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 30 October 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
30 Oct 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 48 46 48
Rank change year-on-year -2 +2 +10
Contract jobs citing Kubernetes 24 27 32
As % of all contract jobs in Bristol 3.06% 3.30% 3.09%
As % of the Systems Management category 27.27% 38.57% 27.12%
Number of daily rates quoted 14 20 29
10th Percentile £214 £460 £445
25th Percentile £463 £511 £469
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £537 £525
Median % change year-on-year -2.14% +2.19% -12.50%
75th Percentile £650 £575 £638
90th Percentile £682 £602 £730
South West median daily rate £650 £600 £550
% change year-on-year +8.33% +9.09% -4.35%
Number of hourly rates quoted 3 4 0
10th Percentile £87.80 - -
25th Percentile £99.50 - -
Median hourly rate £119.00 £74.00 -
Median % change year-on-year +60.81% - -
75th Percentile - £74.11 -
90th Percentile - £74.31 -
South West median hourly rate £119.00 £74.00 £78.00
% change year-on-year +60.81% -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 88 70 118
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Bristol 11.21% 8.57% 11.38%
Number of daily rates quoted 59 49 90
10th Percentile £373 £360 £363
25th Percentile £456 £450 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £538 £525 £581
Median % change year-on-year +2.38% -9.68% +5.68%
75th Percentile £625 £575 £675
90th Percentile £695 £650 £713
South West median daily rate £550 £550 £567
% change year-on-year - -2.91% +3.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 6 4 6
10th Percentile £18.33 - £18.08
25th Percentile £32.28 - £32.38
Median hourly rate £77.50 £74.00 £72.50
Median % change year-on-year +4.73% +2.07% +2.47%
75th Percentile £109.25 £74.11 £76.25
90th Percentile £119.00 £74.31 £78.13
South West median hourly rate £63.00 £74.00 £78.00
% change year-on-year -14.86% -5.13% +21.88%

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 30 October 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
Hourly Rate Histogram in Bristol

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing Kubernetes in Bristol over the 6 months to 30 October 2025.

