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 13 October 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
13 Oct 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 60 53 49
Rank change year-on-year -7 -4 -32
Permanent jobs citing Kubernetes 183 111 171
As % of all permanent jobs in Manchester 2.39% 4.74% 4.43%
As % of the Systems Management category 54.95% 41.73% 51.82%
Number of salaries quoted 129 49 66
10th Percentile £47,500 £55,500 £42,500
25th Percentile £60,000 £61,250 £52,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £75,000 £67,500 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year +11.11% +12.50% -20.00%
75th Percentile £90,000 £82,500 £75,000
90th Percentile £96,500 £97,500 £87,750
North West median annual salary £72,500 £65,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year +11.54% +8.33% -17.24%

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 333 266 330
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Manchester 4.34% 11.36% 8.54%
Number of salaries quoted 226 125 137
10th Percentile £31,875 £27,400 £35,750
25th Percentile £45,313 £33,125 £41,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £57,500 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year +13.04% +9.52% -22.22%
75th Percentile £80,000 £68,750 £68,750
90th Percentile £95,000 £83,250 £82,250
North West median annual salary £55,000 £48,720 £50,000
% change year-on-year +12.89% -2.56% -21.88%

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 13 October 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 13 October 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 +6 9 £65,000 - 3
Stockport +4 7 £72,500 - 4
Salford -16 3 £90,000 - 2
Wigan 0 1 - -
Bolton -1 1 £35,000 - 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 (1.64%) OpenStack
2 2 (1.09%) Apache
2 2 (1.09%) Apache Spark
2 2 (1.09%) Confluence
3 1 (0.55%) IIS
Cloud Services
1 117 (63.93%) AWS
2 54 (29.51%) Azure
3 38 (20.77%) GitHub
4 35 (19.13%) GCP
5 24 (13.11%) Serverless
6 22 (12.02%) AWS CloudFormation
7 17 (9.29%) OpenShift
8 15 (8.20%) GitHub Actions
9 10 (5.46%) Google Kubernetes Engine
9 10 (5.46%) SaaS
10 8 (4.37%) AWS Lambda
11 7 (3.83%) Azure AKS
11 7 (3.83%) Virtual Private Cloud
12 6 (3.28%) Amazon CloudWatch
12 6 (3.28%) Amazon ECS
12 6 (3.28%) GitHub Copilot
13 5 (2.73%) Amazon EKS
13 5 (2.73%) Azure DevOps
14 4 (2.19%) Google Compute Engine
14 4 (2.19%) PaaS
Communications & Networking
1 3 (1.64%) AMQP
1 3 (1.64%) Firewall
1 3 (1.64%) Network Security
1 3 (1.64%) Software-Defined Networking
2 2 (1.09%) DNS
3 1 (0.55%) DHCP
3 1 (0.55%) HTTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 19 (10.38%) MongoDB
2 17 (9.29%) PostgreSQL
3 5 (2.73%) Chroma
3 5 (2.73%) Elasticsearch
3 5 (2.73%) NoSQL
3 5 (2.73%) Pinecone
4 4 (2.19%) Neo4j
5 3 (1.64%) Redis
6 2 (1.09%) Amazon Aurora
6 2 (1.09%) Big Data
6 2 (1.09%) Cloudera CDH
6 2 (1.09%) Hadoop
6 2 (1.09%) Relational Database
6 2 (1.09%) SQL Server
7 1 (0.55%) Amazon RDS
7 1 (0.55%) DynamoDB
7 1 (0.55%) MySQL
7 1 (0.55%) Weaviate
Development Applications
1 35 (19.13%) Git
2 30 (16.39%) GitLab
2 30 (16.39%) Jenkins
3 8 (4.37%) Atlassian Bamboo
4 6 (3.28%) JIRA
5 5 (2.73%) Cypress.io
6 4 (2.19%) Artifactory
6 4 (2.19%) Cucumber
6 4 (2.19%) Robot Framework
6 4 (2.19%) Vagrant
6 4 (2.19%) Vite
7 3 (1.64%) Postman
7 3 (1.64%) Selenium
8 2 (1.09%) Bitbucket
8 2 (1.09%) Claude Code
8 2 (1.09%) Mocha
9 1 (0.55%) Gemini Tracker
9 1 (0.55%) Maven
9 1 (0.55%) Octopus Deploy
General
1 33 (18.03%) Social Skills
2 12 (6.56%) Public Sector
2 12 (6.56%) Publishing
3 7 (3.83%) Finance
4 5 (2.73%) Aerospace
4 5 (2.73%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 4 (2.19%) Analytical Skills
6 1 (0.55%) iGaming
Job Titles
1 68 (37.16%) DevOps Engineer
2 52 (28.42%) Senior
3 30 (16.39%) Software Engineer
4 27 (14.75%) Cloud Engineer
5 22 (12.02%) Developer
5 22 (12.02%) Lead
6 20 (10.93%) Principal Engineer
7 14 (7.65%) Principal DevOps Engineer
7 14 (7.65%) Senior Software Engineer
