Kubernetes Jobs in Manchester

Kubernetes (k8s)
North West > Manchester

The table below provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in Manchester requiring Kubernetes skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the annual salaries offered in vacancies that cited Kubernetes over the 6 months leading up to 7 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
7 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 43 50 42
Rank change year-on-year +7 -8 -21
Permanent jobs citing Kubernetes 144 218 365
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Manchester 6.54% 4.24% 7.34%
As % of the Systems Management category 47.68% 45.04% 52.29%
Number of salaries quoted 100 139 246
10th Percentile £52,375 £47,000 £48,750
25th Percentile £63,750 £53,750 £56,219
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £80,000 £65,000 £69,447
Median % change year-on-year +23.08% -6.40% -0.79%
75th Percentile £95,632 £77,607 £80,000
90th Percentile £112,500 £90,500 £89,375
North West median annual salary £78,810 £62,500 £69,447
% change year-on-year +26.10% -10.00% +3.11%

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 302 484 698
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Manchester 13.71% 9.41% 14.04%
Number of salaries quoted 204 359 473
10th Percentile £36,250 £33,400 £38,750
25th Percentile £51,250 £44,632 £49,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £71,991 £60,000 £61,000
Median % change year-on-year +19.99% -1.64% -6.15%
75th Percentile £87,500 £73,750 £77,715
90th Percentile £97,528 £82,500 £86,250
North West median annual salary £69,692 £57,500 £57,810
% change year-on-year +21.20% -0.54% -3.65%

Kubernetes
Job Vacancy Trend in Manchester

Job postings citing Kubernetes as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in Manchester.

Job vacancy trend for Kubernetes in Manchester

Kubernetes
Salary Trend in Manchester

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing Kubernetes in Manchester.

Salary trend for Kubernetes in Manchester

Kubernetes
Salary Histogram in Manchester

Salary distribution for jobs citing Kubernetes in Manchester over the 6 months to 7 May 2025.

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 May 2025. 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
Salford +10 4 £75,000 +30.43% 7
Oldham - 3 £65,000 -
Altrincham - 3 £65,000 - 14
Stockport +8 2 - - 6
Bolton -20 2 - - 12
Ashton-under-Lyne - 2 - - 8
Wigan - 2 - -
Sale - 2 - -
Bury +3 1 £60,000 +9.09% 9
Kubernetes
North West

