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

6 months to
10 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 56 55 73
Rank change year-on-year -1 +18 -38
Permanent jobs citing Kubernetes 244 130 242
As % of all permanent jobs in the South West 2.73% 3.70% 3.03%
As % of the Systems Management category 44.44% 40.00% 36.45%
Number of salaries quoted 152 78 179
10th Percentile £38,750 £44,625 £48,750
25th Percentile £48,750 £52,500 £59,375
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,500 £72,246 £75,000
Median % change year-on-year -16.26% -3.67% +8.00%
75th Percentile £81,250 £89,375 £87,500
90th Percentile £97,375 £102,410 £92,750
England median annual salary £70,932 £80,000 £77,500
% change year-on-year -11.34% +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 549 325 664
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the South West 6.14% 9.26% 8.31%
Number of salaries quoted 370 237 504
10th Percentile £31,250 £30,000 £33,500
25th Percentile £38,750 £32,500 £44,688
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,500 £48,500 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +18.56% -11.82% -5.17%
75th Percentile £75,000 £72,500 £77,500
90th Percentile £86,250 £88,500 £87,500
England median annual salary £65,000 £65,000 £65,000
% change year-on-year - - -3.70%

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 10 August 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 10 August 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 +1 124 £75,000 +5.26% 101
Somerset +5 42 £45,000 - 14
Bristol -56 25 £62,500 -16.67% 63
Wiltshire +3 24 £60,000 +17.51% 4
Devon +2 21 £55,000 - 4
Dorset -20 3 £45,000 -14.29% 21
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 13 (5.33%) Apache Spark
2 12 (4.92%) Apache
2 12 (4.92%) Confluence
3 8 (3.28%) OpenStack
4 1 (0.41%) Apache Airflow
4 1 (0.41%) JBoss
4 1 (0.41%) nginx
Business Applications
1 1 (0.41%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
Cloud Services
1 116 (47.54%) Azure
2 103 (42.21%) AWS
3 48 (19.67%) GitHub
4 47 (19.26%) GCP
5 34 (13.93%) OpenShift
6 28 (11.48%) GitHub Copilot
7 23 (9.43%) AWS CloudFormation
8 21 (8.61%) Azure AI
8 21 (8.61%) Serverless
9 19 (7.79%) Azure DevOps
10 17 (6.97%) Azure AKS
11 16 (6.56%) Amazon S3
12 14 (5.74%) Amazon EKS
13 13 (5.33%) AWS Lambda
14 12 (4.92%) GitHub Actions
15 11 (4.51%) Amazon EC2
16 8 (3.28%) SaaS
17 7 (2.87%) Azure ExpressRoute
17 7 (2.87%) Entra ID
18 6 (2.46%) PaaS
Communications & Networking
1 10 (4.10%) Network Security
1 10 (4.10%) VPN
2 7 (2.87%) Firewall
2 7 (2.87%) Internet
2 7 (2.87%) Software-Defined Networking
3 5 (2.05%) WAN
4 4 (1.64%) IPv4
5 3 (1.23%) BGP
5 3 (1.23%) Ethernet VPN
5 3 (1.23%) SD-WAN
5 3 (1.23%) SNMP
5 3 (1.23%) VLAN
6 2 (0.82%) AMQP
6 2 (0.82%) LAN
6 2 (0.82%) TCP/IP
7 1 (0.41%) SSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 33 (13.52%) MongoDB
2 28 (11.48%) Azure SQL Database
3 14 (5.74%) Elasticsearch
4 12 (4.92%) PostgreSQL
5 9 (3.69%) Hadoop
6 8 (3.28%) Big Data
6 8 (3.28%) InfluxDB
7 7 (2.87%) Geospatial Data
7 7 (2.87%) NoSQL
8 6 (2.46%) Amazon RDS
