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 October 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
17 Oct 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 85 138 97
Rank change year-on-year +53 -41 -21
Permanent jobs citing Kubernetes 84 86 92
As % of all permanent jobs in the West Midlands 2.63% 1.55% 2.57%
As % of the Systems Management category 29.37% 24.09% 22.01%
Number of salaries quoted 46 53 85
10th Percentile £55,625 £46,750 £49,250
25th Percentile £57,813 £60,000 £52,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £70,000 £65,000 £60,500
Median % change year-on-year +7.69% +7.44% -13.57%
75th Percentile £80,000 £75,000 £80,000
90th Percentile £95,625 £93,750 £91,250
England median annual salary £77,500 £77,500 £75,000
% change year-on-year - +3.33% -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 286 357 418
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the West Midlands 8.95% 6.44% 11.68%
Number of salaries quoted 204 197 358
10th Percentile £35,375 £34,750 £30,000
25th Percentile £47,500 £43,750 £38,012
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £62,500 £57,500 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +8.70% +4.55% -
75th Percentile £73,750 £69,500 £68,750
90th Percentile £81,250 £79,050 £80,375
England median annual salary £60,875 £67,500 £65,000
% change year-on-year -9.81% +3.85% -5.11%

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 October 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 17 October 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
Birmingham +10 18 £67,500 -6.90% 18
Staffordshire +22 17 - - 8
Herefordshire - 11 £91,250 - 4
Shropshire - 11 £61,250 - 13
Worcestershire +3 9 £80,000 +23.08% 5
Warwickshire +49 7 £67,500 +50.00% 5
Coventry +13 6 £70,000 - 5
Solihull - 4 - - 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 13 (15.48%) Confluence
2 2 (2.38%) Apache Spark
3 1 (1.19%) Apache Solr
3 1 (1.19%) nginx
3 1 (1.19%) Oracle SOA Suite
Business Applications
1 2 (2.38%) Dynamics CRM
Cloud Services
1 58 (69.05%) AWS
2 55 (65.48%) Azure
3 24 (28.57%) GCP
4 8 (9.52%) Azure Stack
4 8 (9.52%) Entra ID
4 8 (9.52%) Serverless
5 7 (8.33%) Amazon ECS
5 7 (8.33%) Amazon EKS
5 7 (8.33%) GitHub
6 5 (5.95%) GitHub Actions
6 5 (5.95%) SaaS
7 4 (4.76%) Amazon S3
7 4 (4.76%) AWS Lambda
7 4 (4.76%) Azure DevOps
8 3 (3.57%) Azure AKS
9 2 (2.38%) Azure Key Vault
9 2 (2.38%) Azure Logic Apps
9 2 (2.38%) Azure Monitor
9 2 (2.38%) Dynamics 365
9 2 (2.38%) Power Platform
Communications & Networking
1 4 (4.76%) TCP/IP
2 1 (1.19%) Calico
2 1 (1.19%) DNS
2 1 (1.19%) Firewall
2 1 (1.19%) HTTPS
2 1 (1.19%) IPsec
2 1 (1.19%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 26 (30.95%) SQL Server
2 7 (8.33%) NoSQL
3 5 (5.95%) PostgreSQL
3 5 (5.95%) Relational Database
4 4 (4.76%) Delta Lake
5 3 (3.57%) Hazelcast
5 3 (3.57%) MongoDB
5 3 (3.57%) RDBMS
6 2 (2.38%) DynamoDB
6 2 (2.38%) Metadata
6 2 (2.38%) MySQL
6 2 (2.38%) Power BI
6 2 (2.38%) Spark SQL
6 2 (2.38%) SQL Server Reporting Services
7 1 (1.19%) Amazon RDS
7 1 (1.19%) Couchbase
7 1 (1.19%) Neo4j
7 1 (1.19%) TimescaleDB
Development Applications
1 30 (35.71%) GitLab
2 27 (32.14%) Maven
3 24 (28.57%) Bitbucket
3 24 (28.57%) Cucumber
3 24 (28.57%) JIRA
3 24 (28.57%) Selenium
3 24 (28.57%) SonarQube
3 24 (28.57%) Sonatype Nexus
4 4 (4.76%) JUnit
4 4 (4.76%) Mockito
5 3 (3.57%) Git
5 3 (3.57%) Jenkins
5 3 (3.57%) MLflow
6 2 (2.38%) JMeter
7 1 (1.19%) Gatling
7 1 (1.19%) Snyk
7 1 (1.19%) Team Foundation Server
General
1 33 (39.29%) Finance
2 25 (29.76%) Banking
3 24 (28.57%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 16 (19.05%) Public Sector
5 11 (13.10%) Corporate Banking
5 11 (13.10%) Investment Banking
5 11 (13.10%) Retail
6 9 (10.71%) Social Skills
7 5 (5.95%) Analytical Skills
8 4 (4.76%) Advertising
