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

6 months to
2 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 101 79 34
Rank change year-on-year -22 -45 +16
Permanent jobs citing Kubernetes 58 78 188
As % of all permanent jobs in Yorkshire 1.74% 2.39% 6.16%
As % of the Systems Management category 26.36% 30.00% 40.17%
Number of salaries quoted 45 65 162
10th Percentile £52,500 - £45,000
25th Percentile £63,750 £48,250 £52,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £75,000 £67,500 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year +11.11% +3.85% -6.40%
75th Percentile £82,500 £69,500 £83,750
90th Percentile £85,000 £93,778 £87,250
England median annual salary £77,500 £80,000 £75,000
% change year-on-year -3.13% +6.67% -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 220 260 468
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Yorkshire 6.60% 7.98% 15.34%
Number of salaries quoted 166 178 388
10th Percentile £31,000 £31,250 £31,125
25th Percentile £35,750 £43,750 £41,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £53,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +13.21% -3.64% -8.33%
75th Percentile £79,688 £69,500 £72,433
90th Percentile £83,500 £85,000 £84,339
England median annual salary £62,500 £69,500 £65,000
% change year-on-year -10.07% +6.92% -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 2 January 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 2 January 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 -23 54 £75,000 +11.11% 21
South Yorkshire -8 2 £85,000 +21.43% 22
North Yorkshire 0 1 £48,000 -28.36%
East Yorkshire - 1 £55,000 -
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 (17.24%) OpenStack
2 2 (3.45%) Apache Spark
Business Applications
1 1 (1.72%) Payment Gateway
Cloud Services
1 43 (74.14%) AWS
2 32 (55.17%) Azure
3 18 (31.03%) GCP
4 17 (29.31%) Amazon ECS
5 14 (24.14%) Serverless
6 12 (20.69%) Amazon EKS
7 8 (13.79%) Amazon S3
8 7 (12.07%) AWS CloudFormation
9 6 (10.34%) Amazon SQS
10 4 (6.90%) Azure Data Factory
10 4 (6.90%) Microsoft Purview
11 3 (5.17%) GitHub
12 2 (3.45%) Azure DevOps
12 2 (3.45%) GitHub Actions
12 2 (3.45%) IaaS
13 1 (1.72%) Amazon CloudWatch
13 1 (1.72%) Amazon Cognito
13 1 (1.72%) AWS Lambda
13 1 (1.72%) Azure Service Bus
13 1 (1.72%) Entra ID
Communications & Networking
1 2 (3.45%) AMQP
1 2 (3.45%) Firewall
1 2 (3.45%) VPN
1 2 (3.45%) WAN
2 1 (1.72%) DHCP
2 1 (1.72%) DNS
2 1 (1.72%) LAN
2 1 (1.72%) MQTT
Database & Business Intelligence
1 19 (32.76%) PostgreSQL
2 9 (15.52%) Relational Database
3 8 (13.79%) NoSQL
4 4 (6.90%) Metadata
4 4 (6.90%) MongoDB
5 2 (3.45%) Big Data
5 2 (3.45%) Hadoop
5 2 (3.45%) Redis
6 1 (1.72%) Amazon RDS
6 1 (1.72%) Azure SQL Database
6 1 (1.72%) ClickHouse
6 1 (1.72%) DynamoDB
Development Applications
1 21 (36.21%) Jenkins
2 16 (27.59%) GitLab
3 13 (22.41%) Git
4 1 (1.72%) JUnit
4 1 (1.72%) SonarQube
General
1 8 (13.79%) Public Sector
2 5 (8.62%) Finance
2 5 (8.62%) Financial Institution
3 4 (6.90%) Law
3 4 (6.90%) Social Skills
4 2 (3.45%) Analytical Skills
4 2 (3.45%) Legal
4 2 (3.45%) Retail
