Kubernetes Job Trends in Taunton

Kubernetes (k8s)
Somerset > Taunton

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in Taunton requiring Kubernetes skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 1 November 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 15 - 12
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Permanent jobs citing Kubernetes 2 0 5
As % of all permanent jobs in Taunton 2.78% - 10.42%
As % of the Systems Management category 28.57% - 100.00%
Number of salaries quoted 2 0 5
10th Percentile - - £36,654
25th Percentile £52,500 - £37,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 - £49,500
75th Percentile £57,500 - £58,750
90th Percentile - - £70,000
Somerset median annual salary £45,000 - £52,500
% change year-on-year - - -12.50%

All Systems Management Skills
Taunton

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 Taunton.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for systems management skills 7 0 5
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Taunton 9.72% - 10.42%
Number of salaries quoted 7 0 5
10th Percentile - - £36,654
25th Percentile £31,250 - £37,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £33,500 - £49,500
Median % change year-on-year - - +1.13%
75th Percentile £45,875 - £58,750
90th Percentile £57,500 - £70,000
Somerset median annual salary £45,000 £52,500 £50,000
% change year-on-year -14.29% +5.00% -4.76%

Kubernetes
Job Vacancy Trend in Taunton

Historical trend showing the proportion of permanent IT job postings citing Kubernetes relative to all permanent IT jobs advertised in Taunton.

Kubernetes job vacancy trend in Taunton

Kubernetes
Salary Trend in Taunton

Salary distribution trend for jobs in Taunton citing Kubernetes.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in Taunton citing Kubernetes

Kubernetes
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Taunton 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:

Cloud Services
1 2 (100.00%) Azure
1 2 (100.00%) Azure DevOps
1 2 (100.00%) GitHub
1 2 (100.00%) GitHub Actions
Job Titles
1 1 (50.00%) Azure DevOps Engineer
1 1 (50.00%) Azure Engineer
1 1 (50.00%) DevOps Engineer
1 1 (50.00%) Platform Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (100.00%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 2 (100.00%) Cloud Native
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (100.00%) CI/CD
1 2 (100.00%) Containerisation
1 2 (100.00%) DevOps
1 2 (100.00%) Infrastructure as Code
1 2 (100.00%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 1 (50.00%) Platform Engineering
Programming Languages
1 2 (100.00%) Bicep
System Software
1 2 (100.00%) Docker