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 December 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
22 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 100 79 34
Rank change year-on-year -21 -45 +16
Permanent jobs citing Kubernetes 64 84 186
As % of all permanent jobs in Yorkshire 1.87% 2.49% 6.71%
As % of the Systems Management category 27.95% 32.06% 41.33%
Number of salaries quoted 49 70 161
10th Percentile £52,500 - £45,000
25th Percentile £63,750 £48,250 £52,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £75,000 £67,500 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year +11.11% +3.85% -6.40%
75th Percentile £82,500 £69,500 £83,750
90th Percentile £85,000 £75,250 £87,500
England median annual salary £77,500 £77,500 £75,000
% change year-on-year - +3.33% -6.25%

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 229 262 450
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Yorkshire 6.70% 7.77% 16.22%
Number of salaries quoted 175 182 379
10th Percentile £31,000 £31,250 £31,125
25th Percentile £35,750 £45,250 £41,375
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £53,500 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +12.15% -2.73% -8.33%
75th Percentile £77,500 £69,500 £72,433
90th Percentile £83,500 £84,500 £85,000
England median annual salary £62,500 £69,000 £65,000
% change year-on-year -9.42% +6.15% -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 22 December 2025.

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 December 2025. 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 -19 58 £75,000 +13.21% 19
North Yorkshire -8 2 £48,000 -28.36% 1
South Yorkshire -16 2 £85,000 +21.43% 27
East Yorkshire - 2 £55,000 -
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 8 (12.50%) OpenStack
2 5 (7.81%) Apache Spark
Business Applications
1 1 (1.56%) Payment Gateway
Cloud Services
1 47 (73.44%) AWS
2 32 (50.00%) Azure
3 18 (28.13%) GCP
4 17 (26.56%) Amazon ECS
5 14 (21.88%) Amazon EKS
6 12 (18.75%) Serverless
7 9 (14.06%) Amazon S3
8 7 (10.94%) AWS CloudFormation
9 5 (7.81%) GitHub
10 4 (6.25%) Amazon SQS
10 4 (6.25%) Azure Data Factory
10 4 (6.25%) GitHub Actions
10 4 (6.25%) Microsoft Purview
11 3 (4.69%) Amazon ELB
11 3 (4.69%) Azure DevOps
11 3 (4.69%) IaaS
12 2 (3.13%) Amazon CloudWatch
13 1 (1.56%) Datadog
13 1 (1.56%) Microsoft 365
13 1 (1.56%) Virtual Private Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 2 (3.13%) AMQP
1 2 (3.13%) DHCP
1 2 (3.13%) DNS
1 2 (3.13%) Firewall
1 2 (3.13%) VPN
1 2 (3.13%) WAN
2 1 (1.56%) LAN
2 1 (1.56%) MQTT
Database & Business Intelligence
1 18 (28.13%) PostgreSQL
2 9 (14.06%) NoSQL
3 7 (10.94%) Metadata
3 7 (10.94%) Relational Database
4 5 (7.81%) MongoDB
5 4 (6.25%) DynamoDB
6 3 (4.69%) Delta Lake
6 3 (4.69%) Spark SQL
7 2 (3.13%) Amazon RDS
7 2 (3.13%) Big Data
7 2 (3.13%) Hadoop
7 2 (3.13%) Redis
8 1 (1.56%) Azure SQL Database
8 1 (1.56%) ClickHouse
Development Applications
1 22 (34.38%) Jenkins
2 15 (23.44%) GitLab
3 11 (17.19%) Git
4 3 (4.69%) MLflow
5 1 (1.56%) CircleCI
5 1 (1.56%) JUnit
5 1 (1.56%) SonarQube
General
1 9 (14.06%) Public Sector
2 7 (10.94%) Social Skills
3 5 (7.81%) Finance
3 5 (7.81%) Financial Institution
4 4 (6.25%) Law
5 2 (3.13%) Analytical Skills
5 2 (3.13%) Legal
5 2 (3.13%) Retail
6 1 (1.56%) Organisational Skills
Job Titles
1 17 (26.56%) Lead
2 15 (23.44%) Developer
3 13 (20.31%) Senior
