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

6 months to
9 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 166 128 137
Rank change year-on-year -38 +9 -25
Permanent jobs citing Kubernetes 67 98 174
As % of all permanent jobs in the Midlands 0.69% 1.86% 1.79%
As % of the Systems Management category 22.79% 27.84% 22.75%
Number of salaries quoted 49 75 149
10th Percentile £48,700 £44,500 £47,250
25th Percentile £52,400 £57,500 £53,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £67,500 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year -3.70% +3.85% -7.14%
75th Percentile £74,762 £75,000 £81,250
90th Percentile £85,000 £86,000 £89,000
England median annual salary £75,000 £82,500 £75,000
% change year-on-year -9.09% +10.00% -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 294 352 765
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the Midlands 3.05% 6.69% 7.89%
Number of salaries quoted 224 248 652
10th Percentile £29,000 £34,000 £28,250
25th Percentile £32,750 £43,438 £36,298
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £52,500 £52,500 £52,500
75th Percentile £67,500 £67,500 £65,000
90th Percentile £78,778 £75,000 £78,750
England median annual salary £62,500 £70,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year -10.71% +16.67% -11.11%

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 9 March 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 9 March 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 -27 46 £67,500 - 41
East Midlands -24 19 £64,500 -0.77% 33
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 (10.45%) IIS
2 6 (8.96%) Oracle SOA Suite
3 1 (1.49%) SAS
Cloud Services
1 39 (58.21%) AWS
2 33 (49.25%) Azure
3 9 (13.43%) Azure DevOps
3 9 (13.43%) Serverless
4 8 (11.94%) Amazon CloudWatch
4 8 (11.94%) NuGet
4 8 (11.94%) SonarCloud
5 7 (10.45%) GCP
5 7 (10.45%) GitHub
5 7 (10.45%) npm
6 6 (8.96%) AWS Lambda
6 6 (8.96%) SaaS
7 5 (7.46%) Amazon S3
7 5 (7.46%) AWS CloudFormation
7 5 (7.46%) OpenShift
7 5 (7.46%) PaaS
8 4 (5.97%) Amazon ECS
9 3 (4.48%) Amazon EKS
9 3 (4.48%) Azure Sentinel
9 3 (4.48%) Virtual Private Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 2 (2.99%) Network Security
2 1 (1.49%) Broadband
2 1 (1.49%) DNS
2 1 (1.49%) Firewall
Database & Business Intelligence
1 10 (14.93%) NoSQL
2 8 (11.94%) PostgreSQL
2 8 (11.94%) SQL Server
3 4 (5.97%) Oracle Database
3 4 (5.97%) TimescaleDB
4 3 (4.48%) Amazon RDS
4 3 (4.48%) Delta Lake
4 3 (4.48%) Redis
4 3 (4.48%) Relational Database
5 1 (1.49%) Geospatial Data
5 1 (1.49%) InfluxDB
5 1 (1.49%) MySQL
5 1 (1.49%) Neo4j
5 1 (1.49%) Pentaho
5 1 (1.49%) RDBMS
Development Applications
1 14 (20.90%) Git
2 11 (16.42%) JUnit
3 10 (14.93%) Jenkins
4 9 (13.43%) Maven
5 8 (11.94%) Mockito
6 7 (10.45%) GitLab
7 6 (8.96%) Cucumber
8 3 (4.48%) Selenium
9 2 (2.99%) JMeter
9 2 (2.99%) Locust
9 2 (2.99%) SonarQube
10 1 (1.49%) Jaeger
10 1 (1.49%) JIRA
10 1 (1.49%) MLflow
10 1 (1.49%) Snyk
10 1 (1.49%) SpecFlow
General
1 20 (29.85%) Social Skills
2 10 (14.93%) Finance
3 4 (5.97%) Public Sector
4 3 (4.48%) Advertising
4 3 (4.48%) Analytical Skills
4 3 (4.48%) Banking
4 3 (4.48%) Investment Banking
4 3 (4.48%) Law
4 3 (4.48%) Military
5 2 (2.99%) Automotive
5 2 (2.99%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 1 (1.49%) Documentation Skills
Job Titles
1 23 (34.33%) Senior
2 18 (26.87%) DevOps Engineer
3 14 (20.90%) Developer
4 12 (17.91%) Azure Engineer
5 11 (16.42%) Full-Stack Developer
5 11 (16.42%) Lead
6 9 (13.43%) Senior Developer
6 9 (13.43%) Senior DevOps
6 9 (13.43%) Senior DevOps Engineer
7 8 (11.94%) Full-Stack Java Developer
7 8 (11.94%) Java Developer
8 7 (10.45%) Cloud Engineer
8 7 (10.45%) Platform Engineer
