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

6 months to
12 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 153 101 172
Rank change year-on-year -52 +71 -53
Permanent jobs citing Kubernetes 90 141 188
As % of all permanent jobs in the Midlands 0.73% 2.83% 1.36%
As % of the Systems Management category 24.93% 33.98% 22.25%
Number of salaries quoted 65 62 147
10th Percentile £47,900 £56,250 £46,250
25th Percentile £55,000 £57,500 £52,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £64,000 £65,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -1.54% +8.33% -14.29%
75th Percentile £74,066 £75,000 £82,500
90th Percentile £85,000 £78,625 £91,250
England median annual salary £72,500 £82,500 £77,500
% change year-on-year -12.12% +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 361 415 845
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the Midlands 2.93% 8.34% 6.12%
Number of salaries quoted 284 259 635
10th Percentile £31,250 £32,500 £28,250
25th Percentile £41,250 £40,000 £36,298
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,100 £53,688 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year +2.63% +2.26% -4.55%
75th Percentile £72,500 £68,750 £65,000
90th Percentile £90,000 £75,000 £80,000
England median annual salary £65,000 £67,500 £62,500
% change year-on-year -3.70% +8.00% -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 12 June 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 12 June 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 -57 54 £69,653 +3.19% 29
East Midlands -47 35 £60,000 - 8
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 10 (11.11%) IIS
2 6 (6.67%) Oracle SOA Suite
3 1 (1.11%) Confluence
3 1 (1.11%) Mendix
3 1 (1.11%) Microsoft Exchange
3 1 (1.11%) SharePoint
Cloud Services
1 70 (77.78%) Azure
2 46 (51.11%) AWS
3 16 (17.78%) Azure DevOps
4 13 (14.44%) Azure AKS
5 10 (11.11%) GCP
5 10 (11.11%) IaaS
6 9 (10.00%) GitHub
6 9 (10.00%) npm
6 9 (10.00%) NuGet
6 9 (10.00%) SonarCloud
7 8 (8.89%) Azure ExpressRoute
7 8 (8.89%) Azure Key Vault
7 8 (8.89%) Azure Storage
8 6 (6.67%) GitHub Copilot
8 6 (6.67%) SaaS
9 5 (5.56%) Amazon S3
9 5 (5.56%) PaaS
9 5 (5.56%) Serverless
10 4 (4.44%) Amazon EC2
10 4 (4.44%) AWS CloudFormation
Communications & Networking
1 10 (11.11%) DNS
2 6 (6.67%) Firewall
3 3 (3.33%) Network Security
3 3 (3.33%) VLAN
3 3 (3.33%) VPN
4 1 (1.11%) BIG-IP
4 1 (1.11%) Broadband
4 1 (1.11%) DHCP
4 1 (1.11%) SAN
4 1 (1.11%) WAN
4 1 (1.11%) WireGuard
Database & Business Intelligence
1 11 (12.22%) NoSQL
2 10 (11.11%) MongoDB
3 8 (8.89%) SQL Server
4 7 (7.78%) Azure SQL Database
5 4 (4.44%) PostgreSQL
6 3 (3.33%) Amazon RDS
6 3 (3.33%) Elasticsearch
7 2 (2.22%) Redis
7 2 (2.22%) TimescaleDB
8 1 (1.11%) Data Mining
8 1 (1.11%) KNIME
8 1 (1.11%) RDBMS
8 1 (1.11%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 17 (18.89%) Git
2 15 (16.67%) JUnit
3 14 (15.56%) Maven
4 13 (14.44%) Mockito
5 5 (5.56%) Cucumber
6 3 (3.33%) Jenkins
6 3 (3.33%) Subversion
7 2 (2.22%) Gatling
7 2 (2.22%) GitLab
7 2 (2.22%) JMeter
7 2 (2.22%) Locust
7 2 (2.22%) Postman
7 2 (2.22%) Selenium
8 1 (1.11%) Bitbucket
8 1 (1.11%) Jaeger
8 1 (1.11%) JIRA
8 1 (1.11%) SpecFlow
General
1 18 (20.00%) Finance
2 15 (16.67%) Social Skills
3 11 (12.22%) Law
4 5 (5.56%) Advertising
4 5 (5.56%) Analytical Skills
5 4 (4.44%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 4 (4.44%) Manufacturing
6 3 (3.33%) Banking
6 3 (3.33%) Investment Banking
6 3 (3.33%) Retail
7 2 (2.22%) Marketing
8 1 (1.11%) Automotive
8 1 (1.11%) Military
8 1 (1.11%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 24 (26.67%) Developer
2 22 (24.44%) Senior
3 20 (22.22%) Azure Engineer
4 19 (21.11%) DevOps Engineer
5 15 (16.67%) Lead
6 14 (15.56%) Cloud Engineer
7 11 (12.22%) Full-Stack Developer
8 9 (10.00%) Azure DevOps Engineer
8 9 (10.00%) Full-Stack Java Developer
8 9 (10.00%) Java Developer
8 9 (10.00%) Senior Developer
