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

6 months to
11 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 53 51 78
Rank change year-on-year -2 +27 -36
Permanent jobs citing Kubernetes 228 130 295
As % of all permanent jobs in the South West 2.76% 3.95% 3.01%
As % of the Systems Management category 45.33% 42.48% 35.89%
Number of salaries quoted 146 78 229
10th Percentile £38,750 £47,966 £45,000
25th Percentile £47,750 £52,500 £52,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,500 £71,991 £75,000
Median % change year-on-year -20.13% -4.01% +8.00%
75th Percentile £77,500 £89,375 £87,500
90th Percentile £91,500 £102,410 £90,250
England median annual salary £70,079 £80,000 £77,500
% change year-on-year -12.40% +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 503 306 822
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the South West 6.08% 9.31% 8.40%
Number of salaries quoted 345 219 646
10th Percentile £31,250 £30,000 £30,875
25th Percentile £40,750 £36,250 £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 £72,500 £75,000
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 11 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 11 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 -1 101 £75,000 +7.14% 38
Somerset +2 39 £42,500 - 6
Devon 0 29 £55,000 - 4
Wiltshire -3 23 £60,000 +17.51% 3
Bristol -51 22 £62,500 -13.18% 10
Dorset -17 5 £45,000 - 2
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 10 (4.39%) Confluence
2 7 (3.07%) Apache Spark
3 5 (2.19%) Apache
4 4 (1.75%) OpenStack
5 1 (0.44%) Apache Airflow
Cloud Services
1 110 (48.25%) Azure
2 86 (37.72%) AWS
3 48 (21.05%) GCP
4 44 (19.30%) GitHub
5 28 (12.28%) GitHub Copilot
6 24 (10.53%) OpenShift
7 21 (9.21%) Azure AI
8 20 (8.77%) Serverless
9 19 (8.33%) Azure AKS
10 16 (7.02%) Amazon S3
11 15 (6.58%) Azure DevOps
12 14 (6.14%) AWS Lambda
12 14 (6.14%) SaaS
13 13 (5.70%) Amazon EKS
14 12 (5.26%) Amazon EC2
15 11 (4.82%) GitHub Actions
16 10 (4.39%) AWS CloudFormation
17 4 (1.75%) AWS CloudTrail
17 4 (1.75%) Datadog
17 4 (1.75%) Entra ID
Communications & Networking
1 7 (3.07%) Internet
1 7 (3.07%) Network Security
1 7 (3.07%) Software-Defined Networking
1 7 (3.07%) VPN
2 6 (2.63%) Firewall
3 5 (2.19%) WAN
4 4 (1.75%) IPv4
5 3 (1.32%) AMQP
5 3 (1.32%) BGP
5 3 (1.32%) Ethernet VPN
5 3 (1.32%) SD-WAN
5 3 (1.32%) SNMP
5 3 (1.32%) VLAN
6 2 (0.88%) Broadband
6 2 (0.88%) LAN
6 2 (0.88%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 34 (14.91%) MongoDB
2 28 (12.28%) Azure SQL Database
3 19 (8.33%) Elasticsearch
4 13 (5.70%) PostgreSQL
5 10 (4.39%) SQL Server
6 9 (3.95%) InfluxDB
7 7 (3.07%) Amazon RDS
7 7 (3.07%) MySQL
7 7 (3.07%) NoSQL
8 5 (2.19%) Geospatial Data
8 5 (2.19%) Relational Database
9 4 (1.75%) Big Data
10 3 (1.32%) Cloudera CDH
10 3 (1.32%) Hadoop
