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 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 61 47 50
Rank change year-on-year -14 +3 -34
Permanent jobs citing Kubernetes 157 138 181
As % of all permanent jobs in Manchester 2.21% 5.55% 4.20%
As % of the Systems Management category 53.40% 46.62% 54.03%
Number of salaries quoted 128 71 74
10th Percentile £47,500 £53,750 £42,500
25th Percentile £58,438 £61,875 £49,375
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £72,500 £70,000 £62,750
Median % change year-on-year +3.57% +11.55% -16.33%
75th Percentile £87,500 £88,125 £75,000
90th Percentile £96,250 £112,500 £87,100
North West median annual salary £72,250 £70,000 £62,750
% change year-on-year +3.21% +11.55% -16.33%

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 294 296 335
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Manchester 4.13% 11.90% 7.78%
Number of salaries quoted 228 145 165
10th Percentile £32,675 £28,000 £33,750
25th Percentile £45,938 £36,250 £41,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £60,000 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year +8.33% +14.29% -25.00%
75th Percentile £80,000 £76,250 £72,500
90th Percentile £92,500 £93,767 £81,250
North West median annual salary £57,500 £58,625 £48,256
% change year-on-year -1.92% +21.49% -28.51%

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 31 August 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 31 August 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
Stockport +7 6 £72,500 - 2
Altrincham +5 6 £65,000 -
Salford -24 3 £90,000 +20.00% 7
Bolton +16 1 £35,000 - 2
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 5 (3.18%) OpenStack
2 2 (1.27%) Apache
2 2 (1.27%) Apache Spark
Applications
1 1 (0.64%) Chatbot
Cloud Services
1 101 (64.33%) AWS
2 56 (35.67%) Azure
3 36 (22.93%) GCP
4 34 (21.66%) GitHub
5 25 (15.92%) Serverless
6 23 (14.65%) AWS CloudFormation
7 16 (10.19%) OpenShift
8 15 (9.55%) GitHub Actions
9 11 (7.01%) Google Kubernetes Engine
9 11 (7.01%) SaaS
10 9 (5.73%) Amazon ECS
10 9 (5.73%) Amazon EKS
11 8 (5.10%) AWS Lambda
11 8 (5.10%) Virtual Private Cloud
12 7 (4.46%) Azure AKS
12 7 (4.46%) Azure DevOps
12 7 (4.46%) Datadog
13 5 (3.18%) GitHub Copilot
14 4 (2.55%) Amazon CloudWatch
14 4 (2.55%) Google Compute Engine
Communications & Networking
1 4 (2.55%) Firewall
2 3 (1.91%) Network Security
2 3 (1.91%) Software-Defined Networking
3 2 (1.27%) AMQP
4 1 (0.64%) DNS
4 1 (0.64%) HTTP
4 1 (0.64%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 18 (11.46%) PostgreSQL
2 14 (8.92%) MongoDB
3 7 (4.46%) NoSQL
4 5 (3.18%) Elasticsearch
5 4 (2.55%) Neo4j
5 4 (2.55%) Relational Database
6 3 (1.91%) Chroma
6 3 (1.91%) Pinecone
6 3 (1.91%) SQL Server
7 2 (1.27%) Amazon Aurora
7 2 (1.27%) Big Data
7 2 (1.27%) Cloudera CDH
7 2 (1.27%) Hadoop
8 1 (0.64%) Amazon RDS
8 1 (0.64%) DynamoDB
8 1 (0.64%) Redis
8 1 (0.64%) Weaviate
Development Applications
1 31 (19.75%) Git
2 26 (16.56%) Jenkins
3 22 (14.01%) GitLab
4 6 (3.82%) Atlassian Bamboo
5 5 (3.18%) Cypress.io
6 4 (2.55%) Cucumber
6 4 (2.55%) Robot Framework
6 4 (2.55%) Vite
7 3 (1.91%) Postman
7 3 (1.91%) Selenium
8 2 (1.27%) Bitbucket
8 2 (1.27%) JIRA
8 2 (1.27%) Mocha
9 1 (0.64%) Claude Code
9 1 (0.64%) Gemini Tracker
9 1 (0.64%) Octopus Deploy
General
1 15 (9.55%) Social Skills
2 9 (5.73%) Public Sector
3 7 (4.46%) Finance
4 4 (2.55%) Aerospace
4 4 (2.55%) Analytical Skills
4 4 (2.55%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 2 (1.27%) Retail
6 1 (0.64%) iGaming
Job Titles
1 56 (35.67%) DevOps Engineer
2 39 (24.84%) Senior
3 33 (21.02%) Cloud Engineer
4 20 (12.74%) Developer
5 19 (12.10%) Software Engineer
6 17 (10.83%) Principal Engineer
7 16 (10.19%) Lead
8 11 (7.01%) Cloud Native Engineer
