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 5 September 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
5 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 145 109 133
Rank change year-on-year -36 +24 -35
Permanent jobs citing Kubernetes 135 142 170
As % of all permanent jobs in the Midlands 0.90% 2.49% 1.67%
As % of the Systems Management category 35.62% 34.13% 34.00%
Number of salaries quoted 88 61 117
10th Percentile £47,500 £55,000 £34,000
25th Percentile £55,000 £57,500 £52,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £62,500 £67,500 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -7.41% +12.50% -7.69%
75th Percentile £80,000 £80,000 £72,500
90th Percentile £93,750 £83,750 £88,750
England median annual salary £70,000 £80,000 £77,500
% change year-on-year -12.50% +3.23% +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 379 416 500
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the Midlands 2.53% 7.30% 4.91%
Number of salaries quoted 287 252 325
10th Percentile £31,250 £31,250 £31,350
25th Percentile £41,250 £39,000 £37,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £52,500 £53,844 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year -2.50% +7.69% -9.09%
75th Percentile £65,625 £71,250 £62,500
90th Percentile £83,500 £75,000 £73,987
England median annual salary £60,000 £62,500 £63,750
% change year-on-year -4.00% -1.96% -1.92%

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 5 September 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 5 September 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 -33 86 £70,000 +3.70% 48
East Midlands -37 49 £60,000 -5.88% 34
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 (5.19%) Oracle SOA Suite
2 5 (3.70%) IIS
3 2 (1.48%) Microsoft Exchange
4 1 (0.74%) Apache Spark
4 1 (0.74%) Confluence
4 1 (0.74%) Mendix
4 1 (0.74%) SharePoint
Cloud Services
1 100 (74.07%) Azure
2 68 (50.37%) AWS
3 22 (16.30%) Azure AKS
4 21 (15.56%) GitHub
5 17 (12.59%) Azure DevOps
6 16 (11.85%) Azure ExpressRoute
7 13 (9.63%) GitHub Copilot
7 13 (9.63%) IaaS
8 12 (8.89%) Entra ID
8 12 (8.89%) GCP
9 8 (5.93%) Amazon EKS
9 8 (5.93%) Azure AI
9 8 (5.93%) SaaS
10 7 (5.19%) Azure Key Vault
10 7 (5.19%) Azure Storage
11 6 (4.44%) GitHub Actions
11 6 (4.44%) PaaS
11 6 (4.44%) SonarCloud
12 5 (3.70%) Azure Cosmos DB
12 5 (3.70%) OpenShift
Communications & Networking
1 14 (10.37%) VPN
2 12 (8.89%) DNS
3 10 (7.41%) Network Security
4 7 (5.19%) Firewall
5 5 (3.70%) VLAN
6 2 (1.48%) DHCP
6 2 (1.48%) HTTP
6 2 (1.48%) SSL
7 1 (0.74%) BIG-IP
7 1 (0.74%) SAN
7 1 (0.74%) WAN
7 1 (0.74%) WireGuard
Database & Business Intelligence
1 15 (11.11%) MongoDB
2 14 (10.37%) Azure SQL Database
3 8 (5.93%) SQL Server
4 6 (4.44%) NoSQL
4 6 (4.44%) PostgreSQL
5 5 (3.70%) Elasticsearch
6 3 (2.22%) Amazon RDS
7 2 (1.48%) Amazon Aurora
7 2 (1.48%) KNIME
7 2 (1.48%) MySQL
7 2 (1.48%) Power BI
7 2 (1.48%) Power Query
8 1 (0.74%) Amazon Redshift
8 1 (0.74%) Data Mining
8 1 (0.74%) Redis
Development Applications
1 22 (16.30%) Git
2 21 (15.56%) JUnit
3 17 (12.59%) Maven
4 14 (10.37%) Mockito
5 9 (6.67%) GitLab
6 8 (5.93%) Cucumber
6 8 (5.93%) Jenkins
7 7 (5.19%) Postman
7 7 (5.19%) Selenium
8 6 (4.44%) Gatling
9 3 (2.22%) Subversion
10 2 (1.48%) Ant
10 2 (1.48%) Apache Ivy
10 2 (1.48%) IBM UrbanCode
10 2 (1.48%) JMeter
11 1 (0.74%) Cypress.io
11 1 (0.74%) JIRA
11 1 (0.74%) REST Assured
11 1 (0.74%) TestNG
11 1 (0.74%) WebDriver
General
1 26 (19.26%) Finance
2 17 (12.59%) Social Skills
3 11 (8.15%) Law
4 9 (6.67%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 5 (3.70%) Advertising
5 5 (3.70%) Analytical Skills
5 5 (3.70%) Manufacturing
5 5 (3.70%) Marketing
5 5 (3.70%) Public Sector
5 5 (3.70%) Retail
6 1 (0.74%) Banking
6 1 (0.74%) Documentation Skills
Job Titles
1 33 (24.44%) Developer
2 29 (21.48%) Senior
3 27 (20.00%) DevOps Engineer
4 20 (14.81%) Architect
5 17 (12.59%) Cloud Engineer
6 13 (9.63%) .NET Developer
6 13 (9.63%) Azure Engineer
6 13 (9.63%) Lead
