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

6 months to
21 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 163 127 132
Rank change year-on-year -36 +5 -15
Permanent jobs citing Kubernetes 70 89 172
As % of all permanent jobs in the Midlands 0.68% 1.78% 1.72%
As % of the Systems Management category 23.73% 28.16% 22.54%
Number of salaries quoted 54 74 147
10th Percentile £48,575 £44,000 £47,500
25th Percentile £52,425 £57,500 £53,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £65,000 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year - - -7.14%
75th Percentile £73,675 £75,000 £81,875
90th Percentile £84,250 £83,375 £90,000
England median annual salary £75,000 £85,000 £75,000
% change year-on-year -11.76% +13.33% -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 295 316 763
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the Midlands 2.88% 6.33% 7.63%
Number of salaries quoted 226 247 644
10th Percentile £29,125 £34,000 £28,250
25th Percentile £33,000 £42,500 £36,298
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £52,500 £52,500 £52,500
75th Percentile £67,500 £66,050 £65,000
90th Percentile £78,125 £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 21 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 21 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 -29 46 £66,250 -1.85% 30
East Midlands -39 22 £64,000 -1.54% 17
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 (12.86%) IIS
2 6 (8.57%) Oracle SOA Suite
3 1 (1.43%) Confluence
3 1 (1.43%) SAS
Cloud Services
1 38 (54.29%) AWS
1 38 (54.29%) Azure
2 12 (17.14%) Azure DevOps
3 10 (14.29%) NuGet
3 10 (14.29%) SonarCloud
4 9 (12.86%) npm
5 8 (11.43%) GCP
6 7 (10.00%) GitHub
6 7 (10.00%) Serverless
7 6 (8.57%) Amazon CloudWatch
7 6 (8.57%) SaaS
8 4 (5.71%) Amazon S3
8 4 (5.71%) AWS Lambda
8 4 (5.71%) Azure AKS
8 4 (5.71%) Azure Key Vault
8 4 (5.71%) IaaS
8 4 (5.71%) PaaS
9 3 (4.29%) Azure Sentinel
9 3 (4.29%) Azure Storage
9 3 (4.29%) dbt
Communications & Networking
1 3 (4.29%) DNS
2 2 (2.86%) Network Security
3 1 (1.43%) Broadband
3 1 (1.43%) Firewall
Database & Business Intelligence
1 12 (17.14%) NoSQL
2 11 (15.71%) SQL Server
3 8 (11.43%) PostgreSQL
4 4 (5.71%) Oracle Database
4 4 (5.71%) TimescaleDB
5 3 (4.29%) Amazon RDS
5 3 (4.29%) Delta Lake
5 3 (4.29%) Redis
5 3 (4.29%) Relational Database
6 1 (1.43%) Azure SQL Database
6 1 (1.43%) Data Mining
6 1 (1.43%) Geospatial Data
6 1 (1.43%) InfluxDB
6 1 (1.43%) MongoDB
6 1 (1.43%) MySQL
6 1 (1.43%) Pentaho
6 1 (1.43%) RDBMS
Development Applications
1 16 (22.86%) Git
2 11 (15.71%) JUnit
3 9 (12.86%) Maven
4 8 (11.43%) Jenkins
4 8 (11.43%) Mockito
5 7 (10.00%) Cucumber
6 5 (7.14%) GitLab
7 3 (4.29%) JMeter
7 3 (4.29%) Locust
7 3 (4.29%) Selenium
8 2 (2.86%) JIRA
9 1 (1.43%) Bitbucket
9 1 (1.43%) Jaeger
9 1 (1.43%) MLflow
9 1 (1.43%) Snyk
9 1 (1.43%) SpecFlow
General
1 20 (28.57%) Social Skills
2 10 (14.29%) Finance
3 5 (7.14%) Law
4 4 (5.71%) Advertising
4 4 (5.71%) Analytical Skills
4 4 (5.71%) Public Sector
5 3 (4.29%) Banking
5 3 (4.29%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 3 (4.29%) Investment Banking
5 3 (4.29%) Military
6 2 (2.86%) Automotive
7 1 (1.43%) Documentation Skills
7 1 (1.43%) Marketing
Job Titles
1 23 (32.86%) Senior
2 17 (24.29%) DevOps Engineer
3 16 (22.86%) Developer
4 15 (21.43%) Azure Engineer
5 12 (17.14%) Lead
6 11 (15.71%) Full-Stack Developer
7 10 (14.29%) Senior DevOps
7 10 (14.29%) Senior DevOps Engineer
8 9 (12.86%) Senior Developer
9 8 (11.43%) Full-Stack Java Developer
9 8 (11.43%) Java Developer
10 7 (10.00%) Azure DevOps Engineer
10 7 (10.00%) Cloud Engineer
10 7 (10.00%) Platform Engineer
11 6 (8.57%) Senior Full-Stack Developer
