Kubernetes Jobs in the West Midlands

Kubernetes (k8s)
England > West Midlands

The table below provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in the West Midlands requiring Kubernetes skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the annual salaries offered in vacancies that cited Kubernetes over the 6 months leading up to 16 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
16 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 107 146 112
Rank change year-on-year +39 -34 -55
Permanent jobs citing Kubernetes 91 106 180
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the West Midlands 2.11% 1.44% 2.86%
As % of the Systems Management category 32.04% 19.74% 22.81%
Number of salaries quoted 52 84 127
10th Percentile - £46,250 £50,750
25th Percentile £57,500 £52,500 £56,365
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £67,500 £65,000 £70,000
Median % change year-on-year +3.85% -7.14% -
75th Percentile £75,000 £84,919 £81,875
90th Percentile £86,625 £88,750 £100,000
England median annual salary £82,500 £77,500 £77,500
% change year-on-year +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 284 537 789
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the West Midlands 6.58% 7.27% 12.55%
Number of salaries quoted 175 408 382
10th Percentile £34,900 £29,000 £27,775
25th Percentile £43,500 £38,250 £37,995
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £55,000 £57,500
Median % change year-on-year +9.09% -4.35% +4.55%
75th Percentile £68,750 £68,750 £72,500
90th Percentile £75,000 £81,625 £85,000
England median annual salary £67,500 £61,206 £67,500
% change year-on-year +10.28% -9.32% -3.57%

Kubernetes
Job Vacancy Trend in the West Midlands

Job postings citing Kubernetes as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the West Midlands.

Job vacancy trend for Kubernetes in the West Midlands

Kubernetes
Salary Trend in the West Midlands

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing Kubernetes in the West Midlands.

Salary trend for Kubernetes in the West Midlands

Kubernetes
Salary Histogram in the West Midlands

Salary distribution for jobs citing Kubernetes in the West Midlands over the 6 months to 16 May 2025.

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 16 May 2025. 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 +19 21 £72,500 -9.20% 30
Warwickshire +2 19 £60,000 -7.69% 7
Staffordshire +30 18 £56,250 -16.67% 22
Shropshire +27 11 £60,000 -17.24% 8
Worcestershire +24 5 £65,000 +18.18% 3
Herefordshire +6 4 - - 1
Coventry -9 1 - - 7
Walsall - 1 £60,000 -
Kubernetes
England

