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

6 months to
6 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 144 84 72
Rank change year-on-year -60 -12 -9
Permanent jobs citing Kubernetes 48 86 168
As % of all permanent jobs in Yorkshire 0.70% 2.58% 2.70%
As % of the Systems Management category 15.89% 30.82% 33.40%
Number of salaries quoted 30 58 144
10th Percentile £45,450 £62,500 £44,125
25th Percentile £59,503 £65,000 £48,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £71,250 £77,500 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year -8.06% +19.23% -3.09%
75th Percentile £90,000 £98,474 £71,250
90th Percentile £95,625 £142,364 £87,500
England median annual salary £70,079 £80,000 £77,500
% change year-on-year -12.40% +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 302 279 503
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Yorkshire 4.41% 8.37% 8.08%
Number of salaries quoted 231 197 406
10th Percentile £28,500 £29,200 £31,125
25th Percentile £37,500 £31,250 £41,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £48,445 £65,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -25.47% +18.18% -8.33%
75th Percentile £73,750 £76,840 £69,500
90th Percentile £90,000 £97,528 £84,334
England median annual salary £65,000 £67,500 £62,500
% change year-on-year -3.70% +8.00% -7.41%

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 July 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 July 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 -41 44 £72,500 -8.70% 15
South Yorkshire -44 2 £49,815 -27.54% 19
East Yorkshire -22 1 - - 4
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 37 (77.08%) AWS
2 27 (56.25%) GitHub
3 22 (45.83%) GitHub Actions
4 19 (39.58%) Amazon EC2
4 19 (39.58%) Azure
5 15 (31.25%) AWS CloudFormation
6 10 (20.83%) Amazon EKS
7 9 (18.75%) Serverless
8 7 (14.58%) Amazon ECS
8 7 (14.58%) GCP
9 6 (12.50%) Amazon S3
10 5 (10.42%) AWS Lambda
11 4 (8.33%) Azure DevOps
12 3 (6.25%) Azure Cosmos DB
12 3 (6.25%) Virtual Private Cloud
13 2 (4.17%) Azure AI
13 2 (4.17%) Azure Functions
13 2 (4.17%) Cloudflare
13 2 (4.17%) GitHub Copilot
13 2 (4.17%) Kong
Communications & Networking
1 2 (4.17%) DNS
1 2 (4.17%) VPN
2 1 (2.08%) Broadband
2 1 (2.08%) Firewall
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (6.25%) Azure SQL Database
1 3 (6.25%) Relational Database
2 2 (4.17%) MySQL
2 2 (4.17%) PostgreSQL
3 1 (2.08%) Apache Cassandra
3 1 (2.08%) InfluxDB
3 1 (2.08%) MongoDB
3 1 (2.08%) NoSQL
3 1 (2.08%) Redis
Development Applications
1 26 (54.17%) Jenkins
2 8 (16.67%) Git
2 8 (16.67%) GitLab
3 3 (6.25%) Artifactory
3 3 (6.25%) Atlassian Bamboo
3 3 (6.25%) Cucumber
3 3 (6.25%) JIRA
3 3 (6.25%) SonarQube
General
1 12 (25.00%) Social Skills
2 8 (16.67%) Public Sector
3 4 (8.33%) Analytical Skills
4 2 (4.17%) Advertising
5 1 (2.08%) Documentation Skills
5 1 (2.08%) Finance
5 1 (2.08%) Games
5 1 (2.08%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 1 (2.08%) Manufacturing
Job Titles
1 16 (33.33%) Platform Engineer
