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

6 months to
31 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 65 51 52
Rank change year-on-year -14 +1 -8
Permanent jobs citing Kubernetes 157 138 359
As % of all permanent jobs in the South West 2.33% 5.05% 4.40%
As % of the Systems Management category 45.11% 46.62% 37.40%
Number of salaries quoted 109 97 286
10th Percentile £42,500 £49,000 £45,000
25th Percentile £48,750 £58,750 £52,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £62,500 £71,991 £70,576
Median % change year-on-year -13.18% +2.01% +8.58%
75th Percentile £77,500 £90,000 £85,000
90th Percentile £87,250 £102,410 £91,934
England median annual salary £75,000 £85,000 £75,669
% change year-on-year -11.76% +12.33% -2.36%

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 348 296 960
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the South West 5.15% 10.83% 11.76%
Number of salaries quoted 261 224 761
10th Percentile £31,250 £33,325 £31,250
25th Percentile £36,250 £42,500 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £52,500 £60,000 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year -12.50% +14.29% -4.55%
75th Percentile £67,500 £76,250 £71,250
90th Percentile £80,000 £93,778 £85,000
England median annual salary £62,500 £70,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year -10.71% +16.67% -11.11%

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 31 March 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 31 March 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 +3 59 £67,500 +3.85% 33
Devon +11 25 £57,500 - 5
Bristol -50 20 £67,500 -10.00% 24
Somerset - 15 £45,000 - 7
Wiltshire -4 11 £75,000 - 5
Dorset -16 11 £80,000 +45.45% 1
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 5 (3.18%) Apache
1 5 (3.18%) Apache Spark
2 3 (1.91%) Confluence
3 2 (1.27%) OpenStack
4 1 (0.64%) Apache Airflow
Applications
1 1 (0.64%) Microsoft Office
Cloud Services
1 79 (50.32%) AWS
2 66 (42.04%) Azure
3 34 (21.66%) GCP
4 22 (14.01%) GitHub
5 19 (12.10%) Amazon S3
5 19 (12.10%) Serverless
6 16 (10.19%) AWS Lambda
6 16 (10.19%) GitHub Actions
7 15 (9.55%) Azure AKS
8 14 (8.92%) SaaS
9 13 (8.28%) OpenShift
10 11 (7.01%) Amazon EC2
11 10 (6.37%) Azure DevOps
12 6 (3.82%) Datadog
13 4 (2.55%) Amazon ECS
13 4 (2.55%) Amazon EKS
13 4 (2.55%) AWS CloudFormation
14 3 (1.91%) Amazon SQS
15 2 (1.27%) GitHub Copilot
15 2 (1.27%) Google Kubernetes Engine
Communications & Networking
1 4 (2.55%) Broadband
1 4 (2.55%) Firewall
2 2 (1.27%) VPN
3 1 (0.64%) AMQP
3 1 (0.64%) DNS
3 1 (0.64%) LAN
3 1 (0.64%) Network Security
3 1 (0.64%) TCP/IP
3 1 (0.64%) VLAN
3 1 (0.64%) VSAN
3 1 (0.64%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 17 (10.83%) Elasticsearch
2 13 (8.28%) NoSQL
3 12 (7.64%) PostgreSQL
3 12 (7.64%) SQL Server
4 11 (7.01%) Amazon RDS
5 8 (5.10%) Neo4j
6 7 (4.46%) Relational Database
7 6 (3.82%) InfluxDB
7 6 (3.82%) MongoDB
8 5 (3.18%) MySQL
9 4 (2.55%) Big Data
10 3 (1.91%) CockroachDB
