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 9 April 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
9 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 32 30 56
Rank change year-on-year -2 +26 -11
Contract jobs citing Kubernetes 49 27 20
As % of all contract jobs in Bristol 4.16% 5.10% 1.92%
As % of the Systems Management category 59.76% 36.99% 18.52%
Number of daily rates quoted 32 20 7
10th Percentile £400 £440 £400
25th Percentile £436 £466 £466
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £538 £536 £488
Median % change year-on-year +0.23% +10.00% -9.30%
75th Percentile £616 £610 £544
90th Percentile £714 £641 £595
South West median daily rate £550 £600 £550
% change year-on-year -8.33% +9.09% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 5 2 5
10th Percentile £80.60 £79.13 £59.10
25th Percentile £83.00 £79.77 £63.75
Median hourly rate £119.00 £80.83 £74.44
Median % change year-on-year +47.22% +8.58% +29.46%
75th Percentile - £81.90 £77.50
90th Percentile - £82.53 £77.80
South West median hourly rate £104.00 £80.83 £74.44
% change year-on-year +28.67% +8.58% +23.55%

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 82 73 108
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Bristol 6.96% 13.80% 10.39%
Number of daily rates quoted 53 56 75
10th Percentile £353 £323 £215
25th Percentile £400 £439 £300
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £508 £450
Median % change year-on-year +3.45% +12.78% -20.35%
75th Percentile £613 £611 £538
90th Percentile £714 £675 £673
South West median daily rate £550 £575 £525
% change year-on-year -4.35% +9.52% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 5 2 6
10th Percentile £80.60 £79.13 £57.38
25th Percentile £83.00 £79.77 £60.00
Median hourly rate £119.00 £80.83 £70.97
Median % change year-on-year +47.22% +13.89% +9.18%
75th Percentile - £81.90 £76.74
90th Percentile - £82.53 £77.75
South West median hourly rate £65.00 £78.70 £40.00
% change year-on-year -17.41% +96.75% -38.46%

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 9 April 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
Hourly Rate Histogram in Bristol

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing Kubernetes in Bristol over the 6 months to 9 April 2026.

