Kubernetes Jobs in the West Midlands

Kubernetes (k8s)
England > West Midlands

The table below provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in the West Midlands 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 23 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
23 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 104 153 115
Rank change year-on-year +49 -38 -59
Permanent jobs citing Kubernetes 87 105 171
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the West Midlands 2.10% 1.40% 2.76%
As % of the Systems Management category 31.52% 19.74% 22.44%
Number of salaries quoted 48 84 119
10th Percentile - £46,250 £50,000
25th Percentile £57,500 £52,500 £56,875
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £67,500 £65,000 £70,000
Median % change year-on-year +3.85% -7.14% -
75th Percentile £75,000 £84,919 £82,500
90th Percentile £77,875 £89,625 £100,000
England median annual salary £82,500 £77,500 £77,500
% change year-on-year +6.45% - -

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 276 532 762
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the West Midlands 6.67% 7.07% 12.31%
Number of salaries quoted 170 401 373
10th Percentile £36,025 £29,000 £27,500
25th Percentile £43,750 £38,250 £37,875
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £55,000 £57,500
Median % change year-on-year +9.09% -4.35% +4.55%
75th Percentile £70,000 £68,750 £73,750
90th Percentile £75,000 £82,500 £85,000
England median annual salary £70,000 £62,500 £67,500
% change year-on-year +12.00% -7.41% -3.57%

Kubernetes
Job Vacancy Trend in the West Midlands

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

Job vacancy trend for Kubernetes in the West Midlands

Kubernetes
Salary Trend in the West Midlands

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

Salary trend for Kubernetes in the West Midlands

Kubernetes
Salary Histogram in the West Midlands

Salary distribution for jobs citing Kubernetes in the West Midlands over the 6 months to 23 May 2025.

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 23 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
Warwickshire +11 19 £60,000 -7.69% 12
Staffordshire +36 18 £56,250 -16.67% 104
Birmingham +10 18 £72,500 -9.20% 110
Shropshire +25 12 £60,000 -17.24% 170
Worcestershire +22 4 £65,000 +18.18% 84
Herefordshire +7 4 - - 1
Coventry -7 1 - - 87
Walsall - 1 £60,000 -
Kubernetes
England

