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 21 September 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
21 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 133 89 131
Rank change year-on-year -44 +42 -36
Permanent jobs citing Kubernetes 84 84 87
As % of all permanent jobs in the West Midlands 0.93% 2.59% 1.44%
As % of the Systems Management category 36.52% 32.68% 26.93%
Number of salaries quoted 50 48 54
10th Percentile £52,475 £57,125 £52,500
25th Percentile £57,500 £57,500 £60,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £70,000 £67,500 £62,500
Median % change year-on-year +3.70% +8.00% -3.47%
75th Percentile £88,000 £80,000 £72,500
90th Percentile £95,375 £93,625 £93,750
England median annual salary £71,216 £78,810 £77,500
% change year-on-year -9.64% +1.69% +3.33%

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 230 257 323
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the West Midlands 2.55% 7.92% 5.36%
Number of salaries quoted 163 171 176
10th Percentile £34,250 £31,500 £26,750
25th Percentile £46,250 £44,574 £40,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £62,500 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -4.00% +13.64% -
75th Percentile £72,500 £73,750 £68,000
90th Percentile £88,750 £80,000 £75,000
England median annual salary £60,000 £62,500 £65,000
% 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 21 September 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 21 September 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 0 45 £70,466 +2.50% 55
Worcestershire -12 16 £88,000 +10.00% 3
Coventry -13 12 £60,000 +7.62% 2
Herefordshire -17 9 £110,000 +18.92% 4
Shropshire -32 5 £45,750 -23.75% 20
Staffordshire -8 4 £54,183 - 1
Warwickshire -32 1 £50,000 -25.93% 3
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 (8.33%) Oracle SOA Suite
2 1 (1.19%) Apache Spark
2 1 (1.19%) IIS
2 1 (1.19%) SharePoint
Cloud Services
1 64 (76.19%) Azure
2 52 (61.90%) AWS
3 14 (16.67%) GitHub
4 11 (13.10%) Azure AKS
5 9 (10.71%) Azure ExpressRoute
5 9 (10.71%) Entra ID
5 9 (10.71%) GitHub Copilot
6 5 (5.95%) Azure Logic Apps
6 5 (5.95%) Azure Service Bus
6 5 (5.95%) GCP
6 5 (5.95%) OpenShift
7 4 (4.76%) Amazon EC2
7 4 (4.76%) Amazon EKS
7 4 (4.76%) Amazon S3
7 4 (4.76%) Azure AI
7 4 (4.76%) Azure DevOps
7 4 (4.76%) Virtual Private Cloud
8 3 (3.57%) AWS CloudFormation
8 3 (3.57%) IaaS
8 3 (3.57%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 10 (11.90%) Network Security
1 10 (11.90%) VPN
2 3 (3.57%) Firewall
3 2 (2.38%) HTTP
4 1 (1.19%) BIG-IP
4 1 (1.19%) DNS
4 1 (1.19%) SAN
4 1 (1.19%) VLAN
4 1 (1.19%) WAN
4 1 (1.19%) WireGuard
Database & Business Intelligence
1 14 (16.67%) MongoDB
2 10 (11.90%) Azure SQL Database
3 5 (5.95%) Elasticsearch
4 3 (3.57%) Amazon RDS
4 3 (3.57%) PostgreSQL
4 3 (3.57%) SQL Server
5 2 (2.38%) Amazon Aurora
5 2 (2.38%) MySQL
5 2 (2.38%) Power BI
5 2 (2.38%) Power Query
6 1 (1.19%) Amazon Redshift
6 1 (1.19%) Redis
Development Applications
1 21 (25.00%) JUnit
2 17 (20.24%) Maven
3 14 (16.67%) Mockito
4 11 (13.10%) Git
5 9 (10.71%) GitLab
6 7 (8.33%) Cucumber
6 7 (8.33%) Jenkins
6 7 (8.33%) Postman
6 7 (8.33%) Selenium
7 6 (7.14%) Gatling
8 2 (2.38%) Ant
8 2 (2.38%) Apache Ivy
8 2 (2.38%) IBM UrbanCode
9 1 (1.19%) Cypress.io
9 1 (1.19%) Gradle
9 1 (1.19%) JMeter
9 1 (1.19%) REST Assured
9 1 (1.19%) TestNG
9 1 (1.19%) WebDriver
General
1 27 (32.14%) Finance
2 12 (14.29%) Social Skills
3 5 (5.95%) Inclusion and Diversity
3 5 (5.95%) Public Sector
4 4 (4.76%) Advertising
4 4 (4.76%) Marketing
5 2 (2.38%) Analytical Skills
6 1 (1.19%) Banking
6 1 (1.19%) Documentation Skills
6 1 (1.19%) Law
Job Titles
1 25 (29.76%) Developer
2 22 (26.19%) Senior
3 13 (15.48%) Architect
