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

6 months to
24 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 61 48 45
Rank change year-on-year -13 -3 +3
Permanent jobs citing Kubernetes 156 143 359
As % of all permanent jobs in the South West 2.38% 5.22% 4.57%
As % of the Systems Management category 45.35% 47.19% 37.67%
Number of salaries quoted 108 102 288
10th Percentile £42,500 £47,750 £44,625
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 £89,375 £85,000
90th Percentile £87,750 £102,410 £91,934
England median annual salary £75,000 £85,000 £75,000
% change year-on-year -11.76% +13.33% -3.23%

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 344 303 953
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the South West 5.25% 11.05% 12.12%
Number of salaries quoted 257 227 759
10th Percentile £31,250 £34,100 £31,250
25th Percentile £36,250 £43,125 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £54,417 £60,000 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year -9.31% +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 24 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 24 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 +5 58 £67,500 +3.85% 31
Devon +14 25 £57,500 - 6
Bristol -49 20 £67,500 -11.48% 21
Somerset - 14 £45,000 - 5
Wiltshire +1 11 £75,000 - 5
Dorset -13 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 (3.21%) Apache
1 5 (3.21%) Apache Spark
2 3 (1.92%) Confluence
3 2 (1.28%) OpenStack
4 1 (0.64%) Apache Airflow
4 1 (0.64%) JBoss
Applications
1 1 (0.64%) Microsoft Office
Cloud Services
1 80 (51.28%) AWS
2 65 (41.67%) Azure
3 33 (21.15%) GCP
4 23 (14.74%) GitHub
5 20 (12.82%) Amazon S3
5 20 (12.82%) Serverless
6 17 (10.90%) AWS Lambda
6 17 (10.90%) GitHub Actions
7 15 (9.62%) Azure AKS
8 14 (8.97%) SaaS
9 13 (8.33%) OpenShift
10 11 (7.05%) Amazon EC2
10 11 (7.05%) Azure DevOps
11 6 (3.85%) Datadog
12 4 (2.56%) Amazon ECS
12 4 (2.56%) Amazon EKS
12 4 (2.56%) AWS CloudFormation
13 3 (1.92%) Amazon SQS
13 3 (1.92%) Virtual Private Cloud
14 2 (1.28%) Slack
Communications & Networking
1 5 (3.21%) Firewall
2 4 (2.56%) Broadband
3 2 (1.28%) VPN
4 1 (0.64%) AMQP
4 1 (0.64%) DNS
4 1 (0.64%) LAN
4 1 (0.64%) Network Security
4 1 (0.64%) TCP/IP
4 1 (0.64%) VLAN
4 1 (0.64%) VSAN
4 1 (0.64%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 17 (10.90%) Elasticsearch
2 13 (8.33%) NoSQL
3 12 (7.69%) PostgreSQL
3 12 (7.69%) SQL Server
4 11 (7.05%) Amazon RDS
5 8 (5.13%) Neo4j
6 7 (4.49%) Relational Database
7 6 (3.85%) InfluxDB
7 6 (3.85%) MongoDB
8 5 (3.21%) MySQL
9 4 (2.56%) Big Data
10 3 (1.92%) CockroachDB
11 2 (1.28%) Azure SQL Database
11 2 (1.28%) Geospatial Data
11 2 (1.28%) MariaDB
12 1 (0.64%) Apache Cassandra
12 1 (0.64%) Couchbase
12 1 (0.64%) DB2
12 1 (0.64%) Hadoop
12 1 (0.64%) Redis
