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

6 months to
22 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 93 74 71
Rank change year-on-year -19 -3 -48
Permanent jobs citing Kubernetes 212 227 210
As % of all permanent jobs in the North West 1.66% 4.44% 2.76%
As % of the Systems Management category 43.18% 22.28% 42.34%
Number of salaries quoted 163 72 79
10th Percentile £47,500 £51,375 £42,500
25th Percentile £56,875 £58,813 £52,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £72,500 £67,500 £63,000
Median % change year-on-year +7.41% +7.14% -16.00%
75th Percentile £88,750 £82,500 £75,000
90th Percentile £97,500 £88,975 £87,600
England median annual salary £70,932 £77,500 £77,500
% change year-on-year -8.48% - +3.33%

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 491 1,019 496
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the North West 3.84% 19.94% 6.53%
Number of salaries quoted 358 202 234
10th Percentile £32,675 £26,250 £31,250
25th Percentile £38,750 £33,125 £37,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £48,720 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year +23.15% -2.56% -23.08%
75th Percentile £77,500 £67,500 £67,500
90th Percentile £90,000 £82,725 £77,125
England median annual salary £60,000 £62,000 £65,000
% change year-on-year -3.23% -4.62% -

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 September 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 September 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 -13 175 £73,750 +9.26% 175
Lancashire +5 14 £51,065 -15.60% 20
Merseyside -13 13 £95,000 +46.15% 8
Cheshire -52 9 £62,500 -13.79% 16
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 (1.89%) Apache Spark
1 4 (1.89%) OpenStack
2 3 (1.42%) Apache
3 1 (0.47%) Apache Airflow
3 1 (0.47%) Confluence
3 1 (0.47%) IIS
Applications
1 1 (0.47%) Chatbot
Cloud Services
1 135 (63.68%) AWS
2 76 (35.85%) Azure
3 48 (22.64%) GitHub
4 43 (20.28%) GCP
5 39 (18.40%) Serverless
6 32 (15.09%) AWS CloudFormation
7 21 (9.91%) GitHub Actions
7 21 (9.91%) OpenShift
8 19 (8.96%) AWS Lambda
9 14 (6.60%) Amazon ECS
9 14 (6.60%) Datadog
10 13 (6.13%) Amazon CloudWatch
11 12 (5.66%) Azure DevOps
11 12 (5.66%) Google Kubernetes Engine
11 12 (5.66%) SaaS
12 11 (5.19%) Azure AKS
12 11 (5.19%) GitHub Copilot
13 10 (4.72%) Amazon SQS
14 8 (3.77%) Amazon EKS
14 8 (3.77%) Virtual Private Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 4 (1.89%) Firewall
2 3 (1.42%) AMQP
2 3 (1.42%) Network Security
2 3 (1.42%) Software-Defined Networking
3 2 (0.94%) DNS
4 1 (0.47%) DHCP
4 1 (0.47%) HTTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 27 (12.74%) MongoDB
2 18 (8.49%) PostgreSQL
3 10 (4.72%) NoSQL
4 9 (4.25%) Amazon RDS
5 8 (3.77%) DynamoDB
6 6 (2.83%) Azure SQL Database
7 5 (2.36%) Elasticsearch
7 5 (2.36%) Neo4j
8 4 (1.89%) Big Data
9 3 (1.42%) Chroma
9 3 (1.42%) Cloudera CDH
9 3 (1.42%) Hadoop
9 3 (1.42%) Pinecone
9 3 (1.42%) Relational Database
10 2 (0.94%) Amazon Aurora
10 2 (0.94%) Redis
10 2 (0.94%) SQL Server
11 1 (0.47%) Data Warehouse
11 1 (0.47%) Electronic Patient Records
11 1 (0.47%) MySQL
Development Applications
1 33 (15.57%) Git
2 30 (14.15%) Jenkins
3 28 (13.21%) GitLab
4 9 (4.25%) Atlassian Bamboo
5 5 (2.36%) Cypress.io
5 5 (2.36%) JIRA
6 4 (1.89%) Bitbucket
6 4 (1.89%) Cucumber
6 4 (1.89%) Robot Framework
6 4 (1.89%) Vagrant
6 4 (1.89%) Vite
7 3 (1.42%) Artifactory
7 3 (1.42%) Postman
7 3 (1.42%) Selenium
8 2 (0.94%) Mocha
9 1 (0.47%) Claude Code
9 1 (0.47%) Gemini Tracker
9 1 (0.47%) Maven
9 1 (0.47%) Octopus Deploy
General
1 29 (13.68%) Social Skills
2 17 (8.02%) Public Sector
3 10 (4.72%) Finance
4 7 (3.30%) Advertising
4 7 (3.30%) Publishing
5 6 (2.83%) Aerospace
6 5 (2.36%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 4 (1.89%) Analytical Skills
8 2 (0.94%) Manufacturing
8 2 (0.94%) Presentation Skills
8 2 (0.94%) Retail
9 1 (0.47%) Front Office
9 1 (0.47%) iGaming
Job Titles
1 66 (31.13%) DevOps Engineer
2 55 (25.94%) Senior
3 35 (16.51%) Developer
4 31 (14.62%) Cloud Engineer
5 30 (14.15%) Software Engineer
6 28 (13.21%) Lead
