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

6 months to
24 Oct 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 66 75 28
Rank change year-on-year +9 -47 +3
Permanent jobs citing Kubernetes 221 191 313
As % of all permanent jobs in the North West 4.60% 2.72% 7.52%
As % of the Systems Management category 33.08% 34.98% 44.97%
Number of salaries quoted 72 83 264
10th Percentile £52,500 £42,500 £46,306
25th Percentile £57,500 £52,500 £60,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £66,250 £62,500 £71,538
Median % change year-on-year +6.00% -12.63% +2.20%
75th Percentile £82,500 £75,000 £82,548
90th Percentile £94,400 £85,000 £87,419
England median annual salary £77,500 £77,500 £75,000
% change year-on-year - +3.33% -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 668 546 696
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the North West 13.91% 7.78% 16.72%
Number of salaries quoted 227 271 572
10th Percentile £26,700 £32,750 £36,750
25th Percentile £36,250 £42,500 £46,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £53,500 £52,500 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year +1.90% -19.23% +9.20%
75th Percentile £67,500 £68,750 £79,063
90th Percentile £82,500 £78,750 £85,000
England median annual salary £62,500 £67,500 £65,000
% change year-on-year -7.41% +3.85% -4.13%

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 October 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 24 October 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 0 113 £67,500 +11.57% 119
Cheshire +32 76 £67,500 -9.40% 28
Lancashire +6 20 £72,750 +7.78% 39
Merseyside +2 11 £65,000 -1.89% 2
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 45 (20.36%) Confluence
2 5 (2.26%) OpenStack
3 3 (1.36%) Apache Spark
4 2 (0.90%) Apache
4 2 (0.90%) Microsoft Exchange
5 1 (0.45%) IIS
5 1 (0.45%) JBoss
5 1 (0.45%) nginx
5 1 (0.45%) SharePoint
5 1 (0.45%) WebSphere
Business Applications
1 1 (0.45%) Loan IQ
Cloud Services
1 198 (89.59%) AWS
2 159 (71.95%) Azure
3 73 (33.03%) GCP
4 17 (7.69%) GitHub
5 15 (6.79%) Serverless
6 12 (5.43%) AWS Lambda
7 10 (4.52%) AWS CloudFormation
8 8 (3.62%) Amazon CloudWatch
8 8 (3.62%) Azure DevOps
9 7 (3.17%) Amazon EC2
10 6 (2.71%) Amazon S3
10 6 (2.71%) Amazon SQS
10 6 (2.71%) GitHub Actions
10 6 (2.71%) OpenShift
11 5 (2.26%) Amazon EKS
11 5 (2.26%) PaaS
12 4 (1.81%) Amazon ECS
12 4 (1.81%) AWS CodeBuild
12 4 (1.81%) Route 53
12 4 (1.81%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 3 (1.36%) DNS
2 2 (0.90%) DHCP
2 2 (0.90%) HTTP
2 2 (0.90%) SSL
2 2 (0.90%) TCP/IP
3 1 (0.45%) AMQP
3 1 (0.45%) Firewall
3 1 (0.45%) Internet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 111 (50.23%) SQL Server
2 25 (11.31%) NoSQL
3 15 (6.79%) MongoDB
4 14 (6.33%) PostgreSQL