11 2 (1.27%) Azure SQL Database
11 2 (1.27%) Geospatial Data
11 2 (1.27%) MariaDB
12 1 (0.64%) Apache Cassandra
12 1 (0.64%) Couchbase
12 1 (0.64%) Hadoop
12 1 (0.64%) RDBMS
12 1 (0.64%) Redis
Development Applications
1 30 (19.11%) Jenkins
2 21 (13.38%) Git
3 18 (11.46%) GitLab
4 8 (5.10%) Cypress.io
5 6 (3.82%) CircleCI
5 6 (3.82%) Subversion
6 5 (3.18%) Cucumber
6 5 (3.18%) JUnit
6 5 (3.18%) Selenium
7 4 (2.55%) Maven
7 4 (2.55%) Robot Framework
7 4 (2.55%) TestRail
8 3 (1.91%) Gradle
8 3 (1.91%) JIRA
8 3 (1.91%) Mockito
8 3 (1.91%) TeamCity
8 3 (1.91%) TestNG
9 2 (1.27%) Bitbucket
9 2 (1.27%) Checkstyle
9 2 (1.27%) SonarQube
General
1 32 (20.38%) Social Skills
2 19 (12.10%) Finance
3 12 (7.64%) Aerospace
4 9 (5.73%) Public Sector
5 5 (3.18%) Analytical Skills
5 5 (3.18%) Electronics
5 5 (3.18%) Manufacturing
6 3 (1.91%) Automotive
6 3 (1.91%) Marketing
7 2 (1.27%) Telecoms
8 1 (0.64%) Advertising
8 1 (0.64%) Banking
8 1 (0.64%) Games
8 1 (0.64%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 1 (0.64%) Military
8 1 (0.64%) Retail
8 1 (0.64%) Tech for Good
Job Titles
1 39 (24.84%) Software Engineer
2 30 (19.11%) Senior
3 24 (15.29%) Developer
4 17 (10.83%) Senior Software Engineer
5 14 (8.92%) DevOps Engineer
6 12 (7.64%) DevSecOps Engineer
7 11 (7.01%) .NET Software Engineer
7 11 (7.01%) Infrastructure Engineer
7 11 (7.01%) Senior .NET Software Engineer
8 10 (6.37%) Lead
9 9 (5.73%) Java Developer
9 9 (5.73%) Platform Engineer
9 9 (5.73%) Software Developer
10 8 (5.10%) Test Engineer
11 7 (4.46%) Python Engineer
11 7 (4.46%) Software Manager
12 6 (3.82%) .NET Developer
13 5 (3.18%) Architect
14 4 (2.55%) Engineering Manager
14 4 (2.55%) Linux Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 30 (19.11%) .NET
1 30 (19.11%) .NET Core
2 27 (17.20%) React
3 23 (14.65%) Spring
4 19 (12.10%) REST
4 19 (12.10%) Spring Boot
5 16 (10.19%) AngularJS
6 14 (8.92%) Node.js
7 12 (7.64%) RESTful
8 11 (7.01%) .NET Framework
8 11 (7.01%) Dapper ORM
8 11 (7.01%) Entity Framework
9 10 (6.37%) Elastic Stack
10 8 (5.10%) MERN Stack
10 8 (5.10%) OAuth
11 7 (4.46%) YAML
12 6 (3.82%) Django
12 6 (3.82%) FastAPI
13 4 (2.55%) OpenAPI
13 4 (2.55%) Playwright
Miscellaneous
1 35 (22.29%) Cloud Native
2 7 (4.46%) Distributed Systems
3 5 (3.18%) Product Ownership
4 4 (2.55%) Hybrid Cloud
4 4 (2.55%) Legacy Systems
5 3 (1.91%) CUDA
5 3 (1.91%) IoT
5 3 (1.91%) Over-the-Top Content
5 3 (1.91%) Private Cloud
5 3 (1.91%) Public Cloud
5 3 (1.91%) Renewable Energy
5 3 (1.91%) Self-Motivation
5 3 (1.91%) Video\Live Streaming
6 2 (1.27%) Blockchain
6 2 (1.27%) Data Centre
6 2 (1.27%) Enterprise Software
6 2 (1.27%) Insider Threat
6 2 (1.27%) Management Information System
6 2 (1.27%) Onboarding
7 1 (0.64%) Cyber Threat
Operating Systems
1 36 (22.93%) Linux
2 14 (8.92%) Windows
3 7 (4.46%) CentOS
4 5 (3.18%) Windows Server
5 2 (1.27%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 2 (1.27%) Ubuntu
5 2 (1.27%) Unix
6 1 (0.64%) Debian
