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

6 months to
4 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 57 54 72
Rank change year-on-year -3 +18 -36
Permanent jobs citing Kubernetes 242 130 249
As % of all permanent jobs in the South West 2.77% 3.74% 3.07%
As % of the Systems Management category 44.73% 40.37% 36.46%
Number of salaries quoted 152 78 184
10th Percentile £38,750 £46,375 £48,750
25th Percentile £48,750 £52,813 £59,688
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £72,246 £75,000
Median % change year-on-year -16.95% -3.67% +8.00%
75th Percentile £80,313 £89,375 £87,500
90th Percentile £97,375 £102,410 £90,875
England median annual salary £70,000 £80,000 £77,500
% change year-on-year -12.50% +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 541 322 683
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the South West 6.19% 9.27% 8.42%
Number of salaries quoted 365 235 519
10th Percentile £31,250 £30,000 £32,150
25th Percentile £39,000 £33,750 £42,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,500 £48,500 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +18.56% -11.82% -6.40%
75th Percentile £75,000 £72,500 £77,500
90th Percentile £86,150 £89,000 £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 4 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 4 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 +1 119 £75,000 +3.45% 86
Somerset +5 42 £45,000 - 12
Bristol -54 26 £62,500 -16.67% 41
Wiltshire -1 24 £60,000 +17.51% 8
Devon -4 22 £55,000 - 4
Dorset -19 4 £45,000 -14.29% 11
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 12 (4.96%) Confluence
2 11 (4.55%) Apache Spark
3 10 (4.13%) Apache
4 8 (3.31%) OpenStack
5 1 (0.41%) Apache Airflow
5 1 (0.41%) JBoss
5 1 (0.41%) nginx
Cloud Services
1 116 (47.93%) Azure
2 100 (41.32%) AWS
3 48 (19.83%) GCP
3 48 (19.83%) GitHub
4 33 (13.64%) OpenShift
5 28 (11.57%) GitHub Copilot
6 21 (8.68%) AWS CloudFormation
6 21 (8.68%) Azure AI
7 19 (7.85%) Azure DevOps
7 19 (7.85%) Serverless
8 18 (7.44%) Azure AKS
9 15 (6.20%) Amazon S3
10 14 (5.79%) Amazon EKS
11 12 (4.96%) AWS Lambda
11 12 (4.96%) GitHub Actions
12 11 (4.55%) Amazon EC2
13 10 (4.13%) SaaS
14 6 (2.48%) Azure ExpressRoute
14 6 (2.48%) Entra ID
14 6 (2.48%) PaaS
Communications & Networking
1 9 (3.72%) Network Security
1 9 (3.72%) VPN
2 7 (2.89%) Firewall
2 7 (2.89%) Internet
2 7 (2.89%) Software-Defined Networking
3 5 (2.07%) WAN
4 4 (1.65%) IPv4
5 3 (1.24%) BGP
5 3 (1.24%) Ethernet VPN
5 3 (1.24%) SD-WAN
5 3 (1.24%) SNMP
5 3 (1.24%) VLAN
6 2 (0.83%) AMQP
6 2 (0.83%) LAN
6 2 (0.83%) TCP/IP
7 1 (0.41%) SSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 33 (13.64%) MongoDB
2 28 (11.57%) Azure SQL Database
3 14 (5.79%) Elasticsearch
4 13 (5.37%) PostgreSQL
5 8 (3.31%) InfluxDB
6 7 (2.89%) Big Data
6 7 (2.89%) Geospatial Data
6 7 (2.89%) Hadoop
6 7 (2.89%) NoSQL
7 6 (2.48%) Amazon RDS
7 6 (2.48%) SQL Server
8 5 (2.07%) MySQL
8 5 (2.07%) Relational Database
9 3 (1.24%) Data Lake
