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

6 months to
31 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 125 95 136
Rank change year-on-year -30 +41 -37
Permanent jobs citing Kubernetes 87 92 91
As % of all permanent jobs in the West Midlands 1.01% 2.66% 1.44%
As % of the Systems Management category 39.73% 34.20% 27.33%
Number of salaries quoted 53 55 69
10th Percentile £52,500 £56,000 £52,500
25th Percentile £57,500 £57,500 £57,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £70,079 £67,500 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year +3.82% +3.85% -7.14%
75th Percentile £88,000 £80,000 £77,500
90th Percentile £93,750 £87,500 £93,750
England median annual salary £70,079 £79,000 £77,500
% change year-on-year -11.29% +1.94% +1.97%

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 219 269 333
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the West Midlands 2.54% 7.78% 5.25%
Number of salaries quoted 163 182 211
10th Percentile £34,335 £31,500 £27,500
25th Percentile £46,250 £43,750 £38,125
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £60,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year - +9.09% -
75th Percentile £74,525 £73,750 £68,375
90th Percentile £88,750 £78,625 £75,000
England median annual salary £60,000 £62,500 £62,500
% change year-on-year -4.00% - -3.85%

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 31 August 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 31 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
Birmingham -2 45 £70,505 +0.72% 11
Worcestershire -14 18 £79,000 -1.25% 2
Coventry -11 11 £73,750 +32.29% 3
Herefordshire -14 10 £99,000 +7.03%
Shropshire -32 5 £45,750 -23.75% 10
Staffordshire -5 4 £54,183 +14.07%
Warwickshire -22 1 £50,000 -25.93%
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 7 (8.05%) Oracle SOA Suite
2 1 (1.15%) Confluence
2 1 (1.15%) IIS
2 1 (1.15%) SharePoint
Cloud Services
1 66 (75.86%) Azure
2 53 (60.92%) AWS
3 15 (17.24%) GitHub
4 11 (12.64%) Azure AKS
5 10 (11.49%) GitHub Copilot
6 9 (10.34%) Azure ExpressRoute
6 9 (10.34%) Entra ID
7 5 (5.75%) Azure AI
7 5 (5.75%) GCP
7 5 (5.75%) OpenShift
7 5 (5.75%) SaaS
8 4 (4.60%) Amazon EC2
8 4 (4.60%) Amazon EKS
8 4 (4.60%) Azure DevOps
8 4 (4.60%) Azure Logic Apps
8 4 (4.60%) Azure Service Bus
8 4 (4.60%) Virtual Private Cloud
9 3 (3.45%) Amazon S3
9 3 (3.45%) AWS CloudFormation
9 3 (3.45%) PaaS
Communications & Networking
1 11 (12.64%) Network Security
2 10 (11.49%) VPN
3 3 (3.45%) Firewall
4 2 (2.30%) HTTP
5 1 (1.15%) BIG-IP
5 1 (1.15%) DNS
5 1 (1.15%) SAN
5 1 (1.15%) VLAN
5 1 (1.15%) WAN
5 1 (1.15%) WireGuard
Database & Business Intelligence
1 15 (17.24%) MongoDB
2 11 (12.64%) Azure SQL Database
3 5 (5.75%) Elasticsearch
4 3 (3.45%) Amazon RDS
4 3 (3.45%) PostgreSQL
4 3 (3.45%) SQL Server
5 2 (2.30%) Amazon Aurora
5 2 (2.30%) MySQL
5 2 (2.30%) Power BI
5 2 (2.30%) Power Query
6 1 (1.15%) Data Mining
6 1 (1.15%) Redis
Development Applications
1 21 (24.14%) JUnit
2 17 (19.54%) Maven
3 14 (16.09%) Mockito
4 12 (13.79%) Git
5 9 (10.34%) GitLab
6 8 (9.20%) Cucumber
7 7 (8.05%) Jenkins
7 7 (8.05%) Postman
7 7 (8.05%) Selenium
8 6 (6.90%) Gatling
9 2 (2.30%) Ant
9 2 (2.30%) Apache Ivy
9 2 (2.30%) IBM UrbanCode
9 2 (2.30%) JMeter
10 1 (1.15%) Bitbucket
10 1 (1.15%) Gradle
10 1 (1.15%) JIRA
10 1 (1.15%) Locust
10 1 (1.15%) REST Assured
10 1 (1.15%) TestNG
General
1 25 (28.74%) Finance
2 12 (13.79%) Social Skills
3 6 (6.90%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 5 (5.75%) Advertising
4 5 (5.75%) Marketing
4 5 (5.75%) Public Sector
5 2 (2.30%) Analytical Skills
6 1 (1.15%) Banking
6 1 (1.15%) Documentation Skills
6 1 (1.15%) Law
Job Titles
1 25 (28.74%) Developer
2 21 (24.14%) Senior
3 13 (14.94%) Architect
4 12 (13.79%) Senior Developer
