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

6 months to
30 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 160 97 159
Rank change year-on-year -63 +62 -37
Permanent jobs citing Kubernetes 99 154 192
As % of all permanent jobs in the Midlands 0.77% 2.95% 1.39%
As % of the Systems Management category 26.12% 34.38% 23.08%
Number of salaries quoted 76 70 151
10th Percentile £48,000 £54,750 £42,500
25th Percentile £55,000 £57,500 £52,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £62,500 £65,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -3.85% +8.33% -14.29%
75th Percentile £74,066 £75,000 £82,500
90th Percentile £87,750 £80,000 £91,250
England median annual salary £70,932 £80,000 £77,500
% change year-on-year -11.34% +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 379 448 832
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the Midlands 2.96% 8.59% 6.04%
Number of salaries quoted 307 285 613
10th Percentile £31,250 £32,500 £27,500
25th Percentile £42,500 £40,000 £36,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £56,500 £55,000 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year +2.73% +10.00% -9.09%
75th Percentile £70,000 £71,250 £65,000
90th Percentile £90,000 £76,250 £80,000
England median annual salary £65,000 £67,500 £62,500
% change year-on-year -3.70% +8.00% -7.41%

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 30 June 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 30 June 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 -55 60 £67,153 -0.51% 31
East Midlands -47 38 £60,000 -4.00% 6
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 9 (9.09%) IIS
2 4 (4.04%) Oracle SOA Suite
3 2 (2.02%) Microsoft Exchange
4 1 (1.01%) Confluence
4 1 (1.01%) Mendix
4 1 (1.01%) SharePoint
Cloud Services
1 78 (78.79%) Azure
2 47 (47.47%) AWS
3 17 (17.17%) GitHub
4 16 (16.16%) Azure AKS
4 16 (16.16%) Azure DevOps
5 12 (12.12%) GitHub Copilot
6 11 (11.11%) GCP
7 10 (10.10%) Azure ExpressRoute
7 10 (10.10%) IaaS
8 8 (8.08%) Azure Key Vault
8 8 (8.08%) Azure Storage
8 8 (8.08%) npm
8 8 (8.08%) NuGet
8 8 (8.08%) SonarCloud
9 7 (7.07%) Azure AI
9 7 (7.07%) SaaS
10 5 (5.05%) Amazon S3
10 5 (5.05%) Entra ID
10 5 (5.05%) PaaS
11 4 (4.04%) AWS CloudFormation
Communications & Networking
1 11 (11.11%) DNS
2 8 (8.08%) Firewall
3 7 (7.07%) VPN
4 5 (5.05%) Network Security
4 5 (5.05%) VLAN
5 2 (2.02%) DHCP
6 1 (1.01%) BIG-IP
6 1 (1.01%) SAN
6 1 (1.01%) WAN
6 1 (1.01%) WireGuard
Database & Business Intelligence
1 14 (14.14%) MongoDB
2 13 (13.13%) Azure SQL Database
3 9 (9.09%) NoSQL
4 7 (7.07%) SQL Server
5 5 (5.05%) Elasticsearch
5 5 (5.05%) PostgreSQL
6 3 (3.03%) Amazon RDS
7 2 (2.02%) KNIME
7 2 (2.02%) Redis
7 2 (2.02%) TimescaleDB
8 1 (1.01%) Data Mining
Development Applications
1 16 (16.16%) Git
2 13 (13.13%) JUnit
3 12 (12.12%) Maven
4 11 (11.11%) Mockito
5 5 (5.05%) Cucumber
6 3 (3.03%) GitLab
6 3 (3.03%) Subversion
7 2 (2.02%) Gatling
7 2 (2.02%) Jenkins
7 2 (2.02%) JMeter
7 2 (2.02%) Locust
7 2 (2.02%) Postman
7 2 (2.02%) Selenium
8 1 (1.01%) Bitbucket
8 1 (1.01%) JIRA
8 1 (1.01%) SpecFlow
General
1 17 (17.17%) Finance
2 12 (12.12%) Law
3 11 (11.11%) Social Skills
4 6 (6.06%) Advertising
5 5 (5.05%) Analytical Skills
5 5 (5.05%) Manufacturing
6 4 (4.04%) Marketing
7 3 (3.03%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 3 (3.03%) Retail
8 2 (2.02%) Banking
8 2 (2.02%) Investment Banking
8 2 (2.02%) Public Sector
9 1 (1.01%) Automotive
Job Titles
1 29 (29.29%) Developer
2 21 (21.21%) Senior
3 19 (19.19%) DevOps Engineer
4 18 (18.18%) Azure Engineer
5 15 (15.15%) Cloud Engineer
6 13 (13.13%) Lead
7 12 (12.12%) .NET Developer
8 9 (9.09%) Full-Stack Developer
9 8 (8.08%) 3rd Line Engineer
9 8 (8.08%) Architect
9 8 (8.08%) Azure DevOps Engineer
9 8 (8.08%) Senior Developer
10 7 (7.07%) Full-Stack Java Developer
