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

6 months to
26 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 57 55 75
Rank change year-on-year -2 +20 -35
Permanent jobs citing Kubernetes 231 131 262
As % of all permanent jobs in the South West 2.71% 3.85% 3.04%
As % of the Systems Management category 44.68% 41.07% 36.14%
Number of salaries quoted 149 78 199
10th Percentile £38,750 £47,966 £48,750
25th Percentile £48,750 £52,500 £58,125
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £71,991 £75,000
Median % change year-on-year -16.66% -4.01% +8.00%
75th Percentile £80,000 £87,500 £87,500
90th Percentile £96,250 £99,654 £93,750
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 517 319 725
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the South West 6.07% 9.37% 8.43%
Number of salaries quoted 354 232 563
10th Percentile £31,250 £30,000 £31,270
25th Percentile £40,000 £35,000 £41,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £51,058 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +7.72% -7.17% -5.17%
75th Percentile £75,000 £72,500 £76,250
90th Percentile £82,500 £87,500 £87,500
England median annual salary £65,000 £65,000 £62,783
% change year-on-year - +3.53% -6.99%

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 26 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 26 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 -3 109 £75,000 +3.45% 38
Somerset -6 40 £43,750 - 12
Devon +3 25 £55,000 - 2
Bristol -48 25 £62,500 -16.67% 14
Wiltshire +3 22 £60,000 +17.51% 5
Dorset -22 4 £45,000 -14.29% 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 11 (4.76%) Confluence
2 9 (3.90%) Apache
2 9 (3.90%) Apache Spark
3 7 (3.03%) OpenStack
4 1 (0.43%) Apache Airflow
4 1 (0.43%) JBoss
4 1 (0.43%) nginx
Cloud Services
1 113 (48.92%) Azure
2 92 (39.83%) AWS
3 47 (20.35%) GCP
4 43 (18.61%) GitHub
5 28 (12.12%) GitHub Copilot
5 28 (12.12%) OpenShift
6 21 (9.09%) Azure AI
7 20 (8.66%) Azure AKS
7 20 (8.66%) Serverless
8 16 (6.93%) Amazon S3
8 16 (6.93%) AWS CloudFormation
8 16 (6.93%) Azure DevOps
9 13 (5.63%) Amazon EKS
9 13 (5.63%) AWS Lambda
10 12 (5.19%) Amazon EC2
10 12 (5.19%) SaaS
11 9 (3.90%) GitHub Actions
12 6 (2.60%) Azure ExpressRoute
12 6 (2.60%) Entra ID
13 5 (2.16%) PaaS
Communications & Networking
1 9 (3.90%) Network Security
1 9 (3.90%) VPN
2 7 (3.03%) Internet
2 7 (3.03%) Software-Defined Networking
3 6 (2.60%) Firewall
4 5 (2.16%) WAN
5 4 (1.73%) IPv4
6 3 (1.30%) BGP
6 3 (1.30%) Ethernet VPN
6 3 (1.30%) SD-WAN
6 3 (1.30%) SNMP
6 3 (1.30%) VLAN
7 2 (0.87%) AMQP
7 2 (0.87%) LAN
7 2 (0.87%) TCP/IP
8 1 (0.43%) SSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 34 (14.72%) MongoDB
2 28 (12.12%) Azure SQL Database
3 16 (6.93%) Elasticsearch
4 14 (6.06%) PostgreSQL
5 8 (3.46%) InfluxDB
5 8 (3.46%) NoSQL
5 8 (3.46%) SQL Server
6 7 (3.03%) Amazon RDS
7 6 (2.60%) Big Data
7 6 (2.60%) Geospatial Data
7 6 (2.60%) MySQL
8 5 (2.16%) Hadoop
8 5 (2.16%) Relational Database
9 3 (1.30%) Flink
