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

6 months to
15 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 67 47 62
Rank change year-on-year -20 +15 -18
Permanent jobs citing Kubernetes 98 120 178
As % of all permanent jobs in Manchester 2.02% 6.01% 3.75%
As % of the Systems Management category 37.40% 47.06% 42.08%
Number of salaries quoted 74 101 142
10th Percentile £52,000 £51,250 £47,625
25th Percentile £59,063 £62,500 £55,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £67,500 £78,810 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year -14.35% +21.25% -3.70%
75th Percentile £82,500 £95,000 £77,715
90th Percentile £95,000 £112,500 £84,919
North West median annual salary £70,000 £78,155 £62,500
% change year-on-year -10.43% +25.05% -7.41%

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 262 255 423
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Manchester 5.40% 12.76% 8.91%
Number of salaries quoted 187 205 351
10th Percentile £32,500 £36,250 £32,000
25th Percentile £46,500 £51,250 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £71,991 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -9.71% +19.99% -
75th Percentile £78,915 £87,500 £74,000
90th Percentile £95,000 £97,528 £82,500
North West median annual salary £57,500 £67,500 £57,500
% change year-on-year -14.81% +17.39% -

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 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 15 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 -5 6 £67,500 +3.85% 1
Salford -12 1 £70,079 -6.56% 1
Stockport - 1 £60,000 -
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 (5.10%) Apache
1 5 (5.10%) Apache Spark
2 4 (4.08%) Microsoft Exchange
3 2 (2.04%) OpenStack
4 1 (1.02%) SharePoint
Applications
1 1 (1.02%) Chatbot
Cloud Services
1 61 (62.24%) AWS
2 50 (51.02%) Azure
3 28 (28.57%) GCP
4 23 (23.47%) Serverless
5 20 (20.41%) Azure AKS
6 19 (19.39%) Amazon EKS
7 16 (16.33%) AWS CloudFormation
7 16 (16.33%) GitHub
8 12 (12.24%) GitHub Actions
9 9 (9.18%) Amazon ECS
10 8 (8.16%) Azure DevOps
10 8 (8.16%) OpenShift
11 7 (7.14%) AWS Lambda
11 7 (7.14%) Entra ID
11 7 (7.14%) Google Kubernetes Engine
12 6 (6.12%) Amazon EC2
13 5 (5.10%) Amazon S3
13 5 (5.10%) Datadog
14 4 (4.08%) Azure Monitor
14 4 (4.08%) Microsoft 365
Communications & Networking
1 6 (6.12%) Firewall
2 5 (5.10%) AMQP
3 3 (3.06%) DNS
3 3 (3.06%) TCP/IP
4 1 (1.02%) DHCP
4 1 (1.02%) Network Security
4 1 (1.02%) SD-WAN
4 1 (1.02%) VLAN
4 1 (1.02%) VPN
4 1 (1.02%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 26 (26.53%) NoSQL
2 18 (18.37%) PostgreSQL
3 14 (14.29%) MongoDB
4 7 (7.14%) Elasticsearch
4 7 (7.14%) MySQL
5 5 (5.10%) Big Data
5 5 (5.10%) Cloudera CDH
5 5 (5.10%) Hadoop
5 5 (5.10%) Relational Database
6 4 (4.08%) Neo4j
7 3 (3.06%) DynamoDB
7 3 (3.06%) SQL Server
8 1 (1.02%) Azure SQL Database
8 1 (1.02%) BigQuery
8 1 (1.02%) Data Warehouse
8 1 (1.02%) DB2
Development Applications
1 12 (12.24%) Git
2 9 (9.18%) GitLab
2 9 (9.18%) Jenkins
3 3 (3.06%) Bitbucket
4 2 (2.04%) Vagrant
5 1 (1.02%) Cucumber
5 1 (1.02%) JMeter
5 1 (1.02%) Locust
General
1 15 (15.31%) Social Skills
2 5 (5.10%) Aerospace
3 4 (4.08%) Finance
3 4 (4.08%) Retail
4 3 (3.06%) Analytical Skills
5 2 (2.04%) Public Sector
6 1 (1.02%) Banking
6 1 (1.02%) Investment Banking
6 1 (1.02%) Tech for Good
Job Titles
1 38 (38.78%) Software Engineer
2 34 (34.69%) Senior
3 15 (15.31%) Cloud Engineer
4 13 (13.27%) DevOps Engineer
4 13 (13.27%) Lead
5 12 (12.24%) Developer
5 12 (12.24%) Senior Software Engineer
6 10 (10.20%) .NET Software Engineer
