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

6 months to
1 Oct 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 59 76 53
Rank change year-on-year +17 -23 -26
Permanent jobs citing Kubernetes 271 104 258
As % of all permanent jobs in the South West 2.60% 2.94% 3.66%
As % of the Systems Management category 49.18% 39.10% 47.17%
Number of salaries quoted 171 79 162
10th Percentile £42,500 £42,500 £47,500
25th Percentile £51,250 £48,165 £58,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £67,500 £65,000 £75,000
Median % change year-on-year +3.85% -13.33% +15.38%
75th Percentile £85,000 £80,000 £87,500
90th Percentile £96,250 £95,000 £89,875
England median annual salary £71,500 £77,500 £77,500
% change year-on-year -7.74% - +3.33%

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 551 266 547
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the South West 5.28% 7.52% 7.76%
Number of salaries quoted 371 210 357
10th Percentile £31,250 £30,000 £31,750
25th Percentile £41,250 £32,500 £41,206
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £49,250 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +21.83% -10.45% -2.65%
75th Percentile £77,500 £67,500 £77,500
90th Percentile £88,000 £81,025 £87,500
England median annual salary £60,000 £60,500 £65,000
% change year-on-year -0.83% -6.92% -

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 October 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 October 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 +6 153 £85,000 +6.25% 98
Somerset -2 40 £55,000 +22.22% 30
Bristol -49 29 £62,500 -3.85% 36
Wiltshire -8 24 £60,000 +17.51% 9
Devon -8 17 £55,000 -16.98% 4
Dorset -19 2 £45,000 -21.05% 26
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 18 (6.64%) Apache
2 15 (5.54%) Apache Spark
3 11 (4.06%) Confluence
4 10 (3.69%) OpenStack
5 3 (1.11%) Apache Airflow
6 1 (0.37%) JBoss
6 1 (0.37%) nginx
Business Applications
1 1 (0.37%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
Cloud Services
1 127 (46.86%) Azure
2 113 (41.70%) AWS
3 51 (18.82%) GCP
4 49 (18.08%) GitHub
4 49 (18.08%) OpenShift
5 31 (11.44%) AWS CloudFormation
6 26 (9.59%) GitHub Copilot
7 21 (7.75%) Azure DevOps
7 21 (7.75%) Serverless
8 20 (7.38%) Azure AI
9 18 (6.64%) Amazon EKS
10 17 (6.27%) Azure AKS
11 14 (5.17%) GitHub Actions
12 12 (4.43%) AWS Lambda
13 10 (3.69%) Amazon S3
14 9 (3.32%) Azure ExpressRoute
14 9 (3.32%) Entra ID
15 8 (2.95%) Amazon EC2
15 8 (2.95%) SaaS
16 7 (2.58%) Amazon ECS
Communications & Networking
1 14 (5.17%) Network Security
1 14 (5.17%) VPN
2 12 (4.43%) Firewall
3 9 (3.32%) Software-Defined Networking
4 7 (2.58%) Internet
5 6 (2.21%) WAN
6 5 (1.85%) BGP
6 5 (1.85%) Ethernet VPN
6 5 (1.85%) SD-WAN
6 5 (1.85%) SNMP
6 5 (1.85%) VLAN
7 4 (1.48%) AMQP
7 4 (1.48%) IPv4
8 2 (0.74%) TCP/IP
9 1 (0.37%) DHCP
9 1 (0.37%) DNS
9 1 (0.37%) LAN
9 1 (0.37%) SSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 35 (12.92%) MongoDB
2 26 (9.59%) Azure SQL Database
3 12 (4.43%) Hadoop
