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

6 months to
15 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 145 108 139
Rank change year-on-year -37 +31 -36
Permanent jobs citing Kubernetes 131 149 171
As % of all permanent jobs in the Midlands 0.91% 2.57% 1.60%
As % of the Systems Management category 30.11% 32.75% 26.80%
Number of salaries quoted 85 69 132
10th Percentile £47,500 £54,750 £36,250
25th Percentile £55,000 £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 £80,000 £77,500 £72,500
90th Percentile £93,750 £80,750 £88,750
England median annual salary £71,750 £80,000 £77,500
% change year-on-year -10.31% +3.23% +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 435 455 638
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the Midlands 3.01% 7.85% 5.98%
Number of salaries quoted 336 286 451
10th Percentile £31,250 £32,000 £30,000
25th Percentile £42,500 £40,000 £37,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,000 £57,500 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -0.87% +4.55% -
75th Percentile £73,750 £72,500 £66,750
90th Percentile £90,000 £80,000 £78,750
England median annual salary £65,000 £65,000 £65,000
% change year-on-year - - -2.99%

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 15 August 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 15 August 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 -28 90 £70,079 +3.82% 72
East Midlands -36 41 £60,000 -4.00% 34
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 7 (5.34%) Oracle SOA Suite
2 6 (4.58%) IIS
3 2 (1.53%) Microsoft Exchange
4 1 (0.76%) Confluence
4 1 (0.76%) Mendix
4 1 (0.76%) SharePoint
Cloud Services
1 101 (77.10%) Azure
2 68 (51.91%) AWS
3 22 (16.79%) Azure AKS
4 21 (16.03%) GitHub
5 18 (13.74%) Azure DevOps
6 16 (12.21%) Azure ExpressRoute
7 14 (10.69%) IaaS
8 13 (9.92%) GCP
8 13 (9.92%) GitHub Copilot
9 11 (8.40%) Entra ID
10 9 (6.87%) SaaS
11 8 (6.11%) Azure AI
11 8 (6.11%) Azure Key Vault
11 8 (6.11%) Azure Storage
12 7 (5.34%) PaaS
12 7 (5.34%) SonarCloud
13 6 (4.58%) GitHub Actions
14 5 (3.82%) Amazon EKS
14 5 (3.82%) Azure Cosmos DB
14 5 (3.82%) npm
Communications & Networking
1 13 (9.92%) DNS
1 13 (9.92%) VPN
2 11 (8.40%) Network Security
3 8 (6.11%) Firewall
4 5 (3.82%) VLAN
5 2 (1.53%) DHCP
5 2 (1.53%) HTTP
5 2 (1.53%) SSL
6 1 (0.76%) BIG-IP
6 1 (0.76%) SAN
6 1 (0.76%) WAN
6 1 (0.76%) WireGuard
Database & Business Intelligence
1 15 (11.45%) MongoDB
2 14 (10.69%) Azure SQL Database
3 9 (6.87%) SQL Server
4 7 (5.34%) NoSQL
4 7 (5.34%) PostgreSQL
5 5 (3.82%) Elasticsearch
6 3 (2.29%) Amazon RDS
7 2 (1.53%) Amazon Aurora
7 2 (1.53%) KNIME
7 2 (1.53%) MySQL
7 2 (1.53%) Power BI
7 2 (1.53%) Power Query
7 2 (1.53%) Redis
8 1 (0.76%) Data Mining
8 1 (0.76%) TimescaleDB
Development Applications
1 23 (17.56%) Git
2 21 (16.03%) JUnit
3 17 (12.98%) Maven
4 14 (10.69%) Mockito
5 9 (6.87%) Cucumber
5 9 (6.87%) GitLab
6 7 (5.34%) Jenkins
6 7 (5.34%) Postman
6 7 (5.34%) Selenium
7 6 (4.58%) Gatling
8 3 (2.29%) JMeter
8 3 (2.29%) Subversion
9 2 (1.53%) Ant
9 2 (1.53%) Apache Ivy
9 2 (1.53%) IBM UrbanCode
9 2 (1.53%) Locust
10 1 (0.76%) Cypress.io
10 1 (0.76%) JIRA
10 1 (0.76%) REST Assured
10 1 (0.76%) TestNG
General
1 25 (19.08%) Finance
2 17 (12.98%) Social Skills
3 12 (9.16%) Law
4 10 (7.63%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 6 (4.58%) Analytical Skills
6 5 (3.82%) Advertising
6 5 (3.82%) Manufacturing
6 5 (3.82%) Marketing
6 5 (3.82%) Public Sector
6 5 (3.82%) Retail
7 1 (0.76%) Banking
7 1 (0.76%) Documentation Skills
Job Titles
1 33 (25.19%) Developer
2 28 (21.37%) Senior
3 21 (16.03%) DevOps Engineer
4 19 (14.50%) Cloud Engineer
5 17 (12.98%) Architect
6 16 (12.21%) Azure Engineer
7 13 (9.92%) .NET Developer
7 13 (9.92%) Lead
8 12 (9.16%) Full-Stack Developer
8 12 (9.16%) Senior Developer
9 11 (8.40%) Technical Architect
10 10 (7.63%) Full-Stack Java Developer
