Kubernetes Jobs in the Midlands

Kubernetes (k8s)
England > Midlands

The table below provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in the Midlands requiring Kubernetes skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the annual salaries offered in vacancies that cited Kubernetes over the 6 months leading up to 1 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 167 155 107
Rank change year-on-year -12 -48 -50
Permanent jobs citing Kubernetes 77 184 290
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the Midlands 1.11% 1.58% 3.04%
As % of the Systems Management category 22.38% 22.49% 22.92%
Number of salaries quoted 64 141 168
10th Percentile - £46,250 £50,788
25th Percentile £57,500 £52,500 £56,480
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £67,500 £60,000 £70,000
Median % change year-on-year +12.50% -14.29% -
75th Percentile £75,000 £82,500 £81,250
90th Percentile £86,375 £88,750 £99,300
England median annual salary £85,000 £77,500 £79,632
% change year-on-year +9.68% -2.68% +2.75%

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 344 818 1,265
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the Midlands 4.95% 7.01% 13.24%
Number of salaries quoted 245 649 554
10th Percentile £32,500 £27,500 £30,000
25th Percentile £40,000 £36,298 £37,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £52,000 £50,000 £54,250
Median % change year-on-year +4.00% -7.83% -1.36%
75th Percentile £66,050 £65,000 £71,250
90th Percentile £75,000 £79,500 £81,250
England median annual salary £69,500 £60,000 £67,500
% change year-on-year +15.83% -11.11% -3.57%

Kubernetes
Job Vacancy Trend in the Midlands

Job postings citing Kubernetes as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the Midlands.

Job vacancy trend for Kubernetes in the Midlands

Kubernetes
Salary Trend in the Midlands

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing Kubernetes in the Midlands.

Salary trend for Kubernetes in the Midlands

Kubernetes
Salary Histogram in the Midlands

Salary distribution for jobs citing Kubernetes in the Midlands over the 6 months to 1 May 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 1 May 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 +3 64 £67,500 +3.85% 80
East Midlands -9 13 £65,000 +8.33% 32
Kubernetes
England

