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 22 June 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
22 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 64 41 65
Rank change year-on-year -23 +24 -32
Permanent jobs citing Kubernetes 127 160 200
As % of all permanent jobs in Manchester 2.05% 7.01% 3.37%
As % of the Systems Management category 37.69% 42.55% 41.49%
Number of salaries quoted 104 95 124
10th Percentile £51,250 £50,750 £45,000
25th Percentile £60,000 £62,500 £53,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £71,500 £78,810 £64,250
Median % change year-on-year -9.28% +22.66% -8.21%
75th Percentile £87,500 £94,389 £77,500
90th Percentile £95,000 £112,500 £92,500
North West median annual salary £72,000 £75,000 £62,500
% change year-on-year -4.00% +20.00% -10.71%

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 337 376 482
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Manchester 5.45% 16.47% 8.11%
Number of salaries quoted 271 215 345
10th Percentile £33,750 £32,500 £31,250
25th Percentile £47,500 £45,375 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £67,500 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -3.70% +12.50% -8.19%
75th Percentile £80,000 £78,750 £72,500
90th Percentile £90,000 £95,750 £82,000
North West median annual salary £62,500 £65,000 £55,754
% change year-on-year -3.85% +16.58% -7.08%

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 22 June 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 22 June 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 +5 10 £65,000 - 1
Salford -17 3 £90,000 +20.00%
Bolton +14 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 2 (1.57%) Apache
1 2 (1.57%) Apache Spark
1 2 (1.57%) Microsoft Exchange
1 2 (1.57%) OpenStack
Applications
1 1 (0.79%) Chatbot
Cloud Services
1 86 (67.72%) AWS
2 60 (47.24%) Azure
3 32 (25.20%) GCP
4 31 (24.41%) GitHub
5 24 (18.90%) Serverless
6 16 (12.60%) AWS CloudFormation
6 16 (12.60%) Azure AKS
6 16 (12.60%) GitHub Actions
7 14 (11.02%) Amazon EKS
8 10 (7.87%) Google Kubernetes Engine
9 8 (6.30%) Amazon ECS
9 8 (6.30%) SaaS
10 7 (5.51%) Azure DevOps
10 7 (5.51%) Datadog
10 7 (5.51%) Virtual Private Cloud
11 6 (4.72%) AWS Lambda
12 5 (3.94%) Entra ID
12 5 (3.94%) OpenShift
13 4 (3.15%) Amazon EC2
13 4 (3.15%) Cloud Functions
Communications & Networking
1 6 (4.72%) Firewall
2 2 (1.57%) AMQP
2 2 (1.57%) DNS
2 2 (1.57%) Network Security
2 2 (1.57%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 21 (16.54%) PostgreSQL
2 17 (13.39%) MongoDB
3 15 (11.81%) NoSQL
4 6 (4.72%) Relational Database
5 5 (3.94%) Elasticsearch
6 4 (3.15%) Neo4j
7 3 (2.36%) Pinecone
7 3 (2.36%) SQL Server
8 2 (1.57%) Big Data
8 2 (1.57%) Cloudera CDH
8 2 (1.57%) Hadoop
9 1 (0.79%) BigQuery
9 1 (0.79%) Db2
9 1 (0.79%) DynamoDB
9 1 (0.79%) MySQL
9 1 (0.79%) Redis
9 1 (0.79%) Weaviate
Development Applications
1 23 (18.11%) Jenkins
2 20 (15.75%) Git
3 19 (14.96%) GitLab
4 4 (3.15%) Vite
5 3 (2.36%) Atlassian Bamboo
5 3 (2.36%) Bitbucket
5 3 (2.36%) Cucumber
5 3 (2.36%) Cypress.io
5 3 (2.36%) Robot Framework
6 2 (1.57%) JIRA
6 2 (1.57%) Postman
6 2 (1.57%) Selenium
6 2 (1.57%) Vagrant
7 1 (0.79%) Claude Code
7 1 (0.79%) Gemini Tracker
7 1 (0.79%) Mocha
General
1 11 (8.66%) Social Skills
2 7 (5.51%) Finance
3 5 (3.94%) Public Sector
4 3 (2.36%) Aerospace
5 2 (1.57%) Analytical Skills
5 2 (1.57%) Retail
6 1 (0.79%) Banking
6 1 (0.79%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 1 (0.79%) Investment Banking
Job Titles
1 41 (32.28%) Senior
2 29 (22.83%) DevOps Engineer
3 28 (22.05%) Software Engineer
