Kubernetes Contract Job Trends in Cheshire

Kubernetes (k8s)
North West > Cheshire

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Cheshire requiring Kubernetes skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 1 October 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 Oct 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 30 55 47
Rank change year-on-year +25 -8 +15
Contract jobs citing Kubernetes 47 4 6
As % of all contract jobs in Cheshire 6.94% 0.74% 1.53%
As % of the Systems Management category 36.43% 8.70% 8.11%
Number of daily rates quoted 44 4 3
10th Percentile £313 £319 £551
25th Percentile £358 £343 £553
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £430 £416 £560
Median % change year-on-year +3.49% -25.80% +31.76%
75th Percentile £501 £510 £608
90th Percentile £665 £550 £633
North West median daily rate £475 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -13.64% - -4.35%

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 129 46 74
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Cheshire 19.05% 8.57% 18.93%
Number of daily rates quoted 96 28 49
10th Percentile £251 £243 £360
25th Percentile £313 £343 £495
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £386 £458 £550
Median % change year-on-year -15.68% -16.82% +25.36%
75th Percentile £488 £531 £588
90th Percentile £630 £595 £594
North West median daily rate £450 £475 £500
% change year-on-year -5.26% -5.00% -4.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 8 3 0
10th Percentile - £21.67 -
25th Percentile £15.50 £22.61 -
Median hourly rate £16.88 £24.18 -
Median % change year-on-year -30.21% - -
75th Percentile £18.87 £55.84 -
90th Percentile £33.38 £74.84 -
North West median hourly rate £19.44 £46.18 £46.18
% change year-on-year -57.91% - +112.03%

Kubernetes
Job Vacancy Trend in Cheshire

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

Kubernetes job vacancy trend in Cheshire

Kubernetes
Daily Rate Trend in Cheshire

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

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Cheshire citing Kubernetes

Kubernetes
Daily Rate Histogram in Cheshire

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

Daily rate histogram for Kubernetes in Cheshire

Kubernetes
Hourly Rate Trend in Cheshire

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in Cheshire citing Kubernetes.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in Cheshire citing Kubernetes

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 October 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 +15 37 £402 +12.92% 2
Chester - 5 £700 - 5
Warrington - 2 £374 - 2
Wilmslow - 2 £663 -
Kubernetes
North West

Kubernetes
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:

