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

6 months to
1 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 134 67 65
Rank change year-on-year -67 -2 -3
Permanent jobs citing Kubernetes 49 84 156
As % of all permanent jobs in Yorkshire 1.15% 3.42% 3.34%
As % of the Systems Management category 20.00% 32.94% 31.01%
Number of salaries quoted 40 65 131
10th Percentile £52,500 £48,250 £43,750
25th Percentile £62,500 £63,750 £48,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £75,000 £74,870 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year +0.17% +15.18% -3.70%
75th Percentile £83,875 £98,474 £80,000
90th Percentile £85,750 £140,677 £87,500
England median annual salary £75,000 £82,500 £75,000
% change year-on-year -9.09% +10.00% -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 245 255 503
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Yorkshire 5.75% 10.39% 10.77%
Number of salaries quoted 178 163 406
10th Percentile £31,250 £31,500 £29,750
25th Percentile £42,500 £46,250 £36,002
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £62,500 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year -4.00% +19.05% -12.50%
75th Percentile £77,500 £78,750 £67,968
90th Percentile £85,000 £98,474 £83,750
England median annual salary £62,500 £70,000 £62,500
% change year-on-year -10.71% +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 1 March 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 1 March 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 -49 46 £75,000 -12.03% 39
South Yorkshire -32 2 £85,000 +21.43% 36
North Yorkshire 0 1 £48,000 -28.36% 7
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 10 (20.41%) OpenStack
2 2 (4.08%) Apache Spark
Cloud Services
1 37 (75.51%) AWS
2 28 (57.14%) Azure
3 15 (30.61%) GCP
3 15 (30.61%) Serverless
4 14 (28.57%) Amazon ECS
5 12 (24.49%) Amazon EKS
6 9 (18.37%) Amazon S3
7 6 (12.24%) Amazon SQS
7 6 (12.24%) GitHub
7 6 (12.24%) GitHub Actions
8 4 (8.16%) Azure Data Factory
8 4 (8.16%) Azure DevOps
8 4 (8.16%) Microsoft Purview
9 3 (6.12%) AWS CloudFormation
10 1 (2.04%) Amazon CloudWatch
10 1 (2.04%) AWS Lambda
10 1 (2.04%) Azure API Management
10 1 (2.04%) Datadog
10 1 (2.04%) Entra ID
10 1 (2.04%) Virtual Private Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 2 (4.08%) Firewall
1 2 (4.08%) VPN
1 2 (4.08%) WAN
2 1 (2.04%) Broadband
2 1 (2.04%) DHCP
2 1 (2.04%) DNS
2 1 (2.04%) LAN
2 1 (2.04%) MQTT
Database & Business Intelligence
1 16 (32.65%) PostgreSQL
2 9 (18.37%) Relational Database
3 4 (8.16%) Metadata
4 3 (6.12%) NoSQL
5 2 (4.08%) Big Data
5 2 (4.08%) Hadoop
5 2 (4.08%) Redis
6 1 (2.04%) Amazon RDS
6 1 (2.04%) Azure SQL Database
6 1 (2.04%) ClickHouse
6 1 (2.04%) DynamoDB
6 1 (2.04%) MongoDB
Development Applications
1 15 (30.61%) Jenkins
2 12 (24.49%) Git
3 8 (16.33%) GitLab
4 1 (2.04%) JUnit
General
1 8 (16.33%) Public Sector
2 6 (12.24%) Finance
2 6 (12.24%) Social Skills
3 5 (10.20%) Financial Institution
4 4 (8.16%) Analytical Skills
5 2 (4.08%) Retail
6 1 (2.04%) Games
6 1 (2.04%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 1 (2.04%) Law
Job Titles
1 16 (32.65%) Developer
2 14 (28.57%) Lead
