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 vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 17 September 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
17 Sep 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 75 75 24
Rank change year-on-year 0 -51 +7
Permanent jobs citing Kubernetes 226 216 370
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the North West 4.40% 2.80% 8.08%
As % of the Systems Management category 21.50% 36.18% 46.95%
Number of salaries quoted 71 79 297
10th Percentile £52,500 £42,500 £46,306
25th Percentile £58,375 £52,500 £60,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £67,500 £62,500 £75,000
Median % change year-on-year +8.00% -16.67% +7.14%
75th Percentile £81,875 £75,000 £83,750
90th Percentile £89,000 £87,500 £90,000
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 1,051 597 788
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the North West 20.44% 7.73% 17.21%
Number of salaries quoted 230 296 624
10th Percentile £26,250 £32,000 £37,500
25th Percentile £36,250 £41,250 £47,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £52,500 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year +4.76% -19.23% +8.33%
75th Percentile £71,188 £71,250 £80,000
90th Percentile £81,375 £80,000 £86,250
England median annual salary £62,500 £66,000 £65,351
% change year-on-year -5.30% +0.99% -6.64%

Kubernetes
Job Vacancy Trend in the North West

Job postings citing Kubernetes as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the North West.

Job vacancy trend for Kubernetes 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 17 September 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 17 September 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 +6 125 £67,500 +8.00% 72
Cheshire +29 71 £72,500 - 29
Lancashire 0 19 £60,500 -10.37% 41
Merseyside -4 11 £65,000 +15.56% 4
Kubernetes
England

