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 21 June 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
21 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 131 77 156
Rank change year-on-year -54 +79 -42
Permanent jobs citing Kubernetes 57 93 109
As % of all permanent jobs in the West Midlands 0.74% 3.07% 1.24%
As % of the Systems Management category 23.65% 31.96% 19.33%
Number of salaries quoted 40 55 89
10th Percentile £52,250 - £46,250
25th Percentile £56,875 £57,500 £52,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £69,653 £67,500 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year +3.19% +3.85% -7.14%
75th Percentile £83,125 £75,000 £84,919
90th Percentile £93,750 £79,500 £93,750
England median annual salary £72,500 £80,000 £77,500
% change year-on-year -9.38% +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 241 291 564
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the West Midlands 3.13% 9.60% 6.44%
Number of salaries quoted 194 202 396
10th Percentile £32,575 £37,150 £29,250
25th Percentile £46,250 £44,000 £38,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £60,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year - +9.09% -4.35%
75th Percentile £74,997 £72,500 £68,750
90th Percentile £93,375 £76,250 £80,625
England median annual salary £65,000 £67,500 £62,500
% change year-on-year -3.70% +8.00% -7.41%

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 21 June 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 21 June 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 -7 30 £65,903 -5.85% 8
Coventry -7 13 £80,000 +92.77% 2
Worcestershire -14 7 £55,000 -24.14% 2
Staffordshire -18 2 £54,183 -3.68%
Herefordshire -20 2 £81,500 -4.12%
Warwickshire -25 1 £65,000 +8.33%
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 5 (8.77%) Oracle SOA Suite
2 1 (1.75%) Confluence
2 1 (1.75%) IIS
2 1 (1.75%) SharePoint
Cloud Services
1 42 (73.68%) Azure
2 35 (61.40%) AWS
3 8 (14.04%) GitHub
4 7 (12.28%) GitHub Copilot
5 6 (10.53%) SaaS
6 5 (8.77%) Amazon S3
7 4 (7.02%) Amazon EC2
7 4 (7.02%) Azure Logic Apps
7 4 (7.02%) Azure Service Bus
7 4 (7.02%) PaaS
7 4 (7.02%) Serverless
7 4 (7.02%) Virtual Private Cloud
8 3 (5.26%) AWS CloudFormation
8 3 (5.26%) Azure AI
8 3 (5.26%) Azure AKS
8 3 (5.26%) GCP
9 2 (3.51%) Amazon CloudWatch
9 2 (3.51%) Amazon EKS
9 2 (3.51%) Datadog
9 2 (3.51%) dbt
Communications & Networking
1 4 (7.02%) Firewall
1 4 (7.02%) Network Security
2 2 (3.51%) VPN
3 1 (1.75%) BIG-IP
3 1 (1.75%) DNS
3 1 (1.75%) SAN
3 1 (1.75%) VLAN
3 1 (1.75%) WAN
3 1 (1.75%) WireGuard
Database & Business Intelligence
1 12 (21.05%) MongoDB
2 8 (14.04%) Azure SQL Database
3 4 (7.02%) Elasticsearch
4 3 (5.26%) Amazon RDS
5 2 (3.51%) PostgreSQL
5 2 (3.51%) Redis
5 2 (3.51%) TimescaleDB
6 1 (1.75%) Data Mining
6 1 (1.75%) NoSQL
6 1 (1.75%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 14 (24.56%) JUnit
2 12 (21.05%) Maven
2 12 (21.05%) Mockito
3 5 (8.77%) Cucumber
3 5 (8.77%) Git
4 2 (3.51%) Gatling
4 2 (3.51%) GitLab
4 2 (3.51%) Jenkins
4 2 (3.51%) JMeter
4 2 (3.51%) Locust
4 2 (3.51%) Postman
4 2 (3.51%) Selenium
5 1 (1.75%) Bitbucket
5 1 (1.75%) JIRA
5 1 (1.75%) SpecFlow
General
1 18 (31.58%) Finance
2 13 (22.81%) Social Skills
3 5 (8.77%) Advertising
4 3 (5.26%) Analytical Skills
4 3 (5.26%) Marketing
5 2 (3.51%) Banking
5 2 (3.51%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 2 (3.51%) Investment Banking
6 1 (1.75%) Law
6 1 (1.75%) Military
6 1 (1.75%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 21 (36.84%) Developer
2 14 (24.56%) Senior
3 10 (17.54%) Full-Stack Developer
3 10 (17.54%) Lead
4 9 (15.79%) Senior Developer
5 8 (14.04%) Full-Stack Java Developer
