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 18 July 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
18 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 43 47 49
Rank change year-on-year +4 +2 -17
Contract jobs citing Kubernetes 48 19 27
As % of all contract jobs in Bristol 3.63% 2.81% 2.53%
As % of the Systems Management category 42.86% 19.59% 31.40%
Number of daily rates quoted 27 12 14
10th Percentile £415 £436 £454
25th Percentile £481 £472 £481
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £520 £529
Median % change year-on-year +5.77% -1.70% +13.16%
75th Percentile £613 £570 £565
90th Percentile £663 £636 £584
South West median daily rate £550 £550 £550
% change year-on-year - - +4.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 3 8
10th Percentile - £78.96 £61.43
25th Percentile - £79.35 £70.31
Median hourly rate - £80.00 £74.22
Median % change year-on-year - +7.79% +29.08%
75th Percentile - £81.48 £75.21
90th Percentile - £82.37 £77.65
South West median hourly rate £99.41 £80.00 £74.22
% change year-on-year +24.26% +7.79% -4.85%

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 112 97 86
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Bristol 8.47% 14.33% 8.07%
Number of daily rates quoted 67 67 61
10th Percentile £379 £235 £300
25th Percentile £449 £413 £372
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £543 £475 £500
Median % change year-on-year +14.21% -5.00% +2.56%
75th Percentile £605 £625 £553
90th Percentile £663 £675 £630
South West median daily rate £550 £550 £530
% change year-on-year - +3.77% -3.64%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 6 8
10th Percentile - £18.33 £61.43
25th Percentile - £32.28 £70.31
Median hourly rate - £76.85 £74.22
Median % change year-on-year - +3.54% +29.08%
75th Percentile - £79.68 £75.21
90th Percentile - £81.48 £77.65
South West median hourly rate £51.00 £70.00 £62.00
% change year-on-year -27.14% +12.90% -20.51%

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 18 July 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 (4.17%) Apache Spark
2 1 (2.08%) Apache
2 1 (2.08%) Apache Airflow
2 1 (2.08%) Oracle Coherence
Cloud Services
1 25 (52.08%) GCP
2 23 (47.92%) AWS
3 19 (39.58%) Azure
4 12 (25.00%) Google Kubernetes Engine
5 5 (10.42%) GitHub
5 5 (10.42%) SaaS
6 4 (8.33%) Amazon EKS
6 4 (8.33%) AWS CloudFormation
6 4 (8.33%) GitHub Actions
7 3 (6.25%) Azure AKS
7 3 (6.25%) OpenShift
8 2 (4.17%) Apigee
8 2 (4.17%) Datadog
9 1 (2.08%) Amazon CloudWatch
9 1 (2.08%) Amazon ECS
9 1 (2.08%) AWS Lambda
9 1 (2.08%) Azure DevOps
9 1 (2.08%) Serverless
9 1 (2.08%) Stackdriver
9 1 (2.08%) Virtual Private Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 4 (8.33%) DNS
1 4 (8.33%) VPN
2 1 (2.08%) Calico
2 1 (2.08%) Firewall
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (8.33%) PostgreSQL
2 2 (4.17%) Big Data
3 1 (2.08%) Amazon RDS
3 1 (2.08%) BigQuery
3 1 (2.08%) Data Lake
3 1 (2.08%) Metadata
3 1 (2.08%) Oracle Database
Development Applications
1 11 (22.92%) Jenkins
2 9 (18.75%) GitLab
3 8 (16.67%) Git
4 3 (6.25%) Cucumber
4 3 (6.25%) SonarQube
5 2 (4.17%) JUnit
5 2 (4.17%) Selenium
5 2 (4.17%) Sonatype Nexus
6 1 (2.08%) Artifactory
6 1 (2.08%) Burp Suite
6 1 (2.08%) Gatling
6 1 (2.08%) Gradle
6 1 (2.08%) LoadRunner
6 1 (2.08%) MLflow
6 1 (2.08%) Mockito
6 1 (2.08%) NUnit
6 1 (2.08%) Postman
6 1 (2.08%) REST Assured
General
1 7 (14.58%) Public Sector
1 7 (14.58%) Social Skills
2 4 (8.33%) Analytical Skills
2 4 (8.33%) Military
3 3 (6.25%) Finance
3 3 (6.25%) Local Government
3 3 (6.25%) Police
4 1 (2.08%) Aerospace
4 1 (2.08%) Aviation
4 1 (2.08%) Banking
4 1 (2.08%) Influencing Skills
4 1 (2.08%) Legal
