Kubernetes Contracts in Cambridge

Kubernetes (k8s)
Cambridgeshire > Cambridge

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Cambridge requiring Kubernetes skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Kubernetes over the 6 months leading up to 1 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 16 25 17
Rank change year-on-year +9 -8 +12
Contract jobs citing Kubernetes 4 7 17
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Cambridge 3.51% 3.61% 5.78%
As % of the Systems Management category 22.22% 77.78% 44.74%
Number of daily rates quoted 3 0 11
10th Percentile £441 - £475
25th Percentile £473 - £500
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 - £525
75th Percentile £563 - £631
90th Percentile £570 - £650
Cambridgeshire median daily rate £550 £525 £525
% change year-on-year +4.76% - -

All Systems Management Skills
Cambridge

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 Cambridge.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for systems management skills 18 9 38
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Cambridge 15.79% 4.64% 12.93%
Number of daily rates quoted 12 2 24
10th Percentile £335 £162 £200
25th Percentile £480 £173 £388
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £540 £193 £500
Median % change year-on-year +180.52% -61.50% -
75th Percentile £556 £210 £575
90th Percentile £575 £219 £639
Cambridgeshire median daily rate £467 £305 £475
% change year-on-year +52.95% -35.79% +11.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 1
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile - - £56.25
Median hourly rate - - £57.50
75th Percentile - - £58.75
90th Percentile - - -
Cambridgeshire median hourly rate £26.50 £14.00 £14.50
% change year-on-year +89.29% -3.45% -

Kubernetes
Job Vacancy Trend in Cambridge

Job postings citing Kubernetes as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in Cambridge.

Job vacancy trend for Kubernetes in Cambridge

Kubernetes
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Cambridge

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Kubernetes in Cambridge.

Daily rate trend for Kubernetes in Cambridge

Kubernetes
Daily Rate Histogram in Cambridge

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Kubernetes in Cambridge over the 6 months to 1 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Kubernetes in Cambridge

Kubernetes
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Cambridge by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same employment type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Cloud Services
1 3 (75.00%) AWS
2 1 (25.00%) Azure
2 1 (25.00%) GCP
2 1 (25.00%) GitHub
Development Applications
1 2 (50.00%) GitLab
Job Titles
1 2 (50.00%) DevOps Engineer
2 1 (25.00%) Administrator
2 1 (25.00%) Lead
Miscellaneous
1 1 (25.00%) Private Cloud
Operating Systems
1 1 (25.00%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (50.00%) CI/CD
1 2 (50.00%) Configuration Management
1 2 (50.00%) Containerisation
1 2 (50.00%) DevOps
2 1 (25.00%) Collaborative Culture
2 1 (25.00%) DevSecOps
2 1 (25.00%) GitOps
2 1 (25.00%) High Availability
2 1 (25.00%) Infrastructure as Code
2 1 (25.00%) Logistics
2 1 (25.00%) Migration
2 1 (25.00%) Observability
2 1 (25.00%) Secrets Management
2 1 (25.00%) Technical Leadership
Qualifications
1 1 (25.00%) DV Cleared
1 1 (25.00%) Security Cleared
System Software
1 1 (25.00%) Docker
Systems Management
1 2 (50.00%) Ansible
1 2 (50.00%) Terraform
2 1 (25.00%) Consul
2 1 (25.00%) Grafana
2 1 (25.00%) Prometheus
2 1 (25.00%) Puppet
Vendors
1 1 (25.00%) VMware