3 12 (24.49%) Java Developer
3 12 (24.49%) Senior
4 10 (20.41%) DevOps Engineer
5 9 (18.37%) Cloud Engineer
6 6 (12.24%) Cloud Infrastructure Engineer
6 6 (12.24%) Full-Stack Developer
6 6 (12.24%) Full-Stack Java Developer
6 6 (12.24%) Infrastructure Engineer
6 6 (12.24%) Lead DevOps
6 6 (12.24%) Lead DevOps Engineer
7 5 (10.20%) Architect
7 5 (10.20%) Lead Cloud Engineer
7 5 (10.20%) Senior Developer
7 5 (10.20%) Senior Software Engineer
7 5 (10.20%) Software Engineer
8 4 (8.16%) Data Engineer
8 4 (8.16%) Lead Infrastructure Engineer
8 4 (8.16%) Principal Data Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 18 (36.73%) Spring
1 18 (36.73%) Spring Boot
2 13 (26.53%) Node.js
3 11 (22.45%) Elastic Stack
4 10 (20.41%) Kafka
4 10 (20.41%) REST
5 9 (18.37%) React
5 9 (18.37%) Web Services
6 7 (14.29%) Mustache
7 5 (10.20%) Micronaut
8 4 (8.16%) PySpark
9 3 (6.12%) AngularJS
9 3 (6.12%) Apache Camel
10 2 (4.08%) Grails
10 2 (4.08%) Hibernate
10 2 (4.08%) OpenAPI
10 2 (4.08%) Swagger
11 1 (2.04%) JSON
11 1 (2.04%) Next.js
11 1 (2.04%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 17 (34.69%) Cloud Native
2 14 (28.57%) Distributed Systems
3 3 (6.12%) Analytical Mindset
4 2 (4.08%) IoT
5 1 (2.04%) Enterprise Software
5 1 (2.04%) Management Information System
5 1 (2.04%) Mobile App
5 1 (2.04%) Self-Motivation
5 1 (2.04%) Social Media
Operating Systems
1 1 (2.04%) Android
1 1 (2.04%) Linux
1 1 (2.04%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 32 (65.31%) DevOps
2 28 (57.14%) CI/CD
3 19 (38.78%) Agile
4 16 (32.65%) Infrastructure as Code
5 15 (30.61%) Containerisation
5 15 (30.61%) TDD
6 14 (28.57%) Microservices
7 13 (26.53%) Infrastructure Engineering
7 13 (26.53%) Mentoring
8 12 (24.49%) Full-Stack Development
8 12 (24.49%) Technical Leadership
9 10 (20.41%) Scrum
10 9 (18.37%) Observability
11 8 (16.33%) SDLC
11 8 (16.33%) Site Reliability Engineering
12 7 (14.29%) Data Pipeline
12 7 (14.29%) Event-Driven
12 7 (14.29%) Incident Response
12 7 (14.29%) Migration
12 7 (14.29%) Performance Optimisation
Programming Languages
1 22 (44.90%) Java
2 20 (40.82%) JavaScript
3 18 (36.73%) Python
4 10 (20.41%) SQL
5 6 (12.24%) TypeScript
6 4 (8.16%) Bash
6 4 (8.16%) C#
6 4 (8.16%) Go
6 4 (8.16%) T-SQL
7 2 (4.08%) PowerShell
7 2 (4.08%) R
8 1 (2.04%) C++
Qualifications
1 1 (2.04%) AWS Certification
1 1 (2.04%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
1 1 (2.04%) Azure Certification
1 1 (2.04%) Computer Science Degree
1 1 (2.04%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (4.08%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 1 (2.04%) QA
2 1 (2.04%) SOC 2
System Software
1 33 (67.35%) Docker
2 1 (2.04%) Active Directory
2 1 (2.04%) Hyper-V
2 1 (2.04%) Virtual Servers
2 1 (2.04%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 18 (36.73%) Terraform
2 12 (24.49%) Ansible
3 7 (14.29%) Grafana
3 7 (14.29%) Prometheus
4 1 (2.04%) Argo
4 1 (2.04%) FortiGate
4 1 (2.04%) Kibana
4 1 (2.04%) Microsoft Intune
Vendors
1 6 (12.24%) Microsoft
2 4 (8.16%) Databricks
3 3 (6.12%) Pega
3 3 (6.12%) WSO2
4 2 (4.08%) Google
5 1 (2.04%) LogRhythm
5 1 (2.04%) New Relic
5 1 (2.04%) VMware