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

6 months to
1 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 57 55 76
Rank change year-on-year -2 +21 -39
Permanent jobs citing Kubernetes 237 132 253
As % of all permanent jobs in the South West 2.72% 3.82% 3.05%
As % of the Systems Management category 44.47% 41.38% 36.35%
Number of salaries quoted 152 79 190
10th Percentile £38,750 £46,750 £48,750
25th Percentile £48,750 £53,125 £59,063
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £71,991 £75,000
Median % change year-on-year -16.66% -4.01% +8.00%
75th Percentile £80,313 £88,750 £87,500
90th Percentile £97,375 £102,410 £90,125
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 533 319 696
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the South West 6.12% 9.22% 8.40%
Number of salaries quoted 364 231 537
10th Percentile £31,250 £30,000 £31,590
25th Percentile £40,000 £35,000 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £56,750 £50,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +13.50% -9.09% -7.97%
75th Percentile £75,000 £73,125 £77,500
90th Percentile £86,175 £90,000 £87,500
England median annual salary £65,000 £65,000 £63,750
% change year-on-year - +1.96% -5.56%

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 1 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 1 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 -2 119 £75,000 +3.45% 72
Somerset +4 41 £45,000 - 10
Bristol -56 24 £62,500 -16.67% 32
Devon -2 22 £55,000 - 5
Wiltshire -5 22 £60,000 +17.51% 7
Dorset -19 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 12 (5.06%) Confluence
2 10 (4.22%) Apache
2 10 (4.22%) Apache Spark
3 8 (3.38%) OpenStack
4 1 (0.42%) Apache Airflow
4 1 (0.42%) JBoss
4 1 (0.42%) nginx
Cloud Services
1 113 (47.68%) Azure
2 96 (40.51%) AWS
3 47 (19.83%) GCP
4 45 (18.99%) GitHub
5 30 (12.66%) OpenShift
6 28 (11.81%) GitHub Copilot
7 21 (8.86%) Azure AI
8 19 (8.02%) Serverless
9 18 (7.59%) Azure AKS
10 17 (7.17%) AWS CloudFormation
10 17 (7.17%) Azure DevOps
11 15 (6.33%) Amazon S3
12 13 (5.49%) Amazon EKS
13 12 (5.06%) AWS Lambda
14 11 (4.64%) Amazon EC2
15 10 (4.22%) SaaS
16 9 (3.80%) GitHub Actions
17 6 (2.53%) Azure ExpressRoute
17 6 (2.53%) Entra ID
17 6 (2.53%) PaaS
Communications & Networking
1 9 (3.80%) Network Security
1 9 (3.80%) VPN
2 7 (2.95%) Firewall
2 7 (2.95%) Internet
2 7 (2.95%) Software-Defined Networking
3 5 (2.11%) WAN
4 4 (1.69%) IPv4
5 3 (1.27%) BGP
5 3 (1.27%) Ethernet VPN
5 3 (1.27%) SD-WAN
5 3 (1.27%) SNMP
5 3 (1.27%) VLAN
6 2 (0.84%) AMQP
6 2 (0.84%) LAN
6 2 (0.84%) TCP/IP
7 1 (0.42%) SSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 34 (14.35%) MongoDB
2 28 (11.81%) Azure SQL Database
3 14 (5.91%) Elasticsearch
3 14 (5.91%) PostgreSQL
4 8 (3.38%) InfluxDB
5 7 (2.95%) Big Data
5 7 (2.95%) Geospatial Data
5 7 (2.95%) NoSQL
6 6 (2.53%) Amazon RDS
6 6 (2.53%) Hadoop
6 6 (2.53%) MySQL
6 6 (2.53%) SQL Server
7 5 (2.11%) Relational Database
8 3 (1.27%) Data Lake
