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

6 months to
29 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 58 43 68
Rank change year-on-year -15 +25 -38
Permanent jobs citing Kubernetes 137 159 194
As % of all permanent jobs in Manchester 2.19% 6.79% 3.37%
As % of the Systems Management category 39.60% 41.95% 40.17%
Number of salaries quoted 114 92 119
10th Percentile £51,250 £49,250 £45,000
25th Percentile £60,000 £62,500 £53,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £72,000 £78,810 £63,500
Median % change year-on-year -8.64% +24.11% -9.29%
75th Percentile £88,438 £95,000 £77,500
90th Percentile £95,000 £112,500 £92,500
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 346 379 483
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Manchester 5.52% 16.18% 8.38%
Number of salaries quoted 282 215 340
10th Percentile £33,750 £32,500 £31,250
25th Percentile £50,000 £45,000 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,250 £67,500 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -3.33% +12.50% -11.11%
75th Percentile £80,938 £80,000 £72,500
90th Percentile £91,125 £97,017 £82,500
North West median annual salary £62,500 £65,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year -3.85% +18.18% -9.84%

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 29 June 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 29 June 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 10 £65,000 - 1
Salford -16 3 £90,000 +20.00%
Bolton +15 1 £35,000 - 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 (2.19%) Apache
1 3 (2.19%) Apache Spark
2 2 (1.46%) Microsoft Exchange
2 2 (1.46%) OpenStack
Applications
1 1 (0.73%) Chatbot
Cloud Services
1 94 (68.61%) AWS
2 63 (45.99%) Azure
3 35 (25.55%) GCP
4 33 (24.09%) GitHub
5 27 (19.71%) Serverless
6 19 (13.87%) AWS CloudFormation
7 17 (12.41%) GitHub Actions
8 16 (11.68%) Azure AKS
9 15 (10.95%) Amazon EKS
10 11 (8.03%) Google Kubernetes Engine
11 9 (6.57%) SaaS
12 8 (5.84%) Amazon ECS
12 8 (5.84%) AWS Lambda
13 7 (5.11%) Azure DevOps
13 7 (5.11%) Datadog
13 7 (5.11%) Virtual Private Cloud
14 6 (4.38%) OpenShift
15 5 (3.65%) Entra ID
16 4 (2.92%) Amazon EC2
16 4 (2.92%) Cloud Functions
Communications & Networking
1 7 (5.11%) Firewall
2 3 (2.19%) AMQP
2 3 (2.19%) Network Security
3 2 (1.46%) DNS
3 2 (1.46%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 21 (15.33%) PostgreSQL
2 17 (12.41%) MongoDB
3 15 (10.95%) NoSQL
4 6 (4.38%) Elasticsearch
5 5 (3.65%) Neo4j
5 5 (3.65%) Relational Database
6 3 (2.19%) Big Data
6 3 (2.19%) Cloudera CDH
6 3 (2.19%) Hadoop
6 3 (2.19%) Pinecone
7 2 (1.46%) SQL Server
8 1 (0.73%) BigQuery
8 1 (0.73%) DynamoDB
8 1 (0.73%) MySQL
8 1 (0.73%) Redis
8 1 (0.73%) Weaviate
Development Applications
1 25 (18.25%) Jenkins
2 22 (16.06%) Git
3 20 (14.60%) GitLab
4 4 (2.92%) Atlassian Bamboo
4 4 (2.92%) Cucumber
4 4 (2.92%) Cypress.io
4 4 (2.92%) Robot Framework
4 4 (2.92%) Vite
5 3 (2.19%) Bitbucket
5 3 (2.19%) Postman
5 3 (2.19%) Selenium
6 2 (1.46%) JIRA
6 2 (1.46%) Vagrant
7 1 (0.73%) Claude Code
7 1 (0.73%) Gemini Tracker
7 1 (0.73%) Mocha
General
1 11 (8.03%) Social Skills
2 6 (4.38%) Finance
2 6 (4.38%) Public Sector
3 4 (2.92%) Aerospace
4 2 (1.46%) Retail
5 1 (0.73%) Analytical Skills
5 1 (0.73%) Inclusion and Diversity
Job Titles
1 43 (31.39%) Senior
2 35 (25.55%) DevOps Engineer
3 29 (21.17%) Software Engineer
4 28 (20.44%) Cloud Engineer
5 17 (12.41%) Developer
6 14 (10.22%) Lead
7 13 (9.49%) Java Developer