Development Applications
1 29 (18.59%) Jenkins
2 19 (12.18%) Git
3 18 (11.54%) GitLab
4 8 (5.13%) Cypress.io
5 6 (3.85%) CircleCI
5 6 (3.85%) Subversion
6 5 (3.21%) Cucumber
6 5 (3.21%) JUnit
6 5 (3.21%) Selenium
7 4 (2.56%) Maven
7 4 (2.56%) Robot Framework
7 4 (2.56%) TestRail
8 3 (1.92%) Gradle
8 3 (1.92%) JIRA
8 3 (1.92%) Mockito
8 3 (1.92%) TeamCity
8 3 (1.92%) TestNG
9 2 (1.28%) Bitbucket
9 2 (1.28%) Checkstyle
9 2 (1.28%) SonarQube
General
1 32 (20.51%) Social Skills
2 18 (11.54%) Finance
3 11 (7.05%) Aerospace
4 10 (6.41%) Public Sector
5 5 (3.21%) Analytical Skills
6 4 (2.56%) Electronics
6 4 (2.56%) Manufacturing
7 3 (1.92%) Marketing
8 2 (1.28%) Automotive
8 2 (1.28%) Telecoms
9 1 (0.64%) Advertising
9 1 (0.64%) Banking
9 1 (0.64%) Games
9 1 (0.64%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 1 (0.64%) Military
9 1 (0.64%) Retail
9 1 (0.64%) Tech for Good
Job Titles
1 39 (25.00%) Software Engineer
2 31 (19.87%) Senior
3 23 (14.74%) Developer
4 17 (10.90%) Senior Software Engineer
5 14 (8.97%) DevOps Engineer
6 11 (7.05%) .NET Software Engineer
6 11 (7.05%) DevSecOps Engineer
6 11 (7.05%) Infrastructure Engineer
6 11 (7.05%) Lead
6 11 (7.05%) Senior .NET Software Engineer
7 10 (6.41%) Java Developer
7 10 (6.41%) Platform Engineer
8 8 (5.13%) Test Engineer
9 7 (4.49%) Software Developer
9 7 (4.49%) Software Manager
10 6 (3.85%) Architect
10 6 (3.85%) Python Engineer
11 4 (2.56%) Azure Engineer
11 4 (2.56%) DV Cleared Software Engineer
11 4 (2.56%) Kubernetes Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 28 (17.95%) .NET
1 28 (17.95%) .NET Core
2 27 (17.31%) React
3 25 (16.03%) Spring
4 21 (13.46%) Spring Boot
5 18 (11.54%) REST
6 16 (10.26%) AngularJS
7 14 (8.97%) Node.js
8 11 (7.05%) .NET Framework
8 11 (7.05%) Dapper ORM
8 11 (7.05%) Entity Framework
9 10 (6.41%) Elastic Stack
9 10 (6.41%) RESTful
10 8 (5.13%) MERN Stack
10 8 (5.13%) OAuth
10 8 (5.13%) YAML
11 5 (3.21%) Django
11 5 (3.21%) FastAPI
11 5 (3.21%) OpenAPI
12 4 (2.56%) Keycloak
Miscellaneous
1 34 (21.79%) Cloud Native
2 6 (3.85%) Distributed Systems
3 5 (3.21%) Legacy Systems
3 5 (3.21%) Product Ownership
4 3 (1.92%) Hybrid Cloud
4 3 (1.92%) IoT
4 3 (1.92%) Over-the-Top Content
4 3 (1.92%) Private Cloud
4 3 (1.92%) Public Cloud
4 3 (1.92%) Self-Motivation
4 3 (1.92%) Video\Live Streaming
5 2 (1.28%) Blockchain
5 2 (1.28%) CUDA
5 2 (1.28%) Data Centre
5 2 (1.28%) Enterprise Software
5 2 (1.28%) Insider Threat
5 2 (1.28%) Management Information System
5 2 (1.28%) Onboarding
5 2 (1.28%) Renewable Energy
6 1 (0.64%) Legacy Applications
Operating Systems
1 35 (22.44%) Linux
2 13 (8.33%) Windows
3 7 (4.49%) CentOS
4 5 (3.21%) Windows Server
5 2 (1.28%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 2 (1.28%) Ubuntu
5 2 (1.28%) Unix
6 1 (0.64%) Debian
6 1 (0.64%) Windows Server 2016
