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

6 months to
14 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 178 98 160
Rank change year-on-year -80 +62 -51
Permanent jobs citing Kubernetes 77 138 170
As % of all permanent jobs in the Midlands 0.59% 2.76% 1.45%
As % of the Systems Management category 24.06% 35.48% 21.46%
Number of salaries quoted 58 62 134
10th Percentile £48,200 - £46,625
25th Percentile £57,500 £57,500 £52,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £67,500 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -3.70% +12.50% -14.29%
75th Percentile £73,987 £75,000 £82,500
90th Percentile £85,000 £83,625 £89,625
England median annual salary £75,000 £82,500 £77,500
% change year-on-year -9.09% +6.45% -

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 320 389 792
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the Midlands 2.46% 7.79% 6.77%
Number of salaries quoted 253 240 631
10th Percentile £31,250 £32,500 £27,500
25th Percentile £41,250 £40,000 £36,298
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,500 £51,000 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year +12.75% +2.00% -9.09%
75th Percentile £70,000 £67,500 £65,000
90th Percentile £86,253 £75,000 £80,000
England median annual salary £65,000 £68,000 £62,500
% change year-on-year -4.41% +8.80% -7.41%

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 14 May 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 14 May 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 -63 46 £65,000 -3.70% 24
East Midlands -48 29 £67,000 +3.08% 18
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 12 (15.58%) IIS
2 5 (6.49%) Oracle SOA Suite
3 1 (1.30%) Confluence
3 1 (1.30%) SAS
Cloud Services
1 59 (76.62%) Azure
2 36 (46.75%) AWS
3 18 (23.38%) Azure DevOps
4 12 (15.58%) NuGet
5 11 (14.29%) npm
5 11 (14.29%) SonarCloud
6 9 (11.69%) Azure AKS
6 9 (11.69%) GCP
7 8 (10.39%) Azure Key Vault
7 8 (10.39%) IaaS
8 7 (9.09%) Azure ExpressRoute
8 7 (9.09%) Azure Storage
9 6 (7.79%) GitHub
9 6 (7.79%) Serverless
10 5 (6.49%) SaaS
11 4 (5.19%) GitHub Copilot
12 3 (3.90%) Amazon CloudWatch
12 3 (3.90%) AWS CloudFormation
12 3 (3.90%) AWS Lambda
12 3 (3.90%) Virtual Private Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 8 (10.39%) DNS
2 4 (5.19%) Firewall
3 3 (3.90%) Network Security
4 1 (1.30%) Broadband
4 1 (1.30%) SAN
4 1 (1.30%) VLAN
4 1 (1.30%) VPN
4 1 (1.30%) WAN
4 1 (1.30%) WireGuard
Database & Business Intelligence
1 13 (16.88%) NoSQL
2 8 (10.39%) SQL Server
3 5 (6.49%) MongoDB
4 4 (5.19%) Azure SQL Database
4 4 (5.19%) PostgreSQL
5 3 (3.90%) Amazon RDS
5 3 (3.90%) Redis
5 3 (3.90%) TimescaleDB
6 2 (2.60%) Elasticsearch
7 1 (1.30%) Data Mining
7 1 (1.30%) InfluxDB
7 1 (1.30%) Pentaho
7 1 (1.30%) RDBMS
7 1 (1.30%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 16 (20.78%) Git
2 10 (12.99%) Maven
3 9 (11.69%) JUnit
3 9 (11.69%) Mockito
4 5 (6.49%) Jenkins
5 3 (3.90%) Cucumber
6 2 (2.60%) GitLab
6 2 (2.60%) JIRA
6 2 (2.60%) JMeter
6 2 (2.60%) Locust
7 1 (1.30%) Bitbucket
7 1 (1.30%) Jaeger
7 1 (1.30%) MLflow
7 1 (1.30%) SpecFlow
7 1 (1.30%) Subversion
General
1 16 (20.78%) Social Skills
2 13 (16.88%) Finance
3 8 (10.39%) Law
4 5 (6.49%) Analytical Skills
5 4 (5.19%) Advertising
6 3 (3.90%) Banking
6 3 (3.90%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 3 (3.90%) Investment Banking
6 3 (3.90%) Military
6 3 (3.90%) Retail
7 2 (2.60%) Automotive
8 1 (1.30%) Documentation Skills
8 1 (1.30%) Manufacturing
8 1 (1.30%) Marketing
Job Titles
1 22 (28.57%) Azure Engineer
2 20 (25.97%) Senior
3 19 (24.68%) Developer
4 18 (23.38%) DevOps Engineer
5 13 (16.88%) Lead
6 12 (15.58%) Cloud Engineer
7 10 (12.99%) Azure DevOps Engineer
7 10 (12.99%) Full-Stack Developer
8 9 (11.69%) Senior DevOps
