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 19 June 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
19 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 68 57 74
Rank change year-on-year -11 +17 -34
Permanent jobs citing Kubernetes 180 120 328
As % of all permanent jobs in the South West 2.30% 4.21% 3.15%
As % of the Systems Management category 42.06% 43.96% 36.94%
Number of salaries quoted 115 69 259
10th Percentile £38,750 £48,165 £45,000
25th Percentile £45,000 £52,500 £52,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,500 £71,991 £72,500
Median % change year-on-year -20.13% -0.70% +7.41%
75th Percentile £73,250 £90,000 £87,500
90th Percentile £80,750 £102,410 £91,934
England median annual salary £72,500 £80,000 £77,500
% change year-on-year -9.38% +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 428 273 888
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the South West 5.48% 9.58% 8.52%
Number of salaries quoted 303 190 706
10th Percentile £31,500 £30,000 £31,250
25th Percentile £39,500 £37,500 £41,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £55,000 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year - +4.76% -8.94%
75th Percentile £73,500 £73,750 £73,438
90th Percentile £81,250 £95,250 £87,500
England median annual salary £65,000 £67,500 £62,500
% change year-on-year -3.70% +8.00% -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 19 June 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 19 June 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 -7 69 £64,000 -1.54% 56
Somerset -4 27 £42,500 - 6
Devon -9 26 £55,000 - 3
Bristol -49 22 £62,500 -16.67% 7
Wiltshire -3 18 £60,000 +17.51% 9
Dorset -14 7 £45,000 - 3
Cornwall - 3 - -
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 (5.56%) Confluence
2 7 (3.89%) Apache Spark
3 5 (2.78%) Apache
4 3 (1.67%) OpenStack
5 1 (0.56%) Apache Airflow
Cloud Services
1 83 (46.11%) Azure
2 72 (40.00%) AWS
3 42 (23.33%) GCP
4 33 (18.33%) GitHub
5 18 (10.00%) Serverless
6 17 (9.44%) Amazon S3
7 16 (8.89%) Azure AKS
7 16 (8.89%) GitHub Copilot
7 16 (8.89%) OpenShift
8 15 (8.33%) AWS Lambda
8 15 (8.33%) SaaS
9 12 (6.67%) Amazon EC2
9 12 (6.67%) Amazon EKS
9 12 (6.67%) Azure AI
10 10 (5.56%) GitHub Actions
11 9 (5.00%) Azure DevOps
12 6 (3.33%) AWS CloudFormation
13 4 (2.22%) AWS CloudTrail
13 4 (2.22%) AWS Fargate
13 4 (2.22%) Datadog
Communications & Networking
1 6 (3.33%) Software-Defined Networking
2 4 (2.22%) Broadband
2 4 (2.22%) Firewall
2 4 (2.22%) Internet
2 4 (2.22%) IPv4
2 4 (2.22%) WAN
3 3 (1.67%) AMQP
3 3 (1.67%) Network Security
3 3 (1.67%) VPN
4 2 (1.11%) BGP
4 2 (1.11%) Ethernet VPN
4 2 (1.11%) LAN
4 2 (1.11%) SD-WAN
4 2 (1.11%) SNMP
4 2 (1.11%) TCP/IP
4 2 (1.11%) VLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 21 (11.67%) MongoDB
2 16 (8.89%) Azure SQL Database
3 15 (8.33%) Elasticsearch
4 13 (7.22%) PostgreSQL
5 12 (6.67%) SQL Server
6 8 (4.44%) NoSQL
7 7 (3.89%) Amazon RDS
7 7 (3.89%) InfluxDB
