Kubernetes Jobs in the Midlands

Kubernetes (k8s)
England > Midlands

The table below provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in the Midlands requiring Kubernetes skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the annual salaries offered in vacancies that cited Kubernetes over the 6 months leading up to 3 July 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
3 Jul 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 124 155 109
Rank change year-on-year +31 -46 -44
Permanent jobs citing Kubernetes 162 202 237
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the Midlands 2.36% 1.45% 2.90%
As % of the Systems Management category 32.79% 24.08% 26.04%
Number of salaries quoted 73 154 149
10th Percentile £54,000 £39,825 £50,000
25th Percentile £57,500 £52,500 £55,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £60,000 £70,000
Median % change year-on-year +8.33% -14.29% -
75th Percentile £75,000 £82,500 £81,250
90th Percentile £80,000 £90,875 £100,000
England median annual salary £80,000 £77,500 £77,500
% change year-on-year +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 494 839 910
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the Midlands 7.20% 6.02% 11.13%
Number of salaries quoted 287 612 497
10th Percentile £32,500 £27,500 £30,841
25th Percentile £40,250 £36,250 £38,828
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £50,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +10.00% -9.09% -
75th Percentile £71,250 £65,000 £70,000
90th Percentile £76,750 £80,000 £81,750
England median annual salary £67,500 £62,500 £67,500
% change year-on-year +8.00% -7.41% -3.57%

Kubernetes
Job Vacancy Trend in the Midlands

Job postings citing Kubernetes as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the Midlands.

Job vacancy trend for Kubernetes in the Midlands

Kubernetes
Salary Trend in the Midlands

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing Kubernetes in the Midlands.

Salary trend for Kubernetes in the Midlands

Kubernetes
Salary Histogram in the Midlands

Salary distribution for jobs citing Kubernetes in the Midlands over the 6 months to 3 July 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 3 July 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 +65 102 £67,500 +3.85% 61
East Midlands +13 60 £62,500 +8.70% 13
Kubernetes
England

