Kubernetes Job Trends in the North East

Kubernetes (k8s)
England > North East

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in the North East requiring Kubernetes skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 16 July 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
16 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 58 53 93
Rank change year-on-year -5 +40 -39
Permanent jobs citing Kubernetes 65 15 25
As % of all permanent jobs in the North East 2.44% 1.79% 1.26%
As % of the Systems Management category 46.10% 34.88% 17.24%
Number of salaries quoted 62 11 18
10th Percentile £42,500 £47,500 £30,000
25th Percentile £48,404 £50,000 £53,438
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £60,000 £75,000
Median % change year-on-year - -20.00% +15.38%
75th Percentile £79,356 £73,125 £84,919
90th Percentile £89,625 £78,250 £84,943
England median annual salary £70,000 £80,000 £77,500
% change year-on-year -12.50% +3.23% -

All Systems Management Skills
North East

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 the North East.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for systems management skills 141 43 145
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the North East 5.29% 5.13% 7.30%
Number of salaries quoted 115 32 113
10th Percentile £42,500 £28,500 £25,600
25th Percentile £46,250 £35,250 £30,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £59,000 £57,500 £45,000
Median % change year-on-year +2.61% +27.78% -25.00%
75th Percentile £74,525 £67,813 £67,968
90th Percentile £89,259 £74,258 £77,000
England median annual salary £65,000 £67,037 £62,500
% change year-on-year -3.04% +7.26% -7.41%

Kubernetes
Job Vacancy Trend in the North East

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

Kubernetes job vacancy trend in the North East

Kubernetes
Salary Trend in the North East

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the North East citing Kubernetes.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the North East citing Kubernetes

Kubernetes
Salary Histogram in the North East

Salary distribution for jobs citing Kubernetes in the North East over the 6 months to 16 July 2026.

Salary histogram for Kubernetes in the North East

Kubernetes
Job Locations in the North East

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Kubernetes within the North East region over the 6 months to 16 July 2026. 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
Tyne and Wear -17 45 £66,538 +15.72% 15
Durham +5 20 £59,000 -18.90% 1
Kubernetes
England

