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

6 months to
26 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 108 133 87
Rank change year-on-year +25 -46 -5
Permanent jobs citing Kubernetes 58 96 90
As % of all permanent jobs in the West Midlands 1.56% 1.77% 2.73%
As % of the Systems Management category 27.23% 27.75% 20.93%
Number of salaries quoted 41 62 79
10th Percentile £55,000 £42,500 £49,750
25th Percentile £62,500 £60,000 £52,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £70,542 £65,000 £64,500
Median % change year-on-year +8.53% +0.78% -7.86%
75th Percentile £80,000 £75,000 £80,000
90th Percentile £100,000 £93,750 £87,750
England median annual salary £77,500 £77,500 £75,000
% change year-on-year - +3.33% -4.02%

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 213 346 430
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the West Midlands 5.73% 6.37% 13.04%
Number of salaries quoted 168 200 368
10th Percentile £37,500 £35,000 £30,000
25th Percentile £51,250 £43,500 £37,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £64,250 £55,000 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year +16.82% +4.76% -3.23%
75th Percentile £73,750 £68,000 £65,250
90th Percentile £84,913 £75,000 £80,000
England median annual salary £61,500 £67,500 £65,000
% change year-on-year -8.89% +3.85% -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 26 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 26 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 +10 20 £67,500 -3.57% 22
Worcestershire -3 9 £80,000 +23.08% 4
Herefordshire - 9 £92,500 - 6
Coventry +11 8 £55,200 -21.14% 8
Shropshire - 6 £63,750 - 7
Solihull - 4 - -
Warwickshire +42 1 - - 6
Staffordshire +6 1 - - 4
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 (3.45%) Apache Spark
1 2 (3.45%) Oracle SOA Suite
2 1 (1.72%) Apache Solr
2 1 (1.72%) nginx
2 1 (1.72%) SAS
Business Applications
1 2 (3.45%) Dynamics CRM
Cloud Services
1 34 (58.62%) AWS
2 26 (44.83%) Azure
3 9 (15.52%) Amazon EKS
3 9 (15.52%) Entra ID
3 9 (15.52%) GitHub
4 8 (13.79%) Azure Stack
4 8 (13.79%) Serverless
5 7 (12.07%) SaaS
6 6 (10.34%) Amazon ECS
7 5 (8.62%) GCP
8 4 (6.90%) Amazon S3
8 4 (6.90%) AWS Lambda
8 4 (6.90%) GitHub Actions
9 3 (5.17%) Azure AKS
9 3 (5.17%) Azure DevOps
10 2 (3.45%) Amazon CloudWatch
10 2 (3.45%) Amazon ELB
10 2 (3.45%) Datadog
10 2 (3.45%) Dynamics 365
10 2 (3.45%) OpenShift
Communications & Networking
1 4 (6.90%) TCP/IP
2 1 (1.72%) Calico
2 1 (1.72%) DNS
2 1 (1.72%) Firewall
2 1 (1.72%) HTTPS
2 1 (1.72%) IPsec
2 1 (1.72%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 7 (12.07%) PostgreSQL
2 6 (10.34%) NoSQL
3 5 (8.62%) Delta Lake
3 5 (8.62%) Relational Database
4 4 (6.90%) SQL Server
5 3 (5.17%) MongoDB
5 3 (5.17%) RDBMS
6 2 (3.45%) DynamoDB
6 2 (3.45%) Metadata
6 2 (3.45%) MySQL
6 2 (3.45%) Power BI
6 2 (3.45%) Spark SQL
6 2 (3.45%) SQL Server Reporting Services
7 1 (1.72%) Amazon RDS
7 1 (1.72%) Couchbase
7 1 (1.72%) Geospatial Data
7 1 (1.72%) Hazelcast
7 1 (1.72%) Neo4j
7 1 (1.72%) Pentaho
7 1 (1.72%) TimescaleDB
Development Applications
1 8 (13.79%) JUnit
2 6 (10.34%) GitLab
2 6 (10.34%) Mockito
3 5 (8.62%) Jenkins
3 5 (8.62%) Maven
4 4 (6.90%) Git
5 3 (5.17%) Cucumber
5 3 (5.17%) JMeter
5 3 (5.17%) MLflow
6 2 (3.45%) Selenium
7 1 (1.72%) Gatling
7 1 (1.72%) JIRA
7 1 (1.72%) Locust
7 1 (1.72%) Snyk
General
1 17 (29.31%) Public Sector
2 10 (17.24%) Social Skills
3 9 (15.52%) Finance
4 4 (6.90%) Advertising
5 3 (5.17%) Analytical Skills
6 1 (1.72%) Automotive
6 1 (1.72%) Financial Institution
Job Titles
1 13 (22.41%) Developer
1 13 (22.41%) DevOps Engineer
1 13 (22.41%) Senior
2 11 (18.97%) Java Developer
3 8 (13.79%) Infrastructure Engineer
