Kubernetes Contracts in the East Midlands

Kubernetes (k8s)
England > East Midlands

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the East Midlands 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 41 52 47
Rank change year-on-year +11 -5 +35
Contract jobs citing Kubernetes 15 14 38
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the East Midlands 2.80% 1.81% 3.65%
As % of the Systems Management category 29.41% 15.56% 29.46%
Number of daily rates quoted 8 12 33
10th Percentile £339 £356 £480
25th Percentile £436 £356 £525
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £475 £700
Median % change year-on-year - -32.14% +40.00%
75th Percentile £570 £756 -
90th Percentile £678 £775 -
England median daily rate £575 £550 £620
% change year-on-year +4.55% -11.29% +1.64%

All Systems Management Skills
East Midlands

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 the East Midlands.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for systems management skills 51 90 129
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the East Midlands 9.51% 11.64% 12.38%
Number of daily rates quoted 33 69 97
10th Percentile £189 £163 £228
25th Percentile £326 £325 £308
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £454 £500 £445
Median % change year-on-year -9.20% +12.36% +4.71%
75th Percentile £500 £622 £600
90th Percentile £537 £740 £700
England median daily rate £525 £525 £575
% change year-on-year - -8.70% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 4 10
10th Percentile - - £20.00
25th Percentile - £25.38 £20.48
Median hourly rate - £25.77 £22.38
Median % change year-on-year - +15.13% +9.17%
75th Percentile - £26.15 £36.81
90th Percentile - - £40.25
England median hourly rate £27.38 £27.25 £57.50
% change year-on-year +0.46% -52.61% +167.44%

Kubernetes
Job Vacancy Trend in the East Midlands

Job postings citing Kubernetes as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the East Midlands.

Job vacancy trend for Kubernetes in the East Midlands

Kubernetes
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the East Midlands

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Kubernetes in the East Midlands.

Daily rate trend for Kubernetes in the East Midlands

Kubernetes
Daily Rate Histogram in the East Midlands

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

Daily rate histogram for Kubernetes in the East Midlands

Kubernetes
Contract Job Locations in the East Midlands

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Kubernetes within the East Midlands 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
Northamptonshire -1 7 £467 +31.18% 7
Derbyshire - 5 £500 - 5
Leicestershire +7 2 £475 -36.67% 6
Nottinghamshire +4 1 £638 -15.00% 10
Kubernetes
England