6 1 (0.64%) Windows Server 2016
Processes & Methodologies
1 89 (56.69%) Containerisation
2 87 (55.41%) CI/CD
3 70 (44.59%) DevOps
4 63 (40.13%) Software Engineering
5 55 (35.03%) Agile
6 48 (30.57%) Infrastructure as Code
7 42 (26.75%) Continuous Improvement
8 30 (19.11%) Infrastructure Engineering
9 26 (16.56%) Test Automation
10 22 (14.01%) Problem-Solving
10 22 (14.01%) SDLC
11 21 (13.38%) Collaborative Culture
12 20 (12.74%) AI
12 20 (12.74%) Analytics
13 19 (12.10%) Mentoring
14 17 (10.83%) Full-Stack Development
14 17 (10.83%) Microservices
15 16 (10.19%) Platform Engineering
16 14 (8.92%) DevSecOps
17 13 (8.28%) Performance Optimisation
Programming Languages
1 80 (50.96%) Python
2 56 (35.67%) Java
3 33 (21.02%) JavaScript
4 31 (19.75%) SQL
5 30 (19.11%) Bash
6 27 (17.20%) C#
7 21 (13.38%) TypeScript
8 16 (10.19%) PowerShell
9 11 (7.01%) Go
10 9 (5.73%) Bicep
10 9 (5.73%) C
11 7 (4.46%) Scala
12 6 (3.82%) Kotlin
13 4 (2.55%) C++
13 4 (2.55%) PHP
14 3 (1.91%) Elixir
14 3 (1.91%) Erlang
15 1 (0.64%) Delphi
15 1 (0.64%) Ruby
15 1 (0.64%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 55 (35.03%) Security Cleared
2 42 (26.75%) DV Cleared
3 13 (8.28%) Degree
3 13 (8.28%) SC Cleared
4 11 (7.01%) Computer Science Degree
5 4 (2.55%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
6 2 (1.27%) AWS Certification
6 2 (1.27%) Azure Certification
6 2 (1.27%) ISTQB
6 2 (1.27%) ISTQB Advanced Certification
6 2 (1.27%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
7 1 (0.64%) Microsoft Certification
7 1 (0.64%) RHCE
7 1 (0.64%) TOGAF Certification
7 1 (0.64%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 19 (12.10%) QA
2 4 (2.55%) Accessibility
2 4 (2.55%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 3 (1.91%) ISO 9001
4 1 (0.64%) GDPR
4 1 (0.64%) NCSC
System Software
1 106 (67.52%) Docker
2 7 (4.46%) VMware Infrastructure
3 4 (2.55%) Firmware
3 4 (2.55%) Hyper-V
3 4 (2.55%) Virtual Machines
4 2 (1.27%) Active Directory
5 1 (0.64%) Citrix Hypervisor
5 1 (0.64%) Slurm Workload Manager
5 1 (0.64%) VMware ESXi
5 1 (0.64%) VMware NSX
5 1 (0.64%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 48 (30.57%) Terraform
2 27 (17.20%) Ansible
3 23 (14.65%) Grafana
4 13 (8.28%) Prometheus
5 8 (5.10%) Argo
6 6 (3.82%) Rancher
6 6 (3.82%) yum
7 4 (2.55%) Puppet
8 3 (1.91%) Kibana
8 3 (1.91%) vCenter Server
8 3 (1.91%) VxRail
9 2 (1.27%) Istio
9 2 (1.27%) logstash
9 2 (1.27%) Microsoft Intune
10 1 (0.64%) Check_MK
10 1 (0.64%) Docker Swarm
10 1 (0.64%) linkerd
10 1 (0.64%) Mesos
10 1 (0.64%) Nagios
10 1 (0.64%) Progress Chef
Vendors
1 11 (7.01%) Google
1 11 (7.01%) Microsoft
2 9 (5.73%) Red Hat
3 8 (5.10%) Splunk
3 8 (5.10%) VMware
4 6 (3.82%) Oracle
5 3 (1.91%) BeyondTrust
5 3 (1.91%) Cisco
5 3 (1.91%) Dell
6 2 (1.27%) Apple
6 2 (1.27%) Atlassian
6 2 (1.27%) Fortinet
6 2 (1.27%) Guidewire
6 2 (1.27%) SAP
6 2 (1.27%) Thales
7 1 (0.64%) Databricks
7 1 (0.64%) Facebook
7 1 (0.64%) Juniper
7 1 (0.64%) New Relic
7 1 (0.64%) Palo Alto