Kubernetes Job Trends in the West Midlands

Kubernetes (k8s)
England > West Midlands

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in the West Midlands requiring Kubernetes skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 9 January 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
9 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 132 120 99
Rank change year-on-year -12 -21 -8
Permanent jobs citing Kubernetes 47 87 82
As % of all permanent jobs in the West Midlands 0.89% 2.09% 2.25%
As % of the Systems Management category 27.01% 31.41% 20.20%
Number of salaries quoted 31 55 66
10th Percentile £52,400 £42,500 £48,750
25th Percentile £62,500 £60,000 £51,563
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £70,000 £65,000 £63,500
Median % change year-on-year +7.69% +2.36% -9.29%
75th Percentile £80,000 £75,000 £75,000
90th Percentile £100,000 £91,250 £88,125
England median annual salary £75,000 £80,000 £75,000
% change year-on-year -6.25% +6.67% -6.25%

All Systems Management Skills
West Midlands

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 West Midlands.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for systems management skills 174 277 406
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the West Midlands 3.28% 6.65% 11.15%
Number of salaries quoted 127 170 362
10th Percentile £32,500 £34,675 £30,000
25th Percentile £49,750 £43,500 £37,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £62,500 £54,344 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year +15.01% +3.51% -4.55%
75th Percentile £72,500 £66,050 £65,000
90th Percentile £81,000 £75,250 £77,500
England median annual salary £62,500 £70,000 £65,000
% change year-on-year -10.71% +7.69% -3.70%

Kubernetes
Job Vacancy Trend in the West Midlands

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

Kubernetes job vacancy trend in the West Midlands

Kubernetes
Salary Trend in the West Midlands

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the West Midlands citing Kubernetes.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the West Midlands citing Kubernetes

Kubernetes
Salary Histogram in the West Midlands

Salary distribution for jobs citing Kubernetes in the West Midlands over the 6 months to 9 January 2026.

Salary histogram for Kubernetes in the West Midlands

Kubernetes
Job Locations in the West Midlands

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Kubernetes within the West Midlands region over the 6 months to 9 January 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
Birmingham +4 20 £65,000 -7.14% 17
Coventry +6 7 £67,500 -3.57% 4
Worcestershire -27 7 £77,500 +19.23% 7
Herefordshire - 7 £92,500 -
Warwickshire +24 2 - - 1
Shropshire -15 2 - - 16
Staffordshire -13 1 - - 4
Solihull - 1 - -
Kubernetes
England

