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 4 December 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
4 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 101 84 35
Rank change year-on-year -17 -49 +15
Permanent jobs citing Kubernetes 63 85 202
As % of all permanent jobs in Yorkshire 1.83% 2.21% 6.87%
As % of the Systems Management category 28.00% 30.91% 43.72%
Number of salaries quoted 50 71 173
10th Percentile £52,500 - £45,000
25th Percentile £62,500 £48,250 £55,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £75,000 £68,000 £65,351
Median % change year-on-year +10.29% +4.05% -5.90%
75th Percentile £82,500 £69,500 £83,750
90th Percentile £85,000 £87,500 £87,500
England median annual salary £77,500 £77,500 £75,000
% change year-on-year - +3.33% -6.25%

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 225 275 462
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Yorkshire 6.54% 7.16% 15.72%
Number of salaries quoted 182 195 387
10th Percentile £31,000 £31,250 £31,250
25th Percentile £31,250 £46,875 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £55,000 £57,500
Median % change year-on-year +9.09% -4.35% -4.17%
75th Percentile £77,500 £69,500 £76,875
90th Percentile £82,500 £85,750 £85,000
England median annual salary £62,500 £67,500 £65,000
% change year-on-year -7.41% +3.85% -3.70%

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 4 December 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 4 December 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 -13 57 £75,000 +10.29% 14
South Yorkshire 0 2 £85,000 +21.43% 25
North Yorkshire -6 2 £48,000 -28.36% 2
East Yorkshire - 2 £55,000 - 2
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 5 (7.94%) Apache Spark
1 5 (7.94%) OpenStack
Business Applications
1 1 (1.59%) Payment Gateway
Cloud Services
1 45 (71.43%) AWS
2 31 (49.21%) Azure
3 17 (26.98%) GCP
4 13 (20.63%) Amazon ECS
5 11 (17.46%) Amazon EKS
6 9 (14.29%) Serverless
7 7 (11.11%) Amazon S3
7 7 (11.11%) AWS CloudFormation
8 6 (9.52%) GitHub
9 5 (7.94%) GitHub Actions
10 4 (6.35%) Azure Data Factory
10 4 (6.35%) Microsoft Purview
11 3 (4.76%) Amazon ELB
11 3 (4.76%) IaaS
12 2 (3.17%) Amazon CloudWatch
12 2 (3.17%) Amazon SQS
12 2 (3.17%) Azure DevOps
13 1 (1.59%) Amazon Cognito
13 1 (1.59%) Amazon MSK
13 1 (1.59%) Azure API Management
Communications & Networking
1 4 (6.35%) DHCP
1 4 (6.35%) DNS
2 2 (3.17%) AMQP
2 2 (3.17%) Firewall
2 2 (3.17%) VPN
2 2 (3.17%) WAN
3 1 (1.59%) LAN
3 1 (1.59%) MQTT
Database & Business Intelligence
1 15 (23.81%) PostgreSQL
2 8 (12.70%) NoSQL
3 7 (11.11%) Metadata
4 5 (7.94%) MongoDB
4 5 (7.94%) Relational Database
5 4 (6.35%) DynamoDB
6 3 (4.76%) Delta Lake
6 3 (4.76%) Spark SQL
7 2 (3.17%) Amazon RDS
7 2 (3.17%) Big Data
7 2 (3.17%) Hadoop
7 2 (3.17%) Redis
8 1 (1.59%) Azure SQL Database
8 1 (1.59%) ClickHouse
Development Applications
1 18 (28.57%) Jenkins
2 14 (22.22%) GitLab
3 8 (12.70%) Git
4 3 (4.76%) CircleCI
4 3 (4.76%) MLflow
5 1 (1.59%) JUnit
5 1 (1.59%) SonarQube
General
1 11 (17.46%) Public Sector
2 8 (12.70%) Social Skills
3 5 (7.94%) Finance
3 5 (7.94%) Financial Institution
4 4 (6.35%) Law
5 2 (3.17%) Legal
5 2 (3.17%) Organisational Skills
5 2 (3.17%) Retail
6 1 (1.59%) Analytical Skills
Job Titles
1 17 (26.98%) Lead
2 14 (22.22%) Senior
3 12 (19.05%) Developer
4 11 (17.46%) DevOps Engineer
5 9 (14.29%) Architect
