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 7 September 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
7 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 58 45 50
Rank change year-on-year -13 +5 -33
Permanent jobs citing Kubernetes 164 134 177
As % of all permanent jobs in Manchester 2.26% 5.55% 4.24%
As % of the Systems Management category 54.67% 46.05% 53.80%
Number of salaries quoted 128 67 68
10th Percentile £47,500 £53,750 £42,125
25th Percentile £58,438 £61,875 £48,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £72,500 £70,000 £62,500
Median % change year-on-year +3.57% +12.00% -16.67%
75th Percentile £87,500 £87,500 £75,313
90th Percentile £96,250 £109,500 £85,900
North West median annual salary £72,500 £68,750 £62,500
% change year-on-year +5.45% +10.00% -16.67%

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 300 291 329
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Manchester 4.14% 12.05% 7.88%
Number of salaries quoted 226 141 150
10th Percentile £32,750 £28,000 £35,000
25th Percentile £46,250 £33,125 £41,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £60,000 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year +8.33% +14.29% -24.70%
75th Percentile £80,000 £75,000 £72,500
90th Percentile £92,500 £88,750 £81,375
North West median annual salary £59,058 £57,500 £48,256
% change year-on-year +2.71% +19.16% -26.16%

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 7 September 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 7 September 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
Stockport +7 6 £72,500 -
Altrincham +5 6 £65,000 - 2
Salford -24 3 £90,000 +20.00% 7
Bolton +12 1 £35,000 - 2
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 5 (3.05%) OpenStack
2 2 (1.22%) Apache
2 2 (1.22%) Apache Spark
Applications
1 1 (0.61%) Chatbot
Cloud Services
1 108 (65.85%) AWS
2 56 (34.15%) Azure
3 36 (21.95%) GCP
4 35 (21.34%) GitHub
5 26 (15.85%) Serverless
6 23 (14.02%) AWS CloudFormation
7 16 (9.76%) GitHub Actions
7 16 (9.76%) OpenShift
8 11 (6.71%) Google Kubernetes Engine
8 11 (6.71%) SaaS
9 10 (6.10%) Amazon EKS
10 9 (5.49%) Amazon ECS
10 9 (5.49%) AWS Lambda
10 9 (5.49%) Virtual Private Cloud
11 7 (4.27%) Azure AKS
11 7 (4.27%) Azure DevOps
11 7 (4.27%) Datadog
12 5 (3.05%) GitHub Copilot
13 4 (2.44%) Amazon CloudWatch
13 4 (2.44%) Google Compute Engine
Communications & Networking
1 4 (2.44%) Firewall
2 3 (1.83%) Network Security
2 3 (1.83%) Software-Defined Networking
3 2 (1.22%) AMQP
4 1 (0.61%) DNS
4 1 (0.61%) HTTP
4 1 (0.61%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 18 (10.98%) PostgreSQL
2 15 (9.15%) MongoDB
3 7 (4.27%) NoSQL
4 5 (3.05%) Elasticsearch
5 4 (2.44%) Neo4j
5 4 (2.44%) Relational Database
6 3 (1.83%) Chroma
6 3 (1.83%) Pinecone
6 3 (1.83%) SQL Server
7 2 (1.22%) Amazon Aurora
7 2 (1.22%) Big Data
7 2 (1.22%) Cloudera CDH
7 2 (1.22%) Hadoop
7 2 (1.22%) Redis
8 1 (0.61%) Amazon RDS
8 1 (0.61%) DynamoDB
8 1 (0.61%) MySQL
8 1 (0.61%) Weaviate
Development Applications
1 32 (19.51%) Git
2 27 (16.46%) Jenkins
3 24 (14.63%) GitLab
4 6 (3.66%) Atlassian Bamboo
5 5 (3.05%) Cypress.io
6 4 (2.44%) Cucumber
6 4 (2.44%) Robot Framework
6 4 (2.44%) Vite
7 3 (1.83%) Postman
7 3 (1.83%) Selenium
8 2 (1.22%) Bitbucket
8 2 (1.22%) JIRA
8 2 (1.22%) Mocha
9 1 (0.61%) Artifactory
9 1 (0.61%) Claude Code
9 1 (0.61%) Gemini Tracker
9 1 (0.61%) Maven
9 1 (0.61%) Octopus Deploy
General
1 19 (11.59%) Social Skills
2 10 (6.10%) Public Sector
3 7 (4.27%) Finance
4 5 (3.05%) Analytical Skills
5 4 (2.44%) Aerospace
5 4 (2.44%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 4 (2.44%) Publishing
6 2 (1.22%) Retail
7 1 (0.61%) iGaming
Job Titles
1 57 (34.76%) DevOps Engineer
2 42 (25.61%) Senior
3 33 (20.12%) Cloud Engineer
4 23 (14.02%) Software Engineer
5 22 (13.41%) Developer
6 18 (10.98%) Lead
7 17 (10.37%) Principal Engineer
