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

6 months to
16 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 65 57 71
Rank change year-on-year -8 +14 -33
Permanent jobs citing Kubernetes 175 120 327
As % of all permanent jobs in the South West 2.25% 4.25% 3.16%
As % of the Systems Management category 41.67% 44.61% 37.03%
Number of salaries quoted 111 69 256
10th Percentile £38,750 £48,165 £45,000
25th Percentile £45,000 £52,500 £52,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,500 £70,000 £72,500
Median % change year-on-year -17.86% -3.45% +6.37%
75th Percentile £73,250 £90,000 £87,500
90th Percentile £80,000 £102,410 £91,934
England median annual salary £72,500 £82,500 £77,500
% change year-on-year -12.12% +6.45% -

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 420 269 883
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the South West 5.39% 9.53% 8.54%
Number of salaries quoted 297 186 700
10th Percentile £31,500 £30,000 £31,250
25th Percentile £39,000 £37,500 £41,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £55,000 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year - +4.76% -9.19%
75th Percentile £73,250 £73,750 £72,500
90th Percentile £80,500 £96,250 £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 16 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 16 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 -9 66 £60,500 -6.92% 33
Devon -1 25 £55,000 - 2
Somerset -8 25 £42,500 - 7
Bristol -42 22 £62,500 -14.96% 16
Wiltshire 0 18 £60,000 +17.51% 4
Dorset -15 7 £45,000 - 7
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 8 (4.57%) Confluence
2 6 (3.43%) Apache Spark
3 4 (2.29%) Apache
4 3 (1.71%) OpenStack
5 1 (0.57%) Apache Airflow
Cloud Services
1 78 (44.57%) Azure
2 72 (41.14%) AWS
3 42 (24.00%) GCP
4 30 (17.14%) GitHub
5 18 (10.29%) Amazon S3
5 18 (10.29%) Serverless
6 15 (8.57%) AWS Lambda
6 15 (8.57%) OpenShift
6 15 (8.57%) SaaS
7 14 (8.00%) Azure AKS
7 14 (8.00%) GitHub Copilot
8 12 (6.86%) Amazon EC2
9 11 (6.29%) Amazon EKS
9 11 (6.29%) GitHub Actions
10 10 (5.71%) Azure AI
11 7 (4.00%) Azure DevOps
12 5 (2.86%) AWS CloudFormation
13 4 (2.29%) AWS CloudTrail
13 4 (2.29%) AWS Fargate
13 4 (2.29%) Datadog
Communications & Networking
1 6 (3.43%) Software-Defined Networking
2 4 (2.29%) Broadband
2 4 (2.29%) Firewall
2 4 (2.29%) Internet
2 4 (2.29%) IPv4
2 4 (2.29%) WAN
3 2 (1.14%) AMQP
3 2 (1.14%) BGP
3 2 (1.14%) Ethernet VPN
3 2 (1.14%) LAN
3 2 (1.14%) Network Security
3 2 (1.14%) SD-WAN
3 2 (1.14%) SNMP
3 2 (1.14%) TCP/IP
3 2 (1.14%) VLAN
3 2 (1.14%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 19 (10.86%) MongoDB
2 15 (8.57%) Elasticsearch
3 14 (8.00%) Azure SQL Database
4 13 (7.43%) PostgreSQL
5 12 (6.86%) SQL Server
6 9 (5.14%) NoSQL
7 7 (4.00%) Amazon RDS
7 7 (4.00%) InfluxDB
7 7 (4.00%) Relational Database
8 5 (2.86%) MySQL
9 3 (1.71%) Big Data
10 2 (1.14%) Cloudera CDH
10 2 (1.14%) CockroachDB
