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 20 November 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
20 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 42 51 52
Rank change year-on-year +9 +1 +3
Contract jobs citing Kubernetes 27 22 25
As % of all contract jobs in Bristol 3.40% 2.84% 2.40%
As % of the Systems Management category 33.33% 34.38% 22.94%
Number of daily rates quoted 16 15 22
10th Percentile £276 £449 £430
25th Percentile £457 £506 £477
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £540 £575
Median % change year-on-year -2.78% -6.09% -7.07%
75th Percentile £650 £588 £675
90th Percentile £695 £630 £791
South West median daily rate £627 £600 £550
% change year-on-year +4.42% +9.09% -8.33%
Number of hourly rates quoted 3 4 0
Median hourly rate £119.00 £74.00 -
Median % change year-on-year +60.81% - -
South West median hourly rate £119.00 £74.00 £78.00
% change year-on-year +60.81% -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 81 64 109
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Bristol 10.20% 8.26% 10.48%
Number of daily rates quoted 57 40 80
10th Percentile £427 £349 £324
25th Percentile £463 £448 £423
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £525 £594
Median % change year-on-year +4.76% -11.58% +7.95%
75th Percentile £625 £575 £680
90th Percentile £707 £653 £713
South West median daily rate £550 £550 £558
% change year-on-year - -1.35% +1.36%
Number of hourly rates quoted 6 4 6
10th Percentile £18.33 - £18.08
25th Percentile £32.28 - £32.38
Median hourly rate £97.00 £74.00 £72.50
Median % change year-on-year +31.08% +2.07% +11.54%
75th Percentile £119.00 £74.11 £76.25
90th Percentile - £74.31 £78.13
South West median hourly rate £63.00 £74.00 £78.00
% change year-on-year -14.86% -5.13% +20.00%

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 20 November 2025.

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 6 (22.22%) Apache
2 1 (3.70%) Apache Spark
Applications
1 3 (11.11%) Microsoft Excel
1 3 (11.11%) Microsoft Office
Cloud Services
1 11 (40.74%) AWS
2 10 (37.04%) GCP
3 9 (33.33%) Azure
4 6 (22.22%) OpenShift
5 5 (18.52%) GitHub
6 2 (7.41%) Amazon EC2
6 2 (7.41%) Amazon S3
6 2 (7.41%) Azure AKS
6 2 (7.41%) Azure Cosmos DB
6 2 (7.41%) Azure DevOps
6 2 (7.41%) Entra ID
7 1 (3.70%) Datadog
7 1 (3.70%) GitHub Actions
7 1 (3.70%) Google Kubernetes Engine
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (11.11%) Elasticsearch
1 3 (11.11%) PostgreSQL
2 2 (7.41%) Amazon RDS
3 1 (3.70%) Big Data
3 1 (3.70%) Hadoop
3 1 (3.70%) MongoDB
Development Applications
1 7 (25.93%) GitLab
2 6 (22.22%) Artifactory
3 3 (11.11%) Git
3 3 (11.11%) Jenkins
4 1 (3.70%) CMake
4 1 (3.70%) Gradle
4 1 (3.70%) SonarQube
General
1 5 (18.52%) Social Skills
2 3 (11.11%) Public Sector
3 2 (7.41%) Law
3 2 (7.41%) Telecoms
4 1 (3.70%) Electronics
4 1 (3.70%) Finance
4 1 (3.70%) Manufacturing
4 1 (3.70%) Marketing
Job Titles
1 8 (29.63%) DevOps Engineer
