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 3 August 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
3 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 117 81 146
Rank change year-on-year -36 +65 -46
Permanent jobs citing Kubernetes 83 99 85
As % of all permanent jobs in the West Midlands 0.99% 2.90% 1.30%
As % of the Systems Management category 30.29% 32.46% 20.14%
Number of salaries quoted 52 61 78
10th Percentile £50,250 - £46,250
25th Percentile £56,563 £57,500 £52,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £69,653 £67,500 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year +3.19% +12.50% -14.29%
75th Percentile £85,625 £76,250 £78,438
90th Percentile £93,750 £80,000 £89,125
England median annual salary £70,000 £80,000 £77,500
% change year-on-year -12.50% +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 274 305 422
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the West Midlands 3.26% 8.94% 6.47%
Number of salaries quoted 218 217 293
10th Percentile £34,547 £37,000 £27,500
25th Percentile £46,563 £46,250 £40,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £60,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year - +9.09% -4.35%
75th Percentile £76,206 £73,750 £68,750
90th Percentile £93,750 £80,000 £80,000
England median annual salary £65,000 £65,000 £65,000
% change year-on-year - - -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 3 August 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 3 August 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 -1 42 £70,039 +3.76% 21
Worcestershire -12 15 £65,000 -18.75% 4
Coventry -7 12 £80,000 +92.77% 4
Herefordshire -19 7 £110,000 +18.92% 1
Staffordshire -18 4 £54,183 -3.68% 1
Shropshire -32 4 £45,750 -23.75% 26
Warwickshire -23 2 £57,500 -9.80% 2
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 (7.23%) Oracle SOA Suite
2 1 (1.20%) Confluence
2 1 (1.20%) IIS
2 1 (1.20%) SharePoint
Cloud Services
1 61 (73.49%) Azure
2 52 (62.65%) AWS
3 15 (18.07%) GitHub
4 10 (12.05%) GitHub Copilot
5 8 (9.64%) Azure AKS
6 6 (7.23%) Azure ExpressRoute
6 6 (7.23%) Entra ID
6 6 (7.23%) GCP
6 6 (7.23%) SaaS
7 5 (6.02%) Amazon EC2
7 5 (6.02%) Azure AI
7 5 (6.02%) Virtual Private Cloud
8 4 (4.82%) Amazon EKS
8 4 (4.82%) Amazon S3
8 4 (4.82%) AWS CloudFormation
8 4 (4.82%) Azure Logic Apps
8 4 (4.82%) Azure Service Bus
8 4 (4.82%) PaaS
9 3 (3.61%) GitHub Actions
9 3 (3.61%) OpenShift
Communications & Networking
1 9 (10.84%) Network Security
2 7 (8.43%) VPN
3 4 (4.82%) Firewall
4 2 (2.41%) HTTP
5 1 (1.20%) BIG-IP
5 1 (1.20%) DNS
5 1 (1.20%) SAN
5 1 (1.20%) VLAN
5 1 (1.20%) WAN
5 1 (1.20%) WireGuard
Database & Business Intelligence
1 15 (18.07%) MongoDB
2 11 (13.25%) Azure SQL Database
3 5 (6.02%) Elasticsearch
4 4 (4.82%) Amazon RDS
4 4 (4.82%) PostgreSQL
5 3 (3.61%) SQL Server
6 2 (2.41%) Amazon Aurora
6 2 (2.41%) MySQL
6 2 (2.41%) Redis
7 1 (1.20%) Data Mining
7 1 (1.20%) Power BI
7 1 (1.20%) Power Query
7 1 (1.20%) TimescaleDB
Development Applications
1 20 (24.10%) JUnit
2 15 (18.07%) Maven
3 13 (15.66%) Mockito
4 12 (14.46%) Git
5 9 (10.84%) Cucumber
5 9 (10.84%) GitLab
6 7 (8.43%) Postman
6 7 (8.43%) Selenium
7 6 (7.23%) Gatling
7 6 (7.23%) Jenkins
8 3 (3.61%) JMeter
9 2 (2.41%) Locust
10 1 (1.20%) Ant
10 1 (1.20%) Bitbucket
10 1 (1.20%) Cypress.io
10 1 (1.20%) Gradle
10 1 (1.20%) IBM UrbanCode
10 1 (1.20%) JIRA
10 1 (1.20%) REST Assured
10 1 (1.20%) WebDriver
General
1 24 (28.92%) Finance
2 14 (16.87%) Social Skills
3 6 (7.23%) Advertising
4 5 (6.02%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 5 (6.02%) Marketing
4 5 (6.02%) Public Sector
5 3 (3.61%) Analytical Skills
6 2 (2.41%) Banking
7 1 (1.20%) Documentation Skills
7 1 (1.20%) Investment Banking
7 1 (1.20%) Law
Job Titles
1 25 (30.12%) Developer
2 21 (25.30%) Senior
3 11 (13.25%) Full-Stack Developer
3 11 (13.25%) Senior Developer
4 10 (12.05%) .NET Developer
4 10 (12.05%) Architect
