Kubernetes Contract Job Trends in Cheltenham

Kubernetes (k8s)
Gloucestershire > Cheltenham

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Cheltenham requiring Kubernetes skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 14 December 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
14 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 8 5 12
Rank change year-on-year -3 +7 +12
Contract jobs citing Kubernetes 16 37 20
As % of all contract jobs in Cheltenham 15.24% 22.84% 10.42%
As % of the Systems Management category 30.77% 88.10% 58.82%
Number of daily rates quoted 16 17 17
10th Percentile £594 £503 £506
25th Percentile £650 £575 £535
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £681 £600 £550
Median % change year-on-year +13.54% +9.09% -21.43%
75th Percentile £750 £638 £688
90th Percentile £776 £704 £743
Gloucestershire median daily rate £650 £609 £550
% change year-on-year +6.78% +10.68% -4.35%

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 52 42 34
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Cheltenham 49.52% 25.93% 17.71%
Number of daily rates quoted 46 19 28
10th Percentile £425 £498 £504
25th Percentile £463 £546 £533
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £600 £588
Median % change year-on-year -8.33% +2.13% -12.96%
75th Percentile £650 £631 £700
90th Percentile £750 £697 £750
Gloucestershire median daily rate £525 £600 £575
% change year-on-year -12.50% +4.35% +12.20%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 0 1
Median hourly rate £36.00 - £62.50
Median % change year-on-year - - -34.21%
Gloucestershire median hourly rate £62.50 - £78.00
% change year-on-year - - -17.89%

Kubernetes
Job Vacancy Trend in Cheltenham

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing Kubernetes relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in Cheltenham.

Kubernetes job vacancy trend in Cheltenham

Kubernetes
Daily Rate Trend in Cheltenham

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Cheltenham citing Kubernetes.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Cheltenham citing Kubernetes

Kubernetes
Daily Rate Histogram in Cheltenham

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Kubernetes in Cheltenham over the 6 months to 14 December 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Kubernetes in Cheltenham

Kubernetes
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Cheltenham 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 1 (6.25%) nginx
Cloud Services
1 9 (56.25%) Azure
2 8 (50.00%) GitHub
3 7 (43.75%) Azure DevOps
3 7 (43.75%) Azure Key Vault
3 7 (43.75%) GitHub Actions
3 7 (43.75%) Serverless
4 6 (37.50%) AWS
5 2 (12.50%) Amazon CloudWatch
5 2 (12.50%) Amazon EC2
5 2 (12.50%) Amazon S3
5 2 (12.50%) AWS CloudFormation
6 1 (6.25%) Amazon ECS
6 1 (6.25%) GCP
6 1 (6.25%) OpenShift
Communications & Networking
1 1 (6.25%) HTTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 8 (50.00%) PostgreSQL
2 7 (43.75%) Redis
3 4 (25.00%) MongoDB
4 3 (18.75%) ObjectStore
4 3 (18.75%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 1 (6.25%) Git
1 1 (6.25%) GitLab
General
1 1 (6.25%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 11 (68.75%) Developer
2 9 (56.25%) Backend Developer
3 7 (43.75%) Python Developer
4 2 (12.50%) Linux Engineer
4 2 (12.50%) Software Developer
5 1 (6.25%) Architect
5 1 (6.25%) Cloud Engineer
5 1 (6.25%) Security Architect
5 1 (6.25%) Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 7 (43.75%) FastAPI
1 7 (43.75%) Flask
1 7 (43.75%) GraphQL
1 7 (43.75%) gRPC
1 7 (43.75%) REST
1 7 (43.75%) WebSockets
2 2 (12.50%) Node.js
3 1 (6.25%) AngularJS
3 1 (6.25%) Kafka
3 1 (6.25%) React
3 1 (6.25%) Vue
Miscellaneous
1 9 (56.25%) Cloud Native
Operating Systems
1 3 (18.75%) Linux
2 2 (12.50%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
2 2 (12.50%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 12 (75.00%) Containerisation
2 9 (56.25%) CI/CD
3 8 (50.00%) DevOps
4 7 (43.75%) Microservices
5 6 (37.50%) Agile
6 3 (18.75%) Infrastructure as Code
6 3 (18.75%) Problem-Solving
7 2 (12.50%) Infrastructure Engineering
7 2 (12.50%) Storage Management
8 1 (6.25%) Collaborative Working
8 1 (6.25%) Continuous Improvement
8 1 (6.25%) Cryptography
8 1 (6.25%) Cybersecurity
8 1 (6.25%) DevSecOps
8 1 (6.25%) Digital Innovation
8 1 (6.25%) Digital Transformation Programme
8 1 (6.25%) Scrum
8 1 (6.25%) Software Engineering
Programming Languages
1 12 (75.00%) Python
2 10 (62.50%) SQL
3 8 (50.00%) Go
4 5 (31.25%) Java
5 4 (25.00%) Bash
6 2 (12.50%) Shell Script
7 1 (6.25%) C
7 1 (6.25%) C++
7 1 (6.25%) JavaScript
7 1 (6.25%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 14 (87.50%) DV Cleared
1 14 (87.50%) Security Cleared
2 7 (43.75%) SC Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (6.25%) NIST
1 1 (6.25%) NIST 800
System Software
1 15 (93.75%) Docker
Systems Management
1 7 (43.75%) Grafana
1 7 (43.75%) Prometheus
2 4 (25.00%) Terraform
3 2 (12.50%) Ansible
3 2 (12.50%) Dell DRAC
3 2 (12.50%) Red Hat Satellite
4 1 (6.25%) Podman
Vendors
1 7 (43.75%) Microsoft
2 2 (12.50%) Dell
2 2 (12.50%) Red Hat
2 2 (12.50%) Splunk