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

6 months to
20 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 157 69 79
Rank change year-on-year -88 +10 -21
Permanent jobs citing Kubernetes 44 93 156
As % of all permanent jobs in Yorkshire 0.69% 3.58% 2.75%
As % of the Systems Management category 16.00% 33.57% 30.65%
Number of salaries quoted 28 69 131
10th Percentile £45,350 £53,311 £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 £84,063 £98,474 £71,250
90th Percentile £91,500 £140,677 £84,919
England median annual salary £75,000 £82,500 £77,500
% change year-on-year -9.09% +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 275 277 509
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Yorkshire 4.28% 10.67% 8.96%
Number of salaries quoted 196 186 406
10th Percentile £31,875 £30,500 £30,000
25th Percentile £41,250 £41,250 £37,848
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £51,750 £67,500 £53,750
Median % change year-on-year -23.33% +25.58% -10.42%
75th Percentile £77,813 £79,688 £67,851
90th Percentile £86,251 £98,474 £75,000
England median annual salary £65,000 £67,500 £62,500
% change year-on-year -3.70% +8.00% -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 20 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 20 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 -52 43 £75,000 -12.03% 17
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 (15.91%) OpenStack
Cloud Services
1 36 (81.82%) AWS
2 18 (40.91%) Azure
3 17 (38.64%) GitHub
4 16 (36.36%) Amazon EKS
4 16 (36.36%) GitHub Actions
5 15 (34.09%) Serverless
6 13 (29.55%) Amazon EC2
7 12 (27.27%) Amazon ECS
7 12 (27.27%) Amazon S3
8 10 (22.73%) AWS CloudFormation
9 9 (20.45%) GCP
10 6 (13.64%) Amazon SQS
11 5 (11.36%) AWS Lambda
12 3 (6.82%) Azure DevOps
12 3 (6.82%) Virtual Private Cloud
13 2 (4.55%) Azure Cosmos DB
14 1 (2.27%) Azure AI
14 1 (2.27%) Azure AKS
14 1 (2.27%) Azure Service Bus
14 1 (2.27%) GitHub Copilot
Communications & Networking
1 1 (2.27%) Broadband
1 1 (2.27%) Firewall
Database & Business Intelligence
1 9 (20.45%) PostgreSQL
2 8 (18.18%) Relational Database
3 2 (4.55%) Azure SQL Database
4 1 (2.27%) InfluxDB
4 1 (2.27%) MySQL
4 1 (2.27%) NoSQL
4 1 (2.27%) Redis
Development Applications
1 24 (54.55%) Jenkins
2 12 (27.27%) Git
3 9 (20.45%) GitLab
4 3 (6.82%) Artifactory
4 3 (6.82%) Cucumber
4 3 (6.82%) JIRA
4 3 (6.82%) SonarQube
5 1 (2.27%) JUnit
General
1 7 (15.91%) Social Skills
2 4 (9.09%) Analytical Skills
2 4 (9.09%) Public Sector
3 2 (4.55%) Finance
4 1 (2.27%) Advertising
4 1 (2.27%) Documentation Skills
4 1 (2.27%) Financial Institution
4 1 (2.27%) Games
4 1 (2.27%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 1 (2.27%) Manufacturing
Job Titles
1 13 (29.55%) Developer
2 12 (27.27%) DevOps Engineer
3 11 (25.00%) Java Developer
3 11 (25.00%) Platform Engineer
4 10 (22.73%) Senior
5 7 (15.91%) Lead
6 6 (13.64%) Cloud Engineer
7 5 (11.36%) AWS Engineer
7 5 (11.36%) Cloud Platform Engineer
8 4 (9.09%) AWS Platform Engineer
8 4 (9.09%) Full-Stack Developer
8 4 (9.09%) Full-Stack Java Developer
8 4 (9.09%) Lead DevOps
8 4 (9.09%) Lead DevOps Engineer
9 3 (6.82%) Backend Developer
9 3 (6.82%) Senior Developer
10 2 (4.55%) Java Engineer
10 2 (4.55%) Senior Java Developer
10 2 (4.55%) Senior Software Engineer
10 2 (4.55%) Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 16 (36.36%) Web Services
2 15 (34.09%) Elastic Stack
3 12 (27.27%) REST
4 11 (25.00%) React
5 10 (22.73%) Spring
5 10 (22.73%) Spring Boot
6 9 (20.45%) Node.js
7 8 (18.18%) Kafka
8 7 (15.91%) Mustache
9 5 (11.36%) RabbitMQ
10 4 (9.09%) JSON
11 3 (6.82%) RESTful
11 3 (6.82%) YAML
12 2 (4.55%) .NET
12 2 (4.55%) AngularJS
12 2 (4.55%) Java EE
12 2 (4.55%) JMS
12 2 (4.55%) JPA
13 1 (2.27%) HTML
13 1 (2.27%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 15 (34.09%) Distributed Systems
2 11 (25.00%) Cloud Native
3 3 (6.82%) Analytical Mindset
4 2 (4.55%) Distributed Architecture
4 2 (4.55%) Linux Command Line
5 1 (2.27%) Enterprise Cloud
5 1 (2.27%) Greenfield Project
5 1 (2.27%) Hybrid Cloud
5 1 (2.27%) IoT
5 1 (2.27%) Management Information System
5 1 (2.27%) Mobile App
5 1 (2.27%) Self-Motivation
5 1 (2.27%) Social Media
Operating Systems
1 11 (25.00%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 36 (81.82%) CI/CD
2 27 (61.36%) Infrastructure as Code
3 23 (52.27%) DevOps
4 20 (45.45%) Containerisation
5 19 (43.18%) Agile
6 15 (34.09%) Microservices
7 13 (29.55%) Platform Engineering
8 10 (22.73%) Software Engineering
8 10 (22.73%) TDD
9 9 (20.45%) Full-Stack Development
9 9 (20.45%) Infrastructure Engineering
9 9 (20.45%) Observability
9 9 (20.45%) Scrum
9 9 (20.45%) Site Reliability Engineering
10 7 (15.91%) Network Load Balancing
10 7 (15.91%) SDLC
10 7 (15.91%) Software Delivery
11 6 (13.64%) Continuous Improvement
11 6 (13.64%) Mentoring
11 6 (13.64%) Problem-Solving
Programming Languages
1 21 (47.73%) Python
2 13 (29.55%) Java
2 13 (29.55%) JavaScript
3 11 (25.00%) Groovy
4 6 (13.64%) Bash
5 4 (9.09%) SQL
6 3 (6.82%) Go
6 3 (6.82%) TypeScript
7 2 (4.55%) C#
7 2 (4.55%) PL/SQL
7 2 (4.55%) PowerShell
8 1 (2.27%) Perl
Qualifications
1 8 (18.18%) Security Cleared
2 6 (13.64%) SC Cleared
3 1 (2.27%) Computer Science Degree
3 1 (2.27%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (6.82%) ISO/IEC 27001
1 3 (6.82%) QA
1 3 (6.82%) SOC 2
System Software
1 34 (77.27%) Docker
Systems Management
1 30 (68.18%) Terraform
2 11 (25.00%) Ansible
3 8 (18.18%) Progress Chef
4 5 (11.36%) Grafana
5 4 (9.09%) Prometheus
6 3 (6.82%) Argo
6 3 (6.82%) Packer
7 2 (4.55%) Kibana
Vendors
1 5 (11.36%) AppDynamics
1 5 (11.36%) IBM
1 5 (11.36%) Microsoft
2 2 (4.55%) Oracle
3 1 (2.27%) Databricks