Kubernetes Contract Job Trends in Berkshire

Kubernetes (k8s)
South East > Berkshire

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Berkshire requiring Kubernetes skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 15 December 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
15 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 43 41 57
Rank change year-on-year -2 +16 +4
Contract jobs citing Kubernetes 67 67 68
As % of all contract jobs in Berkshire 4.56% 4.39% 3.89%
As % of the Systems Management category 27.13% 35.45% 26.77%
Number of daily rates quoted 47 42 53
10th Percentile £413 £394 £400
25th Percentile £448 £409 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £514 £600
Median % change year-on-year -2.68% -14.38% +16.50%
75th Percentile £539 £608 £620
90th Percentile £603 £638 £700
South East median daily rate £500 £550 £570
% change year-on-year -9.09% -3.51% +3.64%
Number of hourly rates quoted 3 0 0
10th Percentile £72.40 - -
25th Percentile £76.00 - -
Median hourly rate £82.00 - -
75th Percentile £84.00 - -
90th Percentile £85.20 - -
South East median hourly rate £65.00 - £76.53
% change year-on-year - - -19.44%

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 247 189 254
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Berkshire 16.80% 12.38% 14.52%
Number of daily rates quoted 156 132 203
10th Percentile £313 £330 £149
25th Percentile £407 £390 £213
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £518 £463
Median % change year-on-year -8.21% +11.89% -11.90%
75th Percentile £543 £638 £615
90th Percentile £611 £688 £698
South East median daily rate £492 £500 £525
% change year-on-year -1.60% -4.76% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 9 0 7
10th Percentile £18.44 - -
25th Percentile £18.87 - £48.40
Median hourly rate £20.00 - £49.73
Median % change year-on-year - - -9.58%
75th Percentile £80.00 - £66.82
90th Percentile £82.80 - £68.63
South East median hourly rate £40.00 £29.25 £48.40
% change year-on-year +36.75% -39.57% +14.87%

Kubernetes
Job Vacancy Trend in Berkshire

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

Kubernetes job vacancy trend in Berkshire

Kubernetes
Daily Rate Trend in Berkshire

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

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Berkshire citing Kubernetes

Kubernetes
Daily Rate Histogram in Berkshire

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Kubernetes in Berkshire over the 6 months to 15 December 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Kubernetes in Berkshire

Kubernetes
Hourly Rate Trend in Berkshire

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in Berkshire citing Kubernetes.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in Berkshire citing Kubernetes

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 15 December 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
Wokingham +5 33 £493 -1.20% 1
Reading -10 27 £525 - 14
Windsor - 2 £475 -
Bracknell -11 1 - - 4
Kubernetes
South East

Kubernetes
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Berkshire 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:

