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

6 months to
22 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 68 53 66
Rank change year-on-year -15 +13 -26
Permanent jobs citing Kubernetes 161 124 324
As % of all permanent jobs in the South West 2.17% 4.65% 3.72%
As % of the Systems Management category 43.87% 43.06% 34.65%
Number of salaries quoted 105 82 272
10th Percentile £42,500 £50,000 £45,000
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 £76,250 £92,500 £85,000
90th Percentile £82,000 £102,410 £91,934
England median annual salary £75,000 £85,000 £77,500
% change year-on-year -11.76% +9.68% -

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 367 288 935
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the South West 4.95% 10.79% 10.75%
Number of salaries quoted 263 211 761
10th Percentile £31,500 £31,750 £31,750
25th Percentile £37,500 £41,875 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £57,443 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year -4.25% +9.41% -8.70%
75th Percentile £67,500 £75,000 £70,750
90th Percentile £80,000 £95,000 £85,000
England median annual salary £65,000 £70,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year -7.14% +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 22 April 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 April 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 67 £67,500 +3.85% 31
Devon -1 25 £57,500 - 5
Bristol -42 21 £65,000 -16.13% 25
Somerset -18 14 £43,750 - 5
Wiltshire -2 10 £66,250 +5.11% 8
Dorset -17 8 £75,000 +36.36% 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 (3.11%) Apache
1 5 (3.11%) Apache Spark
2 3 (1.86%) Confluence
3 2 (1.24%) OpenStack
4 1 (0.62%) Apache Airflow
Applications
1 1 (0.62%) Microsoft Office
Cloud Services
1 79 (49.07%) AWS
2 63 (39.13%) Azure
3 35 (21.74%) GCP
4 20 (12.42%) GitHub
4 20 (12.42%) Serverless
5 19 (11.80%) Amazon S3
6 16 (9.94%) AWS Lambda
6 16 (9.94%) OpenShift
7 14 (8.70%) Azure AKS
7 14 (8.70%) GitHub Actions
7 14 (8.70%) SaaS
8 11 (6.83%) Amazon EC2
9 8 (4.97%) Azure DevOps
10 6 (3.73%) Datadog
11 5 (3.11%) Amazon EKS
11 5 (3.11%) AWS CloudFormation
12 4 (2.48%) Amazon ECS
13 3 (1.86%) Amazon SQS
14 2 (1.24%) Google Kubernetes Engine
14 2 (1.24%) Slack
Communications & Networking
1 4 (2.48%) Broadband
2 3 (1.86%) Firewall
3 2 (1.24%) LAN
3 2 (1.24%) TCP/IP
3 2 (1.24%) WAN
4 1 (0.62%) AMQP
4 1 (0.62%) DNS
4 1 (0.62%) Internet
4 1 (0.62%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 18 (11.18%) Elasticsearch
2 15 (9.32%) NoSQL
2 15 (9.32%) PostgreSQL
3 13 (8.07%) SQL Server
4 11 (6.83%) Amazon RDS
5 8 (4.97%) InfluxDB
5 8 (4.97%) MongoDB
5 8 (4.97%) Neo4j
5 8 (4.97%) Relational Database
6 6 (3.73%) MySQL
7 3 (1.86%) CockroachDB
8 2 (1.24%) Azure SQL Database
8 2 (1.24%) Big Data
8 2 (1.24%) MariaDB
9 1 (0.62%) Apache Cassandra
