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 8 November 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
8 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 128 143 89
Rank change year-on-year +15 -54 -11
Permanent jobs citing Kubernetes 89 149 164
As % of all permanent jobs in the Midlands 1.57% 1.68% 3.22%
As % of the Systems Management category 22.25% 29.74% 24.89%
Number of salaries quoted 62 87 140
10th Percentile £48,750 £34,000 £50,000
25th Percentile £55,313 £39,875 £55,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £67,500 £60,000 £62,500
Median % change year-on-year +12.50% -4.00% -10.71%
75th Percentile £80,000 £72,500 £78,750
90th Percentile £94,750 £90,000 £87,500
England median annual salary £77,500 £77,500 £75,000
% change year-on-year - +3.33% -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 400 501 659
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the Midlands 7.04% 5.66% 12.94%
Number of salaries quoted 287 268 531
10th Percentile £29,550 £32,850 £30,000
25th Percentile £39,875 £38,438 £40,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £52,250 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +5.26% -5.00% -
75th Percentile £72,750 £66,050 £67,500
90th Percentile £80,000 £75,000 £80,000
England median annual salary £62,500 £68,000 £65,000
% change year-on-year -8.09% +4.62% -3.70%

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 8 November 2025.

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 8 November 2025. 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 +22 64 £70,000 +7.69% 87
East Midlands -12 25 £55,200 +33.01% 36
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 6 (6.74%) Apache Spark
2 2 (2.25%) Oracle SOA Suite
3 1 (1.12%) Apache Solr
3 1 (1.12%) nginx
Business Applications
1 2 (2.25%) Dynamics CRM
Cloud Services
1 59 (66.29%) AWS
2 45 (50.56%) Azure
3 14 (15.73%) GCP
4 12 (13.48%) Amazon EKS
5 10 (11.24%) GitHub
6 9 (10.11%) Entra ID
7 8 (8.99%) Amazon S3
7 8 (8.99%) Azure Stack
7 8 (8.99%) Serverless
8 7 (7.87%) Amazon ECS
9 6 (6.74%) Amazon ELB
9 6 (6.74%) SaaS
10 5 (5.62%) Amazon CloudWatch
10 5 (5.62%) Azure DevOps
10 5 (5.62%) GitHub Actions
10 5 (5.62%) OpenShift
11 4 (4.49%) AWS Lambda
11 4 (4.49%) PaaS
12 3 (3.37%) Azure AKS
13 2 (2.25%) Azure Monitor
Communications & Networking
1 4 (4.49%) TCP/IP
2 1 (1.12%) Calico
2 1 (1.12%) DNS
2 1 (1.12%) Firewall
2 1 (1.12%) HTTPS
2 1 (1.12%) IPsec
2 1 (1.12%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 10 (11.24%) PostgreSQL
1 10 (11.24%) SQL Server
2 9 (10.11%) Delta Lake
3 8 (8.99%) DynamoDB
4 7 (7.87%) NoSQL
5 6 (6.74%) Big Data
5 6 (6.74%) Metadata
5 6 (6.74%) Relational Database
5 6 (6.74%) Spark SQL
6 5 (5.62%) MongoDB
7 4 (4.49%) Oracle Database
8 3 (3.37%) RDBMS
9 2 (2.25%) Hazelcast
9 2 (2.25%) MySQL
9 2 (2.25%) Power BI
9 2 (2.25%) SAP HANA
9 2 (2.25%) SQL Server Reporting Services
10 1 (1.12%) Couchbase
10 1 (1.12%) Geospatial Data
10 1 (1.12%) TimescaleDB
Development Applications
1 16 (17.98%) GitLab
2 10 (11.24%) Git
2 10 (11.24%) JUnit
2 10 (11.24%) Maven
3 9 (10.11%) Cucumber
4 8 (8.99%) Jenkins
4 8 (8.99%) Selenium
5 7 (7.87%) MLflow
5 7 (7.87%) Mockito
5 7 (7.87%) SonarQube
6 5 (5.62%) Bitbucket
6 5 (5.62%) JIRA
6 5 (5.62%) Sonatype Nexus
7 3 (3.37%) JMeter
8 1 (1.12%) Gatling
8 1 (1.12%) Locust
8 1 (1.12%) Snyk
General
1 17 (19.10%) Public Sector
1 17 (19.10%) Social Skills
2 15 (16.85%) Finance
3 5 (5.62%) Banking
3 5 (5.62%) Corporate Banking
3 5 (5.62%) Inclusion and Diversity
3 5 (5.62%) Investment Banking
3 5 (5.62%) Retail
4 4 (4.49%) Advertising
4 4 (4.49%) Analytical Skills
5 2 (2.25%) Automotive
5 2 (2.25%) Financial Institution
6 1 (1.12%) Law
Job Titles
1 19 (21.35%) Developer
2 17 (19.10%) DevOps Engineer
2 17 (19.10%) Senior
3 14 (15.73%) Java Developer
3 14 (15.73%) Software Engineer
4 9 (10.11%) Operations Engineer
5 8 (8.99%) Full-Stack Developer
5 8 (8.99%) Full-Stack Java Developer
5 8 (8.99%) Infrastructure Engineer
