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 5 July 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
5 Jul 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 44 51 35
Rank change year-on-year +7 -16 +17
Contract jobs citing Kubernetes 20 30 58
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Bristol 3.10% 2.69% 4.98%
As % of the Systems Management category 21.51% 31.25% 43.94%
Number of daily rates quoted 13 15 51
10th Percentile £445 £455 £415
25th Percentile £475 £478 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £525 £468
Median % change year-on-year - +12.30% -15.00%
75th Percentile £625 £560 £538
90th Percentile £635 £583 £638
South West median daily rate £600 £550 £525
% change year-on-year +9.09% +4.76% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 3 8 3
10th Percentile £78.96 £61.43 -
25th Percentile £79.35 £70.31 £53.75
Median hourly rate £80.00 £74.22 £57.50
Median % change year-on-year +7.79% +29.08% -
75th Percentile £81.48 £75.21 £61.25
90th Percentile £82.37 £77.65 -
South West median hourly rate £80.00 £74.22 £78.00
% change year-on-year +7.79% -4.85% +61.59%

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 93 96 132
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Bristol 14.40% 8.61% 11.33%
Number of daily rates quoted 63 69 110
10th Percentile £235 £215 £362
25th Percentile £413 £363 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £500 £506
Median % change year-on-year -5.00% -1.23% +1.25%
75th Percentile £625 £550 £675
90th Percentile £674 £626 £725
South West median daily rate £550 £528 £550
% change year-on-year +4.27% -4.09% +7.32%
Number of hourly rates quoted 6 8 6
10th Percentile £18.33 £61.43 £34.83
25th Percentile £32.28 £70.31 £53.75
Median hourly rate £76.85 £74.22 £57.50
Median % change year-on-year +3.54% +29.08% +187.50%
75th Percentile £79.68 £75.21 £75.31
90th Percentile £81.48 £77.65 £81.88
South West median hourly rate £70.00 £51.00 £78.00
% change year-on-year +37.25% -34.62% +235.48%

