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

6 months to
18 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 184 108 154
Rank change year-on-year -76 +46 -50
Permanent jobs citing Kubernetes 78 139 171
As % of all permanent jobs in the Midlands 0.60% 2.68% 1.44%
As % of the Systems Management category 23.93% 34.58% 21.51%
Number of salaries quoted 60 63 135
10th Percentile £48,400 - £46,750
25th Percentile £57,500 £57,500 £52,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £66,000 £67,500 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -2.22% +12.50% -14.29%
75th Percentile £74,925 £75,000 £82,500
90th Percentile £85,250 £83,500 £90,750
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 326 402 795
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the Midlands 2.49% 7.77% 6.69%
Number of salaries quoted 258 251 629
10th Percentile £31,250 £32,500 £27,500
25th Percentile £41,375 £40,000 £36,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,500 £52,500 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year +9.52% +5.00% -9.09%
75th Percentile £70,000 £67,500 £65,000
90th Percentile £87,500 £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 18 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 18 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 -59 46 £68,750 +1.85% 26
East Midlands -52 30 £66,000 +1.54% 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 (15.38%) IIS
2 5 (6.41%) Oracle SOA Suite
3 1 (1.28%) Confluence
Cloud Services
1 62 (79.49%) Azure
2 36 (46.15%) AWS
3 18 (23.08%) Azure DevOps
4 12 (15.38%) NuGet
5 11 (14.10%) npm
5 11 (14.10%) SonarCloud
6 10 (12.82%) Azure AKS
7 9 (11.54%) Azure Key Vault
7 9 (11.54%) GCP
7 9 (11.54%) IaaS
8 8 (10.26%) Azure ExpressRoute
8 8 (10.26%) Azure Storage
9 6 (7.69%) GitHub
9 6 (7.69%) Serverless
10 5 (6.41%) SaaS
11 4 (5.13%) GitHub Copilot
12 3 (3.85%) Amazon EC2
12 3 (3.85%) Azure Logic Apps
12 3 (3.85%) Azure Service Bus
12 3 (3.85%) PaaS
Communications & Networking
1 9 (11.54%) DNS
2 4 (5.13%) Firewall
3 3 (3.85%) Network Security
4 1 (1.28%) Broadband
4 1 (1.28%) SAN
4 1 (1.28%) VLAN
4 1 (1.28%) VPN
4 1 (1.28%) WAN
4 1 (1.28%) WireGuard
Database & Business Intelligence
1 13 (16.67%) NoSQL
2 8 (10.26%) SQL Server
3 7 (8.97%) MongoDB
4 4 (5.13%) Azure SQL Database
4 4 (5.13%) PostgreSQL
5 3 (3.85%) Amazon RDS
5 3 (3.85%) Redis
5 3 (3.85%) TimescaleDB
6 2 (2.56%) Elasticsearch
7 1 (1.28%) Data Mining
7 1 (1.28%) InfluxDB
7 1 (1.28%) RDBMS
7 1 (1.28%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 15 (19.23%) Git
2 10 (12.82%) Maven
3 9 (11.54%) JUnit
3 9 (11.54%) Mockito
4 4 (5.13%) Jenkins
5 3 (3.85%) Cucumber
6 2 (2.56%) GitLab
6 2 (2.56%) JMeter
6 2 (2.56%) Locust
7 1 (1.28%) Bitbucket
7 1 (1.28%) Jaeger
7 1 (1.28%) JIRA
7 1 (1.28%) MLflow
7 1 (1.28%) SpecFlow
7 1 (1.28%) Subversion
General
1 16 (20.51%) Social Skills
2 13 (16.67%) Finance
3 9 (11.54%) Law
4 5 (6.41%) Analytical Skills
5 4 (5.13%) Advertising
6 3 (3.85%) Banking
6 3 (3.85%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 3 (3.85%) Investment Banking
6 3 (3.85%) Military
6 3 (3.85%) Retail
7 2 (2.56%) Automotive
8 1 (1.28%) Documentation Skills
8 1 (1.28%) Manufacturing
8 1 (1.28%) Marketing
Job Titles
1 23 (29.49%) Azure Engineer
2 20 (25.64%) Senior
3 19 (24.36%) Developer
4 17 (21.79%) DevOps Engineer
5 13 (16.67%) Cloud Engineer
6 12 (15.38%) Lead
7 10 (12.82%) Azure DevOps Engineer
7 10 (12.82%) Full-Stack Developer
8 9 (11.54%) Senior DevOps
8 9 (11.54%) Senior DevOps Engineer
9 8 (10.26%) 3rd Line Engineer
9 8 (10.26%) Senior Developer
10 7 (8.97%) Full-Stack Java Developer
