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

6 months to
25 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 38 49 48
Rank change year-on-year +11 -1 -16
Contract jobs citing Kubernetes 49 20 27
As % of all contract jobs in Bristol 3.74% 2.88% 2.66%
As % of the Systems Management category 42.98% 20.41% 35.53%
Number of daily rates quoted 28 13 14
10th Percentile £409 £417 £454
25th Percentile £463 £463 £481
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £515 £529
Median % change year-on-year +6.80% -2.65% +16.26%
75th Percentile £613 £551 £565
90th Percentile £663 £635 £584
South West median daily rate £550 £550 £550
% change year-on-year - - +1.15%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 3 8
10th Percentile - £78.96 £61.43
25th Percentile - £79.35 £70.31
Median hourly rate - £80.00 £74.22
Median % change year-on-year - +7.79% +29.08%
75th Percentile - £81.48 £75.21
90th Percentile - £82.37 £77.65
South West median hourly rate £98.82 £80.00 £74.22
% change year-on-year +23.53% +7.79% -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 114 98 76
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Bristol 8.71% 14.12% 7.49%
Number of daily rates quoted 68 67 53
10th Percentile £379 £235 £227
25th Percentile £449 £413 £375
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £540 £475 £500
Median % change year-on-year +13.68% -5.00% +6.38%
75th Percentile £602 £616 £550
90th Percentile £663 £675 £641
South West median daily rate £546 £550 £535
% change year-on-year -0.68% +2.80% -2.73%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 6 8
10th Percentile - £18.33 £61.43
25th Percentile - £32.28 £70.31
Median hourly rate - £76.85 £74.22
Median % change year-on-year - +3.54% +29.08%
75th Percentile - £79.68 £75.21
90th Percentile - £81.48 £77.65
South West median hourly rate £51.00 £67.50 £74.00
% change year-on-year -24.44% -8.78% -5.13%

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 25 July 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 (4.08%) Apache Spark
2 1 (2.04%) Apache
2 1 (2.04%) Apache Airflow
2 1 (2.04%) Oracle Coherence
Cloud Services
1 24 (48.98%) AWS
1 24 (48.98%) GCP
2 19 (38.78%) Azure
3 12 (24.49%) Google Kubernetes Engine
4 5 (10.20%) AWS CloudFormation
4 5 (10.20%) GitHub
4 5 (10.20%) SaaS
5 4 (8.16%) Amazon EKS
5 4 (8.16%) GitHub Actions
6 3 (6.12%) Azure AKS
6 3 (6.12%) OpenShift
7 2 (4.08%) Amazon EC2
7 2 (4.08%) Amazon S3
7 2 (4.08%) Apigee
7 2 (4.08%) AWS Lambda
7 2 (4.08%) Datadog
7 2 (4.08%) Serverless
7 2 (4.08%) Virtual Private Cloud
8 1 (2.04%) Cloud Computing
8 1 (2.04%) PaaS
Communications & Networking
1 4 (8.16%) DNS
1 4 (8.16%) VPN
2 1 (2.04%) Calico
2 1 (2.04%) Firewall
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (10.20%) PostgreSQL
2 2 (4.08%) Amazon RDS
2 2 (4.08%) Big Data
3 1 (2.04%) BigQuery
3 1 (2.04%) Data Lake
3 1 (2.04%) Metadata
3 1 (2.04%) Oracle Database
Development Applications
1 11 (22.45%) Jenkins
2 9 (18.37%) GitLab
3 8 (16.33%) Git
4 3 (6.12%) Cucumber
4 3 (6.12%) SonarQube
5 2 (4.08%) JUnit
5 2 (4.08%) Selenium
5 2 (4.08%) Sonatype Nexus
6 1 (2.04%) Artifactory
6 1 (2.04%) Burp Suite
6 1 (2.04%) Gatling
6 1 (2.04%) Gradle
6 1 (2.04%) LoadRunner
6 1 (2.04%) MLflow
6 1 (2.04%) Mockito
6 1 (2.04%) NUnit
6 1 (2.04%) Postman
6 1 (2.04%) REST Assured
General
1 8 (16.33%) Social Skills
2 7 (14.29%) Public Sector
3 4 (8.16%) Military
4 3 (6.12%) Analytical Skills
4 3 (6.12%) Finance
4 3 (6.12%) Local Government
4 3 (6.12%) Police
5 1 (2.04%) Aerospace
5 1 (2.04%) Aviation
5 1 (2.04%) Banking
5 1 (2.04%) Influencing Skills
5 1 (2.04%) Legal
5 1 (2.04%) Publishing
Job Titles
1 14 (28.57%) DevOps Engineer