9 3 (1.24%) Data Warehouse
9 3 (1.24%) Flink
9 3 (1.24%) ZAP BI
10 2 (0.83%) Cloudera CDH
10 2 (0.83%) DynamoDB
11 1 (0.41%) MariaDB
Development Applications
1 60 (24.79%) Git
2 45 (18.60%) GitLab
3 30 (12.40%) Jenkins
4 14 (5.79%) Subversion
5 13 (5.37%) JIRA
6 10 (4.13%) Selenium
7 9 (3.72%) Bitbucket
7 9 (3.72%) Cypress.io
8 8 (3.31%) Eclipse
8 8 (3.31%) Robot Framework
9 7 (2.89%) MSI
9 7 (2.89%) TestRail
10 6 (2.48%) JUnit
11 3 (1.24%) NUnit
11 3 (1.24%) Postman
11 3 (1.24%) Snyk
11 3 (1.24%) SonarQube
12 1 (0.41%) CircleCI
12 1 (0.41%) Maven
12 1 (0.41%) Mockito
General
1 53 (21.90%) Social Skills
2 44 (18.18%) Finance
3 24 (9.92%) Public Sector
4 20 (8.26%) Aerospace
5 17 (7.02%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 16 (6.61%) Analytical Skills
7 11 (4.55%) Marketing
8 10 (4.13%) Advertising
9 8 (3.31%) Retail
10 7 (2.89%) Games
11 3 (1.24%) Automotive
11 3 (1.24%) Electronics
11 3 (1.24%) Manufacturing
11 3 (1.24%) Military
12 2 (0.83%) Law
12 2 (0.83%) Legal
13 1 (0.41%) Organisational Skills
13 1 (0.41%) Tech for Good
Job Titles
1 69 (28.51%) Developer
2 40 (16.53%) .NET Developer
3 36 (14.88%) DevOps Engineer
4 32 (13.22%) Software Engineer
5 30 (12.40%) Infrastructure Engineer
6 25 (10.33%) Senior
7 18 (7.44%) Lead
8 13 (5.37%) Cloud Engineer
8 13 (5.37%) Java Developer
9 11 (4.55%) Architect
9 11 (4.55%) Data Engineer
9 11 (4.55%) Full-Stack Engineer
9 11 (4.55%) Platform Engineer
9 11 (4.55%) Software Developer
10 10 (4.13%) Full-Stack Software Engineer
10 10 (4.13%) Principal Engineer
11 9 (3.72%) Full-Stack Developer
11 9 (3.72%) Junior
11 9 (3.72%) Lead DevOps
11 9 (3.72%) Lead DevOps Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 62 (25.62%) .NET
2 57 (23.55%) .NET Core
3 43 (17.77%) RESTful
4 31 (12.81%) CSS
4 31 (12.81%) Spring
5 30 (12.40%) Spring Boot
6 29 (11.98%) HTML
7 28 (11.57%) ASP.NET
7 28 (11.57%) ASP.NET Core
8 23 (9.50%) React
9 22 (9.09%) REST
10 21 (8.68%) AngularJS
10 21 (8.68%) ML.NET
11 20 (8.26%) Node.js
12 18 (7.44%) Elastic Stack
13 14 (5.79%) Vue
14 12 (4.96%) .NET Framework
15 10 (4.13%) Blazor
15 10 (4.13%) Django
15 10 (4.13%) FastAPI
Miscellaneous
1 58 (23.97%) Cloud Native
2 17 (7.02%) Hybrid Cloud
3 12 (4.96%) Distributed Systems
4 10 (4.13%) Product Ownership
5 9 (3.72%) Onboarding
6 8 (3.31%) Legacy Systems
7 6 (2.48%) Social Media
8 5 (2.07%) Data Centre
8 5 (2.07%) Digital TV
9 4 (1.65%) Algorithms
9 4 (1.65%) CUDA
10 3 (1.24%) Data Structures
10 3 (1.24%) IoT
10 3 (1.24%) PKI
10 3 (1.24%) Renewable Energy
11 2 (0.83%) Blog
11 2 (0.83%) Insider Threat
11 2 (0.83%) Private Cloud
11 2 (0.83%) Public Cloud
11 2 (0.83%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 72 (29.75%) Linux
2 31 (12.81%) Windows
3 10 (4.13%) CentOS
3 10 (4.13%) Unix
3 10 (4.13%) Windows Server
4 3 (1.24%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 3 (1.24%) Ubuntu
5 2 (0.83%) Debian
6 1 (0.41%) Rocky
Processes & Methodologies
1 168 (69.42%) CI/CD
2 131 (54.13%) Containerisation
