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

6 months to
21 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 59 43 48
Rank change year-on-year -16 +5 -32
Permanent jobs citing Kubernetes 172 124 167
As % of all permanent jobs in Manchester 2.29% 5.28% 4.12%
As % of the Systems Management category 54.26% 44.29% 50.30%
Number of salaries quoted 127 57 65
10th Percentile £49,750 £54,750 £41,750
25th Percentile £58,125 £62,500 £52,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £75,000 £67,500 £63,000
Median % change year-on-year +11.11% +7.14% -16.00%
75th Percentile £88,750 £82,751 £77,500
90th Percentile £96,250 £93,000 £88,000
North West median annual salary £72,500 £67,500 £63,000
% change year-on-year +7.41% +7.14% -16.00%

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 317 280 332
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Manchester 4.22% 11.93% 8.18%
Number of salaries quoted 223 132 140
10th Percentile £32,550 £27,000 £35,750
25th Percentile £46,250 £33,125 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £57,500 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +13.04% +4.55% -20.80%
75th Percentile £80,000 £70,000 £72,813
90th Percentile £95,000 £87,125 £83,775
North West median annual salary £60,000 £48,720 £50,000
% change year-on-year +23.15% -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 21 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 21 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
Altrincham +6 7 £65,000 - 4
Stockport +3 6 £72,500 - 3
Salford -25 3 £90,000 +20.00% 10
Bolton 0 1 £35,000 - 1
Wigan -1 1 - - 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 4 (2.33%) OpenStack
2 3 (1.74%) Apache
2 3 (1.74%) Apache Spark
3 1 (0.58%) IIS
Applications
1 1 (0.58%) Chatbot
Cloud Services
1 111 (64.53%) AWS
2 56 (32.56%) Azure
3 38 (22.09%) GitHub
4 36 (20.93%) GCP
5 27 (15.70%) Serverless
6 23 (13.37%) AWS CloudFormation
7 18 (10.47%) GitHub Actions
8 17 (9.88%) OpenShift
9 11 (6.40%) Google Kubernetes Engine
10 10 (5.81%) AWS Lambda
10 10 (5.81%) SaaS
11 8 (4.65%) Azure DevOps
11 8 (4.65%) Virtual Private Cloud
12 7 (4.07%) Amazon ECS
12 7 (4.07%) Amazon EKS
12 7 (4.07%) Azure AKS
12 7 (4.07%) Datadog
13 5 (2.91%) Amazon CloudWatch
13 5 (2.91%) GitHub Copilot
14 4 (2.33%) Azure Monitor
Communications & Networking
1 3 (1.74%) AMQP
1 3 (1.74%) Firewall
1 3 (1.74%) Network Security
1 3 (1.74%) Software-Defined Networking
2 1 (0.58%) DHCP
2 1 (0.58%) DNS
2 1 (0.58%) HTTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 18 (10.47%) MongoDB
2 16 (9.30%) PostgreSQL
3 6 (3.49%) NoSQL
4 5 (2.91%) Elasticsearch
5 4 (2.33%) Neo4j
6 3 (1.74%) Big Data
6 3 (1.74%) Chroma
6 3 (1.74%) Cloudera CDH
6 3 (1.74%) Hadoop
6 3 (1.74%) Pinecone
6 3 (1.74%) Relational Database
7 2 (1.16%) Amazon Aurora
7 2 (1.16%) Redis
7 2 (1.16%) SQL Server
8 1 (0.58%) Amazon RDS
8 1 (0.58%) DynamoDB
8 1 (0.58%) MySQL
8 1 (0.58%) Weaviate
Development Applications
1 32 (18.60%) Git
2 28 (16.28%) Jenkins
3 25 (14.53%) GitLab
4 7 (4.07%) Atlassian Bamboo
5 5 (2.91%) Cypress.io
6 4 (2.33%) Cucumber
6 4 (2.33%) Robot Framework
6 4 (2.33%) Vite
7 3 (1.74%) JIRA
7 3 (1.74%) Postman
7 3 (1.74%) Selenium
8 2 (1.16%) Bitbucket
8 2 (1.16%) Mocha
8 2 (1.16%) Vagrant
9 1 (0.58%) Artifactory
9 1 (0.58%) Claude Code
9 1 (0.58%) Gemini Tracker
9 1 (0.58%) Maven
9 1 (0.58%) Octopus Deploy
General
1 26 (15.12%) Social Skills
2 11 (6.40%) Public Sector
3 7 (4.07%) Finance
3 7 (4.07%) Publishing
4 6 (3.49%) Aerospace
5 4 (2.33%) Analytical Skills
5 4 (2.33%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 2 (1.16%) Retail
7 1 (0.58%) iGaming
Job Titles
1 60 (34.88%) DevOps Engineer
2 45 (26.16%) Senior
3 32 (18.60%) Cloud Engineer
4 27 (15.70%) Software Engineer
5 20 (11.63%) Developer
6 19 (11.05%) Lead
6 19 (11.05%) Principal Engineer
7 12 (6.98%) Cloud Native Engineer
