Kubernetes Job Trends in the South West

Kubernetes (k8s)
England > South West

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in the South West requiring Kubernetes skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 20 July 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
20 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 60 55 70
Rank change year-on-year -5 +15 -29
Permanent jobs citing Kubernetes 221 129 285
As % of all permanent jobs in the South West 2.63% 3.82% 3.07%
As % of the Systems Management category 44.56% 41.75% 36.45%
Number of salaries quoted 149 77 222
10th Percentile £38,750 £47,899 £47,500
25th Percentile £48,750 £52,500 £55,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £71,991 £75,000
Median % change year-on-year -16.66% -4.01% +8.00%
75th Percentile £80,000 £87,500 £87,500
90th Percentile £96,250 £100,048 £91,125
England median annual salary £70,079 £80,000 £77,500
% change year-on-year -12.40% +3.23% -

All Systems Management Skills
South West

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 South West.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for systems management skills 496 309 782
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the South West 5.90% 9.15% 8.42%
Number of salaries quoted 350 223 613
10th Percentile £31,250 £30,000 £31,270
25th Percentile £40,188 £35,000 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £51,058 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +7.72% -7.17% -4.76%
75th Percentile £75,000 £70,625 £76,250
90th Percentile £82,500 £87,500 £87,500
England median annual salary £65,000 £65,000 £62,500
% change year-on-year - +4.00% -7.41%

Kubernetes
Job Vacancy Trend in the South West

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

Kubernetes job vacancy trend in the South West

Kubernetes
Salary Trend in the South West

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the South West citing Kubernetes.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the South West citing Kubernetes

Kubernetes
Salary Histogram in the South West

Salary distribution for jobs citing Kubernetes in the South West over the 6 months to 20 July 2026.

Salary histogram for Kubernetes in the South West

Kubernetes
Job Locations in the South West

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Kubernetes within the South West region over the 6 months to 20 July 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
Gloucestershire -5 101 £75,000 +5.26% 34
Somerset -3 39 £42,500 - 9
Devon 0 26 £55,000 - 2
Bristol -49 23 £62,500 -13.18% 8
Wiltshire -1 22 £60,000 +17.51% 2
Dorset -17 4 £45,000 -14.29%
Kubernetes
England

