Kubernetes Jobs in the North West

Kubernetes (k8s)
England > North West

The table below provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in the North West requiring Kubernetes skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the annual salaries offered in vacancies that cited Kubernetes over the 6 months leading up to 15 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
15 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 117 77 58
Rank change year-on-year -40 -19 -30
Permanent jobs citing Kubernetes 250 284 446
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the North West 3.13% 2.88% 5.71%
As % of the Systems Management category 22.85% 41.22% 43.18%
Number of salaries quoted 107 181 286
10th Percentile £49,500 £47,500 £48,750
25th Percentile £62,500 £52,500 £55,125
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £78,810 £62,500 £70,000
Median % change year-on-year +26.10% -10.71% +3.93%
75th Percentile £93,778 £77,500 £81,250
90th Percentile £112,500 £85,000 £90,000
England median annual salary £82,500 £77,500 £77,500
% change year-on-year +6.45% - -

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 1,094 689 1,033
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the North West 13.68% 6.99% 13.22%
Number of salaries quoted 270 526 677
10th Percentile £32,500 £29,250 £33,650
25th Percentile £47,231 £40,000 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £67,500 £57,500 £59,526
Median % change year-on-year +17.39% -3.40% -0.79%
75th Percentile £80,000 £71,250 £77,500
90th Percentile £93,900 £80,000 £86,250
England median annual salary £67,500 £62,125 £67,500
% change year-on-year +8.65% -7.96% -3.57%

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

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing Kubernetes in the North West.

