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

6 months to
20 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 56 47 67
Rank change year-on-year -9 +20 -44
Permanent jobs citing Kubernetes 145 153 185
As % of all permanent jobs in Manchester 2.25% 6.12% 3.53%
As % of the Systems Management category 41.67% 42.15% 39.53%
Number of salaries quoted 124 82 103
10th Percentile £47,500 £47,625 £42,500
25th Percentile £58,438 £62,500 £52,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £71,500 £75,000 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year -4.67% +15.38% -7.14%
75th Percentile £87,500 £94,694 £81,250
90th Percentile £95,875 £112,000 £93,500
North West median annual salary £70,750 £74,750 £62,500
% change year-on-year -5.35% +19.60% -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 348 363 468
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Manchester 5.40% 14.53% 8.92%
Number of salaries quoted 286 198 309
10th Percentile £35,750 £32,500 £33,400
25th Percentile £50,000 £42,563 £44,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,500 £65,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year +0.77% +8.33% -11.11%
75th Percentile £80,000 £77,500 £73,886
90th Percentile £90,000 £95,000 £84,000
North West median annual salary £62,500 £65,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year -3.85% +18.18% -12.70%

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 20 July 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 20 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
Altrincham +3 10 £65,000 -
Stockport +3 3 £75,000 - 3
Salford -13 3 £90,000 +20.00% 1
Bolton +15 1 £35,000 -
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 2 (1.38%) Apache
1 2 (1.38%) Apache Spark
1 2 (1.38%) Microsoft Exchange
1 2 (1.38%) OpenStack
Applications
1 1 (0.69%) Chatbot
Cloud Services
1 95 (65.52%) AWS
2 59 (40.69%) Azure
3 33 (22.76%) GitHub
4 32 (22.07%) GCP
5 28 (19.31%) Serverless
6 20 (13.79%) AWS CloudFormation
7 16 (11.03%) GitHub Actions
8 14 (9.66%) Azure AKS
9 13 (8.97%) Amazon EKS
10 11 (7.59%) Google Kubernetes Engine
11 9 (6.21%) SaaS
12 7 (4.83%) Amazon ECS
12 7 (4.83%) AWS Lambda
12 7 (4.83%) Azure DevOps
12 7 (4.83%) Datadog
13 6 (4.14%) Virtual Private Cloud
14 5 (3.45%) Entra ID
14 5 (3.45%) GitHub Copilot
14 5 (3.45%) OpenShift
15 3 (2.07%) Azure Monitor
Communications & Networking
1 7 (4.83%) Firewall
2 3 (2.07%) Network Security
3 2 (1.38%) AMQP
3 2 (1.38%) DNS
3 2 (1.38%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 19 (13.10%) PostgreSQL
2 15 (10.34%) MongoDB
3 13 (8.97%) NoSQL
4 5 (3.45%) Elasticsearch
4 5 (3.45%) Neo4j
4 5 (3.45%) Relational Database
5 3 (2.07%) Pinecone
6 2 (1.38%) Big Data
6 2 (1.38%) Cloudera CDH
6 2 (1.38%) Hadoop
6 2 (1.38%) SQL Server
7 1 (0.69%) Amazon Aurora
7 1 (0.69%) Redis
7 1 (0.69%) Weaviate
Development Applications
1 24 (16.55%) Jenkins
2 23 (15.86%) Git
3 20 (13.79%) GitLab
4 5 (3.45%) Atlassian Bamboo
5 4 (2.76%) Cucumber
5 4 (2.76%) Cypress.io
5 4 (2.76%) Robot Framework
5 4 (2.76%) Vite
6 3 (2.07%) Postman
6 3 (2.07%) Selenium
7 2 (1.38%) Bitbucket
7 2 (1.38%) JIRA
7 2 (1.38%) Vagrant
8 1 (0.69%) Claude Code
8 1 (0.69%) Gemini Tracker
8 1 (0.69%) Mocha
General
1 12 (8.28%) Social Skills
2 7 (4.83%) Finance
2 7 (4.83%) Public Sector
3 4 (2.76%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 3 (2.07%) Aerospace
5 2 (1.38%) Retail
6 1 (0.69%) Analytical Skills
Job Titles
1 49 (33.79%) DevOps Engineer
2 39 (26.90%) Senior
3 30 (20.69%) Cloud Engineer
