Kubernetes Job Trends in Manchester

Kubernetes (k8s)
North West > Manchester

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in Manchester requiring Kubernetes skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 7 June 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
7 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 67 40 62
Rank change year-on-year -27 +22 -26
Permanent jobs citing Kubernetes 111 162 198
As % of all permanent jobs in Manchester 1.86% 7.23% 3.54%
As % of the Systems Management category 34.26% 43.09% 42.67%
Number of salaries quoted 89 96 129
10th Percentile £51,250 £53,125 £45,000
25th Percentile £60,000 £62,500 £53,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £70,000 £76,905 £63,500
Median % change year-on-year -8.98% +21.11% -9.29%
75th Percentile £87,500 £94,083 £77,500
90th Percentile £95,000 £112,500 £92,500
North West median annual salary £72,500 £75,000 £62,500
% change year-on-year -3.33% +20.00% -10.71%

All Systems Management Skills
Manchester

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 Manchester.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for systems management skills 324 376 464
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Manchester 5.42% 16.77% 8.30%
Number of salaries quoted 253 213 343
10th Percentile £33,150 £32,500 £31,250
25th Percentile £47,500 £47,231 £43,382
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £69,384 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -6.32% +15.64% -8.19%
75th Percentile £80,000 £80,000 £72,500
90th Percentile £90,000 £96,000 £81,250
North West median annual salary £60,000 £67,500 £57,500
% change year-on-year -11.11% +17.39% -4.17%

Kubernetes
Job Vacancy Trend in Manchester

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

Kubernetes job vacancy trend in Manchester

Kubernetes
Salary Trend in Manchester

Salary distribution trend for jobs in Manchester citing Kubernetes.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in Manchester citing Kubernetes

Kubernetes
Salary Histogram in Manchester

Salary distribution for jobs citing Kubernetes in Manchester over the 6 months to 7 June 2026.

Salary histogram for Kubernetes in Manchester

Kubernetes
Job Locations in Manchester

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Kubernetes within the Manchester region over the 6 months to 7 June 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
Altrincham +7 10 £65,000 - 2
Salford -14 3 £90,000 +20.00% 1
Kubernetes
North West

