Kubernetes Jobs in Leeds

Kubernetes (k8s)
West Yorkshire > Leeds

The table below provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in Leeds 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 17 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
17 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 34 54 28
Rank change year-on-year +20 -26 +5
Permanent jobs citing Kubernetes 46 78 263
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Leeds 5.82% 3.41% 9.00%
As % of the Systems Management category 40.71% 37.86% 55.25%
Number of salaries quoted 38 57 162
10th Percentile £62,500 £47,450 £48,091
25th Percentile £66,500 £48,250 £57,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £81,250 £68,000 £67,500
Median % change year-on-year +19.49% +0.74% -1.82%
75th Percentile £98,474 £78,750 £77,500
90th Percentile £140,677 £92,661 £90,000
West Yorkshire median annual salary £85,253 £67,500 £68,515
% change year-on-year +26.30% -1.48% +5.41%

All Systems Management Skills
Leeds

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 Leeds.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for systems management skills 113 206 476
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Leeds 14.30% 9.01% 16.29%
Number of salaries quoted 90 147 288
10th Percentile £35,750 £42,800 £34,775
25th Percentile £47,500 £48,250 £54,375
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £68,250 £63,750 £65,956
Median % change year-on-year +7.06% -3.34% +9.93%
75th Percentile £90,000 £70,995 £77,715
90th Percentile £98,474 £80,000 £90,000
West Yorkshire median annual salary £70,000 £62,500 £65,000
% change year-on-year +12.00% -3.85% +8.33%

Kubernetes
Job Vacancy Trend in Leeds

Job postings citing Kubernetes as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in Leeds.

Job vacancy trend for Kubernetes in Leeds

Kubernetes
Salary Trend in Leeds

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing Kubernetes in Leeds.

Salary trend for Kubernetes in Leeds

Kubernetes
Salary Histogram in Leeds

Salary distribution for jobs citing Kubernetes in Leeds over the 6 months to 17 May 2025.