2 12 (25.00%) DevOps Engineer
3 11 (22.92%) Senior
4 8 (16.67%) Cloud Engineer
4 8 (16.67%) Cloud Platform Engineer
5 7 (14.58%) AWS Engineer
5 7 (14.58%) Developer
6 6 (12.50%) AWS Platform Engineer
6 6 (12.50%) Principal Engineer
7 5 (10.42%) Senior Platform Engineer
8 4 (8.33%) Java Developer
8 4 (8.33%) Lead
9 3 (6.25%) Architect
9 3 (6.25%) Principal DevOps Engineer
9 3 (6.25%) Senior Cloud Engineer
10 2 (4.17%) Backend Developer
10 2 (4.17%) Data Engineer
10 2 (4.17%) DevOps Developer
10 2 (4.17%) Lead Cloud Engineer
10 2 (4.17%) Principal Data Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 15 (31.25%) Web Services
2 8 (16.67%) Elastic Stack
3 5 (10.42%) RabbitMQ
3 5 (10.42%) REST
4 4 (8.33%) .NET
4 4 (8.33%) React
4 4 (8.33%) RESTful
5 3 (6.25%) JSON
5 3 (6.25%) YAML
6 2 (4.17%) .NET Core
6 2 (4.17%) AngularJS
6 2 (4.17%) ASP.NET
6 2 (4.17%) CSS
6 2 (4.17%) HTML
6 2 (4.17%) Java EE
6 2 (4.17%) JMS
6 2 (4.17%) JPA
6 2 (4.17%) Node.js
6 2 (4.17%) Spring
6 2 (4.17%) Spring Boot
Miscellaneous
1 14 (29.17%) Cloud Native
2 9 (18.75%) Distributed Systems
3 4 (8.33%) Analytical Mindset
4 2 (4.17%) AI Agents
4 2 (4.17%) Distributed Architecture
4 2 (4.17%) Greenfield Project
4 2 (4.17%) Linux Command Line
5 1 (2.08%) Data Structures
5 1 (2.08%) Enterprise Cloud
5 1 (2.08%) Hybrid Cloud
5 1 (2.08%) IoT
5 1 (2.08%) Management Information System
5 1 (2.08%) Mobile App
5 1 (2.08%) Self-Motivation
5 1 (2.08%) Social Media
Operating Systems
1 19 (39.58%) Linux
2 3 (6.25%) CentOS
2 3 (6.25%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 41 (85.42%) CI/CD
2 34 (70.83%) Infrastructure as Code
3 27 (56.25%) Containerisation
4 25 (52.08%) DevOps
5 21 (43.75%) Platform Engineering
6 16 (33.33%) Agile
7 12 (25.00%) Microservices
7 12 (25.00%) Network Load Balancing
7 12 (25.00%) Software Engineering
8 11 (22.92%) Mentoring
8 11 (22.92%) Problem-Solving
9 10 (20.83%) Software Delivery
10 8 (16.67%) Site Reliability Engineering
11 7 (14.58%) AI
11 7 (14.58%) Auto-Scaling
11 7 (14.58%) Continuous Improvement
11 7 (14.58%) Deployment Automation
11 7 (14.58%) Observability
11 7 (14.58%) Test Automation
12 6 (12.50%) Machine Learning
Programming Languages
1 30 (62.50%) Python
2 16 (33.33%) Groovy
3 8 (16.67%) JavaScript
4 6 (12.50%) Bash
4 6 (12.50%) Java
5 5 (10.42%) C#
5 5 (10.42%) SQL
6 4 (8.33%) Go
6 4 (8.33%) TypeScript
7 2 (4.17%) PL/SQL
7 2 (4.17%) PowerShell
8 1 (2.08%) Perl
Qualifications
1 16 (33.33%) Security Cleared
2 12 (25.00%) SC Cleared
3 3 (6.25%) DV Cleared
4 1 (2.08%) Computer Science Degree
4 1 (2.08%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (8.33%) QA
2 3 (6.25%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 3 (6.25%) SOC 2
System Software
1 33 (68.75%) Docker
Systems Management
1 36 (75.00%) Terraform
2 13 (27.08%) Progress Chef
3 9 (18.75%) Ansible
4 3 (6.25%) Argo
4 3 (6.25%) Packer
5 2 (4.17%) Kibana
6 1 (2.08%) Grafana
Vendors
1 6 (12.50%) Microsoft
2 5 (10.42%) AppDynamics
2 5 (10.42%) IBM
3 2 (4.17%) Databricks
3 2 (4.17%) Oracle