Kubernetes Job Trends in Leicestershire

Kubernetes (k8s)
East Midlands > Leicestershire

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in Leicestershire requiring Kubernetes skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 13 November 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
13 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 50 50 43
Rank change year-on-year 0 -7 +17
Permanent jobs citing Kubernetes 2 22 13
As % of all permanent jobs in Leicestershire 0.43% 3.28% 3.23%
As % of the Systems Management category 15.38% 59.46% 44.83%
Number of salaries quoted 1 13 13
10th Percentile - - £50,000
25th Percentile £52,400 - £51,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,200 £34,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year +62.35% -43.33% -7.69%
75th Percentile £58,000 - £67,500
90th Percentile - £53,800 -
East Midlands median annual salary £55,200 £39,500 £62,500
% change year-on-year +39.75% -36.80% -10.71%

All Systems Management Skills
Leicestershire

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 Leicestershire.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for systems management skills 13 37 29
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Leicestershire 2.78% 5.51% 7.20%
Number of salaries quoted 11 24 28
10th Percentile £41,000 £29,750 £31,175
25th Percentile £41,875 - £42,742
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £45,000 £34,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +32.35% -38.18% +21.55%
75th Percentile £47,500 £43,125 £62,500
90th Percentile £53,750 £48,375 £67,500
East Midlands median annual salary £40,000 £40,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year - -33.33% +9.09%

Kubernetes
Job Vacancy Trend in Leicestershire

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

Kubernetes job vacancy trend in Leicestershire

Kubernetes
Salary Trend in Leicestershire

Salary distribution trend for jobs in Leicestershire citing Kubernetes.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in Leicestershire citing Kubernetes

Kubernetes
Job Locations in Leicestershire

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Kubernetes within the Leicestershire region over the 6 months to 13 November 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
Leicester +8 2 £55,200 -4.00% 4
Kubernetes
East Midlands

Kubernetes
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Leicestershire 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%) Event-Driven
2 1 (50.00%) Information Security
2 1 (50.00%) Machine Learning
2 1 (50.00%) MLOps
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