Kubernetes Contracts in Cheltenham

Kubernetes (k8s)
Gloucestershire > Cheltenham

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Cheltenham 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 6 13 20
Rank change year-on-year +7 +7 -9
Contract jobs citing Kubernetes 17 25 15
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Cheltenham 27.42% 13.44% 9.62%
As % of the Systems Management category 85.00% 62.50% 44.12%
Number of daily rates quoted 14 23 7
10th Percentile - £520 £506
25th Percentile £575 £525 £509
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £614 £550 £525
Median % change year-on-year +11.59% +4.76% -2.33%
75th Percentile £625 £600 £663
90th Percentile - £638 £750
Gloucestershire median daily rate £615 £550 £575
% change year-on-year +11.82% -4.35% +8.24%

All Systems Management Skills
Cheltenham

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 Cheltenham.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for systems management skills 20 40 34
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Cheltenham 32.26% 21.51% 21.79%
Number of daily rates quoted 16 34 18
10th Percentile £550 £514 £501
25th Percentile £575 £525 £513
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £614 £555 £650
Median % change year-on-year +10.59% -14.62% +22.35%
75th Percentile £625 £634 £700
90th Percentile £671 £764 £750
Gloucestershire median daily rate £613 £550 £525
% change year-on-year +11.36% +4.76% +2.44%

Kubernetes
Job Vacancy Trend in Cheltenham

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

Job vacancy trend for Kubernetes in Cheltenham

Kubernetes
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Cheltenham

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

Daily rate trend for Kubernetes in Cheltenham

Kubernetes
Daily Rate Histogram in Cheltenham

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

Daily rate histogram for Kubernetes in Cheltenham

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Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Cheltenham 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 (5.88%) Apache
Cloud Services
1 12 (70.59%) AWS
2 8 (47.06%) OpenShift
3 7 (41.18%) Azure
4 1 (5.88%) Amazon S3
4 1 (5.88%) AWS CloudFormation
4 1 (5.88%) AWS Fargate
Communications & Networking
1 7 (41.18%) DHCP
1 7 (41.18%) DNS
1 7 (41.18%) HTTP
1 7 (41.18%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (23.53%) PostgreSQL
2 3 (17.65%) Elasticsearch
2 3 (17.65%) Oracle Database
2 3 (17.65%) SQL Server
3 1 (5.88%) Flink
3 1 (5.88%) MongoDB
3 1 (5.88%) RDBMS
3 1 (5.88%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 1 (5.88%) Bitbucket
1 1 (5.88%) Git
1 1 (5.88%) GitLab
1 1 (5.88%) Jenkins
Job Titles
1 5 (29.41%) Software Engineer
2 3 (17.65%) DevOps Engineer
2 3 (17.65%) Support Engineer
3 2 (11.76%) Automation Engineer
3 2 (11.76%) DV Cleared Software Engineer
3 2 (11.76%) Infrastructure Engineer
3 2 (11.76%) Senior
3 2 (11.76%) Senior Support Engineer
4 1 (5.88%) Applications Developer
4 1 (5.88%) Cloud Engineer
4 1 (5.88%) Developer
4 1 (5.88%) Java Engineer
4 1 (5.88%) Java Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (11.76%) ModSecurity
1 2 (11.76%) REST
1 2 (11.76%) Spring
1 2 (11.76%) Spring Boot
2 1 (5.88%) AngularJS
2 1 (5.88%) Apache NiFi
2 1 (5.88%) JPA
2 1 (5.88%) RabbitMQ
2 1 (5.88%) React
2 1 (5.88%) Vue
Operating Systems
1 14 (82.35%) Linux
2 8 (47.06%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 7 (41.18%) Windows
3 7 (41.18%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 7 (41.18%) Containerisation
2 6 (35.29%) Service Management
3 5 (29.41%) Software Engineering
4 4 (23.53%) CI/CD
4 4 (23.53%) DevOps
5 3 (17.65%) Disaster Recovery
5 3 (17.65%) Incident Management
5 3 (17.65%) Technical Leadership
6 2 (11.76%) Agile
6 2 (11.76%) Infrastructure Engineering
6 2 (11.76%) Microservices
6 2 (11.76%) Remediation Plan
6 2 (11.76%) Vulnerability Assessment
6 2 (11.76%) Vulnerability Remediation
7 1 (5.88%) Epics
7 1 (5.88%) Performance Tuning
7 1 (5.88%) Release Management
7 1 (5.88%) Scrum
7 1 (5.88%) Site Reliability Engineering
7 1 (5.88%) User Research
Programming Languages
1 12 (70.59%) Java
2 8 (47.06%) Python
3 7 (41.18%) Bash
3 7 (41.18%) PowerShell
4 4 (23.53%) JavaScript
5 3 (17.65%) C
5 3 (17.65%) SQL
5 3 (17.65%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 17 (100.00%) Security Cleared
2 14 (82.35%) DV Cleared
3 1 (5.88%) SC Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (17.65%) Cyber Essentials
System Software
1 16 (94.12%) Docker
2 7 (41.18%) Hyper-V
3 6 (35.29%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 10 (58.82%) Ansible
2 9 (52.94%) Terraform
3 7 (41.18%) Puppet
4 1 (5.88%) Docker Swarm
4 1 (5.88%) Grafana
4 1 (5.88%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 7 (41.18%) Red Hat
1 7 (41.18%) VMware
2 4 (23.53%) Oracle
3 3 (17.65%) Microsoft