Kubernetes Job Trends in Bolton

Kubernetes (k8s)
Manchester > Bolton

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in Bolton requiring Kubernetes skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 31 August 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
31 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 20 36 13
Rank change year-on-year +16 -23 +5
Permanent jobs citing Kubernetes 1 3 14
As % of all permanent jobs in Bolton 0.90% 2.04% 11.97%
As % of the Systems Management category 12.50% 18.75% 66.67%
Number of salaries quoted 1 0 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £32,500 - -
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £35,000 - -
75th Percentile £37,500 - -
90th Percentile - - -
Manchester median annual salary £72,500 £70,000 £62,750
% change year-on-year +3.57% +11.55% -16.33%

All Systems Management Skills
Bolton

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 Bolton.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for systems management skills 8 16 21
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Bolton 7.21% 10.88% 17.95%
Number of salaries quoted 8 8 7
10th Percentile £30,663 £26,913 £41,250
25th Percentile £35,313 £28,000 £51,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £37,500 £34,000 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year +10.29% -35.24% -0.94%
75th Percentile £50,000 £40,000 £53,750
90th Percentile - £45,250 -
Manchester median annual salary £65,000 £60,000 £52,500
% change year-on-year +8.33% +14.29% -25.00%

Kubernetes
Job Vacancy Trend in Bolton

Historical trend showing the proportion of permanent IT job postings citing Kubernetes relative to all permanent IT jobs advertised in Bolton.

Kubernetes job vacancy trend in Bolton

Kubernetes
Salary Trend in Bolton

Salary distribution trend for jobs in Bolton citing Kubernetes.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in Bolton citing Kubernetes

Kubernetes
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Bolton 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:

Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (100.00%) MongoDB
1 1 (100.00%) PostgreSQL
Job Titles
1 1 (100.00%) DevOps Engineer
1 1 (100.00%) DevOps Platform Engineer
1 1 (100.00%) Junior
1 1 (100.00%) Junior DevOps
1 1 (100.00%) Junior DevOps Engineer
1 1 (100.00%) Platform Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (100.00%) Kafka
Miscellaneous
1 1 (100.00%) Cloud Native
Operating Systems
1 1 (100.00%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (100.00%) CI/CD
1 1 (100.00%) Containerisation
1 1 (100.00%) Deployment Automation
1 1 (100.00%) DevOps
1 1 (100.00%) GitOps
1 1 (100.00%) Infrastructure Engineering
1 1 (100.00%) Mentoring
1 1 (100.00%) Platform Engineering
1 1 (100.00%) Problem-Solving
Programming Languages
1 1 (100.00%) Bash
1 1 (100.00%) PowerShell