Kubernetes Job Trends in Liverpool

Kubernetes (k8s)
Merseyside > Liverpool

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in Liverpool requiring Kubernetes skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 17 October 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
17 Oct 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 48 45 35
Rank change year-on-year -3 -10 -12
Permanent jobs citing Kubernetes 2 11 19
As % of all permanent jobs in Liverpool 0.46% 1.80% 4.58%
As % of the Systems Management category 11.76% 42.31% 24.68%
Number of salaries quoted 1 6 12
10th Percentile - £52,500 £54,250
25th Percentile £62,500 £53,438 £64,375
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £66,250 £70,000
Median % change year-on-year -1.89% -5.36% -12.50%
75th Percentile £67,500 £75,000 £86,250
90th Percentile - - £93,750
Merseyside median annual salary £65,000 £66,250 £65,000
% change year-on-year -1.89% +1.92% -18.75%

All Systems Management Skills
Liverpool

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 Liverpool.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for systems management skills 17 26 77
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Liverpool 3.88% 4.25% 18.55%
Number of salaries quoted 7 17 64
10th Percentile £50,238 £28,500 £29,000
25th Percentile £56,875 £32,000 £39,125
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £41,500 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +56.63% -24.55% -15.38%
75th Percentile £70,000 £58,750 £70,625
90th Percentile £74,500 £75,000 £85,000
Merseyside median annual salary £48,720 £40,000 £50,000
% change year-on-year +21.80% -20.00% -23.08%

Kubernetes
Job Vacancy Trend in Liverpool

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

Kubernetes job vacancy trend in Liverpool

Kubernetes
Salary Trend in Liverpool

Salary distribution trend for jobs in Liverpool citing Kubernetes.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in Liverpool citing Kubernetes

Kubernetes
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Liverpool 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 (50.00%) Apache Spark
1 1 (50.00%) nginx
Cloud Services
1 1 (50.00%) Amazon EKS
1 1 (50.00%) Amazon ELB
1 1 (50.00%) Amazon S3
1 1 (50.00%) AWS
1 1 (50.00%) Azure
1 1 (50.00%) Azure DevOps
1 1 (50.00%) GitHub
1 1 (50.00%) GitHub Actions
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (50.00%) Delta Lake
1 1 (50.00%) DynamoDB
1 1 (50.00%) Metadata
1 1 (50.00%) Spark SQL
Development Applications
1 1 (50.00%) Git
1 1 (50.00%) git-flow
1 1 (50.00%) MLflow
General
1 1 (50.00%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 2 (100.00%) Operations Engineer
2 1 (50.00%) DevOps Engineer
2 1 (50.00%) Machine Learning Engineer
2 1 (50.00%) Senior
2 1 (50.00%) Senior DevOps
2 1 (50.00%) Senior DevOps Engineer
2 1 (50.00%) Senior Operations Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (50.00%) .NET
1 1 (50.00%) Keras
1 1 (50.00%) Lambda Expressions
1 1 (50.00%) Metaflow
1 1 (50.00%) Node.js
1 1 (50.00%) NumPy
1 1 (50.00%) Pandas
1 1 (50.00%) PySpark
1 1 (50.00%) PyTorch
1 1 (50.00%) React
1 1 (50.00%) scikit-learn
1 1 (50.00%) TensorFlow
1 1 (50.00%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 1 (50.00%) Data Protection Act
1 1 (50.00%) Linux Command Line
Operating Systems
1 1 (50.00%) Linux
1 1 (50.00%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (100.00%) Containerisation
2 1 (50.00%) AI
2 1 (50.00%) CI/CD
2 1 (50.00%) Data Protection
2 1 (50.00%) Data Science
2 1 (50.00%) Deployment Automation
2 1 (50.00%) DevOps
2 1 (50.00%) GitOps
2 1 (50.00%) Information Security
2 1 (50.00%) Machine Learning
2 1 (50.00%) Metadata Management
2 1 (50.00%) MLOps
2 1 (50.00%) Observability
2 1 (50.00%) OO
2 1 (50.00%) OOP
2 1 (50.00%) OWASP
2 1 (50.00%) Time Management
2 1 (50.00%) Trunk-Based Development
2 1 (50.00%) Unit Testing
2 1 (50.00%) Visualisation
Programming Languages
1 1 (50.00%) Bash
1 1 (50.00%) PowerShell
1 1 (50.00%) Python
1 1 (50.00%) SQL
System Software
1 2 (100.00%) Docker
Systems Management
1 2 (100.00%) Terraform
2 1 (50.00%) Ansible
2 1 (50.00%) Argo
2 1 (50.00%) Grafana
2 1 (50.00%) Kubeflow
2 1 (50.00%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 1 (50.00%) Databricks