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

6 months to
27 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 147 75 77
Rank change year-on-year -72 +2 -11
Permanent jobs citing Kubernetes 47 90 166
As % of all permanent jobs in Yorkshire 0.69% 2.94% 2.64%
As % of the Systems Management category 16.10% 32.03% 32.81%
Number of salaries quoted 28 63 142
10th Percentile £45,350 £62,500 £43,750
25th Percentile £62,315 £65,000 £48,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £73,750 £78,810 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year -6.42% +21.25% -3.40%
75th Percentile £90,000 £98,474 £71,250
90th Percentile £95,000 £140,677 £87,242
England median annual salary £72,500 £80,000 £77,500
% change year-on-year -9.38% +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 292 281 506
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Yorkshire 4.31% 9.18% 8.06%
Number of salaries quoted 220 196 402
10th Percentile £28,400 £29,000 £31,000
25th Percentile £37,500 £32,500 £41,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £48,445 £65,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -25.47% +18.18% -8.33%
75th Percentile £74,059 £78,750 £69,500
90th Percentile £86,440 £98,474 £82,375
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 27 June 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 27 June 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 44 £73,750 -7.81% 9
East Yorkshire -26 1 - - 1
South Yorkshire -51 1 £47,500 -30.91% 13
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 (2.13%) OpenStack
Cloud Services
1 36 (76.60%) AWS
2 26 (55.32%) GitHub
3 22 (46.81%) GitHub Actions
4 20 (42.55%) Azure
5 19 (40.43%) Amazon EC2
6 15 (31.91%) AWS CloudFormation
7 11 (23.40%) Amazon EKS
8 10 (21.28%) Serverless
9 8 (17.02%) Amazon ECS
9 8 (17.02%) GCP
10 7 (14.89%) Amazon S3
11 5 (10.64%) AWS Lambda
12 4 (8.51%) Azure DevOps
13 3 (6.38%) Azure Cosmos DB
13 3 (6.38%) Virtual Private Cloud
14 2 (4.26%) Azure AI
14 2 (4.26%) Azure Functions
14 2 (4.26%) Cloudflare
14 2 (4.26%) GitHub Copilot
14 2 (4.26%) Kong
Communications & Networking
1 2 (4.26%) DNS
1 2 (4.26%) VPN
2 1 (2.13%) Broadband
2 1 (2.13%) Firewall
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (8.51%) Relational Database
2 3 (6.38%) Azure SQL Database
2 3 (6.38%) PostgreSQL
3 2 (4.26%) MySQL
4 1 (2.13%) Apache Cassandra
4 1 (2.13%) InfluxDB
4 1 (2.13%) MongoDB
4 1 (2.13%) NoSQL
4 1 (2.13%) Redis
Development Applications
1 26 (55.32%) Jenkins
2 8 (17.02%) Git
2 8 (17.02%) GitLab
3 3 (6.38%) Artifactory
3 3 (6.38%) Cucumber
3 3 (6.38%) JIRA
3 3 (6.38%) SonarQube
4 2 (4.26%) Atlassian Bamboo
General
1 11 (23.40%) Social Skills
2 5 (10.64%) Public Sector
3 4 (8.51%) Analytical Skills
4 2 (4.26%) Advertising
5 1 (2.13%) Documentation Skills
5 1 (2.13%) Finance
5 1 (2.13%) Games
5 1 (2.13%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 1 (2.13%) Manufacturing
Job Titles
1 16 (34.04%) Platform Engineer
2 12 (25.53%) Senior
3 10 (21.28%) DevOps Engineer
