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

6 months to
6 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 139 59 77
Rank change year-on-year -80 +18 -21
Permanent jobs citing Kubernetes 50 92 161
As % of all permanent jobs in Yorkshire 0.96% 4.13% 2.98%
As % of the Systems Management category 18.59% 37.40% 30.32%
Number of salaries quoted 38 67 135
10th Percentile £58,000 £48,771 £43,750
25th Percentile £62,500 £65,000 £48,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £80,000 £78,810 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year +1.51% +21.25% -3.70%
75th Percentile £85,000 £98,474 £78,750
90th Percentile £90,750 £140,677 £87,500
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 269 246 531
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Yorkshire 5.14% 11.03% 9.84%
Number of salaries quoted 190 174 421
10th Percentile £31,250 £31,075 £29,750
25th Percentile £42,500 £45,000 £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 £81,250 £78,750 £67,968
90th Percentile £85,125 £98,474 £80,000
England median annual salary £64,482 £70,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year -7.88% +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 6 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 6 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 -59 47 £79,000 -7.33% 26
South Yorkshire -45 2 £85,000 +21.43% 20
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 (20.00%) OpenStack
Cloud Services
1 38 (76.00%) AWS
2 28 (56.00%) Azure
3 19 (38.00%) Amazon EKS
3 19 (38.00%) Serverless
4 15 (30.00%) Amazon ECS
5 13 (26.00%) Amazon S3
6 12 (24.00%) GCP
7 7 (14.00%) GitHub
7 7 (14.00%) GitHub Actions
8 6 (12.00%) Amazon EC2
8 6 (12.00%) Amazon SQS
8 6 (12.00%) AWS Lambda
9 3 (6.00%) Azure Data Factory
9 3 (6.00%) Azure DevOps
9 3 (6.00%) Microsoft Purview
9 3 (6.00%) Virtual Private Cloud
10 1 (2.00%) Amazon Cognito
10 1 (2.00%) Azure Cosmos DB
10 1 (2.00%) Azure Functions
10 1 (2.00%) Azure Service Bus
Communications & Networking
1 2 (4.00%) Firewall
2 1 (2.00%) Broadband
2 1 (2.00%) VPN
2 1 (2.00%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 14 (28.00%) PostgreSQL
2 11 (22.00%) Relational Database
3 3 (6.00%) Metadata
4 1 (2.00%) Amazon RDS
4 1 (2.00%) Azure SQL Database
4 1 (2.00%) DynamoDB
4 1 (2.00%) InfluxDB
4 1 (2.00%) NoSQL
Development Applications
1 19 (38.00%) Jenkins
2 17 (34.00%) Git
3 10 (20.00%) GitLab
4 3 (6.00%) Artifactory
4 3 (6.00%) Cucumber
4 3 (6.00%) JIRA
4 3 (6.00%) SonarQube
5 1 (2.00%) JUnit
General
1 9 (18.00%) Public Sector
2 8 (16.00%) Social Skills
3 4 (8.00%) Analytical Skills
3 4 (8.00%) Finance
4 3 (6.00%) Financial Institution
5 2 (4.00%) Retail
6 1 (2.00%) Games
6 1 (2.00%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 1 (2.00%) Manufacturing
Job Titles
1 17 (34.00%) Developer
2 16 (32.00%) Java Developer
3 13 (26.00%) DevOps Engineer
3 13 (26.00%) Lead
