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

6 months to
16 Oct 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 57 74 49
Rank change year-on-year +17 -25 -23
Permanent jobs citing Kubernetes 281 108 249
As % of all permanent jobs in the South West 2.64% 3.01% 3.80%
As % of the Systems Management category 49.47% 39.56% 49.21%
Number of salaries quoted 181 84 159
10th Percentile £42,500 £42,500 £47,250
25th Percentile £52,500 £48,165 £58,125
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £67,500 £66,250 £72,500
Median % change year-on-year +1.89% -8.62% +11.54%
75th Percentile £85,000 £80,250 £86,250
90th Percentile £97,500 £95,000 £91,500
England median annual salary £70,466 £77,500 £77,500
% change year-on-year -9.08% - +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 568 273 506
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the South West 5.33% 7.61% 7.71%
Number of salaries quoted 388 217 328
10th Percentile £31,250 £30,000 £31,651
25th Percentile £42,500 £32,500 £38,068
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £48,500 £57,500
Median % change year-on-year +23.71% -15.65% +2.68%
75th Percentile £80,000 £68,750 £77,500
90th Percentile £91,625 £83,000 £87,500
England median annual salary £60,000 £60,000 £66,000
% change year-on-year - -9.09% +1.54%

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 16 October 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 16 October 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 +11 160 £85,000 +6.25% 69
Somerset -6 38 £55,000 +22.22% 26
Bristol -41 33 £70,000 +3.70% 20
Wiltshire -1 24 £60,000 +17.51% 15
Devon -13 18 £60,000 -9.43% 3
Dorset -25 2 £45,000 -25.00% 7
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 20 (7.12%) Apache
2 17 (6.05%) Apache Spark
3 11 (3.91%) Confluence
4 10 (3.56%) OpenStack
5 4 (1.42%) Apache Airflow
6 1 (0.36%) JBoss
6 1 (0.36%) nginx
Business Applications
1 1 (0.36%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
Cloud Services
1 129 (45.91%) Azure
2 119 (42.35%) AWS
3 52 (18.51%) GitHub
4 49 (17.44%) GCP
5 46 (16.37%) OpenShift
6 32 (11.39%) AWS CloudFormation
7 26 (9.25%) GitHub Copilot
8 22 (7.83%) Serverless
9 21 (7.47%) Azure DevOps
10 20 (7.12%) Amazon EKS
10 20 (7.12%) Azure AI
11 18 (6.41%) Azure AKS
12 15 (5.34%) GitHub Actions
13 13 (4.63%) AWS Lambda
14 12 (4.27%) SaaS
15 11 (3.91%) Amazon S3
16 9 (3.20%) Amazon ECS
16 9 (3.20%) Azure ExpressRoute
16 9 (3.20%) Entra ID
17 8 (2.85%) Amazon EC2
Communications & Networking
1 14 (4.98%) Network Security
1 14 (4.98%) VPN
2 12 (4.27%) Firewall
3 9 (3.20%) Software-Defined Networking
4 6 (2.14%) Internet
5 5 (1.78%) AMQP
5 5 (1.78%) BGP
5 5 (1.78%) Ethernet VPN
5 5 (1.78%) SD-WAN
5 5 (1.78%) SNMP
5 5 (1.78%) VLAN
5 5 (1.78%) WAN
6 4 (1.42%) IPv4
7 1 (0.36%) DHCP
7 1 (0.36%) DNS
7 1 (0.36%) HTTP
7 1 (0.36%) SSL
7 1 (0.36%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 34 (12.10%) MongoDB
2 26 (9.25%) Azure SQL Database
3 13 (4.63%) Big Data