Kubernetes
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Manchester 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 3 (2.70%) Apache
1 3 (2.70%) Apache Spark
1 3 (2.70%) Microsoft Exchange
2 2 (1.80%) OpenStack
3 1 (0.90%) SharePoint
Applications
1 1 (0.90%) Chatbot
Cloud Services
1 74 (66.67%) AWS
2 57 (51.35%) Azure
3 29 (26.13%) GCP
4 25 (22.52%) GitHub
5 24 (21.62%) Serverless
6 17 (15.32%) Azure AKS
7 16 (14.41%) Amazon EKS
8 15 (13.51%) AWS CloudFormation
9 13 (11.71%) GitHub Actions
10 8 (7.21%) Amazon ECS
10 8 (7.21%) Google Kubernetes Engine
11 7 (6.31%) Azure DevOps
12 6 (5.41%) AWS Lambda
12 6 (5.41%) Datadog
12 6 (5.41%) Entra ID
12 6 (5.41%) OpenShift
12 6 (5.41%) SaaS
12 6 (5.41%) Virtual Private Cloud
13 4 (3.60%) Amazon EC2
14 3 (2.70%) Amazon S3
Communications & Networking
1 5 (4.50%) Firewall
2 3 (2.70%) AMQP
2 3 (2.70%) DNS
2 3 (2.70%) TCP/IP
3 1 (0.90%) DHCP
3 1 (0.90%) Network Security
3 1 (0.90%) SD-WAN
3 1 (0.90%) VLAN
3 1 (0.90%) VPN
3 1 (0.90%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 17 (15.32%) PostgreSQL
2 14 (12.61%) NoSQL
3 13 (11.71%) MongoDB
4 6 (5.41%) Relational Database
5 5 (4.50%) Elasticsearch
6 4 (3.60%) SQL Server
7 3 (2.70%) Big Data
7 3 (2.70%) Cloudera CDH
7 3 (2.70%) Hadoop
7 3 (2.70%) Neo4j
8 2 (1.80%) DynamoDB
8 2 (1.80%) MySQL
9 1 (0.90%) Azure SQL Database
9 1 (0.90%) BigQuery
9 1 (0.90%) Db2
Development Applications
1 18 (16.22%) Jenkins
2 16 (14.41%) GitLab
3 14 (12.61%) Git
4 3 (2.70%) Bitbucket
5 2 (1.80%) Atlassian Bamboo
5 2 (1.80%) JIRA
5 2 (1.80%) Vagrant
5 2 (1.80%) Vite
6 1 (0.90%) Cucumber
6 1 (0.90%) Cypress.io
6 1 (0.90%) Gemini Tracker
6 1 (0.90%) Postman
6 1 (0.90%) Robot Framework
6 1 (0.90%) Selenium
General
1 12 (10.81%) Social Skills
2 7 (6.31%) Finance
3 5 (4.50%) Public Sector
4 4 (3.60%) Aerospace
5 3 (2.70%) Analytical Skills
6 2 (1.80%) Retail
7 1 (0.90%) Banking
7 1 (0.90%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 1 (0.90%) Investment Banking
Job Titles
1 41 (36.94%) Senior
2 27 (24.32%) Software Engineer
3 23 (20.72%) DevOps Engineer
4 21 (18.92%) Cloud Engineer
5 14 (12.61%) Developer
6 12 (10.81%) Lead
7 11 (9.91%) Java Developer
8 9 (8.11%) Senior Developer
8 9 (8.11%) Senior Java Developer
9 8 (7.21%) .NET Software Engineer
9 8 (7.21%) Azure Engineer
9 8 (7.21%) Platform Engineer
9 8 (7.21%) Senior Software Engineer
10 7 (6.31%) Lead Software Engineer
10 7 (6.31%) Python Engineer
11 6 (5.41%) Cloud Platform Engineer
11 6 (5.41%) Java Software Developer
11 6 (5.41%) Senior DevOps
11 6 (5.41%) Senior Java Software Developer
11 6 (5.41%) Senior Software Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 25 (22.52%) Spring
2 24 (21.62%) Spring Boot
3 19 (17.12%) React
4 17 (15.32%) RESTful
5 13 (11.71%) .NET
6 11 (9.91%) FastAPI
7 10 (9.01%) AngularJS
7 10 (9.01%) Vue
8 9 (8.11%) Django
8 9 (8.11%) Node.js
9 8 (7.21%) .NET Framework
10 6 (5.41%) JWT
10 6 (5.41%) OAuth
10 6 (5.41%) REST
11 4 (3.60%) ARM Templates
11 4 (3.60%) LangChain
11 4 (3.60%) OpenAPI
11 4 (3.60%) OpenID
11 4 (3.60%) Swagger
11 4 (3.60%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 36 (32.43%) Cloud Native
2 13 (11.71%) Distributed Systems
3 6 (5.41%) Hybrid Cloud
4 4 (3.60%) AI Agents
4 4 (3.60%) Enterprise Cloud
5 3 (2.70%) Public Cloud
6 2 (1.80%) Legacy Systems
6 2 (1.80%) Mobile App
6 2 (1.80%) Product Ownership
6 2 (1.80%) Self-Motivation
7 1 (0.90%) Analytical Mindset
7 1 (0.90%) Culture of Ownership
7 1 (0.90%) Data Structures
7 1 (0.90%) Security Posture
Operating Systems
1 17 (15.32%) Linux
2 6 (5.41%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 5 (4.50%) Debian
3 5 (4.50%) Ubuntu
4 4 (3.60%) CentOS
5 3 (2.70%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 88 (79.28%) CI/CD
2 81 (72.97%) DevOps
3 65 (58.56%) Infrastructure as Code
4 56 (50.45%) Containerisation
5 45 (40.54%) Agile
6 32 (28.83%) Software Engineering
7 29 (26.13%) AI
8 28 (25.23%) Microservices
9 26 (23.42%) Scrum
10 25 (22.52%) Continuous Improvement
10 25 (22.52%) Platform Engineering
11 23 (20.72%) Problem-Solving
12 22 (19.82%) Clean Code
12 22 (19.82%) Mentoring
12 22 (19.82%) TDD
13 19 (17.12%) Collaborative Culture
13 19 (17.12%) Observability
14 12 (10.81%) Site Reliability Engineering
15 11 (9.91%) Test Automation
16 10 (9.01%) High Availability
Programming Languages
1 42 (37.84%) Python
2 32 (28.83%) Java
3 17 (15.32%) SQL
4 14 (12.61%) TypeScript
5 13 (11.71%) C#
6 12 (10.81%) Bash
7 11 (9.91%) PowerShell
8 9 (8.11%) JavaScript
9 8 (7.21%) Go
10 2 (1.80%) Bicep
10 2 (1.80%) C
11 1 (0.90%) Kotlin
11 1 (0.90%) Scala
Qualifications
1 28 (25.23%) Security Cleared
2 17 (15.32%) SC Cleared
3 13 (11.71%) DV Cleared
4 6 (5.41%) Azure Certification
5 3 (2.70%) AWS Certification
5 3 (2.70%) Computer Science Degree
5 3 (2.70%) Degree
6 1 (0.90%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
6 1 (0.90%) Microsoft Certification
6 1 (0.90%) Microsoft Certified Professional
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (0.90%) Data Quality
1 1 (0.90%) ISO/IEC 27001
1 1 (0.90%) PCI DSS
1 1 (0.90%) QA
System Software
1 62 (55.86%) Docker
2 6 (5.41%) Virtual Machines
3 4 (3.60%) VMware Infrastructure
4 3 (2.70%) Active Directory
5 2 (1.80%) VMware NSX
5 2 (1.80%) vSphere
6 1 (0.90%) Firmware
6 1 (0.90%) Virtual Desktop
Systems Management
1 66 (59.46%) Terraform
2 28 (25.23%) Ansible
3 9 (8.11%) Grafana
4 8 (7.21%) Prometheus
5 4 (3.60%) Puppet
6 3 (2.70%) Argo
6 3 (2.70%) Microsoft Intune
6 3 (2.70%) Progress Chef
7 2 (1.80%) Istio
7 2 (1.80%) Packer
7 2 (1.80%) Rancher
8 1 (0.90%) FortiGate
8 1 (0.90%) linkerd
Vendors
1 10 (9.01%) Google
2 6 (5.41%) Microsoft
3 5 (4.50%) VMware
4 3 (2.70%) OpenAI
4 3 (2.70%) Red Hat
4 3 (2.70%) SaltStack
5 2 (1.80%) Databricks
5 2 (1.80%) Pega
5 2 (1.80%) WSO2
6 1 (0.90%) Dynatrace
6 1 (0.90%) Fortinet
6 1 (0.90%) Oracle
6 1 (0.90%) Splunk