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

6 months to
10 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 63 49 53
Rank change year-on-year -14 +4 -10
Permanent jobs citing Kubernetes 162 126 356
As % of all permanent jobs in the South West 2.29% 4.80% 4.20%
As % of the Systems Management category 44.63% 44.06% 36.36%
Number of salaries quoted 107 85 279
10th Percentile £42,500 £48,500 £45,000
25th Percentile £48,750 £58,750 £52,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £62,500 £71,991 £70,576
Median % change year-on-year -13.18% +2.01% +8.58%
75th Percentile £76,250 £92,500 £85,625
90th Percentile £82,500 £102,410 £91,934
England median annual salary £75,000 £85,000 £77,500
% change year-on-year -11.76% +9.68% -

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 363 286 979
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the South West 5.13% 10.90% 11.56%
Number of salaries quoted 266 215 774
10th Percentile £31,250 £32,800 £31,280
25th Percentile £36,938 £42,500 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £54,457 £57,443 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year -5.20% +9.41% -8.70%
75th Percentile £67,131 £76,250 £71,125
90th Percentile £79,625 £95,000 £85,000
England median annual salary £65,000 £70,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year -7.14% +16.67% -11.11%

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 April 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 April 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 -10 65 £67,500 +3.85% 33
Devon +4 25 £57,500 - 5
Bristol -40 23 £66,250 -15.23% 24
Somerset - 14 £45,000 - 7
Wiltshire -14 10 £66,250 -11.67% 5
Dorset -17 9 £80,000 +45.45% 1
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 5 (3.09%) Apache
1 5 (3.09%) Apache Spark
2 3 (1.85%) Confluence
3 2 (1.23%) OpenStack
4 1 (0.62%) Apache Airflow
Applications
1 1 (0.62%) Microsoft Office
Cloud Services
1 80 (49.38%) AWS
2 65 (40.12%) Azure
3 36 (22.22%) GCP
4 21 (12.96%) GitHub
5 20 (12.35%) Serverless
6 19 (11.73%) Amazon S3
7 16 (9.88%) AWS Lambda
7 16 (9.88%) OpenShift
8 15 (9.26%) Azure AKS
8 15 (9.26%) GitHub Actions
9 14 (8.64%) SaaS
10 11 (6.79%) Amazon EC2
11 9 (5.56%) Azure DevOps
12 6 (3.70%) Datadog
13 5 (3.09%) Amazon EKS
13 5 (3.09%) AWS CloudFormation
14 4 (2.47%) Amazon ECS
15 3 (1.85%) Amazon SQS
16 2 (1.23%) GitHub Copilot
16 2 (1.23%) Google Kubernetes Engine
Communications & Networking
1 4 (2.47%) Broadband
2 3 (1.85%) Firewall
3 2 (1.23%) LAN
3 2 (1.23%) TCP/IP
3 2 (1.23%) VPN
3 2 (1.23%) WAN
4 1 (0.62%) AMQP
4 1 (0.62%) DNS
4 1 (0.62%) Internet
4 1 (0.62%) VLAN
4 1 (0.62%) VSAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 18 (11.11%) Elasticsearch
2 15 (9.26%) NoSQL
2 15 (9.26%) PostgreSQL
3 13 (8.02%) SQL Server
4 11 (6.79%) Amazon RDS
5 8 (4.94%) MongoDB
5 8 (4.94%) Neo4j
5 8 (4.94%) Relational Database
6 7 (4.32%) InfluxDB
7 6 (3.70%) MySQL
8 3 (1.85%) Big Data
