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

6 months to
28 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 72 53 64
Rank change year-on-year -19 +11 -25
Permanent jobs citing Kubernetes 160 122 324
As % of all permanent jobs in the South West 2.12% 4.54% 3.67%
As % of the Systems Management category 43.48% 42.81% 35.37%
Number of salaries quoted 101 79 270
10th Percentile £42,500 £50,000 £45,000
25th Percentile £52,500 £60,000 £52,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £62,500 £71,991 £70,576
Median % change year-on-year -13.18% +2.01% +4.56%
75th Percentile £77,500 £93,139 £85,000
90th Percentile £82,500 £102,410 £91,934
England median annual salary £75,000 £85,000 £76,000
% change year-on-year -11.76% +11.84% -1.94%

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 368 285 916
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the South West 4.87% 10.61% 10.38%
Number of salaries quoted 262 206 743
10th Percentile £31,500 £31,750 £31,900
25th Percentile £37,813 £42,500 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £57,443 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year -4.25% +9.41% -9.19%
75th Percentile £68,363 £75,938 £71,250
90th Percentile £80,000 £95,000 £85,000
England median annual salary £65,000 £70,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year -7.14% +16.67% -11.11%

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 28 April 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 28 April 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 -6 68 £67,500 +1.89% 51
Devon 0 25 £57,500 - 2
Bristol -45 22 £65,000 -16.13% 18
Wiltshire -5 12 £66,250 +29.75% 11
Somerset -19 12 £42,500 - 6
Dorset -19 8 £75,000 -
Cornwall - 3 - -
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 5 (3.13%) Apache Spark
2 4 (2.50%) Apache
3 3 (1.88%) Confluence
3 3 (1.88%) OpenStack
4 1 (0.63%) Apache Airflow
Applications
1 1 (0.63%) Microsoft Office
Cloud Services
1 76 (47.50%) AWS
2 61 (38.13%) Azure
3 35 (21.88%) GCP
4 20 (12.50%) GitHub
5 18 (11.25%) Serverless
6 17 (10.63%) Amazon S3
6 17 (10.63%) OpenShift
7 14 (8.75%) AWS Lambda
7 14 (8.75%) GitHub Actions
7 14 (8.75%) SaaS
8 13 (8.13%) Azure AKS
9 10 (6.25%) Amazon EC2
10 7 (4.38%) Azure DevOps
11 6 (3.75%) Datadog
12 5 (3.13%) AWS CloudFormation
13 4 (2.50%) Amazon EKS
14 3 (1.88%) Amazon ECS
15 2 (1.25%) Azure Pipelines
15 2 (1.25%) GitHub Copilot
15 2 (1.25%) Google Kubernetes Engine
Communications & Networking
1 4 (2.50%) Broadband
1 4 (2.50%) Firewall
2 3 (1.88%) WAN
3 2 (1.25%) LAN
3 2 (1.25%) TCP/IP
3 2 (1.25%) VPN
4 1 (0.63%) AMQP
4 1 (0.63%) BGP
4 1 (0.63%) DNS
4 1 (0.63%) Ethernet VPN
4 1 (0.63%) Internet
4 1 (0.63%) Network Security
4 1 (0.63%) SD-WAN
4 1 (0.63%) SNMP
4 1 (0.63%) Software-Defined Networking
4 1 (0.63%) VLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 18 (11.25%) Elasticsearch
2 15 (9.38%) PostgreSQL
3 14 (8.75%) NoSQL
4 13 (8.13%) SQL Server
5 10 (6.25%) Amazon RDS
