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

6 months to
22 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 140 61 69
Rank change year-on-year -79 +8 -8
Permanent jobs citing Kubernetes 44 90 162
As % of all permanent jobs in Yorkshire 0.92% 4.03% 3.11%
As % of the Systems Management category 17.53% 35.71% 30.34%
Number of salaries quoted 35 66 135
10th Percentile £56,250 £48,684 £43,000
25th Percentile £62,500 £65,000 £48,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £79,000 £78,155 £62,500
Median % change year-on-year +1.08% +25.05% -7.41%
75th Percentile £85,000 £98,474 £78,750
90th Percentile £91,500 £140,677 £86,467
England median annual salary £75,000 £85,000 £75,000
% change year-on-year -11.76% +13.33% -3.25%

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 251 252 534
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Yorkshire 5.25% 11.30% 10.24%
Number of salaries quoted 180 172 424
10th Percentile £31,250 £31,375 £29,750
25th Percentile £42,500 £47,500 £36,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £67,500 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year -11.11% +28.57% -12.50%
75th Percentile £80,000 £78,750 £67,617
90th Percentile £85,000 £98,474 £80,000
England median annual salary £62,500 £70,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year -10.71% +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 22 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 22 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 -55 42 £79,000 -7.33% 24
South Yorkshire -41 2 £85,000 +21.43% 22
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 (22.73%) OpenStack
Cloud Services
1 32 (72.73%) AWS
2 26 (59.09%) Azure
3 13 (29.55%) Amazon ECS
3 13 (29.55%) Amazon EKS
3 13 (29.55%) Serverless
4 12 (27.27%) GCP
5 9 (20.45%) Amazon S3
6 6 (13.64%) Amazon SQS
6 6 (13.64%) GitHub
6 6 (13.64%) GitHub Actions
7 3 (6.82%) Azure Data Factory
7 3 (6.82%) Azure DevOps
7 3 (6.82%) Microsoft Purview
8 2 (4.55%) Amazon EC2
8 2 (4.55%) Virtual Private Cloud
9 1 (2.27%) Amazon CloudWatch
9 1 (2.27%) AWS CloudFormation
9 1 (2.27%) AWS Lambda
9 1 (2.27%) Datadog
9 1 (2.27%) Entra ID
Communications & Networking
1 1 (2.27%) Broadband
1 1 (2.27%) Firewall
1 1 (2.27%) VPN
1 1 (2.27%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 13 (29.55%) PostgreSQL
2 9 (20.45%) Relational Database
3 3 (6.82%) Metadata
4 1 (2.27%) Amazon RDS
4 1 (2.27%) DynamoDB
4 1 (2.27%) NoSQL
Development Applications
1 14 (31.82%) Jenkins
2 12 (27.27%) Git
3 7 (15.91%) GitLab
4 1 (2.27%) JUnit
General
1 7 (15.91%) Public Sector
2 5 (11.36%) Social Skills
3 4 (9.09%) Analytical Skills
3 4 (9.09%) Finance
4 3 (6.82%) Financial Institution
5 2 (4.55%) Retail
6 1 (2.27%) Games
6 1 (2.27%) Inclusion and Diversity
Job Titles
1 14 (31.82%) Developer
2 13 (29.55%) Lead
3 12 (27.27%) Java Developer
4 10 (22.73%) DevOps Engineer
4 10 (22.73%) Senior
5 9 (20.45%) Cloud Engineer
6 6 (13.64%) Full-Stack Developer
6 6 (13.64%) Full-Stack Java Developer
6 6 (13.64%) Lead DevOps
6 6 (13.64%) Lead DevOps Engineer
7 5 (11.36%) Cloud Infrastructure Engineer
7 5 (11.36%) Infrastructure Engineer
7 5 (11.36%) Lead Cloud Engineer
7 5 (11.36%) Principal Engineer
7 5 (11.36%) Senior Developer
8 4 (9.09%) Data Engineer
8 4 (9.09%) Lead Infrastructure Engineer
8 4 (9.09%) Principal Data Engineer
8 4 (9.09%) Senior Java Developer
9 3 (6.82%) Senior Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 16 (36.36%) Spring
1 16 (36.36%) Spring Boot
2 13 (29.55%) Node.js
3 12 (27.27%) Elastic Stack
4 10 (22.73%) REST
5 9 (20.45%) React
5 9 (20.45%) Web Services
6 7 (15.91%) Kafka
6 7 (15.91%) Mustache
7 3 (6.82%) AngularJS
7 3 (6.82%) Apache Camel
7 3 (6.82%) Micronaut
7 3 (6.82%) PySpark
8 2 (4.55%) Grails
8 2 (4.55%) Hibernate
9 1 (2.27%) .NET
9 1 (2.27%) JSON
9 1 (2.27%) OpenAPI
9 1 (2.27%) Swagger
9 1 (2.27%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 15 (34.09%) Cloud Native
2 13 (29.55%) Distributed Systems
3 3 (6.82%) Analytical Mindset
4 1 (2.27%) IoT
4 1 (2.27%) Management Information System
4 1 (2.27%) Mobile App
4 1 (2.27%) Self-Motivation
4 1 (2.27%) Social Media
Processes & Methodologies
1 27 (61.36%) DevOps
2 26 (59.09%) CI/CD
3 19 (43.18%) Agile
4 16 (36.36%) Infrastructure as Code
5 14 (31.82%) Containerisation
6 13 (29.55%) Infrastructure Engineering
6 13 (29.55%) TDD
7 12 (27.27%) Full-Stack Development
7 12 (27.27%) Microservices
8 10 (22.73%) Mentoring
8 10 (22.73%) Observability
8 10 (22.73%) Scrum
9 8 (18.18%) Site Reliability Engineering
9 8 (18.18%) Technical Leadership
10 7 (15.91%) Incident Response
10 7 (15.91%) Performance Optimisation
10 7 (15.91%) SDLC
11 6 (13.64%) Continuous Improvement
11 6 (13.64%) Line Management
11 6 (13.64%) Machine Learning
Programming Languages
1 18 (40.91%) JavaScript
2 17 (38.64%) Java
3 15 (34.09%) Python
4 6 (13.64%) SQL
5 5 (11.36%) Bash
6 3 (6.82%) Go
6 3 (6.82%) T-SQL
6 3 (6.82%) TypeScript
7 2 (4.55%) PowerShell
7 2 (4.55%) R
8 1 (2.27%) C#
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (6.82%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 2 (4.55%) SOC 2
3 1 (2.27%) QA
System Software
1 29 (65.91%) Docker
2 1 (2.27%) Hyper-V
2 1 (2.27%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 21 (47.73%) Terraform
2 10 (22.73%) Ansible
3 7 (15.91%) Grafana
3 7 (15.91%) Prometheus
4 2 (4.55%) Argo
5 1 (2.27%) FortiGate
5 1 (2.27%) Kibana
5 1 (2.27%) Microsoft Intune
Vendors
1 6 (13.64%) Microsoft
2 4 (9.09%) Databricks
3 3 (6.82%) Pega
3 3 (6.82%) WSO2
4 1 (2.27%) LogRhythm
4 1 (2.27%) New Relic
4 1 (2.27%) VMware