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 23 July 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
23 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 61 54 78
Rank change year-on-year -7 +24 -37
Permanent jobs citing Kubernetes 223 129 271
As % of all permanent jobs in the South West 2.64% 3.81% 3.03%
As % of the Systems Management category 44.33% 41.21% 36.09%
Number of salaries quoted 149 76 209
10th Percentile £38,750 £48,165 £48,500
25th Percentile £48,750 £52,500 £57,500
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 £100,442 £91,750
England median annual salary £70,039 £80,000 £77,500
% change year-on-year -12.45% +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 503 313 751
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the South West 5.96% 9.25% 8.41%
Number of salaries quoted 353 226 588
10th Percentile £31,250 £30,000 £31,250
25th Percentile £40,000 £35,313 £41,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £51,058 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +7.72% -7.17% -5.17%
75th Percentile £75,000 £72,500 £76,250
90th Percentile £85,300 £87,500 £87,500
England median annual salary £65,000 £65,000 £62,783
% change year-on-year - +3.53% -6.99%

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 23 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 23 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 -5 104 £75,000 +3.45% 38
Somerset 0 40 £43,750 - 10
Devon +4 25 £55,000 - 2
Bristol -49 23 £62,500 -16.67% 14
Wiltshire -6 21 £60,000 +17.51% 3
Dorset -14 4 £45,000 -14.29% 1
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 11 (4.93%) Confluence
2 8 (3.59%) Apache Spark
3 7 (3.14%) Apache
4 4 (1.79%) OpenStack
5 1 (0.45%) Apache Airflow
5 1 (0.45%) JBoss
5 1 (0.45%) nginx
Cloud Services
1 111 (49.78%) Azure
2 86 (38.57%) AWS
3 45 (20.18%) GCP
4 42 (18.83%) GitHub
5 28 (12.56%) GitHub Copilot
6 24 (10.76%) OpenShift
7 21 (9.42%) Azure AI
8 20 (8.97%) Azure AKS
9 18 (8.07%) Serverless
10 16 (7.17%) Amazon S3
11 15 (6.73%) Azure DevOps
12 13 (5.83%) Amazon EKS
12 13 (5.83%) AWS Lambda
13 12 (5.38%) Amazon EC2
13 12 (5.38%) SaaS
14 11 (4.93%) AWS CloudFormation
15 8 (3.59%) GitHub Actions
16 6 (2.69%) Azure ExpressRoute
16 6 (2.69%) Entra ID
17 4 (1.79%) Azure Machine Learning
Communications & Networking
1 9 (4.04%) Network Security
1 9 (4.04%) VPN
2 7 (3.14%) Internet
2 7 (3.14%) Software-Defined Networking
3 6 (2.69%) Firewall
4 5 (2.24%) WAN
5 4 (1.79%) IPv4
6 3 (1.35%) BGP
6 3 (1.35%) Ethernet VPN
6 3 (1.35%) SD-WAN
6 3 (1.35%) SNMP
6 3 (1.35%) VLAN
7 2 (0.90%) AMQP
7 2 (0.90%) LAN
7 2 (0.90%) TCP/IP
8 1 (0.45%) SSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 34 (15.25%) MongoDB
2 28 (12.56%) Azure SQL Database
3 17 (7.62%) Elasticsearch
4 14 (6.28%) PostgreSQL
5 8 (3.59%) InfluxDB
5 8 (3.59%) NoSQL
5 8 (3.59%) SQL Server
6 7 (3.14%) Amazon RDS
7 6 (2.69%) Geospatial Data
