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 vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 16 September 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
16 Sep 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 89 139 98
Rank change year-on-year +50 -41 -28
Permanent jobs citing Kubernetes 83 87 108
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the West Midlands 2.55% 1.44% 2.73%
As % of the Systems Management category 28.82% 22.48% 24.66%
Number of salaries quoted 48 55 99
10th Percentile £57,125 £52,500 £49,750
25th Percentile £57,500 - £52,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £67,500 £60,000 £64,500
Median % change year-on-year +12.50% -6.98% -7.86%
75th Percentile £80,000 £72,500 £80,000
90th Percentile £93,625 £93,750 £92,500
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 288 387 438
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the West Midlands 8.83% 6.43% 11.07%
Number of salaries quoted 203 220 357
10th Percentile £35,000 £30,000 £29,104
25th Percentile £46,250 £41,250 £37,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £57,500 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +4.35% +4.55% -
75th Percentile £73,750 £69,625 £70,000
90th Percentile £81,000 £80,000 £81,750
England median annual salary £62,500 £66,000 £65,351
% change year-on-year -5.30% +0.99% -6.64%

Kubernetes
Job Vacancy Trend in the West Midlands

Job postings citing Kubernetes as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the West Midlands.

Job vacancy trend for Kubernetes 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 16 September 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 16 September 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
Staffordshire +27 17 - - 9
Birmingham +11 14 £67,500 -10.00% 18
Shropshire - 14 £60,000 - 6
Warwickshire +51 12 £67,500 +3.85% 3
Worcestershire +12 9 £80,000 +23.08% 4
Herefordshire - 8 £92,500 - 2
Coventry +12 4 £55,750 -20.36% 3
Solihull - 4 - -
Kubernetes
England

