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

6 months to
29 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 38 26 39
Rank change year-on-year -12 +13 +1
Contract jobs citing Kubernetes 4 18 5
As % of all contract jobs in Cambridgeshire 1.09% 5.07% 1.17%
As % of the Systems Management category 11.43% 36.73% 33.33%
Number of daily rates quoted 3 9 1
10th Percentile £409 - -
25th Percentile £504 £438 -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £725 £550 £500
Median % change year-on-year +31.82% +10.00% +5.82%
75th Percentile £769 £575 -
90th Percentile £780 £671 -
East of England median daily rate £550 £550 £550
% change year-on-year - - +0.92%

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 35 49 15
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Cambridgeshire 9.51% 13.80% 3.51%
Number of daily rates quoted 22 26 5
10th Percentile £195 £200 -
25th Percentile £359 £250 £225
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £495 £475 £425
Median % change year-on-year +4.21% +11.76% -14.14%
75th Percentile £584 £575 £438
90th Percentile £726 £700 £475
East of England median daily rate £500 £550 £500
% change year-on-year -9.09% +10.00% -

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
Daily Rate Histogram in Cambridgeshire

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Kubernetes in Cambridgeshire over the 6 months to 29 September 2026.

Daily rate histogram for Kubernetes in Cambridgeshire

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 29 September 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 -10 3 £548 -0.45% 67
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 2 (50.00%) OpenStack
Applications
1 1 (25.00%) Weka
Cloud Services
1 3 (75.00%) AWS
2 2 (50.00%) GCP
3 1 (25.00%) Amazon ECS
3 1 (25.00%) Amazon EKS
3 1 (25.00%) Amazon EventBridge
3 1 (25.00%) Amazon Kinesis
3 1 (25.00%) Amazon S3
3 1 (25.00%) Amazon SQS
3 1 (25.00%) AWS Control Tower
3 1 (25.00%) AWS Direct Connect
3 1 (25.00%) AWS Fargate
3 1 (25.00%) AWS Lambda
3 1 (25.00%) Azure
3 1 (25.00%) Azure ExpressRoute
3 1 (25.00%) CloudFront
3 1 (25.00%) OpenShift
3 1 (25.00%) Serverless
3 1 (25.00%) Virtual Private Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 1 (25.00%) BGP
1 1 (25.00%) InfiniBand
1 1 (25.00%) SD-WAN
1 1 (25.00%) TCP/IP
1 1 (25.00%) VPN
1 1 (25.00%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (25.00%) Amazon RDS
1 1 (25.00%) Data Lake
1 1 (25.00%) Data Warehouse
1 1 (25.00%) DynamoDB
General
1 1 (25.00%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 2 (50.00%) Architect
1 2 (50.00%) Solutions Architect
2 1 (25.00%) AWS Architect
2 1 (25.00%) AWS Solution Architect
2 1 (25.00%) Cloud Architect
2 1 (25.00%) Cloud Solutions Architect
2 1 (25.00%) DevOps Engineer
2 1 (25.00%) Senior
2 1 (25.00%) Senior Architect
2 1 (25.00%) Senior Cloud Architect
2 1 (25.00%) Senior Solutions Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (75.00%) Terraform
2 1 (25.00%) AWS CDK
2 1 (25.00%) GraphQL
2 1 (25.00%) gRPC
2 1 (25.00%) Kafka
2 1 (25.00%) RESTful
Miscellaneous
1 2 (50.00%) Hybrid Cloud
1 2 (50.00%) Private Cloud
1 2 (50.00%) Public Cloud
2 1 (25.00%) Cloud Native
2 1 (25.00%) Data Centre
2 1 (25.00%) Enterprise Cloud
2 1 (25.00%) Grid Computing
Operating Systems
1 1 (25.00%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (75.00%) CI/CD
1 3 (75.00%) DevOps
1 3 (75.00%) Infrastructure as Code
2 2 (50.00%) Configuration Management
2 2 (50.00%) Containerisation
2 2 (50.00%) Migration
2 2 (50.00%) Roadmaps
2 2 (50.00%) Stakeholder Engagement
2 2 (50.00%) Zero Trust
3 1 (25.00%) Architectural Patterns
3 1 (25.00%) Cloud Security
3 1 (25.00%) Cost Optimisation
3 1 (25.00%) Design Patterns
3 1 (25.00%) Event-Driven
3 1 (25.00%) FinOps
3 1 (25.00%) Incident Response
3 1 (25.00%) Observability
3 1 (25.00%) Secrets Management
3 1 (25.00%) Site Reliability Engineering
3 1 (25.00%) Technical Leadership
Programming Languages
1 2 (50.00%) Bash
1 2 (50.00%) Python
2 1 (25.00%) C++
2 1 (25.00%) Java
2 1 (25.00%) Perl
2 1 (25.00%) Ruby
2 1 (25.00%) SQL
Qualifications
1 1 (25.00%) AWS Certification
1 1 (25.00%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
1 1 (25.00%) Degree
1 1 (25.00%) DV Cleared
1 1 (25.00%) SC Cleared
1 1 (25.00%) Security Cleared
System Software
1 2 (50.00%) Docker
2 1 (25.00%) GPFS
2 1 (25.00%) Lustre
2 1 (25.00%) Slurm Workload Manager
Systems Management
1 3 (75.00%) Ansible
2 1 (25.00%) Consul
2 1 (25.00%) Istio
2 1 (25.00%) linkerd
2 1 (25.00%) Puppet
2 1 (25.00%) Salt
Vendors
1 1 (25.00%) Cisco
1 1 (25.00%) Google
1 1 (25.00%) Microsoft