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 30 March 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
30 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 144 113 124
Rank change year-on-year -31 +11 -6
Permanent jobs citing Kubernetes 46 70 123
As % of all permanent jobs in the West Midlands 0.66% 2.07% 1.85%
As % of the Systems Management category 26.29% 31.67% 22.57%
Number of salaries quoted 32 60 98
10th Percentile £45,350 £42,500 £47,125
25th Percentile £54,375 £57,500 £52,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £67,500 £67,500
Median % change year-on-year -3.70% - -3.57%
75th Percentile £77,500 £75,000 £79,688
90th Percentile £84,750 £87,500 £88,750
England median annual salary £75,000 £85,000 £75,669
% change year-on-year -11.76% +12.33% -2.36%

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 175 221 545
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the West Midlands 2.49% 6.52% 8.19%
Number of salaries quoted 131 181 439
10th Percentile £32,500 £35,750 £30,000
25th Percentile £45,081 £43,750 £38,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £53,688 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year +11.76% +2.26% -4.55%
75th Percentile £70,000 £66,050 £65,000
90th Percentile £80,000 £75,000 £80,000
England median annual salary £62,500 £70,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year -10.71% +16.67% -11.11%

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 30 March 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 30 March 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 +3 23 £63,750 -12.07% 13
Coventry - 9 £67,500 - 6
Worcestershire -34 5 £75,000 +15.38% 3
Herefordshire -16 4 £82,500 - 3
Warwickshire -5 2 £65,000 +8.33% 2
Shropshire -28 1 - - 10
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 6 (13.04%) Oracle SOA Suite
2 1 (2.17%) Confluence
2 1 (2.17%) SAS
Cloud Services
1 30 (65.22%) AWS
2 23 (50.00%) Azure
3 7 (15.22%) Serverless
4 6 (13.04%) GCP
4 6 (13.04%) GitHub
4 6 (13.04%) SaaS
5 5 (10.87%) Amazon CloudWatch
6 4 (8.70%) Amazon S3
6 4 (8.70%) AWS Lambda
6 4 (8.70%) PaaS
7 3 (6.52%) Amazon EC2
7 3 (6.52%) Amazon EKS
7 3 (6.52%) AWS CloudFormation
7 3 (6.52%) Azure Sentinel
7 3 (6.52%) Datadog
7 3 (6.52%) dbt
7 3 (6.52%) Virtual Private Cloud
8 2 (4.35%) Azure Logic Apps
8 2 (4.35%) Azure Service Bus
8 2 (4.35%) OpenShift
Communications & Networking
1 2 (4.35%) Network Security
2 1 (2.17%) Firewall
Database & Business Intelligence
1 6 (13.04%) PostgreSQL
2 4 (8.70%) TimescaleDB
3 3 (6.52%) Amazon RDS
3 3 (6.52%) Redis
4 2 (4.35%) Delta Lake
4 2 (4.35%) NoSQL
4 2 (4.35%) Relational Database
4 2 (4.35%) SQL Server
5 1 (2.17%) Azure SQL Database
5 1 (2.17%) Data Mining
5 1 (2.17%) Geospatial Data
5 1 (2.17%) InfluxDB
5 1 (2.17%) MongoDB
5 1 (2.17%) MySQL
5 1 (2.17%) Pentaho
Development Applications
1 10 (21.74%) JUnit
2 8 (17.39%) Git
2 8 (17.39%) Maven
2 8 (17.39%) Mockito
3 7 (15.22%) Jenkins
4 6 (13.04%) Cucumber
5 4 (8.70%) GitLab
6 3 (6.52%) JMeter
6 3 (6.52%) Locust
7 2 (4.35%) JIRA
7 2 (4.35%) Selenium
8 1 (2.17%) Bitbucket
8 1 (2.17%) MLflow
8 1 (2.17%) Snyk
8 1 (2.17%) SpecFlow
General
1 19 (41.30%) Social Skills
2 11 (23.91%) Finance
3 4 (8.70%) Advertising
3 4 (8.70%) Public Sector
4 3 (6.52%) Banking
4 3 (6.52%) Investment Banking
4 3 (6.52%) Military
5 2 (4.35%) Analytical Skills
5 2 (4.35%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 1 (2.17%) Automotive
6 1 (2.17%) Law
6 1 (2.17%) Marketing
Job Titles
1 15 (32.61%) Developer
2 13 (28.26%) Senior
3 11 (23.91%) Full-Stack Developer
4 9 (19.57%) Senior Developer
5 8 (17.39%) Full-Stack Java Developer
5 8 (17.39%) Java Developer
6 7 (15.22%) Lead
7 6 (13.04%) DevOps Engineer
7 6 (13.04%) Senior Full-Stack Developer