Kubernetes
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the North West by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same employment type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Application Platforms
1 45 (19.91%) Confluence
2 2 (0.88%) Apache Spark
2 2 (0.88%) Microsoft Exchange
2 2 (0.88%) OpenStack
3 1 (0.44%) Apache
3 1 (0.44%) IIS
3 1 (0.44%) JBoss
3 1 (0.44%) nginx
3 1 (0.44%) SharePoint
3 1 (0.44%) WebSphere
Business Applications
1 1 (0.44%) Loan IQ
Cloud Services
1 191 (84.51%) AWS
2 157 (69.47%) Azure
3 69 (30.53%) GCP
4 13 (5.75%) GitHub
5 12 (5.31%) Azure DevOps
5 12 (5.31%) Serverless
6 11 (4.87%) AWS Lambda
7 8 (3.54%) Amazon CloudWatch
7 8 (3.54%) AWS CloudFormation
8 6 (2.65%) Amazon SQS
9 5 (2.21%) Amazon EC2
9 5 (2.21%) Amazon S3
10 4 (1.77%) Amazon EKS
10 4 (1.77%) AWS CodeBuild
10 4 (1.77%) GitHub Actions
10 4 (1.77%) OpenShift
10 4 (1.77%) Route 53
10 4 (1.77%) SaaS
10 4 (1.77%) Virtual Private Cloud
11 3 (1.33%) Azure AKS
Communications & Networking
1 3 (1.33%) DNS
2 2 (0.88%) DHCP
2 2 (0.88%) HTTP
2 2 (0.88%) SSL
2 2 (0.88%) TCP/IP
3 1 (0.44%) Firewall
3 1 (0.44%) Internet
3 1 (0.44%) VLAN
3 1 (0.44%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 115 (50.88%) SQL Server
2 27 (11.95%) NoSQL
3 15 (6.64%) PostgreSQL
4 11 (4.87%) DynamoDB
5 10 (4.42%) MongoDB
6 3 (1.33%) Big Data
7 2 (0.88%) Amazon RDS
7 2 (0.88%) Delta Lake
7 2 (0.88%) Metadata
7 2 (0.88%) MySQL
7 2 (0.88%) Spark SQL
8 1 (0.44%) Apache Cassandra
8 1 (0.44%) DocumentDB
8 1 (0.44%) Oracle Database
8 1 (0.44%) Redis
8 1 (0.44%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 127 (56.19%) GitLab
2 117 (51.77%) JIRA
3 115 (50.88%) Cucumber
3 115 (50.88%) Selenium
4 112 (49.56%) SonarQube
4 112 (49.56%) Sonatype Nexus
5 111 (49.12%) Maven
6 109 (48.23%) Bitbucket
7 20 (8.85%) Jenkins
8 10 (4.42%) Git
9 4 (1.77%) CircleCI
10 2 (0.88%) MLflow
11 1 (0.44%) Ant
11 1 (0.44%) Artifactory
11 1 (0.44%) Atlassian Bamboo
11 1 (0.44%) CA Release Automation
11 1 (0.44%) git-flow
11 1 (0.44%) JUnit
11 1 (0.44%) Team Foundation Server
11 1 (0.44%) TeamCity
General
1 133 (58.85%) Finance
2 115 (50.88%) Banking
3 109 (48.23%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 78 (34.51%) Retail
5 70 (30.97%) Corporate Banking
5 70 (30.97%) Investment Banking
6 26 (11.50%) Social Skills
7 10 (4.42%) Games
8 4 (1.77%) Analytical Skills
8 4 (1.77%) Marketing
9 2 (0.88%) Advertising
9 2 (0.88%) Cantonese Language
9 2 (0.88%) Mandarin Language
9 2 (0.88%) Telecoms
10 1 (0.44%) Digital Health
10 1 (0.44%) Health Technology
10 1 (0.44%) Legal
10 1 (0.44%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 128 (56.64%) Software Engineer
2 44 (19.47%) Senior
3 24 (10.62%) DevOps Engineer
4 23 (10.18%) Developer
5 16 (7.08%) AWS DevOps
5 16 (7.08%) Senior Developer
6 15 (6.64%) Java Developer
7 14 (6.19%) Architect
7 14 (6.19%) AWS Architect
7 14 (6.19%) AWS Solution Architect
7 14 (6.19%) Senior Java Developer
7 14 (6.19%) Solutions Architect
8 13 (5.75%) Senior DevOps
9 12 (5.31%) DevOps Architect
9 12 (5.31%) Senior Architect
9 12 (5.31%) Senior Solutions Architect
9 12 (5.31%) TOGAF Architect
10 10 (4.42%) Azure Engineer
11 9 (3.98%) Cloud Engineer
11 9 (3.98%) Lead
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 134 (59.29%) React
2 127 (56.19%) Spring
3 126 (55.75%) Spring Boot
4 125 (55.31%) Kafka
5 113 (50.00%) CSS
5 113 (50.00%) HTML
6 109 (48.23%) JPA
6 109 (48.23%) Redux
7 77 (34.07%) RESTful
8 72 (31.86%) CSS3
8 72 (31.86%) HTML5
8 72 (31.86%) REST
9 70 (30.97%) Jest
9 70 (30.97%) Sass
10 46 (20.35%) Hibernate
11 16 (7.08%) .NET
12 8 (3.54%) Amazon Corretto
12 8 (3.54%) Elastic Stack
13 7 (3.10%) .NET Core
13 7 (3.10%) ARM Templates
Miscellaneous
1 118 (52.21%) Product Ownership
2 109 (48.23%) Enterprise Software
3 30 (13.27%) Cloud Native
4 13 (5.75%) Management Information System
5 11 (4.87%) Hybrid Cloud
6 10 (4.42%) Distributed Systems
7 8 (3.54%) e-Learning
8 7 (3.10%) Data Protection Act
9 6 (2.65%) Wiki
10 4 (1.77%) Team-Oriented Environment
11 2 (0.88%) Cyber Threat
11 2 (0.88%) Linux Command Line
11 2 (0.88%) Online Games
11 2 (0.88%) Tandem
12 1 (0.44%) Data Centre
12 1 (0.44%) Data Structures
12 1 (0.44%) Greenfield Project
12 1 (0.44%) Mobile App
12 1 (0.44%) Private Cloud
12 1 (0.44%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 17 (7.52%) Linux
2 6 (2.65%) Ubuntu
3 5 (2.21%) Debian
4 4 (1.77%) Unix
4 4 (1.77%) Windows
5 2 (0.88%) CentOS
5 2 (0.88%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 1 (0.44%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 202 (89.38%) DevOps
2 188 (83.19%) CI/CD
3 166 (73.45%) Containerisation
4 160 (70.80%) Agile
5 157 (69.47%) Microservices
6 142 (62.83%) Software Engineering
7 126 (55.75%) Test Automation
8 124 (54.87%) Full-Stack Development
9 119 (52.65%) Front End Development
10 117 (51.77%) Performance Optimisation
10 117 (51.77%) SDLC
11 89 (39.38%) User Experience
12 88 (38.94%) Mentoring
13 74 (32.74%) Migration
14 71 (31.42%) Responsive Web Design
15 70 (30.97%) Strategic Thinking
16 61 (26.99%) TDD
17 58 (25.66%) Clean Code
18 51 (22.57%) Continuous Improvement
19 30 (13.27%) Infrastructure as Code
Programming Languages
1 159 (70.35%) Java
2 138 (61.06%) SQL
3 119 (52.65%) JavaScript
4 89 (39.38%) TypeScript
5 44 (19.47%) Python
6 27 (11.95%) C#
7 17 (7.52%) Bash
8 5 (2.21%) Go
9 4 (1.77%) PowerShell
9 4 (1.77%) Shell Script
10 2 (0.88%) Rust
11 1 (0.44%) Groovy
Qualifications
1 21 (9.29%) Azure Certification
2 14 (6.19%) AWS Certification
3 12 (5.31%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
4 6 (2.65%) Degree
5 4 (1.77%) Computer Science Degree
5 4 (1.77%) Security Cleared
6 3 (1.33%) DV Cleared
7 2 (0.88%) SC Cleared
8 1 (0.44%) Linux+ Certification
8 1 (0.44%) RHCE
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 112 (49.56%) QA
2 70 (30.97%) Accessibility
3 17 (7.52%) GDPR
4 13 (5.75%) HIPAA
5 12 (5.31%) NIST
System Software
1 201 (88.94%) Docker
2 2 (0.88%) Active Directory
2 2 (0.88%) KVM
2 2 (0.88%) QEMU
3 1 (0.44%) Dovecot
3 1 (0.44%) Hyper-V
3 1 (0.44%) Postfix
3 1 (0.44%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 55 (24.34%) Terraform
2 26 (11.50%) Ansible
3 15 (6.64%) Grafana
4 13 (5.75%) Prometheus
5 6 (2.65%) Progress Chef
6 5 (2.21%) Puppet
7 2 (0.88%) Argo
7 2 (0.88%) Kubeflow
8 1 (0.44%) Istio
8 1 (0.44%) Karpenter
8 1 (0.44%) Oracle Enterprise Manager
8 1 (0.44%) Podman
8 1 (0.44%) Proxmox
8 1 (0.44%) Rancher
8 1 (0.44%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 109 (48.23%) Solace
2 16 (7.08%) Google
3 10 (4.42%) Microsoft
4 4 (1.77%) Splunk
5 2 (0.88%) AppDynamics
5 2 (0.88%) Databricks
5 2 (0.88%) Ping Identity
5 2 (0.88%) Red Hat
5 2 (0.88%) SaltStack
6 1 (0.44%) Dell
6 1 (0.44%) ForgeRock
6 1 (0.44%) Okta
6 1 (0.44%) Oracle
6 1 (0.44%) TOWER Software
6 1 (0.44%) VMware