9 3 (3.57%) Financial Institution
10 2 (2.38%) Automotive
11 1 (1.19%) Manufacturing
Job Titles
1 32 (38.10%) Software Engineer
2 14 (16.67%) Developer
3 13 (15.48%) DevOps Engineer
4 11 (13.10%) Java Developer
4 11 (13.10%) Senior
5 8 (9.52%) Infrastructure Engineer
5 8 (9.52%) IT Engineer
5 8 (9.52%) IT Infrastructure Engineer
6 7 (8.33%) Full-Stack Developer
6 7 (8.33%) Java Engineer
7 6 (7.14%) Full-Stack Java Developer
7 6 (7.14%) Java Software Engineer
8 5 (5.95%) Operations Engineer
9 4 (4.76%) Senior DevOps
9 4 (4.76%) Senior DevOps Engineer
10 3 (3.57%) Architect
10 3 (3.57%) Azure Architect
10 3 (3.57%) Senior Developer
10 3 (3.57%) Senior Operations Engineer
10 3 (3.57%) Solutions Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 46 (54.76%) Spring
2 35 (41.67%) Spring Boot
3 33 (39.29%) React
4 29 (34.52%) HTML
5 27 (32.14%) CSS
6 25 (29.76%) JPA
6 25 (29.76%) Kafka
7 24 (28.57%) Redux
8 20 (23.81%) REST
9 18 (21.43%) Hibernate
10 16 (19.05%) RESTful
11 11 (13.10%) CSS3
11 11 (13.10%) HTML5
11 11 (13.10%) Jest
11 11 (13.10%) Sass
12 8 (9.52%) Web Services
13 7 (8.33%) AngularJS
14 5 (5.95%) .NET
14 5 (5.95%) jQuery
15 4 (4.76%) RabbitMQ
Miscellaneous
1 25 (29.76%) Product Ownership
2 24 (28.57%) Enterprise Software
3 8 (9.52%) Data Centre
3 8 (9.52%) Hybrid Cloud
3 8 (9.52%) Onboarding
4 6 (7.14%) Cloud Native
5 4 (4.76%) Greenfield Project
6 3 (3.57%) Legacy Systems
6 3 (3.57%) Self-Motivation
7 2 (2.38%) Distributed Systems
7 2 (2.38%) IoT
7 2 (2.38%) Life Science
7 2 (2.38%) Linux Command Line
8 1 (1.19%) Data Structures
8 1 (1.19%) Derivative
8 1 (1.19%) Mobile App
8 1 (1.19%) PKI
8 1 (1.19%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 17 (20.24%) Linux
2 8 (9.52%) Rocky
2 8 (9.52%) Windows
2 8 (9.52%) Windows Server
2 8 (9.52%) Windows Server 2019
3 2 (2.38%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 59 (70.24%) CI/CD
2 58 (69.05%) DevOps
3 50 (59.52%) Containerisation
4 48 (57.14%) Microservices
5 40 (47.62%) Agile
6 35 (41.67%) Full-Stack Development
6 35 (41.67%) Software Engineering
7 31 (36.90%) TDD
8 28 (33.33%) Test Automation
9 25 (29.76%) SDLC
10 24 (28.57%) Front End Development
10 24 (28.57%) Performance Optimisation
11 22 (26.19%) Continuous Improvement
12 19 (22.62%) Clean Code
13 18 (21.43%) Mentoring
14 14 (16.67%) Migration
14 14 (16.67%) User Experience
15 13 (15.48%) Strategic Thinking
16 12 (14.29%) Infrastructure as Code
17 11 (13.10%) Responsive Web Design
Programming Languages
1 47 (55.95%) Java
2 43 (51.19%) SQL
3 35 (41.67%) JavaScript
4 18 (21.43%) TypeScript
5 15 (17.86%) Python
6 6 (7.14%) C#
6 6 (7.14%) PL/SQL
7 4 (4.76%) Go
8 3 (3.57%) Bash
8 3 (3.57%) Bicep
9 2 (2.38%) Shell Script
9 2 (2.38%) T-SQL
10 1 (1.19%) PHP
10 1 (1.19%) Scala
Qualifications
1 20 (23.81%) Security Cleared
2 15 (17.86%) SC Cleared
3 13 (15.48%) DV Cleared
4 12 (14.29%) Azure Certification
5 9 (10.71%) BPSS Clearance
6 8 (9.52%) Network+ Certification
7 5 (5.95%) AWS Certification
8 3 (3.57%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
9 2 (2.38%) CCNA
9 2 (2.38%) Cisco Certification
10 1 (1.19%) Computer Science Degree
10 1 (1.19%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 25 (29.76%) QA
2 11 (13.10%) Accessibility
3 1 (1.19%) GDPR
3 1 (1.19%) Government Security Classifications
System Software
1 63 (75.00%) Docker
2 8 (9.52%) Active Directory
2 8 (9.52%) Hyper-V
Systems Management
1 18 (21.43%) Terraform
2 8 (9.52%) Ansible
3 3 (3.57%) Grafana
4 2 (2.38%) Argo
4 2 (2.38%) Kibana
4 2 (2.38%) Kubeflow
5 1 (1.19%) Istio
5 1 (1.19%) Kustomize
5 1 (1.19%) Progress Chef
5 1 (1.19%) Prometheus
5 1 (1.19%) Puppet
Vendors
1 24 (28.57%) Solace
2 8 (9.52%) Dell
3 4 (4.76%) Oracle
3 4 (4.76%) Splunk
4 3 (3.57%) Microsoft
5 2 (2.38%) Databricks
5 2 (2.38%) Dynatrace
6 1 (1.19%) Google
6 1 (1.19%) IBM