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

6 months to
10 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 68 56 73
Rank change year-on-year -12 +17 -33
Permanent jobs citing Kubernetes 168 119 320
As % of all permanent jobs in the South West 2.19% 4.23% 3.16%
As % of the Systems Management category 40.98% 44.74% 36.78%
Number of salaries quoted 107 67 254
10th Percentile £38,750 £48,165 £45,000
25th Percentile £45,000 £53,125 £52,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,500 £70,000 £70,576
Median % change year-on-year -17.86% -0.82% +4.56%
75th Percentile £73,250 £90,000 £87,500
90th Percentile £80,500 £102,410 £91,934
England median annual salary £72,500 £82,500 £77,500
% change year-on-year -12.12% +6.45% -

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 410 266 870
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the South West 5.35% 9.47% 8.59%
Number of salaries quoted 293 184 703
10th Percentile £31,500 £30,000 £31,250
25th Percentile £38,750 £37,500 £41,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £55,000 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year - +4.76% -9.48%
75th Percentile £73,250 £73,750 £72,466
90th Percentile £80,000 £96,750 £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 10 June 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 10 June 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 -8 68 £60,500 -6.92% 33
Devon -2 24 £55,000 - 2
Somerset -11 21 £42,500 - 9
Bristol -49 21 £63,750 -13.26% 13
Wiltshire 0 15 £60,000 +17.51% 3
Dorset -15 7 £45,000 -30.77% 10
Cornwall - 3 - -
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 8 (4.76%) Confluence
2 6 (3.57%) Apache Spark
3 4 (2.38%) Apache
4 3 (1.79%) OpenStack
5 1 (0.60%) Apache Airflow
Applications
1 1 (0.60%) Microsoft Office
Cloud Services
1 74 (44.05%) Azure
2 68 (40.48%) AWS
3 39 (23.21%) GCP
4 27 (16.07%) GitHub
5 18 (10.71%) Serverless
6 17 (10.12%) Amazon S3
7 15 (8.93%) AWS Lambda
7 15 (8.93%) OpenShift
7 15 (8.93%) SaaS
8 14 (8.33%) Azure AKS
9 12 (7.14%) GitHub Copilot
10 11 (6.55%) Amazon EC2
11 10 (5.95%) Amazon EKS
11 10 (5.95%) GitHub Actions
12 8 (4.76%) Azure AI
13 6 (3.57%) Azure DevOps
14 5 (2.98%) AWS CloudFormation
15 4 (2.38%) AWS CloudTrail
15 4 (2.38%) AWS Fargate
15 4 (2.38%) Datadog
Communications & Networking
1 5 (2.98%) Software-Defined Networking
2 4 (2.38%) Broadband
2 4 (2.38%) Firewall
2 4 (2.38%) Internet
2 4 (2.38%) IPv4
3 3 (1.79%) WAN
4 2 (1.19%) AMQP
4 2 (1.19%) LAN
4 2 (1.19%) TCP/IP
4 2 (1.19%) VPN
5 1 (0.60%) BGP
5 1 (0.60%) DNS
5 1 (0.60%) Ethernet VPN
5 1 (0.60%) Network Security
5 1 (0.60%) SD-WAN
5 1 (0.60%) SNMP
5 1 (0.60%) VLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 17 (10.12%) Elasticsearch
1 17 (10.12%) MongoDB
2 13 (7.74%) PostgreSQL
3 12 (7.14%) Azure SQL Database
3 12 (7.14%) SQL Server
4 9 (5.36%) NoSQL
5 7 (4.17%) Amazon RDS
5 7 (4.17%) Relational Database
6 6 (3.57%) InfluxDB
7 5 (2.98%) MySQL
8 4 (2.38%) Neo4j
