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

6 months to
12 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 40 53 52
Rank change year-on-year +13 -1 -21
Contract jobs citing Kubernetes 48 19 25
As % of all contract jobs in Bristol 3.55% 2.65% 2.72%
As % of the Systems Management category 50.53% 22.89% 37.31%
Number of daily rates quoted 24 13 18
10th Percentile £425 £417 £459
25th Percentile £484 £463 £502
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £575 £525 £533
Median % change year-on-year +9.52% -1.50% +17.14%
75th Percentile £638 £551 £575
90th Percentile £663 £684 £591
South West median daily rate £575 £550 £550
% change year-on-year +4.55% - -
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 3 5
10th Percentile - £78.96 £63.20
25th Percentile - £79.35 -
Median hourly rate - £80.00 £74.00
Median % change year-on-year - +8.11% -
75th Percentile - £81.48 -
90th Percentile - £82.37 £74.26
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 95 83 67
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Bristol 7.02% 11.58% 7.29%
Number of daily rates quoted 59 57 52
10th Percentile £410 £235 £226
25th Percentile £449 £413 £372
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £556 £463 £500
Median % change year-on-year +20.22% -7.50% +4.44%
75th Percentile £638 £575 £575
90th Percentile £690 £695 £637
South West median daily rate £550 £540 £533
% change year-on-year +1.85% +1.31% -3.09%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 6 5
10th Percentile - £18.33 £63.20
25th Percentile - £32.28 -
Median hourly rate - £76.85 £74.00
Median % change year-on-year - +3.85% +55.79%
75th Percentile - £79.68 -
90th Percentile - £81.48 £74.26
South West median hourly rate £75.00 £67.50 £74.00
% change year-on-year +11.11% -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 12 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 2 (4.17%) Apache Spark
2 1 (2.08%) Apache Airflow
2 1 (2.08%) Oracle Coherence
Cloud Services
1 25 (52.08%) AWS
1 25 (52.08%) GCP
2 24 (50.00%) Azure
3 12 (25.00%) Google Kubernetes Engine
4 6 (12.50%) SaaS
5 4 (8.33%) AWS CloudFormation
5 4 (8.33%) Azure DevOps
5 4 (8.33%) GitHub
5 4 (8.33%) OpenShift
6 3 (6.25%) Amazon EKS
6 3 (6.25%) Azure AKS
6 3 (6.25%) GitHub Actions
7 2 (4.17%) Amazon Kinesis
7 2 (4.17%) Apigee
7 2 (4.17%) Datadog
7 2 (4.17%) PaaS
8 1 (2.08%) Amazon EC2
8 1 (2.08%) Amazon S3
8 1 (2.08%) Cloud Computing
8 1 (2.08%) Stackdriver
Communications & Networking
1 6 (12.50%) DNS
1 6 (12.50%) VPN
2 3 (6.25%) Firewall
3 2 (4.17%) TCP/IP
3 2 (4.17%) tcpdump
4 1 (2.08%) Calico
4 1 (2.08%) Network Security
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (10.42%) 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%) NoSQL
3 1 (2.08%) Oracle Database
Development Applications
1 12 (25.00%) Jenkins
2 10 (20.83%) Git
3 9 (18.75%) GitLab
4 2 (4.17%) Cucumber
4 2 (4.17%) JUnit
4 2 (4.17%) Selenium
4 2 (4.17%) SonarQube
4 2 (4.17%) Sonatype Nexus
4 2 (4.17%) Visual Studio Team System
5 1 (2.08%) Burp Suite
5 1 (2.08%) Gatling
5 1 (2.08%) Gradle
5 1 (2.08%) LoadRunner
5 1 (2.08%) MLflow
5 1 (2.08%) NUnit
5 1 (2.08%) Postman
5 1 (2.08%) REST Assured
General
1 8 (16.67%) Public Sector
2 7 (14.58%) Social Skills
3 5 (10.42%) Military
4 4 (8.33%) Finance
5 3 (6.25%) Banking
5 3 (6.25%) Local Government
5 3 (6.25%) Police
6 2 (4.17%) Analytical Skills
6 2 (4.17%) Aviation
7 1 (2.08%) Influencing Skills
7 1 (2.08%) Legal
7 1 (2.08%) Publishing
Job Titles
1 11 (22.92%) DevOps Engineer
2 10 (20.83%) GCP Engineer
3 9 (18.75%) Senior
4 8 (16.67%) Architect
5 7 (14.58%) GCP DevOps
5 7 (14.58%) GCP DevOps Engineer