Kubernetes
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the North East 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 2 (3.08%) WebLogic
Cloud Services
1 44 (67.69%) Azure
2 27 (41.54%) AWS
3 16 (24.62%) GitHub
4 13 (20.00%) GitHub Copilot
5 12 (18.46%) Azure DevOps
6 6 (9.23%) Amazon ECS
7 5 (7.69%) GCP
7 5 (7.69%) Virtual Private Cloud
8 4 (6.15%) SaaS
8 4 (6.15%) Serverless
9 3 (4.62%) AWS Lambda
9 3 (4.62%) Azure AKS
10 2 (3.08%) Amazon EC2
10 2 (3.08%) Amazon EKS
10 2 (3.08%) AWS CloudFormation
10 2 (3.08%) Azure Cosmos DB
10 2 (3.08%) Azure Key Vault
10 2 (3.08%) Azure Service Bus
10 2 (3.08%) Azure Synapse Analytics
10 2 (3.08%) Cloud Computing
Communications & Networking
1 5 (7.69%) Firewall
Database & Business Intelligence
1 13 (20.00%) Azure SQL Database
2 9 (13.85%) MongoDB
3 5 (7.69%) Amazon RDS
3 5 (7.69%) GIS
3 5 (7.69%) PostgreSQL
4 3 (4.62%) NoSQL
4 3 (4.62%) SQL Server
5 2 (3.08%) DynamoDB
5 2 (3.08%) Elasticsearch
6 1 (1.54%) DocumentDB
Development Applications
1 7 (10.77%) GitLab
2 6 (9.23%) Git
3 5 (7.69%) Jenkins
3 5 (7.69%) SonarQube
4 3 (4.62%) Artifactory
4 3 (4.62%) Atlassian Bamboo
4 3 (4.62%) Bitbucket
4 3 (4.62%) JIRA
4 3 (4.62%) Octopus Deploy
4 3 (4.62%) TeamCity
5 1 (1.54%) Cucumber
5 1 (1.54%) JMeter
5 1 (1.54%) Locust
General
1 9 (13.85%) Public Sector
2 7 (10.77%) Aerospace
2 7 (10.77%) Social Skills
3 3 (4.62%) Finance
3 3 (4.62%) Financial Institution
4 2 (3.08%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 1 (1.54%) Analytical Skills
Job Titles
1 24 (36.92%) DevOps Engineer
2 22 (33.85%) Developer
3 16 (24.62%) Senior
4 15 (23.08%) .NET Developer
5 10 (15.38%) Senior Developer
6 6 (9.23%) Senior .NET Developer
7 5 (7.69%) Full-Stack Developer
8 4 (6.15%) Infrastructure Manager
8 4 (6.15%) Lead
9 3 (4.62%) Full-Stack Engineer
9 3 (4.62%) Java Engineer
9 3 (4.62%) Lead Java Engineer
9 3 (4.62%) Principal DevOps Engineer
9 3 (4.62%) Principal Engineer
9 3 (4.62%) Python Engineer
10 2 (3.08%) Full-Stack .NET Developer
10 2 (3.08%) Full-Stack Python Developer
10 2 (3.08%) Linux Administrator
10 2 (3.08%) Senior Full-Stack Developer
10 2 (3.08%) Senior Systems Administrator
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 32 (49.23%) .NET
2 14 (21.54%) .NET Core
3 13 (20.00%) ASP.NET
3 13 (20.00%) ASP.NET Core
4 10 (15.38%) YAML
5 9 (13.85%) Vue
6 8 (12.31%) AngularJS
6 8 (12.31%) ARM Templates
6 8 (12.31%) React
7 7 (10.77%) SubSonic
8 5 (7.69%) Ajax
8 5 (7.69%) boto
8 5 (7.69%) CSS
8 5 (7.69%) Flask
8 5 (7.69%) HTML
8 5 (7.69%) Jinja
8 5 (7.69%) jQuery
8 5 (7.69%) REST
8 5 (7.69%) Spring
8 5 (7.69%) SQLAlchemy
Miscellaneous
1 6 (9.23%) Cloud Native
2 5 (7.69%) Algorithms
2 5 (7.69%) Renewable Energy
3 2 (3.08%) Web Conferencing
4 1 (1.54%) Enterprise Software
4 1 (1.54%) Greenfield Project
4 1 (1.54%) Hybrid Cloud
4 1 (1.54%) Legacy Systems
4 1 (1.54%) Private Cloud
4 1 (1.54%) Product Ownership
Operating Systems
1 14 (21.54%) Linux
2 4 (6.15%) Ubuntu
3 3 (4.62%) CentOS
3 3 (4.62%) Debian
3 3 (4.62%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 3 (4.62%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 33 (50.77%) DevOps
2 26 (40.00%) Agile
3 24 (36.92%) Microservices
4 23 (35.38%) Full-Stack Development
5 21 (32.31%) CI/CD
6 18 (27.69%) Infrastructure as Code
7 14 (21.54%) Platform Engineering
8 13 (20.00%) Scrum
9 12 (18.46%) Observability
10 11 (16.92%) AI
11 10 (15.38%) Analytics
11 10 (15.38%) Continuous Improvement
12 9 (13.85%) Kanban
12 9 (13.85%) Test Automation
13 8 (12.31%) Containerisation
13 8 (12.31%) Deployment Automation
13 8 (12.31%) Infrastructure Engineering
14 7 (10.77%) Customer Experience
14 7 (10.77%) Data Analytics
15 6 (9.23%) Site Reliability Engineering
Programming Languages
1 30 (46.15%) C#
2 20 (30.77%) Python
2 20 (30.77%) SQL
3 15 (23.08%) TypeScript
4 14 (21.54%) PowerShell
5 11 (16.92%) Bash
6 10 (15.38%) Bicep
6 10 (15.38%) Java
7 5 (7.69%) JavaScript
8 1 (1.54%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 5 (7.69%) Degree
2 4 (6.15%) Security Cleared
3 3 (4.62%) DV Cleared
3 3 (4.62%) SC Cleared
4 2 (3.08%) AWS Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (6.15%) QA
2 3 (4.62%) Accessibility
3 1 (1.54%) WCAG
System Software
1 38 (58.46%) Docker
2 3 (4.62%) iptables
2 3 (4.62%) vSphere
3 1 (1.54%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 20 (30.77%) Terraform
2 15 (23.08%) Ansible
3 8 (12.31%) Puppet
4 4 (6.15%) Grafana
5 3 (4.62%) Control-M
5 3 (4.62%) Docker Swarm
6 1 (1.54%) Progress Chef
Vendors
1 19 (29.23%) Microsoft
2 4 (6.15%) VMware
3 3 (4.62%) Atlassian
4 1 (1.54%) Confluent
4 1 (1.54%) Dynatrace