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

6 months to
8 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 39 45 50
Rank change year-on-year +6 +5 -19
Contract jobs citing Kubernetes 48 18 27
As % of all contract jobs in Bristol 3.65% 2.63% 2.83%
As % of the Systems Management category 41.74% 19.78% 39.13%
Number of daily rates quoted 26 11 13
10th Percentile £425 £413 £453
25th Percentile £488 £448 £475
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £525 £525
Median % change year-on-year +4.76% - +16.67%
75th Percentile £622 £588 £550
90th Percentile £663 £638 £574
South West median daily rate £575 £550 £550
% change year-on-year +4.55% - -
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 3 9
10th Percentile - £78.96 £62.20
25th Percentile - £79.35 £72.50
Median hourly rate - £80.00 £74.00
Median % change year-on-year - +8.11% -
75th Percentile - £81.48 £74.44
90th Percentile - £82.37 £77.60
South West median hourly rate £98.82 £80.00 £74.00
% change year-on-year +23.53% +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 115 91 69
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Bristol 8.75% 13.28% 7.23%
Number of daily rates quoted 70 61 47
10th Percentile £381 £235 £209
25th Percentile £449 £413 £356
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £463 £500
Median % change year-on-year +18.92% -7.50% +6.95%
75th Percentile £613 £600 £557
90th Percentile £673 £675 £636
South West median daily rate £550 £550 £538
% change year-on-year - +2.28% -2.23%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 6 9
10th Percentile - £18.33 £62.20
25th Percentile - £32.28 £72.50
Median hourly rate - £76.85 £74.00
Median % change year-on-year - +3.85% -4.52%
75th Percentile - £79.68 £74.44
90th Percentile - £81.48 £77.60
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 8 August 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 (4.17%) Apache Spark
2 1 (2.08%) Apache
2 1 (2.08%) Apache Airflow
2 1 (2.08%) Oracle Coherence
Cloud Services
1 24 (50.00%) GCP
2 23 (47.92%) AWS
3 21 (43.75%) Azure
4 12 (25.00%) Google Kubernetes Engine
5 6 (12.50%) SaaS
6 5 (10.42%) GitHub
7 4 (8.33%) GitHub Actions
7 4 (8.33%) OpenShift
8 3 (6.25%) AWS CloudFormation
8 3 (6.25%) Azure AKS
9 2 (4.17%) Amazon EC2
9 2 (4.17%) Amazon EKS
9 2 (4.17%) Amazon S3
9 2 (4.17%) Apigee
9 2 (4.17%) Azure DevOps
9 2 (4.17%) Datadog
9 2 (4.17%) PaaS
9 2 (4.17%) Virtual Private Cloud
10 1 (2.08%) Cloud Computing
10 1 (2.08%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 4 (8.33%) DNS
1 4 (8.33%) VPN
2 1 (2.08%) Calico
2 1 (2.08%) Firewall
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (10.42%) PostgreSQL
2 2 (4.17%) Amazon RDS
2 2 (4.17%) Big Data
3 1 (2.08%) BigQuery
3 1 (2.08%) Data Lake
3 1 (2.08%) Metadata
3 1 (2.08%) NoSQL
3 1 (2.08%) Oracle Database
Development Applications
1 12 (25.00%) Jenkins
2 9 (18.75%) GitLab
3 8 (16.67%) Git
4 3 (6.25%) SonarQube
5 2 (4.17%) Cucumber
5 2 (4.17%) JUnit
5 2 (4.17%) Selenium
5 2 (4.17%) Sonatype Nexus
6 1 (2.08%) Artifactory
6 1 (2.08%) Burp Suite
6 1 (2.08%) Gatling
6 1 (2.08%) Gradle
6 1 (2.08%) LoadRunner
6 1 (2.08%) MLflow
6 1 (2.08%) NUnit
6 1 (2.08%) Postman
6 1 (2.08%) REST Assured
General
1 9 (18.75%) Social Skills
2 7 (14.58%) Public Sector
3 5 (10.42%) Military
4 3 (6.25%) Finance
4 3 (6.25%) Local Government
4 3 (6.25%) Police
5 2 (4.17%) Analytical Skills
5 2 (4.17%) Aviation
6 1 (2.08%) Aerospace
6 1 (2.08%) Banking
6 1 (2.08%) Influencing Skills
6 1 (2.08%) Legal
6 1 (2.08%) Publishing
Job Titles
1 12 (25.00%) DevOps Engineer
1 12 (25.00%) GCP Engineer
2 9 (18.75%) Senior
3 7 (14.58%) Architect
