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

6 months to
17 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 109 92 136
Rank change year-on-year -17 +44 -37
Permanent jobs citing Kubernetes 90 93 91
As % of all permanent jobs in the West Midlands 1.05% 2.69% 1.41%
As % of the Systems Management category 32.49% 31.31% 22.09%
Number of salaries quoted 55 57 76
10th Percentile £52,500 £56,500 £51,250
25th Percentile £57,500 £57,500 £52,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £70,079 £67,500 £62,500
Median % change year-on-year +3.82% +8.00% -10.71%
75th Percentile £87,750 £78,750 £77,813
90th Percentile £93,750 £85,000 £89,375
England median annual salary £70,932 £80,000 £77,500
% change year-on-year -11.34% +3.23% -

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 277 297 412
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the West Midlands 3.24% 8.59% 6.40%
Number of salaries quoted 215 210 278
10th Percentile £34,804 £36,125 £28,550
25th Percentile £47,500 £45,423 £40,120
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £61,250 £56,250
Median % change year-on-year -2.04% +8.89% -2.17%
75th Percentile £78,750 £73,750 £69,500
90th Percentile £93,750 £80,000 £80,000
England median annual salary £65,000 £65,000 £65,000
% change year-on-year - - -2.99%

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 17 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 17 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 -5 46 £70,079 +3.82% 34
Worcestershire -14 17 £70,000 -12.50% 1
Coventry -11 12 £80,000 +92.77% 4
Herefordshire -17 9 £110,000 +18.92%
Shropshire -33 5 £45,750 -23.75% 16
Staffordshire -12 4 £54,183 -3.68%
Warwickshire -22 2 £57,500 -14.81%
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 (7.78%) Oracle SOA Suite
2 1 (1.11%) Confluence
2 1 (1.11%) IIS
2 1 (1.11%) SharePoint
Cloud Services
1 67 (74.44%) Azure
2 57 (63.33%) AWS
3 15 (16.67%) GitHub
4 10 (11.11%) Azure AKS
4 10 (11.11%) GitHub Copilot
5 8 (8.89%) Azure ExpressRoute
5 8 (8.89%) Entra ID
6 6 (6.67%) GCP
6 6 (6.67%) SaaS
7 5 (5.56%) Azure AI
7 5 (5.56%) OpenShift
8 4 (4.44%) Amazon EC2
8 4 (4.44%) Amazon EKS
8 4 (4.44%) Azure DevOps
8 4 (4.44%) Azure Logic Apps
8 4 (4.44%) Azure Service Bus
8 4 (4.44%) PaaS
8 4 (4.44%) Virtual Private Cloud
9 3 (3.33%) Amazon S3
9 3 (3.33%) AWS CloudFormation
Communications & Networking
1 11 (12.22%) Network Security
2 9 (10.00%) VPN
3 4 (4.44%) Firewall
4 2 (2.22%) HTTP
5 1 (1.11%) BIG-IP
5 1 (1.11%) DNS
5 1 (1.11%) SAN
5 1 (1.11%) VLAN
5 1 (1.11%) WAN
5 1 (1.11%) WireGuard
Database & Business Intelligence
1 15 (16.67%) MongoDB
2 11 (12.22%) Azure SQL Database
3 5 (5.56%) Elasticsearch
4 4 (4.44%) PostgreSQL
5 3 (3.33%) Amazon RDS
5 3 (3.33%) SQL Server
6 2 (2.22%) Amazon Aurora
6 2 (2.22%) MySQL
6 2 (2.22%) Power BI
6 2 (2.22%) Power Query
6 2 (2.22%) Redis
7 1 (1.11%) Data Mining
7 1 (1.11%) TimescaleDB
Development Applications
1 21 (23.33%) JUnit
2 17 (18.89%) Maven
3 14 (15.56%) Mockito
4 12 (13.33%) Git
5 9 (10.00%) Cucumber
5 9 (10.00%) GitLab
6 7 (7.78%) Jenkins
6 7 (7.78%) Postman
6 7 (7.78%) Selenium
7 6 (6.67%) Gatling
8 3 (3.33%) JMeter
9 2 (2.22%) Ant
9 2 (2.22%) Apache Ivy
9 2 (2.22%) IBM UrbanCode
9 2 (2.22%) Locust
10 1 (1.11%) Bitbucket
10 1 (1.11%) Gradle
10 1 (1.11%) JIRA
10 1 (1.11%) REST Assured
10 1 (1.11%) TestNG
General
1 25 (27.78%) Finance
2 14 (15.56%) Social Skills
3 7 (7.78%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 5 (5.56%) Advertising
4 5 (5.56%) Marketing
4 5 (5.56%) Public Sector
5 3 (3.33%) Analytical Skills
6 1 (1.11%) Banking
6 1 (1.11%) Documentation Skills
6 1 (1.11%) Law
Job Titles
1 26 (28.89%) Developer
2 22 (24.44%) Senior
3 12 (13.33%) Architect
3 12 (13.33%) Full-Stack Developer
3 12 (13.33%) Senior Developer
4 10 (11.11%) .NET Developer