7 6 (2.69%) MySQL
8 5 (2.24%) Big Data
8 5 (2.24%) Relational Database
9 4 (1.79%) Hadoop
10 3 (1.35%) Flink
11 2 (0.90%) Cloudera CDH
11 2 (0.90%) DynamoDB
12 1 (0.45%) Amazon Athena
12 1 (0.45%) Apache Cassandra
12 1 (0.45%) Data Lake
12 1 (0.45%) MariaDB
Development Applications
1 54 (24.22%) Git
2 39 (17.49%) GitLab
3 26 (11.66%) Jenkins
4 14 (6.28%) Subversion
5 11 (4.93%) JIRA
6 9 (4.04%) Bitbucket
7 8 (3.59%) Eclipse
7 8 (3.59%) Robot Framework
8 7 (3.14%) Selenium
8 7 (3.14%) TestRail
9 6 (2.69%) Cypress.io
9 6 (2.69%) MSI
10 3 (1.35%) JUnit
11 2 (0.90%) CircleCI
12 1 (0.45%) Maven
12 1 (0.45%) Mockito
12 1 (0.45%) TeamCity
General
1 44 (19.73%) Social Skills
2 37 (16.59%) Finance
3 20 (8.97%) Public Sector
4 19 (8.52%) Aerospace
5 13 (5.83%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 10 (4.48%) Advertising
6 10 (4.48%) Analytical Skills
6 10 (4.48%) Marketing
7 8 (3.59%) Retail
8 7 (3.14%) Games
9 3 (1.35%) Automotive
9 3 (1.35%) Electronics
9 3 (1.35%) Manufacturing
10 1 (0.45%) Organisational Skills
10 1 (0.45%) Tech for Good
Job Titles
1 65 (29.15%) Developer
2 40 (17.94%) .NET Developer
3 37 (16.59%) Software Engineer
4 30 (13.45%) DevOps Engineer
5 28 (12.56%) Infrastructure Engineer
6 26 (11.66%) Senior
7 17 (7.62%) Lead
8 14 (6.28%) Java Developer
9 12 (5.38%) Senior Software Engineer
10 11 (4.93%) Full-Stack Engineer
11 10 (4.48%) Architect
11 10 (4.48%) Full-Stack Software Engineer
12 9 (4.04%) Cloud Engineer
12 9 (4.04%) DevSecOps Engineer
12 9 (4.04%) Junior
12 9 (4.04%) Platform Engineer
12 9 (4.04%) Python Engineer
13 8 (3.59%) .NET Software Developer
13 8 (3.59%) Mid-Level .NET Developer
13 8 (3.59%) Principal Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 60 (26.91%) .NET
2 56 (25.11%) .NET Core
3 37 (16.59%) RESTful
4 30 (13.45%) CSS
5 28 (12.56%) ASP.NET
5 28 (12.56%) ASP.NET Core
5 28 (12.56%) HTML
5 28 (12.56%) Spring
6 27 (12.11%) Spring Boot
7 23 (10.31%) REST
8 21 (9.42%) ML.NET
8 21 (9.42%) React
9 19 (8.52%) Node.js
10 18 (8.07%) AngularJS
11 15 (6.73%) Elastic Stack
12 14 (6.28%) Vue
13 13 (5.83%) .NET Framework
14 10 (4.48%) Blazor
14 10 (4.48%) Django
14 10 (4.48%) FastAPI
Miscellaneous
1 47 (21.08%) Cloud Native
2 17 (7.62%) Hybrid Cloud
3 11 (4.93%) Distributed Systems
4 10 (4.48%) Product Ownership
5 8 (3.59%) Onboarding
6 5 (2.24%) Data Centre
6 5 (2.24%) Digital TV
7 4 (1.79%) CUDA
7 4 (1.79%) Legacy Systems
8 3 (1.35%) Algorithms
8 3 (1.35%) Data Structures
8 3 (1.35%) IoT
8 3 (1.35%) PKI
8 3 (1.35%) Renewable Energy
9 2 (0.90%) Insider Threat
9 2 (0.90%) Private Cloud
9 2 (0.90%) Public Cloud
9 2 (0.90%) Self-Motivation
9 2 (0.90%) Social Media
Operating Systems
1 65 (29.15%) Linux
2 30 (13.45%) Windows
3 10 (4.48%) CentOS
3 10 (4.48%) Unix
3 10 (4.48%) Windows Server
4 3 (1.35%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 3 (1.35%) Ubuntu
5 2 (0.90%) Debian
6 1 (0.45%) Rocky
Processes & Methodologies