10 10 (7.63%) Java Developer
11 8 (6.11%) 3rd Line Engineer
11 8 (6.11%) Azure Architect
11 8 (6.11%) Platform Engineer
11 8 (6.11%) Senior Full-Stack Developer
12 7 (5.34%) Senior Java Developer
13 6 (4.58%) Administrator
13 6 (4.58%) Quality Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 31 (23.66%) .NET
2 25 (19.08%) React
3 23 (17.56%) ASP.NET
3 23 (17.56%) ASP.NET Core
4 19 (14.50%) REST
5 17 (12.98%) .NET Core
6 15 (11.45%) Node.js
6 15 (11.45%) Spring
7 11 (8.40%) .NET Framework
8 8 (6.11%) CSS
8 8 (6.11%) HTML
8 8 (6.11%) ML.NET
9 7 (5.34%) Playwright
9 7 (5.34%) YAML
10 6 (4.58%) Blazor
10 6 (4.58%) Kafka
10 6 (4.58%) RESTful
11 5 (3.82%) AngularJS
11 5 (3.82%) ASP.NET Web API
11 5 (3.82%) Vue
Miscellaneous
1 21 (16.03%) Cloud Native
2 8 (6.11%) Hybrid Cloud
2 8 (6.11%) Onboarding
3 7 (5.34%) Distributed Systems
3 7 (5.34%) Self-Motivation
4 5 (3.82%) Legacy Systems
5 3 (2.29%) Digital TV
5 3 (2.29%) Product Ownership
5 3 (2.29%) Public Cloud
6 2 (1.53%) Clustering
6 2 (1.53%) Cyber Threat
6 2 (1.53%) Data Centre
6 2 (1.53%) Enterprise Storage
6 2 (1.53%) Linux Command Line
6 2 (1.53%) Management Information System
6 2 (1.53%) Online Gambling
6 2 (1.53%) Private Cloud
6 2 (1.53%) SCADA
6 2 (1.53%) Tandem
6 2 (1.53%) Video\Live Streaming
Operating Systems
1 41 (31.30%) Linux
2 16 (12.21%) Windows
3 6 (4.58%) Windows Server
4 3 (2.29%) Ubuntu
4 3 (2.29%) Unix
5 2 (1.53%) CentOS
5 2 (1.53%) Debian
5 2 (1.53%) Solaris
6 1 (0.76%) Mac OS
Processes & Methodologies
1 85 (64.89%) CI/CD
2 63 (48.09%) Agile
3 62 (47.33%) Containerisation
4 49 (37.40%) Infrastructure as Code
5 46 (35.11%) DevOps
6 45 (34.35%) Microservices
7 39 (29.77%) Mentoring
8 30 (22.90%) AI
9 28 (21.37%) Full-Stack Development
9 28 (21.37%) Scrum
10 27 (20.61%) Continuous Improvement
11 26 (19.85%) DevSecOps
12 25 (19.08%) Observability
12 25 (19.08%) TDD
13 24 (18.32%) Problem-Solving
14 22 (16.79%) Technical Leadership
15 21 (16.03%) Test Automation
16 18 (13.74%) High Availability
17 16 (12.21%) Roadmaps
17 16 (12.21%) Stakeholder Engagement
Programming Languages
1 37 (28.24%) SQL
2 36 (27.48%) C#
3 28 (21.37%) Java
4 27 (20.61%) PowerShell
5 26 (19.85%) JavaScript
6 22 (16.79%) Bash
7 20 (15.27%) Python
8 16 (12.21%) TypeScript
9 14 (10.69%) PL/SQL
10 13 (9.92%) Bicep
11 5 (3.82%) Go
12 2 (1.53%) Data Analysis Expressions
12 2 (1.53%) Shell Script
12 2 (1.53%) VB.NET
13 1 (0.76%) C
13 1 (0.76%) C++
13 1 (0.76%) Kusto Query Language
13 1 (0.76%) PHP
13 1 (0.76%) Rust
Qualifications
1 41 (31.30%) Security Cleared
2 37 (28.24%) SC Cleared
3 20 (15.27%) Azure Certification
4 12 (9.16%) DV Cleared
5 4 (3.05%) Degree
6 3 (2.29%) AWS Certification
6 3 (2.29%) Computer Science Degree
7 2 (1.53%) BPSS Clearance
7 2 (1.53%) CISSP
7 2 (1.53%) CompTIA Security+
8 1 (0.76%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
8 1 (0.76%) CREST Certified
8 1 (0.76%) IISP
8 1 (0.76%) ISACA
8 1 (0.76%) OSCP
8 1 (0.76%) PMP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 10 (7.63%) Accessibility
2 8 (6.11%) QA
2 8 (6.11%) WCAG
3 4 (3.05%) Cyber Essentials
4 3 (2.29%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 2 (1.53%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
5 2 (1.53%) SLA
6 1 (0.76%) GxP
6 1 (0.76%) SOC 2
System Software
1 84 (64.12%) Docker
2 12 (9.16%) Active Directory
3 10 (7.63%) VMware Infrastructure
4 2 (1.53%) Hyper-V
5 1 (0.76%) Virtual Servers
Systems Management
1 57 (43.51%) Terraform
2 14 (10.69%) Ansible
3 10 (7.63%) Grafana
4 6 (4.58%) Prometheus
5 5 (3.82%) Argo
6 4 (3.05%) Progress Chef
6 4 (3.05%) Puppet
7 3 (2.29%) Istio
8 1 (0.76%) Nagios
8 1 (0.76%) Podman
Vendors
1 41 (31.30%) Microsoft
2 14 (10.69%) Oracle
3 10 (7.63%) VMware
4 7 (5.34%) CrowdStrike
5 5 (3.82%) Facebook
5 5 (3.82%) Red Hat
6 4 (3.05%) ServiceNow
7 3 (2.29%) Dynatrace
7 3 (2.29%) Workday
8 2 (1.53%) IFS
8 2 (1.53%) Veracode
9 1 (0.76%) F5