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

6 months to
25 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 62 52 74
Rank change year-on-year -10 +22 -31
Permanent jobs citing Kubernetes 196 123 322
As % of all permanent jobs in the South West 2.48% 4.26% 3.13%
As % of the Systems Management category 43.08% 43.93% 36.72%
Number of salaries quoted 125 72 253
10th Percentile £38,000 £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 £91,250 £87,500
90th Percentile £82,000 £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 455 280 877
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the South West 5.75% 9.69% 8.52%
Number of salaries quoted 315 196 695
10th Percentile £31,250 £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% -8.70%
75th Percentile £73,250 £73,750 £72,500
90th Percentile £81,250 £95,000 £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 25 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 25 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 -8 77 £64,000 -1.54% 36
Somerset -6 33 £42,500 - 6
Devon -3 27 £55,000 - 4
Bristol -48 22 £62,500 -14.96% 11
Wiltshire -5 20 £60,000 +17.51% 4
Dorset -13 6 £45,000 - 4
Cornwall - 2 - -
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 9 (4.59%) Confluence
2 7 (3.57%) Apache Spark
3 5 (2.55%) Apache
4 4 (2.04%) OpenStack
5 1 (0.51%) Apache Airflow
Cloud Services
1 93 (47.45%) Azure
2 78 (39.80%) AWS
3 47 (23.98%) GCP
4 36 (18.37%) GitHub
5 19 (9.69%) GitHub Copilot
5 19 (9.69%) OpenShift
6 18 (9.18%) Azure AKS
6 18 (9.18%) Serverless
7 17 (8.67%) Amazon S3
8 15 (7.65%) AWS Lambda
8 15 (7.65%) SaaS
9 14 (7.14%) Azure AI
10 13 (6.63%) Amazon EKS
11 12 (6.12%) Amazon EC2
12 11 (5.61%) Azure DevOps
12 11 (5.61%) GitHub Actions
13 7 (3.57%) AWS CloudFormation
14 4 (2.04%) AWS CloudTrail
14 4 (2.04%) AWS Fargate
14 4 (2.04%) Datadog
Communications & Networking
1 6 (3.06%) Software-Defined Networking
2 5 (2.55%) Internet
3 4 (2.04%) Firewall
3 4 (2.04%) IPv4
3 4 (2.04%) Network Security
3 4 (2.04%) VPN
3 4 (2.04%) WAN
4 3 (1.53%) AMQP
4 3 (1.53%) Broadband
5 2 (1.02%) BGP
5 2 (1.02%) Ethernet VPN
5 2 (1.02%) LAN
5 2 (1.02%) SD-WAN
5 2 (1.02%) SNMP
5 2 (1.02%) TCP/IP
5 2 (1.02%) VLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 25 (12.76%) MongoDB
2 19 (9.69%) Azure SQL Database
3 17 (8.67%) Elasticsearch
4 14 (7.14%) PostgreSQL
5 12 (6.12%) SQL Server
6 8 (4.08%) InfluxDB
6 8 (4.08%) NoSQL
7 7 (3.57%) Amazon RDS
8 6 (3.06%) MySQL
8 6 (3.06%) Relational Database
9 4 (2.04%) Big Data
10 3 (1.53%) Cloudera CDH
10 3 (1.53%) Geospatial Data
10 3 (1.53%) Hadoop
11 2 (1.02%) DynamoDB
11 2 (1.02%) Flink
11 2 (1.02%) Neo4j
12 1 (0.51%) Amazon Athena
12 1 (0.51%) Apache Cassandra
12 1 (0.51%) MariaDB
Development Applications
1 45 (22.96%) Git
2 34 (17.35%) GitLab
