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 vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 19 September 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
19 Sep 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 53 52 38
Rank change year-on-year -1 -14 +14
Contract jobs citing Kubernetes 17 25 48
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Bristol 2.33% 2.71% 4.51%
As % of the Systems Management category 18.09% 35.71% 38.40%
Number of daily rates quoted 13 18 44
10th Percentile £417 £459 £433
25th Percentile £463 £502 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £533 £468
Median % change year-on-year -1.50% +14.01% -22.08%
75th Percentile £551 £575 £589
90th Percentile £684 £591 £688
South West median daily rate £550 £550 £550
% change year-on-year - - -2.65%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 5 0
Median hourly rate £80.00 £74.00 -
Median % change year-on-year +8.11% - -
South West median hourly rate £80.00 £74.00 £78.00
% change year-on-year +8.11% -5.13% -

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 94 70 125
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Bristol 12.89% 7.58% 11.74%
Number of daily rates quoted 67 54 99
10th Percentile £253 £245 £323
25th Percentile £414 £388 £441
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £513 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year +2.50% - -9.09%
75th Percentile £581 £568 £675
90th Percentile £683 £621 £690
South West median daily rate £538 £538 £550
% change year-on-year - -2.27% +4.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 4 5 4
10th Percentile £18.11 - £17.21
25th Percentile £18.60 - £19.16
Median hourly rate £46.94 £74.00 £47.50
Median % change year-on-year -36.57% +55.79% +137.50%
75th Percentile £78.13 £74.44 £77.19
90th Percentile £79.25 - £78.88
South West median hourly rate £36.00 £74.00 £78.00
% change year-on-year -51.35% -5.13% +194.34%

Kubernetes
Job Vacancy Trend in Bristol

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

Job vacancy trend for Kubernetes 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 19 September 2025.

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 and Capabilities in Bristol 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 5 (29.41%) Apache
2 1 (5.88%) Apache Spark
Cloud Services
1 10 (58.82%) AWS
2 4 (23.53%) Azure
2 4 (23.53%) GCP
3 2 (11.76%) Azure AKS
3 2 (11.76%) Azure Cosmos DB
3 2 (11.76%) Azure DevOps
3 2 (11.76%) Entra ID
3 2 (11.76%) OpenShift
4 1 (5.88%) Amazon EC2
4 1 (5.88%) Amazon GuardDuty
4 1 (5.88%) Amazon S3
4 1 (5.88%) AWS CloudTrail
4 1 (5.88%) AWS Control Tower
4 1 (5.88%) GitHub
4 1 (5.88%) GitHub Actions
Communications & Networking
1 2 (11.76%) DNS
1 2 (11.76%) Firewall
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (23.53%) Elasticsearch
2 1 (5.88%) Amazon RDS
2 1 (5.88%) Big Data
2 1 (5.88%) Hadoop
2 1 (5.88%) MySQL
Development Applications
1 5 (29.41%) GitLab
2 4 (23.53%) Jenkins
3 2 (11.76%) Artifactory
4 1 (5.88%) CMake
4 1 (5.88%) Git
4 1 (5.88%) Gradle
4 1 (5.88%) JIRA
4 1 (5.88%) SonarQube
General
1 2 (11.76%) Finance
1 2 (11.76%) Law
1 2 (11.76%) Public Sector
1 2 (11.76%) Social Skills
2 1 (5.88%) Analytical Skills
2 1 (5.88%) Electronics
2 1 (5.88%) Manufacturing
2 1 (5.88%) Marketing
2 1 (5.88%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 8 (47.06%) DevOps Engineer
2 2 (11.76%) Administrator
2 2 (11.76%) Data Engineer
2 2 (11.76%) DevOps Administrator
2 2 (11.76%) Full-Stack Engineer
2 2 (11.76%) Full-Stack Software Engineer
2 2 (11.76%) Lead
2 2 (11.76%) Linux Administrator
2 2 (11.76%) Linux DevOps Administrator
2 2 (11.76%) Linux/Unix DevOps
2 2 (11.76%) Software Engineer
3 1 (5.88%) Architect
3 1 (5.88%) Lead DevOps
3 1 (5.88%) Lead DevOps Engineer
3 1 (5.88%) Security Architect
3 1 (5.88%) Security Engineer
3 1 (5.88%) Senior
3 1 (5.88%) Senior Data Engineer
3 1 (5.88%) Site Reliability Engineer
3 1 (5.88%) Systems Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (23.53%) Apache NiFi
1 4 (23.53%) Elastic Stack
1 4 (23.53%) React
2 2 (11.76%) .NET
2 2 (11.76%) Express.js
2 2 (11.76%) Next.js
2 2 (11.76%) Node.js
3 1 (5.88%) Bazel
3 1 (5.88%) Kafka
3 1 (5.88%) LAMP
3 1 (5.88%) REST
Miscellaneous
1 2 (11.76%) Cloud Native
1 2 (11.76%) Linux Command Line
2 1 (5.88%) Data Centre
2 1 (5.88%) Hybrid Cloud
2 1 (5.88%) Replication
Operating Systems
1 7 (41.18%) Linux
2 2 (11.76%) Windows
3 1 (5.88%) CentOS
3 1 (5.88%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 1 (5.88%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 13 (76.47%) DevOps
2 9 (52.94%) CI/CD
3 7 (41.18%) Containerisation
4 6 (35.29%) Infrastructure as Code
5 4 (23.53%) Decision-Making
5 4 (23.53%) Software Engineering
6 3 (17.65%) DevSecOps
6 3 (17.65%) Disaster Recovery
6 3 (17.65%) High Availability
6 3 (17.65%) Task Automation
7 2 (11.76%) Data Ingestion
7 2 (11.76%) Data Pipeline
7 2 (11.76%) Digital Transformation Programme
7 2 (11.76%) Full-Stack Development
7 2 (11.76%) GitOps
7 2 (11.76%) Security Hardening
7 2 (11.76%) Security Operations
7 2 (11.76%) Site Reliability Engineering
7 2 (11.76%) Technical Leadership
7 2 (11.76%) Vulnerability Scanning
Programming Languages
1 7 (41.18%) Python
2 4 (23.53%) TypeScript
3 3 (17.65%) Bash
4 2 (11.76%) Bicep
4 2 (11.76%) C#
4 2 (11.76%) Perl
5 1 (5.88%) C
5 1 (5.88%) C++
5 1 (5.88%) PHP
5 1 (5.88%) PowerShell
5 1 (5.88%) Ruby
5 1 (5.88%) Shell Script
5 1 (5.88%) SQL
Qualifications
1 14 (82.35%) Security Cleared
2 7 (41.18%) DV Cleared
2 7 (41.18%) SC Cleared
3 2 (11.76%) AWS Certification
4 1 (5.88%) Computer Science Degree
4 1 (5.88%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (5.88%) Data Quality
1 1 (5.88%) QA
System Software
1 11 (64.71%) Docker
2 2 (11.76%) Active Directory
3 1 (5.88%) Virtual Machines
3 1 (5.88%) VMware Infrastructure
3 1 (5.88%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 9 (52.94%) Terraform
2 8 (47.06%) Grafana
2 8 (47.06%) Prometheus
3 7 (41.18%) Ansible
4 4 (23.53%) Kibana
5 2 (11.76%) logstash
6 1 (5.88%) Progress Chef
6 1 (5.88%) Puppet
6 1 (5.88%) Rancher
Vendors
1 3 (17.65%) VMware
2 2 (11.76%) Microsoft
2 2 (11.76%) Red Hat
3 1 (5.88%) SAP