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 3 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
3 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 46 51 44
Rank change year-on-year +5 -7 -23
Permanent jobs citing Kubernetes 126 220 361
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Manchester 5.89% 4.30% 7.28%
As % of the Systems Management category 44.21% 45.17% 51.57%
Number of salaries quoted 102 141 243
10th Percentile £52,625 £47,500 £48,750
25th Percentile £63,750 £53,750 £55,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £80,000 £65,000 £69,447
Median % change year-on-year +23.08% -6.40% -0.79%
75th Percentile £96,896 £77,715 £80,000
90th Percentile £112,500 £90,000 £89,750
North West median annual salary £78,810 £62,500 £69,447
% change year-on-year +26.10% -10.00% +3.11%

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 285 487 700
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Manchester 13.32% 9.51% 14.11%
Number of salaries quoted 205 362 474
10th Percentile £36,250 £33,750 £38,750
25th Percentile £52,500 £45,000 £49,125
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £71,991 £60,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year +19.99% - -7.69%
75th Percentile £87,500 £73,438 £77,500
90th Percentile £97,528 £82,500 £86,250
North West median annual salary £70,000 £57,500 £57,500
% change year-on-year +21.74% - -4.17%

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 3 May 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 3 May 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
Salford +8 2 £75,000 +30.43% 7
Oldham - 2 £65,000 -
Bury +5 1 £60,000 +9.09% 19
Altrincham - 1 £65,000 - 15
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 13 (10.32%) Confluence
2 4 (3.17%) SharePoint
3 3 (2.38%) Microsoft Exchange
4 2 (1.59%) Apache
4 2 (1.59%) nginx
5 1 (0.79%) Apache Airflow
5 1 (0.79%) Apache Solr
5 1 (0.79%) Apache Spark
5 1 (0.79%) CMS
Applications
1 1 (0.79%) Microsoft Office
Cloud Services
1 70 (55.56%) AWS
2 67 (53.17%) Azure
3 50 (39.68%) GCP
4 13 (10.32%) Azure DevOps
5 11 (8.73%) Amazon EKS
5 11 (8.73%) Azure Machine Learning
6 7 (5.56%) GitHub
7 6 (4.76%) Azure AKS
8 5 (3.97%) SaaS
8 5 (3.97%) Serverless
9 4 (3.17%) Amazon EC2
9 4 (3.17%) Amazon S3
9 4 (3.17%) Apigee
9 4 (3.17%) Azure Monitor
9 4 (3.17%) Cloud Composer
9 4 (3.17%) GitHub Actions
9 4 (3.17%) Google Kubernetes Engine
10 3 (2.38%) AWS Lambda
10 3 (2.38%) Entra ID
10 3 (2.38%) OneDrive
Communications & Networking
1 4 (3.17%) DNS
2 3 (2.38%) Firewall
3 2 (1.59%) VPN
4 1 (0.79%) HTTP
4 1 (0.79%) HTTPS
4 1 (0.79%) IPsec
4 1 (0.79%) Network Security
4 1 (0.79%) TCP/IP
4 1 (0.79%) VLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 12 (9.52%) NoSQL