5 8 (14.04%) Java Developer
6 7 (12.28%) .NET Developer
7 5 (8.77%) Principal Engineer
7 5 (8.77%) Senior Full-Stack Developer
7 5 (8.77%) Senior Java Developer
8 4 (7.02%) AWS Engineer
8 4 (7.02%) Cloud Engineer
8 4 (7.02%) Java Team Leader
8 4 (7.02%) Team Leader
9 3 (5.26%) Infrastructure Engineer
9 3 (5.26%) Lead Full-Stack Developer
9 3 (5.26%) Lead Java Developer
9 3 (5.26%) Linux Administrator
9 3 (5.26%) Linux Systems Administrator
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 13 (22.81%) .NET
1 13 (22.81%) React
1 13 (22.81%) REST
2 12 (21.05%) ASP.NET
2 12 (21.05%) ASP.NET Core
3 10 (17.54%) Spring
4 7 (12.28%) .NET Core
4 7 (12.28%) Node.js
5 6 (10.53%) Kafka
6 5 (8.77%) .NET Framework
6 5 (8.77%) AngularJS
6 5 (8.77%) ASP.NET Web API
6 5 (8.77%) Entity Framework
6 5 (8.77%) Vue
7 3 (5.26%) Blazor
7 3 (5.26%) CSS
7 3 (5.26%) GraphQL
7 3 (5.26%) HTML
7 3 (5.26%) ML.NET
7 3 (5.26%) RESTful
Miscellaneous
1 10 (17.54%) Cloud Native
2 5 (8.77%) Distributed Systems
2 5 (8.77%) Onboarding
2 5 (8.77%) Self-Motivation
3 3 (5.26%) Management Information System
4 2 (3.51%) Clustering
4 2 (3.51%) Enterprise Software
4 2 (3.51%) Greenfield Project
4 2 (3.51%) Product Ownership
5 1 (1.75%) Algorithms
5 1 (1.75%) Cyber Threat
5 1 (1.75%) Data Structures
5 1 (1.75%) Distributed Computing
5 1 (1.75%) Hybrid Cloud
5 1 (1.75%) Legacy Systems
5 1 (1.75%) Replication
5 1 (1.75%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 13 (22.81%) Linux
2 3 (5.26%) Ubuntu
3 2 (3.51%) CentOS
3 2 (3.51%) Debian
3 2 (3.51%) Windows
4 1 (1.75%) Android
4 1 (1.75%) Apple iOS
4 1 (1.75%) Mac OS
Processes & Methodologies
1 36 (63.16%) CI/CD
2 34 (59.65%) Agile
3 26 (45.61%) Microservices
4 22 (38.60%) Mentoring
5 21 (36.84%) Infrastructure as Code
6 20 (35.09%) Containerisation
7 19 (33.33%) DevOps
8 18 (31.58%) TDD
9 17 (29.82%) Full-Stack Development
9 17 (29.82%) Scrum
10 16 (28.07%) AI
11 15 (26.32%) Continuous Improvement
12 14 (24.56%) Problem-Solving
13 13 (22.81%) Technical Leadership
14 11 (19.30%) Observability
15 10 (17.54%) High Availability
15 10 (17.54%) Sprint Planning
15 10 (17.54%) Unit Testing
16 8 (14.04%) Infrastructure Engineering
16 8 (14.04%) Test Automation
Programming Languages
1 25 (43.86%) SQL
2 20 (35.09%) Java
3 16 (28.07%) C#
3 16 (28.07%) JavaScript
4 12 (21.05%) PL/SQL
4 12 (21.05%) TypeScript
5 11 (19.30%) Bash
6 10 (17.54%) Python
7 5 (8.77%) C
8 3 (5.26%) Bicep
8 3 (5.26%) PowerShell
8 3 (5.26%) R
9 2 (3.51%) C++
9 2 (3.51%) Shell Script
10 1 (1.75%) Go
10 1 (1.75%) Kusto Query Language
10 1 (1.75%) PHP
Qualifications
1 14 (24.56%) SC Cleared
1 14 (24.56%) Security Cleared
2 7 (12.28%) Azure Certification
3 3 (5.26%) AWS Certification
3 3 (5.26%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
3 3 (5.26%) DV Cleared
4 2 (3.51%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
4 2 (3.51%) AWS Certified SysOps Administrator
5 1 (1.75%) Computer Science Degree
5 1 (1.75%) CREST Certified
5 1 (1.75%) Degree
5 1 (1.75%) IISP
5 1 (1.75%) ISACA
5 1 (1.75%) OSCP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 7 (12.28%) Accessibility
2 6 (10.53%) QA
3 4 (7.02%) WCAG
4 1 (1.75%) GxP
4 1 (1.75%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 1 (1.75%) SOC 2
System Software
1 41 (71.93%) Docker
2 2 (3.51%) Active Directory
3 1 (1.75%) Virtual Servers
3 1 (1.75%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 22 (38.60%) Terraform
2 7 (12.28%) Ansible
3 3 (5.26%) Grafana
3 3 (5.26%) Prometheus
4 2 (3.51%) Argo
4 2 (3.51%) Nagios
4 2 (3.51%) Progress Chef
4 2 (3.51%) Puppet
5 1 (1.75%) Podman
Vendors
1 16 (28.07%) Microsoft
2 12 (21.05%) Oracle
3 3 (5.26%) Facebook
4 2 (3.51%) Red Hat
5 1 (1.75%) F5
5 1 (1.75%) VMware