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 4 April 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
4 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 177 121 131
Rank change year-on-year -56 +10 -15
Permanent jobs citing Kubernetes 69 82 187
As % of all permanent jobs in the Midlands 0.62% 1.70% 1.74%
As % of the Systems Management category 22.33% 28.08% 23.11%
Number of salaries quoted 55 72 156
10th Percentile £46,400 £43,000 £48,125
25th Percentile £52,400 £57,500 £52,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £66,250 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year -1.89% +1.92% -7.14%
75th Percentile £74,066 £75,000 £78,750
90th Percentile £85,000 £83,625 £89,375
England median annual salary £75,000 £85,000 £77,000
% change year-on-year -11.76% +10.39% -0.65%

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 309 292 809
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the Midlands 2.80% 6.06% 7.53%
Number of salaries quoted 240 243 674
10th Percentile £29,700 £32,800 £28,250
25th Percentile £35,000 £41,514 £36,900
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £52,500 £52,470 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year +0.06% -0.06% -
75th Percentile £67,750 £66,050 £65,000
90th Percentile £82,500 £75,000 £78,375
England median annual salary £65,000 £70,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year -7.14% +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 4 April 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 4 April 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 -40 42 £65,000 -3.70% 38
East Midlands -32 25 £64,000 -1.54% 19
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 (13.04%) IIS
2 5 (7.25%) Oracle SOA Suite
3 1 (1.45%) Confluence
3 1 (1.45%) SAS
Cloud Services
1 39 (56.52%) Azure
2 35 (50.72%) AWS
3 14 (20.29%) Azure DevOps
4 10 (14.49%) NuGet
4 10 (14.49%) SonarCloud
5 9 (13.04%) npm
6 7 (10.14%) GCP
6 7 (10.14%) GitHub
7 6 (8.70%) Amazon CloudWatch
7 6 (8.70%) SaaS
7 6 (8.70%) Serverless
8 4 (5.80%) Azure AKS
8 4 (5.80%) Azure Key Vault
8 4 (5.80%) IaaS
8 4 (5.80%) PaaS
9 3 (4.35%) Amazon EC2
9 3 (4.35%) Amazon S3
9 3 (4.35%) AWS Lambda
9 3 (4.35%) Datadog
9 3 (4.35%) OpenShift
Communications & Networking
1 3 (4.35%) DNS
2 2 (2.90%) Network Security
3 1 (1.45%) Broadband
3 1 (1.45%) Firewall
Database & Business Intelligence
1 12 (17.39%) NoSQL
2 11 (15.94%) SQL Server
3 7 (10.14%) PostgreSQL
4 4 (5.80%) Oracle Database
5 3 (4.35%) Amazon RDS
5 3 (4.35%) Redis
5 3 (4.35%) TimescaleDB
6 2 (2.90%) Delta Lake
6 2 (2.90%) Relational Database
7 1 (1.45%) Azure SQL Database
7 1 (1.45%) Data Mining
7 1 (1.45%) Geospatial Data
7 1 (1.45%) InfluxDB
7 1 (1.45%) MongoDB
7 1 (1.45%) Pentaho
7 1 (1.45%) RDBMS
Development Applications
1 17 (24.64%) Git
2 9 (13.04%) JUnit
3 8 (11.59%) Jenkins
4 7 (10.14%) Cucumber
4 7 (10.14%) Maven
5 6 (8.70%) Mockito
6 5 (7.25%) GitLab
7 3 (4.35%) JMeter
7 3 (4.35%) Locust
7 3 (4.35%) Selenium
8 2 (2.90%) JIRA
9 1 (1.45%) Bitbucket
9 1 (1.45%) Jaeger
9 1 (1.45%) MLflow
9 1 (1.45%) Snyk
9 1 (1.45%) SpecFlow
9 1 (1.45%) Subversion
General
1 19 (27.54%) Social Skills
2 9 (13.04%) Finance
3 5 (7.25%) Law
4 4 (5.80%) Advertising
4 4 (5.80%) Analytical Skills
5 3 (4.35%) Banking
5 3 (4.35%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 3 (4.35%) Investment Banking
5 3 (4.35%) Military
6 2 (2.90%) Automotive
6 2 (2.90%) Retail
7 1 (1.45%) Documentation Skills
7 1 (1.45%) Manufacturing
7 1 (1.45%) Marketing
7 1 (1.45%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 21 (30.43%) Senior
2 17 (24.64%) Azure Engineer
2 17 (24.64%) DevOps Engineer
3 16 (23.19%) Developer
4 14 (20.29%) Lead
5 9 (13.04%) Azure DevOps Engineer
5 9 (13.04%) Full-Stack Developer
5 9 (13.04%) Senior Developer
6 8 (11.59%) Senior DevOps
6 8 (11.59%) Senior DevOps Engineer