5 11 (4.98%) DynamoDB
6 4 (1.81%) MySQL
7 3 (1.36%) Big Data
7 3 (1.36%) Relational Database
8 2 (0.90%) Delta Lake
8 2 (0.90%) Metadata
8 2 (0.90%) Spark SQL
9 1 (0.45%) Amazon RDS
9 1 (0.45%) Apache Cassandra
9 1 (0.45%) Cloudera CDH
9 1 (0.45%) DocumentDB
9 1 (0.45%) Hadoop
9 1 (0.45%) Oracle Database
9 1 (0.45%) Redis
Development Applications
1 126 (57.01%) GitLab
2 117 (52.94%) JIRA
3 116 (52.49%) Cucumber
4 115 (52.04%) Selenium
5 111 (50.23%) SonarQube
5 111 (50.23%) Sonatype Nexus
6 110 (49.77%) Maven
7 109 (49.32%) Bitbucket
8 20 (9.05%) Jenkins
9 9 (4.07%) Git
10 4 (1.81%) CircleCI
11 3 (1.36%) Cypress.io
12 2 (0.90%) MLflow
13 1 (0.45%) Artifactory
13 1 (0.45%) Atlassian Bamboo
13 1 (0.45%) CA Release Automation
13 1 (0.45%) git-flow
13 1 (0.45%) Locust
13 1 (0.45%) Team Foundation Server
13 1 (0.45%) TeamCity
General
1 133 (60.18%) Finance
2 115 (52.04%) Banking
3 109 (49.32%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 75 (33.94%) Retail
5 70 (31.67%) Corporate Banking
5 70 (31.67%) Investment Banking
6 27 (12.22%) Social Skills
7 10 (4.52%) Games
8 5 (2.26%) Marketing
9 4 (1.81%) Analytical Skills
10 3 (1.36%) Public Sector
10 3 (1.36%) Telecoms
11 2 (0.90%) Advertising
11 2 (0.90%) Cantonese Language
11 2 (0.90%) Mandarin Language
12 1 (0.45%) Aerospace
12 1 (0.45%) Electronics
12 1 (0.45%) Legal
12 1 (0.45%) Manufacturing
12 1 (0.45%) Tech for Good
Job Titles
1 125 (56.56%) Software Engineer
2 36 (16.29%) Senior
3 25 (11.31%) Developer
4 22 (9.95%) DevOps Engineer
5 15 (6.79%) Java Developer
5 15 (6.79%) Senior Developer
6 13 (5.88%) Architect
6 13 (5.88%) AWS Architect
6 13 (5.88%) AWS DevOps
6 13 (5.88%) Senior Java Developer
7 12 (5.43%) AWS Solution Architect
7 12 (5.43%) Senior DevOps
7 12 (5.43%) Solutions Architect
8 9 (4.07%) DevOps Architect
8 9 (4.07%) Senior Architect
8 9 (4.07%) Senior Solutions Architect
8 9 (4.07%) TOGAF Architect
9 8 (3.62%) Java Engineer
9 8 (3.62%) Lead
10 7 (3.17%) Infrastructure Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 133 (60.18%) React
2 129 (58.37%) Spring
3 128 (57.92%) Spring Boot
4 120 (54.30%) Kafka
5 113 (51.13%) CSS
5 113 (51.13%) HTML
6 110 (49.77%) Redux
7 109 (49.32%) JPA
8 81 (36.65%) RESTful
9 73 (33.03%) REST
10 72 (32.58%) CSS3
10 72 (32.58%) HTML5
10 72 (32.58%) Jest
11 70 (31.67%) Sass
12 46 (20.81%) Hibernate
13 16 (7.24%) .NET
14 8 (3.62%) Amazon Corretto
14 8 (3.62%) RabbitMQ
15 7 (3.17%) Elastic Stack
15 7 (3.17%) Node.js
Miscellaneous
1 114 (51.58%) Product Ownership
2 109 (49.32%) Enterprise Software
3 31 (14.03%) Cloud Native
4 11 (4.98%) Distributed Systems
5 10 (4.52%) Management Information System
6 8 (3.62%) e-Learning
7 6 (2.71%) Hybrid Cloud
7 6 (2.71%) Wiki
8 5 (2.26%) Data Protection Act
9 2 (0.90%) Cyber Threat
9 2 (0.90%) Linux Command Line