3 13 (15.48%) Senior Developer
4 11 (13.10%) Full-Stack Developer
5 10 (11.90%) Full-Stack Java Developer
5 10 (11.90%) Java Developer
6 9 (10.71%) .NET Developer
6 9 (10.71%) Azure Architect
6 9 (10.71%) Technical Architect
7 8 (9.52%) Lead
7 8 (9.52%) Senior Full-Stack Developer
8 7 (8.33%) Cloud Engineer
8 7 (8.33%) Senior Java Developer
9 6 (7.14%) DevOps Engineer
9 6 (7.14%) Platform Engineer
9 6 (7.14%) Quality Engineer
10 5 (5.95%) Principal Engineer
10 5 (5.95%) Senior Quality Engineer
11 4 (4.76%) Team Leader
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 36 (42.86%) Terraform
2 16 (19.05%) .NET
3 15 (17.86%) React
3 15 (17.86%) Spring
4 14 (16.67%) ASP.NET
4 14 (16.67%) ASP.NET Core
5 12 (14.29%) REST
6 9 (10.71%) .NET Core
7 7 (8.33%) Playwright
8 6 (7.14%) Node.js
8 6 (7.14%) RESTful
9 5 (5.95%) .NET Framework
9 5 (5.95%) AngularJS
9 5 (5.95%) ASP.NET Web API
9 5 (5.95%) Entity Framework
9 5 (5.95%) Kafka
9 5 (5.95%) Vue
10 4 (4.76%) Blazor
10 4 (4.76%) CSS
10 4 (4.76%) HTML
Miscellaneous
1 18 (21.43%) Cloud Native
2 9 (10.71%) Hybrid Cloud
3 7 (8.33%) Onboarding
3 7 (8.33%) Self-Motivation
4 6 (7.14%) Distributed Systems
5 3 (3.57%) Legacy Systems
5 3 (3.57%) Product Ownership
5 3 (3.57%) Public Cloud
6 2 (2.38%) Clustering
6 2 (2.38%) Greenfield Project
6 2 (2.38%) Linux Command Line
6 2 (2.38%) Management Information System
6 2 (2.38%) Online Gambling
6 2 (2.38%) Video\Live Streaming
7 1 (1.19%) Distributed Computing
7 1 (1.19%) Enterprise Software
7 1 (1.19%) Replication
Operating Systems
1 22 (26.19%) Linux
2 3 (3.57%) Unix
2 3 (3.57%) Windows
3 2 (2.38%) Solaris
3 2 (2.38%) Ubuntu
3 2 (2.38%) Windows Server
4 1 (1.19%) CentOS
4 1 (1.19%) Debian
4 1 (1.19%) Mac OS
Processes & Methodologies
1 54 (64.29%) CI/CD
2 46 (54.76%) Agile
3 34 (40.48%) Containerisation
3 34 (40.48%) Mentoring
4 30 (35.71%) Microservices
5 26 (30.95%) Infrastructure as Code
5 26 (30.95%) Scrum
6 25 (29.76%) TDD
7 24 (28.57%) AI
8 22 (26.19%) DevOps
9 20 (23.81%) Full-Stack Development
10 17 (20.24%) Continuous Improvement
10 17 (20.24%) Stakeholder Engagement
11 16 (19.05%) Technical Leadership
12 14 (16.67%) DevSecOps
13 13 (15.48%) Continuous Integration
14 12 (14.29%) GitOps
14 12 (14.29%) Problem-Solving
15 11 (13.10%) Cloud Security
15 11 (13.10%) Observability
Programming Languages
1 31 (36.90%) SQL
2 21 (25.00%) C#
2 21 (25.00%) Java
3 19 (22.62%) JavaScript
4 14 (16.67%) PL/SQL
5 11 (13.10%) Bash
5 11 (13.10%) TypeScript
6 9 (10.71%) Bicep
7 6 (7.14%) Python
8 3 (3.57%) PowerShell
9 2 (2.38%) Data Analysis Expressions
9 2 (2.38%) Go
9 2 (2.38%) VB.NET
10 1 (1.19%) PHP
10 1 (1.19%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 38 (45.24%) Security Cleared
2 34 (40.48%) SC Cleared
3 11 (13.10%) DV Cleared
4 8 (9.52%) Azure Certification
5 3 (3.57%) AWS Certification
6 2 (2.38%) BPSS Clearance
6 2 (2.38%) Computer Science Degree
6 2 (2.38%) Degree
7 1 (1.19%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
7 1 (1.19%) IISP
7 1 (1.19%) ISACA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 7 (8.33%) Accessibility
2 6 (7.14%) WCAG
3 2 (2.38%) SLA
4 1 (1.19%) GxP
4 1 (1.19%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 1 (1.19%) QA
4 1 (1.19%) SOC 2
System Software
1 50 (59.52%) Docker
2 9 (10.71%) Active Directory
2 9 (10.71%) VMware Infrastructure
3 1 (1.19%) Virtual Servers
Systems Management
1 10 (11.90%) Ansible
2 4 (4.76%) Argo
3 3 (3.57%) Grafana
3 3 (3.57%) Progress Chef
3 3 (3.57%) Prometheus
3 3 (3.57%) Puppet
4 1 (1.19%) Podman
Vendors
1 31 (36.90%) Microsoft
2 14 (16.67%) Oracle
3 9 (10.71%) VMware
4 4 (4.76%) Facebook
4 4 (4.76%) Red Hat
5 3 (3.57%) Workday
6 2 (2.38%) ServiceNow
7 1 (1.19%) Databricks
7 1 (1.19%) F5