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

6 months to
22 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 61 72 59
Rank change year-on-year +11 -13 -31
Permanent jobs citing Kubernetes 267 102 256
As % of all permanent jobs in the South West 2.61% 2.94% 3.49%
As % of the Systems Management category 48.99% 38.64% 46.55%
Number of salaries quoted 167 77 164
10th Percentile £38,750 £42,500 £47,500
25th Percentile £50,000 £51,250 £58,438
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 £89,625
England median annual salary £70,932 £77,500 £77,500
% change year-on-year -8.48% - +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 545 264 550
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the South West 5.32% 7.60% 7.50%
Number of salaries quoted 365 210 367
10th Percentile £31,250 £30,000 £32,400
25th Percentile £38,750 £32,500 £41,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £48,500 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +23.71% -11.82% -1.79%
75th Percentile £77,500 £68,438 £77,500
90th Percentile £87,300 £81,300 £87,500
England median annual salary £60,000 £62,000 £65,000
% change year-on-year -3.23% -4.62% -

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 22 September 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 22 September 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 +11 153 £81,250 +1.56% 125
Somerset +2 41 £50,000 +11.11% 25
Bristol -52 27 £62,500 -7.41% 44
Wiltshire -2 24 £60,000 +17.51% 5
Devon -13 15 £55,000 -16.98% 6
Dorset -19 2 £45,000 -21.05% 29
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 17 (6.37%) Apache
2 14 (5.24%) Apache Spark
3 11 (4.12%) Confluence
4 9 (3.37%) OpenStack
5 3 (1.12%) Apache Airflow
6 1 (0.37%) JBoss
6 1 (0.37%) nginx
Business Applications
1 1 (0.37%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
Cloud Services
1 126 (47.19%) Azure
2 111 (41.57%) AWS
3 52 (19.48%) GCP
4 49 (18.35%) GitHub
5 48 (17.98%) OpenShift
6 31 (11.61%) AWS CloudFormation
7 26 (9.74%) GitHub Copilot
8 21 (7.87%) Azure DevOps
9 20 (7.49%) Azure AI
10 19 (7.12%) Serverless
11 18 (6.74%) Amazon EKS
12 17 (6.37%) Azure AKS
13 14 (5.24%) GitHub Actions
14 10 (3.75%) AWS Lambda
15 9 (3.37%) Azure ExpressRoute
15 9 (3.37%) Entra ID
16 8 (3.00%) Amazon S3
17 6 (2.25%) Amazon EC2
17 6 (2.25%) PaaS
17 6 (2.25%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 14 (5.24%) Network Security
1 14 (5.24%) VPN
2 12 (4.49%) Firewall
3 9 (3.37%) Software-Defined Networking
4 7 (2.62%) Internet
5 6 (2.25%) WAN
6 5 (1.87%) BGP
6 5 (1.87%) Ethernet VPN
6 5 (1.87%) SD-WAN
6 5 (1.87%) SNMP
6 5 (1.87%) VLAN
7 4 (1.50%) AMQP
7 4 (1.50%) IPv4
8 2 (0.75%) 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 (13.11%) MongoDB
2 26 (9.74%) Azure SQL Database
3 12 (4.49%) Hadoop
4 11 (4.12%) Big Data
5 10 (3.75%) Elasticsearch
5 10 (3.75%) PostgreSQL
6 8 (3.00%) InfluxDB
6 8 (3.00%) NoSQL
7 7 (2.62%) Data Warehouse
7 7 (2.62%) Geospatial Data
