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 vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 18 September 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
18 Sep 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 98 64 40
Rank change year-on-year -34 -24 +3
Permanent jobs citing Kubernetes 60 139 236
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Yorkshire 1.81% 2.81% 6.32%
As % of the Systems Management category 26.09% 39.38% 40.48%
Number of salaries quoted 45 122 176
10th Percentile £55,400 - £46,306
25th Percentile £65,000 £48,250 £57,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £70,000 £65,000 £67,500
Median % change year-on-year +7.69% -3.70% -3.57%
75th Percentile £80,000 £69,500 £82,548
90th Percentile £82,751 £78,750 £87,500
England median annual salary £77,500 £77,500 £75,000
% change year-on-year - +3.33% -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 230 353 583
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Yorkshire 6.93% 7.14% 15.61%
Number of salaries quoted 181 271 422
10th Percentile £27,500 £38,890 £30,500
25th Percentile £31,250 £46,625 £35,313
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £47,500 £57,500 £59,526
Median % change year-on-year -17.39% -3.40% -
75th Percentile £75,000 £69,500 £75,000
90th Percentile £85,000 £85,000 £85,000
England median annual salary £62,500 £66,500 £65,351
% change year-on-year -6.02% +1.76% -6.64%

Kubernetes
Job Vacancy Trend in Yorkshire

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

Job vacancy trend for Kubernetes 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 18 September 2025.

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 18 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
West Yorkshire -17 52 £75,000 +10.29% 22
South Yorkshire +10 3 £70,000 +47.37% 7
North Yorkshire -8 3 £50,250 -8.64% 4
East Yorkshire -5 2 £55,000 -8.33% 1
Kubernetes
England

Kubernetes
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in 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:

