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 vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 19 September 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
19 Sep 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 45 51 17
Rank change year-on-year +6 -34 +4
Permanent jobs citing Kubernetes 126 167 313
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Manchester 5.32% 4.10% 11.20%
As % of the Systems Management category 40.00% 41.23% 56.91%
Number of salaries quoted 59 65 261
10th Percentile £54,500 £41,750 £48,750
25th Percentile £61,875 £52,500 £60,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £67,500 £63,000 £75,000
Median % change year-on-year +7.14% -16.00% +7.14%
75th Percentile £82,625 £81,250 £80,000
90th Percentile £91,500 £88,000 £87,419
North West median annual salary £67,500 £63,000 £75,000
% change year-on-year +7.14% -16.00% +7.14%

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 315 405 550
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Manchester 13.30% 9.94% 19.69%
Number of salaries quoted 167 182 457
10th Percentile £28,000 £36,250 £39,700
25th Percentile £37,500 £45,000 £52,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £60,000 £67,500
Median % change year-on-year - -11.11% +12.50%
75th Percentile £75,000 £75,000 £80,000
90th Percentile £82,600 £84,900 £86,250
North West median annual salary £55,000 £53,250 £65,000
% change year-on-year +3.29% -18.08% +8.33%

Kubernetes
Job Vacancy Trend in Manchester

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

Job vacancy trend for Kubernetes 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 19 September 2025.

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 19 September 2025. 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 +1 11 £65,000 - 1
Salford +4 5 £75,000 +8.21% 2
Oldham - 4 £65,000 -
Bolton -1 3 - - 5
Wigan -1 3 - -
Stockport -3 3 - - 1
Sale - 3 - -
Ashton-under-Lyne - 3 - -
Bury - 1 £60,000 -
Kubernetes
North West