3 13 (4.63%) Hadoop
4 9 (3.20%) Elasticsearch
4 9 (3.20%) PostgreSQL
5 8 (2.85%) Data Warehouse
5 8 (2.85%) NoSQL
6 7 (2.49%) Geospatial Data
7 6 (2.14%) InfluxDB
8 5 (1.78%) Cloudera CDH
8 5 (1.78%) Data Lake
8 5 (1.78%) Flink
8 5 (1.78%) MySQL
9 3 (1.07%) ZAP BI
10 2 (0.71%) Amazon RDS
10 2 (0.71%) DynamoDB
10 2 (0.71%) Redis
10 2 (0.71%) Relational Database
11 1 (0.36%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 59 (21.00%) Git
2 45 (16.01%) GitLab
3 34 (12.10%) Jenkins
4 17 (6.05%) Subversion
5 15 (5.34%) JIRA
6 10 (3.56%) Bitbucket
7 9 (3.20%) Cypress.io
7 9 (3.20%) Eclipse
7 9 (3.20%) Selenium
8 7 (2.49%) MSI
8 7 (2.49%) Robot Framework
9 6 (2.14%) TestRail
10 5 (1.78%) JUnit
11 3 (1.07%) NUnit
11 3 (1.07%) Postman
11 3 (1.07%) Snyk
11 3 (1.07%) SonarQube
12 1 (0.36%) ER Studio
12 1 (0.36%) ERwin
12 1 (0.36%) TeamCity
General
1 63 (22.42%) Finance
2 51 (18.15%) Social Skills
3 28 (9.96%) Public Sector
4 23 (8.19%) Aerospace
5 21 (7.47%) Analytical Skills
6 18 (6.41%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 11 (3.91%) Marketing
8 9 (3.20%) Advertising
9 8 (2.85%) Retail
10 6 (2.14%) Games
11 4 (1.42%) Military
12 3 (1.07%) Legal
13 2 (0.71%) Law
14 1 (0.36%) Organisational Skills
Job Titles
1 66 (23.49%) DevOps Engineer
2 65 (23.13%) Developer
3 33 (11.74%) Infrastructure Engineer
3 33 (11.74%) Software Engineer
4 32 (11.39%) .NET Developer
5 31 (11.03%) Senior
6 22 (7.83%) Lead
7 21 (7.47%) Architect
8 20 (7.12%) Cloud Engineer
9 16 (5.69%) Principal Engineer
10 15 (5.34%) Data Engineer
11 14 (4.98%) Senior DevOps
11 14 (4.98%) Senior DevOps Engineer
12 13 (4.63%) Java Developer
12 13 (4.63%) Lead DevOps
12 13 (4.63%) Lead DevOps Engineer
13 12 (4.27%) Full-Stack Engineer
13 12 (4.27%) Platform Engineer
14 11 (3.91%) Full-Stack Software Engineer
15 10 (3.56%) Full-Stack Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 137 (48.75%) Terraform
2 50 (17.79%) Spring
2 50 (17.79%) Spring Boot
3 48 (17.08%) .NET
4 43 (15.30%) .NET Core
5 38 (13.52%) RESTful
6 30 (10.68%) CSS
6 30 (10.68%) React
7 29 (10.32%) Node.js
8 28 (9.96%) HTML
9 26 (9.25%) ASP.NET
9 26 (9.25%) ASP.NET Core
10 21 (7.47%) AngularJS
11 20 (7.12%) ML.NET
12 19 (6.76%) Elastic Stack
13 18 (6.41%) REST
14 13 (4.63%) Vue
15 9 (3.20%) Blazor
15 9 (3.20%) pytest
15 9 (3.20%) RabbitMQ
Miscellaneous
1 71 (25.27%) Cloud Native
2 18 (6.41%) Hybrid Cloud
3 9 (3.20%) Distributed Systems
4 8 (2.85%) Legacy Systems
4 8 (2.85%) Onboarding
5 6 (2.14%) Product Ownership
5 6 (2.14%) Social Media
6 5 (1.78%) Digital TV
6 5 (1.78%) PKI
7 3 (1.07%) Algorithms
7 3 (1.07%) Blog
7 3 (1.07%) Data Centre
7 3 (1.07%) Private Cloud
8 2 (0.71%) Data Structures
8 2 (0.71%) Public Cloud
9 1 (0.36%) CUDA
9 1 (0.36%) Mainframe
Operating Systems
1 80 (28.47%) Linux
2 28 (9.96%) Windows
3 13 (4.63%) Unix
4 11 (3.91%) CentOS
5 8 (2.85%) Windows Server
6 6 (2.14%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
7 5 (1.78%) Debian
7 5 (1.78%) Ubuntu
8 2 (0.71%) Rocky