4 1 (2.08%) Publishing
Job Titles
1 14 (29.17%) DevOps Engineer
2 12 (25.00%) GCP Engineer
3 8 (16.67%) Senior
4 7 (14.58%) GCP DevOps
4 7 (14.58%) GCP DevOps Engineer
5 6 (12.50%) Architect
6 4 (8.33%) AWS Engineer
6 4 (8.33%) Front-End Engineer (Client-Side Engineer)
6 4 (8.33%) Lead
6 4 (8.33%) Software Engineer
7 3 (6.25%) Developer
7 3 (6.25%) Site Reliability Engineer
7 3 (6.25%) Solutions Architect
8 2 (4.17%) Infrastructure Engineer
8 2 (4.17%) Lead Software Engineer
8 2 (4.17%) Senior Network Engineer
8 2 (4.17%) Senior Software Engineer
8 2 (4.17%) Senior Solutions Architect
8 2 (4.17%) Technical Architect
8 2 (4.17%) Technical Leader
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 6 (12.50%) Quarkus
1 6 (12.50%) React
1 6 (12.50%) REST
1 6 (12.50%) Spring Boot
2 5 (10.42%) Node.js
3 4 (8.33%) Jest
3 4 (8.33%) Spring
4 3 (6.25%) OAuth
4 3 (6.25%) OAuth2
4 3 (6.25%) RESTful
4 3 (6.25%) Web Services
5 2 (4.17%) JAX-RS
5 2 (4.17%) JPA
5 2 (4.17%) Kafka
5 2 (4.17%) Keycloak
5 2 (4.17%) Swagger
6 1 (2.08%) Apache NiFi
6 1 (2.08%) Elastic Stack
6 1 (2.08%) PySpark
6 1 (2.08%) PyTorch
Miscellaneous
1 12 (25.00%) Cloud Native
2 4 (8.33%) Distributed Systems
3 3 (6.25%) Public Cloud
4 2 (4.17%) Mobile App
5 1 (2.08%) Learning Management System
5 1 (2.08%) Linux Command Line
5 1 (2.08%) PKI
Operating Systems
1 8 (16.67%) Linux
2 3 (6.25%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 2 (4.17%) Windows
4 1 (2.08%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 39 (81.25%) DevOps
2 35 (72.92%) CI/CD
3 26 (54.17%) Infrastructure as Code
4 25 (52.08%) Containerisation
5 14 (29.17%) Site Reliability Engineering
6 11 (22.92%) Agile
6 11 (22.92%) Microservices
6 11 (22.92%) Observability
6 11 (22.92%) Software Engineering
7 9 (18.75%) Platform Engineering
7 9 (18.75%) Problem-Solving
7 9 (18.75%) Test Automation
8 7 (14.58%) AI
8 7 (14.58%) Cloud Security
8 7 (14.58%) Continuous Improvement
8 7 (14.58%) DevSecOps
8 7 (14.58%) Secrets Management
9 6 (12.50%) Mentoring
9 6 (12.50%) Technical Leadership
10 5 (10.42%) Infrastructure Engineering
Programming Languages
1 17 (35.42%) Python
2 11 (22.92%) Bash
2 11 (22.92%) Java
3 8 (16.67%) Go
4 5 (10.42%) TypeScript
5 4 (8.33%) JavaScript
6 3 (6.25%) PowerShell
7 2 (4.17%) Groovy
7 2 (4.17%) SQL
Qualifications
1 20 (41.67%) Security Cleared
2 17 (35.42%) SC Cleared
3 8 (16.67%) DV Cleared
4 2 (4.17%) Cisco Certification
4 2 (4.17%) Computer Science Degree
4 2 (4.17%) Degree
5 1 (2.08%) (ISC)2 CCSP
5 1 (2.08%) AWS Certification
5 1 (2.08%) CCNA
5 1 (2.08%) CCSK
5 1 (2.08%) CCSP
5 1 (2.08%) CISM
5 1 (2.08%) CISSP
5 1 (2.08%) ISTQB
5 1 (2.08%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
5 1 (2.08%) Master's Degree
5 1 (2.08%) MCSE
5 1 (2.08%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (8.33%) Accessibility
1 4 (8.33%) WCAG
2 3 (6.25%) NCSC
2 3 (6.25%) QA
3 1 (2.08%) Data Quality
3 1 (2.08%) Government Security Classifications
3 1 (2.08%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 1 (2.08%) NIST
System Software
1 22 (45.83%) Docker
2 1 (2.08%) Hyper-V
2 1 (2.08%) KVM
2 1 (2.08%) VMware ESXi
2 1 (2.08%) VMware Infrastructure
2 1 (2.08%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 24 (50.00%) Terraform
2 9 (18.75%) Ansible
3 6 (12.50%) Grafana
3 6 (12.50%) Prometheus
4 4 (8.33%) Istio
5 3 (6.25%) Argo
6 2 (4.17%) Cilium
7 1 (2.08%) Kubeflow
7 1 (2.08%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 13 (27.08%) Google
2 6 (12.50%) Red Hat
3 3 (6.25%) Dynatrace
3 3 (6.25%) Microsoft
3 3 (6.25%) VMware
4 2 (4.17%) BiZZdesign
4 2 (4.17%) Dell
4 2 (4.17%) Oracle
5 1 (2.08%) Cisco
5 1 (2.08%) Databricks
5 1 (2.08%) IBM
5 1 (2.08%) Splunk
5 1 (2.08%) webMethods