4 25 (19.69%) Cloud Engineer
5 16 (12.60%) Developer
6 13 (10.24%) Lead
7 12 (9.45%) Java Developer
8 10 (7.87%) Platform Engineer
8 10 (7.87%) Senior Developer
8 10 (7.87%) Senior Java Developer
9 9 (7.09%) Azure Engineer
10 8 (6.30%) Lead Software Engineer
10 8 (6.30%) Senior Software Engineer
11 7 (5.51%) .NET Software Engineer
11 7 (5.51%) Cloud Platform Engineer
11 7 (5.51%) Principal Engineer
11 7 (5.51%) Python Engineer
12 6 (4.72%) AWS DevOps
12 6 (4.72%) GCP Engineer
12 6 (4.72%) Senior DevOps
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 25 (19.69%) Spring
2 24 (18.90%) React
2 24 (18.90%) Spring Boot
3 17 (13.39%) RESTful
4 14 (11.02%) .NET
5 13 (10.24%) FastAPI
5 13 (10.24%) Vue
6 12 (9.45%) AngularJS
7 9 (7.09%) Django
7 9 (7.09%) Node.js
8 8 (6.30%) LangChain
9 7 (5.51%) .NET Framework
9 7 (5.51%) REST
10 6 (4.72%) JWT
10 6 (4.72%) Kafka
10 6 (4.72%) OAuth
11 5 (3.94%) ARM Templates
11 5 (3.94%) CrewAI
11 5 (3.94%) LangGraph
11 5 (3.94%) Next.js
Miscellaneous
1 48 (37.80%) Cloud Native
2 16 (12.60%) Distributed Systems
3 7 (5.51%) Hybrid Cloud
4 5 (3.94%) AI Agents
5 4 (3.15%) Enterprise Cloud
6 3 (2.36%) Security Posture
7 2 (1.57%) Cloud Security Posture
7 2 (1.57%) Legacy Systems
7 2 (1.57%) Mobile App
7 2 (1.57%) Product Ownership
7 2 (1.57%) Public Cloud
7 2 (1.57%) Self-Motivation
8 1 (0.79%) Culture of Ownership
8 1 (0.79%) Data Structures
Operating Systems
1 19 (14.96%) Linux
2 5 (3.94%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 4 (3.15%) Debian
3 4 (3.15%) Ubuntu
3 4 (3.15%) Windows
4 3 (2.36%) CentOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 100 (78.74%) CI/CD
2 93 (73.23%) DevOps
3 71 (55.91%) Infrastructure as Code
4 62 (48.82%) Containerisation
5 46 (36.22%) Agile
6 36 (28.35%) AI
6 36 (28.35%) Software Engineering
7 30 (23.62%) Continuous Improvement
7 30 (23.62%) Microservices
7 30 (23.62%) Platform Engineering
8 29 (22.83%) Problem-Solving
9 27 (21.26%) Observability
10 26 (20.47%) Mentoring
11 24 (18.90%) Clean Code
11 24 (18.90%) Scrum
12 22 (17.32%) TDD
13 20 (15.75%) Collaborative Culture
14 13 (10.24%) Site Reliability Engineering
14 13 (10.24%) Test Automation
15 12 (9.45%) Event-Driven
Programming Languages
1 48 (37.80%) Python
2 34 (26.77%) Java
3 20 (15.75%) TypeScript
4 19 (14.96%) SQL
5 18 (14.17%) Bash
6 14 (11.02%) C#
6 14 (11.02%) PowerShell
7 13 (10.24%) JavaScript
8 9 (7.09%) Go
9 3 (2.36%) Bicep
10 2 (1.57%) Kotlin
10 2 (1.57%) Scala
11 1 (0.79%) C
Qualifications
1 34 (26.77%) Security Cleared
2 21 (16.54%) SC Cleared
3 12 (9.45%) DV Cleared
4 6 (4.72%) Azure Certification
5 4 (3.15%) Computer Science Degree
5 4 (3.15%) Degree
6 3 (2.36%) AWS Certification
7 2 (1.57%) Microsoft Certified Professional
8 1 (0.79%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (2.36%) ISO/IEC 27001
1 3 (2.36%) PCI DSS
2 2 (1.57%) SOC 2
3 1 (0.79%) Data Quality
3 1 (0.79%) QA
System Software
1 73 (57.48%) Docker
2 5 (3.94%) Virtual Machines
3 4 (3.15%) VMware Infrastructure
4 2 (1.57%) Active Directory
4 2 (1.57%) VMware NSX
4 2 (1.57%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 74 (58.27%) Terraform
2 27 (21.26%) Ansible
3 13 (10.24%) Grafana
4 11 (8.66%) Prometheus
5 6 (4.72%) Argo
6 4 (3.15%) Istio
6 4 (3.15%) Progress Chef
6 4 (3.15%) Puppet
7 3 (2.36%) linkerd
8 2 (1.57%) Microsoft Intune
8 2 (1.57%) Packer
9 1 (0.79%) Rancher
Vendors
1 12 (9.45%) Google
2 6 (4.72%) Microsoft
2 6 (4.72%) OpenAI
3 5 (3.94%) VMware
4 2 (1.57%) Databricks
4 2 (1.57%) Dynatrace
4 2 (1.57%) Pega
4 2 (1.57%) Red Hat
4 2 (1.57%) SaltStack
4 2 (1.57%) Splunk
4 2 (1.57%) WSO2
5 1 (0.79%) Oracle