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

6 months to
27 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 91 65 81
Rank change year-on-year -26 +16 -36
Permanent jobs citing Kubernetes 185 258 236
As % of all permanent jobs in the North West 1.62% 5.01% 2.65%
As % of the Systems Management category 33.51% 23.50% 36.88%
Number of salaries quoted 158 99 122
10th Percentile £45,850 £47,500 £42,500
25th Percentile £57,500 £57,500 £51,563
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £71,500 £72,500 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year -1.38% +11.54% -8.77%
75th Percentile £87,500 £93,778 £79,375
90th Percentile £97,500 £98,900 £92,050
England median annual salary £70,000 £80,000 £77,500
% change year-on-year -12.50% +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 552 1,098 640
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the North West 4.82% 21.34% 7.18%
Number of salaries quoted 441 262 440
10th Percentile £32,750 £28,200 £29,950
25th Percentile £40,500 £40,155 £40,938
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £62,500 £63,750 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -1.96% +15.91% -15.38%
75th Percentile £78,750 £77,500 £71,250
90th Percentile £90,000 £93,775 £82,563
England median annual salary £65,000 £65,000 £62,783
% change year-on-year - +3.53% -6.99%

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 27 July 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 27 July 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 -13 152 £71,500 -4.67% 82
Lancashire +4 12 £46,250 -9.87% 15
Merseyside -18 12 £95,000 -
Cheshire -49 8 £62,500 -13.79% 11
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 (2.70%) OpenStack
2 2 (1.08%) Apache
2 2 (1.08%) Apache Spark
2 2 (1.08%) Microsoft Exchange
Applications
1 1 (0.54%) Chatbot
Cloud Services
1 113 (61.08%) AWS
2 70 (37.84%) Azure
3 40 (21.62%) GitHub
4 37 (20.00%) GCP
5 36 (19.46%) Serverless
6 30 (16.22%) AWS CloudFormation
7 17 (9.19%) GitHub Actions
8 15 (8.11%) Amazon ECS
8 15 (8.11%) Amazon EKS
8 15 (8.11%) AWS Lambda
8 15 (8.11%) Azure AKS
9 14 (7.57%) Datadog
10 13 (7.03%) Google Kubernetes Engine
10 13 (7.03%) OpenShift
11 11 (5.95%) Amazon SQS
11 11 (5.95%) GitHub Copilot
12 10 (5.41%) Amazon CloudWatch
13 9 (4.86%) SaaS
14 8 (4.32%) Azure DevOps
15 7 (3.78%) Amazon EventBridge
Communications & Networking
1 7 (3.78%) Firewall
2 3 (1.62%) Network Security
3 2 (1.08%) AMQP
3 2 (1.08%) DNS
3 2 (1.08%) TCP/IP
4 1 (0.54%) HTTP
4 1 (0.54%) Software-Defined Networking
Database & Business Intelligence
1 24 (12.97%) MongoDB
2 21 (11.35%) PostgreSQL
3 14 (7.57%) NoSQL
4 8 (4.32%) Amazon RDS
5 7 (3.78%) DynamoDB
6 6 (3.24%) Azure SQL Database
7 5 (2.70%) Relational Database
8 4 (2.16%) Elasticsearch
8 4 (2.16%) Neo4j
9 3 (1.62%) Pinecone
9 3 (1.62%) SQL Server
10 2 (1.08%) Big Data
10 2 (1.08%) Cloudera CDH
10 2 (1.08%) Hadoop
11 1 (0.54%) Amazon Aurora
11 1 (0.54%) BigQuery
11 1 (0.54%) Data Warehouse
11 1 (0.54%) Redis
11 1 (0.54%) Weaviate
Development Applications
1 27 (14.59%) Git
2 25 (13.51%) Jenkins
3 22 (11.89%) GitLab
4 7 (3.78%) Atlassian Bamboo
5 4 (2.16%) Bitbucket
5 4 (2.16%) Cucumber
5 4 (2.16%) Cypress.io
5 4 (2.16%) Robot Framework
5 4 (2.16%) Vite
6 3 (1.62%) Postman
6 3 (1.62%) Selenium
7 2 (1.08%) Claude Code
7 2 (1.08%) JIRA
7 2 (1.08%) Vagrant
8 1 (0.54%) Gemini Tracker
8 1 (0.54%) IntelliJ
8 1 (0.54%) JUnit
8 1 (0.54%) Mocha
General
1 18 (9.73%) Social Skills
2 10 (5.41%) Public Sector
3 8 (4.32%) Finance
4 7 (3.78%) Advertising
5 4 (2.16%) Analytical Skills
5 4 (2.16%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 3 (1.62%) Aerospace
7 2 (1.08%) Retail
8 1 (0.54%) Front Office
Job Titles
1 56 (30.27%) DevOps Engineer
2 48 (25.95%) Senior
3 31 (16.76%) Cloud Engineer
4 30 (16.22%) Developer
