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

6 months to
29 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 158 58 76
Rank change year-on-year -100 +18 -16
Permanent jobs citing Kubernetes 45 95 155
As % of all permanent jobs in Yorkshire 0.75% 4.01% 2.77%
As % of the Systems Management category 16.98% 35.32% 30.39%
Number of salaries quoted 31 68 131
10th Percentile £56,250 £48,857 £43,750
25th Percentile £62,500 £65,000 £48,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £80,000 £78,155 £62,500
Median % change year-on-year +2.36% +25.05% -8.78%
75th Percentile £85,000 £98,474 £72,500
90th Percentile £92,500 £140,677 £84,919
England median annual salary £75,000 £85,000 £76,000
% change year-on-year -11.76% +11.84% -3.80%

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 265 269 510
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Yorkshire 4.42% 11.34% 9.13%
Number of salaries quoted 190 179 406
10th Percentile £32,500 £31,000 £30,000
25th Percentile £42,500 £42,500 £37,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,500 £66,500 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -13.53% +20.91% -8.33%
75th Percentile £80,000 £78,750 £67,968
90th Percentile £86,250 £98,474 £78,750
England median annual salary £65,000 £70,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year -7.14% +16.67% -11.11%

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 29 April 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 29 April 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 -63 43 £80,000 -6.16% 14
South Yorkshire -52 1 £85,000 +21.43% 4
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 7 (15.56%) OpenStack
Cloud Services
1 36 (80.00%) AWS
2 22 (48.89%) Azure
3 16 (35.56%) Amazon EKS
4 15 (33.33%) Serverless
5 12 (26.67%) Amazon ECS
5 12 (26.67%) Amazon S3
5 12 (26.67%) GitHub
5 12 (26.67%) GitHub Actions
6 11 (24.44%) GCP
7 9 (20.00%) Amazon EC2
8 6 (13.33%) Amazon SQS
8 6 (13.33%) AWS CloudFormation
9 5 (11.11%) AWS Lambda
10 3 (6.67%) Azure DevOps
10 3 (6.67%) Virtual Private Cloud
11 1 (2.22%) Azure Data Factory
11 1 (2.22%) Azure Functions
11 1 (2.22%) Azure Service Bus
11 1 (2.22%) Datadog
11 1 (2.22%) Entra ID
Communications & Networking
1 2 (4.44%) Firewall
2 1 (2.22%) Broadband
2 1 (2.22%) VPN
2 1 (2.22%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 10 (22.22%) PostgreSQL
2 8 (17.78%) Relational Database
3 1 (2.22%) Azure SQL Database
3 1 (2.22%) InfluxDB
3 1 (2.22%) Metadata
3 1 (2.22%) NoSQL
Development Applications
1 20 (44.44%) Jenkins
2 13 (28.89%) Git
3 11 (24.44%) GitLab
4 3 (6.67%) Artifactory
4 3 (6.67%) Cucumber
4 3 (6.67%) JIRA
4 3 (6.67%) SonarQube
5 1 (2.22%) JUnit
General
1 8 (17.78%) Social Skills
2 5 (11.11%) Public Sector
3 4 (8.89%) Analytical Skills
4 3 (6.67%) Finance
5 2 (4.44%) Financial Institution
6 1 (2.22%) Documentation Skills
6 1 (2.22%) Games
6 1 (2.22%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 1 (2.22%) Manufacturing
6 1 (2.22%) Retail
Job Titles
1 14 (31.11%) DevOps Engineer
2 13 (28.89%) Developer
