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

6 months to
10 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 154 132 98
Rank change year-on-year -22 -34 -11
Permanent jobs citing Kubernetes 65 119 149
As % of all permanent jobs in the Midlands 0.83% 1.86% 2.65%
As % of the Systems Management category 21.31% 29.90% 25.13%
Number of salaries quoted 46 70 121
10th Percentile £48,625 £34,000 £50,250
25th Percentile £53,125 £57,500 £55,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £67,500 £65,000 £62,500
Median % change year-on-year +3.85% +4.00% -10.71%
75th Percentile £79,688 £75,000 £72,500
90th Percentile £95,000 £87,500 £87,500
England median annual salary £75,000 £80,000 £75,000
% change year-on-year -6.25% +6.67% -6.25%

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 305 398 593
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the Midlands 3.91% 6.21% 10.56%
Number of salaries quoted 221 228 525
10th Percentile £29,000 £32,500 £30,200
25th Percentile £36,250 £38,938 £40,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £52,500 £52,500 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year - -4.55% -
75th Percentile £68,750 £66,050 £65,000
90th Percentile £78,790 £75,000 £78,750
England median annual salary £62,500 £70,000 £65,000
% change year-on-year -10.71% +7.69% -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 10 January 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 10 January 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 -12 48 £70,000 +7.69% 51
East Midlands -12 16 £62,500 +4.17% 67
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 5 (7.69%) Oracle SOA Suite
2 3 (4.62%) IIS
3 1 (1.54%) SAS
Business Applications
1 1 (1.54%) Dynamics CRM
Cloud Services
1 38 (58.46%) AWS
2 33 (50.77%) Azure
3 11 (16.92%) GitHub
4 8 (12.31%) Azure DevOps
4 8 (12.31%) Serverless
5 7 (10.77%) Amazon CloudWatch
5 7 (10.77%) GCP
5 7 (10.77%) SaaS
6 6 (9.23%) AWS Lambda
7 5 (7.69%) Amazon ECS
7 5 (7.69%) OpenShift
8 4 (6.15%) Amazon S3
8 4 (6.15%) AWS CloudFormation
8 4 (6.15%) Entra ID
8 4 (6.15%) GitHub Actions
8 4 (6.15%) NuGet
8 4 (6.15%) PaaS
8 4 (6.15%) SonarCloud
9 3 (4.62%) Amazon EKS
9 3 (4.62%) Azure Stack
Communications & Networking
1 2 (3.08%) TCP/IP
2 1 (1.54%) Broadband
2 1 (1.54%) Firewall
2 1 (1.54%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 7 (10.77%) PostgreSQL
2 6 (9.23%) SQL Server
3 5 (7.69%) NoSQL
4 4 (6.15%) Oracle Database
5 3 (4.62%) Amazon RDS
5 3 (4.62%) Delta Lake
5 3 (4.62%) Relational Database
6 2 (3.08%) MongoDB
6 2 (3.08%) TimescaleDB
7 1 (1.54%) Geospatial Data
7 1 (1.54%) InfluxDB
7 1 (1.54%) MySQL
7 1 (1.54%) Neo4j
7 1 (1.54%) Pentaho
7 1 (1.54%) Power BI
7 1 (1.54%) RDBMS
7 1 (1.54%) Redis
7 1 (1.54%) SQL Server Reporting Services
Development Applications
1 11 (16.92%) Git
1 11 (16.92%) GitLab
1 11 (16.92%) JUnit
2 10 (15.38%) Jenkins
3 8 (12.31%) Mockito
4 7 (10.77%) Maven
5 4 (6.15%) Cucumber
6 3 (4.62%) Selenium
7 2 (3.08%) MLflow
7 2 (3.08%) SonarQube
8 1 (1.54%) Gatling
8 1 (1.54%) Jaeger
8 1 (1.54%) JIRA
8 1 (1.54%) JMeter
8 1 (1.54%) Locust
8 1 (1.54%) Snyk
General
1 16 (24.62%) Social Skills
2 9 (13.85%) Finance
3 8 (12.31%) Public Sector
4 4 (6.15%) Advertising
5 3 (4.62%) Military
6 2 (3.08%) Analytical Skills
6 2 (3.08%) Automotive
6 2 (3.08%) Banking
6 2 (3.08%) Investment Banking
6 2 (3.08%) Law
7 1 (1.54%) Documentation Skills
7 1 (1.54%) Inclusion and Diversity
Job Titles
1 19 (29.23%) Senior
2 18 (27.69%) DevOps Engineer
3 12 (18.46%) Developer
4 10 (15.38%) Lead
5 8 (12.31%) Full-Stack Developer
5 8 (12.31%) Java Developer
5 8 (12.31%) Senior Developer
6 7 (10.77%) Azure Engineer
6 7 (10.77%) Full-Stack Java Developer
6 7 (10.77%) Platform Engineer
6 7 (10.77%) Senior DevOps
