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 21 September 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
21 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 156 106 130
Rank change year-on-year -50 +24 -39
Permanent jobs citing Kubernetes 134 142 170
As % of all permanent jobs in the Midlands 0.86% 2.54% 1.69%
As % of the Systems Management category 34.10% 33.73% 33.01%
Number of salaries quoted 86 60 99
10th Percentile £47,500 £54,875 £34,000
25th Percentile £55,000 £57,500 £52,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £62,500 £67,500 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -7.41% +12.50% -7.34%
75th Percentile £80,000 £80,000 £69,375
90th Percentile £93,750 £84,625 £88,750
England median annual salary £71,216 £78,810 £77,500
% change year-on-year -9.64% +1.69% +3.33%

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 393 421 515
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the Midlands 2.51% 7.53% 5.13%
Number of salaries quoted 292 253 288
10th Percentile £29,075 £31,250 £31,175
25th Percentile £41,250 £39,000 £37,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £52,500 £55,000 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% +10.00% -9.09%
75th Percentile £65,000 £71,250 £60,063
90th Percentile £82,250 £77,450 £73,750
England median annual salary £60,000 £62,500 £65,000
% change year-on-year -4.00% -3.85% -

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 21 September 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 21 September 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 -44 84 £70,000 +3.70% 80
East Midlands -39 50 £60,000 -5.88% 48
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 (5.22%) Oracle SOA Suite
2 3 (2.24%) IIS
3 2 (1.49%) Microsoft Exchange
4 1 (0.75%) Apache Spark
4 1 (0.75%) Mendix
4 1 (0.75%) SharePoint
Cloud Services
1 99 (73.88%) Azure
2 67 (50.00%) AWS
3 20 (14.93%) Azure AKS
3 20 (14.93%) GitHub
4 14 (10.45%) Azure DevOps
4 14 (10.45%) Azure ExpressRoute
5 12 (8.96%) Entra ID
5 12 (8.96%) GitHub Copilot
6 11 (8.21%) GCP
6 11 (8.21%) IaaS
7 9 (6.72%) Amazon EKS
8 7 (5.22%) Azure AI
9 6 (4.48%) GitHub Actions
9 6 (4.48%) SaaS
10 5 (3.73%) Azure Key Vault
10 5 (3.73%) Azure Logic Apps
10 5 (3.73%) Azure Service Bus
10 5 (3.73%) Azure Storage
10 5 (3.73%) OpenShift
10 5 (3.73%) PaaS
Communications & Networking
1 14 (10.45%) VPN
2 10 (7.46%) DNS
2 10 (7.46%) Network Security
3 7 (5.22%) Firewall
4 5 (3.73%) VLAN
5 2 (1.49%) DHCP
5 2 (1.49%) HTTP
5 2 (1.49%) SSL
6 1 (0.75%) BIG-IP
6 1 (0.75%) SAN
6 1 (0.75%) WAN
6 1 (0.75%) WireGuard
Database & Business Intelligence
1 14 (10.45%) MongoDB
2 13 (9.70%) Azure SQL Database
3 5 (3.73%) Elasticsearch
3 5 (3.73%) PostgreSQL
3 5 (3.73%) SQL Server
4 4 (2.99%) NoSQL
5 3 (2.24%) Amazon RDS
6 2 (1.49%) Amazon Aurora
6 2 (1.49%) KNIME
6 2 (1.49%) MySQL
6 2 (1.49%) Power BI
6 2 (1.49%) Power Query
7 1 (0.75%) Amazon Redshift
7 1 (0.75%) Redis
Development Applications
1 21 (15.67%) JUnit
2 20 (14.93%) Git
3 17 (12.69%) Maven
4 14 (10.45%) Mockito
5 9 (6.72%) GitLab
6 8 (5.97%) Jenkins
7 7 (5.22%) Cucumber
7 7 (5.22%) Postman
7 7 (5.22%) Selenium
8 6 (4.48%) Gatling
9 3 (2.24%) Subversion
10 2 (1.49%) Ant
10 2 (1.49%) Apache Ivy
10 2 (1.49%) IBM UrbanCode
11 1 (0.75%) Cypress.io
11 1 (0.75%) Gradle
11 1 (0.75%) JMeter
11 1 (0.75%) REST Assured
11 1 (0.75%) TestNG
11 1 (0.75%) WebDriver
General
1 27 (20.15%) Finance
2 17 (12.69%) Social Skills
3 9 (6.72%) Law
4 8 (5.97%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 5 (3.73%) Manufacturing
5 5 (3.73%) Public Sector
5 5 (3.73%) Retail
6 4 (2.99%) Advertising
6 4 (2.99%) Analytical Skills
6 4 (2.99%) Marketing
7 1 (0.75%) Banking
7 1 (0.75%) Documentation Skills
Job Titles
1 32 (23.88%) Developer
2 30 (22.39%) Senior
3 29 (21.64%) DevOps Engineer
4 20 (14.93%) Architect
5 15 (11.19%) Cloud Engineer
6 13 (9.70%) Senior Developer
7 12 (8.96%) .NET Developer
7 12 (8.96%) Lead
7 12 (8.96%) Technical Architect
