Kubernetes Jobs in the South West

Kubernetes (k8s)
England > South West

The table below provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in the South West requiring Kubernetes skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the annual salaries offered in vacancies that cited Kubernetes over the 6 months leading up to 14 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
14 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 79 61 34
Rank change year-on-year -18 -27 +1
Permanent jobs citing Kubernetes 115 361 497
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the South West 3.24% 3.90% 7.33%
As % of the Systems Management category 37.46% 38.61% 48.87%
Number of salaries quoted 69 261 323
10th Percentile £49,633 £45,000 £45,000
25th Percentile £56,250 £52,500 £52,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £71,991 £70,576 £67,500
Median % change year-on-year +2.01% +4.56% +0.22%
75th Percentile £95,000 £87,500 £78,750
90th Percentile £102,410 £91,250 £89,500
England median annual salary £82,500 £77,500 £77,500
% change year-on-year +6.45% - -

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 307 935 1,017
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the South West 8.64% 10.11% 15.00%
Number of salaries quoted 207 723 618
10th Percentile £31,550 £31,350 £30,918
25th Percentile £41,875 £42,500 £41,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,443 £52,500 £57,810
Median % change year-on-year +9.41% -9.19% +5.11%
75th Percentile £73,886 £72,433 £76,250
90th Percentile £96,000 £86,000 £87,500
England median annual salary £67,500 £62,500 £67,500
% change year-on-year +8.00% -7.41% -3.57%

Kubernetes
Job Vacancy Trend in the South West

Job postings citing Kubernetes as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the South West.

Job vacancy trend for Kubernetes in the South West

Kubernetes
Salary Trend in the South West

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing Kubernetes in the South West.

Salary trend for Kubernetes in the South West

Kubernetes
Salary Histogram in the South West

Salary distribution for jobs citing Kubernetes in the South West over the 6 months to 14 May 2025.

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 14 May 2025. 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
Bristol -12 55 £77,500 -3.13% 58
Gloucestershire +7 47 £65,000 - 64
Wiltshire +39 5 £51,058 +2.12% 15
Devon +19 4 - - 8
Dorset +33 3 £50,000 -13.04% 7
Somerset -2 1 - - 8
Kubernetes
England

