Kubernetes Contract Job Trends in Buckinghamshire

Kubernetes (k8s)
South East > Buckinghamshire

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Buckinghamshire requiring Kubernetes skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 15 January 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
15 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 49 38 57
Rank change year-on-year -11 +19 +6
Contract jobs citing Kubernetes 2 9 1
As % of all contract jobs in Buckinghamshire 0.44% 2.80% 0.18%
As % of the Systems Management category 8.00% 13.24% 1.69%
Number of daily rates quoted 2 7 1
10th Percentile £571 £500 -
25th Percentile £584 £569 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £613 £638 £475
Median % change year-on-year -3.92% +34.21% -13.64%
75th Percentile £634 £656 £488
90th Percentile £644 £664 -
South East median daily rate £493 £538 £550
% change year-on-year -8.37% -2.27% -

All Systems Management Skills
Buckinghamshire

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 Buckinghamshire.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for systems management skills 25 68 59
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Buckinghamshire 5.52% 21.12% 10.77%
Number of daily rates quoted 20 53 44
10th Percentile £163 £249 £203
25th Percentile £185 £313 £355
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £363 £421 £500
Median % change year-on-year -13.67% -15.90% -
75th Percentile £556 £525 £662
90th Percentile £589 £618 £825
South East median daily rate £490 £500 £500
% change year-on-year -2.00% - -4.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 3 8
10th Percentile - £16.00 £23.89
25th Percentile - £22.00 £24.00
Median hourly rate - £34.00 £27.00
Median % change year-on-year - +25.93% -
75th Percentile - £37.00 £30.00
90th Percentile - £37.60 £42.00
South East median hourly rate £47.50 £26.99 £52.37
% change year-on-year +76.02% -48.47% -8.93%

Kubernetes
Job Vacancy Trend in Buckinghamshire

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing Kubernetes relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in Buckinghamshire.

Kubernetes job vacancy trend in Buckinghamshire

Kubernetes
Daily Rate Trend in Buckinghamshire

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Buckinghamshire citing Kubernetes.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Buckinghamshire citing Kubernetes

Kubernetes
Contract Job Locations in Buckinghamshire

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Kubernetes within the Buckinghamshire region over the 6 months to 15 January 2026. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 6 month period last year.

Location Rank Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Matching
Contract
IT Job Ads
Median
Daily Rate
Past 6 Months
Median Daily Rate
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
Milton Keynes -8 2 £613 -3.92% 9
Kubernetes
South East

Kubernetes
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Buckinghamshire 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:

Cloud Services
1 2 (100.00%) Azure
2 1 (50.00%) AWS
2 1 (50.00%) GCP
General
1 1 (50.00%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 1 (50.00%) Architect
1 1 (50.00%) Lead
1 1 (50.00%) Solutions Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (50.00%) .NET
1 1 (50.00%) Middleware
1 1 (50.00%) REST
1 1 (50.00%) SOAP
Miscellaneous
1 1 (50.00%) Mobile App
1 1 (50.00%) Product Ownership
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (100.00%) CI/CD
1 2 (100.00%) Microservices
2 1 (50.00%) Analytics
2 1 (50.00%) Containerisation
2 1 (50.00%) Cost Optimisation
2 1 (50.00%) Customer-Centricity
2 1 (50.00%) Data Analytics
2 1 (50.00%) Data Protection
2 1 (50.00%) DevOps
2 1 (50.00%) ETL
2 1 (50.00%) Event-Driven
2 1 (50.00%) Event-Driven Architecture
2 1 (50.00%) Identity Access Management
2 1 (50.00%) Integration Patterns
2 1 (50.00%) Inventory Management
2 1 (50.00%) Line Management
2 1 (50.00%) Personalization
2 1 (50.00%) Roadmaps
2 1 (50.00%) Software Architecture
Programming Languages
1 1 (50.00%) C#
1 1 (50.00%) SQL
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (50.00%) GDPR
1 1 (50.00%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 2 (100.00%) Docker