9 5 (2.05%) MySQL
9 5 (2.05%) Relational Database
10 4 (1.64%) Data Lake
10 4 (1.64%) Data Warehouse
10 4 (1.64%) Flink
10 4 (1.64%) SQL Server
11 3 (1.23%) ZAP BI
12 2 (0.82%) Cloudera CDH
12 2 (0.82%) DynamoDB
13 1 (0.41%) Looker
Development Applications
1 61 (25.00%) Git
2 45 (18.44%) GitLab
3 31 (12.70%) Jenkins
4 14 (5.74%) JIRA
4 14 (5.74%) Subversion
5 10 (4.10%) Selenium
6 9 (3.69%) Bitbucket
6 9 (3.69%) Cypress.io
7 8 (3.28%) Eclipse
7 8 (3.28%) Robot Framework
8 7 (2.87%) MSI
8 7 (2.87%) TestRail
9 6 (2.46%) JUnit
10 3 (1.23%) NUnit
10 3 (1.23%) Postman
10 3 (1.23%) Snyk
10 3 (1.23%) SonarQube
11 1 (0.41%) ER Studio
11 1 (0.41%) ERwin
11 1 (0.41%) Maven
General
1 51 (20.90%) Social Skills
2 44 (18.03%) Finance
3 24 (9.84%) Public Sector
4 21 (8.61%) Aerospace
5 18 (7.38%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 17 (6.97%) Analytical Skills
7 12 (4.92%) Marketing
8 10 (4.10%) Advertising
9 8 (3.28%) Retail
10 7 (2.87%) Games
11 4 (1.64%) Military
12 3 (1.23%) Automotive
12 3 (1.23%) Electronics
12 3 (1.23%) Manufacturing
13 2 (0.82%) Law
13 2 (0.82%) Legal
14 1 (0.41%) Organisational Skills
Job Titles
1 68 (27.87%) Developer
2 40 (16.39%) .NET Developer
3 36 (14.75%) DevOps Engineer
4 31 (12.70%) Infrastructure Engineer
5 30 (12.30%) Software Engineer
6 22 (9.02%) Senior
7 17 (6.97%) Lead
8 14 (5.74%) Architect
9 13 (5.33%) Cloud Engineer
9 13 (5.33%) Java Developer
10 12 (4.92%) Data Engineer
10 12 (4.92%) Platform Engineer
11 11 (4.51%) Full-Stack Engineer
11 11 (4.51%) Software Developer
12 10 (4.10%) Full-Stack Software Engineer
12 10 (4.10%) Principal Engineer
13 9 (3.69%) Junior
13 9 (3.69%) Lead DevOps
13 9 (3.69%) Lead DevOps Engineer
13 9 (3.69%) Python Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 60 (24.59%) .NET
2 55 (22.54%) .NET Core
3 44 (18.03%) RESTful
4 31 (12.70%) CSS
5 30 (12.30%) Spring
6 29 (11.89%) HTML
6 29 (11.89%) Spring Boot
7 28 (11.48%) ASP.NET
7 28 (11.48%) ASP.NET Core
8 22 (9.02%) React
9 21 (8.61%) ML.NET
10 20 (8.20%) AngularJS
10 20 (8.20%) Node.js
10 20 (8.20%) REST
11 18 (7.38%) Elastic Stack
12 14 (5.74%) Vue
13 10 (4.10%) .NET Framework
13 10 (4.10%) Blazor
13 10 (4.10%) Django
13 10 (4.10%) FastAPI
Miscellaneous
1 59 (24.18%) Cloud Native
2 18 (7.38%) Hybrid Cloud
3 12 (4.92%) Distributed Systems
4 10 (4.10%) Product Ownership
5 9 (3.69%) Onboarding
6 8 (3.28%) Legacy Systems
7 6 (2.46%) Social Media
8 5 (2.05%) Data Centre
8 5 (2.05%) Digital TV
9 4 (1.64%) Algorithms
9 4 (1.64%) CUDA
10 3 (1.23%) Data Structures
10 3 (1.23%) IoT
10 3 (1.23%) PKI
10 3 (1.23%) Renewable Energy
11 2 (0.82%) Blog
11 2 (0.82%) Insider Threat
11 2 (0.82%) Private Cloud
11 2 (0.82%) Public Cloud
11 2 (0.82%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 73 (29.92%) Linux
2 32 (13.11%) Windows
3 10 (4.10%) CentOS
3 10 (4.10%) Unix
3 10 (4.10%) Windows Server
4 3 (1.23%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 3 (1.23%) Ubuntu
5 2 (0.82%) Debian
6 1 (0.41%) Rocky
Processes & Methodologies
1 170 (69.67%) CI/CD
2 131 (53.69%) Containerisation
3 115 (47.13%) Infrastructure as Code
