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 10 November 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
10 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 72 50 23
Rank change year-on-year -22 -27 +33
Permanent jobs citing Kubernetes 123 232 399
As % of all permanent jobs in the South West 3.03% 3.86% 8.77%
As % of the Systems Management category 40.59% 45.05% 47.50%
Number of salaries quoted 97 150 300
10th Percentile £42,500 £47,500 £46,125
25th Percentile £48,165 £56,563 £51,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £71,250 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year -8.77% +9.62% +1.63%
75th Percentile £80,000 £85,000 £82,500
90th Percentile £95,000 £92,500 £91,934
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 303 515 840
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the South West 7.46% 8.56% 18.46%
Number of salaries quoted 241 326 656
10th Percentile £30,000 £32,500 £32,500
25th Percentile £32,750 £42,500 £43,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £48,500 £60,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -19.17% +9.09% -
75th Percentile £71,250 £77,500 £72,500
90th Percentile £83,750 £87,500 £85,000
England median annual salary £60,000 £68,000 £65,000
% change year-on-year -11.76% +4.62% -3.70%

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 10 November 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 10 November 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 -24 33 £75,000 - 42
Gloucestershire -1 32 £76,250 +17.31% 72
Dorset +3 22 £60,000 +9.09% 1
Somerset - 19 £45,000 - 17
Devon +4 6 £55,000 -10.20% 3
Wiltshire +17 4 £51,058 -11.20% 17
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 6 (4.88%) IIS
2 3 (2.44%) Apache
3 2 (1.63%) Apache Spark
4 1 (0.81%) Apache Airflow
4 1 (0.81%) Apache Superset
4 1 (0.81%) JBoss
Cloud Services
1 71 (57.72%) AWS
1 71 (57.72%) Azure
2 21 (17.07%) Serverless
3 19 (15.45%) Amazon S3
4 18 (14.63%) Azure DevOps
5 17 (13.82%) AWS Lambda
5 17 (13.82%) GitHub
6 15 (12.20%) GitHub Actions
7 13 (10.57%) Amazon ECS
8 11 (8.94%) GCP
9 9 (7.32%) Amazon EKS
9 9 (7.32%) Azure Stack
10 8 (6.50%) Azure AKS
10 8 (6.50%) Entra ID
10 8 (6.50%) OpenShift
11 6 (4.88%) Microsoft 365
12 5 (4.07%) Amazon EC2
13 4 (3.25%) Amazon Bedrock
13 4 (3.25%) Amazon SageMaker
14 3 (2.44%) Azure Cosmos DB
Communications & Networking
1 12 (9.76%) Firewall
2 8 (6.50%) VPN
3 7 (5.69%) VLAN
4 6 (4.88%) Cisco IOS
4 6 (4.88%) DHCP
4 6 (4.88%) DNS
4 6 (4.88%) IPsec
4 6 (4.88%) VoIP
4 6 (4.88%) Wireless
5 5 (4.07%) AMQP
6 4 (3.25%) Internet
7 1 (0.81%) Broadband
7 1 (0.81%) Network Security
7 1 (0.81%) VSAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 11 (8.94%) Amazon RDS
1 11 (8.94%) PostgreSQL
1 11 (8.94%) Relational Database
2 9 (7.32%) SQL Server
3 6 (4.88%) Amazon Aurora
3 6 (4.88%) MySQL
3 6 (4.88%) NoSQL
4 5 (4.07%) InfluxDB
5 4 (3.25%) Big Data
5 4 (3.25%) CockroachDB
6 2 (1.63%) Apache Cassandra
6 2 (1.63%) Elasticsearch
