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 29 November 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
29 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 80 77 28
Rank change year-on-year -3 -49 +7
Permanent jobs citing Kubernetes 112 180 285
As % of all permanent jobs in the North West 2.25% 2.68% 7.61%
As % of the Systems Management category 34.04% 33.40% 46.19%
Number of salaries quoted 82 81 241
10th Percentile £52,500 £47,500 £43,750
25th Percentile £57,500 £52,500 £55,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £67,500 £65,000 £70,000
Median % change year-on-year +3.85% -7.14% -
75th Percentile £81,250 £77,500 £82,548
90th Percentile £94,400 £91,250 £87,419
England median annual salary £77,500 £77,500 £75,000
% change year-on-year - +3.33% -4.02%

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 329 539 617
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the North West 6.62% 8.03% 16.47%
Number of salaries quoted 255 272 510
10th Percentile £29,800 £35,000 £36,250
25th Percentile £41,750 £42,500 £43,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £52,500 £61,000
Median % change year-on-year +4.76% -13.93% +2.48%
75th Percentile £70,000 £71,563 £77,500
90th Percentile £83,250 £83,975 £85,000
England median annual salary £61,500 £67,500 £65,000
% change year-on-year -8.89% +3.85% -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 29 November 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 29 November 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 +2 83 £67,500 +3.85% 32
Cheshire +11 22 £67,500 -9.40% 17
Merseyside -4 3 £71,250 -5.00% 4
Lancashire +11 2 £85,000 +25.93% 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 5 (4.46%) OpenStack
2 4 (3.57%) Apache Spark
3 3 (2.68%) Apache
3 3 (2.68%) Microsoft Exchange
4 2 (1.79%) nginx
5 1 (0.89%) IIS
5 1 (0.89%) JBoss
5 1 (0.89%) SharePoint
5 1 (0.89%) WebSphere
Business Applications
1 1 (0.89%) Loan IQ
Cloud Services
1 83 (74.11%) AWS
2 55 (49.11%) Azure
3 36 (32.14%) GCP
4 15 (13.39%) Serverless
5 12 (10.71%) AWS CloudFormation
5 12 (10.71%) GitHub
6 10 (8.93%) AWS Lambda
7 9 (8.04%) OpenShift
8 8 (7.14%) Amazon CloudWatch
8 8 (7.14%) Amazon EC2
8 8 (7.14%) Azure AKS
9 7 (6.25%) Amazon S3
9 7 (6.25%) GitHub Actions
10 6 (5.36%) Amazon EKS
10 6 (5.36%) Amazon SQS
11 5 (4.46%) AWS CodeBuild
11 5 (4.46%) Azure DevOps
12 4 (3.57%) Amazon ECS
12 4 (3.57%) SaaS
12 4 (3.57%) Virtual Private Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 3 (2.68%) DNS
1 3 (2.68%) Firewall
2 2 (1.79%) AMQP
2 2 (1.79%) DHCP
2 2 (1.79%) HTTP
2 2 (1.79%) SSL
3 1 (0.89%) Internet
3 1 (0.89%) TCP/IP
3 1 (0.89%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 26 (23.21%) NoSQL
2 11 (9.82%) MongoDB
2 11 (9.82%) PostgreSQL
3 8 (7.14%) DynamoDB
