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

6 months to
13 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 57 52 77
Rank change year-on-year -5 +25 -34
Permanent jobs citing Kubernetes 224 130 295
As % of all permanent jobs in the South West 2.70% 3.93% 3.02%
As % of the Systems Management category 44.98% 42.21% 36.11%
Number of salaries quoted 144 78 230
10th Percentile £38,750 £47,966 £45,000
25th Percentile £48,500 £52,500 £53,813
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £58,750 £71,991 £75,000
Median % change year-on-year -18.39% -4.01% +8.00%
75th Percentile £77,500 £89,375 £87,500
90th Percentile £92,900 £102,410 £90,125
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 498 308 817
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the South West 6.00% 9.30% 8.37%
Number of salaries quoted 342 221 642
10th Percentile £31,275 £30,000 £31,250
25th Percentile £40,188 £36,250 £41,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £51,058 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year +7.72% -2.75% -8.70%
75th Percentile £75,000 £71,250 £75,000
90th Percentile £82,500 £90,000 £87,500
England median annual salary £65,000 £67,037 £62,500
% change year-on-year -3.04% +7.26% -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 13 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 13 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 -6 101 £75,000 +7.14% 56
Somerset 0 39 £42,500 - 11
Devon -1 27 £55,000 - 5
Wiltshire +1 23 £60,000 +17.51% 8
Bristol -49 22 £62,500 -13.18% 13
Dorset -14 5 £45,000 - 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 10 (4.46%) Confluence
2 7 (3.13%) Apache Spark
3 5 (2.23%) Apache
4 4 (1.79%) OpenStack
5 1 (0.45%) Apache Airflow
Cloud Services
1 110 (49.11%) Azure
2 86 (38.39%) AWS
3 48 (21.43%) GCP
4 44 (19.64%) GitHub
5 28 (12.50%) GitHub Copilot
6 24 (10.71%) OpenShift
7 21 (9.38%) Azure AI
8 20 (8.93%) Serverless
9 18 (8.04%) Azure AKS
10 16 (7.14%) Amazon S3
11 15 (6.70%) Azure DevOps
12 14 (6.25%) AWS Lambda
13 13 (5.80%) Amazon EKS
13 13 (5.80%) SaaS
14 12 (5.36%) Amazon EC2
15 11 (4.91%) GitHub Actions
16 10 (4.46%) AWS CloudFormation
17 4 (1.79%) AWS CloudTrail
17 4 (1.79%) Datadog
17 4 (1.79%) Entra ID
Communications & Networking
1 7 (3.13%) Internet
1 7 (3.13%) Network Security
1 7 (3.13%) Software-Defined Networking
1 7 (3.13%) VPN
2 6 (2.68%) Firewall
3 5 (2.23%) WAN
4 4 (1.79%) IPv4
5 3 (1.34%) AMQP
5 3 (1.34%) BGP
5 3 (1.34%) Ethernet VPN
5 3 (1.34%) SD-WAN
5 3 (1.34%) SNMP
5 3 (1.34%) VLAN
6 2 (0.89%) LAN
6 2 (0.89%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 34 (15.18%) MongoDB
2 28 (12.50%) Azure SQL Database
3 19 (8.48%) Elasticsearch
4 13 (5.80%) PostgreSQL
5 9 (4.02%) InfluxDB
5 9 (4.02%) SQL Server
6 7 (3.13%) Amazon RDS
6 7 (3.13%) MySQL
6 7 (3.13%) NoSQL