8 11 (7.01%) Java Developer
9 10 (6.37%) Platform Engineer
9 10 (6.37%) Principal DevOps Engineer
9 10 (6.37%) Senior Developer
9 10 (6.37%) Senior DevOps
9 10 (6.37%) Senior DevOps Engineer
10 9 (5.73%) Senior Java Developer
11 7 (4.46%) Azure Engineer
11 7 (4.46%) Cloud Platform Engineer
11 7 (4.46%) Senior Software Engineer
12 6 (3.82%) AWS DevOps
12 6 (3.82%) Lead DevOps
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 102 (64.97%) Terraform
2 38 (24.20%) Spring
3 37 (23.57%) Spring Boot
4 26 (16.56%) React
5 15 (9.55%) AngularJS
6 13 (8.28%) Node.js
6 13 (8.28%) Vue
7 12 (7.64%) .NET
8 11 (7.01%) REST
8 11 (7.01%) RESTful
9 10 (6.37%) FastAPI
10 8 (5.10%) Kafka
10 8 (5.10%) LangChain
11 6 (3.82%) Django
11 6 (3.82%) Next.js
11 6 (3.82%) OpenAPI
11 6 (3.82%) Swagger
12 5 (3.18%) ARM Templates
12 5 (3.18%) CrewAI
12 5 (3.18%) LangGraph
Miscellaneous
1 57 (36.31%) Cloud Native
2 17 (10.83%) Distributed Systems
3 8 (5.10%) Hybrid Cloud
4 5 (3.18%) AI Agents
5 4 (2.55%) Enterprise Cloud
5 4 (2.55%) Security Posture
6 3 (1.91%) Cloud Security Posture
6 3 (1.91%) Social Media
7 2 (1.27%) Greenfield Project
7 2 (1.27%) Product Ownership
8 1 (0.64%) Culture of Ownership
8 1 (0.64%) Data Centre
8 1 (0.64%) Legacy Systems
8 1 (0.64%) Management Information System
8 1 (0.64%) Online Gambling
8 1 (0.64%) Video\Live Streaming
Operating Systems
1 27 (17.20%) Linux
2 8 (5.10%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 6 (3.82%) CentOS
4 4 (2.55%) Windows
5 2 (1.27%) Debian
5 2 (1.27%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 118 (75.16%) CI/CD
2 110 (70.06%) DevOps
3 87 (55.41%) Infrastructure as Code
4 72 (45.86%) Containerisation
5 52 (33.12%) Agile
6 41 (26.11%) AI
7 39 (24.84%) Platform Engineering
7 39 (24.84%) Site Reliability Engineering
8 37 (23.57%) Software Engineering
9 35 (22.29%) Microservices
10 32 (20.38%) Problem-Solving
11 31 (19.75%) Observability
12 30 (19.11%) Continuous Improvement
13 29 (18.47%) Mentoring
14 18 (11.46%) Collaborative Culture
15 16 (10.19%) Clean Code
15 16 (10.19%) Cloud Security
16 15 (9.55%) TDD
16 15 (9.55%) Technical Leadership
16 15 (9.55%) Test Automation
Programming Languages
1 67 (42.68%) Python
2 50 (31.85%) Java
3 28 (17.83%) Bash
4 21 (13.38%) JavaScript
5 20 (12.74%) TypeScript
6 16 (10.19%) Go
7 15 (9.55%) PowerShell
8 12 (7.64%) C#
9 11 (7.01%) SQL
10 4 (2.55%) Kotlin
11 3 (1.91%) Bicep
11 3 (1.91%) C++
11 3 (1.91%) Scala
12 2 (1.27%) Rust
13 1 (0.64%) C
13 1 (0.64%) Objective-C
13 1 (0.64%) VB.NET
Qualifications
1 64 (40.76%) Security Cleared
2 36 (22.93%) DV Cleared
3 34 (21.66%) SC Cleared
4 6 (3.82%) AWS Certification
4 6 (3.82%) Azure Certification
5 4 (2.55%) Computer Science Degree
5 4 (2.55%) Degree
6 2 (1.27%) Microsoft Certified Professional
7 1 (0.64%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (2.55%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 3 (1.91%) PCI DSS
2 3 (1.91%) QA
2 3 (1.91%) SOC 2
System Software
1 101 (64.33%) Docker
2 4 (2.55%) Virtual Machines
2 4 (2.55%) VMware Infrastructure
3 3 (1.91%) Ceph
4 2 (1.27%) Active Directory
4 2 (1.27%) VMware NSX
5 1 (0.64%) VMware ESXi
5 1 (0.64%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 56 (35.67%) Ansible
2 18 (11.46%) Prometheus
3 17 (10.83%) Grafana
4 10 (6.37%) Argo
5 9 (5.73%) Puppet
6 8 (5.10%) Istio
7 6 (3.82%) Progress Chef
8 4 (2.55%) linkerd
9 3 (1.91%) Check_MK
9 3 (1.91%) Podman
10 1 (0.64%) Single Sign-On
10 1 (0.64%) vCenter Server
Vendors
1 15 (9.55%) Google
2 6 (3.82%) Microsoft
2 6 (3.82%) OpenAI
3 5 (3.18%) Red Hat
3 5 (3.18%) VMware
4 4 (2.55%) Mistral
5 3 (1.91%) Dell
5 3 (1.91%) Dynatrace
5 3 (1.91%) Splunk
6 2 (1.27%) Pega
6 2 (1.27%) SaltStack
6 2 (1.27%) WSO2
7 1 (0.64%) Databricks
7 1 (0.64%) New Relic