Kubernetes Jobs in Manchester

Kubernetes (k8s)
North West > Manchester

The table below provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in Manchester requiring Kubernetes skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the annual salaries offered in vacancies that cited Kubernetes over the 6 months leading up to 1 July 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 Jul 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 41 64 27
Rank change year-on-year +23 -37 -5
Permanent jobs citing Kubernetes 163 210 373
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Manchester 6.77% 3.54% 8.51%
As % of the Systems Management category 42.56% 41.50% 54.45%
Number of salaries quoted 94 117 272
10th Percentile £50,250 £45,000 £48,750
25th Percentile £62,500 £53,750 £56,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £78,810 £63,500 £70,000
Median % change year-on-year +24.11% -9.29% -
75th Percentile £95,000 £77,500 £80,000
90th Percentile £112,500 £92,500 £87,419
North West median annual salary £75,000 £62,500 £70,000
% change year-on-year +20.00% -10.71% +3.50%

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 383 506 685
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Manchester 15.91% 8.53% 15.64%
Number of salaries quoted 217 338 479
10th Percentile £32,500 £31,250 £41,250
25th Percentile £45,000 £42,500 £52,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £67,500 £60,000 £67,500
Median % change year-on-year +12.50% -11.11% +12.50%
75th Percentile £80,000 £72,500 £80,000
90th Percentile £97,528 £82,500 £85,000
North West median annual salary £65,000 £55,000 £61,500
% change year-on-year +18.18% -10.57% +2.50%

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

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing Kubernetes in Manchester.