3 110 (45.45%) Infrastructure as Code
4 107 (44.21%) DevOps
5 97 (40.08%) Agile
6 71 (29.34%) Full-Stack Development
7 68 (28.10%) Software Engineering
8 54 (22.31%) AI
9 50 (20.66%) Infrastructure Engineering
10 43 (17.77%) Test Automation
11 42 (17.36%) Continuous Improvement
11 42 (17.36%) Microservices
12 39 (16.12%) Problem-Solving
13 35 (14.46%) DevSecOps
13 35 (14.46%) Machine Learning
14 29 (11.98%) Analytics
15 27 (11.16%) Computer Science
15 27 (11.16%) Site Reliability Engineering
16 24 (9.92%) Platform Engineering
17 23 (9.50%) Collaborative Culture
Programming Languages
1 108 (44.63%) Python
2 70 (28.93%) Java
3 59 (24.38%) C#
4 49 (20.25%) JavaScript
5 46 (19.01%) SQL
6 35 (14.46%) Bash
7 17 (7.02%) TypeScript
8 15 (6.20%) Bicep
9 14 (5.79%) Go
10 13 (5.37%) C++
11 12 (4.96%) PowerShell
12 7 (2.89%) Scala
13 6 (2.48%) Perl
14 4 (1.65%) Rust
15 3 (1.24%) PHP
16 2 (0.83%) C
16 2 (0.83%) Shell Script
17 1 (0.41%) Ruby
Qualifications
1 120 (49.59%) Security Cleared
2 66 (27.27%) DV Cleared
3 45 (18.60%) SC Cleared
4 32 (13.22%) Degree
5 25 (10.33%) Computer Science Degree
6 9 (3.72%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
7 7 (2.89%) AWS Certification
8 6 (2.48%) RHCSA
9 5 (2.07%) RHCE
10 4 (1.65%) CCNA
10 4 (1.65%) Cisco Certification
10 4 (1.65%) ISTQB
10 4 (1.65%) Microsoft Certification
10 4 (1.65%) OSCP
11 3 (1.24%) Azure Certification
11 3 (1.24%) OCP
11 3 (1.24%) Oracle Certification
12 2 (0.83%) AWS Certified Developer
12 2 (0.83%) BPSS Clearance
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 19 (7.85%) Accessibility
2 12 (4.96%) QA
3 11 (4.55%) WCAG
4 9 (3.72%) NCSC
5 3 (1.24%) Data Quality
5 3 (1.24%) ISO 9001
5 3 (1.24%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 3 (1.24%) NIST
System Software
1 166 (68.60%) Docker
2 23 (9.50%) VMware Infrastructure
3 10 (4.13%) Active Directory
4 6 (2.48%) Hyper-V
4 6 (2.48%) Virtual Machines
5 5 (2.07%) VMware NSX
6 4 (1.65%) Ceph
6 4 (1.65%) Firmware
6 4 (1.65%) Squid
6 4 (1.65%) vSphere
7 1 (0.41%) Citrix Hypervisor
7 1 (0.41%) KVM
7 1 (0.41%) QEMU
7 1 (0.41%) Slurm Workload Manager
7 1 (0.41%) Virtual Desktop
7 1 (0.41%) Xen
Systems Management
1 105 (43.39%) Terraform
2 69 (28.51%) Ansible
3 22 (9.09%) Grafana
4 18 (7.44%) Prometheus
5 15 (6.20%) Puppet
6 13 (5.37%) Argo
7 8 (3.31%) Rancher
8 7 (2.89%) Check_MK
8 7 (2.89%) Istio
8 7 (2.89%) Kibana
9 6 (2.48%) logstash
9 6 (2.48%) vCenter Server
9 6 (2.48%) VxRail
9 6 (2.48%) yum
10 4 (1.65%) Nagios
10 4 (1.65%) Packer
10 4 (1.65%) Podman
10 4 (1.65%) ZABBIX
11 3 (1.24%) Docker Swarm
11 3 (1.24%) linkerd
Vendors
1 52 (21.49%) Microsoft
2 29 (11.98%) VMware
3 25 (10.33%) Red Hat
4 12 (4.96%) Splunk
5 10 (4.13%) Atlassian
5 10 (4.13%) Facebook
5 10 (4.13%) Google
6 8 (3.31%) Oracle
7 6 (2.48%) Dell
8 5 (2.07%) BeyondTrust
8 5 (2.07%) Databricks
9 4 (1.65%) OneLogin
10 3 (1.24%) OpenAI
11 2 (0.83%) Apple
11 2 (0.83%) Cisco
11 2 (0.83%) SaltStack
12 1 (0.41%) Fortinet
12 1 (0.41%) Juniper
12 1 (0.41%) New Relic
12 1 (0.41%) Thales