Kubernetes Specialist Contract Job Trends in Croydon

Kubernetes Specialist (K8s Specialist)
South London > Croydon

The median Kubernetes Specialist (K8s Specialist) daily rate in Croydon is £708, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 4 November 2025.

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

 6 months to
4 Nov 2025		 Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 29 - -
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Contract jobs requiring a Kubernetes Specialist 1 0 0
As % of all contract jobs in Croydon 1.20% - -
As % of the Job Titles category 1.23% - -
Number of daily rates quoted 1 0 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £691 - -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £708 - -
75th Percentile £724 - -
90th Percentile - - -
South London median daily rate £708 - -

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
Croydon

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies in Croydon. 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 Croydon with a recognized job title 81 96 142
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 97.59% 96.97% 100.00%
Number of daily rates quoted 62 61 113
10th Percentile £320 £380 £231
25th Percentile £463 £425 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £515 £538 £539
Median % change year-on-year -4.28% -0.19% -2.00%
75th Percentile £588 £600 £625
90th Percentile £638 £650 £675
South London median daily rate £500 £500 £525
% change year-on-year - -4.76% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 3 1
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile - £17.25 £21.75
Median hourly rate - £19.50 £23.50
Median % change year-on-year - -17.02% -
75th Percentile - £21.75 £25.25
90th Percentile - - -
South London median hourly rate £38.36 £19.50 £43.84
% change year-on-year +96.71% -55.52% -0.61%

Kubernetes Specialist Skill Set
Top 17 Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Croydon

For the 6 months to 4 November 2025, Kubernetes Specialist 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 Croydon region featuring Kubernetes Specialist in the job title.

1 1 (100.00%) Agile
1 1 (100.00%) AWS
1 1 (100.00%) AWS CloudFormation
1 1 (100.00%) Confluence
1 1 (100.00%) Consul
1 1 (100.00%) DevOps
1 1 (100.00%) Docker
1 1 (100.00%) Git
1 1 (100.00%) JIRA
1 1 (100.00%) Kubernetes
1 1 (100.00%) Linux
1 1 (100.00%) Migration
1 1 (100.00%) nginx
1 1 (100.00%) Packer
1 1 (100.00%) SC Cleared
1 1 (100.00%) Security Cleared
1 1 (100.00%) Terraform

Kubernetes Specialist Skill Set
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Croydon 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 (100.00%) Confluence
1 1 (100.00%) nginx
Cloud Services
1 1 (100.00%) AWS
1 1 (100.00%) AWS CloudFormation
Development Applications
1 1 (100.00%) Git
1 1 (100.00%) JIRA
Operating Systems
1 1 (100.00%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (100.00%) Agile
1 1 (100.00%) DevOps
1 1 (100.00%) Migration
Qualifications
1 1 (100.00%) SC Cleared
1 1 (100.00%) Security Cleared
System Software
1 1 (100.00%) Docker
Systems Management
1 1 (100.00%) Consul
1 1 (100.00%) Kubernetes
1 1 (100.00%) Packer
1 1 (100.00%) Terraform