Kubernetes
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the South West by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same employment type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Application Platforms
1 20 (17.39%) Jupyter
2 6 (5.22%) Confluence
3 5 (4.35%) OpenStack
4 1 (0.87%) Apache Airflow
4 1 (0.87%) Apache Solr
4 1 (0.87%) CMS
4 1 (0.87%) nginx
Cloud Services
1 61 (53.04%) AWS
2 50 (43.48%) Azure
3 22 (19.13%) GCP
4 13 (11.30%) Azure DevOps
5 12 (10.43%) Serverless
6 9 (7.83%) Amazon EC2
6 9 (7.83%) Amazon S3
7 8 (6.96%) AWS Lambda
8 7 (6.09%) Pulumi
9 5 (4.35%) Azure AKS
9 5 (4.35%) Power Platform
10 4 (3.48%) Amazon EKS
10 4 (3.48%) AWS CloudFormation
10 4 (3.48%) GitHub
10 4 (3.48%) GitHub Actions
11 3 (2.61%) Virtual Private Cloud
12 2 (1.74%) Amazon ECS
12 2 (1.74%) Apigee
12 2 (1.74%) Azure Monitor
12 2 (1.74%) Stackdriver
Communications & Networking
1 6 (5.22%) Broadband
2 5 (4.35%) Internet
3 2 (1.74%) DNS
3 2 (1.74%) Reverse Proxy
3 2 (1.74%) VPN
4 1 (0.87%) HTTPS
4 1 (0.87%) IPsec
4 1 (0.87%) NAS
4 1 (0.87%) SAN
4 1 (0.87%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 27 (23.48%) Big Data
2 14 (12.17%) NoSQL
3 11 (9.57%) PostgreSQL
4 10 (8.70%) Relational Database
5 7 (6.09%) MySQL
6 6 (5.22%) RDBMS
7 5 (4.35%) Amazon RDS
7 5 (4.35%) BigQuery
7 5 (4.35%) Data Hub
7 5 (4.35%) Data Warehouse
7 5 (4.35%) Looker
7 5 (4.35%) Power BI
7 5 (4.35%) Tableau
8 4 (3.48%) MongoDB
8 4 (3.48%) Redis
9 3 (2.61%) Data Lake
10 2 (1.74%) DynamoDB
10 2 (1.74%) Elasticsearch
10 2 (1.74%) SQL Server
11 1 (0.87%) Neo4j
Development Applications
1 17 (14.78%) Jenkins
2 14 (12.17%) Git
3 12 (10.43%) GitLab
4 6 (5.22%) Jaeger
4 6 (5.22%) JIRA
4 6 (5.22%) SonarQube
5 4 (3.48%) IBM UrbanCode
6 2 (1.74%) Fiddler
6 2 (1.74%) JUnit
6 2 (1.74%) Maven
6 2 (1.74%) Postman
6 2 (1.74%) Sonatype Nexus
6 2 (1.74%) TeamCity
6 2 (1.74%) Visual Studio
7 1 (0.87%) Cucumber
7 1 (0.87%) Cypress.io
General
1 46 (40.00%) Finance
2 28 (24.35%) Inclusion and Diversity
3 19 (16.52%) Banking
3 19 (16.52%) Social Skills
4 9 (7.83%) Public Sector
5 8 (6.96%) Analytical Skills
6 5 (4.35%) Manufacturing
7 3 (2.61%) Pharmaceutical
8 2 (1.74%) Electronics
8 2 (1.74%) Marketing
8 2 (1.74%) Military
8 2 (1.74%) Presentation Skills
8 2 (1.74%) Retail
8 2 (1.74%) Telecoms
9 1 (0.87%) Financial Institution
9 1 (0.87%) Games
9 1 (0.87%) Health Technology
9 1 (0.87%) Law
Job Titles
1 41 (35.65%) Senior
2 20 (17.39%) Data Scientist
2 20 (17.39%) Lead
2 20 (17.39%) Senior Data Scientist
3 19 (16.52%) Software Engineer
4 17 (14.78%) Developer
5 16 (13.91%) DevOps Engineer
6 8 (6.96%) Architect
6 8 (6.96%) Cloud Engineer
6 8 (6.96%) Senior Software Engineer
7 7 (6.09%) Infrastructure Engineer
7 7 (6.09%) Senior Developer
8 6 (5.22%) Azure Engineer
8 6 (5.22%) Azure Infrastructure Engineer
8 6 (5.22%) Cloud Infrastructure Engineer
8 6 (5.22%) Team Leader
9 5 (4.35%) Data Engineer
9 5 (4.35%) Lead Data Engineer
9 5 (4.35%) Provisioning Engineer
9 5 (4.35%) Software Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 13 (11.30%) React
1 13 (11.30%) Spring Boot
2 11 (9.57%) Spring
3 8 (6.96%) .NET
3 8 (6.96%) Elastic Stack
