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 1 July 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 58 48 77
Rank change year-on-year -10 +29 -35
Permanent jobs citing Kubernetes 208 127 316
As % of all permanent jobs in the South West 2.58% 4.20% 3.11%
As % of the Systems Management category 44.35% 43.49% 36.70%
Number of salaries quoted 132 75 248
10th Percentile £38,750 £48,165 £45,000
25th Percentile £46,250 £52,500 £53,438
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,500 £71,991 £72,500
Median % change year-on-year -20.13% -0.70% +5.34%
75th Percentile £74,000 £90,000 £87,500
90th Percentile £82,500 £102,410 £92,479
England median annual salary £70,932 £80,000 £77,500
% change year-on-year -11.34% +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 469 292 861
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the South West 5.82% 9.66% 8.48%
Number of salaries quoted 322 206 681
10th Percentile £31,250 £30,000 £31,250
25th Percentile £40,813 £37,500 £41,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £52,500 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year +4.76% - -8.70%
75th Percentile £75,000 £73,750 £73,750
90th Percentile £82,500 £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 1 July 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 1 July 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 -5 86 £68,750 +1.85% 79
Somerset -4 35 £42,500 - 10
Devon -5 27 £55,000 - 4
Wiltshire -1 22 £60,000 +17.51% 8
Bristol -50 22 £62,500 -16.67% 13
Dorset -12 5 £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 (4.33%) Confluence
2 7 (3.37%) Apache Spark
3 5 (2.40%) Apache
4 4 (1.92%) OpenStack
5 1 (0.48%) Apache Airflow
Cloud Services
1 102 (49.04%) Azure
2 82 (39.42%) AWS
3 47 (22.60%) GCP
4 40 (19.23%) GitHub
5 24 (11.54%) GitHub Copilot
6 20 (9.62%) OpenShift
7 19 (9.13%) Azure AKS
7 19 (9.13%) Serverless
8 18 (8.65%) Azure AI
9 17 (8.17%) Amazon S3
10 15 (7.21%) AWS Lambda
11 14 (6.73%) Amazon EKS
11 14 (6.73%) SaaS
12 13 (6.25%) Azure DevOps
13 12 (5.77%) Amazon EC2
14 11 (5.29%) GitHub Actions
15 8 (3.85%) AWS CloudFormation
16 4 (1.92%) AWS CloudTrail
16 4 (1.92%) AWS Fargate
16 4 (1.92%) Datadog
Communications & Networking
1 6 (2.88%) Internet
1 6 (2.88%) Software-Defined Networking
2 5 (2.40%) Firewall
2 5 (2.40%) Network Security
2 5 (2.40%) VPN
3 4 (1.92%) IPv4
3 4 (1.92%) WAN
4 3 (1.44%) AMQP
4 3 (1.44%) Broadband
5 2 (0.96%) BGP
5 2 (0.96%) Ethernet VPN
5 2 (0.96%) LAN
5 2 (0.96%) SD-WAN
5 2 (0.96%) SNMP
5 2 (0.96%) TCP/IP
5 2 (0.96%) VLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 30 (14.42%) MongoDB
2 24 (11.54%) Azure SQL Database
3 18 (8.65%) Elasticsearch
4 14 (6.73%) PostgreSQL
5 11 (5.29%) SQL Server
6 8 (3.85%) InfluxDB
6 8 (3.85%) NoSQL
7 7 (3.37%) Amazon RDS
7 7 (3.37%) MySQL
8 6 (2.88%) Relational Database
9 4 (1.92%) Big Data
9 4 (1.92%) Geospatial Data
