Kubernetes Jobs in the South West

Kubernetes (k8s)
England > South West

The table below provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in the South West requiring Kubernetes skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the annual salaries offered in vacancies that cited Kubernetes over the 6 months leading up to 2 July 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
2 Jul 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 60 65 37
Rank change year-on-year +5 -28 -2
Permanent jobs citing Kubernetes 134 369 459
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the South West 3.57% 3.53% 7.12%
As % of the Systems Management category 41.23% 39.76% 50.83%
Number of salaries quoted 76 248 295
10th Percentile £48,165 £45,000 £46,250
25th Percentile £52,500 £53,438 £52,875
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £71,991 £72,500 £68,823
Median % change year-on-year -0.70% +5.34% +2.19%
75th Percentile £90,000 £87,500 £82,500
90th Percentile £102,410 £92,479 £92,128
England median annual salary £80,000 £77,500 £77,500
% change year-on-year +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 325 928 903
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the South West 8.66% 8.87% 14.01%
Number of salaries quoted 208 684 596
10th Percentile £30,000 £31,250 £31,250
25th Percentile £37,500 £41,500 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £52,500 £52,500 £57,500
Median % change year-on-year - -8.70% +4.55%
75th Percentile £73,750 £73,750 £76,500
90th Percentile £95,000 £87,500 £87,419
England median annual salary £67,500 £62,500 £67,500
% change year-on-year +8.00% -7.41% -3.57%

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

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing Kubernetes in the South West.