7 6 (13.04%) Senior Java Developer
8 5 (10.87%) Platform Engineer
9 4 (8.70%) Azure Engineer
9 4 (8.70%) Kubernetes Engineer
9 4 (8.70%) Lead DevOps
10 3 (6.52%) AWS Engineer
10 3 (6.52%) AWS Infrastructure Engineer
10 3 (6.52%) Azure Platform Engineer
10 3 (6.52%) Cloud Platform Engineer
10 3 (6.52%) Lead DevOps Engineer
10 3 (6.52%) SIEM Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 12 (26.09%) REST
2 11 (23.91%) React
3 8 (17.39%) Spring
4 4 (8.70%) .NET
4 4 (8.70%) GraphQL
4 4 (8.70%) Node.js
5 3 (6.52%) Gherkin
5 3 (6.52%) Spring Boot
6 2 (4.35%) AngularJS
6 2 (4.35%) Django
6 2 (4.35%) Elastic Stack
6 2 (4.35%) Flask
6 2 (4.35%) pytest
7 1 (2.17%) ASP.NET
7 1 (2.17%) CSS
7 1 (2.17%) HTML
7 1 (2.17%) JSON
7 1 (2.17%) OAuth
7 1 (2.17%) RESTful
7 1 (2.17%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 6 (13.04%) Self-Motivation
2 5 (10.87%) Product Ownership
3 4 (8.70%) Management Information System
4 3 (6.52%) Cloud Native
4 3 (6.52%) Enterprise Software
5 2 (4.35%) Legacy Systems
6 1 (2.17%) Algorithms
6 1 (2.17%) Cyber Threat
6 1 (2.17%) Data Structures
6 1 (2.17%) Derivative
6 1 (2.17%) Legacy Applications
6 1 (2.17%) Onboarding
6 1 (2.17%) PKI
6 1 (2.17%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 14 (30.43%) Linux
2 1 (2.17%) Android
2 1 (2.17%) Apple iOS
2 1 (2.17%) CentOS
2 1 (2.17%) Debian
2 1 (2.17%) Ubuntu
2 1 (2.17%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 28 (60.87%) CI/CD
2 26 (56.52%) DevOps
3 25 (54.35%) Agile
4 20 (43.48%) Problem-Solving
5 19 (41.30%) Microservices
6 17 (36.96%) Containerisation
7 14 (30.43%) Full-Stack Development
7 14 (30.43%) Infrastructure as Code
8 10 (21.74%) Continuous Improvement
8 10 (21.74%) Scrum
8 10 (21.74%) TDD
9 9 (19.57%) Decision-Making
9 9 (19.57%) Sprint Planning
10 8 (17.39%) Platform Engineering
10 8 (17.39%) SDLC
11 7 (15.22%) Cloud Security
11 7 (15.22%) Computer Science
11 7 (15.22%) Test Automation
12 6 (13.04%) Infrastructure Engineering
12 6 (13.04%) Unit Testing
Programming Languages
1 21 (45.65%) Java
1 21 (45.65%) Python
2 14 (30.43%) SQL
3 11 (23.91%) TypeScript
4 10 (21.74%) Bash
4 10 (21.74%) JavaScript
5 8 (17.39%) PL/SQL
6 7 (15.22%) C
7 4 (8.70%) C++
7 4 (8.70%) Go
7 4 (8.70%) R
8 3 (6.52%) C#
9 2 (4.35%) Bicep
9 2 (4.35%) Delphi
9 2 (4.35%) Kusto Query Language
9 2 (4.35%) PowerShell
10 1 (2.17%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 16 (34.78%) Security Cleared
2 13 (28.26%) SC Cleared
3 5 (10.87%) DV Cleared
4 4 (8.70%) Azure Certification
5 3 (6.52%) AWS Certification
5 3 (6.52%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
5 3 (6.52%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
5 3 (6.52%) AWS Certified SysOps Administrator
5 3 (6.52%) Computer Science Degree
5 3 (6.52%) Degree
6 2 (4.35%) BPSS Clearance
7 1 (2.17%) CISSP
7 1 (2.17%) CREST Certified
7 1 (2.17%) Master's Degree
7 1 (2.17%) OSCP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 8 (17.39%) QA
2 5 (10.87%) Accessibility
3 3 (6.52%) WCAG
4 2 (4.35%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 1 (2.17%) Cyber Essentials
5 1 (2.17%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
5 1 (2.17%) Data Quality
5 1 (2.17%) GDPR
5 1 (2.17%) SOC 2
System Software
1 38 (82.61%) Docker
2 1 (2.17%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 15 (32.61%) Terraform
2 10 (21.74%) Ansible
3 5 (10.87%) Grafana
4 3 (6.52%) Nagios
4 3 (6.52%) Prometheus
5 1 (2.17%) Argo
5 1 (2.17%) Progress Chef
5 1 (2.17%) Puppet
5 1 (2.17%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 11 (23.91%) Oracle
2 5 (10.87%) Microsoft
3 1 (2.17%) Denodo
3 1 (2.17%) Facebook
3 1 (2.17%) Google
3 1 (2.17%) OpenAI
3 1 (2.17%) Red Hat
3 1 (2.17%) Salesforce
3 1 (2.17%) Talend