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 15 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
15 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 124 151 107
Rank change year-on-year +27 -44 -47
Permanent jobs citing Kubernetes 144 177 282
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the Midlands 2.05% 1.49% 3.07%
As % of the Systems Management category 33.26% 22.10% 23.98%
Number of salaries quoted 63 135 158
10th Percentile - £46,750 £50,000
25th Percentile £57,500 £52,500 £56,063
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £67,500 £60,000 £70,000
Median % change year-on-year +12.50% -14.29% -
75th Percentile £75,000 £82,500 £81,250
90th Percentile £83,500 £89,500 £100,000
England median annual salary £82,500 £77,500 £77,500
% change year-on-year +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 433 801 1,176
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the Midlands 6.18% 6.74% 12.79%
Number of salaries quoted 244 630 534
10th Percentile £32,500 £27,500 £30,150
25th Percentile £40,000 £36,262 £37,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £51,000 £50,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +2.00% -9.09% -
75th Percentile £67,500 £65,000 £71,250
90th Percentile £75,000 £80,000 £81,250
England median annual salary £67,500 £62,125 £67,500
% change year-on-year +8.65% -7.96% -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 15 May 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 15 May 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 +39 90 £67,500 +3.85% 113
East Midlands +19 54 £65,000 +8.33% 39
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 52 (36.11%) Confluence
2 2 (1.39%) Jupyter
3 1 (0.69%) Apache
3 1 (0.69%) Mendix
3 1 (0.69%) Tomcat
Applications
1 2 (1.39%) Adobe XD
1 2 (1.39%) Chatbot
1 2 (1.39%) Moqups
1 2 (1.39%) Sketch
Cloud Services
1 124 (86.11%) Azure
2 117 (81.25%) AWS
3 67 (46.53%) GCP
4 16 (11.11%) Azure DevOps
5 15 (10.42%) SaaS
6 14 (9.72%) GitHub
6 14 (9.72%) GitHub Actions
7 12 (8.33%) Amazon ECS
8 10 (6.94%) IaaS
8 10 (6.94%) PaaS
9 5 (3.47%) Pulumi
10 4 (2.78%) Azure AKS
10 4 (2.78%) Cloud Computing
10 4 (2.78%) Serverless
11 3 (2.08%) Amazon EKS
11 3 (2.08%) AWS CloudFormation
11 3 (2.08%) Azure Data Factory
11 3 (2.08%) Azure Service Bus
12 2 (1.39%) AWS Lambda
12 2 (1.39%) Figma
Communications & Networking
1 4 (2.78%) Broadband
2 2 (1.39%) DNS
2 2 (1.39%) TCP/IP
3 1 (0.69%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 69 (47.92%) SQL Server
2 12 (8.33%) NoSQL
3 7 (4.86%) PostgreSQL
3 7 (4.86%) Relational Database
4 6 (4.17%) Azure SQL Database
5 5 (3.47%) MongoDB
6 4 (2.78%) Big Data
6 4 (2.78%) RDBMS
6 4 (2.78%) Redis
7 3 (2.08%) MySQL
8 2 (1.39%) Elasticsearch
9 1 (0.69%) Amazon RDS
9 1 (0.69%) Data Lake
9 1 (0.69%) DB2
9 1 (0.69%) DynamoDB
9 1 (0.69%) Hazelcast
Development Applications
1 74 (51.39%) SonarQube
2 72 (50.00%) JIRA
3 66 (45.83%) GitLab
4 63 (43.75%) Bitbucket
4 63 (43.75%) Cucumber
4 63 (43.75%) Maven
4 63 (43.75%) Selenium
4 63 (43.75%) Sonatype Nexus
5 15 (10.42%) Git
6 5 (3.47%) Jenkins
7 4 (2.78%) Cypress.io
7 4 (2.78%) Jaeger
8 3 (2.08%) webpack
9 2 (1.39%) Babel
9 2 (1.39%) Mocha
10 1 (0.69%) Atlassian Bamboo
10 1 (0.69%) Octopus Deploy
10 1 (0.69%) Subversion
10 1 (0.69%) Team Foundation Server
General
1 72 (50.00%) Inclusion and Diversity
2 71 (49.31%) Finance
3 66 (45.83%) Banking
4 17 (11.81%) Retail
5 16 (11.11%) Corporate Banking
5 16 (11.11%) Investment Banking
6 14 (9.72%) Manufacturing
6 14 (9.72%) Social Skills
7 12 (8.33%) Public Sector
8 4 (2.78%) Analytical Skills
8 4 (2.78%) Automotive
9 3 (2.08%) Games
10 1 (0.69%) Aerospace
10 1 (0.69%) Electronics
10 1 (0.69%) Financial Institution
10 1 (0.69%) iGaming
10 1 (0.69%) Law
