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

6 months to
15 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 66 40 64
Rank change year-on-year -26 +24 -31
Permanent jobs citing Kubernetes 122 161 203
As % of all permanent jobs in Manchester 2.01% 7.10% 3.46%
As % of the Systems Management category 36.42% 42.82% 42.29%
Number of salaries quoted 98 93 127
10th Percentile £51,250 £53,750 £45,000
25th Percentile £60,000 £62,500 £53,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £70,000 £78,810 £63,500
Median % change year-on-year -11.18% +24.11% -9.29%
75th Percentile £87,500 £95,000 £77,500
90th Percentile £95,000 £112,500 £92,500
North West median annual salary £71,500 £75,000 £61,206
% change year-on-year -4.67% +22.54% -12.56%

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 335 376 480
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Manchester 5.52% 16.57% 8.19%
Number of salaries quoted 263 212 345
10th Percentile £33,750 £32,500 £31,250
25th Percentile £50,000 £45,563 £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 £80,000 £72,500
90th Percentile £90,000 £96,125 £82,000
North West median annual salary £62,500 £67,037 £57,500
% change year-on-year -6.77% +16.59% -4.17%

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 15 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 15 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 +6 10 £65,000 - 3
Salford -15 3 £90,000 +20.00% 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 3 (2.46%) Apache
1 3 (2.46%) Apache Spark
2 2 (1.64%) Microsoft Exchange
2 2 (1.64%) OpenStack
Applications
1 1 (0.82%) Chatbot
Cloud Services
1 83 (68.03%) AWS
2 62 (50.82%) Azure
3 32 (26.23%) GCP
4 30 (24.59%) GitHub
5 25 (20.49%) Serverless
6 17 (13.93%) Azure AKS
7 16 (13.11%) AWS CloudFormation
7 16 (13.11%) GitHub Actions
8 15 (12.30%) Amazon EKS
9 9 (7.38%) Google Kubernetes Engine
10 8 (6.56%) Amazon ECS
11 7 (5.74%) AWS Lambda
11 7 (5.74%) Azure DevOps
11 7 (5.74%) SaaS
11 7 (5.74%) Virtual Private Cloud
12 6 (4.92%) Datadog
12 6 (4.92%) OpenShift
13 5 (4.10%) Entra ID
14 4 (3.28%) Amazon EC2
14 4 (3.28%) Cloud Functions
Communications & Networking
1 5 (4.10%) Firewall
2 3 (2.46%) AMQP
3 2 (1.64%) DNS
3 2 (1.64%) TCP/IP
4 1 (0.82%) Network Security
Database & Business Intelligence
1 19 (15.57%) PostgreSQL
2 16 (13.11%) NoSQL
3 14 (11.48%) MongoDB
4 6 (4.92%) Relational Database
5 5 (4.10%) Elasticsearch
6 4 (3.28%) Neo4j
7 3 (2.46%) Big Data
7 3 (2.46%) Cloudera CDH
7 3 (2.46%) Hadoop
7 3 (2.46%) Pinecone
7 3 (2.46%) SQL Server
8 1 (0.82%) BigQuery
8 1 (0.82%) Db2
8 1 (0.82%) DynamoDB
8 1 (0.82%) MySQL
8 1 (0.82%) Redis
8 1 (0.82%) Weaviate
Development Applications
1 23 (18.85%) Jenkins
2 20 (16.39%) Git
3 19 (15.57%) GitLab
4 4 (3.28%) Vite
5 2 (1.64%) Atlassian Bamboo
5 2 (1.64%) Bitbucket
5 2 (1.64%) Cucumber
5 2 (1.64%) Cypress.io
5 2 (1.64%) JIRA
5 2 (1.64%) Postman
5 2 (1.64%) Robot Framework
5 2 (1.64%) Selenium
5 2 (1.64%) Vagrant
6 1 (0.82%) Claude Code
6 1 (0.82%) Gemini Tracker
General
1 11 (9.02%) Social Skills
2 7 (5.74%) Finance
3 5 (4.10%) Public Sector
4 4 (3.28%) Aerospace
5 2 (1.64%) Analytical Skills
5 2 (1.64%) Retail
6 1 (0.82%) Banking
6 1 (0.82%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 1 (0.82%) Investment Banking
Job Titles
1 42 (34.43%) Senior
2 30 (24.59%) Software Engineer
3 26 (21.31%) DevOps Engineer
4 23 (18.85%) Cloud Engineer
5 16 (13.11%) Developer
6 12 (9.84%) Java Developer
6 12 (9.84%) Lead
