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

6 months to
29 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 59 54 72
Rank change year-on-year -5 +18 -36
Permanent jobs citing Kubernetes 229 131 258
As % of all permanent jobs in the South West 2.66% 3.82% 3.06%
As % of the Systems Management category 44.29% 41.32% 36.19%
Number of salaries quoted 146 78 195
10th Percentile £38,750 £47,966 £48,750
25th Percentile £48,000 £52,813 £58,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £71,991 £75,000
Median % change year-on-year -16.66% -4.01% +8.00%
75th Percentile £80,000 £87,500 £87,500
90th Percentile £96,875 £99,654 £92,750
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 517 317 713
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the South West 6.02% 9.26% 8.46%
Number of salaries quoted 351 230 552
10th Percentile £31,250 £30,000 £31,350
25th Percentile £38,875 £35,000 £42,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £50,529 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +8.85% -8.13% -7.60%
75th Percentile £75,000 £72,500 £76,563
90th Percentile £86,000 £87,750 £87,500
England median annual salary £65,000 £65,000 £63,277
% change year-on-year - +2.72% -6.26%

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 29 July 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 29 July 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 -1 112 £75,000 +3.45% 38
Somerset -5 40 £43,750 - 9
Bristol -48 24 £62,500 -16.67% 19
Devon 0 22 £55,000 - 3
Wiltshire -6 22 £60,000 +17.51% 4
Dorset -22 4 £45,000 -14.29% 5
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 11 (4.80%) Confluence
2 9 (3.93%) Apache
2 9 (3.93%) Apache Spark
3 8 (3.49%) OpenStack
4 1 (0.44%) Apache Airflow
4 1 (0.44%) JBoss
4 1 (0.44%) nginx
Cloud Services
1 111 (48.47%) Azure
2 92 (40.17%) AWS
3 47 (20.52%) GCP
4 43 (18.78%) GitHub
5 29 (12.66%) OpenShift
6 28 (12.23%) GitHub Copilot
7 21 (9.17%) Azure AI
8 19 (8.30%) Serverless
9 18 (7.86%) Azure AKS
10 17 (7.42%) AWS CloudFormation
11 16 (6.99%) Azure DevOps
12 15 (6.55%) Amazon S3
13 13 (5.68%) Amazon EKS
14 12 (5.24%) AWS Lambda
15 11 (4.80%) Amazon EC2
16 10 (4.37%) SaaS
17 8 (3.49%) GitHub Actions
18 6 (2.62%) Azure ExpressRoute
18 6 (2.62%) Entra ID
18 6 (2.62%) PaaS
Communications & Networking
1 9 (3.93%) Network Security
1 9 (3.93%) VPN
2 7 (3.06%) Internet
2 7 (3.06%) Software-Defined Networking
3 6 (2.62%) Firewall
4 5 (2.18%) WAN
5 4 (1.75%) IPv4
6 3 (1.31%) BGP
6 3 (1.31%) Ethernet VPN
6 3 (1.31%) SD-WAN
6 3 (1.31%) SNMP
6 3 (1.31%) VLAN
7 2 (0.87%) AMQP
7 2 (0.87%) LAN
7 2 (0.87%) TCP/IP
8 1 (0.44%) SSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 34 (14.85%) MongoDB
2 28 (12.23%) Azure SQL Database
3 14 (6.11%) Elasticsearch
3 14 (6.11%) PostgreSQL
4 8 (3.49%) InfluxDB
5 7 (3.06%) NoSQL
6 6 (2.62%) Amazon RDS
6 6 (2.62%) Big Data
6 6 (2.62%) Geospatial Data
6 6 (2.62%) MySQL
6 6 (2.62%) SQL Server
7 5 (2.18%) Hadoop
7 5 (2.18%) Relational Database