Kubernetes
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the West Midlands 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 16 (18.39%) Confluence
2 2 (2.30%) Jupyter
3 1 (1.15%) Apache
3 1 (1.15%) Tomcat
Cloud Services
1 75 (86.21%) Azure
2 67 (77.01%) AWS
3 29 (33.33%) GCP
4 12 (13.79%) Amazon ECS
5 11 (12.64%) Azure DevOps
5 11 (12.64%) GitHub
5 11 (12.64%) GitHub Actions
6 10 (11.49%) SaaS
7 8 (9.20%) IaaS
7 8 (9.20%) PaaS
8 3 (3.45%) Azure AKS
8 3 (3.45%) Azure Service Bus
8 3 (3.45%) Cloud Computing
8 3 (3.45%) Pulumi
9 2 (2.30%) Amazon EKS
9 2 (2.30%) AWS CloudFormation
9 2 (2.30%) AWS Lambda
9 2 (2.30%) Azure API Management
9 2 (2.30%) Azure Data Factory
9 2 (2.30%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 2 (2.30%) Broadband
2 1 (1.15%) DNS
2 1 (1.15%) TCP/IP
2 1 (1.15%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 26 (29.89%) SQL Server
2 8 (9.20%) NoSQL
3 5 (5.75%) Relational Database
4 4 (4.60%) Azure SQL Database
4 4 (4.60%) Big Data
5 3 (3.45%) MongoDB
5 3 (3.45%) PostgreSQL
5 3 (3.45%) Redis
6 2 (2.30%) Hazelcast
6 2 (2.30%) RDBMS
7 1 (1.15%) Amazon RDS
7 1 (1.15%) DB2
7 1 (1.15%) DynamoDB
7 1 (1.15%) Elasticsearch
7 1 (1.15%) MySQL
Development Applications
1 33 (37.93%) SonarQube
2 28 (32.18%) JIRA
3 26 (29.89%) GitLab
4 24 (27.59%) Bitbucket
4 24 (27.59%) Cucumber
4 24 (27.59%) Maven
4 24 (27.59%) Selenium
4 24 (27.59%) Sonatype Nexus
5 11 (12.64%) Git
6 3 (3.45%) Jenkins
7 2 (2.30%) Cypress.io
7 2 (2.30%) Jaeger
8 1 (1.15%) Atlassian Bamboo
8 1 (1.15%) Octopus Deploy
8 1 (1.15%) Subversion
8 1 (1.15%) Team Foundation Server
8 1 (1.15%) webpack
General
1 32 (36.78%) Finance
2 29 (33.33%) Inclusion and Diversity
3 27 (31.03%) Banking
4 12 (13.79%) Manufacturing
5 11 (12.64%) Corporate Banking
5 11 (12.64%) Investment Banking
5 11 (12.64%) Retail
6 10 (11.49%) Public Sector
7 9 (10.34%) Social Skills
8 5 (5.75%) Automotive
9 4 (4.60%) Analytical Skills
10 2 (2.30%) Financial Institution
11 1 (1.15%) Games
11 1 (1.15%) iGaming
Job Titles
1 38 (43.68%) Software Engineer
2 15 (17.24%) Developer
3 12 (13.79%) Site Engineer
3 12 (13.79%) Site Reliability Engineer
4 11 (12.64%) Senior
5 10 (11.49%) DevOps Engineer
6 8 (9.20%) Java Engineer
6 8 (9.20%) Java Software Engineer
7 5 (5.75%) Lead
8 4 (4.60%) Senior Developer
9 3 (3.45%) Architect
9 3 (3.45%) Backend Developer
9 3 (3.45%) Full-Stack Developer
9 3 (3.45%) Senior Backend Developer
9 3 (3.45%) Software Developer
10 2 (2.30%) Azure Engineer
10 2 (2.30%) Senior Data Scientist
10 2 (2.30%) Senior DevOps
10 2 (2.30%) Senior DevOps Engineer
10 2 (2.30%) Senior Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 36 (41.38%) Spring
2 33 (37.93%) React
3 28 (32.18%) CSS
3 28 (32.18%) HTML
4 27 (31.03%) Kafka
5 26 (29.89%) Spring Boot
6 25 (28.74%) JPA
7 24 (27.59%) Redux
8 19 (21.84%) .NET
9 18 (20.69%) RESTful
10 16 (18.39%) REST
11 15 (17.24%) Hibernate
12 12 (13.79%) CSS3
12 12 (13.79%) HTML5
12 12 (13.79%) Jest
12 12 (13.79%) Loki
13 11 (12.64%) Sass
14 7 (8.05%) ARM Templates
15 6 (6.90%) AngularJS
15 6 (6.90%) Azure Blueprints
Miscellaneous
1 24 (27.59%) Enterprise Software
1 24 (27.59%) Product Ownership
2 9 (10.34%) Onboarding
3 6 (6.90%) Cloud Native
3 6 (6.90%) Management Information System
4 5 (5.75%) Algorithms
5 4 (4.60%) Distributed Systems
6 3 (3.45%) Cyberattack
6 3 (3.45%) Data Structures
6 3 (3.45%) IoT
7 2 (2.30%) CUDA
7 2 (2.30%) Public Cloud
7 2 (2.30%) Reference Data
7 2 (2.30%) Replication
7 2 (2.30%) Self-Motivation
7 2 (2.30%) SIMD
7 2 (2.30%) Virtual Team
8 1 (1.15%) Life Science
8 1 (1.15%) Linux Command Line
8 1 (1.15%) Low-Code
Operating Systems
1 6 (6.90%) Linux
2 2 (2.30%) Unix
3 1 (1.15%) Android
3 1 (1.15%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 1 (1.15%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 67 (77.01%) DevOps
2 57 (65.52%) Containerisation
3 50 (57.47%) Software Engineering
4 47 (54.02%) CI/CD
5 44 (50.57%) Microservices
6 37 (42.53%) Agile
7 33 (37.93%) Test Automation
8 30 (34.48%) Full-Stack Development
9 29 (33.33%) Front End Development
10 28 (32.18%) Performance Optimisation
11 27 (31.03%) TDD
12 25 (28.74%) SDLC
13 24 (27.59%) Mentoring
14 16 (18.39%) Computer Science
15 15 (17.24%) Continuous Improvement
16 14 (16.09%) Continuous Delivery
16 14 (16.09%) Deployment Automation
16 14 (16.09%) User Experience
17 13 (14.94%) Clean Code
18 12 (13.79%) Design Patterns
Programming Languages
1 44 (50.57%) Java
2 38 (43.68%) SQL
3 35 (40.23%) JavaScript
4 27 (31.03%) TypeScript
5 21 (24.14%) C#
6 16 (18.39%) Python
7 3 (3.45%) Bash
7 3 (3.45%) C++
7 3 (3.45%) Go
8 2 (2.30%) PL/SQL
9 1 (1.15%) PowerShell
9 1 (1.15%) Rust
Qualifications
1 16 (18.39%) Security Cleared
2 15 (17.24%) Degree
3 14 (16.09%) Computer Science Degree
4 9 (10.34%) BPSS Clearance
5 5 (5.75%) AWS Certification
6 4 (4.60%) DV Cleared
7 3 (3.45%) Azure Certification
8 2 (2.30%) SC Cleared
9 1 (1.15%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 25 (28.74%) QA
2 11 (12.64%) Accessibility
3 7 (8.05%) NCSC
4 2 (2.30%) SLA
5 1 (1.15%) Cyber Essentials
5 1 (1.15%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 1 (1.15%) NIST
System Software
1 66 (75.86%) Docker
Systems Management
1 30 (34.48%) Terraform
2 18 (20.69%) Prometheus
3 16 (18.39%) Grafana
4 12 (13.79%) Ansible
5 3 (3.45%) Argo
6 2 (2.30%) Kustomize
7 1 (1.15%) Progress Chef
7 1 (1.15%) Puppet
Vendors
1 24 (27.59%) Solace
2 9 (10.34%) Microsoft
3 3 (3.45%) Google
4 2 (2.30%) Databricks
5 1 (1.15%) IBM
5 1 (1.15%) Oracle