Kubernetes Job Trends in South Yorkshire

Kubernetes (k8s)
Yorkshire > South Yorkshire

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in South Yorkshire requiring Kubernetes skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 5 November 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
5 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 57 61 52
Rank change year-on-year +4 -9 -10
Permanent jobs citing Kubernetes 2 7 17
As % of all permanent jobs in South Yorkshire 0.31% 0.78% 3.26%
As % of the Systems Management category 8.33% 21.21% 12.32%
Number of salaries quoted 2 1 17
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile - £38,750 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £85,000 £42,500 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +100.00% -22.73% -31.25%
75th Percentile - £46,250 £60,000
90th Percentile - - £77,000
Yorkshire median annual salary £75,000 £67,000 £65,351
% change year-on-year +11.94% +2.52% -3.18%

All Systems Management Skills
South Yorkshire

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 South Yorkshire.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for systems management skills 24 33 138
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in South Yorkshire 3.66% 3.68% 26.44%
Number of salaries quoted 21 16 108
10th Percentile - £35,000 £25,875
25th Percentile £26,000 £44,375 £31,125
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £27,000 £46,000 £37,000
Median % change year-on-year -41.30% +24.32% -29.52%
75th Percentile £51,500 £63,875 £55,000
90th Percentile £85,000 £64,250 £60,000
Yorkshire median annual salary £56,250 £55,215 £59,526
% change year-on-year +1.87% -7.24% -

Kubernetes
Job Vacancy Trend in South Yorkshire

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

Kubernetes job vacancy trend in South Yorkshire

Kubernetes
Salary Trend in South Yorkshire

Salary distribution trend for jobs in South Yorkshire citing Kubernetes.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in South Yorkshire citing Kubernetes

Kubernetes
Job Locations in South Yorkshire

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Kubernetes within the South Yorkshire region over the 6 months to 5 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
Sheffield +11 2 £85,000 +100.00% 3
Kubernetes
Yorkshire

Kubernetes
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in South Yorkshire 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:

Job Titles
1 2 (100.00%) Cloud Engineer
1 2 (100.00%) Cloud Infrastructure Engineer
1 2 (100.00%) Infrastructure Engineer
1 2 (100.00%) Lead
1 2 (100.00%) Lead Cloud Engineer
1 2 (100.00%) Lead Infrastructure Engineer
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (100.00%) Infrastructure Engineering