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

6 months to
24 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 80 44 56
Rank change year-on-year -36 +12 -14
Permanent jobs citing Kubernetes 99 150 205
As % of all permanent jobs in Manchester 1.71% 6.98% 4.01%
As % of the Systems Management category 33.33% 41.78% 44.28%
Number of salaries quoted 76 92 141
10th Percentile £51,625 £50,250 £45,000
25th Percentile £60,000 £62,500 £53,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £70,000 £78,810 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year -11.18% +21.25% -7.14%
75th Percentile £83,750 £95,000 £77,500
90th Percentile £90,000 £112,500 £90,000
North West median annual salary £72,500 £75,000 £62,500
% change year-on-year -3.33% +20.00% -10.71%

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 297 359 463
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Manchester 5.13% 16.70% 9.07%
Number of salaries quoted 225 203 355
10th Percentile £32,700 £32,500 £32,700
25th Percentile £46,750 £47,365 £44,632
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £70,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -7.14% +16.67% -7.69%
75th Percentile £80,000 £82,625 £73,750
90th Percentile £88,750 £97,272 £82,500
North West median annual salary £60,000 £67,500 £57,500
% change year-on-year -11.11% +17.39% -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 24 May 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 24 May 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 10 £65,000 - 2
Salford -18 2 £90,000 +20.00% 3
Stockport 0 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 3 (3.03%) Apache
1 3 (3.03%) Apache Spark
1 3 (3.03%) Microsoft Exchange
2 2 (2.02%) OpenStack
3 1 (1.01%) SharePoint
Applications
1 1 (1.01%) Chatbot
Cloud Services
1 68 (68.69%) AWS
2 55 (55.56%) Azure
3 27 (27.27%) GCP
4 22 (22.22%) GitHub
4 22 (22.22%) Serverless
5 17 (17.17%) Amazon EKS
5 17 (17.17%) Azure AKS
6 16 (16.16%) AWS CloudFormation
7 12 (12.12%) GitHub Actions
8 8 (8.08%) Amazon ECS
8 8 (8.08%) Google Kubernetes Engine
9 7 (7.07%) Azure DevOps
9 7 (7.07%) OpenShift
10 6 (6.06%) Entra ID
11 5 (5.05%) Amazon EC2
11 5 (5.05%) AWS Lambda
11 5 (5.05%) Datadog
11 5 (5.05%) SaaS
11 5 (5.05%) Virtual Private Cloud
12 4 (4.04%) Amazon S3
Communications & Networking
1 6 (6.06%) Firewall
2 3 (3.03%) AMQP
2 3 (3.03%) DNS
2 3 (3.03%) TCP/IP
3 1 (1.01%) DHCP
3 1 (1.01%) Network Security
3 1 (1.01%) SD-WAN
3 1 (1.01%) VLAN
3 1 (1.01%) VPN
3 1 (1.01%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 16 (16.16%) NoSQL
1 16 (16.16%) PostgreSQL
2 11 (11.11%) MongoDB
3 6 (6.06%) Relational Database
4 5 (5.05%) Elasticsearch
5 4 (4.04%) SQL Server
6 3 (3.03%) Big Data
6 3 (3.03%) Cloudera CDH
6 3 (3.03%) DynamoDB
6 3 (3.03%) Hadoop
6 3 (3.03%) MySQL
7 2 (2.02%) Neo4j
8 1 (1.01%) Azure SQL Database
8 1 (1.01%) BigQuery
8 1 (1.01%) DB2
Development Applications
1 15 (15.15%) GitLab
1 15 (15.15%) Jenkins
2 12 (12.12%) Git
3 3 (3.03%) Bitbucket
4 2 (2.02%) Vagrant
4 2 (2.02%) Vite
5 1 (1.01%) JIRA
General
1 11 (11.11%) Social Skills
2 5 (5.05%) Finance
3 4 (4.04%) Aerospace
3 4 (4.04%) Public Sector
4 3 (3.03%) Analytical Skills
5 2 (2.02%) Retail
6 1 (1.01%) Banking
6 1 (1.01%) Investment Banking
Job Titles
1 38 (38.38%) Senior
2 25 (25.25%) Software Engineer
3 22 (22.22%) Cloud Engineer
4 17 (17.17%) DevOps Engineer
5 15 (15.15%) Developer
6 11 (11.11%) Java Developer
7 10 (10.10%) Senior Developer
8 9 (9.09%) Lead
8 9 (9.09%) Senior Java Developer