3 8 (7.14%) MySQL
4 3 (2.68%) Elasticsearch
4 3 (2.68%) SQL Server
5 2 (1.79%) Amazon RDS
5 2 (1.79%) Big Data
5 2 (1.79%) Cloudera CDH
5 2 (1.79%) Delta Lake
5 2 (1.79%) Hadoop
5 2 (1.79%) Metadata
5 2 (1.79%) Neo4j
5 2 (1.79%) Redis
5 2 (1.79%) Relational Database
5 2 (1.79%) Spark SQL
6 1 (0.89%) Apache Cassandra
6 1 (0.89%) Oracle Database
6 1 (0.89%) PostHog
Development Applications
1 19 (16.96%) Jenkins
2 15 (13.39%) Git
3 13 (11.61%) GitLab
4 4 (3.57%) CircleCI
5 3 (2.68%) Cypress.io
6 2 (1.79%) JIRA
6 2 (1.79%) MLflow
6 2 (1.79%) SonarQube
6 2 (1.79%) Sonatype Nexus
6 2 (1.79%) TeamCity
7 1 (0.89%) Ant
7 1 (0.89%) Artifactory
7 1 (0.89%) Atlassian Bamboo
7 1 (0.89%) Bitbucket
7 1 (0.89%) CA Release Automation
7 1 (0.89%) Cucumber
7 1 (0.89%) git-flow
7 1 (0.89%) JMeter
7 1 (0.89%) Locust
7 1 (0.89%) Maven
General
1 24 (21.43%) Social Skills
2 12 (10.71%) Finance
3 6 (5.36%) Games
4 5 (4.46%) Retail
5 4 (3.57%) Banking
6 3 (2.68%) Marketing
6 3 (2.68%) Public Sector
7 2 (1.79%) Aerospace
7 2 (1.79%) Analytical Skills
8 1 (0.89%) Digital Health
8 1 (0.89%) Electronics
8 1 (0.89%) Legal
8 1 (0.89%) Manufacturing
8 1 (0.89%) Tech for Good
8 1 (0.89%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 29 (25.89%) Senior
2 24 (21.43%) Developer
3 23 (20.54%) Software Engineer
4 18 (16.07%) DevOps Engineer
5 14 (12.50%) Java Developer
6 12 (10.71%) Lead
6 12 (10.71%) Senior Developer
7 10 (8.93%) AWS DevOps
7 10 (8.93%) Senior Java Developer
8 9 (8.04%) Architect
8 9 (8.04%) AWS Architect
8 9 (8.04%) Senior DevOps
9 8 (7.14%) AWS Solution Architect
9 8 (7.14%) Solutions Architect
10 7 (6.25%) Full-Stack Developer
10 7 (6.25%) Senior Software Engineer
11 6 (5.36%) DevOps Architect
11 6 (5.36%) Infrastructure Engineer
11 6 (5.36%) Senior Solutions Architect
11 6 (5.36%) TOGAF Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 25 (22.32%) React
2 24 (21.43%) .NET
3 16 (14.29%) Spring
3 16 (14.29%) Spring Boot
4 14 (12.50%) RESTful
5 11 (9.82%) .NET Framework
6 9 (8.04%) RabbitMQ
7 8 (7.14%) AngularJS
7 8 (7.14%) Hibernate
7 8 (7.14%) Node.js
8 7 (6.25%) .NET Core
8 7 (6.25%) CSS
8 7 (6.25%) Elastic Stack
8 7 (6.25%) HTML
8 7 (6.25%) Next.js
9 6 (5.36%) FastAPI
9 6 (5.36%) Vue
10 5 (4.46%) Django
11 4 (3.57%) REST
11 4 (3.57%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 38 (33.93%) Cloud Native
2 19 (16.96%) Distributed Systems
3 7 (6.25%) Management Information System
4 6 (5.36%) Distributed Computing
5 5 (4.46%) Data Protection Act
5 5 (4.46%) Product Ownership
6 4 (3.57%) e-Learning
7 3 (2.68%) Cyber Threat
8 2 (1.79%) Driving Licence
8 2 (1.79%) Hybrid Cloud
8 2 (1.79%) Linux Command Line
8 2 (1.79%) Online Games
9 1 (0.89%) Cybercrime
9 1 (0.89%) Distributed Architecture
9 1 (0.89%) Greenfield Project
9 1 (0.89%) Mobile App
9 1 (0.89%) NVMe
