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

6 months to
25 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 61 74 57
Rank change year-on-year +13 -17 -29
Permanent jobs citing Kubernetes 269 102 259
As % of all permanent jobs in the South West 2.59% 2.89% 3.51%
As % of the Systems Management category 48.73% 38.49% 46.42%
Number of salaries quoted 170 77 164
10th Percentile £38,750 £42,500 £47,500
25th Percentile £50,000 £48,165 £58,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £67,500 £65,000 £75,000
Median % change year-on-year +3.85% -13.33% +15.38%
75th Percentile £85,000 £80,000 £87,500
90th Percentile £96,250 £95,000 £89,625
England median annual salary £71,216 £77,500 £77,500
% change year-on-year -8.11% - +3.33%

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 552 265 558
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the South West 5.32% 7.50% 7.56%
Number of salaries quoted 373 208 366
10th Percentile £31,250 £30,000 £32,000
25th Percentile £40,000 £32,500 £41,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £48,500 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +23.71% -11.82% -2.65%
75th Percentile £77,500 £67,813 £77,500
90th Percentile £88,000 £81,075 £87,500
England median annual salary £60,000 £62,000 £65,000
% change year-on-year -3.23% -4.62% -

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 25 September 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 25 September 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 +10 153 £85,000 +6.25% 100
Somerset +1 41 £50,000 +11.11% 28
Bristol -52 28 £62,500 -3.85% 23
Wiltshire 0 24 £60,000 +17.51% 12
Devon -11 16 £55,000 -16.98% 4
Dorset -21 2 £45,000 -21.05% 17
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 17 (6.32%) Apache
2 14 (5.20%) Apache Spark
3 11 (4.09%) Confluence
4 9 (3.35%) OpenStack
5 3 (1.12%) Apache Airflow
6 1 (0.37%) JBoss
6 1 (0.37%) nginx
Business Applications
1 1 (0.37%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
Cloud Services
1 127 (47.21%) Azure
2 111 (41.26%) AWS
3 51 (18.96%) GCP
4 49 (18.22%) GitHub
5 48 (17.84%) OpenShift
6 31 (11.52%) AWS CloudFormation
7 26 (9.67%) GitHub Copilot
8 21 (7.81%) Azure DevOps
9 20 (7.43%) Azure AI
9 20 (7.43%) Serverless
10 18 (6.69%) Amazon EKS
11 17 (6.32%) Azure AKS
12 14 (5.20%) GitHub Actions
13 11 (4.09%) AWS Lambda
14 9 (3.35%) Amazon S3
14 9 (3.35%) Azure ExpressRoute
14 9 (3.35%) Entra ID
15 7 (2.60%) Amazon EC2
15 7 (2.60%) Amazon ECS
15 7 (2.60%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 14 (5.20%) Network Security
1 14 (5.20%) VPN
2 12 (4.46%) Firewall
3 9 (3.35%) Software-Defined Networking
4 7 (2.60%) Internet
5 6 (2.23%) WAN
6 5 (1.86%) BGP
6 5 (1.86%) Ethernet VPN
6 5 (1.86%) SD-WAN
6 5 (1.86%) SNMP
6 5 (1.86%) VLAN
7 4 (1.49%) AMQP
7 4 (1.49%) IPv4
8 2 (0.74%) TCP/IP
9 1 (0.37%) DHCP
9 1 (0.37%) DNS
9 1 (0.37%) LAN
9 1 (0.37%) SSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 35 (13.01%) MongoDB
2 26 (9.67%) Azure SQL Database
3 12 (4.46%) Hadoop
