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

6 months to
11 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 149 103 56
Rank change year-on-year -46 -47 -14
Permanent jobs citing Kubernetes 55 70 156
As % of all permanent jobs in Yorkshire 0.75% 1.97% 2.94%
As % of the Systems Management category 17.74% 26.32% 37.41%
Number of salaries quoted 31 45 138
10th Percentile £46,250 £55,400 -
25th Percentile £57,756 £63,750 £48,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £72,000 £70,000 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year +2.86% +7.69% -1.45%
75th Percentile £90,000 £80,000 £69,500
90th Percentile £101,250 £90,767 £82,875
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 310 266 417
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Yorkshire 4.21% 7.49% 7.86%
Number of salaries quoted 233 200 336
10th Percentile £28,500 £27,500 £31,250
25th Percentile £36,000 £31,250 £46,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £47,500 £50,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -5.00% -9.09% -8.33%
75th Percentile £73,750 £72,750 £69,500
90th Percentile £90,000 £85,000 £84,357
England median annual salary £65,000 £65,000 £65,000
% change year-on-year - - -3.70%

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 11 August 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 11 August 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 -28 50 £72,500 -3.33% 43
South Yorkshire -38 3 £47,500 -32.14% 23
East Yorkshire -18 1 - -
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:

Cloud Services
1 42 (76.36%) AWS
2 30 (54.55%) GitHub
3 23 (41.82%) GitHub Actions
4 20 (36.36%) Amazon EC2
5 19 (34.55%) AWS CloudFormation
5 19 (34.55%) Azure
6 9 (16.36%) Amazon EKS
6 9 (16.36%) Serverless
7 5 (9.09%) Amazon ECS
7 5 (9.09%) Amazon S3
7 5 (9.09%) AWS Lambda
7 5 (9.09%) GCP
8 3 (5.45%) Azure Cosmos DB
8 3 (5.45%) Azure Functions
8 3 (5.45%) IaaS
9 2 (3.64%) Azure AI
9 2 (3.64%) Azure DevOps
9 2 (3.64%) Cloudflare
9 2 (3.64%) Kong
9 2 (3.64%) Virtual Private Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 4 (7.27%) DNS
2 2 (3.64%) DHCP
2 2 (3.64%) Firewall
2 2 (3.64%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (5.45%) Azure SQL Database
1 3 (5.45%) Relational Database
2 2 (3.64%) MySQL
2 2 (3.64%) PostgreSQL
3 1 (1.82%) Apache Cassandra
3 1 (1.82%) InfluxDB
3 1 (1.82%) MongoDB
3 1 (1.82%) NoSQL
3 1 (1.82%) Redis
Development Applications
1 30 (54.55%) Jenkins
2 11 (20.00%) Git
3 9 (16.36%) GitLab
4 5 (9.09%) Atlassian Bamboo
5 3 (5.45%) Artifactory
5 3 (5.45%) Cucumber
5 3 (5.45%) JIRA
5 3 (5.45%) SonarQube
General
1 17 (30.91%) Social Skills
2 12 (21.82%) Public Sector
3 2 (3.64%) Advertising
3 2 (3.64%) Analytical Skills
4 1 (1.82%) Documentation Skills
4 1 (1.82%) Manufacturing
Job Titles
1 20 (36.36%) Platform Engineer
2 13 (23.64%) DevOps Engineer
3 11 (20.00%) Cloud Platform Engineer
3 11 (20.00%) Senior
4 10 (18.18%) AWS Engineer
5 9 (16.36%) AWS Platform Engineer
5 9 (16.36%) Cloud Engineer
6 8 (14.55%) Developer
6 8 (14.55%) Principal Engineer