9 3 (1.79%) Big Data
10 2 (1.19%) Cloudera CDH
10 2 (1.19%) CockroachDB
10 2 (1.19%) Hadoop
11 1 (0.60%) Amazon Athena
11 1 (0.60%) DynamoDB
11 1 (0.60%) Flink
11 1 (0.60%) Geospatial Data
11 1 (0.60%) MariaDB
Development Applications
1 35 (20.83%) Git
2 31 (18.45%) Jenkins
3 27 (16.07%) GitLab
4 9 (5.36%) Subversion
5 8 (4.76%) Cypress.io
5 8 (4.76%) JIRA
6 7 (4.17%) Bitbucket
7 6 (3.57%) Selenium
8 5 (2.98%) Robot Framework
8 5 (2.98%) TestRail
9 4 (2.38%) CircleCI
10 3 (1.79%) Eclipse
10 3 (1.79%) JUnit
10 3 (1.79%) Maven
10 3 (1.79%) Mockito
10 3 (1.79%) TeamCity
11 2 (1.19%) Checkstyle
11 2 (1.19%) Cucumber
11 2 (1.19%) Gradle
11 2 (1.19%) TestNG
General
1 37 (22.02%) Social Skills
2 22 (13.10%) Finance
3 18 (10.71%) Aerospace
4 7 (4.17%) Analytical Skills
4 7 (4.17%) Public Sector
5 5 (2.98%) Retail
6 4 (2.38%) Games
7 3 (1.79%) Advertising
7 3 (1.79%) Automotive
7 3 (1.79%) Electronics
7 3 (1.79%) Manufacturing
7 3 (1.79%) Marketing
8 2 (1.19%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 1 (0.60%) Tech for Good
Job Titles
1 39 (23.21%) Developer
2 35 (20.83%) Software Engineer
3 26 (15.48%) Senior
4 24 (14.29%) .NET Developer
5 19 (11.31%) Infrastructure Engineer
6 15 (8.93%) Senior Software Engineer
7 14 (8.33%) DevSecOps Engineer
8 13 (7.74%) DevOps Engineer
9 12 (7.14%) Lead
10 11 (6.55%) .NET Software Engineer
10 11 (6.55%) Senior .NET Software Engineer
11 9 (5.36%) Java Developer
11 9 (5.36%) Python Engineer
11 9 (5.36%) Software Developer
11 9 (5.36%) Test Engineer
12 8 (4.76%) .NET Software Developer
12 8 (4.76%) Backend Developer
12 8 (4.76%) Mid-Level .NET Developer
13 7 (4.17%) Software Manager
14 6 (3.57%) Test Automation Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 48 (28.57%) .NET
2 47 (27.98%) .NET Core
3 29 (17.26%) React
4 23 (13.69%) RESTful
5 22 (13.10%) REST
6 18 (10.71%) AngularJS
6 18 (10.71%) Spring
7 17 (10.12%) Node.js
8 15 (8.93%) Spring Boot
9 13 (7.74%) Elastic Stack
10 12 (7.14%) .NET Framework
10 12 (7.14%) ASP.NET
10 12 (7.14%) ASP.NET Core
11 11 (6.55%) Dapper ORM
11 11 (6.55%) Entity Framework
12 10 (5.95%) CSS
13 9 (5.36%) HTML
13 9 (5.36%) OAuth
13 9 (5.36%) Vue
14 8 (4.76%) FastAPI
Miscellaneous
1 29 (17.26%) Cloud Native
2 9 (5.36%) Hybrid Cloud
3 8 (4.76%) Product Ownership
4 7 (4.17%) Distributed Systems
5 4 (2.38%) CUDA
6 3 (1.79%) Data Centre
6 3 (1.79%) Data Structures
6 3 (1.79%) IoT
6 3 (1.79%) Onboarding
6 3 (1.79%) Over-the-Top Content
6 3 (1.79%) PKI
6 3 (1.79%) Renewable Energy
6 3 (1.79%) Self-Motivation
6 3 (1.79%) Video\Live Streaming
7 2 (1.19%) Algorithms
7 2 (1.19%) Blockchain
7 2 (1.19%) Insider Threat
7 2 (1.19%) Legacy Systems
7 2 (1.19%) Private Cloud
7 2 (1.19%) Public Cloud
Operating Systems
1 45 (26.79%) Linux
2 22 (13.10%) Windows
3 10 (5.95%) Windows Server
4 8 (4.76%) CentOS
5 7 (4.17%) Unix
6 3 (1.79%) Ubuntu
7 2 (1.19%) Debian
7 2 (1.19%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
8 1 (0.60%) Windows Server 2016
Processes & Methodologies
