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 13 January 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
13 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 58 65 48
Rank change year-on-year +7 -17 -16
Permanent jobs citing Kubernetes 24 21 24
As % of all permanent jobs in the North East 2.36% 2.26% 3.19%
As % of the Systems Management category 43.64% 19.63% 29.63%
Number of salaries quoted 20 17 21
10th Percentile - £48,650 £47,500
25th Percentile £42,250 £51,250 £48,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £69,289 £62,500 £57,500
Median % change year-on-year +10.86% +8.70% -17.86%
75th Percentile £83,125 £74,145 £69,800
90th Percentile £92,750 £85,250 £76,250
England median annual salary £75,000 £80,000 £75,000
% change year-on-year -6.25% +6.67% -6.25%

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 55 107 81
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the North East 5.40% 11.49% 10.76%
Number of salaries quoted 47 37 75
10th Percentile £28,500 £37,500 £31,250
25th Percentile £42,250 £42,000 £38,063
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £51,500 £52,500 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -1.90% -4.55% -7.17%
75th Percentile £77,500 £66,000 £69,275
90th Percentile £85,501 £76,487 £85,000
England median annual salary £62,500 £70,000 £65,000
% change year-on-year -10.71% +7.69% -3.70%

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 13 January 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 13 January 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 +11 18 £70,000 +25.56% 29
Durham +13 6 £69,289 -0.03%
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:

Cloud Services
1 16 (66.67%) Azure
2 7 (29.17%) AWS
3 5 (20.83%) Azure DevOps
4 4 (16.67%) GitHub
4 4 (16.67%) PaaS
4 4 (16.67%) SaaS
5 3 (12.50%) Azure AKS
5 3 (12.50%) IaaS
6 2 (8.33%) Azure Key Vault
6 2 (8.33%) Azure Service Bus
6 2 (8.33%) GCP
6 2 (8.33%) Serverless
7 1 (4.17%) Amazon CloudWatch
7 1 (4.17%) Amazon EKS
7 1 (4.17%) Datadog
7 1 (4.17%) dbt
7 1 (4.17%) OpenShift
Communications & Networking
1 2 (8.33%) SAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 10 (41.67%) SQL Server
2 1 (4.17%) NoSQL
2 1 (4.17%) PostgreSQL
2 1 (4.17%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 9 (37.50%) Bitbucket
1 9 (37.50%) JIRA
2 8 (33.33%) Git
3 2 (8.33%) Artifactory
3 2 (8.33%) Cucumber
3 2 (8.33%) Octopus Deploy
3 2 (8.33%) SonarQube
3 2 (8.33%) TeamCity
4 1 (4.17%) GitLab
4 1 (4.17%) Jenkins
4 1 (4.17%) JMeter
4 1 (4.17%) JUnit
4 1 (4.17%) Locust
4 1 (4.17%) Selenium
General
1 11 (45.83%) Social Skills
2 9 (37.50%) Finance
3 6 (25.00%) Advertising
Job Titles
1 10 (41.67%) Lead
2 7 (29.17%) Analyst
2 7 (29.17%) Applications Support
2 7 (29.17%) Applications Support Analyst
2 7 (29.17%) Support Analyst
3 5 (20.83%) DevOps Engineer
4 4 (16.67%) Developer
5 3 (12.50%) Cloud Engineer
5 3 (12.50%) Infrastructure Engineer
5 3 (12.50%) Lead DevOps
5 3 (12.50%) Senior
5 3 (12.50%) Software Developer
6 2 (8.33%) Azure Engineer
6 2 (8.33%) Cloud Infrastructure Engineer
6 2 (8.33%) Lead Cloud Engineer
6 2 (8.33%) Lead Developer
6 2 (8.33%) Lead DevOps Engineer
6 2 (8.33%) Lead Infrastructure Engineer
6 2 (8.33%) Lead Software Developer
7 1 (4.17%) Test Leader
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 5 (20.83%) .NET
2 4 (16.67%) .NET Framework
3 3 (12.50%) Elastic Stack
4 2 (8.33%) Blazor
4 2 (8.33%) WebAssembly
4 2 (8.33%) YAML
5 1 (4.17%) Django
5 1 (4.17%) Flask
5 1 (4.17%) Gherkin
5 1 (4.17%) pytest
5 1 (4.17%) RESTful
5 1 (4.17%) Spring
5 1 (4.17%) Spring Boot
Miscellaneous
1 2 (8.33%) Cloud Native
2 1 (4.17%) Legacy Systems
2 1 (4.17%) Management Information System
Operating Systems
1 10 (41.67%) Linux
2 9 (37.50%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 17 (70.83%) Containerisation
2 11 (45.83%) DevOps
3 9 (37.50%) Computer Science
4 8 (33.33%) Business Continuity
4 8 (33.33%) Infrastructure as Code
5 7 (29.17%) Change Management
5 7 (29.17%) CI/CD
5 7 (29.17%) ITIL
6 6 (25.00%) Infrastructure Engineering
7 5 (20.83%) Mentoring
7 5 (20.83%) Roadmaps
8 4 (16.67%) FinOps
8 4 (16.67%) Problem-Solving
9 3 (12.50%) Continuous Improvement
9 3 (12.50%) Cybersecurity
9 3 (12.50%) Platform Engineering
9 3 (12.50%) TDD
10 2 (8.33%) B2C
10 2 (8.33%) BDD
10 2 (8.33%) Continuous Integration
Programming Languages
1 6 (25.00%) Python
2 5 (20.83%) C#
3 4 (16.67%) Java
3 4 (16.67%) PowerShell
4 3 (12.50%) Bicep
4 3 (12.50%) SQL
5 2 (8.33%) Bash
6 1 (4.17%) Delphi
Qualifications
1 9 (37.50%) Computer Science Degree
1 9 (37.50%) Degree
2 6 (25.00%) ITIL Certification
3 3 (12.50%) Security Cleared
4 1 (4.17%) Azure Certification
4 1 (4.17%) SC Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (4.17%) Accessibility
1 1 (4.17%) QA
1 1 (4.17%) WCAG
System Software
1 8 (33.33%) Docker
2 2 (8.33%) vSphere
3 1 (4.17%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 11 (45.83%) Grafana
2 9 (37.50%) Control-M
2 9 (37.50%) Terraform
3 7 (29.17%) Prometheus
4 5 (20.83%) Ansible
5 2 (8.33%) Docker Swarm
Vendors
1 4 (16.67%) Microsoft
2 2 (8.33%) Atlassian
2 2 (8.33%) VMware
3 1 (4.17%) Google
3 1 (4.17%) Oracle