Kubernetes Jobs in the North West

Kubernetes (k8s)
England > North West

The table below provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in the North West 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 2 July 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
2 Jul 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 96 92 47
Rank change year-on-year -4 -45 -15
Permanent jobs citing Kubernetes 267 268 441
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the North West 3.47% 2.39% 6.28%
As % of the Systems Management category 23.65% 37.22% 44.28%
Number of salaries quoted 107 148 303
10th Percentile £47,500 £45,000 £48,750
25th Percentile £62,500 £52,500 £56,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £75,000 £61,206 £70,000
Median % change year-on-year +22.54% -12.56% +3.50%
75th Percentile £93,778 £77,500 £80,000
90th Percentile £112,500 £92,104 £87,500
England median annual salary £80,000 £77,500 £77,500
% change year-on-year +3.23% - -

All Systems Management Skills
North West

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 the North West.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for systems management skills 1,129 720 996
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the North West 14.66% 6.43% 14.17%
Number of salaries quoted 279 503 655
10th Percentile £32,000 £29,000 £36,514
25th Percentile £40,620 £39,720 £48,045
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £55,000 £61,500
Median % change year-on-year +18.18% -10.57% +2.50%
75th Percentile £77,500 £70,000 £78,625
90th Percentile £94,022 £81,000 £86,250
England median annual salary £67,500 £62,500 £67,500
% change year-on-year +8.00% -7.41% -3.57%

Kubernetes
Job Vacancy Trend in the North West

Job postings citing Kubernetes as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the North West.

Job vacancy trend for Kubernetes in the North West

Kubernetes
Salary Trend in the North West

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

Salary trend for Kubernetes in the North West

Kubernetes
Salary Histogram in the North West

Salary distribution for jobs citing Kubernetes in the North West over the 6 months to 2 July 2025.

Salary histogram for Kubernetes in the North West

Kubernetes
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 within the North West region over the 6 months to 2 July 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 +18 162 £78,810 +26.10% 372
Cheshire +37 71 £60,000 +11.63% 71
Lancashire -43 23 £42,134 -35.18% 68
Merseyside +30 10 - - 43
Cumbria -63 1 - - 10
Kubernetes
England

Kubernetes
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:

Application Platforms
1 56 (20.97%) Confluence
2 4 (1.50%) Microsoft Exchange
2 4 (1.50%) SharePoint
3 2 (0.75%) Apache Spark
4 1 (0.37%) Apache
4 1 (0.37%) CMS
4 1 (0.37%) nginx
Cloud Services
1 213 (79.78%) AWS
2 186 (69.66%) Azure
3 90 (33.71%) GCP
4 15 (5.62%) Azure DevOps
5 13 (4.87%) Amazon EKS
5 13 (4.87%) Serverless
6 12 (4.49%) AWS Lambda
6 12 (4.49%) GitHub
7 10 (3.75%) Azure Machine Learning
8 7 (2.62%) Amazon S3
9 5 (1.87%) Cloud Computing
9 5 (1.87%) NuGet
9 5 (1.87%) SaaS
10 4 (1.50%) Amazon ECS
10 4 (1.50%) Azure Monitor
10 4 (1.50%) Entra ID
10 4 (1.50%) GitHub Actions
10 4 (1.50%) Microsoft 365
10 4 (1.50%) OneDrive
11 3 (1.12%) Pulumi
Communications & Networking
1 5 (1.87%) TCP/IP
2 3 (1.12%) Broadband
3 2 (0.75%) Firewall
3 2 (0.75%) VPN
4 1 (0.37%) DNS
4 1 (0.37%) HTTP
4 1 (0.37%) Internet
4 1 (0.37%) NAS
4 1 (0.37%) SAN
4 1 (0.37%) VLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 116 (43.45%) SQL Server
2 29 (10.86%) NoSQL
3 18 (6.74%) PostgreSQL
4 14 (5.24%) DynamoDB
5 11 (4.12%) MongoDB
6 10 (3.75%) Cloud Spanner
7 9 (3.37%) Relational Database
8 5 (1.87%) Big Data
9 4 (1.50%) MySQL
10 3 (1.12%) BigQuery
10 3 (1.12%) RDBMS
11 2 (0.75%) Amazon Aurora
11 2 (0.75%) Amazon RDS
11 2 (0.75%) Delta Lake
11 2 (0.75%) Metadata
11 2 (0.75%) Spark SQL
12 1 (0.37%) DocumentDB
12 1 (0.37%) Elasticsearch
12 1 (0.37%) Oracle Database
12 1 (0.37%) Oracle Exadata
Development Applications
1 127 (47.57%) JIRA
2 122 (45.69%) GitLab
3 120 (44.94%) SonarQube
4 117 (43.82%) Selenium
5 115 (43.07%) Cucumber
6 112 (41.95%) Maven
6 112 (41.95%) Sonatype Nexus
7 111 (41.57%) Bitbucket
8 25 (9.36%) Git
9 19 (7.12%) Jenkins
10 3 (1.12%) Jaeger
10 3 (1.12%) JUnit
11 2 (0.75%) Atlassian Bamboo
11 2 (0.75%) JMeter
11 2 (0.75%) LoadRunner
11 2 (0.75%) MLflow
11 2 (0.75%) NeoLoad
11 2 (0.75%) REST Assured
11 2 (0.75%) WebDriver
12 1 (0.37%) PHPUnit
General
1 167 (62.55%) Finance
2 138 (51.69%) Banking
3 112 (41.95%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 81 (30.34%) Retail
5 70 (26.22%) Corporate Banking
5 70 (26.22%) Investment Banking
6 46 (17.23%) Social Skills
7 24 (8.99%) Analytical Skills
8 9 (3.37%) Games
9 6 (2.25%) Marketing
10 3 (1.12%) Telecoms
11 2 (0.75%) Advertising
11 2 (0.75%) Cantonese Language
11 2 (0.75%) Mandarin Language
12 1 (0.37%) Aerospace
12 1 (0.37%) Electronics
12 1 (0.37%) Financial Institution
12 1 (0.37%) Law
12 1 (0.37%) Manufacturing
12 1 (0.37%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 151 (56.55%) Software Engineer
2 57 (21.35%) Senior
3 28 (10.49%) Developer
4 26 (9.74%) Lead
5 25 (9.36%) DevOps Engineer
6 19 (7.12%) Senior Developer
7 17 (6.37%) Senior Software Engineer
8 15 (5.62%) Java Developer
9 14 (5.24%) Architect
10 13 (4.87%) Senior Java Developer
10 13 (4.87%) Solutions Architect
11 11 (4.12%) AWS Architect
11 11 (4.12%) AWS Solution Architect
12 10 (3.75%) AWS DevOps
12 10 (3.75%) Azure Engineer
13 9 (3.37%) Cloud Engineer
13 9 (3.37%) DevOps Architect
13 9 (3.37%) Principal Engineer
13 9 (3.37%) Senior DevOps
13 9 (3.37%) TOGAF Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 147 (55.06%) React
2 138 (51.69%) Kafka
2 138 (51.69%) Spring Boot
3 135 (50.56%) Spring
4 113 (42.32%) CSS
4 113 (42.32%) HTML
5 109 (40.82%) JPA
5 109 (40.82%) Redux
6 88 (32.96%) RESTful
7 74 (27.72%) REST
