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 26 October 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
26 Oct 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 22 37 35
Rank change year-on-year +15 -2 +8
Contract jobs citing Kubernetes 21 6 16
As % of all contract jobs in Cambridgeshire 5.92% 1.53% 3.09%
As % of the Systems Management category 40.38% 31.58% 45.71%
Number of daily rates quoted 12 2 7
10th Percentile £409 - £449
25th Percentile £438 £500 £493
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £513 £525 £590
Median % change year-on-year -2.38% -11.02% -1.67%
75th Percentile £586 £575 £688
90th Percentile £620 £590 £708
East of England median daily rate £491 £550 £545
% change year-on-year -10.68% +0.92% -9.17%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 4
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile - - £72.50
Median hourly rate - - £75.00
75th Percentile - - £77.50
90th Percentile - - -
East of England median hourly rate £67.00 - £73.75
% change year-on-year - - +34.09%

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 52 19 35
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Cambridgeshire 14.65% 4.86% 6.76%
Number of daily rates quoted 30 8 14
10th Percentile £196 £356 £413
25th Percentile £250 £413 £476
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £500 £538
Median % change year-on-year -5.00% -6.98% +19.44%
75th Percentile £614 £625 £654
90th Percentile £700 £753 £713
East of England median daily rate £500 £500 £500
% change year-on-year - - -4.67%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 12
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile - - £14.25
Median hourly rate - - £20.00
Median % change year-on-year - - +14.29%
75th Percentile - - £77.50
90th Percentile - - -
East of England median hourly rate £63.50 £40.00 £49.00
% change year-on-year +58.75% -18.37% -29.24%

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 26 October 2025.

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 26 October 2025. 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 +13 19 £475 -13.64% 11
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 (9.52%) OpenStack
2 1 (4.76%) Confluence
2 1 (4.76%) Jupyter
Applications
1 2 (9.52%) Weka
Cloud Services
1 11 (52.38%) AWS
2 8 (38.10%) Amazon CloudWatch
2 8 (38.10%) Azure
3 5 (23.81%) Slack
4 4 (19.05%) Serverless
5 3 (14.29%) Azure AKS
5 3 (14.29%) Azure Functions
5 3 (14.29%) GCP
5 3 (14.29%) PaaS
6 2 (9.52%) Azure DevOps
6 2 (9.52%) Cloud Computing
7 1 (4.76%) Amazon EC2
7 1 (4.76%) Amazon ECS
7 1 (4.76%) Amazon S3
7 1 (4.76%) AWS Lambda
7 1 (4.76%) Azure API Management
7 1 (4.76%) GitHub
7 1 (4.76%) GitHub Copilot
Communications & Networking
1 2 (9.52%) Firewall
1 2 (9.52%) TCP/IP
2 1 (4.76%) InfiniBand
Development Applications
1 8 (38.10%) GitLab
2 2 (9.52%) JMeter
2 2 (9.52%) Postman
2 2 (9.52%) Selenium
3 1 (4.76%) JIRA
3 1 (4.76%) MLflow
3 1 (4.76%) SonarQube
General
1 2 (9.52%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 7 (33.33%) Consultant
2 2 (9.52%) .NET Developer
2 2 (9.52%) Developer
3 1 (4.76%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
3 1 (4.76%) Data Scientist
3 1 (4.76%) DevOps Engineer
3 1 (4.76%) DevSecOps Engineer
3 1 (4.76%) Full-Stack Engineer
3 1 (4.76%) Full-Stack Software Engineer
3 1 (4.76%) Infrastructure Engineer
3 1 (4.76%) Security Consultant
3 1 (4.76%) Security Engineer
3 1 (4.76%) Software Engineer
3 1 (4.76%) Technical Manager
3 1 (4.76%) Test Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 5 (23.81%) .NET
2 3 (14.29%) RESTful
3 2 (9.52%) PyTorch
4 1 (4.76%) CSS
4 1 (4.76%) HTML
4 1 (4.76%) JWT
4 1 (4.76%) NumPy
4 1 (4.76%) Pandas
4 1 (4.76%) React
4 1 (4.76%) Redux
4 1 (4.76%) scikit-learn
4 1 (4.76%) Semantic Kernel
4 1 (4.76%) TensorFlow
Miscellaneous
1 6 (28.57%) Cloud Native
1 6 (28.57%) Onboarding
2 4 (19.05%) Data Protection Act
3 2 (9.52%) Grid Computing
3 2 (9.52%) Hybrid Cloud
3 2 (9.52%) Private Cloud
3 2 (9.52%) Public Cloud
4 1 (4.76%) Algorithms
4 1 (4.76%) Genomics
4 1 (4.76%) Security Posture
4 1 (4.76%) YubiKey
Operating Systems
1 2 (9.52%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 15 (71.43%) DevOps
2 10 (47.62%) AI
2 10 (47.62%) Observability
3 9 (42.86%) RBAC
4 8 (38.10%) CI/CD
4 8 (38.10%) Dashboard Development
4 8 (38.10%) Infrastructure as Code
4 8 (38.10%) Migration
4 8 (38.10%) Platform Engineering
5 7 (33.33%) Agile
6 6 (28.57%) Machine Learning
6 6 (28.57%) Site Reliability Engineering
7 5 (23.81%) Problem-Solving
8 4 (19.05%) Actionable Insight
8 4 (19.05%) Data Protection
8 4 (19.05%) Data Science
8 4 (19.05%) OWASP
8 4 (19.05%) Retrieval-Augmented Generation
8 4 (19.05%) Software Engineering
8 4 (19.05%) Test Automation
Programming Languages
1 10 (47.62%) Python
2 3 (14.29%) Bash
2 3 (14.29%) SQL
3 2 (9.52%) C++
3 2 (9.52%) Java
3 2 (9.52%) Perl
3 2 (9.52%) Ruby
4 1 (4.76%) JavaScript
4 1 (4.76%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 2 (9.52%) DV Cleared
1 2 (9.52%) SANS
1 2 (9.52%) Security Cleared
2 1 (4.76%) Degree
2 1 (4.76%) MCP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (19.05%) NIST
2 3 (14.29%) EU AI Act
3 1 (4.76%) QA
System Software
1 7 (33.33%) Docker
2 2 (9.52%) GPFS
2 2 (9.52%) Lustre
2 2 (9.52%) Slurm Workload Manager
Systems Management
1 12 (57.14%) Terraform
2 8 (38.10%) Prometheus
3 6 (28.57%) Grafana
4 3 (14.29%) Ansible
5 1 (4.76%) Consul
5 1 (4.76%) Istio
5 1 (4.76%) Puppet
5 1 (4.76%) Salt
Vendors
1 8 (38.10%) Dynatrace
2 5 (23.81%) Microsoft
3 2 (9.52%) Clearswift
4 1 (4.76%) Foundry