Kubernetes Engineer Jobs in the North West

Kubernetes Engineer (K8s Engineer)
England > North West

The median Kubernetes Engineer (K8s Engineer) salary in the North West is £100,000 per year, according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months leading to 2 May 2025.

The table below provides salary benchmarking and summary statistics, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
2 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 263 279 271
Rank change year-on-year +16 -8 +65
Permanent jobs requiring a Kubernetes Engineer 1 6 22
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the North West 0.013% 0.062% 0.28%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.015% 0.065% 0.31%
Number of salaries quoted 1 6 21
10th Percentile - £56,250 -
25th Percentile - £57,188 £53,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £100,000 £75,000 £72,500
Median % change year-on-year +33.33% +3.45% +11.54%
75th Percentile - £92,500 £102,500
90th Percentile - - -
England median annual salary £100,000 £100,000 £95,000
% change year-on-year - +5.26% +18.75%

All Permanent IT Job Vacancies
North West

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent IT job vacancies in the North West. Most job vacancies include a discernible job title that can be normalized. As such, the figures in the second row provide an indication of the number of permanent jobs in our overall sample.

Permanent vacancies in the North West with a recognized job title 6,854 9,202 7,064
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 90.71% 94.68% 89.08%
Number of salaries quoted 4,058 7,076 4,108
10th Percentile £27,500 £27,250 £30,000
25th Percentile £40,619 £36,250 £40,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,055 £50,000 £54,882
Median % change year-on-year +0.11% -8.90% +4.54%
75th Percentile £61,250 £65,000 £68,750
90th Percentile £77,500 £78,625 £81,250
England median annual salary £57,500 £54,000 £60,775
% change year-on-year +6.48% -11.15% +1.29%

Kubernetes Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend in the North West

Job postings that featured Kubernetes Engineer in the job title as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the North West.

Job vacancy trend for Kubernetes Engineer in the North West

Kubernetes Engineer
Salary Trend in the North West

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing Kubernetes Engineer in the North West.

Salary trend for Kubernetes Engineer in the North West

Kubernetes Engineer
Job Locations in the North West

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Kubernetes Engineer within the North West region over the 6 months to 2 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
Manchester +64 1 £100,000 +33.33% 7
Kubernetes Engineer
England

Kubernetes Engineer Skill Set
Top 24 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the North West

For the 6 months to 2 May 2025, Kubernetes Engineer job roles required the following skills and capabilities in order of popularity. The figures indicate the absolute number co-occurrences and as a proportion of all permanent job ads across the North West region featuring Kubernetes Engineer in the job title.

1 1 (100.00%) Python
1 1 (100.00%) ETL
1 1 (100.00%) Hitachi
1 1 (100.00%) Artificial Intelligence
1 1 (100.00%) Google
1 1 (100.00%) Azure
1 1 (100.00%) AWS
1 1 (100.00%) Machine Learning
1 1 (100.00%) Big Data
1 1 (100.00%) Docker
1 1 (100.00%) GCP
1 1 (100.00%) Kubernetes
1 1 (100.00%) Azure Machine Learning
1 1 (100.00%) Data Engineering
1 1 (100.00%) TensorFlow
1 1 (100.00%) Amazon SageMaker
1 1 (100.00%) Problem-Solving
1 1 (100.00%) Kubeflow
1 1 (100.00%) PyTorch
1 1 (100.00%) MLflow
1 1 (100.00%) Data Pipeline
1 1 (100.00%) MLOps
1 1 (100.00%) Vertex AI
1 1 (100.00%) Containerisation

Kubernetes Engineer Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the North West 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:

Cloud Services
1 1 (100.00%) Amazon SageMaker
1 1 (100.00%) AWS
1 1 (100.00%) Azure
1 1 (100.00%) Azure Machine Learning
1 1 (100.00%) GCP
1 1 (100.00%) Vertex AI
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (100.00%) Big Data
Development Applications
1 1 (100.00%) MLflow
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (100.00%) PyTorch
1 1 (100.00%) TensorFlow
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (100.00%) Artificial Intelligence
1 1 (100.00%) Containerisation
1 1 (100.00%) Data Engineering
1 1 (100.00%) Data Pipeline
1 1 (100.00%) ETL
1 1 (100.00%) Machine Learning
1 1 (100.00%) MLOps
1 1 (100.00%) Problem-Solving
Programming Languages
1 1 (100.00%) Python
System Software
1 1 (100.00%) Docker
Systems Management
1 1 (100.00%) Kubeflow
1 1 (100.00%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 1 (100.00%) Google
1 1 (100.00%) Hitachi