Kubernetes Job Trends in Stockport

Kubernetes (k8s)
Manchester > Stockport

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in Stockport requiring Kubernetes skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 1 January 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 14 9 -
Rank change year-on-year -5 - -
Permanent jobs citing Kubernetes 1 11 0
As % of all permanent jobs in Stockport 1.67% 12.64% -
As % of the Systems Management category 100.00% 100.00% -
Number of salaries quoted 1 4 0
10th Percentile - £43,625 -
25th Percentile £55,000 £45,313 -
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £50,000 -
Median % change year-on-year +20.00% - -
75th Percentile £65,000 £57,813 -
90th Percentile - £60,625 -
Manchester median annual salary £66,250 £66,250 £69,447
% change year-on-year - -4.60% -0.79%

All Systems Management Skills
Stockport

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 Stockport.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for systems management skills 1 11 15
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Stockport 1.67% 12.64% 21.43%
Number of salaries quoted 1 4 15
10th Percentile - £43,625 £25,700
25th Percentile £55,000 £45,313 £26,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £50,000 £27,500
Median % change year-on-year +20.00% +81.82% -53.80%
75th Percentile £65,000 £57,813 £33,750
90th Percentile - £60,625 -
Manchester median annual salary £60,000 £65,000 £62,500
% change year-on-year -7.69% +4.00% +4.17%

Kubernetes
Job Vacancy Trend in Stockport

Historical trend showing the proportion of permanent IT job postings citing Kubernetes relative to all permanent IT jobs advertised in Stockport.

Kubernetes job vacancy trend in Stockport

Kubernetes
Salary Trend in Stockport

Salary distribution trend for jobs in Stockport citing Kubernetes.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in Stockport citing Kubernetes

Kubernetes
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Stockport 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:

Cloud Services
1 1 (100.00%) AWS
1 1 (100.00%) Azure
1 1 (100.00%) GCP
Communications & Networking
1 1 (100.00%) Firewall
Job Titles
1 1 (100.00%) Administrator
1 1 (100.00%) Linux Administrator
Operating Systems
1 1 (100.00%) CentOS
1 1 (100.00%) Linux
1 1 (100.00%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (100.00%) Platform Engineering
1 1 (100.00%) Vulnerability Remediation
System Software
1 1 (100.00%) Docker
1 1 (100.00%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 1 (100.00%) Ansible
1 1 (100.00%) Grafana
1 1 (100.00%) Nagios
1 1 (100.00%) Prometheus
1 1 (100.00%) Terraform
Vendors
1 1 (100.00%) Red Hat
1 1 (100.00%) VMware