Kubernetes Contracts in Bristol

Kubernetes (k8s)
South West > Bristol

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Bristol requiring Kubernetes skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Kubernetes over the 6 months leading up to 1 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 32 51 38
Rank change year-on-year +19 -13 +5
Contract jobs citing Kubernetes 23 23 69
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Bristol 4.28% 2.18% 5.50%
As % of the Systems Management category 31.08% 21.90% 41.57%
Number of daily rates quoted 17 8 62
10th Percentile £440 £413 £421
25th Percentile £475 £469 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £543 £494 £513
Median % change year-on-year +9.87% -3.66% -2.38%
75th Percentile £625 £541 £630
90th Percentile £650 £584 £688
South West median daily rate £600 £550 £550
% change year-on-year +9.09% - +3.77%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 6 3
10th Percentile £79.13 £59.88 -
25th Percentile £79.77 £65.94 £53.75
Median hourly rate £80.83 £74.44 £57.50
Median % change year-on-year +8.58% +29.46% -
75th Percentile £81.90 £76.74 £61.25
90th Percentile £82.53 £77.75 -
South West median hourly rate £80.83 £74.44 £66.85
% change year-on-year +8.58% +11.35% +38.49%

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 74 105 166
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Bristol 13.78% 9.93% 13.23%
Number of daily rates quoted 57 71 136
10th Percentile £235 £213 £316
25th Percentile £413 £300 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £450 £550
Median % change year-on-year - -18.18% +10.00%
75th Percentile £588 £538 £675
90th Percentile £671 £588 £723
South West median daily rate £551 £525 £550
% change year-on-year +4.86% -4.55% +10.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 7 10
10th Percentile £79.13 £57.65 £53.75
25th Percentile £79.77 £61.25 £56.56
Median hourly rate £80.83 £74.44 £65.00
Median % change year-on-year +8.58% +14.52% +246.67%
75th Percentile £81.90 £75.97 -
90th Percentile £82.53 £77.70 £83.98
South West median hourly rate £74.35 £40.00 £65.00
% change year-on-year +85.88% -38.46% +225.00%

Kubernetes
Job Vacancy Trend in Bristol

Job postings citing Kubernetes as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in Bristol.

Job vacancy trend for Kubernetes in Bristol

Kubernetes
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Bristol

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Kubernetes in Bristol.

Daily rate trend for Kubernetes in Bristol

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Daily Rate Histogram in Bristol

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Kubernetes in Bristol over the 6 months to 1 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Kubernetes in Bristol

Kubernetes
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in Bristol

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Kubernetes in Bristol.