7 12 (6.98%) Principal DevOps Engineer
7 12 (6.98%) Senior Software Engineer
8 10 (5.81%) Platform Engineer
8 10 (5.81%) Senior Developer
8 10 (5.81%) Senior DevOps
8 10 (5.81%) Senior DevOps Engineer
9 9 (5.23%) Java Developer
10 8 (4.65%) Azure Engineer
10 8 (4.65%) Senior Java Developer
11 7 (4.07%) AWS DevOps
11 7 (4.07%) Lead DevOps
11 7 (4.07%) Lead DevOps Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 108 (62.79%) Terraform
2 51 (29.65%) Spring
3 47 (27.33%) Spring Boot
4 39 (22.67%) React
5 19 (11.05%) Kafka
6 17 (9.88%) AngularJS
7 14 (8.14%) Vue
8 13 (7.56%) Node.js
9 12 (6.98%) REST
10 10 (5.81%) .NET
10 10 (5.81%) FastAPI
10 10 (5.81%) RESTful
11 8 (4.65%) LangChain
12 7 (4.07%) OpenAPI
12 7 (4.07%) Swagger
13 6 (3.49%) ARM Templates
13 6 (3.49%) Django
13 6 (3.49%) Next.js
13 6 (3.49%) RabbitMQ
14 5 (2.91%) LangGraph
Miscellaneous
1 64 (37.21%) Cloud Native
2 14 (8.14%) Distributed Systems
3 7 (4.07%) Hybrid Cloud
3 7 (4.07%) Media Streaming
3 7 (4.07%) Podcast
4 5 (2.91%) AI Agents
5 4 (2.33%) Security Posture
6 3 (1.74%) Cloud Security Posture
6 3 (1.74%) Greenfield Project
6 3 (1.74%) Product Ownership
6 3 (1.74%) Social Media
7 2 (1.16%) Enterprise Cloud
8 1 (0.58%) Culture of Ownership
8 1 (0.58%) Data Centre
8 1 (0.58%) Legacy Systems
8 1 (0.58%) Management Information System
8 1 (0.58%) Online Gambling
8 1 (0.58%) Video\Live Streaming
Operating Systems
1 30 (17.44%) Linux
2 11 (6.40%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 8 (4.65%) CentOS
4 4 (2.33%) Ubuntu
4 4 (2.33%) Windows
5 3 (1.74%) Debian
6 1 (0.58%) Unix
6 1 (0.58%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 129 (75.00%) CI/CD
2 121 (70.35%) DevOps
3 92 (53.49%) Infrastructure as Code
4 81 (47.09%) Containerisation
5 65 (37.79%) Agile
6 48 (27.91%) AI
7 47 (27.33%) Software Engineering
8 42 (24.42%) Microservices
8 42 (24.42%) Site Reliability Engineering
9 41 (23.84%) Observability
10 39 (22.67%) Continuous Improvement
10 39 (22.67%) Mentoring
11 38 (22.09%) Platform Engineering
12 36 (20.93%) Problem-Solving
13 24 (13.95%) Event-Driven
14 20 (11.63%) Collaborative Culture
15 19 (11.05%) Scrum
16 18 (10.47%) Cloud Security
16 18 (10.47%) Stakeholder Management
17 16 (9.30%) Technical Leadership
Programming Languages
1 75 (43.60%) Python
2 65 (37.79%) Java
3 31 (18.02%) Bash
4 30 (17.44%) TypeScript
5 22 (12.79%) JavaScript
6 17 (9.88%) PowerShell
7 16 (9.30%) Go
8 11 (6.40%) SQL
9 10 (5.81%) C#
10 5 (2.91%) Rust
11 4 (2.33%) Bicep
11 4 (2.33%) Kotlin
12 3 (1.74%) C++
12 3 (1.74%) Scala
13 1 (0.58%) C
13 1 (0.58%) Objective-C
13 1 (0.58%) PL/SQL
13 1 (0.58%) VB.NET
Qualifications
1 71 (41.28%) Security Cleared
2 45 (26.16%) DV Cleared
3 36 (20.93%) SC Cleared
4 7 (4.07%) Azure Certification
5 6 (3.49%) AWS Certification
6 4 (2.33%) Computer Science Degree
6 4 (2.33%) Degree
7 2 (1.16%) Microsoft Certification
7 2 (1.16%) Microsoft Certified Professional
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (2.33%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 3 (1.74%) PCI DSS
2 3 (1.74%) QA
2 3 (1.74%) SOC 2
System Software
1 111 (64.53%) Docker
2 5 (2.91%) Virtual Machines
3 3 (1.74%) Active Directory
3 3 (1.74%) Ceph
3 3 (1.74%) VMware Infrastructure
4 1 (0.58%) VMware ESXi
4 1 (0.58%) VMware NSX
Systems Management
1 61 (35.47%) Ansible
2 19 (11.05%) Prometheus
3 18 (10.47%) Grafana
4 11 (6.40%) Argo
5 10 (5.81%) Puppet
6 8 (4.65%) Istio
6 8 (4.65%) Progress Chef
7 4 (2.33%) linkerd
8 3 (1.74%) Check_MK
8 3 (1.74%) Podman
8 3 (1.74%) Single Sign-On
9 2 (1.16%) Packer
10 1 (0.58%) vCenter Server
Vendors
1 16 (9.30%) Google
2 7 (4.07%) Microsoft
3 6 (3.49%) OpenAI
3 6 (3.49%) Red Hat
4 4 (2.33%) Mistral
4 4 (2.33%) VMware
5 3 (1.74%) Dell
5 3 (1.74%) Dynatrace
5 3 (1.74%) SaltStack
5 3 (1.74%) Splunk
6 1 (0.58%) Databricks
6 1 (0.58%) New Relic
6 1 (0.58%) Oracle
6 1 (0.58%) Pega
6 1 (0.58%) WSO2
6 1 (0.58%) YouTube