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 vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 19 September 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
19 Sep 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 53 55 32
Rank change year-on-year +2 -23 -3
Permanent jobs citing Kubernetes 11 9 26
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Merseyside 1.86% 1.10% 4.99%
As % of the Systems Management category 17.46% 31.03% 28.26%
Number of salaries quoted 1 6 17
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £62,500 £52,500 £41,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £56,250 £70,000
Median % change year-on-year +15.56% -19.64% +7.69%
75th Percentile £67,500 £70,938 £93,750
90th Percentile - £75,000 £95,250
North West median annual salary £67,500 £63,000 £75,000
% change year-on-year +7.14% -16.00% +7.14%

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 63 29 92
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Merseyside 10.66% 3.55% 17.66%
Number of salaries quoted 19 21 73
10th Percentile £25,750 £26,750 £30,750
25th Percentile £37,235 £29,000 £41,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £48,720 £40,000 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year +21.80% -20.00% -23.08%
75th Percentile £66,250 £57,500 £72,500
90th Percentile £70,000 £71,250 £85,000
North West median annual salary £55,000 £53,250 £65,000
% change year-on-year +3.29% -18.08% +8.33%

Kubernetes
Job Vacancy Trend in Merseyside

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

Job vacancy trend for Kubernetes 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 19 September 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
Prescot - 3 - -
St Helens - 3 - -
Liverpool +2 2 £65,000 +15.56% 3
Kubernetes
North West

Kubernetes
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Merseyside 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 3 (27.27%) Confluence
2 1 (9.09%) Apache Spark
2 1 (9.09%) nginx
Cloud Services
1 10 (90.91%) AWS
1 10 (90.91%) Azure
2 3 (27.27%) GCP
3 1 (9.09%) Amazon EKS
3 1 (9.09%) Amazon ELB
3 1 (9.09%) Amazon S3
3 1 (9.09%) Azure DevOps
3 1 (9.09%) GitHub
3 1 (9.09%) GitHub Actions
Database & Business Intelligence
1 9 (81.82%) SQL Server
2 1 (9.09%) Delta Lake
2 1 (9.09%) DynamoDB
2 1 (9.09%) Metadata
2 1 (9.09%) Spark SQL
Development Applications
1 9 (81.82%) Bitbucket
1 9 (81.82%) Cucumber
1 9 (81.82%) GitLab
1 9 (81.82%) JIRA
1 9 (81.82%) Maven
1 9 (81.82%) Selenium
1 9 (81.82%) SonarQube
1 9 (81.82%) Sonatype Nexus
2 1 (9.09%) Git
2 1 (9.09%) git-flow
2 1 (9.09%) MLflow
General
1 9 (81.82%) Banking
1 9 (81.82%) Finance
1 9 (81.82%) Inclusion and Diversity
2 6 (54.55%) Corporate Banking
2 6 (54.55%) Investment Banking
2 6 (54.55%) Retail
3 1 (9.09%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 9 (81.82%) Software Engineer
2 2 (18.18%) Operations Engineer
3 1 (9.09%) DevOps Engineer
3 1 (9.09%) Machine Learning Engineer
3 1 (9.09%) Senior
3 1 (9.09%) Senior DevOps
3 1 (9.09%) Senior DevOps Engineer
3 1 (9.09%) Senior Operations Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 10 (90.91%) React
2 9 (81.82%) CSS
2 9 (81.82%) HTML
2 9 (81.82%) JPA
2 9 (81.82%) Kafka
2 9 (81.82%) Redux
2 9 (81.82%) Spring
2 9 (81.82%) Spring Boot
3 6 (54.55%) CSS3
3 6 (54.55%) HTML5
3 6 (54.55%) Jest
3 6 (54.55%) REST
3 6 (54.55%) RESTful
3 6 (54.55%) Sass
4 3 (27.27%) Hibernate
5 1 (9.09%) .NET
5 1 (9.09%) Lambda Expressions
5 1 (9.09%) Pandas
5 1 (9.09%) scikit-learn
5 1 (9.09%) TensorFlow
Miscellaneous
1 9 (81.82%) Enterprise Software
1 9 (81.82%) Product Ownership
2 1 (9.09%) Data Protection Act
2 1 (9.09%) Linux Command Line
Operating Systems
1 1 (9.09%) Linux
1 1 (9.09%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 11 (100.00%) Containerisation
2 10 (90.91%) CI/CD
2 10 (90.91%) DevOps
2 10 (90.91%) Microservices
3 9 (81.82%) Agile
3 9 (81.82%) Front End Development
3 9 (81.82%) Full-Stack Development
3 9 (81.82%) Performance Optimisation
3 9 (81.82%) SDLC
3 9 (81.82%) Software Engineering
3 9 (81.82%) Test Automation
4 7 (63.64%) Mentoring
5 6 (54.55%) Migration
5 6 (54.55%) Responsive Web Design
5 6 (54.55%) Strategic Thinking
5 6 (54.55%) User Experience
6 3 (27.27%) Clean Code
6 3 (27.27%) Continuous Improvement
6 3 (27.27%) TDD
7 1 (9.09%) Machine Learning
Programming Languages
1 10 (90.91%) SQL
2 9 (81.82%) Java
2 9 (81.82%) JavaScript
3 6 (54.55%) TypeScript
4 1 (9.09%) Bash
4 1 (9.09%) PowerShell
4 1 (9.09%) Python
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 9 (81.82%) QA
2 6 (54.55%) Accessibility
System Software
1 11 (100.00%) Docker
Systems Management
1 2 (18.18%) Terraform
2 1 (9.09%) Ansible
2 1 (9.09%) Argo
2 1 (9.09%) Grafana
2 1 (9.09%) Kubeflow
2 1 (9.09%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 9 (81.82%) Solace
2 1 (9.09%) Databricks