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

6 months to
19 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 61 68 57
Rank change year-on-year +7 -11 -30
Permanent jobs citing Kubernetes 265 109 253
As % of all permanent jobs in the South West 2.59% 3.11% 3.36%
As % of the Systems Management category 48.80% 39.64% 44.94%
Number of salaries quoted 167 83 164
10th Percentile £38,750 £42,500 £47,875
25th Percentile £50,000 £51,625 £58,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £67,500 £70,000 £75,000
Median % change year-on-year -3.57% -6.67% +15.38%
75th Percentile £85,000 £82,125 £87,500
90th Percentile £96,250 £95,000 £90,875
England median annual salary £70,079 £78,155 £77,500
% change year-on-year -10.33% +0.85% +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 543 275 563
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the South West 5.31% 7.84% 7.47%
Number of salaries quoted 365 217 378
10th Percentile £31,250 £30,000 £32,100
25th Percentile £40,000 £32,500 £41,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £50,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +20.00% -9.09% -1.79%
75th Percentile £77,500 £72,500 £77,500
90th Percentile £87,300 £82,600 £87,500
England median annual salary £60,000 £62,500 £65,000
% change year-on-year -4.00% -3.85% -

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 19 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 19 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 +12 150 £77,500 -3.13% 104
Somerset +1 41 £50,000 +11.11% 28
Bristol -53 27 £62,500 -10.71% 34
Wiltshire -3 25 £60,000 +17.51% 5
Devon -10 15 £55,000 -16.98% 5
Dorset -24 2 £45,000 -16.67% 27
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 (6.42%) Apache
2 15 (5.66%) Apache Spark
3 11 (4.15%) Confluence
4 10 (3.77%) OpenStack
5 3 (1.13%) Apache Airflow
6 1 (0.38%) JBoss
6 1 (0.38%) nginx
Business Applications
1 1 (0.38%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
Cloud Services
1 126 (47.55%) Azure
2 112 (42.26%) AWS
3 52 (19.62%) GCP
4 49 (18.49%) GitHub
4 49 (18.49%) OpenShift
5 31 (11.70%) AWS CloudFormation
6 26 (9.81%) GitHub Copilot
7 20 (7.55%) Azure AI
7 20 (7.55%) Azure DevOps
8 19 (7.17%) Serverless
9 18 (6.79%) Amazon EKS
10 17 (6.42%) Azure AKS
11 14 (5.28%) GitHub Actions
12 10 (3.77%) AWS Lambda
13 9 (3.40%) Amazon S3
13 9 (3.40%) Azure ExpressRoute
13 9 (3.40%) Entra ID
14 6 (2.26%) Amazon EC2
14 6 (2.26%) Amazon ECS
14 6 (2.26%) PaaS
Communications & Networking
1 14 (5.28%) Network Security
1 14 (5.28%) VPN
2 11 (4.15%) Firewall
3 9 (3.40%) Software-Defined Networking
4 7 (2.64%) Internet
4 7 (2.64%) WAN
5 5 (1.89%) BGP
5 5 (1.89%) Ethernet VPN
5 5 (1.89%) SD-WAN
5 5 (1.89%) SNMP
5 5 (1.89%) VLAN
6 4 (1.51%) AMQP
6 4 (1.51%) IPv4
7 3 (1.13%) TCP/IP
8 2 (0.75%) LAN
9 1 (0.38%) DHCP
9 1 (0.38%) DNS
9 1 (0.38%) SSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 35 (13.21%) MongoDB
2 26 (9.81%) Azure SQL Database
3 12 (4.53%) Hadoop
4 11 (4.15%) Big Data
4 11 (4.15%) Elasticsearch
4 11 (4.15%) PostgreSQL
