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 24 June 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
24 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 95 68 90
Rank change year-on-year -27 +22 -38
Permanent jobs citing Kubernetes 161 261 258
As % of all permanent jobs in the North West 1.46% 5.49% 2.33%
As % of the Systems Management category 30.15% 23.56% 37.66%
Number of salaries quoted 139 109 160
10th Percentile £47,500 £47,500 £45,000
25th Percentile £58,750 £62,500 £52,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £72,500 £75,000 £62,500
Median % change year-on-year -3.33% +20.00% -10.71%
75th Percentile £88,125 £93,778 £75,313
90th Percentile £97,500 £112,500 £85,693
England median annual salary £72,500 £80,000 £77,500
% change year-on-year -9.38% +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 534 1,108 685
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the North West 4.85% 23.32% 6.19%
Number of salaries quoted 432 275 511
10th Percentile £31,375 £32,000 £29,000
25th Percentile £38,750 £40,935 £39,720
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £62,500 £65,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -3.85% +18.18% -8.33%
75th Percentile £78,188 £77,500 £70,000
90th Percentile £90,000 £93,778 £80,000
England median annual salary £65,000 £67,500 £62,500
% change year-on-year -3.70% +8.00% -7.41%

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 24 June 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 24 June 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 -19 129 £71,500 -9.28% 47
Merseyside -16 11 £95,000 - 3
Lancashire +7 9 £50,000 +18.67% 18
Cheshire -52 7 £62,500 +4.17% 6
Cumbria - 4 £85,000 -
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 2 (1.24%) Apache
1 2 (1.24%) Apache Spark
1 2 (1.24%) Microsoft Exchange
1 2 (1.24%) OpenStack
Applications
1 1 (0.62%) Chatbot
Cloud Services
1 108 (67.08%) AWS
2 70 (43.48%) Azure
3 37 (22.98%) GitHub
4 36 (22.36%) GCP
5 33 (20.50%) Serverless
6 25 (15.53%) AWS CloudFormation
7 18 (11.18%) Azure AKS
7 18 (11.18%) GitHub Actions
8 16 (9.94%) Amazon EKS
9 15 (9.32%) Amazon ECS
9 15 (9.32%) AWS Lambda
10 14 (8.70%) Datadog
11 11 (6.83%) Amazon SQS
11 11 (6.83%) Google Kubernetes Engine
12 10 (6.21%) Amazon CloudWatch
13 9 (5.59%) OpenShift
14 8 (4.97%) Azure DevOps
14 8 (4.97%) GitHub Copilot
14 8 (4.97%) SaaS
15 7 (4.35%) Amazon EventBridge
Communications & Networking
1 6 (3.73%) Firewall
2 4 (2.48%) Internet
3 2 (1.24%) AMQP
3 2 (1.24%) DNS
3 2 (1.24%) Network Security
3 2 (1.24%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 27 (16.77%) MongoDB
1 27 (16.77%) PostgreSQL
2 17 (10.56%) NoSQL
3 8 (4.97%) Amazon RDS
3 8 (4.97%) DynamoDB
4 5 (3.11%) Elasticsearch
4 5 (3.11%) Relational Database
5 4 (2.48%) Azure SQL Database
5 4 (2.48%) Neo4j
6 3 (1.86%) Pinecone
7 2 (1.24%) Big Data
7 2 (1.24%) BigQuery
7 2 (1.24%) Cloudera CDH
7 2 (1.24%) Hadoop
7 2 (1.24%) SQL Server
8 1 (0.62%) Data Warehouse
8 1 (0.62%) MySQL
8 1 (0.62%) Redis
8 1 (0.62%) Weaviate
Development Applications
1 25 (15.53%) Git
2 24 (14.91%) Jenkins
3 20 (12.42%) GitLab
4 5 (3.11%) Atlassian Bamboo
4 5 (3.11%) Bitbucket
5 4 (2.48%) Vite
6 3 (1.86%) Cucumber
6 3 (1.86%) Cypress.io
6 3 (1.86%) Postman
6 3 (1.86%) Robot Framework
6 3 (1.86%) Selenium
7 2 (1.24%) Claude Code
7 2 (1.24%) JIRA
7 2 (1.24%) Vagrant
8 1 (0.62%) Gemini Tracker
8 1 (0.62%) IntelliJ
8 1 (0.62%) JUnit
8 1 (0.62%) Mocha
General
1 12 (7.45%) Social Skills
2 7 (4.35%) Public Sector
3 6 (3.73%) Finance
4 5 (3.11%) Advertising
5 3 (1.86%) Aerospace
6 2 (1.24%) Retail
7 1 (0.62%) Analytical Skills
7 1 (0.62%) Inclusion and Diversity
Job Titles
1 50 (31.06%) Senior