2 11 (8.73%) Cloud Spanner
3 10 (7.94%) PostgreSQL
4 9 (7.14%) SQL Server
5 5 (3.97%) Big Data
5 5 (3.97%) MySQL
6 4 (3.17%) BigQuery
7 3 (2.38%) DynamoDB
7 3 (2.38%) MongoDB
7 3 (2.38%) Relational Database
8 2 (1.59%) Amazon Aurora
8 2 (1.59%) Azure SQL Database
8 2 (1.59%) Data Lake
9 1 (0.79%) Apache Zeppelin
9 1 (0.79%) Couchbase
9 1 (0.79%) Elasticsearch
9 1 (0.79%) Oracle Exadata
9 1 (0.79%) Power BI
9 1 (0.79%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 21 (16.67%) Git
2 18 (14.29%) Jenkins
3 13 (10.32%) JIRA
3 13 (10.32%) SonarQube
4 9 (7.14%) GitLab
5 3 (2.38%) JUnit
5 3 (2.38%) Maven
5 3 (2.38%) Sonatype Nexus
6 2 (1.59%) Atlassian Bamboo
6 2 (1.59%) Bitbucket
6 2 (1.59%) JMeter
6 2 (1.59%) LoadRunner
6 2 (1.59%) NeoLoad
6 2 (1.59%) Octopus Deploy
6 2 (1.59%) REST Assured
6 2 (1.59%) Selenium
6 2 (1.59%) TeamCity
6 2 (1.59%) WebDriver
7 1 (0.79%) Karma Test Runner
7 1 (0.79%) MLflow
General
1 50 (39.68%) Finance
2 36 (28.57%) Banking
3 30 (23.81%) Social Skills
4 18 (14.29%) Analytical Skills
5 11 (8.73%) Retail
6 6 (4.76%) Manufacturing
7 4 (3.17%) Law
7 4 (3.17%) Marketing
8 3 (2.38%) Games
9 2 (1.59%) Electronics
9 2 (1.59%) Public Sector
9 2 (1.59%) Retail Banking
9 2 (1.59%) Telecoms
10 1 (0.79%) Aerospace
10 1 (0.79%) Financial Institution
10 1 (0.79%) Health Technology
10 1 (0.79%) Legal
Job Titles
1 37 (29.37%) Software Engineer
2 34 (26.98%) Senior
3 31 (24.60%) Lead
4 21 (16.67%) DevOps Engineer
5 14 (11.11%) Senior Software Engineer
6 10 (7.94%) Developer
7 9 (7.14%) Cloud Engineer
8 8 (6.35%) Architect
8 8 (6.35%) Azure Engineer
9 7 (5.56%) Java Developer
9 7 (5.56%) Lead DevOps
9 7 (5.56%) Senior Developer
10 6 (4.76%) AWS DevOps
10 6 (4.76%) Infrastructure Engineer
10 6 (4.76%) Principal Engineer
10 6 (4.76%) Solutions Architect
11 5 (3.97%) Senior Java Developer
11 5 (3.97%) Technical Leader
12 4 (3.17%) Lead Software Engineer
12 4 (3.17%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 31 (24.60%) React
2 24 (19.05%) Node.js
3 22 (17.46%) Spring Boot
4 21 (16.67%) Spring
5 19 (15.08%) Kafka
6 16 (12.70%) RESTful
7 8 (6.35%) ARM Templates
8 7 (5.56%) .NET
8 7 (5.56%) AngularJS
9 6 (4.76%) Hibernate
10 4 (3.17%) Lambda Expressions
11 3 (2.38%) .NET Core
11 3 (2.38%) Elastic Stack
11 3 (2.38%) Pandas
11 3 (2.38%) PyTorch
11 3 (2.38%) REST
11 3 (2.38%) TensorFlow
12 2 (1.59%) CSS
12 2 (1.59%) HTML
12 2 (1.59%) NumPy
Miscellaneous
1 16 (12.70%) Distributed Systems
2 15 (11.90%) Product Ownership
3 14 (11.11%) Cloud Native
3 14 (11.11%) Public Cloud
4 8 (6.35%) Algorithms
4 8 (6.35%) Hybrid Cloud
5 4 (3.17%) Team-Oriented Environment
6 3 (2.38%) Data Protection Act
6 3 (2.38%) Greenfield Project
