Kubernetes Job Trends in the North West

Kubernetes (k8s)
England > North West

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in the North West requiring Kubernetes skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 22 April 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
22 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 111 84 82
Rank change year-on-year -27 -2 -23
Permanent jobs citing Kubernetes 121 135 255
As % of all permanent jobs in the North West 1.21% 3.30% 2.80%
As % of the Systems Management category 28.14% 18.65% 39.35%
Number of salaries quoted 96 110 188
10th Percentile £55,625 £49,875 £47,500
25th Percentile £60,000 £62,500 £53,438
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £70,000 £78,155 £62,500
Median % change year-on-year -10.43% +25.05% -7.41%
75th Percentile £85,000 £93,778 £77,500
90th Percentile £97,500 £112,500 £84,943
England median annual salary £75,000 £85,000 £77,500
% change year-on-year -11.76% +9.68% -

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 430 724 648
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the North West 4.30% 17.69% 7.11%
Number of salaries quoted 322 277 532
10th Percentile £30,000 £36,250 £29,250
25th Percentile £40,500 £47,500 £42,116
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,500 £67,500 £57,500
Median % change year-on-year -14.81% +17.39% -
75th Percentile £74,997 £78,750 £71,250
90th Percentile £88,083 £95,000 £80,000
England median annual salary £65,000 £70,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year -7.14% +16.67% -11.11%

Kubernetes
Job Vacancy Trend in the North West

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

Kubernetes job vacancy trend in the North West

Kubernetes
Salary Trend in the North West

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the North West citing Kubernetes.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the North West citing Kubernetes

Kubernetes
Salary Histogram in the North West

Salary distribution for jobs citing Kubernetes in the North West over the 6 months to 22 April 2026.

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 22 April 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
Manchester -26 96 £67,500 -14.99% 63
Merseyside - 8 £95,000 - 3
Cumbria - 7 £85,000 - 1
Cheshire -31 5 £66,250 -14.52% 5
Lancashire -5 4 £78,750 +86.90% 19
Kubernetes
England