10 3 (1.44%) Cloudera CDH
10 3 (1.44%) Hadoop
11 2 (0.96%) DynamoDB
11 2 (0.96%) Flink
11 2 (0.96%) Neo4j
12 1 (0.48%) Amazon Athena
12 1 (0.48%) Apache Cassandra
12 1 (0.48%) MariaDB
Development Applications
1 48 (23.08%) Git
2 35 (16.83%) GitLab
2 35 (16.83%) Jenkins
3 15 (7.21%) Subversion
4 9 (4.33%) Bitbucket
4 9 (4.33%) JIRA
5 8 (3.85%) Eclipse
6 7 (3.37%) Cypress.io
6 7 (3.37%) Robot Framework
6 7 (3.37%) TestRail
7 6 (2.88%) Selenium
8 4 (1.92%) CircleCI
8 4 (1.92%) MSI
9 3 (1.44%) JUnit
9 3 (1.44%) TeamCity
10 1 (0.48%) Cucumber
10 1 (0.48%) Maven
10 1 (0.48%) Mockito
10 1 (0.48%) REST Assured
General
1 43 (20.67%) Social Skills
2 34 (16.35%) Finance
3 21 (10.10%) Aerospace
4 14 (6.73%) Public Sector
5 9 (4.33%) Analytical Skills
6 8 (3.85%) Advertising
6 8 (3.85%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 8 (3.85%) Marketing
6 8 (3.85%) Retail
7 6 (2.88%) Games
8 3 (1.44%) Automotive
8 3 (1.44%) Electronics
8 3 (1.44%) Manufacturing
9 1 (0.48%) Tech for Good
Job Titles
1 61 (29.33%) Developer
2 36 (17.31%) .NET Developer
3 33 (15.87%) Software Engineer
4 30 (14.42%) Senior
5 27 (12.98%) Infrastructure Engineer
6 23 (11.06%) DevOps Engineer
7 14 (6.73%) Java Developer
7 14 (6.73%) Senior Software Engineer
8 13 (6.25%) DevSecOps Engineer
9 12 (5.77%) Lead
10 10 (4.81%) .NET Software Engineer
10 10 (4.81%) Senior .NET Software Engineer
10 10 (4.81%) Test Engineer
11 9 (4.33%) Junior
11 9 (4.33%) Python Engineer
11 9 (4.33%) Software Developer
12 8 (3.85%) .NET Software Developer
12 8 (3.85%) Backend Developer
12 8 (3.85%) Full-Stack Developer
12 8 (3.85%) Platform Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 61 (29.33%) .NET
2 58 (27.88%) .NET Core
3 33 (15.87%) RESTful
4 29 (13.94%) React
5 24 (11.54%) ASP.NET
5 24 (11.54%) ASP.NET Core
6 23 (11.06%) CSS
6 23 (11.06%) REST
7 22 (10.58%) HTML
8 21 (10.10%) Spring
9 20 (9.62%) AngularJS
9 20 (9.62%) Node.js
10 19 (9.13%) Spring Boot
11 18 (8.65%) ML.NET
12 16 (7.69%) Elastic Stack
13 14 (6.73%) .NET Framework
14 12 (5.77%) Vue
15 10 (4.81%) Dapper ORM
15 10 (4.81%) Entity Framework
16 9 (4.33%) Blazor
Miscellaneous
1 37 (17.79%) Cloud Native
2 13 (6.25%) Hybrid Cloud
3 10 (4.81%) Product Ownership
4 8 (3.85%) Distributed Systems
5 6 (2.88%) Onboarding
6 5 (2.40%) Digital TV
7 4 (1.92%) CUDA
7 4 (1.92%) Data Centre
7 4 (1.92%) PKI
8 3 (1.44%) Data Structures
8 3 (1.44%) IoT
8 3 (1.44%) Legacy Systems
8 3 (1.44%) Over-the-Top Content
8 3 (1.44%) Public Cloud
8 3 (1.44%) Renewable Energy
8 3 (1.44%) Self-Motivation
8 3 (1.44%) Video\Live Streaming
9 2 (0.96%) Algorithms
9 2 (0.96%) Blockchain
9 2 (0.96%) Insider Threat
Operating Systems
1 63 (30.29%) Linux
2 28 (13.46%) Windows
3 11 (5.29%) CentOS
3 11 (5.29%) Unix
3 11 (5.29%) Windows Server
4 4 (1.92%) Ubuntu
5 3 (1.44%) Debian
5 3 (1.44%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 1 (0.48%) Rocky
Processes & Methodologies