2 4 (14.81%) System Design Authority
3 3 (11.11%) Developer
3 3 (11.11%) Full-Stack Developer
3 3 (11.11%) Site Reliability Engineer
4 2 (7.41%) Architect
4 2 (7.41%) Full-Stack Engineer
4 2 (7.41%) Full-Stack Software Engineer
4 2 (7.41%) Product Owner
4 2 (7.41%) Site Engineer
4 2 (7.41%) Software Engineer
4 2 (7.41%) Solutions Architect
5 1 (3.70%) Build Engineer
5 1 (3.70%) Cloud Engineer
5 1 (3.70%) Data Engineer
5 1 (3.70%) Lead
5 1 (3.70%) Product Specialist
5 1 (3.70%) Senior
5 1 (3.70%) Senior Cloud Engineer
5 1 (3.70%) Systems Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 7 (25.93%) React
2 6 (22.22%) Apache NiFi
3 5 (18.52%) Node.js
3 5 (18.52%) REST
4 3 (11.11%) AngularJS
4 3 (11.11%) CSS
4 3 (11.11%) Elastic Stack
4 3 (11.11%) HTML
4 3 (11.11%) Ruby on Rails
4 3 (11.11%) Spring
4 3 (11.11%) Vue
5 2 (7.41%) .NET
5 2 (7.41%) Express.js
5 2 (7.41%) Next.js
6 1 (3.70%) Bazel
6 1 (3.70%) Kafka
6 1 (3.70%) OpenTelemetry
Miscellaneous
1 8 (29.63%) Cloud Native
2 2 (7.41%) Onboarding
2 2 (7.41%) Product Ownership
3 1 (3.70%) Distributed Systems
3 1 (3.70%) Public Cloud
Operating Systems
1 10 (37.04%) Linux
2 6 (22.22%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
2 6 (22.22%) Ubuntu
2 6 (22.22%) Windows
3 1 (3.70%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 23 (85.19%) CI/CD
2 17 (62.96%) DevOps
3 14 (51.85%) Containerisation
4 9 (33.33%) DevSecOps
5 8 (29.63%) Machine Learning
6 6 (22.22%) Agile
6 6 (22.22%) API Design
6 6 (22.22%) API Integration
6 6 (22.22%) Architectural Patterns
6 6 (22.22%) OCR
6 6 (22.22%) Patch Management
6 6 (22.22%) Software Architecture
7 5 (18.52%) Continuous Improvement
7 5 (18.52%) Full-Stack Development
7 5 (18.52%) Infrastructure as Code
7 5 (18.52%) Systems Engineering
7 5 (18.52%) User Experience
7 5 (18.52%) Workflow
8 4 (14.81%) Microservices
8 4 (14.81%) Software Engineering
Programming Languages
1 13 (48.15%) Python
2 7 (25.93%) TypeScript
3 5 (18.52%) PowerShell
4 3 (11.11%) Java
4 3 (11.11%) JavaScript
4 3 (11.11%) Ruby
5 2 (7.41%) Bicep
5 2 (7.41%) C#
5 2 (7.41%) Shell Script
5 2 (7.41%) SQL
6 1 (3.70%) Bash
6 1 (3.70%) C
6 1 (3.70%) C++
6 1 (3.70%) Go
Qualifications
1 19 (70.37%) Security Cleared
2 11 (40.74%) SC Cleared
3 7 (25.93%) Degree
3 7 (25.93%) DV Cleared
4 4 (14.81%) Computer Science Degree
5 1 (3.70%) CSPO
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (18.52%) QA
System Software
1 14 (51.85%) Docker
2 2 (7.41%) Active Directory
3 1 (3.70%) Virtual Machines
3 1 (3.70%) VMware Infrastructure
3 1 (3.70%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 11 (40.74%) Terraform
2 9 (33.33%) Ansible
3 6 (22.22%) Grafana
3 6 (22.22%) Prometheus
3 6 (22.22%) SCOM
4 3 (11.11%) Argo
4 3 (11.11%) Kibana
5 2 (7.41%) Progress Chef
6 1 (3.70%) Cilium
6 1 (3.70%) Istio
6 1 (3.70%) logstash
6 1 (3.70%) Podman
6 1 (3.70%) Rancher
Vendors
1 9 (33.33%) Red Hat
2 4 (14.81%) Google
3 2 (7.41%) Microsoft
3 2 (7.41%) NVIDIA
4 1 (3.70%) SAP
4 1 (3.70%) VMware