Kubernetes Contract Job Trends in Basingstoke

Kubernetes (k8s)
Hampshire > Basingstoke

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Basingstoke requiring Kubernetes skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 15 May 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
15 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 48 21 55
Rank change year-on-year -27 +34 -23
Contract jobs citing Kubernetes 1 9 2
As % of all contract jobs in Basingstoke 0.25% 7.03% 0.46%
As % of the Systems Management category 1.47% 29.03% 1.83%
Number of daily rates quoted 1 9 0
10th Percentile - £560 -
25th Percentile £625 £563 -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £650 £575 -
Median % change year-on-year +13.04% - -
75th Percentile £675 £588 -
90th Percentile - £600 -
Hampshire median daily rate £545 £575 £575
% change year-on-year -5.22% - +4.55%

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 68 31 109
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Basingstoke 16.96% 24.22% 24.94%
Number of daily rates quoted 57 29 64
10th Percentile £500 £481 £390
25th Percentile £519 £538 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £625 £575 £450
Median % change year-on-year +8.70% +27.78% -18.18%
75th Percentile £725 £613 £500
90th Percentile £730 £688 £575
Hampshire median daily rate £550 £550 £450
% change year-on-year - +22.22% -18.18%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 2
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile - - £46.25
Median hourly rate - - £47.50
Median % change year-on-year - - +51.39%
75th Percentile - - £48.75
90th Percentile - - -
Hampshire median hourly rate £47.50 £19.97 £15.00
% change year-on-year +137.86% +33.13% -73.59%

Kubernetes
Job Vacancy Trend in Basingstoke

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

Kubernetes job vacancy trend in Basingstoke

Kubernetes
Daily Rate Trend in Basingstoke

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Basingstoke citing Kubernetes.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Basingstoke citing Kubernetes

Kubernetes
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Basingstoke 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%) Amazon CloudWatch
1 1 (100.00%) Amazon EKS
1 1 (100.00%) AWS
1 1 (100.00%) AWS CloudFormation
1 1 (100.00%) AWS Lambda
1 1 (100.00%) Azure
1 1 (100.00%) Azure AKS
1 1 (100.00%) Azure DevOps
1 1 (100.00%) Azure Functions
1 1 (100.00%) GitHub
1 1 (100.00%) GitHub Actions
1 1 (100.00%) Serverless
Development Applications
1 1 (100.00%) Git
1 1 (100.00%) GitLab
1 1 (100.00%) Jenkins
General
1 1 (100.00%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 1 (100.00%) DevOps Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (100.00%) Elastic Stack
Miscellaneous
1 1 (100.00%) Cloud Native
Operating Systems
1 1 (100.00%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (100.00%) Agile
1 1 (100.00%) Configuration Management
1 1 (100.00%) Continuous Improvement
1 1 (100.00%) Deployment Automation
1 1 (100.00%) DevOps
1 1 (100.00%) High Availability
1 1 (100.00%) Identity Management
1 1 (100.00%) Incident Management
1 1 (100.00%) Infrastructure as Code
1 1 (100.00%) Infrastructure Automation
1 1 (100.00%) Infrastructure Engineering
1 1 (100.00%) Microservices
1 1 (100.00%) Root Cause Analysis
1 1 (100.00%) Secrets Management
1 1 (100.00%) Site Reliability Engineering
1 1 (100.00%) Software Engineering
1 1 (100.00%) Software Testing
1 1 (100.00%) Systems Engineering
1 1 (100.00%) Test Automation
1 1 (100.00%) Vulnerability Scanning
Programming Languages
1 1 (100.00%) Bash
1 1 (100.00%) PowerShell
1 1 (100.00%) Python
Qualifications
1 1 (100.00%) DV Cleared
1 1 (100.00%) Security Cleared
System Software
1 1 (100.00%) Docker
Systems Management
1 1 (100.00%) Ansible
1 1 (100.00%) Grafana
1 1 (100.00%) Progress Chef
1 1 (100.00%) Prometheus
1 1 (100.00%) Puppet
1 1 (100.00%) Terraform
Vendors
1 1 (100.00%) Splunk