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 17 June 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
17 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 38 46 48
Rank change year-on-year +8 +2 -11
Contract jobs citing Kubernetes 50 18 32
As % of all contract jobs in Bristol 3.76% 3.01% 2.88%
As % of the Systems Management category 46.73% 19.78% 29.91%
Number of daily rates quoted 29 12 15
10th Percentile £400 £442 £455
25th Percentile £450 £472 £478
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £538 £523 £525
Median % change year-on-year +2.87% -0.48% +12.30%
75th Percentile £609 £625 £560
90th Percentile £633 £636 £583
South West median daily rate £550 £600 £550
% change year-on-year -8.33% +9.09% +4.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 3 7
10th Percentile - £78.96 £60.65
25th Percentile - £79.35 £68.13
Median hourly rate - £80.00 £74.44
Median % change year-on-year - +7.47% +29.46%
75th Percentile - £81.48 £75.97
90th Percentile - £82.37 £77.70
South West median hourly rate - £80.00 £74.44
% change year-on-year - +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 107 91 107
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Bristol 8.05% 15.22% 9.61%
Number of daily rates quoted 65 63 78
10th Percentile £381 £235 £214
25th Percentile £449 £413 £306
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £454 £468
Median % change year-on-year +15.64% -2.89% -10.95%
75th Percentile £588 £625 £538
90th Percentile £645 £675 £607
South West median daily rate £533 £575 £525
% change year-on-year -7.39% +9.52% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 6 7
10th Percentile - £18.33 £60.65
25th Percentile - £32.28 £68.13
Median hourly rate - £76.85 £74.44
Median % change year-on-year - +3.24% +29.46%
75th Percentile - £79.68 £75.97
90th Percentile - £81.48 £77.70
South West median hourly rate £51.00 £70.00 £40.00
% change year-on-year -27.14% +75.00% -48.72%

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 17 June 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 2 (4.00%) Apache Spark
2 1 (2.00%) Apache
2 1 (2.00%) Apache Airflow
2 1 (2.00%) Oracle Coherence
Cloud Services
1 24 (48.00%) GCP
2 22 (44.00%) AWS
3 17 (34.00%) Azure
4 12 (24.00%) Google Kubernetes Engine
5 8 (16.00%) OpenShift
6 6 (12.00%) GitHub
7 4 (8.00%) Amazon EKS
7 4 (8.00%) AWS CloudFormation
7 4 (8.00%) GitHub Actions
7 4 (8.00%) SaaS
8 3 (6.00%) Azure AKS
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 3 (6.00%) PostgreSQL
2 2 (4.00%) Big Data
2 2 (4.00%) BigQuery
3 1 (2.00%) Amazon RDS
3 1 (2.00%) Data Lake
3 1 (2.00%) Oracle Database
Development Applications
1 15 (30.00%) Jenkins
2 14 (28.00%) GitLab
3 8 (16.00%) Git
4 5 (10.00%) Sonatype Nexus
5 3 (6.00%) Cucumber
5 3 (6.00%) SonarQube
6 2 (4.00%) JUnit
6 2 (4.00%) Selenium
7 1 (2.00%) Artifactory
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
2 5 (10.00%) Public Sector
3 2 (4.00%) Finance
3 2 (4.00%) Local Government
3 2 (4.00%) Military
3 2 (4.00%) Police
4 1 (2.00%) Aerospace
4 1 (2.00%) Banking
Job Titles
1 17 (34.00%) DevOps Engineer
2 14 (28.00%) GCP Engineer
3 8 (16.00%) GCP DevOps
