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 30 April 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
30 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 76 52 55
Rank change year-on-year -24 +3 -13
Permanent jobs citing Kubernetes 92 123 202
As % of all permanent jobs in Manchester 1.76% 5.85% 4.10%
As % of the Systems Management category 35.66% 43.31% 43.82%
Number of salaries quoted 70 100 143
10th Percentile £52,000 £52,375 £46,500
25th Percentile £59,063 £63,750 £53,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £67,500 £80,000 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year -15.63% +23.08% -6.40%
75th Percentile £82,500 £95,632 £77,500
90th Percentile £95,000 £112,500 £88,984
North West median annual salary £70,000 £78,810 £62,500
% change year-on-year -11.18% +26.10% -10.00%

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 258 284 461
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Manchester 4.93% 13.52% 9.36%
Number of salaries quoted 187 205 361
10th Percentile £32,500 £36,250 £33,750
25th Percentile £44,625 £52,500 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £71,991 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -9.71% +19.99% -
75th Percentile £77,500 £87,500 £72,500
90th Percentile £90,750 £97,528 £82,500
North West median annual salary £60,000 £69,692 £57,500
% change year-on-year -13.91% +21.20% -

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 30 April 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 30 April 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 -2 7 £67,500 +3.85% 1
Stockport - 1 £60,000 - 2
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 (4.35%) Apache
1 4 (4.35%) Apache Spark
1 4 (4.35%) Microsoft Exchange
2 2 (2.17%) OpenStack
3 1 (1.09%) SharePoint
Applications
1 1 (1.09%) Chatbot
Cloud Services
1 56 (60.87%) AWS
2 47 (51.09%) Azure
3 22 (23.91%) GCP
4 21 (22.83%) Serverless
5 19 (20.65%) Azure AKS
6 18 (19.57%) Amazon EKS
7 17 (18.48%) GitHub
8 15 (16.30%) AWS CloudFormation
9 11 (11.96%) GitHub Actions
10 8 (8.70%) Amazon ECS
11 7 (7.61%) Azure DevOps
11 7 (7.61%) Google Kubernetes Engine
11 7 (7.61%) OpenShift
12 6 (6.52%) AWS Lambda
12 6 (6.52%) Entra ID
13 5 (5.43%) Amazon EC2
14 4 (4.35%) Amazon S3
14 4 (4.35%) Datadog
14 4 (4.35%) Microsoft 365
15 3 (3.26%) Apigee
Communications & Networking
1 6 (6.52%) Firewall
2 4 (4.35%) AMQP
3 3 (3.26%) DNS
3 3 (3.26%) TCP/IP
4 1 (1.09%) DHCP
4 1 (1.09%) Network Security
4 1 (1.09%) SD-WAN
4 1 (1.09%) VLAN
4 1 (1.09%) VPN
4 1 (1.09%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 24 (26.09%) NoSQL
2 15 (16.30%) PostgreSQL
3 10 (10.87%) MongoDB
4 6 (6.52%) Elasticsearch
4 6 (6.52%) MySQL
5 5 (5.43%) Relational Database
6 4 (4.35%) Big Data
6 4 (4.35%) Cloudera CDH
6 4 (4.35%) Hadoop
7 3 (3.26%) DynamoDB
7 3 (3.26%) Neo4j
7 3 (3.26%) SQL Server
8 1 (1.09%) Azure SQL Database
8 1 (1.09%) BigQuery
8 1 (1.09%) Data Warehouse
8 1 (1.09%) DB2
Development Applications
1 12 (13.04%) GitLab
2 11 (11.96%) Git
2 11 (11.96%) Jenkins
3 3 (3.26%) Bitbucket
4 2 (2.17%) Vagrant
4 2 (2.17%) Vite
5 1 (1.09%) JIRA
General
1 13 (14.13%) Social Skills
2 5 (5.43%) Aerospace
2 5 (5.43%) Finance
3 3 (3.26%) Analytical Skills
3 3 (3.26%) Retail
4 2 (2.17%) Public Sector
5 1 (1.09%) Banking
5 1 (1.09%) Investment Banking
Job Titles
1 34 (36.96%) Software Engineer
2 33 (35.87%) Senior
3 15 (16.30%) Cloud Engineer
4 13 (14.13%) DevOps Engineer
5 12 (13.04%) Developer
5 12 (13.04%) Lead
6 10 (10.87%) .NET Software Engineer
6 10 (10.87%) Lead Software Engineer
