Kubernetes Contracts in Cambridgeshire

Kubernetes (k8s)
East of England > Cambridgeshire

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Cambridgeshire 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 41 47 40
Rank change year-on-year +6 -7 +23
Contract jobs citing Kubernetes 4 8 18
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Cambridgeshire 1.45% 1.62% 3.03%
As % of the Systems Management category 10.00% 34.78% 24.66%
Number of daily rates quoted 3 1 11
10th Percentile £441 - £475
25th Percentile £473 £488 £500
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £525 £525
Median % change year-on-year +4.76% - -
75th Percentile £563 £563 £631
90th Percentile £570 - £650
East of England median daily rate £500 £550 £650
% change year-on-year -9.09% -15.38% +8.33%

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 40 23 73
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Cambridgeshire 14.49% 4.65% 12.29%
Number of daily rates quoted 27 7 46
10th Percentile £295 £182 £229
25th Percentile £353 £213 £297
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £467 £305 £475
Median % change year-on-year +52.95% -35.79% +11.76%
75th Percentile £544 £390 £525
90th Percentile £560 £503 £575
East of England median daily rate £477 £473 £500
% change year-on-year +0.92% -5.50% +5.26%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 9 11
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £26.25 - £14.25
Median hourly rate £26.50 £14.00 £14.50
Median % change year-on-year +89.29% -3.45% -
75th Percentile £26.75 - £18.50
90th Percentile - £20.80 -
East of England median hourly rate £47.00 £14.00 £18.78
% change year-on-year +235.71% -25.45% +29.52%

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
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Cambridgeshire

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

Daily rate trend for Kubernetes in Cambridgeshire

Kubernetes
Daily Rate Histogram in Cambridgeshire

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

Daily rate histogram for Kubernetes in Cambridgeshire

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 1 May 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 +9 4 £550 - 41
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:

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