Application Platforms
1 5 (8.33%) Apache Spark
2 3 (5.00%) Confluence
3 1 (1.67%) Jupyter
Business Applications
1 1 (1.67%) Payment Gateway
Cloud Services
1 42 (70.00%) AWS
2 27 (45.00%) Azure
3 25 (41.67%) GCP
4 10 (16.67%) Amazon ECS
5 8 (13.33%) GitHub
6 7 (11.67%) AWS CloudFormation
6 7 (11.67%) GitHub Actions
7 6 (10.00%) Amazon EKS
7 6 (10.00%) Azure DevOps
8 4 (6.67%) Amazon S3
8 4 (6.67%) Azure Cosmos DB
9 3 (5.00%) Amazon ELB
9 3 (5.00%) IaaS
9 3 (5.00%) Serverless
10 2 (3.33%) Amazon CloudWatch
10 2 (3.33%) Amazon MSK
10 2 (3.33%) Apigee
10 2 (3.33%) Datadog
10 2 (3.33%) Google Kubernetes Engine
10 2 (3.33%) Virtual Private Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 7 (11.67%) DHCP
1 7 (11.67%) DNS
2 2 (3.33%) AMQP
2 2 (3.33%) Firewall
2 2 (3.33%) MQTT
2 2 (3.33%) VPN
3 1 (1.67%) BGP
3 1 (1.67%) EIGRP
3 1 (1.67%) LAN
3 1 (1.67%) Network Security
3 1 (1.67%) OSPF
3 1 (1.67%) TCP/IP
3 1 (1.67%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 14 (23.33%) NoSQL
2 11 (18.33%) PostgreSQL
3 10 (16.67%) MongoDB
4 4 (6.67%) MySQL
4 4 (6.67%) SQL Server
5 3 (5.00%) Delta Lake
5 3 (5.00%) DynamoDB
5 3 (5.00%) Metadata
5 3 (5.00%) Spark SQL
6 2 (3.33%) Amazon RDS
6 2 (3.33%) Big Data
6 2 (3.33%) Hadoop
6 2 (3.33%) Redis
7 1 (1.67%) Apache Cassandra
7 1 (1.67%) ClickHouse
Development Applications
1 17 (28.33%) Jenkins
2 12 (20.00%) GitLab
3 6 (10.00%) Git
4 4 (6.67%) CircleCI
5 3 (5.00%) JIRA
5 3 (5.00%) MLflow
5 3 (5.00%) SonarQube
6 2 (3.33%) JUnit
6 2 (3.33%) Maven
6 2 (3.33%) Sonatype Nexus
General
1 9 (15.00%) Social Skills
2 7 (11.67%) Finance
3 6 (10.00%) Public Sector
4 4 (6.67%) Banking
4 4 (6.67%) Law
5 3 (5.00%) Organisational Skills
6 2 (3.33%) Legal
7 1 (1.67%) Documentation Skills
7 1 (1.67%) Financial Institution
Job Titles
1 17 (28.33%) Senior
2 15 (25.00%) Lead
3 11 (18.33%) DevOps Engineer
3 11 (18.33%) Software Engineer
4 9 (15.00%) Developer
5 6 (10.00%) Architect
5 6 (10.00%) Senior Software Engineer
6 5 (8.33%) Infrastructure Engineer
6 5 (8.33%) Lead DevOps
6 5 (8.33%) Lead DevOps Engineer
6 5 (8.33%) Senior DevOps
7 4 (6.67%) Cloud Engineer
7 4 (6.67%) CloudOps Manager
7 4 (6.67%) Lead Developer
7 4 (6.67%) Node.js Developer
7 4 (6.67%) Operations Manager
7 4 (6.67%) Senior DevOps Engineer
7 4 (6.67%) Site Engineer
7 4 (6.67%) Site Reliability Engineer
7 4 (6.67%) Technical Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 15 (25.00%) React
2 12 (20.00%) RESTful
3 9 (15.00%) .NET
4 8 (13.33%) Kafka
5 7 (11.67%) AngularJS
6 6 (10.00%) .NET Core
6 6 (10.00%) GraphQL
6 6 (10.00%) Node.js
6 6 (10.00%) Spring
6 6 (10.00%) Spring Boot
7 5 (8.33%) RabbitMQ
8 4 (6.67%) Celery
8 4 (6.67%) Django
8 4 (6.67%) FastAPI
8 4 (6.67%) Flask
8 4 (6.67%) gRPC
8 4 (6.67%) Vue
8 4 (6.67%) WebSockets
9 3 (5.00%) Flutter
9 3 (5.00%) PyTorch
Miscellaneous
1 18 (30.00%) Cloud Native
2 12 (20.00%) Distributed Systems
3 5 (8.33%) Product Ownership
4 4 (6.67%) Hybrid Cloud
4 4 (6.67%) Public Cloud
5 3 (5.00%) Distributed Architecture
5 3 (5.00%) Linux Command Line
6 2 (3.33%) Legacy Systems
7 1 (1.67%) Enterprise Software
Operating Systems
1 13 (21.67%) Linux
2 10 (16.67%) Windows
3 6 (10.00%) Unix
3 6 (10.00%) Windows Server
4 5 (8.33%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 48 (80.00%) CI/CD
2 36 (60.00%) DevOps
3 26 (43.33%) Containerisation
4 21 (35.00%) Infrastructure as Code
5 19 (31.67%) Agile
6 18 (30.00%) Software Engineering
7 15 (25.00%) Mentoring
7 15 (25.00%) Microservices
8 14 (23.33%) Site Reliability Engineering
9 12 (20.00%) Infrastructure Engineering
10 11 (18.33%) Continuous Improvement
11 9 (15.00%) Deployment Automation
12 8 (13.33%) Problem-Solving
13 7 (11.67%) Artificial Intelligence
13 7 (11.67%) Full-Stack Development
13 7 (11.67%) Incident Response
13 7 (11.67%) Machine Learning
13 7 (11.67%) Observability
13 7 (11.67%) Performance Optimisation
13 7 (11.67%) TDD
Programming Languages
1 36 (60.00%) Python
2 18 (30.00%) Java
2 18 (30.00%) JavaScript
3 16 (26.67%) PowerShell
4 15 (25.00%) TypeScript
5 14 (23.33%) SQL
6 11 (18.33%) C#
7 10 (16.67%) Go
8 9 (15.00%) Bash
9 1 (1.67%) C++
9 1 (1.67%) PHP
9 1 (1.67%) R
Qualifications
1 17 (28.33%) AWS Certification
2 4 (6.67%) Degree
3 3 (5.00%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
4 2 (3.33%) Azure Certification
4 2 (3.33%) Computer Science Degree
4 2 (3.33%) SC Cleared
4 2 (3.33%) Security Cleared
5 1 (1.67%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
5 1 (1.67%) AWS Certified SysOps Administrator
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (3.33%) QA
System Software
1 37 (61.67%) Docker
2 7 (11.67%) Active Directory
3 6 (10.00%) Hyper-V
4 3 (5.00%) VMware Infrastructure
5 1 (1.67%) Virtual Machines
5 1 (1.67%) Virtual Servers
5 1 (1.67%) VMware NSX
5 1 (1.67%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 23 (38.33%) Terraform
2 21 (35.00%) Ansible
3 8 (13.33%) Prometheus
4 6 (10.00%) Grafana
5 5 (8.33%) Microsoft Data Protection Manager
5 5 (8.33%) SCCM
5 5 (8.33%) SCOM
5 5 (8.33%) WSUS
6 3 (5.00%) Argo
6 3 (5.00%) Kubeflow
7 2 (3.33%) Istio
Vendors
1 6 (10.00%) Microsoft
2 5 (8.33%) Oracle
2 5 (8.33%) Red Hat
3 4 (6.67%) Databricks
4 3 (5.00%) VMware
5 2 (3.33%) Google
6 1 (1.67%) Cisco
6 1 (1.67%) Salesforce