8 3 (1.27%) Flink
9 2 (0.84%) Cloudera CDH
9 2 (0.84%) DynamoDB
10 1 (0.42%) Amazon Athena
10 1 (0.42%) Data Warehouse
10 1 (0.42%) ZAP BI
Development Applications
1 60 (25.32%) Git
2 42 (17.72%) GitLab
3 27 (11.39%) Jenkins
4 14 (5.91%) Subversion
5 13 (5.49%) JIRA
6 9 (3.80%) Bitbucket
7 8 (3.38%) Eclipse
7 8 (3.38%) Robot Framework
7 8 (3.38%) Selenium
8 7 (2.95%) Cypress.io
8 7 (2.95%) MSI
8 7 (2.95%) TestRail
9 4 (1.69%) JUnit
10 1 (0.42%) CircleCI
10 1 (0.42%) Maven
10 1 (0.42%) Mockito
10 1 (0.42%) NUnit
10 1 (0.42%) Snyk
10 1 (0.42%) SonarQube
10 1 (0.42%) TeamCity
General
1 49 (20.68%) Social Skills
2 41 (17.30%) Finance
3 22 (9.28%) Public Sector
4 19 (8.02%) Aerospace
5 16 (6.75%) Analytical Skills
6 15 (6.33%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 11 (4.64%) Marketing
8 10 (4.22%) Advertising
9 8 (3.38%) Retail
10 7 (2.95%) Games
11 3 (1.27%) Automotive
11 3 (1.27%) Electronics
11 3 (1.27%) Manufacturing
12 1 (0.42%) Law
12 1 (0.42%) Legal
12 1 (0.42%) Military
12 1 (0.42%) Organisational Skills
12 1 (0.42%) Tech for Good
Job Titles
1 66 (27.85%) Developer
2 40 (16.88%) .NET Developer
3 35 (14.77%) DevOps Engineer
4 33 (13.92%) Software Engineer
5 30 (12.66%) Infrastructure Engineer
6 23 (9.70%) Senior
7 18 (7.59%) Lead
8 13 (5.49%) Java Developer
9 12 (5.06%) Cloud Engineer
9 12 (5.06%) Full-Stack Engineer
10 11 (4.64%) Architect
10 11 (4.64%) Full-Stack Software Engineer
10 11 (4.64%) Platform Engineer
11 10 (4.22%) Data Engineer
12 9 (3.80%) Junior
12 9 (3.80%) Lead DevOps
12 9 (3.80%) Lead DevOps Engineer
12 9 (3.80%) Principal Engineer
12 9 (3.80%) Python Engineer
12 9 (3.80%) Software Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 59 (24.89%) .NET
2 55 (23.21%) .NET Core
3 40 (16.88%) RESTful
4 31 (13.08%) CSS
5 30 (12.66%) Spring
6 29 (12.24%) HTML
6 29 (12.24%) Spring Boot
7 28 (11.81%) ASP.NET
7 28 (11.81%) ASP.NET Core
8 22 (9.28%) REST
9 21 (8.86%) ML.NET
9 21 (8.86%) React
10 19 (8.02%) AngularJS
11 17 (7.17%) Node.js
12 16 (6.75%) Elastic Stack
13 14 (5.91%) Vue
14 12 (5.06%) .NET Framework
15 10 (4.22%) Blazor
15 10 (4.22%) Django
15 10 (4.22%) FastAPI
Miscellaneous
1 54 (22.78%) Cloud Native
2 17 (7.17%) Hybrid Cloud
3 12 (5.06%) Distributed Systems
4 10 (4.22%) Product Ownership
5 9 (3.80%) Onboarding
6 6 (2.53%) Legacy Systems
6 6 (2.53%) Social Media
7 5 (2.11%) Data Centre
7 5 (2.11%) Digital TV
8 4 (1.69%) CUDA
9 3 (1.27%) Algorithms
9 3 (1.27%) Data Structures
9 3 (1.27%) IoT
9 3 (1.27%) PKI
9 3 (1.27%) Renewable Energy
10 2 (0.84%) Insider Threat
10 2 (0.84%) Private Cloud
10 2 (0.84%) Public Cloud
10 2 (0.84%) Self-Motivation
11 1 (0.42%) Blog
Operating Systems
1 72 (30.38%) Linux
2 31 (13.08%) Windows
3 10 (4.22%) CentOS
3 10 (4.22%) Unix
3 10 (4.22%) Windows Server
4 3 (1.27%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 3 (1.27%) Ubuntu
5 2 (0.84%) Debian
6 1 (0.42%) Rocky
Processes & Methodologies
1 162 (68.35%) CI/CD
2 127 (53.59%) Containerisation
