Kubernetes Job Trends in Yorkshire

Kubernetes (k8s)
England > Yorkshire

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in Yorkshire requiring Kubernetes skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 15 March 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
15 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 138 65 71
Rank change year-on-year -73 +6 -11
Permanent jobs citing Kubernetes 46 85 162
As % of all permanent jobs in Yorkshire 1.00% 3.68% 3.19%
As % of the Systems Management category 18.40% 33.33% 30.17%
Number of salaries quoted 37 64 135
10th Percentile £54,750 £48,510 £43,000
25th Percentile £62,500 £63,750 £48,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £79,000 £76,250 £62,500
Median % change year-on-year +3.61% +22.00% -7.41%
75th Percentile £85,000 £98,474 £77,375
90th Percentile £88,000 £140,677 £84,919
England median annual salary £75,000 £85,000 £75,000
% change year-on-year -11.76% +13.33% -3.23%

All Systems Management Skills
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 Yorkshire.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for systems management skills 250 255 537
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Yorkshire 5.41% 11.03% 10.58%
Number of salaries quoted 179 173 428
10th Percentile £31,250 £31,250 £29,750
25th Percentile £42,500 £46,250 £36,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £67,000 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year -10.45% +27.62% -12.50%
75th Percentile £77,500 £77,500 £67,968
90th Percentile £85,000 £98,474 £80,000
England median annual salary £62,500 £70,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year -10.71% +16.67% -11.11%

Kubernetes
Job Vacancy Trend in Yorkshire

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

Kubernetes job vacancy trend in Yorkshire

Kubernetes
Salary Trend in Yorkshire

Salary distribution trend for jobs in Yorkshire citing Kubernetes.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in Yorkshire citing Kubernetes

Kubernetes
Salary Histogram in Yorkshire

Salary distribution for jobs citing Kubernetes in Yorkshire over the 6 months to 15 March 2026.

Salary histogram for Kubernetes in Yorkshire

Kubernetes
Job Locations in Yorkshire

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Kubernetes within the Yorkshire region over the 6 months to 15 March 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
West Yorkshire -46 44 £75,000 -13.75% 27
South Yorkshire -40 2 £85,000 +21.43% 31
Kubernetes
England

Kubernetes
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in 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:

Application Platforms
1 10 (21.74%) OpenStack
Cloud Services
1 32 (69.57%) AWS
2 27 (58.70%) Azure
3 13 (28.26%) Amazon ECS
3 13 (28.26%) Amazon EKS
3 13 (28.26%) Serverless
4 12 (26.09%) GCP
5 9 (19.57%) Amazon S3
6 7 (15.22%) GitHub
6 7 (15.22%) GitHub Actions
7 6 (13.04%) Amazon SQS
8 4 (8.70%) Azure Data Factory
8 4 (8.70%) Azure DevOps
8 4 (8.70%) Microsoft Purview
9 2 (4.35%) Amazon EC2
9 2 (4.35%) Virtual Private Cloud
10 1 (2.17%) Amazon CloudWatch
10 1 (2.17%) AWS CloudFormation
10 1 (2.17%) Azure API Management
10 1 (2.17%) Datadog
10 1 (2.17%) Microsoft 365
Communications & Networking
1 1 (2.17%) Broadband
1 1 (2.17%) Firewall
1 1 (2.17%) VPN
1 1 (2.17%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 14 (30.43%) PostgreSQL
2 9 (19.57%) Relational Database
3 4 (8.70%) Metadata
4 1 (2.17%) Amazon RDS
4 1 (2.17%) Azure SQL Database
4 1 (2.17%) DynamoDB
4 1 (2.17%) NoSQL
4 1 (2.17%) Redis
Development Applications
1 14 (30.43%) Jenkins
2 12 (26.09%) Git
3 7 (15.22%) GitLab
4 1 (2.17%) JUnit
General
1 8 (17.39%) Public Sector
2 6 (13.04%) Social Skills
3 5 (10.87%) Finance
4 4 (8.70%) Analytical Skills
4 4 (8.70%) Financial Institution
5 2 (4.35%) Retail
6 1 (2.17%) Games
6 1 (2.17%) Inclusion and Diversity
Job Titles
1 15 (32.61%) Developer
2 13 (28.26%) Lead
3 12 (26.09%) Java Developer
4 11 (23.91%) Senior
5 10 (21.74%) DevOps Engineer
6 8 (17.39%) Cloud Engineer
7 6 (13.04%) Full-Stack Developer
7 6 (13.04%) Full-Stack Java Developer
7 6 (13.04%) Lead DevOps
7 6 (13.04%) Lead DevOps Engineer
8 5 (10.87%) Cloud Infrastructure Engineer
8 5 (10.87%) Data Engineer
8 5 (10.87%) Infrastructure Engineer
8 5 (10.87%) Lead Cloud Engineer
8 5 (10.87%) Principal Data Engineer
8 5 (10.87%) Principal Engineer
8 5 (10.87%) Senior Developer
9 4 (8.70%) Senior Java Developer
9 4 (8.70%) Senior Software Engineer
9 4 (8.70%) Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 17 (36.96%) Spring
1 17 (36.96%) Spring Boot
2 13 (28.26%) Node.js
3 12 (26.09%) Elastic Stack
4 10 (21.74%) REST
5 9 (19.57%) React
5 9 (19.57%) Web Services
6 7 (15.22%) Kafka
6 7 (15.22%) Mustache
7 4 (8.70%) Micronaut
7 4 (8.70%) PySpark
8 3 (6.52%) AngularJS
8 3 (6.52%) Apache Camel
9 2 (4.35%) Grails
9 2 (4.35%) Hibernate
9 2 (4.35%) OpenAPI
9 2 (4.35%) Swagger
10 1 (2.17%) .NET
10 1 (2.17%) JSON
10 1 (2.17%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 16 (34.78%) Cloud Native
2 13 (28.26%) Distributed Systems
3 3 (6.52%) Analytical Mindset
4 2 (4.35%) IoT
5 1 (2.17%) Management Information System
5 1 (2.17%) Mobile App
5 1 (2.17%) Self-Motivation
5 1 (2.17%) Social Media
Operating Systems
1 1 (2.17%) Android
Processes & Methodologies
1 29 (63.04%) DevOps
2 26 (56.52%) CI/CD
3 19 (41.30%) Agile
4 16 (34.78%) Infrastructure as Code
5 15 (32.61%) Containerisation
6 14 (30.43%) TDD
7 13 (28.26%) Infrastructure Engineering
8 12 (26.09%) Full-Stack Development
8 12 (26.09%) Microservices
9 11 (23.91%) Mentoring
10 10 (21.74%) Observability
10 10 (21.74%) Scrum
10 10 (21.74%) Technical Leadership
11 8 (17.39%) SDLC
11 8 (17.39%) Site Reliability Engineering
12 7 (15.22%) AI
12 7 (15.22%) Data Pipeline
12 7 (15.22%) Incident Response
12 7 (15.22%) Performance Optimisation
12 7 (15.22%) Stakeholder Management
Programming Languages
1 18 (39.13%) Java
1 18 (39.13%) JavaScript
2 17 (36.96%) Python
3 8 (17.39%) SQL
4 5 (10.87%) Bash
5 4 (8.70%) T-SQL
6 3 (6.52%) Go
6 3 (6.52%) TypeScript
7 2 (4.35%) C#
7 2 (4.35%) PowerShell
7 2 (4.35%) R
Qualifications
1 1 (2.17%) Azure Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (6.52%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 2 (4.35%) SOC 2
3 1 (2.17%) QA
System Software
1 31 (67.39%) Docker
2 1 (2.17%) Hyper-V
2 1 (2.17%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 20 (43.48%) Terraform
2 10 (21.74%) Ansible
3 7 (15.22%) Grafana
3 7 (15.22%) Prometheus
4 2 (4.35%) Argo
5 1 (2.17%) FortiGate
5 1 (2.17%) Kibana
5 1 (2.17%) Microsoft Intune
Vendors
1 7 (15.22%) Microsoft
2 5 (10.87%) Databricks
3 3 (6.52%) Pega
3 3 (6.52%) WSO2
4 1 (2.17%) LogRhythm
4 1 (2.17%) New Relic
4 1 (2.17%) VMware