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

6 months to
3 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 55 71 69
Rank change year-on-year +16 -2 -44
Permanent jobs citing Kubernetes 266 104 243
As % of all permanent jobs in the South West 2.79% 3.01% 3.09%
As % of the Systems Management category 50.09% 37.68% 42.41%
Number of salaries quoted 168 75 169
10th Percentile £38,750 £43,000 £48,750
25th Percentile £48,750 £52,500 £58,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £75,000 £75,000
Median % change year-on-year -13.33% - +11.11%
75th Percentile £83,125 £82,751 £87,500
90th Percentile £96,250 £96,250 £90,250
England median annual salary £70,000 £78,810 £77,500
% change year-on-year -11.18% +1.69% +2.42%

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 531 276 573
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the South West 5.57% 7.98% 7.30%
Number of salaries quoted 357 215 412
10th Percentile £31,250 £30,000 £32,500
25th Percentile £38,750 £32,250 £41,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,500 £48,500 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +18.56% -11.82% -4.35%
75th Percentile £77,500 £71,875 £77,500
90th Percentile £86,250 £82,650 £87,500
England median annual salary £60,000 £62,500 £62,500
% change year-on-year -4.00% - -3.85%

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 3 September 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 3 September 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 +9 150 £75,000 -1.64% 85
Somerset +2 43 £45,000 -40.00% 25
Bristol -51 26 £62,500 -16.67% 46
Wiltshire -1 23 £60,000 +17.51% 6
Devon -5 17 £55,000 - 5
Dorset -22 3 £45,000 -14.29% 22
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 15 (5.64%) Apache Spark
2 14 (5.26%) Apache
3 11 (4.14%) Confluence
4 10 (3.76%) OpenStack
5 1 (0.38%) Apache Airflow
5 1 (0.38%) JBoss
5 1 (0.38%) nginx
Business Applications
1 1 (0.38%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
Cloud Services
1 125 (46.99%) Azure
2 114 (42.86%) AWS
3 51 (19.17%) GCP
4 50 (18.80%) GitHub
5 47 (17.67%) OpenShift
6 28 (10.53%) AWS CloudFormation
6 28 (10.53%) GitHub Copilot
7 21 (7.89%) Azure AI
8 20 (7.52%) Azure DevOps
9 18 (6.77%) Serverless
10 16 (6.02%) Amazon EKS
10 16 (6.02%) Azure AKS
11 14 (5.26%) GitHub Actions
12 13 (4.89%) Amazon S3
13 10 (3.76%) AWS Lambda
14 9 (3.38%) Azure ExpressRoute
14 9 (3.38%) Entra ID
15 8 (3.01%) Amazon EC2
16 6 (2.26%) Amazon ECS
16 6 (2.26%) PaaS
Communications & Networking
1 12 (4.51%) Network Security
1 12 (4.51%) VPN
2 9 (3.38%) Firewall
3 7 (2.63%) Internet
3 7 (2.63%) Software-Defined Networking
4 5 (1.88%) WAN
5 4 (1.50%) IPv4
6 3 (1.13%) AMQP
6 3 (1.13%) BGP
6 3 (1.13%) Ethernet VPN
6 3 (1.13%) SD-WAN
6 3 (1.13%) SNMP
6 3 (1.13%) TCP/IP
6 3 (1.13%) VLAN
7 2 (0.75%) LAN
8 1 (0.38%) DHCP
8 1 (0.38%) DNS
8 1 (0.38%) SSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 35 (13.16%) MongoDB
2 28 (10.53%) Azure SQL Database
3 13 (4.89%) Elasticsearch
4 12 (4.51%) PostgreSQL
5 11 (4.14%) Hadoop
6 10 (3.76%) Big Data
6 10 (3.76%) InfluxDB
