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 14 September 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
14 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 65 44 47
Rank change year-on-year -21 +3 -30
Permanent jobs citing Kubernetes 161 129 171
As % of all permanent jobs in Manchester 2.19% 5.41% 4.22%
As % of the Systems Management category 53.14% 44.79% 52.13%
Number of salaries quoted 124 62 65
10th Percentile £48,625 £55,125 £41,750
25th Percentile £57,500 £62,500 £51,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £72,500 £68,750 £62,500
Median % change year-on-year +5.45% +10.00% -16.67%
75th Percentile £87,813 £86,313 £75,000
90th Percentile £96,250 £98,625 £86,800
North West median annual salary £72,500 £67,500 £62,500
% change year-on-year +7.41% +8.00% -16.67%

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 303 288 328
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Manchester 4.12% 12.08% 8.09%
Number of salaries quoted 223 140 140
10th Percentile £31,500 £26,925 £35,750
25th Percentile £45,000 £33,125 £42,188
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £58,750 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year +10.64% +11.90% -24.40%
75th Percentile £80,000 £71,250 £72,500
90th Percentile £92,500 £87,500 £81,375
North West median annual salary £57,500 £53,750 £50,000
% change year-on-year +6.98% +7.50% -23.08%

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 14 September 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 14 September 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 8 £65,000 - 4
Stockport +4 6 £72,500 -
Salford -22 3 £90,000 +20.00% 11
Bolton +4 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 4 (2.48%) OpenStack
2 3 (1.86%) Apache
2 3 (1.86%) Apache Spark
Applications
1 1 (0.62%) Chatbot
Cloud Services
1 108 (67.08%) AWS
2 55 (34.16%) Azure
3 36 (22.36%) GCP
4 35 (21.74%) GitHub
5 28 (17.39%) Serverless
6 21 (13.04%) AWS CloudFormation
7 17 (10.56%) OpenShift
8 16 (9.94%) GitHub Actions
9 11 (6.83%) Google Kubernetes Engine
10 10 (6.21%) AWS Lambda
10 10 (6.21%) SaaS
11 9 (5.59%) Virtual Private Cloud
12 7 (4.35%) Amazon ECS
12 7 (4.35%) Amazon EKS
12 7 (4.35%) Azure DevOps
12 7 (4.35%) Datadog
13 6 (3.73%) Azure AKS
14 5 (3.11%) GitHub Copilot
15 4 (2.48%) Amazon CloudWatch
15 4 (2.48%) Google Compute Engine
Communications & Networking
1 3 (1.86%) AMQP
1 3 (1.86%) Firewall
1 3 (1.86%) Network Security
1 3 (1.86%) Software-Defined Networking
2 1 (0.62%) HTTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 16 (9.94%) PostgreSQL
2 15 (9.32%) MongoDB
3 6 (3.73%) NoSQL
4 5 (3.11%) Elasticsearch
5 4 (2.48%) Neo4j
6 3 (1.86%) Big Data
6 3 (1.86%) Chroma
6 3 (1.86%) Cloudera CDH
6 3 (1.86%) Hadoop
6 3 (1.86%) Pinecone
6 3 (1.86%) Relational Database
7 2 (1.24%) Amazon Aurora
7 2 (1.24%) Redis
7 2 (1.24%) SQL Server
8 1 (0.62%) Amazon RDS
8 1 (0.62%) DynamoDB
8 1 (0.62%) MySQL
8 1 (0.62%) Weaviate
Development Applications
1 31 (19.25%) Git
2 26 (16.15%) Jenkins
3 22 (13.66%) GitLab
4 6 (3.73%) Atlassian Bamboo
5 5 (3.11%) Cypress.io
6 4 (2.48%) Cucumber
6 4 (2.48%) Robot Framework
6 4 (2.48%) Vite
7 3 (1.86%) JIRA
7 3 (1.86%) Postman
7 3 (1.86%) Selenium
8 2 (1.24%) Bitbucket
8 2 (1.24%) Mocha
8 2 (1.24%) Vagrant
9 1 (0.62%) Artifactory
9 1 (0.62%) Claude Code
9 1 (0.62%) Gemini Tracker
9 1 (0.62%) Maven
9 1 (0.62%) Octopus Deploy
General
1 20 (12.42%) Social Skills
2 10 (6.21%) Public Sector
3 7 (4.35%) Finance
4 6 (3.73%) Aerospace
5 5 (3.11%) Analytical Skills
5 5 (3.11%) Publishing
6 4 (2.48%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 2 (1.24%) Retail
8 1 (0.62%) iGaming
Job Titles
1 55 (34.16%) DevOps Engineer
2 43 (26.71%) Senior
3 31 (19.25%) Cloud Engineer
4 25 (15.53%) Software Engineer
5 20 (12.42%) Developer
6 17 (10.56%) Lead
6 17 (10.56%) Principal Engineer
7 11 (6.83%) Cloud Native Engineer