Processes & Methodologies
1 89 (57.05%) Containerisation
2 85 (54.49%) CI/CD
3 72 (46.15%) DevOps
4 63 (40.38%) Software Engineering
5 56 (35.90%) Agile
6 48 (30.77%) Infrastructure as Code
7 43 (27.56%) Continuous Improvement
8 30 (19.23%) Infrastructure Engineering
9 26 (16.67%) Test Automation
10 22 (14.10%) Collaborative Culture
10 22 (14.10%) Problem-Solving
11 21 (13.46%) SDLC
12 20 (12.82%) AI
13 19 (12.18%) Analytics
13 19 (12.18%) Mentoring
14 18 (11.54%) Full-Stack Development
14 18 (11.54%) Microservices
15 16 (10.26%) Platform Engineering
16 13 (8.33%) DevSecOps
16 13 (8.33%) Performance Optimisation
Programming Languages
1 81 (51.92%) Python
2 58 (37.18%) Java
3 33 (21.15%) JavaScript
4 31 (19.87%) SQL
5 30 (19.23%) Bash
6 25 (16.03%) C#
7 21 (13.46%) TypeScript
8 16 (10.26%) PowerShell
9 11 (7.05%) Go
10 10 (6.41%) Bicep
11 9 (5.77%) C
12 7 (4.49%) Scala
13 6 (3.85%) Kotlin
14 4 (2.56%) C++
14 4 (2.56%) PHP
15 3 (1.92%) Elixir
15 3 (1.92%) Erlang
16 1 (0.64%) Delphi
16 1 (0.64%) Ruby
16 1 (0.64%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 55 (35.26%) Security Cleared
2 42 (26.92%) DV Cleared
3 13 (8.33%) SC Cleared
4 10 (6.41%) Degree
5 8 (5.13%) Computer Science Degree
6 4 (2.56%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
7 2 (1.28%) AWS Certification
7 2 (1.28%) Azure Certification
7 2 (1.28%) ISTQB
7 2 (1.28%) ISTQB Advanced Certification
7 2 (1.28%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
8 1 (0.64%) Microsoft Certification
8 1 (0.64%) RHCE
8 1 (0.64%) TOGAF Certification
8 1 (0.64%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 20 (12.82%) QA
2 4 (2.56%) Accessibility
2 4 (2.56%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 3 (1.92%) ISO 9001
4 1 (0.64%) GDPR
4 1 (0.64%) NCSC
System Software
1 105 (67.31%) Docker
2 7 (4.49%) VMware Infrastructure
3 4 (2.56%) Firmware
3 4 (2.56%) Hyper-V
3 4 (2.56%) Virtual Machines
4 2 (1.28%) 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 46 (29.49%) Terraform
2 26 (16.67%) Ansible
3 23 (14.74%) Grafana
4 13 (8.33%) Prometheus
5 8 (5.13%) Argo
6 6 (3.85%) Rancher
6 6 (3.85%) yum
7 4 (2.56%) Puppet
8 3 (1.92%) Kibana
8 3 (1.92%) vCenter Server
8 3 (1.92%) VxRail
9 2 (1.28%) Istio
9 2 (1.28%) logstash
9 2 (1.28%) Microsoft Intune
10 1 (0.64%) Check_MK
10 1 (0.64%) Docker Swarm
10 1 (0.64%) Kustomize
10 1 (0.64%) Mesos
10 1 (0.64%) Nagios
10 1 (0.64%) Progress Chef
Vendors
1 11 (7.05%) Google
1 11 (7.05%) Microsoft
2 9 (5.77%) Red Hat
3 8 (5.13%) Splunk
3 8 (5.13%) VMware
4 6 (3.85%) Oracle
5 3 (1.92%) BeyondTrust
5 3 (1.92%) Cisco
5 3 (1.92%) Dell
6 2 (1.28%) Apple
6 2 (1.28%) Atlassian
6 2 (1.28%) Fortinet
6 2 (1.28%) Guidewire
6 2 (1.28%) SAP
6 2 (1.28%) Thales
7 1 (0.64%) Facebook
7 1 (0.64%) Juniper
7 1 (0.64%) New Relic
7 1 (0.64%) Palo Alto
7 1 (0.64%) SaltStack