8 6 (2.25%) MySQL
9 5 (1.87%) Data Lake
10 4 (1.50%) Cloudera CDH
10 4 (1.50%) Flink
11 3 (1.12%) DynamoDB
11 3 (1.12%) Relational Database
11 3 (1.12%) ZAP BI
12 1 (0.37%) Amazon RDS
12 1 (0.37%) Looker
12 1 (0.37%) Power BI
Development Applications
1 62 (23.22%) Git
2 44 (16.48%) GitLab
3 36 (13.48%) Jenkins
4 17 (6.37%) Subversion
5 13 (4.87%) JIRA
6 11 (4.12%) Bitbucket
7 10 (3.75%) Cypress.io
7 10 (3.75%) Selenium
8 9 (3.37%) Eclipse
8 9 (3.37%) Robot Framework
9 8 (3.00%) TestRail
10 7 (2.62%) MSI
11 5 (1.87%) JUnit
12 3 (1.12%) NUnit
12 3 (1.12%) Postman
12 3 (1.12%) Snyk
12 3 (1.12%) SonarQube
13 1 (0.37%) ER Studio
13 1 (0.37%) ERwin
13 1 (0.37%) TeamCity
General
1 60 (22.47%) Finance
2 49 (18.35%) Social Skills
3 25 (9.36%) Aerospace
3 25 (9.36%) Public Sector
4 18 (6.74%) Analytical Skills
4 18 (6.74%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 11 (4.12%) Marketing
6 9 (3.37%) Advertising
7 8 (3.00%) Retail
8 6 (2.25%) Games
9 4 (1.50%) Military
10 3 (1.12%) Legal
11 2 (0.75%) Law
12 1 (0.37%) Automotive
12 1 (0.37%) Electronics
12 1 (0.37%) Manufacturing
12 1 (0.37%) Organisational Skills
Job Titles
1 67 (25.09%) Developer
2 56 (20.97%) DevOps Engineer
3 36 (13.48%) .NET Developer
4 34 (12.73%) Infrastructure Engineer
5 26 (9.74%) Software Engineer
6 23 (8.61%) Senior
7 20 (7.49%) Architect
8 19 (7.12%) Cloud Engineer
9 18 (6.74%) Lead
10 14 (5.24%) Data Engineer
10 14 (5.24%) Principal Engineer
11 12 (4.49%) Platform Engineer
11 12 (4.49%) Software Developer
12 11 (4.12%) Full-Stack Engineer
12 11 (4.12%) Java Developer
12 11 (4.12%) Lead DevOps
12 11 (4.12%) Lead DevOps Engineer
13 10 (3.75%) Full-Stack Developer
14 9 (3.37%) Senior DevOps
14 9 (3.37%) Senior DevOps Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 134 (50.19%) Terraform
2 52 (19.48%) .NET
3 47 (17.60%) .NET Core
4 43 (16.10%) RESTful
5 40 (14.98%) Spring
5 40 (14.98%) Spring Boot
6 30 (11.24%) CSS
7 28 (10.49%) HTML
7 28 (10.49%) React
8 27 (10.11%) Node.js
9 26 (9.74%) ASP.NET
9 26 (9.74%) ASP.NET Core
10 21 (7.87%) Elastic Stack
11 20 (7.49%) AngularJS
11 20 (7.49%) ML.NET
12 18 (6.74%) REST
13 13 (4.87%) Vue
14 9 (3.37%) Blazor
14 9 (3.37%) pytest
14 9 (3.37%) Struts
Miscellaneous
1 61 (22.85%) Cloud Native
2 17 (6.37%) Hybrid Cloud
3 8 (3.00%) Distributed Systems
3 8 (3.00%) Legacy Systems
3 8 (3.00%) Onboarding
3 8 (3.00%) Product Ownership
4 6 (2.25%) PKI
4 6 (2.25%) Social Media
5 5 (1.87%) Digital TV
6 4 (1.50%) Algorithms
7 3 (1.12%) Blog
7 3 (1.12%) Data Centre
7 3 (1.12%) Data Structures
7 3 (1.12%) Public Cloud
8 2 (0.75%) CUDA
8 2 (0.75%) Private Cloud
9 1 (0.37%) Renewable Energy
Operating Systems
1 83 (31.09%) Linux
2 28 (10.49%) Windows
3 13 (4.87%) Unix
4 12 (4.49%) CentOS
5 8 (3.00%) Windows Server
6 5 (1.87%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 5 (1.87%) Ubuntu
7 4 (1.50%) Debian
8 2 (0.75%) Rocky
Processes & Methodologies
1 193 (72.28%) CI/CD
2 145 (54.31%) Infrastructure as Code
