Kubernetes Job Trends in the North of England

Kubernetes (k8s)
England > North of England

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in the North of England requiring Kubernetes skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 13 June 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
13 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 136 74 91
Rank change year-on-year -62 +17 -26
Permanent jobs citing Kubernetes 233 360 468
As % of all permanent jobs in the North of England 1.18% 4.45% 2.40%
As % of the Systems Management category 25.66% 25.44% 34.14%
Number of salaries quoted 188 180 335
10th Percentile £47,000 £49,081 £43,750
25th Percentile £58,750 £62,500 £48,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £70,000 £75,000 £62,500
Median % change year-on-year -6.67% +20.00% -10.00%
75th Percentile £85,000 £97,528 £75,000
90th Percentile £95,000 £115,000 £85,000
England median annual salary £72,500 £82,500 £77,500
% change year-on-year -12.12% +6.45% -

All Systems Management Skills
North of England

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 of England.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for systems management skills 908 1,415 1,371
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the North of England 4.59% 17.48% 7.04%
Number of salaries quoted 700 490 1,062
10th Percentile £32,500 £29,000 £29,000
25th Percentile £41,000 £40,000 £38,188
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,500 £65,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -11.54% +18.18% -8.33%
75th Percentile £75,000 £78,063 £69,500
90th Percentile £88,750 £97,500 £80,000
England median annual salary £65,000 £67,500 £62,500
% change year-on-year -3.70% +8.00% -7.41%

Kubernetes
Job Vacancy Trend in the North of England

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

Kubernetes job vacancy trend in the North of England

Kubernetes
Salary Trend in the North of England

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the North of England citing Kubernetes.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the North of England citing Kubernetes

Kubernetes
Salary Histogram in the North of England

Salary distribution for jobs citing Kubernetes in the North of England over the 6 months to 13 June 2026.

Salary histogram for Kubernetes in the North of England

Kubernetes
Job Locations in the North of England

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Kubernetes within the North of England region over the 6 months to 13 June 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
North West -30 149 £72,500 -3.33% 79
Yorkshire -75 44 £75,000 -6.25% 22
North East -15 40 £60,000 - 25
Kubernetes
England

