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

6 months to
29 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 73 58 67
Rank change year-on-year -15 +9 -30
Permanent jobs citing Kubernetes 165 109 313
As % of all permanent jobs in the South West 2.14% 4.11% 3.34%
As % of the Systems Management category 40.44% 42.58% 36.57%
Number of salaries quoted 103 65 253
10th Percentile £38,750 £48,899 £45,000
25th Percentile £46,375 £53,750 £52,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £71,991 £70,576
Median % change year-on-year -16.66% +2.01% +4.56%
75th Percentile £76,875 £90,000 £87,500
90th Percentile £81,250 £102,410 £91,934
England median annual salary £75,000 £82,500 £77,500
% change year-on-year -9.09% +6.45% -

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 408 256 856
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the South West 5.28% 9.66% 9.13%
Number of salaries quoted 292 177 706
10th Percentile £31,500 £31,050 £31,250
25th Percentile £38,750 £37,500 £42,313
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £55,000 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year - +4.76% -11.80%
75th Percentile £73,250 £73,886 £72,433
90th Percentile £80,000 £97,500 £87,500
England median annual salary £65,000 £70,000 £62,500
% change year-on-year -7.14% +12.00% -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 29 May 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 29 May 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 -5 68 £67,500 +3.85% 30
Devon 0 23 £55,000 - 2
Bristol -41 23 £65,000 -13.33% 15
Somerset -12 16 £42,500 - 7
Wiltshire -4 15 £60,000 +17.51% 5
Dorset -15 8 £62,500 +25.00% 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 6 (3.64%) Apache Spark
1 6 (3.64%) Confluence
2 5 (3.03%) Apache
3 3 (1.82%) OpenStack
4 1 (0.61%) Apache Airflow
Applications
1 1 (0.61%) Microsoft Office
Cloud Services
1 70 (42.42%) Azure
2 69 (41.82%) AWS
3 40 (24.24%) GCP
4 23 (13.94%) GitHub
5 17 (10.30%) Serverless
6 16 (9.70%) Amazon S3
7 15 (9.09%) OpenShift
7 15 (9.09%) SaaS
8 14 (8.48%) AWS Lambda
8 14 (8.48%) Azure AKS
9 10 (6.06%) Amazon EC2
9 10 (6.06%) GitHub Actions
10 9 (5.45%) Amazon EKS
10 9 (5.45%) GitHub Copilot
11 6 (3.64%) Azure AI
11 6 (3.64%) Datadog
12 5 (3.03%) AWS CloudFormation
13 3 (1.82%) AWS CloudTrail
13 3 (1.82%) AWS Fargate
13 3 (1.82%) Azure DevOps
Communications & Networking
1 4 (2.42%) Broadband
1 4 (2.42%) Firewall
1 4 (2.42%) Software-Defined Networking
2 3 (1.82%) Internet
2 3 (1.82%) IPv4
2 3 (1.82%) WAN
3 2 (1.21%) AMQP
3 2 (1.21%) LAN
3 2 (1.21%) TCP/IP
3 2 (1.21%) VPN
4 1 (0.61%) BGP
4 1 (0.61%) DNS
4 1 (0.61%) Ethernet VPN
4 1 (0.61%) Network Security
4 1 (0.61%) SD-WAN
4 1 (0.61%) SNMP
4 1 (0.61%) VLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 16 (9.70%) Elasticsearch
2 15 (9.09%) MongoDB
3 14 (8.48%) PostgreSQL
4 12 (7.27%) SQL Server
5 10 (6.06%) NoSQL
6 9 (5.45%) Azure SQL Database
7 7 (4.24%) Amazon RDS