9 6 (8.96%) AWS Engineer
9 6 (8.96%) Azure DevOps Engineer
9 6 (8.96%) Senior Full-Stack Developer
9 6 (8.96%) Senior Java Developer
10 5 (7.46%) Kubernetes Engineer
10 5 (7.46%) Lead DevOps
11 4 (5.97%) Cloud Platform Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 18 (26.87%) React
2 11 (16.42%) Node.js
2 11 (16.42%) REST
2 11 (16.42%) Spring
3 10 (14.93%) .NET
4 7 (10.45%) YAML
5 6 (8.96%) Spring Boot
6 5 (7.46%) .NET Framework
7 4 (5.97%) .NET Core
7 4 (5.97%) Elastic Stack
7 4 (5.97%) GraphQL
8 3 (4.48%) AngularJS
8 3 (4.48%) Django
8 3 (4.48%) Flask
8 3 (4.48%) pytest
9 2 (2.99%) ASP.NET
9 2 (2.99%) ASP.NET Core
9 2 (2.99%) Gherkin
9 2 (2.99%) gRPC
9 2 (2.99%) OpenTelemetry
Miscellaneous
1 7 (10.45%) Legacy Systems
2 6 (8.96%) Cloud Native
2 6 (8.96%) Self-Motivation
3 5 (7.46%) Product Ownership
4 4 (5.97%) Management Information System
5 3 (4.48%) Enterprise Software
6 1 (1.49%) Cyber Threat
6 1 (1.49%) Derivative
6 1 (1.49%) Legacy Applications
6 1 (1.49%) Onboarding
6 1 (1.49%) PKI
6 1 (1.49%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 28 (41.79%) Linux
2 12 (17.91%) Windows
3 1 (1.49%) Android
3 1 (1.49%) Apple iOS
3 1 (1.49%) CentOS
3 1 (1.49%) Debian
3 1 (1.49%) Ubuntu
3 1 (1.49%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 48 (71.64%) DevOps
2 41 (61.19%) CI/CD
3 30 (44.78%) Agile
4 29 (43.28%) Microservices
5 26 (38.81%) Containerisation
5 26 (38.81%) Infrastructure as Code
6 23 (34.33%) Problem-Solving
7 15 (22.39%) Full-Stack Development
8 14 (20.90%) Continuous Improvement
8 14 (20.90%) Test Automation
9 13 (19.40%) TDD
10 11 (16.42%) High Availability
10 11 (16.42%) Mentoring
11 10 (14.93%) DevSecOps
11 10 (14.93%) Migration
12 9 (13.43%) Decision-Making
12 9 (13.43%) Platform Engineering
12 9 (13.43%) Scrum
12 9 (13.43%) SDLC
13 8 (11.94%) Sprint Planning
Programming Languages
1 26 (38.81%) Python
2 25 (37.31%) Java
3 20 (29.85%) Bash
4 14 (20.90%) JavaScript
4 14 (20.90%) SQL
5 12 (17.91%) PowerShell
6 11 (16.42%) TypeScript
7 8 (11.94%) C#
7 8 (11.94%) Go
7 8 (11.94%) PL/SQL
8 7 (10.45%) C
9 4 (5.97%) C++
9 4 (5.97%) R
10 3 (4.48%) Delphi
11 2 (2.99%) Bicep
11 2 (2.99%) Kusto Query Language
12 1 (1.49%) PHP
12 1 (1.49%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 23 (34.33%) Security Cleared
2 19 (28.36%) SC Cleared
3 6 (8.96%) DV Cleared
4 5 (7.46%) Azure Certification
5 4 (5.97%) AWS Certification
6 3 (4.48%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
6 3 (4.48%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
6 3 (4.48%) AWS Certified SysOps Administrator
7 2 (2.99%) BPSS Clearance
7 2 (2.99%) Computer Science Degree
7 2 (2.99%) Degree
8 1 (1.49%) CISSP
8 1 (1.49%) CREST Certified
8 1 (1.49%) Master's Degree
8 1 (1.49%) Microsoft Certification
8 1 (1.49%) OSCP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 7 (10.45%) QA
2 4 (5.97%) Accessibility
3 2 (2.99%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 2 (2.99%) WCAG
4 1 (1.49%) Cyber Essentials
4 1 (1.49%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
4 1 (1.49%) Data Quality
4 1 (1.49%) GDPR
4 1 (1.49%) SOC 2
System Software
1 53 (79.10%) Docker
2 1 (1.49%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 29 (43.28%) Terraform
2 13 (19.40%) Ansible
3 7 (10.45%) Grafana
4 4 (5.97%) Argo
4 4 (5.97%) Prometheus
5 3 (4.48%) Nagios
6 2 (2.99%) Kustomize
7 1 (1.49%) Progress Chef
7 1 (1.49%) Puppet
7 1 (1.49%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 16 (23.88%) Oracle
2 7 (10.45%) CrowdStrike
3 5 (7.46%) Microsoft
4 2 (2.99%) AppDynamics
4 2 (2.99%) Google
5 1 (1.49%) Denodo
5 1 (1.49%) Dynatrace
5 1 (1.49%) OpenAI
5 1 (1.49%) Red Hat
5 1 (1.49%) Salesforce
5 1 (1.49%) Talend