1 132 (63.46%) CI/CD
2 111 (53.37%) Containerisation
3 83 (39.90%) DevOps
4 80 (38.46%) Infrastructure as Code
5 74 (35.58%) Agile
6 67 (32.21%) Software Engineering
7 52 (25.00%) Full-Stack Development
8 49 (23.56%) Continuous Improvement
9 47 (22.60%) Infrastructure Engineering
10 40 (19.23%) AI
11 34 (16.35%) Problem-Solving
12 33 (15.87%) Microservices
12 33 (15.87%) Test Automation
13 28 (13.46%) Analytics
14 27 (12.98%) Computer Science
15 26 (12.50%) Collaborative Culture
16 25 (12.02%) DevSecOps
17 24 (11.54%) Machine Learning
17 24 (11.54%) SDLC
18 21 (10.10%) Mentoring
Programming Languages
1 95 (45.67%) Python
2 60 (28.85%) Java
3 58 (27.88%) C#
4 47 (22.60%) SQL
5 38 (18.27%) JavaScript
6 34 (16.35%) Bash
7 19 (9.13%) TypeScript
8 16 (7.69%) PowerShell
9 14 (6.73%) C++
10 11 (5.29%) Go
11 9 (4.33%) Bicep
12 7 (3.37%) Scala
13 6 (2.88%) Perl
14 4 (1.92%) C
15 3 (1.44%) PHP
15 3 (1.44%) Shell Script
16 2 (0.96%) Elixir
16 2 (0.96%) Erlang
16 2 (0.96%) Kotlin
16 2 (0.96%) Rust
Qualifications
1 85 (40.87%) Security Cleared
2 40 (19.23%) DV Cleared
3 29 (13.94%) SC Cleared
4 27 (12.98%) Degree
5 25 (12.02%) Computer Science Degree
6 7 (3.37%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
7 6 (2.88%) RHCSA
8 5 (2.40%) ISTQB
8 5 (2.40%) RHCE
9 4 (1.92%) AWS Certification
9 4 (1.92%) CCNA
9 4 (1.92%) Cisco Certification
9 4 (1.92%) Microsoft Certification
9 4 (1.92%) OSCP
10 2 (0.96%) Azure Certification
11 1 (0.48%) ISTQB Advanced Certification
11 1 (0.48%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 19 (9.13%) QA
2 9 (4.33%) Accessibility
3 6 (2.88%) WCAG
4 4 (1.92%) NCSC
5 3 (1.44%) ISO 9001
5 3 (1.44%) ISO/IEC 27001
System Software
1 144 (69.23%) Docker
2 21 (10.10%) VMware Infrastructure
3 7 (3.37%) Active Directory
3 7 (3.37%) Hyper-V
4 6 (2.88%) Virtual Machines
5 5 (2.40%) VMware NSX
6 4 (1.92%) Firmware
6 4 (1.92%) Squid
6 4 (1.92%) vSphere
7 1 (0.48%) Citrix Hypervisor
7 1 (0.48%) KVM
7 1 (0.48%) QEMU
7 1 (0.48%) Slurm Workload Manager
7 1 (0.48%) Xen
Systems Management
1 79 (37.98%) Terraform
2 52 (25.00%) Ansible
3 24 (11.54%) Grafana
4 15 (7.21%) Puppet
5 13 (6.25%) Prometheus
6 9 (4.33%) Rancher
7 8 (3.85%) Argo
8 7 (3.37%) Kibana
8 7 (3.37%) VxRail
8 7 (3.37%) yum
9 6 (2.88%) logstash
9 6 (2.88%) vCenter Server
10 4 (1.92%) Packer
10 4 (1.92%) ZABBIX
11 3 (1.44%) Check_MK
11 3 (1.44%) Nagios
12 2 (0.96%) Istio
12 2 (0.96%) Microsoft Intune
13 1 (0.48%) linkerd
13 1 (0.48%) Podman
Vendors
1 43 (20.67%) Microsoft
2 25 (12.02%) VMware
3 19 (9.13%) Red Hat
4 12 (5.77%) Splunk
5 10 (4.81%) Google
6 8 (3.85%) Atlassian
6 8 (3.85%) Facebook
7 7 (3.37%) Oracle
8 6 (2.88%) BeyondTrust
9 3 (1.44%) Dell
9 3 (1.44%) SaltStack
10 2 (0.96%) Apple
10 2 (0.96%) Cisco
10 2 (0.96%) Databricks
10 2 (0.96%) OneLogin
10 2 (0.96%) OpenAI
10 2 (0.96%) Thales
11 1 (0.48%) Fortinet
11 1 (0.48%) Guidewire
11 1 (0.48%) Juniper