Kubernetes Contracts in County Antrim

Kubernetes (k8s)
Northern Ireland > County Antrim

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in County Antrim 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 22 20 16
Rank change year-on-year -2 -4 +5
Contract jobs citing Kubernetes 10 2 7
As % of all contract jobs advertised in County Antrim 6.67% 1.52% 4.19%
As % of the Systems Management category 50.00% 33.33% 46.67%
Number of daily rates quoted 7 0 4
10th Percentile £225 - £615
25th Percentile £275 - £638
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £325 - £650
Median % change year-on-year - - +30.00%
75th Percentile £470 - -
90th Percentile £512 - -
Northern Ireland median daily rate £325 - £650
% change year-on-year - - +30.00%

All Systems Management Skills
County Antrim

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 County Antrim.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for systems management skills 20 6 15
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in County Antrim 13.33% 4.55% 8.98%
Number of daily rates quoted 13 0 9
10th Percentile £161 - £164
25th Percentile £200 - £200
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £225 - £225
Median % change year-on-year - - -53.85%
75th Percentile £470 - £650
90th Percentile £554 - -
Northern Ireland median daily rate £225 £640 £225
% change year-on-year -64.84% +184.44% -53.85%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 1
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile - - £13.75
Median hourly rate - - £17.50
Median % change year-on-year - - +11.18%
75th Percentile - - £21.25
90th Percentile - - -
Northern Ireland median hourly rate - - £17.50
% change year-on-year - - +11.18%

Kubernetes
Job Vacancy Trend in County Antrim

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

Job vacancy trend for Kubernetes in County Antrim

Kubernetes
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in County Antrim

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

Daily rate trend for Kubernetes in County Antrim

Kubernetes
Daily Rate Histogram in County Antrim

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

Daily rate histogram for Kubernetes in County Antrim

Kubernetes
Contract Job Locations in County Antrim

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Kubernetes within the County Antrim 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
Belfast +1 10 £325 - 47
Kubernetes
Northern Ireland

Kubernetes
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in County Antrim 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 2 (20.00%) GemFire
2 1 (10.00%) Anypoint
2 1 (10.00%) Mule
Cloud Services
1 9 (90.00%) OpenShift
2 3 (30.00%) Amazon ECS
3 1 (10.00%) AWS
3 1 (10.00%) Azure
3 1 (10.00%) Azure DevOps
3 1 (10.00%) GCP
3 1 (10.00%) GitHub
3 1 (10.00%) GitHub Actions
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (40.00%) NoSQL
2 3 (30.00%) Flink
3 2 (20.00%) Apache Ignite
3 2 (20.00%) Relational Database
3 2 (20.00%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 4 (40.00%) Git
2 1 (10.00%) Jenkins
General
1 9 (90.00%) Finance
2 6 (60.00%) Social Skills
3 4 (40.00%) Front Office
4 3 (30.00%) Banking
4 3 (30.00%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 3 (30.00%) Law
5 2 (20.00%) Investment Banking
6 1 (10.00%) Retail
6 1 (10.00%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 8 (80.00%) Developer
2 7 (70.00%) Java Developer
3 6 (60.00%) Java Engineer
3 6 (60.00%) Java Software Engineer
3 6 (60.00%) Software Engineer
4 4 (40.00%) Developer/Software Engineer
4 4 (40.00%) Java Software Developer
5 2 (20.00%) Junior
5 2 (20.00%) Junior Developer
5 2 (20.00%) Junior Java Developer
5 2 (20.00%) Junior Java Software Developer
5 2 (20.00%) Junior Java Software Engineer
5 2 (20.00%) Junior Software Developer
5 2 (20.00%) Junior Software Engineer
6 1 (10.00%) MuleSoft Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 6 (60.00%) Kafka
1 6 (60.00%) Spring Boot
2 5 (50.00%) JSON
2 5 (50.00%) RESTful
2 5 (50.00%) XML
3 4 (40.00%) AngularJS
3 4 (40.00%) Apache Avro
3 4 (40.00%) React
3 4 (40.00%) Web Services
4 2 (20.00%) Spring
5 1 (10.00%) JMS
5 1 (10.00%) JWT
5 1 (10.00%) OAuth
5 1 (10.00%) OpenAPI
5 1 (10.00%) RabbitMQ
5 1 (10.00%) RAML
5 1 (10.00%) SAML
5 1 (10.00%) SOAP
5 1 (10.00%) Swagger
Miscellaneous
1 7 (70.00%) Equities
2 4 (40.00%) Derivative
2 4 (40.00%) Equity Derivative
2 4 (40.00%) Product Ownership
3 3 (30.00%) Credit Risk
3 3 (30.00%) Fixed Income
4 1 (10.00%) Enterprise Software
Processes & Methodologies
1 7 (70.00%) Agile
1 7 (70.00%) Clean Code
1 7 (70.00%) DevOps
2 6 (60.00%) Microservices
2 6 (60.00%) Software Engineering
3 5 (50.00%) CI/CD
3 5 (50.00%) Problem-Solving
4 4 (40.00%) Code Quality
4 4 (40.00%) Continuous Delivery
4 4 (40.00%) Continuous Integration
4 4 (40.00%) User Experience
5 3 (30.00%) Computer Science
5 3 (30.00%) Data Management
5 3 (30.00%) High Availability
5 3 (30.00%) Mentoring
6 2 (20.00%) Artificial Intelligence
7 1 (10.00%) ETL
7 1 (10.00%) Event-Driven Architecture
7 1 (10.00%) Integration Testing
7 1 (10.00%) Unit Testing
Programming Languages
1 9 (90.00%) Java
2 7 (70.00%) SQL
3 3 (30.00%) Python
4 1 (10.00%) DataWeave
Qualifications
1 3 (30.00%) Computer Science Degree
1 3 (30.00%) Degree
2 1 (10.00%) SC Cleared
2 1 (10.00%) Security Cleared
System Software
1 4 (40.00%) Docker
Vendors
1 2 (20.00%) Oracle
2 1 (10.00%) MuleSoft
2 1 (10.00%) Salesforce
2 1 (10.00%) ServiceNow