3 12 (26.67%) Java Developer
4 10 (22.22%) Lead
4 10 (22.22%) Senior
5 7 (15.56%) Cloud Engineer
5 7 (15.56%) Platform Engineer
6 6 (13.33%) Lead DevOps
6 6 (13.33%) Lead DevOps Engineer
7 4 (8.89%) AWS Engineer
7 4 (8.89%) Full-Stack Developer
7 4 (8.89%) Full-Stack Java Developer
7 4 (8.89%) Senior Developer
8 3 (6.67%) AWS Platform Engineer
8 3 (6.67%) Backend Developer
8 3 (6.67%) Cloud Platform Engineer
8 3 (6.67%) Infrastructure Engineer
8 3 (6.67%) Principal Engineer
8 3 (6.67%) Senior Java Developer
9 2 (4.44%) Data Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 15 (33.33%) Elastic Stack
2 12 (26.67%) REST
2 12 (26.67%) Spring
2 12 (26.67%) Spring Boot
2 12 (26.67%) Web Services
3 11 (24.44%) React
4 9 (20.00%) Node.js
5 7 (15.56%) Kafka
5 7 (15.56%) Mustache
6 5 (11.11%) RabbitMQ
7 4 (8.89%) JSON
8 3 (6.67%) YAML
9 2 (4.44%) AngularJS
9 2 (4.44%) Java EE
9 2 (4.44%) JMS
9 2 (4.44%) JPA
9 2 (4.44%) Micronaut
9 2 (4.44%) RESTful
10 1 (2.22%) PySpark
10 1 (2.22%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 15 (33.33%) Distributed Systems
2 13 (28.89%) Cloud Native
3 3 (6.67%) Analytical Mindset
4 2 (4.44%) Distributed Architecture
4 2 (4.44%) Linux Command Line
5 1 (2.22%) Enterprise Cloud
5 1 (2.22%) Hybrid Cloud
5 1 (2.22%) IoT
5 1 (2.22%) Management Information System
5 1 (2.22%) Mobile App
5 1 (2.22%) Self-Motivation
5 1 (2.22%) Social Media
Operating Systems
1 7 (15.56%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 35 (77.78%) CI/CD
2 27 (60.00%) DevOps
3 26 (57.78%) Infrastructure as Code
4 21 (46.67%) Agile
5 17 (37.78%) Containerisation
6 14 (31.11%) Microservices
7 13 (28.89%) Infrastructure Engineering
8 11 (24.44%) Site Reliability Engineering
9 10 (22.22%) Observability
9 10 (22.22%) TDD
10 9 (20.00%) Full-Stack Development
10 9 (20.00%) Platform Engineering
10 9 (20.00%) Scrum
11 8 (17.78%) Mentoring
12 7 (15.56%) Incident Response
12 7 (15.56%) SDLC
13 6 (13.33%) Continuous Improvement
13 6 (13.33%) Line Management
13 6 (13.33%) Performance Optimisation
13 6 (13.33%) Problem-Solving
Programming Languages
1 19 (42.22%) Python
2 15 (33.33%) Java
3 14 (31.11%) JavaScript
4 7 (15.56%) Groovy
5 6 (13.33%) Bash
6 5 (11.11%) SQL
7 3 (6.67%) Go
7 3 (6.67%) TypeScript
8 2 (4.44%) PL/SQL
8 2 (4.44%) PowerShell
9 1 (2.22%) Perl
9 1 (2.22%) R
9 1 (2.22%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 5 (11.11%) Security Cleared
2 4 (8.89%) SC Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (6.67%) ISO/IEC 27001
1 3 (6.67%) QA
1 3 (6.67%) SOC 2
System Software
1 32 (71.11%) Docker
2 1 (2.22%) Hyper-V
2 1 (2.22%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 30 (66.67%) Terraform
2 13 (28.89%) Ansible
3 7 (15.56%) Grafana
4 6 (13.33%) Prometheus
5 4 (8.89%) Progress Chef
6 3 (6.67%) Argo
6 3 (6.67%) Kibana
6 3 (6.67%) Packer
7 1 (2.22%) FortiGate
7 1 (2.22%) Microsoft Intune
Vendors
1 6 (13.33%) Microsoft
2 5 (11.11%) AppDynamics
2 5 (11.11%) IBM
3 2 (4.44%) Databricks
3 2 (4.44%) Oracle
4 1 (2.22%) LogRhythm
4 1 (2.22%) New Relic
4 1 (2.22%) VMware