Kubernetes
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Manchester by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same employment type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Application Platforms
1 22 (15.28%) Confluence
2 4 (2.78%) SharePoint
3 3 (2.08%) Microsoft Exchange
4 2 (1.39%) Apache
4 2 (1.39%) nginx
5 1 (0.69%) Apache Airflow
5 1 (0.69%) Apache Solr
5 1 (0.69%) Apache Spark
5 1 (0.69%) CMS
Applications
1 1 (0.69%) Microsoft Office
Cloud Services
1 87 (60.42%) AWS
2 85 (59.03%) Azure
3 58 (40.28%) GCP
4 14 (9.72%) Azure DevOps
5 11 (7.64%) Amazon EKS
6 10 (6.94%) Azure Machine Learning
7 7 (4.86%) GitHub
8 6 (4.17%) Azure AKS
9 5 (3.47%) SaaS
9 5 (3.47%) Serverless
10 4 (2.78%) Amazon EC2
10 4 (2.78%) Amazon S3
10 4 (2.78%) Apigee
10 4 (2.78%) Azure Monitor
10 4 (2.78%) Cloud Composer
10 4 (2.78%) GitHub Actions
10 4 (2.78%) Google Kubernetes Engine
11 3 (2.08%) AWS Lambda
11 3 (2.08%) Entra ID
11 3 (2.08%) OneDrive
Communications & Networking
1 4 (2.78%) DNS
2 3 (2.08%) Firewall
3 2 (1.39%) VPN
4 1 (0.69%) HTTP
4 1 (0.69%) HTTPS
4 1 (0.69%) IPsec
4 1 (0.69%) Network Security
4 1 (0.69%) TCP/IP
4 1 (0.69%) VLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 27 (18.75%) SQL Server
2 13 (9.03%) NoSQL
3 11 (7.64%) Cloud Spanner
4 10 (6.94%) PostgreSQL
5 5 (3.47%) MySQL
6 4 (2.78%) Big Data
6 4 (2.78%) BigQuery
7 3 (2.08%) DynamoDB
7 3 (2.08%) MongoDB
7 3 (2.08%) Relational Database
8 2 (1.39%) Amazon Aurora
8 2 (1.39%) Azure SQL Database
8 2 (1.39%) Data Lake
9 1 (0.69%) Apache Zeppelin
9 1 (0.69%) Couchbase
9 1 (0.69%) Elasticsearch
9 1 (0.69%) Oracle Exadata
9 1 (0.69%) Power BI
9 1 (0.69%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 31 (21.53%) JIRA
1 31 (21.53%) SonarQube
2 27 (18.75%) GitLab
3 21 (14.58%) Git
3 21 (14.58%) Maven
3 21 (14.58%) Sonatype Nexus
4 20 (13.89%) Bitbucket
4 20 (13.89%) Selenium
5 18 (12.50%) Cucumber
5 18 (12.50%) Jenkins
6 3 (2.08%) JUnit
7 2 (1.39%) Atlassian Bamboo
7 2 (1.39%) JMeter
7 2 (1.39%) LoadRunner
7 2 (1.39%) NeoLoad
7 2 (1.39%) Octopus Deploy
7 2 (1.39%) REST Assured
7 2 (1.39%) TeamCity
7 2 (1.39%) WebDriver
8 1 (0.69%) Karma Test Runner
General
1 68 (47.22%) Finance
2 54 (37.50%) Banking
3 30 (20.83%) Social Skills
4 20 (13.89%) Retail
5 18 (12.50%) Analytical Skills
5 18 (12.50%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 9 (6.25%) Corporate Banking
6 9 (6.25%) Investment Banking
7 5 (3.47%) Manufacturing
8 4 (2.78%) Law
8 4 (2.78%) Marketing
9 3 (2.08%) Games
10 2 (1.39%) Electronics
10 2 (1.39%) Public Sector
10 2 (1.39%) Retail Banking
10 2 (1.39%) Telecoms
11 1 (0.69%) Aerospace
11 1 (0.69%) Financial Institution
11 1 (0.69%) Health Technology
11 1 (0.69%) Legal
Job Titles
1 55 (38.19%) Software Engineer
2 35 (24.31%) Senior
3 31 (21.53%) Lead
4 21 (14.58%) DevOps Engineer
5 14 (9.72%) Senior Software Engineer
6 10 (6.94%) Cloud Engineer
6 10 (6.94%) Developer
7 9 (6.25%) Architect
7 9 (6.25%) Azure Engineer
8 7 (4.86%) AWS DevOps
8 7 (4.86%) Infrastructure Engineer
8 7 (4.86%) Java Developer
8 7 (4.86%) Lead DevOps
8 7 (4.86%) Senior Developer
8 7 (4.86%) Solutions Architect
9 6 (4.17%) Principal Engineer
10 5 (3.47%) Cloud Infrastructure Engineer
10 5 (3.47%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
10 5 (3.47%) Senior Java Developer
10 5 (3.47%) Technical Leader
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 49 (34.03%) React
2 40 (27.78%) Spring Boot