2 34 (17.35%) Jenkins
3 14 (7.14%) Subversion
4 9 (4.59%) JIRA
5 8 (4.08%) Bitbucket
5 8 (4.08%) Cypress.io
5 8 (4.08%) Eclipse
6 7 (3.57%) Robot Framework
6 7 (3.57%) Selenium
6 7 (3.57%) TestRail
7 4 (2.04%) CircleCI
7 4 (2.04%) JUnit
8 3 (1.53%) MSI
8 3 (1.53%) TeamCity
9 2 (1.02%) Maven
9 2 (1.02%) Mockito
10 1 (0.51%) Checkstyle
10 1 (0.51%) Cucumber
10 1 (0.51%) Gradle
General
1 43 (21.94%) Social Skills
2 29 (14.80%) Finance
3 21 (10.71%) Aerospace
4 12 (6.12%) Public Sector
5 9 (4.59%) Analytical Skills
6 8 (4.08%) Retail
7 7 (3.57%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 6 (3.06%) Advertising
8 6 (3.06%) Marketing
9 5 (2.55%) Games
10 3 (1.53%) Automotive
10 3 (1.53%) Electronics
10 3 (1.53%) Manufacturing
11 1 (0.51%) Tech for Good
Job Titles
1 55 (28.06%) Developer
2 33 (16.84%) Software Engineer
3 31 (15.82%) .NET Developer
4 29 (14.80%) Senior
5 26 (13.27%) Infrastructure Engineer
6 17 (8.67%) DevOps Engineer
7 15 (7.65%) Senior Software Engineer
8 14 (7.14%) DevSecOps Engineer
8 14 (7.14%) Java Developer
9 11 (5.61%) .NET Software Engineer
9 11 (5.61%) Lead
9 11 (5.61%) Senior .NET Software Engineer
10 10 (5.10%) Test Engineer
11 9 (4.59%) Junior
11 9 (4.59%) Python Engineer
11 9 (4.59%) Software Developer
12 8 (4.08%) .NET Software Developer
12 8 (4.08%) Backend Developer
12 8 (4.08%) Full-Stack Developer
12 8 (4.08%) Platform Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 58 (29.59%) .NET
2 55 (28.06%) .NET Core
3 32 (16.33%) RESTful
4 31 (15.82%) React
5 24 (12.24%) REST
6 19 (9.69%) AngularJS
6 19 (9.69%) ASP.NET
6 19 (9.69%) ASP.NET Core
6 19 (9.69%) Node.js
6 19 (9.69%) Spring
7 18 (9.18%) CSS
8 17 (8.67%) HTML
8 17 (8.67%) Spring Boot
9 15 (7.65%) Elastic Stack
10 14 (7.14%) .NET Framework
10 14 (7.14%) ML.NET
11 11 (5.61%) Dapper ORM
11 11 (5.61%) Entity Framework
11 11 (5.61%) Vue
12 8 (4.08%) FastAPI
Miscellaneous
1 35 (17.86%) Cloud Native
2 12 (6.12%) Hybrid Cloud
3 10 (5.10%) Product Ownership
4 8 (4.08%) Distributed Systems
5 5 (2.55%) Onboarding
6 4 (2.04%) CUDA
6 4 (2.04%) Data Centre
6 4 (2.04%) Digital TV
7 3 (1.53%) Data Structures
7 3 (1.53%) IoT
7 3 (1.53%) Over-the-Top Content
7 3 (1.53%) PKI
7 3 (1.53%) Public Cloud
7 3 (1.53%) Renewable Energy
7 3 (1.53%) Self-Motivation
7 3 (1.53%) Video\Live Streaming
8 2 (1.02%) Algorithms
8 2 (1.02%) Blockchain
8 2 (1.02%) Insider Threat
8 2 (1.02%) Legacy Systems
Operating Systems
1 57 (29.08%) Linux
2 27 (13.78%) Windows
3 11 (5.61%) CentOS
3 11 (5.61%) Windows Server
4 10 (5.10%) Unix
5 4 (2.04%) Ubuntu
6 3 (1.53%) Debian
6 3 (1.53%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
7 1 (0.51%) Rocky
Processes & Methodologies
1 123 (62.76%) CI/CD
2 109 (55.61%) Containerisation
3 76 (38.78%) DevOps
4 73 (37.24%) Agile
4 73 (37.24%) Infrastructure as Code
