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

6 months to
28 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 131 82 156
Rank change year-on-year -49 +74 -46
Permanent jobs citing Kubernetes 59 96 107
As % of all permanent jobs in the West Midlands 0.76% 3.11% 1.27%
As % of the Systems Management category 24.08% 31.89% 19.56%
Number of salaries quoted 43 56 90
10th Percentile £52,500 - £46,250
25th Percentile £56,250 £57,500 £52,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £69,305 £67,500 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year +2.67% +3.85% -7.14%
75th Percentile £83,750 £75,000 £84,980
90th Percentile £93,750 £80,000 £93,750
England median annual salary £71,500 £80,000 £77,500
% change year-on-year -10.63% +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 245 301 547
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the West Midlands 3.16% 9.76% 6.47%
Number of salaries quoted 199 210 384
10th Percentile £32,750 £38,350 £29,000
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% -3.08%
75th Percentile £75,125 £73,750 £68,938
90th Percentile £93,750 £77,500 £82,125
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 28 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 28 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 -9 30 £69,305 -0.99% 10
Coventry -5 14 £80,000 +92.77% 2
Worcestershire -11 8 £55,000 -24.14% 4
Herefordshire -21 3 £88,000 -4.86%
Staffordshire -19 2 £54,183 -3.68% 2
Warwickshire -25 1 £65,000 +8.33% 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 4 (6.78%) Oracle SOA Suite
2 1 (1.69%) Confluence
2 1 (1.69%) IIS
2 1 (1.69%) SharePoint
Cloud Services
1 43 (72.88%) Azure
2 35 (59.32%) AWS
3 10 (16.95%) GitHub
4 9 (15.25%) GitHub Copilot
5 6 (10.17%) SaaS
6 5 (8.47%) Amazon S3
7 4 (6.78%) Amazon EC2
7 4 (6.78%) Azure AI
7 4 (6.78%) Azure AKS
7 4 (6.78%) Azure Logic Apps
7 4 (6.78%) Azure Service Bus
7 4 (6.78%) PaaS
7 4 (6.78%) Serverless
7 4 (6.78%) Virtual Private Cloud
8 3 (5.08%) AWS CloudFormation
8 3 (5.08%) GCP
9 2 (3.39%) Amazon CloudWatch
9 2 (3.39%) AWS Lambda
9 2 (3.39%) Datadog
9 2 (3.39%) Entra ID
Communications & Networking
1 5 (8.47%) Network Security
2 4 (6.78%) Firewall
3 3 (5.08%) VPN
4 1 (1.69%) BIG-IP
4 1 (1.69%) DNS
4 1 (1.69%) SAN
4 1 (1.69%) VLAN
4 1 (1.69%) WAN
4 1 (1.69%) WireGuard
Database & Business Intelligence
1 14 (23.73%) MongoDB
2 10 (16.95%) Azure SQL Database
3 5 (8.47%) Elasticsearch
4 3 (5.08%) Amazon RDS
5 2 (3.39%) PostgreSQL
5 2 (3.39%) Redis
5 2 (3.39%) TimescaleDB
6 1 (1.69%) Data Mining
6 1 (1.69%) NoSQL
6 1 (1.69%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 13 (22.03%) JUnit
2 11 (18.64%) Maven
2 11 (18.64%) Mockito
3 5 (8.47%) Cucumber
3 5 (8.47%) Git
4 2 (3.39%) Gatling
4 2 (3.39%) GitLab
4 2 (3.39%) Jenkins
4 2 (3.39%) JMeter
4 2 (3.39%) Locust
4 2 (3.39%) Postman
4 2 (3.39%) Selenium
5 1 (1.69%) Bitbucket
5 1 (1.69%) JIRA
5 1 (1.69%) SpecFlow
General
1 17 (28.81%) Finance
2 11 (18.64%) Social Skills
3 6 (10.17%) Advertising
4 4 (6.78%) Marketing
5 3 (5.08%) Analytical Skills
6 2 (3.39%) Banking
6 2 (3.39%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 2 (3.39%) Investment Banking
6 2 (3.39%) Public Sector
7 1 (1.69%) Law
Job Titles
1 22 (37.29%) Developer
2 14 (23.73%) Senior
3 10 (16.95%) Lead
4 9 (15.25%) .NET Developer
4 9 (15.25%) Full-Stack Developer
5 8 (13.56%) Senior Developer
6 7 (11.86%) Full-Stack Java Developer
6 7 (11.86%) Java Developer
7 5 (8.47%) Principal Engineer
8 4 (6.78%) Architect
8 4 (6.78%) AWS Engineer
