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

6 months to
13 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 71 57 69
Rank change year-on-year -14 +12 -28
Permanent jobs citing Kubernetes 175 120 323
As % of all permanent jobs in the South West 2.26% 4.27% 3.15%
As % of the Systems Management category 41.77% 44.61% 36.79%
Number of salaries quoted 111 69 253
10th Percentile £38,750 £48,165 £45,000
25th Percentile £45,000 £52,500 £52,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,500 £70,000 £70,576
Median % change year-on-year -17.86% -0.82% +4.56%
75th Percentile £73,250 £90,000 £87,500
90th Percentile £80,000 £102,410 £91,934
England median annual salary £72,500 £82,500 £77,500
% change year-on-year -12.12% +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 419 269 878
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the South West 5.42% 9.57% 8.57%
Number of salaries quoted 299 187 701
10th Percentile £31,500 £30,000 £31,250
25th Percentile £39,500 £37,500 £41,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £55,000 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year - +4.76% -9.19%
75th Percentile £73,250 £73,750 £72,500
90th Percentile £80,250 £96,000 £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 13 June 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 June 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 -7 68 £60,500 -6.92% 56
Devon -4 25 £55,000 - 2
Somerset -10 23 £42,500 - 10
Bristol -45 22 £62,500 -14.96% 9
Wiltshire -2 18 £60,000 +17.51% 8
Dorset -14 7 £45,000 - 6
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 8 (4.57%) Confluence
2 6 (3.43%) Apache Spark
3 4 (2.29%) Apache
4 3 (1.71%) OpenStack
5 1 (0.57%) Apache Airflow
Cloud Services
1 78 (44.57%) Azure
2 73 (41.71%) AWS
3 41 (23.43%) GCP
4 29 (16.57%) GitHub
5 18 (10.29%) Amazon S3
5 18 (10.29%) Serverless
6 15 (8.57%) AWS Lambda
6 15 (8.57%) OpenShift
6 15 (8.57%) SaaS
7 14 (8.00%) Azure AKS
7 14 (8.00%) GitHub Copilot
8 12 (6.86%) Amazon EC2
9 11 (6.29%) Amazon EKS
10 10 (5.71%) Azure AI
10 10 (5.71%) GitHub Actions
11 6 (3.43%) Azure DevOps
12 5 (2.86%) AWS CloudFormation
13 4 (2.29%) AWS CloudTrail
13 4 (2.29%) AWS Fargate
13 4 (2.29%) Datadog
Communications & Networking
1 6 (3.43%) Software-Defined Networking
2 4 (2.29%) Broadband
2 4 (2.29%) Firewall
2 4 (2.29%) Internet
2 4 (2.29%) IPv4
2 4 (2.29%) WAN
3 2 (1.14%) AMQP
3 2 (1.14%) BGP
3 2 (1.14%) Ethernet VPN
3 2 (1.14%) LAN
3 2 (1.14%) Network Security
3 2 (1.14%) SD-WAN
3 2 (1.14%) SNMP
3 2 (1.14%) TCP/IP
3 2 (1.14%) VLAN
3 2 (1.14%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 19 (10.86%) MongoDB
2 17 (9.71%) Elasticsearch
3 14 (8.00%) Azure SQL Database
4 13 (7.43%) PostgreSQL
5 12 (6.86%) SQL Server
6 9 (5.14%) NoSQL
7 7 (4.00%) Amazon RDS
7 7 (4.00%) InfluxDB
7 7 (4.00%) Relational Database
8 5 (2.86%) MySQL
9 4 (2.29%) Neo4j
10 3 (1.71%) Big Data
