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 vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 18 September 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
18 Sep 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 68 58 27
Rank change year-on-year -10 -31 +19
Permanent jobs citing Kubernetes 109 251 385
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the South West 3.11% 3.33% 8.16%
As % of the Systems Management category 37.98% 40.68% 49.30%
Number of salaries quoted 83 164 304
10th Percentile £42,500 £47,875 £46,250
25th Percentile £51,625 £58,750 £51,188
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £70,000 £75,000 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year -6.67% +15.38% -
75th Percentile £82,125 £87,500 £81,250
90th Percentile £95,000 £90,875 £87,500
England median annual salary £77,500 £77,500 £75,000
% change year-on-year - +3.33% -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 287 617 781
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the South West 8.18% 8.19% 16.56%
Number of salaries quoted 224 415 629
10th Percentile £30,000 £32,500 £32,500
25th Percentile £32,688 £41,500 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £51,058 £57,000 £57,500
Median % change year-on-year -10.42% -0.87% +4.55%
75th Percentile £72,500 £77,500 £75,000
90th Percentile £82,751 £87,500 £85,000
England median annual salary £62,500 £66,500 £65,351
% change year-on-year -6.02% +1.76% -6.64%

Kubernetes
Job Vacancy Trend in the South West

Job postings citing Kubernetes as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the South West.

Job vacancy trend for Kubernetes 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 18 September 2025.

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 18 September 2025. 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
Bristol -9 41 £70,000 -12.50% 24
Gloucestershire -10 26 £80,000 +23.08% 42
Dorset +39 20 £54,000 -6.09% 2
Somerset +14 8 £45,000 +5.88% 7
Wiltshire +29 7 £51,058 -11.20% 2
Devon +10 5 £66,250 +47.22% 1
Kubernetes
England