Kubernetes
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the North West 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 4 (3.31%) Apache
1 4 (3.31%) Apache Spark
1 4 (3.31%) Microsoft Exchange
2 2 (1.65%) nginx
2 2 (1.65%) OpenStack
3 1 (0.83%) SharePoint
Applications
1 1 (0.83%) Chatbot
Cloud Services
1 77 (63.64%) AWS
2 54 (44.63%) Azure
3 28 (23.14%) GCP
4 27 (22.31%) Serverless
5 23 (19.01%) Azure AKS
6 22 (18.18%) AWS CloudFormation
7 19 (15.70%) Amazon EKS
8 17 (14.05%) GitHub
9 13 (10.74%) Amazon ECS
9 13 (10.74%) GitHub Actions
10 12 (9.92%) AWS Lambda
11 11 (9.09%) Datadog
12 9 (7.44%) Azure DevOps
13 8 (6.61%) OpenShift
14 7 (5.79%) Amazon EC2
14 7 (5.79%) Entra ID
14 7 (5.79%) Google Kubernetes Engine
15 6 (4.96%) Amazon S3
15 6 (4.96%) Amazon SQS
16 5 (4.13%) Amazon CloudWatch
Communications & Networking
1 7 (5.79%) Firewall
1 7 (5.79%) Internet
2 4 (3.31%) AMQP
3 3 (2.48%) DNS
3 3 (2.48%) TCP/IP
4 2 (1.65%) VPN
5 1 (0.83%) DHCP
5 1 (0.83%) Network Security
5 1 (0.83%) SD-WAN
5 1 (0.83%) VLAN
5 1 (0.83%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 28 (23.14%) NoSQL
2 24 (19.83%) PostgreSQL
3 22 (18.18%) MongoDB
4 8 (6.61%) DynamoDB
5 7 (5.79%) Elasticsearch
5 7 (5.79%) MySQL
6 6 (4.96%) Amazon RDS
7 5 (4.13%) Relational Database
7 5 (4.13%) SQL Server
8 4 (3.31%) Big Data
8 4 (3.31%) Cloudera CDH
8 4 (3.31%) Hadoop
8 4 (3.31%) Neo4j
9 2 (1.65%) BigQuery
9 2 (1.65%) Data Warehouse
9 2 (1.65%) PostHog
9 2 (1.65%) Redis
10 1 (0.83%) Azure SQL Database
10 1 (0.83%) DB2
Development Applications
1 20 (16.53%) Git
2 11 (9.09%) GitLab
3 9 (7.44%) Jenkins
4 3 (2.48%) Bitbucket
5 2 (1.65%) Vagrant
6 1 (0.83%) Claude Code
6 1 (0.83%) Cucumber
6 1 (0.83%) IntelliJ
6 1 (0.83%) JIRA
6 1 (0.83%) JMeter
6 1 (0.83%) JUnit
6 1 (0.83%) Locust
6 1 (0.83%) TeamCity
General
1 18 (14.88%) Social Skills
2 5 (4.13%) Aerospace
3 4 (3.31%) Analytical Skills
3 4 (3.31%) Finance
3 4 (3.31%) Retail
4 3 (2.48%) Public Sector
5 1 (0.83%) Advertising
5 1 (0.83%) Banking
5 1 (0.83%) Investment Banking
Job Titles
1 39 (32.23%) Software Engineer
2 36 (29.75%) Senior
3 22 (18.18%) Lead
4 18 (14.88%) Developer
5 17 (14.05%) Cloud Engineer
6 15 (12.40%) DevOps Engineer
7 12 (9.92%) Senior Software Engineer
8 10 (8.26%) .NET Software Engineer
8 10 (8.26%) Lead Software Engineer
9 9 (7.44%) Java Developer
9 9 (7.44%) Python Engineer
10 8 (6.61%) Azure Engineer
11 7 (5.79%) Senior Developer
12 6 (4.96%) Infrastructure Engineer
12 6 (4.96%) Senior .NET Software Engineer
13 5 (4.13%) Java Engineer
13 5 (4.13%) Java Software Engineer
13 5 (4.13%) Lead Developer
13 5 (4.13%) Platform Engineer
13 5 (4.13%) Python Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 23 (19.01%) .NET
2 22 (18.18%) Spring
3 20 (16.53%) React
3 20 (16.53%) RESTful
3 20 (16.53%) Spring Boot
4 15 (12.40%) .NET Framework
5 13 (10.74%) Node.js
6 10 (8.26%) AngularJS
7 9 (7.44%) Django
7 9 (7.44%) FastAPI
8 8 (6.61%) RabbitMQ
9 6 (4.96%) ARM Templates
9 6 (4.96%) REST
9 6 (4.96%) Vue
10 5 (4.13%) Celery
10 5 (4.13%) Flask
10 5 (4.13%) Hibernate
10 5 (4.13%) Kafka
10 5 (4.13%) OpenTelemetry
10 5 (4.13%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 40 (33.06%) Cloud Native
2 26 (21.49%) Distributed Systems
3 7 (5.79%) Distributed Computing
4 6 (4.96%) Hybrid Cloud
5 4 (3.31%) Enterprise Cloud
5 4 (3.31%) Public Cloud
6 2 (1.65%) Driving Licence
6 2 (1.65%) Legacy Systems
6 2 (1.65%) Mobile App
6 2 (1.65%) Product Ownership
6 2 (1.65%) Self-Motivation
7 1 (0.83%) AI Agents
7 1 (0.83%) Analytical Mindset
7 1 (0.83%) Cyber Threat
7 1 (0.83%) Cybercrime
7 1 (0.83%) Data Structures
7 1 (0.83%) Replication
Operating Systems
1 27 (22.31%) Linux
2 7 (5.79%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 6 (4.96%) Debian
3 6 (4.96%) Ubuntu
4 5 (4.13%) CentOS
5 4 (3.31%) Windows
6 2 (1.65%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 86 (71.07%) CI/CD
2 73 (60.33%) DevOps
3 67 (55.37%) Containerisation
4 63 (52.07%) Infrastructure as Code
5 49 (40.50%) Agile
6 45 (37.19%) Software Engineering
7 44 (36.36%) Microservices
8 27 (22.31%) Clean Code
8 27 (22.31%) Observability
8 27 (22.31%) TDD
9 24 (19.83%) Mentoring
9 24 (19.83%) Problem-Solving
10 23 (19.01%) Continuous Improvement
10 23 (19.01%) Platform Engineering
10 23 (19.01%) Scrum
11 20 (16.53%) Event-Driven
12 18 (14.88%) Infrastructure Engineering
13 16 (13.22%) Collaborative Culture
13 16 (13.22%) Event-Driven Architecture
14 15 (12.40%) High Availability
Programming Languages
1 49 (40.50%) Python
2 33 (27.27%) Java
3 32 (26.45%) SQL
4 29 (23.97%) TypeScript
5 21 (17.36%) C#
6 17 (14.05%) JavaScript
7 14 (11.57%) Go
8 11 (9.09%) C
9 8 (6.61%) PowerShell
10 4 (3.31%) Bash
10 4 (3.31%) Bicep
11 1 (0.83%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 18 (14.88%) Security Cleared
2 11 (9.09%) DV Cleared
2 11 (9.09%) SC Cleared
3 6 (4.96%) Azure Certification
3 6 (4.96%) Degree
4 5 (4.13%) Computer Science Degree
5 1 (0.83%) AWS Certification
5 1 (0.83%) CISM
5 1 (0.83%) CISSP
5 1 (0.83%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
5 1 (0.83%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (2.48%) QA
2 1 (0.83%) Accessibility
2 1 (0.83%) Data Quality
2 1 (0.83%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 1 (0.83%) NIST
2 1 (0.83%) PCI DSS
2 1 (0.83%) WCAG
System Software
1 68 (56.20%) Docker
2 6 (4.96%) Active Directory
2 6 (4.96%) Virtual Machines
3 4 (3.31%) VMware Infrastructure
3 4 (3.31%) VMware NSX
3 4 (3.31%) vSphere
4 1 (0.83%) Firmware
4 1 (0.83%) Hyper-V
4 1 (0.83%) Virtual Desktop
Systems Management
1 65 (53.72%) Terraform
2 33 (27.27%) Ansible
3 9 (7.44%) Grafana
4 6 (4.96%) Prometheus
5 4 (3.31%) Microsoft Intune
5 4 (3.31%) Puppet
6 3 (2.48%) Rancher
7 2 (1.65%) Nagios
7 2 (1.65%) Packer
7 2 (1.65%) Progress Chef
8 1 (0.83%) Argo
8 1 (0.83%) Fluentd
8 1 (0.83%) FortiGate
8 1 (0.83%) Istio
Vendors
1 8 (6.61%) Google
1 8 (6.61%) Microsoft
2 6 (4.96%) VMware
3 5 (4.13%) HubSpot
3 5 (4.13%) Red Hat
4 4 (3.31%) SaltStack
5 2 (1.65%) Pega
5 2 (1.65%) WSO2
6 1 (0.83%) Cribl.io
6 1 (0.83%) Databricks
6 1 (0.83%) Dell
6 1 (0.83%) Fortinet
6 1 (0.83%) Oracle
6 1 (0.83%) Splunk