4 11 (4.09%) Big Data
5 10 (3.72%) Elasticsearch
5 10 (3.72%) PostgreSQL
6 8 (2.97%) InfluxDB
6 8 (2.97%) NoSQL
7 7 (2.60%) Data Warehouse
7 7 (2.60%) Geospatial Data
8 6 (2.23%) MySQL
9 5 (1.86%) Data Lake
10 4 (1.49%) Cloudera CDH
10 4 (1.49%) Flink
11 3 (1.12%) DynamoDB
11 3 (1.12%) Relational Database
11 3 (1.12%) ZAP BI
12 1 (0.37%) Amazon RDS
12 1 (0.37%) Power BI
12 1 (0.37%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 63 (23.42%) Git
2 44 (16.36%) GitLab
3 36 (13.38%) Jenkins
4 17 (6.32%) Subversion
5 13 (4.83%) JIRA
6 11 (4.09%) Bitbucket
7 10 (3.72%) Cypress.io
7 10 (3.72%) Selenium
8 9 (3.35%) Eclipse
8 9 (3.35%) Robot Framework
9 8 (2.97%) TestRail
10 7 (2.60%) MSI
11 5 (1.86%) JUnit
12 3 (1.12%) NUnit
12 3 (1.12%) Postman
12 3 (1.12%) Snyk
12 3 (1.12%) SonarQube
13 1 (0.37%) ER Studio
13 1 (0.37%) Mocha
13 1 (0.37%) Vite
General
1 60 (22.30%) Finance
2 49 (18.22%) Social Skills
3 25 (9.29%) Aerospace
3 25 (9.29%) Public Sector
4 18 (6.69%) Analytical Skills
4 18 (6.69%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 11 (4.09%) Marketing
6 9 (3.35%) Advertising
7 8 (2.97%) Retail
8 6 (2.23%) Games
9 4 (1.49%) Military
10 3 (1.12%) Legal
11 2 (0.74%) Law
12 1 (0.37%) Automotive
12 1 (0.37%) Electronics
12 1 (0.37%) Manufacturing
12 1 (0.37%) Organisational Skills
Job Titles
1 67 (24.91%) Developer
2 57 (21.19%) DevOps Engineer
3 36 (13.38%) .NET Developer
4 34 (12.64%) Infrastructure Engineer
5 26 (9.67%) Software Engineer
6 24 (8.92%) Senior
7 20 (7.43%) Architect
7 20 (7.43%) Cloud Engineer
8 18 (6.69%) Lead
9 14 (5.20%) Data Engineer
9 14 (5.20%) Principal Engineer
10 12 (4.46%) Platform Engineer
10 12 (4.46%) Software Developer
11 11 (4.09%) Full-Stack Engineer
11 11 (4.09%) Java Developer
11 11 (4.09%) Lead DevOps
11 11 (4.09%) Lead DevOps Engineer
12 10 (3.72%) Full-Stack Developer
12 10 (3.72%) Senior DevOps
12 10 (3.72%) Senior DevOps Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 134 (49.81%) Terraform
2 52 (19.33%) .NET
3 47 (17.47%) .NET Core
4 43 (15.99%) RESTful
5 40 (14.87%) Spring
5 40 (14.87%) Spring Boot
6 30 (11.15%) CSS
7 28 (10.41%) HTML
7 28 (10.41%) React
8 27 (10.04%) Node.js
9 26 (9.67%) ASP.NET
9 26 (9.67%) ASP.NET Core
10 21 (7.81%) Elastic Stack
11 20 (7.43%) AngularJS
11 20 (7.43%) ML.NET
12 18 (6.69%) REST
13 13 (4.83%) Vue
14 9 (3.35%) Jakarta EE
14 9 (3.35%) pytest
14 9 (3.35%) Struts
Miscellaneous
1 62 (23.05%) Cloud Native
2 17 (6.32%) Hybrid Cloud
3 8 (2.97%) Distributed Systems
3 8 (2.97%) Legacy Systems
3 8 (2.97%) Onboarding
3 8 (2.97%) Product Ownership
4 6 (2.23%) PKI
4 6 (2.23%) Social Media
5 5 (1.86%) Digital TV
6 4 (1.49%) Algorithms
7 3 (1.12%) Blog
7 3 (1.12%) Data Centre
7 3 (1.12%) Data Structures
7 3 (1.12%) Public Cloud
8 2 (0.74%) CUDA
8 2 (0.74%) Private Cloud
9 1 (0.37%) Renewable Energy
Operating Systems
1 83 (30.86%) Linux
2 29 (10.78%) Windows
3 13 (4.83%) Unix
4 12 (4.46%) CentOS
5 8 (2.97%) Windows Server
6 5 (1.86%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 5 (1.86%) Ubuntu
7 4 (1.49%) Debian