3 106 (44.73%) Infrastructure as Code
4 102 (43.04%) DevOps
5 92 (38.82%) Agile
6 69 (29.11%) Full-Stack Development
7 65 (27.43%) Software Engineering
8 54 (22.78%) AI
9 50 (21.10%) Infrastructure Engineering
10 41 (17.30%) Microservices
11 39 (16.46%) Continuous Improvement
11 39 (16.46%) Test Automation
12 37 (15.61%) Problem-Solving
13 34 (14.35%) DevSecOps
13 34 (14.35%) Machine Learning
14 29 (12.24%) Analytics
15 27 (11.39%) Computer Science
16 25 (10.55%) Site Reliability Engineering
17 23 (9.70%) Platform Engineering
18 21 (8.86%) API Design
Programming Languages
1 104 (43.88%) Python
2 68 (28.69%) Java
3 59 (24.89%) C#
4 47 (19.83%) JavaScript
5 45 (18.99%) SQL
6 35 (14.77%) Bash
7 17 (7.17%) TypeScript
8 15 (6.33%) Bicep
9 14 (5.91%) C++
10 13 (5.49%) Go
10 13 (5.49%) PowerShell
11 7 (2.95%) Scala
12 6 (2.53%) Perl
13 4 (1.69%) Rust
14 3 (1.27%) PHP
15 2 (0.84%) C
15 2 (0.84%) Shell Script
16 1 (0.42%) Ruby
Qualifications
1 116 (48.95%) Security Cleared
2 66 (27.85%) DV Cleared
3 42 (17.72%) SC Cleared
4 29 (12.24%) Degree
5 25 (10.55%) Computer Science Degree
6 8 (3.38%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
7 6 (2.53%) AWS Certification
7 6 (2.53%) RHCSA
8 5 (2.11%) RHCE
9 4 (1.69%) CCNA
9 4 (1.69%) Cisco Certification
9 4 (1.69%) ISTQB
9 4 (1.69%) Microsoft Certification
9 4 (1.69%) OSCP
10 3 (1.27%) Azure Certification
11 1 (0.42%) AWS Certified Developer
11 1 (0.42%) BPSS Clearance
11 1 (0.42%) OCP
11 1 (0.42%) Oracle Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 16 (6.75%) Accessibility
2 12 (5.06%) QA
3 10 (4.22%) WCAG
4 8 (3.38%) NCSC
5 3 (1.27%) Data Quality
5 3 (1.27%) ISO 9001
5 3 (1.27%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 1 (0.42%) NIST
System Software
1 163 (68.78%) Docker
2 23 (9.70%) VMware Infrastructure
3 10 (4.22%) Active Directory
4 6 (2.53%) Hyper-V
4 6 (2.53%) Virtual Machines
5 5 (2.11%) VMware NSX
6 4 (1.69%) Ceph
6 4 (1.69%) Firmware
6 4 (1.69%) Squid
6 4 (1.69%) vSphere
7 1 (0.42%) Citrix Hypervisor
7 1 (0.42%) KVM
7 1 (0.42%) QEMU
7 1 (0.42%) Slurm Workload Manager
7 1 (0.42%) Virtual Desktop
7 1 (0.42%) Xen
Systems Management
1 100 (42.19%) Terraform
2 67 (28.27%) Ansible
3 20 (8.44%) Grafana
4 16 (6.75%) Prometheus
5 15 (6.33%) Puppet
6 13 (5.49%) Argo
7 8 (3.38%) Rancher
8 7 (2.95%) Check_MK
8 7 (2.95%) Istio
8 7 (2.95%) Kibana
9 6 (2.53%) logstash
9 6 (2.53%) vCenter Server
9 6 (2.53%) VxRail
9 6 (2.53%) yum
10 5 (2.11%) Podman
11 4 (1.69%) Nagios
11 4 (1.69%) Packer
11 4 (1.69%) ZABBIX
12 3 (1.27%) linkerd
12 3 (1.27%) Mesos
Vendors
1 52 (21.94%) Microsoft
2 29 (12.24%) VMware
3 23 (9.70%) Red Hat
4 12 (5.06%) Splunk
5 10 (4.22%) Atlassian
5 10 (4.22%) Facebook
5 10 (4.22%) Google
6 7 (2.95%) Oracle
7 6 (2.53%) Dell
8 5 (2.11%) BeyondTrust
8 5 (2.11%) Databricks
9 3 (1.27%) OneLogin
9 3 (1.27%) OpenAI
10 2 (0.84%) Apple
10 2 (0.84%) Cisco
10 2 (0.84%) SaltStack
11 1 (0.42%) Fortinet
11 1 (0.42%) Juniper
11 1 (0.42%) New Relic
11 1 (0.42%) Thales