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

6 months to
11 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 70 60 66
Rank change year-on-year -10 +6 -29
Permanent jobs citing Kubernetes 158 111 316
As % of all permanent jobs in the South West 2.05% 4.10% 3.52%
As % of the Systems Management category 41.80% 39.64% 35.39%
Number of salaries quoted 98 72 260
10th Percentile £38,750 £50,000 £45,000
25th Percentile £48,750 £58,125 £52,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £62,500 £71,991 £70,576
Median % change year-on-year -13.18% +2.01% +4.56%
75th Percentile £76,250 £93,778 £86,563
90th Percentile £80,375 £102,410 £91,318
England median annual salary £75,000 £82,500 £77,500
% change year-on-year -9.09% +6.45% -

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 378 280 893
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the South West 4.91% 10.34% 9.95%
Number of salaries quoted 266 204 723
10th Percentile £31,500 £31,250 £31,350
25th Percentile £38,750 £40,000 £42,375
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £55,000 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year - +4.76% -9.19%
75th Percentile £70,938 £73,886 £72,433
90th Percentile £79,625 £95,000 £85,000
England median annual salary £65,000 £69,384 £61,206
% change year-on-year -6.32% +13.36% -9.32%

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 11 May 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 11 May 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 -4 64 £64,000 -1.54% 37
Devon +4 24 £56,250 - 2
Bristol -43 23 £65,000 -16.13% 18
Wiltshire -6 14 £60,000 +17.51% 3
Somerset -18 11 £42,500 - 7
Dorset -13 9 £75,000 +20.00%
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 (3.16%) Apache Spark
2 4 (2.53%) Apache
2 4 (2.53%) Confluence
3 3 (1.90%) OpenStack
4 1 (0.63%) Apache Airflow
Applications
1 1 (0.63%) Microsoft Office
Cloud Services
1 70 (44.30%) AWS
2 63 (39.87%) Azure
3 36 (22.78%) GCP
4 20 (12.66%) GitHub
5 18 (11.39%) Serverless
6 17 (10.76%) Amazon S3
7 15 (9.49%) OpenShift
8 14 (8.86%) AWS Lambda
8 14 (8.86%) SaaS
9 13 (8.23%) Azure AKS
10 11 (6.96%) Amazon EC2
11 10 (6.33%) GitHub Actions
12 7 (4.43%) GitHub Copilot
13 6 (3.80%) Datadog
14 5 (3.16%) Amazon EKS
14 5 (3.16%) AWS CloudFormation
14 5 (3.16%) Azure AI
15 3 (1.90%) Azure DevOps
16 2 (1.27%) Amazon ECS
16 2 (1.27%) Slack
Communications & Networking
1 4 (2.53%) Broadband
1 4 (2.53%) Firewall
2 3 (1.90%) WAN
3 2 (1.27%) Internet
3 2 (1.27%) LAN
3 2 (1.27%) Software-Defined Networking
3 2 (1.27%) TCP/IP
3 2 (1.27%) VPN
4 1 (0.63%) AMQP
4 1 (0.63%) BGP
4 1 (0.63%) DNS
4 1 (0.63%) Ethernet VPN
4 1 (0.63%) IPv4
4 1 (0.63%) Network Security
4 1 (0.63%) SD-WAN
4 1 (0.63%) SNMP
4 1 (0.63%) VLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 17 (10.76%) Elasticsearch
2 14 (8.86%) NoSQL
2 14 (8.86%) PostgreSQL
3 13 (8.23%) MongoDB
4 12 (7.59%) SQL Server
5 10 (6.33%) Amazon RDS
6 7 (4.43%) Azure SQL Database
6 7 (4.43%) InfluxDB
