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

6 months to
1 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 69 55 68
Rank change year-on-year -14 +13 -29
Permanent jobs citing Kubernetes 166 116 312
As % of all permanent jobs in the South West 2.17% 4.25% 3.27%
As % of the Systems Management category 40.59% 43.94% 36.53%
Number of salaries quoted 104 67 252
10th Percentile £38,750 £47,899 £45,000
25th Percentile £45,000 £52,500 £52,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £70,000 £70,576
Median % change year-on-year -14.29% -0.82% +4.56%
75th Percentile £76,250 £90,000 £87,500
90th Percentile £81,250 £102,410 £91,934
England median annual salary £74,750 £82,500 £77,500
% change year-on-year -9.39% +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 409 264 854
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the South West 5.34% 9.67% 8.94%
Number of salaries quoted 293 182 703
10th Percentile £31,500 £31,250 £31,250
25th Percentile £38,750 £37,500 £42,375
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £55,000 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year - +4.76% -11.80%
75th Percentile £73,250 £73,750 £72,433
90th Percentile £80,000 £97,250 £87,500
England median annual salary £65,000 £68,000 £62,500
% change year-on-year -4.41% +8.80% -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 1 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 1 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 -6 69 £64,000 -1.54% 47
Devon -7 23 £55,000 - 3
Bristol -46 22 £65,000 -10.34% 20
Somerset -11 17 £42,500 - 7
Wiltshire -8 15 £60,000 +17.51% 5
Dorset -17 8 £62,500 +25.00% 2
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 7 (4.22%) Confluence
2 6 (3.61%) Apache Spark
3 5 (3.01%) Apache
4 3 (1.81%) OpenStack
5 1 (0.60%) Apache Airflow
Applications
1 1 (0.60%) Microsoft Office
Cloud Services
1 70 (42.17%) Azure
2 69 (41.57%) AWS
3 39 (23.49%) GCP
4 23 (13.86%) GitHub
5 18 (10.84%) Serverless
6 17 (10.24%) Amazon S3
7 15 (9.04%) AWS Lambda
7 15 (9.04%) OpenShift
7 15 (9.04%) SaaS
8 14 (8.43%) Azure AKS
9 11 (6.63%) Amazon EC2
10 10 (6.02%) Amazon EKS
10 10 (6.02%) GitHub Actions
11 9 (5.42%) GitHub Copilot
12 6 (3.61%) Azure AI
13 5 (3.01%) AWS CloudFormation
13 5 (3.01%) Datadog
14 4 (2.41%) AWS CloudTrail
14 4 (2.41%) AWS Fargate
14 4 (2.41%) Azure DevOps
Communications & Networking
1 5 (3.01%) Software-Defined Networking
2 4 (2.41%) Broadband
2 4 (2.41%) Firewall
2 4 (2.41%) IPv4
3 3 (1.81%) Internet
3 3 (1.81%) WAN
4 2 (1.20%) AMQP
4 2 (1.20%) LAN
4 2 (1.20%) TCP/IP
4 2 (1.20%) VPN
5 1 (0.60%) BGP
5 1 (0.60%) DNS
5 1 (0.60%) Ethernet VPN
5 1 (0.60%) Network Security
5 1 (0.60%) SD-WAN
5 1 (0.60%) SNMP
5 1 (0.60%) VLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 16 (9.64%) Elasticsearch
2 15 (9.04%) MongoDB
3 14 (8.43%) PostgreSQL
4 12 (7.23%) SQL Server
5 10 (6.02%) NoSQL
6 9 (5.42%) Azure SQL Database
7 7 (4.22%) Amazon RDS