4 30 (16.22%) Software Engineer
5 24 (12.97%) Lead
6 17 (9.19%) Platform Engineer
7 15 (8.11%) Principal Engineer
8 13 (7.03%) Java Developer
9 10 (5.41%) Architect
9 10 (5.41%) Cloud Native Engineer
9 10 (5.41%) Senior Developer
9 10 (5.41%) Senior DevOps
9 10 (5.41%) Senior DevOps Engineer
9 10 (5.41%) Senior Java Developer
10 9 (4.86%) Azure Engineer
10 9 (4.86%) Senior Software Engineer
11 8 (4.32%) Cloud Architect
11 8 (4.32%) Lead Developer
11 8 (4.32%) Lead Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 39 (21.08%) Spring
2 37 (20.00%) Spring Boot
3 27 (14.59%) React
4 23 (12.43%) .NET
5 21 (11.35%) Node.js
6 20 (10.81%) RESTful
7 16 (8.65%) Kafka
8 15 (8.11%) AngularJS
9 14 (7.57%) Vue
10 13 (7.03%) FastAPI
11 9 (4.86%) RabbitMQ
12 8 (4.32%) Django
12 8 (4.32%) LangChain
12 8 (4.32%) OpenTelemetry
13 7 (3.78%) CSS
13 7 (3.78%) REST
14 6 (3.24%) .NET Core
14 6 (3.24%) ASP.NET
14 6 (3.24%) HTML
14 6 (3.24%) ML.NET
Miscellaneous
1 68 (36.76%) Cloud Native
2 26 (14.05%) Distributed Systems
3 9 (4.86%) Hybrid Cloud
4 7 (3.78%) Greenfield Project
5 5 (2.70%) AI Agents
6 4 (2.16%) Enterprise Cloud
6 4 (2.16%) Security Posture
7 3 (1.62%) Cloud Security Posture
7 3 (1.62%) Legacy Systems
7 3 (1.62%) Social Media
8 2 (1.08%) Mobile App
8 2 (1.08%) Product Ownership
8 2 (1.08%) Self-Motivation
9 1 (0.54%) Culture of Ownership
9 1 (0.54%) Management Information System
9 1 (0.54%) Online Gambling
9 1 (0.54%) Public Cloud
9 1 (0.54%) Video\Live Streaming
Operating Systems
1 28 (15.14%) Linux
2 7 (3.78%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 5 (2.70%) CentOS
4 4 (2.16%) Debian
4 4 (2.16%) Ubuntu
5 3 (1.62%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 137 (74.05%) CI/CD
2 125 (67.57%) DevOps
3 101 (54.59%) Infrastructure as Code
4 91 (49.19%) Containerisation
5 62 (33.51%) Agile
6 54 (29.19%) Platform Engineering
7 48 (25.95%) AI
8 45 (24.32%) Software Engineering
9 43 (23.24%) Observability
10 41 (22.16%) Mentoring
11 40 (21.62%) Site Reliability Engineering
12 39 (21.08%) Microservices
13 34 (18.38%) Continuous Improvement
14 32 (17.30%) Problem-Solving
15 28 (15.14%) TDD
16 24 (12.97%) Clean Code
17 22 (11.89%) Scrum
18 21 (11.35%) Event-Driven
19 20 (10.81%) Cloud Security
19 20 (10.81%) Collaborative Culture
Programming Languages
1 71 (38.38%) Python
2 49 (26.49%) Java
3 28 (15.14%) TypeScript
4 27 (14.59%) Bash
5 23 (12.43%) SQL
6 22 (11.89%) C#
7 19 (10.27%) JavaScript
8 16 (8.65%) Go
8 16 (8.65%) PowerShell
9 7 (3.78%) Bicep
10 3 (1.62%) Kotlin
10 3 (1.62%) Scala
11 1 (0.54%) Shell Script
11 1 (0.54%) VB.NET
Qualifications
1 54 (29.19%) Security Cleared
2 30 (16.22%) DV Cleared
3 28 (15.14%) SC Cleared
4 6 (3.24%) Azure Certification
4 6 (3.24%) Degree
5 5 (2.70%) Computer Science Degree
6 4 (2.16%) AWS Certification
7 2 (1.08%) Microsoft Certified Professional
8 1 (0.54%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (2.16%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 3 (1.62%) PCI DSS
2 3 (1.62%) SOC 2
3 1 (0.54%) Accessibility
3 1 (0.54%) QA
System Software
1 112 (60.54%) Docker
2 4 (2.16%) Virtual Machines
3 3 (1.62%) Ceph
3 3 (1.62%) VMware Infrastructure
4 2 (1.08%) Active Directory
5 1 (0.54%) VMware NSX
5 1 (0.54%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 109 (58.92%) Terraform
2 50 (27.03%) Ansible
3 20 (10.81%) Prometheus
4 19 (10.27%) Grafana
5 12 (6.49%) Istio
6 11 (5.95%) Argo
7 8 (4.32%) linkerd
8 7 (3.78%) Progress Chef
9 6 (3.24%) Puppet
10 3 (1.62%) Check_MK
10 3 (1.62%) Podman
11 2 (1.08%) Microsoft Intune
11 2 (1.08%) Packer
Vendors
1 15 (8.11%) Google
2 13 (7.03%) Microsoft
3 7 (3.78%) HubSpot
4 6 (3.24%) OpenAI
5 5 (2.70%) Red Hat
6 4 (2.16%) VMware
7 3 (1.62%) Dell
7 3 (1.62%) Dynatrace
7 3 (1.62%) Splunk
8 2 (1.08%) Pega
8 2 (1.08%) SaltStack
8 2 (1.08%) WSO2
9 1 (0.54%) Databricks
9 1 (0.54%) Percona