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

6 months to
28 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 57 51 47
Rank change year-on-year -6 -4 -32
Permanent jobs citing Kubernetes 184 119 170
As % of all permanent jobs in Manchester 2.42% 5.03% 4.24%
As % of the Systems Management category 55.26% 43.43% 50.30%
Number of salaries quoted 132 53 66
10th Percentile £51,250 £53,250 £41,875
25th Percentile £58,438 £61,250 £52,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £75,000 £67,500 £62,750
Median % change year-on-year +11.11% +7.57% -16.33%
75th Percentile £88,750 £82,500 £77,188
90th Percentile £96,250 £96,000 £88,000
North West median annual salary £72,500 £67,500 £63,000
% change year-on-year +7.41% +7.14% -16.00%

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 333 274 338
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Manchester 4.38% 11.58% 8.42%
Number of salaries quoted 230 126 144
10th Percentile £32,375 £27,000 £35,750
25th Percentile £46,250 £33,125 £41,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £56,250 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year +15.56% +7.14% -24.40%
75th Percentile £80,000 £68,750 £72,500
90th Percentile £95,000 £85,625 £83,375
North West median annual salary £60,000 £48,720 £50,000
% change year-on-year +23.15% -2.56% -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 28 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 28 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 +6 9 £65,000 - 2
Stockport +2 6 £72,500 - 2
Salford -22 3 £90,000 +20.00% 7
Bolton +3 1 £35,000 - 1
Wigan 0 1 - - 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 (2.17%) OpenStack
2 3 (1.63%) Apache
2 3 (1.63%) Apache Spark
3 1 (0.54%) Confluence
3 1 (0.54%) IIS
Applications
1 1 (0.54%) Chatbot
Cloud Services
1 121 (65.76%) AWS
2 58 (31.52%) Azure
3 40 (21.74%) GitHub
4 37 (20.11%) GCP
5 29 (15.76%) Serverless
6 23 (12.50%) AWS CloudFormation
7 18 (9.78%) GitHub Actions
8 17 (9.24%) OpenShift
9 11 (5.98%) Google Kubernetes Engine
10 10 (5.43%) AWS Lambda
10 10 (5.43%) SaaS
11 9 (4.89%) Azure DevOps
12 8 (4.35%) Amazon ECS
12 8 (4.35%) Virtual Private Cloud
13 7 (3.80%) Amazon EKS
13 7 (3.80%) Azure AKS
13 7 (3.80%) Datadog
14 6 (3.26%) Amazon CloudWatch
15 5 (2.72%) GitHub Copilot
16 4 (2.17%) Azure Monitor
Communications & Networking
1 3 (1.63%) AMQP
1 3 (1.63%) Firewall
1 3 (1.63%) Network Security
1 3 (1.63%) Software-Defined Networking
2 1 (0.54%) DHCP
2 1 (0.54%) DNS
2 1 (0.54%) HTTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 19 (10.33%) MongoDB
2 17 (9.24%) PostgreSQL
3 6 (3.26%) NoSQL
4 5 (2.72%) Elasticsearch
5 4 (2.17%) Neo4j
6 3 (1.63%) Big Data
6 3 (1.63%) Chroma
6 3 (1.63%) Cloudera CDH
6 3 (1.63%) Hadoop
6 3 (1.63%) Pinecone
6 3 (1.63%) Relational Database
7 2 (1.09%) Amazon Aurora
7 2 (1.09%) Redis
7 2 (1.09%) SQL Server
8 1 (0.54%) Amazon RDS
8 1 (0.54%) DynamoDB
8 1 (0.54%) MySQL
8 1 (0.54%) Weaviate
Development Applications
1 33 (17.93%) Git
2 29 (15.76%) Jenkins
3 26 (14.13%) GitLab
4 7 (3.80%) Atlassian Bamboo
5 5 (2.72%) Cypress.io
5 5 (2.72%) JIRA
6 4 (2.17%) Cucumber
6 4 (2.17%) Robot Framework
6 4 (2.17%) Vagrant
6 4 (2.17%) Vite
7 3 (1.63%) Artifactory
7 3 (1.63%) Postman
7 3 (1.63%) Selenium
8 2 (1.09%) Bitbucket
8 2 (1.09%) Mocha
9 1 (0.54%) Claude Code
9 1 (0.54%) Gemini Tracker
9 1 (0.54%) Maven
9 1 (0.54%) Octopus Deploy
General
1 30 (16.30%) Social Skills
2 13 (7.07%) Public Sector
3 12 (6.52%) Publishing
4 7 (3.80%) Finance
5 6 (3.26%) Aerospace
6 5 (2.72%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 4 (2.17%) Analytical Skills
8 2 (1.09%) Retail
9 1 (0.54%) iGaming
Job Titles
1 61 (33.15%) DevOps Engineer
2 51 (27.72%) Senior
3 33 (17.93%) Software Engineer
4 32 (17.39%) Cloud Engineer
5 21 (11.41%) Developer
5 21 (11.41%) Lead
6 19 (10.33%) Principal Engineer
7 14 (7.61%) Senior Software Engineer
8 12 (6.52%) Cloud Native Engineer