3 8 (13.79%) IT Engineer
3 8 (13.79%) IT Infrastructure Engineer
4 7 (12.07%) Full-Stack Developer
4 7 (12.07%) Full-Stack Java Developer
5 5 (8.62%) Lead
5 5 (8.62%) Senior Developer
6 4 (6.90%) Architect
6 4 (6.90%) Operations Engineer
6 4 (6.90%) Senior DevOps
6 4 (6.90%) Senior DevOps Engineer
6 4 (6.90%) Software Engineer
7 3 (5.17%) Azure Architect
7 3 (5.17%) Full-Stack Engineer
7 3 (5.17%) Lead DevOps
7 3 (5.17%) Senior Platform Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 18 (31.03%) Spring
2 12 (20.69%) Spring Boot
3 9 (15.52%) React
4 8 (13.79%) REST
5 5 (8.62%) AngularJS
5 5 (8.62%) Web Services
6 4 (6.90%) .NET
6 4 (6.90%) HTML
6 4 (6.90%) jQuery
6 4 (6.90%) RESTful
7 3 (5.17%) Hibernate
8 2 (3.45%) ActiveMQ
8 2 (3.45%) Ajax
8 2 (3.45%) Entity Framework
8 2 (3.45%) JSON
8 2 (3.45%) NumPy
8 2 (3.45%) RabbitMQ
8 2 (3.45%) WCF
8 2 (3.45%) XML
8 2 (3.45%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 9 (15.52%) Onboarding
2 8 (13.79%) Data Centre
2 8 (13.79%) Hybrid Cloud
3 6 (10.34%) Cloud Native
4 5 (8.62%) Legacy Systems
5 4 (6.90%) Greenfield Project
6 3 (5.17%) Self-Motivation
7 2 (3.45%) Distributed Systems
7 2 (3.45%) Linux Command Line
7 2 (3.45%) Product Ownership
8 1 (1.72%) Data Structures
8 1 (1.72%) Derivative
8 1 (1.72%) IoT
8 1 (1.72%) Legacy Applications
8 1 (1.72%) Life Science
8 1 (1.72%) Mobile App
8 1 (1.72%) PKI
Operating Systems
1 18 (31.03%) Linux
2 8 (13.79%) Rocky
2 8 (13.79%) Windows
2 8 (13.79%) Windows Server
2 8 (13.79%) Windows Server 2019
3 2 (3.45%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 33 (56.90%) CI/CD
2 31 (53.45%) DevOps
3 24 (41.38%) Containerisation
4 20 (34.48%) Microservices
5 18 (31.03%) Agile
6 14 (24.14%) TDD
7 12 (20.69%) Infrastructure as Code
7 12 (20.69%) Problem-Solving
8 11 (18.97%) Full-Stack Development
9 10 (17.24%) Continuous Improvement
10 9 (15.52%) AI
10 9 (15.52%) Infrastructure Engineering
11 8 (13.79%) Analytics
11 8 (13.79%) Mentoring
11 8 (13.79%) Software Engineering
12 7 (12.07%) BDD
12 7 (12.07%) Clean Code
12 7 (12.07%) Machine Learning
12 7 (12.07%) Scrum
12 7 (12.07%) Unit Testing
Programming Languages
1 20 (34.48%) Java
1 20 (34.48%) Python
2 18 (31.03%) SQL
3 13 (22.41%) JavaScript
4 8 (13.79%) TypeScript
5 6 (10.34%) PL/SQL
6 5 (8.62%) Bash
6 5 (8.62%) Go
7 4 (6.90%) C#
8 3 (5.17%) Bicep
9 2 (3.45%) Delphi
9 2 (3.45%) Shell Script
9 2 (3.45%) T-SQL
10 1 (1.72%) Kusto Query Language
10 1 (1.72%) PHP
10 1 (1.72%) Scala
Qualifications
1 23 (39.66%) Security Cleared
2 17 (29.31%) SC Cleared
3 14 (24.14%) DV Cleared
4 11 (18.97%) Azure Certification
5 10 (17.24%) BPSS Clearance
6 8 (13.79%) Network+ Certification
7 4 (6.90%) AWS Certification
8 3 (5.17%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
9 2 (3.45%) CCNA
9 2 (3.45%) Cisco Certification
10 1 (1.72%) Computer Science Degree
10 1 (1.72%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (3.45%) QA
2 1 (1.72%) Accessibility
2 1 (1.72%) Cyber Essentials
2 1 (1.72%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
2 1 (1.72%) Data Quality
2 1 (1.72%) GDPR
2 1 (1.72%) Government Security Classifications
2 1 (1.72%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 1 (1.72%) WCAG
System Software
1 39 (67.24%) Docker
2 8 (13.79%) Active Directory
2 8 (13.79%) Hyper-V
Systems Management
1 17 (29.31%) Terraform
2 7 (12.07%) Ansible
3 5 (8.62%) Grafana
4 2 (3.45%) Argo
4 2 (3.45%) Kibana
4 2 (3.45%) Kubeflow
5 1 (1.72%) Istio
5 1 (1.72%) Kustomize
5 1 (1.72%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 9 (15.52%) Oracle
2 8 (13.79%) Dell
3 4 (6.90%) Splunk
4 2 (3.45%) Databricks
4 2 (3.45%) Dynatrace
5 1 (1.72%) Denodo
5 1 (1.72%) Google
5 1 (1.72%) IBM
5 1 (1.72%) Microsoft
5 1 (1.72%) Talend