Kubernetes
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the Midlands by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same employment type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Application Platforms
1 8 (10.39%) Confluence
2 2 (2.60%) Jupyter
3 1 (1.30%) Apache
3 1 (1.30%) Mendix
3 1 (1.30%) Tomcat
Applications
1 2 (2.60%) Adobe XD
1 2 (2.60%) Chatbot
1 2 (2.60%) Moqups
1 2 (2.60%) Sketch
Cloud Services
1 62 (80.52%) Azure
2 50 (64.94%) AWS
3 19 (24.68%) Azure DevOps
4 18 (23.38%) GCP
5 17 (22.08%) GitHub
6 16 (20.78%) GitHub Actions
7 15 (19.48%) SaaS
8 12 (15.58%) Amazon ECS
9 10 (12.99%) IaaS
9 10 (12.99%) PaaS
10 5 (6.49%) Serverless
11 4 (5.19%) AWS CloudFormation
11 4 (5.19%) Azure Data Factory
11 4 (5.19%) Cloud Computing
12 3 (3.90%) Amazon EKS
12 3 (3.90%) AWS Lambda
12 3 (3.90%) Azure AKS
12 3 (3.90%) Azure Service Bus
13 2 (2.60%) Google Workspace
13 2 (2.60%) OpenShift
Communications & Networking
1 3 (3.90%) DNS
2 2 (2.60%) TCP/IP
3 1 (1.30%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 9 (11.69%) PostgreSQL
2 7 (9.09%) Azure SQL Database
2 7 (9.09%) NoSQL
2 7 (9.09%) SQL Server
3 6 (7.79%) Redis
4 5 (6.49%) MongoDB
5 4 (5.19%) Big Data
6 3 (3.90%) MySQL
7 2 (2.60%) Elasticsearch
7 2 (2.60%) Relational Database
8 1 (1.30%) Amazon RDS
8 1 (1.30%) Data Lake
8 1 (1.30%) DB2
8 1 (1.30%) DynamoDB
8 1 (1.30%) Power BI
8 1 (1.30%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 15 (19.48%) Git
2 14 (18.18%) SonarQube
3 12 (15.58%) JIRA
4 4 (5.19%) Cypress.io
4 4 (5.19%) Jenkins
5 3 (3.90%) webpack
6 2 (2.60%) Babel
6 2 (2.60%) GitLab
6 2 (2.60%) Mocha
7 1 (1.30%) Atlassian Bamboo
7 1 (1.30%) Octopus Deploy
7 1 (1.30%) Subversion
General
1 15 (19.48%) Public Sector
1 15 (19.48%) Social Skills
2 14 (18.18%) Manufacturing
3 6 (7.79%) Finance
4 5 (6.49%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 4 (5.19%) Automotive
6 3 (3.90%) Analytical Skills
6 3 (3.90%) Games
7 2 (2.60%) Banking
8 1 (1.30%) Aerospace
8 1 (1.30%) Documentation Skills
8 1 (1.30%) Electronics
8 1 (1.30%) iGaming
8 1 (1.30%) Law
8 1 (1.30%) Marketing
8 1 (1.30%) Retail
Job Titles
1 17 (22.08%) Developer
2 16 (20.78%) Senior
3 14 (18.18%) DevOps Engineer
4 13 (16.88%) Software Engineer
5 12 (15.58%) Site Engineer
5 12 (15.58%) Site Reliability Engineer
6 7 (9.09%) Lead
6 7 (9.09%) Senior Developer
7 6 (7.79%) Backend Developer
7 6 (7.79%) Senior Backend Developer
8 5 (6.49%) Architect
8 5 (6.49%) Java Engineer
8 5 (6.49%) Java Software Engineer
9 4 (5.19%) Software Developer
10 3 (3.90%) Front-End Developer (Client-Side Developer)
10 3 (3.90%) Lead Developer
10 3 (3.90%) Platform Engineer
10 3 (3.90%) Solutions Architect
11 2 (2.60%) Cloud Engineer
11 2 (2.60%) Data Scientist
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 21 (27.27%) .NET
2 13 (16.88%) React
3 12 (15.58%) Loki
3 12 (15.58%) RESTful
4 9 (11.69%) ARM Templates
5 8 (10.39%) Azure Blueprints
5 8 (10.39%) Node.js
5 8 (10.39%) OAuth
6 7 (9.09%) Spring
6 7 (9.09%) WebSockets
7 6 (7.79%) Django
7 6 (7.79%) FastAPI
7 6 (7.79%) Flask
7 6 (7.79%) GraphQL
7 6 (7.79%) Jest
7 6 (7.79%) Keycloak
7 6 (7.79%) pytest
7 6 (7.79%) SQLAlchemy
8 5 (6.49%) AngularJS
8 5 (6.49%) Vue
Miscellaneous
1 14 (18.18%) Onboarding
2 9 (11.69%) Cloud Native
3 8 (10.39%) Management Information System
4 6 (7.79%) Algorithms
5 4 (5.19%) Cyberattack
5 4 (5.19%) Data Structures
5 4 (5.19%) Distributed Systems
6 3 (3.90%) Self-Motivation
7 2 (2.60%) CUDA
7 2 (2.60%) IoT
7 2 (2.60%) Legacy Code
7 2 (2.60%) Low-Code
7 2 (2.60%) Public Cloud
7 2 (2.60%) Reference Data
7 2 (2.60%) Replication
7 2 (2.60%) SIMD
7 2 (2.60%) Virtual Team
8 1 (1.30%) Hybrid Cloud
8 1 (1.30%) Legacy Systems
8 1 (1.30%) Linux Command Line
Operating Systems
1 6 (7.79%) Linux
2 2 (2.60%) Android
3 1 (1.30%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 1 (1.30%) Ubuntu
3 1 (1.30%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 53 (68.83%) DevOps
2 43 (55.84%) Containerisation
3 31 (40.26%) Software Engineering
4 29 (37.66%) CI/CD
5 19 (24.68%) Mentoring
6 18 (23.38%) Microservices
6 18 (23.38%) Problem-Solving
7 16 (20.78%) Agile
8 15 (19.48%) Computer Science
8 15 (19.48%) Continuous Delivery
9 14 (18.18%) Deployment Automation
10 13 (16.88%) Site Reliability Engineering
11 12 (15.58%) Front End Development
12 10 (12.99%) Project Management
12 10 (12.99%) Test Automation
13 9 (11.69%) Cybersecurity
13 9 (11.69%) Design Patterns
14 8 (10.39%) Dynamic Application Security Testing
14 8 (10.39%) Platform Engineering
14 8 (10.39%) Static Application Security Testing
Programming Languages
1 23 (29.87%) Python
2 22 (28.57%) C#
3 21 (27.27%) TypeScript
4 19 (24.68%) JavaScript
5 18 (23.38%) SQL
6 16 (20.78%) Java
7 4 (5.19%) C++
7 4 (5.19%) Go
8 2 (2.60%) Bash
8 2 (2.60%) PowerShell
8 2 (2.60%) Rust
9 1 (1.30%) Kotlin
9 1 (1.30%) PHP
Qualifications
1 23 (29.87%) Security Cleared
2 17 (22.08%) Degree
3 15 (19.48%) Computer Science Degree
4 14 (18.18%) BPSS Clearance
5 5 (6.49%) DV Cleared
6 3 (3.90%) SC Cleared
7 2 (2.60%) AWS Certification
7 2 (2.60%) Azure Certification
8 1 (1.30%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
8 1 (1.30%) Master's Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 9 (11.69%) NCSC
2 2 (2.60%) QA
2 2 (2.60%) SLA
3 1 (1.30%) Accessibility
3 1 (1.30%) Cyber Essentials
3 1 (1.30%) Data Quality
3 1 (1.30%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 1 (1.30%) NIST
System Software
1 51 (66.23%) Docker
2 1 (1.30%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 35 (45.45%) Terraform
2 19 (24.68%) Grafana
2 19 (24.68%) Prometheus
3 12 (15.58%) Ansible
4 1 (1.30%) Argo
4 1 (1.30%) Consul
4 1 (1.30%) Marathon
4 1 (1.30%) Packer
4 1 (1.30%) Rancher
4 1 (1.30%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 15 (19.48%) Microsoft
2 3 (3.90%) Databricks
2 3 (3.90%) Google
3 2 (2.60%) Adobe
4 1 (1.30%) Atlassian
4 1 (1.30%) IBM
4 1 (1.30%) Oracle
4 1 (1.30%) VMware