3 39 (27.08%) Spring
4 37 (25.69%) Kafka
5 25 (17.36%) RESTful
6 24 (16.67%) Node.js
7 20 (13.89%) CSS
7 20 (13.89%) HTML
8 19 (13.19%) Redux
9 18 (12.50%) JPA
10 15 (10.42%) Hibernate
11 12 (8.33%) REST
12 10 (6.94%) Jest
12 10 (6.94%) Sass
13 9 (6.25%) ARM Templates
13 9 (6.25%) CSS3
13 9 (6.25%) HTML5
14 7 (4.86%) .NET
14 7 (4.86%) AngularJS
15 4 (2.78%) Lambda Expressions
Miscellaneous
1 33 (22.92%) Product Ownership
2 18 (12.50%) Enterprise Software
3 16 (11.11%) Distributed Systems
4 15 (10.42%) Cloud Native
5 14 (9.72%) Public Cloud
6 9 (6.25%) Hybrid Cloud
7 8 (5.56%) Algorithms
8 4 (2.78%) Management Information System
8 4 (2.78%) Team-Oriented Environment
9 3 (2.08%) Data Protection Act
9 3 (2.08%) Greenfield Project
10 2 (1.39%) Data Structures
10 2 (1.39%) Low-Code
10 2 (1.39%) Private Cloud
10 2 (1.39%) Reference Data
10 2 (1.39%) Replication
10 2 (1.39%) Sports Betting
10 2 (1.39%) Wiki
11 1 (0.69%) e-Learning
11 1 (0.69%) Legacy Systems
Operating Systems
1 17 (11.81%) Linux
2 7 (4.86%) Windows
3 6 (4.17%) Unix
4 4 (2.78%) CentOS
4 4 (2.78%) Ubuntu
5 2 (1.39%) CoreOS
5 2 (1.39%) zOS
6 1 (0.69%) Debian
Processes & Methodologies
1 103 (71.53%) DevOps
2 81 (56.25%) CI/CD
3 73 (50.69%) Software Engineering
4 69 (47.92%) Microservices
5 66 (45.83%) Agile
6 56 (38.89%) Containerisation
7 50 (34.72%) Mentoring
8 40 (27.78%) Infrastructure as Code
9 38 (26.39%) SDLC
9 38 (26.39%) Test Automation
10 31 (21.53%) Full-Stack Development
10 31 (21.53%) Problem-Solving
11 30 (20.83%) TDD
12 24 (16.67%) Roadmaps
13 21 (14.58%) Continuous Improvement
13 21 (14.58%) Front End Development
13 21 (14.58%) Performance Optimisation
14 20 (13.89%) Event-Driven
15 19 (13.19%) Code Quality
16 18 (12.50%) User Experience
Programming Languages
1 76 (52.78%) Java
2 47 (32.64%) Python
3 45 (31.25%) JavaScript
4 38 (26.39%) SQL
5 33 (22.92%) TypeScript
6 12 (8.33%) Bash
7 11 (7.64%) PowerShell
8 10 (6.94%) C#
8 10 (6.94%) Go
9 2 (1.39%) PHP
10 1 (0.69%) C++
10 1 (0.69%) Rust
10 1 (0.69%) Scala
10 1 (0.69%) Shell Script
10 1 (0.69%) VBA
Qualifications
1 16 (11.11%) Azure Certification
2 9 (6.25%) AWS Certification
3 8 (5.56%) Degree
4 7 (4.86%) Security Cleared
5 5 (3.47%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
5 5 (3.47%) SC Cleared
6 3 (2.08%) Linux+ Certification
6 3 (2.08%) RHCE
7 2 (1.39%) DV Cleared
8 1 (0.69%) Computer Science Degree
8 1 (0.69%) Master's Degree
8 1 (0.69%) PhD
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 24 (16.67%) QA
2 11 (7.64%) GDPR
2 11 (7.64%) HIPAA
3 9 (6.25%) Accessibility
4 4 (2.78%) NIST
4 4 (2.78%) SOC 2
System Software
1 108 (75.00%) Docker
2 5 (3.47%) Virtual Machines
3 3 (2.08%) Active Directory
3 3 (2.08%) Dovecot
3 3 (2.08%) Hyper-V
3 3 (2.08%) Postfix
3 3 (2.08%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 51 (35.42%) Terraform
2 19 (13.19%) Ansible
3 6 (4.17%) Grafana
3 6 (4.17%) Prometheus
4 5 (3.47%) Istio
4 5 (3.47%) Puppet
5 2 (1.39%) CA Endevor
5 2 (1.39%) Progress Chef
6 1 (0.69%) Argo
6 1 (0.69%) Automic
6 1 (0.69%) Consul
6 1 (0.69%) Karpenter
6 1 (0.69%) Kibana
6 1 (0.69%) Proxmox
6 1 (0.69%) Rancher
Vendors
1 31 (21.53%) Google
2 18 (12.50%) Solace
3 12 (8.33%) Microsoft
4 3 (2.08%) Okta
4 3 (2.08%) Oracle
4 3 (2.08%) Ping Identity
4 3 (2.08%) Red Hat
4 3 (2.08%) VMware
5 2 (1.39%) Databricks
5 2 (1.39%) Dynatrace
5 2 (1.39%) SAP
6 1 (0.69%) Confluent
6 1 (0.69%) Hitachi
6 1 (0.69%) New Relic
6 1 (0.69%) Planview
6 1 (0.69%) Zend