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

6 months to
9 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 32 44 54
Rank change year-on-year +12 +10 -2
Contract jobs citing Kubernetes 38 22 23
As % of all contract jobs in Bristol 4.47% 3.40% 2.38%
As % of the Systems Management category 49.35% 36.07% 21.10%
Number of daily rates quoted 24 17 20
10th Percentile £204 £440 £404
25th Percentile £438 £513 £475
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £531 £550 £563
Median % change year-on-year -3.41% -2.22% -9.31%
75th Percentile £661 £600 £688
90th Percentile £714 £626 £800
South West median daily rate £625 £600 £550
% change year-on-year +4.17% +9.09% -8.33%
Number of hourly rates quoted 5 2 0
10th Percentile £80.60 £74.04 -
25th Percentile £83.00 £74.11 -
Median hourly rate £119.00 £74.22 -
Median % change year-on-year +60.33% - -
75th Percentile - £74.33 -
90th Percentile - £74.40 -
South West median hourly rate £104.00 £74.22 £78.00
% change year-on-year +40.12% -4.85% -

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 77 61 109
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Bristol 9.05% 9.41% 11.30%
Number of daily rates quoted 59 41 80
10th Percentile £360 £325 £232
25th Percentile £450 £440 £353
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £525 £538
Median % change year-on-year - -2.33% -2.27%
75th Percentile £613 £575 £675
90th Percentile £716 £638 £689
South West median daily rate £550 £550 £550
Number of hourly rates quoted 5 2 5
10th Percentile £80.60 £74.04 £35.65
25th Percentile £83.00 £74.11 £58.75
Median hourly rate £119.00 £74.22 £72.50
Median % change year-on-year +60.33% +2.37% +11.54%
75th Percentile - £74.33 £76.25
90th Percentile - £74.40 -
South West median hourly rate £86.00 £16.00 £72.50
% change year-on-year +437.50% -77.93% +11.54%