3 7 (14.58%) GCP DevOps
3 7 (14.58%) GCP DevOps Engineer
4 5 (10.42%) Front-End Engineer (Client-Side Engineer)
5 4 (8.33%) Lead
5 4 (8.33%) Software Engineer
5 4 (8.33%) Solutions Architect
6 3 (6.25%) AWS Engineer
6 3 (6.25%) Site Reliability Engineer
7 2 (4.17%) Cloud Engineer
7 2 (4.17%) Developer
7 2 (4.17%) Infrastructure Engineer
7 2 (4.17%) Lead Software Engineer
7 2 (4.17%) Senior Network Engineer
7 2 (4.17%) Senior Software Engineer
7 2 (4.17%) Senior Solutions Architect
7 2 (4.17%) Technical Leader
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 8 (16.67%) React
2 7 (14.58%) Quarkus
2 7 (14.58%) REST
3 5 (10.42%) Jest
4 4 (8.33%) Node.js
4 4 (8.33%) Spring Boot
5 3 (6.25%) Kafka
6 2 (4.17%) Keycloak
6 2 (4.17%) Spring
6 2 (4.17%) Swagger
7 1 (2.08%) Apache NiFi
7 1 (2.08%) NumPy
7 1 (2.08%) OAuth
7 1 (2.08%) OpenID
7 1 (2.08%) Playwright
7 1 (2.08%) RESTful
7 1 (2.08%) SAML
7 1 (2.08%) SOAP
7 1 (2.08%) Web Services
7 1 (2.08%) WSDL
Miscellaneous
1 14 (29.17%) Cloud Native
2 4 (8.33%) Distributed Systems
3 3 (6.25%) Public Cloud
4 1 (2.08%) Learning Management System
4 1 (2.08%) Linux Command Line
4 1 (2.08%) Mobile App
4 1 (2.08%) PKI
Operating Systems
1 8 (16.67%) Linux
2 3 (6.25%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 2 (4.17%) Windows
4 1 (2.08%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 38 (79.17%) DevOps
2 35 (72.92%) CI/CD
3 25 (52.08%) Infrastructure as Code
4 22 (45.83%) Containerisation
5 15 (31.25%) Site Reliability Engineering
6 12 (25.00%) Software Engineering
7 11 (22.92%) Observability
8 10 (20.83%) Agile
8 10 (20.83%) Microservices
9 9 (18.75%) Platform Engineering
9 9 (18.75%) Test Automation
10 8 (16.67%) Cloud Security
10 8 (16.67%) Problem-Solving
11 7 (14.58%) AI
11 7 (14.58%) Continuous Improvement
11 7 (14.58%) DevSecOps
11 7 (14.58%) Mentoring
11 7 (14.58%) Secrets Management
12 6 (12.50%) High Availability
12 6 (12.50%) Technical Leadership
Programming Languages
1 19 (39.58%) Python
2 13 (27.08%) Bash
3 10 (20.83%) Java
4 6 (12.50%) Go
4 6 (12.50%) TypeScript
5 5 (10.42%) JavaScript
6 4 (8.33%) PowerShell
7 3 (6.25%) Groovy
8 2 (4.17%) SQL
Qualifications
1 21 (43.75%) Security Cleared
2 18 (37.50%) SC Cleared
3 8 (16.67%) DV Cleared
4 3 (6.25%) Cisco Certification
5 2 (4.17%) AWS Certification
5 2 (4.17%) CCNA
5 2 (4.17%) Computer Science Degree
5 2 (4.17%) Degree
5 2 (4.17%) MCSE
5 2 (4.17%) Microsoft Certification
6 1 (2.08%) (ISC)2 CCSP
6 1 (2.08%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
6 1 (2.08%) CCSK
6 1 (2.08%) CCSP
6 1 (2.08%) CISM
6 1 (2.08%) CISSP
6 1 (2.08%) ISTQB
6 1 (2.08%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
6 1 (2.08%) Master's Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (10.42%) Accessibility
1 5 (10.42%) WCAG
2 3 (6.25%) NCSC
3 2 (4.17%) QA
4 1 (2.08%) Data Quality
4 1 (2.08%) Government Security Classifications
4 1 (2.08%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 1 (2.08%) NIST
System Software
1 20 (41.67%) Docker
2 1 (2.08%) Hyper-V
2 1 (2.08%) KVM
2 1 (2.08%) VMware ESXi
2 1 (2.08%) VMware Infrastructure
2 1 (2.08%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 24 (50.00%) Terraform
2 9 (18.75%) Ansible
3 6 (12.50%) Grafana
3 6 (12.50%) Prometheus
4 4 (8.33%) Istio
5 3 (6.25%) Argo
6 2 (4.17%) Cilium
7 1 (2.08%) Kubeflow
7 1 (2.08%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 12 (25.00%) Google
2 7 (14.58%) Red Hat
3 4 (8.33%) Dynatrace
3 4 (8.33%) Microsoft
4 3 (6.25%) Oracle
4 3 (6.25%) VMware
5 2 (4.17%) BiZZdesign
5 2 (4.17%) Cisco
5 2 (4.17%) Dell
6 1 (2.08%) Databricks
6 1 (2.08%) IBM
6 1 (2.08%) Splunk
6 1 (2.08%) webMethods