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 12 September 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
12 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 59 71 60
Rank change year-on-year +12 -11 -35
Permanent jobs citing Kubernetes 259 102 247
As % of all permanent jobs in the South West 2.60% 2.93% 3.24%
As % of the Systems Management category 48.32% 37.64% 44.34%
Number of salaries quoted 164 75 164
10th Percentile £38,750 £42,500 £47,875
25th Percentile £49,688 £51,875 £58,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £66,250 £72,500 £75,000
Median % change year-on-year -8.62% -3.33% +11.11%
75th Percentile £85,000 £82,625 £87,500
90th Percentile £96,250 £95,750 £90,875
England median annual salary £70,000 £80,000 £77,500
% change year-on-year -12.50% +3.23% +3.33%

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 536 271 557
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the South West 5.38% 7.79% 7.30%
Number of salaries quoted 361 210 383
10th Percentile £31,250 £30,000 £32,500
25th Percentile £38,750 £32,125 £41,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £48,500 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +23.71% -11.82% -4.35%
75th Percentile £77,500 £70,625 £77,500
90th Percentile £86,250 £82,525 £87,500
England median annual salary £60,000 £62,500 £65,000
% change year-on-year -4.00% -3.85% -

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 12 September 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 12 September 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 +14 147 £77,500 -3.13% 54
Somerset -4 42 £45,000 -40.00% 14
Bristol -51 25 £62,500 -16.67% 20
Wiltshire -4 24 £60,000 +17.51% 4
Devon -14 15 £55,000 - 3
Dorset -23 2 £45,000 -14.29% 14
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 14 (5.41%) Apache
1 14 (5.41%) Apache Spark
2 11 (4.25%) Confluence
3 10 (3.86%) OpenStack
4 1 (0.39%) Apache Airflow
4 1 (0.39%) JBoss
4 1 (0.39%) nginx
Business Applications
1 1 (0.39%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
Cloud Services
1 121 (46.72%) Azure
2 109 (42.08%) AWS
3 49 (18.92%) GCP
4 48 (18.53%) GitHub
5 47 (18.15%) OpenShift
6 28 (10.81%) AWS CloudFormation
7 26 (10.04%) GitHub Copilot
8 20 (7.72%) Azure AI
8 20 (7.72%) Azure DevOps
9 17 (6.56%) Serverless
10 16 (6.18%) Amazon EKS
10 16 (6.18%) Azure AKS
11 14 (5.41%) GitHub Actions
12 11 (4.25%) Amazon S3
13 9 (3.47%) AWS Lambda
13 9 (3.47%) Azure ExpressRoute
13 9 (3.47%) Entra ID
14 7 (2.70%) Amazon EC2
15 6 (2.32%) Amazon ECS
15 6 (2.32%) PaaS
Communications & Networking
1 13 (5.02%) Network Security
1 13 (5.02%) VPN
2 10 (3.86%) Firewall
3 8 (3.09%) Software-Defined Networking
4 7 (2.70%) Internet
5 6 (2.32%) WAN
6 4 (1.54%) BGP
6 4 (1.54%) Ethernet VPN
6 4 (1.54%) IPv4
6 4 (1.54%) SD-WAN
6 4 (1.54%) SNMP
6 4 (1.54%) VLAN
7 3 (1.16%) AMQP
7 3 (1.16%) TCP/IP
8 2 (0.77%) LAN
9 1 (0.39%) DHCP
9 1 (0.39%) DNS
9 1 (0.39%) SSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 33 (12.74%) MongoDB
2 26 (10.04%) Azure SQL Database
3 11 (4.25%) Elasticsearch
3 11 (4.25%) Hadoop
4 10 (3.86%) Big Data
