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

6 months to
14 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 134 80 160
Rank change year-on-year -54 +80 -52
Permanent jobs citing Kubernetes 54 92 108
As % of all permanent jobs in the West Midlands 0.71% 3.03% 1.26%
As % of the Systems Management category 22.78% 31.83% 19.15%
Number of salaries quoted 36 53 87
10th Percentile £49,250 - £46,250
25th Percentile £56,875 £57,500 £52,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £69,653 £65,000 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year +7.16% - -7.14%
75th Percentile £79,688 £75,000 £84,959
90th Percentile £93,750 £78,500 £93,750
England median annual salary £72,500 £82,500 £77,500
% change year-on-year -12.12% +6.45% -

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 237 289 564
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the West Midlands 3.11% 9.53% 6.56%
Number of salaries quoted 188 201 400
10th Percentile £32,500 £36,250 £29,500
25th Percentile £46,250 £43,750 £38,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £60,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year - +9.09% -4.35%
75th Percentile £74,990 £72,500 £68,750
90th Percentile £93,750 £76,250 £81,375
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 14 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 14 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 -1 30 £65,000 -7.14% 10
Coventry -10 12 £80,000 +92.77% 2
Worcestershire -15 5 £55,000 -15.38% 3
Staffordshire -16 2 £54,183 -3.68%
Herefordshire -21 1 £75,000 -
Warwickshire -24 1 £65,000 +8.33% 1
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 (11.11%) Oracle SOA Suite
2 1 (1.85%) Confluence
2 1 (1.85%) IIS
2 1 (1.85%) SharePoint
Cloud Services
1 39 (72.22%) Azure
2 34 (62.96%) AWS
3 6 (11.11%) GitHub
4 5 (9.26%) Amazon S3
4 5 (9.26%) GitHub Copilot
4 5 (9.26%) SaaS
4 5 (9.26%) Serverless
5 4 (7.41%) Amazon EC2
5 4 (7.41%) AWS CloudFormation
5 4 (7.41%) PaaS
5 4 (7.41%) Virtual Private Cloud
6 3 (5.56%) Amazon CloudWatch
6 3 (5.56%) AWS Lambda
6 3 (5.56%) Azure Logic Apps
6 3 (5.56%) Azure Service Bus
6 3 (5.56%) GCP
7 2 (3.70%) Azure AI
7 2 (3.70%) Azure AKS
7 2 (3.70%) Azure Sentinel
7 2 (3.70%) dbt
Communications & Networking
1 4 (7.41%) Firewall
2 3 (5.56%) Network Security
3 1 (1.85%) BIG-IP
3 1 (1.85%) DNS
3 1 (1.85%) SAN
3 1 (1.85%) VLAN
3 1 (1.85%) VPN
3 1 (1.85%) WAN
3 1 (1.85%) WireGuard
Database & Business Intelligence
1 10 (18.52%) MongoDB
2 6 (11.11%) Azure SQL Database
3 3 (5.56%) Amazon RDS
3 3 (5.56%) Elasticsearch
4 2 (3.70%) PostgreSQL
4 2 (3.70%) Redis
4 2 (3.70%) TimescaleDB
5 1 (1.85%) Data Mining
5 1 (1.85%) NoSQL
5 1 (1.85%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 15 (27.78%) JUnit
2 13 (24.07%) Maven
2 13 (24.07%) Mockito
3 6 (11.11%) Git
4 5 (9.26%) Cucumber
5 3 (5.56%) Jenkins
6 2 (3.70%) Gatling
6 2 (3.70%) GitLab
6 2 (3.70%) JMeter
6 2 (3.70%) Locust
6 2 (3.70%) Postman
6 2 (3.70%) Selenium
7 1 (1.85%) Bitbucket
7 1 (1.85%) JIRA
7 1 (1.85%) SpecFlow
General
1 18 (33.33%) Finance
2 15 (27.78%) Social Skills
3 5 (9.26%) Advertising
4 3 (5.56%) Analytical Skills
4 3 (5.56%) Banking
4 3 (5.56%) Investment Banking
5 2 (3.70%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 2 (3.70%) Marketing
6 1 (1.85%) Law
6 1 (1.85%) Military
6 1 (1.85%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 19 (35.19%) Developer
2 14 (25.93%) Senior
3 11 (20.37%) Full-Stack Developer
3 11 (20.37%) Lead
4 9 (16.67%) Full-Stack Java Developer
4 9 (16.67%) Java Developer
