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

6 months to
3 Oct 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 46 53 51
Rank change year-on-year +7 -2 -12
Contract jobs citing Kubernetes 44 16 25
As % of all contract jobs in Bristol 3.24% 2.17% 2.82%
As % of the Systems Management category 48.89% 21.92% 39.68%
Number of daily rates quoted 19 13 17
10th Percentile £423 £439 £470
25th Percentile £481 £463 £508
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £525 £533
Median % change year-on-year +4.76% -1.50% +7.95%
75th Percentile £644 £650 £575
90th Percentile £668 £686 £593
South West median daily rate £550 £600 £573
% change year-on-year -8.33% +4.80% +4.09%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 1 5
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £56.25 - -
Median hourly rate £57.50 £80.00 £74.00
Median % change year-on-year -28.13% +8.11% -
75th Percentile £58.75 - £74.44
90th Percentile - - -
South West median hourly rate £91.91 £80.00 £74.00
% change year-on-year +14.89% +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 90 73 63
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Bristol 6.63% 9.92% 7.09%
Number of daily rates quoted 53 51 45
10th Percentile £403 £235 £330
25th Percentile £449 £413 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £523 £515
Median % change year-on-year +5.16% +1.55% +1.73%
75th Percentile £638 £625 £575
90th Percentile £700 £695 £645
South West median daily rate £558 £545 £538
% change year-on-year +2.34% +1.40% -2.27%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 4 5
10th Percentile - £18.11 -
25th Percentile £56.25 £18.60 -
Median hourly rate £57.50 £46.94 £74.00
Median % change year-on-year +22.51% -36.57% +2.07%
75th Percentile £58.75 £78.13 £74.44
90th Percentile - £79.25 -
South West median hourly rate £85.00 £60.00 £74.00
% change year-on-year +41.67% -18.92% -1.99%

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 3 October 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 (4.55%) Apache Spark
2 1 (2.27%) Apache
2 1 (2.27%) Confluence
2 1 (2.27%) Oracle Coherence
2 1 (2.27%) Traefik
Cloud Services
1 22 (50.00%) AWS
1 22 (50.00%) GCP
2 21 (47.73%) Azure
3 12 (27.27%) Google Kubernetes Engine
4 5 (11.36%) OpenShift
4 5 (11.36%) SaaS
5 4 (9.09%) AWS CloudFormation
5 4 (9.09%) Azure DevOps
6 3 (6.82%) Amazon EKS
6 3 (6.82%) Amazon S3
6 3 (6.82%) Azure AKS
6 3 (6.82%) GitHub
7 2 (4.55%) Amazon Kinesis
7 2 (4.55%) Apigee
7 2 (4.55%) Datadog
7 2 (4.55%) GitHub Actions
7 2 (4.55%) PaaS
8 1 (2.27%) AWS Lambda
8 1 (2.27%) Azure Sentinel
8 1 (2.27%) Virtual Private Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 5 (11.36%) DNS
1 5 (11.36%) VPN
2 3 (6.82%) Firewall
3 2 (4.55%) TCP/IP
3 2 (4.55%) tcpdump
4 1 (2.27%) Calico
4 1 (2.27%) Network Security
Database & Business Intelligence
1 6 (13.64%) PostgreSQL
2 2 (4.55%) Metadata
2 2 (4.55%) NoSQL
3 1 (2.27%) Amazon RDS
3 1 (2.27%) Big Data
3 1 (2.27%) BigQuery
3 1 (2.27%) Data Lake
3 1 (2.27%) Hadoop
3 1 (2.27%) MySQL
3 1 (2.27%) Oracle Database
3 1 (2.27%) Parquet
3 1 (2.27%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 10 (22.73%) Jenkins
2 8 (18.18%) GitLab
3 7 (15.91%) Git
4 2 (4.55%) Cucumber
4 2 (4.55%) SonarQube
4 2 (4.55%) Sonatype Nexus
4 2 (4.55%) Visual Studio Team System
5 1 (2.27%) Burp Suite
5 1 (2.27%) Gatling
5 1 (2.27%) Gradle
5 1 (2.27%) JIRA
5 1 (2.27%) JUnit
5 1 (2.27%) LoadRunner
5 1 (2.27%) Postman
5 1 (2.27%) REST Assured
5 1 (2.27%) Selenium
General
1 7 (15.91%) Public Sector
2 5 (11.36%) Military
3 4 (9.09%) Finance
4 3 (6.82%) Banking
4 3 (6.82%) Local Government
4 3 (6.82%) Police
4 3 (6.82%) Social Skills
5 2 (4.55%) Aviation
6 1 (2.27%) Analytical Skills
6 1 (2.27%) Influencing Skills
6 1 (2.27%) Legal