9 8 (8.08%) .NET Software Engineer
9 8 (8.08%) Platform Engineer
10 7 (7.07%) Azure Engineer
10 7 (7.07%) Lead Software Engineer
10 7 (7.07%) Python Engineer
10 7 (7.07%) Senior Software Engineer
11 6 (6.06%) Java Software Developer
11 6 (6.06%) Senior Java Software Developer
11 6 (6.06%) Senior Software Developer
11 6 (6.06%) Software Developer
12 5 (5.05%) DV Cleared Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 22 (22.22%) Spring
2 21 (21.21%) Spring Boot
3 16 (16.16%) React
4 15 (15.15%) RESTful
5 12 (12.12%) .NET
6 10 (10.10%) FastAPI
7 8 (8.08%) .NET Framework
7 8 (8.08%) Django
7 8 (8.08%) Node.js
8 7 (7.07%) AngularJS
8 7 (7.07%) Vue
9 6 (6.06%) REST
10 5 (5.05%) JWT
10 5 (5.05%) OAuth
11 4 (4.04%) ARM Templates
11 4 (4.04%) Hibernate
11 4 (4.04%) YAML
12 3 (3.03%) OpenID
12 3 (3.03%) RabbitMQ
12 3 (3.03%) SAML
Miscellaneous
1 30 (30.30%) Cloud Native
2 12 (12.12%) Distributed Systems
3 6 (6.06%) Hybrid Cloud
4 4 (4.04%) AI Agents
4 4 (4.04%) Enterprise Cloud
4 4 (4.04%) Public Cloud
5 2 (2.02%) Legacy Systems
5 2 (2.02%) Mobile App
5 2 (2.02%) Product Ownership
5 2 (2.02%) Self-Motivation
6 1 (1.01%) Analytical Mindset
6 1 (1.01%) Data Structures
6 1 (1.01%) Distributed Computing
6 1 (1.01%) Security Posture
Operating Systems
1 18 (18.18%) Linux
2 6 (6.06%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 5 (5.05%) Debian
3 5 (5.05%) Ubuntu
4 4 (4.04%) CentOS
5 3 (3.03%) Windows
6 1 (1.01%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 78 (78.79%) CI/CD
2 73 (73.74%) DevOps
3 59 (59.60%) Infrastructure as Code
4 52 (52.53%) Containerisation
5 45 (45.45%) Agile
6 29 (29.29%) Software Engineering
7 27 (27.27%) Microservices
8 25 (25.25%) Scrum
9 24 (24.24%) Continuous Improvement
10 23 (23.23%) Clean Code
11 22 (22.22%) AI
11 22 (22.22%) Platform Engineering
11 22 (22.22%) TDD
12 21 (21.21%) Problem-Solving
13 18 (18.18%) Collaborative Culture
14 17 (17.17%) Mentoring
15 16 (16.16%) Observability
16 11 (11.11%) Infrastructure Engineering
16 11 (11.11%) Test Automation
17 10 (10.10%) High Availability
Programming Languages
1 36 (36.36%) Python
2 29 (29.29%) Java
3 19 (19.19%) SQL
4 12 (12.12%) C#
5 11 (11.11%) TypeScript
6 10 (10.10%) Bash
6 10 (10.10%) PowerShell
7 7 (7.07%) Go
7 7 (7.07%) JavaScript
8 2 (2.02%) Bicep
8 2 (2.02%) C
Qualifications
1 23 (23.23%) Security Cleared
2 16 (16.16%) SC Cleared
3 9 (9.09%) DV Cleared
4 6 (6.06%) Azure Certification
5 3 (3.03%) AWS Certification
5 3 (3.03%) Computer Science Degree
5 3 (3.03%) Degree
6 1 (1.01%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
6 1 (1.01%) Microsoft Certification
6 1 (1.01%) Microsoft Certified Professional
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (1.01%) Data Quality
1 1 (1.01%) ISO/IEC 27001
1 1 (1.01%) PCI DSS
1 1 (1.01%) QA
System Software
1 54 (54.55%) Docker
2 5 (5.05%) Virtual Machines
3 4 (4.04%) VMware Infrastructure
4 3 (3.03%) Active Directory
4 3 (3.03%) VMware NSX
4 3 (3.03%) vSphere
5 1 (1.01%) Firmware
5 1 (1.01%) Virtual Desktop
Systems Management
1 61 (61.62%) Terraform
2 27 (27.27%) Ansible
3 9 (9.09%) Grafana
4 8 (8.08%) Prometheus
5 4 (4.04%) Puppet
6 3 (3.03%) Microsoft Intune
6 3 (3.03%) Progress Chef
6 3 (3.03%) Rancher
7 2 (2.02%) Argo
7 2 (2.02%) Istio
7 2 (2.02%) Packer
8 1 (1.01%) FortiGate
8 1 (1.01%) linkerd
8 1 (1.01%) Nagios
Vendors
1 8 (8.08%) Google
2 6 (6.06%) Microsoft
2 6 (6.06%) VMware
3 4 (4.04%) Red Hat
4 3 (3.03%) SaltStack
5 2 (2.02%) Databricks
5 2 (2.02%) OpenAI
5 2 (2.02%) Pega
5 2 (2.02%) WSO2
6 1 (1.01%) Fortinet
6 1 (1.01%) Oracle