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 3 August 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
3 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 57 43 50
Rank change year-on-year -14 +7 -30
Permanent jobs citing Kubernetes 152 154 187
As % of all permanent jobs in Manchester 2.28% 6.12% 4.16%
As % of the Systems Management category 41.99% 42.66% 43.39%
Number of salaries quoted 125 84 88
10th Percentile £47,500 £47,875 £44,250
25th Percentile £58,750 £61,250 £52,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £71,500 £73,750 £67,500
Median % change year-on-year -3.05% +9.26% -10.00%
75th Percentile £87,500 £93,778 £80,313
90th Percentile £96,250 £105,100 £92,875
North West median annual salary £71,500 £72,500 £65,000
% change year-on-year -1.38% +11.54% -10.34%

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 362 361 431
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Manchester 5.42% 14.35% 9.58%
Number of salaries quoted 293 200 265
10th Percentile £35,150 £32,500 £33,750
25th Percentile £47,500 £42,688 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,500 £65,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year +0.77% +8.33% -13.60%
75th Percentile £80,000 £77,500 £75,000
90th Percentile £90,000 £93,778 £83,900
North West median annual salary £62,500 £60,500 £55,000
% change year-on-year +3.31% +10.00% -15.38%

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 3 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 3 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
Altrincham +4 9 £65,000 - 1
Stockport +4 4 £75,000 - 7
Salford -18 3 £90,000 +20.00% 2
Bolton +14 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 5 (3.29%) OpenStack
2 2 (1.32%) Apache
2 2 (1.32%) Apache Spark
3 1 (0.66%) Microsoft Exchange
Applications
1 1 (0.66%) Chatbot
Cloud Services
1 98 (64.47%) AWS
2 57 (37.50%) Azure
3 35 (23.03%) GCP
4 33 (21.71%) GitHub
5 28 (18.42%) Serverless
6 22 (14.47%) AWS CloudFormation
7 16 (10.53%) GitHub Actions
8 12 (7.89%) Amazon EKS
8 12 (7.89%) Google Kubernetes Engine
9 11 (7.24%) Azure AKS
10 10 (6.58%) Amazon ECS
10 10 (6.58%) OpenShift
10 10 (6.58%) SaaS
11 8 (5.26%) AWS Lambda
12 7 (4.61%) Azure DevOps
12 7 (4.61%) Datadog
12 7 (4.61%) Virtual Private Cloud
13 5 (3.29%) GitHub Copilot
14 4 (2.63%) Cloud Functions
14 4 (2.63%) Google Compute Engine
Communications & Networking
1 6 (3.95%) Firewall
2 3 (1.97%) Network Security
3 2 (1.32%) AMQP
3 2 (1.32%) DNS
3 2 (1.32%) Software-Defined Networking
3 2 (1.32%) TCP/IP
4 1 (0.66%) HTTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 19 (12.50%) PostgreSQL
2 15 (9.87%) MongoDB
3 11 (7.24%) NoSQL
4 5 (3.29%) Relational Database
5 4 (2.63%) Elasticsearch
5 4 (2.63%) Neo4j
6 3 (1.97%) Pinecone
6 3 (1.97%) SQL Server
7 2 (1.32%) Amazon Aurora
7 2 (1.32%) Big Data
7 2 (1.32%) Cloudera CDH
7 2 (1.32%) Hadoop
8 1 (0.66%) Amazon RDS
8 1 (0.66%) DynamoDB
8 1 (0.66%) Redis
8 1 (0.66%) Weaviate
Development Applications
1 28 (18.42%) Git
2 25 (16.45%) Jenkins
3 20 (13.16%) GitLab
4 5 (3.29%) Atlassian Bamboo
5 4 (2.63%) Cucumber
5 4 (2.63%) Cypress.io
5 4 (2.63%) Robot Framework
5 4 (2.63%) Vite
6 3 (1.97%) Postman
6 3 (1.97%) Selenium
7 2 (1.32%) Bitbucket
7 2 (1.32%) JIRA
8 1 (0.66%) Claude Code
8 1 (0.66%) Gemini Tracker
8 1 (0.66%) Mocha
8 1 (0.66%) Vagrant
General
1 15 (9.87%) Social Skills
2 7 (4.61%) Finance
2 7 (4.61%) Public Sector
3 4 (2.63%) Analytical Skills
3 4 (2.63%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 3 (1.97%) Aerospace
5 2 (1.32%) Retail
Job Titles
1 51 (33.55%) DevOps Engineer
2 39 (25.66%) Senior
3 31 (20.39%) Cloud Engineer
4 25 (16.45%) Software Engineer
5 18 (11.84%) Lead
6 17 (11.18%) Developer
