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 22 August 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
22 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 40 52 46
Rank change year-on-year +12 -6 -14
Contract jobs citing Kubernetes 47 19 28
As % of all contract jobs in Bristol 3.47% 2.72% 3.01%
As % of the Systems Management category 48.96% 22.89% 40.58%
Number of daily rates quoted 25 12 16
10th Percentile £425 £415 £456
25th Percentile £488 £455 £494
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £575 £528 £533
Median % change year-on-year +9.00% -1.03% +17.79%
75th Percentile £638 £628 £571
90th Percentile £663 £666 £581
South West median daily rate £575 £550 £550
% change year-on-year +4.55% - -
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 3 9
10th Percentile - £78.96 £62.20
25th Percentile - £79.35 £72.50
Median hourly rate - £80.00 £74.00
Median % change year-on-year - +8.11% -
75th Percentile - £81.48 £74.44
90th Percentile - £82.37 £77.60
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 96 83 69
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Bristol 7.08% 11.87% 7.42%
Number of daily rates quoted 61 55 52
10th Percentile £413 £235 £226
25th Percentile £449 £413 £372
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £450 £500
Median % change year-on-year +22.22% -10.00% +5.82%
75th Percentile £638 £581 £565
90th Percentile £688 £685 £627
South West median daily rate £550 £550 £538
% change year-on-year - +2.33% -2.27%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 6 9
10th Percentile - £18.33 £62.20
25th Percentile - £32.28 £72.50
Median hourly rate - £76.85 £74.00
Median % change year-on-year - +3.85% +48.00%
75th Percentile - £79.68 £74.44
90th Percentile - £81.48 £77.60
South West median hourly rate £63.00 £67.50 £74.00
% change year-on-year -6.67% -8.78% -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 22 August 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 (4.26%) Apache Spark
2 1 (2.13%) Apache Airflow
2 1 (2.13%) Oracle Coherence
Cloud Services
1 26 (55.32%) GCP
2 25 (53.19%) AWS
3 22 (46.81%) Azure
4 13 (27.66%) Google Kubernetes Engine
5 6 (12.77%) SaaS
6 4 (8.51%) AWS CloudFormation
6 4 (8.51%) GitHub
6 4 (8.51%) OpenShift
7 3 (6.38%) Amazon EKS
7 3 (6.38%) Azure AKS
7 3 (6.38%) GitHub Actions
8 2 (4.26%) Amazon Kinesis
8 2 (4.26%) Apigee
8 2 (4.26%) Azure DevOps
8 2 (4.26%) Datadog
8 2 (4.26%) PaaS
9 1 (2.13%) Amazon EC2
9 1 (2.13%) Amazon S3
9 1 (2.13%) Cloud Computing
9 1 (2.13%) Stackdriver
Communications & Networking
1 6 (12.77%) DNS
1 6 (12.77%) VPN
2 3 (6.38%) Firewall
3 2 (4.26%) TCP/IP
3 2 (4.26%) tcpdump
4 1 (2.13%) Calico
4 1 (2.13%) Network Security
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (10.64%) PostgreSQL
2 2 (4.26%) Big Data
3 1 (2.13%) Amazon RDS
3 1 (2.13%) BigQuery
3 1 (2.13%) Data Lake
3 1 (2.13%) Metadata
3 1 (2.13%) NoSQL
3 1 (2.13%) Oracle Database
Development Applications
1 10 (21.28%) Jenkins
2 8 (17.02%) Git
3 7 (14.89%) GitLab
4 2 (4.26%) Cucumber
4 2 (4.26%) JUnit
4 2 (4.26%) Selenium
4 2 (4.26%) SonarQube
4 2 (4.26%) Sonatype Nexus
5 1 (2.13%) Burp Suite
5 1 (2.13%) Gatling
5 1 (2.13%) Gradle
5 1 (2.13%) LoadRunner
5 1 (2.13%) MLflow
5 1 (2.13%) NUnit
5 1 (2.13%) Postman
5 1 (2.13%) REST Assured
General
1 8 (17.02%) Public Sector
1 8 (17.02%) Social Skills
2 5 (10.64%) Military
3 4 (8.51%) Finance
4 3 (6.38%) Banking
4 3 (6.38%) Local Government
4 3 (6.38%) Police
5 2 (4.26%) Analytical Skills
5 2 (4.26%) Aviation
6 1 (2.13%) Influencing Skills
6 1 (2.13%) Legal
6 1 (2.13%) Publishing
Job Titles
1 11 (23.40%) GCP Engineer
2 10 (21.28%) DevOps Engineer
2 10 (21.28%) Senior
3 7 (14.89%) Architect
3 7 (14.89%) GCP DevOps
3 7 (14.89%) GCP DevOps Engineer