Kubernetes
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the West Midlands 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 (10.64%) Oracle SOA Suite
2 1 (2.13%) SAS
Business Applications
1 1 (2.13%) Dynamics CRM
Cloud Services
1 28 (59.57%) AWS
2 25 (53.19%) Azure
3 10 (21.28%) GitHub
4 7 (14.89%) GCP
4 7 (14.89%) SaaS
4 7 (14.89%) Serverless
5 5 (10.64%) AWS Lambda
6 4 (8.51%) Amazon ECS
6 4 (8.51%) Azure DevOps
6 4 (8.51%) Entra ID
6 4 (8.51%) GitHub Actions
7 3 (6.38%) Amazon CloudWatch
7 3 (6.38%) Amazon EKS
7 3 (6.38%) Amazon S3
7 3 (6.38%) Azure AKS
7 3 (6.38%) Azure Stack
8 2 (4.26%) OpenShift
8 2 (4.26%) PaaS
9 1 (2.13%) AWS CloudFormation
9 1 (2.13%) Datadog
Communications & Networking
1 2 (4.26%) TCP/IP
2 1 (2.13%) Firewall
2 1 (2.13%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 6 (12.77%) PostgreSQL
2 3 (6.38%) Delta Lake
2 3 (6.38%) SQL Server
3 2 (4.26%) Amazon RDS
3 2 (4.26%) MongoDB
3 2 (4.26%) Relational Database
3 2 (4.26%) TimescaleDB
4 1 (2.13%) Geospatial Data
4 1 (2.13%) InfluxDB
4 1 (2.13%) MySQL
4 1 (2.13%) Neo4j
4 1 (2.13%) NoSQL
4 1 (2.13%) Pentaho
4 1 (2.13%) Power BI
4 1 (2.13%) Redis
4 1 (2.13%) SQL Server Reporting Services
Development Applications
1 9 (19.15%) JUnit
2 7 (14.89%) GitLab
2 7 (14.89%) Maven
2 7 (14.89%) Mockito
3 5 (10.64%) Git
3 5 (10.64%) Jenkins
4 3 (6.38%) Cucumber
5 2 (4.26%) MLflow
5 2 (4.26%) Selenium
6 1 (2.13%) Gatling
6 1 (2.13%) JIRA
6 1 (2.13%) JMeter
6 1 (2.13%) Locust
6 1 (2.13%) Snyk
General
1 13 (27.66%) Social Skills
2 9 (19.15%) Finance
3 8 (17.02%) Public Sector
4 3 (6.38%) Advertising
4 3 (6.38%) Military
5 2 (4.26%) Analytical Skills
5 2 (4.26%) Automotive
6 1 (2.13%) Banking
6 1 (2.13%) Investment Banking
6 1 (2.13%) Law
Job Titles
1 14 (29.79%) Senior
2 11 (23.40%) DevOps Engineer
3 10 (21.28%) Developer
4 8 (17.02%) Full-Stack Developer
5 7 (14.89%) Full-Stack Java Developer
5 7 (14.89%) Java Developer
5 7 (14.89%) Senior Developer
6 6 (12.77%) Platform Engineer
7 5 (10.64%) Kubernetes Engineer
7 5 (10.64%) Lead
7 5 (10.64%) Senior Full-Stack Developer
7 5 (10.64%) Senior Java Developer
8 4 (8.51%) Architect
8 4 (8.51%) Azure Engineer
8 4 (8.51%) Infrastructure Engineer
8 4 (8.51%) Senior DevOps
8 4 (8.51%) Senior DevOps Engineer
9 3 (6.38%) Azure Architect
9 3 (6.38%) IT Engineer
9 3 (6.38%) IT Infrastructure Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 9 (19.15%) Spring
2 8 (17.02%) React
3 7 (14.89%) REST
4 5 (10.64%) Spring Boot
5 3 (6.38%) .NET
5 3 (6.38%) AngularJS
6 2 (4.26%) Django
6 2 (4.26%) Elastic Stack
6 2 (4.26%) Flask
6 2 (4.26%) gRPC
6 2 (4.26%) pytest
7 1 (2.13%) .NET Framework
7 1 (2.13%) Gherkin
7 1 (2.13%) GraphQL
7 1 (2.13%) jQuery
7 1 (2.13%) Kafka
7 1 (2.13%) KnockoutJS
7 1 (2.13%) Razor View Engine
7 1 (2.13%) scikit-learn
7 1 (2.13%) TensorFlow
Miscellaneous
1 5 (10.64%) Self-Motivation
2 4 (8.51%) Onboarding
3 3 (6.38%) Cloud Native
3 3 (6.38%) Data Centre
3 3 (6.38%) Hybrid Cloud
3 3 (6.38%) Management Information System
3 3 (6.38%) Product Ownership
4 2 (4.26%) Legacy Systems
5 1 (2.13%) Data Structures
5 1 (2.13%) Derivative
5 1 (2.13%) Enterprise Software
5 1 (2.13%) Legacy Applications
5 1 (2.13%) PKI
Operating Systems
1 18 (38.30%) Linux
2 3 (6.38%) Rocky
2 3 (6.38%) Windows
2 3 (6.38%) Windows Server
2 3 (6.38%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 29 (61.70%) DevOps
2 26 (55.32%) CI/CD
3 18 (38.30%) Agile
3 18 (38.30%) Containerisation
4 17 (36.17%) Microservices
5 16 (34.04%) Problem-Solving
6 14 (29.79%) Infrastructure as Code
7 11 (23.40%) Full-Stack Development
8 9 (19.15%) TDD
9 8 (17.02%) Continuous Improvement
9 8 (17.02%) Scrum
9 8 (17.02%) Software Engineering
10 7 (14.89%) Analytics
10 7 (14.89%) Platform Engineering
11 6 (12.77%) AI
11 6 (12.77%) Decision-Making
11 6 (12.77%) SDLC
11 6 (12.77%) Sprint Planning
11 6 (12.77%) Test Automation
12 5 (10.64%) Unit Testing
Programming Languages
1 19 (40.43%) Python
2 16 (34.04%) Java
3 13 (27.66%) SQL
4 10 (21.28%) JavaScript
5 9 (19.15%) TypeScript
6 8 (17.02%) Bash
7 7 (14.89%) PL/SQL
8 6 (12.77%) Go
9 4 (8.51%) C
10 3 (6.38%) Bicep
10 3 (6.38%) R
11 2 (4.26%) C#
11 2 (4.26%) C++
11 2 (4.26%) Delphi
12 1 (2.13%) Kusto Query Language
12 1 (2.13%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 20 (42.55%) Security Cleared
2 15 (31.91%) SC Cleared
3 8 (17.02%) DV Cleared
4 5 (10.64%) Azure Certification
4 5 (10.64%) BPSS Clearance
5 3 (6.38%) Network+ Certification
6 2 (4.26%) AWS Certification
6 2 (4.26%) CCNA
6 2 (4.26%) Cisco Certification
6 2 (4.26%) Computer Science Degree
6 2 (4.26%) Degree
7 1 (2.13%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
7 1 (2.13%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
7 1 (2.13%) AWS Certified SysOps Administrator
7 1 (2.13%) CISSP
7 1 (2.13%) Master's Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (10.64%) QA
2 2 (4.26%) GDPR
2 2 (4.26%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 1 (2.13%) Accessibility
3 1 (2.13%) Cyber Essentials
3 1 (2.13%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
3 1 (2.13%) Data Quality
3 1 (2.13%) Government Security Classifications
3 1 (2.13%) SOC 2
3 1 (2.13%) WCAG
System Software
1 33 (70.21%) Docker
2 3 (6.38%) Active Directory
2 3 (6.38%) Hyper-V
Systems Management
1 15 (31.91%) Terraform
2 9 (19.15%) Ansible
3 5 (10.64%) Grafana
4 2 (4.26%) Argo
5 1 (2.13%) Kustomize
5 1 (2.13%) Nagios
5 1 (2.13%) Prometheus
5 1 (2.13%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 11 (23.40%) Oracle
2 3 (6.38%) Dell
3 2 (4.26%) Microsoft
4 1 (2.13%) Denodo
4 1 (2.13%) Google
4 1 (2.13%) OpenAI
4 1 (2.13%) Salesforce
4 1 (2.13%) Splunk
4 1 (2.13%) Talend