7 10 (8.20%) Senior Developer
7 10 (8.20%) Senior Java Developer
8 9 (7.38%) Azure Engineer
8 9 (7.38%) Platform Engineer
8 9 (7.38%) Senior Software Engineer
9 8 (6.56%) .NET Software Engineer
10 7 (5.74%) Cloud Platform Engineer
10 7 (5.74%) Lead Software Engineer
10 7 (5.74%) Python Engineer
11 6 (4.92%) GCP Engineer
11 6 (4.92%) Java Software Developer
11 6 (4.92%) Senior DevOps
11 6 (4.92%) Senior Java Software Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 26 (21.31%) Spring
2 25 (20.49%) Spring Boot
3 24 (19.67%) React
4 17 (13.93%) RESTful
5 14 (11.48%) .NET
6 13 (10.66%) FastAPI
7 12 (9.84%) AngularJS
8 11 (9.02%) Vue
9 9 (7.38%) Django
9 9 (7.38%) Node.js
10 8 (6.56%) .NET Framework
11 7 (5.74%) LangChain
11 7 (5.74%) REST
12 6 (4.92%) JWT
12 6 (4.92%) OAuth
13 5 (4.10%) ARM Templates
13 5 (4.10%) Hibernate
13 5 (4.10%) OpenID
13 5 (4.10%) SAML
13 5 (4.10%) Swagger
Miscellaneous
1 45 (36.89%) Cloud Native
2 15 (12.30%) Distributed Systems
3 7 (5.74%) Hybrid Cloud
4 5 (4.10%) AI Agents
5 4 (3.28%) Enterprise Cloud
6 2 (1.64%) Legacy Systems
6 2 (1.64%) Mobile App
6 2 (1.64%) Product Ownership
6 2 (1.64%) Public Cloud
6 2 (1.64%) Security Posture
6 2 (1.64%) Self-Motivation
7 1 (0.82%) Cloud Security Posture
7 1 (0.82%) Culture of Ownership
7 1 (0.82%) Data Structures
Operating Systems
1 18 (14.75%) Linux
2 6 (4.92%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 5 (4.10%) Debian
3 5 (4.10%) Ubuntu
4 4 (3.28%) CentOS
5 3 (2.46%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 96 (78.69%) CI/CD
2 88 (72.13%) DevOps
3 71 (58.20%) Infrastructure as Code
4 62 (50.82%) Containerisation
5 47 (38.52%) Agile
6 37 (30.33%) Software Engineering
7 35 (28.69%) AI
8 30 (24.59%) Microservices
9 28 (22.95%) Continuous Improvement
9 28 (22.95%) Platform Engineering
10 26 (21.31%) Observability
10 26 (21.31%) Problem-Solving
10 26 (21.31%) Scrum
11 24 (19.67%) Clean Code
12 23 (18.85%) Mentoring
13 22 (18.03%) TDD
14 20 (16.39%) Collaborative Culture
15 13 (10.66%) Site Reliability Engineering
16 11 (9.02%) Event-Driven
16 11 (9.02%) Test Automation
Programming Languages
1 49 (40.16%) Python
2 34 (27.87%) Java
3 19 (15.57%) SQL
3 19 (15.57%) TypeScript
4 16 (13.11%) Bash
5 14 (11.48%) C#
6 13 (10.66%) JavaScript
7 12 (9.84%) PowerShell
8 9 (7.38%) Go
9 3 (2.46%) Bicep
10 2 (1.64%) C
10 2 (1.64%) Kotlin
10 2 (1.64%) Scala
Qualifications
1 34 (27.87%) Security Cleared
2 21 (17.21%) SC Cleared
3 14 (11.48%) DV Cleared
4 6 (4.92%) Azure Certification
5 4 (3.28%) Computer Science Degree
5 4 (3.28%) Degree
6 3 (2.46%) AWS Certification
7 2 (1.64%) Microsoft Certified Professional
8 1 (0.82%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (1.64%) ISO/IEC 27001
1 2 (1.64%) PCI DSS
2 1 (0.82%) Data Quality
2 1 (0.82%) QA
2 1 (0.82%) SOC 2
System Software
1 71 (58.20%) Docker
2 5 (4.10%) Virtual Machines
3 4 (3.28%) VMware Infrastructure
4 2 (1.64%) Active Directory
4 2 (1.64%) VMware NSX
4 2 (1.64%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 73 (59.84%) Terraform
2 28 (22.95%) Ansible
3 12 (9.84%) Grafana
4 11 (9.02%) Prometheus
5 5 (4.10%) Argo
5 5 (4.10%) Puppet
6 4 (3.28%) Istio
6 4 (3.28%) Progress Chef
7 3 (2.46%) linkerd
8 2 (1.64%) Microsoft Intune
8 2 (1.64%) Packer
9 1 (0.82%) Rancher
Vendors
1 12 (9.84%) Google
2 6 (4.92%) Microsoft
3 5 (4.10%) OpenAI
3 5 (4.10%) VMware
4 3 (2.46%) Red Hat
4 3 (2.46%) SaltStack
5 2 (1.64%) Databricks
5 2 (1.64%) Dynatrace
5 2 (1.64%) Pega
5 2 (1.64%) Splunk
5 2 (1.64%) WSO2
6 1 (0.82%) Oracle