9 1 (0.89%) Private Cloud
9 1 (0.89%) Public Cloud
9 1 (0.89%) Replication
Operating Systems
1 21 (18.75%) Linux
2 7 (6.25%) Ubuntu
2 7 (6.25%) Windows
3 6 (5.36%) Debian
4 5 (4.46%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 4 (3.57%) CentOS
6 3 (2.68%) Unix
7 2 (1.79%) VMS
8 1 (0.89%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 87 (77.68%) CI/CD
2 76 (67.86%) DevOps
3 67 (59.82%) Containerisation
4 54 (48.21%) Agile
5 45 (40.18%) Microservices
6 36 (32.14%) Software Engineering
7 33 (29.46%) Problem-Solving
8 31 (27.68%) Infrastructure as Code
9 26 (23.21%) TDD
10 24 (21.43%) Clean Code
11 22 (19.64%) Observability
12 18 (16.07%) Continuous Improvement
13 17 (15.18%) Roadmaps
14 16 (14.29%) AI
15 15 (13.39%) Mentoring
15 15 (13.39%) Open Source
15 15 (13.39%) Platform Engineering
16 14 (12.50%) Event-Driven
17 13 (11.61%) Infrastructure Engineering
17 13 (11.61%) User Experience
Programming Languages
1 42 (37.50%) Python
2 37 (33.04%) Java
3 30 (26.79%) SQL
4 27 (24.11%) C#
5 18 (16.07%) TypeScript
6 16 (14.29%) JavaScript
7 14 (12.50%) Bash
8 7 (6.25%) Go
9 4 (3.57%) PowerShell
10 2 (1.79%) Bicep
10 2 (1.79%) C
10 2 (1.79%) Shell Script
11 1 (0.89%) Groovy
11 1 (0.89%) PHP
Qualifications
1 10 (8.93%) Security Cleared
2 9 (8.04%) Azure Certification
3 7 (6.25%) AWS Certification
3 7 (6.25%) DV Cleared
4 6 (5.36%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
4 6 (5.36%) Degree
4 6 (5.36%) SC Cleared
5 5 (4.46%) Computer Science Degree
6 1 (0.89%) CISM
6 1 (0.89%) CISSP
6 1 (0.89%) Linux+ Certification
6 1 (0.89%) RHCE
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 11 (9.82%) GDPR
2 7 (6.25%) HIPAA
2 7 (6.25%) NIST
3 6 (5.36%) QA
4 1 (0.89%) Accessibility
4 1 (0.89%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 1 (0.89%) WCAG
System Software
1 86 (76.79%) Docker
2 5 (4.46%) Active Directory
3 4 (3.57%) VMware Infrastructure
4 3 (2.68%) KVM
4 3 (2.68%) QEMU
4 3 (2.68%) vSphere
5 2 (1.79%) Hyper-V
5 2 (1.79%) Virtual Machines
5 2 (1.79%) VMware NSX
6 1 (0.89%) Dovecot
6 1 (0.89%) Postfix
Systems Management
1 46 (41.07%) Terraform
2 24 (21.43%) Ansible
3 17 (15.18%) Grafana
4 12 (10.71%) Prometheus
5 6 (5.36%) Puppet
6 4 (3.57%) Progress Chef
7 2 (1.79%) Argo
7 2 (1.79%) Kubeflow
7 2 (1.79%) Nagios
7 2 (1.79%) Rancher
8 1 (0.89%) Fluentd
8 1 (0.89%) Microsoft Intune
8 1 (0.89%) Oracle Enterprise Manager
8 1 (0.89%) Podman
Vendors
1 14 (12.50%) Google
2 6 (5.36%) VMware
3 5 (4.46%) Microsoft
3 5 (4.46%) Red Hat
3 5 (4.46%) SaltStack
3 5 (4.46%) Splunk
4 3 (2.68%) AppDynamics
5 2 (1.79%) Databricks
5 2 (1.79%) Dell
5 2 (1.79%) Oracle
6 1 (0.89%) Cribl.io
6 1 (0.89%) F5
6 1 (0.89%) Okta
6 1 (0.89%) Palo Alto
6 1 (0.89%) Pega
6 1 (0.89%) Ping Identity
6 1 (0.89%) SAP
6 1 (0.89%) TOWER Software
6 1 (0.89%) WSO2