3 8 (16.00%) GCP DevOps Engineer
4 7 (14.00%) Senior
5 4 (8.00%) AWS Engineer
5 4 (8.00%) Platform Engineer
5 4 (8.00%) Software Engineer
6 3 (6.00%) Administrator
6 3 (6.00%) Architect
6 3 (6.00%) Developer
6 3 (6.00%) Front-End Engineer (Client-Side Engineer)
6 3 (6.00%) Lead
6 3 (6.00%) Site Reliability Engineer
7 2 (4.00%) AWS DevOps
7 2 (4.00%) AWS DevOps Engineer
7 2 (4.00%) Cloud Engineer
7 2 (4.00%) DevSecOps Engineer
7 2 (4.00%) Infrastructure Engineer
7 2 (4.00%) Kubernetes Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 6 (12.00%) Spring Boot
2 5 (10.00%) Node.js
2 5 (10.00%) React
2 5 (10.00%) REST
3 4 (8.00%) Elastic Stack
3 4 (8.00%) Quarkus
3 4 (8.00%) Spring
4 3 (6.00%) Jest
4 3 (6.00%) OAuth
4 3 (6.00%) OAuth2
4 3 (6.00%) RESTful
4 3 (6.00%) Web Services
5 2 (4.00%) JAX-RS
5 2 (4.00%) JPA
5 2 (4.00%) Kafka
5 2 (4.00%) Keycloak
5 2 (4.00%) Swagger
6 1 (2.00%) Apache NiFi
6 1 (2.00%) PySpark
6 1 (2.00%) TensorFlow
Miscellaneous
1 9 (18.00%) Cloud Native
2 3 (6.00%) Public Cloud
3 2 (4.00%) Distributed Systems
3 2 (4.00%) Mobile App
3 2 (4.00%) Private Cloud
4 1 (2.00%) Learning Management System
4 1 (2.00%) Linux Command Line
4 1 (2.00%) Onboarding
4 1 (2.00%) PKI
Operating Systems
1 8 (16.00%) Linux
2 3 (6.00%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 2 (4.00%) Windows
4 1 (2.00%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 39 (78.00%) DevOps
2 36 (72.00%) CI/CD
3 26 (52.00%) Containerisation
4 24 (48.00%) Infrastructure as Code
5 13 (26.00%) Site Reliability Engineering
6 12 (24.00%) DevSecOps
6 12 (24.00%) Observability
7 11 (22.00%) Software Engineering
8 10 (20.00%) Agile
8 10 (20.00%) Cloud Security
8 10 (20.00%) Continuous Improvement
8 10 (20.00%) Platform Engineering
9 9 (18.00%) Microservices
9 9 (18.00%) Problem-Solving
10 8 (16.00%) Test Automation
11 7 (14.00%) AI
12 5 (10.00%) High Availability
12 5 (10.00%) Infrastructure Engineering
12 5 (10.00%) Mentoring
12 5 (10.00%) Roadmaps
Programming Languages
1 18 (36.00%) Python
2 10 (20.00%) Bash
3 9 (18.00%) Java
4 8 (16.00%) Go
5 4 (8.00%) TypeScript
6 3 (6.00%) JavaScript
6 3 (6.00%) PowerShell
6 3 (6.00%) SQL
7 2 (4.00%) Groovy
Qualifications
1 24 (48.00%) Security Cleared
2 21 (42.00%) SC Cleared
3 7 (14.00%) DV Cleared
4 2 (4.00%) Computer Science Degree
4 2 (4.00%) 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 3 (6.00%) Accessibility
1 3 (6.00%) NCSC
1 3 (6.00%) QA
1 3 (6.00%) WCAG
2 1 (2.00%) Data Quality
2 1 (2.00%) Government Security Classifications
2 1 (2.00%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 1 (2.00%) NIST
System Software
1 19 (38.00%) 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 23 (46.00%) Terraform
2 9 (18.00%) Ansible
3 8 (16.00%) Grafana
3 8 (16.00%) Prometheus
4 4 (8.00%) Istio
5 3 (6.00%) Argo
6 2 (4.00%) Cilium
7 1 (2.00%) Kubeflow
7 1 (2.00%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 12 (24.00%) Google
2 8 (16.00%) Red Hat
3 3 (6.00%) Dynatrace
3 3 (6.00%) VMware
4 2 (4.00%) BiZZdesign
4 2 (4.00%) Dell
4 2 (4.00%) Microsoft
5 1 (2.00%) Databricks
5 1 (2.00%) IBM
5 1 (2.00%) Oracle
5 1 (2.00%) Splunk
5 1 (2.00%) webMethods