4 10 (3.86%) PostgreSQL
5 9 (3.47%) InfluxDB
6 7 (2.70%) Geospatial Data
7 6 (2.32%) NoSQL
8 5 (1.93%) Data Lake
8 5 (1.93%) Data Warehouse
8 5 (1.93%) MySQL
9 4 (1.54%) Flink
9 4 (1.54%) Relational Database
10 3 (1.16%) Cloudera CDH
10 3 (1.16%) ZAP BI
11 2 (0.77%) Amazon RDS
11 2 (0.77%) DynamoDB
12 1 (0.39%) MariaDB
12 1 (0.39%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 58 (22.39%) Git
2 42 (16.22%) GitLab
3 33 (12.74%) Jenkins
4 16 (6.18%) Subversion
5 13 (5.02%) JIRA
6 10 (3.86%) Cypress.io
6 10 (3.86%) Selenium
7 9 (3.47%) Bitbucket
7 9 (3.47%) Eclipse
7 9 (3.47%) Robot Framework
8 8 (3.09%) TestRail
9 7 (2.70%) MSI
10 5 (1.93%) JUnit
11 3 (1.16%) NUnit
11 3 (1.16%) Postman
11 3 (1.16%) Snyk
11 3 (1.16%) SonarQube
12 1 (0.39%) ER Studio
12 1 (0.39%) ERwin
12 1 (0.39%) Mocha
General
1 53 (20.46%) Finance
2 47 (18.15%) Social Skills
3 26 (10.04%) Public Sector
4 24 (9.27%) Aerospace
5 18 (6.95%) Analytical Skills
5 18 (6.95%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 11 (4.25%) Marketing
7 9 (3.47%) Advertising
7 9 (3.47%) Retail
8 6 (2.32%) Games
9 4 (1.54%) Military
10 3 (1.16%) Legal
11 2 (0.77%) Automotive
11 2 (0.77%) Electronics
11 2 (0.77%) Law
11 2 (0.77%) Manufacturing
12 1 (0.39%) Organisational Skills
Job Titles
1 68 (26.25%) Developer
2 49 (18.92%) DevOps Engineer
3 37 (14.29%) .NET Developer
4 32 (12.36%) Infrastructure Engineer
5 25 (9.65%) Software Engineer
6 20 (7.72%) Senior
7 19 (7.34%) Architect
8 17 (6.56%) Cloud Engineer
8 17 (6.56%) Lead
9 14 (5.41%) Platform Engineer
10 13 (5.02%) Data Engineer
10 13 (5.02%) Principal Engineer
10 13 (5.02%) Software Developer
11 11 (4.25%) Java Developer
12 10 (3.86%) Full-Stack Developer
12 10 (3.86%) Full-Stack Engineer
12 10 (3.86%) Lead DevOps
12 10 (3.86%) Lead DevOps Engineer
13 9 (3.47%) Azure Architect
13 9 (3.47%) Full-Stack Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 127 (49.03%) Terraform
2 54 (20.85%) .NET
3 49 (18.92%) .NET Core
4 43 (16.60%) RESTful
5 36 (13.90%) Spring
5 36 (13.90%) Spring Boot
6 30 (11.58%) CSS
7 28 (10.81%) HTML
7 28 (10.81%) Node.js
8 26 (10.04%) ASP.NET
8 26 (10.04%) ASP.NET Core
8 26 (10.04%) React
9 20 (7.72%) Elastic Stack
9 20 (7.72%) ML.NET
10 19 (7.34%) AngularJS
11 18 (6.95%) REST
12 13 (5.02%) Vue
13 9 (3.47%) Jakarta EE
13 9 (3.47%) pytest
13 9 (3.47%) Struts
Miscellaneous
1 59 (22.78%) Cloud Native
2 18 (6.95%) Hybrid Cloud
3 9 (3.47%) Distributed Systems
3 9 (3.47%) Onboarding
4 8 (3.09%) Legacy Systems
4 8 (3.09%) Product Ownership
5 6 (2.32%) Social Media
6 5 (1.93%) Digital TV
6 5 (1.93%) PKI
7 4 (1.54%) Algorithms
7 4 (1.54%) Data Centre
8 3 (1.16%) Blog
8 3 (1.16%) CUDA
8 3 (1.16%) Data Structures
9 2 (0.77%) Private Cloud
9 2 (0.77%) Public Cloud
9 2 (0.77%) Renewable Energy
10 1 (0.39%) Insider Threat
10 1 (0.39%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 79 (30.50%) Linux
2 30 (11.58%) Windows
3 12 (4.63%) CentOS
3 12 (4.63%) Unix
4 8 (3.09%) Windows Server
5 4 (1.54%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 4 (1.54%) Ubuntu
6 3 (1.16%) Debian
7 1 (0.39%) Rocky