7 19 (8.96%) Principal Engineer
8 17 (8.02%) Platform Engineer
9 14 (6.60%) Architect
10 13 (6.13%) Senior Software Engineer
11 12 (5.66%) Cloud Native Engineer
11 12 (5.66%) Principal DevOps Engineer
12 11 (5.19%) Senior Developer
12 11 (5.19%) Senior DevOps
12 11 (5.19%) Senior DevOps Engineer
13 10 (4.72%) Java Developer
13 10 (4.72%) Lead Developer
14 9 (4.25%) Cloud Architect
14 9 (4.25%) Lead DevOps
14 9 (4.25%) Lead DevOps Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 128 (60.38%) Terraform
2 55 (25.94%) Spring
3 50 (23.58%) Spring Boot
4 41 (19.34%) React
5 28 (13.21%) Kafka
6 25 (11.79%) Node.js
7 17 (8.02%) AngularJS
8 16 (7.55%) .NET
9 15 (7.08%) RESTful
10 14 (6.60%) Vue
11 12 (5.66%) REST
12 11 (5.19%) FastAPI
13 10 (4.72%) RabbitMQ
14 9 (4.25%) OpenTelemetry
15 8 (3.77%) LangChain
16 7 (3.30%) CSS
16 7 (3.30%) OpenAPI
16 7 (3.30%) Swagger
17 6 (2.83%) ASP.NET
17 6 (2.83%) HTML
Miscellaneous
1 74 (34.91%) Cloud Native
2 22 (10.38%) Distributed Systems
3 10 (4.72%) Greenfield Project
4 7 (3.30%) Hybrid Cloud
4 7 (3.30%) Media Streaming
4 7 (3.30%) Podcast
5 5 (2.36%) AI Agents
6 4 (1.89%) Security Posture
7 3 (1.42%) Cloud Security Posture
7 3 (1.42%) Life Science
7 3 (1.42%) Product Ownership
7 3 (1.42%) Social Media
8 2 (0.94%) Legacy Systems
8 2 (0.94%) Onboarding
8 2 (0.94%) Renewable Energy
9 1 (0.47%) Culture of Ownership
9 1 (0.47%) Data Centre
9 1 (0.47%) Enterprise Cloud
9 1 (0.47%) Online Gambling
9 1 (0.47%) Video\Live Streaming
Operating Systems
1 34 (16.04%) Linux
2 11 (5.19%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 8 (3.77%) CentOS
4 4 (1.89%) Ubuntu
4 4 (1.89%) Windows
5 3 (1.42%) Debian
6 2 (0.94%) Unix
7 1 (0.47%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 153 (72.17%) CI/CD
2 137 (64.62%) DevOps
3 111 (52.36%) Infrastructure as Code
4 99 (46.70%) Containerisation
5 80 (37.74%) Agile
6 58 (27.36%) AI
7 55 (25.94%) Observability
7 55 (25.94%) Platform Engineering
7 55 (25.94%) Software Engineering
8 54 (25.47%) Mentoring
9 52 (24.53%) Microservices
10 47 (22.17%) Site Reliability Engineering
11 43 (20.28%) Continuous Improvement
12 39 (18.40%) Problem-Solving
13 31 (14.62%) Event-Driven
14 24 (11.32%) Cloud Security
14 24 (11.32%) TDD
15 23 (10.85%) Scrum
16 21 (9.91%) Stakeholder Management
17 19 (8.96%) Collaborative Culture
Programming Languages
1 89 (41.98%) Python
2 71 (33.49%) Java
3 40 (18.87%) TypeScript
4 37 (17.45%) Bash
5 28 (13.21%) JavaScript
6 22 (10.38%) PowerShell
6 22 (10.38%) SQL
7 17 (8.02%) Go
8 16 (7.55%) C#
9 11 (5.19%) Bicep
10 5 (2.36%) Rust
11 4 (1.89%) Kotlin
11 4 (1.89%) Scala
12 3 (1.42%) C++
13 2 (0.94%) Shell Script
14 1 (0.47%) C
14 1 (0.47%) Objective-C
14 1 (0.47%) PL/SQL
14 1 (0.47%) VB.NET
Qualifications
1 71 (33.49%) Security Cleared
2 45 (21.23%) DV Cleared
3 36 (16.98%) SC Cleared
4 8 (3.77%) Azure Certification
5 7 (3.30%) AWS Certification
6 6 (2.83%) Degree
7 4 (1.89%) Computer Science Degree
8 2 (0.94%) Microsoft Certification
8 2 (0.94%) Microsoft Certified Professional
9 1 (0.47%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (1.89%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 3 (1.42%) PCI DSS
2 3 (1.42%) QA
2 3 (1.42%) SOC 2
3 1 (0.47%) Accessibility
System Software
1 135 (63.68%) Docker
2 5 (2.36%) Virtual Machines
3 3 (1.42%) Active Directory
3 3 (1.42%) Ceph
3 3 (1.42%) VMware Infrastructure
4 1 (0.47%) VMware ESXi
4 1 (0.47%) VMware NSX
Systems Management
1 63 (29.72%) Ansible
2 21 (9.91%) Prometheus
3 20 (9.43%) Grafana
4 13 (6.13%) Argo
5 12 (5.66%) Istio
6 11 (5.19%) Progress Chef
7 10 (4.72%) Puppet
8 8 (3.77%) linkerd
9 4 (1.89%) Packer
10 3 (1.42%) Check_MK
10 3 (1.42%) Podman
10 3 (1.42%) Single Sign-On
11 1 (0.47%) vCenter Server
Vendors
1 18 (8.49%) Google
2 16 (7.55%) Microsoft
3 7 (3.30%) HubSpot
4 6 (2.83%) OpenAI
4 6 (2.83%) Red Hat
5 4 (1.89%) Mistral
5 4 (1.89%) VMware
6 3 (1.42%) Dell
6 3 (1.42%) Dynatrace
6 3 (1.42%) SaltStack
6 3 (1.42%) Splunk
6 3 (1.42%) YouTube
7 2 (0.94%) Databricks
8 1 (0.47%) New Relic
8 1 (0.47%) Oracle
8 1 (0.47%) Pega
8 1 (0.47%) Percona
8 1 (0.47%) WSO2