6 8 (5.00%) InfluxDB
6 8 (5.00%) MongoDB
6 8 (5.00%) Neo4j
6 8 (5.00%) Relational Database
7 6 (3.75%) MySQL
8 3 (1.88%) CockroachDB
9 2 (1.25%) Azure SQL Database
9 2 (1.25%) Big Data
10 1 (0.63%) Apache Cassandra
10 1 (0.63%) Couchbase
10 1 (0.63%) DynamoDB
10 1 (0.63%) Hadoop
10 1 (0.63%) MariaDB
10 1 (0.63%) RDBMS
10 1 (0.63%) Redis
Development Applications
1 33 (20.63%) Jenkins
2 28 (17.50%) Git
3 22 (13.75%) GitLab
4 10 (6.25%) Cypress.io
5 7 (4.38%) Selenium
5 7 (4.38%) Subversion
6 6 (3.75%) CircleCI
6 6 (3.75%) Robot Framework
6 6 (3.75%) TestRail
7 5 (3.13%) Cucumber
7 5 (3.13%) JUnit
8 4 (2.50%) Maven
9 3 (1.88%) Bitbucket
9 3 (1.88%) Gradle
9 3 (1.88%) JIRA
9 3 (1.88%) Mockito
9 3 (1.88%) TeamCity
9 3 (1.88%) TestNG
10 2 (1.25%) Checkstyle
10 2 (1.25%) SonarQube
General
1 36 (22.50%) Social Skills
2 21 (13.13%) Finance
3 14 (8.75%) Aerospace
4 8 (5.00%) Public Sector
5 4 (2.50%) Analytical Skills
5 4 (2.50%) Electronics
5 4 (2.50%) Manufacturing
6 3 (1.88%) Automotive
7 2 (1.25%) Marketing
8 1 (0.63%) Advertising
8 1 (0.63%) Banking
8 1 (0.63%) Games
8 1 (0.63%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 1 (0.63%) Retail
8 1 (0.63%) Tech for Good
8 1 (0.63%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 39 (24.38%) Software Engineer
2 28 (17.50%) Senior
3 23 (14.38%) Developer
4 17 (10.63%) Infrastructure Engineer
5 15 (9.38%) DevOps Engineer
5 15 (9.38%) Senior Software Engineer
6 12 (7.50%) DevSecOps Engineer
7 11 (6.88%) .NET Software Engineer
7 11 (6.88%) Senior .NET Software Engineer
8 10 (6.25%) Lead
8 10 (6.25%) Test Engineer
9 9 (5.63%) .NET Developer
9 9 (5.63%) Python Engineer
9 9 (5.63%) Software Developer
10 8 (5.00%) Java Developer
11 7 (4.38%) .NET Software Developer
11 7 (4.38%) Backend Developer
11 7 (4.38%) Mid-Level .NET Developer
11 7 (4.38%) Software Manager
12 6 (3.75%) Platform Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 31 (19.38%) .NET
2 30 (18.75%) .NET Core
3 27 (16.88%) React
4 21 (13.13%) REST
5 20 (12.50%) Spring
6 18 (11.25%) AngularJS
7 17 (10.63%) Spring Boot
8 13 (8.13%) Elastic Stack
8 13 (8.13%) Node.js
8 13 (8.13%) RESTful
9 11 (6.88%) .NET Framework
9 11 (6.88%) Dapper ORM
9 11 (6.88%) Entity Framework
10 9 (5.63%) Django
10 9 (5.63%) OAuth
11 8 (5.00%) FastAPI
11 8 (5.00%) MERN Stack
12 6 (3.75%) Playwright
12 6 (3.75%) Vue
13 5 (3.13%) pytest
Miscellaneous
1 33 (20.63%) Cloud Native
2 8 (5.00%) Product Ownership
3 7 (4.38%) Distributed Systems
4 4 (2.50%) CUDA
4 4 (2.50%) Hybrid Cloud
5 3 (1.88%) IoT
5 3 (1.88%) Legacy Systems
5 3 (1.88%) Over-the-Top Content
5 3 (1.88%) PKI
5 3 (1.88%) Private Cloud
5 3 (1.88%) Public Cloud
5 3 (1.88%) Renewable Energy
5 3 (1.88%) Self-Motivation
5 3 (1.88%) Video\Live Streaming
6 2 (1.25%) Algorithms
6 2 (1.25%) Blockchain
6 2 (1.25%) Data Centre
6 2 (1.25%) Data Structures
6 2 (1.25%) Insider Threat
6 2 (1.25%) Onboarding
Operating Systems
1 42 (26.25%) Linux
2 17 (10.63%) Windows
3 8 (5.00%) CentOS