Processes & Methodologies
1 189 (72.97%) CI/CD
2 136 (52.51%) Containerisation
3 135 (52.12%) Infrastructure as Code
4 120 (46.33%) DevOps
5 111 (42.86%) Agile
6 71 (27.41%) Full-Stack Development
7 61 (23.55%) Software Engineering
8 56 (21.62%) Infrastructure Engineering
9 52 (20.08%) AI
10 44 (16.99%) Microservices
10 44 (16.99%) Test Automation
11 42 (16.22%) Continuous Improvement
11 42 (16.22%) Problem-Solving
12 41 (15.83%) DevSecOps
13 34 (13.13%) Machine Learning
14 33 (12.74%) Site Reliability Engineering
15 31 (11.97%) Platform Engineering
16 25 (9.65%) Analytics
17 24 (9.27%) Collaborative Culture
17 24 (9.27%) Computer Science
Programming Languages
1 112 (43.24%) Python
2 79 (30.50%) Java
3 58 (22.39%) JavaScript
4 51 (19.69%) C#
5 47 (18.15%) Bash
6 39 (15.06%) SQL
7 19 (7.34%) TypeScript
8 18 (6.95%) Bicep
8 18 (6.95%) Go
9 14 (5.41%) C++
9 14 (5.41%) PowerShell
10 8 (3.09%) Scala
11 7 (2.70%) Perl
11 7 (2.70%) Rust
12 3 (1.16%) C
13 2 (0.77%) Shell Script
14 1 (0.39%) Kotlin
14 1 (0.39%) Objective-C
Qualifications
1 154 (59.46%) Security Cleared
2 81 (31.27%) DV Cleared
3 64 (24.71%) SC Cleared
4 28 (10.81%) Degree
5 22 (8.49%) Computer Science Degree
6 11 (4.25%) AWS Certification
6 11 (4.25%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
7 6 (2.32%) RHCSA
8 5 (1.93%) RHCE
9 4 (1.54%) Azure Certification
9 4 (1.54%) CCNA
9 4 (1.54%) Cisco Certification
9 4 (1.54%) ISTQB
9 4 (1.54%) Microsoft Certification
9 4 (1.54%) OCP
9 4 (1.54%) Oracle Certification
9 4 (1.54%) OSCP
10 3 (1.16%) AWS Certified Developer
10 3 (1.16%) BPSS Clearance
11 1 (0.39%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 21 (8.11%) Accessibility
2 11 (4.25%) QA
2 11 (4.25%) WCAG
3 10 (3.86%) NCSC
4 5 (1.93%) Data Quality
5 3 (1.16%) NIST
6 1 (0.39%) California Consumer Privacy Act
6 1 (0.39%) GDPR
6 1 (0.39%) HIPAA
System Software
1 168 (64.86%) Docker
2 27 (10.42%) VMware Infrastructure
3 14 (5.41%) Active Directory
4 6 (2.32%) Virtual Machines
4 6 (2.32%) VMware NSX
5 5 (1.93%) Hyper-V
6 4 (1.54%) Ceph
6 4 (1.54%) Squid
6 4 (1.54%) vSphere
7 1 (0.39%) Citrix Hypervisor
7 1 (0.39%) Firmware
7 1 (0.39%) KVM
7 1 (0.39%) QEMU
7 1 (0.39%) Slurm Workload Manager
7 1 (0.39%) Virtual Desktop
7 1 (0.39%) VMware ESXi
7 1 (0.39%) Xen
Systems Management
1 84 (32.43%) Ansible
2 21 (8.11%) Grafana
2 21 (8.11%) Puppet
3 17 (6.56%) Prometheus
4 14 (5.41%) Argo
5 9 (3.47%) Rancher
6 7 (2.70%) Check_MK
6 7 (2.70%) Istio
6 7 (2.70%) vCenter Server
6 7 (2.70%) yum
7 6 (2.32%) Kibana
7 6 (2.32%) logstash
8 4 (1.54%) Nagios
8 4 (1.54%) Packer
8 4 (1.54%) Podman
8 4 (1.54%) VxRail
8 4 (1.54%) ZABBIX
9 3 (1.16%) Docker Swarm
9 3 (1.16%) linkerd
9 3 (1.16%) Mesos
Vendors
1 51 (19.69%) Microsoft
2 35 (13.51%) VMware
3 28 (10.81%) Red Hat
4 13 (5.02%) Splunk
5 10 (3.86%) Atlassian
5 10 (3.86%) Google
6 9 (3.47%) Facebook
7 7 (2.70%) Oracle
8 5 (1.93%) Databricks
8 5 (1.93%) Dell
9 4 (1.54%) OneLogin
10 3 (1.16%) BeyondTrust
10 3 (1.16%) SaltStack
11 2 (0.77%) Cisco
11 2 (0.77%) OpenAI
12 1 (0.39%) Apple
12 1 (0.39%) Fortinet
12 1 (0.39%) Juniper
12 1 (0.39%) New Relic
12 1 (0.39%) Sparx