Kubernetes Engineer Contract Job Trends in Belfast

Kubernetes Engineer (K8s Engineer)
County Antrim > Belfast

As of 4 October 2026, there is not enough information available from job vacancies posted within the last 6 months to determine the median Kubernetes Engineer (K8s Engineer) daily rate in Belfast.

6 months to
4 Oct 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 27 - -
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Contract jobs requiring a Kubernetes Engineer 1 0 0
As % of all contract jobs in Belfast 0.71% - -
As % of the Job Titles category 0.90% - -
Number of daily rates quoted 0 0 0
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) - - -
County Antrim median daily rate - - -

All Contract IT Job Roles
Belfast

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies in Belfast. Most job vacancies include a discernible job title that can be normalized. As such, the figures in the second row provide an indication of the number of contract jobs in our overall sample.

Contract vacancies in Belfast with a recognized job title 111 180 144
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 79.29% 86.96% 90.00%
Number of daily rates quoted 72 90 79
10th Percentile £263 £248 £150
25th Percentile £382 £325 £183
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £494 £445
Median % change year-on-year -8.86% +10.96% +11.25%
75th Percentile £656 £588 £575
90th Percentile £694 £626 £616
County Antrim median daily rate £450 £488 £445
% change year-on-year -7.69% +9.55% +11.25%
Number of hourly rates quoted 4 22 11
10th Percentile £20.13 £12.31 £21.19
25th Percentile £23.74 £13.58 £22.68
Median hourly rate £35.85 £15.05 £24.18
Median % change year-on-year +138.21% -37.76% +76.69%
75th Percentile £58.28 £16.88 -
90th Percentile £81.81 £24.50 -
County Antrim median hourly rate £44.50 £15.19 £24.18
% change year-on-year +192.96% -37.18% +73.83%

Kubernetes Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend in Belfast

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings featuring 'Kubernetes Engineer' in the job title relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in Belfast.

Kubernetes Engineer job vacancy trend in Belfast

Kubernetes Engineer Skill Set
Top 30 Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Belfast

For the 6 months to 4 October 2026, Kubernetes Engineer contract job roles required the following skills and capabilities in order of popularity. The figures indicate the absolute number of co-occurrences and as a proportion of all contract job ads across the Belfast region featuring Kubernetes Engineer in the job title.

1 1 (100.00%) Agile
1 1 (100.00%) Ansible
1 1 (100.00%) Argo
1 1 (100.00%) AWS
1 1 (100.00%) Azure
1 1 (100.00%) Azure DevOps
1 1 (100.00%) Bicep
1 1 (100.00%) CI/CD
1 1 (100.00%) Containerisation
1 1 (100.00%) DevOps
1 1 (100.00%) Docker
1 1 (100.00%) Elastic Stack
1 1 (100.00%) GCP
1 1 (100.00%) GitHub
1 1 (100.00%) GitHub Actions
1 1 (100.00%) GitLab
1 1 (100.00%) GitOps
1 1 (100.00%) Google
1 1 (100.00%) Grafana
1 1 (100.00%) Infrastructure as Code
1 1 (100.00%) Infrastructure Automation
1 1 (100.00%) Istio
1 1 (100.00%) Jenkins
1 1 (100.00%) Kubernetes
1 1 (100.00%) linkerd
1 1 (100.00%) Linux
1 1 (100.00%) OpenShift
1 1 (100.00%) Performance Optimisation
1 1 (100.00%) Platform Engineering
1 1 (100.00%) Prometheus

Kubernetes Engineer Skill Set
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Belfast 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%) Azure DevOps
1 1 (100.00%) GCP
1 1 (100.00%) GitHub
1 1 (100.00%) GitHub Actions
1 1 (100.00%) OpenShift
Development Applications
1 1 (100.00%) GitLab
1 1 (100.00%) Jenkins
General
1 1 (100.00%) Finance
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (100.00%) Elastic Stack
1 1 (100.00%) Terraform
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%) CI/CD
1 1 (100.00%) Containerisation
1 1 (100.00%) DevOps
1 1 (100.00%) GitOps
1 1 (100.00%) Infrastructure as Code
1 1 (100.00%) Infrastructure Automation
1 1 (100.00%) Performance Optimisation
1 1 (100.00%) Platform Engineering
1 1 (100.00%) Site Reliability Engineering
Programming Languages
1 1 (100.00%) Bicep
System Software
1 1 (100.00%) Docker
Systems Management
1 1 (100.00%) Ansible
1 1 (100.00%) Argo
1 1 (100.00%) Grafana
1 1 (100.00%) Istio
1 1 (100.00%) Kubernetes
1 1 (100.00%) linkerd
1 1 (100.00%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 1 (100.00%) Google
1 1 (100.00%) Splunk