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

6 months to
15 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 146 101 63
Rank change year-on-year -45 -38 -23
Permanent jobs citing Kubernetes 59 60 140
As % of all permanent jobs in Yorkshire 0.77% 1.82% 2.84%
As % of the Systems Management category 22.35% 28.85% 48.95%
Number of salaries quoted 30 45 123
10th Percentile £46,175 £55,400 -
25th Percentile £55,313 £65,000 £48,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £71,000 £70,000 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year +1.43% +7.69% -0.54%
75th Percentile £90,000 £80,000 £69,500
90th Percentile £101,250 £82,751 £82,750
England median annual salary £70,000 £78,810 £77,500
% change year-on-year -11.18% +1.69% +3.33%

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 264 208 286
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Yorkshire 3.47% 6.32% 5.81%
Number of salaries quoted 198 164 214
10th Percentile £27,750 £27,500 £37,875
25th Percentile £32,750 £31,000 £47,125
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £45,000 £40,750 £55,465
Median % change year-on-year +10.43% -26.53% +0.85%
75th Percentile £61,250 £75,000 £69,500
90th Percentile £77,000 £85,000 £78,750
England median annual salary £60,000 £60,625 £65,000
% change year-on-year -1.03% -6.73% -

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 September 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 September 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 -33 51 £73,750 -1.67% 72
South Yorkshire -34 6 £52,130 -25.53% 35
East Yorkshire -12 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 1 (1.69%) SharePoint
Cloud Services
1 49 (83.05%) AWS
2 34 (57.63%) GitHub
3 26 (44.07%) GitHub Actions
4 23 (38.98%) AWS CloudFormation
5 22 (37.29%) Amazon EC2
6 15 (25.42%) Azure
7 8 (13.56%) Amazon EKS
7 8 (13.56%) Serverless
8 5 (8.47%) Amazon ECS
8 5 (8.47%) AWS Lambda
9 4 (6.78%) Amazon S3
9 4 (6.78%) GCP
10 3 (5.08%) Azure Cosmos DB
10 3 (5.08%) Azure Functions
10 3 (5.08%) IaaS
11 2 (3.39%) Azure DevOps
11 2 (3.39%) Cloudflare
11 2 (3.39%) Kong
11 2 (3.39%) Microsoft 365
11 2 (3.39%) n8n
Communications & Networking
1 4 (6.78%) DNS
2 2 (3.39%) DHCP
2 2 (3.39%) Firewall
2 2 (3.39%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (5.08%) Azure SQL Database
1 3 (5.08%) Relational Database
2 2 (3.39%) MySQL
2 2 (3.39%) PostgreSQL
3 1 (1.69%) Apache Cassandra
3 1 (1.69%) Data Lake
3 1 (1.69%) InfluxDB
3 1 (1.69%) MongoDB
3 1 (1.69%) NoSQL
3 1 (1.69%) Redis
Development Applications
1 35 (59.32%) Jenkins
2 13 (22.03%) Git
3 10 (16.95%) GitLab
4 6 (10.17%) Atlassian Bamboo
5 3 (5.08%) Artifactory
5 3 (5.08%) Cucumber
5 3 (5.08%) JIRA
5 3 (5.08%) SonarQube
General
1 19 (32.20%) Social Skills
2 14 (23.73%) Public Sector
3 2 (3.39%) Advertising
3 2 (3.39%) Analytical Skills
4 1 (1.69%) Documentation Skills
4 1 (1.69%) Law
4 1 (1.69%) Manufacturing
Job Titles
1 23 (38.98%) Platform Engineer
2 14 (23.73%) DevOps Engineer
3 12 (20.34%) AWS Engineer
4 11 (18.64%) Cloud Platform Engineer
5 10 (16.95%) Cloud Engineer
5 10 (16.95%) Senior
6 9 (15.25%) AWS Platform Engineer