9 8 (8.89%) 3rd Line Engineer
9 8 (8.89%) Senior DevOps
9 8 (8.89%) Senior DevOps Engineer
10 6 (6.67%) .NET Developer
10 6 (6.67%) Infrastructure Engineer
10 6 (6.67%) Lead DevOps
10 6 (6.67%) Senior Full-Stack Developer
10 6 (6.67%) Senior Java Developer
11 5 (5.56%) Team Leader
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 25 (27.78%) React
2 24 (26.67%) .NET
3 18 (20.00%) Node.js
4 17 (18.89%) REST
5 16 (17.78%) ASP.NET
5 16 (17.78%) ASP.NET Core
6 12 (13.33%) .NET Framework
7 11 (12.22%) Spring
8 10 (11.11%) .NET Core
9 9 (10.00%) YAML
10 7 (7.78%) Kafka
11 5 (5.56%) ASP.NET Web API
11 5 (5.56%) Entity Framework
12 4 (4.44%) AngularJS
12 4 (4.44%) Vue
13 3 (3.33%) CSS
13 3 (3.33%) GraphQL
13 3 (3.33%) HTML
13 3 (3.33%) RabbitMQ
13 3 (3.33%) RESTful
Miscellaneous
1 12 (13.33%) Cloud Native
2 6 (6.67%) Self-Motivation
3 5 (5.56%) Distributed Systems
3 5 (5.56%) Legacy Systems
3 5 (5.56%) Onboarding
4 4 (4.44%) Management Information System
5 3 (3.33%) Enterprise Software
5 3 (3.33%) Product Ownership
6 2 (2.22%) Clustering
6 2 (2.22%) Cyber Threat
6 2 (2.22%) Greenfield Project
7 1 (1.11%) Algorithms
7 1 (1.11%) Data Centre
7 1 (1.11%) Data Structures
7 1 (1.11%) Digital TV
7 1 (1.11%) Enterprise Storage
7 1 (1.11%) Private Cloud
7 1 (1.11%) Replication
7 1 (1.11%) SCADA
7 1 (1.11%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 30 (33.33%) Linux
2 14 (15.56%) Windows
3 3 (3.33%) Ubuntu
4 2 (2.22%) CentOS
4 2 (2.22%) Debian
4 2 (2.22%) Windows Server
5 1 (1.11%) Android
5 1 (1.11%) Apple iOS
5 1 (1.11%) Mac OS
5 1 (1.11%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 56 (62.22%) CI/CD
2 49 (54.44%) Agile
3 42 (46.67%) DevOps
4 39 (43.33%) Containerisation
4 39 (43.33%) Microservices
5 37 (41.11%) Infrastructure as Code
6 25 (27.78%) Mentoring
7 22 (24.44%) Continuous Improvement
7 22 (24.44%) Problem-Solving
8 21 (23.33%) Full-Stack Development
8 21 (23.33%) High Availability
9 20 (22.22%) Test Automation
10 18 (20.00%) TDD
11 17 (18.89%) Observability
11 17 (18.89%) Scrum
12 16 (17.78%) AI
12 16 (17.78%) Technical Leadership
13 14 (15.56%) DevSecOps
14 11 (12.22%) Infrastructure Engineering
14 11 (12.22%) Sprint Planning
Programming Languages
1 27 (30.00%) C#
1 27 (30.00%) SQL
2 25 (27.78%) Java
3 24 (26.67%) JavaScript
4 23 (25.56%) Bash
4 23 (25.56%) PowerShell
5 17 (18.89%) Python
6 14 (15.56%) TypeScript
7 13 (14.44%) PL/SQL
8 6 (6.67%) C
8 6 (6.67%) Go
9 4 (4.44%) Bicep
9 4 (4.44%) R
10 2 (2.22%) C++
10 2 (2.22%) Shell Script
11 1 (1.11%) Kusto Query Language
11 1 (1.11%) PHP
11 1 (1.11%) Rust
Qualifications
1 16 (17.78%) Azure Certification
2 15 (16.67%) SC Cleared
2 15 (16.67%) Security Cleared
3 4 (4.44%) AWS Certification
4 3 (3.33%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
4 3 (3.33%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
4 3 (3.33%) AWS Certified SysOps Administrator
5 2 (2.22%) Degree
5 2 (2.22%) DV Cleared
6 1 (1.11%) CISSP
6 1 (1.11%) CompTIA Security+
6 1 (1.11%) Computer Science Degree
6 1 (1.11%) CREST Certified
6 1 (1.11%) IISP
6 1 (1.11%) ISACA
6 1 (1.11%) OSCP
6 1 (1.11%) PMP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 9 (10.00%) QA
2 7 (7.78%) Accessibility
3 4 (4.44%) WCAG
4 2 (2.22%) Cyber Essentials
5 1 (1.11%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
5 1 (1.11%) ISO/IEC 27001
System Software
1 67 (74.44%) Docker
2 3 (3.33%) Active Directory
3 1 (1.11%) Hyper-V
3 1 (1.11%) Virtual Servers
3 1 (1.11%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 37 (41.11%) Terraform
2 10 (11.11%) Ansible
3 6 (6.67%) Grafana
4 5 (5.56%) Prometheus
5 4 (4.44%) Argo
6 2 (2.22%) Istio
6 2 (2.22%) Nagios
6 2 (2.22%) Progress Chef
6 2 (2.22%) Puppet
7 1 (1.11%) Kustomize
7 1 (1.11%) Podman
Vendors
1 16 (17.78%) Microsoft
2 13 (14.44%) Oracle
3 9 (10.00%) CrowdStrike
4 2 (2.22%) Dynatrace
4 2 (2.22%) Facebook
4 2 (2.22%) Red Hat
5 1 (1.11%) F5
5 1 (1.11%) Google
5 1 (1.11%) VMware