8 9 (11.69%) Senior DevOps Engineer
9 8 (10.39%) Senior Developer
10 7 (9.09%) 3rd Line Engineer
10 7 (9.09%) Full-Stack Java Developer
10 7 (9.09%) Java Developer
10 7 (9.09%) Lead DevOps
11 5 (6.49%) Lead DevOps Engineer
11 5 (6.49%) Senior Full-Stack Developer
11 5 (6.49%) Senior Java Developer
12 4 (5.19%) .NET Developer
12 4 (5.19%) Infrastructure Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 24 (31.17%) React
2 22 (28.57%) .NET
3 20 (25.97%) Node.js
4 12 (15.58%) REST
5 11 (14.29%) ASP.NET
5 11 (14.29%) ASP.NET Core
5 11 (14.29%) YAML
6 10 (12.99%) .NET Framework
7 9 (11.69%) .NET Core
8 7 (9.09%) Spring
9 4 (5.19%) GraphQL
9 4 (5.19%) Kafka
10 3 (3.90%) AngularJS
10 3 (3.90%) OpenTelemetry
10 3 (3.90%) RESTful
10 3 (3.90%) Vue
11 2 (2.60%) Entity Framework
11 2 (2.60%) HTML
11 2 (2.60%) ML.NET
11 2 (2.60%) RabbitMQ
Miscellaneous
1 8 (10.39%) Cloud Native
2 5 (6.49%) Legacy Systems
2 5 (6.49%) Self-Motivation
3 4 (5.19%) Management Information System
3 4 (5.19%) Product Ownership
4 3 (3.90%) Enterprise Software
5 2 (2.60%) Distributed Systems
5 2 (2.60%) Onboarding
6 1 (1.30%) Algorithms
6 1 (1.30%) Clustering
6 1 (1.30%) Cyber Threat
6 1 (1.30%) Data Structures
6 1 (1.30%) Digital TV
6 1 (1.30%) Distributed Computing
6 1 (1.30%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 27 (35.06%) Linux
2 13 (16.88%) Windows
3 3 (3.90%) Ubuntu
4 2 (2.60%) CentOS
4 2 (2.60%) Debian
5 1 (1.30%) Android
5 1 (1.30%) Apple iOS
5 1 (1.30%) Mac OS
5 1 (1.30%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 47 (61.04%) CI/CD
2 43 (55.84%) Agile
3 42 (54.55%) DevOps
4 36 (46.75%) Containerisation
4 36 (46.75%) Microservices
5 33 (42.86%) Infrastructure as Code
6 22 (28.57%) Problem-Solving
7 18 (23.38%) Test Automation
8 17 (22.08%) Continuous Improvement
8 17 (22.08%) DevSecOps
9 16 (20.78%) Full-Stack Development
10 15 (19.48%) High Availability
11 14 (18.18%) Mentoring
12 13 (16.88%) Scrum
13 12 (15.58%) AI
13 12 (15.58%) Migration
14 11 (14.29%) TDD
15 10 (12.99%) Observability
16 9 (11.69%) Sprint Planning
16 9 (11.69%) Technical Leadership
Programming Languages
1 23 (29.87%) Bash
1 23 (29.87%) C#
2 22 (28.57%) PowerShell
2 22 (28.57%) SQL
3 21 (27.27%) Java
4 19 (24.68%) Python
5 17 (22.08%) JavaScript
6 10 (12.99%) TypeScript
7 9 (11.69%) PL/SQL
8 7 (9.09%) C
9 5 (6.49%) Go
10 4 (5.19%) C++
10 4 (5.19%) R
11 2 (2.60%) Bicep
11 2 (2.60%) Shell Script
12 1 (1.30%) Kusto Query Language
12 1 (1.30%) Rust
Qualifications
1 14 (18.18%) Azure Certification
2 13 (16.88%) SC Cleared
2 13 (16.88%) Security Cleared
3 4 (5.19%) AWS Certification
4 3 (3.90%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
4 3 (3.90%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
4 3 (3.90%) AWS Certified SysOps Administrator
4 3 (3.90%) Computer Science Degree
4 3 (3.90%) Degree
5 2 (2.60%) DV Cleared
6 1 (1.30%) CISSP
6 1 (1.30%) CREST Certified
6 1 (1.30%) IISP
6 1 (1.30%) ISACA
6 1 (1.30%) Master's Degree
6 1 (1.30%) Microsoft Certification
6 1 (1.30%) OSCP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 7 (9.09%) QA
2 4 (5.19%) Accessibility
3 2 (2.60%) WCAG
4 1 (1.30%) Data Quality
4 1 (1.30%) GDPR
4 1 (1.30%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 1 (1.30%) SOC 2
System Software
1 58 (75.32%) Docker
2 1 (1.30%) Active Directory
2 1 (1.30%) Virtual Servers
Systems Management
1 36 (46.75%) Terraform
2 12 (15.58%) Ansible
3 5 (6.49%) Grafana
3 5 (6.49%) Prometheus
4 3 (3.90%) Nagios
5 2 (2.60%) Argo
5 2 (2.60%) Progress Chef
5 2 (2.60%) Puppet
6 1 (1.30%) Kustomize
6 1 (1.30%) Podman
Vendors
1 11 (14.29%) CrowdStrike
1 11 (14.29%) Microsoft
2 10 (12.99%) Oracle
3 2 (2.60%) Dynatrace
3 2 (2.60%) Red Hat
4 1 (1.30%) Denodo
4 1 (1.30%) Facebook
4 1 (1.30%) Google
4 1 (1.30%) OpenAI
4 1 (1.30%) Salesforce
4 1 (1.30%) Talend