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

6 months to
9 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 32 33 57
Rank change year-on-year +1 +24 -25
Contract jobs citing Kubernetes 50 23 23
As % of all contract jobs in Bristol 3.99% 4.08% 2.19%
As % of the Systems Management category 53.19% 28.40% 22.12%
Number of daily rates quoted 33 17 8
10th Percentile £400 £440 £413
25th Percentile £428 £463 £469
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £530 £494
Median % change year-on-year +3.77% +7.34% -3.66%
75th Percentile £625 £605 £541
90th Percentile £714 £630 £584
South West median daily rate £550 £600 £550
% change year-on-year -8.33% +9.09% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 2 6
10th Percentile £79.40 £79.13 £59.88
25th Percentile £80.00 £79.77 £65.94
Median hourly rate £81.00 £80.83 £74.44
Median % change year-on-year +0.21% +8.58% +29.46%
75th Percentile £82.00 £81.90 £76.74
90th Percentile £82.60 £82.53 £77.75
South West median hourly rate £83.00 £80.83 £74.44
% change year-on-year +2.68% +8.58% +1.97%

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 94 81 104
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Bristol 7.51% 14.36% 9.89%
Number of daily rates quoted 60 61 71
10th Percentile £398 £235 £213
25th Percentile £447 £413 £300
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £530 £447 £450
Median % change year-on-year +18.57% -0.67% -18.18%
75th Percentile £613 £575 £538
90th Percentile £714 £668 £588
South West median daily rate £550 £550 £525
% change year-on-year - +4.76% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 2 7
10th Percentile £79.40 £79.13 £57.65
25th Percentile £80.00 £79.77 £61.25
Median hourly rate £81.00 £80.83 £74.44
Median % change year-on-year +0.21% +8.58% +14.52%
75th Percentile £82.00 £81.90 £75.97
90th Percentile £82.60 £82.53 £77.70
South West median hourly rate £51.00 £74.35 £40.00
% change year-on-year -31.41% +85.88% -42.03%

