Kubernetes Contracts in Dorset

Kubernetes (k8s)
South West > Dorset

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Dorset 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 21 23 25
Rank change year-on-year +2 +2 -14
Contract jobs citing Kubernetes 3 5 10
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Dorset 3.06% 3.03% 4.63%
As % of the Systems Management category 9.09% 41.67% 31.25%
Number of daily rates quoted 3 0 5
10th Percentile £417 - £399
25th Percentile £467 - £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 - £513
Median % change year-on-year - - -12.77%
75th Percentile - - £619
90th Percentile - - £630
South West median daily rate £600 £550 £550
% change year-on-year +9.09% - +3.77%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 3
10th Percentile - - £51.70
25th Percentile - - £54.74
Median hourly rate - - £59.80
75th Percentile - - £60.25
90th Percentile - - £60.52
South West median hourly rate £80.83 £74.44 £66.85
% change year-on-year +8.58% +11.35% +38.49%

All Systems Management Skills
Dorset

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 Dorset.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for systems management skills 33 12 32
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Dorset 33.67% 7.27% 14.81%
Number of daily rates quoted 23 6 23
10th Percentile £223 £331 -
25th Percentile £395 £427 £200
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £441 £513 £425
Median % change year-on-year -13.95% +20.59% +9.68%
75th Percentile £563 £519 £528
90th Percentile £575 £528 £568
South West median daily rate £551 £525 £550
% change year-on-year +4.86% -4.55% +10.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 0 3
10th Percentile - - £51.70
25th Percentile - - £54.74
Median hourly rate £14.50 - £59.80
Median % change year-on-year - - +21.46%
75th Percentile - - £60.25
90th Percentile - - £60.52
South West median hourly rate £74.35 £40.00 £65.00
% change year-on-year +85.88% -38.46% +225.00%

Kubernetes
Job Vacancy Trend in Dorset

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

Job vacancy trend for Kubernetes in Dorset

Kubernetes
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Dorset

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

Daily rate trend for Kubernetes in Dorset

Kubernetes
Daily Rate Histogram in Dorset

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

Daily rate histogram for Kubernetes in Dorset

Kubernetes
Contract Job Locations in Dorset

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Kubernetes within the Dorset 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
Poole - 2 £550 - 1
Bournemouth -3 1 £392 - 25
Kubernetes
South West

Kubernetes
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Dorset 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 1 (33.33%) Apache Spark
Cloud Services
1 2 (66.67%) Amazon S3
1 2 (66.67%) AWS
1 2 (66.67%) AWS Lambda
1 2 (66.67%) Serverless
General
1 2 (66.67%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 3 (100.00%) Developer
2 2 (66.67%) Backend Developer
2 2 (66.67%) Software Developer
3 1 (33.33%) Full-Stack Developer
3 1 (33.33%) Full-Stack Java Developer
3 1 (33.33%) Java Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (66.67%) Node.js
2 1 (33.33%) CSS
2 1 (33.33%) CSS3
2 1 (33.33%) Elastic Stack
2 1 (33.33%) HTML
2 1 (33.33%) HTML5
2 1 (33.33%) Jest
2 1 (33.33%) Kafka
2 1 (33.33%) Middleware
2 1 (33.33%) OpenTracing
2 1 (33.33%) React
2 1 (33.33%) Redux
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (66.67%) Agile
1 2 (66.67%) Artificial Intelligence
1 2 (66.67%) Containerisation
1 2 (66.67%) Machine Learning
2 1 (33.33%) Business Analysis
2 1 (33.33%) CI/CD
2 1 (33.33%) Continuous Delivery
2 1 (33.33%) Continuous Integration
2 1 (33.33%) Design Patterns
2 1 (33.33%) Full-Stack Development
2 1 (33.33%) Microservices
2 1 (33.33%) Service Design
2 1 (33.33%) Test Automation
Programming Languages
1 2 (66.67%) Python
2 1 (33.33%) Java
2 1 (33.33%) SQL
Qualifications
1 2 (66.67%) DV Cleared
1 2 (66.67%) Security Cleared
2 1 (33.33%) SC Cleared
System Software
1 3 (100.00%) Docker
Systems Management
1 2 (66.67%) Ansible
1 2 (66.67%) Terraform
2 1 (33.33%) Prometheus
2 1 (33.33%) Zipkin