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 28 May 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
28 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 155 67 76
Rank change year-on-year -88 +9 -17
Permanent jobs citing Kubernetes 46 89 166
As % of all permanent jobs in Yorkshire 0.70% 3.37% 2.86%
As % of the Systems Management category 16.55% 32.36% 31.92%
Number of salaries quoted 27 65 141
10th Percentile £45,300 £56,258 £43,750
25th Percentile £62,500 £65,000 £48,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £75,000 £78,810 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -4.83% +31.35% -12.43%
75th Percentile £85,000 £98,474 £71,250
90th Percentile £95,000 £140,677 £84,919
England median annual salary £74,750 £82,500 £77,500
% change year-on-year -9.39% +6.45% -

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 278 275 520
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Yorkshire 4.22% 10.42% 8.94%
Number of salaries quoted 200 183 416
10th Percentile £31,125 £30,000 £30,000
25th Percentile £41,250 £38,195 £38,890
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £67,500 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -25.93% +22.73% -8.33%
75th Percentile £77,443 £80,000 £67,968
90th Percentile £86,253 £98,474 £78,750
England median annual salary £65,000 £70,000 £62,500
% change year-on-year -7.14% +12.00% -7.41%

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 28 May 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 28 May 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 -54 44 £73,750 -13.49% 11
East Yorkshire - 1 - -
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 (15.22%) OpenStack
Cloud Services
1 37 (80.43%) AWS
2 19 (41.30%) Azure
3 18 (39.13%) GitHub
4 17 (36.96%) Amazon EKS
5 16 (34.78%) GitHub Actions
6 15 (32.61%) Serverless
7 14 (30.43%) Amazon EC2
8 13 (28.26%) Amazon ECS
9 12 (26.09%) Amazon S3
10 10 (21.74%) AWS CloudFormation
11 9 (19.57%) GCP
12 7 (15.22%) Amazon SQS
13 5 (10.87%) AWS Lambda
14 3 (6.52%) Azure DevOps
14 3 (6.52%) Virtual Private Cloud
15 2 (4.35%) Azure Cosmos DB
16 1 (2.17%) AWS Fargate
16 1 (2.17%) Azure AKS
16 1 (2.17%) Azure Functions
16 1 (2.17%) Azure Service Bus
Communications & Networking
1 1 (2.17%) Broadband
1 1 (2.17%) Firewall
Database & Business Intelligence
1 9 (19.57%) PostgreSQL
1 9 (19.57%) Relational Database
2 2 (4.35%) Azure SQL Database
2 2 (4.35%) MySQL
2 2 (4.35%) NoSQL
3 1 (2.17%) Apache Cassandra
3 1 (2.17%) InfluxDB
3 1 (2.17%) MongoDB
3 1 (2.17%) Redis
Development Applications
1 25 (54.35%) Jenkins
2 13 (28.26%) Git
3 9 (19.57%) GitLab
4 3 (6.52%) Artifactory
4 3 (6.52%) Cucumber
4 3 (6.52%) JIRA
4 3 (6.52%) SonarQube
5 1 (2.17%) Atlassian Bamboo
5 1 (2.17%) JUnit
General
1 8 (17.39%) Social Skills
2 5 (10.87%) Public Sector
3 4 (8.70%) Analytical Skills
4 1 (2.17%) Advertising
4 1 (2.17%) Documentation Skills
4 1 (2.17%) Finance
4 1 (2.17%) Games
4 1 (2.17%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 1 (2.17%) Manufacturing
