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

6 months to
8 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 108 130 94
Rank change year-on-year +22 -36 -13
Permanent jobs citing Kubernetes 64 90 95
As % of all permanent jobs in the West Midlands 1.84% 1.67% 2.75%
As % of the Systems Management category 25.91% 26.63% 22.09%
Number of salaries quoted 45 56 84
10th Percentile £54,250 £41,250 £49,125
25th Percentile £58,750 £60,000 £52,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £70,000 £65,000 £64,750
Median % change year-on-year +7.69% +0.39% -7.50%
75th Percentile £80,000 £75,000 £80,000
90th Percentile £98,500 £93,750 £91,375
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 247 338 430
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the West Midlands 7.11% 6.26% 12.45%
Number of salaries quoted 191 185 368
10th Percentile £37,500 £35,000 £28,453
25th Percentile £47,500 £45,000 £37,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £62,500 £57,500 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year +8.70% +9.52% -3.67%
75th Percentile £73,750 £69,500 £68,750
90th Percentile £82,500 £75,000 £80,000
England median annual salary £62,500 £68,000 £65,000
% change year-on-year -8.09% +4.62% -3.70%

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 8 November 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 8 November 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 +9 21 £67,500 -3.57% 25
Herefordshire - 10 £92,500 - 8
Worcestershire +1 9 £80,000 +23.08% 9
Shropshire - 8 £62,500 - 13
Coventry +6 7 £55,200 -21.14% 10
Solihull - 4 - -
Staffordshire +5 3 - - 6
Warwickshire +41 1 - - 11
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 2 (3.13%) Apache Spark
1 2 (3.13%) Oracle SOA Suite
2 1 (1.56%) Apache Solr
2 1 (1.56%) nginx
Business Applications
1 2 (3.13%) Dynamics CRM
Cloud Services
1 39 (60.94%) AWS
2 32 (50.00%) Azure
3 9 (14.06%) Entra ID
4 8 (12.50%) Amazon EKS
4 8 (12.50%) Azure Stack
4 8 (12.50%) GCP
4 8 (12.50%) GitHub
4 8 (12.50%) Serverless
5 6 (9.38%) Amazon ECS
5 6 (9.38%) SaaS
6 4 (6.25%) Amazon S3
6 4 (6.25%) AWS Lambda
6 4 (6.25%) GitHub Actions
7 3 (4.69%) Azure AKS
7 3 (4.69%) Azure DevOps
8 2 (3.13%) Azure Functions
8 2 (3.13%) Azure Logic Apps
8 2 (3.13%) Azure Monitor
8 2 (3.13%) Dynamics 365
8 2 (3.13%) Power Platform
Communications & Networking
1 4 (6.25%) TCP/IP
2 1 (1.56%) Calico
2 1 (1.56%) DNS
2 1 (1.56%) Firewall
2 1 (1.56%) HTTPS
2 1 (1.56%) IPsec
2 1 (1.56%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 7 (10.94%) NoSQL
1 7 (10.94%) PostgreSQL
1 7 (10.94%) SQL Server
2 6 (9.38%) Relational Database
3 5 (7.81%) Delta Lake
4 3 (4.69%) MongoDB
4 3 (4.69%) RDBMS
5 2 (3.13%) DynamoDB
5 2 (3.13%) Hazelcast
5 2 (3.13%) Metadata
5 2 (3.13%) MySQL
5 2 (3.13%) Power BI
5 2 (3.13%) Spark SQL
5 2 (3.13%) SQL Server Reporting Services
6 1 (1.56%) Amazon RDS
6 1 (1.56%) Couchbase
6 1 (1.56%) Geospatial Data
6 1 (1.56%) Neo4j
6 1 (1.56%) TimescaleDB
Development Applications
1 10 (15.63%) GitLab
2 8 (12.50%) JUnit
2 8 (12.50%) Maven
3 6 (9.38%) Cucumber
3 6 (9.38%) Mockito
4 5 (7.81%) Selenium
5 4 (6.25%) Git
5 4 (6.25%) Jenkins
6 3 (4.69%) Bitbucket
6 3 (4.69%) JIRA
6 3 (4.69%) JMeter
6 3 (4.69%) MLflow
6 3 (4.69%) SonarQube
6 3 (4.69%) Sonatype Nexus
7 1 (1.56%) Gatling
7 1 (1.56%) Locust
7 1 (1.56%) Snyk
General
1 17 (26.56%) Public Sector
2 13 (20.31%) Finance
3 11 (17.19%) Social Skills
4 4 (6.25%) Advertising
4 4 (6.25%) Analytical Skills
5 3 (4.69%) Banking
5 3 (4.69%) Corporate Banking
5 3 (4.69%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 3 (4.69%) Investment Banking
5 3 (4.69%) Retail
6 2 (3.13%) Automotive
6 2 (3.13%) Financial Institution
Job Titles
1 16 (25.00%) Developer
2 14 (21.88%) Senior