Kubernetes
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the South West by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same employment type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Application Platforms
1 6 (5.50%) IIS
2 2 (1.83%) Apache
2 2 (1.83%) Apache Spark
3 1 (0.92%) Apache Airflow
3 1 (0.92%) Apache Superset
3 1 (0.92%) Confluence
Cloud Services
1 67 (61.47%) AWS
2 62 (56.88%) Azure
3 17 (15.60%) Serverless
4 15 (13.76%) Amazon S3
5 13 (11.93%) Amazon ECS
5 13 (11.93%) AWS Lambda
6 11 (10.09%) Amazon EKS
6 11 (10.09%) GCP
7 9 (8.26%) Azure Stack
8 8 (7.34%) Azure DevOps
8 8 (7.34%) Entra ID
9 7 (6.42%) GitHub
9 7 (6.42%) Microsoft 365
10 6 (5.50%) GitHub Actions
11 5 (4.59%) AWS CloudFormation
11 5 (4.59%) Azure AKS
11 5 (4.59%) OpenShift
12 4 (3.67%) Amazon Bedrock
12 4 (3.67%) Amazon EC2
12 4 (3.67%) Amazon SageMaker
Communications & Networking
1 9 (8.26%) Firewall
2 7 (6.42%) VPN
3 6 (5.50%) Cisco IOS
3 6 (5.50%) DHCP
3 6 (5.50%) DNS
3 6 (5.50%) IPsec
3 6 (5.50%) VLAN
3 6 (5.50%) VoIP
3 6 (5.50%) Wireless
4 5 (4.59%) AMQP
4 5 (4.59%) Internet
5 2 (1.83%) Reverse Proxy
6 1 (0.92%) Broadband
6 1 (0.92%) NAS
6 1 (0.92%) SAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 10 (9.17%) Relational Database
2 9 (8.26%) Amazon RDS
2 9 (8.26%) PostgreSQL
3 8 (7.34%) SQL Server
4 7 (6.42%) MySQL
5 6 (5.50%) Amazon Aurora
5 6 (5.50%) NoSQL
6 4 (3.67%) CockroachDB
7 3 (2.75%) InfluxDB
8 2 (1.83%) Apache Cassandra
8 2 (1.83%) Big Data
8 2 (1.83%) Elasticsearch
8 2 (1.83%) InterSystems Cache
8 2 (1.83%) Metadata
8 2 (1.83%) MongoDB
8 2 (1.83%) Redis
8 2 (1.83%) Spark SQL
9 1 (0.92%) Delta Lake
9 1 (0.92%) SQL Server Reporting Services
9 1 (0.92%) Weaviate
Development Applications
1 18 (16.51%) Jenkins
2 6 (5.50%) GitLab
2 6 (5.50%) Selenium
3 5 (4.59%) Git
3 5 (4.59%) JUnit
4 4 (3.67%) Locust
5 3 (2.75%) Cypress.io
5 3 (2.75%) Mockito
6 2 (1.83%) Maven
6 2 (1.83%) SonarQube
6 2 (1.83%) Sonatype Nexus
7 1 (0.92%) Atlassian Bamboo
7 1 (0.92%) Cucumber
7 1 (0.92%) Jaeger
7 1 (0.92%) JIRA
7 1 (0.92%) MLflow
7 1 (0.92%) Octopus Deploy
General
1 31 (28.44%) Finance
2 21 (19.27%) Inclusion and Diversity
2 21 (19.27%) Public Sector
3 18 (16.51%) Law
3 18 (16.51%) Social Skills
4 12 (11.01%) Banking
4 12 (11.01%) Marketing
5 9 (8.26%) Analytical Skills
6 5 (4.59%) Electronics
6 5 (4.59%) Manufacturing
6 5 (4.59%) Telecoms
7 4 (3.67%) Documentation Skills
7 4 (3.67%) Retail
8 3 (2.75%) Financial Institution
9 2 (1.83%) Games
10 1 (0.92%) Aerospace
10 1 (0.92%) Tech for Good
10 1 (0.92%) Wholesale Banking
Job Titles
1 23 (21.10%) Software Engineer
2 18 (16.51%) Developer
3 16 (14.68%) DevOps Engineer
3 16 (14.68%) Senior
4 14 (12.84%) IT Engineer
5 10 (9.17%) Infrastructure Engineer
5 10 (9.17%) Lead
6 8 (7.34%) IT Infrastructure Engineer
6 8 (7.34%) Python Engineer
6 8 (7.34%) Python Software Engineer
6 8 (7.34%) Software Developer
7 7 (6.42%) Java Engineer
8 6 (5.50%) Full-Stack Engineer
8 6 (5.50%) Full-Stack Software Engineer
8 6 (5.50%) IT Support
8 6 (5.50%) IT Support Engineer
8 6 (5.50%) Operations Engineer
8 6 (5.50%) Platform Engineer
8 6 (5.50%) Senior IT Engineer
8 6 (5.50%) Senior IT Support
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 19 (17.43%) Spring Boot
2 18 (16.51%) Spring
3 16 (14.68%) Kafka
3 16 (14.68%) React
4 11 (10.09%) .NET
5 8 (7.34%) RESTful
6 7 (6.42%) .NET Core
6 7 (6.42%) AngularJS
7 4 (3.67%) Playwright
7 4 (3.67%) pytest
7 4 (3.67%) RabbitMQ
7 4 (3.67%) REST
8 3 (2.75%) HTML
8 3 (2.75%) OAuth
8 3 (2.75%) OAuth2
8 3 (2.75%) Vue
8 3 (2.75%) YAML
9 2 (1.83%) CSS
9 2 (1.83%) J2EE
9 2 (1.83%) SOAP
Miscellaneous
