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

6 months to
10 Oct 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 57 73 47
Rank change year-on-year +16 -26 -19
Permanent jobs citing Kubernetes 276 107 256
As % of all permanent jobs in the South West 2.62% 2.99% 3.76%
As % of the Systems Management category 49.29% 39.34% 49.23%
Number of salaries quoted 175 83 165
10th Percentile £42,500 £42,500 £47,500
25th Percentile £52,500 £48,165 £57,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £67,500 £65,000 £72,500
Median % change year-on-year +3.85% -10.34% +11.54%
75th Percentile £85,000 £80,000 £85,000
90th Percentile £97,000 £95,000 £90,750
England median annual salary £70,000 £77,500 £77,500
% change year-on-year -9.68% - +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 560 272 520
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the South West 5.33% 7.60% 7.64%
Number of salaries quoted 379 214 337
10th Percentile £31,250 £30,000 £32,050
25th Percentile £41,250 £32,500 £40,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £49,250 £57,500
Median % change year-on-year +21.83% -14.35% +1.77%
75th Percentile £79,938 £68,438 £77,500
90th Percentile £88,650 £82,275 £87,500
England median annual salary £60,000 £60,000 £65,000
% change year-on-year - -7.69% -

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 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 10 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 +9 157 £85,000 +6.25% 81
Somerset +3 39 £55,000 +22.22% 33
Bristol -44 31 £65,000 - 32
Wiltshire -2 24 £60,000 +17.51% 12
Devon -16 17 £55,000 -16.98% 5
Dorset -20 2 £45,000 -21.74% 30
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 (7.25%) Apache
2 17 (6.16%) Apache Spark
3 11 (3.99%) Confluence
4 10 (3.62%) OpenStack
5 4 (1.45%) Apache Airflow
6 1 (0.36%) JBoss
6 1 (0.36%) nginx
Business Applications
1 1 (0.36%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
Cloud Services
1 130 (47.10%) Azure
2 118 (42.75%) AWS
3 52 (18.84%) GitHub
4 50 (18.12%) GCP
5 48 (17.39%) OpenShift
6 31 (11.23%) AWS CloudFormation
7 26 (9.42%) GitHub Copilot
8 22 (7.97%) Azure DevOps
9 21 (7.61%) Serverless
10 20 (7.25%) Azure AI
11 19 (6.88%) Amazon EKS
12 17 (6.16%) Azure AKS
13 15 (5.43%) GitHub Actions
14 13 (4.71%) AWS Lambda
15 11 (3.99%) Amazon S3
16 10 (3.62%) SaaS
17 9 (3.26%) Azure ExpressRoute
17 9 (3.26%) Entra ID
18 8 (2.90%) Amazon EC2
18 8 (2.90%) Amazon ECS
Communications & Networking
1 14 (5.07%) Network Security
1 14 (5.07%) VPN
2 13 (4.71%) Firewall
3 9 (3.26%) Software-Defined Networking
4 6 (2.17%) Internet
5 5 (1.81%) AMQP
5 5 (1.81%) BGP
5 5 (1.81%) Ethernet VPN
5 5 (1.81%) SD-WAN
5 5 (1.81%) SNMP
5 5 (1.81%) VLAN
5 5 (1.81%) WAN
6 4 (1.45%) 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 (12.32%) MongoDB
2 26 (9.42%) Azure SQL Database
3 13 (4.71%) Big Data
3 13 (4.71%) Hadoop
4 9 (3.26%) Elasticsearch
