Kubernetes Job Trends in Leicester

Kubernetes (k8s)
Leicestershire > Leicester

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in Leicester requiring Kubernetes skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 9 November 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
9 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 30 38 34
Rank change year-on-year +8 -4 +16
Permanent jobs citing Kubernetes 2 2 12
As % of all permanent jobs in Leicester 0.84% 0.68% 4.30%
As % of the Systems Management category 33.33% 33.33% 50.00%
Number of salaries quoted 1 1 12
10th Percentile - - £50,000
25th Percentile £52,400 £56,250 £51,125
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,200 £57,500 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -4.00% -4.17% -27.27%
75th Percentile £58,000 £58,750 £67,500
90th Percentile - - -
Leicestershire median annual salary £55,200 £34,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year +62.35% -43.33% -7.69%

All Systems Management Skills
Leicester

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 Leicester.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for systems management skills 6 6 24
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Leicester 2.53% 2.05% 8.60%
Number of salaries quoted 4 3 23
10th Percentile £41,075 £36,200 £32,500
25th Percentile £41,188 £39,500 £44,235
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £47,500 £45,000 £56,000
Median % change year-on-year +5.56% -19.64% +20.43%
75th Percentile £54,813 £51,875 £62,500
90th Percentile £56,725 £56,000 £67,500
Leicestershire median annual salary £45,000 £34,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year +32.35% -38.18% +20.88%

Kubernetes
Job Vacancy Trend in Leicester

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

Kubernetes job vacancy trend in Leicester

Kubernetes
Salary Trend in Leicester

Salary distribution trend for jobs in Leicester citing Kubernetes.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in Leicester citing Kubernetes

Kubernetes
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Leicester 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 (50.00%) Apache Spark
Cloud Services
1 2 (100.00%) AWS
2 1 (50.00%) Amazon CloudWatch
2 1 (50.00%) Amazon EKS
2 1 (50.00%) Amazon ELB
2 1 (50.00%) Amazon S3
2 1 (50.00%) GitHub
2 1 (50.00%) OpenShift
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (50.00%) Delta Lake
1 1 (50.00%) DynamoDB
1 1 (50.00%) Metadata
1 1 (50.00%) PostgreSQL
1 1 (50.00%) Spark SQL
1 1 (50.00%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 1 (50.00%) Cucumber
1 1 (50.00%) Git
1 1 (50.00%) GitLab
1 1 (50.00%) Jenkins
1 1 (50.00%) JUnit
1 1 (50.00%) MLflow
1 1 (50.00%) Selenium
General
1 2 (100.00%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 1 (50.00%) Developer
1 1 (50.00%) Machine Learning Engineer
1 1 (50.00%) Operations Engineer
1 1 (50.00%) Senior
1 1 (50.00%) Senior Developer
1 1 (50.00%) Senior Software Developer
1 1 (50.00%) Software Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (50.00%) Django
1 1 (50.00%) Elastic Stack
1 1 (50.00%) Flask
1 1 (50.00%) Keras
1 1 (50.00%) Lambda Expressions
1 1 (50.00%) Metaflow
1 1 (50.00%) NumPy
1 1 (50.00%) Pandas
1 1 (50.00%) PySpark
1 1 (50.00%) pytest
1 1 (50.00%) PyTorch
1 1 (50.00%) scikit-learn
1 1 (50.00%) Spring
1 1 (50.00%) Spring Boot
1 1 (50.00%) TensorFlow
1 1 (50.00%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 1 (50.00%) Legacy Systems
1 1 (50.00%) Linux Command Line
Operating Systems
1 1 (50.00%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (100.00%) CI/CD
1 2 (100.00%) Containerisation
2 1 (50.00%) AI
2 1 (50.00%) Architectural Patterns
2 1 (50.00%) BDD
2 1 (50.00%) DevOps
2 1 (50.00%) Information Security
2 1 (50.00%) Machine Learning
2 1 (50.00%) Metadata Management
2 1 (50.00%) OO
2 1 (50.00%) OOP
2 1 (50.00%) OWASP
2 1 (50.00%) SEO
2 1 (50.00%) Software Engineering
2 1 (50.00%) Stakeholder Engagement
2 1 (50.00%) TDD
2 1 (50.00%) Test Automation
2 1 (50.00%) Time Management
2 1 (50.00%) Unit Testing
2 1 (50.00%) Visualisation
Programming Languages
1 2 (100.00%) Python
2 1 (50.00%) Delphi
2 1 (50.00%) Java
2 1 (50.00%) SQL
System Software
1 2 (100.00%) Docker
Systems Management
1 1 (50.00%) Grafana
1 1 (50.00%) Kubeflow
1 1 (50.00%) Terraform
Vendors
1 1 (50.00%) Databricks
1 1 (50.00%) Oracle