7 7 (4.22%) Relational Database
8 6 (3.61%) InfluxDB
9 5 (3.01%) MySQL
10 4 (2.41%) Neo4j
11 3 (1.81%) Big Data
11 3 (1.81%) CockroachDB
12 2 (1.20%) Cloudera CDH
12 2 (1.20%) Hadoop
13 1 (0.60%) Amazon Athena
13 1 (0.60%) Apache Cassandra
13 1 (0.60%) DynamoDB
13 1 (0.60%) Flink
13 1 (0.60%) MariaDB
Development Applications
1 34 (20.48%) Jenkins
2 33 (19.88%) Git
3 28 (16.87%) GitLab
4 8 (4.82%) Cypress.io
4 8 (4.82%) Subversion
5 7 (4.22%) Bitbucket
5 7 (4.22%) JIRA
6 6 (3.61%) Selenium
7 5 (3.01%) CircleCI
7 5 (3.01%) Robot Framework
7 5 (3.01%) TestRail
8 4 (2.41%) JUnit
8 4 (2.41%) Maven
9 3 (1.81%) Gradle
9 3 (1.81%) Mockito
9 3 (1.81%) TeamCity
9 3 (1.81%) TestNG
10 2 (1.20%) Checkstyle
10 2 (1.20%) Cucumber
10 2 (1.20%) SonarQube
General
1 37 (22.29%) Social Skills
2 22 (13.25%) Finance
3 18 (10.84%) Aerospace
4 8 (4.82%) Public Sector
5 6 (3.61%) Analytical Skills
6 4 (2.41%) Retail
7 3 (1.81%) Automotive
7 3 (1.81%) Electronics
7 3 (1.81%) Games
7 3 (1.81%) Manufacturing
8 2 (1.20%) Advertising
8 2 (1.20%) Marketing
9 1 (0.60%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 1 (0.60%) Tech for Good
Job Titles
1 36 (21.69%) Developer
2 35 (21.08%) Software Engineer
3 27 (16.27%) Senior
4 21 (12.65%) .NET Developer
5 19 (11.45%) Infrastructure Engineer
6 15 (9.04%) DevSecOps Engineer
6 15 (9.04%) Senior Software Engineer
7 13 (7.83%) DevOps Engineer
8 11 (6.63%) .NET Software Engineer
8 11 (6.63%) Lead
8 11 (6.63%) Senior .NET Software Engineer
9 10 (6.02%) Software Developer
10 9 (5.42%) Java Developer
10 9 (5.42%) Python Engineer
10 9 (5.42%) Test Engineer
11 8 (4.82%) .NET Software Developer
11 8 (4.82%) Backend Developer
11 8 (4.82%) Mid-Level .NET Developer
12 7 (4.22%) Software Manager
13 6 (3.61%) Test Automation Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 44 (26.51%) .NET
2 43 (25.90%) .NET Core
3 28 (16.87%) React
4 22 (13.25%) REST
5 21 (12.65%) RESTful
6 20 (12.05%) Spring
7 17 (10.24%) AngularJS
7 17 (10.24%) Spring Boot
8 16 (9.64%) Node.js
9 13 (7.83%) Elastic Stack
10 11 (6.63%) .NET Framework
10 11 (6.63%) Dapper ORM
10 11 (6.63%) Entity Framework
11 9 (5.42%) ASP.NET
11 9 (5.42%) ASP.NET Core
11 9 (5.42%) OAuth
12 8 (4.82%) Django
12 8 (4.82%) FastAPI
12 8 (4.82%) Vue
13 7 (4.22%) CSS
Miscellaneous
1 28 (16.87%) Cloud Native
2 9 (5.42%) Hybrid Cloud
3 8 (4.82%) Distributed Systems
3 8 (4.82%) Product Ownership
4 4 (2.41%) CUDA
5 3 (1.81%) Data Structures
5 3 (1.81%) IoT
5 3 (1.81%) Over-the-Top Content
5 3 (1.81%) PKI
5 3 (1.81%) Private Cloud
5 3 (1.81%) Renewable Energy
5 3 (1.81%) Self-Motivation
5 3 (1.81%) Video\Live Streaming
6 2 (1.20%) Algorithms
6 2 (1.20%) Blockchain
6 2 (1.20%) Data Centre
6 2 (1.20%) Insider Threat
6 2 (1.20%) Legacy Systems
6 2 (1.20%) Onboarding
6 2 (1.20%) Public Cloud
Operating Systems
1 45 (27.11%) Linux
2 21 (12.65%) Windows
3 10 (6.02%) Windows Server
4 8 (4.82%) CentOS
5 6 (3.61%) Unix
6 3 (1.81%) Ubuntu
7 2 (1.20%) Debian