8 12 (6.52%) Principal DevOps Engineer
9 11 (5.98%) Senior Developer
9 11 (5.98%) Senior DevOps
9 11 (5.98%) Senior DevOps Engineer
10 10 (5.43%) Platform Engineer
11 9 (4.89%) AWS Engineer
11 9 (4.89%) Java Developer
12 8 (4.35%) AWS DevOps
12 8 (4.35%) AWS DevOps Engineer
12 8 (4.35%) Azure Engineer
12 8 (4.35%) Senior Java Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 114 (61.96%) Terraform
2 58 (31.52%) Spring
3 54 (29.35%) Spring Boot
4 46 (25.00%) React
5 24 (13.04%) Kafka
6 17 (9.24%) AngularJS
7 14 (7.61%) Vue
8 13 (7.07%) Node.js
9 12 (6.52%) REST
10 11 (5.98%) FastAPI
11 10 (5.43%) .NET
11 10 (5.43%) RESTful
12 8 (4.35%) LangChain
13 7 (3.80%) Django
13 7 (3.80%) OpenAPI
13 7 (3.80%) Swagger
14 6 (3.26%) ARM Templates
14 6 (3.26%) Next.js
14 6 (3.26%) RabbitMQ
15 5 (2.72%) LangGraph
Miscellaneous
1 66 (35.87%) Cloud Native
2 14 (7.61%) Distributed Systems
3 12 (6.52%) Media Streaming
3 12 (6.52%) Podcast
4 6 (3.26%) Hybrid Cloud
5 5 (2.72%) AI Agents
6 4 (2.17%) Security Posture
7 3 (1.63%) Cloud Security Posture
7 3 (1.63%) Greenfield Project
7 3 (1.63%) Product Ownership
7 3 (1.63%) Social Media
8 1 (0.54%) Culture of Ownership
8 1 (0.54%) Data Centre
8 1 (0.54%) Enterprise Cloud
8 1 (0.54%) Legacy Systems
8 1 (0.54%) Management Information System
8 1 (0.54%) Online Gambling
8 1 (0.54%) Video\Live Streaming
Operating Systems
1 33 (17.93%) Linux
2 11 (5.98%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 8 (4.35%) CentOS
4 6 (3.26%) Windows
5 4 (2.17%) Ubuntu
6 3 (1.63%) Debian
7 2 (1.09%) Unix
8 1 (0.54%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 137 (74.46%) CI/CD
2 131 (71.20%) DevOps
3 97 (52.72%) Infrastructure as Code
4 88 (47.83%) Containerisation
5 74 (40.22%) Agile
6 54 (29.35%) AI
6 54 (29.35%) Software Engineering
7 47 (25.54%) Observability
8 46 (25.00%) Continuous Improvement
8 46 (25.00%) Mentoring
9 45 (24.46%) Microservices
10 42 (22.83%) Site Reliability Engineering
11 39 (21.20%) Problem-Solving
12 37 (20.11%) Platform Engineering
13 29 (15.76%) Event-Driven
14 23 (12.50%) Scrum
15 22 (11.96%) Code Quality
16 20 (10.87%) Cloud Security
17 19 (10.33%) Collaborative Culture
17 19 (10.33%) Technical Leadership
Programming Languages
1 79 (42.93%) Python
2 73 (39.67%) Java
3 37 (20.11%) TypeScript
4 34 (18.48%) Bash
5 22 (11.96%) JavaScript
6 20 (10.87%) PowerShell
7 16 (8.70%) Go
8 11 (5.98%) SQL
9 10 (5.43%) C#
10 5 (2.72%) Rust
11 4 (2.17%) Bicep
11 4 (2.17%) Kotlin
12 3 (1.63%) C++
12 3 (1.63%) Scala
13 1 (0.54%) C
13 1 (0.54%) Objective-C
13 1 (0.54%) PL/SQL
13 1 (0.54%) VB.NET
Qualifications
1 74 (40.22%) Security Cleared
2 46 (25.00%) DV Cleared
3 38 (20.65%) SC Cleared
4 8 (4.35%) AWS Certification
5 7 (3.80%) Azure Certification
6 4 (2.17%) Computer Science Degree
6 4 (2.17%) Degree
7 2 (1.09%) Microsoft Certification
7 2 (1.09%) Microsoft Certified Professional
8 1 (0.54%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (2.72%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 4 (2.17%) PCI DSS
3 3 (1.63%) QA
3 3 (1.63%) SOC 2
4 1 (0.54%) Cyber Essentials
System Software
1 114 (61.96%) Docker
2 5 (2.72%) Virtual Machines
3 4 (2.17%) VMware Infrastructure
4 3 (1.63%) Active Directory
4 3 (1.63%) Ceph
5 2 (1.09%) VMware ESXi
5 2 (1.09%) VMware NSX
Systems Management
1 62 (33.70%) Ansible
2 20 (10.87%) Prometheus
3 19 (10.33%) Grafana
4 11 (5.98%) Argo
4 11 (5.98%) Puppet
5 10 (5.43%) Progress Chef
6 8 (4.35%) Istio
7 4 (2.17%) linkerd
7 4 (2.17%) Packer
8 3 (1.63%) Check_MK
8 3 (1.63%) Podman
8 3 (1.63%) Single Sign-On
9 2 (1.09%) vCenter Server
Vendors
1 16 (8.70%) Google
2 9 (4.89%) Microsoft
3 6 (3.26%) OpenAI
3 6 (3.26%) Red Hat
4 5 (2.72%) VMware
5 4 (2.17%) Mistral
6 3 (1.63%) Dell
6 3 (1.63%) Dynatrace
6 3 (1.63%) SaltStack
6 3 (1.63%) Splunk
6 3 (1.63%) YouTube
7 1 (0.54%) CrowdStrike
7 1 (0.54%) Databricks
7 1 (0.54%) New Relic
7 1 (0.54%) Oracle
7 1 (0.54%) Pega
7 1 (0.54%) WSO2