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

6 months to
7 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 147 57 72
Rank change year-on-year -90 +15 -13
Permanent jobs citing Kubernetes 46 94 158
As % of all permanent jobs in Yorkshire 0.75% 3.87% 2.84%
As % of the Systems Management category 17.29% 35.07% 31.10%
Number of salaries quoted 30 68 133
10th Percentile £45,450 £51,425 £43,750
25th Percentile £62,500 £65,000 £48,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £77,500 £78,155 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -0.84% +30.26% -12.43%
75th Percentile £83,750 £98,474 £72,433
90th Percentile £92,750 £140,677 £84,919
England median annual salary £75,000 £85,000 £77,500
% change year-on-year -11.76% +9.68% -

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 266 268 508
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Yorkshire 4.35% 11.05% 9.12%
Number of salaries quoted 192 178 405
10th Percentile £32,500 £31,000 £30,000
25th Percentile £42,188 £42,563 £37,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,500 £67,500 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -17.78% +22.73% -8.33%
75th Percentile £80,000 £78,750 £67,968
90th Percentile £86,125 £98,474 £78,250
England median annual salary £65,000 £70,000 £61,103
% change year-on-year -7.14% +14.56% -9.48%

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 7 May 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 7 May 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 -66 45 £75,000 -12.03% 28
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 (15.22%) OpenStack
Cloud Services
1 38 (82.61%) AWS
2 22 (47.83%) Azure
3 16 (34.78%) Amazon EKS
3 16 (34.78%) GitHub
4 15 (32.61%) GitHub Actions
4 15 (32.61%) Serverless
5 12 (26.09%) Amazon EC2
5 12 (26.09%) Amazon ECS
5 12 (26.09%) Amazon S3
6 11 (23.91%) GCP
7 9 (19.57%) AWS CloudFormation
8 6 (13.04%) Amazon SQS
9 5 (10.87%) AWS Lambda
10 3 (6.52%) Azure DevOps
10 3 (6.52%) Virtual Private Cloud
11 2 (4.35%) Azure Cosmos DB
12 1 (2.17%) Azure AI
12 1 (2.17%) Azure AKS
12 1 (2.17%) Azure Service Bus
12 1 (2.17%) GitHub Copilot
Communications & Networking
1 1 (2.17%) Broadband
1 1 (2.17%) Firewall
Database & Business Intelligence
1 9 (19.57%) PostgreSQL
2 8 (17.39%) Relational Database
3 2 (4.35%) Azure SQL Database
4 1 (2.17%) InfluxDB
4 1 (2.17%) Metadata
4 1 (2.17%) NoSQL
Development Applications
1 23 (50.00%) Jenkins
2 13 (28.26%) Git
3 11 (23.91%) GitLab
4 3 (6.52%) Artifactory
4 3 (6.52%) Cucumber
4 3 (6.52%) JIRA
4 3 (6.52%) SonarQube
5 1 (2.17%) JUnit
General
1 8 (17.39%) Social Skills
2 5 (10.87%) Public Sector
3 4 (8.70%) Analytical Skills
4 2 (4.35%) Finance
5 1 (2.17%) Advertising
5 1 (2.17%) Documentation Skills
5 1 (2.17%) Financial Institution
5 1 (2.17%) Games
5 1 (2.17%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 1 (2.17%) Manufacturing
5 1 (2.17%) Retail
Job Titles
1 14 (30.43%) Developer
1 14 (30.43%) DevOps Engineer
2 12 (26.09%) Java Developer
3 10 (21.74%) Platform Engineer
3 10 (21.74%) Senior
4 9 (19.57%) Lead
5 6 (13.04%) Lead DevOps
5 6 (13.04%) Lead DevOps Engineer
6 5 (10.87%) AWS Engineer
6 5 (10.87%) Cloud Engineer
7 4 (8.70%) AWS Platform Engineer
7 4 (8.70%) Cloud Platform Engineer
7 4 (8.70%) Full-Stack Developer
7 4 (8.70%) Full-Stack Java Developer
7 4 (8.70%) Senior Developer
8 3 (6.52%) Backend Developer
8 3 (6.52%) Principal Engineer
8 3 (6.52%) Senior Java Developer
9 2 (4.35%) DevOps Developer
9 2 (4.35%) Java Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 15 (32.61%) Elastic Stack
1 15 (32.61%) Web Services
2 12 (26.09%) REST
3 11 (23.91%) React
3 11 (23.91%) Spring
3 11 (23.91%) Spring Boot
4 9 (19.57%) Node.js
5 7 (15.22%) Kafka
5 7 (15.22%) Mustache
6 5 (10.87%) RabbitMQ
7 4 (8.70%) JSON
8 3 (6.52%) YAML
9 2 (4.35%) AngularJS
9 2 (4.35%) Java EE
9 2 (4.35%) JMS
9 2 (4.35%) JPA
9 2 (4.35%) RESTful
10 1 (2.17%) ASP.NET
10 1 (2.17%) CSS
10 1 (2.17%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 15 (32.61%) Distributed Systems
2 13 (28.26%) Cloud Native
3 3 (6.52%) Analytical Mindset
4 2 (4.35%) Distributed Architecture
4 2 (4.35%) Linux Command Line
5 1 (2.17%) Enterprise Cloud
5 1 (2.17%) Greenfield Project
5 1 (2.17%) Hybrid Cloud
5 1 (2.17%) IoT
5 1 (2.17%) Management Information System
5 1 (2.17%) Mobile App
5 1 (2.17%) Self-Motivation
5 1 (2.17%) Social Media
Operating Systems
1 10 (21.74%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 38 (82.61%) CI/CD
2 28 (60.87%) Infrastructure as Code
3 26 (56.52%) DevOps
4 22 (47.83%) Agile
5 19 (41.30%) Containerisation
6 14 (30.43%) Microservices
7 12 (26.09%) Platform Engineering
8 11 (23.91%) Infrastructure Engineering
8 11 (23.91%) Site Reliability Engineering
8 11 (23.91%) TDD
9 10 (21.74%) Observability
10 9 (19.57%) Full-Stack Development
10 9 (19.57%) Scrum
11 8 (17.39%) Mentoring
11 8 (17.39%) Software Engineering
12 7 (15.22%) Incident Response
12 7 (15.22%) SDLC
13 6 (13.04%) Line Management
13 6 (13.04%) Performance Optimisation
13 6 (13.04%) Problem-Solving
Programming Languages
1 22 (47.83%) Python
2 14 (30.43%) Java
2 14 (30.43%) JavaScript
3 10 (21.74%) Groovy
4 6 (13.04%) Bash
4 6 (13.04%) SQL
5 3 (6.52%) Go
5 3 (6.52%) TypeScript
6 2 (4.35%) PL/SQL
6 2 (4.35%) PowerShell
7 1 (2.17%) C#
7 1 (2.17%) Perl
7 1 (2.17%) R
7 1 (2.17%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 7 (15.22%) Security Cleared
2 5 (10.87%) SC Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (6.52%) ISO/IEC 27001
1 3 (6.52%) QA
1 3 (6.52%) SOC 2
System Software
1 35 (76.09%) Docker
Systems Management
1 31 (67.39%) Terraform
2 13 (28.26%) Ansible
3 7 (15.22%) Grafana
3 7 (15.22%) Progress Chef
4 6 (13.04%) Prometheus
5 3 (6.52%) Argo
5 3 (6.52%) Packer
6 2 (4.35%) Kibana
Vendors
1 6 (13.04%) Microsoft
2 5 (10.87%) AppDynamics
2 5 (10.87%) IBM
3 2 (4.35%) Databricks
3 2 (4.35%) Oracle