Kubernetes Job Trends in Chester

Kubernetes (k8s)
Cheshire > Chester

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in Chester requiring Kubernetes skills. It covers vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 28 September 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
28 Sep 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 17 21 28
Rank change year-on-year +4 +7 +14
Permanent jobs citing Kubernetes 7 2 5
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Chester 5.47% 1.10% 3.76%
As % of the Systems Management category 63.64% 20.00% 29.41%
Number of salaries quoted 4 0 4
10th Percentile £52,775 - -
25th Percentile £55,813 - £68,718
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £67,500 - £75,104
75th Percentile £75,250 - £84,056
90th Percentile £75,700 - -
Cheshire median annual salary £70,000 £74,500 £75,000
% change year-on-year -6.04% -0.67% +50.00%

All Systems Management Skills
Chester

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 Chester.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for systems management skills 11 10 17
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Chester 8.59% 5.52% 12.78%
Number of salaries quoted 8 1 8
10th Percentile £48,720 - £56,750
25th Percentile £50,243 £50,000 £59,188
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £67,500 £55,000 £70,288
Median % change year-on-year +22.73% -21.75% +73.55%
75th Percentile £75,250 £60,000 £81,014
90th Percentile £83,950 - £84,056
Cheshire median annual salary £52,500 £46,000 £65,000
% change year-on-year +14.13% -29.23% +36.84%

Kubernetes
Job Vacancy Trend in Chester

Job postings citing Kubernetes as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in Chester.

Job vacancy trend for Kubernetes in Chester

Kubernetes
Salary Trend in Chester

Salary distribution trend for jobs in Chester citing Kubernetes.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in Chester citing Kubernetes

Kubernetes
Salary Histogram in Chester

Salary distribution for jobs citing Kubernetes in Chester over the 6 months to 28 September 2025.

Salary histogram for Kubernetes in Chester

Kubernetes
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Chester by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same employment type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Application Platforms
1 1 (14.29%) Confluence
Cloud Services
1 7 (100.00%) AWS
1 7 (100.00%) Azure
2 4 (57.14%) GCP
3 3 (42.86%) GitHub
3 3 (42.86%) GitHub Actions
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (42.86%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 3 (42.86%) Bitbucket
1 3 (42.86%) Cucumber
1 3 (42.86%) Cypress.io
1 3 (42.86%) GitLab
1 3 (42.86%) Jenkins
1 3 (42.86%) JIRA
1 3 (42.86%) Maven
1 3 (42.86%) Selenium
1 3 (42.86%) SonarQube
1 3 (42.86%) Sonatype Nexus
General
1 3 (42.86%) Banking
1 3 (42.86%) Finance
1 3 (42.86%) Inclusion and Diversity
2 2 (28.57%) Corporate Banking
2 2 (28.57%) Investment Banking
2 2 (28.57%) Retail
Job Titles
1 4 (57.14%) Developer
2 3 (42.86%) Software Engineer
3 2 (28.57%) Full-Stack Developer
3 2 (28.57%) Java Developer
3 2 (28.57%) Senior
3 2 (28.57%) Senior Developer
3 2 (28.57%) Senior Java Developer
4 1 (14.29%) Full-Stack JavaScript Developer
4 1 (14.29%) JavaScript Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 5 (71.43%) React
1 5 (71.43%) RESTful
1 5 (71.43%) Spring
1 5 (71.43%) Spring Boot
2 4 (57.14%) Jest
2 4 (57.14%) Redux
3 3 (42.86%) CSS
3 3 (42.86%) HTML
3 3 (42.86%) JPA
3 3 (42.86%) Kafka
4 2 (28.57%) CSS3
4 2 (28.57%) HTML5
4 2 (28.57%) REST
4 2 (28.57%) Sass
5 1 (14.29%) AngularJS
5 1 (14.29%) Hibernate
5 1 (14.29%) Next.js
5 1 (14.29%) Node.js
5 1 (14.29%) Vue
Miscellaneous
1 5 (71.43%) Product Ownership
2 3 (42.86%) Enterprise Software
Processes & Methodologies
1 7 (100.00%) Agile
1 7 (100.00%) Containerisation
2 6 (85.71%) CI/CD
3 5 (71.43%) Full-Stack Development
3 5 (71.43%) Software Engineering
3 5 (71.43%) TDD
3 5 (71.43%) Test Automation
4 4 (57.14%) DevOps
4 4 (57.14%) Front End Development
5 3 (42.86%) Domain-Driven Design
5 3 (42.86%) Mentoring
5 3 (42.86%) Microservices
5 3 (42.86%) Performance Optimisation
5 3 (42.86%) SDLC
6 2 (28.57%) Collaborative Working
6 2 (28.57%) Migration
6 2 (28.57%) Responsive Web Design
6 2 (28.57%) Strategic Thinking
6 2 (28.57%) User Experience
7 1 (14.29%) Clean Code
Programming Languages
1 7 (100.00%) Java
2 5 (71.43%) JavaScript
3 3 (42.86%) SQL
3 3 (42.86%) TypeScript
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (57.14%) QA
2 2 (28.57%) Accessibility
System Software
1 7 (100.00%) Docker
Vendors
1 3 (42.86%) Solace
2 2 (28.57%) Google