7 15 (9.87%) Principal Engineer
8 12 (7.89%) Java Developer
9 10 (6.58%) Cloud Native Engineer
9 10 (6.58%) Senior Developer
9 10 (6.58%) Senior Java Developer
10 9 (5.92%) Platform Engineer
10 9 (5.92%) Senior DevOps
10 9 (5.92%) Senior DevOps Engineer
11 8 (5.26%) Azure Engineer
11 8 (5.26%) Lead Software Engineer
11 8 (5.26%) Principal DevOps Engineer
12 7 (4.61%) Cloud Platform Engineer
12 7 (4.61%) Senior Software Engineer
13 6 (3.95%) Senior Software Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 36 (23.68%) Spring
2 35 (23.03%) Spring Boot
3 26 (17.11%) React
4 15 (9.87%) .NET
4 15 (9.87%) AngularJS
5 14 (9.21%) RESTful
5 14 (9.21%) Vue
6 12 (7.89%) FastAPI
7 9 (5.92%) Node.js
8 8 (5.26%) Django
8 8 (5.26%) LangChain
8 8 (5.26%) REST
9 7 (4.61%) Kafka
10 5 (3.29%) CrewAI
10 5 (3.29%) Hibernate
10 5 (3.29%) LangGraph
10 5 (3.29%) OAuth
10 5 (3.29%) OpenID
10 5 (3.29%) SAML
10 5 (3.29%) Swagger
Miscellaneous
1 59 (38.82%) Cloud Native
2 18 (11.84%) Distributed Systems
3 8 (5.26%) Hybrid Cloud
4 5 (3.29%) AI Agents
5 4 (2.63%) Enterprise Cloud
5 4 (2.63%) Security Posture
6 3 (1.97%) Cloud Security Posture
6 3 (1.97%) Social Media
7 2 (1.32%) Legacy Systems
7 2 (1.32%) Product Ownership
8 1 (0.66%) Culture of Ownership
8 1 (0.66%) Greenfield Project
8 1 (0.66%) Management Information System
8 1 (0.66%) Mobile App
8 1 (0.66%) Online Gambling
8 1 (0.66%) Public Cloud
8 1 (0.66%) Self-Motivation
8 1 (0.66%) Video\Live Streaming
Operating Systems
1 25 (16.45%) Linux
2 7 (4.61%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 5 (3.29%) CentOS
4 3 (1.97%) Debian
4 3 (1.97%) Ubuntu
4 3 (1.97%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 117 (76.97%) CI/CD
2 114 (75.00%) DevOps
3 87 (57.24%) Infrastructure as Code
4 74 (48.68%) Containerisation
5 49 (32.24%) Agile
6 41 (26.97%) AI
7 39 (25.66%) Software Engineering
8 36 (23.68%) Platform Engineering
9 35 (23.03%) Site Reliability Engineering
10 32 (21.05%) Microservices
11 31 (20.39%) Mentoring
11 31 (20.39%) Observability
12 30 (19.74%) Continuous Improvement
12 30 (19.74%) Problem-Solving
13 21 (13.82%) Clean Code
14 20 (13.16%) Collaborative Culture
14 20 (13.16%) Scrum
14 20 (13.16%) TDD
15 16 (10.53%) Cloud Security
16 14 (9.21%) Event-Driven
Programming Languages
1 62 (40.79%) Python
2 45 (29.61%) Java
3 25 (16.45%) Bash
4 19 (12.50%) TypeScript
5 16 (10.53%) Go
6 15 (9.87%) C#
6 15 (9.87%) SQL
7 14 (9.21%) JavaScript
7 14 (9.21%) PowerShell
8 3 (1.97%) Bicep
8 3 (1.97%) Kotlin
8 3 (1.97%) Scala
9 1 (0.66%) C++
9 1 (0.66%) VB.NET
Qualifications
1 54 (35.53%) Security Cleared
2 30 (19.74%) DV Cleared
3 28 (18.42%) SC Cleared
4 6 (3.95%) Azure Certification
5 5 (3.29%) AWS Certification
5 5 (3.29%) Computer Science Degree
5 5 (3.29%) Degree
6 2 (1.32%) Microsoft Certified Professional
7 1 (0.66%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (2.63%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 3 (1.97%) PCI DSS
2 3 (1.97%) SOC 2
3 2 (1.32%) QA
System Software
1 94 (61.84%) Docker
2 4 (2.63%) Virtual Machines
3 3 (1.97%) Ceph
3 3 (1.97%) VMware Infrastructure
4 2 (1.32%) Active Directory
5 1 (0.66%) VMware NSX
5 1 (0.66%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 95 (62.50%) Terraform
2 48 (31.58%) Ansible
3 18 (11.84%) Prometheus
4 17 (11.18%) Grafana
5 9 (5.92%) Argo
6 8 (5.26%) Istio
7 7 (4.61%) Puppet
8 6 (3.95%) Progress Chef
9 4 (2.63%) linkerd
10 3 (1.97%) Check_MK
10 3 (1.97%) Podman
11 1 (0.66%) Microsoft Intune
11 1 (0.66%) Packer
Vendors
1 15 (9.87%) Google
2 6 (3.95%) Microsoft
2 6 (3.95%) OpenAI
3 5 (3.29%) Red Hat
4 4 (2.63%) VMware
5 3 (1.97%) Dell
5 3 (1.97%) Dynatrace
5 3 (1.97%) Splunk
6 2 (1.32%) Pega
6 2 (1.32%) SaltStack
6 2 (1.32%) WSO2
7 1 (0.66%) Databricks