8 3 (1.85%) CockroachDB
9 2 (1.23%) Azure SQL Database
9 2 (1.23%) Geospatial Data
9 2 (1.23%) MariaDB
10 1 (0.62%) Apache Cassandra
10 1 (0.62%) Couchbase
10 1 (0.62%) DynamoDB
10 1 (0.62%) Hadoop
10 1 (0.62%) Redis
Development Applications
1 32 (19.75%) Jenkins
2 25 (15.43%) Git
3 20 (12.35%) GitLab
4 9 (5.56%) Cypress.io
5 7 (4.32%) Subversion
6 6 (3.70%) CircleCI
6 6 (3.70%) Selenium
7 5 (3.09%) Cucumber
7 5 (3.09%) JUnit
7 5 (3.09%) Robot Framework
7 5 (3.09%) TestRail
8 4 (2.47%) Maven
9 3 (1.85%) Bitbucket
9 3 (1.85%) Gradle
9 3 (1.85%) JIRA
9 3 (1.85%) Mockito
9 3 (1.85%) TeamCity
9 3 (1.85%) TestNG
10 2 (1.23%) Checkstyle
10 2 (1.23%) SonarQube
General
1 34 (20.99%) Social Skills
2 20 (12.35%) Finance
3 14 (8.64%) Aerospace
4 9 (5.56%) Public Sector
5 5 (3.09%) Analytical Skills
5 5 (3.09%) Electronics
5 5 (3.09%) Manufacturing
6 3 (1.85%) Automotive
6 3 (1.85%) Marketing
7 2 (1.23%) Telecoms
8 1 (0.62%) Advertising
8 1 (0.62%) Banking
8 1 (0.62%) Games
8 1 (0.62%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 1 (0.62%) Military
8 1 (0.62%) Retail
8 1 (0.62%) Tech for Good
Job Titles
1 38 (23.46%) Software Engineer
2 29 (17.90%) Senior
3 24 (14.81%) Developer
4 16 (9.88%) Senior Software Engineer
5 15 (9.26%) DevOps Engineer
5 15 (9.26%) Infrastructure Engineer
6 12 (7.41%) DevSecOps Engineer
7 11 (6.79%) .NET Software Engineer
7 11 (6.79%) Senior .NET Software Engineer
8 10 (6.17%) Lead
9 9 (5.56%) Java Developer
9 9 (5.56%) Python Engineer
9 9 (5.56%) Software Developer
9 9 (5.56%) Test Engineer
10 8 (4.94%) Platform Engineer
11 7 (4.32%) .NET Developer
11 7 (4.32%) Software Manager
12 6 (3.70%) Linux Engineer
13 5 (3.09%) .NET Software Developer
13 5 (3.09%) Mid-Level .NET Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 31 (19.14%) .NET
2 30 (18.52%) .NET Core
3 28 (17.28%) React
4 22 (13.58%) Spring
5 21 (12.96%) REST
6 18 (11.11%) Spring Boot
7 17 (10.49%) AngularJS
8 14 (8.64%) Node.js
8 14 (8.64%) RESTful
9 11 (6.79%) .NET Framework
9 11 (6.79%) Dapper ORM
9 11 (6.79%) Elastic Stack
9 11 (6.79%) Entity Framework
10 9 (5.56%) OAuth
11 8 (4.94%) Django
11 8 (4.94%) MERN Stack
12 7 (4.32%) FastAPI
13 6 (3.70%) YAML
14 5 (3.09%) Playwright
14 5 (3.09%) RabbitMQ
Miscellaneous
1 35 (21.60%) Cloud Native
2 7 (4.32%) Distributed Systems
3 5 (3.09%) Product Ownership
4 4 (2.47%) CUDA
4 4 (2.47%) Hybrid Cloud
4 4 (2.47%) Legacy Systems
4 4 (2.47%) Public Cloud
5 3 (1.85%) IoT
5 3 (1.85%) Over-the-Top Content
5 3 (1.85%) Private Cloud
5 3 (1.85%) Renewable Energy
5 3 (1.85%) Self-Motivation
5 3 (1.85%) Video\Live Streaming
6 2 (1.23%) Blockchain
6 2 (1.23%) Data Centre
6 2 (1.23%) Insider Threat
6 2 (1.23%) Management Information System
6 2 (1.23%) Onboarding
7 1 (0.62%) Enterprise Software
7 1 (0.62%) PKI
Operating Systems
1 43 (26.54%) Linux
2 16 (9.88%) Windows
3 8 (4.94%) CentOS
4 5 (3.09%) Windows Server
5 3 (1.85%) Ubuntu
6 2 (1.23%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 2 (1.23%) Unix
