Kubernetes Job Trends in Northamptonshire

Kubernetes (k8s)
East Midlands > Northamptonshire

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in Northamptonshire requiring Kubernetes skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 13 May 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
13 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 53 40 69
Rank change year-on-year -13 +29 -32
Permanent jobs citing Kubernetes 5 25 1
As % of all permanent jobs in Northamptonshire 0.63% 4.60% 0.14%
As % of the Systems Management category 25.00% 56.82% 4.00%
Number of salaries quoted 2 0 1
10th Percentile £69,250 - -
25th Percentile £71,875 - £68,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £80,000 - £72,500
Median % change year-on-year - - -6.45%
75th Percentile £89,375 - £76,250
90th Percentile £92,750 - -
East Midlands median annual salary £67,000 £65,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year +3.08% +8.33% -14.29%

All Systems Management Skills
Northamptonshire

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 Northamptonshire.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for systems management skills 20 44 25
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Northamptonshire 2.53% 8.09% 3.51%
Number of salaries quoted 10 15 22
10th Percentile £27,750 - £24,425
25th Percentile £37,188 - £28,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £53,750 £40,000 £40,000
Median % change year-on-year +34.38% - -15.79%
75th Percentile £71,250 £61,250 £46,563
90th Percentile £97,500 £67,500 £63,400
East Midlands median annual salary £51,058 £42,500 £47,500
% change year-on-year +20.14% -10.53% -

Kubernetes
Job Vacancy Trend in Northamptonshire

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

Kubernetes job vacancy trend in Northamptonshire

Kubernetes
Salary Trend in Northamptonshire

Salary distribution trend for jobs in Northamptonshire citing Kubernetes.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in Northamptonshire citing Kubernetes

Kubernetes
Salary Histogram in Northamptonshire

Salary distribution for jobs citing Kubernetes in Northamptonshire over the 6 months to 13 May 2026.

Salary histogram for Kubernetes in Northamptonshire

Kubernetes
Job Locations in Northamptonshire

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Kubernetes within the Northamptonshire region over the 6 months to 13 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
Northampton -20 2 £70,000 - 1
Brackley +3 1 - -
Wellingborough -2 1 - - 1
Kubernetes
East Midlands

Kubernetes
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Northamptonshire 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:

Cloud Services
1 5 (100.00%) Azure
2 4 (80.00%) AWS
3 2 (40.00%) GCP
4 1 (20.00%) Azure DevOps
4 1 (20.00%) Azure Key Vault
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (20.00%) PostgreSQL
1 1 (20.00%) SQL Server
Job Titles
1 2 (40.00%) Architect
1 2 (40.00%) Technical Architect
2 1 (20.00%) Cloud Engineer
2 1 (20.00%) Cloud Platform Engineer
2 1 (20.00%) Developer
2 1 (20.00%) Engineering Manager
2 1 (20.00%) Platform Engineer
2 1 (20.00%) Python Developer
2 1 (20.00%) Rust Developer
2 1 (20.00%) Software Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (20.00%) Kafka
1 1 (20.00%) RabbitMQ
Miscellaneous
1 1 (20.00%) Cloud Native
Processes & Methodologies
1 5 (100.00%) DevOps
2 4 (80.00%) Agile
2 4 (80.00%) CI/CD
2 4 (80.00%) Containerisation
3 3 (60.00%) Microservices
4 2 (40.00%) Data Modelling
4 2 (40.00%) Design Patterns
4 2 (40.00%) Event-Driven
4 2 (40.00%) Problem-Solving
4 2 (40.00%) Roadmaps
4 2 (40.00%) Software Engineering
4 2 (40.00%) Technical Debt
4 2 (40.00%) Technical Leadership
4 2 (40.00%) Technology Roadmap
4 2 (40.00%) Test Automation
5 1 (20.00%) API Management
5 1 (20.00%) Cloud Operations
5 1 (20.00%) Cloud Security
5 1 (20.00%) Infrastructure as Code
5 1 (20.00%) Platform Engineering
Programming Languages
1 4 (80.00%) JavaScript
1 4 (80.00%) Python
2 3 (60.00%) C#
3 2 (40.00%) Java
3 2 (40.00%) PowerShell
3 2 (40.00%) TypeScript
4 1 (20.00%) Bash
4 1 (20.00%) Rust
System Software
1 3 (60.00%) Docker
Systems Management
1 2 (40.00%) Terraform
2 1 (20.00%) Ansible