8 4 (6.78%) Cloud Engineer
8 4 (6.78%) Java Team Leader
8 4 (6.78%) Senior Full-Stack Developer
8 4 (6.78%) Senior Java Developer
8 4 (6.78%) Team Leader
9 3 (5.08%) Administrator
9 3 (5.08%) Infrastructure Engineer
9 3 (5.08%) Lead Developer
9 3 (5.08%) Lead Full-Stack Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 15 (25.42%) .NET
2 14 (23.73%) ASP.NET
2 14 (23.73%) ASP.NET Core
3 13 (22.03%) React
4 12 (20.34%) REST
5 10 (16.95%) Spring
6 9 (15.25%) .NET Core
7 8 (13.56%) Node.js
8 6 (10.17%) AngularJS
8 6 (10.17%) Kafka
8 6 (10.17%) Vue
9 5 (8.47%) .NET Framework
9 5 (8.47%) ASP.NET Web API
9 5 (8.47%) Entity Framework
10 4 (6.78%) Blazor
10 4 (6.78%) CSS
10 4 (6.78%) HTML
10 4 (6.78%) ML.NET
11 3 (5.08%) GraphQL
11 3 (5.08%) RESTful
Miscellaneous
1 11 (18.64%) Cloud Native
2 5 (8.47%) Distributed Systems
2 5 (8.47%) Onboarding
3 4 (6.78%) Self-Motivation
4 2 (3.39%) Clustering
4 2 (3.39%) Enterprise Software
4 2 (3.39%) Greenfield Project
4 2 (3.39%) Hybrid Cloud
4 2 (3.39%) Management Information System
4 2 (3.39%) Product Ownership
5 1 (1.69%) Algorithms
5 1 (1.69%) Cyber Threat
5 1 (1.69%) Data Structures
5 1 (1.69%) Distributed Computing
5 1 (1.69%) Legacy Systems
5 1 (1.69%) Replication
5 1 (1.69%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 11 (18.64%) Linux
2 3 (5.08%) Ubuntu
3 2 (3.39%) CentOS
3 2 (3.39%) Debian
3 2 (3.39%) Windows
4 1 (1.69%) Android
4 1 (1.69%) Apple iOS
4 1 (1.69%) Mac OS
Processes & Methodologies
1 39 (66.10%) CI/CD
2 33 (55.93%) Agile
3 25 (42.37%) Microservices
4 23 (38.98%) Mentoring
5 22 (37.29%) Infrastructure as Code
6 20 (33.90%) Containerisation
7 18 (30.51%) DevOps
7 18 (30.51%) Full-Stack Development
7 18 (30.51%) TDD
8 17 (28.81%) AI
8 17 (28.81%) Scrum
9 15 (25.42%) Continuous Improvement
10 13 (22.03%) Problem-Solving
10 13 (22.03%) Technical Leadership
11 11 (18.64%) Observability
12 10 (16.95%) High Availability
13 9 (15.25%) Sprint Planning
13 9 (15.25%) Unit Testing
14 8 (13.56%) Infrastructure Engineering
14 8 (13.56%) Test Automation
Programming Languages
1 26 (44.07%) SQL
2 19 (32.20%) Java
3 18 (30.51%) C#
4 16 (27.12%) JavaScript
5 13 (22.03%) TypeScript
6 11 (18.64%) PL/SQL
7 10 (16.95%) Bash
7 10 (16.95%) Python
8 4 (6.78%) Bicep
8 4 (6.78%) C
9 3 (5.08%) PowerShell
10 2 (3.39%) C++
10 2 (3.39%) R
10 2 (3.39%) Shell Script
11 1 (1.69%) Go
11 1 (1.69%) Kusto Query Language
11 1 (1.69%) PHP
Qualifications
1 13 (22.03%) SC Cleared
1 13 (22.03%) Security Cleared
2 7 (11.86%) Azure Certification
3 4 (6.78%) DV Cleared
4 3 (5.08%) AWS Certification
4 3 (5.08%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
5 2 (3.39%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
5 2 (3.39%) AWS Certified SysOps Administrator
6 1 (1.69%) Computer Science Degree
6 1 (1.69%) CREST Certified
6 1 (1.69%) Degree
6 1 (1.69%) IISP
6 1 (1.69%) ISACA
6 1 (1.69%) OSCP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 7 (11.86%) Accessibility
2 5 (8.47%) QA
3 4 (6.78%) WCAG
4 1 (1.69%) GxP
4 1 (1.69%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 1 (1.69%) SOC 2
System Software
1 43 (72.88%) Docker
2 3 (5.08%) Active Directory
3 2 (3.39%) VMware Infrastructure
4 1 (1.69%) Virtual Servers
Systems Management
1 22 (37.29%) Terraform
2 6 (10.17%) Ansible
3 3 (5.08%) Grafana
3 3 (5.08%) Prometheus
4 2 (3.39%) Argo
4 2 (3.39%) Nagios
4 2 (3.39%) Progress Chef
4 2 (3.39%) Puppet
5 1 (1.69%) Podman
Vendors
1 19 (32.20%) Microsoft
2 11 (18.64%) Oracle
3 4 (6.78%) Facebook
4 2 (3.39%) Red Hat
4 2 (3.39%) VMware
5 1 (1.69%) F5