Kubernetes
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the Midlands by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same employment type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Application Platforms
1 50 (30.86%) Confluence
2 6 (3.70%) Apache Spark
3 2 (1.23%) Jupyter
4 1 (0.62%) Apache
4 1 (0.62%) Apache Solr
4 1 (0.62%) Mendix
4 1 (0.62%) nginx
4 1 (0.62%) Tomcat
Applications
1 1 (0.62%) Adobe XD
1 1 (0.62%) Moqups
1 1 (0.62%) Sketch
Business Applications
1 1 (0.62%) Dynamics CRM
Cloud Services
1 134 (82.72%) AWS
2 132 (81.48%) Azure
3 69 (42.59%) GCP
4 14 (8.64%) Amazon ECS
5 12 (7.41%) Amazon EKS
5 12 (7.41%) Azure DevOps
5 12 (7.41%) GitHub
5 12 (7.41%) GitHub Actions
6 7 (4.32%) IaaS
6 7 (4.32%) PaaS
6 7 (4.32%) SaaS
7 6 (3.70%) Amazon ELB
7 6 (3.70%) Amazon S3
8 5 (3.09%) Pulumi
8 5 (3.09%) Serverless
9 4 (2.47%) Azure Stack
9 4 (2.47%) Entra ID
10 3 (1.85%) AWS CloudFormation
10 3 (1.85%) Azure Service Bus
10 3 (1.85%) Cloud Computing
Communications & Networking
1 4 (2.47%) Broadband
2 3 (1.85%) TCP/IP
3 2 (1.23%) DNS
4 1 (0.62%) Calico
4 1 (0.62%) HTTPS
4 1 (0.62%) IPsec
4 1 (0.62%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 67 (41.36%) SQL Server
2 17 (10.49%) NoSQL
3 10 (6.17%) Big Data
3 10 (6.17%) Relational Database
4 9 (5.56%) DynamoDB
5 7 (4.32%) PostgreSQL
5 7 (4.32%) RDBMS
6 6 (3.70%) Delta Lake
6 6 (3.70%) Metadata
6 6 (3.70%) MongoDB
6 6 (3.70%) Spark SQL
7 4 (2.47%) Azure SQL Database
8 3 (1.85%) Hazelcast
8 3 (1.85%) Redis
9 2 (1.23%) Elasticsearch
9 2 (1.23%) MySQL
9 2 (1.23%) SAP HANA
10 1 (0.62%) DB2
10 1 (0.62%) Power BI
10 1 (0.62%) SQL Server Reporting Services
Development Applications
1 71 (43.83%) SonarQube
2 68 (41.98%) JIRA
3 67 (41.36%) GitLab
4 64 (39.51%) Maven
5 63 (38.89%) Bitbucket
5 63 (38.89%) Cucumber
5 63 (38.89%) Selenium
5 63 (38.89%) Sonatype Nexus
6 16 (9.88%) Git
7 6 (3.70%) MLflow
8 5 (3.09%) Jenkins
9 4 (2.47%) Jaeger
10 2 (1.23%) Cypress.io
10 2 (1.23%) JMeter
10 2 (1.23%) JUnit
10 2 (1.23%) Mockito
11 1 (0.62%) Octopus Deploy
11 1 (0.62%) Subversion
11 1 (0.62%) Team Foundation Server
11 1 (0.62%) webpack
General
1 75 (46.30%) Finance
2 72 (44.44%) Inclusion and Diversity
3 66 (40.74%) Banking
4 20 (12.35%) Social Skills
5 17 (10.49%) Public Sector
6 16 (9.88%) Corporate Banking
6 16 (9.88%) Investment Banking
6 16 (9.88%) Retail
7 13 (8.02%) Manufacturing
8 7 (4.32%) Analytical Skills
9 5 (3.09%) Automotive
10 3 (1.85%) Financial Institution
11 2 (1.23%) Games
12 1 (0.62%) Advertising
12 1 (0.62%) Aerospace
12 1 (0.62%) Electronics
12 1 (0.62%) iGaming
12 1 (0.62%) Law
Job Titles
1 82 (50.62%) Software Engineer
2 25 (15.43%) Developer
3 14 (8.64%) Senior
4 12 (7.41%) Site Engineer
4 12 (7.41%) Site Reliability Engineer
5 11 (6.79%) DevOps Engineer
6 10 (6.17%) Java Engineer
7 9 (5.56%) Java Developer
7 9 (5.56%) Java Software Engineer
7 9 (5.56%) Lead
8 7 (4.32%) Operations Engineer
9 6 (3.70%) Full-Stack Developer
9 6 (3.70%) Machine Learning Engineer
10 5 (3.09%) Senior Developer
10 5 (3.09%) Team Leader
11 4 (2.47%) Architect
11 4 (2.47%) Infrastructure Engineer
11 4 (2.47%) IT Engineer
11 4 (2.47%) IT Infrastructure Engineer
11 4 (2.47%) Software Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 84 (51.85%) Spring
2 76 (46.91%) React
3 72 (44.44%) Spring Boot
4 71 (43.83%) HTML
5 69 (42.59%) CSS
6 66 (40.74%) Kafka
7 64 (39.51%) JPA
8 63 (38.89%) Redux
9 52 (32.10%) Hibernate
10 29 (17.90%) RESTful
