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 7 August 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
7 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 92 74 76
Rank change year-on-year -18 +2 -34
Permanent jobs citing Kubernetes 190 248 229
As % of all permanent jobs in the North West 1.62% 4.82% 2.72%
As % of the Systems Management category 33.45% 22.86% 37.91%
Number of salaries quoted 162 90 102
10th Percentile £46,825 £47,500 £42,500
25th Percentile £57,500 £57,500 £51,563
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £71,750 £71,250 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year +0.70% +9.62% -10.34%
75th Percentile £88,438 £87,500 £77,500
90th Percentile £97,375 £100,300 £92,050
England median annual salary £70,932 £80,000 £77,500
% change year-on-year -11.34% +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 568 1,085 604
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the North West 4.83% 21.08% 7.18%
Number of salaries quoted 453 253 391
10th Percentile £32,800 £28,000 £30,500
25th Percentile £40,500 £40,000 £40,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £62,500 £60,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +4.17% +9.09% -15.38%
75th Percentile £78,000 £76,840 £71,250
90th Percentile £90,000 £87,500 £82,500
England median annual salary £65,000 £65,000 £65,000
% change year-on-year - - -3.70%

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 7 August 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 7 August 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 -13 156 £72,500 - 111
Lancashire +8 12 £46,250 -23.55% 14
Merseyside -17 12 £95,000 - 3
Cheshire -53 9 £62,500 -5.66% 20
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 5 (2.63%) OpenStack
2 2 (1.05%) Apache
2 2 (1.05%) Apache Spark
3 1 (0.53%) Microsoft Exchange
Applications
1 1 (0.53%) Chatbot
Cloud Services
1 119 (62.63%) AWS
2 71 (37.37%) Azure
3 40 (21.05%) GCP
3 40 (21.05%) GitHub
4 36 (18.95%) Serverless
5 31 (16.32%) AWS CloudFormation
6 17 (8.95%) Amazon ECS
6 17 (8.95%) GitHub Actions
7 16 (8.42%) AWS Lambda
8 15 (7.89%) OpenShift
9 14 (7.37%) Amazon EKS
9 14 (7.37%) Datadog
10 13 (6.84%) Azure AKS
10 13 (6.84%) Google Kubernetes Engine
11 11 (5.79%) Amazon CloudWatch
11 11 (5.79%) Amazon SQS
11 11 (5.79%) GitHub Copilot
11 11 (5.79%) SaaS
12 8 (4.21%) Azure DevOps
13 7 (3.68%) Amazon EventBridge
Communications & Networking
1 6 (3.16%) Firewall
2 3 (1.58%) Network Security
3 2 (1.05%) AMQP
3 2 (1.05%) DNS
3 2 (1.05%) Software-Defined Networking
3 2 (1.05%) TCP/IP
4 1 (0.53%) HTTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 24 (12.63%) MongoDB
2 21 (11.05%) PostgreSQL
3 14 (7.37%) NoSQL
4 9 (4.74%) Amazon RDS
5 8 (4.21%) DynamoDB
6 6 (3.16%) Azure SQL Database
7 5 (2.63%) Relational Database
8 4 (2.11%) Elasticsearch
8 4 (2.11%) Neo4j
9 3 (1.58%) Pinecone
9 3 (1.58%) SQL Server
10 2 (1.05%) Amazon Aurora
10 2 (1.05%) Big Data
10 2 (1.05%) Cloudera CDH
10 2 (1.05%) Hadoop
11 1 (0.53%) BigQuery
11 1 (0.53%) Data Warehouse
11 1 (0.53%) Redis
11 1 (0.53%) Weaviate
Development Applications
1 29 (15.26%) Git
2 26 (13.68%) Jenkins
3 21 (11.05%) GitLab
4 7 (3.68%) Atlassian Bamboo
5 4 (2.11%) Bitbucket
5 4 (2.11%) Cucumber
5 4 (2.11%) Cypress.io
5 4 (2.11%) Robot Framework
5 4 (2.11%) Vite
6 3 (1.58%) Postman
6 3 (1.58%) Selenium
7 2 (1.05%) Claude Code
7 2 (1.05%) JIRA
8 1 (0.53%) Gemini Tracker
8 1 (0.53%) IntelliJ
8 1 (0.53%) JUnit
8 1 (0.53%) Mocha
8 1 (0.53%) Vagrant
General
1 18 (9.47%) Social Skills
2 11 (5.79%) Public Sector
3 9 (4.74%) Finance
4 7 (3.68%) Advertising
5 4 (2.11%) Analytical Skills
5 4 (2.11%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 3 (1.58%) Aerospace
7 2 (1.05%) Retail
8 1 (0.53%) Front Office
8 1 (0.53%) Manufacturing
8 1 (0.53%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 56 (29.47%) DevOps Engineer
2 48 (25.26%) Senior
3 32 (16.84%) Cloud Engineer
3 32 (16.84%) Developer
4 28 (14.74%) Software Engineer
5 25 (13.16%) Lead
6 17 (8.95%) Platform Engineer