7 5 (2.23%) Geospatial Data
7 5 (2.23%) Relational Database
8 4 (1.79%) Big Data
9 3 (1.34%) Cloudera CDH
9 3 (1.34%) Hadoop
10 2 (0.89%) DynamoDB
10 2 (0.89%) Flink
10 2 (0.89%) Neo4j
11 1 (0.45%) Amazon Athena
11 1 (0.45%) Apache Cassandra
11 1 (0.45%) MariaDB
Development Applications
1 53 (23.66%) Git
2 39 (17.41%) GitLab
3 33 (14.73%) Jenkins
4 16 (7.14%) Subversion
5 10 (4.46%) JIRA
6 9 (4.02%) Bitbucket
7 8 (3.57%) Cypress.io
7 8 (3.57%) Eclipse
7 8 (3.57%) Robot Framework
7 8 (3.57%) TestRail
8 7 (3.13%) Selenium
9 5 (2.23%) MSI
10 4 (1.79%) CircleCI
11 3 (1.34%) JUnit
12 1 (0.45%) Cucumber
12 1 (0.45%) Maven
12 1 (0.45%) Mockito
General
1 43 (19.20%) Social Skills
2 38 (16.96%) Finance
3 22 (9.82%) Aerospace
4 18 (8.04%) Public Sector
5 11 (4.91%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 10 (4.46%) Advertising
6 10 (4.46%) Marketing
7 8 (3.57%) Analytical Skills
7 8 (3.57%) Retail
8 7 (3.13%) Games
9 3 (1.34%) Automotive
9 3 (1.34%) Electronics
9 3 (1.34%) Manufacturing
10 1 (0.45%) Tech for Good
Job Titles
1 65 (29.02%) Developer
2 40 (17.86%) .NET Developer
3 35 (15.63%) Software Engineer
4 31 (13.84%) DevOps Engineer
5 30 (13.39%) Infrastructure Engineer
6 29 (12.95%) Senior
7 14 (6.25%) Java Developer
7 14 (6.25%) Lead
8 12 (5.36%) Senior Software Engineer
9 11 (4.91%) DevSecOps Engineer
10 10 (4.46%) Test Engineer
11 9 (4.02%) Cloud Engineer
11 9 (4.02%) Full-Stack Developer
11 9 (4.02%) Full-Stack Engineer
11 9 (4.02%) Junior
11 9 (4.02%) Platform Engineer
11 9 (4.02%) Python Engineer
12 8 (3.57%) Backend Developer
12 8 (3.57%) Full-Stack Software Engineer
12 8 (3.57%) Software Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 62 (27.68%) .NET
2 58 (25.89%) .NET Core
3 35 (15.63%) RESTful
4 28 (12.50%) ASP.NET
4 28 (12.50%) ASP.NET Core
4 28 (12.50%) CSS
4 28 (12.50%) Spring
5 27 (12.05%) Spring Boot
6 26 (11.61%) HTML
7 25 (11.16%) React
8 22 (9.82%) REST
9 21 (9.38%) AngularJS
9 21 (9.38%) ML.NET
10 20 (8.93%) Node.js
11 17 (7.59%) Elastic Stack
12 14 (6.25%) Vue
13 13 (5.80%) .NET Framework
14 10 (4.46%) Blazor
15 9 (4.02%) Django
15 9 (4.02%) FastAPI
Miscellaneous
1 44 (19.64%) Cloud Native
2 14 (6.25%) Hybrid Cloud
3 11 (4.91%) Product Ownership
4 10 (4.46%) Distributed Systems
5 7 (3.13%) Onboarding
6 5 (2.23%) Digital TV
7 4 (1.79%) CUDA
7 4 (1.79%) Data Centre
7 4 (1.79%) PKI
8 3 (1.34%) Data Structures
8 3 (1.34%) IoT
8 3 (1.34%) Legacy Systems
8 3 (1.34%) Public Cloud
8 3 (1.34%) Renewable Energy
8 3 (1.34%) Self-Motivation
9 2 (0.89%) Algorithms
9 2 (0.89%) Insider Threat
10 1 (0.45%) Private Cloud
Operating Systems
1 69 (30.80%) Linux
2 30 (13.39%) Windows
3 12 (5.36%) CentOS
4 11 (4.91%) Unix
4 11 (4.91%) Windows Server
5 4 (1.79%) Ubuntu
6 3 (1.34%) Debian
6 3 (1.34%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
