Kubernetes Job Trends in Milton Keynes

Kubernetes (k8s)
Buckinghamshire > Milton Keynes

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in Milton Keynes requiring Kubernetes skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 14 January 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
14 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 53 29 57
Rank change year-on-year -24 +28 -7
Permanent jobs citing Kubernetes 7 19 5
As % of all permanent jobs in Milton Keynes 1.12% 5.48% 0.75%
As % of the Systems Management category 24.14% 47.50% 9.80%
Number of salaries quoted 4 10 5
10th Percentile £58,625 £47,250 £46,750
25th Percentile £65,938 £53,438 £47,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £72,500 £72,750 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year -0.34% +11.92% -8.77%
75th Percentile £77,500 £117,500 -
90th Percentile - £126,000 -
Buckinghamshire median annual salary £75,000 £65,000 £57,500
% change year-on-year +15.38% +13.04% -19.30%

All Systems Management Skills
Milton Keynes

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 Milton Keynes.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for systems management skills 29 40 51
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Milton Keynes 4.65% 11.53% 7.66%
Number of salaries quoted 24 30 47
10th Percentile £30,750 £34,950 £30,500
25th Percentile £45,000 £40,313 £33,375
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £67,500 £50,000 £47,500
Median % change year-on-year +35.00% +5.26% -13.64%
75th Percentile £80,000 £71,250 £61,250
90th Percentile - £95,400 £73,300
Buckinghamshire median annual salary £70,000 £50,000 £47,125
% change year-on-year +40.00% +6.10% -14.32%

Kubernetes
Job Vacancy Trend in Milton Keynes

Historical trend showing the proportion of permanent IT job postings citing Kubernetes relative to all permanent IT jobs advertised in Milton Keynes.

Kubernetes job vacancy trend in Milton Keynes

Kubernetes
Salary Trend in Milton Keynes

Salary distribution trend for jobs in Milton Keynes citing Kubernetes.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in Milton Keynes citing Kubernetes

Kubernetes
Salary Histogram in Milton Keynes

Salary distribution for jobs citing Kubernetes in Milton Keynes over the 6 months to 14 January 2026.

Salary histogram for Kubernetes in Milton Keynes

Kubernetes
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Milton Keynes 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 1 (14.29%) Anypoint
1 1 (14.29%) Camunda
Business Applications
1 1 (14.29%) Shopify
Cloud Services
1 6 (85.71%) AWS
1 6 (85.71%) Azure
2 2 (28.57%) Azure DevOps
2 2 (28.57%) GCP
3 1 (14.29%) Azure Key Vault
3 1 (14.29%) Boomi
3 1 (14.29%) Cloud Computing
3 1 (14.29%) Entra ID
3 1 (14.29%) GitHub
3 1 (14.29%) GitHub Actions
3 1 (14.29%) iPaaS
3 1 (14.29%) Microsoft 365
3 1 (14.29%) OpenShift
3 1 (14.29%) Power Automate
3 1 (14.29%) Workato
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (28.57%) Relational Database
2 1 (14.29%) MySQL
2 1 (14.29%) PostgreSQL
Development Applications
1 5 (71.43%) Git
2 4 (57.14%) Jenkins
3 2 (28.57%) GitLab
3 2 (28.57%) SonarQube
4 1 (14.29%) Ant
4 1 (14.29%) Cucumber
4 1 (14.29%) Cypress.io
4 1 (14.29%) Gradle
4 1 (14.29%) JUnit
4 1 (14.29%) Maven
4 1 (14.29%) Mockito
General
1 5 (71.43%) Social Skills
2 2 (28.57%) Law
3 1 (14.29%) Inclusion and Diversity
3 1 (14.29%) Legal
3 1 (14.29%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 3 (42.86%) Automation Engineer
2 2 (28.57%) Platform Engineer
3 1 (14.29%) Architect
3 1 (14.29%) Developer
3 1 (14.29%) Integration Engineer
3 1 (14.29%) Lead
3 1 (14.29%) Platform Integration Engineer
3 1 (14.29%) Technical Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (28.57%) Spring
2 1 (14.29%) .NET
2 1 (14.29%) .NET Core
2 1 (14.29%) ASP.NET
2 1 (14.29%) ASP.NET Core
2 1 (14.29%) Bootstrap
2 1 (14.29%) CSS
2 1 (14.29%) Entity Framework
2 1 (14.29%) Hibernate
2 1 (14.29%) HTML
2 1 (14.29%) JSON
2 1 (14.29%) Nightwatchjs
2 1 (14.29%) React
2 1 (14.29%) RESTful
2 1 (14.29%) SOAP
2 1 (14.29%) Spring Boot
2 1 (14.29%) Spring MVC
2 1 (14.29%) Vue
2 1 (14.29%) Web Services
2 1 (14.29%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 1 (14.29%) Linux Command Line
1 1 (14.29%) Low-Code
1 1 (14.29%) Onboarding
Operating Systems
1 4 (57.14%) Linux
2 2 (28.57%) Unix
2 2 (28.57%) Windows
3 1 (14.29%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 6 (85.71%) Containerisation
2 4 (57.14%) Agile
3 3 (42.86%) CI/CD
3 3 (42.86%) Configuration Management
3 3 (42.86%) DevOps
3 3 (42.86%) Infrastructure as Code
3 3 (42.86%) Infrastructure Automation
4 2 (28.57%) Cloud Security
4 2 (28.57%) Continuous Improvement
4 2 (28.57%) Problem-Solving
4 2 (28.57%) Runbook
4 2 (28.57%) Scrum
4 2 (28.57%) Task Automation
4 2 (28.57%) Validation
5 1 (14.29%) Enterprise Architecture
5 1 (14.29%) Incident Management
5 1 (14.29%) Migration
5 1 (14.29%) Stakeholder Management
5 1 (14.29%) TDD
5 1 (14.29%) Test Automation
Programming Languages
1 4 (57.14%) Python
2 2 (28.57%) Bash
2 2 (28.57%) C#
2 2 (28.57%) SQL
3 1 (14.29%) Go
3 1 (14.29%) Java
3 1 (14.29%) JavaScript
3 1 (14.29%) PowerShell
3 1 (14.29%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 2 (28.57%) Degree
1 2 (28.57%) SC Cleared
1 2 (28.57%) Security Cleared
2 1 (14.29%) Computer Science Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (14.29%) GDPR
1 1 (14.29%) NCSC
System Software
1 7 (100.00%) Docker
2 2 (28.57%) vCloud
3 1 (14.29%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 3 (42.86%) Ansible
2 2 (28.57%) Docker Swarm
2 2 (28.57%) Rundeck
2 2 (28.57%) Terraform
3 1 (14.29%) Grafana
3 1 (14.29%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 2 (28.57%) Red Hat
1 2 (28.57%) VMware
2 1 (14.29%) Dell
2 1 (14.29%) Epicor
2 1 (14.29%) Google
2 1 (14.29%) IBM
2 1 (14.29%) IFS
2 1 (14.29%) Infor
2 1 (14.29%) Informatica
2 1 (14.29%) Jitterbit
2 1 (14.29%) Microsoft
2 1 (14.29%) MuleSoft
2 1 (14.29%) Oracle
2 1 (14.29%) SAP
2 1 (14.29%) SnapLogic
2 1 (14.29%) Software AG
2 1 (14.29%) Talend
2 1 (14.29%) TIBCO
2 1 (14.29%) Workday