11 26 (16.05%) REST
12 22 (13.58%) .NET
13 19 (11.73%) Jest
14 17 (10.49%) CSS3
14 17 (10.49%) HTML5
15 16 (9.88%) Sass
16 13 (8.02%) Loki
17 9 (5.56%) Django
17 9 (5.56%) Flask
18 8 (4.94%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 63 (38.89%) Enterprise Software
1 63 (38.89%) Product Ownership
2 16 (9.88%) Cloud Native
3 12 (7.41%) Onboarding
4 7 (4.32%) Linux Command Line
4 7 (4.32%) Management Information System
5 6 (3.70%) Distributed Systems
5 6 (3.70%) IoT
6 5 (3.09%) Hybrid Cloud
7 4 (2.47%) Algorithms
7 4 (2.47%) Cyberattack
7 4 (2.47%) Data Centre
7 4 (2.47%) Greenfield Project
8 3 (1.85%) Legacy Systems
8 3 (1.85%) Self-Motivation
9 2 (1.23%) Data Structures
9 2 (1.23%) Low-Code
9 2 (1.23%) Public Cloud
9 2 (1.23%) SIMD
9 2 (1.23%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 16 (9.88%) Linux
2 10 (6.17%) Unix
3 4 (2.47%) Rocky
3 4 (2.47%) Windows
3 4 (2.47%) Windows Server
3 4 (2.47%) Windows Server 2019
4 3 (1.85%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 2 (1.23%) AIX
5 2 (1.23%) Android
5 2 (1.23%) SUSE Linux Enterprise Server
6 1 (0.62%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 124 (76.54%) DevOps
2 112 (69.14%) Containerisation
3 110 (67.90%) CI/CD
4 98 (60.49%) Microservices
5 95 (58.64%) Agile
6 93 (57.41%) Software Engineering
7 74 (45.68%) Full-Stack Development
8 73 (45.06%) Test Automation
9 69 (42.59%) Front End Development
9 69 (42.59%) Performance Optimisation
9 69 (42.59%) TDD
10 64 (39.51%) SDLC
11 51 (31.48%) Continuous Improvement
12 50 (30.86%) Clean Code
13 42 (25.93%) Mentoring
14 22 (13.58%) Deployment Automation
14 22 (13.58%) User Experience
15 18 (11.11%) Migration
16 17 (10.49%) Computer Science
16 17 (10.49%) Responsive Web Design
Programming Languages
1 96 (59.26%) Java
2 91 (56.17%) SQL
3 84 (51.85%) JavaScript
4 33 (20.37%) Python
5 31 (19.14%) TypeScript
6 24 (14.81%) C#
7 7 (4.32%) Bash
7 7 (4.32%) Go
8 4 (2.47%) C++
8 4 (2.47%) PL/SQL
8 4 (2.47%) Shell Script
9 2 (1.23%) Korn
9 2 (1.23%) PHP
9 2 (1.23%) Rust
10 1 (0.62%) PowerShell
10 1 (0.62%) Scala
10 1 (0.62%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 29 (17.90%) Security Cleared
2 16 (9.88%) Degree
3 15 (9.26%) Computer Science Degree
4 14 (8.64%) SC Cleared
5 12 (7.41%) BPSS Clearance
6 10 (6.17%) AWS Certification
6 10 (6.17%) DV Cleared
7 8 (4.94%) Azure Certification
8 4 (2.47%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
8 4 (2.47%) Network+ Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 64 (39.51%) QA
2 16 (9.88%) Accessibility
3 6 (3.70%) NCSC
4 1 (0.62%) Cyber Essentials
4 1 (0.62%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 1 (0.62%) NIST
4 1 (0.62%) SLA
System Software
1 134 (82.72%) Docker
2 4 (2.47%) Active Directory
2 4 (2.47%) Hyper-V
3 3 (1.85%) VMware Infrastructure
4 2 (1.23%) Virtual Machines
4 2 (1.23%) VMware ESXi
Systems Management
1 50 (30.86%) Terraform
2 21 (12.96%) Prometheus
3 19 (11.73%) Ansible
3 19 (11.73%) Grafana
4 6 (3.70%) Kubeflow
5 4 (2.47%) Argo
5 4 (2.47%) Kustomize
6 2 (1.23%) Kibana
6 2 (1.23%) Red Hat Satellite
6 2 (1.23%) ZABBIX
7 1 (0.62%) Istio
7 1 (0.62%) Marathon
7 1 (0.62%) Progress Chef
7 1 (0.62%) Puppet
7 1 (0.62%) Rancher
Vendors
1 63 (38.89%) Solace
2 9 (5.56%) Microsoft
3 8 (4.94%) Databricks
4 5 (3.09%) Google
5 4 (2.47%) Dell
5 4 (2.47%) IBM
6 3 (1.85%) Splunk
6 3 (1.85%) VMware
7 2 (1.23%) Dynatrace
7 2 (1.23%) Oracle
7 2 (1.23%) Red Hat
7 2 (1.23%) SAP
8 1 (0.62%) Adobe