7 7 (3.89%) Relational Database
8 5 (2.78%) MySQL
9 4 (2.22%) Big Data
10 3 (1.67%) Cloudera CDH
10 3 (1.67%) Geospatial Data
10 3 (1.67%) Hadoop
11 2 (1.11%) CockroachDB
11 2 (1.11%) Flink
11 2 (1.11%) Neo4j
12 1 (0.56%) Apache Cassandra
12 1 (0.56%) DynamoDB
12 1 (0.56%) MariaDB
Development Applications
1 39 (21.67%) Git
2 32 (17.78%) GitLab
2 32 (17.78%) Jenkins
3 10 (5.56%) JIRA
3 10 (5.56%) Subversion
4 8 (4.44%) Cypress.io
5 7 (3.89%) Bitbucket
5 7 (3.89%) Selenium
6 6 (3.33%) Robot Framework
6 6 (3.33%) TestRail
7 5 (2.78%) Eclipse
8 4 (2.22%) CircleCI
8 4 (2.22%) JUnit
9 3 (1.67%) Maven
9 3 (1.67%) Mockito
9 3 (1.67%) MSI
9 3 (1.67%) TeamCity
10 2 (1.11%) Checkstyle
10 2 (1.11%) Gradle
10 2 (1.11%) TestNG
General
1 39 (21.67%) Social Skills
2 24 (13.33%) Finance
3 19 (10.56%) Aerospace
4 10 (5.56%) Public Sector
5 7 (3.89%) Analytical Skills
6 6 (3.33%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 6 (3.33%) Retail
7 5 (2.78%) Advertising
7 5 (2.78%) Marketing
8 4 (2.22%) Games
9 3 (1.67%) Automotive
9 3 (1.67%) Electronics
9 3 (1.67%) Manufacturing
10 1 (0.56%) Tech for Good
Job Titles
1 48 (26.67%) Developer
2 33 (18.33%) Software Engineer
3 28 (15.56%) .NET Developer
4 27 (15.00%) Senior
5 21 (11.67%) Infrastructure Engineer
6 15 (8.33%) DevOps Engineer
6 15 (8.33%) Senior Software Engineer
7 14 (7.78%) DevSecOps Engineer
8 13 (7.22%) Lead
9 11 (6.11%) .NET Software Engineer
9 11 (6.11%) Java Developer
9 11 (6.11%) Senior .NET Software Engineer
10 9 (5.00%) Python Engineer
10 9 (5.00%) Software Developer
10 9 (5.00%) Test Engineer
11 8 (4.44%) .NET Software Developer
11 8 (4.44%) Backend Developer
11 8 (4.44%) Mid-Level .NET Developer
12 7 (3.89%) Software Manager
12 7 (3.89%) Test Automation Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 54 (30.00%) .NET
2 52 (28.89%) .NET Core
3 28 (15.56%) React
3 28 (15.56%) RESTful
4 25 (13.89%) REST
5 19 (10.56%) Spring
6 17 (9.44%) AngularJS
6 17 (9.44%) Node.js
6 17 (9.44%) Spring Boot
7 16 (8.89%) ASP.NET
7 16 (8.89%) ASP.NET Core
7 16 (8.89%) CSS
8 15 (8.33%) Elastic Stack
8 15 (8.33%) HTML
9 14 (7.78%) .NET Framework
10 12 (6.67%) ML.NET
11 11 (6.11%) Dapper ORM
11 11 (6.11%) Entity Framework
12 9 (5.00%) OAuth
12 9 (5.00%) Vue
Miscellaneous
1 32 (17.78%) Cloud Native
2 11 (6.11%) Hybrid Cloud
3 9 (5.00%) Product Ownership
4 7 (3.89%) Distributed Systems
5 5 (2.78%) Onboarding
6 4 (2.22%) CUDA
6 4 (2.22%) Data Centre
6 4 (2.22%) Digital TV
7 3 (1.67%) Data Structures
7 3 (1.67%) IoT
7 3 (1.67%) Over-the-Top Content
7 3 (1.67%) PKI
7 3 (1.67%) Renewable Energy
7 3 (1.67%) Self-Motivation
7 3 (1.67%) Video\Live Streaming
8 2 (1.11%) Algorithms
8 2 (1.11%) Insider Threat
8 2 (1.11%) Legacy Systems
8 2 (1.11%) Private Cloud
8 2 (1.11%) Public Cloud
Operating Systems
1 49 (27.22%) Linux
2 25 (13.89%) Windows
3 10 (5.56%) CentOS
3 10 (5.56%) Windows Server
4 8 (4.44%) Unix
5 4 (2.22%) Ubuntu
6 3 (1.67%) Debian
6 3 (1.67%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 113 (62.78%) CI/CD
