Kubernetes Contract Job Trends in Derby

Kubernetes (k8s)
Derbyshire > Derby

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Derby requiring Kubernetes skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 19 December 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
19 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 18 - 21
Rank change year-on-year - - +11
Contract jobs citing Kubernetes 4 0 2
As % of all contract jobs in Derby 3.28% - 1.85%
As % of the Systems Management category 33.33% - 25.00%
Number of daily rates quoted 2 0 2
10th Percentile £407 - £440
25th Percentile £408 - £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £413 - £525
Median % change year-on-year - - -4.55%
75th Percentile £417 - £588
90th Percentile £418 - £610
Derbyshire median daily rate £413 - £525
% change year-on-year - - -8.70%

All Systems Management Skills
Derby

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 Derby.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for systems management skills 12 4 8
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Derby 9.84% 3.67% 7.41%
Number of daily rates quoted 5 3 7
10th Percentile £409 - £440
25th Percentile £413 £363 £456
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £650 £375 £500
Median % change year-on-year +73.33% -25.00% -
75th Percentile - £388 £625
90th Percentile - - £675
Derbyshire median daily rate £413 £375 £500
% change year-on-year +10.13% -25.00% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 1
Median hourly rate - - £17.72
Median % change year-on-year - - -70.47%
Derbyshire median hourly rate - - £17.72
% change year-on-year - - -70.47%

Kubernetes
Job Vacancy Trend in Derby

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

Kubernetes job vacancy trend in Derby

Kubernetes
Daily Rate Trend in Derby

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

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Derby citing Kubernetes

Kubernetes
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Derby 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 (25.00%) Jupyter
Cloud Services
1 3 (75.00%) Azure
1 3 (75.00%) Azure DevOps
1 3 (75.00%) GitHub
1 3 (75.00%) GitHub Actions
2 2 (50.00%) Azure Monitor
3 1 (25.00%) Azure AKS
Communications & Networking
1 1 (25.00%) Firewall
Development Applications
1 1 (25.00%) CircleCI
1 1 (25.00%) Jenkins
General
1 2 (50.00%) Inclusion and Diversity
2 1 (25.00%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 2 (50.00%) Infrastructure Engineer
2 1 (25.00%) Consultant
2 1 (25.00%) DevOps Engineer
2 1 (25.00%) Kubernetes Consultant
2 1 (25.00%) Performance Consultant
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (25.00%) ARM Templates
Miscellaneous
1 2 (50.00%) Enterprise Software
2 1 (25.00%) Beowulf
2 1 (25.00%) Cloud Native
2 1 (25.00%) Contract for Difference
2 1 (25.00%) Legacy Applications
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (75.00%) CI/CD
1 3 (75.00%) Containerisation
1 3 (75.00%) DevOps
1 3 (75.00%) Infrastructure as Code
1 3 (75.00%) Runbook
2 2 (50.00%) Analytics
2 2 (50.00%) BCP
2 2 (50.00%) Business Continuity
2 2 (50.00%) Business Continuity Planning
2 2 (50.00%) Disaster Recovery
2 2 (50.00%) GitOps
2 2 (50.00%) High Availability
2 2 (50.00%) Identity Management
2 2 (50.00%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 2 (50.00%) Log Analytics
3 1 (25.00%) Cost Optimisation
3 1 (25.00%) Data Science
3 1 (25.00%) Incident Response
3 1 (25.00%) RBAC
3 1 (25.00%) SDLC
Programming Languages
1 2 (50.00%) Bash
1 2 (50.00%) PowerShell
1 2 (50.00%) Python
Qualifications
1 1 (25.00%) SC Cleared
1 1 (25.00%) Security Cleared
System Software
1 4 (100.00%) Docker
2 1 (25.00%) Slurm Workload Manager
Systems Management
1 3 (75.00%) Terraform
2 2 (50.00%) Prometheus
3 1 (25.00%) Podman
Vendors
1 2 (50.00%) Microsoft
2 1 (25.00%) F5
2 1 (25.00%) NVIDIA