8 3 (1.31%) Flink
9 2 (0.87%) Cloudera CDH
9 2 (0.87%) Data Lake
9 2 (0.87%) DynamoDB
10 1 (0.44%) Apache Cassandra
10 1 (0.44%) MariaDB
10 1 (0.44%) ZAP BI
Development Applications
1 59 (25.76%) Git
2 41 (17.90%) GitLab
3 27 (11.79%) Jenkins
4 14 (6.11%) Subversion
5 12 (5.24%) JIRA
6 9 (3.93%) Bitbucket
7 8 (3.49%) Eclipse
7 8 (3.49%) Robot Framework
7 8 (3.49%) Selenium
8 7 (3.06%) Cypress.io
8 7 (3.06%) TestRail
9 6 (2.62%) MSI
10 4 (1.75%) JUnit
11 1 (0.44%) CircleCI
11 1 (0.44%) Maven
11 1 (0.44%) Mockito
11 1 (0.44%) NUnit
11 1 (0.44%) Postman
11 1 (0.44%) Snyk
11 1 (0.44%) TeamCity
General
1 49 (21.40%) Social Skills
2 40 (17.47%) Finance
3 21 (9.17%) Public Sector
4 19 (8.30%) Aerospace
5 15 (6.55%) Analytical Skills
6 14 (6.11%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 11 (4.80%) Marketing
8 10 (4.37%) Advertising
9 8 (3.49%) Retail
10 7 (3.06%) Games
11 3 (1.31%) Automotive
11 3 (1.31%) Electronics
11 3 (1.31%) Manufacturing
12 1 (0.44%) Law
12 1 (0.44%) Legal
12 1 (0.44%) Military
12 1 (0.44%) Organisational Skills
12 1 (0.44%) Tech for Good
Job Titles
1 65 (28.38%) Developer
2 40 (17.47%) .NET Developer
3 33 (14.41%) DevOps Engineer
4 32 (13.97%) Software Engineer
5 29 (12.66%) Infrastructure Engineer
6 22 (9.61%) Senior
7 17 (7.42%) Lead
8 13 (5.68%) Java Developer
9 12 (5.24%) Cloud Engineer
10 11 (4.80%) Architect
10 11 (4.80%) Full-Stack Engineer
11 10 (4.37%) Full-Stack Software Engineer
12 9 (3.93%) Data Engineer
12 9 (3.93%) Junior
12 9 (3.93%) Platform Engineer
12 9 (3.93%) Python Engineer
12 9 (3.93%) Software Developer
13 8 (3.49%) .NET Software Developer
13 8 (3.49%) Mid-Level .NET Developer
13 8 (3.49%) Test Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 58 (25.33%) .NET
2 54 (23.58%) .NET Core
3 38 (16.59%) RESTful
4 30 (13.10%) CSS
5 29 (12.66%) Spring
6 28 (12.23%) ASP.NET
6 28 (12.23%) ASP.NET Core
6 28 (12.23%) HTML
6 28 (12.23%) Spring Boot
7 21 (9.17%) ML.NET
7 21 (9.17%) React
7 21 (9.17%) REST
8 19 (8.30%) AngularJS
9 17 (7.42%) Node.js
10 16 (6.99%) Elastic Stack
11 14 (6.11%) Vue
12 11 (4.80%) .NET Framework
13 10 (4.37%) Blazor
13 10 (4.37%) Django
13 10 (4.37%) FastAPI
Miscellaneous
1 51 (22.27%) Cloud Native
2 17 (7.42%) Hybrid Cloud
3 11 (4.80%) Distributed Systems
4 10 (4.37%) Product Ownership
5 8 (3.49%) Onboarding
6 6 (2.62%) Social Media
7 5 (2.18%) Data Centre
7 5 (2.18%) Digital TV
7 5 (2.18%) Legacy Systems
8 4 (1.75%) CUDA
9 3 (1.31%) Algorithms
9 3 (1.31%) Data Structures
9 3 (1.31%) IoT
9 3 (1.31%) PKI
9 3 (1.31%) Renewable Energy
10 2 (0.87%) Insider Threat
10 2 (0.87%) Private Cloud
10 2 (0.87%) Public Cloud
10 2 (0.87%) Self-Motivation
11 1 (0.44%) Blog
Operating Systems
1 69 (30.13%) Linux
2 30 (13.10%) Windows
3 10 (4.37%) CentOS
3 10 (4.37%) Unix
3 10 (4.37%) Windows Server
4 3 (1.31%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 3 (1.31%) Ubuntu
5 2 (0.87%) Debian
6 1 (0.44%) Rocky
Processes & Methodologies
1 157 (68.56%) CI/CD
2 122 (53.28%) Containerisation
