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 27 October 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
27 Oct 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 72 50 24
Rank change year-on-year -22 -26 +30
Permanent jobs citing Kubernetes 110 240 400
As % of all permanent jobs in the South West 2.96% 3.87% 8.60%
As % of the Systems Management category 37.41% 45.03% 48.72%
Number of salaries quoted 86 156 301
10th Percentile £42,500 £46,875 £46,250
25th Percentile £45,791 £57,188 £51,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £72,500 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year -10.34% +11.54% +1.63%
75th Percentile £80,000 £85,000 £80,000
90th Percentile £95,000 £91,875 £91,934
England median annual salary £77,500 £77,500 £75,000
% change year-on-year - +3.33% -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 294 533 821
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the South West 7.91% 8.60% 17.66%
Number of salaries quoted 233 339 643
10th Percentile £30,000 £32,150 £32,500
25th Percentile £32,500 £41,500 £43,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £48,500 £60,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -19.17% +9.09% -
75th Percentile £67,500 £77,500 £72,500
90th Percentile £82,500 £87,500 £85,000
England median annual salary £60,500 £67,500 £65,000
% change year-on-year -10.37% +3.85% -3.70%

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 27 October 2025.

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 27 October 2025. 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
Bristol -23 34 £72,500 -4.29% 30
Gloucestershire -11 26 £76,250 +17.31% 47
Dorset +15 22 £60,000 +9.09% 3
Somerset - 15 £45,000 - 9
Devon +3 5 £66,250 +29.27% 3
Wiltshire +21 4 £51,058 -11.20% 4
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 6 (5.45%) IIS
2 2 (1.82%) Apache
2 2 (1.82%) Apache Spark
3 1 (0.91%) Apache Airflow
3 1 (0.91%) Apache Superset
3 1 (0.91%) JBoss
Cloud Services
1 67 (60.91%) Azure
2 63 (57.27%) AWS
3 18 (16.36%) Serverless
4 16 (14.55%) Amazon S3
5 14 (12.73%) AWS Lambda
5 14 (12.73%) Azure DevOps
6 12 (10.91%) GitHub
7 11 (10.00%) Amazon ECS
7 11 (10.00%) GCP
7 11 (10.00%) GitHub Actions
8 9 (8.18%) Azure Stack
9 8 (7.27%) Amazon EKS
9 8 (7.27%) Azure AKS
9 8 (7.27%) Entra ID
10 7 (6.36%) Microsoft 365
11 6 (5.45%) OpenShift
12 4 (3.64%) Amazon Bedrock
12 4 (3.64%) Amazon EC2
12 4 (3.64%) Amazon SageMaker
13 3 (2.73%) Azure Cosmos DB
Communications & Networking
1 12 (10.91%) Firewall
2 8 (7.27%) VPN
3 7 (6.36%) VLAN
4 6 (5.45%) Cisco IOS
4 6 (5.45%) DHCP
4 6 (5.45%) DNS
4 6 (5.45%) IPsec
4 6 (5.45%) VoIP
4 6 (5.45%) Wireless
5 5 (4.55%) AMQP
6 4 (3.64%) Internet
7 1 (0.91%) Broadband
7 1 (0.91%) NAS
7 1 (0.91%) Network Security
7 1 (0.91%) SAN
7 1 (0.91%) VSAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 10 (9.09%) Amazon RDS
1 10 (9.09%) PostgreSQL
1 10 (9.09%) Relational Database
2 8 (7.27%) SQL Server
3 6 (5.45%) Amazon Aurora
3 6 (5.45%) MySQL
