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

6 months to
4 Oct 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 57 73 52
Rank change year-on-year +16 -21 -26
Permanent jobs citing Kubernetes 266 106 264
As % of all permanent jobs in the South West 2.53% 2.96% 3.81%
As % of the Systems Management category 48.81% 39.11% 48.35%
Number of salaries quoted 170 81 167
10th Percentile £42,500 £42,500 £47,500
25th Percentile £50,625 £48,165 £58,750
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 £87,500
90th Percentile £96,250 £95,000 £90,500
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 545 271 546
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the South West 5.19% 7.56% 7.88%
Number of salaries quoted 371 212 354
10th Percentile £31,250 £30,000 £32,325
25th Percentile £41,250 £32,500 £41,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £50,000 £56,250
Median % change year-on-year +20.00% -11.11% -0.44%
75th Percentile £78,125 £69,375 £77,500
90th Percentile £88,000 £82,425 £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 4 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 4 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 +7 150 £85,000 +6.25% 114
Somerset -2 40 £55,000 +22.22% 46
Bristol -50 27 £62,500 -3.85% 32
Wiltshire -4 24 £60,000 +17.51% 27
Devon -12 17 £55,000 -16.98% 17
Dorset -25 2 £45,000 -25.00% 33
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 18 (6.77%) Apache
2 15 (5.64%) Apache Spark
3 11 (4.14%) Confluence
4 10 (3.76%) OpenStack
5 3 (1.13%) Apache Airflow
6 1 (0.38%) JBoss
6 1 (0.38%) nginx
Business Applications
1 1 (0.38%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
Cloud Services
1 126 (47.37%) Azure
2 111 (41.73%) AWS
3 49 (18.42%) GCP
3 49 (18.42%) GitHub
4 47 (17.67%) OpenShift
5 31 (11.65%) AWS CloudFormation
6 26 (9.77%) GitHub Copilot
7 21 (7.89%) Azure DevOps
8 20 (7.52%) Azure AI
8 20 (7.52%) Serverless
9 18 (6.77%) Amazon EKS
10 17 (6.39%) Azure AKS
11 14 (5.26%) GitHub Actions
12 12 (4.51%) AWS Lambda
13 10 (3.76%) Amazon S3
14 9 (3.38%) Azure ExpressRoute
14 9 (3.38%) Entra ID
15 8 (3.01%) Amazon EC2
15 8 (3.01%) SaaS
16 7 (2.63%) Amazon ECS
Communications & Networking
1 14 (5.26%) Network Security
1 14 (5.26%) VPN
2 12 (4.51%) Firewall
3 9 (3.38%) Software-Defined Networking
4 7 (2.63%) Internet
5 6 (2.26%) WAN
6 5 (1.88%) BGP
6 5 (1.88%) Ethernet VPN
6 5 (1.88%) SD-WAN
6 5 (1.88%) SNMP
6 5 (1.88%) VLAN
7 4 (1.50%) AMQP
7 4 (1.50%) IPv4
8 2 (0.75%) TCP/IP
9 1 (0.38%) DHCP
9 1 (0.38%) DNS
9 1 (0.38%) LAN
9 1 (0.38%) SSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 34 (12.78%) MongoDB
2 26 (9.77%) Azure SQL Database
3 12 (4.51%) Hadoop
4 11 (4.14%) Big Data
5 10 (3.76%) Elasticsearch
6 8 (3.01%) NoSQL
6 8 (3.01%) PostgreSQL
7 7 (2.63%) Data Warehouse
7 7 (2.63%) Geospatial Data
7 7 (2.63%) InfluxDB
8 6 (2.26%) MySQL
9 5 (1.88%) Data Lake