5 9 (3.40%) InfluxDB
6 8 (3.02%) NoSQL
7 7 (2.64%) Data Warehouse
7 7 (2.64%) Geospatial Data
8 6 (2.26%) MySQL
9 5 (1.89%) Data Lake
10 4 (1.51%) Cloudera CDH
10 4 (1.51%) Flink
11 3 (1.13%) DynamoDB
11 3 (1.13%) Relational Database
11 3 (1.13%) ZAP BI
12 1 (0.38%) Amazon RDS
12 1 (0.38%) MariaDB
12 1 (0.38%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 59 (22.26%) Git
2 44 (16.60%) GitLab
3 34 (12.83%) Jenkins
4 16 (6.04%) Subversion
5 13 (4.91%) JIRA
6 10 (3.77%) Bitbucket
6 10 (3.77%) Cypress.io
6 10 (3.77%) Selenium
7 9 (3.40%) Eclipse
7 9 (3.40%) Robot Framework
8 8 (3.02%) TestRail
9 7 (2.64%) MSI
10 5 (1.89%) JUnit
11 3 (1.13%) NUnit
11 3 (1.13%) Postman
11 3 (1.13%) Snyk
11 3 (1.13%) SonarQube
12 1 (0.38%) ER Studio
12 1 (0.38%) Mocha
12 1 (0.38%) Vite
General
1 56 (21.13%) Finance
2 50 (18.87%) Social Skills
3 26 (9.81%) Aerospace
3 26 (9.81%) Public Sector
4 18 (6.79%) Analytical Skills
4 18 (6.79%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 11 (4.15%) Marketing
6 9 (3.40%) Advertising
6 9 (3.40%) Retail
7 6 (2.26%) Games
8 4 (1.51%) Military
9 3 (1.13%) Legal
10 2 (0.75%) Law
11 1 (0.38%) Automotive
11 1 (0.38%) Electronics
11 1 (0.38%) Manufacturing
11 1 (0.38%) Organisational Skills
Job Titles
1 67 (25.28%) Developer
2 52 (19.62%) DevOps Engineer
3 36 (13.58%) .NET Developer
4 34 (12.83%) Infrastructure Engineer
5 26 (9.81%) Software Engineer
6 21 (7.92%) Senior
7 20 (7.55%) Architect
8 19 (7.17%) Cloud Engineer
9 18 (6.79%) Lead
10 15 (5.66%) Data Engineer
11 14 (5.28%) Principal Engineer
12 13 (4.91%) Platform Engineer
13 12 (4.53%) Software Developer
14 11 (4.15%) Full-Stack Engineer
14 11 (4.15%) Java Developer
14 11 (4.15%) Lead DevOps
14 11 (4.15%) Lead DevOps Engineer
15 10 (3.77%) Full-Stack Developer
16 9 (3.40%) Azure Architect
16 9 (3.40%) Full-Stack Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 132 (49.81%) Terraform
2 53 (20.00%) .NET
3 48 (18.11%) .NET Core
4 43 (16.23%) RESTful
5 39 (14.72%) Spring
5 39 (14.72%) Spring Boot
6 30 (11.32%) CSS
7 28 (10.57%) HTML
7 28 (10.57%) Node.js
7 28 (10.57%) React
8 26 (9.81%) ASP.NET
8 26 (9.81%) ASP.NET Core
9 20 (7.55%) AngularJS
9 20 (7.55%) Elastic Stack
9 20 (7.55%) ML.NET
10 18 (6.79%) REST
11 13 (4.91%) Vue
12 9 (3.40%) Blazor
12 9 (3.40%) Jakarta EE
12 9 (3.40%) pytest
Miscellaneous
1 61 (23.02%) Cloud Native
2 17 (6.42%) Hybrid Cloud
3 8 (3.02%) Distributed Systems
3 8 (3.02%) Legacy Systems
3 8 (3.02%) Onboarding
3 8 (3.02%) Product Ownership
4 6 (2.26%) Social Media
5 5 (1.89%) Digital TV
5 5 (1.89%) PKI
6 4 (1.51%) Algorithms
7 3 (1.13%) Blog
7 3 (1.13%) Data Centre
7 3 (1.13%) Data Structures
7 3 (1.13%) Public Cloud
8 2 (0.75%) CUDA
8 2 (0.75%) Private Cloud
9 1 (0.38%) Renewable Energy
Operating Systems
1 80 (30.19%) Linux
2 28 (10.57%) Windows
3 13 (4.91%) CentOS
4 12 (4.53%) Unix
5 8 (3.02%) Windows Server
6 5 (1.89%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 5 (1.89%) Ubuntu
7 4 (1.51%) Debian
8 2 (0.75%) Rocky
Processes & Methodologies
1 190 (71.70%) CI/CD
2 141 (53.21%) Infrastructure as Code
