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 vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 15 September 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
15 Sep 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 53 66 62
Rank change year-on-year +13 -4 -21
Permanent jobs citing Kubernetes 3 8 21
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in South Yorkshire 0.51% 0.77% 3.02%
As % of the Systems Management category 11.54% 21.62% 14.38%
Number of salaries quoted 2 2 19
10th Percentile - £39,750 £45,000
25th Percentile - £41,250 £55,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £70,000 £47,500 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year +47.37% -20.83% +14.29%
75th Percentile - £53,750 £70,000
90th Percentile - £55,250 £76,000
Yorkshire median annual salary £70,000 £65,000 £65,351
% change year-on-year +7.69% -0.54% -6.64%

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 26 37 146
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in South Yorkshire 4.41% 3.57% 20.98%
Number of salaries quoted 19 24 118
10th Percentile - £37,500 £24,900
25th Percentile £26,000 £44,375 £31,125
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £27,000 £46,000 £36,000
Median % change year-on-year -41.30% +27.78% -31.43%
75th Percentile £70,000 £58,750 £57,500
90th Percentile £85,000 - £67,500
Yorkshire median annual salary £45,000 £57,500 £59,526
% change year-on-year -21.74% -3.40% -0.79%

Kubernetes
Job Vacancy Trend in South Yorkshire

Job postings citing Kubernetes as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in South Yorkshire.

Job vacancy trend for Kubernetes 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 15 September 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
Doncaster - 2 £70,000 -
Sheffield +12 1 - - 7
Kubernetes
Yorkshire

Kubernetes
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in South Yorkshire by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same employment type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Cloud Services
1 2 (66.67%) Azure
1 2 (66.67%) Azure DevOps
Communications & Networking
1 1 (33.33%) BGP
1 1 (33.33%) EIGRP
1 1 (33.33%) Network Security
1 1 (33.33%) OSPF
1 1 (33.33%) TCP/IP
General
1 3 (100.00%) Social Skills
2 1 (33.33%) Documentation Skills
Job Titles
1 2 (66.67%) .NET Developer
1 2 (66.67%) Developer
1 2 (66.67%) Lead
1 2 (66.67%) Lead .NET Developer
1 2 (66.67%) Lead Developer
2 1 (33.33%) Network Engineer
2 1 (33.33%) VMware Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (66.67%) .NET
1 2 (66.67%) .NET Core
1 2 (66.67%) .NET Framework
2 1 (33.33%) REST
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (100.00%) Containerisation
2 2 (66.67%) CI/CD
2 2 (66.67%) Cloud Security
2 2 (66.67%) Continuous Improvement
2 2 (66.67%) DevOps
2 2 (66.67%) Logistics
2 2 (66.67%) Mentoring
2 2 (66.67%) SDLC
2 2 (66.67%) Software Architecture
2 2 (66.67%) User Experience
3 1 (33.33%) Computer Science
3 1 (33.33%) Migration
3 1 (33.33%) Network Management
3 1 (33.33%) Network Monitoring
3 1 (33.33%) Network Virtualisation
3 1 (33.33%) Test Automation
Programming Languages
1 2 (66.67%) C#
2 1 (33.33%) Python
Qualifications
1 1 (33.33%) Computer Science Degree
1 1 (33.33%) Degree
System Software
1 3 (100.00%) Docker
2 1 (33.33%) VMware Infrastructure
2 1 (33.33%) VMware NSX
Systems Management
1 1 (33.33%) Ansible
Vendors
1 1 (33.33%) Cisco
1 1 (33.33%) VMware