9 1 (0.62%) BigQuery
9 1 (0.62%) Couchbase
9 1 (0.62%) DynamoDB
9 1 (0.62%) RDBMS
9 1 (0.62%) Redis
Development Applications
1 33 (20.50%) Jenkins
2 28 (17.39%) Git
3 21 (13.04%) GitLab
4 10 (6.21%) Cypress.io
5 7 (4.35%) Selenium
5 7 (4.35%) Subversion
6 6 (3.73%) CircleCI
6 6 (3.73%) Robot Framework
6 6 (3.73%) TestRail
7 5 (3.11%) Cucumber
7 5 (3.11%) JUnit
8 4 (2.48%) Maven
9 3 (1.86%) Bitbucket
9 3 (1.86%) Gradle
9 3 (1.86%) JIRA
9 3 (1.86%) Mockito
9 3 (1.86%) TeamCity
9 3 (1.86%) TestNG
10 2 (1.24%) Checkstyle
10 2 (1.24%) ESLint
General
1 35 (21.74%) Social Skills
2 20 (12.42%) Finance
3 14 (8.70%) Aerospace
4 8 (4.97%) Public Sector
5 5 (3.11%) Analytical Skills
6 4 (2.48%) Electronics
6 4 (2.48%) Manufacturing
7 3 (1.86%) Automotive
8 2 (1.24%) Marketing
9 1 (0.62%) Advertising
9 1 (0.62%) Banking
9 1 (0.62%) Games
9 1 (0.62%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 1 (0.62%) Retail
9 1 (0.62%) Tech for Good
9 1 (0.62%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 40 (24.84%) Software Engineer
2 29 (18.01%) Senior
3 25 (15.53%) Developer
4 16 (9.94%) Senior Software Engineer
5 15 (9.32%) DevOps Engineer
5 15 (9.32%) Infrastructure Engineer
6 12 (7.45%) DevSecOps Engineer
7 11 (6.83%) .NET Software Engineer
7 11 (6.83%) Senior .NET Software Engineer
8 10 (6.21%) Lead
8 10 (6.21%) Software Developer
8 10 (6.21%) Test Engineer
9 9 (5.59%) .NET Developer
9 9 (5.59%) Java Developer
9 9 (5.59%) Python Engineer
10 7 (4.35%) .NET Software Developer
10 7 (4.35%) Backend Developer
10 7 (4.35%) Mid-Level .NET Developer
10 7 (4.35%) Platform Engineer
10 7 (4.35%) Software Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 32 (19.88%) .NET
2 31 (19.25%) .NET Core
3 28 (17.39%) React
4 22 (13.66%) Spring
5 21 (13.04%) REST
6 18 (11.18%) Spring Boot
7 17 (10.56%) AngularJS
8 15 (9.32%) RESTful
9 14 (8.70%) Node.js
10 13 (8.07%) Elastic Stack
11 11 (6.83%) .NET Framework
11 11 (6.83%) Dapper ORM
11 11 (6.83%) Entity Framework
12 9 (5.59%) OAuth
13 8 (4.97%) Django
13 8 (4.97%) MERN Stack
14 7 (4.35%) FastAPI
15 6 (3.73%) Playwright
16 5 (3.11%) Flask
16 5 (3.11%) pytest
Miscellaneous
1 34 (21.12%) Cloud Native
2 8 (4.97%) Product Ownership
3 7 (4.35%) Distributed Systems
4 4 (2.48%) CUDA
4 4 (2.48%) Hybrid Cloud
4 4 (2.48%) Legacy Systems
5 3 (1.86%) IoT
5 3 (1.86%) Over-the-Top Content
5 3 (1.86%) PKI
5 3 (1.86%) Private Cloud
5 3 (1.86%) Public Cloud
5 3 (1.86%) Renewable Energy
5 3 (1.86%) Self-Motivation
5 3 (1.86%) Video\Live Streaming
6 2 (1.24%) Algorithms
6 2 (1.24%) Blockchain
6 2 (1.24%) Data Centre
6 2 (1.24%) Data Structures
6 2 (1.24%) Insider Threat
6 2 (1.24%) Onboarding
Operating Systems
1 43 (26.71%) Linux
2 16 (9.94%) Windows
3 8 (4.97%) CentOS
4 4 (2.48%) Windows Server
5 3 (1.86%) Unix
6 2 (1.24%) Ubuntu
7 1 (0.62%) Debian
