Kubernetes Contract Job Trends in Bristol

Kubernetes (k8s)
South West > Bristol

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Bristol requiring Kubernetes skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 30 May 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
30 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 36 37 49
Rank change year-on-year +1 +12 -19
Contract jobs citing Kubernetes 50 23 28
As % of all contract jobs in Bristol 3.86% 3.94% 2.64%
As % of the Systems Management category 50.51% 26.74% 26.17%
Number of daily rates quoted 29 16 13
10th Percentile £400 £440 £476
25th Percentile £425 £457 £481
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £523 £533
Median % change year-on-year +5.26% -1.97% +14.01%
75th Percentile £613 £597 £570
90th Percentile £633 £631 £585
South West median daily rate £563 £600 £550
% change year-on-year -6.25% +9.09% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 3 6
10th Percentile £79.40 £78.96 £59.88
25th Percentile £80.00 £79.35 £65.94
Median hourly rate £81.00 £80.00 £74.44
Median % change year-on-year +1.25% +7.47% +29.46%
75th Percentile £82.00 £81.48 £76.74
90th Percentile £82.60 £82.37 £77.75
South West median hourly rate £81.00 £80.00 £74.44
% change year-on-year +1.25% +7.47% -4.56%

All Systems Management Skills
Bristol

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 Bristol.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for systems management skills 99 86 107
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Bristol 7.65% 14.73% 10.08%
Number of daily rates quoted 59 61 74
10th Percentile £373 £235 £213
25th Percentile £426 £413 £300
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £450 £460
Median % change year-on-year +11.11% -2.17% -12.38%
75th Percentile £594 £588 £538
90th Percentile £653 £668 £595
South West median daily rate £535 £563 £525
% change year-on-year -4.89% +7.14% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 5 7
10th Percentile £79.40 £18.22 £57.65
25th Percentile £80.00 £18.87 £61.25
Median hourly rate £81.00 £78.70 £74.44
Median % change year-on-year +2.92% +5.72% +29.46%
75th Percentile £82.00 £80.00 £75.97
90th Percentile £82.60 £81.78 £77.70
South West median hourly rate £51.00 £70.00 £40.00
% change year-on-year -27.14% +75.00% -48.39%

Kubernetes
Job Vacancy Trend in Bristol

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

Kubernetes job vacancy trend in Bristol

Kubernetes
Daily Rate Trend in Bristol

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

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Bristol citing Kubernetes

Kubernetes
Daily Rate Histogram in Bristol

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Kubernetes in Bristol over the 6 months to 30 May 2026.

Daily rate histogram for Kubernetes in Bristol

Kubernetes
Hourly Rate Trend in Bristol

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

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in Bristol citing Kubernetes