8 2 (0.74%) Rocky
Processes & Methodologies
1 193 (71.75%) CI/CD
2 146 (54.28%) Infrastructure as Code
3 144 (53.53%) Containerisation
4 129 (47.96%) DevOps
5 121 (44.98%) Agile
6 72 (26.77%) Full-Stack Development
7 61 (22.68%) Infrastructure Engineering
7 61 (22.68%) Software Engineering
8 55 (20.45%) AI
9 47 (17.47%) Continuous Improvement
9 47 (17.47%) Microservices
10 45 (16.73%) Test Automation
11 44 (16.36%) Problem-Solving
12 40 (14.87%) DevSecOps
13 37 (13.75%) Site Reliability Engineering
14 31 (11.52%) Machine Learning
15 30 (11.15%) Platform Engineering
16 27 (10.04%) Collaborative Working
17 26 (9.67%) Collaborative Culture
18 25 (9.29%) Observability
Programming Languages
1 125 (46.47%) Python
2 88 (32.71%) Java
3 59 (21.93%) JavaScript
4 53 (19.70%) Bash
5 50 (18.59%) C#
6 41 (15.24%) SQL
7 20 (7.43%) Go
7 20 (7.43%) TypeScript
8 18 (6.69%) Bicep
9 16 (5.95%) C++
9 16 (5.95%) PowerShell
10 7 (2.60%) Perl
10 7 (2.60%) Rust
11 6 (2.23%) Scala
12 3 (1.12%) C
12 3 (1.12%) Shell Script
13 1 (0.37%) Kotlin
13 1 (0.37%) Objective-C
Qualifications
1 166 (61.71%) Security Cleared
2 88 (32.71%) DV Cleared
3 68 (25.28%) SC Cleared
4 26 (9.67%) Degree
5 20 (7.43%) Computer Science Degree
6 11 (4.09%) AWS Certification
6 11 (4.09%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
7 6 (2.23%) RHCSA
8 4 (1.49%) Azure Certification
8 4 (1.49%) CCNA
8 4 (1.49%) Cisco Certification
8 4 (1.49%) ISTQB
8 4 (1.49%) Microsoft Certification
8 4 (1.49%) OCP
8 4 (1.49%) Oracle Certification
8 4 (1.49%) OSCP
8 4 (1.49%) RHCE
9 3 (1.12%) AWS Certified Developer
9 3 (1.12%) BPSS Clearance
10 1 (0.37%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 21 (7.81%) Accessibility
2 12 (4.46%) QA
3 11 (4.09%) WCAG
4 10 (3.72%) NCSC
5 5 (1.86%) Data Quality
6 3 (1.12%) NIST
7 1 (0.37%) California Consumer Privacy Act
7 1 (0.37%) GDPR
7 1 (0.37%) HIPAA
System Software
1 170 (63.20%) Docker
2 27 (10.04%) VMware Infrastructure
3 14 (5.20%) Active Directory
4 7 (2.60%) VMware NSX
5 6 (2.23%) Virtual Machines
6 4 (1.49%) Ceph
6 4 (1.49%) Hyper-V
6 4 (1.49%) Squid
6 4 (1.49%) vSphere
7 2 (0.74%) VMware ESXi
8 1 (0.37%) KVM
8 1 (0.37%) QEMU
8 1 (0.37%) Virtual Desktop
8 1 (0.37%) Xen
Systems Management
1 93 (34.57%) Ansible
2 25 (9.29%) Puppet
3 22 (8.18%) Grafana
4 18 (6.69%) Prometheus
5 16 (5.95%) Argo
6 11 (4.09%) Rancher
7 8 (2.97%) Istio
7 8 (2.97%) vCenter Server
7 8 (2.97%) yum
8 7 (2.60%) Check_MK
9 6 (2.23%) Kibana
9 6 (2.23%) logstash
10 4 (1.49%) Docker Swarm
10 4 (1.49%) linkerd
10 4 (1.49%) Mesos
10 4 (1.49%) Nagios
10 4 (1.49%) Packer
10 4 (1.49%) Podman
10 4 (1.49%) VxRail
10 4 (1.49%) ZABBIX
Vendors
1 53 (19.70%) Microsoft
2 35 (13.01%) VMware
3 28 (10.41%) Red Hat
4 13 (4.83%) Splunk
5 11 (4.09%) Google
6 10 (3.72%) Atlassian
7 9 (3.35%) Facebook
8 6 (2.23%) Oracle
9 4 (1.49%) Databricks
9 4 (1.49%) Dell
9 4 (1.49%) OneLogin
9 4 (1.49%) SaltStack
10 3 (1.12%) BeyondTrust
10 3 (1.12%) OpenAI
11 1 (0.37%) CyberArk
11 1 (0.37%) Mistral
11 1 (0.37%) New Relic
11 1 (0.37%) Sparx