Kubernetes Job Trends in Cumbria

Kubernetes (k8s)
North West > Cumbria

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in Cumbria requiring Kubernetes skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 17 December 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
17 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 39 - 27
Rank change year-on-year - - +10
Permanent jobs citing Kubernetes 2 0 3
As % of all permanent jobs in Cumbria 0.55% - 1.84%
As % of the Systems Management category 13.33% - 27.27%
Number of salaries quoted 2 0 1
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile - - £78,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £85,000 - £82,500
75th Percentile - - £86,250
90th Percentile - - -
North West median annual salary £67,500 £65,000 £69,447
% change year-on-year +3.85% -6.40% -0.79%

All Systems Management Skills
Cumbria

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 Cumbria.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for systems management skills 15 13 11
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Cumbria 4.11% 2.71% 6.75%
Number of salaries quoted 12 12 3
10th Percentile £28,050 £56,875 -
25th Percentile £28,688 £62,500 £47,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £53,750 £72,500 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year -25.86% +45.00% +33.33%
75th Percentile £61,875 £82,813 £69,375
90th Percentile £84,000 £83,750 £79,500
North West median annual salary £55,000 £52,500 £60,000
% change year-on-year +4.76% -12.50% +0.80%

Kubernetes
Job Vacancy Trend in Cumbria

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

Kubernetes job vacancy trend in Cumbria

Kubernetes
Salary Trend in Cumbria

Salary distribution trend for jobs in Cumbria citing Kubernetes.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in Cumbria citing Kubernetes

Kubernetes
Job Locations in Cumbria

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Kubernetes within the Cumbria region over the 6 months to 17 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
Carlisle - 2 £85,000 - 2
Kubernetes
North West

Kubernetes
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Cumbria 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:

Cloud Services
1 2 (100.00%) AWS
Communications & Networking
1 2 (100.00%) Internet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (100.00%) MongoDB
1 2 (100.00%) PostgreSQL
Development Applications
1 2 (100.00%) Git
Operating Systems
1 2 (100.00%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (100.00%) Infrastructure as Code
Programming Languages
1 2 (100.00%) C
1 2 (100.00%) Go
1 2 (100.00%) Python
1 2 (100.00%) TypeScript
Systems Management
1 2 (100.00%) Ansible
1 2 (100.00%) Terraform