3 140 (52.83%) Containerisation
4 124 (46.79%) DevOps
5 118 (44.53%) Agile
6 72 (27.17%) Full-Stack Development
7 63 (23.77%) Software Engineering
8 58 (21.89%) Infrastructure Engineering
9 54 (20.38%) AI
10 47 (17.74%) Microservices
11 44 (16.60%) Continuous Improvement
11 44 (16.60%) Problem-Solving
11 44 (16.60%) Test Automation
12 40 (15.09%) DevSecOps
13 35 (13.21%) Site Reliability Engineering
14 33 (12.45%) Machine Learning
15 30 (11.32%) Platform Engineering
16 27 (10.19%) Collaborative Working
17 25 (9.43%) Collaborative Culture
17 25 (9.43%) Observability
Programming Languages
1 119 (44.91%) Python
2 83 (31.32%) Java
3 59 (22.26%) JavaScript
4 50 (18.87%) C#
5 49 (18.49%) Bash
6 42 (15.85%) SQL
7 20 (7.55%) TypeScript
8 19 (7.17%) Go
9 18 (6.79%) Bicep
10 15 (5.66%) PowerShell
11 14 (5.28%) C++
12 7 (2.64%) Perl
12 7 (2.64%) Rust
12 7 (2.64%) Scala
13 3 (1.13%) C
14 2 (0.75%) Shell Script
15 1 (0.38%) Kotlin
15 1 (0.38%) Objective-C
Qualifications
1 163 (61.51%) Security Cleared
2 86 (32.45%) DV Cleared
3 69 (26.04%) SC Cleared
4 26 (9.81%) Degree
5 20 (7.55%) Computer Science Degree
6 11 (4.15%) AWS Certification
6 11 (4.15%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
7 6 (2.26%) RHCSA
8 5 (1.89%) RHCE
9 4 (1.51%) Azure Certification
9 4 (1.51%) CCNA
9 4 (1.51%) Cisco Certification
9 4 (1.51%) ISTQB
9 4 (1.51%) Microsoft Certification
9 4 (1.51%) OCP
9 4 (1.51%) Oracle Certification
9 4 (1.51%) OSCP
10 3 (1.13%) AWS Certified Developer
10 3 (1.13%) BPSS Clearance
11 1 (0.38%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 21 (7.92%) Accessibility
2 11 (4.15%) QA
2 11 (4.15%) WCAG
3 10 (3.77%) NCSC
4 5 (1.89%) Data Quality
5 3 (1.13%) NIST
6 1 (0.38%) California Consumer Privacy Act
6 1 (0.38%) GDPR
6 1 (0.38%) HIPAA
System Software
1 169 (63.77%) Docker
2 27 (10.19%) VMware Infrastructure
3 14 (5.28%) Active Directory
4 6 (2.26%) Virtual Machines
4 6 (2.26%) VMware NSX
5 5 (1.89%) Hyper-V
6 4 (1.51%) Ceph
6 4 (1.51%) Squid
6 4 (1.51%) vSphere
7 1 (0.38%) Citrix Hypervisor
7 1 (0.38%) Firmware
7 1 (0.38%) KVM
7 1 (0.38%) QEMU
7 1 (0.38%) Slurm Workload Manager
7 1 (0.38%) Virtual Desktop
7 1 (0.38%) VMware ESXi
7 1 (0.38%) Xen
Systems Management
1 90 (33.96%) Ansible
2 22 (8.30%) Puppet
3 21 (7.92%) Grafana
4 17 (6.42%) Prometheus
5 15 (5.66%) Argo
6 10 (3.77%) Rancher
7 8 (3.02%) Istio
8 7 (2.64%) Check_MK
8 7 (2.64%) vCenter Server
8 7 (2.64%) yum
9 6 (2.26%) Kibana
9 6 (2.26%) logstash
10 4 (1.51%) Docker Swarm
10 4 (1.51%) linkerd
10 4 (1.51%) Mesos
10 4 (1.51%) Nagios
10 4 (1.51%) Packer
10 4 (1.51%) Podman
10 4 (1.51%) VxRail
10 4 (1.51%) ZABBIX
Vendors
1 51 (19.25%) Microsoft
2 35 (13.21%) VMware
3 30 (11.32%) Red Hat
4 13 (4.91%) Splunk
5 11 (4.15%) Google
6 10 (3.77%) Atlassian
7 9 (3.40%) Facebook
8 7 (2.64%) Oracle
9 5 (1.89%) Databricks
9 5 (1.89%) Dell
10 4 (1.51%) OneLogin
10 4 (1.51%) SaltStack
11 3 (1.13%) BeyondTrust
11 3 (1.13%) OpenAI
12 2 (0.75%) Cisco
13 1 (0.38%) CyberArk
13 1 (0.38%) Fortinet
13 1 (0.38%) Juniper
13 1 (0.38%) New Relic
13 1 (0.38%) Sparx