Kubernetes Contract Job Trends in Cambridgeshire

Kubernetes (k8s)
East of England > Cambridgeshire

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Cambridgeshire requiring Kubernetes skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 12 May 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
12 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 31 42 50
Rank change year-on-year +11 +8 -9
Contract jobs citing Kubernetes 7 4 8
As % of all contract jobs in Cambridgeshire 1.85% 1.42% 1.60%
As % of the Systems Management category 23.33% 9.09% 33.33%
Number of daily rates quoted 2 3 1
10th Percentile £551 £441 -
25th Percentile £553 £473 £488
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £563 £550 £525
Median % change year-on-year +2.32% +4.76% -
75th Percentile £578 £563 £563
90th Percentile £584 £570 -
East of England median daily rate £588 £495 £575
% change year-on-year +18.69% -13.91% -11.54%

All Systems Management Skills
Cambridgeshire

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 Cambridgeshire.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for systems management skills 30 44 24
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Cambridgeshire 7.94% 15.66% 4.80%
Number of daily rates quoted 21 29 8
10th Percentile - £250 £187
25th Percentile £356 £338 £219
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £478 £454 £265
Median % change year-on-year +5.18% +71.32% -44.21%
75th Percentile £538 £538 £354
90th Percentile £588 £555 £493
East of England median daily rate £478 £484 £500
% change year-on-year -1.42% -3.13% -3.05%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 1 9
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile - £26.25 -
Median hourly rate - £26.50 £14.00
Median % change year-on-year - +89.29% -3.45%
75th Percentile - £26.75 -
90th Percentile - - £20.80
East of England median hourly rate £20.09 £26.50 £14.00
% change year-on-year -24.19% +89.29% -17.65%

Kubernetes
Job Vacancy Trend in Cambridgeshire

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

Kubernetes job vacancy trend in Cambridgeshire

Kubernetes
Daily Rate Trend in Cambridgeshire

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

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Cambridgeshire citing Kubernetes

Kubernetes
Hourly Rate Trend in Cambridgeshire

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in Cambridgeshire citing Kubernetes.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in Cambridgeshire citing Kubernetes

Kubernetes
Contract Job Locations in Cambridgeshire

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Kubernetes within the Cambridgeshire region over the 6 months to 12 May 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
Cambridge -1 6 £563 +2.32% 3
Kubernetes
East of England

Kubernetes
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Cambridgeshire 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 1 (14.29%) Apache Airflow
1 1 (14.29%) OpenStack
Applications
1 1 (14.29%) Weka
Cloud Services
1 6 (85.71%) AWS
1 6 (85.71%) GCP
2 5 (71.43%) Azure
3 3 (42.86%) AWS Direct Connect
3 3 (42.86%) GitHub
4 2 (28.57%) Amazon EKS
4 2 (28.57%) Azure Sentinel
4 2 (28.57%) GitHub Actions
4 2 (28.57%) Route 53
4 2 (28.57%) Serverless
4 2 (28.57%) Virtual Private Cloud
5 1 (14.29%) AWS Control Tower
5 1 (14.29%) AWS KMS
5 1 (14.29%) Azure AKS
5 1 (14.29%) Azure ExpressRoute
5 1 (14.29%) Google Kubernetes Engine
Communications & Networking
1 3 (42.86%) VPN
2 2 (28.57%) Firewall
3 1 (14.29%) BGP
3 1 (14.29%) DNS
3 1 (14.29%) InfiniBand
3 1 (14.29%) Network Security
3 1 (14.29%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (14.29%) Data Warehouse
Development Applications
1 4 (57.14%) GitLab
1 4 (57.14%) Jenkins
2 1 (14.29%) Git
2 1 (14.29%) MLflow
Job Titles
1 4 (57.14%) Cloud Engineer
2 3 (42.86%) AWS DevOps
2 3 (42.86%) AWS DevOps Engineer
2 3 (42.86%) AWS Engineer
2 3 (42.86%) Cloud Network Engineer
2 3 (42.86%) DevOps Engineer
2 3 (42.86%) Network Engineer
3 1 (14.29%) Analyst
3 1 (14.29%) Cloud Security Analyst
3 1 (14.29%) Cloud Security Engineer
3 1 (14.29%) Data Scientist
3 1 (14.29%) Security Analyst
3 1 (14.29%) Security Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (14.29%) eBPF
Miscellaneous
1 4 (57.14%) Cloud Native
2 2 (28.57%) Cloud Security Posture
2 2 (28.57%) Security Posture
3 1 (14.29%) Enterprise Cloud
3 1 (14.29%) Grid Computing
3 1 (14.29%) Private Cloud
3 1 (14.29%) Public Cloud
Operating Systems
1 1 (14.29%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 7 (100.00%) DevOps
2 6 (85.71%) Infrastructure as Code
3 5 (71.43%) CI/CD
4 3 (42.86%) Incident Response
5 2 (28.57%) Cloud Operations
5 2 (28.57%) Cloud Security
5 2 (28.57%) Containerisation
5 2 (28.57%) Dashboard Development
5 2 (28.57%) DevSecOps
5 2 (28.57%) Infrastructure Automation
5 2 (28.57%) Security Architecture
5 2 (28.57%) Security Operations
5 2 (28.57%) SIEM
5 2 (28.57%) SOAR
5 2 (28.57%) Threat Detection
6 1 (14.29%) Agile
6 1 (14.29%) Analytics
6 1 (14.29%) Configuration Management
6 1 (14.29%) ETL
6 1 (14.29%) Machine Learning
Programming Languages
1 3 (42.86%) Python
2 2 (28.57%) Bash
3 1 (14.29%) C++
3 1 (14.29%) Java
3 1 (14.29%) Perl
3 1 (14.29%) Ruby
3 1 (14.29%) SQL
Qualifications
1 3 (42.86%) AWS Certification
1 3 (42.86%) Cisco Certification
2 2 (28.57%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
2 2 (28.57%) CCNP
3 1 (14.29%) Azure Certification
3 1 (14.29%) CCIE
3 1 (14.29%) CCSP
3 1 (14.29%) Degree
3 1 (14.29%) DV Cleared
3 1 (14.29%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (28.57%) HIPAA
1 2 (28.57%) ISO/IEC 27001
1 2 (28.57%) NIST
1 2 (28.57%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 3 (42.86%) Docker
2 1 (14.29%) GPFS
2 1 (14.29%) Lustre
2 1 (14.29%) Slurm Workload Manager
Systems Management
1 4 (57.14%) Terraform
2 2 (28.57%) Ansible
3 1 (14.29%) Consul
3 1 (14.29%) Puppet
3 1 (14.29%) Salt
Vendors
1 2 (28.57%) Google
1 2 (28.57%) Microsoft
1 2 (28.57%) Splunk
2 1 (14.29%) CheckPoint
2 1 (14.29%) TOWER Software