Kubernetes
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the South West 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 10 (4.52%) Confluence
2 7 (3.17%) Apache Spark
3 6 (2.71%) Apache
4 3 (1.36%) OpenStack
5 1 (0.45%) Apache Airflow
Cloud Services
1 110 (49.77%) Azure
2 86 (38.91%) AWS
3 46 (20.81%) GCP
4 42 (19.00%) GitHub
5 28 (12.67%) GitHub Copilot
6 22 (9.95%) OpenShift
7 21 (9.50%) Azure AI
8 19 (8.60%) Azure AKS
9 18 (8.14%) Serverless
10 16 (7.24%) Amazon S3
11 14 (6.33%) Azure DevOps
12 13 (5.88%) AWS Lambda
12 13 (5.88%) SaaS
13 12 (5.43%) Amazon EC2
13 12 (5.43%) Amazon EKS
14 11 (4.98%) AWS CloudFormation
15 9 (4.07%) GitHub Actions
16 5 (2.26%) Azure ExpressRoute
16 5 (2.26%) Entra ID
17 4 (1.81%) Azure Machine Learning
Communications & Networking
1 8 (3.62%) Network Security
1 8 (3.62%) VPN
2 7 (3.17%) Internet
2 7 (3.17%) Software-Defined Networking
3 6 (2.71%) Firewall
4 5 (2.26%) WAN
5 4 (1.81%) IPv4
6 3 (1.36%) BGP
6 3 (1.36%) Ethernet VPN
6 3 (1.36%) SD-WAN
6 3 (1.36%) SNMP
6 3 (1.36%) VLAN
7 2 (0.90%) AMQP
7 2 (0.90%) LAN
7 2 (0.90%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 34 (15.38%) MongoDB
2 28 (12.67%) Azure SQL Database
3 19 (8.60%) Elasticsearch
4 14 (6.33%) PostgreSQL
5 9 (4.07%) SQL Server
6 8 (3.62%) InfluxDB
7 7 (3.17%) Amazon RDS
7 7 (3.17%) NoSQL
8 6 (2.71%) MySQL
9 5 (2.26%) Geospatial Data
9 5 (2.26%) Relational Database
10 4 (1.81%) Big Data
11 3 (1.36%) Hadoop
12 2 (0.90%) Cloudera CDH
12 2 (0.90%) DynamoDB
12 2 (0.90%) Flink
12 2 (0.90%) Neo4j
13 1 (0.45%) Amazon Athena
13 1 (0.45%) Data Lake
13 1 (0.45%) MariaDB
Development Applications
1 51 (23.08%) Git
2 39 (17.65%) GitLab
3 26 (11.76%) Jenkins
4 14 (6.33%) Subversion
5 10 (4.52%) JIRA
6 8 (3.62%) Bitbucket
6 8 (3.62%) Eclipse
7 7 (3.17%) Cypress.io
7 7 (3.17%) Robot Framework
7 7 (3.17%) TestRail
8 6 (2.71%) Selenium
9 5 (2.26%) MSI
10 3 (1.36%) CircleCI
10 3 (1.36%) JUnit
11 1 (0.45%) Cucumber
11 1 (0.45%) Maven
11 1 (0.45%) Mockito
General
1 42 (19.00%) Social Skills
2 37 (16.74%) Finance
3 19 (8.60%) Public Sector
4 18 (8.14%) Aerospace
5 11 (4.98%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 10 (4.52%) Advertising
6 10 (4.52%) Marketing
7 9 (4.07%) Analytical Skills
8 8 (3.62%) Retail
9 7 (3.17%) Games
10 3 (1.36%) Automotive
10 3 (1.36%) Electronics
10 3 (1.36%) Manufacturing
11 1 (0.45%) Tech for Good
Job Titles
1 64 (28.96%) Developer
2 40 (18.10%) .NET Developer
3 38 (17.19%) Software Engineer
4 29 (13.12%) DevOps Engineer
4 29 (13.12%) Infrastructure Engineer
5 28 (12.67%) Senior
6 16 (7.24%) Lead
7 14 (6.33%) Java Developer
8 13 (5.88%) Senior Software Engineer
9 11 (4.98%) Full-Stack Engineer
10 10 (4.52%) DevSecOps Engineer
10 10 (4.52%) Full-Stack Software Engineer
11 9 (4.07%) Architect
11 9 (4.07%) Cloud Engineer
11 9 (4.07%) Junior
11 9 (4.07%) Platform Engineer
11 9 (4.07%) Python Engineer
11 9 (4.07%) Test Engineer
12 8 (3.62%) Mid-Level .NET Developer
12 8 (3.62%) Software Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 60 (27.15%) .NET
2 56 (25.34%) .NET Core
3 36 (16.29%) RESTful
4 28 (12.67%) ASP.NET
4 28 (12.67%) ASP.NET Core
4 28 (12.67%) CSS
4 28 (12.67%) Spring
5 27 (12.22%) Spring Boot
6 26 (11.76%) HTML
7 22 (9.95%) React
7 22 (9.95%) REST
8 21 (9.50%) ML.NET
9 20 (9.05%) AngularJS
10 19 (8.60%) Node.js
11 15 (6.79%) Elastic Stack
12 14 (6.33%) Vue
13 13 (5.88%) .NET Framework
14 10 (4.52%) Blazor
14 10 (4.52%) Django
14 10 (4.52%) FastAPI
Miscellaneous
1 46 (20.81%) Cloud Native
2 15 (6.79%) Hybrid Cloud