11 2 (0.88%) DynamoDB
11 2 (0.88%) Flink
11 2 (0.88%) Neo4j
12 1 (0.44%) Amazon Athena
12 1 (0.44%) Apache Cassandra
12 1 (0.44%) MariaDB
Development Applications
1 53 (23.25%) Git
2 39 (17.11%) GitLab
3 35 (15.35%) Jenkins
4 16 (7.02%) Subversion
5 10 (4.39%) JIRA
6 9 (3.95%) Bitbucket
7 8 (3.51%) Cypress.io
7 8 (3.51%) Eclipse
7 8 (3.51%) Robot Framework
7 8 (3.51%) TestRail
8 7 (3.07%) Selenium
9 5 (2.19%) MSI
10 4 (1.75%) CircleCI
11 3 (1.32%) JUnit
12 2 (0.88%) TeamCity
13 1 (0.44%) Cucumber
13 1 (0.44%) Maven
13 1 (0.44%) Mockito
General
1 43 (18.86%) Social Skills
2 38 (16.67%) Finance
3 22 (9.65%) Aerospace
4 17 (7.46%) Public Sector
5 11 (4.82%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 10 (4.39%) Advertising
6 10 (4.39%) Marketing
7 8 (3.51%) Analytical Skills
7 8 (3.51%) Retail
8 7 (3.07%) Games
9 3 (1.32%) Automotive
9 3 (1.32%) Electronics
9 3 (1.32%) Manufacturing
10 1 (0.44%) Tech for Good
Job Titles
1 66 (28.95%) Developer
2 40 (17.54%) .NET Developer
3 37 (16.23%) Software Engineer
4 31 (13.60%) DevOps Engineer
4 31 (13.60%) Senior
5 30 (13.16%) Infrastructure Engineer
6 14 (6.14%) Java Developer
6 14 (6.14%) Lead
7 13 (5.70%) Senior Software Engineer
8 12 (5.26%) DevSecOps Engineer
9 10 (4.39%) Test Engineer
10 9 (3.95%) .NET Software Engineer
10 9 (3.95%) Cloud Engineer
10 9 (3.95%) Full-Stack Developer
10 9 (3.95%) Full-Stack Engineer
10 9 (3.95%) Junior
10 9 (3.95%) Platform Engineer
10 9 (3.95%) Python Engineer
10 9 (3.95%) Senior .NET Software Engineer
10 9 (3.95%) Software Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 64 (28.07%) .NET
2 60 (26.32%) .NET Core
3 35 (15.35%) RESTful
4 28 (12.28%) ASP.NET
4 28 (12.28%) ASP.NET Core
4 28 (12.28%) CSS
4 28 (12.28%) Spring
5 27 (11.84%) Spring Boot
6 26 (11.40%) HTML
6 26 (11.40%) React
7 23 (10.09%) REST
8 21 (9.21%) AngularJS
8 21 (9.21%) ML.NET
9 20 (8.77%) Node.js
10 17 (7.46%) Elastic Stack
11 14 (6.14%) .NET Framework
11 14 (6.14%) Vue
12 10 (4.39%) Blazor
13 9 (3.95%) Dapper ORM
13 9 (3.95%) FastAPI
Miscellaneous
1 44 (19.30%) Cloud Native
2 14 (6.14%) Hybrid Cloud
3 11 (4.82%) Product Ownership
4 10 (4.39%) Distributed Systems
5 7 (3.07%) Onboarding
6 5 (2.19%) Digital TV
7 4 (1.75%) CUDA
7 4 (1.75%) Data Centre
7 4 (1.75%) PKI
8 3 (1.32%) Data Structures
8 3 (1.32%) IoT
8 3 (1.32%) Legacy Systems
8 3 (1.32%) Public Cloud
8 3 (1.32%) Renewable Energy
8 3 (1.32%) Self-Motivation
9 2 (0.88%) Algorithms
9 2 (0.88%) Insider Threat
9 2 (0.88%) Over-the-Top Content
9 2 (0.88%) Video\Live Streaming
10 1 (0.44%) Private Cloud
Operating Systems
1 69 (30.26%) Linux
2 30 (13.16%) Windows
3 12 (5.26%) CentOS
4 11 (4.82%) Unix
4 11 (4.82%) Windows Server
5 4 (1.75%) Ubuntu
6 3 (1.32%) Debian
6 3 (1.32%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
7 1 (0.44%) Rocky
Processes & Methodologies
