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 17 May 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
17 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 157 89 150
Rank change year-on-year -68 +61 -43
Permanent jobs citing Kubernetes 47 88 106
As % of all permanent jobs in the West Midlands 0.55% 2.77% 1.43%
As % of the Systems Management category 22.17% 32.84% 19.74%
Number of salaries quoted 32 52 84
10th Percentile £45,350 - £46,250
25th Percentile £56,875 £57,500 £52,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £68,750 £67,500 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year +1.85% +3.85% -7.14%
75th Percentile £79,688 £75,000 £84,919
90th Percentile £93,125 £86,625 £89,625
England median annual salary £75,000 £82,500 £77,500
% change year-on-year -9.09% +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 212 268 537
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the West Midlands 2.50% 8.43% 7.22%
Number of salaries quoted 168 178 407
10th Percentile £32,500 £35,575 £29,000
25th Percentile £45,122 £43,500 £38,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £60,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year - +9.09% -4.35%
75th Percentile £73,750 £69,688 £68,750
90th Percentile £90,000 £75,000 £82,500
England median annual salary £65,000 £67,500 £61,750
% change year-on-year -3.70% +9.31% -8.52%

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 17 May 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 17 May 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 -11 21 £62,500 -13.79% 11
Coventry -11 12 £80,000 - 5
Worcestershire -21 5 £75,000 +15.38% 5
Staffordshire -22 2 £54,183 -3.68%
Warwickshire -29 2 £65,000 +8.33%
Herefordshire -23 1 £75,000 -
Shropshire -36 1 - - 3
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 (10.64%) Oracle SOA Suite
2 1 (2.13%) Confluence
2 1 (2.13%) IIS
2 1 (2.13%) SAS
Cloud Services
1 33 (70.21%) Azure
2 27 (57.45%) AWS
3 6 (12.77%) Serverless
4 5 (10.64%) GCP
4 5 (10.64%) GitHub
4 5 (10.64%) SaaS
5 3 (6.38%) Amazon CloudWatch
5 3 (6.38%) Amazon EC2
5 3 (6.38%) Amazon S3
5 3 (6.38%) AWS CloudFormation
5 3 (6.38%) AWS Lambda
5 3 (6.38%) Azure Logic Apps
5 3 (6.38%) Azure Service Bus
5 3 (6.38%) GitHub Copilot
5 3 (6.38%) PaaS
5 3 (6.38%) Virtual Private Cloud
6 2 (4.26%) Azure AKS
6 2 (4.26%) Azure DevOps
6 2 (4.26%) Azure Sentinel
6 2 (4.26%) dbt
Communications & Networking
1 4 (8.51%) Firewall
2 3 (6.38%) Network Security
3 1 (2.13%) DNS
3 1 (2.13%) SAN
3 1 (2.13%) VLAN
3 1 (2.13%) VPN
3 1 (2.13%) WAN
3 1 (2.13%) WireGuard
Database & Business Intelligence
1 7 (14.89%) MongoDB
2 3 (6.38%) Amazon RDS
2 3 (6.38%) Azure SQL Database
2 3 (6.38%) PostgreSQL
2 3 (6.38%) Redis
2 3 (6.38%) TimescaleDB
3 2 (4.26%) Elasticsearch
4 1 (2.13%) Data Mining
4 1 (2.13%) InfluxDB
4 1 (2.13%) NoSQL
4 1 (2.13%) Pentaho
Development Applications
1 9 (19.15%) JUnit
1 9 (19.15%) Maven
1 9 (19.15%) Mockito
2 6 (12.77%) Git
3 5 (10.64%) Jenkins
4 3 (6.38%) Cucumber
5 2 (4.26%) GitLab
5 2 (4.26%) JIRA
5 2 (4.26%) JMeter
5 2 (4.26%) Locust
6 1 (2.13%) Bitbucket
6 1 (2.13%) MLflow
6 1 (2.13%) SpecFlow
General
1 16 (34.04%) Social Skills
2 13 (27.66%) Finance
3 4 (8.51%) Advertising
4 3 (6.38%) Analytical Skills
4 3 (6.38%) Banking
4 3 (6.38%) Investment Banking
4 3 (6.38%) Military
5 2 (4.26%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 1 (2.13%) Automotive
6 1 (2.13%) Law
6 1 (2.13%) Marketing
Job Titles
1 16 (34.04%) Developer
2 10 (21.28%) Full-Stack Developer
3 9 (19.15%) Senior
4 8 (17.02%) Lead
4 8 (17.02%) Senior Developer
5 7 (14.89%) Full-Stack Java Developer
5 7 (14.89%) Java Developer
