Kubernetes Job Trends in West Sussex

Kubernetes (k8s)
South East > West Sussex

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in West Sussex requiring Kubernetes skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 31 December 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
31 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 31 23 32
Rank change year-on-year -8 +9 +56
Permanent jobs citing Kubernetes 14 25 22
As % of all permanent jobs in West Sussex 3.33% 7.81% 5.28%
As % of the Systems Management category 29.79% 78.13% 44.90%
Number of salaries quoted 12 7 20
10th Percentile - - £41,000
25th Percentile £55,000 £55,000 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £60,000 £67,500
Median % change year-on-year - -11.11% +29.81%
75th Percentile £66,250 £65,000 £71,250
90th Percentile £70,000 £69,000 £73,750
South East median annual salary £72,500 £70,000 £70,000
% change year-on-year +3.57% - -

All Systems Management Skills
West Sussex

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 West Sussex.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for systems management skills 47 32 49
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in West Sussex 11.19% 10.00% 11.75%
Number of salaries quoted 41 12 39
10th Percentile £31,250 £32,000 £38,500
25th Percentile £37,500 £49,250 £42,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £60,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year - +9.09% +2.33%
75th Percentile £70,000 £67,500 £70,000
90th Percentile £73,750 £78,375 £73,750
South East median annual salary £52,500 £62,500 £55,000
% change year-on-year -16.00% +13.64% -

Kubernetes
Job Vacancy Trend in West Sussex

Historical trend showing the proportion of permanent IT job postings citing Kubernetes relative to all permanent IT jobs advertised in West Sussex.

Kubernetes job vacancy trend in West Sussex

Kubernetes
Salary Trend in West Sussex

Salary distribution trend for jobs in West Sussex citing Kubernetes.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in West Sussex citing Kubernetes

Kubernetes
Salary Histogram in West Sussex

Salary distribution for jobs citing Kubernetes in West Sussex over the 6 months to 31 December 2025.

Salary histogram for Kubernetes in West Sussex

Kubernetes
Job Locations in West Sussex

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Kubernetes within the West Sussex region over the 6 months to 31 December 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
Worthing +5 8 £60,000 -
Burgess Hill -5 3 £57,500 -23.33% 2
Haywards Heath - 1 £60,000 -
Horsham - 1 £47,500 -
Kubernetes
South East

Kubernetes
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in West Sussex 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 1 (7.14%) OpenStack
Cloud Services
1 8 (57.14%) Azure
2 5 (35.71%) Azure DevOps
3 3 (21.43%) IaaS
3 3 (21.43%) PaaS
4 2 (14.29%) AWS CloudFormation
5 1 (7.14%) GCP
5 1 (7.14%) Google Ads
5 1 (7.14%) Google Kubernetes Engine
5 1 (7.14%) SaaS
5 1 (7.14%) Vertex AI
Communications & Networking
1 2 (14.29%) VPN
2 1 (7.14%) HTTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (14.29%) NoSQL
1 2 (14.29%) PostgreSQL
2 1 (7.14%) Apache Cassandra
2 1 (7.14%) BigQuery
2 1 (7.14%) Elasticsearch
2 1 (7.14%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 3 (21.43%) JIRA
2 2 (14.29%) Git
3 1 (7.14%) Cucumber
3 1 (7.14%) GitLab
3 1 (7.14%) Jenkins
3 1 (7.14%) mountebank
3 1 (7.14%) REST Assured
3 1 (7.14%) Subversion
General
1 2 (14.29%) Finance
1 2 (14.29%) Social Skills
2 1 (7.14%) Advertising
Job Titles
1 6 (42.86%) DevOps Engineer
2 3 (21.43%) Cloud Engineer
2 3 (21.43%) Senior
3 2 (14.29%) Azure Engineer
3 2 (14.29%) CloudOps Engineer
3 2 (14.29%) Senior Cloud Engineer
3 2 (14.29%) Senior CloudOps Engineer
4 1 (7.14%) Developer
4 1 (7.14%) GCP DevOps
4 1 (7.14%) GCP DevOps Engineer
4 1 (7.14%) GCP Engineer
4 1 (7.14%) Lead
4 1 (7.14%) Lead Cloud Engineer
4 1 (7.14%) Lead CloudOps Engineer
4 1 (7.14%) Operations Engineer
4 1 (7.14%) Senior Operations Engineer
4 1 (7.14%) Software Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (21.43%) Kafka
2 2 (14.29%) ARM Templates
2 2 (14.29%) RESTful
3 1 (7.14%) .NET
3 1 (7.14%) .NET Core
3 1 (7.14%) RabbitMQ
3 1 (7.14%) REST
3 1 (7.14%) TensorFlow
3 1 (7.14%) WireMock
Miscellaneous
1 8 (57.14%) Cloud Native
Operating Systems
1 1 (7.14%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 14 (100.00%) DevOps
2 9 (64.29%) CI/CD
3 6 (42.86%) Problem-Solving
4 5 (35.71%) Server Management
5 4 (28.57%) Analytics
5 4 (28.57%) Containerisation
5 4 (28.57%) Infrastructure as Code
6 3 (21.43%) Agile
6 3 (21.43%) Cloud Operations
6 3 (21.43%) Cloud Security
6 3 (21.43%) Computer Science
6 3 (21.43%) Continuous Improvement
6 3 (21.43%) FinOps
6 3 (21.43%) Kanban
6 3 (21.43%) Microservices
6 3 (21.43%) RBAC
6 3 (21.43%) Root Cause Analysis
6 3 (21.43%) Scrum
7 2 (14.29%) Network Virtualisation
7 2 (14.29%) Task Automation
Programming Languages
1 5 (35.71%) Python
2 3 (21.43%) Bicep
2 3 (21.43%) PowerShell
3 2 (14.29%) Go
3 2 (14.29%) SQL
4 1 (7.14%) Bash
4 1 (7.14%) C#
4 1 (7.14%) Java
4 1 (7.14%) Perl
Qualifications
1 3 (21.43%) Computer Science Degree
1 3 (21.43%) Degree
2 1 (7.14%) ITIL Certification
2 1 (7.14%) LPIC
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (14.29%) NIST
1 2 (14.29%) PCI DSS
2 1 (7.14%) QA
System Software
1 7 (50.00%) Docker
Systems Management
1 5 (35.71%) Terraform
2 1 (7.14%) Ansible
2 1 (7.14%) Puppet
Vendors
1 5 (35.71%) Rackspace
2 3 (21.43%) Microsoft
3 1 (7.14%) CA Agile Central
3 1 (7.14%) Google