7 1 (0.62%) Debian
7 1 (0.62%) Windows Server 2016
Processes & Methodologies
1 93 (57.41%) Containerisation
2 90 (55.56%) CI/CD
3 73 (45.06%) DevOps
4 65 (40.12%) Software Engineering
5 59 (36.42%) Agile
6 53 (32.72%) Infrastructure as Code
7 44 (27.16%) Continuous Improvement
8 34 (20.99%) Infrastructure Engineering
9 29 (17.90%) Test Automation
10 24 (14.81%) Collaborative Culture
10 24 (14.81%) Problem-Solving
11 23 (14.20%) Analytics
11 23 (14.20%) SDLC
12 20 (12.35%) AI
13 19 (11.73%) Mentoring
14 18 (11.11%) Full-Stack Development
15 17 (10.49%) Microservices
16 15 (9.26%) Platform Engineering
17 14 (8.64%) DevSecOps
17 14 (8.64%) Scrum
Programming Languages
1 84 (51.85%) Python
2 58 (35.80%) Java
3 35 (21.60%) JavaScript
4 33 (20.37%) SQL
5 31 (19.14%) Bash
6 27 (16.67%) C#
7 22 (13.58%) TypeScript
8 17 (10.49%) PowerShell
9 13 (8.02%) Go
10 9 (5.56%) C
11 8 (4.94%) Bicep
12 7 (4.32%) Scala
13 6 (3.70%) Kotlin
14 4 (2.47%) C++
14 4 (2.47%) PHP
15 3 (1.85%) Elixir
15 3 (1.85%) Erlang
16 1 (0.62%) Delphi
16 1 (0.62%) Ruby
16 1 (0.62%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 60 (37.04%) Security Cleared
2 44 (27.16%) DV Cleared
3 13 (8.02%) Degree
3 13 (8.02%) SC Cleared
4 11 (6.79%) Computer Science Degree
5 5 (3.09%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
6 2 (1.23%) AWS Certification
6 2 (1.23%) Azure Certification
6 2 (1.23%) ISTQB
6 2 (1.23%) ISTQB Advanced Certification
6 2 (1.23%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
7 1 (0.62%) Microsoft Certification
7 1 (0.62%) RHCE
7 1 (0.62%) TOGAF Certification
7 1 (0.62%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 20 (12.35%) QA
2 4 (2.47%) Accessibility
3 3 (1.85%) ISO 9001
3 3 (1.85%) ISO/IEC 27001
System Software
1 109 (67.28%) Docker
2 10 (6.17%) VMware Infrastructure
3 5 (3.09%) Virtual Machines
4 4 (2.47%) Firmware
4 4 (2.47%) Hyper-V
5 2 (1.23%) Active Directory
6 1 (0.62%) Citrix Hypervisor
6 1 (0.62%) KVM
6 1 (0.62%) QEMU
6 1 (0.62%) Slurm Workload Manager
6 1 (0.62%) VMware ESXi
6 1 (0.62%) VMware NSX
6 1 (0.62%) vSphere
6 1 (0.62%) Xen
Systems Management
1 53 (32.72%) Terraform
2 32 (19.75%) Ansible
3 24 (14.81%) Grafana
4 13 (8.02%) Prometheus
5 9 (5.56%) Argo
6 8 (4.94%) Rancher
7 7 (4.32%) yum
8 6 (3.70%) Puppet
9 4 (2.47%) Kibana
9 4 (2.47%) vCenter Server
10 3 (1.85%) logstash
10 3 (1.85%) VxRail
11 2 (1.23%) Check_MK
11 2 (1.23%) Istio
11 2 (1.23%) Microsoft Intune
11 2 (1.23%) Nagios
12 1 (0.62%) Docker Swarm
12 1 (0.62%) linkerd
12 1 (0.62%) Mesos
12 1 (0.62%) Progress Chef
Vendors
1 11 (6.79%) Red Hat
1 11 (6.79%) VMware
2 10 (6.17%) Google
2 10 (6.17%) Microsoft
3 8 (4.94%) Splunk
4 6 (3.70%) Oracle
5 3 (1.85%) Atlassian
5 3 (1.85%) BeyondTrust
5 3 (1.85%) Cisco
5 3 (1.85%) Dell
6 2 (1.23%) Apple
6 2 (1.23%) Fortinet
6 2 (1.23%) Guidewire
6 2 (1.23%) SAP
6 2 (1.23%) Thales
7 1 (0.62%) Databricks
7 1 (0.62%) Facebook
7 1 (0.62%) Juniper
7 1 (0.62%) New Relic
7 1 (0.62%) Palo Alto