7 15 (7.89%) Principal Engineer
8 13 (6.84%) Java Developer
9 11 (5.79%) Architect
9 11 (5.79%) Senior Developer
10 10 (5.26%) Cloud Native Engineer
10 10 (5.26%) Senior DevOps
10 10 (5.26%) Senior DevOps Engineer
10 10 (5.26%) Senior Java Developer
11 9 (4.74%) Lead Developer
12 8 (4.21%) Cloud Architect
12 8 (4.21%) Lead Software Engineer
12 8 (4.21%) Senior Platform Engineer
12 8 (4.21%) Senior Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 39 (20.53%) Spring
2 37 (19.47%) Spring Boot
3 26 (13.68%) React
4 22 (11.58%) .NET
4 22 (11.58%) Node.js
5 20 (10.53%) RESTful
6 16 (8.42%) Kafka
7 15 (7.89%) AngularJS
8 14 (7.37%) Vue
9 13 (6.84%) FastAPI
10 9 (4.74%) OpenTelemetry
10 9 (4.74%) RabbitMQ
11 8 (4.21%) Django
11 8 (4.21%) LangChain
11 8 (4.21%) REST
12 7 (3.68%) CSS
13 6 (3.16%) .NET Core
13 6 (3.16%) ASP.NET
13 6 (3.16%) HTML
13 6 (3.16%) ML.NET
Miscellaneous
1 69 (36.32%) Cloud Native
2 26 (13.68%) Distributed Systems
3 9 (4.74%) Hybrid Cloud
4 8 (4.21%) Greenfield Project
5 5 (2.63%) AI Agents
6 4 (2.11%) Enterprise Cloud
6 4 (2.11%) Security Posture
7 3 (1.58%) Cloud Security Posture
7 3 (1.58%) Legacy Systems
7 3 (1.58%) Social Media
8 2 (1.05%) Product Ownership
9 1 (0.53%) Culture of Ownership
9 1 (0.53%) Life Science
9 1 (0.53%) Management Information System
9 1 (0.53%) Mobile App
9 1 (0.53%) Onboarding
9 1 (0.53%) Online Gambling
9 1 (0.53%) Public Cloud
9 1 (0.53%) Renewable Energy
9 1 (0.53%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 29 (15.26%) Linux
2 7 (3.68%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 5 (2.63%) CentOS
4 4 (2.11%) Windows
5 3 (1.58%) Debian
5 3 (1.58%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 138 (72.63%) CI/CD
2 125 (65.79%) DevOps
3 102 (53.68%) Infrastructure as Code
4 90 (47.37%) Containerisation
5 64 (33.68%) Agile
6 54 (28.42%) Platform Engineering
7 49 (25.79%) AI
8 47 (24.74%) Software Engineering
9 44 (23.16%) Observability
10 42 (22.11%) Mentoring
11 41 (21.58%) Microservices
12 40 (21.05%) Site Reliability Engineering
13 33 (17.37%) Continuous Improvement
13 33 (17.37%) Problem-Solving
14 27 (14.21%) TDD
15 22 (11.58%) Clean Code
16 21 (11.05%) Cloud Security
16 21 (11.05%) Event-Driven
16 21 (11.05%) Scrum
17 20 (10.53%) Collaborative Culture
Programming Languages
1 74 (38.95%) Python
2 52 (27.37%) Java
3 29 (15.26%) Bash
4 28 (14.74%) TypeScript
5 24 (12.63%) SQL
6 22 (11.58%) C#
7 21 (11.05%) JavaScript
8 17 (8.95%) Go
8 17 (8.95%) PowerShell
9 7 (3.68%) Bicep
10 4 (2.11%) Kotlin
11 3 (1.58%) Scala
12 2 (1.05%) C++
13 1 (0.53%) C
13 1 (0.53%) Objective-C
13 1 (0.53%) Shell Script
13 1 (0.53%) VB.NET
Qualifications
1 56 (29.47%) Security Cleared
2 32 (16.84%) DV Cleared
3 28 (14.74%) SC Cleared
4 7 (3.68%) Azure Certification
4 7 (3.68%) Degree
5 6 (3.16%) AWS Certification
6 5 (2.63%) Computer Science Degree
7 2 (1.05%) Microsoft Certified Professional
8 1 (0.53%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
8 1 (0.53%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (2.11%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 3 (1.58%) PCI DSS
2 3 (1.58%) SOC 2
3 2 (1.05%) QA
4 1 (0.53%) Accessibility
System Software
1 115 (60.53%) Docker
2 4 (2.11%) Virtual Machines
2 4 (2.11%) VMware Infrastructure
3 3 (1.58%) Ceph
4 2 (1.05%) Active Directory
4 2 (1.05%) VMware NSX
5 1 (0.53%) VMware ESXi
5 1 (0.53%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 112 (58.95%) Terraform
2 52 (27.37%) Ansible
3 20 (10.53%) Prometheus
4 19 (10.00%) Grafana
5 12 (6.32%) Istio
6 11 (5.79%) Argo
7 8 (4.21%) linkerd
7 8 (4.21%) Puppet
8 7 (3.68%) Progress Chef
9 3 (1.58%) Check_MK
9 3 (1.58%) Podman
10 1 (0.53%) Microsoft Intune
10 1 (0.53%) Packer
10 1 (0.53%) vCenter Server
Vendors
1 16 (8.42%) Google
2 13 (6.84%) Microsoft
3 7 (3.68%) HubSpot
4 6 (3.16%) OpenAI
5 5 (2.63%) Red Hat
5 5 (2.63%) VMware
6 3 (1.58%) Dell
6 3 (1.58%) Dynatrace
6 3 (1.58%) Splunk
7 2 (1.05%) Pega
7 2 (1.05%) SaltStack
7 2 (1.05%) WSO2
8 1 (0.53%) Databricks
8 1 (0.53%) Percona