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 27 July 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
27 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 126 81 138
Rank change year-on-year -45 +57 -31
Permanent jobs citing Kubernetes 77 101 90
As % of all permanent jobs in the West Midlands 0.94% 2.97% 1.29%
As % of the Systems Management category 29.17% 32.90% 19.52%
Number of salaries quoted 51 61 83
10th Percentile £50,000 - £46,250
25th Percentile £55,625 £57,500 £52,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £69,305 £67,500 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year +2.67% +12.50% -14.29%
75th Percentile £86,250 £75,000 £84,919
90th Percentile £93,750 £80,000 £88,750
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 264 307 461
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the West Midlands 3.21% 9.02% 6.59%
Number of salaries quoted 212 219 321
10th Percentile £34,250 £37,000 £27,500
25th Percentile £46,250 £45,699 £40,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £60,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year - +9.09% -4.35%
75th Percentile £76,544 £73,750 £68,000
90th Percentile £93,750 £80,000 £81,250
England median annual salary £65,000 £65,000 £62,783
% change year-on-year - +3.53% -6.99%

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 27 July 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 27 July 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 -2 38 £70,000 +3.70% 16
Worcestershire -11 15 £65,000 -18.75% 3
Coventry -5 12 £80,000 +92.77% 4
Herefordshire -18 7 £110,000 +18.92% 1
Staffordshire -15 3 £54,183 -3.68% 2
Shropshire -30 3 £45,750 -23.75% 28
Warwickshire -20 2 £57,500 -4.17% 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 5 (6.49%) Oracle SOA Suite
2 1 (1.30%) Confluence
2 1 (1.30%) IIS
2 1 (1.30%) SharePoint
Cloud Services
1 57 (74.03%) Azure
2 47 (61.04%) AWS
3 15 (19.48%) GitHub
4 10 (12.99%) GitHub Copilot
5 8 (10.39%) Azure AKS
6 6 (7.79%) Azure ExpressRoute
6 6 (7.79%) Entra ID
6 6 (7.79%) SaaS
7 5 (6.49%) Amazon EC2
7 5 (6.49%) Azure AI
7 5 (6.49%) GCP
7 5 (6.49%) Virtual Private Cloud
8 4 (5.19%) Amazon EKS
8 4 (5.19%) Amazon S3
8 4 (5.19%) AWS CloudFormation
8 4 (5.19%) Azure Logic Apps
8 4 (5.19%) Azure Service Bus
8 4 (5.19%) PaaS
9 3 (3.90%) Azure DevOps
9 3 (3.90%) GitHub Actions
Communications & Networking
1 9 (11.69%) Network Security
2 7 (9.09%) VPN
3 4 (5.19%) Firewall
4 1 (1.30%) BIG-IP
4 1 (1.30%) DNS
4 1 (1.30%) HTTP
4 1 (1.30%) SAN
4 1 (1.30%) VLAN
4 1 (1.30%) WAN
4 1 (1.30%) WireGuard
Database & Business Intelligence
1 15 (19.48%) MongoDB
2 11 (14.29%) Azure SQL Database
3 5 (6.49%) Elasticsearch
4 4 (5.19%) Amazon RDS
4 4 (5.19%) PostgreSQL
5 2 (2.60%) Amazon Aurora
5 2 (2.60%) MySQL
5 2 (2.60%) Redis
5 2 (2.60%) SQL Server
6 1 (1.30%) Data Mining
6 1 (1.30%) Power BI
6 1 (1.30%) Power Query
6 1 (1.30%) TimescaleDB
Development Applications
1 18 (23.38%) JUnit
2 14 (18.18%) Maven
3 12 (15.58%) Mockito
4 11 (14.29%) Git
5 8 (10.39%) Cucumber
5 8 (10.39%) GitLab
6 6 (7.79%) Postman
6 6 (7.79%) Selenium
7 5 (6.49%) Gatling
7 5 (6.49%) Jenkins
8 3 (3.90%) JMeter
9 2 (2.60%) Locust
10 1 (1.30%) Ant
10 1 (1.30%) Bitbucket
10 1 (1.30%) Cypress.io
10 1 (1.30%) Gradle
10 1 (1.30%) IBM UrbanCode
10 1 (1.30%) JIRA
10 1 (1.30%) REST Assured
10 1 (1.30%) WebDriver
General
1 22 (28.57%) Finance
2 12 (15.58%) Social Skills
3 6 (7.79%) Advertising
4 5 (6.49%) Marketing
4 5 (6.49%) Public Sector
5 4 (5.19%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 3 (3.90%) Analytical Skills
7 2 (2.60%) Banking
8 1 (1.30%) Documentation Skills
8 1 (1.30%) Investment Banking
8 1 (1.30%) Law
Job Titles
1 24 (31.17%) Developer
2 19 (24.68%) Senior
3 10 (12.99%) .NET Developer
3 10 (12.99%) Full-Stack Developer
3 10 (12.99%) Lead
3 10 (12.99%) Senior Developer
4 9 (11.69%) Architect
