Kubernetes Contract Job Trends in the City of Westminster

Kubernetes (k8s)
Central London > City of Westminster

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

6 months to
14 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 9 - 12
Rank change year-on-year - - -1
Contract jobs citing Kubernetes 3 0 3
As % of all contract jobs in the City of Westminster 6.98% - 6.38%
As % of the Systems Management category 27.27% - 42.86%
Number of daily rates quoted 2 0 3
10th Percentile £464 - £690
25th Percentile £466 - £713
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 - £800
Median % change year-on-year - - +14.29%
75th Percentile £484 - £869
90th Percentile £486 - £880
Central London median daily rate £550 £625 £644
% change year-on-year -12.00% -2.91% -0.96%

All Systems Management Skills
City of Westminster

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 the City of Westminster.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for systems management skills 11 1 7
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the City of Westminster 25.58% 1.75% 14.89%
Number of daily rates quoted 8 1 7
10th Percentile £451 - £423
25th Percentile £463 - £525
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £450 £625
Median % change year-on-year +5.56% -28.00% -10.71%
75th Percentile £650 - £838
90th Percentile £690 - £865
Central London median daily rate £538 £575 £550
% change year-on-year -6.52% +4.55% -8.33%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 0 0
Median hourly rate £18.87 - -
Central London median hourly rate £25.47 £112.00 £36.25
% change year-on-year -77.26% +208.97% +81.25%

Kubernetes
Job Vacancy Trend in the City of Westminster

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

Kubernetes job vacancy trend in the City of Westminster

Kubernetes
Daily Rate Trend in the City of Westminster

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the City of Westminster citing Kubernetes.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the City of Westminster citing Kubernetes

Kubernetes
Contract Job Locations in the City of Westminster

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Kubernetes within the City of Westminster region over the 6 months to 14 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
Westminster - 2 £475 - 1
Paddington - 1 £475 -
Kubernetes
Central London

Kubernetes
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the City of Westminster 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 (33.33%) Mattermost
Cloud Services
1 2 (66.67%) AWS
1 2 (66.67%) Azure
1 2 (66.67%) GCP
1 2 (66.67%) GitHub
2 1 (33.33%) Amazon CloudWatch
2 1 (33.33%) Azure DevOps
2 1 (33.33%) Azure Monitor
2 1 (33.33%) Datadog
2 1 (33.33%) GitHub Actions
2 1 (33.33%) Stackdriver
Communications & Networking
1 1 (33.33%) DNS
1 1 (33.33%) Firewall
1 1 (33.33%) STUN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (66.67%) MongoDB
1 2 (66.67%) PostgreSQL
1 2 (66.67%) Redis
2 1 (33.33%) MySQL
2 1 (33.33%) NoSQL
Development Applications
1 1 (33.33%) Cypress.io
1 1 (33.33%) GitLab
1 1 (33.33%) Jenkins
1 1 (33.33%) Mocha
General
1 1 (33.33%) Social Skills
1 1 (33.33%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 1 (33.33%) DevOps Engineer
1 1 (33.33%) Site Engineer
1 1 (33.33%) Site Reliability Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (66.67%) Node.js
2 1 (33.33%) Elastic Stack
2 1 (33.33%) Fastify
2 1 (33.33%) GraphQL
2 1 (33.33%) Jest
2 1 (33.33%) Loki
2 1 (33.33%) OAuth
2 1 (33.33%) OAuth2
2 1 (33.33%) OpenAPI
2 1 (33.33%) OpenID
2 1 (33.33%) RESTful
2 1 (33.33%) Swagger
2 1 (33.33%) WebRTC
2 1 (33.33%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 2 (66.67%) Cloud Native
Operating Systems
1 1 (33.33%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (100.00%) CI/CD
1 3 (100.00%) DevOps
2 2 (66.67%) Containerisation
2 2 (66.67%) High Availability
3 1 (33.33%) Agile
3 1 (33.33%) Application Security
3 1 (33.33%) Architectural Patterns
3 1 (33.33%) Functional Testing
3 1 (33.33%) GitOps
3 1 (33.33%) Incident Response
3 1 (33.33%) Infrastructure as Code
3 1 (33.33%) Load Balancing
3 1 (33.33%) Microservices
3 1 (33.33%) Non-Blocking Code
3 1 (33.33%) Observability
3 1 (33.33%) Open Source
3 1 (33.33%) Problem-Solving
3 1 (33.33%) Root Cause Analysis
3 1 (33.33%) Site Reliability Engineering
3 1 (33.33%) Zero Trust
Programming Languages
1 3 (100.00%) Python
2 2 (66.67%) Bash
2 2 (66.67%) JavaScript
3 1 (33.33%) PowerShell
3 1 (33.33%) SQL
Qualifications
1 1 (33.33%) DV Cleared
1 1 (33.33%) SC Cleared
1 1 (33.33%) Security Cleared
System Software
1 3 (100.00%) Docker
Systems Management
1 3 (100.00%) Grafana
2 2 (66.67%) Terraform
3 1 (33.33%) Ansible
3 1 (33.33%) Argo
3 1 (33.33%) Prometheus
3 1 (33.33%) Puppet
Vendors
1 1 (33.33%) Google
1 1 (33.33%) Splunk