10 2 (1.14%) Hadoop
10 2 (1.14%) Neo4j
11 1 (0.57%) Amazon Athena
11 1 (0.57%) DynamoDB
11 1 (0.57%) Flink
11 1 (0.57%) Geospatial Data
11 1 (0.57%) MariaDB
Development Applications
1 37 (21.14%) Git
2 33 (18.86%) Jenkins
3 31 (17.71%) GitLab
4 10 (5.71%) Subversion
5 8 (4.57%) Cypress.io
5 8 (4.57%) JIRA
6 7 (4.00%) Bitbucket
6 7 (4.00%) Selenium
7 6 (3.43%) Robot Framework
7 6 (3.43%) TestRail
8 5 (2.86%) Eclipse
9 4 (2.29%) CircleCI
9 4 (2.29%) JUnit
10 3 (1.71%) Maven
10 3 (1.71%) Mockito
10 3 (1.71%) TeamCity
11 2 (1.14%) Checkstyle
11 2 (1.14%) Gradle
11 2 (1.14%) SonarQube
11 2 (1.14%) TestNG
General
1 41 (23.43%) Social Skills
2 25 (14.29%) Finance
3 18 (10.29%) Aerospace
4 9 (5.14%) Public Sector
5 8 (4.57%) Analytical Skills
6 6 (3.43%) Retail
7 4 (2.29%) Advertising
7 4 (2.29%) Games
7 4 (2.29%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 4 (2.29%) Marketing
8 3 (1.71%) Automotive
8 3 (1.71%) Electronics
8 3 (1.71%) Manufacturing
9 1 (0.57%) Tech for Good
Job Titles
1 44 (25.14%) Developer
2 34 (19.43%) Software Engineer
3 26 (14.86%) .NET Developer
3 26 (14.86%) Senior
4 21 (12.00%) Infrastructure Engineer
5 15 (8.57%) Senior Software Engineer
6 14 (8.00%) DevOps Engineer
6 14 (8.00%) DevSecOps Engineer
7 12 (6.86%) Lead
8 11 (6.29%) .NET Software Engineer
8 11 (6.29%) Java Developer
8 11 (6.29%) Senior .NET Software Engineer
9 9 (5.14%) Python Engineer
9 9 (5.14%) Software Developer
9 9 (5.14%) Test Engineer
10 8 (4.57%) .NET Software Developer
10 8 (4.57%) Backend Developer
10 8 (4.57%) Mid-Level .NET Developer
11 7 (4.00%) Software Manager
11 7 (4.00%) Test Automation Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 51 (29.14%) .NET
2 49 (28.00%) .NET Core
3 29 (16.57%) React
4 26 (14.86%) RESTful
5 22 (12.57%) REST
6 19 (10.86%) Spring
7 18 (10.29%) Node.js
8 17 (9.71%) AngularJS
9 16 (9.14%) Spring Boot
10 15 (8.57%) Elastic Stack
11 14 (8.00%) ASP.NET
11 14 (8.00%) ASP.NET Core
12 12 (6.86%) .NET Framework
12 12 (6.86%) CSS
13 11 (6.29%) Dapper ORM
13 11 (6.29%) Entity Framework
13 11 (6.29%) HTML
14 10 (5.71%) ML.NET
14 10 (5.71%) Vue
15 9 (5.14%) OAuth
Miscellaneous
1 30 (17.14%) Cloud Native
2 9 (5.14%) Hybrid Cloud
2 9 (5.14%) Product Ownership
3 7 (4.00%) Distributed Systems
4 4 (2.29%) CUDA
5 3 (1.71%) Data Centre
5 3 (1.71%) Data Structures
5 3 (1.71%) Digital TV
5 3 (1.71%) IoT
5 3 (1.71%) Onboarding
5 3 (1.71%) Over-the-Top Content
5 3 (1.71%) PKI
5 3 (1.71%) Renewable Energy
5 3 (1.71%) Self-Motivation
5 3 (1.71%) Video\Live Streaming
6 2 (1.14%) Algorithms
6 2 (1.14%) Blockchain
6 2 (1.14%) Insider Threat
6 2 (1.14%) Private Cloud
6 2 (1.14%) Public Cloud
Operating Systems
1 48 (27.43%) Linux
2 23 (13.14%) Windows
3 10 (5.71%) Windows Server
4 9 (5.14%) CentOS
5 8 (4.57%) Unix
6 3 (1.71%) Ubuntu
7 2 (1.14%) Debian
7 2 (1.14%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 109 (62.29%) CI/CD
2 100 (57.14%) Containerisation