4 9 (16.67%) Senior Developer
5 6 (11.11%) Senior Full-Stack Developer
5 6 (11.11%) Senior Java Developer
6 5 (9.26%) .NET Developer
6 5 (9.26%) Principal Engineer
7 4 (7.41%) AWS Engineer
7 4 (7.41%) Cloud Engineer
7 4 (7.41%) DevOps Engineer
7 4 (7.41%) Infrastructure Engineer
7 4 (7.41%) Java Team Leader
7 4 (7.41%) Team Leader
8 3 (5.56%) AWS Infrastructure Engineer
8 3 (5.56%) Azure Engineer
8 3 (5.56%) Linux Systems Administrator
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 14 (25.93%) REST
2 13 (24.07%) React
3 11 (20.37%) .NET
4 10 (18.52%) ASP.NET
4 10 (18.52%) ASP.NET Core
4 10 (18.52%) Spring
5 6 (11.11%) Kafka
5 6 (11.11%) Node.js
6 5 (9.26%) .NET Core
6 5 (9.26%) .NET Framework
6 5 (9.26%) ASP.NET Web API
6 5 (9.26%) Entity Framework
7 4 (7.41%) AngularJS
7 4 (7.41%) Vue
8 3 (5.56%) GraphQL
8 3 (5.56%) RESTful
9 2 (3.70%) Blazor
9 2 (3.70%) CSS
9 2 (3.70%) Gherkin
9 2 (3.70%) HTML
Miscellaneous
1 9 (16.67%) Cloud Native
2 6 (11.11%) Self-Motivation
3 5 (9.26%) Distributed Systems
4 4 (7.41%) Management Information System
4 4 (7.41%) Onboarding
5 3 (5.56%) Enterprise Software
5 3 (5.56%) Product Ownership
6 2 (3.70%) Clustering
6 2 (3.70%) Greenfield Project
7 1 (1.85%) Algorithms
7 1 (1.85%) Cyber Threat
7 1 (1.85%) Data Structures
7 1 (1.85%) Distributed Computing
7 1 (1.85%) Legacy Systems
7 1 (1.85%) Replication
7 1 (1.85%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 14 (25.93%) Linux
2 3 (5.56%) Ubuntu
3 2 (3.70%) CentOS
3 2 (3.70%) Debian
3 2 (3.70%) Windows
4 1 (1.85%) Android
4 1 (1.85%) Apple iOS
4 1 (1.85%) Mac OS
Processes & Methodologies
1 35 (64.81%) CI/CD
2 34 (62.96%) Agile
3 25 (46.30%) Microservices
4 21 (38.89%) DevOps
4 21 (38.89%) Mentoring
5 19 (35.19%) Containerisation
5 19 (35.19%) Infrastructure as Code
6 18 (33.33%) TDD
7 17 (31.48%) Scrum
8 16 (29.63%) Full-Stack Development
8 16 (29.63%) Problem-Solving
9 15 (27.78%) AI
9 15 (27.78%) Continuous Improvement
10 13 (24.07%) Technical Leadership
11 11 (20.37%) High Availability
11 11 (20.37%) Sprint Planning
11 11 (20.37%) Unit Testing
12 10 (18.52%) Observability
13 8 (14.81%) Infrastructure Engineering
13 8 (14.81%) Test Automation
Programming Languages
1 23 (42.59%) SQL
2 20 (37.04%) Java
3 17 (31.48%) JavaScript
4 13 (24.07%) C#
4 13 (24.07%) PL/SQL
5 12 (22.22%) Bash
6 11 (20.37%) Python
6 11 (20.37%) TypeScript
7 6 (11.11%) C
8 4 (7.41%) R
9 3 (5.56%) PowerShell
10 2 (3.70%) Bicep
10 2 (3.70%) C++
10 2 (3.70%) Go
10 2 (3.70%) Shell Script
11 1 (1.85%) Kusto Query Language
11 1 (1.85%) PHP
Qualifications
1 14 (25.93%) SC Cleared
1 14 (25.93%) Security Cleared
2 6 (11.11%) Azure Certification
3 3 (5.56%) AWS Certification
3 3 (5.56%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
3 3 (5.56%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
3 3 (5.56%) AWS Certified SysOps Administrator
4 2 (3.70%) DV Cleared
5 1 (1.85%) Computer Science Degree
5 1 (1.85%) CREST Certified
5 1 (1.85%) Degree
5 1 (1.85%) IISP
5 1 (1.85%) ISACA
5 1 (1.85%) OSCP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 7 (12.96%) Accessibility
1 7 (12.96%) QA
2 4 (7.41%) WCAG
System Software
1 41 (75.93%) Docker
2 1 (1.85%) Active Directory
2 1 (1.85%) Virtual Servers
Systems Management
1 20 (37.04%) Terraform
2 7 (12.96%) Ansible
3 3 (5.56%) Grafana
3 3 (5.56%) Prometheus
4 2 (3.70%) Argo
4 2 (3.70%) Nagios
4 2 (3.70%) Progress Chef
4 2 (3.70%) Puppet
5 1 (1.85%) Podman
Vendors
1 13 (24.07%) Microsoft
1 13 (24.07%) Oracle
2 2 (3.70%) Facebook
2 2 (3.70%) Red Hat
3 1 (1.85%) F5