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 23 April 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
23 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 148 60 78
Rank change year-on-year -88 +18 -18
Permanent jobs citing Kubernetes 50 95 155
As % of all permanent jobs in Yorkshire 0.85% 4.04% 2.78%
As % of the Systems Management category 18.05% 35.19% 30.04%
Number of salaries quoted 36 68 130
10th Percentile £57,500 £48,857 £43,750
25th Percentile £62,500 £65,000 £48,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £80,000 £78,155 £63,750
Median % change year-on-year +2.36% +22.60% -6.26%
75th Percentile £85,000 £98,474 £74,375
90th Percentile £91,250 £140,677 £84,919
England median annual salary £75,000 £85,000 £77,500
% change year-on-year -11.76% +9.68% -

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 277 270 516
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Yorkshire 4.70% 11.48% 9.24%
Number of salaries quoted 200 181 408
10th Percentile £32,500 £31,000 £30,000
25th Percentile £42,500 £42,500 £37,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £65,000 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year -7.69% +23.81% -12.50%
75th Percentile £80,313 £78,750 £67,968
90th Percentile £85,125 £98,474 £79,125
England median annual salary £65,000 £70,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year -7.14% +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 23 April 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 23 April 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 -62 47 £79,000 -7.33% 15
South Yorkshire -56 2 £85,000 +21.43% 7
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 7 (14.00%) OpenStack
Cloud Services
1 38 (76.00%) AWS
2 24 (48.00%) Azure
3 17 (34.00%) Amazon EKS
4 16 (32.00%) Serverless
5 13 (26.00%) Amazon S3
6 12 (24.00%) Amazon ECS
6 12 (24.00%) GCP
6 12 (24.00%) GitHub
6 12 (24.00%) GitHub Actions
7 9 (18.00%) Amazon EC2
8 6 (12.00%) Amazon SQS
8 6 (12.00%) AWS CloudFormation
8 6 (12.00%) AWS Lambda
9 3 (6.00%) Azure DevOps
9 3 (6.00%) Virtual Private Cloud
10 2 (4.00%) Azure Data Factory
10 2 (4.00%) Microsoft Purview
11 1 (2.00%) Azure AKS
11 1 (2.00%) Azure Functions
11 1 (2.00%) Azure Service Bus
Communications & Networking
1 2 (4.00%) Firewall
2 1 (2.00%) Broadband
2 1 (2.00%) VPN
2 1 (2.00%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 11 (22.00%) PostgreSQL
2 8 (16.00%) Relational Database
3 2 (4.00%) Metadata
4 1 (2.00%) Amazon RDS
4 1 (2.00%) Azure SQL Database
4 1 (2.00%) DynamoDB
4 1 (2.00%) InfluxDB
4 1 (2.00%) NoSQL
Development Applications
1 20 (40.00%) Jenkins
2 13 (26.00%) Git
3 11 (22.00%) GitLab
4 3 (6.00%) Artifactory
4 3 (6.00%) Cucumber
4 3 (6.00%) JIRA
4 3 (6.00%) SonarQube
5 1 (2.00%) JUnit
General
1 9 (18.00%) Social Skills
2 6 (12.00%) Public Sector
3 4 (8.00%) Analytical Skills
3 4 (8.00%) Finance
4 3 (6.00%) Financial Institution
5 1 (2.00%) Documentation Skills
5 1 (2.00%) Games
5 1 (2.00%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 1 (2.00%) Manufacturing
5 1 (2.00%) Retail
Job Titles