8 12 (7.32%) Java Developer
9 11 (6.71%) Cloud Native Engineer
9 11 (6.71%) Senior Developer
10 10 (6.10%) Platform Engineer
10 10 (6.10%) Principal DevOps Engineer
10 10 (6.10%) Senior DevOps
10 10 (6.10%) Senior DevOps Engineer
10 10 (6.10%) Senior Java Developer
11 9 (5.49%) Senior Software Engineer
12 7 (4.27%) Azure Engineer
12 7 (4.27%) Cloud Platform Engineer
13 6 (3.66%) Lead DevOps
13 6 (3.66%) Lead DevOps Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 104 (63.41%) Terraform
2 43 (26.22%) Spring
3 42 (25.61%) Spring Boot
4 32 (19.51%) React
5 16 (9.76%) AngularJS
6 14 (8.54%) Vue
7 13 (7.93%) Kafka
7 13 (7.93%) Node.js
8 12 (7.32%) .NET
8 12 (7.32%) REST
9 11 (6.71%) RESTful
10 10 (6.10%) FastAPI
11 8 (4.88%) LangChain
12 6 (3.66%) Django
12 6 (3.66%) Hibernate
12 6 (3.66%) Next.js
12 6 (3.66%) OpenAPI
12 6 (3.66%) Swagger
13 5 (3.05%) RabbitMQ
13 5 (3.05%) SAML
Miscellaneous
1 59 (35.98%) Cloud Native
2 17 (10.37%) Distributed Systems
3 8 (4.88%) Hybrid Cloud
4 5 (3.05%) AI Agents
5 4 (2.44%) Enterprise Cloud
5 4 (2.44%) Media Streaming
5 4 (2.44%) Podcast
5 4 (2.44%) Security Posture
6 3 (1.83%) Cloud Security Posture
6 3 (1.83%) Greenfield Project
6 3 (1.83%) Product Ownership
6 3 (1.83%) Social Media
7 1 (0.61%) Culture of Ownership
7 1 (0.61%) Data Centre
7 1 (0.61%) Legacy Systems
7 1 (0.61%) Management Information System
7 1 (0.61%) Online Gambling
7 1 (0.61%) Video\Live Streaming
Operating Systems
1 28 (17.07%) Linux
2 8 (4.88%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 6 (3.66%) CentOS
4 4 (2.44%) Windows
5 2 (1.22%) Debian
5 2 (1.22%) Ubuntu
6 1 (0.61%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 125 (76.22%) CI/CD
2 116 (70.73%) DevOps
3 90 (54.88%) Infrastructure as Code
4 78 (47.56%) Containerisation
5 58 (35.37%) Agile
6 45 (27.44%) AI
7 42 (25.61%) Software Engineering
8 40 (24.39%) Platform Engineering
9 39 (23.78%) Site Reliability Engineering
10 38 (23.17%) Microservices
11 37 (22.56%) Continuous Improvement
12 35 (21.34%) Observability
13 34 (20.73%) Mentoring
13 34 (20.73%) Problem-Solving
14 19 (11.59%) Collaborative Culture
15 18 (10.98%) Event-Driven
16 17 (10.37%) Clean Code
16 17 (10.37%) Cloud Security
16 17 (10.37%) Scrum
17 16 (9.76%) TDD
Programming Languages
1 69 (42.07%) Python
2 56 (34.15%) Java
3 29 (17.68%) Bash
4 25 (15.24%) TypeScript
5 22 (13.41%) JavaScript
6 16 (9.76%) Go
7 15 (9.15%) PowerShell
8 12 (7.32%) C#
8 12 (7.32%) SQL
9 4 (2.44%) Kotlin
9 4 (2.44%) Rust
10 3 (1.83%) Bicep
10 3 (1.83%) C++
10 3 (1.83%) Scala
11 1 (0.61%) C
11 1 (0.61%) Objective-C
11 1 (0.61%) PL/SQL
11 1 (0.61%) VB.NET
Qualifications
1 65 (39.63%) Security Cleared
2 37 (22.56%) DV Cleared
3 34 (20.73%) SC Cleared
4 6 (3.66%) AWS Certification
4 6 (3.66%) Azure Certification
5 4 (2.44%) Computer Science Degree
5 4 (2.44%) Degree
6 2 (1.22%) Microsoft Certified Professional
7 1 (0.61%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (2.44%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 3 (1.83%) PCI DSS
2 3 (1.83%) QA
2 3 (1.83%) SOC 2
System Software
1 104 (63.41%) Docker
2 4 (2.44%) Virtual Machines
2 4 (2.44%) VMware Infrastructure
3 3 (1.83%) Ceph
4 2 (1.22%) Active Directory
4 2 (1.22%) VMware NSX
5 1 (0.61%) VMware ESXi
5 1 (0.61%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 57 (34.76%) Ansible
2 18 (10.98%) Prometheus
3 17 (10.37%) Grafana
4 10 (6.10%) Argo
5 9 (5.49%) Puppet
6 8 (4.88%) Istio
7 6 (3.66%) Progress Chef
8 4 (2.44%) linkerd
9 3 (1.83%) Check_MK
9 3 (1.83%) Podman
9 3 (1.83%) Single Sign-On
10 1 (0.61%) vCenter Server
Vendors
1 15 (9.15%) Google
2 6 (3.66%) Microsoft
2 6 (3.66%) OpenAI
3 5 (3.05%) Red Hat
3 5 (3.05%) VMware
4 4 (2.44%) Mistral
5 3 (1.83%) Dell
5 3 (1.83%) Dynatrace
5 3 (1.83%) Splunk
6 2 (1.22%) Pega
6 2 (1.22%) SaltStack
6 2 (1.22%) WSO2
7 1 (0.61%) Databricks
7 1 (0.61%) New Relic
7 1 (0.61%) Oracle
7 1 (0.61%) YouTube