1 103 (61.31%) CI/CD
2 96 (57.14%) Containerisation
3 68 (40.48%) DevOps
4 66 (39.29%) Software Engineering
5 63 (37.50%) Agile
6 54 (32.14%) Infrastructure as Code
7 43 (25.60%) Continuous Improvement
8 36 (21.43%) Infrastructure Engineering
9 32 (19.05%) Full-Stack Development
10 29 (17.26%) AI
10 29 (17.26%) Test Automation
11 26 (15.48%) Analytics
12 25 (14.88%) Problem-Solving
13 24 (14.29%) Collaborative Culture
13 24 (14.29%) Microservices
13 24 (14.29%) SDLC
14 22 (13.10%) Computer Science
14 22 (13.10%) Mentoring
15 20 (11.90%) DevSecOps
16 18 (10.71%) Performance Optimisation
Programming Languages
1 79 (47.02%) Python
2 53 (31.55%) Java
3 44 (26.19%) C#
4 40 (23.81%) SQL
5 32 (19.05%) Bash
5 32 (19.05%) JavaScript
6 19 (11.31%) TypeScript
7 15 (8.93%) PowerShell
8 10 (5.95%) C++
8 10 (5.95%) Go
9 7 (4.17%) C
9 7 (4.17%) Scala
10 3 (1.79%) Bicep
10 3 (1.79%) Elixir
10 3 (1.79%) Erlang
10 3 (1.79%) Perl
10 3 (1.79%) PHP
11 2 (1.19%) Kotlin
11 2 (1.19%) Rust
11 2 (1.19%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 58 (34.52%) Security Cleared
2 33 (19.64%) DV Cleared
3 22 (13.10%) Degree
4 20 (11.90%) Computer Science Degree
5 16 (9.52%) SC Cleared
6 6 (3.57%) ISTQB
7 5 (2.98%) AWS Certification
7 5 (2.98%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
7 5 (2.98%) Microsoft Certification
7 5 (2.98%) RHCE
8 4 (2.38%) CCNA
8 4 (2.38%) Cisco Certification
8 4 (2.38%) OSCP
8 4 (2.38%) RHCSA
9 2 (1.19%) ISTQB Advanced Certification
9 2 (1.19%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
10 1 (0.60%) Azure Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 20 (11.90%) QA
2 5 (2.98%) Accessibility
3 3 (1.79%) ISO 9001
3 3 (1.79%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 1 (0.60%) NCSC
4 1 (0.60%) WCAG
System Software
1 120 (71.43%) Docker
2 14 (8.33%) VMware Infrastructure
3 6 (3.57%) Hyper-V
4 5 (2.98%) Active Directory
4 5 (2.98%) Virtual Machines
5 4 (2.38%) Firmware
5 4 (2.38%) Squid
5 4 (2.38%) VMware NSX
5 4 (2.38%) vSphere
6 1 (0.60%) Citrix Hypervisor
6 1 (0.60%) KVM
6 1 (0.60%) QEMU
6 1 (0.60%) Slurm Workload Manager
6 1 (0.60%) Xen
Systems Management
1 58 (34.52%) Terraform
2 39 (23.21%) Ansible
3 23 (13.69%) Grafana
4 15 (8.93%) Prometheus
5 10 (5.95%) Puppet
6 8 (4.76%) Argo
7 7 (4.17%) Rancher
8 6 (3.57%) yum
9 5 (2.98%) Kibana
9 5 (2.98%) VxRail
10 4 (2.38%) logstash
10 4 (2.38%) Packer
10 4 (2.38%) vCenter Server
10 4 (2.38%) ZABBIX
11 2 (1.19%) Check_MK
11 2 (1.19%) Istio
11 2 (1.19%) Microsoft Intune
11 2 (1.19%) Nagios
12 1 (0.60%) Docker Swarm
12 1 (0.60%) linkerd
Vendors
1 25 (14.88%) Microsoft
2 17 (10.12%) VMware
3 16 (9.52%) Red Hat
4 12 (7.14%) Splunk
5 10 (5.95%) Google
6 9 (5.36%) Oracle
7 5 (2.98%) Atlassian
7 5 (2.98%) BeyondTrust
8 3 (1.79%) Dell
8 3 (1.79%) Facebook
9 2 (1.19%) Apple
9 2 (1.19%) Cisco
9 2 (1.19%) Databricks
9 2 (1.19%) Guidewire
9 2 (1.19%) OpenAI
9 2 (1.19%) SaltStack
9 2 (1.19%) Thales
10 1 (0.60%) Fortinet
10 1 (0.60%) Juniper