4 5 (10.64%) Front-End Engineer (Client-Side Engineer)
5 4 (8.51%) Lead
5 4 (8.51%) Site Reliability Engineer
5 4 (8.51%) Software Engineer
5 4 (8.51%) Solutions Architect
6 3 (6.38%) Cloud Engineer
6 3 (6.38%) Site Engineer
7 2 (4.26%) Lead Architect
7 2 (4.26%) Lead Software Engineer
7 2 (4.26%) Senior Architect
7 2 (4.26%) Senior Network Engineer
7 2 (4.26%) Senior Software Engineer
7 2 (4.26%) Senior Solutions Architect
7 2 (4.26%) Technical Leader
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 24 (51.06%) Terraform
2 8 (17.02%) React
3 7 (14.89%) Quarkus
4 6 (12.77%) REST
5 5 (10.64%) Jest
6 4 (8.51%) Node.js
6 4 (8.51%) Spring Boot
7 3 (6.38%) Kafka
8 2 (4.26%) Keycloak
8 2 (4.26%) Pulumi
8 2 (4.26%) Spring
8 2 (4.26%) Swagger
9 1 (2.13%) NumPy
9 1 (2.13%) OpenTelemetry
9 1 (2.13%) Playwright
9 1 (2.13%) PyTorch
9 1 (2.13%) SAML
9 1 (2.13%) SOAP
9 1 (2.13%) Web Services
9 1 (2.13%) WSDL
Miscellaneous
1 14 (29.79%) Cloud Native
2 3 (6.38%) Distributed Systems
3 2 (4.26%) Public Cloud
4 1 (2.13%) Learning Management System
4 1 (2.13%) Linux Command Line
4 1 (2.13%) Mobile App
4 1 (2.13%) PKI
4 1 (2.13%) Security Posture
Operating Systems
1 6 (12.77%) Linux
2 3 (6.38%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 1 (2.13%) Windows
3 1 (2.13%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 35 (74.47%) CI/CD
1 35 (74.47%) DevOps
2 25 (53.19%) Infrastructure as Code
3 20 (42.55%) Containerisation
4 16 (34.04%) Site Reliability Engineering
5 12 (25.53%) Observability
6 11 (23.40%) Software Engineering
7 10 (21.28%) Agile
8 9 (19.15%) Microservices
8 9 (19.15%) Platform Engineering
8 9 (19.15%) Test Automation
9 8 (17.02%) Mentoring
9 8 (17.02%) Problem-Solving
9 8 (17.02%) Secrets Management
10 7 (14.89%) Cloud Security
11 6 (12.77%) AI
11 6 (12.77%) Continuous Improvement
11 6 (12.77%) DevSecOps
11 6 (12.77%) High Availability
11 6 (12.77%) Technical Leadership
Programming Languages
1 19 (40.43%) Python
2 11 (23.40%) Bash
3 10 (21.28%) Java
4 6 (12.77%) Go
4 6 (12.77%) TypeScript
5 5 (10.64%) JavaScript
6 3 (6.38%) Groovy
6 3 (6.38%) PowerShell
7 2 (4.26%) Shell Script
7 2 (4.26%) SQL
Qualifications
1 22 (46.81%) Security Cleared
2 19 (40.43%) SC Cleared
3 8 (17.02%) DV Cleared
4 4 (8.51%) AWS Certification
5 3 (6.38%) Cisco Certification
6 2 (4.26%) CCNA
6 2 (4.26%) MCSE
6 2 (4.26%) Microsoft Certification
7 1 (2.13%) (ISC)2 CCSP
7 1 (2.13%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
7 1 (2.13%) Azure Certification
7 1 (2.13%) CCSP
7 1 (2.13%) CISM
7 1 (2.13%) CISSP
7 1 (2.13%) Computer Science Degree
7 1 (2.13%) Degree
7 1 (2.13%) ISTQB
7 1 (2.13%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
7 1 (2.13%) Master's Degree
7 1 (2.13%) OSCP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (10.64%) Accessibility
1 5 (10.64%) WCAG
2 4 (8.51%) NCSC
3 2 (4.26%) SLA
4 1 (2.13%) Data Quality
4 1 (2.13%) Government Security Classifications
4 1 (2.13%) HMG Security Policy Framework
4 1 (2.13%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 1 (2.13%) NIST
4 1 (2.13%) QA
System Software
1 18 (38.30%) Docker
2 1 (2.13%) Hyper-V
2 1 (2.13%) KVM
2 1 (2.13%) VMware ESXi
2 1 (2.13%) VMware Infrastructure
2 1 (2.13%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 8 (17.02%) Ansible
2 6 (12.77%) Grafana
2 6 (12.77%) Prometheus
3 5 (10.64%) Istio
4 2 (4.26%) Argo
4 2 (4.26%) Cilium
5 1 (2.13%) Kubeflow
5 1 (2.13%) QRadar
5 1 (2.13%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 11 (23.40%) Google
2 6 (12.77%) Dynatrace
2 6 (12.77%) Red Hat
3 4 (8.51%) Microsoft
4 3 (6.38%) Oracle
4 3 (6.38%) VMware
5 2 (4.26%) BiZZdesign
5 2 (4.26%) Cisco
5 2 (4.26%) Dell
5 2 (4.26%) Splunk
6 1 (2.13%) ArcSight
6 1 (2.13%) Cribl.io
6 1 (2.13%) Databricks
6 1 (2.13%) IBM
6 1 (2.13%) webMethods