Salary trend for Kubernetes in the North West

Kubernetes
Salary Histogram in the North West

Salary distribution for jobs citing Kubernetes in the North West over the 6 months to 15 May 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 15 May 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 +7 151 £80,000 +23.08% 208
Cheshire +32 65 £77,500 +47.62% 25
Lancashire -58 24 £51,317 -21.05% 64
Merseyside +34 9 - - 7
Cumbria -72 1 - - 1
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 52 (20.80%) Confluence
2 4 (1.60%) SharePoint
3 3 (1.20%) Microsoft Exchange
4 2 (0.80%) nginx
5 1 (0.40%) Apache
5 1 (0.40%) Apache Solr
5 1 (0.40%) CMS
Applications
1 1 (0.40%) Microsoft Office
Cloud Services
1 193 (77.20%) AWS
2 183 (73.20%) Azure
3 89 (35.60%) GCP
4 15 (6.00%) Azure DevOps
5 11 (4.40%) Amazon EKS
6 10 (4.00%) Azure Machine Learning
7 7 (2.80%) Azure AKS
7 7 (2.80%) Serverless
8 6 (2.40%) GitHub
9 5 (2.00%) Amazon S3
9 5 (2.00%) AWS Lambda
9 5 (2.00%) GitHub Actions
9 5 (2.00%) SaaS
10 4 (1.60%) Amazon EC2
10 4 (1.60%) Apigee
10 4 (1.60%) Azure Monitor
10 4 (1.60%) Cloud Composer
10 4 (1.60%) Cloud Computing
10 4 (1.60%) Google Kubernetes Engine
11 3 (1.20%) Entra ID
Communications & Networking
1 4 (1.60%) Firewall
1 4 (1.60%) TCP/IP
2 3 (1.20%) Broadband
2 3 (1.20%) DNS
3 2 (0.80%) NAS
3 2 (0.80%) SAN
3 2 (0.80%) VPN
4 1 (0.40%) HTTP
4 1 (0.40%) HTTPS
4 1 (0.40%) IPsec
4 1 (0.40%) Network Security
4 1 (0.40%) VLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 116 (46.40%) SQL Server
2 16 (6.40%) NoSQL
3 11 (4.40%) Cloud Spanner
4 10 (4.00%) PostgreSQL
5 8 (3.20%) Relational Database
6 5 (2.00%) DynamoDB
6 5 (2.00%) MySQL
7 4 (1.60%) BigQuery
8 3 (1.20%) Big Data
8 3 (1.20%) MongoDB
8 3 (1.20%) RDBMS
9 2 (0.80%) Amazon Aurora
10 1 (0.40%) Amazon RDS
10 1 (0.40%) Azure SQL Database
10 1 (0.40%) Couchbase
10 1 (0.40%) Data Lake
10 1 (0.40%) Elasticsearch
10 1 (0.40%) Oracle Exadata
10 1 (0.40%) Power BI
10 1 (0.40%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 122 (48.80%) JIRA
1 122 (48.80%) SonarQube
2 119 (47.60%) GitLab
3 112 (44.80%) Maven
3 112 (44.80%) Sonatype Nexus
4 111 (44.40%) Bitbucket
4 111 (44.40%) Selenium
5 109 (43.60%) Cucumber
6 25 (10.00%) Git
7 20 (8.00%) Jenkins
8 3 (1.20%) Jaeger
8 3 (1.20%) JUnit
9 2 (0.80%) Atlassian Bamboo
9 2 (0.80%) JMeter
9 2 (0.80%) LoadRunner
9 2 (0.80%) NeoLoad
9 2 (0.80%) REST Assured
9 2 (0.80%) Team Foundation Server
9 2 (0.80%) WebDriver
10 1 (0.40%) Karma Test Runner
General
1 157 (62.80%) Finance
2 141 (56.40%) Banking
3 112 (44.80%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 78 (31.20%) Retail
5 70 (28.00%) Corporate Banking
5 70 (28.00%) Investment Banking
6 37 (14.80%) Social Skills
7 23 (9.20%) Analytical Skills
8 5 (2.00%) Games
8 5 (2.00%) Marketing
9 4 (1.60%) Law
9 4 (1.60%) Manufacturing
10 2 (0.80%) Electronics
10 2 (0.80%) Public Sector
10 2 (0.80%) Telecoms
11 1 (0.40%) Aerospace
11 1 (0.40%) Financial Institution
11 1 (0.40%) Health Technology
11 1 (0.40%) Legal
Job Titles
1 148 (59.20%) Software Engineer
2 43 (17.20%) Senior
3 32 (12.80%) Lead
4 23 (9.20%) DevOps Engineer
5 18 (7.20%) Developer
6 16 (6.40%) Senior Software Engineer
7 12 (4.80%) Cloud Engineer
7 12 (4.80%) Senior Developer
8 11 (4.40%) Azure Engineer
9 9 (3.60%) Architect
9 9 (3.60%) Java Developer
10 7 (2.80%) AWS DevOps
10 7 (2.80%) Infrastructure Engineer
10 7 (2.80%) Senior Java Developer
10 7 (2.80%) Solutions Architect
10 7 (2.80%) Team Leader
11 6 (2.40%) Principal Engineer
11 6 (2.40%) Senior Cloud Engineer
12 5 (2.00%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
12 5 (2.00%) Technical Leader
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 142 (56.80%) React