4 10 (11.11%) Full-Stack Java Developer
4 10 (11.11%) Java Developer
4 10 (11.11%) Lead
5 8 (8.89%) Azure Architect
5 8 (8.89%) Cloud Engineer
5 8 (8.89%) Senior Full-Stack Developer
5 8 (8.89%) Technical Architect
6 7 (7.78%) Senior Java Developer
7 6 (6.67%) DevOps Engineer
7 6 (6.67%) Platform Engineer
7 6 (6.67%) Quality Engineer
8 5 (5.56%) Administrator
8 5 (5.56%) Principal Engineer
8 5 (5.56%) Senior Quality Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 17 (18.89%) .NET
1 17 (18.89%) React
2 15 (16.67%) ASP.NET
2 15 (16.67%) ASP.NET Core
2 15 (16.67%) Spring
3 14 (15.56%) REST
4 10 (11.11%) .NET Core
5 7 (7.78%) Node.js
5 7 (7.78%) Playwright
6 6 (6.67%) RESTful
7 5 (5.56%) .NET Framework
7 5 (5.56%) AngularJS
7 5 (5.56%) ASP.NET Web API
7 5 (5.56%) Blazor
7 5 (5.56%) CSS
7 5 (5.56%) Entity Framework
7 5 (5.56%) HTML
7 5 (5.56%) Kafka
7 5 (5.56%) ML.NET
7 5 (5.56%) Vue
Miscellaneous
1 19 (21.11%) Cloud Native
2 8 (8.89%) Hybrid Cloud
3 7 (7.78%) Onboarding
3 7 (7.78%) Self-Motivation
4 6 (6.67%) Distributed Systems
5 3 (3.33%) Legacy Systems
5 3 (3.33%) Product Ownership
5 3 (3.33%) Public Cloud
6 2 (2.22%) Clustering
6 2 (2.22%) Greenfield Project
6 2 (2.22%) Linux Command Line
6 2 (2.22%) Management Information System
6 2 (2.22%) Online Gambling
6 2 (2.22%) Video\Live Streaming
7 1 (1.11%) Algorithms
7 1 (1.11%) Cyber Threat
7 1 (1.11%) Data Structures
7 1 (1.11%) Distributed Computing
7 1 (1.11%) Enterprise Software
7 1 (1.11%) Replication
Operating Systems
1 24 (26.67%) Linux
2 4 (4.44%) Windows
3 3 (3.33%) Ubuntu
3 3 (3.33%) Unix
4 2 (2.22%) CentOS
4 2 (2.22%) Debian
4 2 (2.22%) Solaris
4 2 (2.22%) Windows Server
5 1 (1.11%) Mac OS
Processes & Methodologies
1 60 (66.67%) CI/CD
2 47 (52.22%) Agile
3 37 (41.11%) Containerisation
4 34 (37.78%) Mentoring
5 31 (34.44%) Microservices
6 30 (33.33%) Infrastructure as Code
7 27 (30.00%) Scrum
8 26 (28.89%) AI
9 25 (27.78%) DevOps
9 25 (27.78%) TDD
10 22 (24.44%) Full-Stack Development
11 20 (22.22%) Continuous Improvement
12 18 (20.00%) Technical Leadership
13 16 (17.78%) Stakeholder Engagement
14 15 (16.67%) Problem-Solving
15 13 (14.44%) Cloud Security
15 13 (14.44%) Continuous Integration
15 13 (14.44%) DevSecOps
15 13 (14.44%) Test Automation
16 12 (13.33%) Observability
Programming Languages
1 30 (33.33%) SQL
2 25 (27.78%) Java
3 21 (23.33%) C#
4 20 (22.22%) JavaScript
5 14 (15.56%) PL/SQL
6 13 (14.44%) Bash
6 13 (14.44%) TypeScript
7 11 (12.22%) Python
8 10 (11.11%) Bicep
9 5 (5.56%) PowerShell
10 2 (2.22%) Data Analysis Expressions
10 2 (2.22%) Go
10 2 (2.22%) Shell Script
10 2 (2.22%) VB.NET
11 1 (1.11%) C
11 1 (1.11%) C++
11 1 (1.11%) Kusto Query Language
11 1 (1.11%) PHP
Qualifications
1 39 (43.33%) Security Cleared
2 35 (38.89%) SC Cleared
3 12 (13.33%) DV Cleared
4 9 (10.00%) Azure Certification
5 3 (3.33%) AWS Certification
5 3 (3.33%) Computer Science Degree
5 3 (3.33%) Degree
6 2 (2.22%) BPSS Clearance
7 1 (1.11%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
7 1 (1.11%) CREST Certified
7 1 (1.11%) IISP
7 1 (1.11%) ISACA
7 1 (1.11%) OSCP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 10 (11.11%) Accessibility
2 8 (8.89%) WCAG
3 3 (3.33%) QA
4 2 (2.22%) SLA
5 1 (1.11%) GxP
5 1 (1.11%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 1 (1.11%) SOC 2
System Software
1 54 (60.00%) Docker
2 9 (10.00%) Active Directory
3 8 (8.89%) VMware Infrastructure
4 1 (1.11%) Virtual Servers
Systems Management
1 40 (44.44%) Terraform
2 11 (12.22%) Ansible
3 5 (5.56%) Grafana
4 4 (4.44%) Argo
4 4 (4.44%) Progress Chef
4 4 (4.44%) Prometheus
4 4 (4.44%) Puppet
5 1 (1.11%) Nagios
5 1 (1.11%) Podman
Vendors
1 33 (36.67%) Microsoft
2 14 (15.56%) Oracle
3 8 (8.89%) VMware
4 5 (5.56%) Facebook
4 5 (5.56%) Red Hat
5 3 (3.33%) Workday
6 2 (2.22%) ServiceNow
7 1 (1.11%) F5