Application Platforms
1 1 (1.49%) Apache
1 1 (1.49%) CMS
1 1 (1.49%) Drupal
1 1 (1.49%) Jupyter
1 1 (1.49%) WordPress
Cloud Services
1 42 (62.69%) Azure
2 28 (41.79%) AWS
3 20 (29.85%) OpenShift
4 17 (25.37%) GCP
5 13 (19.40%) Azure AKS
6 12 (17.91%) IaaS
7 11 (16.42%) Azure DevOps
8 7 (10.45%) PaaS
9 4 (5.97%) AWS CloudFormation
9 4 (5.97%) Azure Data Factory
9 4 (5.97%) Azure Machine Learning
9 4 (5.97%) Azure Storage
9 4 (5.97%) Azure Synapse Analytics
10 3 (4.48%) Azure Key Vault
10 3 (4.48%) Azure Monitor
10 3 (4.48%) Entra ID
10 3 (4.48%) GitHub
11 2 (2.99%) Azure Functions
11 2 (2.99%) GitHub Actions
11 2 (2.99%) Google Kubernetes Engine
Communications & Networking
1 10 (14.93%) DNS
2 9 (13.43%) Firewall
3 5 (7.46%) TCP/IP
4 4 (5.97%) DHCP
5 3 (4.48%) Network Security
6 1 (1.49%) HTTP
6 1 (1.49%) SSL
6 1 (1.49%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (7.46%) Azure SQL Database
2 4 (5.97%) Data Lake
3 3 (4.48%) NoSQL
4 2 (2.99%) Elasticsearch
4 2 (2.99%) MongoDB
4 2 (2.99%) PostgreSQL
5 1 (1.49%) MySQL
5 1 (1.49%) Redis
5 1 (1.49%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 16 (23.88%) Jenkins
2 14 (20.90%) Git
3 4 (5.97%) GitLab
4 1 (1.49%) Artifactory
4 1 (1.49%) Cypress.io
4 1 (1.49%) JIRA
4 1 (1.49%) MLflow
4 1 (1.49%) Mocha
General
1 23 (34.33%) Social Skills
2 12 (17.91%) Public Sector
3 8 (11.94%) Analytical Skills
4 3 (4.48%) Finance
5 2 (2.99%) Billing
5 2 (2.99%) Telecoms
6 1 (1.49%) Aerospace
6 1 (1.49%) Documentation Skills
Job Titles
1 23 (34.33%) Architect
2 14 (20.90%) Site Engineer
2 14 (20.90%) Site Reliability Engineer
3 11 (16.42%) DevOps Engineer
4 10 (14.93%) Senior
5 8 (11.94%) Azure Engineer
5 8 (11.94%) Infrastructure Engineer
5 8 (11.94%) Security Architect
6 5 (7.46%) Artificial Intelligence Architect
6 5 (7.46%) Solutions Architect
7 4 (5.97%) Azure DevOps Engineer
7 4 (5.97%) Azure Infrastructure Engineer
7 4 (5.97%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
8 3 (4.48%) Platform Engineer
8 3 (4.48%) Principal Engineer
9 2 (2.99%) Cloud Engineer
9 2 (2.99%) Senior DevOps
9 2 (2.99%) Senior DevOps Engineer
10 1 (1.49%) AWS Engineer
10 1 (1.49%) Cloud Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 9 (13.43%) PyTorch
1 9 (13.43%) TensorFlow
2 8 (11.94%) Loki
2 8 (11.94%) scikit-learn
3 5 (7.46%) ADO
4 4 (5.97%) Google JAX
4 4 (5.97%) JAX
4 4 (5.97%) RESTful
5 3 (4.48%) GraphQL
5 3 (4.48%) OpenAPI
5 3 (4.48%) REST
5 3 (4.48%) Swagger
6 2 (2.99%) .NET
6 2 (2.99%) .NET Core
6 2 (2.99%) Jinja
6 2 (2.99%) JSON
6 2 (2.99%) Kafka
7 1 (1.49%) OAuth
7 1 (1.49%) Spring
7 1 (1.49%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 21 (31.34%) Cloud Native
2 8 (11.94%) Virtual Team
3 6 (8.96%) Distributed Systems
4 5 (7.46%) Hybrid Cloud
4 5 (7.46%) Security Posture
5 4 (5.97%) PKI
6 3 (4.48%) Algorithms
6 3 (4.48%) Cloud Security Posture
6 3 (4.48%) Enterprise Software
6 3 (4.48%) Public Cloud
7 2 (2.99%) Onboarding
7 2 (2.99%) Self-Motivation
7 2 (2.99%) TM Forum
8 1 (1.49%) Data Protection Act
Operating Systems
1 27 (40.30%) Linux
2 8 (11.94%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 6 (8.96%) Windows
4 1 (1.49%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 57 (85.07%) CI/CD
2 35 (52.24%) DevOps
3 26 (38.81%) Containerisation
4 19 (28.36%) Site Reliability Engineering
5 17 (25.37%) Problem-Solving
6 16 (23.88%) Infrastructure as Code
7 15 (22.39%) Agile
8 10 (14.93%) DevSecOps
9 9 (13.43%) High Availability
9 9 (13.43%) Infrastructure Engineering
9 9 (13.43%) Machine Learning
9 9 (13.43%) Microservices
9 9 (13.43%) Observability
10 8 (11.94%) Infrastructure Management
10 8 (11.94%) Platform Engineering
10 8 (11.94%) SDLC
10 8 (11.94%) Security Architecture
10 8 (11.94%) SIEM
11 7 (10.45%) MLOps
11 7 (10.45%) Threat Modelling
Programming Languages
1 45 (67.16%) Python
2 21 (31.34%) Bash
3 12 (17.91%) Java
3 12 (17.91%) SQL
4 8 (11.94%) PowerShell
4 8 (11.94%) R
5 6 (8.96%) Go
6 4 (5.97%) Bicep
6 4 (5.97%) C++
6 4 (5.97%) JavaScript
7 3 (4.48%) C
7 3 (4.48%) C#
8 2 (2.99%) PHP
8 2 (2.99%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 34 (50.75%) Security Cleared
2 27 (40.30%) SC Cleared
3 8 (11.94%) AWS Certification
4 5 (7.46%) RHCE
5 4 (5.97%) Azure Certification
5 4 (5.97%) Cisco Certification
6 3 (4.48%) (ISC)2 CCSP
6 3 (4.48%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
6 3 (4.48%) CCSP
6 3 (4.48%) CISSP
6 3 (4.48%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
7 1 (1.49%) CCNA
7 1 (1.49%) CCNP
7 1 (1.49%) Computer Science Degree
7 1 (1.49%) Degree
7 1 (1.49%) JNCIP
7 1 (1.49%) Network+ Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 8 (11.94%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 7 (10.45%) GDPR
2 7 (10.45%) NIST
3 5 (7.46%) EU AI Act
4 3 (4.48%) PCI DSS
4 3 (4.48%) PSD2
5 2 (2.99%) QA
System Software
1 29 (43.28%) Docker
2 16 (23.88%) VMware Infrastructure
3 14 (20.90%) vSphere
4 6 (8.96%) Active Directory
4 6 (8.96%) VMware NSX
5 4 (5.97%) Hyper-V
6 1 (1.49%) NDS
6 1 (1.49%) NetIQ eDirectory
6 1 (1.49%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 28 (41.79%) Terraform
2 21 (31.34%) Ansible
3 14 (20.90%) Argo
4 10 (14.93%) Grafana
5 9 (13.43%) Prometheus
6 8 (11.94%) Kustomize
7 6 (8.96%) vCenter Server
8 2 (2.99%) logstash
8 2 (2.99%) Single Sign-On
9 1 (1.49%) Kubeflow
9 1 (1.49%) Puppet
Vendors
1 20 (29.85%) Red Hat
2 18 (26.87%) VMware
3 6 (8.96%) Microsoft
3 6 (8.96%) Pure Storage
4 3 (4.48%) Google
5 1 (1.49%) NetIQ
5 1 (1.49%) OpenText
5 1 (1.49%) Oracle
5 1 (1.49%) Salesforce
5 1 (1.49%) Splunk
5 1 (1.49%) Virgin Media