4 106 (43.44%) DevOps
5 97 (39.75%) Agile
6 69 (28.28%) Full-Stack Development
7 67 (27.46%) Software Engineering
8 55 (22.54%) AI
9 52 (21.31%) Infrastructure Engineering
10 41 (16.80%) Microservices
10 41 (16.80%) Test Automation
11 39 (15.98%) Continuous Improvement
11 39 (15.98%) Problem-Solving
12 37 (15.16%) DevSecOps
13 36 (14.75%) Machine Learning
14 31 (12.70%) Analytics
15 27 (11.07%) Site Reliability Engineering
16 26 (10.66%) Computer Science
17 25 (10.25%) Platform Engineering
18 23 (9.43%) Collaborative Culture
Programming Languages
1 109 (44.67%) Python
2 71 (29.10%) Java
3 58 (23.77%) C#
4 50 (20.49%) JavaScript
5 45 (18.44%) SQL
6 36 (14.75%) Bash
7 17 (6.97%) TypeScript
8 16 (6.56%) Bicep
9 15 (6.15%) Go
10 14 (5.74%) C++
11 12 (4.92%) PowerShell
12 8 (3.28%) Scala
13 6 (2.46%) Perl
14 5 (2.05%) Rust
15 3 (1.23%) C
15 3 (1.23%) PHP
16 2 (0.82%) Shell Script
17 1 (0.41%) Objective-C
17 1 (0.41%) Ruby
Qualifications
1 126 (51.64%) Security Cleared
2 69 (28.28%) DV Cleared
3 47 (19.26%) SC Cleared
4 31 (12.70%) Degree
5 24 (9.84%) Computer Science Degree
6 9 (3.69%) AWS Certification
6 9 (3.69%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
7 6 (2.46%) RHCSA
8 5 (2.05%) RHCE
9 4 (1.64%) Azure Certification
9 4 (1.64%) CCNA
9 4 (1.64%) Cisco Certification
9 4 (1.64%) ISTQB
9 4 (1.64%) Microsoft Certification
9 4 (1.64%) OCP
9 4 (1.64%) Oracle Certification
9 4 (1.64%) OSCP
10 2 (0.82%) AWS Certified Developer
10 2 (0.82%) BPSS Clearance
11 1 (0.41%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 19 (7.79%) Accessibility
2 12 (4.92%) QA
3 11 (4.51%) WCAG
4 9 (3.69%) NCSC
5 4 (1.64%) Data Quality
6 3 (1.23%) ISO 9001
6 3 (1.23%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 3 (1.23%) NIST
7 1 (0.41%) California Consumer Privacy Act
7 1 (0.41%) GDPR
7 1 (0.41%) HIPAA
System Software
1 165 (67.62%) Docker
2 25 (10.25%) VMware Infrastructure
3 11 (4.51%) Active Directory
4 6 (2.46%) Hyper-V
4 6 (2.46%) Virtual Machines
4 6 (2.46%) VMware NSX
5 4 (1.64%) Ceph
5 4 (1.64%) Firmware
5 4 (1.64%) Squid
5 4 (1.64%) vSphere
6 1 (0.41%) Citrix Hypervisor
6 1 (0.41%) KVM
6 1 (0.41%) QEMU
6 1 (0.41%) Slurm Workload Manager
6 1 (0.41%) Virtual Desktop
6 1 (0.41%) VMware ESXi
6 1 (0.41%) Xen
Systems Management
1 109 (44.67%) Terraform
2 69 (28.28%) Ansible
3 20 (8.20%) Grafana
4 17 (6.97%) Prometheus
5 16 (6.56%) Puppet
6 13 (5.33%) Argo
7 8 (3.28%) Rancher
8 7 (2.87%) Check_MK
8 7 (2.87%) Istio
8 7 (2.87%) Kibana
8 7 (2.87%) vCenter Server
9 6 (2.46%) logstash
9 6 (2.46%) VxRail
9 6 (2.46%) yum
10 4 (1.64%) Nagios
10 4 (1.64%) Packer
10 4 (1.64%) Podman
10 4 (1.64%) ZABBIX
11 3 (1.23%) linkerd
11 3 (1.23%) Mesos
Vendors
1 54 (22.13%) Microsoft
2 32 (13.11%) VMware
3 26 (10.66%) Red Hat
4 12 (4.92%) Splunk
5 10 (4.10%) Atlassian
5 10 (4.10%) Facebook
5 10 (4.10%) Google
6 7 (2.87%) Oracle
7 6 (2.46%) Dell
8 5 (2.05%) BeyondTrust
8 5 (2.05%) Databricks
9 4 (1.64%) OneLogin
10 3 (1.23%) OpenAI
11 2 (0.82%) Apple
11 2 (0.82%) Cisco
11 2 (0.82%) SaltStack
12 1 (0.41%) Fortinet
12 1 (0.41%) Juniper
12 1 (0.41%) New Relic
12 1 (0.41%) Sparx