2 131 (52.40%) Kafka
2 131 (52.40%) Spring Boot
3 130 (52.00%) Spring
4 111 (44.40%) CSS
4 111 (44.40%) HTML
5 110 (44.00%) Redux
6 109 (43.60%) JPA
7 87 (34.80%) RESTful
8 75 (30.00%) REST
9 71 (28.40%) Jest
9 71 (28.40%) Sass
10 70 (28.00%) CSS3
10 70 (28.00%) HTML5
11 45 (18.00%) Hibernate
12 24 (9.60%) Node.js
13 10 (4.00%) .NET
13 10 (4.00%) ARM Templates
14 7 (2.80%) AngularJS
15 6 (2.40%) Elastic Stack
Miscellaneous
1 124 (49.60%) Product Ownership
2 110 (44.00%) Enterprise Software
3 17 (6.80%) Distributed Systems
4 16 (6.40%) Cloud Native
5 14 (5.60%) Public Cloud
6 10 (4.00%) Hybrid Cloud
7 9 (3.60%) Algorithms
8 4 (1.60%) Management Information System
8 4 (1.60%) Team-Oriented Environment
9 3 (1.20%) Data Protection Act
9 3 (1.20%) Data Structures
9 3 (1.20%) e-Learning
9 3 (1.20%) Greenfield Project
10 2 (0.80%) Low-Code
10 2 (0.80%) Private Cloud
10 2 (0.80%) Reference Data
10 2 (0.80%) Replication
10 2 (0.80%) Sports Betting
10 2 (0.80%) Wiki
11 1 (0.40%) Distributed Architecture
Operating Systems
1 21 (8.40%) Linux
2 8 (3.20%) Unix
3 6 (2.40%) Windows
4 4 (1.60%) CentOS
4 4 (1.60%) Ubuntu
5 1 (0.40%) Debian
Processes & Methodologies
1 207 (82.80%) DevOps
2 179 (71.60%) CI/CD
3 168 (67.20%) Microservices
4 166 (66.40%) Agile
5 165 (66.00%) Software Engineering
6 158 (63.20%) Containerisation
7 131 (52.40%) Test Automation
8 128 (51.20%) SDLC
9 126 (50.40%) Full-Stack Development
10 117 (46.80%) Mentoring
11 115 (46.00%) Performance Optimisation
12 114 (45.60%) Front End Development
13 81 (32.40%) User Experience
14 77 (30.80%) Migration
15 72 (28.80%) Strategic Thinking
16 70 (28.00%) Responsive Web Design
17 62 (24.80%) TDD
18 53 (21.20%) Continuous Improvement
19 44 (17.60%) Clean Code
20 43 (17.20%) Infrastructure as Code
Programming Languages
1 173 (69.20%) Java
2 141 (56.40%) JavaScript
3 128 (51.20%) SQL
4 96 (38.40%) TypeScript
5 47 (18.80%) Python
6 14 (5.60%) Go
7 13 (5.20%) Bash
7 13 (5.20%) C#
8 9 (3.60%) PowerShell
9 3 (1.20%) PHP
10 2 (0.80%) Rust
11 1 (0.40%) C++
11 1 (0.40%) Shell Script
11 1 (0.40%) VBA
Qualifications
1 21 (8.40%) Azure Certification
2 13 (5.20%) AWS Certification
2 13 (5.20%) Degree
3 7 (2.80%) Security Cleared
4 6 (2.40%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
5 5 (2.00%) SC Cleared
6 3 (1.20%) Linux+ Certification
6 3 (1.20%) RHCE
7 2 (0.80%) Computer Science Degree
7 2 (0.80%) DV Cleared
7 2 (0.80%) Master's Degree
7 2 (0.80%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
8 1 (0.40%) Microsoft Certification
8 1 (0.40%) PhD
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 115 (46.00%) QA
2 70 (28.00%) Accessibility
3 11 (4.40%) GDPR
3 11 (4.40%) HIPAA
4 4 (1.60%) NIST
4 4 (1.60%) SOC 2
System Software
1 209 (83.60%) Docker
2 6 (2.40%) Hyper-V
2 6 (2.40%) Virtual Machines
2 6 (2.40%) VMware Infrastructure
3 3 (1.20%) Active Directory
3 3 (1.20%) Dovecot
3 3 (1.20%) Postfix
4 1 (0.40%) KVM
Systems Management
1 57 (22.80%) Terraform
2 23 (9.20%) Ansible
3 9 (3.60%) Prometheus
4 6 (2.40%) Grafana
5 5 (2.00%) Istio
6 4 (1.60%) Argo
6 4 (1.60%) Puppet
7 3 (1.20%) Kustomize
8 2 (0.80%) Progress Chef
9 1 (0.40%) Automic
9 1 (0.40%) Consul
9 1 (0.40%) Karpenter
9 1 (0.40%) Kibana
9 1 (0.40%) Proxmox
9 1 (0.40%) Rancher
9 1 (0.40%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 109 (43.60%) Solace
2 36 (14.40%) Google
3 14 (5.60%) Microsoft
4 6 (2.40%) VMware
5 5 (2.00%) Red Hat
6 4 (1.60%) Ping Identity
7 3 (1.20%) Okta
7 3 (1.20%) Oracle
8 2 (0.80%) Dynatrace
8 2 (0.80%) SAP
9 1 (0.40%) Confluent
9 1 (0.40%) Databricks
9 1 (0.40%) ForgeRock
9 1 (0.40%) Hitachi
9 1 (0.40%) New Relic
9 1 (0.40%) Planview
9 1 (0.40%) Zend