6 2 (1.63%) Geospatial Data
6 2 (1.63%) InterSystems Cache
6 2 (1.63%) Metadata
6 2 (1.63%) MongoDB
6 2 (1.63%) Neo4j
6 2 (1.63%) Redis
6 2 (1.63%) Spark SQL
7 1 (0.81%) Weaviate
Development Applications
1 17 (13.82%) Jenkins
2 7 (5.69%) Selenium
3 5 (4.07%) GitLab
4 4 (3.25%) Git
4 4 (3.25%) JUnit
4 4 (3.25%) Locust
5 3 (2.44%) Cypress.io
5 3 (2.44%) Mockito
6 2 (1.63%) Cucumber
6 2 (1.63%) Robot Framework
6 2 (1.63%) TestRail
7 1 (0.81%) Atlassian Bamboo
7 1 (0.81%) Jaeger
7 1 (0.81%) MLflow
7 1 (0.81%) Octopus Deploy
7 1 (0.81%) Subversion
General
1 32 (26.02%) Finance
2 25 (20.33%) Public Sector
3 23 (18.70%) Social Skills
4 19 (15.45%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 18 (14.63%) Law
6 13 (10.57%) Marketing
7 10 (8.13%) Banking
8 6 (4.88%) Analytical Skills
8 6 (4.88%) Electronics
8 6 (4.88%) Manufacturing
8 6 (4.88%) Telecoms
9 4 (3.25%) Documentation Skills
10 3 (2.44%) Financial Institution
11 2 (1.63%) Aerospace
11 2 (1.63%) Games
11 2 (1.63%) Retail
12 1 (0.81%) Military
12 1 (0.81%) Tech for Good
12 1 (0.81%) Wholesale Banking
Job Titles
1 26 (21.14%) Software Engineer
2 21 (17.07%) Developer
3 16 (13.01%) DevOps Engineer
3 16 (13.01%) Senior
4 14 (11.38%) IT Engineer
5 13 (10.57%) Platform Engineer
6 10 (8.13%) Infrastructure Engineer
6 10 (8.13%) Lead
6 10 (8.13%) Software Developer
7 8 (6.50%) Architect
7 8 (6.50%) IT Infrastructure Engineer
7 8 (6.50%) Python Engineer
7 8 (6.50%) Python Software Engineer
8 7 (5.69%) Full-Stack Engineer
8 7 (5.69%) Full-Stack Software Engineer
8 7 (5.69%) Java Engineer
9 6 (4.88%) IT Support
9 6 (4.88%) IT Support Engineer
9 6 (4.88%) Senior IT Support
9 6 (4.88%) Senior Support Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 22 (17.89%) Spring
1 22 (17.89%) Spring Boot
2 19 (15.45%) React
3 14 (11.38%) Kafka
4 13 (10.57%) .NET
5 12 (9.76%) YAML
6 10 (8.13%) .NET Core
6 10 (8.13%) RESTful
7 8 (6.50%) AngularJS
8 5 (4.07%) pytest
9 4 (3.25%) Elastic Stack
9 4 (3.25%) Playwright
9 4 (3.25%) RabbitMQ
10 2 (1.63%) ARM Templates
10 2 (1.63%) CSS
10 2 (1.63%) HTML5
10 2 (1.63%) MERN Stack
10 2 (1.63%) Node.js
10 2 (1.63%) PySpark
10 2 (1.63%) scikit-learn
Miscellaneous
1 34 (27.64%) Cloud Native
2 10 (8.13%) Public Cloud
3 9 (7.32%) Hybrid Cloud
4 8 (6.50%) Data Centre
4 8 (6.50%) Onboarding
5 6 (4.88%) Clustering
5 6 (4.88%) Data Structures
6 5 (4.07%) Legacy Systems
6 5 (4.07%) Linux Command Line
6 5 (4.07%) Product Ownership
7 4 (3.25%) Algorithms
8 3 (2.44%) Cloud Security Posture
8 3 (2.44%) Enterprise Software
8 3 (2.44%) Security Posture
9 2 (1.63%) Legacy Applications
9 2 (1.63%) Private Cloud
10 1 (0.81%) CUDA
10 1 (0.81%) Data Fabric
10 1 (0.81%) Distributed Systems
10 1 (0.81%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 37 (30.08%) Linux
2 25 (20.33%) Windows
3 17 (13.82%) Windows Server
4 8 (6.50%) Rocky
4 8 (6.50%) Windows Server 2019
5 6 (4.88%) Mac OS
6 5 (4.07%) Ubuntu
7 4 (3.25%) Debian
8 3 (2.44%) CentOS
9 2 (1.63%) Unix
10 1 (0.81%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
