Kubernetes Contract Job Trends in Belfast

Kubernetes (k8s)
County Antrim > Belfast

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Belfast requiring Kubernetes skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 14 June 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
14 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 23 27 23
Rank change year-on-year +4 -4 -2
Contract jobs citing Kubernetes 7 5 2
As % of all contract jobs in Belfast 4.09% 3.03% 1.38%
As % of the Systems Management category 53.85% 29.41% 40.00%
Number of daily rates quoted 3 5 0
10th Percentile - £265 -
25th Percentile £402 £325 -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £446 £470 -
Median % change year-on-year -5.11% - -
75th Percentile £518 - -
90th Percentile £534 £533 -
County Antrim median daily rate £446 £470 -
% change year-on-year -5.11% - -

All Systems Management Skills
Belfast

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 Belfast.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for systems management skills 13 17 5
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Belfast 7.60% 10.30% 3.45%
Number of daily rates quoted 7 13 1
10th Percentile £315 £161 -
25th Percentile £402 £200 -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £325 £200
Median % change year-on-year +38.46% +62.50% -50.00%
75th Percentile £518 £470 -
90th Percentile £550 £554 -
County Antrim median daily rate £450 £325 £200
% change year-on-year +38.46% +62.50% -50.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 0 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £25.75 - -
Median hourly rate £26.50 - -
75th Percentile £27.25 - -
90th Percentile - - -
County Antrim median hourly rate £26.50 - -

Kubernetes
Job Vacancy Trend in Belfast

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

Kubernetes job vacancy trend in Belfast

Kubernetes
Daily Rate Trend in Belfast

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

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Belfast citing Kubernetes

Kubernetes
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 6 (85.71%) Amazon EKS
1 6 (85.71%) AWS
2 5 (71.43%) Virtual Private Cloud
3 3 (42.86%) Amazon CloudWatch
3 3 (42.86%) AWS CloudFormation
4 1 (14.29%) GCP
4 1 (14.29%) OpenShift
4 1 (14.29%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 1 (14.29%) Kerberos
Development Applications
1 1 (14.29%) Git
General
1 1 (14.29%) Finance
1 1 (14.29%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 2 (28.57%) DevOps Engineer
2 1 (14.29%) Developer
2 1 (14.29%) Full-Stack Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (28.57%) Kafka
Miscellaneous
1 7 (100.00%) Cloud Native
2 1 (14.29%) Data Protection Act
2 1 (14.29%) Distributed Systems
2 1 (14.29%) Public Cloud
Operating Systems
1 1 (14.29%) Linux
1 1 (14.29%) Windows
1 1 (14.29%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 5 (71.43%) CI/CD
1 5 (71.43%) Infrastructure as Code
2 4 (57.14%) Containerisation
2 4 (57.14%) Infrastructure Automation
3 2 (28.57%) Code Quality
3 2 (28.57%) DevOps
4 1 (14.29%) Agile
4 1 (14.29%) Architecture Governance
4 1 (14.29%) Continuous Improvement
4 1 (14.29%) Data Protection
4 1 (14.29%) Event-Driven
4 1 (14.29%) Event-Driven Architecture
4 1 (14.29%) Full-Stack Development
4 1 (14.29%) High Availability
4 1 (14.29%) Microservices
4 1 (14.29%) Problem-Solving
4 1 (14.29%) Risk Management
4 1 (14.29%) SDLC
4 1 (14.29%) Software Engineering
4 1 (14.29%) Test Automation
Programming Languages
1 4 (57.14%) Go
2 3 (42.86%) Java
3 2 (28.57%) Python
4 1 (14.29%) Bash
4 1 (14.29%) PowerShell
System Software
1 1 (14.29%) Active Directory
1 1 (14.29%) Docker
Systems Management
1 4 (57.14%) Terraform
2 3 (42.86%) Grafana
2 3 (42.86%) Prometheus
3 2 (28.57%) Ansible
Vendors
1 1 (14.29%) Google