%) Infrastructure Engineering
13 8 (11.76%) Observability
13 8 (11.76%) Scrum
13 8 (11.76%) Sprint Planning
14 7 (10.29%) Decision-Making
Programming Languages
1 21 (30.88%) Bash
2 20 (29.41%) Python
3 19 (27.94%) Java
3 19 (27.94%) PowerShell
4 16 (23.53%) C#
4 16 (23.53%) SQL
5 10 (14.71%) JavaScript
6 7 (10.29%) C
7 6 (8.82%) PL/SQL
7 6 (8.82%) TypeScript
8 5 (7.35%) Go
9 4 (5.88%) C++
9 4 (5.88%) R
10 3 (4.41%) Delphi
11 2 (2.94%) Bicep
11 2 (2.94%) Shell Script
12 1 (1.47%) Kusto Query Language
12 1 (1.47%) Rust
Qualifications
1 13 (19.12%) SC Cleared
1 13 (19.12%) Security Cleared
2 11 (16.18%) Azure Certification
3 4 (5.88%) AWS Certification
4 3 (4.41%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
4 3 (4.41%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
4 3 (4.41%) AWS Certified SysOps Administrator
4 3 (4.41%) Computer Science Degree
4 3 (4.41%) Degree
5 2 (2.94%) DV Cleared
6 1 (1.47%) BPSS Clearance
6 1 (1.47%) CISSP
6 1 (1.47%) CREST Certified
6 1 (1.47%) IISP
6 1 (1.47%) ISACA
6 1 (1.47%) Master's Degree
6 1 (1.47%) Microsoft Certification
6 1 (1.47%) OSCP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 7 (10.29%) QA
2 4 (5.88%) Accessibility
3 2 (2.94%) WCAG
4 1 (1.47%) Data Quality
4 1 (1.47%) GDPR
4 1 (1.47%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 1 (1.47%) SOC 2
System Software
1 54 (79.41%) Docker
2 1 (1.47%) Active Directory
2 1 (1.47%) Virtual Servers
Systems Management
1 34 (50.00%) Terraform
2 12 (17.65%) Ansible
3 8 (11.76%) Grafana
4 5 (7.35%) Prometheus
5 3 (4.41%) Nagios
6 2 (2.94%) Argo
6 2 (2.94%) Progress Chef
6 2 (2.94%) Puppet
7 1 (1.47%) Kustomize
7 1 (1.47%) Podman
Vendors
1 11 (16.18%) CrowdStrike
1 11 (16.18%) Oracle
2 6 (8.82%) Microsoft
3 2 (2.94%) Dynatrace
3 2 (2.94%) Red Hat
4 1 (1.47%) Denodo
4 1 (1.47%) Facebook
4 1 (1.47%) Google
4 1 (1.47%) OpenAI
4 1 (1.47%) Salesforce
4 1 (1.47%) Talend