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

6 months to
5 Oct 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 59 55 47
Rank change year-on-year -4 -8 -32
Permanent jobs citing Kubernetes 179 114 178
As % of all permanent jobs in Manchester 2.34% 4.81% 4.47%
As % of the Systems Management category 54.74% 42.07% 52.05%
Number of salaries quoted 128 51 70
10th Percentile £47,500 £52,500 £42,375
25th Percentile £57,500 £61,250 £52,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £73,750 £67,500 £60,250
Median % change year-on-year +9.26% +12.03% -19.67%
75th Percentile £88,750 £81,875 £75,000
90th Percentile £96,250 £97,500 £87,550
North West median annual salary £72,500 £65,000 £60,250
% change year-on-year +11.54% +7.88% -19.67%

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 327 271 342
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Manchester 4.28% 11.42% 8.59%
Number of salaries quoted 224 126 145
10th Percentile £31,625 £27,000 £35,750
25th Percentile £46,250 £33,125 £41,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £55,000 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year +18.18% +4.76% -22.22%
75th Percentile £80,000 £67,500 £68,750
90th Percentile £95,000 £83,125 £80,250
North West median annual salary £57,500 £48,720 £50,000
% change year-on-year +18.02% -2.56% -23.08%

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 5 October 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 5 October 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 9 £65,000 - 4
Stockport +1 6 £72,500 - 3
Salford -19 3 £90,000 - 5
Bolton +3 1 £35,000 - 2
Wigan +2 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 (1.68%) Apache
1 3 (1.68%) Apache Spark
1 3 (1.68%) OpenStack
2 2 (1.12%) Confluence
3 1 (0.56%) IIS
Applications
1 1 (0.56%) Chatbot
Cloud Services
1 118 (65.92%) AWS
2 56 (31.28%) Azure
3 37 (20.67%) GitHub
4 36 (20.11%) GCP
5 27 (15.08%) Serverless
6 22 (12.29%) AWS CloudFormation
7 17 (9.50%) OpenShift
8 16 (8.94%) GitHub Actions
9 10 (5.59%) AWS Lambda
9 10 (5.59%) Google Kubernetes Engine
9 10 (5.59%) SaaS
10 8 (4.47%) Azure AKS
10 8 (4.47%) Virtual Private Cloud
11 7 (3.91%) Amazon ECS
11 7 (3.91%) Azure DevOps
12 6 (3.35%) Amazon CloudWatch
12 6 (3.35%) Amazon EKS
13 5 (2.79%) Datadog
13 5 (2.79%) GitHub Copilot
14 4 (2.23%) Azure Monitor
Communications & Networking
1 3 (1.68%) AMQP
1 3 (1.68%) Firewall
1 3 (1.68%) Network Security
1 3 (1.68%) Software-Defined Networking
2 2 (1.12%) DNS
3 1 (0.56%) DHCP
3 1 (0.56%) HTTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 20 (11.17%) MongoDB
2 17 (9.50%) PostgreSQL
3 5 (2.79%) Chroma
3 5 (2.79%) Elasticsearch
3 5 (2.79%) NoSQL
3 5 (2.79%) Pinecone
4 4 (2.23%) Neo4j
5 3 (1.68%) Big Data
5 3 (1.68%) Cloudera CDH
5 3 (1.68%) Hadoop
6 2 (1.12%) Amazon Aurora
6 2 (1.12%) Redis
6 2 (1.12%) Relational Database
6 2 (1.12%) SQL Server
7 1 (0.56%) Amazon RDS
7 1 (0.56%) DynamoDB
7 1 (0.56%) MySQL
7 1 (0.56%) Weaviate
Development Applications
1 33 (18.44%) Git
2 28 (15.64%) GitLab
3 27 (15.08%) Jenkins
4 7 (3.91%) Atlassian Bamboo
5 6 (3.35%) JIRA
6 5 (2.79%) Cypress.io
7 4 (2.23%) Artifactory
7 4 (2.23%) Cucumber
7 4 (2.23%) Robot Framework
7 4 (2.23%) Vagrant
7 4 (2.23%) Vite
8 3 (1.68%) Postman
8 3 (1.68%) Selenium
9 2 (1.12%) Bitbucket
9 2 (1.12%) Mocha
10 1 (0.56%) Claude Code
10 1 (0.56%) Gemini Tracker
10 1 (0.56%) Maven
10 1 (0.56%) Octopus Deploy
General
1 31 (17.32%) Social Skills
2 12 (6.70%) Publishing
3 11 (6.15%) Public Sector
4 7 (3.91%) Finance
5 6 (3.35%) Aerospace
6 5 (2.79%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 4 (2.23%) Analytical Skills
8 1 (0.56%) iGaming
8 1 (0.56%) Retail
Job Titles
1 61 (34.08%) DevOps Engineer
2 51 (28.49%) Senior
3 32 (17.88%) Software Engineer
4 27 (15.08%) Cloud Engineer
5 22 (12.29%) Developer
6 21 (11.73%) Lead
7 18 (10.06%) Principal Engineer
8 14 (7.82%) Senior Software Engineer
9 12 (6.70%) Cloud Native Engineer