Application Platforms
1 5 (10.64%) JBoss
2 4 (8.51%) Apache Airflow
3 3 (6.38%) Confluence
4 2 (4.26%) Mule
4 2 (4.26%) Mule ESB
4 2 (4.26%) Tomcat
5 1 (2.13%) Anypoint
5 1 (2.13%) OpenStack
5 1 (2.13%) WebLogic
Business Applications
1 1 (2.13%) Distributed Ledger
1 1 (2.13%) Finacle
Cloud Services
1 29 (61.70%) AWS
2 20 (42.55%) OpenShift
3 13 (27.66%) Azure
4 9 (19.15%) IaaS
4 9 (19.15%) PaaS
4 9 (19.15%) SaaS
5 6 (12.77%) Amazon ECS
5 6 (12.77%) GitHub
6 5 (10.64%) GitHub Actions
7 4 (8.51%) Amazon EC2
7 4 (8.51%) Amazon SageMaker
7 4 (8.51%) AWS Lambda
7 4 (8.51%) Serverless
8 3 (6.38%) GCP
8 3 (6.38%) Virtual Private Cloud
9 2 (4.26%) Amazon EKS
9 2 (4.26%) AWS CloudFormation
9 2 (4.26%) AWS CodeBuild
9 2 (4.26%) Azure DevOps
9 2 (4.26%) Datadog
Communications & Networking
1 6 (12.77%) Firewall
2 2 (4.26%) VPN
2 2 (4.26%) X.509
3 1 (2.13%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 13 (27.66%) Relational Database
2 4 (8.51%) Big Data
2 4 (8.51%) PostgreSQL
2 4 (8.51%) RDBMS
2 4 (8.51%) SQL Server
3 3 (6.38%) Elasticsearch
4 2 (4.26%) Amazon RDS
5 1 (2.13%) Redis
Development Applications
1 19 (40.43%) Git
2 17 (36.17%) JIRA
3 15 (31.91%) Jenkins
4 8 (17.02%) GitLab
5 6 (12.77%) SonarQube
5 6 (12.77%) Sonatype Nexus
6 5 (10.64%) Bitbucket
7 4 (8.51%) MLflow
7 4 (8.51%) TeamCity
8 3 (6.38%) Artifactory
8 3 (6.38%) Bitbucket Server
8 3 (6.38%) CA Release Automation
9 2 (4.26%) SpecFlow
10 1 (2.13%) Cucumber
10 1 (2.13%) JUnit
10 1 (2.13%) Selenium
10 1 (2.13%) Snyk
General
1 15 (31.91%) Banking
2 14 (29.79%) Finance
3 8 (17.02%) Social Skills
4 6 (12.77%) Analytical Skills
5 2 (4.26%) Legal
5 2 (4.26%) Public Sector
6 1 (2.13%) Retail
6 1 (2.13%) Wholesale Banking
Job Titles
1 7 (14.89%) Developer
1 7 (14.89%) Lead
2 5 (10.64%) Java Developer
3 4 (8.51%) Architect
3 4 (8.51%) Data Engineer
3 4 (8.51%) DevOps Engineer
3 4 (8.51%) DevOps Specialist
4 3 (6.38%) AWS Engineer
4 3 (6.38%) Cloud Engineer
4 3 (6.38%) Platform Engineer
4 3 (6.38%) Security Engineer
4 3 (6.38%) Software Engineer
4 3 (6.38%) Solutions Architect
5 2 (4.26%) AWS Architect
5 2 (4.26%) AWS Data Engineer
5 2 (4.26%) AWS Solution Architect
6 1 (2.13%) AWS DevOps Engineer
6 1 (2.13%) DevOps Platform Engineer
6 1 (2.13%) DevSecOps Engineer
6 1 (2.13%) Platform Specialist
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 12 (25.53%) Node.js
1 12 (25.53%) Spring Boot
2 11 (23.40%) AngularJS
3 8 (17.02%) Spring
4 6 (12.77%) JMS
4 6 (12.77%) REST
5 5 (10.64%) Elastic Stack
5 5 (10.64%) RESTful
6 4 (8.51%) Flask
6 4 (8.51%) HTML
6 4 (8.51%) Kafka
6 4 (8.51%) PySpark
7 2 (4.26%) .NET
7 2 (4.26%) Gherkin
7 2 (4.26%) J2EE
7 2 (4.26%) JSON
7 2 (4.26%) Playwright
7 2 (4.26%) Streamlit
7 2 (4.26%) Web Services
7 2 (4.26%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 9 (19.15%) Cloud Native
2 6 (12.77%) SWIFT Messaging Network
3 3 (6.38%) Distributed Systems
3 3 (6.38%) Hybrid Cloud
4 2 (4.26%) PKI
4 2 (4.26%) Public Cloud
5 1 (2.13%) Blockchain
5 1 (2.13%) Onboarding
5 1 (2.13%) Private Cloud
Operating Systems
1 19 (40.43%) Linux
2 14 (29.79%) Windows
3 5 (10.64%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 1 (2.13%) Unix
4 1 (2.13%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 33 (70.21%) CI/CD
2 26 (55.32%) DevOps
3 21 (44.68%) Containerisation
4 17 (36.17%) Observability
5 14 (29.79%) Microservices
6 12 (25.53%) Agile
7 11 (23.40%) Migration
8 9 (19.15%) ETL
8 9 (19.15%) Problem-Solving
8 9 (19.15%) Test Automation
9 8 (17.02%) Continuous Integration
10 7 (14.89%) Infrastructure as Code
10 7 (14.89%) Infrastructure Automation
10 7 (14.89%) Unit Testing
11 6 (12.77%) Analytics
11 6 (12.77%) Anti-Money Laundering
11 6 (12.77%) Data Migration
11 6 (12.77%) SDLC
11 6 (12.77%) User Acceptance Testing
12 5 (10.64%) Machine Learning
Programming Languages
1 28 (59.57%) Python
2 16 (34.04%) Java
3 13 (27.66%) SQL
4 9 (19.15%) PHP
5 8 (17.02%) Bash
6 6 (12.77%) Perl
6 6 (12.77%) PowerShell
7 3 (6.38%) PL/SQL
7 3 (6.38%) Ruby
8 2 (4.26%) C#
8 2 (4.26%) JavaScript
9 1 (2.13%) Korn
Qualifications
1 6 (12.77%) AWS Certification
1 6 (12.77%) Security Cleared
2 5 (10.64%) BPSS Clearance
3 3 (6.38%) CISSP
3 3 (6.38%) Degree
4 2 (4.26%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
4 2 (4.26%) CISM
5 1 (2.13%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
5 1 (2.13%) Azure Certification
5 1 (2.13%) Computer Science Degree
5 1 (2.13%) OSCP
5 1 (2.13%) SC Cleared
5 1 (2.13%) TOGAF Certification
5 1 (2.13%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 6 (12.77%) ISO 20022
1 6 (12.77%) PSD2
1 6 (12.77%) QA
1 6 (12.77%) SEPA
2 2 (4.26%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 2 (4.26%) NIST
System Software
1 33 (70.21%) Docker
2 4 (8.51%) Active Directory
3 2 (4.26%) Virtual Servers
Systems Management
1 10 (21.28%) Grafana
2 9 (19.15%) Progress Chef
3 7 (14.89%) Ansible
4 6 (12.77%) Terraform
5 4 (8.51%) Kibana
6 2 (4.26%) Fluentd
7 1 (2.13%) Docker Swarm
7 1 (2.13%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 24 (51.06%) Oracle
2 16 (34.04%) AppDynamics
3 10 (21.28%) Splunk
4 5 (10.64%) Cloudera
4 5 (10.64%) Microsoft
4 5 (10.64%) Red Hat
5 4 (8.51%) Dynatrace
6 2 (4.26%) Atlassian
6 2 (4.26%) Cribl.io
7 1 (2.13%) Checkmarx
7 1 (2.13%) MuleSoft
7 1 (2.13%) Veracode
7 1 (2.13%) VMware