Kubernetes Contracts in Berkshire

Kubernetes (k8s)
South East > Berkshire

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Berkshire 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 43 45 56
Rank change year-on-year +2 +11 +12
Contract jobs citing Kubernetes 51 82 60
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Berkshire 4.35% 4.13% 3.32%
As % of the Systems Management category 33.12% 33.88% 29.85%
Number of daily rates quoted 25 51 40
10th Percentile £409 £413 £425
25th Percentile £413 £486 £483
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £501 £605 £520
Median % change year-on-year -17.27% +16.35% +4.00%
75th Percentile £608 £628 £675
90th Percentile £663 £688 £725
South East median daily rate £550 £575 £578
% change year-on-year -4.35% -0.43% +0.43%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 1
Median hourly rate - - £70.00
South East median hourly rate - £43.00 £70.00
% change year-on-year - -38.57% -

All Systems Management Skills
Berkshire

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 Berkshire.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for systems management skills 154 242 201
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Berkshire 13.13% 12.20% 11.11%
Number of daily rates quoted 101 179 142
10th Percentile £400 £205 £363
25th Percentile £450 £275 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £525 £538
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% -2.33% +2.38%
75th Percentile £590 £608 £675
90th Percentile £675 £632 £750
South East median daily rate £501 £475 £543
% change year-on-year +5.37% -12.52% +8.60%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 1 10
10th Percentile - - £50.53
25th Percentile - - £58.91
Median hourly rate - £65.00 £68.00
Median % change year-on-year - -4.41% -6.21%
75th Percentile - - £75.56
90th Percentile - - £81.98
South East median hourly rate £23.99 £47.50 £61.38
% change year-on-year -49.51% -22.61% +182.18%

Kubernetes
Job Vacancy Trend in Berkshire

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

Job vacancy trend for Kubernetes in Berkshire

Kubernetes
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Berkshire

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

Daily rate trend for Kubernetes in Berkshire

Kubernetes
Daily Rate Histogram in Berkshire

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Kubernetes in Berkshire over the 6 months to 1 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Kubernetes in Berkshire

Kubernetes
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in Berkshire

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Kubernetes in Berkshire.

Hourly rate trend for Kubernetes in Berkshire

Kubernetes
Contract Job Locations in Berkshire

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Kubernetes within the Berkshire region over the 6 months to 1 May 2025. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 6 month period last year.

Location Rank Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Matching
Contract
IT Job Ads
Median
Daily Rate
Past 6 Months
Median Daily Rate
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
Reading +5 34 £519 -14.26% 39
Wokingham -11 10 £440 -10.54%
Bracknell +18 1 - - 7
Slough -6 1 £650 +74.97% 23
Kubernetes
South East