Job Titles
1 18 (31.03%) Lead
2 17 (29.31%) Developer
3 13 (22.41%) DevOps Engineer
4 12 (20.69%) Java Developer
4 12 (20.69%) Senior
5 10 (17.24%) Lead DevOps
5 10 (17.24%) Lead DevOps Engineer
6 8 (13.79%) Architect
7 7 (12.07%) Cloud Engineer
7 7 (12.07%) Infrastructure Engineer
8 6 (10.34%) Cloud Infrastructure Engineer
8 6 (10.34%) Full-Stack Developer
8 6 (10.34%) Full-Stack Java Developer
8 6 (10.34%) Senior Software Engineer
8 6 (10.34%) Software Engineer
9 5 (8.62%) Senior Developer
10 4 (6.90%) Data Engineer
10 4 (6.90%) Operations Manager
10 4 (6.90%) Principal Engineer
10 4 (6.90%) Senior Java Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 20 (34.48%) Spring
1 20 (34.48%) Spring Boot
2 13 (22.41%) Kafka
3 12 (20.69%) Node.js
4 10 (17.24%) Elastic Stack
4 10 (17.24%) React
4 10 (17.24%) REST
5 9 (15.52%) Web Services
6 7 (12.07%) Mustache
7 5 (8.62%) Micronaut
7 5 (8.62%) RESTful
8 4 (6.90%) GraphQL
8 4 (6.90%) PySpark
9 3 (5.17%) Apache Camel
9 3 (5.17%) Celery
9 3 (5.17%) Django
9 3 (5.17%) FastAPI
9 3 (5.17%) Flask
9 3 (5.17%) gRPC
9 3 (5.17%) WebSockets
Miscellaneous
1 18 (31.03%) Cloud Native
2 14 (24.14%) Distributed Systems
3 4 (6.90%) Product Ownership
4 2 (3.45%) IoT
5 1 (1.72%) Analytical Mindset
5 1 (1.72%) Enterprise Software
Operating Systems
1 5 (8.62%) Linux
2 4 (6.90%) Windows
3 1 (1.72%) Android
3 1 (1.72%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 39 (67.24%) DevOps
2 38 (65.52%) CI/CD
3 27 (46.55%) Agile
4 19 (32.76%) Infrastructure as Code
5 17 (29.31%) Infrastructure Engineering
5 17 (29.31%) Microservices
5 17 (29.31%) TDD
6 16 (27.59%) Site Reliability Engineering
7 15 (25.86%) Mentoring
8 12 (20.69%) Containerisation
8 12 (20.69%) Technical Leadership
9 11 (18.97%) Incident Response
9 11 (18.97%) Line Management
9 11 (18.97%) Observability
9 11 (18.97%) Performance Optimisation
10 10 (17.24%) Continuous Improvement
10 10 (17.24%) Scrum
11 9 (15.52%) AI
11 9 (15.52%) Full-Stack Development
11 9 (15.52%) Machine Learning
Programming Languages
1 29 (50.00%) Java
2 23 (39.66%) Python
3 19 (32.76%) JavaScript
4 12 (20.69%) SQL
5 9 (15.52%) TypeScript
6 7 (12.07%) Bash
6 7 (12.07%) PowerShell
7 4 (6.90%) C#
7 4 (6.90%) T-SQL
8 2 (3.45%) Go
8 2 (3.45%) R
9 1 (1.72%) C++
9 1 (1.72%) PHP
Qualifications
1 7 (12.07%) AWS Certification
2 3 (5.17%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
3 1 (1.72%) Azure Certification
3 1 (1.72%) Computer Science Degree
3 1 (1.72%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (1.72%) ISO/IEC 27001
1 1 (1.72%) QA
System Software
1 38 (65.52%) Docker
2 2 (3.45%) Hyper-V
2 2 (3.45%) VMware Infrastructure
3 1 (1.72%) Active Directory
3 1 (1.72%) Virtual Servers
Systems Management
1 21 (36.21%) Ansible
2 20 (34.48%) Terraform
3 11 (18.97%) Grafana
3 11 (18.97%) Prometheus
4 1 (1.72%) Argo
4 1 (1.72%) FortiGate
4 1 (1.72%) Kibana
4 1 (1.72%) Microsoft Intune
Vendors
1 5 (8.62%) Microsoft
2 4 (6.90%) Databricks
3 3 (5.17%) Pega
3 3 (5.17%) WSO2
4 2 (3.45%) Google
4 2 (3.45%) VMware
5 1 (1.72%) LogRhythm
5 1 (1.72%) New Relic
5 1 (1.72%) Salesforce