7 7 (10.14%) Cloud Engineer
7 7 (10.14%) Lead DevOps
8 6 (8.70%) Full-Stack Java Developer
8 6 (8.70%) Java Developer
8 6 (8.70%) Platform Engineer
9 5 (7.25%) Lead DevOps Engineer
9 5 (7.25%) Senior Full-Stack Developer
9 5 (7.25%) Senior Java Developer
10 4 (5.80%) Infrastructure Support
10 4 (5.80%) Kubernetes Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 18 (26.09%) React
2 15 (21.74%) .NET
2 15 (21.74%) Node.js
3 11 (15.94%) REST
4 9 (13.04%) YAML
5 7 (10.14%) Spring
6 6 (8.70%) .NET Core
6 6 (8.70%) .NET Framework
7 4 (5.80%) ASP.NET
7 4 (5.80%) ASP.NET Core
7 4 (5.80%) Elastic Stack
7 4 (5.80%) GraphQL
7 4 (5.80%) Spring Boot
8 3 (4.35%) Django
8 3 (4.35%) Flask
8 3 (4.35%) Gherkin
8 3 (4.35%) OpenTelemetry
8 3 (4.35%) pytest
9 2 (2.90%) Kafka
9 2 (2.90%) RabbitMQ
Miscellaneous
1 8 (11.59%) Legacy Systems
2 5 (7.25%) Cloud Native
2 5 (7.25%) Product Ownership
2 5 (7.25%) Self-Motivation
3 4 (5.80%) Management Information System
4 3 (4.35%) Enterprise Software
5 1 (1.45%) Algorithms
5 1 (1.45%) Cyber Threat
5 1 (1.45%) Data Structures
5 1 (1.45%) Legacy Applications
5 1 (1.45%) Onboarding
5 1 (1.45%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 28 (40.58%) Linux
2 14 (20.29%) Windows
3 1 (1.45%) Android
3 1 (1.45%) Apple iOS
3 1 (1.45%) CentOS
3 1 (1.45%) Debian
3 1 (1.45%) Ubuntu
3 1 (1.45%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 46 (66.67%) DevOps
2 41 (59.42%) CI/CD
3 33 (47.83%) Agile
3 33 (47.83%) Containerisation
4 28 (40.58%) Microservices
5 27 (39.13%) Infrastructure as Code
6 24 (34.78%) Problem-Solving
7 16 (23.19%) Test Automation
8 15 (21.74%) Continuous Improvement
9 14 (20.29%) DevSecOps
10 13 (18.84%) Full-Stack Development
10 13 (18.84%) Mentoring
11 12 (17.39%) High Availability
11 12 (17.39%) Migration
12 9 (13.04%) Platform Engineering
12 9 (13.04%) TDD
13 8 (11.59%) Cloud Security
13 8 (11.59%) Project Delivery
13 8 (11.59%) Scrum
13 8 (11.59%) Sprint Planning
Programming Languages
1 25 (36.23%) Python
2 20 (28.99%) Bash
2 20 (28.99%) Java
3 16 (23.19%) PowerShell
4 14 (20.29%) SQL
5 13 (18.84%) C#
5 13 (18.84%) JavaScript
6 7 (10.14%) C
6 7 (10.14%) TypeScript
7 6 (8.70%) Go
7 6 (8.70%) PL/SQL
8 4 (5.80%) C++
8 4 (5.80%) R
9 3 (4.35%) Delphi
10 2 (2.90%) Bicep
10 2 (2.90%) Kusto Query Language
11 1 (1.45%) PHP
11 1 (1.45%) Rust
11 1 (1.45%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 20 (28.99%) Security Cleared
2 17 (24.64%) SC Cleared
3 8 (11.59%) Azure Certification
4 5 (7.25%) DV Cleared
5 4 (5.80%) AWS Certification
6 3 (4.35%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
6 3 (4.35%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
6 3 (4.35%) AWS Certified SysOps Administrator
6 3 (4.35%) Computer Science Degree
6 3 (4.35%) Degree
7 1 (1.45%) BPSS Clearance
7 1 (1.45%) CISSP
7 1 (1.45%) CREST Certified
7 1 (1.45%) Master's Degree
7 1 (1.45%) Microsoft Certification
7 1 (1.45%) OSCP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 8 (11.59%) QA
2 5 (7.25%) Accessibility
3 3 (4.35%) WCAG
4 2 (2.90%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 1 (1.45%) Cyber Essentials
5 1 (1.45%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
5 1 (1.45%) Data Quality
5 1 (1.45%) GDPR
5 1 (1.45%) SOC 2
System Software
1 56 (81.16%) Docker
2 1 (1.45%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 30 (43.48%) Terraform
2 12 (17.39%) Ansible
3 8 (11.59%) Grafana
4 4 (5.80%) Prometheus
5 3 (4.35%) Argo
5 3 (4.35%) Nagios
6 1 (1.45%) Kustomize
6 1 (1.45%) Progress Chef
6 1 (1.45%) Puppet
6 1 (1.45%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 14 (20.29%) Oracle
2 9 (13.04%) CrowdStrike
3 6 (8.70%) Microsoft
4 2 (2.90%) Dynatrace
5 1 (1.45%) Denodo
5 1 (1.45%) Facebook
5 1 (1.45%) Google
5 1 (1.45%) OpenAI
5 1 (1.45%) Red Hat
5 1 (1.45%) Salesforce
5 1 (1.45%) Talend