2 104 (57.78%) Containerisation
3 72 (40.00%) DevOps
4 69 (38.33%) Agile
5 65 (36.11%) Software Engineering
6 62 (34.44%) Infrastructure as Code
7 45 (25.00%) Continuous Improvement
8 40 (22.22%) Full-Stack Development
9 37 (20.56%) Infrastructure Engineering
10 35 (19.44%) AI
11 30 (16.67%) Test Automation
12 28 (15.56%) Analytics
12 28 (15.56%) Microservices
12 28 (15.56%) Problem-Solving
13 25 (13.89%) Collaborative Culture
14 24 (13.33%) Computer Science
14 24 (13.33%) DevSecOps
14 24 (13.33%) SDLC
15 20 (11.11%) Mentoring
16 19 (10.56%) Performance Optimisation
Programming Languages
1 82 (45.56%) Python
2 53 (29.44%) Java
3 49 (27.22%) C#
4 43 (23.89%) SQL
5 34 (18.89%) JavaScript
6 31 (17.22%) Bash
7 17 (9.44%) TypeScript
8 15 (8.33%) PowerShell
9 11 (6.11%) C++
10 9 (5.00%) Go
11 7 (3.89%) Scala
12 6 (3.33%) Bicep
13 5 (2.78%) C
14 4 (2.22%) Perl
15 3 (1.67%) Elixir
15 3 (1.67%) Erlang
15 3 (1.67%) PHP
16 2 (1.11%) Kotlin
16 2 (1.11%) Rust
16 2 (1.11%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 64 (35.56%) Security Cleared
2 32 (17.78%) DV Cleared
3 24 (13.33%) Degree
4 22 (12.22%) Computer Science Degree
5 20 (11.11%) SC Cleared
6 6 (3.33%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
6 6 (3.33%) ISTQB
7 5 (2.78%) AWS Certification
7 5 (2.78%) RHCE
7 5 (2.78%) RHCSA
8 4 (2.22%) CCNA
8 4 (2.22%) Cisco Certification
8 4 (2.22%) Microsoft Certification
8 4 (2.22%) OSCP
9 2 (1.11%) ISTQB Advanced Certification
9 2 (1.11%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
10 1 (0.56%) Azure Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 19 (10.56%) QA
2 8 (4.44%) Accessibility
3 4 (2.22%) WCAG
4 3 (1.67%) ISO 9001
4 3 (1.67%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 3 (1.67%) NCSC
System Software
1 129 (71.67%) Docker
2 16 (8.89%) VMware Infrastructure
3 7 (3.89%) Hyper-V
4 5 (2.78%) Active Directory
4 5 (2.78%) Virtual Machines
5 4 (2.22%) Firmware
5 4 (2.22%) Squid
5 4 (2.22%) VMware NSX
5 4 (2.22%) vSphere
6 1 (0.56%) Citrix Hypervisor
6 1 (0.56%) KVM
6 1 (0.56%) QEMU
6 1 (0.56%) Slurm Workload Manager
6 1 (0.56%) Xen
Systems Management
1 66 (36.67%) Terraform
2 43 (23.89%) Ansible
3 24 (13.33%) Grafana
4 15 (8.33%) Prometheus
5 11 (6.11%) Puppet
6 7 (3.89%) Argo
7 6 (3.33%) Kibana
7 6 (3.33%) Rancher
7 6 (3.33%) VxRail
8 5 (2.78%) logstash
8 5 (2.78%) vCenter Server
8 5 (2.78%) yum
9 4 (2.22%) Packer
9 4 (2.22%) ZABBIX
10 2 (1.11%) Check_MK
10 2 (1.11%) Istio
10 2 (1.11%) Microsoft Intune
10 2 (1.11%) Nagios
11 1 (0.56%) Docker Swarm
11 1 (0.56%) linkerd
Vendors
1 32 (17.78%) Microsoft
2 20 (11.11%) VMware
3 17 (9.44%) Red Hat
4 13 (7.22%) Splunk
5 11 (6.11%) Google
6 9 (5.00%) Oracle
7 7 (3.89%) Atlassian
8 6 (3.33%) BeyondTrust
9 5 (2.78%) Facebook
10 3 (1.67%) Dell
10 3 (1.67%) SaltStack
11 2 (1.11%) Apple
11 2 (1.11%) Cisco
11 2 (1.11%) Databricks
11 2 (1.11%) Guidewire
11 2 (1.11%) OpenAI
11 2 (1.11%) Thales
12 1 (0.56%) Fortinet
12 1 (0.56%) Juniper
12 1 (0.56%) OneLogin