3 11 (4.98%) Distributed Systems
4 10 (4.52%) Product Ownership
5 7 (3.17%) Onboarding
6 5 (2.26%) Digital TV
7 4 (1.81%) CUDA
7 4 (1.81%) Data Centre
8 3 (1.36%) Data Structures
8 3 (1.36%) IoT
8 3 (1.36%) Legacy Systems
8 3 (1.36%) PKI
8 3 (1.36%) Renewable Energy
9 2 (0.90%) Algorithms
9 2 (0.90%) Insider Threat
9 2 (0.90%) Public Cloud
9 2 (0.90%) Self-Motivation
10 1 (0.45%) Private Cloud
Operating Systems
1 63 (28.51%) Linux
2 29 (13.12%) Windows
3 11 (4.98%) Windows Server
4 10 (4.52%) CentOS
4 10 (4.52%) Unix
5 3 (1.36%) Ubuntu
6 2 (0.90%) Debian
6 2 (0.90%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
7 1 (0.45%) Rocky
Processes & Methodologies
1 143 (64.71%) CI/CD
2 116 (52.49%) Containerisation
3 92 (41.63%) Infrastructure as Code
4 86 (38.91%) DevOps
5 78 (35.29%) Agile
6 66 (29.86%) Software Engineering
7 65 (29.41%) Full-Stack Development
8 48 (21.72%) Infrastructure Engineering
9 47 (21.27%) AI
10 41 (18.55%) Continuous Improvement
11 38 (17.19%) Microservices
12 36 (16.29%) Problem-Solving
13 35 (15.84%) Test Automation
14 30 (13.57%) Machine Learning
15 28 (12.67%) DevSecOps
16 27 (12.22%) Analytics
16 27 (12.22%) Computer Science
17 21 (9.50%) Collaborative Culture
18 20 (9.05%) Platform Engineering
18 20 (9.05%) Site Reliability Engineering
Programming Languages
1 99 (44.80%) Python
2 66 (29.86%) Java
3 59 (26.70%) C#
4 46 (20.81%) SQL
5 44 (19.91%) JavaScript
6 31 (14.03%) Bash
7 17 (7.69%) TypeScript
8 15 (6.79%) PowerShell
9 13 (5.88%) C++
10 12 (5.43%) Bicep
11 11 (4.98%) Go
12 6 (2.71%) Perl
13 5 (2.26%) Scala
14 4 (1.81%) C
15 3 (1.36%) PHP
16 2 (0.90%) Rust
16 2 (0.90%) Shell Script
17 1 (0.45%) Ruby
Qualifications
1 102 (46.15%) Security Cleared
2 56 (25.34%) DV Cleared
3 35 (15.84%) SC Cleared
4 27 (12.22%) Degree
5 25 (11.31%) Computer Science Degree
6 7 (3.17%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
7 6 (2.71%) RHCSA
8 5 (2.26%) RHCE
9 4 (1.81%) AWS Certification
9 4 (1.81%) CCNA
9 4 (1.81%) Cisco Certification
9 4 (1.81%) ISTQB
9 4 (1.81%) Microsoft Certification
9 4 (1.81%) OSCP
10 3 (1.36%) Azure Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 13 (5.88%) QA
2 11 (4.98%) Accessibility
3 8 (3.62%) WCAG
4 5 (2.26%) NCSC
5 3 (1.36%) ISO 9001
5 3 (1.36%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 1 (0.45%) Data Quality
System Software
1 153 (69.23%) Docker
2 23 (10.41%) VMware Infrastructure
3 9 (4.07%) Active Directory
4 7 (3.17%) Hyper-V
5 6 (2.71%) Virtual Machines
6 5 (2.26%) VMware NSX
7 4 (1.81%) Firmware
7 4 (1.81%) Squid
7 4 (1.81%) vSphere
8 1 (0.45%) Citrix Hypervisor
8 1 (0.45%) KVM
8 1 (0.45%) QEMU
8 1 (0.45%) Slurm Workload Manager
8 1 (0.45%) Xen
Systems Management
1 86 (38.91%) Terraform
2 55 (24.89%) Ansible
3 20 (9.05%) Grafana
4 14 (6.33%) Puppet
5 10 (4.52%) Prometheus
6 8 (3.62%) Argo
6 8 (3.62%) Rancher
7 7 (3.17%) Kibana
7 7 (3.17%) VxRail
8 6 (2.71%) logstash
8 6 (2.71%) vCenter Server
8 6 (2.71%) yum
9 4 (1.81%) Packer
9 4 (1.81%) ZABBIX
10 3 (1.36%) Check_MK
10 3 (1.36%) Nagios
11 2 (0.90%) Istio
11 2 (0.90%) linkerd
11 2 (0.90%) Mesos
11 2 (0.90%) Microsoft Intune
Vendors
1 50 (22.62%) Microsoft
2 27 (12.22%) VMware
3 17 (7.69%) Red Hat
4 11 (4.98%) Splunk
5 10 (4.52%) Facebook
5 10 (4.52%) Google
6 8 (3.62%) Atlassian
7 7 (3.17%) Oracle
8 6 (2.71%) BeyondTrust
9 4 (1.81%) Databricks
10 3 (1.36%) Dell
10 3 (1.36%) OneLogin
10 3 (1.36%) OpenAI
11 2 (0.90%) Apple
11 2 (0.90%) Cisco
11 2 (0.90%) SaltStack
11 2 (0.90%) Thales
12 1 (0.45%) Fortinet
12 1 (0.45%) Juniper