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

6 months to
19 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 130 81 152
Rank change year-on-year -49 +71 -53
Permanent jobs citing Kubernetes 66 101 102
As % of all permanent jobs in the West Midlands 0.82% 2.97% 1.31%
As % of the Systems Management category 25.78% 32.69% 19.69%
Number of salaries quoted 48 61 91
10th Percentile £51,750 - £46,250
25th Percentile £56,563 £57,500 £52,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £67,153 £67,500 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year -0.51% +3.85% -7.14%
75th Percentile £85,625 £75,000 £84,959
90th Percentile £93,750 £80,000 £93,750
England median annual salary £70,079 £80,000 £77,500
% change year-on-year -12.40% +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 256 309 518
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the West Midlands 3.17% 9.10% 6.68%
Number of salaries quoted 211 222 366
10th Percentile £34,250 £37,150 £27,500
25th Percentile £46,250 £45,423 £38,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £60,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year - +9.09% -4.35%
75th Percentile £75,750 £73,750 £68,750
90th Percentile £93,750 £79,875 £82,500
England median annual salary £65,000 £65,000 £62,500
% change year-on-year - +4.00% -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 19 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 19 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 0 30 £69,305 +0.81% 13
Worcestershire -12 14 £63,750 -20.31% 3
Coventry -1 13 £80,000 +92.77% 3
Herefordshire -23 6 £110,000 +18.92% 1
Staffordshire -6 2 £54,183 -3.68% 3
Warwickshire -26 2 £57,500 -4.17% 1
Shropshire -29 1 £44,000 -26.67% 16
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 3 (4.55%) Oracle SOA Suite
2 1 (1.52%) Confluence
2 1 (1.52%) IIS
2 1 (1.52%) SharePoint
Cloud Services
1 48 (72.73%) Azure
2 38 (57.58%) AWS
3 14 (21.21%) GitHub
4 10 (15.15%) GitHub Copilot
5 7 (10.61%) Azure AKS
6 6 (9.09%) SaaS
7 5 (7.58%) Amazon EC2
7 5 (7.58%) Azure AI
7 5 (7.58%) Azure ExpressRoute
7 5 (7.58%) Entra ID
7 5 (7.58%) Virtual Private Cloud
8 4 (6.06%) Amazon EKS
8 4 (6.06%) Amazon S3
8 4 (6.06%) AWS CloudFormation
8 4 (6.06%) Azure Logic Apps
8 4 (6.06%) Azure Service Bus
8 4 (6.06%) GCP
8 4 (6.06%) PaaS
9 3 (4.55%) GitHub Actions
9 3 (4.55%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 8 (12.12%) Network Security
2 6 (9.09%) VPN
3 4 (6.06%) Firewall
4 1 (1.52%) BIG-IP
4 1 (1.52%) DNS
4 1 (1.52%) SAN
4 1 (1.52%) VLAN
4 1 (1.52%) WAN
4 1 (1.52%) WireGuard
Database & Business Intelligence
1 15 (22.73%) MongoDB
2 11 (16.67%) Azure SQL Database
3 5 (7.58%) Elasticsearch
3 5 (7.58%) PostgreSQL
4 4 (6.06%) Amazon RDS
5 3 (4.55%) Redis
6 2 (3.03%) Amazon Aurora
6 2 (3.03%) MySQL
6 2 (3.03%) TimescaleDB
7 1 (1.52%) Data Mining
7 1 (1.52%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 13 (19.70%) JUnit
2 10 (15.15%) Maven
2 10 (15.15%) Mockito
3 7 (10.61%) Git
4 6 (9.09%) GitLab
5 5 (7.58%) Cucumber
6 3 (4.55%) Gatling
6 3 (4.55%) Postman
6 3 (4.55%) Selenium
7 2 (3.03%) Jenkins
7 2 (3.03%) JMeter
7 2 (3.03%) Locust
8 1 (1.52%) Bitbucket
8 1 (1.52%) JIRA
General
1 17 (25.76%) Finance
2 9 (13.64%) Social Skills
3 6 (9.09%) Advertising
4 5 (7.58%) Marketing
5 4 (6.06%) Public Sector
6 3 (4.55%) Analytical Skills
7 2 (3.03%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 1 (1.52%) Banking
8 1 (1.52%) Documentation Skills
8 1 (1.52%) Investment Banking
8 1 (1.52%) Law
Job Titles
1 23 (34.85%) Developer
2 15 (22.73%) Senior
3 10 (15.15%) .NET Developer
