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

6 months to
8 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 57 57 75
Rank change year-on-year 0 +18 -34
Permanent jobs citing Kubernetes 219 130 305
As % of all permanent jobs in the South West 2.68% 4.08% 3.09%
As % of the Systems Management category 44.97% 42.90% 36.27%
Number of salaries quoted 143 78 237
10th Percentile £38,750 £47,966 £45,000
25th Percentile £47,750 £52,500 £52,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,500 £71,991 £72,500
Median % change year-on-year -20.13% -0.70% +4.40%
75th Percentile £76,875 £89,375 £87,500
90th Percentile £85,500 £102,410 £90,500
England median annual salary £70,000 £80,000 £77,500
% change year-on-year -12.50% +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 487 303 841
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the South West 5.96% 9.50% 8.51%
Number of salaries quoted 338 216 661
10th Percentile £31,250 £30,000 £30,875
25th Percentile £40,813 £37,500 £41,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £52,500 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year +4.76% - -8.70%
75th Percentile £75,000 £72,813 £73,750
90th Percentile £82,500 £95,000 £87,500
England median annual salary £65,000 £67,500 £62,500
% change year-on-year -3.70% +8.00% -7.41%

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 8 July 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 8 July 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 -3 91 £70,000 - 63
Somerset +2 38 £42,500 - 11
Devon +2 30 £55,000 - 4
Bristol -51 23 £62,500 -13.18% 12
Wiltshire +1 22 £60,000 +17.51% 7
Dorset -18 5 £45,000 - 2
Cornwall - 2 - -
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 9 (4.11%) Confluence
2 7 (3.20%) Apache Spark
3 5 (2.28%) Apache
4 4 (1.83%) OpenStack
5 1 (0.46%) Apache Airflow
Cloud Services
1 109 (49.77%) Azure
2 86 (39.27%) AWS
3 49 (22.37%) GCP
4 45 (20.55%) GitHub
5 28 (12.79%) GitHub Copilot
6 21 (9.59%) Azure AI
6 21 (9.59%) OpenShift
7 20 (9.13%) Serverless
8 18 (8.22%) Azure AKS
9 17 (7.76%) Amazon S3
10 15 (6.85%) AWS Lambda
11 14 (6.39%) Amazon EKS
11 14 (6.39%) Azure DevOps
11 14 (6.39%) SaaS
12 12 (5.48%) Amazon EC2
12 12 (5.48%) GitHub Actions
13 9 (4.11%) AWS CloudFormation
14 4 (1.83%) AWS CloudTrail
14 4 (1.83%) AWS Fargate
14 4 (1.83%) Datadog
Communications & Networking
1 7 (3.20%) Internet
2 6 (2.74%) Software-Defined Networking
3 5 (2.28%) Firewall
3 5 (2.28%) Network Security
3 5 (2.28%) VPN
4 4 (1.83%) IPv4
4 4 (1.83%) WAN
5 3 (1.37%) AMQP
5 3 (1.37%) Broadband
6 2 (0.91%) BGP
6 2 (0.91%) Ethernet VPN
6 2 (0.91%) LAN
6 2 (0.91%) SD-WAN
6 2 (0.91%) SNMP
6 2 (0.91%) TCP/IP
6 2 (0.91%) VLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 34 (15.53%) MongoDB
2 28 (12.79%) Azure SQL Database
3 19 (8.68%) Elasticsearch
4 14 (6.39%) PostgreSQL
5 10 (4.57%) SQL Server
6 8 (3.65%) InfluxDB
6 8 (3.65%) NoSQL
