Kubernetes Contracts in Cheshire

Kubernetes (k8s)
North West > Cheshire

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Cheshire 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 36 52 38
Rank change year-on-year +16 -14 +14
Contract jobs citing Kubernetes 22 6 25
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Cheshire 4.90% 1.19% 4.72%
As % of the Systems Management category 27.16% 10.00% 29.07%
Number of daily rates quoted 18 5 21
10th Percentile £384 - £419
25th Percentile £393 £409 £440
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £448 £463
Median % change year-on-year +6.15% -3.24% +3.93%
75th Percentile £572 £534 £620
90th Percentile £615 £536 £680
North West median daily rate £500 £550 £600
% change year-on-year -9.09% -8.33% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 1
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile - - £65.25
Median hourly rate - - £65.50
75th Percentile - - £65.75
90th Percentile - - -
North West median hourly rate - £55.00 £52.55
% change year-on-year - +4.66% -

All Systems Management Skills
Cheshire

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 Cheshire.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for systems management skills 81 60 86
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Cheshire 18.04% 11.90% 16.23%
Number of daily rates quoted 60 37 68
10th Percentile £307 £184 £200
25th Percentile £354 £385 £325
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £425 £475 £454
Median % change year-on-year -10.53% +4.68% -2.42%
75th Percentile £501 £538 £571
90th Percentile £638 £582 £641
North West median daily rate £475 £500 £525
% change year-on-year -5.00% -4.76% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 8 5
10th Percentile - £16.72 £12.35
25th Percentile £81.75 £17.49 £14.00
Median hourly rate £83.50 £17.72 £20.00
Median % change year-on-year +371.22% -11.40% -
75th Percentile £85.25 - £22.41
90th Percentile - £17.74 £48.41
North West median hourly rate £62.50 £17.72 £30.00
% change year-on-year +252.71% -40.93% +50.00%

Kubernetes
Job Vacancy Trend in Cheshire

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

Job vacancy trend for Kubernetes in Cheshire

Kubernetes
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Cheshire

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

Daily rate trend for Kubernetes in Cheshire

Kubernetes
Daily Rate Histogram in Cheshire

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

Daily rate histogram for Kubernetes in Cheshire

Kubernetes
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 within the Cheshire 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
Knutsford - 13 £434 - 5
Macclesfield - 5 £600 -
Alderley Edge - 1 - - 1
Kubernetes
North West