Salary trend for Kubernetes in the South West

Kubernetes
Salary Histogram in the South West

Salary distribution for jobs citing Kubernetes in the South West over the 6 months to 2 July 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 2 July 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
Gloucestershire +2 51 £67,500 +3.85% 164
Bristol -2 51 £73,496 -8.13% 104
Dorset +40 18 £45,000 -21.74% 39
Wiltshire +43 8 £51,058 +2.12% 28
Devon +24 4 - - 42
Somerset +14 1 - - 58
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 20 (14.93%) Jupyter
2 5 (3.73%) OpenStack
3 4 (2.99%) Confluence
4 1 (0.75%) Apache Airflow
4 1 (0.75%) Apache Spark
4 1 (0.75%) CMS
4 1 (0.75%) IIS
Cloud Services
1 77 (57.46%) AWS
2 54 (40.30%) Azure
3 24 (17.91%) GCP
4 16 (11.94%) Serverless
5 12 (8.96%) Amazon EKS
6 11 (8.21%) Amazon S3
7 10 (7.46%) AWS Lambda
8 9 (6.72%) Amazon ECS
8 9 (6.72%) Azure DevOps
9 7 (5.22%) Pulumi
10 6 (4.48%) Amazon EC2
10 6 (4.48%) AWS CloudFormation
11 5 (3.73%) Power Platform
12 4 (2.99%) Amazon Bedrock
12 4 (2.99%) Amazon SageMaker
12 4 (2.99%) Azure Stack
12 4 (2.99%) Entra ID
12 4 (2.99%) GitHub
12 4 (2.99%) GitHub Actions
12 4 (2.99%) Virtual Private Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 6 (4.48%) Broadband
2 4 (2.99%) Internet
3 3 (2.24%) Firewall
3 3 (2.24%) VPN
4 2 (1.49%) DNS
4 2 (1.49%) Reverse Proxy
5 1 (0.75%) Cisco IOS
5 1 (0.75%) DHCP
5 1 (0.75%) IPsec
5 1 (0.75%) NAS
5 1 (0.75%) SAN
5 1 (0.75%) VLAN
5 1 (0.75%) VoIP
5 1 (0.75%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 29 (21.64%) Big Data
2 14 (10.45%) PostgreSQL
2 14 (10.45%) Relational Database
3 13 (9.70%) NoSQL
4 8 (5.97%) MySQL
5 6 (4.48%) MongoDB
5 6 (4.48%) RDBMS
6 5 (3.73%) Amazon Aurora
6 5 (3.73%) BigQuery
6 5 (3.73%) Data Hub
6 5 (3.73%) Data Warehouse
6 5 (3.73%) Looker
6 5 (3.73%) Power BI
6 5 (3.73%) Redis
6 5 (3.73%) Tableau
7 4 (2.99%) CockroachDB
7 4 (2.99%) SQL Server
8 3 (2.24%) Amazon RDS
8 3 (2.24%) Data Lake
9 2 (1.49%) Elasticsearch
Development Applications
1 22 (16.42%) Jenkins
2 12 (8.96%) GitLab
3 11 (8.21%) Git
4 6 (4.48%) Jaeger
4 6 (4.48%) Selenium
5 5 (3.73%) JUnit
5 5 (3.73%) SonarQube
6 4 (2.99%) IBM UrbanCode
6 4 (2.99%) JIRA
6 4 (2.99%) Locust
7 3 (2.24%) Cypress.io
7 3 (2.24%) Mockito
8 2 (1.49%) Fiddler
8 2 (1.49%) Maven
8 2 (1.49%) Postman
8 2 (1.49%) Sonatype Nexus
8 2 (1.49%) TeamCity
8 2 (1.49%) Visual Studio
9 1 (0.75%) MLflow
9 1 (0.75%) Octopus Deploy
General
1 61 (45.52%) Finance
2 45 (33.58%) Inclusion and Diversity
3 28 (20.90%) Banking
4 20 (14.93%) Social Skills
5 17 (12.69%) Law
6 16 (11.94%) Public Sector
7 10 (7.46%) Analytical Skills
7 10 (7.46%) Marketing
8 3 (2.24%) Documentation Skills
8 3 (2.24%) Electronics
8 3 (2.24%) Financial Institution
8 3 (2.24%) Manufacturing
8 3 (2.24%) Telecoms
9 2 (1.49%) Military
9 2 (1.49%) Presentation Skills
9 2 (1.49%) Retail
10 1 (0.75%) Aerospace
10 1 (0.75%) Games
10 1 (0.75%) Health Technology
10 1 (0.75%) Wholesale Banking
Job Titles
1 38 (28.36%) Senior
2 28 (20.90%) Software Engineer
3 23 (17.16%) Lead
4 20 (14.93%) Data Scientist
4 20 (14.93%) Senior Data Scientist
5 19 (14.18%) Developer
6 17 (12.69%) DevOps Engineer
7 7 (5.22%) Infrastructure Engineer
7 7 (5.22%) Python Engineer
7 7 (5.22%) Python Software Engineer
8 6 (4.48%) Architect
8 6 (4.48%) Cloud Engineer
8 6 (4.48%) Operations Engineer
8 6 (4.48%) Senior Developer
8 6 (4.48%) Software Developer
8 6 (4.48%) Team Leader
9 5 (3.73%) Lead Data Engineer
9 5 (3.73%) Lead Software Engineer
9 5 (3.73%) Provisioning Engineer
9 5 (3.73%) Security Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 21 (15.67%) Spring Boot
2 16 (11.94%) Spring
3 15 (11.19%) Kafka
4 12 (8.96%) React
5 11 (8.21%) RESTful
6 8 (5.97%) .NET
6 8 (5.97%) Elastic Stack
6 8 (5.97%) REST
7 7 (5.22%) pytest
