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

6 months to
15 Oct 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 142 110 130
Rank change year-on-year -32 +20 -40
Permanent jobs citing Kubernetes 146 141 157
As % of all permanent jobs in the Midlands 0.93% 2.55% 1.68%
As % of the Systems Management category 34.93% 33.89% 32.04%
Number of salaries quoted 92 59 88
10th Percentile £47,875 £52,500 £34,000
25th Percentile £55,000 £57,500 £41,875
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £67,500 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -3.70% +12.50% -4.00%
75th Percentile £76,544 £80,000 £72,911
90th Percentile £93,750 £88,500 £90,250
England median annual salary £70,000 £77,500 £77,500
% change year-on-year -9.68% - +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 418 416 490
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the Midlands 2.66% 7.52% 5.25%
Number of salaries quoted 303 249 259
10th Percentile £28,600 £30,750 £32,300
25th Percentile £38,094 £37,750 £37,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £52,500 £54,000 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year -2.78% +8.00% -9.09%
75th Percentile £65,000 £72,500 £65,000
90th Percentile £80,000 £77,500 £75,000
England median annual salary £60,000 £60,000 £65,482
% change year-on-year - -8.37% +0.74%

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 October 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 15 October 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 -38 88 £70,000 - 27
East Midlands -28 58 £61,250 +2.08% 13
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 (4.79%) Oracle SOA Suite
2 2 (1.37%) IIS
2 2 (1.37%) Microsoft Exchange
3 1 (0.68%) Apache Spark
3 1 (0.68%) Mendix
3 1 (0.68%) SAS
3 1 (0.68%) SharePoint
Business Applications
1 2 (1.37%) Maximo
Cloud Services
1 105 (71.92%) Azure
2 71 (48.63%) AWS
3 20 (13.70%) Azure AKS
3 20 (13.70%) GitHub
4 14 (9.59%) Azure ExpressRoute
5 12 (8.22%) Entra ID
5 12 (8.22%) GitHub Copilot
6 11 (7.53%) Azure DevOps
6 11 (7.53%) GCP
6 11 (7.53%) IaaS
7 9 (6.16%) Amazon EKS
8 8 (5.48%) Azure AI
9 7 (4.79%) OpenShift
10 6 (4.11%) GitHub Actions
10 6 (4.11%) SaaS
11 5 (3.42%) Azure Cosmos DB
11 5 (3.42%) Azure Key Vault
11 5 (3.42%) Azure Storage
11 5 (3.42%) PaaS
12 4 (2.74%) Amazon EC2
Communications & Networking
1 14 (9.59%) VPN
2 10 (6.85%) DNS
2 10 (6.85%) Network Security
3 7 (4.79%) Firewall
4 5 (3.42%) VLAN
5 2 (1.37%) DHCP
5 2 (1.37%) HTTP
5 2 (1.37%) SSL
6 1 (0.68%) BIG-IP
6 1 (0.68%) SAN
6 1 (0.68%) WAN
6 1 (0.68%) WireGuard
6 1 (0.68%) X.509
Database & Business Intelligence
1 14 (9.59%) MongoDB
2 13 (8.90%) Azure SQL Database
3 6 (4.11%) PostgreSQL
4 5 (3.42%) Elasticsearch
4 5 (3.42%) SQL Server
5 3 (2.05%) Amazon RDS
5 3 (2.05%) NoSQL
6 2 (1.37%) Amazon Aurora
6 2 (1.37%) Db2
6 2 (1.37%) KNIME
6 2 (1.37%) MySQL
6 2 (1.37%) Power BI
6 2 (1.37%) Power Query
6 2 (1.37%) Redis
7 1 (0.68%) Amazon Redshift
7 1 (0.68%) Pentaho
Development Applications
1 21 (14.38%) Git
1 21 (14.38%) JUnit
2 17 (11.64%) Maven
3 14 (9.59%) Mockito
4 9 (6.16%) GitLab
4 9 (6.16%) Jenkins
5 7 (4.79%) Cucumber
5 7 (4.79%) Postman
5 7 (4.79%) Selenium
6 6 (4.11%) Gatling
7 2 (1.37%) Ant
7 2 (1.37%) Apache Ivy
7 2 (1.37%) IBM UrbanCode
7 2 (1.37%) Subversion
8 1 (0.68%) Cypress.io
8 1 (0.68%) Gradle
8 1 (0.68%) JMeter
8 1 (0.68%) REST Assured
8 1 (0.68%) TestNG
8 1 (0.68%) WebDriver
General
1 26 (17.81%) Finance
2 20 (13.70%) Social Skills
3 9 (6.16%) Law
4 8 (5.48%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 7 (4.79%) Public Sector
6 5 (3.42%) Analytical Skills
7 4 (2.74%) Advertising
7 4 (2.74%) Manufacturing
7 4 (2.74%) Marketing
8 3 (2.05%) Retail
9 2 (1.37%) Aerospace
10 1 (0.68%) Banking
10 1 (0.68%) Documentation Skills
Job Titles
1 37 (25.34%) Senior
2 33 (22.60%) DevOps Engineer
3 31 (21.23%) Developer
4 22 (15.07%) Architect
5 15 (10.27%) Cloud Engineer
6 13 (8.90%) Senior Developer
7 12 (8.22%) .NET Developer
7 12 (8.22%) Full-Stack Developer
7 12 (8.22%) Senior DevOps
7 12 (8.22%) Senior DevOps Engineer