6 7 (4.43%) Relational Database
7 6 (3.80%) MySQL
7 6 (3.80%) Neo4j
8 3 (1.90%) CockroachDB
9 2 (1.27%) Big Data
10 1 (0.63%) Apache Cassandra
10 1 (0.63%) Couchbase
10 1 (0.63%) DynamoDB
10 1 (0.63%) Hadoop
10 1 (0.63%) MariaDB
10 1 (0.63%) RDBMS
10 1 (0.63%) Redis
Development Applications
1 33 (20.89%) Jenkins
2 28 (17.72%) Git
3 23 (14.56%) GitLab
4 9 (5.70%) Cypress.io
5 7 (4.43%) Subversion
6 6 (3.80%) CircleCI
6 6 (3.80%) Selenium
7 5 (3.16%) Robot Framework
7 5 (3.16%) TestRail
8 4 (2.53%) Bitbucket
8 4 (2.53%) JIRA
8 4 (2.53%) JUnit
8 4 (2.53%) Maven
9 3 (1.90%) Cucumber
9 3 (1.90%) Gradle
9 3 (1.90%) Mockito
9 3 (1.90%) TeamCity
9 3 (1.90%) TestNG
10 2 (1.27%) Checkstyle
10 2 (1.27%) SonarQube
General
1 36 (22.78%) Social Skills
2 22 (13.92%) Finance
3 15 (9.49%) Aerospace
4 8 (5.06%) Public Sector
5 4 (2.53%) Analytical Skills
5 4 (2.53%) Electronics
5 4 (2.53%) Manufacturing
6 3 (1.90%) Automotive
6 3 (1.90%) Marketing
7 2 (1.27%) Advertising
7 2 (1.27%) Games
7 2 (1.27%) Retail
8 1 (0.63%) Banking
8 1 (0.63%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 1 (0.63%) Tech for Good
8 1 (0.63%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 33 (20.89%) Software Engineer
2 31 (19.62%) Developer
3 28 (17.72%) Senior
4 18 (11.39%) Infrastructure Engineer
5 16 (10.13%) .NET Developer
6 15 (9.49%) Senior Software Engineer
7 13 (8.23%) DevSecOps Engineer
8 12 (7.59%) DevOps Engineer
9 11 (6.96%) .NET Software Engineer
9 11 (6.96%) Senior .NET Software Engineer
10 10 (6.33%) Lead
10 10 (6.33%) Software Developer
10 10 (6.33%) Test Engineer
11 9 (5.70%) Java Developer
11 9 (5.70%) Python Engineer
12 8 (5.06%) .NET Software Developer
12 8 (5.06%) Backend Developer
12 8 (5.06%) Mid-Level .NET Developer
13 7 (4.43%) Software Manager
14 6 (3.80%) Test Automation Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 39 (24.68%) .NET
2 38 (24.05%) .NET Core
3 24 (15.19%) React
4 21 (13.29%) REST
5 19 (12.03%) Spring
6 16 (10.13%) AngularJS
6 16 (10.13%) RESTful
6 16 (10.13%) Spring Boot
7 14 (8.86%) Node.js
8 12 (7.59%) Elastic Stack
9 11 (6.96%) .NET Framework
9 11 (6.96%) Dapper ORM
9 11 (6.96%) Entity Framework
10 9 (5.70%) OAuth
11 8 (5.06%) Django
11 8 (5.06%) FastAPI
12 7 (4.43%) ASP.NET
12 7 (4.43%) ASP.NET Core
12 7 (4.43%) Vue
13 6 (3.80%) CSS
Miscellaneous
1 27 (17.09%) Cloud Native
2 8 (5.06%) Distributed Systems
2 8 (5.06%) Product Ownership
3 5 (3.16%) Hybrid Cloud
4 4 (2.53%) CUDA
5 3 (1.90%) Data Structures
5 3 (1.90%) IoT
5 3 (1.90%) Over-the-Top Content
5 3 (1.90%) PKI
5 3 (1.90%) Private Cloud
5 3 (1.90%) Public Cloud
5 3 (1.90%) Renewable Energy
5 3 (1.90%) Self-Motivation
5 3 (1.90%) Video\Live Streaming
6 2 (1.27%) Algorithms
6 2 (1.27%) Blockchain
6 2 (1.27%) Data Centre
6 2 (1.27%) Insider Threat
6 2 (1.27%) Legacy Systems
6 2 (1.27%) Onboarding
Operating Systems
1 43 (27.22%) Linux
2 17 (10.76%) Windows
3 7 (4.43%) CentOS
4 6 (3.80%) Windows Server
5 4 (2.53%) Unix
6 2 (1.27%) Ubuntu
7 1 (0.63%) Debian