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 6 (12.24%) Apache
2 3 (6.12%) Apache Spark
3 1 (2.04%) Apache Airflow
Applications
1 3 (6.12%) Microsoft Excel
1 3 (6.12%) Microsoft Office
Cloud Services
1 19 (38.78%) AWS
2 18 (36.73%) GCP
3 11 (22.45%) Azure
4 10 (20.41%) OpenShift
5 8 (16.33%) Google Kubernetes Engine
6 7 (14.29%) GitHub
7 4 (8.16%) AWS CloudFormation
7 4 (8.16%) GitHub Actions
8 3 (6.12%) Amazon EC2
8 3 (6.12%) Amazon ECS
8 3 (6.12%) Amazon EKS
8 3 (6.12%) Amazon S3
8 3 (6.12%) AWS Lambda
8 3 (6.12%) Serverless
9 2 (4.08%) AWS CodePipeline
9 2 (4.08%) SaaS
10 1 (2.04%) Cloud Composer
10 1 (2.04%) Cloud Run
10 1 (2.04%) Vertex AI
10 1 (2.04%) Virtual Private Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 4 (8.16%) DNS
2 2 (4.08%) Reverse Proxy
2 2 (4.08%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (6.12%) Amazon RDS
2 2 (4.08%) Big Data
2 2 (4.08%) BigQuery
3 1 (2.04%) Elasticsearch
3 1 (2.04%) Hadoop
Development Applications
1 17 (34.69%) GitLab
2 16 (32.65%) Jenkins
3 5 (10.20%) Artifactory
3 5 (10.20%) Git
3 5 (10.20%) Sonatype Nexus
4 1 (2.04%) Cucumber
4 1 (2.04%) JUnit
4 1 (2.04%) MLflow
4 1 (2.04%) Mockito
4 1 (2.04%) NUnit
4 1 (2.04%) Selenium
4 1 (2.04%) SonarQube
General
1 7 (14.29%) Social Skills
2 4 (8.16%) Analytical Skills
3 3 (6.12%) Aerospace
3 3 (6.12%) Public Sector
4 2 (4.08%) Finance
5 1 (2.04%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 17 (34.69%) DevOps Engineer
2 11 (22.45%) GCP Engineer
3 9 (18.37%) Senior
4 5 (10.20%) Administrator
4 5 (10.20%) GCP DevOps
4 5 (10.20%) GCP DevOps Engineer
4 5 (10.20%) Platform Engineer
5 4 (8.16%) Site Reliability Engineer
5 4 (8.16%) Software Engineer
6 3 (6.12%) AWS Engineer
6 3 (6.12%) Cloud Engineer
6 3 (6.12%) Lead
6 3 (6.12%) System Design Authority
7 2 (4.08%) Data Engineer
7 2 (4.08%) DevSecOps Engineer
7 2 (4.08%) Kubernetes Engineer
7 2 (4.08%) Senior Cloud Engineer
7 2 (4.08%) Senior DevOps
7 2 (4.08%) Senior DevOps Engineer
7 2 (4.08%) Senior Platform Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 6 (12.24%) Apache NiFi
1 6 (12.24%) Elastic Stack
1 6 (12.24%) REST
2 3 (6.12%) Spring
2 3 (6.12%) Spring Boot
3 2 (4.08%) JAX-RS
3 2 (4.08%) JPA
3 2 (4.08%) Kafka
3 2 (4.08%) Node.js
3 2 (4.08%) OAuth
3 2 (4.08%) OAuth2
3 2 (4.08%) RESTful
3 2 (4.08%) Web Services
4 1 (2.04%) Flask
4 1 (2.04%) Keycloak
4 1 (2.04%) NumPy
4 1 (2.04%) Pandas
4 1 (2.04%) pytest
4 1 (2.04%) scikit-learn
4 1 (2.04%) TensorFlow
Miscellaneous
1 6 (12.24%) Cloud Native
2 4 (8.16%) Public Cloud
3 3 (6.12%) Onboarding
4 2 (4.08%) Distributed Systems
4 2 (4.08%) Private Cloud
4 2 (4.08%) Product Ownership
5 1 (2.04%) Algorithms
5 1 (2.04%) Mobile App
5 1 (2.04%) Replication
Operating Systems
1 12 (24.49%) Linux
2 6 (12.24%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 5 (10.20%) Windows
4 3 (6.12%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 40 (81.63%) CI/CD
2 30 (61.22%) DevOps
3 24 (48.98%) Containerisation
4 20 (40.82%) Infrastructure as Code
5 15 (30.61%) DevSecOps
6 14 (28.57%) Continuous Improvement
7 10 (20.41%) Software Engineering
8 8 (16.33%) Configuration Management
8 8 (16.33%) Roadmaps
9 7 (14.29%) Cloud Security
9 7 (14.29%) Machine Learning
9 7 (14.29%) Observability
9 7 (14.29%) Platform Engineering
9 7 (14.29%) Site Reliability Engineering
10 6 (12.24%) Agile
10 6 (12.24%) Microservices
11 5 (10.20%) AI
11 5 (10.20%) Mentoring
11 5 (10.20%) User Experience
11 5 (10.20%) Workflow
Programming Languages
1 20 (40.82%) Python
2 6 (12.24%) Go
3 5 (10.20%) PowerShell
3 5 (10.20%) SQL
4 4 (8.16%) Bash
5 3 (6.12%) Java
6 2 (4.08%) Ruby
6 2 (4.08%) Shell Script
7 1 (2.04%) Bicep
7 1 (2.04%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 25 (51.02%) Security Cleared
2 20 (40.82%) SC Cleared
3 7 (14.29%) Degree
4 5 (10.20%) DV Cleared
5 4 (8.16%) Computer Science Degree
6 2 (4.08%) BPSS Clearance
7 1 (2.04%) AWS Certification
7 1 (2.04%) CSPO
7 1 (2.04%) ISTQB
7 1 (2.04%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
7 1 (2.04%) Master's Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 6 (12.24%) QA
2 2 (4.08%) Data Quality
2 2 (4.08%) NCSC
System Software
1 19 (38.78%) Docker
2 2 (4.08%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 25 (51.02%) Terraform
2 14 (28.57%) Ansible
3 11 (22.45%) Grafana
3 11 (22.45%) Prometheus
4 3 (6.12%) Istio
4 3 (6.12%) SCOM
5 2 (4.08%) Progress Chef
6 1 (2.04%) Argo
6 1 (2.04%) Cilium
6 1 (2.04%) Kibana
6 1 (2.04%) Kubeflow
6 1 (2.04%) logstash
Vendors
1 13 (26.53%) Red Hat
2 9 (18.37%) Google
3 1 (2.04%) Databricks