6 10 (10.20%) Lead Software Engineer
6 10 (10.20%) Python Engineer
7 8 (8.16%) Azure Engineer
7 8 (8.16%) Java Developer
8 7 (7.14%) Senior Developer
9 6 (6.12%) DV Cleared Software Engineer
9 6 (6.12%) Senior .NET Software Engineer
10 5 (5.10%) Python Software Engineer
10 5 (5.10%) Senior Java Developer
11 4 (4.08%) GCP Engineer
11 4 (4.08%) Platform Engineer
11 4 (4.08%) Site Reliability Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 21 (21.43%) Spring
2 20 (20.41%) .NET
2 20 (20.41%) Spring Boot
3 19 (19.39%) React
3 19 (19.39%) RESTful
4 13 (13.27%) .NET Framework
5 11 (11.22%) AngularJS
6 10 (10.20%) Django
6 10 (10.20%) FastAPI
7 8 (8.16%) Node.js
8 7 (7.14%) REST
9 6 (6.12%) ARM Templates
9 6 (6.12%) RabbitMQ
9 6 (6.12%) Vue
10 5 (5.10%) Celery
10 5 (5.10%) Flask
10 5 (5.10%) gRPC
10 5 (5.10%) Material-UI
10 5 (5.10%) OpenAPI
10 5 (5.10%) Swagger
Miscellaneous
1 38 (38.78%) Cloud Native
2 20 (20.41%) Distributed Systems
3 7 (7.14%) Distributed Computing
4 5 (5.10%) Hybrid Cloud
5 4 (4.08%) Enterprise Cloud
5 4 (4.08%) Public Cloud
6 2 (2.04%) Driving Licence
6 2 (2.04%) Legacy Systems
6 2 (2.04%) Mobile App
6 2 (2.04%) Product Ownership
6 2 (2.04%) Self-Motivation
7 1 (1.02%) AI Agents
7 1 (1.02%) Analytical Mindset
7 1 (1.02%) Cyber Threat
7 1 (1.02%) Cybercrime
7 1 (1.02%) Data Structures
7 1 (1.02%) Replication
Operating Systems
1 19 (19.39%) Linux
2 8 (8.16%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 7 (7.14%) Debian
3 7 (7.14%) Ubuntu
4 6 (6.12%) CentOS
5 4 (4.08%) Windows
6 2 (2.04%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 77 (78.57%) CI/CD
2 70 (71.43%) DevOps
3 59 (60.20%) Containerisation
4 51 (52.04%) Infrastructure as Code
5 43 (43.88%) Agile
6 42 (42.86%) Software Engineering
7 38 (38.78%) Microservices
8 27 (27.55%) TDD
9 24 (24.49%) Clean Code
10 23 (23.47%) Scrum
11 21 (21.43%) Problem-Solving
12 20 (20.41%) Continuous Improvement
13 17 (17.35%) Observability
13 17 (17.35%) Platform Engineering
14 16 (16.33%) Collaborative Culture
15 15 (15.31%) High Availability
15 15 (15.31%) Infrastructure Engineering
15 15 (15.31%) Mentoring
16 14 (14.29%) AI
16 14 (14.29%) Performance Tuning
Programming Languages
1 37 (37.76%) Python
2 31 (31.63%) Java
3 30 (30.61%) SQL
4 19 (19.39%) C#
5 14 (14.29%) JavaScript
5 14 (14.29%) TypeScript
6 8 (8.16%) PowerShell
7 6 (6.12%) Go
8 4 (4.08%) Bash
8 4 (4.08%) Bicep
8 4 (4.08%) C
Qualifications
1 18 (18.37%) Security Cleared
2 12 (12.24%) SC Cleared
3 11 (11.22%) DV Cleared
4 6 (6.12%) Azure Certification
5 5 (5.10%) Computer Science Degree
5 5 (5.10%) Degree
6 1 (1.02%) AWS Certification
6 1 (1.02%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
6 1 (1.02%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (1.02%) Accessibility
1 1 (1.02%) Data Quality
1 1 (1.02%) PCI DSS
1 1 (1.02%) QA
1 1 (1.02%) WCAG
System Software
1 57 (58.16%) Docker
2 6 (6.12%) Active Directory
2 6 (6.12%) Virtual Machines
3 4 (4.08%) VMware Infrastructure
3 4 (4.08%) VMware NSX
3 4 (4.08%) vSphere
4 1 (1.02%) Firmware
4 1 (1.02%) Hyper-V
4 1 (1.02%) Virtual Desktop
Systems Management
1 50 (51.02%) Terraform
2 24 (24.49%) Ansible
3 6 (6.12%) Grafana
4 5 (5.10%) Prometheus
4 5 (5.10%) Puppet
5 4 (4.08%) Microsoft Intune
6 3 (3.06%) Rancher
7 2 (2.04%) Packer
7 2 (2.04%) Progress Chef
8 1 (1.02%) FortiGate
8 1 (1.02%) Istio
8 1 (1.02%) Nagios
Vendors
1 9 (9.18%) Google
2 8 (8.16%) Microsoft
3 6 (6.12%) Red Hat
3 6 (6.12%) VMware
4 5 (5.10%) SaltStack
5 2 (2.04%) Pega
5 2 (2.04%) WSO2
6 1 (1.02%) Databricks
6 1 (1.02%) Dell
6 1 (1.02%) Fortinet
6 1 (1.02%) Oracle