Salary trend for Kubernetes in Manchester

Kubernetes
Salary Histogram in Manchester

Salary distribution for jobs citing Kubernetes in Manchester over the 6 months to 1 July 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 1 July 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 - 12 £65,000 - 16
Salford +12 5 £75,000 +30.43% 7
Stockport +5 3 - - 20
Bolton -12 3 - - 27
Ashton-under-Lyne - 3 - - 12
Wigan - 3 - -
Oldham - 3 - -
Sale - 3 - -
Bury +6 1 £60,000 +9.09% 13
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 26 (15.95%) Confluence
2 4 (2.45%) Microsoft Exchange
2 4 (2.45%) SharePoint
3 1 (0.61%) Apache
3 1 (0.61%) Apache Spark
3 1 (0.61%) CMS
3 1 (0.61%) nginx
Cloud Services
1 115 (70.55%) AWS
2 94 (57.67%) Azure
3 55 (33.74%) GCP
4 14 (8.59%) Azure DevOps
5 13 (7.98%) Serverless
6 12 (7.36%) Amazon EKS
6 12 (7.36%) AWS Lambda
7 11 (6.75%) GitHub
8 10 (6.13%) Azure Machine Learning
9 5 (3.07%) Amazon S3
10 4 (2.45%) Azure Monitor
10 4 (2.45%) Cloud Computing
10 4 (2.45%) Entra ID
10 4 (2.45%) Microsoft 365
10 4 (2.45%) OneDrive
10 4 (2.45%) SaaS
11 3 (1.84%) Amazon ECS
11 3 (1.84%) Cloud Composer
11 3 (1.84%) GitHub Actions
11 3 (1.84%) Google Kubernetes Engine
Communications & Networking
1 2 (1.23%) VPN
2 1 (0.61%) DNS
2 1 (0.61%) Firewall
2 1 (0.61%) HTTP
2 1 (0.61%) VLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 33 (20.25%) SQL Server
2 25 (15.34%) NoSQL
3 17 (10.43%) PostgreSQL
4 13 (7.98%) DynamoDB
5 10 (6.13%) Cloud Spanner
5 10 (6.13%) MongoDB
6 5 (3.07%) Big Data
7 3 (1.84%) BigQuery
7 3 (1.84%) MySQL
7 3 (1.84%) Relational Database
8 2 (1.23%) Amazon Aurora
9 1 (0.61%) Amazon RDS
9 1 (0.61%) Delta Lake
9 1 (0.61%) DocumentDB
9 1 (0.61%) Elasticsearch
9 1 (0.61%) Metadata
9 1 (0.61%) Oracle Exadata
9 1 (0.61%) Spark SQL
Development Applications
1 44 (26.99%) JIRA
2 38 (23.31%) GitLab
2 38 (23.31%) SonarQube
3 35 (21.47%) Selenium
4 33 (20.25%) Cucumber
5 30 (18.40%) Maven
5 30 (18.40%) Sonatype Nexus
6 29 (17.79%) Bitbucket
7 19 (11.66%) Git
8 15 (9.20%) Jenkins
9 3 (1.84%) JUnit
10 2 (1.23%) Atlassian Bamboo
10 2 (1.23%) JMeter
10 2 (1.23%) LoadRunner
10 2 (1.23%) NeoLoad
10 2 (1.23%) REST Assured
10 2 (1.23%) WebDriver
11 1 (0.61%) Karma Test Runner
11 1 (0.61%) MLflow
11 1 (0.61%) PHPUnit
General
1 84 (51.53%) Finance
2 56 (34.36%) Banking
3 41 (25.15%) Social Skills
4 29 (17.79%) Retail
5 27 (16.56%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 19 (11.66%) Analytical Skills
7 18 (11.04%) Corporate Banking
7 18 (11.04%) Investment Banking
8 9 (5.52%) Games
9 5 (3.07%) Marketing
10 3 (1.84%) Telecoms
11 2 (1.23%) Advertising
11 2 (1.23%) Cantonese Language
11 2 (1.23%) Mandarin Language
12 1 (0.61%) Aerospace
12 1 (0.61%) Electronics
12 1 (0.61%) Financial Institution
12 1 (0.61%) Law
12 1 (0.61%) Manufacturing
12 1 (0.61%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 67 (41.10%) Software Engineer
2 49 (30.06%) Senior
3 23 (14.11%) DevOps Engineer
3 23 (14.11%) Lead
4 19 (11.66%) Developer
5 15 (9.20%) Java Developer
5 15 (9.20%) Senior Software Engineer
6 14 (8.59%) Senior Developer
7 13 (7.98%) Architect
7 13 (7.98%) Senior Java Developer
8 12 (7.36%) Solutions Architect
9 11 (6.75%) AWS Architect
9 11 (6.75%) AWS Solution Architect
10 10 (6.13%) AWS DevOps
11 9 (5.52%) Azure Engineer
11 9 (5.52%) DevOps Architect
11 9 (5.52%) Principal Engineer