11 2 (1.14%) Cloudera CDH
11 2 (1.14%) CockroachDB
11 2 (1.14%) Hadoop
12 1 (0.57%) Amazon Athena
12 1 (0.57%) DynamoDB
12 1 (0.57%) Flink
12 1 (0.57%) Geospatial Data
12 1 (0.57%) MariaDB
Development Applications
1 37 (21.14%) Git
2 32 (18.29%) Jenkins
3 30 (17.14%) GitLab
4 10 (5.71%) Subversion
5 9 (5.14%) Cypress.io
6 8 (4.57%) JIRA
7 7 (4.00%) Bitbucket
7 7 (4.00%) Selenium
8 6 (3.43%) Robot Framework
8 6 (3.43%) TestRail
9 5 (2.86%) Eclipse
10 4 (2.29%) CircleCI
10 4 (2.29%) JUnit
11 3 (1.71%) Maven
11 3 (1.71%) Mockito
11 3 (1.71%) TeamCity
12 2 (1.14%) Checkstyle
12 2 (1.14%) Cucumber
12 2 (1.14%) Gradle
12 2 (1.14%) TestNG
General
1 39 (22.29%) Social Skills
2 25 (14.29%) Finance
3 18 (10.29%) Aerospace
4 8 (4.57%) Analytical Skills
5 7 (4.00%) Public Sector
6 6 (3.43%) Retail
7 4 (2.29%) Advertising
7 4 (2.29%) Games
7 4 (2.29%) Marketing
8 3 (1.71%) Automotive
8 3 (1.71%) Electronics
8 3 (1.71%) Manufacturing
9 2 (1.14%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 1 (0.57%) Tech for Good
Job Titles
1 43 (24.57%) Developer
2 35 (20.00%) Software Engineer
3 26 (14.86%) .NET Developer
3 26 (14.86%) Senior
4 21 (12.00%) Infrastructure Engineer
5 15 (8.57%) Senior Software Engineer
6 14 (8.00%) DevSecOps Engineer
7 13 (7.43%) DevOps Engineer
8 12 (6.86%) Lead
9 11 (6.29%) .NET Software Engineer
9 11 (6.29%) Java Developer
9 11 (6.29%) Senior .NET Software Engineer
10 10 (5.71%) Test Engineer
11 9 (5.14%) Python Engineer
11 9 (5.14%) Software Developer
12 8 (4.57%) .NET Software Developer
12 8 (4.57%) Backend Developer
12 8 (4.57%) Mid-Level .NET Developer
13 7 (4.00%) Software Manager
13 7 (4.00%) Test Automation Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 50 (28.57%) .NET
2 49 (28.00%) .NET Core
3 30 (17.14%) React
4 25 (14.29%) RESTful
5 22 (12.57%) REST
6 18 (10.29%) AngularJS
6 18 (10.29%) Spring
7 17 (9.71%) Node.js
8 15 (8.57%) Elastic Stack
8 15 (8.57%) Spring Boot
9 14 (8.00%) ASP.NET
9 14 (8.00%) ASP.NET Core
10 12 (6.86%) .NET Framework
10 12 (6.86%) CSS
11 11 (6.29%) Dapper ORM
11 11 (6.29%) Entity Framework
11 11 (6.29%) HTML
12 10 (5.71%) ML.NET
13 9 (5.14%) OAuth
13 9 (5.14%) Vue
Miscellaneous
1 29 (16.57%) Cloud Native
2 9 (5.14%) Hybrid Cloud
2 9 (5.14%) Product Ownership
3 7 (4.00%) Distributed Systems
4 4 (2.29%) CUDA
5 3 (1.71%) Data Centre
5 3 (1.71%) Data Structures
5 3 (1.71%) Digital TV
5 3 (1.71%) IoT
5 3 (1.71%) Onboarding
5 3 (1.71%) Over-the-Top Content
5 3 (1.71%) PKI
5 3 (1.71%) Renewable Energy
5 3 (1.71%) Self-Motivation
5 3 (1.71%) Video\Live Streaming
6 2 (1.14%) Algorithms
6 2 (1.14%) Blockchain
6 2 (1.14%) Insider Threat
6 2 (1.14%) Private Cloud
6 2 (1.14%) Public Cloud
Operating Systems
1 48 (27.43%) Linux
2 23 (13.14%) Windows
3 10 (5.71%) Windows Server
4 9 (5.14%) CentOS
5 8 (4.57%) Unix
6 3 (1.71%) Ubuntu
7 2 (1.14%) Debian
7 2 (1.14%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 107 (61.14%) CI/CD