4 10 (20.00%) Senior
5 9 (18.00%) Cloud Engineer
6 6 (12.00%) Full-Stack Developer
6 6 (12.00%) Full-Stack Java Developer
6 6 (12.00%) Lead DevOps
6 6 (12.00%) Lead DevOps Engineer
7 5 (10.00%) Cloud Infrastructure Engineer
7 5 (10.00%) Infrastructure Engineer
7 5 (10.00%) Lead Cloud Engineer
7 5 (10.00%) Principal Engineer
7 5 (10.00%) Senior Developer
8 4 (8.00%) Data Engineer
8 4 (8.00%) Lead Infrastructure Engineer
8 4 (8.00%) Platform Engineer
8 4 (8.00%) Principal Data Engineer
8 4 (8.00%) Senior Java Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 18 (36.00%) Elastic Stack
1 18 (36.00%) Spring
1 18 (36.00%) Spring Boot
2 15 (30.00%) REST
3 12 (24.00%) Node.js
4 11 (22.00%) React
4 11 (22.00%) Web Services
5 7 (14.00%) Kafka
5 7 (14.00%) Mustache
6 5 (10.00%) AngularJS
6 5 (10.00%) RabbitMQ
7 4 (8.00%) JSON
8 3 (6.00%) Apache Camel
8 3 (6.00%) Micronaut
8 3 (6.00%) PySpark
8 3 (6.00%) YAML
9 2 (4.00%) Grails
9 2 (4.00%) Java EE
9 2 (4.00%) JPA
9 2 (4.00%) RESTful
Miscellaneous
1 18 (36.00%) Distributed Systems
2 14 (28.00%) Cloud Native
3 3 (6.00%) Analytical Mindset
4 2 (4.00%) Distributed Architecture
5 1 (2.00%) Enterprise Cloud
5 1 (2.00%) IoT
5 1 (2.00%) Management Information System
5 1 (2.00%) Mobile App
5 1 (2.00%) Self-Motivation
5 1 (2.00%) Social Media
Operating Systems
1 3 (6.00%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 32 (64.00%) DevOps
2 31 (62.00%) CI/CD
3 24 (48.00%) Agile
4 21 (42.00%) Infrastructure as Code
5 17 (34.00%) Microservices
6 15 (30.00%) Containerisation
6 15 (30.00%) TDD
7 14 (28.00%) Infrastructure Engineering
8 12 (24.00%) Full-Stack Development
8 12 (24.00%) Scrum
9 11 (22.00%) Observability
10 10 (20.00%) Mentoring
11 9 (18.00%) Site Reliability Engineering
12 8 (16.00%) Continuous Improvement
12 8 (16.00%) Technical Leadership
13 7 (14.00%) AI
13 7 (14.00%) Incident Response
13 7 (14.00%) Machine Learning
13 7 (14.00%) Performance Optimisation
13 7 (14.00%) SDLC
Programming Languages
1 21 (42.00%) Java
2 19 (38.00%) Python
3 18 (36.00%) JavaScript
4 8 (16.00%) SQL
5 6 (12.00%) Bash
6 3 (6.00%) Go
6 3 (6.00%) Groovy
6 3 (6.00%) T-SQL
6 3 (6.00%) TypeScript
7 2 (4.00%) PL/SQL
7 2 (4.00%) PowerShell
7 2 (4.00%) R
8 1 (2.00%) Perl
Qualifications
1 5 (10.00%) Security Cleared
2 4 (8.00%) SC Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (8.00%) ISO/IEC 27001
1 4 (8.00%) QA
2 3 (6.00%) SOC 2
System Software
1 33 (66.00%) Docker
2 1 (2.00%) Hyper-V
2 1 (2.00%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 28 (56.00%) Terraform
2 15 (30.00%) Ansible
3 8 (16.00%) Grafana
4 7 (14.00%) Prometheus
5 3 (6.00%) Argo
5 3 (6.00%) Kibana
5 3 (6.00%) Packer
6 1 (2.00%) FortiGate
6 1 (2.00%) Microsoft Intune
Vendors
1 7 (14.00%) Microsoft
2 5 (10.00%) AppDynamics
2 5 (10.00%) IBM
3 4 (8.00%) Databricks
4 3 (6.00%) Pega
4 3 (6.00%) WSO2
5 2 (4.00%) Oracle
6 1 (2.00%) LogRhythm
6 1 (2.00%) New Relic
6 1 (2.00%) VMware