4 5 (3.13%) Windows Server
5 3 (1.88%) Unix
6 2 (1.25%) Ubuntu
7 1 (0.63%) Debian
7 1 (0.63%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
7 1 (0.63%) Windows Server 2016
Processes & Methodologies
1 90 (56.25%) Containerisation
2 89 (55.63%) CI/CD
3 72 (45.00%) DevOps
4 65 (40.63%) Software Engineering
5 59 (36.88%) Agile
6 55 (34.38%) Infrastructure as Code
7 45 (28.13%) Continuous Improvement
8 35 (21.88%) Infrastructure Engineering
9 31 (19.38%) Test Automation
10 27 (16.88%) Collaborative Culture
11 24 (15.00%) Analytics
11 24 (15.00%) Problem-Solving
12 23 (14.38%) SDLC
13 20 (12.50%) Mentoring
14 19 (11.88%) AI
15 18 (11.25%) Full-Stack Development
16 17 (10.63%) Microservices
17 16 (10.00%) DevSecOps
18 15 (9.38%) Platform Engineering
19 14 (8.75%) Performance Optimisation
Programming Languages
1 84 (52.50%) Python
2 56 (35.00%) Java
3 35 (21.88%) JavaScript
4 33 (20.63%) Bash
4 33 (20.63%) SQL
5 27 (16.88%) C#
6 20 (12.50%) TypeScript
7 16 (10.00%) PowerShell
8 13 (8.13%) Go
9 11 (6.88%) C
10 7 (4.38%) Scala
11 6 (3.75%) Bicep
11 6 (3.75%) C++
11 6 (3.75%) Kotlin
12 3 (1.88%) Elixir
12 3 (1.88%) Erlang
12 3 (1.88%) PHP
13 2 (1.25%) Rust
13 2 (1.25%) Shell Script
14 1 (0.63%) Delphi
Qualifications
1 64 (40.00%) Security Cleared
2 42 (26.25%) DV Cleared
3 15 (9.38%) SC Cleared
4 13 (8.13%) Degree
5 11 (6.88%) Computer Science Degree
6 6 (3.75%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
7 2 (1.25%) ISTQB
7 2 (1.25%) ISTQB Advanced Certification
7 2 (1.25%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
8 1 (0.63%) AWS Certification
8 1 (0.63%) Azure Certification
8 1 (0.63%) Microsoft Certification
8 1 (0.63%) RHCE
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 20 (12.50%) QA
2 4 (2.50%) Accessibility
3 3 (1.88%) ISO 9001
3 3 (1.88%) ISO/IEC 27001
System Software
1 106 (66.25%) Docker
2 10 (6.25%) VMware Infrastructure
3 6 (3.75%) Virtual Machines
4 5 (3.13%) Hyper-V
5 4 (2.50%) Firmware
6 1 (0.63%) Active Directory
6 1 (0.63%) Citrix Hypervisor
6 1 (0.63%) KVM
6 1 (0.63%) QEMU
6 1 (0.63%) Slurm Workload Manager
6 1 (0.63%) Xen
Systems Management
1 55 (34.38%) Terraform
2 33 (20.63%) Ansible
3 26 (16.25%) Grafana
4 14 (8.75%) Prometheus
5 9 (5.63%) Argo
6 8 (5.00%) Puppet
6 8 (5.00%) Rancher
7 7 (4.38%) yum
8 5 (3.13%) Kibana
9 4 (2.50%) logstash
9 4 (2.50%) vCenter Server
9 4 (2.50%) VxRail
10 2 (1.25%) Check_MK
10 2 (1.25%) Istio
10 2 (1.25%) Microsoft Intune
10 2 (1.25%) Nagios
11 1 (0.63%) Docker Swarm
11 1 (0.63%) linkerd
11 1 (0.63%) Mesos
11 1 (0.63%) Progress Chef
Vendors
1 12 (7.50%) Red Hat
1 12 (7.50%) VMware
2 9 (5.63%) Google
2 9 (5.63%) Microsoft
2 9 (5.63%) Splunk
3 6 (3.75%) Oracle
4 4 (2.50%) Atlassian
4 4 (2.50%) BeyondTrust
5 3 (1.88%) Dell
6 2 (1.25%) Apple
6 2 (1.25%) Cisco
6 2 (1.25%) Guidewire
6 2 (1.25%) OpenAI
6 2 (1.25%) Thales
7 1 (0.63%) Databricks
7 1 (0.63%) Facebook
7 1 (0.63%) Juniper
7 1 (0.63%) New Relic
7 1 (0.63%) SaltStack
7 1 (0.63%) SAP