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

6 months to
13 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 80 51 56
Rank change year-on-year -29 +5 -13
Permanent jobs citing Kubernetes 91 147 202
As % of all permanent jobs in Manchester 1.68% 6.61% 4.04%
As % of the Systems Management category 33.46% 41.88% 43.63%
Number of salaries quoted 69 95 139
10th Percentile £51,850 £51,750 £47,000
25th Percentile £60,000 £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 £94,389 £77,500
90th Percentile £90,000 £112,500 £86,000
North West median annual salary £70,000 £78,155 £62,500
% change year-on-year -10.43% +25.05% -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 272 351 463
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Manchester 5.03% 15.78% 9.26%
Number of salaries quoted 203 203 357
10th Percentile £32,500 £36,250 £33,050
25th Percentile £46,250 £47,500 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £70,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -7.14% +16.67% -7.69%
75th Percentile £79,520 £85,125 £73,750
90th Percentile £88,500 £97,272 £82,500
North West median annual salary £60,000 £67,500 £57,500
% change year-on-year -11.11% +17.39% -3.40%

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 13 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 13 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 9 £65,000 - 1
Stockport 0 1 £60,000 - 1
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 (3.30%) Apache
1 3 (3.30%) Apache Spark
1 3 (3.30%) Microsoft Exchange
2 2 (2.20%) OpenStack
3 1 (1.10%) SharePoint
Applications
1 1 (1.10%) Chatbot
Cloud Services
1 60 (65.93%) AWS
2 49 (53.85%) Azure
3 25 (27.47%) GCP
4 21 (23.08%) Serverless
5 18 (19.78%) GitHub
6 17 (18.68%) Amazon EKS
7 16 (17.58%) Azure AKS
8 14 (15.38%) AWS CloudFormation
9 10 (10.99%) GitHub Actions
10 8 (8.79%) Amazon ECS
11 7 (7.69%) Google Kubernetes Engine
12 6 (6.59%) Azure DevOps
12 6 (6.59%) Entra ID
12 6 (6.59%) OpenShift
13 5 (5.49%) Amazon EC2
13 5 (5.49%) AWS Lambda
13 5 (5.49%) Datadog
14 4 (4.40%) Amazon S3
14 4 (4.40%) SaaS
15 3 (3.30%) Microsoft 365
Communications & Networking
1 6 (6.59%) Firewall
2 3 (3.30%) AMQP
2 3 (3.30%) DNS
2 3 (3.30%) TCP/IP
3 1 (1.10%) DHCP
3 1 (1.10%) Network Security
3 1 (1.10%) SD-WAN
3 1 (1.10%) VLAN
3 1 (1.10%) VPN
3 1 (1.10%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 19 (20.88%) NoSQL
2 15 (16.48%) PostgreSQL
3 11 (12.09%) MongoDB
4 6 (6.59%) Elasticsearch
4 6 (6.59%) Relational Database
5 4 (4.40%) MySQL
6 3 (3.30%) Big Data
6 3 (3.30%) Cloudera CDH
6 3 (3.30%) DynamoDB
6 3 (3.30%) Hadoop
6 3 (3.30%) Neo4j
6 3 (3.30%) SQL Server
7 1 (1.10%) Azure SQL Database
7 1 (1.10%) BigQuery
7 1 (1.10%) DB2
Development Applications
1 12 (13.19%) GitLab
2 11 (12.09%) Jenkins
3 10 (10.99%) Git
4 3 (3.30%) Bitbucket
5 2 (2.20%) Vagrant
5 2 (2.20%) Vite
6 1 (1.10%) JIRA
General
1 11 (12.09%) Social Skills
2 5 (5.49%) Finance
3 4 (4.40%) Aerospace
4 3 (3.30%) Analytical Skills
4 3 (3.30%) Public Sector
5 2 (2.20%) Retail
6 1 (1.10%) Banking
6 1 (1.10%) Investment Banking
Job Titles
1 34 (37.36%) Senior
2 29 (31.87%) Software Engineer
3 17 (18.68%) Cloud Engineer
4 14 (15.38%) Developer
5 13 (14.29%) DevOps Engineer
6 10 (10.99%) Java Developer
7 9 (9.89%) .NET Software Engineer
7 9 (9.89%) Lead
7 9 (9.89%) Senior Developer
8 8 (8.79%) Lead Software Engineer