9 12 (6.70%) Principal DevOps Engineer
9 12 (6.70%) Senior Developer
9 12 (6.70%) Senior DevOps
9 12 (6.70%) Senior DevOps Engineer
10 11 (6.15%) Platform Engineer
11 9 (5.03%) AWS Engineer
11 9 (5.03%) Java Developer
12 8 (4.47%) AWS DevOps
12 8 (4.47%) AWS DevOps Engineer
12 8 (4.47%) Senior Java Developer
13 7 (3.91%) Lead DevOps
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 110 (61.45%) Terraform
2 57 (31.84%) Spring
3 54 (30.17%) Spring Boot
4 48 (26.82%) React
5 24 (13.41%) Kafka
6 16 (8.94%) AngularJS
7 14 (7.82%) Vue
8 12 (6.70%) FastAPI
8 12 (6.70%) Node.js
9 11 (6.15%) REST
10 10 (5.59%) .NET
10 10 (5.59%) LangChain
11 9 (5.03%) RESTful
12 7 (3.91%) CrewAI
12 7 (3.91%) LangGraph
12 7 (3.91%) OpenAPI
12 7 (3.91%) Swagger
13 6 (3.35%) Django
13 6 (3.35%) Next.js
13 6 (3.35%) RabbitMQ
Miscellaneous
1 62 (34.64%) Cloud Native
2 12 (6.70%) Media Streaming
2 12 (6.70%) Podcast
3 11 (6.15%) Distributed Systems
4 7 (3.91%) AI Agents
5 5 (2.79%) Hybrid Cloud
6 4 (2.23%) Security Posture
7 3 (1.68%) Cloud Security Posture
7 3 (1.68%) Greenfield Project
7 3 (1.68%) Product Ownership
7 3 (1.68%) Social Media
8 1 (0.56%) Culture of Ownership
8 1 (0.56%) Cyber Defence
8 1 (0.56%) Cyber Threat
8 1 (0.56%) Data Centre
8 1 (0.56%) Enterprise Cloud
8 1 (0.56%) Hackathon
8 1 (0.56%) Management Information System
8 1 (0.56%) Online Gambling
8 1 (0.56%) Video\Live Streaming
Operating Systems
1 32 (17.88%) Linux
2 10 (5.59%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 8 (4.47%) CentOS
4 6 (3.35%) Windows
5 4 (2.23%) Ubuntu
6 3 (1.68%) Debian
7 2 (1.12%) Unix
8 1 (0.56%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 133 (74.30%) CI/CD
2 126 (70.39%) DevOps
3 93 (51.96%) Infrastructure as Code
4 85 (47.49%) Containerisation
5 75 (41.90%) Agile
6 56 (31.28%) AI
7 54 (30.17%) Software Engineering
8 47 (26.26%) Mentoring
9 46 (25.70%) Microservices
9 46 (25.70%) Observability
10 42 (23.46%) Continuous Improvement
11 41 (22.91%) Site Reliability Engineering
12 38 (21.23%) Problem-Solving
13 36 (20.11%) Platform Engineering
14 27 (15.08%) Event-Driven
15 22 (12.29%) Cloud Security
15 22 (12.29%) Code Quality
15 22 (12.29%) Scrum
16 20 (11.17%) Technical Leadership
17 19 (10.61%) Stakeholder Management
Programming Languages
1 79 (44.13%) Python
2 72 (40.22%) Java
3 38 (21.23%) TypeScript
4 33 (18.44%) Bash
5 22 (12.29%) JavaScript
6 18 (10.06%) PowerShell
7 17 (9.50%) Go
8 10 (5.59%) C#
8 10 (5.59%) SQL
9 5 (2.79%) Rust
10 4 (2.23%) Bicep
10 4 (2.23%) Kotlin
11 3 (1.68%) C++
11 3 (1.68%) Scala
12 1 (0.56%) C
12 1 (0.56%) Objective-C
12 1 (0.56%) PL/SQL
12 1 (0.56%) VB.NET
Qualifications
1 73 (40.78%) Security Cleared
2 46 (25.70%) DV Cleared
3 37 (20.67%) SC Cleared
4 7 (3.91%) AWS Certification
5 6 (3.35%) Azure Certification
6 5 (2.79%) Degree
7 4 (2.23%) Computer Science Degree
8 2 (1.12%) Microsoft Certification
8 2 (1.12%) Microsoft Certified Professional
9 1 (0.56%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (2.79%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 4 (2.23%) PCI DSS
3 3 (1.68%) QA
3 3 (1.68%) SOC 2
4 1 (0.56%) Cyber Essentials
System Software
1 112 (62.57%) Docker
2 5 (2.79%) Virtual Machines
3 4 (2.23%) VMware Infrastructure
4 3 (1.68%) Active Directory
4 3 (1.68%) Ceph
5 2 (1.12%) VMware ESXi
5 2 (1.12%) VMware NSX
Systems Management
1 59 (32.96%) Ansible
2 18 (10.06%) Prometheus
3 17 (9.50%) Grafana
4 11 (6.15%) Argo
4 11 (6.15%) Puppet
5 10 (5.59%) Progress Chef
6 7 (3.91%) Istio
7 4 (2.23%) linkerd
7 4 (2.23%) Packer
8 3 (1.68%) Check_MK
8 3 (1.68%) Podman
8 3 (1.68%) Single Sign-On
9 2 (1.12%) vCenter Server
10 1 (0.56%) Opsview
Vendors
1 16 (8.94%) Google
2 10 (5.59%) Microsoft
3 8 (4.47%) OpenAI
4 6 (3.35%) Mistral
4 6 (3.35%) Red Hat
5 5 (2.79%) VMware
6 4 (2.23%) YouTube
7 3 (1.68%) Dell
7 3 (1.68%) Dynatrace
7 3 (1.68%) SaltStack
7 3 (1.68%) Splunk
8 1 (0.56%) CrowdStrike
8 1 (0.56%) Databricks
8 1 (0.56%) New Relic
8 1 (0.56%) Oracle