7 7 (4.24%) Relational Database
8 6 (3.64%) InfluxDB
9 5 (3.03%) MySQL
10 4 (2.42%) Neo4j
11 3 (1.82%) Big Data
11 3 (1.82%) CockroachDB
12 2 (1.21%) Cloudera CDH
12 2 (1.21%) Hadoop
13 1 (0.61%) Apache Cassandra
13 1 (0.61%) DynamoDB
13 1 (0.61%) Flink
13 1 (0.61%) MariaDB
13 1 (0.61%) RDBMS
Development Applications
1 34 (20.61%) Jenkins
2 32 (19.39%) Git
3 27 (16.36%) GitLab
4 8 (4.85%) Cypress.io
4 8 (4.85%) Subversion
5 6 (3.64%) Bitbucket
5 6 (3.64%) CircleCI
5 6 (3.64%) JIRA
5 6 (3.64%) Selenium
6 5 (3.03%) Robot Framework
6 5 (3.03%) TestRail
7 4 (2.42%) JUnit
7 4 (2.42%) Maven
8 3 (1.82%) Gradle
8 3 (1.82%) Mockito
8 3 (1.82%) TeamCity
8 3 (1.82%) TestNG
9 2 (1.21%) Checkstyle
9 2 (1.21%) Cucumber
9 2 (1.21%) Eclipse
General
1 37 (22.42%) Social Skills
2 22 (13.33%) Finance
3 17 (10.30%) Aerospace
4 8 (4.85%) Public Sector
5 6 (3.64%) Analytical Skills
6 4 (2.42%) Retail
7 3 (1.82%) Automotive
7 3 (1.82%) Electronics
7 3 (1.82%) Games
7 3 (1.82%) Manufacturing
8 2 (1.21%) Advertising
8 2 (1.21%) Marketing
9 1 (0.61%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 1 (0.61%) Tech for Good
Job Titles
1 36 (21.82%) Developer
2 35 (21.21%) Software Engineer
3 28 (16.97%) Senior
4 21 (12.73%) .NET Developer
5 19 (11.52%) Infrastructure Engineer
6 15 (9.09%) DevSecOps Engineer
6 15 (9.09%) Senior Software Engineer
7 13 (7.88%) DevOps Engineer
8 11 (6.67%) .NET Software Engineer
8 11 (6.67%) Lead
8 11 (6.67%) Senior .NET Software Engineer
9 10 (6.06%) Software Developer
10 9 (5.45%) Java Developer
10 9 (5.45%) Python Engineer
10 9 (5.45%) Test Engineer
11 8 (4.85%) .NET Software Developer
11 8 (4.85%) Backend Developer
11 8 (4.85%) Mid-Level .NET Developer
12 7 (4.24%) Software Manager
13 6 (3.64%) Test Automation Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 44 (26.67%) .NET
2 43 (26.06%) .NET Core
3 28 (16.97%) React
4 22 (13.33%) REST
5 21 (12.73%) RESTful
6 20 (12.12%) Spring
7 17 (10.30%) AngularJS
7 17 (10.30%) Spring Boot
8 16 (9.70%) Node.js
9 13 (7.88%) Elastic Stack
10 11 (6.67%) .NET Framework
10 11 (6.67%) Dapper ORM
10 11 (6.67%) Entity Framework
11 9 (5.45%) ASP.NET
11 9 (5.45%) ASP.NET Core
11 9 (5.45%) OAuth
12 8 (4.85%) Django
12 8 (4.85%) FastAPI
12 8 (4.85%) Vue
13 7 (4.24%) CSS
Miscellaneous
1 27 (16.36%) Cloud Native
2 8 (4.85%) Distributed Systems
2 8 (4.85%) Hybrid Cloud
2 8 (4.85%) Product Ownership
3 4 (2.42%) CUDA
4 3 (1.82%) Data Structures
4 3 (1.82%) IoT
4 3 (1.82%) Over-the-Top Content
4 3 (1.82%) PKI
4 3 (1.82%) Private Cloud
4 3 (1.82%) Renewable Energy
4 3 (1.82%) Self-Motivation
4 3 (1.82%) Video\Live Streaming
5 2 (1.21%) Algorithms
5 2 (1.21%) Blockchain
5 2 (1.21%) Data Centre
5 2 (1.21%) Insider Threat
5 2 (1.21%) Legacy Systems
5 2 (1.21%) Onboarding
5 2 (1.21%) Public Cloud
Operating Systems
1 45 (27.27%) Linux
2 20 (12.12%) Windows
3 9 (5.45%) Windows Server
4 8 (4.85%) CentOS
5 6 (3.64%) Unix
6 3 (1.82%) Ubuntu
7 2 (1.21%) Debian