2 12 (24.49%) GCP Engineer
3 9 (18.37%) Senior
4 7 (14.29%) GCP DevOps
4 7 (14.29%) GCP DevOps Engineer
5 6 (12.24%) Architect
6 5 (10.20%) AWS Engineer
6 5 (10.20%) Front-End Engineer (Client-Side Engineer)
7 4 (8.16%) Lead
7 4 (8.16%) Software Engineer
8 3 (6.12%) Site Reliability Engineer
8 3 (6.12%) Solutions Architect
9 2 (4.08%) AWS DevOps
9 2 (4.08%) AWS DevOps Engineer
9 2 (4.08%) Cloud Engineer
9 2 (4.08%) Infrastructure Engineer
9 2 (4.08%) Lead Software Engineer
9 2 (4.08%) Platform Engineer
9 2 (4.08%) Senior Network Engineer
9 2 (4.08%) Senior Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 7 (14.29%) Quarkus
1 7 (14.29%) React
1 7 (14.29%) REST
2 5 (10.20%) Jest
2 5 (10.20%) Node.js
2 5 (10.20%) Spring Boot
3 3 (6.12%) Spring
4 2 (4.08%) Kafka
4 2 (4.08%) Keycloak
4 2 (4.08%) OAuth
4 2 (4.08%) OAuth2
4 2 (4.08%) RESTful
4 2 (4.08%) Swagger
4 2 (4.08%) Web Services
5 1 (2.04%) Elastic Stack
5 1 (2.04%) Flask
5 1 (2.04%) JAX-RS
5 1 (2.04%) Pandas
5 1 (2.04%) scikit-learn
5 1 (2.04%) TensorFlow
Miscellaneous
1 13 (26.53%) Cloud Native
2 4 (8.16%) Distributed Systems
3 3 (6.12%) Public Cloud
4 1 (2.04%) Learning Management System
4 1 (2.04%) Linux Command Line
4 1 (2.04%) Mobile App
4 1 (2.04%) PKI
Operating Systems
1 8 (16.33%) Linux
2 3 (6.12%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 2 (4.08%) Windows
4 1 (2.04%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 39 (79.59%) DevOps
2 36 (73.47%) CI/CD
3 27 (55.10%) Infrastructure as Code
4 25 (51.02%) Containerisation
5 14 (28.57%) Site Reliability Engineering
6 12 (24.49%) Software Engineering
7 11 (22.45%) Agile
7 11 (22.45%) Observability
8 10 (20.41%) Microservices
9 9 (18.37%) Platform Engineering
9 9 (18.37%) Test Automation
10 8 (16.33%) Problem-Solving
11 7 (14.29%) AI
11 7 (14.29%) Cloud Security
11 7 (14.29%) Continuous Improvement
11 7 (14.29%) DevSecOps
11 7 (14.29%) Mentoring
11 7 (14.29%) Secrets Management
12 6 (12.24%) High Availability
12 6 (12.24%) Technical Leadership
Programming Languages
1 18 (36.73%) Python
2 12 (24.49%) Bash
3 11 (22.45%) Java
4 7 (14.29%) Go
5 6 (12.24%) TypeScript
6 5 (10.20%) JavaScript
7 3 (6.12%) PowerShell
8 2 (4.08%) Groovy
9 1 (2.04%) SQL
Qualifications
1 20 (40.82%) Security Cleared
2 17 (34.69%) SC Cleared
3 8 (16.33%) DV Cleared
4 2 (4.08%) AWS Certification
4 2 (4.08%) Cisco Certification
4 2 (4.08%) Computer Science Degree
4 2 (4.08%) Degree
5 1 (2.04%) (ISC)2 CCSP
5 1 (2.04%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
5 1 (2.04%) CCNA
5 1 (2.04%) CCSK
5 1 (2.04%) CCSP
5 1 (2.04%) CISM
5 1 (2.04%) CISSP
5 1 (2.04%) ISTQB
5 1 (2.04%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
5 1 (2.04%) Master's Degree
5 1 (2.04%) MCSE
5 1 (2.04%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (10.20%) Accessibility
1 5 (10.20%) WCAG
2 3 (6.12%) NCSC
2 3 (6.12%) QA
3 1 (2.04%) Data Quality
3 1 (2.04%) Government Security Classifications
3 1 (2.04%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 1 (2.04%) NIST
System Software
1 22 (44.90%) Docker
2 1 (2.04%) Hyper-V
2 1 (2.04%) KVM
2 1 (2.04%) VMware ESXi
2 1 (2.04%) VMware Infrastructure
2 1 (2.04%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 25 (51.02%) Terraform
2 9 (18.37%) Ansible
3 6 (12.24%) Grafana
3 6 (12.24%) Prometheus
4 4 (8.16%) Istio
5 3 (6.12%) Argo
6 2 (4.08%) Cilium
7 1 (2.04%) Kubeflow
7 1 (2.04%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 12 (24.49%) Google
2 6 (12.24%) Red Hat
3 3 (6.12%) Dynatrace
3 3 (6.12%) Microsoft
3 3 (6.12%) VMware
4 2 (4.08%) BiZZdesign
4 2 (4.08%) Dell
4 2 (4.08%) Oracle
5 1 (2.04%) Cisco
5 1 (2.04%) Databricks
5 1 (2.04%) IBM
5 1 (2.04%) Splunk
5 1 (2.04%) webMethods