8 8 (8.79%) Senior Java Developer
8 8 (8.79%) Senior Software Engineer
9 7 (7.69%) Python Engineer
10 5 (5.49%) DV Cleared Software Engineer
10 5 (5.49%) Java Software Developer
10 5 (5.49%) Platform Engineer
10 5 (5.49%) Senior .NET Software Engineer
10 5 (5.49%) Senior Java Software Developer
10 5 (5.49%) Senior Software Developer
10 5 (5.49%) Software Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 21 (23.08%) Spring
2 20 (21.98%) Spring Boot
3 17 (18.68%) React
4 16 (17.58%) RESTful
5 14 (15.38%) .NET
6 10 (10.99%) .NET Framework
6 10 (10.99%) FastAPI
7 8 (8.79%) AngularJS
7 8 (8.79%) Django
7 8 (8.79%) Node.js
8 6 (6.59%) REST
8 6 (6.59%) Vue
9 4 (4.40%) ARM Templates
9 4 (4.40%) Hibernate
9 4 (4.40%) JWT
9 4 (4.40%) OAuth
9 4 (4.40%) YAML
10 3 (3.30%) Material-UI
10 3 (3.30%) MERN Stack
10 3 (3.30%) OpenAPI
Miscellaneous
1 30 (32.97%) Cloud Native
2 14 (15.38%) Distributed Systems
3 5 (5.49%) Hybrid Cloud
4 4 (4.40%) Enterprise Cloud
4 4 (4.40%) Public Cloud
5 3 (3.30%) AI Agents
5 3 (3.30%) Distributed Computing
6 2 (2.20%) Legacy Systems
6 2 (2.20%) Mobile App
6 2 (2.20%) Product Ownership
6 2 (2.20%) Self-Motivation
7 1 (1.10%) Analytical Mindset
7 1 (1.10%) Data Structures
Operating Systems
1 17 (18.68%) Linux
2 6 (6.59%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 5 (5.49%) Debian
3 5 (5.49%) Ubuntu
4 4 (4.40%) CentOS
5 3 (3.30%) Windows
6 1 (1.10%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 72 (79.12%) CI/CD
2 67 (73.63%) DevOps
3 51 (56.04%) Infrastructure as Code
4 49 (53.85%) Containerisation
5 42 (46.15%) Agile
6 33 (36.26%) Software Engineering
7 30 (32.97%) Microservices
8 25 (27.47%) Scrum
9 23 (25.27%) Clean Code
9 23 (25.27%) TDD
10 22 (24.18%) Continuous Improvement
11 18 (19.78%) Problem-Solving
12 17 (18.68%) AI
13 16 (17.58%) Collaborative Culture
13 16 (17.58%) Mentoring
13 16 (17.58%) Platform Engineering
14 13 (14.29%) Observability
15 11 (12.09%) High Availability
15 11 (12.09%) Infrastructure Engineering
15 11 (12.09%) Performance Tuning
Programming Languages
1 33 (36.26%) Python
2 29 (31.87%) Java
3 22 (24.18%) SQL
4 14 (15.38%) C#
5 12 (13.19%) TypeScript
6 9 (9.89%) JavaScript
7 7 (7.69%) PowerShell
8 6 (6.59%) Bash
9 4 (4.40%) Go
10 3 (3.30%) C
11 2 (2.20%) Bicep
Qualifications
1 20 (21.98%) Security Cleared
2 12 (13.19%) SC Cleared
3 10 (10.99%) DV Cleared
4 5 (5.49%) Azure Certification
5 3 (3.30%) Computer Science Degree
5 3 (3.30%) Degree
6 2 (2.20%) AWS Certification
7 1 (1.10%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
7 1 (1.10%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (1.10%) Data Quality
1 1 (1.10%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 52 (57.14%) Docker
2 4 (4.40%) Virtual Machines
3 3 (3.30%) Active Directory
3 3 (3.30%) VMware Infrastructure
3 3 (3.30%) VMware NSX
3 3 (3.30%) vSphere
4 1 (1.10%) Firmware
4 1 (1.10%) Virtual Desktop
Systems Management
1 51 (56.04%) Terraform
2 24 (26.37%) Ansible
3 6 (6.59%) Grafana
4 5 (5.49%) Prometheus
5 3 (3.30%) Microsoft Intune
5 3 (3.30%) Puppet
5 3 (3.30%) Rancher
6 2 (2.20%) Packer
6 2 (2.20%) Progress Chef
7 1 (1.10%) FortiGate
7 1 (1.10%) Istio
7 1 (1.10%) Nagios
Vendors
1 7 (7.69%) Google
2 6 (6.59%) Microsoft
3 4 (4.40%) Red Hat
3 4 (4.40%) VMware
4 3 (3.30%) SaltStack
5 2 (2.20%) Databricks
5 2 (2.20%) OpenAI
5 2 (2.20%) Pega
5 2 (2.20%) WSO2
6 1 (1.10%) Fortinet
6 1 (1.10%) Oracle