5 69 (35.20%) Software Engineering
6 49 (25.00%) Continuous Improvement
7 46 (23.47%) Full-Stack Development
8 43 (21.94%) Infrastructure Engineering
9 38 (19.39%) AI
10 33 (16.84%) Problem-Solving
11 31 (15.82%) Microservices
11 31 (15.82%) Test Automation
12 28 (14.29%) Analytics
13 27 (13.78%) Collaborative Culture
13 27 (13.78%) Computer Science
13 27 (13.78%) SDLC
14 24 (12.24%) DevSecOps
15 20 (10.20%) Machine Learning
15 20 (10.20%) Mentoring
Programming Languages
1 89 (45.41%) Python
2 56 (28.57%) Java
3 52 (26.53%) C#
4 46 (23.47%) SQL
5 36 (18.37%) JavaScript
6 34 (17.35%) Bash
7 17 (8.67%) TypeScript
8 16 (8.16%) PowerShell
9 13 (6.63%) C++
10 10 (5.10%) Go
11 7 (3.57%) Bicep
11 7 (3.57%) Scala
12 6 (3.06%) Perl
13 5 (2.55%) C
14 3 (1.53%) Elixir
14 3 (1.53%) Erlang
14 3 (1.53%) PHP
15 2 (1.02%) Kotlin
15 2 (1.02%) Rust
15 2 (1.02%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 76 (38.78%) Security Cleared
2 35 (17.86%) DV Cleared
3 27 (13.78%) Degree
3 27 (13.78%) SC Cleared
4 25 (12.76%) Computer Science Degree
5 7 (3.57%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
6 5 (2.55%) ISTQB
6 5 (2.55%) RHCE
6 5 (2.55%) RHCSA
7 4 (2.04%) AWS Certification
7 4 (2.04%) CCNA
7 4 (2.04%) Cisco Certification
7 4 (2.04%) Microsoft Certification
7 4 (2.04%) OSCP
8 2 (1.02%) Azure Certification
9 1 (0.51%) ISTQB Advanced Certification
9 1 (0.51%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 20 (10.20%) QA
2 8 (4.08%) Accessibility
3 5 (2.55%) WCAG
4 3 (1.53%) ISO 9001
4 3 (1.53%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 3 (1.53%) NCSC
System Software
1 137 (69.90%) Docker
2 19 (9.69%) VMware Infrastructure
3 7 (3.57%) Hyper-V
4 6 (3.06%) Active Directory
4 6 (3.06%) Virtual Machines
5 5 (2.55%) VMware NSX
6 4 (2.04%) Firmware
6 4 (2.04%) Squid
6 4 (2.04%) vSphere
7 1 (0.51%) Citrix Hypervisor
7 1 (0.51%) KVM
7 1 (0.51%) QEMU
7 1 (0.51%) Slurm Workload Manager
7 1 (0.51%) Xen
Systems Management
1 71 (36.22%) Terraform
2 48 (24.49%) Ansible
3 25 (12.76%) Grafana
4 14 (7.14%) Prometheus
5 13 (6.63%) Puppet
6 8 (4.08%) Rancher
7 7 (3.57%) Argo
7 7 (3.57%) Kibana
7 7 (3.57%) VxRail
8 6 (3.06%) logstash
8 6 (3.06%) vCenter Server
8 6 (3.06%) yum
9 4 (2.04%) Packer
9 4 (2.04%) ZABBIX
10 2 (1.02%) Check_MK
10 2 (1.02%) Istio
10 2 (1.02%) Microsoft Intune
10 2 (1.02%) Nagios
11 1 (0.51%) Docker Swarm
11 1 (0.51%) linkerd
Vendors
1 36 (18.37%) Microsoft
2 23 (11.73%) VMware
3 19 (9.69%) Red Hat
4 13 (6.63%) Splunk
5 10 (5.10%) Google
6 8 (4.08%) Atlassian
6 8 (4.08%) Oracle
7 6 (3.06%) BeyondTrust
7 6 (3.06%) Facebook
8 3 (1.53%) Dell
8 3 (1.53%) SaltStack
9 2 (1.02%) Apple
9 2 (1.02%) Cisco
9 2 (1.02%) Databricks
9 2 (1.02%) OneLogin
9 2 (1.02%) OpenAI
9 2 (1.02%) Thales
10 1 (0.51%) Fortinet
10 1 (0.51%) Guidewire
10 1 (0.51%) Juniper