1 20 (18.35%) Cloud Native
2 10 (9.17%) Hybrid Cloud
3 9 (8.26%) Public Cloud
4 8 (7.34%) Data Centre
4 8 (7.34%) Onboarding
5 6 (5.50%) Clustering
5 6 (5.50%) Data Structures
6 5 (4.59%) Cloud Security Posture
6 5 (4.59%) Linux Command Line
6 5 (4.59%) Security Posture
7 4 (3.67%) Algorithms
7 4 (3.67%) Private Cloud
7 4 (3.67%) Product Ownership
8 2 (1.83%) Analytical Mindset
8 2 (1.83%) Legacy Systems
8 2 (1.83%) PKI
9 1 (0.92%) CUDA
9 1 (0.92%) Enterprise Software
9 1 (0.92%) Enterprise Storage
9 1 (0.92%) IoT
Operating Systems
1 37 (33.94%) Linux
2 24 (22.02%) Windows
3 16 (14.68%) Windows Server
4 8 (7.34%) Rocky
4 8 (7.34%) Windows Server 2019
5 6 (5.50%) Mac OS
6 4 (3.67%) Debian
6 4 (3.67%) Ubuntu
6 4 (3.67%) Unix
7 1 (0.92%) Android
7 1 (0.92%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
7 1 (0.92%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 59 (54.13%) CI/CD
2 49 (44.95%) Containerisation
3 43 (39.45%) DevOps
4 38 (34.86%) Software Engineering
5 36 (33.03%) Agile
6 31 (28.44%) Infrastructure as Code
7 20 (18.35%) Artificial Intelligence
7 20 (18.35%) Microservices
8 19 (17.43%) Machine Learning
8 19 (17.43%) Mentoring
9 16 (14.68%) Infrastructure Engineering
10 15 (13.76%) Event-Driven
11 14 (12.84%) Coaching
12 13 (11.93%) Continuous Improvement
12 13 (11.93%) Full-Stack Development
12 13 (11.93%) Scrum
13 11 (10.09%) Collaborative Culture
13 11 (10.09%) SDLC
14 10 (9.17%) Migration
14 10 (9.17%) Test Automation
Programming Languages
1 40 (36.70%) Python
2 37 (33.94%) Java
3 25 (22.94%) SQL
4 14 (12.84%) JavaScript
5 13 (11.93%) PowerShell
6 10 (9.17%) Go
7 8 (7.34%) Bash
7 8 (7.34%) C#
8 6 (5.50%) Bicep
8 6 (5.50%) TypeScript
9 3 (2.75%) C++
9 3 (2.75%) Rust
9 3 (2.75%) Shell Script
10 1 (0.92%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 40 (36.70%) Security Cleared
2 32 (29.36%) SC Cleared
3 23 (21.10%) DV Cleared
4 16 (14.68%) AWS Certification
5 12 (11.01%) Azure Certification
6 8 (7.34%) BPSS Clearance
6 8 (7.34%) Network+ Certification
7 7 (6.42%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
8 6 (5.50%) ACMT
8 6 (5.50%) Cisco Certification
8 6 (5.50%) Degree
9 5 (4.59%) (ISC)2 CCSP
9 5 (4.59%) CISM
9 5 (4.59%) CISSP
9 5 (4.59%) CompTIA Security+
10 2 (1.83%) AWS Certified Developer
10 2 (1.83%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
11 1 (0.92%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
11 1 (0.92%) MCSE
11 1 (0.92%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 6 (5.50%) Cyber Essentials
2 2 (1.83%) GDPR
2 2 (1.83%) HIPAA
2 2 (1.83%) NIST
2 2 (1.83%) PCI DSS
3 1 (0.92%) Data Quality
3 1 (0.92%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 1 (0.92%) NCSC
3 1 (0.92%) SOC 2
System Software
1 70 (64.22%) Docker
2 14 (12.84%) Hyper-V
3 8 (7.34%) Active Directory
4 7 (6.42%) VMware ESXi
4 7 (6.42%) VMware Infrastructure
5 2 (1.83%) Virtual Machines
6 1 (0.92%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 35 (32.11%) Terraform
2 20 (18.35%) Ansible
3 7 (6.42%) Microsoft Intune
3 7 (6.42%) vCenter Server
4 6 (5.50%) Autotask
5 5 (4.59%) Argo
6 4 (3.67%) Prometheus
7 3 (2.75%) Docker Swarm
7 3 (2.75%) Grafana
7 3 (2.75%) Progress Chef
7 3 (2.75%) Puppet
8 2 (1.83%) Graylog
8 2 (1.83%) Istio
8 2 (1.83%) Single Sign-On
9 1 (0.92%) Kubeflow
9 1 (0.92%) Kustomize
Vendors
1 16 (14.68%) Oracle
2 11 (10.09%) Microsoft
3 9 (8.26%) Databricks
4 8 (7.34%) Dell
5 7 (6.42%) Veeam
5 7 (6.42%) VMware
6 6 (5.50%) Apple
6 6 (5.50%) Cisco
6 6 (5.50%) Datto
6 6 (5.50%) Red Hat
6 6 (5.50%) Sophos
7 5 (4.59%) SAP
8 4 (3.67%) Google
9 2 (1.83%) Splunk
10 1 (0.92%) Extreme Networks
10 1 (0.92%) NVIDIA