6 1 (2.27%) Publishing
Job Titles
1 9 (20.45%) DevOps Engineer
2 8 (18.18%) Architect
2 8 (18.18%) GCP Engineer
3 7 (15.91%) Senior
4 5 (11.36%) Front-End Engineer (Client-Side Engineer)
4 5 (11.36%) GCP DevOps
4 5 (11.36%) GCP DevOps Engineer
5 4 (9.09%) Site Reliability Engineer
5 4 (9.09%) Solutions Architect
6 3 (6.82%) Cloud Engineer
6 3 (6.82%) Lead
6 3 (6.82%) Site Engineer
7 2 (4.55%) Developer
7 2 (4.55%) Infrastructure Engineer
7 2 (4.55%) Lead Architect
7 2 (4.55%) Senior Architect
7 2 (4.55%) Senior Front-End Engineer (Client-Side Engineer)
7 2 (4.55%) Senior Solutions Architect
7 2 (4.55%) Technical Architect
7 2 (4.55%) Technical Leader
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 22 (50.00%) Terraform
2 8 (18.18%) React
3 7 (15.91%) Quarkus
4 6 (13.64%) REST
5 5 (11.36%) Jest
6 4 (9.09%) Node.js
7 3 (6.82%) Kafka
7 3 (6.82%) Spring Boot
8 2 (4.55%) Keycloak
8 2 (4.55%) Pulumi
8 2 (4.55%) SOAP
8 2 (4.55%) Swagger
9 1 (2.27%) JMS
9 1 (2.27%) OAuth
9 1 (2.27%) OpenID
9 1 (2.27%) RESTful
9 1 (2.27%) SAML
9 1 (2.27%) Spring
9 1 (2.27%) Web Services
9 1 (2.27%) WSDL
Miscellaneous
1 13 (29.55%) Cloud Native
2 3 (6.82%) Distributed Systems
3 2 (4.55%) Security Posture
4 1 (2.27%) Algorithms
4 1 (2.27%) Learning Management System
4 1 (2.27%) Linux Command Line
4 1 (2.27%) Mobile App
4 1 (2.27%) PKI
4 1 (2.27%) Public Cloud
Operating Systems
1 5 (11.36%) Linux
2 1 (2.27%) Windows
2 1 (2.27%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 33 (75.00%) DevOps
2 31 (70.45%) CI/CD
3 20 (45.45%) Infrastructure as Code
4 17 (38.64%) Containerisation
5 15 (34.09%) Site Reliability Engineering
6 11 (25.00%) Observability
7 9 (20.45%) Agile
8 8 (18.18%) Platform Engineering
8 8 (18.18%) Secrets Management
9 7 (15.91%) DevSecOps
9 7 (15.91%) Microservices
9 7 (15.91%) Problem-Solving
9 7 (15.91%) Software Engineering
10 6 (13.64%) Cloud Security
10 6 (13.64%) Test Automation
11 5 (11.36%) High Availability
11 5 (11.36%) Incident Management
11 5 (11.36%) Mentoring
11 5 (11.36%) Service-Level Objective
11 5 (11.36%) TOGAF
Programming Languages
1 15 (34.09%) Python
2 10 (22.73%) Bash
2 10 (22.73%) Java
3 6 (13.64%) TypeScript
4 5 (11.36%) Go
4 5 (11.36%) JavaScript
5 3 (6.82%) Groovy
5 3 (6.82%) PowerShell
5 3 (6.82%) SQL
6 2 (4.55%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 21 (47.73%) Security Cleared
2 15 (34.09%) SC Cleared
3 11 (25.00%) DV Cleared
4 4 (9.09%) AWS Certification
5 3 (6.82%) Cisco Certification
6 2 (4.55%) CCNA
6 2 (4.55%) MCSE
6 2 (4.55%) Microsoft Certification
7 1 (2.27%) (ISC)2 CCSP
7 1 (2.27%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
7 1 (2.27%) Azure Certification
7 1 (2.27%) CCSK
7 1 (2.27%) CCSP
7 1 (2.27%) CISM
7 1 (2.27%) CISSP
7 1 (2.27%) Degree
7 1 (2.27%) OSCP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (11.36%) Accessibility
1 5 (11.36%) WCAG
2 2 (4.55%) NCSC
2 2 (4.55%) QA
2 2 (4.55%) SLA
3 1 (2.27%) Government Security Classifications
3 1 (2.27%) HMG Security Policy Framework
3 1 (2.27%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 1 (2.27%) NIST
System Software
1 13 (29.55%) Docker
2 1 (2.27%) Hyper-V
2 1 (2.27%) KVM
2 1 (2.27%) VMware ESXi
2 1 (2.27%) VMware Infrastructure
2 1 (2.27%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 7 (15.91%) Ansible
2 6 (13.64%) Istio
3 5 (11.36%) Grafana
3 5 (11.36%) Prometheus
4 2 (4.55%) Argo
4 2 (4.55%) Cilium
5 1 (2.27%) QRadar
5 1 (2.27%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 9 (20.45%) Google
2 6 (13.64%) Dynatrace
3 4 (9.09%) Microsoft
3 4 (9.09%) Oracle
4 3 (6.82%) Red Hat
4 3 (6.82%) VMware
5 2 (4.55%) BiZZdesign
5 2 (4.55%) Cisco
5 2 (4.55%) Dell
5 2 (4.55%) Splunk
5 2 (4.55%) webMethods
6 1 (2.27%) ArcSight
6 1 (2.27%) Cribl.io
6 1 (2.27%) IBM