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 May 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 4 (8.00%) Apache
2 3 (6.00%) Apache Spark
3 1 (2.00%) Apache Airflow
Cloud Services
1 23 (46.00%) GCP
2 19 (38.00%) AWS
3 12 (24.00%) Azure
4 10 (20.00%) Google Kubernetes Engine
5 8 (16.00%) OpenShift
6 6 (12.00%) AWS CloudFormation
6 6 (12.00%) GitHub
7 4 (8.00%) GitHub Actions
7 4 (8.00%) SaaS
8 3 (6.00%) Amazon ECS
8 3 (6.00%) Amazon EKS
8 3 (6.00%) AWS Lambda
8 3 (6.00%) Serverless
9 2 (4.00%) Apigee
9 2 (4.00%) AWS CodePipeline
9 2 (4.00%) Azure AKS
10 1 (2.00%) Cloud Composer
10 1 (2.00%) Cloud Run
10 1 (2.00%) Pulumi
10 1 (2.00%) Vertex AI
Communications & Networking
1 6 (12.00%) DNS
2 4 (8.00%) VPN
3 2 (4.00%) Reverse Proxy
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (4.00%) Big Data
1 2 (4.00%) BigQuery
2 1 (2.00%) Amazon RDS
2 1 (2.00%) Elasticsearch
2 1 (2.00%) Hadoop
2 1 (2.00%) PostgreSQL
Development Applications
1 17 (34.00%) GitLab
2 16 (32.00%) Jenkins
3 8 (16.00%) Git
4 5 (10.00%) Sonatype Nexus
5 3 (6.00%) Artifactory
6 1 (2.00%) Cucumber
6 1 (2.00%) JUnit
6 1 (2.00%) MLflow
6 1 (2.00%) Mockito
6 1 (2.00%) NUnit
6 1 (2.00%) Selenium
6 1 (2.00%) SonarQube
General
1 6 (12.00%) Social Skills
2 4 (8.00%) Analytical Skills
3 3 (6.00%) Aerospace
4 2 (4.00%) Finance
4 2 (4.00%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 18 (36.00%) DevOps Engineer
2 14 (28.00%) GCP Engineer
3 9 (18.00%) Senior
4 7 (14.00%) GCP DevOps
4 7 (14.00%) GCP DevOps Engineer
5 5 (10.00%) Administrator
5 5 (10.00%) Platform Engineer
5 5 (10.00%) Software Engineer
6 4 (8.00%) AWS Engineer
7 3 (6.00%) Cloud Engineer
7 3 (6.00%) Developer
7 3 (6.00%) Lead
7 3 (6.00%) Senior Software Engineer
7 3 (6.00%) Site Reliability Engineer
8 2 (4.00%) Architect
8 2 (4.00%) DevSecOps Engineer
8 2 (4.00%) Lead Software Engineer
8 2 (4.00%) Network Engineer
8 2 (4.00%) Senior Network Engineer
8 2 (4.00%) Technical Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 6 (12.00%) Elastic Stack
2 5 (10.00%) REST
3 4 (8.00%) Apache NiFi
4 3 (6.00%) RESTful
4 3 (6.00%) Spring
4 3 (6.00%) Spring Boot
5 2 (4.00%) JAX-RS
5 2 (4.00%) JPA
5 2 (4.00%) Kafka
5 2 (4.00%) Keycloak
5 2 (4.00%) Node.js
5 2 (4.00%) OAuth
5 2 (4.00%) OAuth2
5 2 (4.00%) Web Services
6 1 (2.00%) Jest
6 1 (2.00%) OpenTelemetry
6 1 (2.00%) PySpark
6 1 (2.00%) PyTorch
6 1 (2.00%) React
6 1 (2.00%) scikit-learn
Miscellaneous
1 7 (14.00%) Cloud Native
2 3 (6.00%) Distributed Systems
2 3 (6.00%) Onboarding
2 3 (6.00%) Public Cloud
3 2 (4.00%) Private Cloud
4 1 (2.00%) Algorithms
4 1 (2.00%) Mobile App
4 1 (2.00%) Product Ownership
4 1 (2.00%) Replication
Operating Systems
1 7 (14.00%) Linux
2 3 (6.00%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
2 3 (6.00%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 39 (78.00%) CI/CD
2 35 (70.00%) DevOps
3 24 (48.00%) Containerisation
3 24 (48.00%) Infrastructure as Code
4 13 (26.00%) Software Engineering
5 12 (24.00%) DevSecOps
6 11 (22.00%) Continuous Improvement
7 10 (20.00%) Cloud Security
7 10 (20.00%) Observability
8 9 (18.00%) Site Reliability Engineering
9 8 (16.00%) Problem-Solving
10 7 (14.00%) Agile
10 7 (14.00%) Microservices
10 7 (14.00%) Platform Engineering
10 7 (14.00%) Roadmaps
11 6 (12.00%) Configuration Management
11 6 (12.00%) Mentoring
12 5 (10.00%) Decision-Making
12 5 (10.00%) Software Delivery
12 5 (10.00%) Task Automation
Programming Languages
1 22 (44.00%) Python
2 8 (16.00%) Bash
2 8 (16.00%) Go
3 5 (10.00%) PowerShell
4 4 (8.00%) Java
5 3 (6.00%) SQL
6 2 (4.00%) Groovy
6 2 (4.00%) Ruby
6 2 (4.00%) TypeScript
7 1 (2.00%) Bicep
7 1 (2.00%) JavaScript
Qualifications
1 23 (46.00%) Security Cleared
2 20 (40.00%) SC Cleared
3 4 (8.00%) Computer Science Degree
3 4 (8.00%) Degree
3 4 (8.00%) DV Cleared
4 2 (4.00%) BPSS Clearance
5 1 (2.00%) AWS Certification
5 1 (2.00%) ISTQB
5 1 (2.00%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
5 1 (2.00%) Master's Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (10.00%) QA
2 2 (4.00%) Data Quality
2 2 (4.00%) NCSC
3 1 (2.00%) Accessibility
3 1 (2.00%) WCAG
System Software
1 18 (36.00%) Docker
2 2 (4.00%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 25 (50.00%) Terraform
2 10 (20.00%) Ansible
2 10 (20.00%) Grafana
2 10 (20.00%) Prometheus
3 2 (4.00%) Cilium
3 2 (4.00%) Istio
4 1 (2.00%) Argo
4 1 (2.00%) Kibana
4 1 (2.00%) Kubeflow
4 1 (2.00%) logstash
Vendors
1 12 (24.00%) Google
2 11 (22.00%) Red Hat
3 2 (4.00%) Dynatrace
4 1 (2.00%) Databricks
4 1 (2.00%) Dell
4 1 (2.00%) Microsoft
4 1 (2.00%) VMware