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 27 July 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
27 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 52 39 52
Rank change year-on-year -13 +13 -29
Permanent jobs citing Kubernetes 152 157 191
As % of all permanent jobs in Manchester 2.33% 6.26% 3.99%
As % of the Systems Management category 42.11% 43.13% 41.98%
Number of salaries quoted 126 86 101
10th Percentile £47,500 £48,125 £42,500
25th Percentile £57,813 £62,500 £52,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £71,500 £75,000 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year -4.67% +15.38% -10.34%
75th Percentile £87,500 £93,778 £81,250
90th Percentile £96,250 £103,500 £92,500
North West median annual salary £71,500 £72,500 £65,000
% change year-on-year -1.38% +11.54% -8.77%

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 361 364 455
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Manchester 5.53% 14.51% 9.52%
Number of salaries quoted 292 202 293
10th Percentile £35,750 £32,500 £34,000
25th Percentile £50,000 £43,313 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,500 £65,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year +0.77% +8.33% -11.11%
75th Percentile £80,000 £77,500 £75,000
90th Percentile £90,000 £93,778 £84,000
North West median annual salary £62,500 £63,750 £55,000
% change year-on-year -1.96% +15.91% -15.38%

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 27 July 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 27 July 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 +3 10 £65,000 - 1
Stockport +3 3 £75,000 - 4
Salford -17 3 £90,000 +20.00% 4
Bolton +13 1 £35,000 -
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 5 (3.29%) OpenStack
2 2 (1.32%) Apache
2 2 (1.32%) Apache Spark
2 2 (1.32%) Microsoft Exchange
Applications
1 1 (0.66%) Chatbot
Cloud Services
1 96 (63.16%) AWS
2 58 (38.16%) Azure
3 34 (22.37%) GCP
4 33 (21.71%) GitHub
5 28 (18.42%) Serverless
6 21 (13.82%) AWS CloudFormation
7 16 (10.53%) GitHub Actions
8 13 (8.55%) Amazon EKS
8 13 (8.55%) Azure AKS
9 12 (7.89%) Google Kubernetes Engine
10 9 (5.92%) OpenShift
10 9 (5.92%) SaaS
11 8 (5.26%) Amazon ECS
12 7 (4.61%) AWS Lambda
12 7 (4.61%) Azure DevOps
12 7 (4.61%) Datadog
12 7 (4.61%) Virtual Private Cloud
13 5 (3.29%) Entra ID
13 5 (3.29%) GitHub Copilot
14 4 (2.63%) Cloud Functions
Communications & Networking
1 7 (4.61%) Firewall
2 3 (1.97%) Network Security
3 2 (1.32%) AMQP
3 2 (1.32%) DNS
3 2 (1.32%) TCP/IP
4 1 (0.66%) HTTP
4 1 (0.66%) Software-Defined Networking
Database & Business Intelligence
1 19 (12.50%) PostgreSQL
2 15 (9.87%) MongoDB
3 12 (7.89%) NoSQL
4 5 (3.29%) Relational Database
5 4 (2.63%) Elasticsearch
5 4 (2.63%) Neo4j
6 3 (1.97%) Pinecone
6 3 (1.97%) SQL Server
7 2 (1.32%) Big Data
7 2 (1.32%) Cloudera CDH
7 2 (1.32%) Hadoop
8 1 (0.66%) Amazon Aurora
8 1 (0.66%) Redis
8 1 (0.66%) Weaviate
Development Applications
1 27 (17.76%) Git
2 25 (16.45%) Jenkins
3 21 (13.82%) GitLab
4 5 (3.29%) Atlassian Bamboo
5 4 (2.63%) Cucumber
5 4 (2.63%) Cypress.io
5 4 (2.63%) Robot Framework
5 4 (2.63%) Vite
6 3 (1.97%) Postman
6 3 (1.97%) Selenium
7 2 (1.32%) Bitbucket
7 2 (1.32%) JIRA
7 2 (1.32%) Vagrant
8 1 (0.66%) Claude Code
8 1 (0.66%) Gemini Tracker
8 1 (0.66%) Mocha
General
1 16 (10.53%) Social Skills
2 7 (4.61%) Finance
2 7 (4.61%) Public Sector
3 4 (2.63%) Analytical Skills
3 4 (2.63%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 3 (1.97%) Aerospace
5 2 (1.32%) Retail
Job Titles
1 51 (33.55%) DevOps Engineer
2 40 (26.32%) Senior
3 31 (20.39%) Cloud Engineer
4 27 (17.76%) Software Engineer
5 17 (11.18%) Lead
6 16 (10.53%) Developer