Kubernetes
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the West Midlands by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same employment type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Application Platforms
1 18 (19.78%) Confluence
2 2 (2.20%) Jupyter
3 1 (1.10%) Apache
3 1 (1.10%) Tomcat
Cloud Services
1 78 (85.71%) Azure
2 68 (74.73%) AWS
3 29 (31.87%) GCP
4 15 (16.48%) Azure DevOps
5 13 (14.29%) GitHub
5 13 (14.29%) GitHub Actions
6 12 (13.19%) Amazon ECS
6 12 (13.19%) SaaS
7 10 (10.99%) IaaS
7 10 (10.99%) PaaS
8 4 (4.40%) Azure AKS
9 3 (3.30%) Azure Data Factory
9 3 (3.30%) Azure Service Bus
9 3 (3.30%) Cloud Computing
9 3 (3.30%) Pulumi
10 2 (2.20%) Amazon EKS
10 2 (2.20%) AWS CloudFormation
10 2 (2.20%) AWS Lambda
10 2 (2.20%) OpenShift
10 2 (2.20%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 2 (2.20%) Broadband
1 2 (2.20%) DNS
2 1 (1.10%) TCP/IP
2 1 (1.10%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 28 (30.77%) SQL Server
2 8 (8.79%) NoSQL
3 6 (6.59%) Azure SQL Database
4 5 (5.49%) Relational Database
5 4 (4.40%) Big Data
5 4 (4.40%) PostgreSQL
5 4 (4.40%) Redis
6 3 (3.30%) MongoDB
7 2 (2.20%) Hazelcast
7 2 (2.20%) RDBMS
8 1 (1.10%) Amazon RDS
8 1 (1.10%) Data Lake
8 1 (1.10%) DB2
8 1 (1.10%) DynamoDB
8 1 (1.10%) Elasticsearch
8 1 (1.10%) MySQL
Development Applications
1 35 (38.46%) SonarQube
2 30 (32.97%) JIRA
3 26 (28.57%) GitLab
4 24 (26.37%) Bitbucket
4 24 (26.37%) Cucumber
4 24 (26.37%) Maven
4 24 (26.37%) Selenium
4 24 (26.37%) Sonatype Nexus
5 12 (13.19%) Git
6 3 (3.30%) Jenkins
7 2 (2.20%) Cypress.io
7 2 (2.20%) Jaeger
8 1 (1.10%) Atlassian Bamboo
8 1 (1.10%) Octopus Deploy
8 1 (1.10%) Subversion
8 1 (1.10%) Team Foundation Server
8 1 (1.10%) webpack
General
1 32 (35.16%) Finance
2 29 (31.87%) Inclusion and Diversity
3 27 (29.67%) Banking
4 13 (14.29%) Manufacturing
5 12 (13.19%) Public Sector
5 12 (13.19%) Retail
6 11 (12.09%) Corporate Banking
6 11 (12.09%) Investment Banking
6 11 (12.09%) Social Skills
7 5 (5.49%) Automotive
8 4 (4.40%) Analytical Skills
9 2 (2.20%) Financial Institution
10 1 (1.10%) Games
10 1 (1.10%) iGaming
10 1 (1.10%) Marketing
Job Titles
1 37 (40.66%) Software Engineer
2 16 (17.58%) Developer
3 12 (13.19%) Senior
3 12 (13.19%) Site Engineer
3 12 (13.19%) Site Reliability Engineer
4 11 (12.09%) DevOps Engineer
5 7 (7.69%) Java Engineer
5 7 (7.69%) Java Software Engineer
6 5 (5.49%) Lead
6 5 (5.49%) Senior Developer
7 4 (4.40%) Architect
7 4 (4.40%) Backend Developer
7 4 (4.40%) Senior Backend Developer
8 3 (3.30%) Full-Stack Developer
8 3 (3.30%) Platform Engineer
8 3 (3.30%) Software Developer
8 3 (3.30%) Solutions Architect
9 2 (2.20%) Azure Engineer
9 2 (2.20%) Data Scientist
9 2 (2.20%) Senior Data Scientist
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 35 (38.46%) Spring
2 33 (36.26%) React
3 28 (30.77%) CSS
3 28 (30.77%) HTML
4 27 (29.67%) Kafka
5 26 (28.57%) Spring Boot
6 25 (27.47%) JPA
7 24 (26.37%) Redux
8 20 (21.98%) .NET
9 19 (20.88%) RESTful
10 16 (17.58%) REST
11 15 (16.48%) Hibernate
12 12 (13.19%) CSS3
12 12 (13.19%) HTML5
12 12 (13.19%) Jest
12 12 (13.19%) Loki
13 11 (12.09%) Sass
14 8 (8.79%) ARM Templates
15 7 (7.69%) Azure Blueprints
16 6 (6.59%) AngularJS
Miscellaneous
1 24 (26.37%) Enterprise Software
1 24 (26.37%) Product Ownership
2 11 (12.09%) Onboarding
3 7 (7.69%) Cloud Native
3 7 (7.69%) Management Information System
4 5 (5.49%) Algorithms
5 4 (4.40%) Distributed Systems
6 3 (3.30%) Cyberattack
6 3 (3.30%) Data Structures
6 3 (3.30%) IoT
7 2 (2.20%) CUDA
7 2 (2.20%) Public Cloud
7 2 (2.20%) Reference Data
7 2 (2.20%) Replication
7 2 (2.20%) Self-Motivation
7 2 (2.20%) SIMD
7 2 (2.20%) Virtual Team
8 1 (1.10%) Life Science
8 1 (1.10%) Linux Command Line
8 1 (1.10%) Low-Code
Operating Systems
1 6 (6.59%) Linux
2 2 (2.20%) Unix
3 1 (1.10%) Android
3 1 (1.10%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 1 (1.10%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 71 (78.02%) DevOps
2 60 (65.93%) Containerisation
3 50 (54.95%) Software Engineering
4 49 (53.85%) CI/CD
5 43 (47.25%) Microservices
6 38 (41.76%) Agile
7 34 (37.36%) Test Automation
8 30 (32.97%) Front End Development
8 30 (32.97%) Full-Stack Development
9 28 (30.77%) Performance Optimisation
10 26 (28.57%) Mentoring
10 26 (28.57%) SDLC
10 26 (28.57%) TDD
11 17 (18.68%) Continuous Improvement
12 16 (17.58%) Computer Science
13 15 (16.48%) Continuous Delivery
13 15 (16.48%) Deployment Automation
14 14 (15.38%) User Experience
15 13 (14.29%) Clean Code
15 13 (14.29%) Problem-Solving
Programming Languages
1 43 (47.25%) Java
2 41 (45.05%) SQL
3 35 (38.46%) JavaScript
4 27 (29.67%) TypeScript
5 22 (24.18%) C#
6 17 (18.68%) Python
7 3 (3.30%) Bash
7 3 (3.30%) C++
7 3 (3.30%) Go
8 2 (2.20%) PL/SQL
9 1 (1.10%) PowerShell
9 1 (1.10%) Rust
Qualifications
1 19 (20.88%) Security Cleared
2 15 (16.48%) Degree
3 14 (15.38%) Computer Science Degree
4 11 (12.09%) BPSS Clearance
5 5 (5.49%) AWS Certification
6 4 (4.40%) DV Cleared
7 3 (3.30%) Azure Certification
7 3 (3.30%) SC Cleared
8 1 (1.10%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 26 (28.57%) QA
2 11 (12.09%) Accessibility
3 8 (8.79%) NCSC
4 2 (2.20%) SLA
5 1 (1.10%) Cyber Essentials
5 1 (1.10%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 1 (1.10%) NIST
System Software
1 69 (75.82%) Docker
Systems Management
1 31 (34.07%) Terraform
2 19 (20.88%) Prometheus
3 17 (18.68%) Grafana
4 13 (14.29%) Ansible
5 3 (3.30%) Argo
6 2 (2.20%) Kustomize
7 1 (1.10%) Progress Chef
7 1 (1.10%) Puppet
Vendors
1 24 (26.37%) Solace
2 12 (13.19%) Microsoft
3 3 (3.30%) Databricks
3 3 (3.30%) Google
4 1 (1.10%) IBM
4 1 (1.10%) Oracle