7 11 (6.83%) Senior Developer
8 10 (6.21%) Java Developer
8 10 (6.21%) Platform Engineer
8 10 (6.21%) Principal DevOps Engineer
8 10 (6.21%) Senior DevOps
8 10 (6.21%) Senior DevOps Engineer
8 10 (6.21%) Senior Software Engineer
9 9 (5.59%) Senior Java Developer
10 7 (4.35%) Azure Engineer
10 7 (4.35%) Cloud Platform Engineer
11 6 (3.73%) AWS DevOps
11 6 (3.73%) AWS DevOps Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 103 (63.98%) Terraform
2 44 (27.33%) Spring
3 43 (26.71%) Spring Boot
4 35 (21.74%) React
5 16 (9.94%) AngularJS
6 14 (8.70%) Kafka
7 13 (8.07%) Node.js
7 13 (8.07%) Vue
8 12 (7.45%) REST
9 10 (6.21%) .NET
9 10 (6.21%) FastAPI
9 10 (6.21%) RESTful
10 8 (4.97%) LangChain
11 7 (4.35%) OpenAPI
11 7 (4.35%) Swagger
12 6 (3.73%) Django
12 6 (3.73%) Next.js
12 6 (3.73%) RabbitMQ
13 5 (3.11%) Hibernate
13 5 (3.11%) SAML
Miscellaneous
1 60 (37.27%) Cloud Native
2 14 (8.70%) Distributed Systems
3 6 (3.73%) Hybrid Cloud
4 5 (3.11%) AI Agents
4 5 (3.11%) Media Streaming
4 5 (3.11%) Podcast
5 4 (2.48%) Security Posture
6 3 (1.86%) Cloud Security Posture
6 3 (1.86%) Greenfield Project
6 3 (1.86%) Product Ownership
6 3 (1.86%) Social Media
7 2 (1.24%) Enterprise Cloud
8 1 (0.62%) Culture of Ownership
8 1 (0.62%) Data Centre
8 1 (0.62%) Legacy Systems
8 1 (0.62%) Management Information System
8 1 (0.62%) Online Gambling
8 1 (0.62%) Video\Live Streaming
Operating Systems
1 29 (18.01%) Linux
2 9 (5.59%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 7 (4.35%) CentOS
4 4 (2.48%) Windows
5 3 (1.86%) Debian
5 3 (1.86%) Ubuntu
6 1 (0.62%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 123 (76.40%) CI/CD
2 113 (70.19%) DevOps
3 88 (54.66%) Infrastructure as Code
4 77 (47.83%) Containerisation
5 58 (36.02%) Agile
6 46 (28.57%) AI
7 45 (27.95%) Software Engineering
8 38 (23.60%) Platform Engineering
9 37 (22.98%) Continuous Improvement
9 37 (22.98%) Site Reliability Engineering
10 36 (22.36%) Microservices
10 36 (22.36%) Observability
11 35 (21.74%) Mentoring
12 34 (21.12%) Problem-Solving
13 19 (11.80%) Event-Driven
13 19 (11.80%) Scrum
14 17 (10.56%) Cloud Security
14 17 (10.56%) Collaborative Culture
14 17 (10.56%) TDD
15 16 (9.94%) Technical Leadership
Programming Languages
1 69 (42.86%) Python
2 57 (35.40%) Java
3 29 (18.01%) Bash
4 28 (17.39%) TypeScript
5 22 (13.66%) JavaScript
6 16 (9.94%) Go
7 15 (9.32%) PowerShell
8 11 (6.83%) SQL
9 10 (6.21%) C#
10 4 (2.48%) Kotlin
10 4 (2.48%) Rust
11 3 (1.86%) Bicep
11 3 (1.86%) C++
11 3 (1.86%) Scala
12 1 (0.62%) C
12 1 (0.62%) Objective-C
12 1 (0.62%) PL/SQL
12 1 (0.62%) VB.NET
Qualifications
1 64 (39.75%) Security Cleared
2 38 (23.60%) DV Cleared
3 33 (20.50%) SC Cleared
4 6 (3.73%) AWS Certification
4 6 (3.73%) Azure Certification
5 4 (2.48%) Computer Science Degree
5 4 (2.48%) Degree
6 2 (1.24%) Microsoft Certified Professional
7 1 (0.62%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (2.48%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 3 (1.86%) PCI DSS
2 3 (1.86%) QA
2 3 (1.86%) SOC 2
System Software
1 103 (63.98%) Docker
2 4 (2.48%) Virtual Machines
2 4 (2.48%) VMware Infrastructure
3 3 (1.86%) Ceph
4 2 (1.24%) Active Directory
4 2 (1.24%) VMware NSX
5 1 (0.62%) VMware ESXi
5 1 (0.62%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 55 (34.16%) Ansible
2 18 (11.18%) Prometheus
3 17 (10.56%) Grafana
4 10 (6.21%) Argo
4 10 (6.21%) Puppet
5 8 (4.97%) Istio
5 8 (4.97%) Progress Chef
6 4 (2.48%) linkerd
7 3 (1.86%) Check_MK
7 3 (1.86%) Podman
7 3 (1.86%) Single Sign-On
8 2 (1.24%) Packer
9 1 (0.62%) vCenter Server
Vendors
1 16 (9.94%) Google
2 6 (3.73%) Microsoft
2 6 (3.73%) OpenAI
2 6 (3.73%) Red Hat
3 5 (3.11%) VMware
4 4 (2.48%) Mistral
5 3 (1.86%) Dell
5 3 (1.86%) Dynatrace
5 3 (1.86%) SaltStack
5 3 (1.86%) Splunk
6 1 (0.62%) Databricks
6 1 (0.62%) New Relic
6 1 (0.62%) Oracle
6 1 (0.62%) Pega
6 1 (0.62%) WSO2
6 1 (0.62%) YouTube