7 7 (3.20%) Amazon RDS
7 7 (3.20%) MySQL
8 6 (2.74%) Relational Database
9 4 (1.83%) Big Data
9 4 (1.83%) Geospatial Data
10 3 (1.37%) Cloudera CDH
10 3 (1.37%) Hadoop
11 2 (0.91%) DynamoDB
11 2 (0.91%) Flink
11 2 (0.91%) Neo4j
12 1 (0.46%) Amazon Athena
12 1 (0.46%) Apache Cassandra
12 1 (0.46%) MariaDB
Development Applications
1 48 (21.92%) Git
2 36 (16.44%) GitLab
2 36 (16.44%) Jenkins
3 15 (6.85%) Subversion
4 9 (4.11%) Bitbucket
4 9 (4.11%) JIRA
5 8 (3.65%) Eclipse
6 7 (3.20%) Cypress.io
6 7 (3.20%) Robot Framework
6 7 (3.20%) TestRail
7 6 (2.74%) Selenium
8 4 (1.83%) CircleCI
8 4 (1.83%) MSI
9 3 (1.37%) JUnit
9 3 (1.37%) TeamCity
10 1 (0.46%) Cucumber
10 1 (0.46%) Maven
10 1 (0.46%) Mockito
General
1 45 (20.55%) Social Skills
2 34 (15.53%) Finance
3 21 (9.59%) Aerospace
4 16 (7.31%) Public Sector
5 10 (4.57%) Advertising
5 10 (4.57%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 10 (4.57%) Marketing
6 9 (4.11%) Analytical Skills
7 8 (3.65%) Retail
8 7 (3.20%) Games
9 3 (1.37%) Automotive
9 3 (1.37%) Electronics
9 3 (1.37%) Manufacturing
10 1 (0.46%) Tech for Good
Job Titles
1 66 (30.14%) Developer
2 40 (18.26%) .NET Developer
3 37 (16.89%) Software Engineer
4 30 (13.70%) Senior
5 28 (12.79%) DevOps Engineer
6 27 (12.33%) Infrastructure Engineer
7 16 (7.31%) Lead
8 14 (6.39%) Java Developer
9 13 (5.94%) Senior Software Engineer
10 12 (5.48%) DevSecOps Engineer
11 9 (4.11%) .NET Software Engineer
11 9 (4.11%) Full-Stack Developer
11 9 (4.11%) Junior
11 9 (4.11%) Python Engineer
11 9 (4.11%) Senior .NET Software Engineer
11 9 (4.11%) Software Developer
11 9 (4.11%) Test Engineer
12 8 (3.65%) .NET Software Developer
12 8 (3.65%) Mid-Level .NET Developer
12 8 (3.65%) Platform Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 64 (29.22%) .NET
2 60 (27.40%) .NET Core
3 34 (15.53%) RESTful
4 29 (13.24%) React
5 28 (12.79%) ASP.NET
5 28 (12.79%) ASP.NET Core
5 28 (12.79%) Spring
6 27 (12.33%) CSS
7 26 (11.87%) Spring Boot
8 25 (11.42%) HTML
9 22 (10.05%) AngularJS
9 22 (10.05%) Node.js
9 22 (10.05%) REST
10 21 (9.59%) ML.NET
11 16 (7.31%) Elastic Stack
12 15 (6.85%) Vue
13 13 (5.94%) .NET Framework
14 11 (5.02%) Blazor
15 9 (4.11%) Dapper ORM
15 9 (4.11%) FastAPI
Miscellaneous
1 40 (18.26%) Cloud Native
2 13 (5.94%) Hybrid Cloud
3 10 (4.57%) Product Ownership
4 9 (4.11%) Distributed Systems
5 6 (2.74%) Onboarding
6 5 (2.28%) Digital TV
7 4 (1.83%) CUDA
7 4 (1.83%) Data Centre
7 4 (1.83%) PKI
8 3 (1.37%) Data Structures
8 3 (1.37%) IoT
8 3 (1.37%) Legacy Systems
8 3 (1.37%) Over-the-Top Content
8 3 (1.37%) Public Cloud
8 3 (1.37%) Renewable Energy
8 3 (1.37%) Self-Motivation
8 3 (1.37%) Video\Live Streaming
9 2 (0.91%) Algorithms
9 2 (0.91%) Insider Threat
10 1 (0.46%) Blockchain
Operating Systems
1 63 (28.77%) Linux
2 28 (12.79%) Windows
3 11 (5.02%) CentOS
3 11 (5.02%) Unix
3 11 (5.02%) Windows Server
4 4 (1.83%) Ubuntu
5 3 (1.37%) Debian