7 1 (0.62%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
7 1 (0.62%) Windows Server 2016
Processes & Methodologies
1 92 (57.14%) CI/CD
1 92 (57.14%) Containerisation
2 71 (44.10%) DevOps
3 66 (40.99%) Software Engineering
4 61 (37.89%) Agile
5 55 (34.16%) Infrastructure as Code
6 47 (29.19%) Continuous Improvement
7 34 (21.12%) Infrastructure Engineering
8 33 (20.50%) Test Automation
9 26 (16.15%) Collaborative Culture
10 24 (14.91%) Problem-Solving
11 23 (14.29%) Analytics
11 23 (14.29%) SDLC
12 20 (12.42%) Mentoring
13 18 (11.18%) AI
13 18 (11.18%) Full-Stack Development
14 16 (9.94%) DevSecOps
14 16 (9.94%) Microservices
15 15 (9.32%) Platform Engineering
16 14 (8.70%) Scrum
Programming Languages
1 83 (51.55%) Python
2 58 (36.02%) Java
3 36 (22.36%) JavaScript
4 33 (20.50%) SQL
5 32 (19.88%) Bash
6 28 (17.39%) C#
7 22 (13.66%) TypeScript
8 16 (9.94%) PowerShell
9 13 (8.07%) Go
10 11 (6.83%) C
11 7 (4.35%) Bicep
11 7 (4.35%) Scala
12 6 (3.73%) C++
12 6 (3.73%) Kotlin
13 4 (2.48%) PHP
14 3 (1.86%) Elixir
14 3 (1.86%) Erlang
15 2 (1.24%) Rust
15 2 (1.24%) Shell Script
16 1 (0.62%) Ruby
Qualifications
1 61 (37.89%) Security Cleared
2 42 (26.09%) DV Cleared
3 14 (8.70%) SC Cleared
4 13 (8.07%) Degree
5 11 (6.83%) Computer Science Degree
6 6 (3.73%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
7 2 (1.24%) ISTQB
7 2 (1.24%) ISTQB Advanced Certification
7 2 (1.24%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
8 1 (0.62%) AWS Certification
8 1 (0.62%) Azure Certification
8 1 (0.62%) Microsoft Certification
8 1 (0.62%) RHCE
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 20 (12.42%) QA
2 4 (2.48%) Accessibility
3 3 (1.86%) ISO 9001
3 3 (1.86%) ISO/IEC 27001
System Software
1 109 (67.70%) Docker
2 10 (6.21%) VMware Infrastructure
3 6 (3.73%) Virtual Machines
4 4 (2.48%) Firmware
4 4 (2.48%) Hyper-V
5 1 (0.62%) Active Directory
5 1 (0.62%) Citrix Hypervisor
5 1 (0.62%) KVM
5 1 (0.62%) QEMU
5 1 (0.62%) Slurm Workload Manager
5 1 (0.62%) Xen
Systems Management
1 55 (34.16%) Terraform
2 32 (19.88%) Ansible
3 26 (16.15%) Grafana
4 14 (8.70%) Prometheus
5 9 (5.59%) Argo
6 8 (4.97%) Rancher
7 7 (4.35%) Puppet
7 7 (4.35%) yum
8 5 (3.11%) Kibana
9 4 (2.48%) logstash
9 4 (2.48%) vCenter Server
10 3 (1.86%) VxRail
11 2 (1.24%) Check_MK
11 2 (1.24%) Istio
11 2 (1.24%) Microsoft Intune
11 2 (1.24%) Nagios
12 1 (0.62%) Docker Swarm
12 1 (0.62%) Mesos
12 1 (0.62%) Podman
12 1 (0.62%) Progress Chef
Vendors
1 12 (7.45%) Red Hat
2 11 (6.83%) VMware
3 9 (5.59%) Google
3 9 (5.59%) Microsoft
3 9 (5.59%) Splunk
4 6 (3.73%) Oracle
5 4 (2.48%) Atlassian
6 3 (1.86%) BeyondTrust
6 3 (1.86%) Dell
7 2 (1.24%) Apple
7 2 (1.24%) Cisco
7 2 (1.24%) Guidewire
7 2 (1.24%) Thales
8 1 (0.62%) Databricks
8 1 (0.62%) Facebook
8 1 (0.62%) Fortinet
8 1 (0.62%) Juniper
8 1 (0.62%) New Relic
8 1 (0.62%) SaltStack
8 1 (0.62%) SAP