5 8 (10.39%) Full-Stack Java Developer
5 8 (10.39%) Java Developer
6 7 (9.09%) Cloud Engineer
7 6 (7.79%) Azure Architect
7 6 (7.79%) DevOps Engineer
7 6 (7.79%) Senior Full-Stack Developer
7 6 (7.79%) Technical Architect
8 5 (6.49%) AWS Engineer
8 5 (6.49%) Principal Engineer
8 5 (6.49%) Quality Engineer
8 5 (6.49%) Senior Java Developer
9 4 (5.19%) Java Team Leader
9 4 (5.19%) Team Leader
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 16 (20.78%) .NET
2 15 (19.48%) ASP.NET
2 15 (19.48%) ASP.NET Core
2 15 (19.48%) React
3 13 (16.88%) Spring
4 12 (15.58%) REST
5 10 (12.99%) .NET Core
6 7 (9.09%) Node.js
7 6 (7.79%) Playwright
7 6 (7.79%) RESTful
8 5 (6.49%) .NET Framework
8 5 (6.49%) AngularJS
8 5 (6.49%) ASP.NET Web API
8 5 (6.49%) Blazor
8 5 (6.49%) CSS
8 5 (6.49%) Entity Framework
8 5 (6.49%) HTML
8 5 (6.49%) Kafka
8 5 (6.49%) ML.NET
8 5 (6.49%) Vue
Miscellaneous
1 17 (22.08%) Cloud Native
2 7 (9.09%) Onboarding
3 6 (7.79%) Distributed Systems
3 6 (7.79%) Hybrid Cloud
4 5 (6.49%) Self-Motivation
5 2 (2.60%) Clustering
5 2 (2.60%) Enterprise Software
5 2 (2.60%) Greenfield Project
5 2 (2.60%) Legacy Systems
6 1 (1.30%) Algorithms
6 1 (1.30%) Cyber Threat
6 1 (1.30%) Data Structures
6 1 (1.30%) Distributed Computing
6 1 (1.30%) Linux Command Line
6 1 (1.30%) Management Information System
6 1 (1.30%) Online Gambling
6 1 (1.30%) Product Ownership
6 1 (1.30%) Public Cloud
6 1 (1.30%) Replication
6 1 (1.30%) Video\Live Streaming
Operating Systems
1 18 (23.38%) Linux
2 3 (3.90%) Ubuntu
2 3 (3.90%) Windows
3 2 (2.60%) CentOS
3 2 (2.60%) Debian
4 1 (1.30%) Mac OS
4 1 (1.30%) Solaris
4 1 (1.30%) Unix
4 1 (1.30%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 53 (68.83%) CI/CD
2 39 (50.65%) Agile
3 31 (40.26%) Containerisation
4 30 (38.96%) Mentoring
5 28 (36.36%) Infrastructure as Code
5 28 (36.36%) Microservices
6 23 (29.87%) AI
7 22 (28.57%) TDD
8 21 (27.27%) DevOps
8 21 (27.27%) Scrum
9 20 (25.97%) Full-Stack Development
10 18 (23.38%) Continuous Improvement
11 16 (20.78%) Technical Leadership
12 13 (16.88%) Problem-Solving
12 13 (16.88%) Stakeholder Engagement
13 12 (15.58%) Observability
13 12 (15.58%) Test Automation
14 11 (14.29%) Cloud Security
15 10 (12.99%) DevSecOps
16 9 (11.69%) Sprint Planning
Programming Languages
1 28 (36.36%) SQL
2 21 (27.27%) Java
3 20 (25.97%) C#
4 18 (23.38%) JavaScript
5 13 (16.88%) TypeScript
6 12 (15.58%) PL/SQL
7 11 (14.29%) Bash
8 10 (12.99%) Python
9 8 (10.39%) Bicep
10 4 (5.19%) PowerShell
11 2 (2.60%) Shell Script
12 1 (1.30%) C
12 1 (1.30%) C++
12 1 (1.30%) Data Analysis Expressions
12 1 (1.30%) Go
12 1 (1.30%) Kusto Query Language
12 1 (1.30%) PHP
12 1 (1.30%) VB.NET
Qualifications
1 29 (37.66%) Security Cleared
2 25 (32.47%) SC Cleared
3 10 (12.99%) DV Cleared
4 8 (10.39%) Azure Certification
5 3 (3.90%) AWS Certification
6 2 (2.60%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
6 2 (2.60%) Computer Science Degree
6 2 (2.60%) Degree
7 1 (1.30%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
7 1 (1.30%) AWS Certified SysOps Administrator
7 1 (1.30%) BPSS Clearance
7 1 (1.30%) CREST Certified
7 1 (1.30%) IISP
7 1 (1.30%) ISACA
7 1 (1.30%) OSCP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 9 (11.69%) Accessibility
2 7 (9.09%) WCAG
3 3 (3.90%) QA
4 1 (1.30%) GxP
4 1 (1.30%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 1 (1.30%) SLA
4 1 (1.30%) SOC 2
System Software
1 49 (63.64%) Docker
2 7 (9.09%) Active Directory
3 6 (7.79%) VMware Infrastructure
4 1 (1.30%) Virtual Servers
Systems Management
1 33 (42.86%) Terraform
2 8 (10.39%) Ansible
3 5 (6.49%) Grafana
4 4 (5.19%) Argo
4 4 (5.19%) Prometheus
5 3 (3.90%) Progress Chef
5 3 (3.90%) Puppet
6 1 (1.30%) Nagios
6 1 (1.30%) Podman
Vendors
1 27 (35.06%) Microsoft
2 12 (15.58%) Oracle
3 6 (7.79%) VMware
4 5 (6.49%) Facebook
5 3 (3.90%) Red Hat
6 1 (1.30%) F5
6 1 (1.30%) ServiceNow
6 1 (1.30%) Workday