Kubernetes Contract Job Trends in Derbyshire

Kubernetes (k8s)
East Midlands > Derbyshire

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Derbyshire 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 20 - 25
Rank change year-on-year - - +10
Contract jobs citing Kubernetes 4 0 2
As % of all contract jobs in Derbyshire 2.74% - 1.42%
As % of the Systems Management category 25.00% - 20.00%
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 - - -8.70%
75th Percentile £417 - £588
90th Percentile £418 - £610
East Midlands median daily rate £429 £500 £700
% change year-on-year -14.20% -28.57% +17.75%

All Systems Management Skills
Derbyshire

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 Derbyshire.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for systems management skills 16 4 10
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Derbyshire 10.96% 2.94% 7.09%
Number of daily rates quoted 7 3 7
10th Percentile £130 - £440
25th Percentile £270 £363 £456
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £413 £375 £500
Median % change year-on-year +10.13% -25.00% -
75th Percentile £650 £388 £625
90th Percentile - - £675
East Midlands median daily rate £416 £375 £450
% change year-on-year +11.00% -16.67% +0.56%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 1
Median hourly rate - - £17.72
Median % change year-on-year - - -70.47%
East Midlands median hourly rate £16.50 - £16.36
% change year-on-year - - -57.51%

Kubernetes
Job Vacancy Trend in Derbyshire

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

Kubernetes job vacancy trend in Derbyshire

Kubernetes
Daily Rate Trend in Derbyshire

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

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Derbyshire citing Kubernetes

Kubernetes
Contract Job Locations in Derbyshire

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Kubernetes within the Derbyshire region over the 6 months to 19 December 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
Derby - 4 £413 - 10
Kubernetes
East Midlands

Kubernetes
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Derbyshire 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