3 10 (15.15%) Lead
4 9 (13.64%) Full-Stack Developer
5 8 (12.12%) Senior Developer
6 7 (10.61%) Architect
7 6 (9.09%) Cloud Engineer
7 6 (9.09%) DevOps Engineer
7 6 (9.09%) Full-Stack Java Developer
7 6 (9.09%) Java Developer
8 5 (7.58%) AWS Engineer
8 5 (7.58%) Azure Architect
8 5 (7.58%) Principal Engineer
8 5 (7.58%) Technical Architect
9 4 (6.06%) Java Team Leader
9 4 (6.06%) Senior Full-Stack Developer
9 4 (6.06%) Team Leader
10 3 (4.55%) Lead Full-Stack Developer
10 3 (4.55%) Senior Java Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 15 (22.73%) .NET
1 15 (22.73%) ASP.NET
1 15 (22.73%) ASP.NET Core
2 14 (21.21%) React
3 11 (16.67%) REST
3 11 (16.67%) Spring
4 10 (15.15%) .NET Core
5 8 (12.12%) Node.js
6 5 (7.58%) .NET Framework
6 5 (7.58%) AngularJS
6 5 (7.58%) ASP.NET Web API
6 5 (7.58%) Blazor
6 5 (7.58%) CSS
6 5 (7.58%) Entity Framework
6 5 (7.58%) HTML
6 5 (7.58%) Kafka
6 5 (7.58%) ML.NET
6 5 (7.58%) RESTful
6 5 (7.58%) Vue
7 3 (4.55%) Playwright
Miscellaneous
1 15 (22.73%) Cloud Native
2 7 (10.61%) Onboarding
3 6 (9.09%) Distributed Systems
4 5 (7.58%) Hybrid Cloud
5 3 (4.55%) Self-Motivation
6 2 (3.03%) Clustering
6 2 (3.03%) Greenfield Project
7 1 (1.52%) Algorithms
7 1 (1.52%) Cyber Threat
7 1 (1.52%) Data Structures
7 1 (1.52%) Distributed Computing
7 1 (1.52%) Enterprise Software
7 1 (1.52%) Legacy Systems
7 1 (1.52%) Replication
Operating Systems
1 13 (19.70%) Linux
2 3 (4.55%) Ubuntu
3 2 (3.03%) CentOS
3 2 (3.03%) Debian
3 2 (3.03%) Windows
4 1 (1.52%) Mac OS
Processes & Methodologies
1 46 (69.70%) CI/CD
2 31 (46.97%) Agile
3 27 (40.91%) Containerisation
3 27 (40.91%) Infrastructure as Code
4 25 (37.88%) Mentoring
4 25 (37.88%) Microservices
5 20 (30.30%) AI
6 19 (28.79%) Full-Stack Development
7 18 (27.27%) Continuous Improvement
7 18 (27.27%) DevOps
7 18 (27.27%) TDD
8 16 (24.24%) Scrum
9 14 (21.21%) Technical Leadership
10 12 (18.18%) Observability
11 11 (16.67%) Problem-Solving
12 10 (15.15%) Cloud Security
13 9 (13.64%) High Availability
13 9 (13.64%) Stakeholder Engagement
13 9 (13.64%) Test Automation
14 8 (12.12%) Machine Learning
Programming Languages
1 25 (37.88%) SQL
2 19 (28.79%) C#
3 18 (27.27%) Java
4 16 (24.24%) JavaScript
5 14 (21.21%) TypeScript
6 10 (15.15%) PL/SQL
6 10 (15.15%) Python
7 9 (13.64%) Bash
8 7 (10.61%) Bicep
9 3 (4.55%) PowerShell
10 2 (3.03%) C
10 2 (3.03%) C++
10 2 (3.03%) Shell Script
11 1 (1.52%) Kusto Query Language
11 1 (1.52%) PHP
Qualifications
1 20 (30.30%) Security Cleared
2 17 (25.76%) SC Cleared
3 9 (13.64%) DV Cleared
4 7 (10.61%) Azure Certification
5 2 (3.03%) AWS Certification
5 2 (3.03%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
6 1 (1.52%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
6 1 (1.52%) AWS Certified SysOps Administrator
6 1 (1.52%) Computer Science Degree
6 1 (1.52%) CREST Certified
6 1 (1.52%) Degree
6 1 (1.52%) IISP
6 1 (1.52%) ISACA
6 1 (1.52%) OSCP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 7 (10.61%) Accessibility
2 5 (7.58%) WCAG
3 3 (4.55%) QA
4 1 (1.52%) GxP
4 1 (1.52%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 1 (1.52%) SOC 2
System Software
1 43 (65.15%) Docker
2 6 (9.09%) Active Directory
3 5 (7.58%) VMware Infrastructure
4 1 (1.52%) Virtual Servers
Systems Management
1 28 (42.42%) Terraform
2 5 (7.58%) Ansible
2 5 (7.58%) Grafana
2 5 (7.58%) Prometheus
3 4 (6.06%) Argo
4 2 (3.03%) Nagios
4 2 (3.03%) Progress Chef
4 2 (3.03%) Puppet
5 1 (1.52%) Podman
Vendors
1 23 (34.85%) Microsoft
2 10 (15.15%) Oracle
3 5 (7.58%) Facebook
3 5 (7.58%) VMware
4 2 (3.03%) Red Hat
5 1 (1.52%) F5