4 5 (4.55%) NoSQL
5 4 (3.64%) Big Data
5 4 (3.64%) CockroachDB
5 4 (3.64%) InfluxDB
6 2 (1.82%) Apache Cassandra
6 2 (1.82%) InterSystems Cache
6 2 (1.82%) Metadata
6 2 (1.82%) MongoDB
6 2 (1.82%) Redis
6 2 (1.82%) Spark SQL
7 1 (0.91%) DB2
7 1 (0.91%) GIS
7 1 (0.91%) SQL Server Integration Services
7 1 (0.91%) SQL Server Reporting Services
Development Applications
1 15 (13.64%) Jenkins
2 6 (5.45%) Selenium
3 4 (3.64%) GitLab
3 4 (3.64%) Locust
4 3 (2.73%) JUnit
4 3 (2.73%) Mockito
5 2 (1.82%) Cypress.io
5 2 (1.82%) Git
6 1 (0.91%) Atlassian Bamboo
6 1 (0.91%) Jaeger
6 1 (0.91%) MLflow
6 1 (0.91%) Octopus Deploy
6 1 (0.91%) Robot Framework
6 1 (0.91%) TestRail
General
1 30 (27.27%) Finance
2 24 (21.82%) Public Sector
3 21 (19.09%) Social Skills
4 20 (18.18%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 18 (16.36%) Law
6 13 (11.82%) Marketing
7 10 (9.09%) Banking
8 6 (5.45%) Electronics
8 6 (5.45%) Manufacturing
8 6 (5.45%) Telecoms
9 5 (4.55%) Analytical Skills
10 4 (3.64%) Documentation Skills
11 3 (2.73%) Financial Institution
12 2 (1.82%) Games
12 2 (1.82%) Retail
13 1 (0.91%) Aerospace
13 1 (0.91%) Military
13 1 (0.91%) Tech for Good
13 1 (0.91%) Wholesale Banking
Job Titles
1 20 (18.18%) Developer
2 19 (17.27%) Software Engineer
3 15 (13.64%) Senior
4 14 (12.73%) IT Engineer
5 13 (11.82%) DevOps Engineer
6 11 (10.00%) Infrastructure Engineer
6 11 (10.00%) Platform Engineer
7 10 (9.09%) Lead
7 10 (9.09%) Software Developer
8 8 (7.27%) Architect
8 8 (7.27%) IT Infrastructure Engineer
8 8 (7.27%) Python Engineer
8 8 (7.27%) Python Software Engineer
9 7 (6.36%) Java Engineer
10 6 (5.45%) IT Support
10 6 (5.45%) IT Support Engineer
10 6 (5.45%) Senior IT Engineer
10 6 (5.45%) Senior IT Support
10 6 (5.45%) Senior Support Engineer
10 6 (5.45%) Support Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 19 (17.27%) Spring Boot
2 18 (16.36%) Spring
3 14 (12.73%) Kafka
3 14 (12.73%) React
4 13 (11.82%) .NET
5 10 (9.09%) .NET Core
6 9 (8.18%) RESTful
7 8 (7.27%) YAML
8 5 (4.55%) AngularJS
9 4 (3.64%) Playwright
9 4 (3.64%) pytest
9 4 (3.64%) RabbitMQ
10 2 (1.82%) ARM Templates
10 2 (1.82%) Elastic Stack
10 2 (1.82%) HTML5
10 2 (1.82%) J2EE
10 2 (1.82%) PySpark
10 2 (1.82%) PyTorch
10 2 (1.82%) scikit-learn
10 2 (1.82%) TensorFlow
Miscellaneous
1 27 (24.55%) Cloud Native
2 10 (9.09%) Hybrid Cloud
2 10 (9.09%) Public Cloud
3 8 (7.27%) Data Centre
3 8 (7.27%) Onboarding
4 6 (5.45%) Clustering
4 6 (5.45%) Data Structures
5 5 (4.55%) Linux Command Line
5 5 (4.55%) Product Ownership
6 4 (3.64%) Algorithms
7 3 (2.73%) Cloud Security Posture
7 3 (2.73%) Enterprise Software
7 3 (2.73%) Legacy Systems
7 3 (2.73%) Private Cloud
7 3 (2.73%) Security Posture
8 1 (0.91%) CUDA
8 1 (0.91%) Enterprise Storage
8 1 (0.91%) Legacy Applications
8 1 (0.91%) Management Information System
8 1 (0.91%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 34 (30.91%) Linux
2 24 (21.82%) Windows
3 17 (15.45%) Windows Server
4 8 (7.27%) Rocky
4 8 (7.27%) Windows Server 2019
5 6 (5.45%) Mac OS