6 5 (10.42%) Front-End Engineer (Client-Side Engineer)
7 4 (8.33%) Lead
7 4 (8.33%) Site Reliability Engineer
7 4 (8.33%) Software Engineer
7 4 (8.33%) Solutions Architect
8 3 (6.25%) Cloud Engineer
8 3 (6.25%) Site Engineer
9 2 (4.17%) Infrastructure Engineer
9 2 (4.17%) Lead Architect
9 2 (4.17%) Lead Software Engineer
9 2 (4.17%) Linux Engineer
9 2 (4.17%) Senior Software Engineer
9 2 (4.17%) Senior Solutions Architect
9 2 (4.17%) Technical Leader
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 23 (47.92%) Terraform
2 8 (16.67%) React
3 7 (14.58%) Quarkus
4 6 (12.50%) REST
5 5 (10.42%) Jest
6 4 (8.33%) Node.js
6 4 (8.33%) Spring Boot
7 3 (6.25%) Kafka
8 2 (4.17%) Keycloak
8 2 (4.17%) Pulumi
8 2 (4.17%) Spring
8 2 (4.17%) Swagger
9 1 (2.08%) NumPy
9 1 (2.08%) OpenTelemetry
9 1 (2.08%) Playwright
9 1 (2.08%) PyTorch
9 1 (2.08%) SAML
9 1 (2.08%) SOAP
9 1 (2.08%) Web Services
9 1 (2.08%) WSDL
Miscellaneous
1 14 (29.17%) Cloud Native
2 3 (6.25%) Distributed Systems
3 1 (2.08%) Learning Management System
3 1 (2.08%) Linux Command Line
3 1 (2.08%) Mobile App
3 1 (2.08%) PKI
3 1 (2.08%) Public Cloud
3 1 (2.08%) Security Posture
Operating Systems
1 8 (16.67%) Linux
2 3 (6.25%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 1 (2.08%) Windows
3 1 (2.08%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 37 (77.08%) CI/CD
2 36 (75.00%) DevOps
3 24 (50.00%) Infrastructure as Code
4 21 (43.75%) Containerisation
5 16 (33.33%) Site Reliability Engineering
6 12 (25.00%) Observability
7 11 (22.92%) Software Engineering
8 10 (20.83%) Agile
9 9 (18.75%) Microservices
9 9 (18.75%) Platform Engineering
9 9 (18.75%) Test Automation
10 8 (16.67%) Mentoring
10 8 (16.67%) Problem-Solving
10 8 (16.67%) Secrets Management
11 6 (12.50%) Cloud Security
11 6 (12.50%) Continuous Improvement
11 6 (12.50%) DevSecOps
11 6 (12.50%) High Availability
11 6 (12.50%) Technical Leadership
12 5 (10.42%) Service-Level Objective
Programming Languages
1 19 (39.58%) Python
2 11 (22.92%) Bash
3 10 (20.83%) Java
4 6 (12.50%) Go
4 6 (12.50%) TypeScript
5 5 (10.42%) JavaScript
6 3 (6.25%) Groovy
6 3 (6.25%) PowerShell
7 2 (4.17%) Shell Script
7 2 (4.17%) SQL
Qualifications
1 24 (50.00%) Security Cleared
2 19 (39.58%) SC Cleared
3 10 (20.83%) DV Cleared
4 4 (8.33%) AWS Certification
5 3 (6.25%) Cisco Certification
6 2 (4.17%) CCNA
6 2 (4.17%) MCSE
6 2 (4.17%) Microsoft Certification
7 1 (2.08%) (ISC)2 CCSP
7 1 (2.08%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
7 1 (2.08%) CCSK
7 1 (2.08%) CCSP
7 1 (2.08%) CISM
7 1 (2.08%) CISSP
7 1 (2.08%) Computer Science Degree
7 1 (2.08%) Degree
7 1 (2.08%) ISTQB
7 1 (2.08%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
7 1 (2.08%) Master's Degree
7 1 (2.08%) OSCP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (10.42%) Accessibility
1 5 (10.42%) WCAG
2 4 (8.33%) NCSC
3 2 (4.17%) SLA
4 1 (2.08%) Data Quality
4 1 (2.08%) Government Security Classifications
4 1 (2.08%) HMG Security Policy Framework
4 1 (2.08%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 1 (2.08%) NIST
4 1 (2.08%) QA
System Software
1 18 (37.50%) 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 8 (16.67%) Ansible
2 6 (12.50%) Grafana
2 6 (12.50%) Prometheus
3 5 (10.42%) Istio
4 2 (4.17%) Argo
4 2 (4.17%) Cilium
5 1 (2.08%) Kubeflow
5 1 (2.08%) QRadar
5 1 (2.08%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 10 (20.83%) Google
2 6 (12.50%) Dynatrace
2 6 (12.50%) Red Hat
3 4 (8.33%) Microsoft
4 3 (6.25%) Oracle
4 3 (6.25%) VMware
5 2 (4.17%) BiZZdesign
5 2 (4.17%) Cisco
5 2 (4.17%) Dell
5 2 (4.17%) Splunk
6 1 (2.08%) ArcSight
6 1 (2.08%) Cribl.io
6 1 (2.08%) Databricks
6 1 (2.08%) IBM
6 1 (2.08%) webMethods