10 7 (7.07%) Infrastructure Engineer
10 7 (7.07%) Java Developer
10 7 (7.07%) Senior DevOps
10 7 (7.07%) Senior DevOps Engineer
11 5 (5.05%) Principal Engineer
11 5 (5.05%) Technical Architect
12 4 (4.04%) Administrator
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 29 (29.29%) .NET
2 24 (24.24%) React
3 22 (22.22%) ASP.NET
3 22 (22.22%) ASP.NET Core
4 19 (19.19%) Node.js
5 15 (15.15%) .NET Core
5 15 (15.15%) REST
6 11 (11.11%) .NET Framework
6 11 (11.11%) Spring
7 8 (8.08%) YAML
8 7 (7.07%) CSS
8 7 (7.07%) HTML
8 7 (7.07%) Kafka
8 7 (7.07%) ML.NET
9 6 (6.06%) AngularJS
9 6 (6.06%) Vue
10 5 (5.05%) ASP.NET Web API
10 5 (5.05%) Entity Framework
11 4 (4.04%) Blazor
11 4 (4.04%) RabbitMQ
Miscellaneous
1 15 (15.15%) Cloud Native
2 6 (6.06%) Distributed Systems
2 6 (6.06%) Onboarding
3 4 (4.04%) Legacy Systems
3 4 (4.04%) Self-Motivation
4 3 (3.03%) Digital TV
5 2 (2.02%) Clustering
5 2 (2.02%) Cyber Threat
5 2 (2.02%) Data Centre
5 2 (2.02%) Enterprise Software
5 2 (2.02%) Enterprise Storage
5 2 (2.02%) Greenfield Project
5 2 (2.02%) Hybrid Cloud
5 2 (2.02%) Management Information System
5 2 (2.02%) Private Cloud
5 2 (2.02%) Product Ownership
5 2 (2.02%) SCADA
6 1 (1.01%) Data Structures
6 1 (1.01%) Distributed Computing
6 1 (1.01%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 27 (27.27%) Linux
2 15 (15.15%) Windows
3 4 (4.04%) Windows Server
4 3 (3.03%) Ubuntu
5 2 (2.02%) CentOS
5 2 (2.02%) Debian
6 1 (1.01%) Android
6 1 (1.01%) Apple iOS
6 1 (1.01%) Mac OS
Processes & Methodologies
1 64 (64.65%) CI/CD
2 47 (47.47%) Agile
3 42 (42.42%) Infrastructure as Code
4 41 (41.41%) Containerisation
5 40 (40.40%) DevOps
6 38 (38.38%) Microservices
7 26 (26.26%) Mentoring
8 25 (25.25%) Full-Stack Development
9 22 (22.22%) Continuous Improvement
10 21 (21.21%) Observability
11 20 (20.20%) AI
11 20 (20.20%) High Availability
11 20 (20.20%) Problem-Solving
11 20 (20.20%) Test Automation
12 18 (18.18%) TDD
13 17 (17.17%) DevSecOps
13 17 (17.17%) Scrum
14 16 (16.16%) Technical Leadership
15 13 (13.13%) Infrastructure Engineering
15 13 (13.13%) Roadmaps
Programming Languages
1 33 (33.33%) C#
2 32 (32.32%) SQL
3 24 (24.24%) PowerShell
4 23 (23.23%) Java
5 22 (22.22%) JavaScript
6 20 (20.20%) Bash
7 17 (17.17%) Python
8 16 (16.16%) TypeScript
9 11 (11.11%) PL/SQL
10 7 (7.07%) Bicep
11 4 (4.04%) C
11 4 (4.04%) Go
12 2 (2.02%) C++
12 2 (2.02%) R
12 2 (2.02%) Shell Script
13 1 (1.01%) Kusto Query Language
13 1 (1.01%) PHP
13 1 (1.01%) Rust
Qualifications
1 18 (18.18%) Azure Certification
2 15 (15.15%) Security Cleared
3 14 (14.14%) SC Cleared
4 5 (5.05%) DV Cleared
5 3 (3.03%) AWS Certification
5 3 (3.03%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
6 2 (2.02%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
6 2 (2.02%) AWS Certified SysOps Administrator
6 2 (2.02%) CISSP
6 2 (2.02%) CompTIA Security+
6 2 (2.02%) Degree
7 1 (1.01%) Computer Science Degree
7 1 (1.01%) CREST Certified
7 1 (1.01%) IISP
7 1 (1.01%) ISACA
7 1 (1.01%) OSCP
7 1 (1.01%) PMP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 8 (8.08%) QA
2 7 (7.07%) Accessibility
3 4 (4.04%) Cyber Essentials
3 4 (4.04%) WCAG
4 3 (3.03%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 2 (2.02%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
6 1 (1.01%) GxP
6 1 (1.01%) SOC 2
System Software
1 72 (72.73%) Docker
2 6 (6.06%) Active Directory
3 4 (4.04%) VMware Infrastructure
4 2 (2.02%) Hyper-V
5 1 (1.01%) Virtual Servers
Systems Management
1 40 (40.40%) Terraform
2 9 (9.09%) Ansible
3 8 (8.08%) Grafana
4 6 (6.06%) Prometheus
5 4 (4.04%) Argo
6 3 (3.03%) Istio
7 2 (2.02%) Nagios
7 2 (2.02%) Progress Chef
7 2 (2.02%) Puppet
8 1 (1.01%) Podman
Vendors
1 25 (25.25%) Microsoft
2 11 (11.11%) Oracle
3 8 (8.08%) CrowdStrike
4 4 (4.04%) Facebook
4 4 (4.04%) VMware
5 2 (2.02%) Dynatrace
5 2 (2.02%) Red Hat
6 1 (1.01%) F5