6 5 (4.55%) Ubuntu
7 4 (3.64%) Debian
8 2 (1.82%) CentOS
8 2 (1.82%) Unix
9 1 (0.91%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
9 1 (0.91%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 62 (56.36%) CI/CD
2 60 (54.55%) Containerisation
3 45 (40.91%) DevOps
4 35 (31.82%) Agile
5 34 (30.91%) Infrastructure as Code
6 33 (30.00%) Software Engineering
7 23 (20.91%) Infrastructure Engineering
8 22 (20.00%) AI
9 19 (17.27%) Machine Learning
10 18 (16.36%) Mentoring
10 18 (16.36%) Microservices
11 15 (13.64%) Continuous Improvement
12 14 (12.73%) Event-Driven
13 13 (11.82%) Coaching
13 13 (11.82%) Collaborative Culture
14 12 (10.91%) Full-Stack Development
14 12 (10.91%) Platform Engineering
14 12 (10.91%) Scrum
15 11 (10.00%) SDLC
16 10 (9.09%) Operational Stability
Programming Languages
1 42 (38.18%) Python
2 32 (29.09%) Java
3 21 (19.09%) SQL
4 16 (14.55%) PowerShell
5 12 (10.91%) C#
6 11 (10.00%) Bicep
6 11 (10.00%) JavaScript
7 9 (8.18%) Bash
8 7 (6.36%) Go
9 5 (4.55%) TypeScript
10 3 (2.73%) Shell Script
11 2 (1.82%) C++
11 2 (1.82%) Rust
12 1 (0.91%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 37 (33.64%) Security Cleared
2 29 (26.36%) SC Cleared
3 23 (20.91%) DV Cleared
4 14 (12.73%) AWS Certification
5 13 (11.82%) Azure Certification
6 8 (7.27%) BPSS Clearance
6 8 (7.27%) Network+ Certification
6 8 (7.27%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
7 7 (6.36%) Degree
8 6 (5.45%) ACMT
9 4 (3.64%) Cisco Certification
10 3 (2.73%) (ISC)2 CCSP
10 3 (2.73%) CISM
10 3 (2.73%) CISSP
10 3 (2.73%) CompTIA Security+
10 3 (2.73%) Computer Science Degree
11 2 (1.82%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
11 2 (1.82%) AWS Certified Developer
11 2 (1.82%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
12 1 (0.91%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 6 (5.45%) Cyber Essentials
2 3 (2.73%) GDPR
3 2 (1.82%) HIPAA
3 2 (1.82%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 2 (1.82%) NCSC
3 2 (1.82%) PCI DSS
4 1 (0.91%) Data Quality
4 1 (0.91%) QA
4 1 (0.91%) SOC 2
System Software
1 73 (66.36%) Docker
2 14 (12.73%) Hyper-V
3 9 (8.18%) Active Directory
4 8 (7.27%) VMware ESXi
4 8 (7.27%) VMware Infrastructure
5 2 (1.82%) Virtual Machines
5 2 (1.82%) vSphere
6 1 (0.91%) VMware NSX
Systems Management
1 30 (27.27%) Terraform
2 19 (17.27%) Ansible
3 8 (7.27%) vCenter Server
4 7 (6.36%) Microsoft Intune
5 6 (5.45%) Autotask
6 4 (3.64%) Grafana
6 4 (3.64%) Prometheus
7 3 (2.73%) Docker Swarm
7 3 (2.73%) Progress Chef
8 2 (1.82%) Puppet
9 1 (0.91%) Argo
9 1 (0.91%) Kubeflow
9 1 (0.91%) Kustomize
9 1 (0.91%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 16 (14.55%) Oracle
2 14 (12.73%) Microsoft
3 8 (7.27%) Databricks
3 8 (7.27%) Dell
3 8 (7.27%) VMware
4 7 (6.36%) Cisco
4 7 (6.36%) Veeam
5 6 (5.45%) Apple
5 6 (5.45%) Datto
5 6 (5.45%) Google
5 6 (5.45%) Red Hat
5 6 (5.45%) SAP
5 6 (5.45%) Sophos
6 2 (1.82%) Splunk
7 1 (0.91%) Extreme Networks
7 1 (0.91%) Fortinet
7 1 (0.91%) NVIDIA
7 1 (0.91%) Palo Alto