5 8 (8.99%) IT Engineer
5 8 (8.99%) IT Infrastructure Engineer
5 8 (8.99%) Lead
6 6 (6.74%) Machine Learning Engineer
6 6 (6.74%) Senior Developer
6 6 (6.74%) Technical Leader
7 5 (5.62%) Senior DevOps
7 5 (5.62%) Senior DevOps Engineer
8 4 (4.49%) Infrastructure Support
8 4 (4.49%) IT Support
8 4 (4.49%) Java Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 29 (32.58%) Spring
2 20 (22.47%) Spring Boot
3 16 (17.98%) React
3 16 (17.98%) REST
4 13 (14.61%) RESTful
5 11 (12.36%) HTML
6 9 (10.11%) CSS
6 9 (10.11%) Django
6 9 (10.11%) Flask
7 8 (8.99%) Web Services
8 7 (7.87%) JPA
9 6 (6.74%) AngularJS
9 6 (6.74%) Kafka
9 6 (6.74%) Keras
9 6 (6.74%) NumPy
9 6 (6.74%) Pandas
9 6 (6.74%) Redux
9 6 (6.74%) scikit-learn
9 6 (6.74%) TensorFlow
9 6 (6.74%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 13 (14.61%) Cloud Native
2 9 (10.11%) Onboarding
3 8 (8.99%) Data Centre
3 8 (8.99%) Hybrid Cloud
4 6 (6.74%) Legacy Systems
4 6 (6.74%) Linux Command Line
4 6 (6.74%) Product Ownership
5 5 (5.62%) Enterprise Software
6 4 (4.49%) Greenfield Project
6 4 (4.49%) IoT
6 4 (4.49%) Self-Motivation
7 2 (2.25%) Distributed Systems
7 2 (2.25%) Life Science
7 2 (2.25%) Management Information System
8 1 (1.12%) Data Structures
8 1 (1.12%) Derivative
8 1 (1.12%) Legacy Applications
8 1 (1.12%) Mobile App
8 1 (1.12%) PKI
Operating Systems
1 26 (29.21%) Linux
2 12 (13.48%) Windows
3 8 (8.99%) Rocky
3 8 (8.99%) Windows Server
3 8 (8.99%) Windows Server 2019
4 6 (6.74%) Unix
5 2 (2.25%) AIX
5 2 (2.25%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 2 (2.25%) SUSE Linux Enterprise Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 57 (64.04%) CI/CD
2 54 (60.67%) DevOps
3 41 (46.07%) Containerisation
4 35 (39.33%) Agile
5 33 (37.08%) Microservices
6 24 (26.97%) Mentoring
7 22 (24.72%) Infrastructure as Code
8 21 (23.60%) TDD
9 19 (21.35%) Software Engineering
10 17 (19.10%) Full-Stack Development
11 16 (17.98%) Test Automation
12 15 (16.85%) Machine Learning
13 14 (15.73%) AI
14 13 (14.61%) Continuous Improvement
14 13 (14.61%) Problem-Solving
15 12 (13.48%) Unit Testing
16 11 (12.36%) Deployment Automation
17 10 (11.24%) Coaching
17 10 (11.24%) SDLC
18 9 (10.11%) BDD
Programming Languages
1 33 (37.08%) Java
2 32 (35.96%) Python
3 29 (32.58%) SQL
4 20 (22.47%) JavaScript
5 13 (14.61%) TypeScript
6 8 (8.99%) Bash
7 7 (7.87%) Go
7 7 (7.87%) PL/SQL
8 5 (5.62%) C#
9 4 (4.49%) Shell Script
10 3 (3.37%) Bicep
10 3 (3.37%) Delphi
11 2 (2.25%) Korn
11 2 (2.25%) PHP
11 2 (2.25%) T-SQL
12 1 (1.12%) Kusto Query Language
12 1 (1.12%) PowerShell
12 1 (1.12%) Scala
Qualifications
1 35 (39.33%) Security Cleared
2 29 (32.58%) SC Cleared
3 14 (15.73%) DV Cleared
4 11 (12.36%) Azure Certification
5 10 (11.24%) BPSS Clearance
6 8 (8.99%) Network+ Certification
7 5 (5.62%) AWS Certification
8 3 (3.37%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
9 2 (2.25%) CCNA
9 2 (2.25%) Cisco Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 7 (7.87%) QA
2 6 (6.74%) Accessibility
3 1 (1.12%) Cyber Essentials
3 1 (1.12%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
3 1 (1.12%) GDPR
3 1 (1.12%) Government Security Classifications
3 1 (1.12%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 1 (1.12%) WCAG
System Software
1 66 (74.16%) Docker
2 8 (8.99%) Active Directory
2 8 (8.99%) Hyper-V
3 2 (2.25%) Virtual Machines
3 2 (2.25%) VMware ESXi
3 2 (2.25%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 35 (39.33%) Terraform
2 11 (12.36%) Ansible
3 9 (10.11%) Grafana
4 6 (6.74%) Kubeflow
5 3 (3.37%) Argo
6 2 (2.25%) Kibana
6 2 (2.25%) Red Hat Satellite
6 2 (2.25%) ZABBIX
7 1 (1.12%) Istio
7 1 (1.12%) Kustomize
7 1 (1.12%) Prometheus
7 1 (1.12%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 13 (14.61%) Oracle
2 8 (8.99%) Dell
3 6 (6.74%) Databricks
4 5 (5.62%) Solace
5 4 (4.49%) Splunk
6 3 (3.37%) IBM
6 3 (3.37%) Microsoft
7 2 (2.25%) AppDynamics
7 2 (2.25%) Dynatrace
7 2 (2.25%) Red Hat
7 2 (2.25%) SAP
7 2 (2.25%) VMware
8 1 (1.12%) Google