5 3 (1.37%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 1 (0.46%) Rocky
Processes & Methodologies
1 142 (64.84%) CI/CD
2 115 (52.51%) Containerisation
3 90 (41.10%) DevOps
4 87 (39.73%) Infrastructure as Code
5 79 (36.07%) Agile
6 68 (31.05%) Software Engineering
7 62 (28.31%) Full-Stack Development
8 48 (21.92%) Continuous Improvement
9 47 (21.46%) Infrastructure Engineering
10 43 (19.63%) AI
11 37 (16.89%) Microservices
12 36 (16.44%) Problem-Solving
13 35 (15.98%) Test Automation
14 28 (12.79%) Analytics
15 27 (12.33%) Computer Science
15 27 (12.33%) Machine Learning
16 25 (11.42%) Collaborative Culture
17 24 (10.96%) DevSecOps
18 23 (10.50%) SDLC
19 22 (10.05%) Mentoring
Programming Languages
1 102 (46.58%) Python
2 66 (30.14%) Java
3 61 (27.85%) C#
4 49 (22.37%) SQL
5 43 (19.63%) JavaScript
6 33 (15.07%) Bash
7 19 (8.68%) TypeScript
8 16 (7.31%) PowerShell
9 14 (6.39%) C++
10 11 (5.02%) Go
11 9 (4.11%) Bicep
12 7 (3.20%) Scala
13 6 (2.74%) Perl
14 4 (1.83%) C
15 3 (1.37%) PHP
15 3 (1.37%) Shell Script
16 2 (0.91%) Rust
17 1 (0.46%) Elixir
17 1 (0.46%) Kotlin
17 1 (0.46%) Ruby
Qualifications
1 90 (41.10%) Security Cleared
2 44 (20.09%) DV Cleared
3 30 (13.70%) SC Cleared
4 27 (12.33%) Degree
5 25 (11.42%) Computer Science Degree
6 7 (3.20%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
7 6 (2.74%) RHCSA
8 5 (2.28%) RHCE
9 4 (1.83%) AWS Certification
9 4 (1.83%) CCNA
9 4 (1.83%) Cisco Certification
9 4 (1.83%) ISTQB
9 4 (1.83%) Microsoft Certification
9 4 (1.83%) OSCP
10 3 (1.37%) Azure Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 17 (7.76%) QA
2 9 (4.11%) Accessibility
3 7 (3.20%) WCAG
4 4 (1.83%) NCSC
5 3 (1.37%) ISO 9001
5 3 (1.37%) ISO/IEC 27001
System Software
1 154 (70.32%) Docker
2 21 (9.59%) VMware Infrastructure
3 7 (3.20%) Active Directory
3 7 (3.20%) Hyper-V
4 6 (2.74%) Virtual Machines
5 5 (2.28%) VMware NSX
6 4 (1.83%) Firmware
6 4 (1.83%) Squid
6 4 (1.83%) vSphere
7 1 (0.46%) Citrix Hypervisor
7 1 (0.46%) KVM
7 1 (0.46%) QEMU
7 1 (0.46%) Slurm Workload Manager
7 1 (0.46%) Xen
Systems Management
1 82 (37.44%) Terraform
2 55 (25.11%) Ansible
3 23 (10.50%) Grafana
4 15 (6.85%) Puppet
5 12 (5.48%) Prometheus
6 9 (4.11%) Rancher
7 8 (3.65%) Argo
8 7 (3.20%) Kibana
8 7 (3.20%) VxRail
8 7 (3.20%) yum
9 6 (2.74%) logstash
9 6 (2.74%) vCenter Server
10 4 (1.83%) Packer
10 4 (1.83%) ZABBIX
11 3 (1.37%) Check_MK
11 3 (1.37%) Nagios
12 2 (0.91%) Istio
12 2 (0.91%) Microsoft Intune
13 1 (0.46%) Mesos
13 1 (0.46%) Podman
Vendors
1 47 (21.46%) Microsoft
2 25 (11.42%) VMware
3 19 (8.68%) Red Hat
4 12 (5.48%) Splunk
5 11 (5.02%) Google
6 10 (4.57%) Facebook
7 8 (3.65%) Atlassian
8 7 (3.20%) Oracle
9 6 (2.74%) BeyondTrust
10 3 (1.37%) Dell
10 3 (1.37%) OneLogin
10 3 (1.37%) OpenAI
10 3 (1.37%) SaltStack
11 2 (0.91%) Apple
11 2 (0.91%) Cisco
11 2 (0.91%) Databricks
11 2 (0.91%) Thales
12 1 (0.46%) Fortinet
12 1 (0.46%) Juniper