7 1 (0.45%) Rocky
Processes & Methodologies
1 147 (65.63%) CI/CD
2 119 (53.13%) Containerisation
3 95 (42.41%) Infrastructure as Code
4 91 (40.63%) DevOps
5 81 (36.16%) Agile
6 65 (29.02%) Software Engineering
7 62 (27.68%) Full-Stack Development
8 51 (22.77%) Infrastructure Engineering
9 47 (20.98%) Continuous Improvement
10 45 (20.09%) AI
11 38 (16.96%) Microservices
12 37 (16.52%) Test Automation
13 36 (16.07%) Problem-Solving
14 28 (12.50%) Machine Learning
15 27 (12.05%) Computer Science
16 26 (11.61%) Analytics
16 26 (11.61%) Collaborative Culture
16 26 (11.61%) DevSecOps
17 22 (9.82%) SDLC
18 21 (9.38%) Site Reliability Engineering
Programming Languages
1 105 (46.88%) Python
2 67 (29.91%) Java
3 60 (26.79%) C#
4 46 (20.54%) SQL
5 44 (19.64%) JavaScript
6 35 (15.63%) Bash
7 17 (7.59%) PowerShell
7 17 (7.59%) TypeScript
8 14 (6.25%) C++
9 13 (5.80%) Go
10 11 (4.91%) Bicep
11 6 (2.68%) Perl
12 4 (1.79%) C
12 4 (1.79%) Scala
13 3 (1.34%) PHP
13 3 (1.34%) Shell Script
14 2 (0.89%) Rust
15 1 (0.45%) Ruby
Qualifications
1 102 (45.54%) Security Cleared
2 54 (24.11%) DV Cleared
3 33 (14.73%) SC Cleared
4 27 (12.05%) Degree
5 25 (11.16%) Computer Science Degree
6 8 (3.57%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
7 6 (2.68%) RHCSA
8 5 (2.23%) RHCE
9 4 (1.79%) AWS Certification
9 4 (1.79%) CCNA
9 4 (1.79%) Cisco Certification
9 4 (1.79%) ISTQB
9 4 (1.79%) Microsoft Certification
9 4 (1.79%) OSCP
10 3 (1.34%) Azure Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 17 (7.59%) QA
2 10 (4.46%) Accessibility
3 8 (3.57%) WCAG
4 5 (2.23%) NCSC
5 3 (1.34%) ISO 9001
5 3 (1.34%) ISO/IEC 27001
System Software
1 151 (67.41%) Docker
2 24 (10.71%) VMware Infrastructure
3 8 (3.57%) Active Directory
4 7 (3.13%) Hyper-V
4 7 (3.13%) Virtual Machines
5 5 (2.23%) VMware NSX
6 4 (1.79%) Firmware
6 4 (1.79%) Squid
6 4 (1.79%) vSphere
7 1 (0.45%) Citrix Hypervisor
7 1 (0.45%) KVM
7 1 (0.45%) QEMU
7 1 (0.45%) Slurm Workload Manager
7 1 (0.45%) Xen
Systems Management
1 89 (39.73%) Terraform
2 58 (25.89%) Ansible
3 23 (10.27%) Grafana
4 17 (7.59%) Puppet
5 11 (4.91%) Prometheus
6 10 (4.46%) Rancher
7 9 (4.02%) Argo
8 8 (3.57%) Kibana
8 8 (3.57%) yum
9 7 (3.13%) logstash
9 7 (3.13%) vCenter Server
9 7 (3.13%) VxRail
10 4 (1.79%) Check_MK
10 4 (1.79%) Nagios
10 4 (1.79%) Packer
10 4 (1.79%) ZABBIX
11 2 (0.89%) Istio
11 2 (0.89%) Microsoft Intune
12 1 (0.45%) linkerd
12 1 (0.45%) Podman
Vendors
1 49 (21.88%) Microsoft
2 28 (12.50%) VMware
3 20 (8.93%) Red Hat
4 13 (5.80%) Splunk
5 12 (5.36%) Google
6 10 (4.46%) Facebook
7 9 (4.02%) Atlassian
8 7 (3.13%) Oracle
9 6 (2.68%) BeyondTrust
10 3 (1.34%) Databricks
10 3 (1.34%) Dell
10 3 (1.34%) OneLogin
10 3 (1.34%) OpenAI
10 3 (1.34%) SaltStack
11 2 (0.89%) Apple
11 2 (0.89%) Cisco
11 2 (0.89%) Thales
12 1 (0.45%) Fortinet
12 1 (0.45%) Juniper