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 January 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 January 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 9 (23.68%) Apache
2 2 (5.26%) Apache Spark
Applications
1 3 (7.89%) Microsoft Excel
1 3 (7.89%) Microsoft Office
Cloud Services
1 14 (36.84%) AWS
1 14 (36.84%) GCP
2 11 (28.95%) Azure
2 11 (28.95%) OpenShift
3 8 (21.05%) GitHub
4 4 (10.53%) Google Kubernetes Engine
5 2 (5.26%) Amazon EC2
5 2 (5.26%) Amazon ECS
5 2 (5.26%) Amazon S3
5 2 (5.26%) AWS CloudFormation
5 2 (5.26%) AWS CodePipeline
5 2 (5.26%) AWS Lambda
5 2 (5.26%) Azure AKS
5 2 (5.26%) Azure Cosmos DB
5 2 (5.26%) Azure DevOps
5 2 (5.26%) Entra ID
5 2 (5.26%) GitHub Actions
5 2 (5.26%) Serverless
6 1 (2.63%) Cloud Run
6 1 (2.63%) Datadog
Communications & Networking
1 2 (5.26%) DNS
1 2 (5.26%) Reverse Proxy
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (10.53%) Elasticsearch
2 3 (7.89%) PostgreSQL
3 2 (5.26%) Amazon RDS
3 2 (5.26%) Hadoop
4 1 (2.63%) Big Data
4 1 (2.63%) BigQuery
4 1 (2.63%) MongoDB
Development Applications
1 13 (34.21%) GitLab
2 8 (21.05%) Artifactory
2 8 (21.05%) Jenkins
3 5 (13.16%) Git
4 3 (7.89%) Sonatype Nexus
5 1 (2.63%) SonarQube
General
1 5 (13.16%) Social Skills
2 4 (10.53%) Public Sector
3 2 (5.26%) Aerospace
3 2 (5.26%) Finance
3 2 (5.26%) Law
3 2 (5.26%) Telecoms
4 1 (2.63%) Electronics
4 1 (2.63%) Manufacturing
4 1 (2.63%) Marketing
Job Titles
1 11 (28.95%) DevOps Engineer
2 5 (13.16%) Senior
3 4 (10.53%) Architect
3 4 (10.53%) GCP Engineer
3 4 (10.53%) Site Reliability Engineer
3 4 (10.53%) System Design Authority
4 3 (7.89%) Administrator
4 3 (7.89%) Developer
4 3 (7.89%) Full-Stack Developer
4 3 (7.89%) Software Engineer
5 2 (5.26%) Cloud Engineer
5 2 (5.26%) Data Engineer
5 2 (5.26%) Platform Engineer
5 2 (5.26%) Product Owner
5 2 (5.26%) Senior Cloud Engineer
5 2 (5.26%) Senior DevOps
5 2 (5.26%) Senior DevOps Engineer
5 2 (5.26%) Site Engineer
5 2 (5.26%) Solutions Architect
5 2 (5.26%) Technical Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 9 (23.68%) Apache NiFi
2 7 (18.42%) Elastic Stack
2 7 (18.42%) React
2 7 (18.42%) REST
3 5 (13.16%) Node.js
4 3 (7.89%) AngularJS
4 3 (7.89%) CSS
4 3 (7.89%) HTML
4 3 (7.89%) Ruby on Rails
4 3 (7.89%) Spring
4 3 (7.89%) Vue
5 2 (5.26%) .NET
5 2 (5.26%) Express.js
5 2 (5.26%) Kafka
5 2 (5.26%) Next.js
6 1 (2.63%) OpenTelemetry
Miscellaneous
1 8 (21.05%) Cloud Native
2 4 (10.53%) Onboarding
3 2 (5.26%) Product Ownership
3 2 (5.26%) Public Cloud
4 1 (2.63%) Algorithms
4 1 (2.63%) Distributed Systems
4 1 (2.63%) Private Cloud
4 1 (2.63%) Replication
Operating Systems
1 12 (31.58%) Linux
2 8 (21.05%) Windows
3 6 (15.79%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 6 (15.79%) Ubuntu
4 1 (2.63%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 32 (84.21%) CI/CD
2 21 (55.26%) DevOps
3 18 (47.37%) Containerisation
4 13 (34.21%) DevSecOps
5 11 (28.95%) Infrastructure as Code
6 8 (21.05%) Continuous Improvement
6 8 (21.05%) Machine Learning
7 7 (18.42%) Software Engineering
7 7 (18.42%) User Experience
7 7 (18.42%) Workflow
8 6 (15.79%) Agile
8 6 (15.79%) API Design
8 6 (15.79%) API Integration
8 6 (15.79%) Architectural Patterns
8 6 (15.79%) Computer Science
8 6 (15.79%) OCR
8 6 (15.79%) Patch Management
8 6 (15.79%) Roadmaps
8 6 (15.79%) Software Architecture
9 5 (13.16%) Full-Stack Development
Programming Languages
1 17 (44.74%) Python
2 7 (18.42%) PowerShell
2 7 (18.42%) TypeScript
3 5 (13.16%) Ruby
4 3 (7.89%) Bicep
4 3 (7.89%) Java
4 3 (7.89%) JavaScript
4 3 (7.89%) SQL
5 2 (5.26%) C#
5 2 (5.26%) Shell Script
6 1 (2.63%) Bash
6 1 (2.63%) Go
Qualifications
1 27 (71.05%) Security Cleared
2 18 (47.37%) SC Cleared
3 9 (23.68%) Degree
3 9 (23.68%) DV Cleared
4 6 (15.79%) Computer Science Degree
5 2 (5.26%) BPSS Clearance
6 1 (2.63%) CSPO
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 7 (18.42%) QA
2 1 (2.63%) Data Quality
System Software
1 15 (39.47%) Docker
2 3 (7.89%) Virtual Machines
3 2 (5.26%) Active Directory
4 1 (2.63%) VMware Infrastructure
4 1 (2.63%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 18 (47.37%) Terraform
2 13 (34.21%) Ansible
3 9 (23.68%) Grafana
3 9 (23.68%) Prometheus
4 6 (15.79%) SCOM
5 4 (10.53%) Kibana
6 3 (7.89%) Argo
7 2 (5.26%) Istio
7 2 (5.26%) logstash
7 2 (5.26%) Progress Chef
8 1 (2.63%) Cilium
8 1 (2.63%) Podman
8 1 (2.63%) Rancher
Vendors
1 14 (36.84%) Red Hat
2 6 (15.79%) Google
3 2 (5.26%) Microsoft
3 2 (5.26%) NVIDIA
4 1 (2.63%) SAP
4 1 (2.63%) VMware