7 12 (8.22%) Technical Architect
8 11 (7.53%) Lead
9 10 (6.85%) Full-Stack Java Developer
9 10 (6.85%) Java Developer
10 9 (6.16%) Azure Architect
10 9 (6.16%) Azure Engineer
10 9 (6.16%) Senior Full-Stack Developer
11 8 (5.48%) Platform Engineer
12 7 (4.79%) Senior Java Developer
12 7 (4.79%) Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 55 (37.67%) Terraform
2 29 (19.86%) .NET
3 20 (13.70%) ASP.NET
3 20 (13.70%) ASP.NET Core
3 20 (13.70%) React
4 18 (12.33%) REST
5 15 (10.27%) Spring
6 14 (9.59%) .NET Core
7 9 (6.16%) Node.js
8 8 (5.48%) .NET Framework
8 8 (5.48%) Blazor
8 8 (5.48%) CSS
8 8 (5.48%) HTML
9 7 (4.79%) ML.NET
9 7 (4.79%) Playwright
9 7 (4.79%) RESTful
10 6 (4.11%) AngularJS
11 5 (3.42%) ASP.NET Web API
11 5 (3.42%) Entity Framework
11 5 (3.42%) Kafka
Miscellaneous
1 21 (14.38%) Cloud Native
2 13 (8.90%) Distributed Systems
3 9 (6.16%) Hybrid Cloud
4 8 (5.48%) Onboarding
5 7 (4.79%) Self-Motivation
6 4 (2.74%) Driving Licence
6 4 (2.74%) Robotics
7 3 (2.05%) Digital TV
7 3 (2.05%) Enterprise Software
7 3 (2.05%) Legacy Systems
7 3 (2.05%) Product Ownership
7 3 (2.05%) Public Cloud
8 2 (1.37%) Data Centre
8 2 (1.37%) Enterprise Cloud
8 2 (1.37%) Greenfield Project
8 2 (1.37%) Legacy Applications
8 2 (1.37%) Linux Command Line
8 2 (1.37%) Management Information System
8 2 (1.37%) Private Cloud
8 2 (1.37%) Video\Live Streaming
Operating Systems
1 44 (30.14%) Linux
2 11 (7.53%) Windows
3 6 (4.11%) Windows Server
4 3 (2.05%) Unix
5 2 (1.37%) Solaris
5 2 (1.37%) Ubuntu
6 1 (0.68%) CentOS
6 1 (0.68%) Debian
6 1 (0.68%) macOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 101 (69.18%) CI/CD
2 70 (47.95%) Containerisation
3 64 (43.84%) Agile
4 59 (40.41%) DevOps
5 47 (32.19%) Microservices
6 44 (30.14%) Infrastructure as Code
7 43 (29.45%) Mentoring
8 35 (23.97%) AI
9 29 (19.86%) Continuous Improvement
9 29 (19.86%) Observability
10 28 (19.18%) Full-Stack Development
11 27 (18.49%) Scrum
12 25 (17.12%) DevSecOps
12 25 (17.12%) Problem-Solving
12 25 (17.12%) TDD
13 24 (16.44%) Technical Leadership
14 22 (15.07%) Software Engineering
15 18 (12.33%) Test Automation
16 17 (11.64%) Cloud Security
16 17 (11.64%) Stakeholder Engagement
Programming Languages
1 40 (27.40%) SQL
2 36 (24.66%) C#
3 26 (17.81%) Java
3 26 (17.81%) JavaScript
4 24 (16.44%) Python
5 18 (12.33%) Bash
5 18 (12.33%) PowerShell
6 16 (10.96%) TypeScript
7 14 (9.59%) PL/SQL
8 12 (8.22%) Bicep
9 4 (2.74%) Go
10 2 (1.37%) Data Analysis Expressions
10 2 (1.37%) VB.NET
11 1 (0.68%) PHP
11 1 (0.68%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 49 (33.56%) Security Cleared
2 44 (30.14%) SC Cleared
3 15 (10.27%) Azure Certification
4 11 (7.53%) DV Cleared
5 4 (2.74%) AWS Certification
5 4 (2.74%) BPSS Clearance
5 4 (2.74%) Degree
6 2 (1.37%) CISSP
6 2 (1.37%) CompTIA Security+
6 2 (1.37%) Computer Science Degree
7 1 (0.68%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
7 1 (0.68%) IISP
7 1 (0.68%) ISACA
7 1 (0.68%) Microsoft Certified Professional
7 1 (0.68%) PMP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 9 (6.16%) Accessibility
2 7 (4.79%) QA
3 6 (4.11%) WCAG
4 4 (2.74%) Cyber Essentials
5 3 (2.05%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 2 (1.37%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
6 2 (1.37%) SLA
7 1 (0.68%) GxP
7 1 (0.68%) SOC 2
System Software
1 102 (69.86%) Docker
2 12 (8.22%) Active Directory
3 11 (7.53%) VMware Infrastructure
4 2 (1.37%) Hyper-V
5 1 (0.68%) Virtual Servers
5 1 (0.68%) VMware NSX
5 1 (0.68%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 16 (10.96%) Ansible
2 8 (5.48%) Grafana
3 6 (4.11%) Prometheus
4 5 (3.42%) Argo
5 3 (2.05%) Istio
5 3 (2.05%) Progress Chef
5 3 (2.05%) Puppet
6 1 (0.68%) Podman
6 1 (0.68%) Salt
Vendors
1 50 (34.25%) Microsoft
2 16 (10.96%) Oracle
3 12 (8.22%) VMware
4 6 (4.11%) Red Hat
5 4 (2.74%) Facebook
5 4 (2.74%) ServiceNow
6 3 (2.05%) CrowdStrike
6 3 (2.05%) OpenAI
6 3 (2.05%) Workday
7 2 (1.37%) Dynatrace
7 2 (1.37%) IFS
7 2 (1.37%) Veracode
8 1 (0.68%) Databricks
8 1 (0.68%) Denodo
8 1 (0.68%) F5
8 1 (0.68%) Foundry
8 1 (0.68%) Talend