8 72 (26.97%) CSS3
8 72 (26.97%) HTML5
9 71 (26.59%) Jest
9 71 (26.59%) Sass
10 46 (17.23%) Hibernate
11 21 (7.87%) Node.js
12 14 (5.24%) .NET
13 11 (4.12%) .NET Core
13 11 (4.12%) ARM Templates
14 9 (3.37%) Amazon Corretto
Miscellaneous
1 121 (45.32%) Product Ownership
2 110 (41.20%) Enterprise Software
3 23 (8.61%) Cloud Native
4 19 (7.12%) Distributed Systems
5 12 (4.49%) Public Cloud
6 10 (3.75%) Hybrid Cloud
7 9 (3.37%) Algorithms
7 9 (3.37%) e-Learning
7 9 (3.37%) Management Information System
8 7 (2.62%) Wiki
9 5 (1.87%) Data Protection Act
10 4 (1.50%) Team-Oriented Environment
11 3 (1.12%) Data Structures
11 3 (1.12%) Low-Code
12 2 (0.75%) Greenfield Project
12 2 (0.75%) Linux Command Line
12 2 (0.75%) Private Cloud
12 2 (0.75%) Reference Data
12 2 (0.75%) Replication
12 2 (0.75%) Tandem
Operating Systems
1 24 (8.99%) Linux
2 10 (3.75%) Unix
3 5 (1.87%) CentOS
3 5 (1.87%) Ubuntu
4 4 (1.50%) Windows
5 1 (0.37%) Debian
Processes & Methodologies
1 227 (85.02%) DevOps
2 199 (74.53%) CI/CD
3 183 (68.54%) Agile
4 177 (66.29%) Microservices
5 172 (64.42%) Software Engineering
6 169 (63.30%) Containerisation
7 142 (53.18%) Test Automation
8 133 (49.81%) Full-Stack Development
9 127 (47.57%) SDLC
10 121 (45.32%) Front End Development
11 118 (44.19%) Performance Optimisation
12 112 (41.95%) Mentoring
13 91 (34.08%) User Experience
14 79 (29.59%) Migration
15 73 (27.34%) TDD
16 71 (26.59%) Responsive Web Design
16 71 (26.59%) Strategic Thinking
17 55 (20.60%) Clean Code
18 53 (19.85%) Continuous Improvement
18 53 (19.85%) Problem-Solving
Programming Languages
1 190 (71.16%) Java
2 141 (52.81%) JavaScript
3 137 (51.31%) SQL
4 101 (37.83%) TypeScript
5 52 (19.48%) Python
6 23 (8.61%) C#
7 13 (4.87%) Bash
8 12 (4.49%) Go
9 10 (3.75%) PowerShell
10 3 (1.12%) Shell Script
11 2 (0.75%) PHP
11 2 (0.75%) Rust
12 1 (0.37%) C++
Qualifications
1 27 (10.11%) Azure Certification
2 18 (6.74%) AWS Certification
3 11 (4.12%) Degree
4 10 (3.75%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
5 4 (1.50%) Linux+ Certification
5 4 (1.50%) RHCE
5 4 (1.50%) Security Cleared
6 2 (0.75%) Computer Science Degree
6 2 (0.75%) DV Cleared
6 2 (0.75%) SC Cleared
7 1 (0.37%) Microsoft Certification
7 1 (0.37%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 115 (43.07%) QA
2 70 (26.22%) Accessibility
3 19 (7.12%) GDPR
4 17 (6.37%) HIPAA
5 9 (3.37%) NIST
6 4 (1.50%) SOC 2
System Software
1 231 (86.52%) Docker
2 6 (2.25%) Hyper-V
2 6 (2.25%) VMware Infrastructure
3 4 (1.50%) Active Directory
3 4 (1.50%) Dovecot
3 4 (1.50%) Postfix
3 4 (1.50%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 63 (23.60%) Terraform
2 24 (8.99%) Ansible
3 8 (3.00%) Grafana
3 8 (3.00%) Prometheus
4 5 (1.87%) Puppet
5 4 (1.50%) Argo
6 3 (1.12%) Istio
6 3 (1.12%) Kustomize
6 3 (1.12%) Progress Chef
7 2 (0.75%) Kubeflow
8 1 (0.37%) Karpenter
8 1 (0.37%) Kibana
8 1 (0.37%) Oracle Enterprise Manager
8 1 (0.37%) Proxmox
8 1 (0.37%) Rancher
8 1 (0.37%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 109 (40.82%) Solace
2 41 (15.36%) Google
3 13 (4.87%) Microsoft
4 6 (2.25%) VMware
5 5 (1.87%) Ping Identity
5 5 (1.87%) Red Hat
6 4 (1.50%) Okta
7 2 (0.75%) Databricks
7 2 (0.75%) Oracle
8 1 (0.37%) Dynatrace
8 1 (0.37%) ForgeRock
8 1 (0.37%) SAP
8 1 (0.37%) TOWER Software
8 1 (0.37%) Zend