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

Kubernetes
Daily Rate Histogram in Bristol

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Kubernetes in Bristol over the 6 months to 5 July 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 5 (25.00%) Apache
2 1 (5.00%) Apache Spark
Cloud Services
1 12 (60.00%) AWS
2 2 (10.00%) Amazon EKS
2 2 (10.00%) Azure
2 2 (10.00%) GCP
2 2 (10.00%) GitHub
2 2 (10.00%) OpenShift
3 1 (5.00%) Amazon Cognito
3 1 (5.00%) Amazon EC2
3 1 (5.00%) Amazon GuardDuty
3 1 (5.00%) Amazon S3
3 1 (5.00%) AWS CloudTrail
3 1 (5.00%) AWS Control Tower
3 1 (5.00%) AWS Lambda
3 1 (5.00%) GitHub Actions
3 1 (5.00%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 4 (20.00%) DNS
1 4 (20.00%) Firewall
2 1 (5.00%) DHCP
2 1 (5.00%) HTTP
2 1 (5.00%) TCP/IP
2 1 (5.00%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (10.00%) Amazon RDS
1 2 (10.00%) Elasticsearch
2 1 (5.00%) DynamoDB
2 1 (5.00%) Hadoop
2 1 (5.00%) MySQL
Development Applications
1 5 (25.00%) Jenkins
2 3 (15.00%) GitLab
3 1 (5.00%) Artifactory
3 1 (5.00%) CMake
3 1 (5.00%) Git
3 1 (5.00%) Gradle
3 1 (5.00%) JIRA
General
1 3 (15.00%) Social Skills
2 2 (10.00%) Legal
3 1 (5.00%) Analytical Skills
3 1 (5.00%) Finance
3 1 (5.00%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 7 (35.00%) DevOps Engineer
2 3 (15.00%) Administrator
2 3 (15.00%) DevOps Administrator
2 3 (15.00%) Lead
2 3 (15.00%) Linux Administrator
2 3 (15.00%) Linux DevOps Administrator
2 3 (15.00%) Linux Engineer
2 3 (15.00%) Linux/Unix DevOps
3 2 (10.00%) Architect
3 2 (10.00%) Data Engineer
3 2 (10.00%) Security Architect
3 2 (10.00%) Senior
3 2 (10.00%) Senior Data Engineer
4 1 (5.00%) AWS Architect
4 1 (5.00%) AWS Engineer
4 1 (5.00%) Lead DevOps
4 1 (5.00%) Lead Security Architect
4 1 (5.00%) Security Engineer
4 1 (5.00%) Site Reliability Engineer
4 1 (5.00%) Systems Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (20.00%) Apache NiFi
2 3 (15.00%) Elastic Stack
3 1 (5.00%) Bazel
3 1 (5.00%) Kafka
3 1 (5.00%) LAMP
3 1 (5.00%) LDAP
3 1 (5.00%) Node.js
3 1 (5.00%) OAuth
3 1 (5.00%) OAuth2
3 1 (5.00%) OpenID
3 1 (5.00%) REST
3 1 (5.00%) SAML
Miscellaneous
1 3 (15.00%) Linux Command Line
2 2 (10.00%) Algorithms
2 2 (10.00%) Replication
3 1 (5.00%) Cyber Threat
3 1 (5.00%) Data Centre
3 1 (5.00%) Hybrid Cloud
3 1 (5.00%) PKI
3 1 (5.00%) Security Posture
Operating Systems
1 10 (50.00%) Linux
2 2 (10.00%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 1 (5.00%) CentOS
3 1 (5.00%) Unix
3 1 (5.00%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 12 (60.00%) DevOps
2 10 (50.00%) CI/CD
3 9 (45.00%) Containerisation
4 6 (30.00%) Infrastructure as Code
4 6 (30.00%) Task Automation
5 5 (25.00%) Disaster Recovery
5 5 (25.00%) High Availability
6 4 (20.00%) Decision-Making
6 4 (20.00%) Problem-Solving
7 3 (15.00%) GitOps
7 3 (15.00%) Security Hardening
7 3 (15.00%) Vulnerability Scanning
8 2 (10.00%) Cloud Security
8 2 (10.00%) Dashboard Development
8 2 (10.00%) Data Ingestion
8 2 (10.00%) Data Pipeline
8 2 (10.00%) Data-Driven Decision Making
8 2 (10.00%) Performance Tuning
8 2 (10.00%) Site Reliability Engineering
8 2 (10.00%) Threat Modelling
Programming Languages
1 12 (60.00%) Python
2 7 (35.00%) Bash
3 4 (20.00%) Perl
4 2 (10.00%) Shell Script
5 1 (5.00%) C
5 1 (5.00%) C++
5 1 (5.00%) JavaScript
5 1 (5.00%) PHP
5 1 (5.00%) PowerShell
5 1 (5.00%) Ruby
5 1 (5.00%) SQL
Qualifications
1 15 (75.00%) Security Cleared
2 8 (40.00%) DV Cleared
3 6 (30.00%) SC Cleared
4 2 (10.00%) AWS Certification
5 1 (5.00%) Computer Science Degree
5 1 (5.00%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (10.00%) Data Quality
2 1 (5.00%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 1 (5.00%) NCSC
2 1 (5.00%) NIST
2 1 (5.00%) QA
System Software
1 14 (70.00%) Docker
2 2 (10.00%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 11 (55.00%) Terraform
2 10 (50.00%) Ansible
3 8 (40.00%) Grafana
3 8 (40.00%) Prometheus
4 2 (10.00%) Kibana
4 2 (10.00%) logstash
5 1 (5.00%) Progress Chef
5 1 (5.00%) Puppet
5 1 (5.00%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 6 (30.00%) VMware
2 5 (25.00%) Red Hat
3 2 (10.00%) NetApp