7 5 (9.09%) Principal DevOps Engineer
8 4 (7.27%) Infrastructure Engineer
8 4 (7.27%) Java Developer
8 4 (7.27%) Senior Platform Engineer
9 3 (5.45%) Architect
9 3 (5.45%) Senior Cloud Engineer
9 3 (5.45%) Software Engineer
10 2 (3.64%) Data Engineer
10 2 (3.64%) DevOps Developer
10 2 (3.64%) IT Engineer
10 2 (3.64%) SC Cleared Java Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 17 (30.91%) Web Services
2 7 (12.73%) Elastic Stack
3 6 (10.91%) REST
3 6 (10.91%) RESTful
4 5 (9.09%) .NET
4 5 (9.09%) RabbitMQ
5 4 (7.27%) React
6 3 (5.45%) CSS
6 3 (5.45%) HTML
6 3 (5.45%) JSON
6 3 (5.45%) Node.js
6 3 (5.45%) Spring
6 3 (5.45%) Spring Boot
6 3 (5.45%) YAML
7 2 (3.64%) .NET Core
7 2 (3.64%) AngularJS
7 2 (3.64%) ASP.NET
7 2 (3.64%) Jakarta EE
7 2 (3.64%) JMS
7 2 (3.64%) JPA
Miscellaneous
1 16 (29.09%) Cloud Native
2 7 (12.73%) Distributed Systems
3 2 (3.64%) AI Agents
3 2 (3.64%) Analytical Mindset
3 2 (3.64%) Distributed Architecture
3 2 (3.64%) Greenfield Project
3 2 (3.64%) Linux Command Line
3 2 (3.64%) Public Cloud
4 1 (1.82%) Data Structures
4 1 (1.82%) Enterprise Cloud
4 1 (1.82%) Hybrid Cloud
4 1 (1.82%) IoT
Operating Systems
1 26 (47.27%) Linux
2 5 (9.09%) CentOS
2 5 (9.09%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 3 (5.45%) Windows
4 2 (3.64%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 44 (80.00%) CI/CD
2 39 (70.91%) Infrastructure as Code
3 27 (49.09%) Containerisation
4 26 (47.27%) DevOps
4 26 (47.27%) Platform Engineering
5 18 (32.73%) Agile
6 16 (29.09%) Software Engineering
7 15 (27.27%) Microservices
7 15 (27.27%) Software Delivery
8 14 (25.45%) Network Load Balancing
9 13 (23.64%) Mentoring
10 11 (20.00%) Infrastructure Engineering
11 9 (16.36%) Continuous Improvement
11 9 (16.36%) Site Reliability Engineering
12 8 (14.55%) Deployment Automation
12 8 (14.55%) Problem-Solving
13 7 (12.73%) Auto-Scaling
13 7 (12.73%) Technical Leadership
14 6 (10.91%) Design Patterns
14 6 (10.91%) Machine Learning
Programming Languages
1 29 (52.73%) Python
2 18 (32.73%) Groovy
3 7 (12.73%) Java
4 6 (10.91%) C#
5 5 (9.09%) Bash
5 5 (9.09%) JavaScript
5 5 (9.09%) SQL
6 4 (7.27%) TypeScript
7 2 (3.64%) Go
7 2 (3.64%) PL/SQL
7 2 (3.64%) PowerShell
8 1 (1.82%) Kotlin
8 1 (1.82%) Perl
Qualifications
1 22 (40.00%) Security Cleared
2 18 (32.73%) SC Cleared
3 6 (10.91%) DV Cleared
4 1 (1.82%) Computer Science Degree
4 1 (1.82%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (9.09%) QA
2 2 (3.64%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 2 (3.64%) SOC 2
3 1 (1.82%) Accessibility
3 1 (1.82%) WCAG
System Software
1 40 (72.73%) Docker
2 2 (3.64%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 41 (74.55%) Terraform
2 15 (27.27%) Progress Chef
3 12 (21.82%) Ansible
4 3 (5.45%) Packer
5 2 (3.64%) Argo
5 2 (3.64%) Kibana
5 2 (3.64%) Microsoft Data Protection Manager
5 2 (3.64%) SCCM
5 2 (3.64%) SCOM
5 2 (3.64%) WSUS
6 1 (1.82%) Grafana
6 1 (1.82%) Nessus
Vendors
1 8 (14.55%) Microsoft
2 5 (9.09%) AppDynamics
2 5 (9.09%) IBM
3 4 (7.27%) Oracle
4 2 (3.64%) Databricks
4 2 (3.64%) Red Hat