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 15 November 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
15 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 135 134 83
Rank change year-on-year -1 -51 -2
Permanent jobs citing Kubernetes 82 150 160
As % of all permanent jobs in the Midlands 1.40% 1.68% 3.14%
As % of the Systems Management category 22.16% 29.82% 24.10%
Number of salaries quoted 61 88 138
10th Percentile £48,750 £34,000 £50,000
25th Percentile £56,250 £39,938 £55,000
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 £72,911 £78,438
90th Percentile £95,000 £89,375 £87,500
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 370 503 664
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the Midlands 6.31% 5.62% 13.04%
Number of salaries quoted 280 272 538
10th Percentile £29,250 £32,550 £30,000
25th Percentile £39,938 £37,500 £41,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,100 £52,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +5.96% -5.45% -
75th Percentile £72,500 £66,050 £65,000
90th Percentile £80,000 £75,000 £80,000
England median annual salary £61,500 £68,000 £65,000
% change year-on-year -9.56% +4.62% -3.70%

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 15 November 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 15 November 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 +14 59 £70,000 +7.69% 79
East Midlands -8 23 £55,200 +47.20% 21
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 6 (7.32%) Apache Spark
2 2 (2.44%) Oracle SOA Suite
3 1 (1.22%) Apache Solr
3 1 (1.22%) nginx
Business Applications
1 2 (2.44%) Dynamics CRM
Cloud Services
1 53 (64.63%) AWS
2 38 (46.34%) Azure
3 13 (15.85%) GCP
4 12 (14.63%) Amazon EKS
5 10 (12.20%) GitHub
6 9 (10.98%) Entra ID
7 8 (9.76%) Amazon S3
7 8 (9.76%) Azure Stack
7 8 (9.76%) Serverless
8 7 (8.54%) Amazon ECS
9 6 (7.32%) Amazon ELB
9 6 (7.32%) SaaS
10 5 (6.10%) Amazon CloudWatch
10 5 (6.10%) Azure DevOps
10 5 (6.10%) GitHub Actions
10 5 (6.10%) OpenShift
11 4 (4.88%) AWS Lambda
11 4 (4.88%) PaaS
12 3 (3.66%) Azure AKS
13 2 (2.44%) Azure Monitor
Communications & Networking
1 4 (4.88%) TCP/IP
2 1 (1.22%) Calico
2 1 (1.22%) DNS
2 1 (1.22%) Firewall
2 1 (1.22%) HTTPS
2 1 (1.22%) IPsec
2 1 (1.22%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 10 (12.20%) PostgreSQL
2 9 (10.98%) Delta Lake
3 8 (9.76%) DynamoDB
4 6 (7.32%) Big Data
4 6 (7.32%) Metadata
4 6 (7.32%) NoSQL
4 6 (7.32%) Spark SQL
5 5 (6.10%) MongoDB
5 5 (6.10%) Relational Database
5 5 (6.10%) SQL Server
6 4 (4.88%) Oracle Database
7 3 (3.66%) RDBMS
8 2 (2.44%) Hazelcast
8 2 (2.44%) MySQL
8 2 (2.44%) Power BI
8 2 (2.44%) SAP HANA
8 2 (2.44%) SQL Server Reporting Services
9 1 (1.22%) Geospatial Data
9 1 (1.22%) Neo4j
9 1 (1.22%) TimescaleDB
Development Applications
1 11 (13.41%) GitLab
2 10 (12.20%) JUnit
3 9 (10.98%) Git
4 8 (9.76%) Jenkins
5 7 (8.54%) MLflow
5 7 (8.54%) Mockito
6 5 (6.10%) Maven
7 4 (4.88%) Cucumber
8 3 (3.66%) JMeter
8 3 (3.66%) Selenium
9 2 (2.44%) SonarQube
10 1 (1.22%) Gatling
10 1 (1.22%) Locust
10 1 (1.22%) Snyk
General
1 17 (20.73%) Public Sector
1 17 (20.73%) Social Skills
2 9 (10.98%) Finance
3 4 (4.88%) Advertising
3 4 (4.88%) Analytical Skills
4 2 (2.44%) Automotive
4 2 (2.44%) Financial Institution
5 1 (1.22%) Law
Job Titles
1 18 (21.95%) DevOps Engineer
2 17 (20.73%) Developer
2 17 (20.73%) Senior
3 13 (15.85%) Java Developer
4 9 (10.98%) Lead
4 9 (10.98%) Operations Engineer
5 8 (9.76%) Full-Stack Developer
5 8 (9.76%) Full-Stack Java Developer
5 8 (9.76%) Infrastructure Engineer
5 8 (9.76%) IT Engineer
5 8 (9.76%) IT Infrastructure Engineer
5 8 (9.76%) Software Engineer
6 6 (7.32%) Machine Learning Engineer
6 6 (7.32%) Senior Developer
6 6 (7.32%) Technical Leader