7 15 (9.87%) Principal Engineer
8 12 (7.89%) Java Developer
9 10 (6.58%) Cloud Native Engineer
9 10 (6.58%) Platform Engineer
9 10 (6.58%) Senior Developer
9 10 (6.58%) Senior Java Developer
10 9 (5.92%) Azure Engineer
10 9 (5.92%) Senior DevOps
10 9 (5.92%) Senior DevOps Engineer
11 8 (5.26%) Cloud Platform Engineer
11 8 (5.26%) Lead Software Engineer
11 8 (5.26%) Principal DevOps Engineer
11 8 (5.26%) Senior Software Engineer
12 6 (3.95%) AWS DevOps
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 37 (24.34%) Spring
2 36 (23.68%) Spring Boot
3 27 (17.76%) React
4 16 (10.53%) .NET
5 15 (9.87%) AngularJS
5 15 (9.87%) RESTful
6 14 (9.21%) Vue
7 12 (7.89%) FastAPI
8 9 (5.92%) Node.js
9 8 (5.26%) Django
9 8 (5.26%) LangChain
10 7 (4.61%) Kafka
10 7 (4.61%) REST
11 5 (3.29%) .NET Framework
11 5 (3.29%) Hibernate
11 5 (3.29%) LangGraph
11 5 (3.29%) OAuth
11 5 (3.29%) OpenID
11 5 (3.29%) SAML
11 5 (3.29%) Swagger
Miscellaneous
1 59 (38.82%) Cloud Native
2 18 (11.84%) Distributed Systems
3 8 (5.26%) Hybrid Cloud
4 5 (3.29%) AI Agents
5 4 (2.63%) Enterprise Cloud
5 4 (2.63%) Security Posture
6 3 (1.97%) Cloud Security Posture
6 3 (1.97%) Social Media
7 2 (1.32%) Legacy Systems
7 2 (1.32%) Mobile App
7 2 (1.32%) Product Ownership
7 2 (1.32%) Self-Motivation
8 1 (0.66%) Culture of Ownership
8 1 (0.66%) Management Information System
8 1 (0.66%) Online Gambling
8 1 (0.66%) Public Cloud
8 1 (0.66%) Video\Live Streaming
Operating Systems
1 26 (17.11%) Linux
2 7 (4.61%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 5 (3.29%) CentOS
4 4 (2.63%) Debian
4 4 (2.63%) Ubuntu
5 3 (1.97%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 118 (77.63%) CI/CD
2 115 (75.66%) DevOps
3 87 (57.24%) Infrastructure as Code
4 75 (49.34%) Containerisation
5 50 (32.89%) Agile
6 40 (26.32%) AI
6 40 (26.32%) Software Engineering
7 37 (24.34%) Platform Engineering
8 35 (23.03%) Site Reliability Engineering
9 32 (21.05%) Microservices
10 31 (20.39%) Continuous Improvement
10 31 (20.39%) Mentoring
11 30 (19.74%) Observability
12 29 (19.08%) Problem-Solving
13 23 (15.13%) Clean Code
14 22 (14.47%) Scrum
15 21 (13.82%) TDD
16 20 (13.16%) Collaborative Culture
17 15 (9.87%) Cloud Security
18 14 (9.21%) Event-Driven
Programming Languages
1 61 (40.13%) Python
2 45 (29.61%) Java
3 24 (15.79%) Bash
4 20 (13.16%) TypeScript
5 16 (10.53%) C#
6 15 (9.87%) Go
6 15 (9.87%) SQL
7 14 (9.21%) PowerShell
8 13 (8.55%) JavaScript
9 3 (1.97%) Bicep
9 3 (1.97%) Kotlin
9 3 (1.97%) Scala
10 1 (0.66%) VB.NET
Qualifications
1 54 (35.53%) Security Cleared
2 30 (19.74%) DV Cleared
3 28 (18.42%) SC Cleared
4 6 (3.95%) Azure Certification
5 5 (3.29%) Computer Science Degree
5 5 (3.29%) Degree
6 4 (2.63%) AWS Certification
7 2 (1.32%) Microsoft Certified Professional
8 1 (0.66%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (2.63%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 3 (1.97%) PCI DSS
2 3 (1.97%) SOC 2
3 1 (0.66%) QA
System Software
1 94 (61.84%) Docker
2 4 (2.63%) Virtual Machines
3 3 (1.97%) Ceph
3 3 (1.97%) VMware Infrastructure
4 2 (1.32%) Active Directory
5 1 (0.66%) VMware NSX
5 1 (0.66%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 95 (62.50%) Terraform
2 48 (31.58%) Ansible
3 18 (11.84%) Prometheus
4 17 (11.18%) Grafana
5 9 (5.92%) Argo
6 8 (5.26%) Istio
7 6 (3.95%) Progress Chef
7 6 (3.95%) Puppet
8 4 (2.63%) linkerd
9 3 (1.97%) Check_MK
9 3 (1.97%) Podman
10 2 (1.32%) Microsoft Intune
10 2 (1.32%) Packer
Vendors
1 15 (9.87%) Google
2 7 (4.61%) Microsoft
3 6 (3.95%) OpenAI
4 5 (3.29%) Red Hat
5 4 (2.63%) VMware
6 3 (1.97%) Dell
6 3 (1.97%) Dynatrace
6 3 (1.97%) Splunk
7 2 (1.32%) Pega
7 2 (1.32%) SaltStack
7 2 (1.32%) WSO2
8 1 (0.66%) Databricks