4 8 (17.02%) Cloud Engineer
4 8 (17.02%) Cloud Platform Engineer
4 8 (17.02%) Developer
5 7 (14.89%) AWS Engineer
6 6 (12.77%) AWS Platform Engineer
7 5 (10.64%) Java Developer
7 5 (10.64%) Lead
7 5 (10.64%) Principal Engineer
7 5 (10.64%) Senior Platform Engineer
8 3 (6.38%) Architect
8 3 (6.38%) Senior Cloud Engineer
9 2 (4.26%) .NET Developer
9 2 (4.26%) Data Engineer
9 2 (4.26%) Java Engineer
9 2 (4.26%) Senior Developer
9 2 (4.26%) Software Engineer
9 2 (4.26%) Technical Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 16 (34.04%) Web Services
2 9 (19.15%) Elastic Stack
3 6 (12.77%) REST
4 5 (10.64%) RabbitMQ
4 5 (10.64%) React
5 4 (8.51%) .NET
5 4 (8.51%) RESTful
6 3 (6.38%) JSON
6 3 (6.38%) Node.js
6 3 (6.38%) Spring
6 3 (6.38%) Spring Boot
6 3 (6.38%) YAML
7 2 (4.26%) .NET Core
7 2 (4.26%) AngularJS
7 2 (4.26%) ASP.NET Core
7 2 (4.26%) HTML
7 2 (4.26%) Java EE
7 2 (4.26%) JPA
7 2 (4.26%) Kafka
7 2 (4.26%) ML.NET
Miscellaneous
1 14 (29.79%) Cloud Native
2 10 (21.28%) Distributed Systems
3 4 (8.51%) Analytical Mindset
4 2 (4.26%) AI Agents
4 2 (4.26%) Distributed Architecture
4 2 (4.26%) Greenfield Project
4 2 (4.26%) Linux Command Line
5 1 (2.13%) Data Structures
5 1 (2.13%) Enterprise Cloud
5 1 (2.13%) Hybrid Cloud
5 1 (2.13%) IoT
5 1 (2.13%) Management Information System
5 1 (2.13%) Mobile App
5 1 (2.13%) Self-Motivation
5 1 (2.13%) Social Media
Operating Systems
1 18 (38.30%) Linux
2 2 (4.26%) CentOS
2 2 (4.26%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 40 (85.11%) CI/CD
2 32 (68.09%) Infrastructure as Code
3 25 (53.19%) Containerisation
4 23 (48.94%) DevOps
5 20 (42.55%) Platform Engineering
6 16 (34.04%) Agile
7 12 (25.53%) Microservices
7 12 (25.53%) Network Load Balancing
7 12 (25.53%) Software Engineering
8 10 (21.28%) Software Delivery
9 9 (19.15%) Mentoring
9 9 (19.15%) Problem-Solving
10 8 (17.02%) Site Reliability Engineering
11 7 (14.89%) AI
11 7 (14.89%) Auto-Scaling
11 7 (14.89%) Continuous Improvement
11 7 (14.89%) Infrastructure Engineering
12 6 (12.77%) Machine Learning
12 6 (12.77%) Observability
13 5 (10.64%) Technical Leadership
Programming Languages
1 30 (63.83%) Python
2 16 (34.04%) Groovy
3 9 (19.15%) JavaScript
4 7 (14.89%) Java
5 6 (12.77%) Bash
6 5 (10.64%) C#
6 5 (10.64%) SQL
7 4 (8.51%) Go
7 4 (8.51%) TypeScript
8 2 (4.26%) PL/SQL
8 2 (4.26%) PowerShell
9 1 (2.13%) Perl
Qualifications
1 15 (31.91%) Security Cleared
2 11 (23.40%) SC Cleared
3 2 (4.26%) DV Cleared
4 1 (2.13%) Computer Science Degree
4 1 (2.13%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (8.51%) QA
2 3 (6.38%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 3 (6.38%) SOC 2
System Software
1 34 (72.34%) Docker
Systems Management
1 36 (76.60%) Terraform
2 13 (27.66%) Progress Chef
3 9 (19.15%) Ansible
4 3 (6.38%) Argo
4 3 (6.38%) Packer
5 2 (4.26%) Grafana
5 2 (4.26%) Kibana
6 1 (2.13%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 6 (12.77%) Microsoft
2 5 (10.64%) AppDynamics
2 5 (10.64%) IBM
3 2 (4.26%) Databricks
3 2 (4.26%) Oracle