3 8 (6.96%) Kafka
3 8 (6.96%) REST
3 8 (6.96%) RESTful
4 7 (6.09%) AngularJS
4 7 (6.09%) OAuth
5 6 (5.22%) .NET Core
5 6 (5.22%) Keycloak
5 6 (5.22%) OpenTelemetry
6 5 (4.35%) PySpark
7 4 (3.48%) AWS CDK
7 4 (3.48%) FastAPI
7 4 (3.48%) GraphQL
7 4 (3.48%) pytest
7 4 (3.48%) SQLAlchemy
7 4 (3.48%) WebSockets
Miscellaneous
1 21 (18.26%) Algorithms
1 21 (18.26%) Cyberattack
2 7 (6.09%) Private Cloud
3 6 (5.22%) Reinsurance
4 5 (4.35%) Cloud Native
4 5 (4.35%) Data Centre
4 5 (4.35%) IoT
4 5 (4.35%) Onboarding
5 4 (3.48%) Public Cloud
6 3 (2.61%) CUDA
6 3 (2.61%) Data Structures
6 3 (2.61%) Device Driver
6 3 (2.61%) Distributed Systems
6 3 (2.61%) PCIe
7 2 (1.74%) Cloud Security Posture
7 2 (1.74%) Hybrid Cloud
7 2 (1.74%) PKI
7 2 (1.74%) Reference Data
7 2 (1.74%) Replication
7 2 (1.74%) Security Posture
Operating Systems
1 22 (19.13%) Linux
2 8 (6.96%) Unix
3 5 (4.35%) Windows
4 2 (1.74%) Android
4 2 (1.74%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 76 (66.09%) DevOps
2 56 (48.70%) Mentoring
3 53 (46.09%) Software Engineering
4 46 (40.00%) CI/CD
5 45 (39.13%) Containerisation
6 37 (32.17%) Agile
6 37 (32.17%) Microservices
6 37 (32.17%) Problem-Solving
7 29 (25.22%) Artificial Intelligence
7 29 (25.22%) Machine Learning
8 26 (22.61%) Data Science
8 26 (22.61%) Visualisation
9 25 (21.74%) Infrastructure as Code
10 22 (19.13%) Computer Science
11 21 (18.26%) Decision-Making
11 21 (18.26%) Mathematics
11 21 (18.26%) Statistics
12 20 (17.39%) Data-Driven Decision Making
12 20 (17.39%) Exploratory Data Analysis
12 20 (17.39%) MLOps
Programming Languages
1 63 (54.78%) Python
2 52 (45.22%) Java
3 41 (35.65%) JavaScript
4 22 (19.13%) SQL
5 14 (12.17%) Bash
6 12 (10.43%) Go
7 8 (6.96%) TypeScript
8 7 (6.09%) C#
8 7 (6.09%) PowerShell
9 5 (4.35%) PHP
10 4 (3.48%) Bicep
10 4 (3.48%) C++
11 3 (2.61%) C
12 1 (0.87%) Kotlin
12 1 (0.87%) Rust
Qualifications
1 49 (42.61%) Security Cleared
2 37 (32.17%) DV Cleared
3 24 (20.87%) Degree
4 21 (18.26%) Computer Science Degree
5 11 (9.57%) SC Cleared
6 10 (8.70%) AWS Certification
7 5 (4.35%) Azure Certification
7 5 (4.35%) BPSS Clearance
8 2 (1.74%) (ISC)2 CCSP
8 2 (1.74%) Cisco Certification
8 2 (1.74%) CISM
8 2 (1.74%) CISSP
8 2 (1.74%) CompTIA Security+
9 1 (0.87%) RHCSA
9 1 (0.87%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (2.61%) GMP
2 2 (1.74%) NIST
3 1 (0.87%) GDPR
3 1 (0.87%) HIPAA
System Software
1 92 (80.00%) Docker
2 3 (2.61%) Firmware
3 2 (1.74%) Virtual Machines
4 1 (0.87%) Slurm Workload Manager
4 1 (0.87%) VMware Infrastructure
4 1 (0.87%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 36 (31.30%) Terraform
2 17 (14.78%) Ansible
3 11 (9.57%) Argo
4 10 (8.70%) Prometheus
5 6 (5.22%) Kustomize
6 4 (3.48%) Grafana
7 3 (2.61%) Progress Chef
8 2 (1.74%) Graylog
8 2 (1.74%) Istio
8 2 (1.74%) Podman
8 2 (1.74%) Single Sign-On
9 1 (0.87%) Microsoft Intune
9 1 (0.87%) Packer
9 1 (0.87%) Puppet
9 1 (0.87%) vCenter Server
Vendors
1 17 (14.78%) Google
2 9 (7.83%) Microsoft
3 6 (5.22%) Databricks
4 5 (4.35%) Graphcore
5 2 (1.74%) Dynatrace
5 2 (1.74%) Red Hat
5 2 (1.74%) SAP
5 2 (1.74%) Splunk
6 1 (0.87%) Oracle
6 1 (0.87%) Veeam
6 1 (0.87%) VMware