Processes & Methodologies
1 199 (70.82%) CI/CD
2 149 (53.02%) Infrastructure as Code
3 146 (51.96%) Containerisation
4 141 (50.18%) DevOps
5 132 (46.98%) Agile
6 75 (26.69%) Full-Stack Development
7 67 (23.84%) Software Engineering
8 64 (22.78%) AI
9 59 (21.00%) Infrastructure Engineering
10 53 (18.86%) Continuous Improvement
11 52 (18.51%) Microservices
12 47 (16.73%) Test Automation
13 46 (16.37%) Problem-Solving
14 42 (14.95%) DevSecOps
15 41 (14.59%) Site Reliability Engineering
16 32 (11.39%) Machine Learning
17 31 (11.03%) Platform Engineering
18 27 (9.61%) Collaborative Working
18 27 (9.61%) Observability
19 25 (8.90%) Deployment Automation
Programming Languages
1 135 (48.04%) Python
2 102 (36.30%) Java
3 62 (22.06%) JavaScript
4 55 (19.57%) Bash
5 45 (16.01%) C#
6 39 (13.88%) SQL
7 21 (7.47%) TypeScript
8 20 (7.12%) Go
9 18 (6.41%) Bicep
10 17 (6.05%) PowerShell
11 15 (5.34%) C++
12 7 (2.49%) Perl
12 7 (2.49%) Scala
13 6 (2.14%) Rust
14 3 (1.07%) Shell Script
15 2 (0.71%) C
15 2 (0.71%) Kotlin
16 1 (0.36%) Objective-C
Qualifications
1 175 (62.28%) Security Cleared
2 96 (34.16%) DV Cleared
3 73 (25.98%) SC Cleared
4 21 (7.47%) Degree
5 15 (5.34%) Computer Science Degree
6 12 (4.27%) AWS Certification
7 9 (3.20%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
8 6 (2.14%) RHCSA
9 5 (1.78%) Azure Certification
10 4 (1.42%) CCNA
10 4 (1.42%) Cisco Certification
10 4 (1.42%) ISTQB
10 4 (1.42%) Microsoft Certification
10 4 (1.42%) OCP
10 4 (1.42%) Oracle Certification
10 4 (1.42%) OSCP
10 4 (1.42%) RHCE
11 3 (1.07%) AWS Certified Developer
11 3 (1.07%) BPSS Clearance
12 1 (0.36%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 21 (7.47%) Accessibility
2 13 (4.63%) QA
3 11 (3.91%) WCAG
4 10 (3.56%) NCSC
5 5 (1.78%) Data Quality
6 3 (1.07%) NIST
7 2 (0.71%) GDPR
8 1 (0.36%) California Consumer Privacy Act
8 1 (0.36%) HIPAA
System Software
1 171 (60.85%) Docker
2 27 (9.61%) VMware Infrastructure
3 14 (4.98%) Active Directory
4 9 (3.20%) VMware NSX
5 5 (1.78%) Virtual Machines
6 4 (1.42%) Ceph
6 4 (1.42%) Hyper-V
6 4 (1.42%) Squid
6 4 (1.42%) VMware ESXi
6 4 (1.42%) vSphere
7 1 (0.36%) Virtual Desktop
Systems Management
1 99 (35.23%) Ansible
2 27 (9.61%) Puppet
3 20 (7.12%) Grafana
4 18 (6.41%) Prometheus
5 16 (5.69%) Argo
6 10 (3.56%) Rancher
7 9 (3.20%) vCenter Server
8 8 (2.85%) Istio
8 8 (2.85%) yum
9 6 (2.14%) Check_MK
10 5 (1.78%) Kibana
10 5 (1.78%) logstash
11 4 (1.42%) Docker Swarm
11 4 (1.42%) linkerd
11 4 (1.42%) Mesos
11 4 (1.42%) Packer
11 4 (1.42%) Podman
11 4 (1.42%) VxRail
11 4 (1.42%) ZABBIX
12 3 (1.07%) Nagios
Vendors
1 56 (19.93%) Microsoft
2 35 (12.46%) VMware
3 26 (9.25%) Red Hat
4 13 (4.63%) Google
5 11 (3.91%) Atlassian
5 11 (3.91%) Splunk
6 9 (3.20%) Facebook
7 6 (2.14%) Oracle
8 5 (1.78%) Databricks
8 5 (1.78%) SaltStack
9 4 (1.42%) Dell
9 4 (1.42%) OneLogin
10 3 (1.07%) BeyondTrust
10 3 (1.07%) OpenAI
11 1 (0.36%) CyberArk
11 1 (0.36%) Dynatrace
11 1 (0.36%) Mistral
11 1 (0.36%) New Relic
11 1 (0.36%) Sparx