Kubernetes Contract Job Trends in Bournemouth

Kubernetes (k8s)
Dorset > Bournemouth

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Bournemouth requiring Kubernetes skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 19 November 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
19 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 10 11 18
Rank change year-on-year +1 +7 -1
Contract jobs citing Kubernetes 2 3 2
As % of all contract jobs in Bournemouth 4.76% 5.45% 2.38%
As % of the Systems Management category 22.22% 25.00% 40.00%
Number of daily rates quoted 2 0 1
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile - - £475
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £270 - £500
Median % change year-on-year - - -28.57%
75th Percentile - - £525
90th Percentile - - -
Dorset median daily rate £550 £575 £500
% change year-on-year -4.35% +15.00% -31.03%

All Systems Management Skills
Bournemouth

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 Bournemouth.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for systems management skills 9 12 5
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Bournemouth 21.43% 21.82% 5.95%
Number of daily rates quoted 6 5 4
10th Percentile £203 £275 £329
25th Percentile £219 £313 £346
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £270 £380 £369
Median % change year-on-year -28.95% +3.05% -32.95%
75th Percentile £489 £449 £422
90th Percentile £579 £472 £484
Dorset median daily rate £540 £325 £498
% change year-on-year +66.15% -34.67% -5.24%

Kubernetes
Job Vacancy Trend in Bournemouth

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

Kubernetes job vacancy trend in Bournemouth

Kubernetes
Daily Rate Trend in Bournemouth

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

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Bournemouth citing Kubernetes

Kubernetes
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Bournemouth 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 2 (100.00%) Amazon EC2
1 2 (100.00%) Amazon S3
1 2 (100.00%) AWS
1 2 (100.00%) AWS Lambda
1 2 (100.00%) Serverless
Development Applications
1 2 (100.00%) Git
Job Titles
1 2 (100.00%) Developer
1 2 (100.00%) Java Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (100.00%) REST
1 2 (100.00%) Spring
1 2 (100.00%) Spring Boot
Miscellaneous
1 2 (100.00%) Cloud Native
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (100.00%) Agile
1 2 (100.00%) CI/CD
1 2 (100.00%) Containerisation
1 2 (100.00%) DevOps
1 2 (100.00%) Microservices
Programming Languages
1 2 (100.00%) Java
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (100.00%) QA
Vendors
1 2 (100.00%) Microsoft