Kubernetes Engineer Contract Job Trends in Cheshire

Kubernetes Engineer (K8s Engineer)
North West > Cheshire

As of 1 November 2025, there is not enough information available from job vacancies posted within the last 6 months to determine the median Kubernetes Engineer (K8s Engineer) daily rate in Cheshire.

6 months to
1 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 76 - -
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Contract jobs requiring a Kubernetes Engineer 1 0 0
As % of all contract jobs in Cheshire 0.14% - -
As % of the Job Titles category 0.16% - -
Number of daily rates quoted 0 0 0
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) - - -
North West median daily rate - £360 £475
% change year-on-year - -24.21% -

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
Cheshire

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies in Cheshire. Most job vacancies include a discernible job title that can be normalized. As such, the figures in the second row provide an indication of the number of contract jobs in our overall sample.

Contract vacancies in Cheshire with a recognized job title 627 475 359
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 89.44% 92.59% 88.64%
Number of daily rates quoted 475 275 232
10th Percentile £269 £324 £252
25th Percentile £358 £382 £417
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £475 £500
Median % change year-on-year -5.26% -5.00% +11.11%
75th Percentile £550 £571 £566
90th Percentile £688 £645 £606
North West median daily rate £450 £475 £500
% change year-on-year -5.26% -5.00% +5.26%
Number of hourly rates quoted 42 26 27
10th Percentile £13.09 £13.49 £16.68
25th Percentile £17.75 £15.36 £20.07
Median hourly rate £24.00 £22.09 £33.00
Median % change year-on-year +8.65% -33.06% +51.52%
75th Percentile £36.06 £35.00 £36.13
90th Percentile £67.25 £43.75 £42.00
North West median hourly rate £28.43 £32.50 £35.00
% change year-on-year -12.52% -7.14% +55.56%

Kubernetes Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend in Cheshire

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings featuring 'Kubernetes Engineer' in the job title relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in Cheshire.

Kubernetes Engineer job vacancy trend in Cheshire

Kubernetes Engineer
Daily Rate Trend in Cheshire

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for Kubernetes Engineer job vacancies in Cheshire.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for Kubernetes Engineer job vacancies in Cheshire

Kubernetes Engineer
Contract Job Locations in Cheshire

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Kubernetes Engineer within the Cheshire region over the 6 months to 1 November 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
Knutsford - 1 - -
Kubernetes Engineer
North West

Kubernetes Engineer Skill Set
Top 28 Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Cheshire

For the 6 months to 1 November 2025, Kubernetes Engineer contract job roles required the following skills and capabilities in order of popularity. The figures indicate the absolute number of co-occurrences and as a proportion of all contract job ads across the Cheshire region featuring Kubernetes Engineer in the job title.

1 1 (100.00%) Analytics
1 1 (100.00%) AWS
1 1 (100.00%) Azure
1 1 (100.00%) CI/CD
1 1 (100.00%) CISM
1 1 (100.00%) CISSP
1 1 (100.00%) Cloud Security
1 1 (100.00%) Containerisation
1 1 (100.00%) Cribl.io
1 1 (100.00%) DevOps
1 1 (100.00%) Firewall
1 1 (100.00%) Fluentd
1 1 (100.00%) GCP
1 1 (100.00%) GitLab
1 1 (100.00%) Incident Response
1 1 (100.00%) Infrastructure as Code
1 1 (100.00%) ISO/IEC 27001
1 1 (100.00%) Kubernetes
1 1 (100.00%) NIST
1 1 (100.00%) Observability
1 1 (100.00%) OpenShift
1 1 (100.00%) Risk Analysis
1 1 (100.00%) Security Architecture
1 1 (100.00%) Splunk
1 1 (100.00%) Threat Modelling
1 1 (100.00%) VPN
1 1 (100.00%) Vulnerability Assessment
1 1 (100.00%) Vulnerability Scanning

Kubernetes Engineer Skill Set
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Cheshire 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:

Cloud Services
1 1 (100.00%) AWS
1 1 (100.00%) Azure
1 1 (100.00%) GCP
1 1 (100.00%) OpenShift
Communications & Networking
1 1 (100.00%) Firewall
1 1 (100.00%) VPN
Development Applications
1 1 (100.00%) GitLab
General
1 1 (100.00%) Analytical Skills
1 1 (100.00%) Social Skills
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (100.00%) Analytics
1 1 (100.00%) CI/CD
1 1 (100.00%) Cloud Security
1 1 (100.00%) Containerisation
1 1 (100.00%) DevOps
1 1 (100.00%) Incident Response
1 1 (100.00%) Infrastructure as Code
1 1 (100.00%) Observability
1 1 (100.00%) Risk Analysis
1 1 (100.00%) Security Architecture
1 1 (100.00%) Threat Modelling
1 1 (100.00%) Vulnerability Assessment
1 1 (100.00%) Vulnerability Scanning
Qualifications
1 1 (100.00%) CISM
1 1 (100.00%) CISSP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (100.00%) ISO/IEC 27001
1 1 (100.00%) NIST
Systems Management
1 1 (100.00%) Fluentd
1 1 (100.00%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 1 (100.00%) Cribl.io
1 1 (100.00%) Splunk