4 9 (3.26%) PostgreSQL
5 8 (2.90%) Data Warehouse
5 8 (2.90%) InfluxDB
5 8 (2.90%) NoSQL
6 7 (2.54%) Geospatial Data
7 5 (1.81%) Cloudera CDH
7 5 (1.81%) Data Lake
7 5 (1.81%) Flink
7 5 (1.81%) MySQL
8 3 (1.09%) ZAP BI
9 2 (0.72%) Amazon RDS
9 2 (0.72%) DynamoDB
9 2 (0.72%) Redis
9 2 (0.72%) Relational Database
10 1 (0.36%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 61 (22.10%) Git
2 47 (17.03%) GitLab
3 37 (13.41%) Jenkins
4 17 (6.16%) Subversion
5 14 (5.07%) JIRA
6 10 (3.62%) Bitbucket
6 10 (3.62%) Cypress.io
6 10 (3.62%) Selenium
7 9 (3.26%) Eclipse
7 9 (3.26%) Robot Framework
8 8 (2.90%) TestRail
9 7 (2.54%) MSI
10 5 (1.81%) JUnit
11 3 (1.09%) NUnit
11 3 (1.09%) Postman
11 3 (1.09%) Snyk
11 3 (1.09%) SonarQube
12 1 (0.36%) ER Studio
12 1 (0.36%) ERwin
12 1 (0.36%) Mocha
General
1 64 (23.19%) Finance
2 51 (18.48%) Social Skills
3 27 (9.78%) Public Sector
4 23 (8.33%) Aerospace
5 21 (7.61%) Analytical Skills
6 18 (6.52%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 11 (3.99%) Marketing
8 9 (3.26%) Advertising
9 8 (2.90%) Retail
10 6 (2.17%) Games
11 4 (1.45%) Military
12 3 (1.09%) Legal
13 2 (0.72%) Law
14 1 (0.36%) Organisational Skills
Job Titles
1 65 (23.55%) Developer
2 60 (21.74%) DevOps Engineer
3 33 (11.96%) .NET Developer
3 33 (11.96%) Infrastructure Engineer
3 33 (11.96%) Software Engineer
4 29 (10.51%) Senior
5 21 (7.61%) Architect
5 21 (7.61%) Lead
6 19 (6.88%) Cloud Engineer
7 15 (5.43%) Data Engineer
7 15 (5.43%) Principal Engineer
8 12 (4.35%) Full-Stack Engineer
8 12 (4.35%) Java Developer
8 12 (4.35%) Lead DevOps
8 12 (4.35%) Lead DevOps Engineer
8 12 (4.35%) Platform Engineer
8 12 (4.35%) Senior DevOps
8 12 (4.35%) Senior DevOps Engineer
9 11 (3.99%) Full-Stack Software Engineer
10 10 (3.62%) Full-Stack Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 134 (48.55%) Terraform
2 49 (17.75%) .NET
3 44 (15.94%) .NET Core
3 44 (15.94%) Spring
3 44 (15.94%) Spring Boot
4 38 (13.77%) RESTful
5 30 (10.87%) CSS
5 30 (10.87%) React
6 29 (10.51%) Node.js
7 28 (10.14%) HTML
8 26 (9.42%) ASP.NET
8 26 (9.42%) ASP.NET Core
9 22 (7.97%) Elastic Stack
10 21 (7.61%) AngularJS
11 20 (7.25%) ML.NET
12 18 (6.52%) REST
13 13 (4.71%) Vue
14 10 (3.62%) pytest
15 9 (3.26%) Blazor
15 9 (3.26%) RabbitMQ
Miscellaneous
1 68 (24.64%) Cloud Native
2 18 (6.52%) Hybrid Cloud
3 9 (3.26%) Distributed Systems
4 8 (2.90%) Legacy Systems
4 8 (2.90%) Onboarding
4 8 (2.90%) Product Ownership
5 6 (2.17%) PKI
5 6 (2.17%) Social Media
6 5 (1.81%) Digital TV
7 4 (1.45%) Algorithms
8 3 (1.09%) Blog
8 3 (1.09%) Data Centre
8 3 (1.09%) Data Structures
8 3 (1.09%) Private Cloud
9 2 (0.72%) Public Cloud
10 1 (0.36%) CUDA
10 1 (0.36%) Mainframe
Operating Systems
1 82 (29.71%) Linux
2 29 (10.51%) Windows
3 14 (5.07%) Unix
4 13 (4.71%) CentOS
5 8 (2.90%) Windows Server
6 6 (2.17%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
7 5 (1.81%) Debian
7 5 (1.81%) Ubuntu
8 2 (0.72%) Rocky
