Kubernetes Job Trends in Shropshire

Kubernetes (k8s)
West Midlands > Shropshire

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in Shropshire 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 35 22 25
Rank change year-on-year -13 +3 +6
Permanent jobs citing Kubernetes 2 1 1
As % of all permanent jobs in Shropshire 0.73% 0.79% 0.84%
As % of the Systems Management category 33.33% 16.67% 8.33%
Number of salaries quoted 0 1 1
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile - £72,500 £57,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) - £80,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year - +33.33% +4.35%
75th Percentile - £87,500 £62,500
90th Percentile - - -
West Midlands median annual salary £70,000 £65,000 £60,500
% change year-on-year +7.69% +7.44% -13.57%

All Systems Management Skills
Shropshire

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 Shropshire.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for systems management skills 6 6 12
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Shropshire 2.20% 4.76% 10.08%
Number of salaries quoted 3 3 10
10th Percentile £35,195 £38,250 £32,425
25th Percentile £39,810 £45,000 £36,460
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £57,500 £40,000
Median % change year-on-year -13.04% +43.75% +14.29%
75th Percentile £52,500 £73,125 £47,250
90th Percentile - £81,750 £64,000
West Midlands median annual salary £62,500 £55,000 £52,500
% change year-on-year +13.64% +4.76% -4.55%

Kubernetes
Job Vacancy Trend in Shropshire

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

Kubernetes job vacancy trend in Shropshire

Kubernetes
Salary Trend in Shropshire

Salary distribution trend for jobs in Shropshire citing Kubernetes.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in Shropshire citing Kubernetes

Kubernetes
Job Locations in Shropshire

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Kubernetes within the Shropshire region over the 6 months to 14 January 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
Telford 0 2 - - 11
Kubernetes
West Midlands

Kubernetes
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Shropshire 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 (50.00%) SAS
Cloud Services
1 1 (50.00%) AWS
1 1 (50.00%) Azure
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (50.00%) Amazon RDS
1 1 (50.00%) MongoDB
1 1 (50.00%) Pentaho
Development Applications
1 1 (50.00%) Gatling
1 1 (50.00%) Git
1 1 (50.00%) GitLab
1 1 (50.00%) Jenkins
1 1 (50.00%) JIRA
Job Titles
1 1 (50.00%) Data Engineer
1 1 (50.00%) Test Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (50.00%) Playwright
1 1 (50.00%) Spring
1 1 (50.00%) Spring Boot
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (100.00%) Agile
1 2 (100.00%) CI/CD
1 2 (100.00%) Test Automation
2 1 (50.00%) AI
2 1 (50.00%) Business Intelligence
2 1 (50.00%) Computer Science
2 1 (50.00%) Data Engineering
2 1 (50.00%) Data Integration
2 1 (50.00%) Data Modelling
2 1 (50.00%) Data Pipeline
2 1 (50.00%) Deployment Automation
2 1 (50.00%) DevOps
2 1 (50.00%) ETL
2 1 (50.00%) Non-Functional Testing
2 1 (50.00%) OWASP
2 1 (50.00%) Problem-Solving
2 1 (50.00%) Risk Management
2 1 (50.00%) Scrum
2 1 (50.00%) Test Management
2 1 (50.00%) Test Planning
Programming Languages
1 2 (100.00%) SQL
2 1 (50.00%) Java
Qualifications
1 1 (50.00%) Computer Science Degree
1 1 (50.00%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (50.00%) Data Quality
1 1 (50.00%) QA
System Software
1 1 (50.00%) Docker
Systems Management
1 1 (50.00%) Grafana
Vendors
1 2 (100.00%) Oracle
2 1 (50.00%) Denodo
2 1 (50.00%) Splunk
2 1 (50.00%) Talend