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

6 months to
26 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 74 43 58
Rank change year-on-year -31 +15 -13
Permanent jobs citing Kubernetes 83 126 178
As % of all permanent jobs in Manchester 1.97% 6.16% 3.93%
As % of the Systems Management category 34.87% 49.03% 43.95%
Number of salaries quoted 65 106 148
10th Percentile £53,200 £49,375 £48,375
25th Percentile £58,750 £60,000 £55,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £67,500 £75,000 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year -10.00% +15.38% -
75th Percentile £82,500 £94,694 £77,554
90th Percentile £95,000 £112,500 £84,919
North West median annual salary £70,000 £75,000 £65,000
% change year-on-year -6.67% +15.38% -

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 238 257 405
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Manchester 5.64% 12.55% 8.93%
Number of salaries quoted 171 207 346
10th Percentile £32,500 £39,000 £31,250
25th Percentile £43,250 £50,625 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £62,500 £70,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -10.71% +16.67% -
75th Percentile £77,500 £82,751 £74,000
90th Percentile £93,750 £97,528 £82,500
North West median annual salary £55,000 £65,000 £57,500
% change year-on-year -15.38% +13.04% -

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 26 March 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 26 March 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 -4 6 £67,500 +3.85% 2
Stockport +1 1 £60,000 +29.73%
Salford -10 1 £70,079 +1.11%
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 (4.82%) Apache
1 4 (4.82%) Apache Spark
1 4 (4.82%) Microsoft Exchange
2 2 (2.41%) OpenStack
3 1 (1.20%) SharePoint
Cloud Services
1 52 (62.65%) AWS
2 41 (49.40%) Azure
3 25 (30.12%) GCP
4 18 (21.69%) Azure AKS
4 18 (21.69%) Serverless
5 17 (20.48%) Amazon EKS
6 12 (14.46%) AWS CloudFormation
7 9 (10.84%) GitHub
8 7 (8.43%) Amazon ECS
8 7 (8.43%) GitHub Actions
8 7 (8.43%) OpenShift
9 6 (7.23%) Amazon EC2
9 6 (7.23%) Amazon S3
9 6 (7.23%) Google Kubernetes Engine
10 5 (6.02%) AWS Lambda
10 5 (6.02%) Entra ID
11 4 (4.82%) Microsoft 365
12 3 (3.61%) Apigee
12 3 (3.61%) Azure DevOps
12 3 (3.61%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 6 (7.23%) Firewall
2 4 (4.82%) AMQP
3 3 (3.61%) DNS
3 3 (3.61%) TCP/IP
4 1 (1.20%) DHCP
4 1 (1.20%) Network Security
4 1 (1.20%) SD-WAN
4 1 (1.20%) VLAN
4 1 (1.20%) VPN
4 1 (1.20%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 25 (30.12%) NoSQL
2 16 (19.28%) PostgreSQL
3 13 (15.66%) MongoDB
4 8 (9.64%) MySQL
5 7 (8.43%) Elasticsearch
6 5 (6.02%) Relational Database
7 4 (4.82%) Big Data
7 4 (4.82%) Cloudera CDH
7 4 (4.82%) Hadoop
7 4 (4.82%) Neo4j
8 3 (3.61%) DynamoDB
8 3 (3.61%) SQL Server
9 1 (1.20%) Azure SQL Database
9 1 (1.20%) BigQuery
9 1 (1.20%) Data Warehouse
9 1 (1.20%) DB2
Development Applications
1 10 (12.05%) Git
2 9 (10.84%) GitLab
3 6 (7.23%) Jenkins
4 3 (3.61%) Bitbucket
5 2 (2.41%) Vagrant
6 1 (1.20%) Cucumber
6 1 (1.20%) JMeter
6 1 (1.20%) Locust
General
1 15 (18.07%) Social Skills
2 4 (4.82%) Aerospace
3 3 (3.61%) Analytical Skills
3 3 (3.61%) Finance
4 2 (2.41%) Public Sector
4 2 (2.41%) Retail
5 1 (1.20%) Banking
5 1 (1.20%) Electronics
5 1 (1.20%) Investment Banking
5 1 (1.20%) Manufacturing
5 1 (1.20%) Marketing
5 1 (1.20%) Tech for Good
5 1 (1.20%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 34 (40.96%) Software Engineer
2 30 (36.14%) Senior
3 13 (15.66%) DevOps Engineer
3 13 (15.66%) Lead
4 12 (14.46%) Developer
5 11 (13.25%) Senior Software Engineer