Processes & Methodologies
1 196 (71.01%) CI/CD
2 147 (53.26%) Infrastructure as Code
3 146 (52.90%) Containerisation
4 134 (48.55%) DevOps
5 130 (47.10%) Agile
6 74 (26.81%) Full-Stack Development
7 65 (23.55%) Software Engineering
8 62 (22.46%) AI
9 61 (22.10%) Infrastructure Engineering
10 54 (19.57%) Continuous Improvement
11 50 (18.12%) Microservices
12 49 (17.75%) Test Automation
13 46 (16.67%) Problem-Solving
14 42 (15.22%) DevSecOps
15 38 (13.77%) Site Reliability Engineering
16 32 (11.59%) Machine Learning
17 31 (11.23%) Platform Engineering
18 27 (9.78%) Collaborative Culture
18 27 (9.78%) Collaborative Working
19 26 (9.42%) Observability
Programming Languages
1 132 (47.83%) Python
2 95 (34.42%) Java
3 62 (22.46%) JavaScript
4 57 (20.65%) Bash
5 46 (16.67%) C#
6 39 (14.13%) SQL
7 21 (7.61%) TypeScript
8 20 (7.25%) Go
9 18 (6.52%) Bicep
9 18 (6.52%) PowerShell
10 16 (5.80%) C++
11 7 (2.54%) Perl
11 7 (2.54%) Rust
11 7 (2.54%) Scala
12 4 (1.45%) Shell Script
13 3 (1.09%) C
14 2 (0.72%) Kotlin
15 1 (0.36%) Objective-C
Qualifications
1 172 (62.32%) Security Cleared
2 90 (32.61%) DV Cleared
3 72 (26.09%) SC Cleared
4 22 (7.97%) Degree
5 16 (5.80%) Computer Science Degree
6 12 (4.35%) AWS Certification
7 11 (3.99%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
8 6 (2.17%) RHCSA
9 5 (1.81%) Azure Certification
10 4 (1.45%) CCNA
10 4 (1.45%) Cisco Certification
10 4 (1.45%) ISTQB
10 4 (1.45%) Microsoft Certification
10 4 (1.45%) OCP
10 4 (1.45%) Oracle Certification
10 4 (1.45%) OSCP
10 4 (1.45%) RHCE
11 3 (1.09%) AWS Certified Developer
11 3 (1.09%) BPSS Clearance
12 1 (0.36%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 21 (7.61%) Accessibility
2 13 (4.71%) QA
3 11 (3.99%) WCAG
4 10 (3.62%) NCSC
5 5 (1.81%) Data Quality
6 3 (1.09%) NIST
7 1 (0.36%) California Consumer Privacy Act
7 1 (0.36%) GDPR
7 1 (0.36%) HIPAA
System Software
1 171 (61.96%) Docker
2 27 (9.78%) VMware Infrastructure
3 14 (5.07%) Active Directory
4 8 (2.90%) VMware NSX
5 6 (2.17%) Virtual Machines
6 4 (1.45%) Ceph
6 4 (1.45%) Hyper-V
6 4 (1.45%) Squid
6 4 (1.45%) vSphere
7 3 (1.09%) VMware ESXi
8 1 (0.36%) Virtual Desktop
Systems Management
1 95 (34.42%) Ansible
2 27 (9.78%) Puppet
3 23 (8.33%) Grafana
4 19 (6.88%) Prometheus
5 16 (5.80%) Argo
6 10 (3.62%) Rancher
7 9 (3.26%) vCenter Server
8 8 (2.90%) Istio
8 8 (2.90%) yum
9 6 (2.17%) Check_MK
9 6 (2.17%) Kibana
9 6 (2.17%) logstash
10 4 (1.45%) Docker Swarm
10 4 (1.45%) linkerd
10 4 (1.45%) Mesos
10 4 (1.45%) Packer
10 4 (1.45%) Podman
10 4 (1.45%) VxRail
10 4 (1.45%) ZABBIX
11 3 (1.09%) Nagios
Vendors
1 55 (19.93%) Microsoft
2 35 (12.68%) VMware
3 28 (10.14%) Red Hat
4 13 (4.71%) Google
4 13 (4.71%) Splunk
5 12 (4.35%) Atlassian
6 9 (3.26%) Facebook
7 6 (2.17%) Oracle
8 5 (1.81%) Databricks
8 5 (1.81%) SaltStack
9 4 (1.45%) Dell
9 4 (1.45%) OneLogin
10 3 (1.09%) BeyondTrust
10 3 (1.09%) 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