3 13 (20.31%) DevOps Engineer
3 13 (20.31%) Java Developer
4 9 (14.06%) Software Engineer
5 8 (12.50%) Full-Stack Developer
5 8 (12.50%) Full-Stack Java Developer
5 8 (12.50%) Infrastructure Engineer
5 8 (12.50%) IT Engineer
5 8 (12.50%) IT Infrastructure Engineer
6 5 (7.81%) Operations Engineer
6 5 (7.81%) Senior Developer
6 5 (7.81%) Senior DevOps
6 5 (7.81%) Senior DevOps Engineer
7 4 (6.25%) Architect
7 4 (6.25%) Java Engineer
7 4 (6.25%) Lead
8 3 (4.69%) Full-Stack Engineer
8 3 (4.69%) Platform Engineer
8 3 (4.69%) Senior Operations Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 25 (39.06%) Spring
2 16 (25.00%) Spring Boot
3 13 (20.31%) React
3 13 (20.31%) REST
4 8 (12.50%) HTML
4 8 (12.50%) RESTful
5 7 (10.94%) Web Services
6 6 (9.38%) AngularJS
6 6 (9.38%) CSS
7 5 (7.81%) jQuery
8 4 (6.25%) .NET
8 4 (6.25%) Hibernate
8 4 (6.25%) JPA
8 4 (6.25%) Kafka
9 3 (4.69%) CSS3
9 3 (4.69%) Entity Framework
9 3 (4.69%) HTML5
9 3 (4.69%) RabbitMQ
9 3 (4.69%) Redux
9 3 (4.69%) Sass
Miscellaneous
1 9 (14.06%) Onboarding
2 8 (12.50%) Data Centre
2 8 (12.50%) Hybrid Cloud
3 7 (10.94%) Cloud Native
4 5 (7.81%) Legacy Systems
5 4 (6.25%) Greenfield Project
5 4 (6.25%) Product Ownership
5 4 (6.25%) Self-Motivation
6 3 (4.69%) Enterprise Software
7 2 (3.13%) Distributed Systems
7 2 (3.13%) IoT
7 2 (3.13%) Life Science
7 2 (3.13%) Linux Command Line
8 1 (1.56%) Data Structures
8 1 (1.56%) Derivative
8 1 (1.56%) Legacy Applications
8 1 (1.56%) Mobile App
8 1 (1.56%) PKI
Operating Systems
1 19 (29.69%) Linux
2 8 (12.50%) Rocky
2 8 (12.50%) Windows
2 8 (12.50%) Windows Server
2 8 (12.50%) Windows Server 2019
3 2 (3.13%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 38 (59.38%) CI/CD
2 36 (56.25%) DevOps
3 29 (45.31%) Containerisation
4 26 (40.63%) Microservices
5 21 (32.81%) Agile
6 18 (28.13%) TDD
7 15 (23.44%) Full-Stack Development
8 13 (20.31%) Infrastructure as Code
8 13 (20.31%) Software Engineering
9 12 (18.75%) Continuous Improvement
10 11 (17.19%) Mentoring
10 11 (17.19%) Problem-Solving
11 9 (14.06%) Infrastructure Engineering
11 9 (14.06%) Test Automation
12 8 (12.50%) AI
12 8 (12.50%) Analytics
12 8 (12.50%) BDD
12 8 (12.50%) Unit Testing
13 7 (10.94%) Continuous Delivery
13 7 (10.94%) Machine Learning
Programming Languages
1 27 (42.19%) Java
2 23 (35.94%) SQL
3 19 (29.69%) Python
4 16 (25.00%) JavaScript
5 11 (17.19%) TypeScript
6 7 (10.94%) PL/SQL
7 5 (7.81%) Bash
7 5 (7.81%) C#
8 4 (6.25%) Go
9 3 (4.69%) Bicep
10 2 (3.13%) Delphi
10 2 (3.13%) Shell Script
10 2 (3.13%) T-SQL
11 1 (1.56%) Kusto Query Language
11 1 (1.56%) PHP
11 1 (1.56%) Scala
Qualifications
1 24 (37.50%) Security Cleared
2 18 (28.13%) SC Cleared
3 14 (21.88%) DV Cleared
4 11 (17.19%) Azure Certification
5 10 (15.63%) BPSS Clearance
6 8 (12.50%) Network+ Certification
7 5 (7.81%) AWS Certification
8 3 (4.69%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
9 2 (3.13%) CCNA
9 2 (3.13%) Cisco Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (7.81%) QA
2 4 (6.25%) Accessibility
3 1 (1.56%) Cyber Essentials
3 1 (1.56%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
3 1 (1.56%) GDPR
3 1 (1.56%) Government Security Classifications
3 1 (1.56%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 1 (1.56%) WCAG
System Software
1 44 (68.75%) Docker
2 8 (12.50%) Active Directory
2 8 (12.50%) Hyper-V
Systems Management
1 18 (28.13%) Terraform
2 7 (10.94%) Ansible
3 5 (7.81%) Grafana
4 2 (3.13%) Argo
4 2 (3.13%) Kibana
4 2 (3.13%) Kubeflow
5 1 (1.56%) Istio
5 1 (1.56%) Kustomize
5 1 (1.56%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 8 (12.50%) Dell
1 8 (12.50%) Oracle
2 4 (6.25%) Splunk
3 3 (4.69%) Microsoft
3 3 (4.69%) Solace
4 2 (3.13%) Databricks
4 2 (3.13%) Dynatrace
5 1 (1.56%) Google
5 1 (1.56%) IBM