4 12 (18.75%) DevOps Engineer
5 10 (15.63%) Java Developer
6 9 (14.06%) Architect
7 8 (12.50%) Cloud Engineer
7 8 (12.50%) Infrastructure Engineer
7 8 (12.50%) Lead DevOps
7 8 (12.50%) Lead DevOps Engineer
8 7 (10.94%) Software Engineer
9 6 (9.38%) Cloud Infrastructure Engineer
9 6 (9.38%) Full-Stack Developer
9 6 (9.38%) Full-Stack Java Developer
9 6 (9.38%) Senior Software Engineer
10 4 (6.25%) CloudOps Manager
10 4 (6.25%) Data Engineer
10 4 (6.25%) Lead Cloud Engineer
10 4 (6.25%) Lead Infrastructure Engineer
10 4 (6.25%) Principal Data Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 18 (28.13%) Spring
1 18 (28.13%) Spring Boot
2 12 (18.75%) Kafka
3 10 (15.63%) Node.js
3 10 (15.63%) React
4 8 (12.50%) Elastic Stack
4 8 (12.50%) REST
5 7 (10.94%) PySpark
5 7 (10.94%) RESTful
5 7 (10.94%) Web Services
6 5 (7.81%) GraphQL
6 5 (7.81%) Micronaut
6 5 (7.81%) Mustache
7 4 (6.25%) AngularJS
7 4 (6.25%) Celery
7 4 (6.25%) Django
7 4 (6.25%) Flask
7 4 (6.25%) gRPC
7 4 (6.25%) RabbitMQ
7 4 (6.25%) WebSockets
Miscellaneous
1 19 (29.69%) Cloud Native
2 14 (21.88%) Distributed Systems
3 5 (7.81%) Product Ownership
4 3 (4.69%) Linux Command Line
5 2 (3.13%) IoT
6 1 (1.56%) Analytical Mindset
6 1 (1.56%) Distributed Architecture
6 1 (1.56%) Enterprise Software
6 1 (1.56%) Hybrid Cloud
6 1 (1.56%) Public Cloud
Operating Systems
1 6 (9.38%) Linux
2 5 (7.81%) Windows
3 4 (6.25%) Unix
4 1 (1.56%) Android
4 1 (1.56%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 1 (1.56%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 43 (67.19%) CI/CD
2 40 (62.50%) DevOps
3 25 (39.06%) Agile
4 19 (29.69%) Infrastructure as Code
5 18 (28.13%) Containerisation
6 17 (26.56%) Microservices
7 16 (25.00%) Infrastructure Engineering
7 16 (25.00%) Mentoring
7 16 (25.00%) Site Reliability Engineering
8 15 (23.44%) TDD
9 13 (20.31%) AI
9 13 (20.31%) Machine Learning
10 12 (18.75%) Technical Leadership
11 11 (17.19%) Full-Stack Development
11 11 (17.19%) Software Engineering
12 10 (15.63%) Continuous Improvement
12 10 (15.63%) Incident Response
13 9 (14.06%) Line Management
13 9 (14.06%) Observability
13 9 (14.06%) Performance Optimisation
Programming Languages
1 32 (50.00%) Python
2 29 (45.31%) Java
3 19 (29.69%) JavaScript
4 15 (23.44%) SQL
5 10 (15.63%) PowerShell
5 10 (15.63%) TypeScript
6 8 (12.50%) Bash
7 6 (9.38%) C#
8 4 (6.25%) Go
8 4 (6.25%) T-SQL
9 2 (3.13%) R
10 1 (1.56%) C++
10 1 (1.56%) PHP
Qualifications
1 10 (15.63%) AWS Certification
2 3 (4.69%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
3 1 (1.56%) Azure Certification
3 1 (1.56%) Computer Science Degree
3 1 (1.56%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (1.56%) ISO/IEC 27001
1 1 (1.56%) QA
System Software
1 40 (62.50%) Docker
2 3 (4.69%) Hyper-V
3 2 (3.13%) Active Directory
3 2 (3.13%) VMware Infrastructure
4 1 (1.56%) Virtual Servers
Systems Management
1 23 (35.94%) Terraform
2 21 (32.81%) Ansible
3 10 (15.63%) Prometheus
4 9 (14.06%) Grafana
5 3 (4.69%) Kubeflow
6 2 (3.13%) Argo
7 1 (1.56%) FortiGate
7 1 (1.56%) Kibana
7 1 (1.56%) Microsoft Data Protection Manager
7 1 (1.56%) Microsoft Intune
7 1 (1.56%) SCCM
7 1 (1.56%) SCOM
7 1 (1.56%) WSUS
Vendors
1 7 (10.94%) Databricks
2 6 (9.38%) Microsoft
3 3 (4.69%) Pega
3 3 (4.69%) WSO2
4 2 (3.13%) Google
4 2 (3.13%) VMware
5 1 (1.56%) LogRhythm
5 1 (1.56%) New Relic
5 1 (1.56%) Oracle
5 1 (1.56%) Red Hat
5 1 (1.56%) Salesforce