Kubernetes
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the West Midlands by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same employment type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Application Platforms
1 13 (15.66%) Confluence
2 2 (2.41%) Apache Spark
3 1 (1.20%) Apache Solr
3 1 (1.20%) nginx
Business Applications
1 2 (2.41%) Dynamics CRM
Cloud Services
1 61 (73.49%) AWS
1 61 (73.49%) Azure
2 25 (30.12%) GCP
3 10 (12.05%) Amazon ECS
4 8 (9.64%) Azure Stack
4 8 (9.64%) Entra ID
5 7 (8.43%) Amazon EKS
5 7 (8.43%) Serverless
6 5 (6.02%) GitHub
7 4 (4.82%) Azure DevOps
7 4 (4.82%) GitHub Actions
7 4 (4.82%) SaaS
8 3 (3.61%) Amazon S3
8 3 (3.61%) AWS Lambda
8 3 (3.61%) Azure AKS
8 3 (3.61%) Azure Functions
9 2 (2.41%) Amazon EC2
9 2 (2.41%) Azure Key Vault
9 2 (2.41%) Azure Logic Apps
9 2 (2.41%) Power Platform
Communications & Networking
1 4 (4.82%) TCP/IP
2 1 (1.20%) Calico
2 1 (1.20%) DNS
2 1 (1.20%) Firewall
2 1 (1.20%) HTTPS
2 1 (1.20%) IPsec
2 1 (1.20%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 27 (32.53%) SQL Server
2 6 (7.23%) NoSQL
3 4 (4.82%) MongoDB
3 4 (4.82%) Relational Database
4 3 (3.61%) Hazelcast
4 3 (3.61%) PostgreSQL
4 3 (3.61%) RDBMS
5 2 (2.41%) Delta Lake
5 2 (2.41%) DynamoDB
5 2 (2.41%) Metadata
5 2 (2.41%) Power BI
5 2 (2.41%) Spark SQL
5 2 (2.41%) SQL Server Reporting Services
6 1 (1.20%) Amazon RDS
6 1 (1.20%) Couchbase
6 1 (1.20%) DB2
6 1 (1.20%) Elasticsearch
6 1 (1.20%) MySQL
Development Applications
1 30 (36.14%) GitLab
2 25 (30.12%) Maven
3 24 (28.92%) Bitbucket
3 24 (28.92%) Cucumber
3 24 (28.92%) JIRA
3 24 (28.92%) Selenium
3 24 (28.92%) SonarQube
3 24 (28.92%) Sonatype Nexus
4 3 (3.61%) Git
4 3 (3.61%) Jenkins
4 3 (3.61%) MLflow
5 2 (2.41%) JMeter
5 2 (2.41%) JUnit
5 2 (2.41%) Mockito
6 1 (1.20%) Gatling
6 1 (1.20%) Team Foundation Server
General
1 31 (37.35%) Finance
2 25 (30.12%) Banking
2 25 (30.12%) Inclusion and Diversity
3 14 (16.87%) Public Sector
4 11 (13.25%) Corporate Banking
4 11 (13.25%) Investment Banking
4 11 (13.25%) Retail
5 8 (9.64%) Social Skills
6 6 (7.23%) Analytical Skills
6 6 (7.23%) Manufacturing
7 4 (4.82%) Advertising
8 3 (3.61%) Financial Institution
9 2 (2.41%) Automotive
Job Titles
1 34 (40.96%) Software Engineer
2 13 (15.66%) Developer
3 10 (12.05%) Java Engineer
4 9 (10.84%) Java Developer
4 9 (10.84%) Java Software Engineer
5 8 (9.64%) DevOps Engineer
5 8 (9.64%) Infrastructure Engineer
5 8 (9.64%) IT Engineer
5 8 (9.64%) IT Infrastructure Engineer
6 7 (8.43%) Senior
7 6 (7.23%) Site Engineer
7 6 (7.23%) Site Reliability Engineer
8 5 (6.02%) Full-Stack Developer
9 4 (4.82%) Architect
9 4 (4.82%) Full-Stack Java Developer
9 4 (4.82%) Operations Engineer
9 4 (4.82%) Solutions Architect
10 3 (3.61%) Azure Architect
11 2 (2.41%) Machine Learning Engineer
11 2 (2.41%) Senior Applications Support
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 46 (55.42%) Spring
2 34 (40.96%) Spring Boot
3 29 (34.94%) HTML
3 29 (34.94%) React
4 27 (32.53%) CSS
5 25 (30.12%) JPA
5 25 (30.12%) Kafka
6 24 (28.92%) Redux
7 18 (21.69%) Hibernate
7 18 (21.69%) REST
8 16 (19.28%) RESTful
9 11 (13.25%) CSS3
9 11 (13.25%) HTML5
9 11 (13.25%) Jest
9 11 (13.25%) Sass
10 10 (12.05%) .NET
11 8 (9.64%) Web Services
12 6 (7.23%) AngularJS
12 6 (7.23%) Loki
13 5 (6.02%) jQuery
Miscellaneous
1 24 (28.92%) Enterprise Software
1 24 (28.92%) Product Ownership
2 9 (10.84%) Hybrid Cloud
3 8 (9.64%) Data Centre
3 8 (9.64%) Onboarding
4 6 (7.23%) Cloud Native
5 4 (4.82%) Greenfield Project
6 3 (3.61%) Legacy Systems
6 3 (3.61%) Linux Command Line
7 2 (2.41%) Distributed Systems
7 2 (2.41%) IoT
7 2 (2.41%) Life Science
7 2 (2.41%) Self-Motivation
8 1 (1.20%) Cyberattack
8 1 (1.20%) Data Structures
8 1 (1.20%) Mobile App
8 1 (1.20%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 15 (18.07%) Linux
2 8 (9.64%) Rocky
2 8 (9.64%) Windows
2 8 (9.64%) Windows Server
2 8 (9.64%) Windows Server 2019
3 2 (2.41%) Unix
4 1 (1.20%) Android
4 1 (1.20%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 1 (1.20%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 59 (71.08%) DevOps
2 56 (67.47%) CI/CD
3 52 (62.65%) Containerisation
4 47 (56.63%) Microservices
5 37 (44.58%) Agile
6 36 (43.37%) Software Engineering
7 32 (38.55%) TDD
8 31 (37.35%) Full-Stack Development
9 28 (33.73%) Test Automation
10 24 (28.92%) Front End Development
10 24 (28.92%) Performance Optimisation
10 24 (28.92%) SDLC
11 20 (24.10%) Continuous Improvement
12 17 (20.48%) Clean Code
12 17 (20.48%) Mentoring
13 13 (15.66%) Migration
13 13 (15.66%) Strategic Thinking
13 13 (15.66%) User Experience
14 12 (14.46%) Continuous Delivery
14 12 (14.46%) Software Architecture
Programming Languages
1 47 (56.63%) Java
2 40 (48.19%) SQL
3 32 (38.55%) JavaScript
4 18 (21.69%) TypeScript
5 11 (13.25%) C#
5 11 (13.25%) Python
6 4 (4.82%) PL/SQL
7 3 (3.61%) Bicep
7 3 (3.61%) Go
8 2 (2.41%) Shell Script
8 2 (2.41%) T-SQL
9 1 (1.20%) Bash
9 1 (1.20%) C++
9 1 (1.20%) PHP
9 1 (1.20%) PowerShell
9 1 (1.20%) Rust
9 1 (1.20%) Scala
Qualifications
1 18 (21.69%) Security Cleared
2 14 (16.87%) SC Cleared
3 13 (15.66%) Azure Certification
4 11 (13.25%) DV Cleared
5 8 (9.64%) BPSS Clearance
5 8 (9.64%) Network+ Certification
6 7 (8.43%) Degree
7 6 (7.23%) AWS Certification
7 6 (7.23%) Computer Science Degree
8 4 (4.82%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
9 2 (2.41%) CCNA
9 2 (2.41%) Cisco Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 25 (30.12%) QA
2 11 (13.25%) Accessibility
3 1 (1.20%) Cyber Essentials
3 1 (1.20%) GDPR
3 1 (1.20%) Government Security Classifications
3 1 (1.20%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 1 (1.20%) NCSC
3 1 (1.20%) NIST
System Software
1 60 (72.29%) Docker
2 8 (9.64%) Active Directory
2 8 (9.64%) Hyper-V
Systems Management
1 23 (27.71%) Terraform
2 9 (10.84%) Ansible
3 7 (8.43%) Grafana
4 6 (7.23%) Prometheus
5 2 (2.41%) Kibana
5 2 (2.41%) Kubeflow
6 1 (1.20%) Istio
6 1 (1.20%) Progress Chef
6 1 (1.20%) Puppet
Vendors
1 24 (28.92%) Solace
2 8 (9.64%) Dell
3 4 (4.82%) Microsoft
3 4 (4.82%) Splunk
4 3 (3.61%) Oracle
5 2 (2.41%) Databricks
5 2 (2.41%) Dynatrace
5 2 (2.41%) IBM