3 101 (44.10%) Infrastructure as Code
4 97 (42.36%) DevOps
5 90 (39.30%) Agile
6 67 (29.26%) Full-Stack Development
7 63 (27.51%) Software Engineering
8 53 (23.14%) AI
9 48 (20.96%) Infrastructure Engineering
10 40 (17.47%) Microservices
11 38 (16.59%) Continuous Improvement
11 38 (16.59%) Test Automation
12 35 (15.28%) Problem-Solving
13 33 (14.41%) Machine Learning
14 31 (13.54%) DevSecOps
15 28 (12.23%) Analytics
16 27 (11.79%) Computer Science
17 24 (10.48%) Site Reliability Engineering
18 21 (9.17%) Platform Engineering
19 20 (8.73%) API Design
Programming Languages
1 101 (44.10%) Python
2 65 (28.38%) Java
3 58 (25.33%) C#
4 45 (19.65%) JavaScript
5 44 (19.21%) SQL
6 32 (13.97%) Bash
7 16 (6.99%) TypeScript
8 14 (6.11%) Bicep
8 14 (6.11%) C++
9 13 (5.68%) PowerShell
10 12 (5.24%) Go
11 6 (2.62%) Perl
11 6 (2.62%) Scala
12 3 (1.31%) PHP
13 2 (0.87%) C
13 2 (0.87%) Rust
13 2 (0.87%) Shell Script
14 1 (0.44%) Ruby
Qualifications
1 109 (47.60%) Security Cleared
2 62 (27.07%) DV Cleared
3 39 (17.03%) SC Cleared
4 29 (12.66%) Degree
5 25 (10.92%) Computer Science Degree
6 8 (3.49%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
7 6 (2.62%) AWS Certification
7 6 (2.62%) RHCSA
8 5 (2.18%) RHCE
9 4 (1.75%) CCNA
9 4 (1.75%) Cisco Certification
9 4 (1.75%) ISTQB
9 4 (1.75%) Microsoft Certification
9 4 (1.75%) OSCP
10 3 (1.31%) Azure Certification
11 1 (0.44%) AWS Certified Developer
11 1 (0.44%) BPSS Clearance
11 1 (0.44%) OCP
11 1 (0.44%) Oracle Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 14 (6.11%) Accessibility
2 12 (5.24%) QA
3 9 (3.93%) WCAG
4 7 (3.06%) NCSC
5 3 (1.31%) ISO 9001
5 3 (1.31%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 2 (0.87%) Data Quality
7 1 (0.44%) NIST
System Software
1 160 (69.87%) Docker
2 23 (10.04%) VMware Infrastructure
3 10 (4.37%) Active Directory
4 6 (2.62%) Hyper-V
4 6 (2.62%) Virtual Machines
5 5 (2.18%) VMware NSX
6 4 (1.75%) Ceph
6 4 (1.75%) Firmware
6 4 (1.75%) Squid
6 4 (1.75%) vSphere
7 1 (0.44%) Citrix Hypervisor
7 1 (0.44%) KVM
7 1 (0.44%) QEMU
7 1 (0.44%) Slurm Workload Manager
7 1 (0.44%) Virtual Desktop
7 1 (0.44%) Xen
Systems Management
1 94 (41.05%) Terraform
2 65 (28.38%) Ansible
3 20 (8.73%) Grafana
4 16 (6.99%) Prometheus
5 15 (6.55%) Puppet
6 13 (5.68%) Argo
7 8 (3.49%) Rancher
8 7 (3.06%) Check_MK
8 7 (3.06%) Istio
8 7 (3.06%) Kibana
9 6 (2.62%) logstash
9 6 (2.62%) vCenter Server
9 6 (2.62%) VxRail
9 6 (2.62%) yum
10 5 (2.18%) Podman
11 4 (1.75%) Nagios
11 4 (1.75%) Packer
11 4 (1.75%) ZABBIX
12 3 (1.31%) Docker Swarm
12 3 (1.31%) linkerd
Vendors
1 51 (22.27%) Microsoft
2 27 (11.79%) VMware
3 23 (10.04%) Red Hat
4 12 (5.24%) Splunk
5 10 (4.37%) Atlassian
5 10 (4.37%) Facebook
5 10 (4.37%) Google
6 7 (3.06%) Oracle
7 6 (2.62%) Dell
8 5 (2.18%) BeyondTrust
8 5 (2.18%) Databricks
9 3 (1.31%) OneLogin
9 3 (1.31%) OpenAI
10 2 (0.87%) Apple
10 2 (0.87%) Cisco
10 2 (0.87%) SaltStack
11 1 (0.44%) Fortinet
11 1 (0.44%) Juniper
11 1 (0.44%) New Relic
11 1 (0.44%) Thales