4 10 (12.05%) Lead
5 9 (10.84%) Full-Stack Java Developer
5 9 (10.84%) Java Developer
6 7 (8.43%) Cloud Engineer
6 7 (8.43%) Senior Full-Stack Developer
7 6 (7.23%) Azure Architect
7 6 (7.23%) DevOps Engineer
7 6 (7.23%) Quality Engineer
7 6 (7.23%) Senior Java Developer
7 6 (7.23%) Technical Architect
8 5 (6.02%) AWS Engineer
8 5 (6.02%) Principal Engineer
8 5 (6.02%) Senior Quality Engineer
9 4 (4.82%) Platform Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 17 (20.48%) .NET
2 16 (19.28%) React
3 15 (18.07%) ASP.NET
3 15 (18.07%) ASP.NET Core
4 14 (16.87%) Spring
5 13 (15.66%) REST
6 10 (12.05%) .NET Core
7 7 (8.43%) Node.js
7 7 (8.43%) Playwright
8 6 (7.23%) RESTful
9 5 (6.02%) .NET Framework
9 5 (6.02%) AngularJS
9 5 (6.02%) ASP.NET Web API
9 5 (6.02%) Blazor
9 5 (6.02%) CSS
9 5 (6.02%) Entity Framework
9 5 (6.02%) HTML
9 5 (6.02%) Kafka
9 5 (6.02%) ML.NET
9 5 (6.02%) Vue
Miscellaneous
1 18 (21.69%) Cloud Native
2 7 (8.43%) Onboarding
3 6 (7.23%) Distributed Systems
3 6 (7.23%) Hybrid Cloud
3 6 (7.23%) Self-Motivation
4 3 (3.61%) Legacy Systems
5 2 (2.41%) Clustering
5 2 (2.41%) Enterprise Software
5 2 (2.41%) Greenfield Project
5 2 (2.41%) Management Information System
5 2 (2.41%) Online Gambling
5 2 (2.41%) Product Ownership
5 2 (2.41%) Public Cloud
5 2 (2.41%) Video\Live Streaming
6 1 (1.20%) Algorithms
6 1 (1.20%) Cyber Threat
6 1 (1.20%) Data Structures
6 1 (1.20%) Distributed Computing
6 1 (1.20%) Linux Command Line
6 1 (1.20%) Replication
Operating Systems
1 20 (24.10%) Linux
2 3 (3.61%) Ubuntu
2 3 (3.61%) Windows
3 2 (2.41%) CentOS
3 2 (2.41%) Debian
3 2 (2.41%) Unix
4 1 (1.20%) Mac OS
4 1 (1.20%) Solaris
4 1 (1.20%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 56 (67.47%) CI/CD
2 43 (51.81%) Agile
3 33 (39.76%) Containerisation
3 33 (39.76%) Mentoring
4 30 (36.14%) Microservices
5 28 (33.73%) Infrastructure as Code
6 24 (28.92%) AI
6 24 (28.92%) Scrum
6 24 (28.92%) TDD
7 23 (27.71%) DevOps
8 21 (25.30%) Full-Stack Development
9 19 (22.89%) Continuous Improvement
10 17 (20.48%) Technical Leadership
11 15 (18.07%) Stakeholder Engagement
12 14 (16.87%) Problem-Solving
13 13 (15.66%) Test Automation
14 12 (14.46%) Observability
15 11 (13.25%) Cloud Security
15 11 (13.25%) Continuous Integration
16 10 (12.05%) Sprint Planning
Programming Languages
1 29 (34.94%) SQL
2 23 (27.71%) Java
3 21 (25.30%) C#
4 19 (22.89%) JavaScript
5 13 (15.66%) PL/SQL
5 13 (15.66%) TypeScript
6 12 (14.46%) Bash
7 10 (12.05%) Python
8 8 (9.64%) Bicep
9 4 (4.82%) PowerShell
10 2 (2.41%) Go
10 2 (2.41%) Shell Script
10 2 (2.41%) VB.NET
11 1 (1.20%) C
11 1 (1.20%) C++
11 1 (1.20%) Data Analysis Expressions
11 1 (1.20%) Kusto Query Language
11 1 (1.20%) PHP
Qualifications
1 33 (39.76%) Security Cleared
2 29 (34.94%) SC Cleared
3 10 (12.05%) DV Cleared
4 8 (9.64%) Azure Certification
5 3 (3.61%) AWS Certification
5 3 (3.61%) Computer Science Degree
5 3 (3.61%) Degree
6 2 (2.41%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
7 1 (1.20%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
7 1 (1.20%) AWS Certified SysOps Administrator
7 1 (1.20%) BPSS Clearance
7 1 (1.20%) CREST Certified
7 1 (1.20%) IISP
7 1 (1.20%) ISACA
7 1 (1.20%) OSCP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 10 (12.05%) Accessibility
2 8 (9.64%) WCAG
3 3 (3.61%) QA
4 1 (1.20%) GxP
4 1 (1.20%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 1 (1.20%) SLA
4 1 (1.20%) SOC 2
System Software
1 52 (62.65%) Docker
2 7 (8.43%) Active Directory
3 6 (7.23%) VMware Infrastructure
4 1 (1.20%) Virtual Servers
Systems Management
1 35 (42.17%) Terraform
2 9 (10.84%) Ansible
3 5 (6.02%) Grafana
4 4 (4.82%) Argo
4 4 (4.82%) Prometheus
5 3 (3.61%) Progress Chef
5 3 (3.61%) Puppet
6 1 (1.20%) Nagios
6 1 (1.20%) Podman
Vendors
1 29 (34.94%) Microsoft
2 13 (15.66%) Oracle
3 6 (7.23%) VMware
4 5 (6.02%) Facebook
5 4 (4.82%) Red Hat
6 2 (2.41%) Workday
7 1 (1.20%) F5
7 1 (1.20%) ServiceNow