Kubernetes
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Berkshire 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 2 (3.92%) Apache
1 2 (3.92%) Apache Spark
1 2 (3.92%) OpenStack
2 1 (1.96%) Cloud Foundry
2 1 (1.96%) Microsoft Exchange
2 1 (1.96%) nginx
Cloud Services
1 39 (76.47%) Azure
2 22 (43.14%) AWS
3 18 (35.29%) Azure AKS
4 11 (21.57%) Azure DevOps
5 9 (17.65%) Serverless
6 7 (13.73%) GCP
7 6 (11.76%) Azure Monitor
7 6 (11.76%) Azure Storage
8 5 (9.80%) OpenShift
9 4 (7.84%) Amazon ECS
9 4 (7.84%) Azure Functions
10 3 (5.88%) Amazon EC2
10 3 (5.88%) Amazon EKS
10 3 (5.88%) Azure Data Factory
10 3 (5.88%) IaaS
10 3 (5.88%) Microsoft 365
10 3 (5.88%) PaaS
11 2 (3.92%) Azure Machine Learning
11 2 (3.92%) Entra ID
11 2 (3.92%) GitHub
Communications & Networking
1 6 (11.76%) BGP
1 6 (11.76%) MPLS
2 5 (9.80%) 3GPP
2 5 (9.80%) TCP/IP
2 5 (9.80%) VLAN
3 4 (7.84%) 3G
3 4 (7.84%) 4G
3 4 (7.84%) LTE
4 2 (3.92%) 5G
4 2 (3.92%) Diameter Protocol
4 2 (3.92%) HTTP
4 2 (3.92%) MVNO
5 1 (1.96%) DHCP
5 1 (1.96%) DNS
5 1 (1.96%) Ethernet VPN
5 1 (1.96%) Firewall
5 1 (1.96%) Network Security
5 1 (1.96%) Radio Access Network
5 1 (1.96%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 8 (15.69%) PostgreSQL
2 6 (11.76%) Azure SQL Database
3 4 (7.84%) Big Data
3 4 (7.84%) Redis
4 2 (3.92%) Data Lake
4 2 (3.92%) Power BI
4 2 (3.92%) RDBMS
4 2 (3.92%) Relational Database
5 1 (1.96%) Amazon RDS
5 1 (1.96%) DynamoDB
5 1 (1.96%) GIS
5 1 (1.96%) MongoDB
5 1 (1.96%) NoSQL
Development Applications
1 13 (25.49%) Jenkins
2 12 (23.53%) GitLab
3 10 (19.61%) JIRA
4 9 (17.65%) Cucumber
4 9 (17.65%) REST Assured
4 9 (17.65%) Selenium
4 9 (17.65%) SonarQube
5 5 (9.80%) Robot Framework
6 2 (3.92%) JMeter
6 2 (3.92%) JUnit
6 2 (3.92%) Mockito
7 1 (1.96%) Artifactory
7 1 (1.96%) Atlassian Bamboo
7 1 (1.96%) Git
General
1 23 (45.10%) Social Skills
2 19 (37.25%) Analytical Skills
3 14 (27.45%) Telecoms
4 8 (15.69%) Law
5 4 (7.84%) Police
5 4 (7.84%) Public Sector
6 2 (3.92%) Electronics
6 2 (3.92%) Finance
6 2 (3.92%) Manufacturing
6 2 (3.92%) Marketing
Job Titles
1 13 (25.49%) Developer
2 9 (17.65%) Azure Engineer
3 7 (13.73%) Azure DevOps Engineer
3 7 (13.73%) DevOps Engineer
4 6 (11.76%) Java Developer
5 5 (9.80%) Architect
5 5 (9.80%) Automation Tester
5 5 (9.80%) Java Engineer
5 5 (9.80%) Java Software Engineer
5 5 (9.80%) Site Engineer
5 5 (9.80%) Site Reliability Engineer
5 5 (9.80%) Software Engineer
5 5 (9.80%) Telecoms Tester
5 5 (9.80%) Tester
6 4 (7.84%) SC Cleared Software Engineer
6 4 (7.84%) Technical Design Authority
7 3 (5.88%) Azure Developer
7 3 (5.88%) React Developer
7 3 (5.88%) Senior Developer
7 3 (5.88%) Solutions Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 13 (25.49%) REST
2 12 (23.53%) ARM Templates
3 9 (17.65%) Java EE
4 5 (9.80%) ADO
4 5 (9.80%) Node.js
5 4 (7.84%) GraphQL
5 4 (7.84%) Prisma
5 4 (7.84%) React
5 4 (7.84%) RESTful
6 3 (5.88%) .NET
6 3 (5.88%) .NET Core
6 3 (5.88%) HTML