10 2 (0.87%) Cloudera CDH
10 2 (0.87%) Data Lake
10 2 (0.87%) DynamoDB
11 1 (0.43%) Amazon Athena
11 1 (0.43%) Apache Cassandra
11 1 (0.43%) ZAP BI
Development Applications
1 57 (24.68%) Git
2 40 (17.32%) GitLab
3 28 (12.12%) Jenkins
4 14 (6.06%) Subversion
5 12 (5.19%) JIRA
6 9 (3.90%) Bitbucket
7 8 (3.46%) Eclipse
7 8 (3.46%) Robot Framework
7 8 (3.46%) Selenium
8 7 (3.03%) Cypress.io
8 7 (3.03%) TestRail
9 6 (2.60%) MSI
10 4 (1.73%) JUnit
11 2 (0.87%) CircleCI
12 1 (0.43%) Maven
12 1 (0.43%) NUnit
12 1 (0.43%) Postman
12 1 (0.43%) Snyk
12 1 (0.43%) SonarQube
12 1 (0.43%) TeamCity
General
1 49 (21.21%) Social Skills
2 40 (17.32%) Finance
3 21 (9.09%) Public Sector
4 19 (8.23%) Aerospace
5 14 (6.06%) Analytical Skills
5 14 (6.06%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 11 (4.76%) Marketing
7 10 (4.33%) Advertising
8 8 (3.46%) Retail
9 7 (3.03%) Games
10 3 (1.30%) Automotive
10 3 (1.30%) Electronics
10 3 (1.30%) Manufacturing
11 1 (0.43%) Law
11 1 (0.43%) Legal
11 1 (0.43%) Military
11 1 (0.43%) Organisational Skills
11 1 (0.43%) Tech for Good
Job Titles
1 66 (28.57%) Developer
2 40 (17.32%) .NET Developer
3 36 (15.58%) Software Engineer
4 31 (13.42%) DevOps Engineer
5 29 (12.55%) Infrastructure Engineer
6 26 (11.26%) Senior
7 17 (7.36%) Lead
8 14 (6.06%) Java Developer
9 11 (4.76%) Architect
9 11 (4.76%) Cloud Engineer
9 11 (4.76%) Full-Stack Engineer
9 11 (4.76%) Senior Software Engineer
10 10 (4.33%) Full-Stack Software Engineer
11 9 (3.90%) DevSecOps Engineer
11 9 (3.90%) Junior
11 9 (3.90%) Platform Engineer
11 9 (3.90%) Python Engineer
11 9 (3.90%) Software Developer
12 8 (3.46%) .NET Software Developer
12 8 (3.46%) Mid-Level .NET Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 61 (26.41%) .NET
2 57 (24.68%) .NET Core
3 38 (16.45%) RESTful
4 30 (12.99%) CSS
5 28 (12.12%) ASP.NET
5 28 (12.12%) ASP.NET Core
5 28 (12.12%) HTML
5 28 (12.12%) Spring
6 27 (11.69%) Spring Boot
7 23 (9.96%) REST
8 22 (9.52%) React
9 21 (9.09%) ML.NET
10 19 (8.23%) AngularJS
10 19 (8.23%) Node.js
11 16 (6.93%) Elastic Stack
12 14 (6.06%) Vue
13 13 (5.63%) .NET Framework
14 10 (4.33%) Blazor
14 10 (4.33%) Django
14 10 (4.33%) FastAPI
Miscellaneous
1 51 (22.08%) Cloud Native
2 17 (7.36%) Hybrid Cloud
3 11 (4.76%) Distributed Systems
4 10 (4.33%) Product Ownership
5 8 (3.46%) Onboarding
6 5 (2.16%) Data Centre
6 5 (2.16%) Digital TV
6 5 (2.16%) Legacy Systems
6 5 (2.16%) Social Media
7 4 (1.73%) CUDA
8 3 (1.30%) Algorithms
8 3 (1.30%) Data Structures
8 3 (1.30%) IoT
8 3 (1.30%) PKI
8 3 (1.30%) Renewable Energy
9 2 (0.87%) Insider Threat
9 2 (0.87%) Private Cloud
9 2 (0.87%) Public Cloud
9 2 (0.87%) Self-Motivation
10 1 (0.43%) Blog
Operating Systems
1 68 (29.44%) Linux
2 30 (12.99%) Windows
3 10 (4.33%) CentOS
3 10 (4.33%) Unix
3 10 (4.33%) Windows Server
4 3 (1.30%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 3 (1.30%) Ubuntu
5 2 (0.87%) Debian
6 1 (0.43%) Rocky
Processes & Methodologies
1 155 (67.10%) CI/CD
2 124 (53.68%) Containerisation
