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

6 months to
1 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 145 74 75
Rank change year-on-year -71 +1 -11
Permanent jobs citing Kubernetes 48 90 170
As % of all permanent jobs in Yorkshire 0.70% 2.79% 2.70%
As % of the Systems Management category 16.16% 32.14% 33.46%
Number of salaries quoted 29 62 145
10th Percentile £45,400 £62,500 £43,750
25th Percentile £58,750 £65,000 £48,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £70,000 £77,500 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year -9.68% +19.23% -3.09%
75th Percentile £90,000 £98,474 £71,250
90th Percentile £95,000 £140,677 £87,500
England median annual salary £70,932 £80,000 £77,500
% change year-on-year -11.34% +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 297 280 508
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Yorkshire 4.34% 8.68% 8.06%
Number of salaries quoted 226 196 404
10th Percentile £28,500 £29,000 £31,075
25th Percentile £37,500 £31,250 £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 £73,750 £77,813 £69,500
90th Percentile £87,199 £97,528 £83,375
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 1 July 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 July 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 -47 44 £71,250 -10.27% 12
South Yorkshire -47 2 £49,815 -27.54% 13
East Yorkshire -23 1 - - 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 1 (2.08%) OpenStack
Cloud Services
1 37 (77.08%) AWS
2 26 (54.17%) GitHub
3 22 (45.83%) GitHub Actions
4 19 (39.58%) Amazon EC2
4 19 (39.58%) Azure
5 15 (31.25%) AWS CloudFormation
6 11 (22.92%) Amazon EKS
7 10 (20.83%) Serverless
8 8 (16.67%) Amazon ECS
9 7 (14.58%) Amazon S3
9 7 (14.58%) GCP
10 5 (10.42%) AWS Lambda
11 4 (8.33%) Azure DevOps
12 3 (6.25%) Azure Cosmos DB
12 3 (6.25%) Virtual Private Cloud
13 2 (4.17%) Azure AI
13 2 (4.17%) Azure Functions
13 2 (4.17%) Cloudflare
13 2 (4.17%) GitHub Copilot
13 2 (4.17%) Kong
Communications & Networking
1 2 (4.17%) DNS
1 2 (4.17%) VPN
2 1 (2.08%) Broadband
2 1 (2.08%) Firewall
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (8.33%) Relational Database
2 3 (6.25%) Azure SQL Database
2 3 (6.25%) PostgreSQL
3 2 (4.17%) MySQL
4 1 (2.08%) Apache Cassandra
4 1 (2.08%) InfluxDB
4 1 (2.08%) MongoDB
4 1 (2.08%) NoSQL
4 1 (2.08%) Redis
Development Applications
1 26 (54.17%) Jenkins
2 8 (16.67%) Git
3 7 (14.58%) GitLab
4 3 (6.25%) Artifactory
4 3 (6.25%) Cucumber
4 3 (6.25%) JIRA
4 3 (6.25%) SonarQube
5 2 (4.17%) Atlassian Bamboo
General
1 11 (22.92%) Social Skills
2 7 (14.58%) Public Sector
3 4 (8.33%) Analytical Skills
4 2 (4.17%) Advertising
5 1 (2.08%) Documentation Skills
5 1 (2.08%) Finance
5 1 (2.08%) Games
5 1 (2.08%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 1 (2.08%) Manufacturing
Job Titles
1 16 (33.33%) Platform Engineer
2 12 (25.00%) Senior
3 11 (22.92%) DevOps Engineer
4 8 (16.67%) Cloud Engineer