7 2 (1.20%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
8 1 (0.60%) Windows Server 2016
Processes & Methodologies
1 101 (60.84%) CI/CD
2 95 (57.23%) Containerisation
3 69 (41.57%) DevOps
4 66 (39.76%) Software Engineering
5 63 (37.95%) Agile
6 54 (32.53%) Infrastructure as Code
7 43 (25.90%) Continuous Improvement
8 35 (21.08%) Infrastructure Engineering
9 31 (18.67%) Test Automation
10 28 (16.87%) Full-Stack Development
11 27 (16.27%) Analytics
12 26 (15.66%) AI
13 25 (15.06%) Collaborative Culture
13 25 (15.06%) Problem-Solving
14 23 (13.86%) Microservices
14 23 (13.86%) SDLC
15 22 (13.25%) Mentoring
16 21 (12.65%) Computer Science
17 20 (12.05%) DevSecOps
18 18 (10.84%) Scrum
Programming Languages
1 78 (46.99%) Python
2 54 (32.53%) Java
3 40 (24.10%) C#
4 39 (23.49%) SQL
5 33 (19.88%) Bash
6 30 (18.07%) JavaScript
7 17 (10.24%) TypeScript
8 16 (9.64%) PowerShell
9 10 (6.02%) Go
10 9 (5.42%) C++
11 7 (4.22%) C
11 7 (4.22%) Scala
12 3 (1.81%) Elixir
12 3 (1.81%) Erlang
12 3 (1.81%) PHP
13 2 (1.20%) Kotlin
13 2 (1.20%) Perl
13 2 (1.20%) Rust
13 2 (1.20%) Shell Script
14 1 (0.60%) Bicep
Qualifications
1 58 (34.94%) Security Cleared
2 34 (20.48%) DV Cleared
3 21 (12.65%) Degree
4 19 (11.45%) Computer Science Degree
5 15 (9.04%) SC Cleared
6 6 (3.61%) ISTQB
7 5 (3.01%) AWS Certification
7 5 (3.01%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
7 5 (3.01%) Microsoft Certification
7 5 (3.01%) RHCE
8 4 (2.41%) CCNA
8 4 (2.41%) Cisco Certification
8 4 (2.41%) OSCP
8 4 (2.41%) RHCSA
9 2 (1.20%) ISTQB Advanced Certification
9 2 (1.20%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
10 1 (0.60%) Azure Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 20 (12.05%) QA
2 4 (2.41%) Accessibility
3 3 (1.81%) ISO 9001
3 3 (1.81%) ISO/IEC 27001
System Software
1 118 (71.08%) Docker
2 14 (8.43%) VMware Infrastructure
3 6 (3.61%) Hyper-V
3 6 (3.61%) Virtual Machines
4 5 (3.01%) Active Directory
5 4 (2.41%) Firmware
5 4 (2.41%) Squid
5 4 (2.41%) VMware NSX
5 4 (2.41%) vSphere
6 1 (0.60%) Citrix Hypervisor
6 1 (0.60%) KVM
6 1 (0.60%) QEMU
6 1 (0.60%) Slurm Workload Manager
6 1 (0.60%) Xen
Systems Management
1 58 (34.94%) Terraform
2 40 (24.10%) Ansible
3 24 (14.46%) Grafana
4 15 (9.04%) Prometheus
5 10 (6.02%) Puppet
6 8 (4.82%) Argo
7 7 (4.22%) Rancher
8 6 (3.61%) yum
9 5 (3.01%) Kibana
9 5 (3.01%) VxRail
10 4 (2.41%) logstash
10 4 (2.41%) Packer
10 4 (2.41%) vCenter Server
10 4 (2.41%) ZABBIX
11 2 (1.20%) Check_MK
11 2 (1.20%) Istio
11 2 (1.20%) Microsoft Intune
11 2 (1.20%) Nagios
12 1 (0.60%) Docker Swarm
12 1 (0.60%) Mesos
Vendors
1 21 (12.65%) Microsoft
2 17 (10.24%) VMware
3 16 (9.64%) Red Hat
4 12 (7.23%) Splunk
5 10 (6.02%) Google
5 10 (6.02%) Oracle
6 5 (3.01%) Atlassian
6 5 (3.01%) BeyondTrust
7 3 (1.81%) Dell
8 2 (1.20%) Apple
8 2 (1.20%) Cisco
8 2 (1.20%) Databricks
8 2 (1.20%) Facebook
8 2 (1.20%) Guidewire
8 2 (1.20%) OpenAI
8 2 (1.20%) SaltStack
8 2 (1.20%) Thales
9 1 (0.60%) Fortinet
9 1 (0.60%) Juniper