Hourly rate trend for Kubernetes in Bristol

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Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Bristol by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same employment type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Application Platforms
1 3 (13.04%) Apache
2 1 (4.35%) Apache Spark
Cloud Services
1 13 (56.52%) AWS
2 3 (13.04%) Azure
2 3 (13.04%) GCP
2 3 (13.04%) OpenShift
3 2 (8.70%) Amazon EKS
3 2 (8.70%) GitHub
4 1 (4.35%) Amazon Cognito
4 1 (4.35%) Amazon EC2
4 1 (4.35%) Amazon GuardDuty
4 1 (4.35%) Amazon S3
4 1 (4.35%) AWS CloudFormation
4 1 (4.35%) AWS CloudTrail
4 1 (4.35%) AWS Control Tower
4 1 (4.35%) AWS Lambda
4 1 (4.35%) IaaS
4 1 (4.35%) PaaS
4 1 (4.35%) SaaS
4 1 (4.35%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 4 (17.39%) DNS
1 4 (17.39%) Firewall
2 1 (4.35%) DHCP
2 1 (4.35%) HTTP
2 1 (4.35%) Network Security
2 1 (4.35%) TCP/IP
2 1 (4.35%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (8.70%) Amazon RDS
2 1 (4.35%) DynamoDB
2 1 (4.35%) Elasticsearch
2 1 (4.35%) Hadoop
2 1 (4.35%) MySQL
2 1 (4.35%) Oracle Database
Development Applications
1 7 (30.43%) Jenkins
2 4 (17.39%) GitLab
3 2 (8.70%) Git
4 1 (4.35%) Artifactory
4 1 (4.35%) JIRA
4 1 (4.35%) MLflow
General
1 4 (17.39%) Legal
2 3 (13.04%) Finance
2 3 (13.04%) Social Skills
3 2 (8.70%) Analytical Skills
3 2 (8.70%) Public Sector
4 1 (4.35%) Aviation
4 1 (4.35%) Banking
4 1 (4.35%) Electronics
4 1 (4.35%) Manufacturing
4 1 (4.35%) Marketing
4 1 (4.35%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 6 (26.09%) DevOps Engineer
2 4 (17.39%) Linux Engineer
3 3 (13.04%) Administrator
3 3 (13.04%) DevOps Administrator
3 3 (13.04%) Lead
3 3 (13.04%) Linux Administrator
3 3 (13.04%) Linux DevOps Administrator
3 3 (13.04%) Linux/Unix DevOps
4 2 (8.70%) Architect
4 2 (8.70%) Developer
4 2 (8.70%) Security Architect
4 2 (8.70%) Senior
4 2 (8.70%) Site Engineer
4 2 (8.70%) Site Reliability Engineer
5 1 (4.35%) Infrastructure Engineer
5 1 (4.35%) Java Developer
5 1 (4.35%) Lead Architect
5 1 (4.35%) Linux Specialist
5 1 (4.35%) Security Engineer
5 1 (4.35%) Senior DevOps Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (8.70%) ActiveMQ
1 2 (8.70%) Apache NiFi
1 2 (8.70%) Elastic Stack
1 2 (8.70%) Spring
1 2 (8.70%) Spring Boot
2 1 (4.35%) Kafka
2 1 (4.35%) LAMP
2 1 (4.35%) LDAP
2 1 (4.35%) Node.js
2 1 (4.35%) OAuth
2 1 (4.35%) OAuth2
2 1 (4.35%) OpenID
2 1 (4.35%) PyTorch
2 1 (4.35%) REST
2 1 (4.35%) SAML
2 1 (4.35%) TensorFlow
Miscellaneous
1 3 (13.04%) Linux Command Line
2 2 (8.70%) Algorithms
3 1 (4.35%) Cyber Threat
3 1 (4.35%) Data Centre
3 1 (4.35%) Hybrid Cloud
3 1 (4.35%) PKI
3 1 (4.35%) Replication
3 1 (4.35%) Security Posture
Operating Systems
1 14 (60.87%) Linux
2 3 (13.04%) Windows
3 2 (8.70%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 1 (4.35%) CentOS
4 1 (4.35%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 13 (56.52%) DevOps
2 11 (47.83%) Containerisation
3 10 (43.48%) CI/CD
4 8 (34.78%) Task Automation
5 7 (30.43%) Problem-Solving
6 6 (26.09%) Infrastructure as Code
7 4 (17.39%) Disaster Recovery
7 4 (17.39%) High Availability
8 3 (13.04%) Decision-Making
8 3 (13.04%) DevSecOps
8 3 (13.04%) GitOps
8 3 (13.04%) Microservices
8 3 (13.04%) Security Hardening
8 3 (13.04%) Site Reliability Engineering
8 3 (13.04%) Threat Modelling
8 3 (13.04%) Vulnerability Scanning
9 2 (8.70%) Analytics
9 2 (8.70%) Cloud Security
9 2 (8.70%) Machine Learning
9 2 (8.70%) Technical Leadership
Programming Languages
1 13 (56.52%) Python
2 11 (47.83%) Bash
3 5 (21.74%) Perl
4 3 (13.04%) Java
4 3 (13.04%) PowerShell
5 2 (8.70%) Ruby
5 2 (8.70%) Shell Script
6 1 (4.35%) JavaScript
6 1 (4.35%) PHP
6 1 (4.35%) SQL
Qualifications
1 17 (73.91%) Security Cleared
2 11 (47.83%) SC Cleared
3 5 (21.74%) DV Cleared
4 2 (8.70%) AWS Certification
4 2 (8.70%) Degree
5 1 (4.35%) Computer Science Degree
5 1 (4.35%) MCITP
5 1 (4.35%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (4.35%) Data Quality
1 1 (4.35%) ISO/IEC 27001
1 1 (4.35%) NCSC
1 1 (4.35%) NIST
1 1 (4.35%) QA
System Software
1 17 (73.91%) Docker
2 4 (17.39%) VMware Infrastructure
3 1 (4.35%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 13 (56.52%) Ansible
2 10 (43.48%) Terraform
3 8 (34.78%) Prometheus
4 7 (30.43%) Grafana
5 2 (8.70%) Puppet
6 1 (4.35%) Kibana
6 1 (4.35%) logstash
6 1 (4.35%) Progress Chef
6 1 (4.35%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 8 (34.78%) VMware
2 7 (30.43%) Red Hat
3 4 (17.39%) NetApp
4 2 (8.70%) Oracle
5 1 (4.35%) SAP