8 13 (7.10%) Cloud Native Engineer
8 13 (7.10%) Senior DevOps
8 13 (7.10%) Senior DevOps Engineer
9 12 (6.56%) Platform Engineer
9 12 (6.56%) Senior Developer
10 9 (4.92%) AWS Engineer
10 9 (4.92%) Java Developer
11 8 (4.37%) AWS DevOps
11 8 (4.37%) AWS DevOps Engineer
11 8 (4.37%) Lead DevOps
11 8 (4.37%) Senior Java Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 116 (63.39%) Terraform
2 60 (32.79%) Spring
3 57 (31.15%) Spring Boot
4 47 (25.68%) React
5 25 (13.66%) Kafka
6 15 (8.20%) AngularJS
7 13 (7.10%) Node.js
7 13 (7.10%) Vue
8 11 (6.01%) REST
9 10 (5.46%) .NET
9 10 (5.46%) FastAPI
9 10 (5.46%) LangChain
10 9 (4.92%) RESTful
11 7 (3.83%) CrewAI
11 7 (3.83%) LangGraph
12 6 (3.28%) Next.js
12 6 (3.28%) OpenAPI
12 6 (3.28%) Swagger
13 5 (2.73%) OpenID
13 5 (2.73%) RabbitMQ
Miscellaneous
1 61 (33.33%) Cloud Native
2 12 (6.56%) Media Streaming
2 12 (6.56%) Podcast
3 10 (5.46%) Distributed Systems
4 6 (3.28%) AI Agents
5 5 (2.73%) Hybrid Cloud
6 4 (2.19%) Security Posture
7 3 (1.64%) Cloud Security Posture
7 3 (1.64%) Greenfield Project
7 3 (1.64%) Social Media
8 2 (1.09%) Cyber Defence
8 2 (1.09%) Cyber Threat
8 2 (1.09%) Hackathon
8 2 (1.09%) Product Ownership
9 1 (0.55%) Culture of Ownership
9 1 (0.55%) Data Centre
9 1 (0.55%) Enterprise Cloud
9 1 (0.55%) Legacy Systems
9 1 (0.55%) Online Gambling
9 1 (0.55%) Public Cloud
Operating Systems
1 34 (18.58%) Linux
2 9 (4.92%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 8 (4.37%) CentOS
3 8 (4.37%) Windows
4 3 (1.64%) Ubuntu
5 2 (1.09%) Debian
5 2 (1.09%) Unix
6 1 (0.55%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 135 (73.77%) CI/CD
2 131 (71.58%) DevOps
3 97 (53.01%) Infrastructure as Code
4 86 (46.99%) Containerisation
5 77 (42.08%) Agile
6 54 (29.51%) AI
7 53 (28.96%) Software Engineering
8 49 (26.78%) Mentoring
9 46 (25.14%) Microservices
10 44 (24.04%) Site Reliability Engineering
11 42 (22.95%) Continuous Improvement
12 41 (22.40%) Observability
13 40 (21.86%) Platform Engineering
14 37 (20.22%) Problem-Solving
15 26 (14.21%) Event-Driven
16 25 (13.66%) Technical Leadership
17 23 (12.57%) Cloud Security
18 22 (12.02%) Code Quality
19 21 (11.48%) Scrum
19 21 (11.48%) Stakeholder Management
Programming Languages
1 82 (44.81%) Python
2 79 (43.17%) Java
3 39 (21.31%) TypeScript
4 36 (19.67%) Bash
5 23 (12.57%) JavaScript
6 18 (9.84%) Go
6 18 (9.84%) PowerShell
7 11 (6.01%) SQL
8 10 (5.46%) C#
9 5 (2.73%) Kotlin
9 5 (2.73%) Rust
10 3 (1.64%) Bicep
10 3 (1.64%) C++
10 3 (1.64%) Scala
11 1 (0.55%) C
11 1 (0.55%) Objective-C
11 1 (0.55%) PL/SQL
11 1 (0.55%) VB.NET
Qualifications
1 82 (44.81%) Security Cleared
2 53 (28.96%) DV Cleared
3 40 (21.86%) SC Cleared
4 8 (4.37%) AWS Certification
5 6 (3.28%) Azure Certification
6 5 (2.73%) Degree
7 3 (1.64%) Computer Science Degree
8 2 (1.09%) Microsoft Certification
8 2 (1.09%) Microsoft Certified Professional
9 1 (0.55%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
9 1 (0.55%) BPSS Clearance
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (2.73%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 4 (2.19%) PCI DSS
3 3 (1.64%) QA
3 3 (1.64%) SOC 2
4 1 (0.55%) Cyber Essentials
System Software
1 115 (62.84%) Docker
2 6 (3.28%) VMware Infrastructure
3 4 (2.19%) Virtual Machines
3 4 (2.19%) VMware ESXi
3 4 (2.19%) VMware NSX
4 3 (1.64%) Ceph
5 2 (1.09%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 67 (36.61%) Ansible
2 16 (8.74%) Prometheus
3 15 (8.20%) Grafana
4 12 (6.56%) Puppet
5 11 (6.01%) Argo
6 10 (5.46%) Progress Chef
7 7 (3.83%) Istio
8 4 (2.19%) linkerd
8 4 (2.19%) Packer
8 4 (2.19%) vCenter Server
9 3 (1.64%) Check_MK
9 3 (1.64%) Podman
9 3 (1.64%) Single Sign-On
10 1 (0.55%) Opsview
Vendors
1 16 (8.74%) Google
2 12 (6.56%) Microsoft
3 8 (4.37%) OpenAI
4 7 (3.83%) VMware
5 6 (3.28%) Mistral
6 5 (2.73%) Red Hat
7 4 (2.19%) YouTube
8 3 (1.64%) Dell
8 3 (1.64%) Dynatrace
8 3 (1.64%) Splunk
9 2 (1.09%) SaltStack
10 1 (0.55%) CrowdStrike
10 1 (0.55%) Databricks
10 1 (0.55%) New Relic
10 1 (0.55%) Oracle