10 4 (1.50%) Cloudera CDH
10 4 (1.50%) Flink
11 3 (1.13%) DynamoDB
11 3 (1.13%) ZAP BI
12 2 (0.75%) Amazon RDS
12 2 (0.75%) Relational Database
13 1 (0.38%) Power BI
13 1 (0.38%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 60 (22.56%) Git
2 43 (16.17%) GitLab
3 34 (12.78%) Jenkins
4 17 (6.39%) Subversion
5 13 (4.89%) JIRA
6 11 (4.14%) Bitbucket
7 9 (3.38%) Cypress.io
7 9 (3.38%) Eclipse
7 9 (3.38%) Selenium
8 8 (3.01%) Robot Framework
9 7 (2.63%) MSI
9 7 (2.63%) TestRail
10 5 (1.88%) JUnit
11 3 (1.13%) NUnit
11 3 (1.13%) Postman
11 3 (1.13%) Snyk
11 3 (1.13%) SonarQube
12 1 (0.38%) ER Studio
12 1 (0.38%) TeamCity
12 1 (0.38%) Vite
General
1 59 (22.18%) Finance
2 48 (18.05%) Social Skills
3 26 (9.77%) Public Sector
4 23 (8.65%) Aerospace
5 20 (7.52%) Analytical Skills
6 18 (6.77%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 11 (4.14%) Marketing
8 9 (3.38%) Advertising
9 8 (3.01%) Retail
10 6 (2.26%) Games
11 4 (1.50%) Military
12 3 (1.13%) Legal
13 2 (0.75%) Law
14 1 (0.38%) Organisational Skills
Job Titles
1 66 (24.81%) Developer
2 58 (21.80%) DevOps Engineer
3 34 (12.78%) .NET Developer
4 33 (12.41%) Infrastructure Engineer
5 28 (10.53%) Software Engineer
6 25 (9.40%) Senior
7 20 (7.52%) Architect
7 20 (7.52%) Cloud Engineer
8 18 (6.77%) Lead
9 14 (5.26%) Data Engineer
9 14 (5.26%) Principal Engineer
10 12 (4.51%) Java Developer
10 12 (4.51%) Platform Engineer
11 11 (4.14%) Lead DevOps
11 11 (4.14%) Lead DevOps Engineer
11 11 (4.14%) Senior DevOps
11 11 (4.14%) Senior DevOps Engineer
12 10 (3.76%) Full-Stack Developer
12 10 (3.76%) Full-Stack Engineer
12 10 (3.76%) Software Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 130 (48.87%) Terraform
2 49 (18.42%) .NET
3 45 (16.92%) .NET Core
4 42 (15.79%) Spring
4 42 (15.79%) Spring Boot
5 40 (15.04%) RESTful
6 30 (11.28%) CSS
7 28 (10.53%) HTML
7 28 (10.53%) React
8 27 (10.15%) Node.js
9 26 (9.77%) ASP.NET
9 26 (9.77%) ASP.NET Core
10 20 (7.52%) AngularJS
10 20 (7.52%) Elastic Stack
10 20 (7.52%) ML.NET
11 16 (6.02%) REST
12 13 (4.89%) Vue
13 9 (3.38%) Blazor
13 9 (3.38%) Jakarta EE
13 9 (3.38%) Struts
Miscellaneous
1 62 (23.31%) Cloud Native
2 16 (6.02%) Hybrid Cloud
3 8 (3.01%) Distributed Systems
3 8 (3.01%) Legacy Systems
3 8 (3.01%) Onboarding
4 7 (2.63%) Product Ownership
5 6 (2.26%) PKI
5 6 (2.26%) Social Media
6 5 (1.88%) Digital TV
7 4 (1.50%) Algorithms
8 3 (1.13%) Blog
8 3 (1.13%) Data Centre
8 3 (1.13%) Data Structures
8 3 (1.13%) Public Cloud
9 2 (0.75%) Private Cloud
10 1 (0.38%) CUDA
10 1 (0.38%) Mainframe
Operating Systems
1 79 (29.70%) Linux
2 27 (10.15%) Windows
3 13 (4.89%) Unix
4 11 (4.14%) CentOS
5 8 (3.01%) Windows Server
6 5 (1.88%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 5 (1.88%) Ubuntu
7 4 (1.50%) Debian
8 2 (0.75%) Rocky
Processes & Methodologies
1 190 (71.43%) CI/CD
2 142 (53.38%) Containerisation
2 142 (53.38%) Infrastructure as Code
3 131 (49.25%) DevOps