10 7 (8.97%) Java Developer
11 6 (7.69%) Lead DevOps
12 5 (6.41%) Senior Full-Stack Developer
12 5 (6.41%) Senior Java Developer
13 4 (5.13%) .NET Developer
13 4 (5.13%) Infrastructure Engineer
13 4 (5.13%) Principal Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 24 (30.77%) .NET
1 24 (30.77%) React
2 20 (25.64%) Node.js
3 13 (16.67%) ASP.NET
3 13 (16.67%) ASP.NET Core
4 12 (15.38%) .NET Framework
4 12 (15.38%) REST
5 11 (14.10%) YAML
6 9 (11.54%) .NET Core
7 7 (8.97%) Spring
8 6 (7.69%) Kafka
9 4 (5.13%) ASP.NET Web API
9 4 (5.13%) Entity Framework
9 4 (5.13%) GraphQL
10 3 (3.85%) AngularJS
10 3 (3.85%) OpenTelemetry
10 3 (3.85%) RESTful
10 3 (3.85%) Vue
11 2 (2.56%) Gherkin
11 2 (2.56%) ML.NET
Miscellaneous
1 10 (12.82%) Cloud Native
2 5 (6.41%) Legacy Systems
2 5 (6.41%) Self-Motivation
3 4 (5.13%) Distributed Systems
3 4 (5.13%) Management Information System
4 3 (3.85%) Enterprise Software
4 3 (3.85%) Product Ownership
5 2 (2.56%) Onboarding
6 1 (1.28%) Algorithms
6 1 (1.28%) Clustering
6 1 (1.28%) Cyber Threat
6 1 (1.28%) Data Structures
6 1 (1.28%) Digital TV
6 1 (1.28%) Distributed Computing
6 1 (1.28%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 27 (34.62%) Linux
2 13 (16.67%) Windows
3 3 (3.85%) Ubuntu
4 2 (2.56%) CentOS
4 2 (2.56%) Debian
5 1 (1.28%) Android
5 1 (1.28%) Apple iOS
5 1 (1.28%) Mac OS
5 1 (1.28%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 47 (60.26%) CI/CD
2 44 (56.41%) Agile
3 42 (53.85%) DevOps
4 38 (48.72%) Microservices
5 37 (47.44%) Containerisation
6 35 (44.87%) Infrastructure as Code
7 21 (26.92%) Problem-Solving
8 19 (24.36%) Continuous Improvement
9 18 (23.08%) High Availability
10 17 (21.79%) DevSecOps
10 17 (21.79%) Test Automation
11 16 (20.51%) Full-Stack Development
11 16 (20.51%) Mentoring
12 13 (16.67%) AI
13 12 (15.38%) Migration
13 12 (15.38%) Observability
13 12 (15.38%) Scrum
14 11 (14.10%) TDD
14 11 (14.10%) Technical Leadership
15 9 (11.54%) Load Balancing
Programming Languages
1 25 (32.05%) C#
2 23 (29.49%) Bash
2 23 (29.49%) PowerShell
3 21 (26.92%) Java
3 21 (26.92%) SQL
4 18 (23.08%) JavaScript
4 18 (23.08%) Python
5 12 (15.38%) TypeScript
6 9 (11.54%) PL/SQL
7 7 (8.97%) C
8 4 (5.13%) C++
8 4 (5.13%) Go
8 4 (5.13%) R
9 2 (2.56%) Bicep
9 2 (2.56%) Shell Script
10 1 (1.28%) Kusto Query Language
10 1 (1.28%) Rust
Qualifications
1 15 (19.23%) Azure Certification
2 13 (16.67%) SC Cleared
2 13 (16.67%) Security Cleared
3 4 (5.13%) AWS Certification
4 3 (3.85%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
4 3 (3.85%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
4 3 (3.85%) AWS Certified SysOps Administrator
5 2 (2.56%) Computer Science Degree
5 2 (2.56%) Degree
5 2 (2.56%) DV Cleared
6 1 (1.28%) CISSP
6 1 (1.28%) CREST Certified
6 1 (1.28%) IISP
6 1 (1.28%) ISACA
6 1 (1.28%) Master's Degree
6 1 (1.28%) Microsoft Certification
6 1 (1.28%) OSCP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 7 (8.97%) QA
2 4 (5.13%) Accessibility
3 2 (2.56%) WCAG
4 1 (1.28%) GDPR
4 1 (1.28%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 1 (1.28%) SOC 2
System Software
1 56 (71.79%) Docker
2 1 (1.28%) Active Directory
2 1 (1.28%) Virtual Servers
Systems Management
1 38 (48.72%) Terraform
2 12 (15.38%) Ansible
3 5 (6.41%) Grafana
3 5 (6.41%) Prometheus
4 3 (3.85%) Nagios
5 2 (2.56%) Argo
5 2 (2.56%) Progress Chef
5 2 (2.56%) Puppet
6 1 (1.28%) Kustomize
6 1 (1.28%) Podman
Vendors
1 13 (16.67%) Microsoft
2 11 (14.10%) CrowdStrike
3 9 (11.54%) Oracle
4 2 (2.56%) Dynatrace
4 2 (2.56%) Red Hat
5 1 (1.28%) Facebook
5 1 (1.28%) Google
5 1 (1.28%) OpenAI
5 1 (1.28%) Salesforce