Kubernetes
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Bristol 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 4 (8.00%) Apache
2 3 (6.00%) Apache Spark
3 1 (2.00%) Apache Airflow
Cloud Services
1 23 (46.00%) GCP
2 18 (36.00%) AWS
3 14 (28.00%) Azure
4 10 (20.00%) Google Kubernetes Engine
5 8 (16.00%) OpenShift
6 5 (10.00%) GitHub
7 4 (8.00%) Amazon EKS
7 4 (8.00%) AWS CloudFormation
7 4 (8.00%) SaaS
8 3 (6.00%) Azure AKS
8 3 (6.00%) GitHub Actions
9 2 (4.00%) Apigee
10 1 (2.00%) Amazon CloudWatch
10 1 (2.00%) Amazon ECS
10 1 (2.00%) AWS Lambda
10 1 (2.00%) Azure DevOps
10 1 (2.00%) Datadog
10 1 (2.00%) Serverless
10 1 (2.00%) Stackdriver
10 1 (2.00%) Virtual Private Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 4 (8.00%) DNS
1 4 (8.00%) VPN
2 1 (2.00%) Calico
2 1 (2.00%) Firewall
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (4.00%) Big Data
1 2 (4.00%) BigQuery
1 2 (4.00%) PostgreSQL
2 1 (2.00%) Amazon RDS
2 1 (2.00%) Elasticsearch
2 1 (2.00%) Hadoop
Development Applications
1 17 (34.00%) GitLab
2 16 (32.00%) Jenkins
3 8 (16.00%) Git
4 6 (12.00%) Sonatype Nexus
5 3 (6.00%) Artifactory
5 3 (6.00%) Cucumber
5 3 (6.00%) SonarQube
6 2 (4.00%) JUnit
6 2 (4.00%) Selenium
7 1 (2.00%) Burp Suite
7 1 (2.00%) Gatling
7 1 (2.00%) Gradle
7 1 (2.00%) LoadRunner
7 1 (2.00%) MLflow
7 1 (2.00%) Mockito
7 1 (2.00%) NUnit
7 1 (2.00%) Postman
7 1 (2.00%) REST Assured
General
1 6 (12.00%) Social Skills
2 5 (10.00%) Analytical Skills
3 3 (6.00%) Aerospace
3 3 (6.00%) Finance
4 2 (4.00%) Public Sector
5 1 (2.00%) Banking
5 1 (2.00%) Military
Job Titles
1 19 (38.00%) DevOps Engineer
2 14 (28.00%) GCP Engineer
3 8 (16.00%) GCP DevOps
3 8 (16.00%) GCP DevOps Engineer
3 8 (16.00%) Senior
4 5 (10.00%) Platform Engineer
4 5 (10.00%) Software Engineer
5 4 (8.00%) Administrator
5 4 (8.00%) AWS Engineer
6 3 (6.00%) Developer
6 3 (6.00%) Lead
6 3 (6.00%) Senior Software Engineer
6 3 (6.00%) Site Reliability Engineer
7 2 (4.00%) Architect
7 2 (4.00%) DevOps Platform Engineer
7 2 (4.00%) Front-End Engineer (Client-Side Engineer)
7 2 (4.00%) Infrastructure Engineer
7 2 (4.00%) Network Engineer
7 2 (4.00%) Senior Network Engineer
7 2 (4.00%) Site Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 6 (12.00%) Elastic Stack
1 6 (12.00%) REST
2 5 (10.00%) Spring Boot
3 4 (8.00%) Apache NiFi
3 4 (8.00%) Node.js
3 4 (8.00%) React
3 4 (8.00%) Spring
4 3 (6.00%) Kafka
4 3 (6.00%) OAuth
4 3 (6.00%) OAuth2
4 3 (6.00%) Quarkus
4 3 (6.00%) RESTful
5 2 (4.00%) JAX-RS
5 2 (4.00%) Jest
5 2 (4.00%) JPA
5 2 (4.00%) Keycloak
5 2 (4.00%) Web Services
6 1 (2.00%) NumPy
6 1 (2.00%) OpenID
6 1 (2.00%) SAML
Miscellaneous
1 8 (16.00%) Cloud Native
2 3 (6.00%) Public Cloud
3 2 (4.00%) Distributed Systems
3 2 (4.00%) Mobile App
3 2 (4.00%) Onboarding
3 2 (4.00%) Private Cloud
4 1 (2.00%) Algorithms
4 1 (2.00%) Learning Management System
4 1 (2.00%) Linux Command Line
4 1 (2.00%) PKI
4 1 (2.00%) Replication
Operating Systems
1 7 (14.00%) Linux
2 3 (6.00%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
2 3 (6.00%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 37 (74.00%) CI/CD
1 37 (74.00%) DevOps
2 24 (48.00%) Containerisation
3 21 (42.00%) Infrastructure as Code
4 13 (26.00%) Software Engineering
5 11 (22.00%) Continuous Improvement
5 11 (22.00%) DevSecOps
5 11 (22.00%) Observability
6 10 (20.00%) Cloud Security
6 10 (20.00%) Site Reliability Engineering
7 9 (18.00%) Problem-Solving
8 8 (16.00%) Microservices
8 8 (16.00%) Platform Engineering
9 7 (14.00%) Agile
9 7 (14.00%) Test Automation
10 6 (12.00%) High Availability
11 5 (10.00%) AI
11 5 (10.00%) Configuration Management
11 5 (10.00%) Infrastructure Engineering
11 5 (10.00%) Mentoring
Programming Languages
1 20 (40.00%) Python
2 10 (20.00%) Bash
3 8 (16.00%) Go
4 7 (14.00%) Java
5 5 (10.00%) PowerShell
6 3 (6.00%) SQL
6 3 (6.00%) TypeScript
7 2 (4.00%) Groovy
7 2 (4.00%) JavaScript
8 1 (2.00%) Bicep
Qualifications
1 22 (44.00%) Security Cleared
2 18 (36.00%) SC Cleared
3 5 (10.00%) DV Cleared
4 4 (8.00%) Computer Science Degree
4 4 (8.00%) Degree
5 1 (2.00%) (ISC)2 CCSP
5 1 (2.00%) AWS Certification
5 1 (2.00%) CCSK
5 1 (2.00%) CCSP
5 1 (2.00%) Cisco Certification
5 1 (2.00%) CISM
5 1 (2.00%) CISSP
5 1 (2.00%) ISTQB
5 1 (2.00%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
5 1 (2.00%) Master's Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (10.00%) QA
2 3 (6.00%) NCSC
3 2 (4.00%) Accessibility
3 2 (4.00%) Data Quality
3 2 (4.00%) WCAG
4 1 (2.00%) Government Security Classifications
4 1 (2.00%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 1 (2.00%) NIST
System Software
1 18 (36.00%) Docker
2 1 (2.00%) Hyper-V
2 1 (2.00%) KVM
2 1 (2.00%) VMware ESXi
2 1 (2.00%) VMware Infrastructure
2 1 (2.00%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 24 (48.00%) Terraform
2 11 (22.00%) Ansible
3 10 (20.00%) Grafana
3 10 (20.00%) Prometheus
4 4 (8.00%) Istio
5 2 (4.00%) Argo
5 2 (4.00%) Cilium
6 1 (2.00%) Kibana
6 1 (2.00%) Kubeflow
6 1 (2.00%) logstash
6 1 (2.00%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 10 (20.00%) Google
1 10 (20.00%) Red Hat
2 3 (6.00%) Dynatrace
2 3 (6.00%) VMware
3 2 (4.00%) Dell
3 2 (4.00%) Microsoft
4 1 (2.00%) BiZZdesign
4 1 (2.00%) Databricks
4 1 (2.00%) Splunk