6 5 (10.64%) Senior Full-Stack Developer
6 5 (10.64%) Senior Java Developer
7 4 (8.51%) Azure Engineer
7 4 (8.51%) Infrastructure Engineer
7 4 (8.51%) Principal Engineer
8 3 (6.38%) .NET Developer
8 3 (6.38%) Administrator
8 3 (6.38%) AWS Engineer
8 3 (6.38%) AWS Infrastructure Engineer
8 3 (6.38%) Cloud Engineer
8 3 (6.38%) Linux Administrator
8 3 (6.38%) Linux Systems Administrator
8 3 (6.38%) Systems Administrator
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 11 (23.40%) REST
2 10 (21.28%) React
3 9 (19.15%) .NET
4 7 (14.89%) ASP.NET
4 7 (14.89%) ASP.NET Core
5 6 (12.77%) Node.js
5 6 (12.77%) Spring
6 5 (10.64%) Kafka
7 4 (8.51%) .NET Framework
7 4 (8.51%) ASP.NET Web API
7 4 (8.51%) Entity Framework
7 4 (8.51%) GraphQL
8 3 (6.38%) .NET Core
8 3 (6.38%) AngularJS
8 3 (6.38%) RESTful
8 3 (6.38%) Vue
9 2 (4.26%) Gherkin
10 1 (2.13%) React Native
10 1 (2.13%) scikit-learn
10 1 (2.13%) TensorFlow
Miscellaneous
1 7 (14.89%) Cloud Native
2 5 (10.64%) Self-Motivation
3 4 (8.51%) Distributed Systems
3 4 (8.51%) Management Information System
4 3 (6.38%) Enterprise Software
4 3 (6.38%) Product Ownership
5 2 (4.26%) Onboarding
6 1 (2.13%) Algorithms
6 1 (2.13%) Clustering
6 1 (2.13%) Cyber Threat
6 1 (2.13%) Data Structures
6 1 (2.13%) Distributed Computing
6 1 (2.13%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 14 (29.79%) Linux
2 3 (6.38%) Ubuntu
3 2 (4.26%) CentOS
3 2 (4.26%) Debian
3 2 (4.26%) Windows
4 1 (2.13%) Android
4 1 (2.13%) Apple iOS
4 1 (2.13%) Mac OS
Processes & Methodologies
1 28 (59.57%) Agile
1 28 (59.57%) CI/CD
2 23 (48.94%) Microservices
3 22 (46.81%) DevOps
4 18 (38.30%) Infrastructure as Code
5 17 (36.17%) Containerisation
5 17 (36.17%) Problem-Solving
6 13 (27.66%) AI
6 13 (27.66%) Full-Stack Development
6 13 (27.66%) Mentoring
6 13 (27.66%) Scrum
7 12 (25.53%) Continuous Improvement
8 11 (23.40%) TDD
9 9 (19.15%) High Availability
9 9 (19.15%) Observability
9 9 (19.15%) Sprint Planning
9 9 (19.15%) Technical Leadership
10 8 (17.02%) Infrastructure Engineering
10 8 (17.02%) Unit Testing
11 7 (14.89%) Computer Science
Programming Languages
1 17 (36.17%) Java
1 17 (36.17%) SQL
2 13 (27.66%) Python
3 12 (25.53%) JavaScript
4 10 (21.28%) Bash
4 10 (21.28%) C#
4 10 (21.28%) TypeScript
5 9 (19.15%) PL/SQL
6 7 (14.89%) C
7 4 (8.51%) C++
7 4 (8.51%) R
8 2 (4.26%) Bicep
8 2 (4.26%) Go
8 2 (4.26%) PowerShell
8 2 (4.26%) Shell Script
9 1 (2.13%) Kusto Query Language
Qualifications
1 12 (25.53%) SC Cleared
1 12 (25.53%) Security Cleared
2 6 (12.77%) Azure Certification
3 3 (6.38%) AWS Certification
3 3 (6.38%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
3 3 (6.38%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
3 3 (6.38%) AWS Certified SysOps Administrator
3 3 (6.38%) Computer Science Degree
3 3 (6.38%) Degree
4 2 (4.26%) DV Cleared
5 1 (2.13%) CISSP
5 1 (2.13%) CREST Certified
5 1 (2.13%) IISP
5 1 (2.13%) ISACA
5 1 (2.13%) Master's Degree
5 1 (2.13%) OSCP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 7 (14.89%) QA
2 4 (8.51%) Accessibility
3 2 (4.26%) WCAG
4 1 (2.13%) Data Quality
4 1 (2.13%) GDPR
4 1 (2.13%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 1 (2.13%) SOC 2
System Software
1 35 (74.47%) Docker
2 1 (2.13%) Active Directory
2 1 (2.13%) Virtual Servers
Systems Management
1 20 (42.55%) Terraform
2 10 (21.28%) Ansible
3 4 (8.51%) Prometheus
4 3 (6.38%) Grafana
4 3 (6.38%) Nagios
5 2 (4.26%) Progress Chef
5 2 (4.26%) Puppet
6 1 (2.13%) Argo
6 1 (2.13%) Podman
Vendors
1 11 (23.40%) Microsoft
2 10 (21.28%) Oracle
3 2 (4.26%) Red Hat
4 1 (2.13%) Denodo
4 1 (2.13%) Facebook
4 1 (2.13%) OpenAI
4 1 (2.13%) Salesforce
4 1 (2.13%) Talend