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 26 September 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
26 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 42 47 51
Rank change year-on-year +5 +4 -17
Contract jobs citing Kubernetes 45 20 25
As % of all contract jobs in Bristol 3.32% 2.71% 2.79%
As % of the Systems Management category 47.87% 24.39% 38.46%
Number of daily rates quoted 20 16 17
10th Percentile £424 £423 £470
25th Percentile £463 £463 £508
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £528 £533
Median % change year-on-year +4.27% -1.03% +9.33%
75th Percentile £641 £649 £575
90th Percentile £665 £673 £593
South West median daily rate £550 £550 £550
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 1 5
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile - - -
Median hourly rate - £80.00 £74.00
Median % change year-on-year - +8.11% -
75th Percentile - - £74.44
90th Percentile - - -
South West median hourly rate £98.82 £80.00 £74.00
% change year-on-year +23.53% +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 82 65
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Bristol 6.93% 11.10% 7.25%
Number of daily rates quoted 56 59 48
10th Percentile £406 £235 £280
25th Percentile £449 £413 £444
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £500 £508
Median % change year-on-year +10.00% -1.48% +1.50%
75th Percentile £641 £606 £575
90th Percentile £700 £695 £632
South West median daily rate £550 £541 £538
% change year-on-year +1.62% +0.65% -2.23%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 4 5
10th Percentile - £18.11 -
25th Percentile - £18.60 -
Median hourly rate - £46.94 £74.00
Median % change year-on-year - -36.57% +2.07%
75th Percentile - £78.13 £74.44
90th Percentile - £79.25 -
South West median hourly rate £90.00 £60.00 £74.00
% change year-on-year +50.00% -18.92% -5.13%

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 26 September 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 1 (2.22%) Apache Spark
1 1 (2.22%) Confluence
1 1 (2.22%) Oracle Coherence
1 1 (2.22%) Traefik
Cloud Services
1 23 (51.11%) AWS
1 23 (51.11%) GCP
2 22 (48.89%) Azure
3 12 (26.67%) Google Kubernetes Engine
4 6 (13.33%) SaaS
5 4 (8.89%) AWS CloudFormation
5 4 (8.89%) Azure DevOps
5 4 (8.89%) OpenShift
6 3 (6.67%) Amazon EKS
6 3 (6.67%) Azure AKS
6 3 (6.67%) GitHub
7 2 (4.44%) Amazon Kinesis
7 2 (4.44%) Amazon S3
7 2 (4.44%) Apigee
7 2 (4.44%) Datadog
7 2 (4.44%) GitHub Actions
7 2 (4.44%) PaaS
8 1 (2.22%) AWS Lambda
8 1 (2.22%) Azure Sentinel
8 1 (2.22%) Virtual Private Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 6 (13.33%) DNS
1 6 (13.33%) VPN
2 3 (6.67%) Firewall
3 2 (4.44%) TCP/IP
3 2 (4.44%) tcpdump
4 1 (2.22%) Calico
4 1 (2.22%) Network Security
Database & Business Intelligence
1 6 (13.33%) PostgreSQL
2 2 (4.44%) NoSQL
3 1 (2.22%) Amazon RDS
3 1 (2.22%) BigQuery
3 1 (2.22%) Data Lake
3 1 (2.22%) Metadata
3 1 (2.22%) MySQL
3 1 (2.22%) Oracle Database
3 1 (2.22%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 11 (24.44%) Jenkins
2 8 (17.78%) Git
2 8 (17.78%) GitLab
3 2 (4.44%) Cucumber
3 2 (4.44%) JUnit
3 2 (4.44%) Selenium
3 2 (4.44%) SonarQube
3 2 (4.44%) Sonatype Nexus
3 2 (4.44%) Visual Studio Team System
4 1 (2.22%) Burp Suite
4 1 (2.22%) Gatling
4 1 (2.22%) Gradle
4 1 (2.22%) JIRA
4 1 (2.22%) LoadRunner
4 1 (2.22%) NUnit
4 1 (2.22%) Postman
4 1 (2.22%) REST Assured
General
1 7 (15.56%) Public Sector
2 5 (11.11%) Military
3 4 (8.89%) Finance
4 3 (6.67%) Banking
4 3 (6.67%) Local Government
4 3 (6.67%) Police
4 3 (6.67%) Social Skills
5 2 (4.44%) Aviation
6 1 (2.22%) Analytical Skills
6 1 (2.22%) Influencing Skills
6 1 (2.22%) Legal
6 1 (2.22%) Publishing
Job Titles