5 11 (12.64%) Full-Stack Developer
6 10 (11.49%) .NET Developer
6 10 (11.49%) Full-Stack Java Developer
6 10 (11.49%) Java Developer
7 9 (10.34%) Azure Architect
7 9 (10.34%) Lead
7 9 (10.34%) Technical Architect
8 8 (9.20%) Cloud Engineer
8 8 (9.20%) Senior Full-Stack Developer
9 7 (8.05%) Senior Java Developer
10 6 (6.90%) DevOps Engineer
10 6 (6.90%) Platform Engineer
10 6 (6.90%) Quality Engineer
11 5 (5.75%) Principal Engineer
11 5 (5.75%) Senior Quality Engineer
12 4 (4.60%) Team Leader
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 39 (44.83%) Terraform
2 17 (19.54%) .NET
3 16 (18.39%) React
4 15 (17.24%) ASP.NET
4 15 (17.24%) ASP.NET Core
4 15 (17.24%) Spring
5 13 (14.94%) REST
6 10 (11.49%) .NET Core
7 7 (8.05%) Playwright
8 6 (6.90%) Node.js
8 6 (6.90%) RESTful
9 5 (5.75%) .NET Framework
9 5 (5.75%) AngularJS
9 5 (5.75%) ASP.NET Web API
9 5 (5.75%) Blazor
9 5 (5.75%) CSS
9 5 (5.75%) Entity Framework
9 5 (5.75%) HTML
9 5 (5.75%) Kafka
9 5 (5.75%) Vue
Miscellaneous
1 19 (21.84%) Cloud Native
2 9 (10.34%) Hybrid Cloud
3 7 (8.05%) Onboarding
3 7 (8.05%) Self-Motivation
4 6 (6.90%) Distributed Systems
5 3 (3.45%) Legacy Systems
5 3 (3.45%) Product Ownership
5 3 (3.45%) Public Cloud
6 2 (2.30%) Clustering
6 2 (2.30%) Greenfield Project
6 2 (2.30%) Linux Command Line
6 2 (2.30%) Management Information System
6 2 (2.30%) Online Gambling
6 2 (2.30%) Video\Live Streaming
7 1 (1.15%) Algorithms
7 1 (1.15%) Data Structures
7 1 (1.15%) Distributed Computing
7 1 (1.15%) Enterprise Software
7 1 (1.15%) Replication
Operating Systems
1 22 (25.29%) Linux
2 3 (3.45%) Unix
2 3 (3.45%) Windows
3 2 (2.30%) Solaris
3 2 (2.30%) Ubuntu
3 2 (2.30%) Windows Server
4 1 (1.15%) CentOS
4 1 (1.15%) Debian
4 1 (1.15%) Mac OS
Processes & Methodologies
1 59 (67.82%) CI/CD
2 46 (52.87%) Agile
3 36 (41.38%) Containerisation
4 34 (39.08%) Mentoring
5 30 (34.48%) Microservices
6 29 (33.33%) Infrastructure as Code
7 27 (31.03%) Scrum
8 26 (29.89%) AI
9 25 (28.74%) TDD
10 23 (26.44%) DevOps
11 21 (24.14%) Full-Stack Development
12 18 (20.69%) Continuous Improvement
13 17 (19.54%) Stakeholder Engagement
13 17 (19.54%) Technical Leadership
14 14 (16.09%) DevSecOps
15 13 (14.94%) Cloud Security
15 13 (14.94%) Continuous Integration
15 13 (14.94%) Problem-Solving
16 12 (13.79%) GitOps
16 12 (13.79%) Test Automation
Programming Languages
1 30 (34.48%) SQL
2 23 (26.44%) Java
3 21 (24.14%) C#
4 20 (22.99%) JavaScript
5 14 (16.09%) PL/SQL
6 12 (13.79%) TypeScript
7 11 (12.64%) Bash
7 11 (12.64%) Bicep
8 8 (9.20%) Python
9 5 (5.75%) PowerShell
10 2 (2.30%) Data Analysis Expressions
10 2 (2.30%) Go
10 2 (2.30%) VB.NET
11 1 (1.15%) Kusto Query Language
11 1 (1.15%) PHP
11 1 (1.15%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 40 (45.98%) Security Cleared
2 36 (41.38%) SC Cleared
3 13 (14.94%) DV Cleared
4 9 (10.34%) Azure Certification
5 3 (3.45%) AWS Certification
5 3 (3.45%) Computer Science Degree
5 3 (3.45%) Degree
6 2 (2.30%) BPSS Clearance
7 1 (1.15%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
7 1 (1.15%) IISP
7 1 (1.15%) ISACA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 8 (9.20%) Accessibility
2 7 (8.05%) WCAG
3 2 (2.30%) QA
3 2 (2.30%) SLA
4 1 (1.15%) GxP
4 1 (1.15%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 1 (1.15%) SOC 2
System Software
1 51 (58.62%) Docker
2 9 (10.34%) Active Directory
2 9 (10.34%) VMware Infrastructure
3 1 (1.15%) Virtual Servers
Systems Management
1 10 (11.49%) Ansible
2 4 (4.60%) Argo
2 4 (4.60%) Grafana
3 3 (3.45%) Progress Chef
3 3 (3.45%) Prometheus
3 3 (3.45%) Puppet
4 1 (1.15%) Podman
Vendors
1 34 (39.08%) Microsoft
2 14 (16.09%) Oracle
3 9 (10.34%) VMware
4 5 (5.75%) Facebook
5 4 (4.60%) Red Hat
6 3 (3.45%) Workday
7 2 (2.30%) ServiceNow
8 1 (1.15%) F5