10 1 (0.69%) Marketing
Job Titles
1 77 (53.47%) Software Engineer
2 18 (12.50%) Developer
3 14 (9.72%) Senior
4 13 (9.03%) DevOps Engineer
5 12 (8.33%) Site Engineer
5 12 (8.33%) Site Reliability Engineer
6 10 (6.94%) Lead
7 7 (4.86%) Java Engineer
7 7 (4.86%) Java Software Engineer
8 5 (3.47%) Architect
8 5 (3.47%) Senior Developer
9 4 (2.78%) Backend Developer
9 4 (2.78%) Senior Backend Developer
9 4 (2.78%) Software Developer
9 4 (2.78%) Team Leader
10 3 (2.08%) Front-End Developer (Client-Side Developer)
10 3 (2.08%) Full-Stack Developer
10 3 (2.08%) Lead Developer
10 3 (2.08%) Platform Engineer
10 3 (2.08%) Solutions Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 77 (53.47%) React
2 74 (51.39%) Spring
3 68 (47.22%) CSS
3 68 (47.22%) HTML
4 67 (46.53%) Kafka
5 66 (45.83%) Spring Boot
6 65 (45.14%) Redux
7 64 (44.44%) JPA
8 48 (33.33%) Hibernate
9 27 (18.75%) RESTful
10 22 (15.28%) .NET
10 22 (15.28%) Jest
11 21 (14.58%) REST
12 17 (11.81%) CSS3
12 17 (11.81%) HTML5
13 16 (11.11%) Sass
14 12 (8.33%) Loki
15 8 (5.56%) ARM Templates
15 8 (5.56%) Node.js
16 7 (4.86%) Azure Blueprints
Miscellaneous
1 63 (43.75%) Enterprise Software
1 63 (43.75%) Product Ownership
2 11 (7.64%) Onboarding
3 9 (6.25%) Cloud Native
4 7 (4.86%) Management Information System
5 5 (3.47%) Algorithms
6 4 (2.78%) Cyberattack
6 4 (2.78%) Distributed Systems
7 3 (2.08%) Data Structures
7 3 (2.08%) Self-Motivation
8 2 (1.39%) CUDA
8 2 (1.39%) IoT
8 2 (1.39%) Legacy Code
8 2 (1.39%) Low-Code
8 2 (1.39%) Public Cloud
8 2 (1.39%) Reference Data
8 2 (1.39%) Replication
8 2 (1.39%) SIMD
8 2 (1.39%) Virtual Team
9 1 (0.69%) Linux Command Line
Operating Systems
1 10 (6.94%) Linux
2 4 (2.78%) Unix
3 2 (1.39%) Android
4 1 (0.69%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 1 (0.69%) Ubuntu
4 1 (0.69%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 118 (81.94%) DevOps
2 107 (74.31%) Containerisation
3 94 (65.28%) Software Engineering
4 93 (64.58%) CI/CD
5 85 (59.03%) Microservices
6 84 (58.33%) Agile
7 73 (50.69%) Front End Development
8 72 (50.00%) Test Automation
9 70 (48.61%) Full-Stack Development
10 69 (47.92%) Performance Optimisation
11 66 (45.83%) SDLC
12 59 (40.97%) TDD
13 50 (34.72%) Continuous Improvement
14 49 (34.03%) Clean Code
15 38 (26.39%) Mentoring
16 23 (15.97%) User Experience
17 17 (11.81%) Responsive Web Design
18 16 (11.11%) Continuous Delivery
18 16 (11.11%) Migration
18 16 (11.11%) Strategic Thinking
Programming Languages
1 86 (59.72%) Java
1 86 (59.72%) JavaScript
2 81 (56.25%) SQL
3 37 (25.69%) TypeScript
4 23 (15.97%) C#
5 22 (15.28%) Python
6 6 (4.17%) Go
7 5 (3.47%) Bash
8 4 (2.78%) C++
9 2 (1.39%) Rust
10 1 (0.69%) PHP
10 1 (0.69%) PL/SQL
10 1 (0.69%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 21 (14.58%) Security Cleared
2 16 (11.11%) Degree
3 15 (10.42%) Computer Science Degree
4 11 (7.64%) BPSS Clearance
5 6 (4.17%) AWS Certification
6 5 (3.47%) DV Cleared
7 4 (2.78%) SC Cleared
8 3 (2.08%) Azure Certification
9 1 (0.69%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 65 (45.14%) QA
2 16 (11.11%) Accessibility
3 8 (5.56%) NCSC
4 2 (1.39%) SLA
5 1 (0.69%) Cyber Essentials
5 1 (0.69%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 1 (0.69%) NIST
System Software
1 118 (81.94%) Docker
2 1 (0.69%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 36 (25.00%) Terraform
2 21 (14.58%) Prometheus
3 17 (11.81%) Grafana
4 16 (11.11%) Ansible
5 5 (3.47%) Argo
6 4 (2.78%) Kustomize
7 1 (0.69%) Consul
7 1 (0.69%) Marathon
7 1 (0.69%) Packer
7 1 (0.69%) Progress Chef
7 1 (0.69%) Puppet
7 1 (0.69%) Rancher
Vendors
1 63 (43.75%) Solace
2 13 (9.03%) Microsoft
3 7 (4.86%) Google
4 3 (2.08%) Databricks
5 2 (1.39%) Adobe
6 1 (0.69%) IBM
6 1 (0.69%) Oracle
6 1 (0.69%) VMware