Kubernetes
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the North of England 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 4 (1.72%) OpenStack
2 3 (1.29%) Apache
2 3 (1.29%) Apache Spark
3 2 (0.86%) Microsoft Exchange
4 1 (0.43%) WebLogic
Applications
1 1 (0.43%) Chatbot
Cloud Services
1 153 (65.67%) AWS
2 114 (48.93%) Azure
3 58 (24.89%) GitHub
4 46 (19.74%) GCP
5 44 (18.88%) Serverless
6 39 (16.74%) AWS CloudFormation
7 35 (15.02%) GitHub Actions
8 31 (13.30%) Amazon EKS
9 29 (12.45%) Amazon ECS
10 24 (10.30%) Amazon EC2
11 21 (9.01%) AWS Lambda
11 21 (9.01%) Azure AKS
12 19 (8.15%) Azure DevOps
13 15 (6.44%) Datadog
14 14 (6.01%) Virtual Private Cloud
15 13 (5.58%) Amazon S3
15 13 (5.58%) Amazon SQS
16 12 (5.15%) Amazon CloudWatch
17 11 (4.72%) SaaS
18 10 (4.29%) GitHub Copilot
Communications & Networking
1 9 (3.86%) Firewall
2 6 (2.58%) Internet
3 3 (1.29%) AMQP
4 2 (0.86%) DNS
4 2 (0.86%) TCP/IP
5 1 (0.43%) Broadband
5 1 (0.43%) Network Security
Database & Business Intelligence
1 35 (15.02%) PostgreSQL
2 29 (12.45%) MongoDB
3 22 (9.44%) NoSQL
4 13 (5.58%) Amazon RDS
5 11 (4.72%) Relational Database
6 9 (3.86%) Azure SQL Database
6 9 (3.86%) DynamoDB
7 6 (2.58%) Elasticsearch
7 6 (2.58%) SQL Server
8 5 (2.15%) GIS
9 4 (1.72%) Neo4j
10 3 (1.29%) Big Data
10 3 (1.29%) Cloudera CDH
10 3 (1.29%) Hadoop
10 3 (1.29%) MySQL
10 3 (1.29%) Pinecone
11 2 (0.86%) BigQuery
11 2 (0.86%) Redis
12 1 (0.43%) Apache Cassandra
12 1 (0.43%) Db2
Development Applications
1 45 (19.31%) Jenkins
2 34 (14.59%) Git
3 31 (13.30%) GitLab
4 8 (3.43%) JIRA
5 7 (3.00%) SonarQube
6 6 (2.58%) Artifactory
6 6 (2.58%) Bitbucket
6 6 (2.58%) Cucumber
7 4 (1.72%) Atlassian Bamboo
7 4 (1.72%) Vite
8 3 (1.29%) Octopus Deploy
8 3 (1.29%) TeamCity
9 2 (0.86%) Claude Code
9 2 (0.86%) Cypress.io
9 2 (0.86%) Robot Framework
9 2 (0.86%) Vagrant
10 1 (0.43%) IntelliJ
10 1 (0.43%) JMeter
10 1 (0.43%) JUnit
10 1 (0.43%) Selenium
General
1 25 (10.73%) Social Skills
2 15 (6.44%) Public Sector
3 11 (4.72%) Finance
4 8 (3.43%) Aerospace
5 6 (2.58%) Analytical Skills
6 4 (1.72%) Advertising
6 4 (1.72%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 3 (1.29%) Financial Institution
8 2 (0.86%) Retail
9 1 (0.43%) Banking
9 1 (0.43%) Documentation Skills
9 1 (0.43%) Games
9 1 (0.43%) Investment Banking
9 1 (0.43%) Manufacturing
Job Titles
1 66 (28.33%) Senior
2 56 (24.03%) DevOps Engineer
3 45 (19.31%) Developer
4 35 (15.02%) Software Engineer
5 30 (12.88%) Cloud Engineer
6 29 (12.45%) Lead
7 27 (11.59%) Platform Engineer
8 19 (8.15%) Java Developer
9 17 (7.30%) Senior Developer
10 12 (5.15%) Cloud Platform Engineer
10 12 (5.15%) Senior Software Engineer
11 11 (4.72%) Architect
11 11 (4.72%) Senior Java Developer
11 11 (4.72%) Senior Platform Engineer
12 10 (4.29%) .NET Developer
12 10 (4.29%) AWS Engineer
12 10 (4.29%) Azure Engineer
12 10 (4.29%) Java Engineer
12 10 (4.29%) Principal Engineer
12 10 (4.29%) Python Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 38 (16.31%) .NET
2 35 (15.02%) Spring
3 33 (14.16%) Spring Boot
4 32 (13.73%) React
5 27 (11.59%) Node.js
5 27 (11.59%) RESTful
6 19 (8.15%) AngularJS
7 18 (7.73%) REST
8 17 (7.30%) Kafka
8 17 (7.30%) Vue
8 17 (7.30%) Web Services
9 16 (6.87%) Elastic Stack
10 14 (6.01%) .NET Core
10 14 (6.01%) FastAPI