3 144 (53.93%) Containerisation
4 128 (47.94%) DevOps
5 119 (44.57%) Agile
6 72 (26.97%) Full-Stack Development
7 61 (22.85%) Infrastructure Engineering
7 61 (22.85%) Software Engineering
8 55 (20.60%) AI
9 47 (17.60%) Continuous Improvement
9 47 (17.60%) Microservices
10 45 (16.85%) Problem-Solving
10 45 (16.85%) Test Automation
11 40 (14.98%) DevSecOps
12 37 (13.86%) Site Reliability Engineering
13 31 (11.61%) Machine Learning
14 30 (11.24%) Platform Engineering
15 27 (10.11%) Collaborative Working
16 26 (9.74%) Collaborative Culture
17 25 (9.36%) Observability
Programming Languages
1 123 (46.07%) Python
2 86 (32.21%) Java
3 59 (22.10%) JavaScript
4 52 (19.48%) Bash
5 50 (18.73%) C#
6 41 (15.36%) SQL
7 20 (7.49%) Go
7 20 (7.49%) TypeScript
8 18 (6.74%) Bicep
9 15 (5.62%) C++
9 15 (5.62%) PowerShell
10 7 (2.62%) Perl
10 7 (2.62%) Rust
11 6 (2.25%) Scala
12 3 (1.12%) C
12 3 (1.12%) Shell Script
13 1 (0.37%) Kotlin
13 1 (0.37%) Objective-C
Qualifications
1 166 (62.17%) Security Cleared
2 87 (32.58%) DV Cleared
3 68 (25.47%) SC Cleared
4 26 (9.74%) Degree
5 20 (7.49%) Computer Science Degree
6 11 (4.12%) AWS Certification
6 11 (4.12%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
7 6 (2.25%) RHCSA
8 4 (1.50%) Azure Certification
8 4 (1.50%) CCNA
8 4 (1.50%) Cisco Certification
8 4 (1.50%) ISTQB
8 4 (1.50%) Microsoft Certification
8 4 (1.50%) OCP
8 4 (1.50%) Oracle Certification
8 4 (1.50%) OSCP
8 4 (1.50%) RHCE
9 3 (1.12%) AWS Certified Developer
9 3 (1.12%) BPSS Clearance
10 1 (0.37%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 21 (7.87%) Accessibility
2 12 (4.49%) QA
3 11 (4.12%) WCAG
4 10 (3.75%) NCSC
5 5 (1.87%) Data Quality
6 3 (1.12%) NIST
7 1 (0.37%) California Consumer Privacy Act
7 1 (0.37%) GDPR
7 1 (0.37%) HIPAA
System Software
1 170 (63.67%) Docker
2 26 (9.74%) VMware Infrastructure
3 14 (5.24%) Active Directory
4 6 (2.25%) Virtual Machines
4 6 (2.25%) VMware NSX
5 4 (1.50%) Ceph
5 4 (1.50%) Hyper-V
5 4 (1.50%) Squid
5 4 (1.50%) vSphere
6 1 (0.37%) Firmware
6 1 (0.37%) KVM
6 1 (0.37%) QEMU
6 1 (0.37%) Virtual Desktop
6 1 (0.37%) VMware ESXi
6 1 (0.37%) Xen
Systems Management
1 93 (34.83%) Ansible
2 25 (9.36%) Puppet
3 22 (8.24%) Grafana
4 18 (6.74%) Prometheus
5 16 (5.99%) Argo
6 11 (4.12%) Rancher
7 8 (3.00%) Istio
7 8 (3.00%) yum
8 7 (2.62%) Check_MK
8 7 (2.62%) vCenter Server
9 6 (2.25%) Kibana
9 6 (2.25%) logstash
10 4 (1.50%) Docker Swarm
10 4 (1.50%) linkerd
10 4 (1.50%) Mesos
10 4 (1.50%) Nagios
10 4 (1.50%) Packer
10 4 (1.50%) Podman
10 4 (1.50%) VxRail
10 4 (1.50%) ZABBIX
Vendors
1 51 (19.10%) Microsoft
2 34 (12.73%) VMware
3 29 (10.86%) Red Hat
4 13 (4.87%) Splunk
5 11 (4.12%) Google
6 10 (3.75%) Atlassian
7 9 (3.37%) Facebook
8 6 (2.25%) Oracle
9 5 (1.87%) Dell
10 4 (1.50%) Databricks
10 4 (1.50%) OneLogin
10 4 (1.50%) SaltStack
11 3 (1.12%) BeyondTrust
11 3 (1.12%) OpenAI
12 1 (0.37%) Cisco
12 1 (0.37%) CyberArk
12 1 (0.37%) Mistral
12 1 (0.37%) New Relic
12 1 (0.37%) Sparx