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 10 August 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
10 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 58 44 52
Rank change year-on-year -14 +8 -31
Permanent jobs citing Kubernetes 158 144 186
As % of all permanent jobs in Manchester 2.32% 5.77% 4.18%
As % of the Systems Management category 43.05% 41.14% 43.87%
Number of salaries quoted 129 74 87
10th Percentile £47,500 £47,875 £44,000
25th Percentile £58,750 £58,750 £52,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £72,500 £71,250 £67,500
Median % change year-on-year +1.75% +5.56% -10.00%
75th Percentile £88,750 £88,750 £77,500
90th Percentile £96,250 £111,000 £93,000
North West median annual salary £71,750 £70,000 £65,000
% change year-on-year +2.50% +7.69% -13.33%

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 367 350 424
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Manchester 5.38% 14.02% 9.53%
Number of salaries quoted 296 192 256
10th Percentile £35,750 £32,500 £34,375
25th Percentile £50,000 £42,500 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,500 £65,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year +0.77% +8.33% -13.60%
75th Percentile £80,000 £77,500 £75,000
90th Percentile £90,625 £88,750 £83,750
North West median annual salary £62,500 £60,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year +4.17% +9.09% -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 10 August 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 10 August 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 9 £65,000 - 2
Stockport +6 4 £75,000 - 7
Salford -18 3 £90,000 +20.00% 1
Bolton +16 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 (3.16%) OpenStack
2 2 (1.27%) Apache
2 2 (1.27%) Apache Spark
3 1 (0.63%) Microsoft Exchange
Applications
1 1 (0.63%) Chatbot
Cloud Services
1 102 (64.56%) AWS
2 59 (37.34%) Azure
3 37 (23.42%) GCP
4 34 (21.52%) GitHub
5 28 (17.72%) Serverless
6 23 (14.56%) AWS CloudFormation
7 17 (10.76%) GitHub Actions
8 12 (7.59%) Amazon EKS
8 12 (7.59%) Google Kubernetes Engine
8 12 (7.59%) OpenShift
9 11 (6.96%) Amazon ECS
9 11 (6.96%) Azure AKS
10 10 (6.33%) SaaS
11 8 (5.06%) AWS Lambda
12 7 (4.43%) Azure DevOps
12 7 (4.43%) Datadog
12 7 (4.43%) Virtual Private Cloud
13 5 (3.16%) GitHub Copilot
14 4 (2.53%) Amazon CloudWatch
14 4 (2.53%) Cloud Functions
Communications & Networking
1 6 (3.80%) Firewall
2 3 (1.90%) Network Security
2 3 (1.90%) Software-Defined Networking
3 2 (1.27%) AMQP
3 2 (1.27%) DNS
3 2 (1.27%) TCP/IP
4 1 (0.63%) HTTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 19 (12.03%) PostgreSQL
2 15 (9.49%) MongoDB
3 11 (6.96%) NoSQL
4 5 (3.16%) Relational Database
5 4 (2.53%) Elasticsearch
5 4 (2.53%) Neo4j
6 3 (1.90%) Pinecone
6 3 (1.90%) SQL Server
7 2 (1.27%) Amazon Aurora
7 2 (1.27%) Big Data
7 2 (1.27%) Cloudera CDH
7 2 (1.27%) Hadoop
8 1 (0.63%) Amazon RDS
8 1 (0.63%) DynamoDB
8 1 (0.63%) Redis
8 1 (0.63%) Weaviate
Development Applications
1 29 (18.35%) Git
2 26 (16.46%) Jenkins
3 21 (13.29%) GitLab
4 5 (3.16%) Atlassian Bamboo
5 4 (2.53%) Cucumber
5 4 (2.53%) Cypress.io
5 4 (2.53%) Robot Framework
5 4 (2.53%) Vite
6 3 (1.90%) Postman
6 3 (1.90%) Selenium
7 2 (1.27%) Bitbucket
7 2 (1.27%) JIRA
8 1 (0.63%) Claude Code
8 1 (0.63%) Gemini Tracker
8 1 (0.63%) Mocha
8 1 (0.63%) Octopus Deploy
8 1 (0.63%) Vagrant
General
1 15 (9.49%) Social Skills
2 8 (5.06%) Public Sector
3 7 (4.43%) Finance
4 4 (2.53%) Analytical Skills
4 4 (2.53%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 3 (1.90%) Aerospace
6 2 (1.27%) Retail
Job Titles
1 51 (32.28%) DevOps Engineer
2 40 (25.32%) Senior
3 33 (20.89%) Cloud Engineer
4 25 (15.82%) Software Engineer
5 19 (12.03%) Lead
6 18 (11.39%) Developer
7 15 (9.49%) Principal Engineer
8 12 (7.59%) Java Developer