8 11 (8.21%) Full-Stack Developer
9 10 (7.46%) Full-Stack Java Developer
9 10 (7.46%) Java Developer
10 9 (6.72%) Azure Architect
10 9 (6.72%) Azure Engineer
11 8 (5.97%) Platform Engineer
11 8 (5.97%) Senior Full-Stack Developer
12 7 (5.22%) Senior DevOps
12 7 (5.22%) Senior DevOps Engineer
12 7 (5.22%) Senior Java Developer
13 6 (4.48%) Quality Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 55 (41.04%) Terraform
2 29 (21.64%) .NET
3 21 (15.67%) ASP.NET
3 21 (15.67%) ASP.NET Core
3 21 (15.67%) React
4 17 (12.69%) REST
5 15 (11.19%) Spring
6 14 (10.45%) .NET Core
7 11 (8.21%) Node.js
8 9 (6.72%) .NET Framework
9 7 (5.22%) CSS
9 7 (5.22%) HTML
9 7 (5.22%) ML.NET
9 7 (5.22%) Playwright
10 6 (4.48%) Blazor
10 6 (4.48%) RESTful
11 5 (3.73%) AngularJS
11 5 (3.73%) ASP.NET Web API
11 5 (3.73%) Entity Framework
11 5 (3.73%) Kafka
Miscellaneous
1 19 (14.18%) Cloud Native
2 9 (6.72%) Distributed Systems
2 9 (6.72%) Hybrid Cloud
3 8 (5.97%) Onboarding
4 7 (5.22%) Self-Motivation
5 4 (2.99%) Driving Licence
6 3 (2.24%) Digital TV
6 3 (2.24%) Legacy Systems
6 3 (2.24%) Product Ownership
6 3 (2.24%) Public Cloud
7 2 (1.49%) Clustering
7 2 (1.49%) Data Centre
7 2 (1.49%) Greenfield Project
7 2 (1.49%) Legacy Applications
7 2 (1.49%) Linux Command Line
7 2 (1.49%) Management Information System
7 2 (1.49%) Online Gambling
7 2 (1.49%) SCADA
7 2 (1.49%) Tandem
7 2 (1.49%) Video\Live Streaming
Operating Systems
1 43 (32.09%) Linux
2 12 (8.96%) Windows
3 6 (4.48%) Windows Server
4 3 (2.24%) Unix
5 2 (1.49%) Solaris
5 2 (1.49%) Ubuntu
6 1 (0.75%) CentOS
6 1 (0.75%) Debian
6 1 (0.75%) Mac OS
Processes & Methodologies
1 89 (66.42%) CI/CD
2 62 (46.27%) Agile
2 62 (46.27%) Containerisation
3 51 (38.06%) DevOps
4 46 (34.33%) Infrastructure as Code
5 42 (31.34%) Microservices
6 40 (29.85%) Mentoring
7 33 (24.63%) AI
8 29 (21.64%) Observability
9 28 (20.90%) DevSecOps
10 27 (20.15%) Full-Stack Development
10 27 (20.15%) Scrum
11 26 (19.40%) Continuous Improvement
12 25 (18.66%) TDD
13 21 (15.67%) Problem-Solving
13 21 (15.67%) Technical Leadership
14 19 (14.18%) Software Engineering
15 17 (12.69%) Stakeholder Engagement
16 16 (11.94%) Cloud Security
16 16 (11.94%) Test Automation
Programming Languages
1 40 (29.85%) SQL
2 35 (26.12%) C#
3 26 (19.40%) JavaScript
4 24 (17.91%) Java
5 19 (14.18%) PowerShell
6 18 (13.43%) Bash
6 18 (13.43%) Python
7 14 (10.45%) PL/SQL
7 14 (10.45%) TypeScript
8 12 (8.96%) Bicep
9 5 (3.73%) Go
10 2 (1.49%) Data Analysis Expressions
10 2 (1.49%) VB.NET
11 1 (0.75%) PHP
11 1 (0.75%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 46 (34.33%) Security Cleared
2 42 (31.34%) SC Cleared
3 16 (11.94%) Azure Certification
4 11 (8.21%) DV Cleared
5 4 (2.99%) Degree
6 3 (2.24%) AWS Certification
6 3 (2.24%) BPSS Clearance
7 2 (1.49%) CISSP
7 2 (1.49%) CompTIA Security+
7 2 (1.49%) Computer Science Degree
8 1 (0.75%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
8 1 (0.75%) IISP
8 1 (0.75%) ISACA
8 1 (0.75%) PMP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 7 (5.22%) Accessibility
2 6 (4.48%) QA
2 6 (4.48%) WCAG
3 4 (2.99%) Cyber Essentials
4 3 (2.24%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 2 (1.49%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
5 2 (1.49%) SLA
6 1 (0.75%) GxP
6 1 (0.75%) SOC 2
System Software
1 92 (68.66%) Docker
2 12 (8.96%) Active Directory
3 11 (8.21%) VMware Infrastructure
4 2 (1.49%) Hyper-V
5 1 (0.75%) Virtual Servers
5 1 (0.75%) VMware NSX
5 1 (0.75%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 15 (11.19%) Ansible
2 8 (5.97%) Grafana
3 6 (4.48%) Prometheus
4 5 (3.73%) Argo
5 3 (2.24%) Istio
5 3 (2.24%) Progress Chef
5 3 (2.24%) Puppet
6 1 (0.75%) Podman
6 1 (0.75%) Salt
Vendors
1 43 (32.09%) Microsoft
2 14 (10.45%) Oracle
3 12 (8.96%) VMware
4 4 (2.99%) CrowdStrike
4 4 (2.99%) Facebook
4 4 (2.99%) Red Hat
4 4 (2.99%) ServiceNow
5 3 (2.24%) Workday
6 2 (1.49%) Dynatrace
6 2 (1.49%) IFS
6 2 (1.49%) Veracode
7 1 (0.75%) Databricks
7 1 (0.75%) F5
7 1 (0.75%) OpenAI