6 3 (2.38%) Management Information System
7 2 (1.59%) Data Structures
7 2 (1.59%) Low-Code
7 2 (1.59%) Private Cloud
7 2 (1.59%) Reference Data
7 2 (1.59%) Replication
7 2 (1.59%) Sports Betting
7 2 (1.59%) Wiki
8 1 (0.79%) Distributed Architecture
8 1 (0.79%) Legacy Systems
8 1 (0.79%) Security Posture
Operating Systems
1 17 (13.49%) Linux
2 7 (5.56%) Windows
3 6 (4.76%) Unix
4 4 (3.17%) CentOS
4 4 (3.17%) Ubuntu
5 2 (1.59%) CoreOS
5 2 (1.59%) zOS
6 1 (0.79%) Debian
Processes & Methodologies
1 83 (65.87%) DevOps
2 62 (49.21%) CI/CD
3 56 (44.44%) Software Engineering
4 50 (39.68%) Microservices
5 47 (37.30%) Agile
6 41 (32.54%) Mentoring
7 39 (30.95%) Containerisation
7 39 (30.95%) Infrastructure as Code
8 32 (25.40%) Problem-Solving
9 23 (18.25%) Roadmaps
10 21 (16.67%) TDD
11 20 (15.87%) Event-Driven
11 20 (15.87%) SDLC
11 20 (15.87%) Test Automation
12 19 (15.08%) Code Quality
13 16 (12.70%) Coaching
14 14 (11.11%) Continuous Integration
14 14 (11.11%) Deployment Automation
14 14 (11.11%) Observability
15 13 (10.32%) Machine Learning
Programming Languages
1 57 (45.24%) Java
2 48 (38.10%) Python
3 27 (21.43%) JavaScript
4 24 (19.05%) TypeScript
5 19 (15.08%) SQL
6 12 (9.52%) Bash
7 11 (8.73%) PowerShell
8 10 (7.94%) Go
9 9 (7.14%) C#
10 2 (1.59%) PHP
11 1 (0.79%) C++
11 1 (0.79%) Rust
11 1 (0.79%) Scala
11 1 (0.79%) Shell Script
11 1 (0.79%) VBA
Qualifications
1 14 (11.11%) Azure Certification
2 9 (7.14%) Degree
3 8 (6.35%) AWS Certification
4 7 (5.56%) Security Cleared
5 5 (3.97%) SC Cleared
6 4 (3.17%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
7 3 (2.38%) Linux+ Certification
7 3 (2.38%) RHCE
8 2 (1.59%) DV Cleared
8 2 (1.59%) Master's Degree
8 2 (1.59%) PhD
9 1 (0.79%) Computer Science Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 10 (7.94%) GDPR
1 10 (7.94%) HIPAA
2 6 (4.76%) QA
3 4 (3.17%) SOC 2
4 3 (2.38%) NIST
System Software
1 91 (72.22%) Docker
2 5 (3.97%) Virtual Machines
3 3 (2.38%) Active Directory
3 3 (2.38%) Dovecot
3 3 (2.38%) Hyper-V
3 3 (2.38%) Postfix
3 3 (2.38%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 50 (39.68%) Terraform
2 18 (14.29%) Ansible
3 6 (4.76%) Grafana
3 6 (4.76%) Prometheus
4 5 (3.97%) Istio
4 5 (3.97%) Puppet
5 2 (1.59%) CA Endevor
5 2 (1.59%) Progress Chef
6 1 (0.79%) Argo
6 1 (0.79%) Automic
6 1 (0.79%) Consul
6 1 (0.79%) Karpenter
6 1 (0.79%) Kibana
6 1 (0.79%) Kubeflow
6 1 (0.79%) Proxmox
6 1 (0.79%) Rancher
Vendors
1 31 (24.60%) Google
2 11 (8.73%) Microsoft
3 3 (2.38%) Okta
3 3 (2.38%) Oracle
3 3 (2.38%) Ping Identity
3 3 (2.38%) Red Hat
3 3 (2.38%) VMware
4 2 (1.59%) Databricks
4 2 (1.59%) Dynatrace
4 2 (1.59%) Hitachi
4 2 (1.59%) SAP
5 1 (0.79%) Confluent
5 1 (0.79%) New Relic
5 1 (0.79%) Planview
5 1 (0.79%) Zend