9 11 (6.96%) Senior Developer
10 10 (6.33%) Cloud Native Engineer
10 10 (6.33%) Platform Engineer
10 10 (6.33%) Senior Java Developer
11 9 (5.70%) Senior DevOps
11 9 (5.70%) Senior DevOps Engineer
12 8 (5.06%) Azure Engineer
12 8 (5.06%) Cloud Platform Engineer
12 8 (5.06%) Lead Software Engineer
12 8 (5.06%) Principal DevOps Engineer
13 7 (4.43%) Senior Software Engineer
14 6 (3.80%) Senior Software Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 37 (23.42%) Spring
2 36 (22.78%) Spring Boot
3 27 (17.09%) React
4 16 (10.13%) .NET
5 15 (9.49%) AngularJS
5 15 (9.49%) RESTful
6 14 (8.86%) Vue
7 12 (7.59%) FastAPI
8 10 (6.33%) Node.js
9 8 (5.06%) Django
9 8 (5.06%) LangChain
9 8 (5.06%) REST
10 7 (4.43%) Kafka
11 5 (3.16%) Express.js
11 5 (3.16%) Hibernate
11 5 (3.16%) LangGraph
11 5 (3.16%) OAuth
11 5 (3.16%) OpenID
11 5 (3.16%) SAML
11 5 (3.16%) Swagger
Miscellaneous
1 62 (39.24%) Cloud Native
2 18 (11.39%) Distributed Systems
3 8 (5.06%) Hybrid Cloud
4 5 (3.16%) AI Agents
5 4 (2.53%) Enterprise Cloud
5 4 (2.53%) Security Posture
6 3 (1.90%) Cloud Security Posture
6 3 (1.90%) Social Media
7 2 (1.27%) Legacy Systems
7 2 (1.27%) Product Ownership
8 1 (0.63%) Culture of Ownership
8 1 (0.63%) Greenfield Project
8 1 (0.63%) Management Information System
8 1 (0.63%) Mobile App
8 1 (0.63%) Online Gambling
8 1 (0.63%) Public Cloud
8 1 (0.63%) Self-Motivation
8 1 (0.63%) Video\Live Streaming
Operating Systems
1 27 (17.09%) Linux
2 7 (4.43%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 5 (3.16%) CentOS
4 4 (2.53%) Windows
5 3 (1.90%) Debian
5 3 (1.90%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 119 (75.32%) CI/CD
2 114 (72.15%) DevOps
3 89 (56.33%) Infrastructure as Code
4 74 (46.84%) Containerisation
5 52 (32.91%) Agile
6 41 (25.95%) AI
6 41 (25.95%) Software Engineering
7 37 (23.42%) Platform Engineering
8 35 (22.15%) Site Reliability Engineering
9 33 (20.89%) Microservices
10 32 (20.25%) Mentoring
10 32 (20.25%) Observability
11 30 (18.99%) Continuous Improvement
11 30 (18.99%) Problem-Solving
12 21 (13.29%) Clean Code
13 20 (12.66%) Collaborative Culture
13 20 (12.66%) Scrum
13 20 (12.66%) TDD
14 16 (10.13%) Cloud Security
15 15 (9.49%) Technical Leadership
Programming Languages
1 66 (41.77%) Python
2 48 (30.38%) Java
3 27 (17.09%) Bash
4 20 (12.66%) TypeScript
5 17 (10.76%) Go
6 16 (10.13%) C#
6 16 (10.13%) JavaScript
7 15 (9.49%) PowerShell
7 15 (9.49%) SQL
8 4 (2.53%) Kotlin
9 3 (1.90%) Bicep
9 3 (1.90%) Scala
10 2 (1.27%) C++
11 1 (0.63%) C
11 1 (0.63%) Objective-C
11 1 (0.63%) Rust
11 1 (0.63%) VB.NET
Qualifications
1 56 (35.44%) Security Cleared
2 32 (20.25%) DV Cleared
3 28 (17.72%) SC Cleared
4 6 (3.80%) AWS Certification
4 6 (3.80%) Azure Certification
5 5 (3.16%) Computer Science Degree
5 5 (3.16%) Degree
6 2 (1.27%) Microsoft Certified Professional
7 1 (0.63%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (2.53%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 3 (1.90%) PCI DSS
2 3 (1.90%) SOC 2
3 2 (1.27%) QA
System Software
1 96 (60.76%) Docker
2 4 (2.53%) Virtual Machines
2 4 (2.53%) VMware Infrastructure
3 3 (1.90%) Ceph
4 2 (1.27%) Active Directory
4 2 (1.27%) VMware NSX
5 1 (0.63%) VMware ESXi
5 1 (0.63%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 100 (63.29%) Terraform
2 51 (32.28%) Ansible
3 18 (11.39%) Prometheus
4 17 (10.76%) Grafana
5 10 (6.33%) Argo
6 9 (5.70%) Puppet
7 8 (5.06%) Istio
8 7 (4.43%) Progress Chef
9 4 (2.53%) linkerd
10 3 (1.90%) Check_MK
10 3 (1.90%) Podman
11 1 (0.63%) Microsoft Intune
11 1 (0.63%) Packer
11 1 (0.63%) vCenter Server
Vendors
1 15 (9.49%) Google
2 7 (4.43%) Microsoft
3 6 (3.80%) OpenAI
4 5 (3.16%) Red Hat
4 5 (3.16%) VMware
5 3 (1.90%) Dell
5 3 (1.90%) Dynatrace
5 3 (1.90%) Splunk
6 2 (1.27%) Pega
6 2 (1.27%) SaltStack
6 2 (1.27%) WSO2
7 1 (0.63%) Databricks
7 1 (0.63%) New Relic