7 1 (0.63%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
7 1 (0.63%) Windows Server 2016
Processes & Methodologies
1 91 (57.59%) CI/CD
2 86 (54.43%) Containerisation
3 66 (41.77%) DevOps
4 60 (37.97%) Software Engineering
5 59 (37.34%) Agile
6 52 (32.91%) Infrastructure as Code
7 43 (27.22%) Continuous Improvement
8 32 (20.25%) Infrastructure Engineering
9 31 (19.62%) Test Automation
10 25 (15.82%) Collaborative Culture
11 24 (15.19%) Analytics
12 23 (14.56%) Problem-Solving
13 22 (13.92%) AI
13 22 (13.92%) Full-Stack Development
13 22 (13.92%) SDLC
14 20 (12.66%) Mentoring
15 18 (11.39%) Microservices
16 17 (10.76%) DevSecOps
17 15 (9.49%) Performance Optimisation
17 15 (9.49%) Scrum
Programming Languages
1 79 (50.00%) Python
2 51 (32.28%) Java
3 39 (24.68%) SQL
4 35 (22.15%) C#
5 34 (21.52%) Bash
6 30 (18.99%) JavaScript
7 18 (11.39%) TypeScript
8 15 (9.49%) PowerShell
9 13 (8.23%) Go
10 9 (5.70%) C
11 7 (4.43%) Scala
12 6 (3.80%) C++
13 3 (1.90%) Elixir
13 3 (1.90%) Erlang
13 3 (1.90%) Kotlin
13 3 (1.90%) PHP
14 2 (1.27%) Rust
14 2 (1.27%) Shell Script
15 1 (0.63%) Bicep
15 1 (0.63%) Ruby
Qualifications
1 58 (36.71%) Security Cleared
2 36 (22.78%) DV Cleared
3 15 (9.49%) Degree
3 15 (9.49%) SC Cleared
4 13 (8.23%) Computer Science Degree
5 5 (3.16%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
6 3 (1.90%) ISTQB
7 2 (1.27%) AWS Certification
7 2 (1.27%) ISTQB Advanced Certification
7 2 (1.27%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
7 2 (1.27%) Microsoft Certification
7 2 (1.27%) RHCE
8 1 (0.63%) Azure Certification
8 1 (0.63%) CCNA
8 1 (0.63%) Cisco Certification
8 1 (0.63%) OSCP
8 1 (0.63%) RHCSA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 21 (13.29%) QA
2 4 (2.53%) Accessibility
3 3 (1.90%) ISO 9001
3 3 (1.90%) ISO/IEC 27001
System Software
1 107 (67.72%) Docker
2 11 (6.96%) VMware Infrastructure
3 6 (3.80%) Virtual Machines
4 5 (3.16%) Hyper-V
5 4 (2.53%) Firmware
6 2 (1.27%) Active Directory
7 1 (0.63%) Citrix Hypervisor
7 1 (0.63%) KVM
7 1 (0.63%) QEMU
7 1 (0.63%) Slurm Workload Manager
7 1 (0.63%) Squid
7 1 (0.63%) VMware NSX
7 1 (0.63%) vSphere
7 1 (0.63%) Xen
Systems Management
1 56 (35.44%) Terraform
2 35 (22.15%) Ansible
3 25 (15.82%) Grafana
4 15 (9.49%) Prometheus
5 9 (5.70%) Argo
5 9 (5.70%) Puppet
6 8 (5.06%) Rancher
7 7 (4.43%) yum
8 5 (3.16%) Kibana
9 4 (2.53%) logstash
9 4 (2.53%) vCenter Server
9 4 (2.53%) VxRail
10 2 (1.27%) Check_MK
10 2 (1.27%) Istio
10 2 (1.27%) Microsoft Intune
10 2 (1.27%) Nagios
11 1 (0.63%) Docker Swarm
11 1 (0.63%) Mesos
11 1 (0.63%) Progress Chef
11 1 (0.63%) ZABBIX
Vendors
1 15 (9.49%) Microsoft
2 13 (8.23%) VMware
3 12 (7.59%) Red Hat
4 10 (6.33%) Google
5 9 (5.70%) Splunk
6 6 (3.80%) Oracle
7 4 (2.53%) Atlassian
7 4 (2.53%) BeyondTrust
8 3 (1.90%) Dell
9 2 (1.27%) Apple
9 2 (1.27%) Cisco
9 2 (1.27%) Facebook
9 2 (1.27%) Guidewire
9 2 (1.27%) OpenAI
9 2 (1.27%) Thales
10 1 (0.63%) Databricks
10 1 (0.63%) Juniper
10 1 (0.63%) New Relic
10 1 (0.63%) SaltStack
10 1 (0.63%) SAP