10 1 (0.81%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 71 (57.72%) CI/CD
2 66 (53.66%) Containerisation
3 53 (43.09%) DevOps
4 40 (32.52%) Agile
4 40 (32.52%) Infrastructure as Code
4 40 (32.52%) Software Engineering
5 28 (22.76%) Infrastructure Engineering
6 23 (18.70%) AI
7 20 (16.26%) Machine Learning
8 19 (15.45%) Continuous Improvement
8 19 (15.45%) Mentoring
8 19 (15.45%) Microservices
9 15 (12.20%) Collaborative Culture
10 14 (11.38%) Coaching
10 14 (11.38%) Event-Driven
10 14 (11.38%) Full-Stack Development
10 14 (11.38%) Platform Engineering
11 13 (10.57%) Scrum
11 13 (10.57%) SDLC
12 11 (8.94%) Test Automation
Programming Languages
1 48 (39.02%) Python
2 41 (33.33%) Java
3 21 (17.07%) SQL
4 16 (13.01%) JavaScript
4 16 (13.01%) PowerShell
5 15 (12.20%) Bicep
6 12 (9.76%) C#
7 11 (8.94%) Bash
8 10 (8.13%) TypeScript
9 8 (6.50%) Go
10 3 (2.44%) Shell Script
11 2 (1.63%) C
11 2 (1.63%) C++
11 2 (1.63%) Kotlin
11 2 (1.63%) Rust
12 1 (0.81%) Delphi
12 1 (0.81%) PHP
12 1 (0.81%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 44 (35.77%) Security Cleared
2 30 (24.39%) SC Cleared
3 29 (23.58%) DV Cleared
4 14 (11.38%) AWS Certification
5 12 (9.76%) Azure Certification
6 8 (6.50%) BPSS Clearance
6 8 (6.50%) Network+ Certification
7 7 (5.69%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
8 6 (4.88%) ACMT
8 6 (4.88%) Degree
9 4 (3.25%) Cisco Certification
10 3 (2.44%) (ISC)2 CCSP
10 3 (2.44%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
10 3 (2.44%) CISM
10 3 (2.44%) CISSP
10 3 (2.44%) CompTIA Security+
10 3 (2.44%) Computer Science Degree
11 2 (1.63%) AWS Certified Developer
11 2 (1.63%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
12 1 (0.81%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 6 (4.88%) Cyber Essentials
2 3 (2.44%) GDPR
3 2 (1.63%) HIPAA
3 2 (1.63%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 2 (1.63%) NCSC
3 2 (1.63%) PCI DSS
3 2 (1.63%) QA
4 1 (0.81%) Data Quality
4 1 (0.81%) SOC 2
System Software
1 82 (66.67%) Docker
2 14 (11.38%) Hyper-V
3 9 (7.32%) Active Directory
4 8 (6.50%) VMware ESXi
5 7 (5.69%) VMware Infrastructure
6 1 (0.81%) Virtual Machines
6 1 (0.81%) VMware NSX
6 1 (0.81%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 31 (25.20%) Terraform
2 18 (14.63%) Ansible
3 7 (5.69%) vCenter Server
4 6 (4.88%) Autotask
4 6 (4.88%) Grafana
4 6 (4.88%) Microsoft Intune
5 4 (3.25%) Prometheus
6 3 (2.44%) Docker Swarm
6 3 (2.44%) Progress Chef
7 2 (1.63%) Argo
7 2 (1.63%) Puppet
8 1 (0.81%) Kubeflow
8 1 (0.81%) Kustomize
8 1 (0.81%) Rancher
8 1 (0.81%) Single Sign-On
8 1 (0.81%) yum
Vendors
1 17 (13.82%) Oracle
2 14 (11.38%) Microsoft
3 8 (6.50%) Databricks
3 8 (6.50%) Dell
4 7 (5.69%) Cisco
4 7 (5.69%) Red Hat
4 7 (5.69%) VMware
5 6 (4.88%) Apple
5 6 (4.88%) Datto
5 6 (4.88%) SAP
5 6 (4.88%) Sophos
5 6 (4.88%) Veeam
6 5 (4.07%) Google
7 3 (2.44%) Splunk
8 1 (0.81%) Extreme Networks
8 1 (0.81%) Fortinet
8 1 (0.81%) NVIDIA
8 1 (0.81%) Palo Alto