11 9 (5.52%) Senior DevOps
11 9 (5.52%) Senior Solutions Architect
11 9 (5.52%) TOGAF Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 64 (39.26%) React
2 56 (34.36%) Spring Boot
3 53 (32.52%) Spring
4 52 (31.90%) Kafka
5 33 (20.25%) RESTful
6 31 (19.02%) CSS
6 31 (19.02%) HTML
7 27 (16.56%) JPA
7 27 (16.56%) Redux
8 21 (12.88%) Node.js
9 20 (12.27%) CSS3
9 20 (12.27%) HTML5
9 20 (12.27%) REST
10 19 (11.66%) Jest
10 19 (11.66%) Sass
11 16 (9.82%) Hibernate
12 11 (6.75%) ARM Templates
13 9 (5.52%) Amazon Corretto
14 8 (4.91%) .NET
15 7 (4.29%) AngularJS
Miscellaneous
1 39 (23.93%) Product Ownership
2 27 (16.56%) Enterprise Software
3 22 (13.50%) Cloud Native
4 19 (11.66%) Distributed Systems
5 12 (7.36%) Public Cloud
6 10 (6.13%) Hybrid Cloud
7 9 (5.52%) e-Learning
7 9 (5.52%) Management Information System
8 8 (4.91%) Algorithms
9 7 (4.29%) Wiki
10 4 (2.45%) Team-Oriented Environment
11 3 (1.84%) Data Protection Act
11 3 (1.84%) Low-Code
12 2 (1.23%) Data Structures
12 2 (1.23%) Greenfield Project
12 2 (1.23%) Private Cloud
12 2 (1.23%) Reference Data
12 2 (1.23%) Replication
12 2 (1.23%) Tandem
13 1 (0.61%) Linux Command Line
Operating Systems
1 16 (9.82%) Linux
2 5 (3.07%) CentOS
2 5 (3.07%) Ubuntu
2 5 (3.07%) Unix
3 3 (1.84%) Windows
4 1 (0.61%) Debian
Processes & Methodologies
1 125 (76.69%) DevOps
2 100 (61.35%) CI/CD
3 89 (54.60%) Agile
4 87 (53.37%) Software Engineering
5 85 (52.15%) Microservices
6 73 (44.79%) Containerisation
7 60 (36.81%) Test Automation
8 53 (32.52%) Mentoring
9 46 (28.22%) Full-Stack Development
10 44 (26.99%) Problem-Solving
10 44 (26.99%) SDLC
11 43 (26.38%) TDD
12 38 (23.31%) Front End Development
12 38 (23.31%) Infrastructure as Code
12 38 (23.31%) User Experience
13 33 (20.25%) Performance Optimisation
14 29 (17.79%) Event-Driven
14 29 (17.79%) Roadmaps
15 26 (15.95%) Migration
16 24 (14.72%) Clean Code
Programming Languages
1 105 (64.42%) Java
2 53 (32.52%) JavaScript
3 50 (30.67%) SQL
4 48 (29.45%) TypeScript
5 45 (27.61%) Python
6 17 (10.43%) C#
7 10 (6.13%) PowerShell
8 9 (5.52%) Go
9 8 (4.91%) Bash
10 3 (1.84%) Shell Script
11 1 (0.61%) C++
11 1 (0.61%) PHP
11 1 (0.61%) Rust
Qualifications
1 24 (14.72%) Azure Certification
2 14 (8.59%) AWS Certification
3 9 (5.52%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
4 7 (4.29%) Degree
5 4 (2.45%) Linux+ Certification
5 4 (2.45%) RHCE
5 4 (2.45%) Security Cleared
6 2 (1.23%) Computer Science Degree
6 2 (1.23%) DV Cleared
6 2 (1.23%) SC Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 33 (20.25%) QA
2 19 (11.66%) GDPR
3 18 (11.04%) Accessibility
4 17 (10.43%) HIPAA
5 9 (5.52%) NIST
6 4 (2.45%) SOC 2
System Software
1 132 (80.98%) Docker
2 4 (2.45%) Active Directory
2 4 (2.45%) Dovecot
2 4 (2.45%) Hyper-V
2 4 (2.45%) Postfix
2 4 (2.45%) Virtual Machines
2 4 (2.45%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 58 (35.58%) Terraform
2 17 (10.43%) Ansible
3 7 (4.29%) Grafana
4 5 (3.07%) Prometheus
5 3 (1.84%) Istio
5 3 (1.84%) Puppet
6 1 (0.61%) Argo
6 1 (0.61%) Karpenter
6 1 (0.61%) Kibana
6 1 (0.61%) Kubeflow
6 1 (0.61%) Proxmox
6 1 (0.61%) Rancher
Vendors
1 35 (21.47%) Google
2 27 (16.56%) Solace
3 11 (6.75%) Microsoft
4 4 (2.45%) Okta
4 4 (2.45%) Ping Identity
4 4 (2.45%) Red Hat
4 4 (2.45%) VMware
5 1 (0.61%) Databricks
5 1 (0.61%) Dynatrace
5 1 (0.61%) New Relic
5 1 (0.61%) Oracle
5 1 (0.61%) SAP
5 1 (0.61%) Zend