1 14 (28.00%) DevOps Engineer
2 13 (26.00%) Developer
3 12 (24.00%) Java Developer
3 12 (24.00%) Lead
4 11 (22.00%) Senior
5 9 (18.00%) Cloud Engineer
6 8 (16.00%) Platform Engineer
7 6 (12.00%) Lead DevOps
7 6 (12.00%) Lead DevOps Engineer
8 5 (10.00%) AWS Engineer
8 5 (10.00%) Infrastructure Engineer
9 4 (8.00%) AWS Platform Engineer
9 4 (8.00%) Cloud Infrastructure Engineer
9 4 (8.00%) Cloud Platform Engineer
9 4 (8.00%) Full-Stack Developer
9 4 (8.00%) Full-Stack Java Developer
9 4 (8.00%) Lead Cloud Engineer
9 4 (8.00%) Principal Engineer
9 4 (8.00%) Senior Developer
10 3 (6.00%) Principal Data Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 15 (30.00%) Elastic Stack
2 14 (28.00%) Spring
2 14 (28.00%) Spring Boot
3 12 (24.00%) REST
3 12 (24.00%) Web Services
4 11 (22.00%) React
5 9 (18.00%) Node.js
6 7 (14.00%) Kafka
6 7 (14.00%) Mustache
7 5 (10.00%) RabbitMQ
8 4 (8.00%) JSON
9 3 (6.00%) Micronaut
9 3 (6.00%) YAML
10 2 (4.00%) AngularJS
10 2 (4.00%) Java EE
10 2 (4.00%) JMS
10 2 (4.00%) JPA
10 2 (4.00%) PySpark
10 2 (4.00%) RESTful
11 1 (2.00%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 15 (30.00%) Distributed Systems
2 14 (28.00%) Cloud Native
3 3 (6.00%) Analytical Mindset
4 2 (4.00%) Distributed Architecture
4 2 (4.00%) Linux Command Line
5 1 (2.00%) Enterprise Cloud
5 1 (2.00%) Hybrid Cloud
5 1 (2.00%) IoT
5 1 (2.00%) Management Information System
5 1 (2.00%) Mobile App
5 1 (2.00%) Self-Motivation
5 1 (2.00%) Social Media
Operating Systems
1 7 (14.00%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 36 (72.00%) CI/CD
2 29 (58.00%) DevOps
3 27 (54.00%) Infrastructure as Code
4 21 (42.00%) Agile
5 19 (38.00%) Containerisation
6 15 (30.00%) Infrastructure Engineering
7 14 (28.00%) Microservices
8 11 (22.00%) Observability
8 11 (22.00%) Site Reliability Engineering
8 11 (22.00%) TDD
9 10 (20.00%) Mentoring
9 10 (20.00%) Platform Engineering
10 9 (18.00%) Full-Stack Development
10 9 (18.00%) Scrum
11 8 (16.00%) Incident Response
12 7 (14.00%) Continuous Improvement
12 7 (14.00%) Performance Optimisation
12 7 (14.00%) SDLC
12 7 (14.00%) Software Engineering
12 7 (14.00%) Technical Leadership
Programming Languages
1 21 (42.00%) Python
2 17 (34.00%) Java
3 14 (28.00%) JavaScript
4 7 (14.00%) Groovy
5 6 (12.00%) Bash
5 6 (12.00%) SQL
6 3 (6.00%) Go
6 3 (6.00%) TypeScript
7 2 (4.00%) PL/SQL
7 2 (4.00%) PowerShell
7 2 (4.00%) T-SQL
8 1 (2.00%) Perl
8 1 (2.00%) R
Qualifications
1 5 (10.00%) Security Cleared
2 4 (8.00%) SC Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (8.00%) ISO/IEC 27001
1 4 (8.00%) QA
2 3 (6.00%) SOC 2
System Software
1 33 (66.00%) Docker
2 1 (2.00%) Hyper-V
2 1 (2.00%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 31 (62.00%) Terraform
2 13 (26.00%) Ansible
3 8 (16.00%) Grafana
4 7 (14.00%) Prometheus
5 4 (8.00%) Progress Chef
6 3 (6.00%) Argo
6 3 (6.00%) Kibana
6 3 (6.00%) Packer
7 1 (2.00%) FortiGate
7 1 (2.00%) Microsoft Intune
Vendors
1 7 (14.00%) Microsoft
2 5 (10.00%) AppDynamics
2 5 (10.00%) IBM
3 3 (6.00%) Databricks
4 2 (4.00%) Oracle
5 1 (2.00%) LogRhythm
5 1 (2.00%) New Relic
5 1 (2.00%) VMware