1 10 (22.22%) DevOps Engineer
2 9 (20.00%) GCP Engineer
3 8 (17.78%) Architect
3 8 (17.78%) Senior
4 6 (13.33%) GCP DevOps
4 6 (13.33%) GCP DevOps Engineer
5 5 (11.11%) Front-End Engineer (Client-Side Engineer)
6 4 (8.89%) Site Reliability Engineer
6 4 (8.89%) Solutions Architect
7 3 (6.67%) Cloud Engineer
7 3 (6.67%) Lead
7 3 (6.67%) Site Engineer
8 2 (4.44%) Developer
8 2 (4.44%) Lead Architect
8 2 (4.44%) Senior Architect
8 2 (4.44%) Senior Front-End Engineer (Client-Side Engineer)
8 2 (4.44%) Senior Solutions Architect
8 2 (4.44%) Software Engineer
8 2 (4.44%) Technical Architect
8 2 (4.44%) Technical Leader
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 21 (46.67%) Terraform
2 8 (17.78%) React
3 7 (15.56%) Quarkus
4 5 (11.11%) Jest
4 5 (11.11%) REST
5 4 (8.89%) Node.js
6 3 (6.67%) Kafka
6 3 (6.67%) Spring Boot
7 2 (4.44%) Keycloak
7 2 (4.44%) Pulumi
7 2 (4.44%) SOAP
7 2 (4.44%) Swagger
8 1 (2.22%) JMS
8 1 (2.22%) OAuth
8 1 (2.22%) OpenID
8 1 (2.22%) RESTful
8 1 (2.22%) SAML
8 1 (2.22%) Spring
8 1 (2.22%) Web Services
8 1 (2.22%) WSDL
Miscellaneous
1 13 (28.89%) Cloud Native
2 3 (6.67%) Distributed Systems
3 2 (4.44%) Security Posture
4 1 (2.22%) Learning Management System
4 1 (2.22%) Linux Command Line
4 1 (2.22%) Mobile App
4 1 (2.22%) PKI
4 1 (2.22%) Public Cloud
Operating Systems
1 5 (11.11%) Linux
2 1 (2.22%) Windows
2 1 (2.22%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 33 (73.33%) DevOps
2 32 (71.11%) CI/CD
3 20 (44.44%) Infrastructure as Code
4 19 (42.22%) Containerisation
5 16 (35.56%) Site Reliability Engineering
6 11 (24.44%) Observability
7 10 (22.22%) Agile
8 8 (17.78%) Microservices
8 8 (17.78%) Platform Engineering
8 8 (17.78%) Secrets Management
8 8 (17.78%) Software Engineering
9 7 (15.56%) DevSecOps
10 6 (13.33%) Cloud Security
10 6 (13.33%) High Availability
10 6 (13.33%) Mentoring
10 6 (13.33%) Problem-Solving
10 6 (13.33%) Test Automation
11 5 (11.11%) Incident Management
11 5 (11.11%) Service-Level Objective
11 5 (11.11%) TOGAF
Programming Languages
1 16 (35.56%) Python
2 11 (24.44%) Bash
3 10 (22.22%) Java
4 6 (13.33%) Go
4 6 (13.33%) TypeScript
5 5 (11.11%) JavaScript
6 3 (6.67%) Groovy
6 3 (6.67%) PowerShell
7 2 (4.44%) Shell Script
7 2 (4.44%) SQL
Qualifications
1 21 (46.67%) Security Cleared
2 16 (35.56%) SC Cleared
3 10 (22.22%) DV Cleared
4 4 (8.89%) AWS Certification
5 3 (6.67%) Cisco Certification
6 2 (4.44%) CCNA
6 2 (4.44%) MCSE
6 2 (4.44%) Microsoft Certification
7 1 (2.22%) (ISC)2 CCSP
7 1 (2.22%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
7 1 (2.22%) Azure Certification
7 1 (2.22%) CCSK
7 1 (2.22%) CCSP
7 1 (2.22%) CISM
7 1 (2.22%) CISSP
7 1 (2.22%) ISTQB
7 1 (2.22%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
7 1 (2.22%) OSCP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (11.11%) Accessibility
1 5 (11.11%) WCAG
2 2 (4.44%) NCSC
2 2 (4.44%) QA
2 2 (4.44%) SLA
3 1 (2.22%) Government Security Classifications
3 1 (2.22%) HMG Security Policy Framework
3 1 (2.22%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 1 (2.22%) NIST
System Software
1 14 (31.11%) Docker
2 1 (2.22%) Hyper-V
2 1 (2.22%) KVM
2 1 (2.22%) VMware ESXi
2 1 (2.22%) VMware Infrastructure
2 1 (2.22%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 6 (13.33%) Ansible
1 6 (13.33%) Istio
2 5 (11.11%) Grafana
2 5 (11.11%) Prometheus
3 2 (4.44%) Argo
3 2 (4.44%) Cilium
4 1 (2.22%) QRadar
4 1 (2.22%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 9 (20.00%) Google
2 6 (13.33%) Dynatrace
3 4 (8.89%) Microsoft
3 4 (8.89%) Oracle
4 3 (6.67%) Red Hat
4 3 (6.67%) VMware
5 2 (4.44%) BiZZdesign
5 2 (4.44%) Cisco
5 2 (4.44%) Dell
5 2 (4.44%) Splunk
5 2 (4.44%) webMethods
6 1 (2.22%) ArcSight
6 1 (2.22%) Cribl.io
6 1 (2.22%) IBM