3 100 (43.29%) Infrastructure as Code
4 95 (41.13%) DevOps
5 90 (38.96%) Agile
6 67 (29.00%) Full-Stack Development
6 67 (29.00%) Software Engineering
7 52 (22.51%) AI
8 48 (20.78%) Infrastructure Engineering
9 41 (17.75%) Continuous Improvement
10 40 (17.32%) Microservices
11 39 (16.88%) Test Automation
12 36 (15.58%) Problem-Solving
13 32 (13.85%) DevSecOps
13 32 (13.85%) Machine Learning
14 27 (11.69%) Analytics
14 27 (11.69%) Computer Science
15 22 (9.52%) Site Reliability Engineering
16 21 (9.09%) Collaborative Culture
16 21 (9.09%) Platform Engineering
Programming Languages
1 103 (44.59%) Python
2 66 (28.57%) Java
3 60 (25.97%) C#
4 47 (20.35%) SQL
5 46 (19.91%) JavaScript
6 32 (13.85%) Bash
7 16 (6.93%) TypeScript
8 14 (6.06%) Bicep
8 14 (6.06%) C++
8 14 (6.06%) PowerShell
9 12 (5.19%) Go
10 6 (2.60%) Perl
10 6 (2.60%) Scala
11 3 (1.30%) PHP
12 2 (0.87%) C
12 2 (0.87%) Rust
12 2 (0.87%) Shell Script
13 1 (0.43%) Ruby
Qualifications
1 108 (46.75%) Security Cleared
2 59 (25.54%) DV Cleared
3 41 (17.75%) SC Cleared
4 29 (12.55%) Degree
5 25 (10.82%) Computer Science Degree
6 8 (3.46%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
7 6 (2.60%) AWS Certification
7 6 (2.60%) RHCSA
8 5 (2.16%) RHCE
9 4 (1.73%) CCNA
9 4 (1.73%) Cisco Certification
9 4 (1.73%) ISTQB
9 4 (1.73%) Microsoft Certification
9 4 (1.73%) OSCP
10 3 (1.30%) Azure Certification
11 1 (0.43%) AWS Certified Developer
11 1 (0.43%) BPSS Clearance
11 1 (0.43%) OCP
11 1 (0.43%) Oracle Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 14 (6.06%) Accessibility
2 13 (5.63%) QA
3 9 (3.90%) WCAG
4 7 (3.03%) NCSC
5 3 (1.30%) ISO 9001
5 3 (1.30%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 2 (0.87%) Data Quality
7 1 (0.43%) NIST
System Software
1 159 (68.83%) Docker
2 23 (9.96%) VMware Infrastructure
3 10 (4.33%) Active Directory
4 6 (2.60%) Hyper-V
4 6 (2.60%) Virtual Machines
5 5 (2.16%) VMware NSX
6 4 (1.73%) Firmware
6 4 (1.73%) Squid
6 4 (1.73%) vSphere
7 3 (1.30%) Ceph
8 1 (0.43%) Citrix Hypervisor
8 1 (0.43%) KVM
8 1 (0.43%) QEMU
8 1 (0.43%) Slurm Workload Manager
8 1 (0.43%) Virtual Desktop
8 1 (0.43%) Xen
Systems Management
1 94 (40.69%) Terraform
2 62 (26.84%) Ansible
3 21 (9.09%) Grafana
4 15 (6.49%) Prometheus
4 15 (6.49%) Puppet
5 12 (5.19%) Argo
6 8 (3.46%) Rancher
7 7 (3.03%) Kibana
8 6 (2.60%) Check_MK
8 6 (2.60%) Istio
8 6 (2.60%) logstash
8 6 (2.60%) vCenter Server
8 6 (2.60%) VxRail
8 6 (2.60%) yum
9 4 (1.73%) Nagios
9 4 (1.73%) Packer
9 4 (1.73%) Podman
9 4 (1.73%) ZABBIX
10 3 (1.30%) linkerd
10 3 (1.30%) Mesos
Vendors
1 51 (22.08%) Microsoft
2 27 (11.69%) VMware
3 22 (9.52%) Red Hat
4 12 (5.19%) Splunk
5 10 (4.33%) Atlassian
5 10 (4.33%) Facebook
5 10 (4.33%) Google
6 7 (3.03%) Oracle
7 5 (2.16%) BeyondTrust
7 5 (2.16%) Dell
8 4 (1.73%) Databricks
9 3 (1.30%) OneLogin
9 3 (1.30%) OpenAI
10 2 (0.87%) Apple
10 2 (0.87%) Cisco
10 2 (0.87%) SaltStack
11 1 (0.43%) Fortinet
11 1 (0.43%) Juniper
11 1 (0.43%) New Relic
11 1 (0.43%) Thales