11 6 (8.57%) Senior Java Developer
12 5 (7.14%) Lead DevOps
13 4 (5.71%) Cloud Platform Engineer
13 4 (5.71%) Infrastructure Support
13 4 (5.71%) Kubernetes Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 20 (28.57%) React
2 13 (18.57%) .NET
2 13 (18.57%) Node.js
3 12 (17.14%) REST
4 10 (14.29%) Spring
5 9 (12.86%) YAML
6 6 (8.57%) .NET Core
6 6 (8.57%) .NET Framework
7 5 (7.14%) Spring Boot
8 4 (5.71%) ASP.NET
8 4 (5.71%) ASP.NET Core
8 4 (5.71%) Elastic Stack
8 4 (5.71%) GraphQL
9 3 (4.29%) Django
9 3 (4.29%) Flask
9 3 (4.29%) Gherkin
9 3 (4.29%) OpenTelemetry
9 3 (4.29%) pytest
10 2 (2.86%) AngularJS
10 2 (2.86%) Kafka
Miscellaneous
1 8 (11.43%) Legacy Systems
2 6 (8.57%) Cloud Native
2 6 (8.57%) Self-Motivation
3 5 (7.14%) Product Ownership
4 4 (5.71%) Management Information System
5 3 (4.29%) Enterprise Software
6 1 (1.43%) Algorithms
6 1 (1.43%) Cyber Threat
6 1 (1.43%) Data Structures
6 1 (1.43%) Derivative
6 1 (1.43%) Legacy Applications
6 1 (1.43%) Onboarding
6 1 (1.43%) PKI
6 1 (1.43%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 30 (42.86%) Linux
2 14 (20.00%) Windows
3 1 (1.43%) Android
3 1 (1.43%) Apple iOS
3 1 (1.43%) CentOS
3 1 (1.43%) Debian
3 1 (1.43%) Ubuntu
3 1 (1.43%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 47 (67.14%) DevOps
2 42 (60.00%) CI/CD
3 34 (48.57%) Agile
4 32 (45.71%) Containerisation
5 31 (44.29%) Microservices
6 26 (37.14%) Infrastructure as Code
7 25 (35.71%) Problem-Solving
8 17 (24.29%) Continuous Improvement
9 16 (22.86%) Test Automation
10 15 (21.43%) Full-Stack Development
11 13 (18.57%) High Availability
11 13 (18.57%) Mentoring
12 12 (17.14%) DevSecOps
12 12 (17.14%) Migration
13 11 (15.71%) TDD
14 10 (14.29%) Platform Engineering
14 10 (14.29%) Scrum
15 9 (12.86%) Decision-Making
15 9 (12.86%) Sprint Planning
16 8 (11.43%) Project Delivery
Programming Languages
1 27 (38.57%) Python
2 24 (34.29%) Java
3 22 (31.43%) Bash
4 16 (22.86%) PowerShell
5 15 (21.43%) SQL
6 14 (20.00%) JavaScript
7 12 (17.14%) C#
8 11 (15.71%) TypeScript
9 8 (11.43%) PL/SQL
10 7 (10.00%) C
11 5 (7.14%) Go
12 4 (5.71%) C++
12 4 (5.71%) R
13 3 (4.29%) Delphi
14 2 (2.86%) Bicep
14 2 (2.86%) Kusto Query Language
15 1 (1.43%) PHP
15 1 (1.43%) Rust
15 1 (1.43%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 22 (31.43%) Security Cleared
2 18 (25.71%) SC Cleared
3 7 (10.00%) Azure Certification
4 6 (8.57%) DV Cleared
5 4 (5.71%) AWS Certification
6 3 (4.29%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
6 3 (4.29%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
6 3 (4.29%) AWS Certified SysOps Administrator
6 3 (4.29%) Computer Science Degree
6 3 (4.29%) Degree
7 2 (2.86%) BPSS Clearance
8 1 (1.43%) CISSP
8 1 (1.43%) CREST Certified
8 1 (1.43%) Master's Degree
8 1 (1.43%) Microsoft Certification
8 1 (1.43%) OSCP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 8 (11.43%) QA
2 5 (7.14%) Accessibility
3 3 (4.29%) WCAG
4 2 (2.86%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 1 (1.43%) Cyber Essentials
5 1 (1.43%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
5 1 (1.43%) Data Quality
5 1 (1.43%) GDPR
5 1 (1.43%) SOC 2
System Software
1 56 (80.00%) Docker
2 1 (1.43%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 29 (41.43%) Terraform
2 13 (18.57%) Ansible
3 8 (11.43%) Grafana
4 4 (5.71%) Prometheus
5 3 (4.29%) Argo
5 3 (4.29%) Nagios
6 1 (1.43%) Kustomize
6 1 (1.43%) Progress Chef
6 1 (1.43%) Puppet
6 1 (1.43%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 16 (22.86%) Oracle
2 9 (12.86%) CrowdStrike
3 6 (8.57%) Microsoft
4 2 (2.86%) Dynatrace
4 2 (2.86%) Google
5 1 (1.43%) Denodo
5 1 (1.43%) Facebook
5 1 (1.43%) OpenAI
5 1 (1.43%) Red Hat
5 1 (1.43%) Salesforce
5 1 (1.43%) Talend