7 12 (8.89%) Senior Developer
7 12 (8.89%) Technical Architect
8 11 (8.15%) Full-Stack Developer
9 10 (7.41%) Full-Stack Java Developer
9 10 (7.41%) Java Developer
10 9 (6.67%) Azure Architect
11 8 (5.93%) Platform Engineer
11 8 (5.93%) Senior Full-Stack Developer
12 7 (5.19%) 3rd Line Engineer
12 7 (5.19%) Senior DevOps
12 7 (5.19%) Senior DevOps Engineer
12 7 (5.19%) Senior Java Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 57 (42.22%) Terraform
2 31 (22.96%) .NET
3 23 (17.04%) ASP.NET
3 23 (17.04%) ASP.NET Core
3 23 (17.04%) React
4 18 (13.33%) REST
5 16 (11.85%) .NET Core
6 15 (11.11%) Spring
7 13 (9.63%) Node.js
8 10 (7.41%) .NET Framework
9 8 (5.93%) CSS
9 8 (5.93%) HTML
9 8 (5.93%) ML.NET
10 7 (5.19%) Blazor
10 7 (5.19%) Playwright
11 6 (4.44%) Kafka
11 6 (4.44%) RESTful
11 6 (4.44%) YAML
12 5 (3.70%) AngularJS
12 5 (3.70%) ASP.NET Web API
Miscellaneous
1 20 (14.81%) Cloud Native
2 9 (6.67%) Hybrid Cloud
3 8 (5.93%) Distributed Systems
3 8 (5.93%) Onboarding
4 7 (5.19%) Self-Motivation
5 4 (2.96%) Legacy Systems
6 3 (2.22%) Digital TV
6 3 (2.22%) Driving Licence
6 3 (2.22%) Product Ownership
6 3 (2.22%) Public Cloud
7 2 (1.48%) Clustering
7 2 (1.48%) Data Centre
7 2 (1.48%) Enterprise Storage
7 2 (1.48%) Management Information System
7 2 (1.48%) Online Gambling
7 2 (1.48%) Private Cloud
7 2 (1.48%) Robotics
7 2 (1.48%) SCADA
7 2 (1.48%) Tandem
7 2 (1.48%) Video\Live Streaming
Operating Systems
1 43 (31.85%) Linux
2 14 (10.37%) Windows
3 6 (4.44%) Windows Server
4 3 (2.22%) Unix
5 2 (1.48%) Solaris
5 2 (1.48%) Ubuntu
6 1 (0.74%) CentOS
6 1 (0.74%) Debian
6 1 (0.74%) Mac OS
Processes & Methodologies
1 89 (65.93%) CI/CD
2 66 (48.89%) Agile
3 65 (48.15%) Containerisation
4 51 (37.78%) DevOps
5 48 (35.56%) Infrastructure as Code
6 44 (32.59%) Microservices
7 41 (30.37%) Mentoring
8 33 (24.44%) AI
9 29 (21.48%) Continuous Improvement
9 29 (21.48%) DevSecOps
9 29 (21.48%) Observability
10 28 (20.74%) Scrum
11 27 (20.00%) Full-Stack Development
12 25 (18.52%) TDD
13 23 (17.04%) Problem-Solving
14 22 (16.30%) Technical Leadership
15 19 (14.07%) Test Automation
16 17 (12.59%) Software Engineering
16 17 (12.59%) Stakeholder Engagement
17 16 (11.85%) High Availability
Programming Languages
1 38 (28.15%) SQL
2 36 (26.67%) C#
3 26 (19.26%) Java
3 26 (19.26%) JavaScript
4 23 (17.04%) PowerShell
5 20 (14.81%) Bash
6 18 (13.33%) Python
7 15 (11.11%) TypeScript
8 14 (10.37%) PL/SQL
9 12 (8.89%) Bicep
10 5 (3.70%) Go
11 2 (1.48%) Data Analysis Expressions
11 2 (1.48%) VB.NET
12 1 (0.74%) PHP
12 1 (0.74%) Rust
12 1 (0.74%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 45 (33.33%) Security Cleared
2 41 (30.37%) SC Cleared
3 17 (12.59%) Azure Certification
4 11 (8.15%) DV Cleared
5 5 (3.70%) Degree
6 3 (2.22%) AWS Certification
6 3 (2.22%) BPSS Clearance
6 3 (2.22%) Computer Science Degree
7 2 (1.48%) CISSP
7 2 (1.48%) CompTIA Security+
8 1 (0.74%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
8 1 (0.74%) IISP
8 1 (0.74%) ISACA
8 1 (0.74%) PMP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 8 (5.93%) Accessibility
2 7 (5.19%) QA
2 7 (5.19%) WCAG
3 4 (2.96%) Cyber Essentials
4 3 (2.22%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 2 (1.48%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
5 2 (1.48%) SLA
6 1 (0.74%) GxP
6 1 (0.74%) SOC 2
System Software
1 90 (66.67%) Docker
2 12 (8.89%) Active Directory
3 11 (8.15%) VMware Infrastructure
4 2 (1.48%) Hyper-V
5 1 (0.74%) Virtual Servers
5 1 (0.74%) VMware NSX
5 1 (0.74%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 15 (11.11%) Ansible
2 9 (6.67%) Grafana
3 5 (3.70%) Argo
3 5 (3.70%) Prometheus
4 3 (2.22%) Istio
4 3 (2.22%) Progress Chef
4 3 (2.22%) Puppet
5 1 (0.74%) Podman
5 1 (0.74%) Salt
Vendors
1 43 (31.85%) Microsoft
2 14 (10.37%) Oracle
3 12 (8.89%) VMware
4 6 (4.44%) CrowdStrike
5 5 (3.70%) Facebook
6 4 (2.96%) Red Hat
6 4 (2.96%) ServiceNow
7 3 (2.22%) Dynatrace
7 3 (2.22%) Workday
8 2 (1.48%) IFS
8 2 (1.48%) Veracode
9 1 (0.74%) Databricks
9 1 (0.74%) F5