Job Titles
1 13 (28.26%) Developer
2 12 (26.09%) DevOps Engineer
3 11 (23.91%) Java Developer
3 11 (23.91%) Platform Engineer
4 9 (19.57%) Senior
5 6 (13.04%) Cloud Engineer
5 6 (13.04%) Lead
6 5 (10.87%) AWS Engineer
6 5 (10.87%) Cloud Platform Engineer
7 4 (8.70%) AWS Platform Engineer
7 4 (8.70%) Full-Stack Developer
7 4 (8.70%) Full-Stack Java Developer
7 4 (8.70%) Principal Engineer
8 3 (6.52%) Architect
8 3 (6.52%) Backend Developer
8 3 (6.52%) Lead DevOps
8 3 (6.52%) Lead DevOps Engineer
8 3 (6.52%) Senior Developer
9 2 (4.35%) SC Cleared Java Developer
9 2 (4.35%) Senior Platform Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 16 (34.78%) Web Services
2 15 (32.61%) Elastic Stack
3 12 (26.09%) REST
4 11 (23.91%) React
5 9 (19.57%) Node.js
5 9 (19.57%) Spring
5 9 (19.57%) Spring Boot
6 8 (17.39%) Kafka
7 7 (15.22%) Mustache
8 5 (10.87%) RabbitMQ
9 4 (8.70%) JSON
9 4 (8.70%) RESTful
10 3 (6.52%) YAML
11 2 (4.35%) .NET
11 2 (4.35%) AngularJS
11 2 (4.35%) Java EE
11 2 (4.35%) JMS
11 2 (4.35%) JPA
12 1 (2.17%) HTML
12 1 (2.17%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 15 (32.61%) Distributed Systems
2 11 (23.91%) Cloud Native
3 3 (6.52%) Analytical Mindset
4 2 (4.35%) Distributed Architecture
4 2 (4.35%) Linux Command Line
5 1 (2.17%) Data Structures
5 1 (2.17%) Enterprise Cloud
5 1 (2.17%) Greenfield Project
5 1 (2.17%) Hybrid Cloud
5 1 (2.17%) 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 12 (26.09%) Linux
2 1 (2.17%) CentOS
2 1 (2.17%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 39 (84.78%) CI/CD
2 27 (58.70%) Infrastructure as Code
3 24 (52.17%) DevOps
4 21 (45.65%) Containerisation
5 20 (43.48%) Agile
6 17 (36.96%) Microservices
7 14 (30.43%) Platform Engineering
8 10 (21.74%) Scrum
8 10 (21.74%) Software Engineering
8 10 (21.74%) TDD
9 9 (19.57%) Full-Stack Development
9 9 (19.57%) Site Reliability Engineering
10 8 (17.39%) Infrastructure Engineering
10 8 (17.39%) Observability
11 7 (15.22%) Mentoring
11 7 (15.22%) Network Load Balancing
11 7 (15.22%) Problem-Solving
11 7 (15.22%) SDLC
11 7 (15.22%) Software Delivery
12 6 (13.04%) Continuous Improvement
Programming Languages
1 24 (52.17%) Python
2 14 (30.43%) JavaScript
3 13 (28.26%) Java
4 11 (23.91%) Groovy
5 6 (13.04%) Bash
6 4 (8.70%) SQL
6 4 (8.70%) TypeScript
7 3 (6.52%) C#
7 3 (6.52%) Go
8 2 (4.35%) PL/SQL
8 2 (4.35%) PowerShell
9 1 (2.17%) Perl
Qualifications
1 9 (19.57%) Security Cleared
2 7 (15.22%) SC Cleared
3 1 (2.17%) Computer Science Degree
3 1 (2.17%) Degree
3 1 (2.17%) DV Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (6.52%) ISO/IEC 27001
1 3 (6.52%) QA
1 3 (6.52%) SOC 2
System Software
1 34 (73.91%) Docker
Systems Management
1 31 (67.39%) Terraform
2 11 (23.91%) Ansible
3 8 (17.39%) Progress Chef
4 4 (8.70%) Grafana
5 3 (6.52%) Argo
5 3 (6.52%) Packer
5 3 (6.52%) Prometheus
6 2 (4.35%) Kibana
Vendors
1 5 (10.87%) AppDynamics
1 5 (10.87%) IBM
1 5 (10.87%) Microsoft
2 2 (4.35%) Databricks
2 2 (4.35%) Oracle