4 11 (4.06%) Big Data
5 10 (3.69%) Elasticsearch
5 10 (3.69%) PostgreSQL
6 9 (3.32%) NoSQL
7 8 (2.95%) InfluxDB
8 7 (2.58%) Data Warehouse
8 7 (2.58%) Geospatial Data
9 6 (2.21%) MySQL
10 5 (1.85%) Data Lake
11 4 (1.48%) Cloudera CDH
11 4 (1.48%) Flink
12 3 (1.11%) DynamoDB
12 3 (1.11%) Relational Database
12 3 (1.11%) ZAP BI
13 2 (0.74%) Amazon RDS
14 1 (0.37%) SQL Server
14 1 (0.37%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 62 (22.88%) Git
2 44 (16.24%) GitLab
3 35 (12.92%) Jenkins
4 17 (6.27%) Subversion
5 13 (4.80%) JIRA
6 11 (4.06%) Bitbucket
7 10 (3.69%) Cypress.io
7 10 (3.69%) Selenium
8 9 (3.32%) Eclipse
8 9 (3.32%) Robot Framework
9 8 (2.95%) TestRail
10 7 (2.58%) MSI
11 5 (1.85%) JUnit
12 3 (1.11%) NUnit
12 3 (1.11%) Postman
12 3 (1.11%) Snyk
12 3 (1.11%) SonarQube
13 1 (0.37%) ER Studio
13 1 (0.37%) Mocha
13 1 (0.37%) Vite
General
1 61 (22.51%) Finance
2 50 (18.45%) Social Skills
3 27 (9.96%) Public Sector
4 24 (8.86%) Aerospace
5 20 (7.38%) Analytical Skills
6 18 (6.64%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 11 (4.06%) Marketing
8 9 (3.32%) Advertising
9 8 (2.95%) Retail
10 6 (2.21%) Games
11 4 (1.48%) Military
12 3 (1.11%) Legal
13 2 (0.74%) Law
14 1 (0.37%) Organisational Skills
Job Titles
1 66 (24.35%) Developer
2 58 (21.40%) DevOps Engineer
3 35 (12.92%) Infrastructure Engineer
4 34 (12.55%) .NET Developer
5 28 (10.33%) Software Engineer
6 25 (9.23%) Senior
7 20 (7.38%) Architect
7 20 (7.38%) Cloud Engineer
8 18 (6.64%) Lead
9 14 (5.17%) Data Engineer
9 14 (5.17%) Principal Engineer
10 12 (4.43%) Java Developer
10 12 (4.43%) Platform Engineer
11 11 (4.06%) Full-Stack Engineer
11 11 (4.06%) Lead DevOps
11 11 (4.06%) Lead DevOps Engineer
11 11 (4.06%) Senior DevOps
11 11 (4.06%) Senior DevOps Engineer
12 10 (3.69%) Full-Stack Developer
12 10 (3.69%) Software Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 134 (49.45%) Terraform
2 50 (18.45%) .NET
3 45 (16.61%) .NET Core
4 42 (15.50%) Spring
4 42 (15.50%) Spring Boot
5 41 (15.13%) RESTful
6 30 (11.07%) CSS
7 29 (10.70%) React
8 28 (10.33%) HTML
9 27 (9.96%) Node.js
10 26 (9.59%) ASP.NET
10 26 (9.59%) ASP.NET Core
11 21 (7.75%) AngularJS
11 21 (7.75%) Elastic Stack
12 20 (7.38%) ML.NET
13 18 (6.64%) REST
14 14 (5.17%) Vue
15 9 (3.32%) Blazor
15 9 (3.32%) Jakarta EE
15 9 (3.32%) pytest
Miscellaneous
1 64 (23.62%) Cloud Native
2 16 (5.90%) Hybrid Cloud
3 8 (2.95%) Distributed Systems
3 8 (2.95%) Legacy Systems
3 8 (2.95%) Onboarding
3 8 (2.95%) Product Ownership
4 6 (2.21%) PKI
4 6 (2.21%) Social Media
5 5 (1.85%) Digital TV
6 4 (1.48%) Algorithms
7 3 (1.11%) Blog
7 3 (1.11%) Data Centre
7 3 (1.11%) Data Structures
7 3 (1.11%) Public Cloud
8 2 (0.74%) CUDA
8 2 (0.74%) Private Cloud
9 1 (0.37%) Mainframe
Operating Systems
1 82 (30.26%) Linux
2 28 (10.33%) Windows
3 13 (4.80%) Unix
4 12 (4.43%) CentOS
5 8 (2.95%) Windows Server
6 5 (1.85%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 5 (1.85%) Ubuntu
7 4 (1.48%) Debian
8 2 (0.74%) Rocky
Processes & Methodologies