1 149 (66.82%) CI/CD
2 119 (53.36%) Containerisation
3 95 (42.60%) Infrastructure as Code
4 88 (39.46%) DevOps
5 82 (36.77%) Agile
6 66 (29.60%) Full-Stack Development
7 65 (29.15%) Software Engineering
8 49 (21.97%) AI
9 47 (21.08%) Infrastructure Engineering
10 40 (17.94%) Microservices
11 39 (17.49%) Continuous Improvement
12 38 (17.04%) Test Automation
13 35 (15.70%) Problem-Solving
14 31 (13.90%) DevSecOps
14 31 (13.90%) Machine Learning
15 27 (12.11%) Computer Science
16 26 (11.66%) Analytics
17 20 (8.97%) API Design
17 20 (8.97%) SDLC
17 20 (8.97%) Site Reliability Engineering
Programming Languages
1 100 (44.84%) Python
2 65 (29.15%) Java
3 60 (26.91%) C#
4 46 (20.63%) SQL
5 44 (19.73%) JavaScript
6 31 (13.90%) Bash
7 16 (7.17%) TypeScript
8 14 (6.28%) Bicep
8 14 (6.28%) C++
8 14 (6.28%) PowerShell
9 11 (4.93%) Go
10 6 (2.69%) Perl
11 5 (2.24%) Scala
12 3 (1.35%) PHP
13 2 (0.90%) C
13 2 (0.90%) Rust
13 2 (0.90%) Shell Script
14 1 (0.45%) Ruby
Qualifications
1 103 (46.19%) Security Cleared
2 56 (25.11%) DV Cleared
3 38 (17.04%) SC Cleared
4 28 (12.56%) Degree
5 25 (11.21%) Computer Science Degree
6 7 (3.14%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
7 6 (2.69%) RHCSA
8 5 (2.24%) RHCE
9 4 (1.79%) AWS Certification
9 4 (1.79%) CCNA
9 4 (1.79%) Cisco Certification
9 4 (1.79%) ISTQB
9 4 (1.79%) Microsoft Certification
9 4 (1.79%) OSCP
10 3 (1.35%) Azure Certification
11 1 (0.45%) BPSS Clearance
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 13 (5.83%) Accessibility
1 13 (5.83%) QA
2 9 (4.04%) WCAG
3 6 (2.69%) NCSC
4 3 (1.35%) ISO 9001
4 3 (1.35%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 1 (0.45%) Data Quality
System Software
1 153 (68.61%) Docker
2 23 (10.31%) VMware Infrastructure
3 10 (4.48%) Active Directory
4 6 (2.69%) Hyper-V
4 6 (2.69%) Virtual Machines
5 5 (2.24%) VMware NSX
6 4 (1.79%) Firmware
6 4 (1.79%) Squid
6 4 (1.79%) vSphere
7 1 (0.45%) Ceph
7 1 (0.45%) Citrix Hypervisor
7 1 (0.45%) KVM
7 1 (0.45%) QEMU
7 1 (0.45%) Slurm Workload Manager
7 1 (0.45%) Virtual Desktop
7 1 (0.45%) Xen
Systems Management
1 90 (40.36%) Terraform
2 58 (26.01%) Ansible
3 19 (8.52%) Grafana
4 15 (6.73%) Puppet
5 11 (4.93%) Prometheus
6 9 (4.04%) Argo
7 8 (3.59%) Rancher
8 7 (3.14%) Kibana
9 6 (2.69%) logstash
9 6 (2.69%) vCenter Server
9 6 (2.69%) VxRail
9 6 (2.69%) yum
10 4 (1.79%) Check_MK
10 4 (1.79%) Nagios
10 4 (1.79%) Packer
10 4 (1.79%) ZABBIX
11 3 (1.35%) Istio
12 2 (0.90%) linkerd
12 2 (0.90%) Mesos
12 2 (0.90%) Podman
Vendors
1 51 (22.87%) Microsoft
2 27 (12.11%) VMware
3 19 (8.52%) Red Hat
4 12 (5.38%) Splunk
5 10 (4.48%) Atlassian
5 10 (4.48%) Facebook
5 10 (4.48%) Google
6 7 (3.14%) Oracle
7 5 (2.24%) BeyondTrust
8 4 (1.79%) Databricks
9 3 (1.35%) Dell
9 3 (1.35%) OneLogin
9 3 (1.35%) OpenAI
10 2 (0.90%) Apple
10 2 (0.90%) Cisco
10 2 (0.90%) SaltStack
11 1 (0.45%) Fortinet
11 1 (0.45%) Juniper
11 1 (0.45%) New Relic
11 1 (0.45%) Thales