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 26 December 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
26 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 153 135 90
Rank change year-on-year -18 -45 -10
Permanent jobs citing Kubernetes 73 126 144
As % of all permanent jobs in the Midlands 0.92% 1.86% 2.91%
As % of the Systems Management category 22.67% 30.51% 23.92%
Number of salaries quoted 50 77 120
10th Percentile £48,750 £34,000 £50,000
25th Percentile £55,313 £48,750 £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 £80,000 £75,000 £72,500
90th Percentile £95,000 £87,500 £87,500
England median annual salary £77,500 £79,500 £75,000
% change year-on-year -2.52% +6.00% -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 322 413 602
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the Midlands 4.08% 6.08% 12.15%
Number of salaries quoted 232 248 531
10th Percentile £29,025 £31,425 £30,000
25th Percentile £40,000 £37,500 £41,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,200 £52,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +6.15% -5.45% +4.76%
75th Percentile £70,000 £65,914 £65,000
90th Percentile £80,000 £75,000 £78,750
England median annual salary £62,500 £68,875 £65,000
% change year-on-year -9.26% +5.96% -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 26 December 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 26 December 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 +2 52 £70,271 +8.11% 164
East Midlands -25 20 £62,500 +47.06% 115
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 (8.22%) Apache Spark
2 3 (4.11%) IIS
2 3 (4.11%) Oracle SOA Suite
3 1 (1.37%) SAS
Business Applications
1 1 (1.37%) Dynamics CRM
Cloud Services
1 44 (60.27%) AWS
2 35 (47.95%) Azure
3 11 (15.07%) GitHub
4 9 (12.33%) Amazon EKS
4 9 (12.33%) Amazon S3
5 8 (10.96%) Azure DevOps
6 7 (9.59%) GCP
6 7 (9.59%) SaaS
6 7 (9.59%) Serverless
7 6 (8.22%) Amazon CloudWatch
7 6 (8.22%) Amazon ELB
7 6 (8.22%) Entra ID
8 5 (6.85%) Amazon ECS
8 5 (6.85%) AWS Lambda
8 5 (6.85%) Azure Stack
8 5 (6.85%) OpenShift
9 4 (5.48%) GitHub Actions
9 4 (5.48%) NuGet
9 4 (5.48%) PaaS
9 4 (5.48%) SonarCloud
Communications & Networking
1 3 (4.11%) TCP/IP
2 1 (1.37%) Broadband
2 1 (1.37%) Firewall
2 1 (1.37%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 9 (12.33%) Delta Lake
2 7 (9.59%) NoSQL
2 7 (9.59%) PostgreSQL
3 6 (8.22%) DynamoDB
3 6 (8.22%) Metadata
3 6 (8.22%) Spark SQL
3 6 (8.22%) SQL Server
4 4 (5.48%) Oracle Database
5 3 (4.11%) Relational Database
6 2 (2.74%) Amazon RDS
6 2 (2.74%) MongoDB
6 2 (2.74%) TimescaleDB
7 1 (1.37%) Geospatial Data
7 1 (1.37%) InfluxDB
7 1 (1.37%) MySQL
7 1 (1.37%) Neo4j
7 1 (1.37%) Power BI
7 1 (1.37%) RDBMS
7 1 (1.37%) Redis
7 1 (1.37%) SQL Server Reporting Services
Development Applications
1 11 (15.07%) GitLab
2 10 (13.70%) Git
3 9 (12.33%) Jenkins
3 9 (12.33%) JUnit
4 8 (10.96%) MLflow
5 6 (8.22%) Mockito
6 5 (6.85%) Maven
7 4 (5.48%) Cucumber
8 3 (4.11%) Selenium
9 2 (2.74%) SonarQube
10 1 (1.37%) Gatling
10 1 (1.37%) Jaeger
10 1 (1.37%) JIRA
10 1 (1.37%) JMeter
10 1 (1.37%) Locust
10 1 (1.37%) Snyk
General
1 19 (26.03%) Social Skills
2 10 (13.70%) Public Sector
3 7 (9.59%) Finance
4 4 (5.48%) Advertising
5 3 (4.11%) Military
6 2 (2.74%) Analytical Skills
6 2 (2.74%) Automotive
6 2 (2.74%) Law
7 1 (1.37%) Banking
7 1 (1.37%) Documentation Skills
7 1 (1.37%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 1 (1.37%) Investment Banking
Job Titles
1 19 (26.03%) DevOps Engineer
2 18 (24.66%) Senior
3 12 (16.44%) Developer
4 10 (13.70%) Lead
5 8 (10.96%) Java Developer
5 8 (10.96%) Operations Engineer
6 7 (9.59%) Azure Engineer
6 7 (9.59%) Platform Engineer
6 7 (9.59%) Senior Developer
6 7 (9.59%) Senior DevOps
6 7 (9.59%) Senior DevOps Engineer
7 6 (8.22%) Full-Stack Developer