1 194 (71.59%) CI/CD
2 146 (53.87%) Infrastructure as Code
3 145 (53.51%) Containerisation
4 133 (49.08%) DevOps
5 124 (45.76%) Agile
6 73 (26.94%) Full-Stack Development
7 62 (22.88%) Software Engineering
8 61 (22.51%) Infrastructure Engineering
9 56 (20.66%) AI
10 49 (18.08%) Continuous Improvement
10 49 (18.08%) Microservices
11 46 (16.97%) Problem-Solving
11 46 (16.97%) Test Automation
12 39 (14.39%) DevSecOps
13 37 (13.65%) Site Reliability Engineering
14 32 (11.81%) Machine Learning
15 30 (11.07%) Platform Engineering
16 27 (9.96%) Collaborative Working
17 26 (9.59%) Collaborative Culture
17 26 (9.59%) Observability
Programming Languages
1 129 (47.60%) Python
2 90 (33.21%) Java
3 61 (22.51%) JavaScript
4 54 (19.93%) Bash
5 48 (17.71%) C#
6 41 (15.13%) SQL
7 21 (7.75%) TypeScript
8 20 (7.38%) Go
9 18 (6.64%) Bicep
10 16 (5.90%) C++
10 16 (5.90%) PowerShell
11 7 (2.58%) Perl
11 7 (2.58%) Rust
12 6 (2.21%) Scala
13 3 (1.11%) C
13 3 (1.11%) Shell Script
14 1 (0.37%) Kotlin
14 1 (0.37%) Objective-C
Qualifications
1 167 (61.62%) Security Cleared
2 88 (32.47%) DV Cleared
3 69 (25.46%) SC Cleared
4 23 (8.49%) Degree
5 17 (6.27%) Computer Science Degree
6 11 (4.06%) AWS Certification
6 11 (4.06%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
7 6 (2.21%) RHCSA
8 4 (1.48%) Azure Certification
8 4 (1.48%) CCNA
8 4 (1.48%) Cisco Certification
8 4 (1.48%) ISTQB
8 4 (1.48%) Microsoft Certification
8 4 (1.48%) OCP
8 4 (1.48%) Oracle Certification
8 4 (1.48%) OSCP
8 4 (1.48%) RHCE
9 3 (1.11%) AWS Certified Developer
9 3 (1.11%) BPSS Clearance
10 1 (0.37%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 21 (7.75%) Accessibility
2 12 (4.43%) QA
3 11 (4.06%) WCAG
4 10 (3.69%) NCSC
5 5 (1.85%) Data Quality
6 3 (1.11%) NIST
7 1 (0.37%) California Consumer Privacy Act
7 1 (0.37%) GDPR
7 1 (0.37%) HIPAA
System Software
1 170 (62.73%) Docker
2 27 (9.96%) VMware Infrastructure
3 14 (5.17%) Active Directory
4 7 (2.58%) VMware NSX
5 6 (2.21%) Virtual Machines
6 4 (1.48%) Ceph
6 4 (1.48%) Hyper-V
6 4 (1.48%) Squid
6 4 (1.48%) vSphere
7 2 (0.74%) VMware ESXi
8 1 (0.37%) KVM
8 1 (0.37%) QEMU
8 1 (0.37%) Virtual Desktop
8 1 (0.37%) Xen
Systems Management
1 94 (34.69%) Ansible
2 25 (9.23%) Puppet
3 22 (8.12%) Grafana
4 18 (6.64%) Prometheus
5 16 (5.90%) Argo
6 11 (4.06%) Rancher
7 8 (2.95%) Istio
7 8 (2.95%) vCenter Server
7 8 (2.95%) yum
8 7 (2.58%) Check_MK
9 6 (2.21%) Kibana
9 6 (2.21%) logstash
10 4 (1.48%) Docker Swarm
10 4 (1.48%) linkerd
10 4 (1.48%) Mesos
10 4 (1.48%) Nagios
10 4 (1.48%) Packer
10 4 (1.48%) Podman
10 4 (1.48%) VxRail
10 4 (1.48%) ZABBIX
Vendors
1 53 (19.56%) Microsoft
2 35 (12.92%) VMware
3 28 (10.33%) Red Hat
4 13 (4.80%) Splunk
5 12 (4.43%) Google
6 10 (3.69%) Atlassian
7 9 (3.32%) Facebook
8 6 (2.21%) Oracle
9 5 (1.85%) Databricks
10 4 (1.48%) Dell
10 4 (1.48%) OneLogin
10 4 (1.48%) SaltStack
11 3 (1.11%) BeyondTrust
11 3 (1.11%) OpenAI
12 1 (0.37%) CyberArk
12 1 (0.37%) Dynatrace
12 1 (0.37%) Mistral
12 1 (0.37%) New Relic
12 1 (0.37%) Sparx