8 6 (4.48%) AngularJS
8 6 (4.48%) OAuth
8 6 (4.48%) OpenTelemetry
9 5 (3.73%) HTML
9 5 (3.73%) Keycloak
10 4 (2.99%) .NET Core
10 4 (2.99%) AWS CDK
10 4 (2.99%) CSS
10 4 (2.99%) GraphQL
10 4 (2.99%) Playwright
10 4 (2.99%) PySpark
Miscellaneous
1 24 (17.91%) Algorithms
2 21 (15.67%) Cyberattack
3 13 (9.70%) Public Cloud
4 12 (8.96%) Cloud Native
5 9 (6.72%) Data Centre
6 8 (5.97%) Data Structures
7 7 (5.22%) Onboarding
7 7 (5.22%) Private Cloud
8 6 (4.48%) Hybrid Cloud
9 5 (3.73%) Cloud Security Posture
9 5 (3.73%) Security Posture
10 4 (2.99%) Reinsurance
11 3 (2.24%) CUDA
11 3 (2.24%) Device Driver
11 3 (2.24%) Distributed Systems
11 3 (2.24%) PCIe
11 3 (2.24%) Product Ownership
12 2 (1.49%) PKI
12 2 (1.49%) Reference Data
12 2 (1.49%) Replication
Operating Systems
1 33 (24.63%) Linux
2 15 (11.19%) Windows
3 9 (6.72%) Unix
4 5 (3.73%) Windows Server
5 4 (2.99%) Rocky
5 4 (2.99%) Windows Server 2019
6 2 (1.49%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
7 1 (0.75%) Android
7 1 (0.75%) Mac OS
7 1 (0.75%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 77 (57.46%) DevOps
2 64 (47.76%) Software Engineering
3 59 (44.03%) CI/CD
4 57 (42.54%) Mentoring
5 55 (41.04%) Containerisation
6 44 (32.84%) Agile
7 42 (31.34%) Microservices
8 38 (28.36%) Artificial Intelligence
9 37 (27.61%) Machine Learning
10 36 (26.87%) Problem-Solving
11 31 (23.13%) Visualisation
12 26 (19.40%) Data Science
12 26 (19.40%) Infrastructure as Code
13 24 (17.91%) Mathematics
14 23 (17.16%) Computer Science
15 21 (15.67%) MLOps
15 21 (15.67%) Statistics
16 20 (14.93%) Data-Driven Decision Making
16 20 (14.93%) Decision-Making
16 20 (14.93%) LLM
Programming Languages
1 67 (50.00%) Python
2 64 (47.76%) Java
3 42 (31.34%) JavaScript
4 29 (21.64%) SQL
5 15 (11.19%) Bash
6 13 (9.70%) Go
7 8 (5.97%) TypeScript
8 6 (4.48%) C++
9 5 (3.73%) C#
9 5 (3.73%) PowerShell
10 3 (2.24%) C
10 3 (2.24%) Rust
11 1 (0.75%) PHP
Qualifications
1 56 (41.79%) Security Cleared
2 43 (32.09%) DV Cleared
3 26 (19.40%) Degree
4 21 (15.67%) AWS Certification
5 20 (14.93%) Computer Science Degree
6 19 (14.18%) SC Cleared
7 8 (5.97%) BPSS Clearance
8 6 (4.48%) Azure Certification
9 5 (3.73%) (ISC)2 CCSP
9 5 (3.73%) Cisco Certification
9 5 (3.73%) CISM
9 5 (3.73%) CISSP
9 5 (3.73%) CompTIA Security+
10 4 (2.99%) Network+ Certification
11 2 (1.49%) AWS Certified Developer
11 2 (1.49%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
11 2 (1.49%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
12 1 (0.75%) ACMT
12 1 (0.75%) Microsoft Certification
12 1 (0.75%) RHCSA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (1.49%) GDPR
1 2 (1.49%) HIPAA
1 2 (1.49%) NIST
1 2 (1.49%) PCI DSS
2 1 (0.75%) Cyber Essentials
2 1 (0.75%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 1 (0.75%) SOC 2
System Software
1 103 (76.87%) Docker
2 5 (3.73%) Hyper-V
3 4 (2.99%) Active Directory
4 3 (2.24%) Firmware
5 2 (1.49%) Virtual Machines
5 2 (1.49%) VMware Infrastructure
6 1 (0.75%) Slurm Workload Manager
6 1 (0.75%) VMware ESXi
6 1 (0.75%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 44 (32.84%) Terraform
2 22 (16.42%) Ansible
3 11 (8.21%) Argo
4 9 (6.72%) Prometheus
5 6 (4.48%) Kustomize
6 3 (2.24%) Grafana
6 3 (2.24%) Progress Chef
7 2 (1.49%) Graylog
7 2 (1.49%) Istio
7 2 (1.49%) Microsoft Intune
7 2 (1.49%) Podman
7 2 (1.49%) Single Sign-On
7 2 (1.49%) vCenter Server
8 1 (0.75%) Autotask
8 1 (0.75%) Kubeflow
8 1 (0.75%) Packer
8 1 (0.75%) Puppet
Vendors
1 18 (13.43%) Google
2 11 (8.21%) Databricks
2 11 (8.21%) Oracle
3 6 (4.48%) Microsoft
4 5 (3.73%) Graphcore
5 4 (2.99%) Dell
6 3 (2.24%) SAP
7 2 (1.49%) Dynatrace
7 2 (1.49%) Red Hat
7 2 (1.49%) Splunk
7 2 (1.49%) Veeam
7 2 (1.49%) VMware
8 1 (0.75%) Apple
8 1 (0.75%) Cisco
8 1 (0.75%) Datto
8 1 (0.75%) Extreme Networks
8 1 (0.75%) Sophos