Hourly rate histogram for Kubernetes in Bristol

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 8 (33.33%) Apache
2 1 (4.17%) Apache Spark
Applications
1 2 (8.33%) Microsoft Excel
1 2 (8.33%) Microsoft Office
Cloud Services
1 8 (33.33%) AWS
2 7 (29.17%) GCP
3 6 (25.00%) Azure
4 5 (20.83%) GitHub
4 5 (20.83%) OpenShift
5 2 (8.33%) Azure AKS
5 2 (8.33%) Azure Cosmos DB
5 2 (8.33%) Azure DevOps
5 2 (8.33%) Entra ID
6 1 (4.17%) Amazon EC2
6 1 (4.17%) Amazon S3
6 1 (4.17%) GitHub Actions
6 1 (4.17%) Google Kubernetes Engine
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (16.67%) Elasticsearch
2 3 (12.50%) PostgreSQL
3 1 (4.17%) Amazon RDS
3 1 (4.17%) Big Data
3 1 (4.17%) Hadoop
3 1 (4.17%) MongoDB
Development Applications
1 8 (33.33%) GitLab
2 6 (25.00%) Artifactory
3 3 (12.50%) Git
4 2 (8.33%) Jenkins
5 1 (4.17%) CMake
5 1 (4.17%) Gradle
5 1 (4.17%) SonarQube
General
1 4 (16.67%) Social Skills
2 3 (12.50%) Public Sector
3 2 (8.33%) Law
4 1 (4.17%) Electronics
4 1 (4.17%) Finance
4 1 (4.17%) Manufacturing
4 1 (4.17%) Marketing
4 1 (4.17%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 9 (37.50%) DevOps Engineer
2 3 (12.50%) Developer
2 3 (12.50%) Full-Stack Developer
2 3 (12.50%) System Design Authority
3 2 (8.33%) Architect
3 2 (8.33%) Data Engineer
3 2 (8.33%) Full-Stack Engineer
3 2 (8.33%) Full-Stack Software Engineer
3 2 (8.33%) Senior
3 2 (8.33%) Software Engineer
3 2 (8.33%) Solutions Architect
4 1 (4.17%) Build Engineer
4 1 (4.17%) Cloud Engineer
4 1 (4.17%) GCP Engineer
4 1 (4.17%) Senior Cloud Engineer
4 1 (4.17%) Senior Data Engineer
4 1 (4.17%) Site Engineer
4 1 (4.17%) Site Reliability Engineer
4 1 (4.17%) Systems Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 8 (33.33%) Apache NiFi
2 7 (29.17%) React
3 5 (20.83%) Node.js
3 5 (20.83%) REST
4 4 (16.67%) Elastic Stack
5 3 (12.50%) AngularJS
5 3 (12.50%) CSS
5 3 (12.50%) HTML
5 3 (12.50%) Ruby on Rails
5 3 (12.50%) Spring
5 3 (12.50%) Vue
6 2 (8.33%) .NET
6 2 (8.33%) Express.js
6 2 (8.33%) Next.js
7 1 (4.17%) Bazel
7 1 (4.17%) Kafka
Miscellaneous
1 5 (20.83%) Cloud Native
2 2 (8.33%) Onboarding
3 1 (4.17%) Public Cloud
3 1 (4.17%) Replication
Operating Systems
1 8 (33.33%) Linux
2 6 (25.00%) Windows
3 5 (20.83%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 5 (20.83%) Ubuntu
4 1 (4.17%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 18 (75.00%) CI/CD
2 15 (62.50%) DevOps
3 13 (54.17%) Containerisation
4 7 (29.17%) Machine Learning
5 6 (25.00%) DevSecOps
6 5 (20.83%) Agile
6 5 (20.83%) API Design
6 5 (20.83%) API Integration
6 5 (20.83%) Architectural Patterns
6 5 (20.83%) Full-Stack Development
6 5 (20.83%) OCR
6 5 (20.83%) Patch Management
6 5 (20.83%) Software Architecture
6 5 (20.83%) User Experience
6 5 (20.83%) Workflow
7 4 (16.67%) Computer Science
7 4 (16.67%) Continuous Improvement
7 4 (16.67%) Infrastructure as Code
7 4 (16.67%) Software Engineering
7 4 (16.67%) Systems Engineering
Programming Languages
1 12 (50.00%) Python
2 7 (29.17%) TypeScript
3 5 (20.83%) PowerShell
4 3 (12.50%) Java
4 3 (12.50%) JavaScript
4 3 (12.50%) Ruby
5 2 (8.33%) Bicep
5 2 (8.33%) C#
6 1 (4.17%) Bash
6 1 (4.17%) C
6 1 (4.17%) C++
6 1 (4.17%) Shell Script
6 1 (4.17%) SQL
Qualifications
1 20 (83.33%) Security Cleared
2 10 (41.67%) SC Cleared
3 9 (37.50%) DV Cleared
4 6 (25.00%) Degree
5 4 (16.67%) Computer Science Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (20.83%) QA
2 1 (4.17%) Data Quality
System Software
1 11 (45.83%) Docker
2 2 (8.33%) Active Directory
3 1 (4.17%) Virtual Machines
3 1 (4.17%) VMware Infrastructure
3 1 (4.17%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 10 (41.67%) Terraform
2 8 (33.33%) Ansible
3 5 (20.83%) Grafana
3 5 (20.83%) Prometheus
3 5 (20.83%) SCOM
4 4 (16.67%) Kibana
5 3 (12.50%) Argo
6 2 (8.33%) logstash
7 1 (4.17%) Cilium
7 1 (4.17%) Istio
7 1 (4.17%) Podman
7 1 (4.17%) Progress Chef
7 1 (4.17%) Rancher
Vendors
1 9 (37.50%) Red Hat
2 4 (16.67%) Google
3 2 (8.33%) Microsoft
3 2 (8.33%) NVIDIA
4 1 (4.17%) SAP
4 1 (4.17%) VMware