Kubernetes
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Manchester 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 15 (11.90%) Confluence
2 2 (1.59%) Microsoft Exchange
3 1 (0.79%) Apache
3 1 (0.79%) Apache Spark
3 1 (0.79%) IIS
3 1 (0.79%) JBoss
3 1 (0.79%) SharePoint
3 1 (0.79%) WebSphere
Cloud Services
1 98 (77.78%) AWS
2 69 (54.76%) Azure
3 37 (29.37%) GCP
4 12 (9.52%) GitHub
4 12 (9.52%) Serverless
5 11 (8.73%) AWS Lambda
6 10 (7.94%) Azure DevOps
7 6 (4.76%) Amazon CloudWatch
7 6 (4.76%) AWS CloudFormation
8 5 (3.97%) Amazon EC2
9 4 (3.17%) AWS CodeBuild
9 4 (3.17%) Route 53
9 4 (3.17%) Virtual Private Cloud
10 3 (2.38%) Amazon EKS
10 3 (2.38%) Amazon S3
10 3 (2.38%) SaaS
11 2 (1.59%) Amazon SQS
11 2 (1.59%) Azure AKS
11 2 (1.59%) GitHub Actions
11 2 (1.59%) Vercel
Communications & Networking
1 1 (0.79%) DNS
1 1 (0.79%) Firewall
1 1 (0.79%) VLAN
1 1 (0.79%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 32 (25.40%) SQL Server
2 26 (20.63%) NoSQL
3 14 (11.11%) PostgreSQL
4 10 (7.94%) DynamoDB
5 9 (7.14%) MongoDB
6 3 (2.38%) Big Data
7 2 (1.59%) MySQL
8 1 (0.79%) Amazon RDS
8 1 (0.79%) Apache Cassandra
8 1 (0.79%) Delta Lake
8 1 (0.79%) DocumentDB
8 1 (0.79%) Metadata
8 1 (0.79%) Relational Database
8 1 (0.79%) Spark SQL
Development Applications
1 40 (31.75%) GitLab
2 34 (26.98%) JIRA
3 33 (26.19%) Cucumber
3 33 (26.19%) Selenium
4 29 (23.02%) Maven
4 29 (23.02%) Sonatype Nexus
5 28 (22.22%) SonarQube
6 27 (21.43%) Bitbucket
7 14 (11.11%) Jenkins
8 4 (3.17%) CircleCI
8 4 (3.17%) Git
9 1 (0.79%) Ant
9 1 (0.79%) Artifactory
9 1 (0.79%) Atlassian Bamboo
9 1 (0.79%) JUnit
9 1 (0.79%) MLflow
General
1 49 (38.89%) Finance
2 30 (23.81%) Banking
3 27 (21.43%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 26 (20.63%) Retail
5 20 (15.87%) Social Skills
6 18 (14.29%) Corporate Banking
6 18 (14.29%) Investment Banking
7 10 (7.94%) Games
8 4 (3.17%) Marketing
9 3 (2.38%) Analytical Skills
10 2 (1.59%) Advertising
10 2 (1.59%) Cantonese Language
10 2 (1.59%) Mandarin Language
10 2 (1.59%) Telecoms
11 1 (0.79%) Digital Health
11 1 (0.79%) Health Technology
11 1 (0.79%) Legal
11 1 (0.79%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 45 (35.71%) Software Engineer
2 40 (31.75%) Senior
3 20 (15.87%) Developer
4 15 (11.90%) Architect
4 15 (11.90%) AWS Architect
4 15 (11.90%) Java Developer
5 14 (11.11%) AWS DevOps
5 14 (11.11%) AWS Solution Architect
5 14 (11.11%) DevOps Engineer
5 14 (11.11%) Senior Developer
5 14 (11.11%) Senior Java Developer
5 14 (11.11%) Solutions Architect
6 12 (9.52%) DevOps Architect
6 12 (9.52%) Senior Architect
6 12 (9.52%) Senior DevOps
6 12 (9.52%) Senior Solutions Architect
6 12 (9.52%) TOGAF Architect
7 9 (7.14%) Azure Engineer
7 9 (7.14%) Lead
8 8 (6.35%) Java Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 50 (39.68%) React
2 45 (35.71%) Spring
3 44 (34.92%) Spring Boot
4 42 (33.33%) Kafka
5 31 (24.60%) CSS
5 31 (24.60%) HTML
6 27 (21.43%) JPA
6 27 (21.43%) Redux
7 23 (18.25%) RESTful
8 20 (15.87%) CSS3
8 20 (15.87%) HTML5
8 20 (15.87%) REST
9 18 (14.29%) Jest
9 18 (14.29%) Sass
10 16 (12.70%) Hibernate
11 11 (8.73%) .NET
12 8 (6.35%) Amazon Corretto
13 7 (5.56%) ARM Templates
13 7 (5.56%) Elastic Stack
14 5 (3.97%) Lambda Expressions
Miscellaneous
1 36 (28.57%) Product Ownership
2 29 (23.02%) Cloud Native
3 27 (21.43%) Enterprise Software
4 13 (10.32%) Management Information System
5 10 (7.94%) Distributed Systems
6 9 (7.14%) Hybrid Cloud
7 8 (6.35%) e-Learning
8 6 (4.76%) Wiki
9 4 (3.17%) Team-Oriented Environment
10 2 (1.59%) Data Protection Act
10 2 (1.59%) Online Games
10 2 (1.59%) Tandem
11 1 (0.79%) Data Centre
11 1 (0.79%) Greenfield Project
11 1 (0.79%) Legacy Systems
11 1 (0.79%) Linux Command Line
11 1 (0.79%) Low-Code
11 1 (0.79%) Mobile App
11 1 (0.79%) Private Cloud
11 1 (0.79%) Security Posture
Operating Systems
1 13 (10.32%) Linux
2 6 (4.76%) Ubuntu
3 5 (3.97%) Debian
4 3 (2.38%) Unix
4 3 (2.38%) Windows
5 2 (1.59%) CentOS
5 2 (1.59%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 1 (0.79%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 105 (83.33%) DevOps
2 90 (71.43%) CI/CD
3 75 (59.52%) Containerisation
4 70 (55.56%) Microservices
5 69 (54.76%) Agile
6 57 (45.24%) Software Engineering
7 42 (33.33%) Test Automation
8 40 (31.75%) Full-Stack Development
9 36 (28.57%) Front End Development
9 36 (28.57%) User Experience
10 35 (27.78%) Performance Optimisation
11 33 (26.19%) Mentoring
12 32 (25.40%) SDLC
13 29 (23.02%) TDD
14 28 (22.22%) Infrastructure as Code
15 27 (21.43%) Clean Code
16 23 (18.25%) Problem-Solving
16 23 (18.25%) Roadmaps
17 20 (15.87%) Migration
18 18 (14.29%) Strategic Thinking
Programming Languages
1 73 (57.94%) Java
2 51 (40.48%) SQL
3 36 (28.57%) JavaScript
3 36 (28.57%) Python
3 36 (28.57%) TypeScript
4 23 (18.25%) C#
5 13 (10.32%) Bash
6 4 (3.17%) Shell Script
7 3 (2.38%) PowerShell
8 2 (1.59%) Go
9 1 (0.79%) Groovy
9 1 (0.79%) Rust
Qualifications
1 20 (15.87%) Azure Certification
2 14 (11.11%) AWS Certification
3 12 (9.52%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
4 6 (4.76%) Degree
5 5 (3.97%) Security Cleared
6 4 (3.17%) Computer Science Degree
7 3 (2.38%) DV Cleared
7 3 (2.38%) SC Cleared
8 1 (0.79%) Linux+ Certification
8 1 (0.79%) RHCE
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 30 (23.81%) QA
2 18 (14.29%) Accessibility
3 17 (13.49%) GDPR
4 13 (10.32%) HIPAA
5 12 (9.52%) NIST
System Software
1 103 (81.75%) Docker
2 2 (1.59%) Active Directory
3 1 (0.79%) Dovecot
3 1 (0.79%) Hyper-V
3 1 (0.79%) Postfix
3 1 (0.79%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 45 (35.71%) Terraform
2 20 (15.87%) Ansible
3 7 (5.56%) Grafana
3 7 (5.56%) Prometheus
4 3 (2.38%) Progress Chef
4 3 (2.38%) Puppet
5 1 (0.79%) Argo
5 1 (0.79%) Istio
5 1 (0.79%) Karpenter
5 1 (0.79%) Kubeflow
5 1 (0.79%) Podman
5 1 (0.79%) Proxmox
5 1 (0.79%) Rancher
Vendors
1 27 (21.43%) Solace
2 14 (11.11%) Google
3 9 (7.14%) Microsoft
4 4 (3.17%) Splunk
5 2 (1.59%) Red Hat
6 1 (0.79%) Databricks
6 1 (0.79%) Dell
6 1 (0.79%) Okta
6 1 (0.79%) Ping Identity
6 1 (0.79%) VMware