9 2 (0.90%) Online Games
9 2 (0.90%) Tandem
10 1 (0.45%) Distributed Architecture
10 1 (0.45%) Greenfield Project
10 1 (0.45%) Legacy Systems
10 1 (0.45%) Low-Code
10 1 (0.45%) NVMe
10 1 (0.45%) Private Cloud
10 1 (0.45%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 19 (8.60%) Linux
2 7 (3.17%) Windows
3 6 (2.71%) Ubuntu
4 5 (2.26%) Debian
5 3 (1.36%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 3 (1.36%) Unix
6 2 (0.90%) CentOS
6 2 (0.90%) VMS
7 1 (0.45%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 199 (90.05%) DevOps
2 189 (85.52%) CI/CD
3 170 (76.92%) Containerisation
4 168 (76.02%) Agile
5 153 (69.23%) Microservices
6 141 (63.80%) Software Engineering
7 128 (57.92%) Test Automation
8 121 (54.75%) Full-Stack Development
9 120 (54.30%) Front End Development
10 118 (53.39%) Performance Optimisation
11 113 (51.13%) SDLC
12 85 (38.46%) User Experience
13 82 (37.10%) Mentoring
14 74 (33.48%) Migration
15 71 (32.13%) Responsive Web Design
16 70 (31.67%) Strategic Thinking
17 66 (29.86%) TDD
18 59 (26.70%) Clean Code
19 53 (23.98%) Continuous Improvement
20 33 (14.93%) Problem-Solving
Programming Languages
1 156 (70.59%) Java
2 135 (61.09%) SQL
3 118 (53.39%) JavaScript
4 84 (38.01%) TypeScript
5 38 (17.19%) Python
6 22 (9.95%) C#
7 14 (6.33%) Bash
8 4 (1.81%) Go
9 3 (1.36%) Shell Script
10 2 (0.90%) PowerShell
11 1 (0.45%) Groovy
11 1 (0.45%) PHP
Qualifications
1 15 (6.79%) Azure Certification
2 10 (4.52%) AWS Certification
3 9 (4.07%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
4 7 (3.17%) Degree
4 7 (3.17%) Security Cleared
5 6 (2.71%) Computer Science Degree
6 5 (2.26%) SC Cleared
7 4 (1.81%) DV Cleared
8 1 (0.45%) Linux+ Certification
8 1 (0.45%) RHCE
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 114 (51.58%) QA
2 71 (32.13%) Accessibility
3 14 (6.33%) GDPR
4 10 (4.52%) HIPAA
5 9 (4.07%) NIST
6 1 (0.45%) WCAG
System Software
1 197 (89.14%) Docker
2 3 (1.36%) KVM
2 3 (1.36%) QEMU
2 3 (1.36%) vSphere
3 2 (0.90%) Active Directory
3 2 (0.90%) VMware Infrastructure
3 2 (0.90%) VMware NSX
4 1 (0.45%) Dovecot
4 1 (0.45%) Hyper-V
4 1 (0.45%) Postfix
Systems Management
1 49 (22.17%) Terraform
2 25 (11.31%) Ansible
3 15 (6.79%) Grafana
4 11 (4.98%) Prometheus
5 6 (2.71%) Puppet
6 5 (2.26%) Progress Chef
7 2 (0.90%) Kubeflow
8 1 (0.45%) Argo
8 1 (0.45%) Oracle Enterprise Manager
8 1 (0.45%) Podman
8 1 (0.45%) Rancher
Vendors
1 109 (49.32%) Solace
2 17 (7.69%) Google
3 7 (3.17%) Microsoft
4 4 (1.81%) SaltStack
4 4 (1.81%) Splunk
4 4 (1.81%) VMware
5 3 (1.36%) AppDynamics
5 3 (1.36%) Red Hat
6 2 (0.90%) Databricks
6 2 (0.90%) Oracle
7 1 (0.45%) Dell
7 1 (0.45%) F5
7 1 (0.45%) Okta
7 1 (0.45%) Palo Alto
7 1 (0.45%) Pega
7 1 (0.45%) Ping Identity
7 1 (0.45%) SAP
7 1 (0.45%) TOWER Software
7 1 (0.45%) WSO2