4 8 (16.67%) Cloud Platform Engineer
4 8 (16.67%) Developer
5 7 (14.58%) AWS Engineer
6 6 (12.50%) AWS Platform Engineer
7 5 (10.42%) Java Developer
7 5 (10.42%) Principal Engineer
7 5 (10.42%) Senior Platform Engineer
8 4 (8.33%) Lead
9 3 (6.25%) Architect
9 3 (6.25%) Senior Cloud Engineer
10 2 (4.17%) .NET Developer
10 2 (4.17%) Java Engineer
10 2 (4.17%) Principal Data Engineer
10 2 (4.17%) Senior Developer
10 2 (4.17%) Software Engineer
10 2 (4.17%) Technical Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 16 (33.33%) Web Services
2 9 (18.75%) Elastic Stack
3 6 (12.50%) REST
4 5 (10.42%) RabbitMQ
4 5 (10.42%) React
5 4 (8.33%) .NET
5 4 (8.33%) RESTful
6 3 (6.25%) JSON
6 3 (6.25%) Node.js
6 3 (6.25%) Spring
6 3 (6.25%) Spring Boot
6 3 (6.25%) YAML
7 2 (4.17%) .NET Core
7 2 (4.17%) AngularJS
7 2 (4.17%) ASP.NET Core
7 2 (4.17%) HTML
7 2 (4.17%) Java EE
7 2 (4.17%) JPA
7 2 (4.17%) Kafka
7 2 (4.17%) ML.NET
Miscellaneous
1 13 (27.08%) Cloud Native
2 10 (20.83%) Distributed Systems
3 4 (8.33%) Analytical Mindset
4 2 (4.17%) AI Agents
4 2 (4.17%) Distributed Architecture
4 2 (4.17%) Greenfield Project
4 2 (4.17%) Linux Command Line
5 1 (2.08%) Data Structures
5 1 (2.08%) Enterprise Cloud
5 1 (2.08%) Hybrid Cloud
5 1 (2.08%) IoT
5 1 (2.08%) Management Information System
5 1 (2.08%) Mobile App
5 1 (2.08%) Self-Motivation
5 1 (2.08%) Social Media
Operating Systems
1 18 (37.50%) Linux
2 2 (4.17%) CentOS
2 2 (4.17%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 41 (85.42%) CI/CD
2 33 (68.75%) Infrastructure as Code
3 27 (56.25%) Containerisation
4 24 (50.00%) DevOps
5 20 (41.67%) Platform Engineering
6 17 (35.42%) Agile
7 12 (25.00%) Microservices
7 12 (25.00%) Network Load Balancing
7 12 (25.00%) Software Engineering
8 11 (22.92%) Mentoring
8 11 (22.92%) Problem-Solving
9 10 (20.83%) Software Delivery
10 7 (14.58%) AI
10 7 (14.58%) Auto-Scaling
10 7 (14.58%) Continuous Improvement
10 7 (14.58%) Deployment Automation
10 7 (14.58%) Observability
10 7 (14.58%) Site Reliability Engineering
10 7 (14.58%) Test Automation
11 6 (12.50%) Machine Learning
Programming Languages
1 30 (62.50%) Python
2 16 (33.33%) Groovy
3 9 (18.75%) JavaScript
4 7 (14.58%) Java
5 6 (12.50%) Bash
6 5 (10.42%) C#
6 5 (10.42%) SQL
7 4 (8.33%) Go
7 4 (8.33%) TypeScript
8 2 (4.17%) PL/SQL
8 2 (4.17%) PowerShell
9 1 (2.08%) Perl
Qualifications
1 15 (31.25%) Security Cleared
2 11 (22.92%) SC Cleared
3 2 (4.17%) DV Cleared
4 1 (2.08%) Computer Science Degree
4 1 (2.08%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (8.33%) QA
2 3 (6.25%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 3 (6.25%) SOC 2
System Software
1 33 (68.75%) Docker
Systems Management
1 35 (72.92%) Terraform
2 13 (27.08%) Progress Chef
3 8 (16.67%) Ansible
4 3 (6.25%) Argo
4 3 (6.25%) Packer
5 2 (4.17%) Kibana
6 1 (2.08%) Grafana
Vendors
1 6 (12.50%) Microsoft
2 5 (10.42%) AppDynamics
2 5 (10.42%) IBM
3 2 (4.17%) Databricks
3 2 (4.17%) Oracle