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 vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 18 September 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
18 Sep 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 30 40 40
Rank change year-on-year +10 0 +12
Contract jobs citing Kubernetes 14 5 11
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Cambridgeshire 3.99% 1.15% 2.11%
As % of the Systems Management category 29.17% 33.33% 36.67%
Number of daily rates quoted 9 2 6
10th Percentile - £489 £419
25th Percentile £438 £491 £437
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £513 £510
Median % change year-on-year +7.32% +0.49% -16.73%
75th Percentile £575 £547 £622
90th Percentile £671 £556 £650
East of England median daily rate £525 £550 £552
% change year-on-year -4.55% -0.36% -8.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 2
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 - £72.50
% change year-on-year - - +31.82%

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 48 15 30
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Cambridgeshire 13.68% 3.46% 5.76%
Number of daily rates quoted 27 7 14
10th Percentile £200 £225 £324
25th Percentile £250 £319 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £425 £498
Median % change year-on-year +11.76% -14.57% +17.06%
75th Percentile £575 £500 £572
90th Percentile £700 £525 £650
East of England median daily rate £513 £525 £500
% change year-on-year -2.38% +5.00% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 7
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile - - £14.25
Median hourly rate - - £14.50
75th Percentile - - £46.13
90th Percentile - - £77.50
East of England median hourly rate £66.50 £40.00 £49.00
% change year-on-year +66.25% -18.37% -32.88%

Kubernetes
Job Vacancy Trend in Cambridgeshire

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

Job vacancy trend for Kubernetes 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 18 September 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 18 September 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 +11 12 £550 - 6
Kubernetes
East of England

Kubernetes
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Cambridgeshire 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:

Application Platforms
1 1 (7.14%) Jupyter
Cloud Services
1 9 (64.29%) AWS
2 8 (57.14%) Amazon CloudWatch
3 5 (35.71%) Slack
4 1 (7.14%) Azure
4 1 (7.14%) GCP
Communications & Networking
1 2 (14.29%) Firewall
Development Applications
1 9 (64.29%) GitLab
2 1 (7.14%) MLflow
2 1 (7.14%) SonarQube
General
1 2 (14.29%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 7 (50.00%) Consultant
2 1 (7.14%) Administrator
2 1 (7.14%) Data Scientist
2 1 (7.14%) DevOps Engineer
2 1 (7.14%) DevSecOps Engineer
2 1 (7.14%) Security Consultant
2 1 (7.14%) Security Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (7.14%) JWT
1 1 (7.14%) NumPy
1 1 (7.14%) Pandas
1 1 (7.14%) PyTorch
1 1 (7.14%) scikit-learn
Miscellaneous
1 6 (42.86%) Onboarding
2 3 (21.43%) Data Protection Act
3 2 (14.29%) Hybrid Cloud
4 1 (7.14%) Cloud Native
4 1 (7.14%) Genomics
4 1 (7.14%) Security Posture
4 1 (7.14%) YubiKey
Processes & Methodologies
1 11 (78.57%) DevOps
2 9 (64.29%) RBAC
3 8 (57.14%) Dashboard Development
3 8 (57.14%) Migration
3 8 (57.14%) Observability
4 7 (50.00%) Infrastructure as Code
4 7 (50.00%) Platform Engineering
5 5 (35.71%) CI/CD
5 5 (35.71%) Site Reliability Engineering
6 4 (28.57%) Actionable Insight
6 4 (28.57%) Artificial Intelligence
7 3 (21.43%) Data Protection
8 2 (14.29%) Collaborative Culture
8 2 (14.29%) OWASP
8 2 (14.29%) Secure Coding
9 1 (7.14%) Biomedicine
9 1 (7.14%) Containerisation
9 1 (7.14%) Data Interpretation
9 1 (7.14%) DevSecOps
9 1 (7.14%) Feature Engineering
Programming Languages
1 3 (21.43%) Python
2 1 (7.14%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 3 (21.43%) DV Cleared
1 3 (21.43%) Security Cleared
2 2 (14.29%) SANS
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (7.14%) NIST
System Software
1 2 (14.29%) Docker
Systems Management
1 11 (78.57%) Terraform
2 8 (57.14%) Prometheus
3 6 (42.86%) Grafana
4 3 (21.43%) Ansible
5 1 (7.14%) Istio
Vendors
1 8 (57.14%) Dynatrace
2 2 (14.29%) Clearswift
3 1 (7.14%) VMware