5 9 (14.29%) Infrastructure Engineer
6 8 (12.70%) Software Engineer
7 7 (11.11%) Cloud Engineer
7 7 (11.11%) Java Developer
7 7 (11.11%) Lead DevOps
7 7 (11.11%) Lead DevOps Engineer
8 6 (9.52%) Cloud Infrastructure Engineer
8 6 (9.52%) Senior Software Engineer
9 4 (6.35%) CloudOps Manager
9 4 (6.35%) Data Engineer
9 4 (6.35%) Full-Stack Developer
9 4 (6.35%) Lead Cloud Engineer
9 4 (6.35%) Operations Manager
9 4 (6.35%) Principal Engineer
9 4 (6.35%) Technical Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 15 (23.81%) Spring
1 15 (23.81%) Spring Boot
2 9 (14.29%) Kafka
3 8 (12.70%) React
3 8 (12.70%) RESTful
4 7 (11.11%) Node.js
4 7 (11.11%) PySpark
5 5 (7.94%) AngularJS
5 5 (7.94%) Elastic Stack
5 5 (7.94%) GraphQL
5 5 (7.94%) Micronaut
5 5 (7.94%) REST
6 4 (6.35%) .NET
6 4 (6.35%) Celery
6 4 (6.35%) Django
6 4 (6.35%) Flask
6 4 (6.35%) gRPC
6 4 (6.35%) RabbitMQ
6 4 (6.35%) Web Services
6 4 (6.35%) WebSockets
Miscellaneous
1 18 (28.57%) Cloud Native
2 12 (19.05%) Distributed Systems
3 5 (7.94%) Product Ownership
4 3 (4.76%) Linux Command Line
4 3 (4.76%) Public Cloud
5 2 (3.17%) Hybrid Cloud
5 2 (3.17%) IoT
6 1 (1.59%) Distributed Architecture
6 1 (1.59%) Enterprise Software
Operating Systems
1 8 (12.70%) Linux
2 7 (11.11%) Windows
3 4 (6.35%) Unix
4 3 (4.76%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 3 (4.76%) Windows Server
5 1 (1.59%) Android
Processes & Methodologies
1 40 (63.49%) CI/CD
2 38 (60.32%) DevOps
3 21 (33.33%) Agile
3 21 (33.33%) Containerisation
4 18 (28.57%) Infrastructure as Code
5 17 (26.98%) Infrastructure Engineering
5 17 (26.98%) Mentoring
6 15 (23.81%) Microservices
6 15 (23.81%) Site Reliability Engineering
7 13 (20.63%) AI
7 13 (20.63%) Machine Learning
7 13 (20.63%) Technical Leadership
8 12 (19.05%) Software Engineering
8 12 (19.05%) TDD
9 10 (15.87%) Continuous Improvement
10 9 (14.29%) Full-Stack Development
10 9 (14.29%) Incident Response
11 8 (12.70%) Line Management
11 8 (12.70%) Observability
11 8 (12.70%) Performance Optimisation
Programming Languages
1 33 (52.38%) Python
2 26 (41.27%) Java
3 15 (23.81%) JavaScript
3 15 (23.81%) SQL
4 12 (19.05%) PowerShell
5 10 (15.87%) TypeScript
6 8 (12.70%) Bash
7 7 (11.11%) C#
8 4 (6.35%) T-SQL
9 3 (4.76%) Go
10 2 (3.17%) R
11 1 (1.59%) C++
11 1 (1.59%) PHP
Qualifications
1 12 (19.05%) AWS Certification
2 3 (4.76%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
3 1 (1.59%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
3 1 (1.59%) AWS Certified SysOps Administrator
3 1 (1.59%) Azure Certification
3 1 (1.59%) Computer Science Degree
3 1 (1.59%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (1.59%) ISO/IEC 27001
1 1 (1.59%) QA
System Software
1 38 (60.32%) Docker
2 5 (7.94%) Hyper-V
3 4 (6.35%) Active Directory
4 2 (3.17%) VMware Infrastructure
5 1 (1.59%) Virtual Servers
Systems Management
1 22 (34.92%) Terraform
2 21 (33.33%) Ansible
3 9 (14.29%) Prometheus
4 8 (12.70%) Grafana
5 3 (4.76%) Kubeflow
5 3 (4.76%) Microsoft Data Protection Manager
5 3 (4.76%) SCCM
5 3 (4.76%) SCOM
5 3 (4.76%) WSUS
6 2 (3.17%) Argo
7 1 (1.59%) FortiGate
7 1 (1.59%) Kibana
7 1 (1.59%) Microsoft Intune
Vendors
1 8 (12.70%) Microsoft
2 7 (11.11%) Databricks
3 3 (4.76%) Oracle
3 3 (4.76%) Pega
3 3 (4.76%) Red Hat
3 3 (4.76%) WSO2
4 2 (3.17%) Google
4 2 (3.17%) VMware
5 1 (1.59%) LogRhythm
5 1 (1.59%) New Relic
5 1 (1.59%) Salesforce