Kubernetes Job Trends in Merseyside

Kubernetes (k8s)
North West > Merseyside

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in Merseyside requiring Kubernetes skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 1 January 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 61 54 25
Rank change year-on-year -7 -29 -2
Permanent jobs citing Kubernetes 3 8 28
As % of all permanent jobs in Merseyside 0.47% 1.51% 5.86%
As % of the Systems Management category 9.68% 25.81% 36.84%
Number of salaries quoted 3 4 22
10th Percentile £64,750 £59,250 £41,250
25th Percentile £68,125 £69,375 £43,125
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £77,500 £75,000 £57,500
Median % change year-on-year +3.33% +30.43% -28.13%
75th Percentile £81,250 - £70,000
90th Percentile - - £83,750
North West median annual salary £67,500 £67,500 £68,474
% change year-on-year - -1.42% -2.18%

All Systems Management Skills
Merseyside

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 Merseyside.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for systems management skills 31 31 76
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Merseyside 4.90% 5.86% 15.90%
Number of salaries quoted 23 22 69
10th Percentile £42,500 £29,150 £29,000
25th Percentile £45,500 £32,000 £41,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £48,720 £42,000 £51,000
Median % change year-on-year +16.00% -17.65% -21.54%
75th Percentile £50,500 £66,875 £68,750
90th Percentile £67,000 £74,625 £85,000
North West median annual salary £55,000 £55,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year - -8.33% +0.80%

Kubernetes
Job Vacancy Trend in Merseyside

Historical trend showing the proportion of permanent IT job postings citing Kubernetes relative to all permanent IT jobs advertised in Merseyside.

Kubernetes job vacancy trend in Merseyside

Kubernetes
Salary Trend in Merseyside

Salary distribution trend for jobs in Merseyside citing Kubernetes.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in Merseyside citing Kubernetes

Kubernetes
Job Locations in Merseyside

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Kubernetes within the Merseyside region over the 6 months to 1 January 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
Liverpool -10 3 £77,500 +3.33% 2
Kubernetes
North West

Kubernetes
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Merseyside 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 (100.00%) nginx
Cloud Services
1 3 (100.00%) Azure
2 2 (66.67%) Azure AKS
2 2 (66.67%) Sentry
3 1 (33.33%) Azure DevOps
3 1 (33.33%) GitHub
3 1 (33.33%) GitHub Actions
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (66.67%) MongoDB
1 2 (66.67%) PostHog
1 2 (66.67%) Redis
1 2 (66.67%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 1 (33.33%) Git
1 1 (33.33%) git-flow
Job Titles
1 2 (66.67%) Lead
2 1 (33.33%) DevOps Engineer
2 1 (33.33%) Operations Engineer
2 1 (33.33%) Senior
2 1 (33.33%) Senior DevOps
2 1 (33.33%) Senior DevOps Engineer
2 1 (33.33%) Senior Operations Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (100.00%) .NET
1 3 (100.00%) React
2 2 (66.67%) .NET Framework
2 2 (66.67%) Entity Framework
2 2 (66.67%) Loki
2 2 (66.67%) MassTransit
2 2 (66.67%) Next.js
2 2 (66.67%) RabbitMQ
3 1 (33.33%) Node.js
Miscellaneous
1 2 (66.67%) Cloud Native
2 1 (33.33%) Data Protection Act
Operating Systems
1 1 (33.33%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (100.00%) Mentoring
1 3 (100.00%) Microservices
1 3 (100.00%) Observability
2 2 (66.67%) Agile
2 2 (66.67%) Architectural Patterns
2 2 (66.67%) CI/CD
2 2 (66.67%) Clean Code
2 2 (66.67%) Continuous Improvement
2 2 (66.67%) Event-Driven
2 2 (66.67%) Front End Development
2 2 (66.67%) Insurtech
2 2 (66.67%) Integration Patterns
2 2 (66.67%) Software Delivery
2 2 (66.67%) Software Engineering
2 2 (66.67%) Test Automation
2 2 (66.67%) User Experience
3 1 (33.33%) Containerisation
3 1 (33.33%) DevOps
3 1 (33.33%) GitOps
3 1 (33.33%) Trunk-Based Development
Programming Languages
1 2 (66.67%) C#
1 2 (66.67%) TypeScript
2 1 (33.33%) Bash
2 1 (33.33%) PowerShell
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (66.67%) QA
System Software
1 3 (100.00%) Docker
Systems Management
1 3 (100.00%) Grafana
2 1 (33.33%) Ansible
2 1 (33.33%) Argo
2 1 (33.33%) Prometheus
2 1 (33.33%) Terraform