Kubernetes Job Trends in Nottingham

Kubernetes (k8s)
Nottinghamshire > Nottingham

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in Nottingham requiring Kubernetes skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 29 September 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
29 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 65 53 44
Rank change year-on-year -12 -9 -11
Permanent jobs citing Kubernetes 12 1 24
As % of all permanent jobs in Nottingham 0.82% 0.22% 2.99%
As % of the Systems Management category 50.00% 16.67% 52.17%
Number of salaries quoted 11 1 14
10th Percentile £51,250 - £34,500
25th Percentile £57,500 £51,250 £36,875
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £52,500 £51,250
Median % change year-on-year +14.29% +2.44% -26.79%
75th Percentile £68,750 £53,750 £62,500
90th Percentile £85,000 - £85,000
Nottinghamshire median annual salary £60,000 £52,500 £51,250
% change year-on-year +14.29% +2.44% -19.61%

All Systems Management Skills
Nottingham

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 Nottingham.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for systems management skills 24 6 46
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Nottingham 1.63% 1.30% 5.72%
Number of salaries quoted 22 5 28
10th Percentile £38,494 £27,300 £33,750
25th Percentile £41,250 £30,750 £38,438
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £56,250 £33,500 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year +67.91% -33.00% -16.67%
75th Percentile £66,250 £36,250 £62,500
90th Percentile £84,000 £46,750 £71,000
Nottinghamshire median annual salary £50,000 £35,000 £50,000
% change year-on-year +42.86% -30.00% -16.67%

Kubernetes
Job Vacancy Trend in Nottingham

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

Kubernetes job vacancy trend in Nottingham

Kubernetes
Salary Trend in Nottingham

Salary distribution trend for jobs in Nottingham citing Kubernetes.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in Nottingham citing Kubernetes

Kubernetes
Salary Histogram in Nottingham

Salary distribution for jobs citing Kubernetes in Nottingham over the 6 months to 29 September 2026.

Salary histogram for Kubernetes in Nottingham

Kubernetes
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Nottingham 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 8 (66.67%) Azure
2 6 (50.00%) Azure AKS
2 6 (50.00%) IaaS
3 5 (41.67%) Azure ExpressRoute
3 5 (41.67%) Azure Key Vault
3 5 (41.67%) Azure Storage
4 2 (16.67%) Azure DevOps
4 2 (16.67%) GitHub
4 2 (16.67%) GitHub Actions
5 1 (8.33%) AWS
5 1 (8.33%) Azure Monitor
5 1 (8.33%) Entra ID
5 1 (8.33%) PaaS
5 1 (8.33%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 5 (41.67%) DNS
2 1 (8.33%) Firewall
2 1 (8.33%) VLAN
2 1 (8.33%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (8.33%) PostgreSQL
Development Applications
1 2 (16.67%) Jenkins
2 1 (8.33%) Git
General
1 5 (41.67%) Law
2 3 (25.00%) Social Skills
3 1 (8.33%) Inclusion and Diversity
3 1 (8.33%) Manufacturing
Job Titles
1 5 (41.67%) 3rd Line Engineer
1 5 (41.67%) Azure Engineer
1 5 (41.67%) Cloud Engineer
2 4 (33.33%) Architect
3 2 (16.67%) .NET Architect
3 2 (16.67%) Automation Architect
3 2 (16.67%) Software Architect
4 1 (8.33%) Developer
4 1 (8.33%) Infrastructure Architect
4 1 (8.33%) Infrastructure Engineer
4 1 (8.33%) IT Engineer
4 1 (8.33%) Lead
4 1 (8.33%) Lead Architect
4 1 (8.33%) Platform Architect
4 1 (8.33%) Platform Engineer
4 1 (8.33%) Python Engineer
4 1 (8.33%) Python Software Engineer
4 1 (8.33%) Software Engineer
4 1 (8.33%) VMware Architect
4 1 (8.33%) VMware Specialist
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (33.33%) Terraform
2 2 (16.67%) .NET
2 2 (16.67%) Blazor
2 2 (16.67%) Django
3 1 (8.33%) Middleware
3 1 (8.33%) RabbitMQ
Miscellaneous
1 2 (16.67%) Distributed Systems
1 2 (16.67%) Robotics
2 1 (8.33%) Cloud Native
2 1 (8.33%) Cyber Threat
2 1 (8.33%) Enterprise Storage
2 1 (8.33%) Onboarding
2 1 (8.33%) SCADA
2 1 (8.33%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 6 (50.00%) Linux
2 2 (16.67%) Windows
3 1 (8.33%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 9 (75.00%) Containerisation
2 6 (50.00%) Agile
2 6 (50.00%) High Availability
2 6 (50.00%) Root Cause Analysis
3 5 (41.67%) Load Balancing
4 4 (33.33%) CI/CD
4 4 (33.33%) Mentoring
4 4 (33.33%) Observability
5 3 (25.00%) DevOps
5 3 (25.00%) ERP
5 3 (25.00%) Logistics
5 3 (25.00%) Performance Tuning
5 3 (25.00%) Problem-Solving
5 3 (25.00%) Project Planning
5 3 (25.00%) Software Engineering
5 3 (25.00%) Validation
6 2 (16.67%) Continuous Improvement
6 2 (16.67%) Event-Driven Architecture
6 2 (16.67%) Problem Management
6 2 (16.67%) Vulnerability Management
Programming Languages
1 7 (58.33%) PowerShell
2 5 (41.67%) Python
3 3 (25.00%) Bash
4 2 (16.67%) C#
5 1 (8.33%) Bicep
Qualifications
1 6 (50.00%) Azure Certification
2 3 (25.00%) SC Cleared
2 3 (25.00%) Security Cleared
3 2 (16.67%) Degree
4 1 (8.33%) BPSS Clearance
4 1 (8.33%) CISSP
4 1 (8.33%) CompTIA Security+
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (8.33%) Cyber Essentials
1 1 (8.33%) ISO/IEC 27001
System Software
1 6 (50.00%) Docker
2 1 (8.33%) Active Directory
2 1 (8.33%) Hyper-V
2 1 (8.33%) VMware Infrastructure
2 1 (8.33%) VMware NSX
2 1 (8.33%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 5 (41.67%) Ansible
2 1 (8.33%) Argo
2 1 (8.33%) Grafana
2 1 (8.33%) Prometheus
2 1 (8.33%) Salt
Vendors
1 2 (16.67%) VMware