6 7 (10.77%) Senior DevOps Engineer
7 5 (7.69%) AWS Engineer
7 5 (7.69%) Cloud Engineer
7 5 (7.69%) Infrastructure Engineer
7 5 (7.69%) Kubernetes Engineer
7 5 (7.69%) Senior Full-Stack Developer
7 5 (7.69%) Senior Java Developer
7 5 (7.69%) Technical Leader
8 4 (6.15%) Technical Support
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 12 (18.46%) React
2 11 (16.92%) Spring
3 8 (12.31%) REST
4 7 (10.77%) Spring Boot
5 6 (9.23%) .NET
6 5 (7.69%) Node.js
7 4 (6.15%) Elastic Stack
8 3 (4.62%) .NET Framework
8 3 (4.62%) AngularJS
8 3 (4.62%) Django
8 3 (4.62%) Flask
8 3 (4.62%) pytest
8 3 (4.62%) YAML
9 2 (3.08%) .NET Core
9 2 (3.08%) CSS
9 2 (3.08%) gRPC
9 2 (3.08%) HTML
9 2 (3.08%) RESTful
9 2 (3.08%) Web Services
10 1 (1.54%) Jest
Miscellaneous
1 5 (7.69%) Legacy Systems
1 5 (7.69%) Self-Motivation
2 4 (6.15%) Cloud Native
2 4 (6.15%) Onboarding
3 3 (4.62%) Data Centre
3 3 (4.62%) Hybrid Cloud
3 3 (4.62%) Management Information System
3 3 (4.62%) Product Ownership
4 2 (3.08%) Enterprise Software
5 1 (1.54%) Data Structures
5 1 (1.54%) Derivative
5 1 (1.54%) Legacy Applications
5 1 (1.54%) PKI
Operating Systems
1 27 (41.54%) Linux
2 10 (15.38%) Windows
3 3 (4.62%) Rocky
3 3 (4.62%) Windows Server
3 3 (4.62%) Windows Server 2019
4 1 (1.54%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 47 (72.31%) DevOps
2 38 (58.46%) CI/CD
3 28 (43.08%) Containerisation
4 26 (40.00%) Agile
5 23 (35.38%) Infrastructure as Code
6 22 (33.85%) Microservices
7 21 (32.31%) Problem-Solving
8 12 (18.46%) TDD
9 11 (16.92%) Continuous Improvement
9 11 (16.92%) Full-Stack Development
9 11 (16.92%) Mentoring
9 11 (16.92%) Test Automation
10 9 (13.85%) Software Engineering
11 8 (12.31%) DevSecOps
11 8 (12.31%) High Availability
11 8 (12.31%) Platform Engineering
11 8 (12.31%) Scrum
11 8 (12.31%) SDLC
12 7 (10.77%) Project Delivery
12 7 (10.77%) Sprint Planning
Programming Languages
1 24 (36.92%) Python
2 21 (32.31%) Java
3 15 (23.08%) JavaScript
4 14 (21.54%) Bash
4 14 (21.54%) SQL
5 9 (13.85%) Go
5 9 (13.85%) TypeScript
6 7 (10.77%) PL/SQL
7 6 (9.23%) PowerShell
8 5 (7.69%) C#
9 4 (6.15%) C
10 3 (4.62%) Bicep
10 3 (4.62%) Delphi
10 3 (4.62%) R
11 2 (3.08%) C++
12 1 (1.54%) Kusto Query Language
12 1 (1.54%) PHP
12 1 (1.54%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 26 (40.00%) Security Cleared
2 21 (32.31%) SC Cleared
3 8 (12.31%) DV Cleared
4 6 (9.23%) Azure Certification
5 5 (7.69%) BPSS Clearance
6 4 (6.15%) AWS Certification
7 3 (4.62%) Network+ Certification
8 2 (3.08%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
8 2 (3.08%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
8 2 (3.08%) AWS Certified SysOps Administrator
8 2 (3.08%) CCNA
8 2 (3.08%) Cisco Certification
8 2 (3.08%) Computer Science Degree
8 2 (3.08%) Degree
9 1 (1.54%) CISSP
9 1 (1.54%) Master's Degree
9 1 (1.54%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (7.69%) QA
2 2 (3.08%) GDPR
2 2 (3.08%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 1 (1.54%) Accessibility
3 1 (1.54%) Cyber Essentials
3 1 (1.54%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
3 1 (1.54%) Data Quality
3 1 (1.54%) Government Security Classifications
3 1 (1.54%) SOC 2
3 1 (1.54%) WCAG
System Software
1 49 (75.38%) Docker
2 3 (4.62%) Active Directory
2 3 (4.62%) Hyper-V
Systems Management
1 27 (41.54%) Terraform
2 14 (21.54%) Ansible
3 6 (9.23%) Grafana
4 4 (6.15%) Argo
5 2 (3.08%) Kustomize
5 2 (3.08%) Prometheus
6 1 (1.54%) Nagios
6 1 (1.54%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 16 (24.62%) Oracle
2 3 (4.62%) CrowdStrike
2 3 (4.62%) Dell
2 3 (4.62%) Microsoft
3 2 (3.08%) AppDynamics
3 2 (3.08%) Google
4 1 (1.54%) Denodo
4 1 (1.54%) OpenAI
4 1 (1.54%) Salesforce
4 1 (1.54%) Splunk
4 1 (1.54%) Talend