Salary histogram for Kubernetes in Leeds

Kubernetes
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Leeds 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 6 (13.04%) Confluence
2 1 (2.17%) Jupyter
Cloud Services
1 32 (69.57%) GCP
2 22 (47.83%) AWS
3 14 (30.43%) Azure
4 9 (19.57%) GitHub
4 9 (19.57%) GitHub Actions
5 6 (13.04%) SaaS
6 5 (10.87%) Amazon ECS
6 5 (10.87%) Azure Cosmos DB
7 2 (4.35%) Apigee
7 2 (4.35%) Azure DevOps
7 2 (4.35%) Google Kubernetes Engine
7 2 (4.35%) IaaS
7 2 (4.35%) Serverless
8 1 (2.17%) Amazon CloudWatch
8 1 (2.17%) Amazon EKS
8 1 (2.17%) Amazon MSK
8 1 (2.17%) AWS CloudFormation
8 1 (2.17%) Datadog
8 1 (2.17%) dbt
8 1 (2.17%) Virtual Private Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 2 (4.35%) DHCP
1 2 (4.35%) DNS
2 1 (2.17%) MQTT
Database & Business Intelligence
1 9 (19.57%) NoSQL
2 8 (17.39%) MongoDB
2 8 (17.39%) PostgreSQL
3 7 (15.22%) MySQL
4 5 (10.87%) SQL Server
5 3 (6.52%) Redis
6 1 (2.17%) Amazon RDS
6 1 (2.17%) Apache Cassandra
Development Applications
1 7 (15.22%) CircleCI
1 7 (15.22%) Git
1 7 (15.22%) Jenkins
2 6 (13.04%) GitLab
2 6 (13.04%) JIRA
2 6 (13.04%) Oracle Forms
3 2 (4.35%) JUnit
3 2 (4.35%) Maven
3 2 (4.35%) Mocha
3 2 (4.35%) Selenium
3 2 (4.35%) SonarQube
3 2 (4.35%) Sonatype Nexus
General
1 21 (45.65%) Finance
2 19 (41.30%) Banking
3 15 (32.61%) Social Skills
4 9 (19.57%) Public Sector
5 5 (10.87%) Organisational Skills
6 1 (2.17%) Influencing Skills
Job Titles
1 15 (32.61%) Software Engineer
2 14 (30.43%) Lead
3 12 (26.09%) Senior
4 8 (17.39%) Architect
4 8 (17.39%) Developer
4 8 (17.39%) Lead Software Engineer
4 8 (17.39%) Solutions Architect
5 7 (15.22%) DevOps Engineer
6 6 (13.04%) Senior DevOps
7 5 (10.87%) Node.js Developer
8 4 (8.70%) Lead DevOps
8 4 (8.70%) Senior DevOps Engineer
8 4 (8.70%) Senior Software Engineer
9 3 (6.52%) Full-Stack Developer
9 3 (6.52%) Lead DevOps Engineer
10 2 (4.35%) C# Software Engineer
10 2 (4.35%) Cloud Developer
10 2 (4.35%) Cloud Engineer
10 2 (4.35%) Platform Engineer
10 2 (4.35%) Senior Cloud Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 18 (39.13%) React
2 14 (30.43%) Node.js
3 12 (26.09%) .NET
4 9 (19.57%) Express.js
5 8 (17.39%) AngularJS
6 7 (15.22%) Kafka
6 7 (15.22%) RESTful
7 5 (10.87%) Vue
8 4 (8.70%) .NET Core
9 3 (6.52%) CSS
9 3 (6.52%) HTML
9 3 (6.52%) Spring
9 3 (6.52%) Spring Boot
10 2 (4.35%) Flutter
10 2 (4.35%) Hibernate
10 2 (4.35%) HTML5
10 2 (4.35%) Jest
10 2 (4.35%) Redux
11 1 (2.17%) GraphQL
11 1 (2.17%) MERN Stack
Miscellaneous
1 17 (36.96%) Distributed Systems
2 15 (32.61%) Product Ownership
3 12 (26.09%) Cloud Native
4 7 (15.22%) Public Cloud
5 2 (4.35%) Distributed Architecture
5 2 (4.35%) Hybrid Cloud
5 2 (4.35%) Legacy Systems
6 1 (2.17%) Credit Risk
Operating Systems
1 4 (8.70%) Linux
2 2 (4.35%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
2 2 (4.35%) Unix
2 2 (4.35%) Windows
2 2 (4.35%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 32 (69.57%) CI/CD
2 29 (63.04%) DevOps
3 26 (56.52%) Containerisation
4 20 (43.48%) Agile
5 19 (41.30%) Software Engineering
6 17 (36.96%) Microservices
7 14 (30.43%) Mentoring
8 13 (28.26%) Stakeholder Management
9 12 (26.09%) Infrastructure as Code
10 9 (19.57%) Deployment Automation
10 9 (19.57%) Technical Leadership
11 8 (17.39%) API Design
11 8 (17.39%) Customer Engagement
11 8 (17.39%) Enterprise Architecture
11 8 (17.39%) Event-Driven
11 8 (17.39%) Full-Stack Development
11 8 (17.39%) Integration Patterns
11 8 (17.39%) IT Strategy
11 8 (17.39%) Technology Strategy
11 8 (17.39%) TOGAF
Programming Languages
1 19 (41.30%) JavaScript
2 17 (36.96%) SQL
3 16 (34.78%) Python
4 15 (32.61%) TypeScript
5 12 (26.09%) C#
6 10 (21.74%) Java
7 7 (15.22%) Go
8 6 (13.04%) PL/SQL
8 6 (13.04%) PowerShell
9 3 (6.52%) Bash
10 1 (2.17%) R
Qualifications
1 8 (17.39%) AWS Certification
2 3 (6.52%) SC Cleared
2 3 (6.52%) Security Cleared
3 2 (4.35%) Azure Certification
3 2 (4.35%) Degree
4 1 (2.17%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (4.35%) Accessibility
1 2 (4.35%) QA
System Software
1 36 (78.26%) Docker
2 2 (4.35%) Active Directory
2 2 (4.35%) Hyper-V
Systems Management
1 12 (26.09%) Terraform
2 5 (10.87%) Ansible
3 3 (6.52%) Prometheus
4 2 (4.35%) Grafana
4 2 (4.35%) Istio
4 2 (4.35%) Microsoft Data Protection Manager
4 2 (4.35%) SCCM
4 2 (4.35%) SCOM
4 2 (4.35%) WSUS
5 1 (2.17%) Argo
Vendors
1 8 (17.39%) Oracle
2 3 (6.52%) Microsoft
3 2 (4.35%) Red Hat
4 1 (2.17%) Databricks
4 1 (2.17%) Google