Kubernetes
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Cheshire 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 5 (22.73%) JBoss
2 2 (9.09%) Confluence
Business Applications
1 1 (4.55%) Distributed Ledger
1 1 (4.55%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 11 (50.00%) AWS
2 6 (27.27%) Azure
2 6 (27.27%) OpenShift
3 4 (18.18%) Anthropic Claude
3 4 (18.18%) Azure AI
3 4 (18.18%) GCP
3 4 (18.18%) Google Gemini
4 3 (13.64%) Serverless
5 2 (9.09%) AWS Lambda
6 1 (4.55%) Azure DevOps
6 1 (4.55%) Azure Functions
6 1 (4.55%) Azure Pipelines
Communications & Networking
1 3 (13.64%) Firewall
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (22.73%) Elasticsearch
1 5 (22.73%) PostgreSQL
1 5 (22.73%) RDBMS
1 5 (22.73%) Relational Database
2 4 (18.18%) Neo4j
2 4 (18.18%) SQL Server
3 1 (4.55%) MongoDB
3 1 (4.55%) MySQL
3 1 (4.55%) NoSQL
Development Applications
1 16 (72.73%) Git
2 10 (45.45%) JIRA
3 8 (36.36%) Jenkins
4 6 (27.27%) SonarQube
5 5 (22.73%) Bitbucket Server
5 5 (22.73%) CA Release Automation
5 5 (22.73%) Sonatype Nexus
5 5 (22.73%) TeamCity
6 2 (9.09%) GitLab
7 1 (4.55%) Bitbucket
7 1 (4.55%) Selenium
General
1 8 (36.36%) Analytical Skills
2 7 (31.82%) Finance
3 6 (27.27%) Legal
3 6 (27.27%) Pharmaceutical
4 4 (18.18%) Manufacturing
4 4 (18.18%) Social Skills
5 3 (13.64%) Banking
6 1 (4.55%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 6 (27.27%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
2 5 (22.73%) Senior
3 3 (13.64%) AWS DevOps
3 3 (13.64%) Developer
4 2 (9.09%) Architect
4 2 (9.09%) Automation Developer
4 2 (9.09%) AWS Architect
4 2 (9.09%) AWS Solution Architect
4 2 (9.09%) DevOps Engineer
4 2 (9.09%) Solutions Architect
5 1 (4.55%) Applications Support
5 1 (4.55%) Azure Specialist
5 1 (4.55%) Cloud Architect
5 1 (4.55%) Cloud Solutions Architect
5 1 (4.55%) Full-Stack Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 6 (27.27%) Elastic Stack
2 5 (22.73%) Spring Boot
3 4 (18.18%) PyTorch
3 4 (18.18%) TensorFlow
4 2 (9.09%) Kafka
5 1 (4.55%) ADO
5 1 (4.55%) AngularJS
5 1 (4.55%) ARM Templates
5 1 (4.55%) CSS
5 1 (4.55%) CSS3
5 1 (4.55%) GraphQL
5 1 (4.55%) HTML
5 1 (4.55%) HTML5
5 1 (4.55%) Node.js
5 1 (4.55%) OLE
5 1 (4.55%) React
5 1 (4.55%) REST
5 1 (4.55%) RESTful
5 1 (4.55%) Vue
Miscellaneous
1 6 (27.27%) Algorithms
2 2 (9.09%) Hybrid Cloud
2 2 (9.09%) Onboarding
2 2 (9.09%) Public Cloud
3 1 (4.55%) Blockchain
3 1 (4.55%) Private Cloud
Operating Systems
1 6 (27.27%) Windows
2 5 (22.73%) Linux
2 5 (22.73%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 1 (4.55%) Unix
3 1 (4.55%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 20 (90.91%) CI/CD
2 15 (68.18%) DevOps
3 11 (50.00%) Migration
4 10 (45.45%) Containerisation
5 9 (40.91%) Agile
6 8 (36.36%) Microservices
6 8 (36.36%) Problem-Solving
7 7 (31.82%) Artificial Intelligence
7 7 (31.82%) Code Quality
7 7 (31.82%) Configuration Management
7 7 (31.82%) Deployment Automation
7 7 (31.82%) Machine Learning
7 7 (31.82%) SDLC
8 6 (27.27%) Continuous Integration
8 6 (27.27%) Data Migration
8 6 (27.27%) Generative AI
8 6 (27.27%) LLM
8 6 (27.27%) Natural Language Processing
8 6 (27.27%) Task Automation
9 5 (22.73%) Build Automation
Programming Languages
1 20 (90.91%) Python
2 8 (36.36%) Bash
3 6 (27.27%) Java
4 5 (22.73%) Perl
4 5 (22.73%) PowerShell
4 5 (22.73%) SQL
5 3 (13.64%) Scala
6 1 (4.55%) JavaScript
6 1 (4.55%) R
6 1 (4.55%) Ruby
Qualifications
1 2 (9.09%) CCNA
1 2 (9.09%) CCNP
1 2 (9.09%) Cisco Certification
1 2 (9.09%) Computer Science Degree
1 2 (9.09%) Degree
2 1 (4.55%) AWS Certification
2 1 (4.55%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
2 1 (4.55%) Azure Certification
2 1 (4.55%) Master's Degree
2 1 (4.55%) Microsoft Certification
2 1 (4.55%) Security Cleared
2 1 (4.55%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
System Software
1 16 (72.73%) Docker
2 5 (22.73%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 10 (45.45%) Progress Chef
2 8 (36.36%) Ansible
3 5 (22.73%) Kibana
4 3 (13.64%) Terraform
5 1 (4.55%) Docker Swarm
5 1 (4.55%) Grafana
5 1 (4.55%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 6 (27.27%) Red Hat
2 5 (22.73%) AppDynamics
2 5 (22.73%) Oracle
2 5 (22.73%) Splunk
3 3 (13.64%) Cloudera
4 2 (9.09%) Fortinet
4 2 (9.09%) Infoblox
4 2 (9.09%) Microsoft
4 2 (9.09%) ServiceNow
5 1 (4.55%) Ariba
5 1 (4.55%) SAP
5 1 (4.55%) VMware