Kubernetes Contracts in Basingstoke

Kubernetes (k8s)
Hampshire > Basingstoke

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Basingstoke requiring Kubernetes skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Kubernetes over the 6 months leading up to 1 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 18 51 32
Rank change year-on-year +33 -19 -17
Contract jobs citing Kubernetes 9 2 6
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Basingstoke 6.67% 0.47% 2.74%
As % of the Systems Management category 27.27% 2.02% 15.00%
Number of daily rates quoted 9 0 6
10th Percentile £560 - £375
25th Percentile £563 - £455
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £575 - £595
Median % change year-on-year - - +8.18%
75th Percentile £588 - £650
90th Percentile £600 - £656
Hampshire median daily rate £575 £584 £550
% change year-on-year -1.50% +6.14% -

All Systems Management Skills
Basingstoke

Kubernetes falls under the Systems Management category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies requiring systems management skills in Basingstoke.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for systems management skills 33 99 40
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Basingstoke 24.44% 23.13% 18.26%
Number of daily rates quoted 31 57 21
10th Percentile £488 £338 £425
25th Percentile £544 £425 £488
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £575 £450 £550
Median % change year-on-year +27.78% -18.18% +3.48%
75th Percentile £618 £500 £650
90th Percentile £688 £575 £675
Hampshire median daily rate £551 £450 £550
% change year-on-year +22.33% -18.18% +4.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 2 2
10th Percentile - - £21.03
25th Percentile - £46.25 £24.81
Median hourly rate - £47.50 £31.38
Median % change year-on-year - +51.39% +125.31%
75th Percentile - £48.75 £37.69
90th Percentile - - £41.33
Hampshire median hourly rate £19.97 £15.00 £56.80
% change year-on-year +33.13% -73.59% +164.16%

Kubernetes
Job Vacancy Trend in Basingstoke

Job postings citing Kubernetes as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in Basingstoke.

Job vacancy trend for Kubernetes in Basingstoke

Kubernetes
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Basingstoke

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Kubernetes in Basingstoke.

Daily rate trend for Kubernetes in Basingstoke

Kubernetes
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Basingstoke 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 8 (88.89%) Microsoft Exchange
2 1 (11.11%) Confluence
Cloud Services
1 9 (100.00%) AWS
2 8 (88.89%) GCP
2 8 (88.89%) IaaS
2 8 (88.89%) OpenShift
2 8 (88.89%) PaaS
Communications & Networking
1 8 (88.89%) DHCP
1 8 (88.89%) DNS
1 8 (88.89%) Firewall
1 8 (88.89%) SMTP
1 8 (88.89%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 8 (88.89%) Amazon RDS
1 8 (88.89%) Big Data
1 8 (88.89%) Elasticsearch
Development Applications
1 1 (11.11%) GitLab
1 1 (11.11%) JIRA
General
1 6 (66.67%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 8 (88.89%) 3rd Line Engineer
1 8 (88.89%) 3rd Line Support
1 8 (88.89%) 3rd Line Support Engineer
1 8 (88.89%) Support Engineer
2 7 (77.78%) 3rd Line Infrastructure Engineer
2 7 (77.78%) 3rd Line Infrastructure Support
2 7 (77.78%) Infrastructure Engineer
2 7 (77.78%) Infrastructure Support
2 7 (77.78%) Infrastructure Support Engineer
3 1 (11.11%) DevOps Engineer
3 1 (11.11%) Virtualisation Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (11.11%) Elastic Stack
Miscellaneous
1 8 (88.89%) Clustering
1 8 (88.89%) Data Centre
1 8 (88.89%) PKI
Operating Systems
1 9 (100.00%) Linux
2 8 (88.89%) Windows
2 8 (88.89%) Windows Server
3 3 (33.33%) Windows Server 2003
Processes & Methodologies
1 9 (100.00%) DevOps
2 8 (88.89%) Artificial Intelligence
2 8 (88.89%) Machine Learning
2 8 (88.89%) Software Deployment
3 7 (77.78%) Infrastructure Engineering
4 1 (11.11%) Agile
4 1 (11.11%) CI/CD
4 1 (11.11%) Containerisation
4 1 (11.11%) Continuous Delivery
4 1 (11.11%) Continuous Integration
4 1 (11.11%) Infrastructure as Code
4 1 (11.11%) Infrastructure Automation
4 1 (11.11%) Integration Testing
4 1 (11.11%) ITIL
4 1 (11.11%) Project Delivery
4 1 (11.11%) Release Management
4 1 (11.11%) Test Automation
Programming Languages
1 8 (88.89%) PowerShell
2 1 (11.11%) Go
Qualifications
1 9 (100.00%) Security Cleared
2 8 (88.89%) Degree
2 8 (88.89%) DV Cleared
3 1 (11.11%) SC Cleared
System Software
1 9 (100.00%) VMware Infrastructure
2 8 (88.89%) Active Directory
2 8 (88.89%) BitLocker
2 8 (88.89%) Docker
2 8 (88.89%) Hyper-V
2 8 (88.89%) Microsoft App-V
2 8 (88.89%) Terminal Services
2 8 (88.89%) VMware ESXi
Systems Management
1 9 (100.00%) Ansible
2 8 (88.89%) Nagios
2 8 (88.89%) Puppet
2 8 (88.89%) vCenter Server
2 8 (88.89%) vMotion
3 1 (11.11%) Rancher
3 1 (11.11%) Terraform
Vendors
1 9 (100.00%) VMware
2 8 (88.89%) Citrix
2 8 (88.89%) Google
2 8 (88.89%) HP
2 8 (88.89%) Microsoft
2 8 (88.89%) Symantec
3 1 (11.11%) ServiceNow