1 148 (64.91%) CI/CD
2 122 (53.51%) Containerisation
3 95 (41.67%) Infrastructure as Code
4 92 (40.35%) DevOps
5 83 (36.40%) Agile
6 68 (29.82%) Software Engineering
7 62 (27.19%) Full-Stack Development
8 51 (22.37%) Infrastructure Engineering
9 48 (21.05%) Continuous Improvement
10 45 (19.74%) AI
11 38 (16.67%) Microservices
12 37 (16.23%) Test Automation
13 36 (15.79%) Problem-Solving
14 27 (11.84%) Analytics
14 27 (11.84%) Collaborative Culture
14 27 (11.84%) Computer Science
14 27 (11.84%) DevSecOps
14 27 (11.84%) Machine Learning
15 23 (10.09%) SDLC
16 21 (9.21%) Site Reliability Engineering
Programming Languages
1 106 (46.49%) Python
2 68 (29.82%) Java
3 61 (26.75%) C#
4 48 (21.05%) SQL
5 44 (19.30%) JavaScript
6 36 (15.79%) Bash
7 17 (7.46%) PowerShell
7 17 (7.46%) TypeScript
8 14 (6.14%) C++
9 13 (5.70%) Go
10 11 (4.82%) Bicep
11 6 (2.63%) Perl
11 6 (2.63%) Scala
12 4 (1.75%) C
13 3 (1.32%) PHP
13 3 (1.32%) Shell Script
14 2 (0.88%) Rust
15 1 (0.44%) Elixir
15 1 (0.44%) Kotlin
15 1 (0.44%) Ruby
Qualifications
1 102 (44.74%) Security Cleared
2 54 (23.68%) DV Cleared
3 34 (14.91%) SC Cleared
4 27 (11.84%) Degree
5 25 (10.96%) Computer Science Degree
6 8 (3.51%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
7 6 (2.63%) RHCSA
8 5 (2.19%) RHCE
9 4 (1.75%) AWS Certification
9 4 (1.75%) CCNA
9 4 (1.75%) Cisco Certification
9 4 (1.75%) ISTQB
9 4 (1.75%) Microsoft Certification
9 4 (1.75%) OSCP
10 3 (1.32%) Azure Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 18 (7.89%) QA
2 10 (4.39%) Accessibility
3 8 (3.51%) WCAG
4 5 (2.19%) NCSC
5 3 (1.32%) ISO 9001
5 3 (1.32%) ISO/IEC 27001
System Software
1 154 (67.54%) Docker
2 24 (10.53%) VMware Infrastructure
3 8 (3.51%) Active Directory
4 7 (3.07%) Hyper-V
4 7 (3.07%) Virtual Machines
5 5 (2.19%) VMware NSX
6 4 (1.75%) Firmware
6 4 (1.75%) Squid
6 4 (1.75%) vSphere
7 1 (0.44%) Citrix Hypervisor
7 1 (0.44%) KVM
7 1 (0.44%) QEMU
7 1 (0.44%) Slurm Workload Manager
7 1 (0.44%) Xen
Systems Management
1 89 (39.04%) Terraform
2 59 (25.88%) Ansible
3 24 (10.53%) Grafana
4 17 (7.46%) Puppet
5 12 (5.26%) Prometheus
6 10 (4.39%) Rancher
7 9 (3.95%) Argo
8 8 (3.51%) Kibana
8 8 (3.51%) yum
9 7 (3.07%) logstash
9 7 (3.07%) vCenter Server
9 7 (3.07%) VxRail
10 4 (1.75%) Check_MK
10 4 (1.75%) Nagios
10 4 (1.75%) Packer
10 4 (1.75%) ZABBIX
11 2 (0.88%) Istio
11 2 (0.88%) Microsoft Intune
12 1 (0.44%) Mesos
12 1 (0.44%) Podman
Vendors
1 49 (21.49%) Microsoft
2 28 (12.28%) VMware
3 20 (8.77%) Red Hat
4 13 (5.70%) Splunk
5 12 (5.26%) Google
6 10 (4.39%) Facebook
7 9 (3.95%) Atlassian
8 7 (3.07%) Oracle
9 6 (2.63%) BeyondTrust
10 3 (1.32%) Dell
10 3 (1.32%) OneLogin
10 3 (1.32%) OpenAI
10 3 (1.32%) SaltStack
11 2 (0.88%) Apple
11 2 (0.88%) Cisco
11 2 (0.88%) Databricks
11 2 (0.88%) Thales
12 1 (0.44%) Fortinet
12 1 (0.44%) Juniper