6 10 (12.05%) .NET Software Engineer
6 10 (12.05%) Lead Software Engineer
7 9 (10.84%) Java Developer
8 8 (9.64%) Cloud Engineer
8 8 (9.64%) Python Engineer
9 7 (8.43%) Senior Developer
10 6 (7.23%) Senior .NET Software Engineer
11 5 (6.02%) Azure Engineer
11 5 (6.02%) DV Cleared Software Engineer
11 5 (6.02%) Python Software Engineer
11 5 (6.02%) Senior Java Developer
12 4 (4.82%) Platform Engineer
13 3 (3.61%) Senior DevOps
13 3 (3.61%) Senior DevOps Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 21 (25.30%) .NET
2 19 (22.89%) Spring
2 19 (22.89%) Spring Boot
3 18 (21.69%) RESTful
4 16 (19.28%) React
5 13 (15.66%) .NET Framework
6 10 (12.05%) AngularJS
7 8 (9.64%) Django
7 8 (9.64%) FastAPI
8 6 (7.23%) Node.js
8 6 (7.23%) RabbitMQ
8 6 (7.23%) REST
8 6 (7.23%) Vue
9 5 (6.02%) Celery
9 5 (6.02%) Flask
9 5 (6.02%) Hibernate
9 5 (6.02%) Web Services
10 4 (4.82%) .NET Core
10 4 (4.82%) OpenAPI
10 4 (4.82%) Swagger
Miscellaneous
1 33 (39.76%) Cloud Native
2 17 (20.48%) Distributed Systems
3 7 (8.43%) Distributed Computing
4 4 (4.82%) Public Cloud
5 3 (3.61%) Enterprise Cloud
5 3 (3.61%) Hybrid Cloud
6 2 (2.41%) Driving Licence
6 2 (2.41%) Legacy Systems
6 2 (2.41%) Mobile App
6 2 (2.41%) Self-Motivation
7 1 (1.20%) Analytical Mindset
7 1 (1.20%) Cyber Threat
7 1 (1.20%) Cybercrime
7 1 (1.20%) Data Structures
7 1 (1.20%) Replication
Operating Systems
1 17 (20.48%) Linux
2 6 (7.23%) Debian
2 6 (7.23%) Ubuntu
3 5 (6.02%) CentOS
3 5 (6.02%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 5 (6.02%) Windows
4 3 (3.61%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 66 (79.52%) CI/CD
2 60 (72.29%) DevOps
3 52 (62.65%) Containerisation
4 41 (49.40%) Infrastructure as Code
5 40 (48.19%) Agile
6 36 (43.37%) Microservices
7 35 (42.17%) Software Engineering
8 25 (30.12%) TDD
9 24 (28.92%) Clean Code
10 22 (26.51%) Scrum
11 18 (21.69%) Problem-Solving
12 16 (19.28%) Platform Engineering
13 14 (16.87%) Continuous Improvement
13 14 (16.87%) Mentoring
13 14 (16.87%) Performance Tuning
14 13 (15.66%) Collaborative Culture
14 13 (15.66%) High Availability
14 13 (15.66%) Infrastructure Engineering
14 13 (15.66%) Software Architecture
15 10 (12.05%) Decision-Making
Programming Languages
1 29 (34.94%) Java
1 29 (34.94%) SQL
2 28 (33.73%) Python
3 19 (22.89%) C#
4 13 (15.66%) JavaScript
5 11 (13.25%) TypeScript
6 6 (7.23%) Go
7 4 (4.82%) C
8 3 (3.61%) PowerShell
9 2 (2.41%) Bicep
Qualifications
1 15 (18.07%) Security Cleared
2 11 (13.25%) DV Cleared
3 8 (9.64%) SC Cleared
4 5 (6.02%) Computer Science Degree
4 5 (6.02%) Degree
5 3 (3.61%) Azure Certification
6 1 (1.20%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
6 1 (1.20%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (1.20%) Accessibility
1 1 (1.20%) Data Quality
1 1 (1.20%) PCI DSS
1 1 (1.20%) QA
1 1 (1.20%) WCAG
System Software
1 48 (57.83%) Docker
2 5 (6.02%) VMware NSX
2 5 (6.02%) vSphere
3 4 (4.82%) Active Directory
3 4 (4.82%) Virtual Machines
3 4 (4.82%) VMware Infrastructure
4 1 (1.20%) Firmware
4 1 (1.20%) Hyper-V
4 1 (1.20%) Virtual Desktop
Systems Management
1 38 (45.78%) Terraform
2 22 (26.51%) Ansible
3 4 (4.82%) Microsoft Intune
3 4 (4.82%) Puppet
4 3 (3.61%) Rancher
5 2 (2.41%) Grafana
5 2 (2.41%) Packer
5 2 (2.41%) Progress Chef
6 1 (1.20%) FortiGate
6 1 (1.20%) Nagios
6 1 (1.20%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 7 (8.43%) Google
1 7 (8.43%) VMware
2 6 (7.23%) Microsoft
3 5 (6.02%) Red Hat
4 4 (4.82%) SaltStack
5 2 (2.41%) Pega
5 2 (2.41%) WSO2
6 1 (1.20%) Databricks
6 1 (1.20%) Dell
6 1 (1.20%) Fortinet
6 1 (1.20%) Oracle
6 1 (1.20%) SAP