7 7 (2.63%) Geospatial Data
8 6 (2.26%) MySQL
8 6 (2.26%) NoSQL
8 6 (2.26%) Relational Database
9 5 (1.88%) Data Lake
9 5 (1.88%) Data Warehouse
10 4 (1.50%) Flink
11 3 (1.13%) Amazon RDS
11 3 (1.13%) Cloudera CDH
11 3 (1.13%) ZAP BI
12 2 (0.75%) DynamoDB
13 1 (0.38%) MariaDB
13 1 (0.38%) Power BI
Development Applications
1 60 (22.56%) Git
2 44 (16.54%) GitLab
3 35 (13.16%) Jenkins
4 15 (5.64%) Subversion
5 13 (4.89%) JIRA
6 11 (4.14%) Cypress.io
6 11 (4.14%) Selenium
7 10 (3.76%) Robot Framework
8 9 (3.38%) Bitbucket
8 9 (3.38%) Eclipse
8 9 (3.38%) TestRail
9 7 (2.63%) MSI
10 6 (2.26%) 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%) ERwin
12 1 (0.38%) Mockito
General
1 52 (19.55%) Finance
2 48 (18.05%) Social Skills
3 26 (9.77%) Public Sector
4 24 (9.02%) Aerospace
5 18 (6.77%) Analytical Skills
5 18 (6.77%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 12 (4.51%) Marketing
7 10 (3.76%) Advertising
8 9 (3.38%) Retail
9 7 (2.63%) Games
10 4 (1.50%) Military
11 3 (1.13%) Automotive
11 3 (1.13%) Electronics
11 3 (1.13%) Legal
11 3 (1.13%) Manufacturing
12 2 (0.75%) Law
13 1 (0.38%) Organisational Skills
Job Titles
1 71 (26.69%) Developer
2 48 (18.05%) DevOps Engineer
3 40 (15.04%) .NET Developer
4 33 (12.41%) Infrastructure Engineer
5 25 (9.40%) Software Engineer
6 20 (7.52%) Senior
7 18 (6.77%) Architect
8 17 (6.39%) Cloud Engineer
8 17 (6.39%) Lead
9 15 (5.64%) Platform Engineer
10 14 (5.26%) Software Developer
11 13 (4.89%) Data Engineer
11 13 (4.89%) Principal Engineer
12 12 (4.51%) Java Developer
13 10 (3.76%) Full-Stack Developer
13 10 (3.76%) Full-Stack Engineer
13 10 (3.76%) Lead DevOps
13 10 (3.76%) Lead DevOps Engineer
13 10 (3.76%) Test Engineer
14 9 (3.38%) Full-Stack Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 130 (48.87%) Terraform
2 57 (21.43%) .NET
3 52 (19.55%) .NET Core
4 45 (16.92%) RESTful
5 37 (13.91%) Spring
5 37 (13.91%) Spring Boot
6 31 (11.65%) CSS
7 29 (10.90%) HTML
7 29 (10.90%) Node.js
8 28 (10.53%) ASP.NET
8 28 (10.53%) ASP.NET Core
9 26 (9.77%) React
10 21 (7.89%) Elastic Stack
10 21 (7.89%) ML.NET
11 20 (7.52%) AngularJS
12 19 (7.14%) REST
13 14 (5.26%) Vue
14 10 (3.76%) Blazor
14 10 (3.76%) pytest
15 9 (3.38%) Jakarta EE
Miscellaneous
1 63 (23.68%) Cloud Native
2 19 (7.14%) Hybrid Cloud
3 10 (3.76%) Distributed Systems
3 10 (3.76%) Onboarding
4 9 (3.38%) Product Ownership
5 8 (3.01%) Legacy Systems
6 6 (2.26%) Social Media
7 5 (1.88%) Data Centre
7 5 (1.88%) Digital TV
7 5 (1.88%) PKI
8 4 (1.50%) Algorithms
8 4 (1.50%) CUDA
9 3 (1.13%) Blog
9 3 (1.13%) Data Structures
9 3 (1.13%) Renewable Energy
10 2 (0.75%) Insider Threat
10 2 (0.75%) Private Cloud
10 2 (0.75%) Public Cloud
10 2 (0.75%) Self-Motivation
11 1 (0.38%) IoT
Operating Systems
1 81 (30.45%) Linux
2 33 (12.41%) Windows
3 13 (4.89%) CentOS
4 12 (4.51%) Unix
5 8 (3.01%) Windows Server
6 4 (1.50%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 4 (1.50%) Ubuntu
7 3 (1.13%) Debian
8 1 (0.38%) Rocky
Processes & Methodologies
1 194 (72.93%) CI/CD
2 140 (52.63%) Containerisation
3 136 (51.13%) Infrastructure as Code