6 3 (5.88%) JSON
6 3 (5.88%) XML
6 3 (5.88%) YAML
7 2 (3.92%) Apache Camel
7 2 (3.92%) scikit-learn
7 2 (3.92%) Spring Boot
7 2 (3.92%) TensorFlow
7 2 (3.92%) WireMock
Miscellaneous
1 8 (15.69%) Cloud Native
2 6 (11.76%) Self-Motivation
3 4 (7.84%) Distributed Systems
3 4 (7.84%) Onboarding
4 2 (3.92%) Operational Technology
4 2 (3.92%) SCADA
5 1 (1.96%) Hybrid Cloud
5 1 (1.96%) IoT
5 1 (1.96%) Legacy Applications
5 1 (1.96%) PKI
5 1 (1.96%) Product Ownership
5 1 (1.96%) Security Posture
Operating Systems
1 6 (11.76%) Linux
2 3 (5.88%) Unix
3 2 (3.92%) AIX
3 2 (3.92%) Windows
4 1 (1.96%) CentOS
4 1 (1.96%) Windows Server
4 1 (1.96%) Windows Server 2016
4 1 (1.96%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 31 (60.78%) Containerisation
2 26 (50.98%) DevOps
3 19 (37.25%) CI/CD
4 16 (31.37%) Infrastructure as Code
5 15 (29.41%) Test Automation
6 14 (27.45%) Configuration Management
6 14 (27.45%) Problem-Solving
7 12 (23.53%) Continuous Integration
8 11 (21.57%) Software Engineering
9 10 (19.61%) Site Reliability Engineering
10 9 (17.65%) Microservices
10 9 (17.65%) Software Architecture
10 9 (17.65%) Technical Leadership
11 8 (15.69%) Decision-Making
12 7 (13.73%) Agile
13 6 (11.76%) Cost Management
13 6 (11.76%) Test Strategy
14 5 (9.80%) DevSecOps
14 5 (9.80%) Front End Development
15 4 (7.84%) Performance Optimisation
Programming Languages
1 16 (31.37%) Python
2 11 (21.57%) Java
3 9 (17.65%) SQL
4 8 (15.69%) Bicep
5 6 (11.76%) PowerShell
6 5 (9.80%) TypeScript
7 4 (7.84%) C#
8 3 (5.88%) JavaScript
8 3 (5.88%) Shell Script
9 2 (3.92%) Bash
9 2 (3.92%) R
10 1 (1.96%) VB
10 1 (1.96%) VBScript
Qualifications
1 14 (27.45%) SC Cleared
1 14 (27.45%) Security Cleared
2 3 (5.88%) Azure Certification
3 2 (3.92%) Microsoft Certification
4 1 (1.96%) (ISC)2 CCSP
4 1 (1.96%) CCSP
4 1 (1.96%) Cisco Certification
4 1 (1.96%) CISSP
4 1 (1.96%) Degree
4 1 (1.96%) DV Cleared
4 1 (1.96%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
4 1 (1.96%) OSCP
4 1 (1.96%) SANS
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (3.92%) ISO/IEC 27001
1 2 (3.92%) NIST
System Software
1 32 (62.75%) Docker
2 2 (3.92%) Active Directory
2 2 (3.92%) Hyper-V
3 1 (1.96%) Virtual Desktop
3 1 (1.96%) Virtual Machines
3 1 (1.96%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 20 (39.22%) Ansible
2 16 (31.37%) Terraform
3 9 (17.65%) Docker Swarm
3 9 (17.65%) Podman
4 4 (7.84%) Prometheus
5 3 (5.88%) Grafana
5 3 (5.88%) Microsoft Intune
5 3 (5.88%) SCCM
6 2 (3.92%) Kibana
6 2 (3.92%) Progress Chef
6 2 (3.92%) Puppet
7 1 (1.96%) Active Directory Federation Services
7 1 (1.96%) Argo
7 1 (1.96%) Istio
7 1 (1.96%) SCOM
7 1 (1.96%) WSUS
Vendors
1 9 (17.65%) Microsoft
2 6 (11.76%) VMware
3 3 (5.88%) Splunk
4 2 (3.92%) Cisco
4 2 (3.92%) Dynatrace
4 2 (3.92%) Google
4 2 (3.92%) SAP
4 2 (3.92%) Spotify
5 1 (1.96%) Amdocs
5 1 (1.96%) Dell
5 1 (1.96%) Mavenir
5 1 (1.96%) New Relic
5 1 (1.96%) Rakuten
5 1 (1.96%) Rapid7
5 1 (1.96%) Samsung