Kubernetes Contract Job Trends in Brighton

Kubernetes (k8s)
East Sussex > Brighton

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Brighton requiring Kubernetes skills. It covers vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 20 September 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
20 Sep 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 10 17 18
Rank change year-on-year +7 +1 -1
Contract jobs citing Kubernetes 2 1 1
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Brighton 4.35% 1.89% 1.16%
As % of the Systems Management category 40.00% 33.33% 11.11%
Number of daily rates quoted 1 0 1
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £438 - -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 - £700
75th Percentile £463 - -
90th Percentile - - -
East Sussex median daily rate £450 £460 £700
% change year-on-year -2.17% -34.29% -

All Systems Management Skills
Brighton

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 Brighton.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for systems management skills 5 3 9
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Brighton 10.87% 5.66% 10.47%
Number of daily rates quoted 4 2 7
10th Percentile £341 £379 -
25th Percentile £403 £384 £513
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £463 £413 £525
Median % change year-on-year +12.12% -21.43% +5.00%
75th Percentile £488 £434 £606
90th Percentile - £436 £678
East Sussex median daily rate £298 £440 £525
% change year-on-year -32.39% -16.19% +5.00%

Kubernetes
Job Vacancy Trend in Brighton

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

Job vacancy trend for Kubernetes in Brighton

Kubernetes
Daily Rate Trend in Brighton

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

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Brighton citing Kubernetes

Kubernetes
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Brighton 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:

Cloud Services
1 2 (100.00%) AWS
2 1 (50.00%) Akamai
2 1 (50.00%) Amazon CloudWatch
2 1 (50.00%) Amazon EKS
2 1 (50.00%) Amazon ELB
2 1 (50.00%) Datadog
2 1 (50.00%) GitHub
2 1 (50.00%) GitHub Actions
2 1 (50.00%) Route 53
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (50.00%) Amazon RDS
Development Applications
1 1 (50.00%) Jenkins
General
1 1 (50.00%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 2 (100.00%) AWS DevOps
1 2 (100.00%) AWS DevOps Engineer
1 2 (100.00%) AWS Engineer
1 2 (100.00%) DevOps Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (50.00%) .NET
1 1 (50.00%) Node.js
Miscellaneous
1 1 (50.00%) Public Cloud
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (100.00%) Containerisation
1 2 (100.00%) DevOps
1 2 (100.00%) Infrastructure as Code
2 1 (50.00%) Change Management
2 1 (50.00%) CI/CD
2 1 (50.00%) Cloud Security
2 1 (50.00%) Incident Management
2 1 (50.00%) Load Balancing
2 1 (50.00%) Migration
2 1 (50.00%) Observability
2 1 (50.00%) Performance Optimisation
2 1 (50.00%) Platform Engineering
2 1 (50.00%) Problem Management
2 1 (50.00%) Site Reliability Engineering
Programming Languages
1 1 (50.00%) Bash
1 1 (50.00%) PowerShell
1 1 (50.00%) Python
System Software
1 1 (50.00%) Docker
Systems Management
1 2 (100.00%) Terraform