Kubernetes Engineer Contract Job Trends in Coventry

Kubernetes Engineer (K8s Engineer)
West Midlands > Coventry

The median Kubernetes Engineer (K8s Engineer) daily rate in Coventry is £400, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 6 May 2026.

The table below compares current contractor rates and summary statistics with the previous two years.

6 months to
6 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 36 - 27
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Contract jobs requiring a Kubernetes Engineer 1 0 1
As % of all contract jobs in Coventry 0.35% - 0.71%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.37% - 0.74%
Number of daily rates quoted 1 0 1
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £400 - £450
West Midlands median daily rate £571 £575 £450
% change year-on-year -0.70% +27.78% -

All Contract IT Job Roles
Coventry

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies in Coventry. 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 Coventry with a recognized job title 272 93 135
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 94.77% 92.08% 96.43%
Number of daily rates quoted 174 70 109
10th Percentile £293 £200 £323
25th Percentile £381 £225 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £435 £525
Median % change year-on-year +9.32% -17.24% +9.38%
75th Percentile £529 £528 £613
90th Percentile £693 £634 £678
West Midlands median daily rate £475 £491 £488
% change year-on-year -3.26% +0.72% -2.50%
Number of hourly rates quoted 8 0 0
10th Percentile £14.00 - -
25th Percentile £14.75 - -
Median hourly rate £26.00 - -
75th Percentile £27.00 - -
90th Percentile - - -
West Midlands median hourly rate £33.00 £18.13 £22.00
% change year-on-year +82.02% -17.59% +12.82%

Kubernetes Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend in Coventry

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 Coventry.

Kubernetes Engineer job vacancy trend in Coventry

Kubernetes Engineer
Daily Rate Trend in Coventry

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

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

Kubernetes Engineer Skill Set
Top 21 Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Coventry

For the 6 months to 6 May 2026, 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 Coventry region featuring Kubernetes Engineer in the job title.

1 1 (100.00%) .NET
1 1 (100.00%) .NET Core
1 1 (100.00%) .NET Framework
1 1 (100.00%) Azure
1 1 (100.00%) Azure DevOps
1 1 (100.00%) Bicep
1 1 (100.00%) Containerisation
1 1 (100.00%) Dependency Injection
1 1 (100.00%) DevOps
1 1 (100.00%) Docker
1 1 (100.00%) Entity Framework
1 1 (100.00%) Git
1 1 (100.00%) Infrastructure as Code
1 1 (100.00%) Infrastructure Automation
1 1 (100.00%) Kubernetes
1 1 (100.00%) LINQ
1 1 (100.00%) Microservices
1 1 (100.00%) Microsoft
1 1 (100.00%) NUnit
1 1 (100.00%) Razor View Engine
1 1 (100.00%) YAML

Kubernetes Engineer Skill Set
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Coventry 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%) Azure
1 1 (100.00%) Azure DevOps
Development Applications
1 1 (100.00%) Git
1 1 (100.00%) NUnit
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (100.00%) .NET
1 1 (100.00%) .NET Core
1 1 (100.00%) .NET Framework
1 1 (100.00%) Entity Framework
1 1 (100.00%) LINQ
1 1 (100.00%) Razor View Engine
1 1 (100.00%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 1 (100.00%) Cloud Native
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (100.00%) Containerisation
1 1 (100.00%) Dependency Injection
1 1 (100.00%) DevOps
1 1 (100.00%) Infrastructure as Code
1 1 (100.00%) Infrastructure Automation
1 1 (100.00%) Microservices
Programming Languages
1 1 (100.00%) Bicep
System Software
1 1 (100.00%) Docker
Systems Management
1 1 (100.00%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 1 (100.00%) Microsoft