4 28 (19.31%) Software Engineer
5 16 (11.03%) Developer
5 16 (11.03%) Lead
6 14 (9.66%) Principal Engineer
7 12 (8.28%) Java Developer
8 10 (6.90%) Cloud Native Engineer
8 10 (6.90%) Senior Developer
8 10 (6.90%) Senior Java Developer
9 9 (6.21%) Azure Engineer
9 9 (6.21%) Platform Engineer
10 8 (5.52%) Lead Software Engineer
10 8 (5.52%) Senior DevOps
10 8 (5.52%) Senior DevOps Engineer
10 8 (5.52%) Senior Software Engineer
11 7 (4.83%) AWS DevOps
11 7 (4.83%) AWS DevOps Engineer
11 7 (4.83%) Principal DevOps Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 34 (23.45%) Spring
2 33 (22.76%) Spring Boot
3 27 (18.62%) React
4 16 (11.03%) RESTful
5 15 (10.34%) .NET
5 15 (10.34%) AngularJS
6 14 (9.66%) Vue
7 12 (8.28%) FastAPI
8 9 (6.21%) Node.js
9 8 (5.52%) Django
9 8 (5.52%) LangChain
10 7 (4.83%) Kafka
10 7 (4.83%) REST
11 6 (4.14%) .NET Framework
12 5 (3.45%) ARM Templates
12 5 (3.45%) JWT
12 5 (3.45%) MERN Stack
12 5 (3.45%) OAuth
12 5 (3.45%) OpenAPI
12 5 (3.45%) OpenID
Miscellaneous
1 57 (39.31%) Cloud Native
2 17 (11.72%) Distributed Systems
3 7 (4.83%) Hybrid Cloud
4 5 (3.45%) AI Agents
5 4 (2.76%) Enterprise Cloud
5 4 (2.76%) Security Posture
6 3 (2.07%) Cloud Security Posture
7 2 (1.38%) Mobile App
7 2 (1.38%) Product Ownership
7 2 (1.38%) Self-Motivation
8 1 (0.69%) Culture of Ownership
8 1 (0.69%) Legacy Systems
8 1 (0.69%) Public Cloud
Operating Systems
1 23 (15.86%) Linux
2 7 (4.83%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 5 (3.45%) CentOS
4 4 (2.76%) Debian
4 4 (2.76%) Ubuntu
5 3 (2.07%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 112 (77.24%) CI/CD
2 110 (75.86%) DevOps
3 82 (56.55%) Infrastructure as Code
4 73 (50.34%) Containerisation
5 48 (33.10%) Agile
6 41 (28.28%) Software Engineering
7 36 (24.83%) AI
7 36 (24.83%) Platform Engineering
8 32 (22.07%) Microservices
9 31 (21.38%) Continuous Improvement
9 31 (21.38%) Site Reliability Engineering
10 29 (20.00%) Mentoring
10 29 (20.00%) Observability
10 29 (20.00%) Problem-Solving
11 23 (15.86%) Clean Code
11 23 (15.86%) Scrum
12 21 (14.48%) TDD
13 20 (13.79%) Collaborative Culture
14 15 (10.34%) Cloud Security
15 13 (8.97%) Event-Driven
Programming Languages
1 57 (39.31%) Python
2 43 (29.66%) Java
3 22 (15.17%) Bash
4 21 (14.48%) TypeScript
5 16 (11.03%) SQL
6 15 (10.34%) C#
7 14 (9.66%) JavaScript
7 14 (9.66%) PowerShell
8 12 (8.28%) Go
9 3 (2.07%) Bicep
9 3 (2.07%) Kotlin
9 3 (2.07%) Scala
10 1 (0.69%) C
Qualifications
1 52 (35.86%) Security Cleared
2 28 (19.31%) DV Cleared
2 28 (19.31%) SC Cleared
3 6 (4.14%) Azure Certification
4 4 (2.76%) Computer Science Degree
4 4 (2.76%) Degree
5 3 (2.07%) AWS Certification
6 2 (1.38%) Microsoft Certified Professional
7 1 (0.69%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (2.76%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 3 (2.07%) PCI DSS
2 3 (2.07%) SOC 2
3 1 (0.69%) QA
System Software
1 87 (60.00%) Docker
2 4 (2.76%) Virtual Machines
3 3 (2.07%) VMware Infrastructure
4 2 (1.38%) Active Directory
5 1 (0.69%) VMware NSX
5 1 (0.69%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 91 (62.76%) Terraform
2 41 (28.28%) Ansible
3 16 (11.03%) Grafana
4 14 (9.66%) Prometheus
5 6 (4.14%) Argo
6 4 (2.76%) Istio
6 4 (2.76%) Progress Chef
6 4 (2.76%) Puppet
7 3 (2.07%) linkerd
8 2 (1.38%) Microsoft Intune
8 2 (1.38%) Packer
Vendors
1 14 (9.66%) Google
2 6 (4.14%) Microsoft
2 6 (4.14%) OpenAI
3 4 (2.76%) VMware
4 3 (2.07%) Dynatrace
4 3 (2.07%) Splunk
5 2 (1.38%) Pega
5 2 (1.38%) Red Hat
5 2 (1.38%) SaltStack
5 2 (1.38%) WSO2
6 1 (0.69%) Databricks