Kubernetes
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the East Midlands 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 2 (13.33%) Apache
1 2 (13.33%) Apache Spark
1 2 (13.33%) JBoss
2 1 (6.67%) SharePoint
Business Applications
1 2 (13.33%) Payment Gateway
Cloud Services
1 9 (60.00%) AWS
2 6 (40.00%) Azure
3 5 (33.33%) Azure DevOps
4 4 (26.67%) GCP
5 3 (20.00%) Cloud Computing
6 2 (13.33%) Amazon EMR
6 2 (13.33%) Amazon Kinesis
6 2 (13.33%) Amazon S3
6 2 (13.33%) AWS Lambda
6 2 (13.33%) GitHub
6 2 (13.33%) GitHub Actions
6 2 (13.33%) OpenShift
6 2 (13.33%) Serverless
7 1 (6.67%) Anthos
7 1 (6.67%) AWS CloudFormation
7 1 (6.67%) Azure Batch
7 1 (6.67%) Cloud Functions
7 1 (6.67%) Google Compute Engine
7 1 (6.67%) Google Kubernetes Engine
7 1 (6.67%) Microsoft 365
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (26.67%) NoSQL
2 2 (13.33%) Amazon Redshift
2 2 (13.33%) Apache Hudi
2 2 (13.33%) Apache Iceberg
2 2 (13.33%) Big Data
2 2 (13.33%) Data Lake
2 2 (13.33%) Data Warehouse
2 2 (13.33%) Delta Lake
2 2 (13.33%) Elasticsearch
2 2 (13.33%) Flink
2 2 (13.33%) Hadoop
2 2 (13.33%) Parquet
3 1 (6.67%) BigQuery
3 1 (6.67%) RDBMS
3 1 (6.67%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 5 (33.33%) Git
1 5 (33.33%) Jenkins
1 5 (33.33%) SonarQube
2 3 (20.00%) Chocolatey
3 2 (13.33%) Bitbucket Server
3 2 (13.33%) CA Release Automation
3 2 (13.33%) JIRA
3 2 (13.33%) Sonatype Nexus
3 2 (13.33%) TeamCity
4 1 (6.67%) Bitbucket
General
1 5 (33.33%) Analytical Skills
1 5 (33.33%) Social Skills
2 3 (20.00%) Presentation Skills
3 2 (13.33%) Banking
3 2 (13.33%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 1 (6.67%) Finance
Job Titles
1 6 (40.00%) Cloud Engineer
2 3 (20.00%) Architect
2 3 (20.00%) DevOps Engineer
3 2 (13.33%) Cloud Platform Engineer
3 2 (13.33%) Developer
3 2 (13.33%) Platform Engineer
3 2 (13.33%) Scala Developer
3 2 (13.33%) Senior
3 2 (13.33%) Senior Cloud Engineer
3 2 (13.33%) Senior Platform Engineer
4 1 (6.67%) Automation Engineer
4 1 (6.67%) Data Engineer
4 1 (6.67%) DevOps Automation Engineer
4 1 (6.67%) GCP Architect
4 1 (6.67%) GCP Engineer
4 1 (6.67%) IT Infrastructure Analyst
4 1 (6.67%) Lead
4 1 (6.67%) Lead DevOps
4 1 (6.67%) Python Engineer
4 1 (6.67%) Senior Data Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (26.67%) Kafka
2 3 (20.00%) .NET
3 2 (13.33%) Apache Avro
3 2 (13.33%) Elastic Stack
3 2 (13.33%) JSON
3 2 (13.33%) Spring Boot
4 1 (6.67%) Spring
4 1 (6.67%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 3 (20.00%) Cloud Native
2 2 (13.33%) Distributed Systems
2 2 (13.33%) Product Ownership
3 1 (6.67%) Public Cloud
3 1 (6.67%) Security Posture
Operating Systems
1 5 (33.33%) Linux
2 2 (13.33%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
2 2 (13.33%) Windows
3 1 (6.67%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 11 (73.33%) CI/CD
2 10 (66.67%) DevOps
3 6 (40.00%) Agile
3 6 (40.00%) Microservices
4 5 (33.33%) Containerisation
4 5 (33.33%) Infrastructure as Code
5 4 (26.67%) Data Governance
5 4 (26.67%) ETL
5 4 (26.67%) ITIL
5 4 (26.67%) Problem-Solving
6 3 (20.00%) Computer Science
6 3 (20.00%) Continuous Integration
6 3 (20.00%) Service Catalogue
6 3 (20.00%) Task Automation
7 2 (13.33%) Code Quality
7 2 (13.33%) Data Ingestion
7 2 (13.33%) Data Pipeline
7 2 (13.33%) Data Science
7 2 (13.33%) Deployment Automation
7 2 (13.33%) Technical Leadership
Programming Languages
1 7 (46.67%) Python
2 5 (33.33%) PowerShell
3 4 (26.67%) Scala
3 4 (26.67%) SQL
4 3 (20.00%) C#
5 2 (13.33%) Bash
5 2 (13.33%) Java
5 2 (13.33%) Perl
6 1 (6.67%) Bicep
6 1 (6.67%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 3 (20.00%) Computer Science Degree
1 3 (20.00%) Degree
2 2 (13.33%) AWS Certification
2 2 (13.33%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
2 2 (13.33%) SC Cleared
2 2 (13.33%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (13.33%) Data Quality
System Software
1 12 (80.00%) Docker
2 2 (13.33%) Active Directory
3 1 (6.67%) Hyper-V
3 1 (6.67%) Virtual Machines
3 1 (6.67%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 9 (60.00%) Terraform
2 3 (20.00%) Ansible
3 2 (13.33%) Kibana
3 2 (13.33%) Progress Chef
4 1 (6.67%) Microsoft Intune
4 1 (6.67%) Podman
Vendors
1 4 (26.67%) Google
2 3 (20.00%) ServiceNow
3 2 (13.33%) AppDynamics
3 2 (13.33%) Databricks
3 2 (13.33%) Microsoft
3 2 (13.33%) Red Hat
3 2 (13.33%) Splunk
4 1 (6.67%) VMware