2 98 (56.00%) Containerisation
3 69 (39.43%) DevOps
4 67 (38.29%) Software Engineering
5 64 (36.57%) Agile
6 57 (32.57%) Infrastructure as Code
7 44 (25.14%) Continuous Improvement
8 37 (21.14%) Infrastructure Engineering
9 36 (20.57%) Full-Stack Development
10 31 (17.71%) AI
11 30 (17.14%) Test Automation
12 28 (16.00%) Problem-Solving
13 27 (15.43%) Analytics
14 25 (14.29%) Collaborative Culture
15 24 (13.71%) Computer Science
15 24 (13.71%) Microservices
15 24 (13.71%) SDLC
16 22 (12.57%) Mentoring
17 20 (11.43%) DevSecOps
18 19 (10.86%) Performance Optimisation
Programming Languages
1 81 (46.29%) Python
2 54 (30.86%) Java
3 46 (26.29%) C#
4 42 (24.00%) SQL
5 34 (19.43%) JavaScript
6 31 (17.71%) Bash
7 19 (10.86%) TypeScript
8 15 (8.57%) PowerShell
9 11 (6.29%) C++
10 9 (5.14%) Go
11 7 (4.00%) C
11 7 (4.00%) Scala
12 4 (2.29%) Perl
13 3 (1.71%) Bicep
13 3 (1.71%) Elixir
13 3 (1.71%) Erlang
13 3 (1.71%) PHP
14 2 (1.14%) Kotlin
14 2 (1.14%) Rust
14 2 (1.14%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 60 (34.29%) Security Cleared
2 32 (18.29%) DV Cleared
3 24 (13.71%) Degree
4 22 (12.57%) Computer Science Degree
5 15 (8.57%) SC Cleared
6 6 (3.43%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
6 6 (3.43%) ISTQB
7 5 (2.86%) AWS Certification
7 5 (2.86%) RHCE
7 5 (2.86%) RHCSA
8 4 (2.29%) CCNA
8 4 (2.29%) Cisco Certification
8 4 (2.29%) Microsoft Certification
8 4 (2.29%) OSCP
9 2 (1.14%) ISTQB Advanced Certification
9 2 (1.14%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 19 (10.86%) QA
2 5 (2.86%) Accessibility
3 3 (1.71%) ISO 9001
3 3 (1.71%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 1 (0.57%) NCSC
4 1 (0.57%) WCAG
System Software
1 125 (71.43%) Docker
2 15 (8.57%) VMware Infrastructure
3 7 (4.00%) Hyper-V
4 5 (2.86%) Virtual Machines
5 4 (2.29%) Active Directory
5 4 (2.29%) Firmware
5 4 (2.29%) Squid
5 4 (2.29%) VMware NSX
5 4 (2.29%) vSphere
6 1 (0.57%) Citrix Hypervisor
6 1 (0.57%) KVM
6 1 (0.57%) QEMU
6 1 (0.57%) Slurm Workload Manager
6 1 (0.57%) Xen
Systems Management
1 61 (34.86%) Terraform
2 41 (23.43%) Ansible
3 24 (13.71%) Grafana
4 15 (8.57%) Prometheus
5 10 (5.71%) Puppet
6 7 (4.00%) Argo
7 6 (3.43%) Kibana
7 6 (3.43%) Rancher
7 6 (3.43%) VxRail
8 5 (2.86%) logstash
8 5 (2.86%) vCenter Server
8 5 (2.86%) yum
9 4 (2.29%) Packer
9 4 (2.29%) ZABBIX
10 2 (1.14%) Check_MK
10 2 (1.14%) Istio
10 2 (1.14%) Microsoft Intune
10 2 (1.14%) Nagios
11 1 (0.57%) linkerd
11 1 (0.57%) Podman
Vendors
1 27 (15.43%) Microsoft
2 19 (10.86%) VMware
3 16 (9.14%) Red Hat
4 13 (7.43%) Splunk
5 10 (5.71%) Google
6 9 (5.14%) Oracle
7 6 (3.43%) Atlassian
7 6 (3.43%) BeyondTrust
8 4 (2.29%) Facebook
9 3 (1.71%) Dell
10 2 (1.14%) Apple
10 2 (1.14%) Cisco
10 2 (1.14%) Databricks
10 2 (1.14%) Guidewire
10 2 (1.14%) OpenAI
10 2 (1.14%) SaltStack
10 2 (1.14%) Thales
11 1 (0.57%) Fortinet
11 1 (0.57%) Juniper