4 121 (45.49%) DevOps
5 109 (40.98%) Agile
6 73 (27.44%) Full-Stack Development
7 63 (23.68%) Software Engineering
8 57 (21.43%) Infrastructure Engineering
9 53 (19.92%) AI
10 46 (17.29%) Microservices
10 46 (17.29%) Test Automation
11 42 (15.79%) DevSecOps
11 42 (15.79%) Problem-Solving
12 41 (15.41%) Continuous Improvement
13 36 (13.53%) Machine Learning
14 34 (12.78%) Site Reliability Engineering
15 33 (12.41%) Platform Engineering
16 27 (10.15%) Analytics
17 26 (9.77%) Computer Science
18 25 (9.40%) Collaborative Culture
Programming Languages
1 115 (43.23%) Python
2 79 (29.70%) Java
3 58 (21.80%) JavaScript
4 54 (20.30%) C#
5 47 (17.67%) Bash
6 41 (15.41%) SQL
7 20 (7.52%) TypeScript
8 18 (6.77%) Bicep
9 17 (6.39%) Go
10 15 (5.64%) PowerShell
11 14 (5.26%) C++
12 9 (3.38%) Scala
13 7 (2.63%) Perl
13 7 (2.63%) Rust
14 3 (1.13%) C
15 2 (0.75%) Shell Script
16 1 (0.38%) Kotlin
16 1 (0.38%) Objective-C
16 1 (0.38%) PHP
Qualifications
1 152 (57.14%) Security Cleared
2 79 (29.70%) DV Cleared
3 63 (23.68%) SC Cleared
4 30 (11.28%) Degree
5 24 (9.02%) Computer Science Degree
6 12 (4.51%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
7 11 (4.14%) AWS Certification
8 6 (2.26%) RHCSA
9 5 (1.88%) RHCE
10 4 (1.50%) Azure Certification
10 4 (1.50%) CCNA
10 4 (1.50%) Cisco Certification
10 4 (1.50%) ISTQB
10 4 (1.50%) Microsoft Certification
10 4 (1.50%) OCP
10 4 (1.50%) Oracle Certification
10 4 (1.50%) OSCP
11 3 (1.13%) AWS Certified Developer
11 3 (1.13%) BPSS Clearance
12 1 (0.38%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 21 (7.89%) Accessibility
2 11 (4.14%) QA
2 11 (4.14%) WCAG
3 10 (3.76%) NCSC
4 5 (1.88%) Data Quality
5 3 (1.13%) NIST
6 1 (0.38%) California Consumer Privacy Act
6 1 (0.38%) GDPR
6 1 (0.38%) HIPAA
6 1 (0.38%) ISO 9001
6 1 (0.38%) ISO/IEC 27001
System Software
1 175 (65.79%) Docker
2 28 (10.53%) VMware Infrastructure
3 14 (5.26%) Active Directory
4 7 (2.63%) Virtual Machines
5 6 (2.26%) VMware NSX
6 5 (1.88%) Hyper-V
7 4 (1.50%) Ceph
7 4 (1.50%) Squid
7 4 (1.50%) vSphere
8 2 (0.75%) Firmware
9 1 (0.38%) Citrix Hypervisor
9 1 (0.38%) KVM
9 1 (0.38%) QEMU
9 1 (0.38%) Slurm Workload Manager
9 1 (0.38%) Virtual Desktop
9 1 (0.38%) VMware ESXi
9 1 (0.38%) Xen
Systems Management
1 86 (32.33%) Ansible
2 22 (8.27%) Grafana
3 20 (7.52%) Puppet
4 17 (6.39%) Prometheus
5 13 (4.89%) Argo
6 8 (3.01%) Rancher
6 8 (3.01%) vCenter Server
7 7 (2.63%) Check_MK
7 7 (2.63%) Istio
7 7 (2.63%) Kibana
7 7 (2.63%) logstash
8 6 (2.26%) yum
9 4 (1.50%) Nagios
9 4 (1.50%) Packer
9 4 (1.50%) Podman
9 4 (1.50%) VxRail
9 4 (1.50%) ZABBIX
10 3 (1.13%) Docker Swarm
10 3 (1.13%) linkerd
10 3 (1.13%) Mesos
Vendors
1 54 (20.30%) Microsoft
2 36 (13.53%) VMware
3 29 (10.90%) Red Hat
4 14 (5.26%) Splunk
5 11 (4.14%) Atlassian
5 11 (4.14%) Google
6 10 (3.76%) Facebook
7 7 (2.63%) Oracle
8 5 (1.88%) Databricks
8 5 (1.88%) Dell
9 4 (1.50%) OneLogin
10 3 (1.13%) BeyondTrust
10 3 (1.13%) SaltStack
11 2 (0.75%) Apple
11 2 (0.75%) Cisco
11 2 (0.75%) OpenAI
12 1 (0.38%) Fortinet
12 1 (0.38%) Juniper
12 1 (0.38%) New Relic
12 1 (0.38%) Sparx