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 10 October 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
10 Oct 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 131 105 70
Rank change year-on-year -26 -35 -35
Permanent jobs citing Kubernetes 57 53 117
As % of all permanent jobs in Yorkshire 0.75% 1.59% 2.57%
As % of the Systems Management category 23.17% 25.98% 45.00%
Number of salaries quoted 28 43 102
10th Percentile £46,025 £52,500 -
25th Percentile £48,289 £62,500 £48,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £70,000 £70,000 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year - +7.69% -0.54%
75th Percentile £101,250 £78,125 £69,500
90th Percentile - £82,500 £82,775
England median annual salary £70,000 £77,500 £77,500
% change year-on-year -9.68% - +3.33%

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 246 204 260
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Yorkshire 3.25% 6.11% 5.71%
Number of salaries quoted 177 166 181
10th Percentile £28,200 £26,250 £39,500
25th Percentile £32,750 £31,250 £47,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £45,000 £41,500 £54,000
Median % change year-on-year +8.43% -23.15% -1.82%
75th Percentile £60,000 £75,000 £69,500
90th Percentile £74,986 £84,250 £80,000
England median annual salary £60,000 £60,000 £65,000
% change year-on-year - -7.69% -

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 10 October 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 10 October 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 -34 48 £75,000 +3.45% 47
South Yorkshire -24 8 £52,130 - 33
East Yorkshire -10 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:

Application Platforms
1 1 (1.75%) OpenStack
1 1 (1.75%) SharePoint
Cloud Services
1 48 (84.21%) AWS
2 35 (61.40%) GitHub
3 25 (43.86%) GitHub Actions
4 23 (40.35%) AWS CloudFormation
5 18 (31.58%) Amazon EC2
6 14 (24.56%) Azure
7 6 (10.53%) GCP
8 4 (7.02%) Amazon ECS
9 3 (5.26%) IaaS
9 3 (5.26%) Serverless
10 2 (3.51%) Amazon EKS
10 2 (3.51%) Amazon SQS
10 2 (3.51%) Azure AI
10 2 (3.51%) Azure Cosmos DB
10 2 (3.51%) Azure DevOps
10 2 (3.51%) Azure Functions
10 2 (3.51%) Cloudflare
10 2 (3.51%) GitHub Copilot
10 2 (3.51%) Kong
10 2 (3.51%) Microsoft 365
Communications & Networking
1 4 (7.02%) DNS
2 2 (3.51%) DHCP
2 2 (3.51%) VPN
3 1 (1.75%) Firewall
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (5.26%) MySQL
1 3 (5.26%) PostgreSQL
2 2 (3.51%) Azure SQL Database
2 2 (3.51%) MongoDB
2 2 (3.51%) NoSQL
2 2 (3.51%) Relational Database
3 1 (1.75%) Apache Cassandra
3 1 (1.75%) Data Lake
3 1 (1.75%) Redis
Development Applications
1 33 (57.89%) Jenkins
2 11 (19.30%) Git
3 8 (14.04%) Atlassian Bamboo
3 8 (14.04%) GitLab
General
1 17 (29.82%) Public Sector
1 17 (29.82%) Social Skills
2 2 (3.51%) Advertising
2 2 (3.51%) Analytical Skills
3 1 (1.75%) Documentation Skills
3 1 (1.75%) Law
Job Titles
1 22 (38.60%) Platform Engineer
2 13 (22.81%) DevOps Engineer
3 10 (17.54%) AWS Engineer
3 10 (17.54%) Cloud Platform Engineer
3 10 (17.54%) Senior
4 9 (15.79%) Cloud Engineer
4 9 (15.79%) Principal Engineer
5 8 (14.04%) AWS Platform Engineer
5 8 (14.04%) Principal DevOps Engineer
6 6 (10.53%) Developer
7 5 (8.77%) Software Engineer
8 4 (7.02%) Infrastructure Engineer
8 4 (7.02%) Senior Platform Engineer
9 3 (5.26%) Senior Cloud Engineer
10 2 (3.51%) .NET Developer
10 2 (3.51%) Architect
10 2 (3.51%) IT Engineer
10 2 (3.51%) Senior Developer
10 2 (3.51%) Senior Software Engineer
10 2 (3.51%) Technical Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 40 (70.18%) Terraform
2 19 (33.33%) Web Services
3 5 (8.77%) .NET
3 5 (8.77%) REST
3 5 (8.77%) RESTful
4 4 (7.02%) Node.js
5 3 (5.26%) CSS
5 3 (5.26%) HTML
5 3 (5.26%) React
5 3 (5.26%) Spring
5 3 (5.26%) Spring Boot
6 2 (3.51%) .NET Core
6 2 (3.51%) ASP.NET
6 2 (3.51%) ASP.NET Core
6 2 (3.51%) CrewAI
6 2 (3.51%) Kafka
6 2 (3.51%) LangGraph
6 2 (3.51%) ML.NET
7 1 (1.75%) Express.js
7 1 (1.75%) Mustache
Miscellaneous
1 22 (38.60%) Cloud Native
2 4 (7.02%) AI Agents
2 4 (7.02%) Distributed Systems
3 2 (3.51%) Analytical Mindset
3 2 (3.51%) Greenfield Project
3 2 (3.51%) Linux Command Line
3 2 (3.51%) Public Cloud
4 1 (1.75%) Cyber Defence
4 1 (1.75%) Cyber Threat
4 1 (1.75%) Data Structures
4 1 (1.75%) Enterprise Software
4 1 (1.75%) Hackathon
Operating Systems
1 30 (52.63%) Linux
2 8 (14.04%) CentOS
2 8 (14.04%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 3 (5.26%) Windows
4 2 (3.51%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 47 (82.46%) CI/CD
2 40 (70.18%) Infrastructure as Code
3 34 (59.65%) Platform Engineering
4 26 (45.61%) Containerisation
4 26 (45.61%) DevOps
5 24 (42.11%) Software Engineering
6 19 (33.33%) Software Delivery
7 17 (29.82%) Agile
7 17 (29.82%) Network Load Balancing
8 16 (28.07%) Microservices
9 14 (24.56%) Mentoring
10 12 (21.05%) Technical Leadership
11 11 (19.30%) Infrastructure Engineering
12 9 (15.79%) Site Reliability Engineering
13 8 (14.04%) AI
14 7 (12.28%) Problem-Solving
15 6 (10.53%) Continuous Improvement
15 6 (10.53%) Machine Learning
16 5 (8.77%) Coaching
16 5 (8.77%) Test Automation
Programming Languages
1 30 (52.63%) Python
2 18 (31.58%) Groovy
3 6 (10.53%) C#
3 6 (10.53%) Java
3 6 (10.53%) JavaScript
4 4 (7.02%) SQL
4 4 (7.02%) TypeScript
5 2 (3.51%) Bash
5 2 (3.51%) Go
5 2 (3.51%) Kotlin
Qualifications
1 22 (38.60%) Security Cleared
2 19 (33.33%) SC Cleared
3 9 (15.79%) DV Cleared
4 2 (3.51%) Degree
5 1 (1.75%) Computer Science Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (3.51%) Accessibility
1 2 (3.51%) QA
2 1 (1.75%) WCAG
System Software
1 44 (77.19%) Docker
2 2 (3.51%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 18 (31.58%) Progress Chef
2 10 (17.54%) Ansible
3 2 (3.51%) Microsoft Data Protection Manager
3 2 (3.51%) SCCM
3 2 (3.51%) SCOM
3 2 (3.51%) WSUS
4 1 (1.75%) Nessus
Vendors
1 8 (14.04%) Microsoft
2 2 (3.51%) Oracle
2 2 (3.51%) Red Hat
3 1 (1.75%) Databricks
3 1 (1.75%) Google