7 2 (1.21%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
8 1 (0.61%) Windows Server 2016
Processes & Methodologies
1 100 (60.61%) CI/CD
2 94 (56.97%) Containerisation
3 69 (41.82%) DevOps
4 66 (40.00%) Software Engineering
5 63 (38.18%) Agile
6 53 (32.12%) Infrastructure as Code
7 44 (26.67%) Continuous Improvement
8 33 (20.00%) Infrastructure Engineering
9 32 (19.39%) Test Automation
10 28 (16.97%) Full-Stack Development
11 27 (16.36%) Analytics
12 26 (15.76%) AI
12 26 (15.76%) Problem-Solving
13 25 (15.15%) Collaborative Culture
14 23 (13.94%) Microservices
14 23 (13.94%) SDLC
15 22 (13.33%) Mentoring
16 21 (12.73%) Computer Science
17 20 (12.12%) DevSecOps
18 17 (10.30%) Performance Optimisation
Programming Languages
1 78 (47.27%) Python
2 53 (32.12%) Java
3 40 (24.24%) C#
4 39 (23.64%) SQL
5 33 (20.00%) Bash
6 30 (18.18%) JavaScript
7 17 (10.30%) TypeScript
8 16 (9.70%) PowerShell
9 10 (6.06%) Go
10 9 (5.45%) C++
11 7 (4.24%) C
11 7 (4.24%) Scala
12 3 (1.82%) Elixir
12 3 (1.82%) Erlang
12 3 (1.82%) PHP
13 2 (1.21%) Kotlin
13 2 (1.21%) Perl
13 2 (1.21%) Rust
13 2 (1.21%) Shell Script
14 1 (0.61%) Ruby
Qualifications
1 58 (35.15%) Security Cleared
2 34 (20.61%) DV Cleared
3 21 (12.73%) Degree
4 19 (11.52%) Computer Science Degree
5 15 (9.09%) SC Cleared
6 5 (3.03%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
6 5 (3.03%) ISTQB
7 4 (2.42%) AWS Certification
7 4 (2.42%) Microsoft Certification
7 4 (2.42%) RHCE
8 3 (1.82%) CCNA
8 3 (1.82%) Cisco Certification
8 3 (1.82%) OSCP
8 3 (1.82%) RHCSA
9 2 (1.21%) ISTQB Advanced Certification
9 2 (1.21%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
10 1 (0.61%) Azure Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 20 (12.12%) QA
2 4 (2.42%) Accessibility
3 3 (1.82%) ISO 9001
3 3 (1.82%) ISO/IEC 27001
System Software
1 117 (70.91%) Docker
2 13 (7.88%) VMware Infrastructure
3 6 (3.64%) Hyper-V
3 6 (3.64%) Virtual Machines
4 4 (2.42%) Active Directory
4 4 (2.42%) Firmware
5 3 (1.82%) Squid
5 3 (1.82%) VMware NSX
5 3 (1.82%) vSphere
6 1 (0.61%) Citrix Hypervisor
6 1 (0.61%) KVM
6 1 (0.61%) QEMU
6 1 (0.61%) Slurm Workload Manager
6 1 (0.61%) Xen
Systems Management
1 58 (35.15%) Terraform
2 40 (24.24%) Ansible
3 25 (15.15%) Grafana
4 15 (9.09%) Prometheus
5 10 (6.06%) Puppet
6 8 (4.85%) Argo
7 7 (4.24%) Rancher
8 6 (3.64%) yum
9 5 (3.03%) Kibana
9 5 (3.03%) VxRail
10 4 (2.42%) logstash
10 4 (2.42%) vCenter Server
11 3 (1.82%) Packer
11 3 (1.82%) ZABBIX
12 2 (1.21%) Check_MK
12 2 (1.21%) Istio
12 2 (1.21%) Microsoft Intune
12 2 (1.21%) Nagios
13 1 (0.61%) Kustomize
13 1 (0.61%) Podman
Vendors
1 20 (12.12%) Microsoft
2 16 (9.70%) VMware
3 15 (9.09%) Red Hat
4 11 (6.67%) Splunk
5 10 (6.06%) Google
6 9 (5.45%) Oracle
7 5 (3.03%) Atlassian
7 5 (3.03%) BeyondTrust
8 3 (1.82%) Dell
9 2 (1.21%) Apple
9 2 (1.21%) Cisco
9 2 (1.21%) Databricks
9 2 (1.21%) Facebook
9 2 (1.21%) Guidewire
9 2 (1.21%) OpenAI
9 2 (1.21%) SaltStack
9 2 (1.21%) Thales
10 1 (0.61%) Fortinet
10 1 (0.61%) Juniper