3 71 (40.57%) DevOps
4 66 (37.71%) Agile
4 66 (37.71%) Software Engineering
5 58 (33.14%) Infrastructure as Code
6 45 (25.71%) Continuous Improvement
7 37 (21.14%) Full-Stack Development
7 37 (21.14%) Infrastructure Engineering
8 31 (17.71%) AI
9 30 (17.14%) Problem-Solving
9 30 (17.14%) Test Automation
10 27 (15.43%) Analytics
11 25 (14.29%) Collaborative Culture
11 25 (14.29%) Microservices
12 24 (13.71%) Computer Science
12 24 (13.71%) SDLC
13 22 (12.57%) Mentoring
14 20 (11.43%) DevSecOps
15 19 (10.86%) Performance Optimisation
Programming Languages
1 80 (45.71%) Python
2 53 (30.29%) Java
3 46 (26.29%) C#
4 42 (24.00%) SQL
5 32 (18.29%) JavaScript
6 31 (17.71%) Bash
7 17 (9.71%) TypeScript
8 15 (8.57%) PowerShell
9 11 (6.29%) C++
10 9 (5.14%) Go
11 7 (4.00%) Scala
12 5 (2.86%) C
13 4 (2.29%) Perl
14 3 (1.71%) Bicep
14 3 (1.71%) Elixir
14 3 (1.71%) Erlang
14 3 (1.71%) PHP
15 2 (1.14%) Kotlin
15 2 (1.14%) Rust
15 2 (1.14%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 59 (33.71%) Security Cleared
2 30 (17.14%) DV Cleared
3 24 (13.71%) Degree
4 22 (12.57%) Computer Science Degree
5 16 (9.14%) SC Cleared
6 6 (3.43%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
6 6 (3.43%) ISTQB
7 5 (2.86%) AWS Certification
7 5 (2.86%) RHCE
7 5 (2.86%) RHCSA
8 4 (2.29%) CCNA
8 4 (2.29%) Cisco Certification
8 4 (2.29%) Microsoft Certification
8 4 (2.29%) OSCP
9 2 (1.14%) ISTQB Advanced Certification
9 2 (1.14%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
10 1 (0.57%) Azure Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 19 (10.86%) QA
2 6 (3.43%) Accessibility
3 3 (1.71%) ISO 9001
3 3 (1.71%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 2 (1.14%) WCAG
5 1 (0.57%) NCSC
System Software
1 125 (71.43%) Docker
2 15 (8.57%) VMware Infrastructure
3 7 (4.00%) Hyper-V
4 5 (2.86%) Virtual Machines
5 4 (2.29%) Active Directory
5 4 (2.29%) Firmware
5 4 (2.29%) Squid
5 4 (2.29%) VMware NSX
5 4 (2.29%) vSphere
6 1 (0.57%) Citrix Hypervisor
6 1 (0.57%) KVM
6 1 (0.57%) QEMU
6 1 (0.57%) Slurm Workload Manager
6 1 (0.57%) Xen
Systems Management
1 62 (35.43%) Terraform
2 41 (23.43%) Ansible
3 24 (13.71%) Grafana
4 15 (8.57%) Prometheus
5 10 (5.71%) Puppet
6 7 (4.00%) Argo
7 6 (3.43%) Kibana
7 6 (3.43%) Rancher
7 6 (3.43%) VxRail
8 5 (2.86%) logstash
8 5 (2.86%) vCenter Server
8 5 (2.86%) yum
9 4 (2.29%) Packer
9 4 (2.29%) ZABBIX
10 2 (1.14%) Check_MK
10 2 (1.14%) Istio
10 2 (1.14%) Microsoft Intune
10 2 (1.14%) Nagios
11 1 (0.57%) linkerd
11 1 (0.57%) Podman
Vendors
1 27 (15.43%) Microsoft
2 19 (10.86%) VMware
3 16 (9.14%) Red Hat
4 13 (7.43%) Splunk
5 10 (5.71%) Google
6 9 (5.14%) Oracle
7 6 (3.43%) Atlassian
7 6 (3.43%) BeyondTrust
8 4 (2.29%) Facebook
9 3 (1.71%) Dell
10 2 (1.14%) Apple
10 2 (1.14%) Cisco
10 2 (1.14%) Databricks
10 2 (1.14%) Guidewire
10 2 (1.14%) OpenAI
10 2 (1.14%) SaltStack
10 2 (1.14%) Thales
11 1 (0.57%) Fortinet
11 1 (0.57%) Juniper
11 1 (0.57%) OneLogin