4 121 (45.49%) Agile
5 72 (27.07%) Full-Stack Development
6 60 (22.56%) Software Engineering
7 59 (22.18%) Infrastructure Engineering
8 56 (21.05%) AI
9 48 (18.05%) Microservices
10 47 (17.67%) Continuous Improvement
11 45 (16.92%) Problem-Solving
12 44 (16.54%) Test Automation
13 39 (14.66%) DevSecOps
14 37 (13.91%) Site Reliability Engineering
15 32 (12.03%) Machine Learning
16 30 (11.28%) Platform Engineering
17 26 (9.77%) Collaborative Working
17 26 (9.77%) Observability
18 25 (9.40%) Collaborative Culture
Programming Languages
1 126 (47.37%) Python
2 90 (33.83%) Java
3 59 (22.18%) JavaScript
4 53 (19.92%) Bash
5 47 (17.67%) C#
6 40 (15.04%) SQL
7 20 (7.52%) Go
7 20 (7.52%) TypeScript
8 18 (6.77%) Bicep
9 16 (6.02%) C++
10 15 (5.64%) PowerShell
11 7 (2.63%) Perl
11 7 (2.63%) Rust
12 6 (2.26%) Scala
13 3 (1.13%) C
13 3 (1.13%) Shell Script
14 1 (0.38%) Kotlin
14 1 (0.38%) Objective-C
Qualifications
1 164 (61.65%) Security Cleared
2 86 (32.33%) DV Cleared
3 69 (25.94%) SC Cleared
4 23 (8.65%) Degree
5 17 (6.39%) Computer Science Degree
6 11 (4.14%) AWS Certification
7 10 (3.76%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
8 6 (2.26%) RHCSA
9 4 (1.50%) Azure Certification
9 4 (1.50%) CCNA
9 4 (1.50%) Cisco Certification
9 4 (1.50%) ISTQB
9 4 (1.50%) Microsoft Certification
9 4 (1.50%) OCP
9 4 (1.50%) Oracle Certification
9 4 (1.50%) OSCP
9 4 (1.50%) RHCE
10 3 (1.13%) AWS Certified Developer
10 3 (1.13%) BPSS Clearance
11 1 (0.38%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 21 (7.89%) Accessibility
2 12 (4.51%) QA
3 11 (4.14%) WCAG
4 10 (3.76%) NCSC
5 5 (1.88%) Data Quality
6 3 (1.13%) NIST
7 1 (0.38%) California Consumer Privacy Act
7 1 (0.38%) GDPR
7 1 (0.38%) HIPAA
System Software
1 167 (62.78%) Docker
2 25 (9.40%) VMware Infrastructure
3 14 (5.26%) Active Directory
4 7 (2.63%) VMware NSX
5 5 (1.88%) Virtual Machines
6 4 (1.50%) Ceph
6 4 (1.50%) Hyper-V
6 4 (1.50%) Squid
6 4 (1.50%) vSphere
7 2 (0.75%) VMware ESXi
8 1 (0.38%) KVM
8 1 (0.38%) QEMU
8 1 (0.38%) Virtual Desktop
8 1 (0.38%) Xen
Systems Management
1 92 (34.59%) Ansible
2 25 (9.40%) Puppet
3 21 (7.89%) Grafana
4 18 (6.77%) Prometheus
5 16 (6.02%) Argo
6 11 (4.14%) Rancher
7 8 (3.01%) Istio
7 8 (3.01%) yum
8 7 (2.63%) vCenter Server
9 6 (2.26%) Check_MK
10 5 (1.88%) Kibana
10 5 (1.88%) logstash
11 4 (1.50%) Docker Swarm
11 4 (1.50%) linkerd
11 4 (1.50%) Mesos
11 4 (1.50%) Packer
11 4 (1.50%) Podman
11 4 (1.50%) VxRail
11 4 (1.50%) ZABBIX
12 3 (1.13%) Nagios
Vendors
1 53 (19.92%) Microsoft
2 33 (12.41%) VMware
3 27 (10.15%) Red Hat
4 12 (4.51%) Google
4 12 (4.51%) Splunk
5 9 (3.38%) Atlassian
5 9 (3.38%) Facebook
6 6 (2.26%) Oracle
7 5 (1.88%) Databricks
8 4 (1.50%) Dell
8 4 (1.50%) OneLogin
8 4 (1.50%) SaltStack
9 3 (1.13%) BeyondTrust
9 3 (1.13%) OpenAI
10 1 (0.38%) CyberArk
10 1 (0.38%) Dynatrace
10 1 (0.38%) Mistral
10 1 (0.38%) New Relic
10 1 (0.38%) Sparx