8 11 (8.03%) Senior Developer
8 11 (8.03%) Senior Java Developer
9 10 (7.30%) Platform Engineer
9 10 (7.30%) Principal Engineer
10 9 (6.57%) Azure Engineer
11 8 (5.84%) Lead Software Engineer
11 8 (5.84%) Senior Software Engineer
12 7 (5.11%) .NET Software Engineer
12 7 (5.11%) AWS DevOps
12 7 (5.11%) AWS DevOps Engineer
12 7 (5.11%) AWS Engineer
12 7 (5.11%) Senior DevOps
12 7 (5.11%) Senior DevOps Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 30 (21.90%) Spring
2 29 (21.17%) Spring Boot
3 27 (19.71%) React
4 18 (13.14%) RESTful
5 15 (10.95%) .NET
5 15 (10.95%) AngularJS
6 14 (10.22%) Vue
7 13 (9.49%) FastAPI
8 10 (7.30%) Node.js
9 9 (6.57%) Django
10 8 (5.84%) LangChain
10 8 (5.84%) REST
11 7 (5.11%) .NET Framework
11 7 (5.11%) Kafka
12 6 (4.38%) Hibernate
12 6 (4.38%) JWT
12 6 (4.38%) OAuth
12 6 (4.38%) OpenAPI
12 6 (4.38%) Swagger
13 5 (3.65%) ARM Templates
Miscellaneous
1 54 (39.42%) Cloud Native
2 17 (12.41%) Distributed Systems
3 7 (5.11%) Hybrid Cloud
4 5 (3.65%) AI Agents
5 4 (2.92%) Enterprise Cloud
5 4 (2.92%) Security Posture
6 3 (2.19%) Cloud Security Posture
7 2 (1.46%) Mobile App
7 2 (1.46%) Product Ownership
7 2 (1.46%) Public Cloud
7 2 (1.46%) Self-Motivation
8 1 (0.73%) Culture of Ownership
8 1 (0.73%) Legacy Systems
Operating Systems
1 21 (15.33%) Linux
2 7 (5.11%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 5 (3.65%) CentOS
3 5 (3.65%) Debian
3 5 (3.65%) Ubuntu
4 4 (2.92%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 106 (77.37%) CI/CD
2 101 (73.72%) DevOps
3 77 (56.20%) Infrastructure as Code
4 68 (49.64%) Containerisation
5 48 (35.04%) Agile
6 38 (27.74%) Software Engineering
7 37 (27.01%) AI
8 33 (24.09%) Microservices
9 31 (22.63%) Continuous Improvement
9 31 (22.63%) Platform Engineering
10 30 (21.90%) Problem-Solving
11 27 (19.71%) Mentoring
11 27 (19.71%) Observability
12 25 (18.25%) Clean Code
12 25 (18.25%) Scrum
13 22 (16.06%) TDD
14 20 (14.60%) Collaborative Culture
15 18 (13.14%) Site Reliability Engineering
16 14 (10.22%) Test Automation
17 13 (9.49%) Event-Driven
Programming Languages
1 52 (37.96%) Python
2 39 (28.47%) Java
3 21 (15.33%) TypeScript
4 18 (13.14%) Bash
4 18 (13.14%) SQL
5 15 (10.95%) C#
5 15 (10.95%) JavaScript
6 14 (10.22%) PowerShell
7 9 (6.57%) Go
8 3 (2.19%) Bicep
8 3 (2.19%) Kotlin
8 3 (2.19%) Scala
9 1 (0.73%) C
Qualifications
1 42 (30.66%) Security Cleared
2 25 (18.25%) SC Cleared
3 18 (13.14%) DV Cleared
4 6 (4.38%) Azure Certification
5 4 (2.92%) Computer Science Degree
5 4 (2.92%) Degree
6 3 (2.19%) AWS Certification
7 2 (1.46%) Microsoft Certified Professional
8 1 (0.73%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (2.92%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 3 (2.19%) PCI DSS
2 3 (2.19%) SOC 2
3 1 (0.73%) QA
System Software
1 80 (58.39%) Docker
2 5 (3.65%) Virtual Machines
3 4 (2.92%) VMware Infrastructure
4 2 (1.46%) Active Directory
4 2 (1.46%) VMware NSX
4 2 (1.46%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 82 (59.85%) Terraform
2 33 (24.09%) Ansible
3 13 (9.49%) Grafana
4 11 (8.03%) Prometheus
5 6 (4.38%) Argo
6 5 (3.65%) Puppet
7 4 (2.92%) Istio
7 4 (2.92%) Progress Chef
8 3 (2.19%) linkerd
9 2 (1.46%) Microsoft Intune
9 2 (1.46%) Packer
10 1 (0.73%) Rancher
Vendors
1 14 (10.22%) Google
2 6 (4.38%) Microsoft
2 6 (4.38%) OpenAI
3 5 (3.65%) VMware
4 3 (2.19%) Dynatrace
4 3 (2.19%) Red Hat
4 3 (2.19%) SaltStack
4 3 (2.19%) Splunk
5 2 (1.46%) Pega
5 2 (1.46%) WSO2
6 1 (0.73%) Databricks