7 8 (13.56%) Developer
7 8 (13.56%) Principal Engineer
8 6 (10.17%) Principal DevOps Engineer
9 5 (8.47%) Infrastructure Engineer
10 4 (6.78%) Java Developer
10 4 (6.78%) Senior Platform Engineer
11 3 (5.08%) Architect
11 3 (5.08%) Senior Cloud Engineer
11 3 (5.08%) Software Engineer
12 2 (3.39%) IT Engineer
12 2 (3.39%) IT Infrastructure Engineer
12 2 (3.39%) SC Cleared Java Developer
12 2 (3.39%) Technical Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 44 (74.58%) Terraform
2 20 (33.90%) Web Services
3 8 (13.56%) REST
4 6 (10.17%) Elastic Stack
4 6 (10.17%) RESTful
5 5 (8.47%) .NET
5 5 (8.47%) RabbitMQ
6 3 (5.08%) CSS
6 3 (5.08%) HTML
6 3 (5.08%) JSON
6 3 (5.08%) React
6 3 (5.08%) Spring
6 3 (5.08%) Spring Boot
6 3 (5.08%) YAML
7 2 (3.39%) AngularJS
7 2 (3.39%) ASP.NET
7 2 (3.39%) Jakarta EE
7 2 (3.39%) JMS
7 2 (3.39%) JPA
7 2 (3.39%) Node.js
Miscellaneous
1 18 (30.51%) Cloud Native
2 7 (11.86%) Distributed Systems
3 4 (6.78%) AI Agents
4 2 (3.39%) Analytical Mindset
4 2 (3.39%) Distributed Architecture
4 2 (3.39%) Greenfield Project
4 2 (3.39%) Linux Command Line
4 2 (3.39%) Public Cloud
5 1 (1.69%) Data Structures
5 1 (1.69%) Enterprise Cloud
5 1 (1.69%) Enterprise Software
5 1 (1.69%) Hybrid Cloud
5 1 (1.69%) IoT
Operating Systems
1 31 (52.54%) Linux
2 6 (10.17%) CentOS
2 6 (10.17%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 3 (5.08%) Windows
4 2 (3.39%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 47 (79.66%) CI/CD
2 43 (72.88%) Infrastructure as Code
3 32 (54.24%) Platform Engineering
4 27 (45.76%) Containerisation
4 27 (45.76%) DevOps
5 20 (33.90%) Software Engineering
6 19 (32.20%) Agile
6 19 (32.20%) Software Delivery
7 17 (28.81%) Network Load Balancing
8 15 (25.42%) Microservices
9 12 (20.34%) Infrastructure Engineering
9 12 (20.34%) Mentoring
10 9 (15.25%) Site Reliability Engineering
11 8 (13.56%) AI
11 8 (13.56%) Deployment Automation
11 8 (13.56%) Problem-Solving
11 8 (13.56%) Technical Leadership
12 7 (11.86%) Auto-Scaling
12 7 (11.86%) Continuous Improvement
12 7 (11.86%) Machine Learning
Programming Languages
1 33 (55.93%) Python
2 21 (35.59%) Groovy
3 7 (11.86%) Java
4 6 (10.17%) C#
4 6 (10.17%) SQL
5 4 (6.78%) JavaScript
6 3 (5.08%) Bash
6 3 (5.08%) TypeScript
7 2 (3.39%) Go
7 2 (3.39%) PL/SQL
8 1 (1.69%) Kotlin
8 1 (1.69%) Perl
Qualifications
1 25 (42.37%) Security Cleared
2 21 (35.59%) SC Cleared
3 7 (11.86%) DV Cleared
4 1 (1.69%) Computer Science Degree
4 1 (1.69%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (8.47%) QA
2 1 (1.69%) Accessibility
2 1 (1.69%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 1 (1.69%) SOC 2
2 1 (1.69%) WCAG
System Software
1 43 (72.88%) Docker
2 2 (3.39%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 18 (30.51%) Progress Chef
2 14 (23.73%) Ansible
3 3 (5.08%) Packer
4 2 (3.39%) Kibana
4 2 (3.39%) Microsoft Data Protection Manager
4 2 (3.39%) SCCM
4 2 (3.39%) SCOM
4 2 (3.39%) WSUS
5 1 (1.69%) Argo
5 1 (1.69%) Grafana
5 1 (1.69%) Nessus
Vendors
1 8 (13.56%) Microsoft
2 5 (8.47%) AppDynamics
2 5 (8.47%) IBM
3 4 (6.78%) Oracle
4 2 (3.39%) Red Hat
5 1 (1.69%) Databricks