7 6 (8.22%) Infrastructure Engineer
7 6 (8.22%) Machine Learning Engineer
8 5 (6.85%) Cloud Engineer
8 5 (6.85%) Full-Stack Java Developer
8 5 (6.85%) IT Engineer
8 5 (6.85%) IT Infrastructure Engineer
8 5 (6.85%) Kubernetes Engineer
8 5 (6.85%) Technical Leader
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 13 (17.81%) Spring
2 12 (16.44%) React
3 9 (12.33%) Spring Boot
3 9 (12.33%) YAML
4 7 (9.59%) PyTorch
4 7 (9.59%) scikit-learn
4 7 (9.59%) TensorFlow
5 6 (8.22%) .NET
5 6 (8.22%) Keras
5 6 (8.22%) Lambda Expressions
5 6 (8.22%) Metaflow
5 6 (8.22%) NumPy
5 6 (8.22%) Pandas
5 6 (8.22%) PySpark
5 6 (8.22%) REST
6 5 (6.85%) Node.js
7 4 (5.48%) Elastic Stack
7 4 (5.48%) RESTful
8 3 (4.11%) .NET Framework
8 3 (4.11%) Django
Miscellaneous
1 7 (9.59%) Legacy Systems
2 6 (8.22%) Cloud Native
2 6 (8.22%) Linux Command Line
2 6 (8.22%) Onboarding
3 5 (6.85%) Data Centre
3 5 (6.85%) Hybrid Cloud
4 3 (4.11%) Product Ownership
4 3 (4.11%) Self-Motivation
5 2 (2.74%) Greenfield Project
6 1 (1.37%) Data Structures
6 1 (1.37%) Derivative
6 1 (1.37%) Enterprise Software
6 1 (1.37%) Legacy Applications
6 1 (1.37%) Management Information System
6 1 (1.37%) PKI
Operating Systems
1 28 (38.36%) Linux
2 12 (16.44%) Windows
3 7 (9.59%) Unix
4 5 (6.85%) Rocky
4 5 (6.85%) Windows Server
4 5 (6.85%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 49 (67.12%) DevOps
2 45 (61.64%) CI/CD
3 35 (47.95%) Containerisation
4 26 (35.62%) Agile
5 23 (31.51%) Infrastructure as Code
6 22 (30.14%) Microservices
7 18 (24.66%) Problem-Solving
8 12 (16.44%) AI
8 12 (16.44%) Mentoring
8 12 (16.44%) TDD
9 11 (15.07%) Continuous Improvement
9 11 (15.07%) Machine Learning
9 11 (15.07%) Test Automation
9 11 (15.07%) Unit Testing
10 9 (12.33%) Full-Stack Development
10 9 (12.33%) OWASP
10 9 (12.33%) Software Engineering
11 8 (10.96%) Data Science
11 8 (10.96%) MLOps
11 8 (10.96%) Platform Engineering
Programming Languages
1 30 (41.10%) Python
2 21 (28.77%) Java
3 20 (27.40%) SQL
4 15 (20.55%) JavaScript
5 12 (16.44%) Bash
6 9 (12.33%) Go
6 9 (12.33%) TypeScript
7 6 (8.22%) PowerShell
8 5 (6.85%) C#
8 5 (6.85%) PL/SQL
9 3 (4.11%) Bicep
9 3 (4.11%) Delphi
10 2 (2.74%) C
10 2 (2.74%) C++
11 1 (1.37%) Kusto Query Language
11 1 (1.37%) PHP
11 1 (1.37%) R
11 1 (1.37%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 28 (38.36%) Security Cleared
2 23 (31.51%) SC Cleared
3 10 (13.70%) DV Cleared
4 8 (10.96%) Azure Certification
5 7 (9.59%) BPSS Clearance
6 5 (6.85%) AWS Certification
6 5 (6.85%) Network+ Certification
7 3 (4.11%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
8 2 (2.74%) CCNA
8 2 (2.74%) Cisco Certification
8 2 (2.74%) Computer Science Degree
8 2 (2.74%) Degree
9 1 (1.37%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
9 1 (1.37%) AWS Certified SysOps Administrator
9 1 (1.37%) CISSP
9 1 (1.37%) Master's Degree
9 1 (1.37%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (4.11%) QA
2 2 (2.74%) GDPR
2 2 (2.74%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 1 (1.37%) Accessibility
3 1 (1.37%) Cyber Essentials
3 1 (1.37%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
3 1 (1.37%) Data Quality
3 1 (1.37%) Government Security Classifications
3 1 (1.37%) SOC 2
3 1 (1.37%) WCAG
System Software
1 55 (75.34%) Docker
2 5 (6.85%) Active Directory
2 5 (6.85%) Hyper-V
Systems Management
1 33 (45.21%) Terraform
2 13 (17.81%) Ansible
3 6 (8.22%) Grafana
3 6 (8.22%) Kubeflow
4 4 (5.48%) Argo
5 2 (2.74%) Kustomize
5 2 (2.74%) Prometheus
6 1 (1.37%) Nagios
6 1 (1.37%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 14 (19.18%) Oracle
2 6 (8.22%) Databricks
3 5 (6.85%) Dell
4 3 (4.11%) CrowdStrike
4 3 (4.11%) Microsoft
5 2 (2.74%) AppDynamics
5 2 (2.74%) Google
6 1 (1.37%) Denodo
6 1 (1.37%) OpenAI
6 1 (1.37%) Salesforce
6 1 (1.37%) Splunk
6 1 (1.37%) Talend