11 13 (5.58%) RabbitMQ
11 13 (5.58%) YAML
12 11 (4.72%) ARM Templates
13 10 (4.29%) Django
14 9 (3.86%) .NET Framework
14 9 (3.86%) CSS
Miscellaneous
1 65 (27.90%) Cloud Native
2 33 (14.16%) Distributed Systems
3 9 (3.86%) Hybrid Cloud
4 5 (2.15%) AI Agents
4 5 (2.15%) Algorithms
4 5 (2.15%) Enterprise Cloud
4 5 (2.15%) Greenfield Project
4 5 (2.15%) Renewable Energy
5 4 (1.72%) Legacy Systems
6 3 (1.29%) Analytical Mindset
6 3 (1.29%) Mobile App
6 3 (1.29%) Product Ownership
6 3 (1.29%) Self-Motivation
7 2 (0.86%) Data Structures
7 2 (0.86%) Distributed Architecture
7 2 (0.86%) Linux Command Line
7 2 (0.86%) Public Cloud
7 2 (0.86%) Security Posture
7 2 (0.86%) Web Conferencing
8 1 (0.43%) IoT
Operating Systems
1 46 (19.74%) Linux
2 7 (3.00%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
2 7 (3.00%) Ubuntu
3 6 (2.58%) Debian
3 6 (2.58%) Windows
4 5 (2.15%) CentOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 154 (66.09%) CI/CD
2 139 (59.66%) DevOps
3 126 (54.08%) Infrastructure as Code
4 101 (43.35%) Containerisation
5 86 (36.91%) Agile
6 64 (27.47%) Platform Engineering
7 61 (26.18%) Microservices
8 53 (22.75%) Software Engineering
9 50 (21.46%) Observability
10 48 (20.60%) AI
11 43 (18.45%) Mentoring
12 42 (18.03%) Continuous Improvement
13 40 (17.17%) Scrum
14 38 (16.31%) Problem-Solving
15 33 (14.16%) TDD
16 28 (12.02%) Clean Code
16 28 (12.02%) Full-Stack Development
17 27 (11.59%) Site Reliability Engineering
18 26 (11.16%) Event-Driven
19 23 (9.87%) Infrastructure Engineering
Programming Languages
1 105 (45.06%) Python
2 54 (23.18%) Java
3 43 (18.45%) TypeScript
4 39 (16.74%) SQL
5 36 (15.45%) C#
6 32 (13.73%) JavaScript
7 28 (12.02%) Bash
8 24 (10.30%) PowerShell
9 18 (7.73%) Go
10 14 (6.01%) Groovy
11 11 (4.72%) Bicep
12 8 (3.43%) C
13 2 (0.86%) PL/SQL
14 1 (0.43%) Kotlin
14 1 (0.43%) Perl
14 1 (0.43%) Scala
14 1 (0.43%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 47 (20.17%) Security Cleared
2 31 (13.30%) SC Cleared
3 15 (6.44%) DV Cleared
4 11 (4.72%) Degree
5 6 (2.58%) Azure Certification
6 5 (2.15%) AWS Certification
6 5 (2.15%) Computer Science Degree
7 2 (0.86%) Microsoft Certified Professional
8 1 (0.43%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 7 (3.00%) QA
2 5 (2.15%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 4 (1.72%) Accessibility
3 4 (1.72%) SOC 2
4 2 (0.86%) PCI DSS
5 1 (0.43%) Data Quality
5 1 (0.43%) WCAG
System Software
1 134 (57.51%) Docker
2 5 (2.15%) Virtual Machines
2 5 (2.15%) vSphere
3 4 (1.72%) VMware Infrastructure
4 2 (0.86%) Active Directory
4 2 (0.86%) VMware NSX
5 1 (0.43%) iptables
Systems Management
1 136 (58.37%) Terraform
2 51 (21.89%) Ansible
3 20 (8.58%) Grafana
4 14 (6.01%) Progress Chef
4 14 (6.01%) Prometheus
5 9 (3.86%) Argo
6 6 (2.58%) Istio
6 6 (2.58%) Puppet
7 5 (2.15%) linkerd
7 5 (2.15%) Packer
8 3 (1.29%) Control-M
8 3 (1.29%) Docker Swarm
9 2 (0.86%) Kibana
9 2 (0.86%) Microsoft Intune
10 1 (0.43%) Rancher
Vendors
1 27 (11.59%) Microsoft
2 11 (4.72%) Google
3 8 (3.43%) VMware
4 7 (3.00%) HubSpot
5 5 (2.15%) AppDynamics
5 5 (2.15%) IBM
5 5 (2.15%) OpenAI
6 4 (1.72%) Databricks
7 3 (1.29%) Atlassian
7 3 (1.29%) Oracle
7 3 (1.29%) Red Hat
7 3 (1.29%) SaltStack
8 2 (0.86%) Dynatrace
8 2 (0.86%) Pega
8 2 (0.86%) WSO2
9 1 (0.43%) Confluent
9 1 (0.43%) Splunk