2 34 (21.12%) DevOps Engineer
3 31 (19.25%) Software Engineer
4 29 (18.01%) Developer
5 26 (16.15%) Cloud Engineer
6 20 (12.42%) Lead
7 17 (10.56%) Platform Engineer
8 14 (8.70%) Java Developer
9 11 (6.83%) Senior Developer
9 11 (6.83%) Senior Java Developer
10 9 (5.59%) Azure Engineer
10 9 (5.59%) Senior Platform Engineer
10 9 (5.59%) Senior Software Engineer
11 8 (4.97%) Architect
11 8 (4.97%) Lead Developer
11 8 (4.97%) Lead Software Engineer
11 8 (4.97%) Principal Engineer
12 7 (4.35%) .NET Software Engineer
12 7 (4.35%) AWS Engineer
12 7 (4.35%) Integration Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 28 (17.39%) Spring
2 26 (16.15%) Spring Boot
3 25 (15.53%) React
4 23 (14.29%) RESTful
5 21 (13.04%) Node.js
6 20 (12.42%) .NET
7 16 (9.94%) Kafka
8 13 (8.07%) AngularJS
8 13 (8.07%) FastAPI
8 13 (8.07%) Vue
9 9 (5.59%) Django
9 9 (5.59%) RabbitMQ
10 8 (4.97%) LangChain
10 8 (4.97%) OpenTelemetry
11 7 (4.35%) .NET Framework
11 7 (4.35%) REST
12 6 (3.73%) Hibernate
12 6 (3.73%) JWT
12 6 (3.73%) OAuth
13 5 (3.11%) OpenAPI
Miscellaneous
1 59 (36.65%) Cloud Native
2 25 (15.53%) Distributed Systems
3 8 (4.97%) Hybrid Cloud
4 5 (3.11%) AI Agents
4 5 (3.11%) Greenfield Project
5 4 (2.48%) Enterprise Cloud
6 3 (1.86%) Security Posture
7 2 (1.24%) Cloud Security Posture
7 2 (1.24%) Legacy Systems
7 2 (1.24%) Mobile App
7 2 (1.24%) Product Ownership
7 2 (1.24%) Public Cloud
7 2 (1.24%) Self-Motivation
8 1 (0.62%) Culture of Ownership
Operating Systems
1 25 (15.53%) Linux
2 5 (3.11%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 4 (2.48%) Debian
3 4 (2.48%) Ubuntu
3 4 (2.48%) Windows
4 3 (1.86%) CentOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 117 (72.67%) CI/CD
2 103 (63.98%) DevOps
3 87 (54.04%) Infrastructure as Code
4 79 (49.07%) Containerisation
5 55 (34.16%) Agile
6 46 (28.57%) Platform Engineering
7 43 (26.71%) AI
8 42 (26.09%) Software Engineering
9 38 (23.60%) Microservices
9 38 (23.60%) Observability
10 36 (22.36%) Mentoring
11 33 (20.50%) Continuous Improvement
12 31 (19.25%) Problem-Solving
13 27 (16.77%) TDD
14 26 (16.15%) Clean Code
15 24 (14.91%) Scrum
16 20 (12.42%) Collaborative Culture
16 20 (12.42%) Event-Driven
17 17 (10.56%) Site Reliability Engineering
18 15 (9.32%) Cloud Security
Programming Languages
1 60 (37.27%) Python
2 38 (23.60%) Java
3 32 (19.88%) TypeScript
4 24 (14.91%) SQL
5 20 (12.42%) Bash
6 19 (11.80%) C#
6 19 (11.80%) JavaScript
7 16 (9.94%) PowerShell
8 14 (8.70%) Go
9 6 (3.73%) Bicep
10 5 (3.11%) C
11 3 (1.86%) Kotlin
11 3 (1.86%) Scala
Qualifications
1 35 (21.74%) Security Cleared
2 22 (13.66%) SC Cleared
3 12 (7.45%) DV Cleared
4 6 (3.73%) Azure Certification
5 5 (3.11%) Degree
6 4 (2.48%) Computer Science Degree
7 3 (1.86%) AWS Certification
8 2 (1.24%) Microsoft Certified Professional
9 1 (0.62%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (1.86%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 2 (1.24%) PCI DSS
2 2 (1.24%) SOC 2
3 1 (0.62%) Accessibility
3 1 (0.62%) QA
System Software
1 91 (56.52%) Docker
2 5 (3.11%) Virtual Machines
3 4 (2.48%) VMware Infrastructure
4 2 (1.24%) Active Directory
4 2 (1.24%) VMware NSX
4 2 (1.24%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 92 (57.14%) Terraform
2 32 (19.88%) Ansible
3 14 (8.70%) Grafana
4 12 (7.45%) Prometheus
5 8 (4.97%) Argo
5 8 (4.97%) Istio
6 7 (4.35%) linkerd
7 4 (2.48%) Progress Chef
7 4 (2.48%) Puppet
8 2 (1.24%) Microsoft Intune
8 2 (1.24%) Packer
9 1 (0.62%) Rancher
Vendors
1 12 (7.45%) Google
2 10 (6.21%) Microsoft
3 7 (4.35%) HubSpot
4 6 (3.73%) OpenAI
5 5 (3.11%) VMware
6 3 (1.86%) Dynatrace
6 3 (1.86%) Splunk
7 2 (1.24%) Pega
7 2 (1.24%) Red Hat
7 2 (1.24%) SaltStack
7 2 (1.24%) WSO2
8 1 (0.62%) Databricks