7 5 (6.10%) Senior DevOps
7 5 (6.10%) Senior DevOps Engineer
8 4 (4.88%) Architect
8 4 (4.88%) IT Support
8 4 (4.88%) Technical Support
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 22 (26.83%) Spring
2 14 (17.07%) Spring Boot
3 11 (13.41%) React
4 10 (12.20%) REST
5 9 (10.98%) Django
5 9 (10.98%) Flask
6 7 (8.54%) RESTful
6 7 (8.54%) Web Services
7 6 (7.32%) AngularJS
7 6 (7.32%) Keras
7 6 (7.32%) Lambda Expressions
7 6 (7.32%) Metaflow
7 6 (7.32%) NumPy
7 6 (7.32%) Pandas
7 6 (7.32%) PySpark
7 6 (7.32%) PyTorch
7 6 (7.32%) scikit-learn
7 6 (7.32%) TensorFlow
7 6 (7.32%) YAML
8 5 (6.10%) HTML
Miscellaneous
1 12 (14.63%) Cloud Native
2 9 (10.98%) Onboarding
3 8 (9.76%) Data Centre
3 8 (9.76%) Hybrid Cloud
4 6 (7.32%) Legacy Systems
4 6 (7.32%) Linux Command Line
5 4 (4.88%) Greenfield Project
5 4 (4.88%) IoT
5 4 (4.88%) Self-Motivation
6 2 (2.44%) Distributed Systems
6 2 (2.44%) Life Science
6 2 (2.44%) Management Information System
6 2 (2.44%) Product Ownership
7 1 (1.22%) Data Structures
7 1 (1.22%) Derivative
7 1 (1.22%) Legacy Applications
7 1 (1.22%) Mobile App
7 1 (1.22%) PKI
Operating Systems
1 26 (31.71%) Linux
2 12 (14.63%) Windows
3 8 (9.76%) Rocky
3 8 (9.76%) Windows Server
3 8 (9.76%) Windows Server 2019
4 6 (7.32%) Unix
5 2 (2.44%) AIX
5 2 (2.44%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 2 (2.44%) SUSE Linux Enterprise Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 51 (62.20%) CI/CD
2 49 (59.76%) DevOps
3 35 (42.68%) Containerisation
4 30 (36.59%) Agile
5 26 (31.71%) Microservices
6 22 (26.83%) Infrastructure as Code
7 19 (23.17%) Mentoring
7 19 (23.17%) TDD
8 15 (18.29%) Machine Learning
9 14 (17.07%) AI
10 13 (15.85%) Problem-Solving
10 13 (15.85%) Software Engineering
11 12 (14.63%) Continuous Improvement
11 12 (14.63%) Full-Stack Development
12 11 (13.41%) Test Automation
12 11 (13.41%) Unit Testing
13 10 (12.20%) Coaching
13 10 (12.20%) Deployment Automation
14 9 (10.98%) Infrastructure Engineering
15 8 (9.76%) Analytics
Programming Languages
1 33 (40.24%) Python
2 26 (31.71%) Java
3 22 (26.83%) SQL
4 15 (18.29%) JavaScript
5 8 (9.76%) Bash
5 8 (9.76%) Go
5 8 (9.76%) TypeScript
6 7 (8.54%) PL/SQL
7 4 (4.88%) C#
7 4 (4.88%) Shell Script
8 3 (3.66%) Bicep
8 3 (3.66%) Delphi
9 2 (2.44%) Korn
9 2 (2.44%) PHP
9 2 (2.44%) T-SQL
10 1 (1.22%) Kusto Query Language
10 1 (1.22%) PowerShell
10 1 (1.22%) Scala
Qualifications
1 34 (41.46%) Security Cleared
2 28 (34.15%) SC Cleared
3 14 (17.07%) DV Cleared
4 11 (13.41%) Azure Certification
5 10 (12.20%) BPSS Clearance
6 8 (9.76%) Network+ Certification
7 5 (6.10%) AWS Certification
8 3 (3.66%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
9 2 (2.44%) CCNA
9 2 (2.44%) Cisco Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (2.44%) QA
2 1 (1.22%) Accessibility
2 1 (1.22%) Cyber Essentials
2 1 (1.22%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
2 1 (1.22%) GDPR
2 1 (1.22%) Government Security Classifications
2 1 (1.22%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 1 (1.22%) WCAG
System Software
1 59 (71.95%) Docker
2 8 (9.76%) Active Directory
2 8 (9.76%) Hyper-V
3 2 (2.44%) Virtual Machines
3 2 (2.44%) VMware ESXi
3 2 (2.44%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 35 (42.68%) Terraform
2 11 (13.41%) Ansible
3 9 (10.98%) Grafana
4 6 (7.32%) Kubeflow
5 3 (3.66%) Argo
6 2 (2.44%) Kibana
6 2 (2.44%) Red Hat Satellite
6 2 (2.44%) ZABBIX
7 1 (1.22%) Istio
7 1 (1.22%) Kustomize
7 1 (1.22%) Prometheus
7 1 (1.22%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 13 (15.85%) Oracle
2 8 (9.76%) Dell
3 6 (7.32%) Databricks
4 4 (4.88%) Splunk
5 3 (3.66%) IBM
6 2 (2.44%) AppDynamics
6 2 (2.44%) Dynatrace
6 2 (2.44%) Microsoft
6 2 (2.44%) Red Hat
6 2 (2.44%) SAP
6 2 (2.44%) VMware
7 1 (1.22%) Google