6 10 (10.87%) Senior Software Engineer
7 8 (8.70%) Senior Developer
8 7 (7.61%) Azure Engineer
8 7 (7.61%) Java Developer
8 7 (7.61%) Python Engineer
9 6 (6.52%) DV Cleared Software Engineer
9 6 (6.52%) Senior .NET Software Engineer
9 6 (6.52%) Senior Java Developer
10 4 (4.35%) GCP Engineer
10 4 (4.35%) Platform Engineer
10 4 (4.35%) Site Reliability Engineer
11 3 (3.26%) Senior DevOps
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 19 (20.65%) .NET
1 19 (20.65%) Spring
2 18 (19.57%) React
2 18 (19.57%) Spring Boot
3 17 (18.48%) RESTful
4 13 (14.13%) .NET Framework
5 9 (9.78%) AngularJS
5 9 (9.78%) FastAPI
5 9 (9.78%) Node.js
6 7 (7.61%) Django
6 7 (7.61%) REST
7 5 (5.43%) ARM Templates
7 5 (5.43%) Vue
7 5 (5.43%) Web Services
8 4 (4.35%) .NET Core
8 4 (4.35%) gRPC
8 4 (4.35%) Material-UI
8 4 (4.35%) OpenAPI
8 4 (4.35%) RabbitMQ
8 4 (4.35%) Swagger
Miscellaneous
1 35 (38.04%) Cloud Native
2 18 (19.57%) Distributed Systems
3 7 (7.61%) Distributed Computing
4 5 (5.43%) Hybrid Cloud
5 4 (4.35%) Enterprise Cloud
5 4 (4.35%) Public Cloud
6 3 (3.26%) AI Agents
7 2 (2.17%) Legacy Systems
7 2 (2.17%) Mobile App
7 2 (2.17%) Product Ownership
7 2 (2.17%) Self-Motivation
8 1 (1.09%) Analytical Mindset
8 1 (1.09%) Cyber Threat
8 1 (1.09%) Cybercrime
8 1 (1.09%) Data Structures
8 1 (1.09%) Driving Licence
8 1 (1.09%) Replication
Operating Systems
1 18 (19.57%) Linux
2 7 (7.61%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 6 (6.52%) Debian
3 6 (6.52%) Ubuntu
4 5 (5.43%) CentOS
5 3 (3.26%) Windows
6 1 (1.09%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 73 (79.35%) CI/CD
2 63 (68.48%) DevOps
3 54 (58.70%) Containerisation
4 47 (51.09%) Infrastructure as Code
5 41 (44.57%) Agile
6 38 (41.30%) Software Engineering
7 35 (38.04%) Microservices
8 25 (27.17%) Scrum
8 25 (27.17%) TDD
9 24 (26.09%) Clean Code
10 18 (19.57%) Continuous Improvement
10 18 (19.57%) Problem-Solving
11 17 (18.48%) Mentoring
12 15 (16.30%) Platform Engineering
13 14 (15.22%) AI
13 14 (15.22%) Collaborative Culture
13 14 (15.22%) High Availability
13 14 (15.22%) Observability
13 14 (15.22%) Performance Tuning
14 13 (14.13%) Software Architecture
Programming Languages
1 33 (35.87%) Python
2 28 (30.43%) SQL
3 27 (29.35%) Java
4 19 (20.65%) C#
5 15 (16.30%) TypeScript
6 12 (13.04%) JavaScript
7 8 (8.70%) PowerShell
8 6 (6.52%) Go
9 5 (5.43%) Bash
10 3 (3.26%) Bicep
10 3 (3.26%) C
Qualifications
1 19 (20.65%) Security Cleared
2 11 (11.96%) DV Cleared
2 11 (11.96%) SC Cleared
3 5 (5.43%) Azure Certification
4 3 (3.26%) Computer Science Degree
4 3 (3.26%) Degree
5 1 (1.09%) AWS Certification
5 1 (1.09%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
5 1 (1.09%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (1.09%) Data Quality
1 1 (1.09%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 53 (57.61%) Docker
2 5 (5.43%) Active Directory
2 5 (5.43%) Virtual Machines
3 4 (4.35%) VMware Infrastructure
4 3 (3.26%) VMware NSX
4 3 (3.26%) vSphere
5 1 (1.09%) Firmware
5 1 (1.09%) Hyper-V
5 1 (1.09%) Virtual Desktop
Systems Management
1 48 (52.17%) Terraform
2 23 (25.00%) Ansible
3 5 (5.43%) Grafana
3 5 (5.43%) Prometheus
4 4 (4.35%) Microsoft Intune
4 4 (4.35%) Puppet
5 3 (3.26%) Rancher
6 2 (2.17%) Packer
6 2 (2.17%) Progress Chef
7 1 (1.09%) FortiGate
7 1 (1.09%) Istio
7 1 (1.09%) Nagios
Vendors
1 8 (8.70%) Google
2 7 (7.61%) Microsoft
3 5 (5.43%) Red Hat
3 5 (5.43%) VMware
4 4 (4.35%) SaltStack
5 2 (2.17%) OpenAI
5 2 (2.17%) Pega
5 2 (2.17%) WSO2
6 1 (1.09%) Databricks
6 1 (1.09%) Dell
6 1 (1.09%) Fortinet
6 1 (1.09%) Oracle