Kubernetes Contract Job Trends in the East Midlands

Kubernetes (k8s)
England > East Midlands

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in the East Midlands requiring Kubernetes skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 9 November 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
9 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 53 58 48
Rank change year-on-year +5 -10 +12
Contract jobs citing Kubernetes 18 4 19
As % of all contract jobs in the East Midlands 2.11% 0.55% 2.34%
As % of the Systems Management category 22.78% 5.33% 21.59%
Number of daily rates quoted 14 4 18
10th Percentile £372 £404 £471
25th Percentile £407 £466 £575
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £430 £513 £650
Median % change year-on-year -16.20% -21.15% +10.26%
75th Percentile £524 £597 £700
90th Percentile £613 £704 £715
England median daily rate £525 £575 £600
% change year-on-year -8.70% -4.17% -4.00%

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 79 75 88
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the East Midlands 9.25% 10.30% 10.85%
Number of daily rates quoted 61 47 69
10th Percentile £205 £287 £213
25th Percentile £360 £363 £313
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £415 £449 £445
Median % change year-on-year -7.57% +0.90% -11.00%
75th Percentile £475 £500 £588
90th Percentile £613 £543 £700
England median daily rate £513 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -2.38% -4.55% -5.17%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 1 2
10th Percentile - - £15.05
25th Percentile - - £15.49
Median hourly rate £21.39 £13.52 £16.36
Median % change year-on-year +58.21% -17.36% -9.11%
75th Percentile - - £17.10
90th Percentile - - £17.47
England median hourly rate £34.00 £37.50 £48.40
% change year-on-year -9.33% -22.52% +93.60%

Kubernetes
Job Vacancy Trend in the East Midlands

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

Kubernetes job vacancy trend in the East Midlands

Kubernetes
Daily Rate Trend in the East Midlands

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the East Midlands citing Kubernetes.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the East Midlands citing Kubernetes

Kubernetes
Daily Rate Histogram in the East Midlands

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Kubernetes in the East Midlands over the 6 months to 9 November 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 9 November 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 -10 8 £415 -19.02%
Nottinghamshire +1 2 £510 -32.00% 17
Leicestershire -5 2 £575 +53.33% 8
Lincolnshire - 2 - -
Derbyshire - 2 £413 - 7
Kubernetes
England

Kubernetes
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the East Midlands 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 (5.56%) Mule
Cloud Services
1 9 (50.00%) GCP
2 8 (44.44%) AWS
3 5 (27.78%) Azure
3 5 (27.78%) GitHub
4 4 (22.22%) Azure DevOps
4 4 (22.22%) Azure Monitor
5 3 (16.67%) Azure AKS
5 3 (16.67%) OpenShift
6 2 (11.11%) ChatGPT
6 2 (11.11%) dbt
6 2 (11.11%) GitHub Actions
6 2 (11.11%) GitHub Copilot
6 2 (11.11%) Snowflake
7 1 (5.56%) Amazon Bedrock
7 1 (5.56%) Amazon EventBridge
7 1 (5.56%) Amazon Neptune
7 1 (5.56%) Amazon SageMaker
7 1 (5.56%) Cloudflare
7 1 (5.56%) Google Gemini
7 1 (5.56%) Vertex AI
Communications & Networking
1 1 (5.56%) MQTT
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (11.11%) PostgreSQL
2 1 (5.56%) BigQuery
2 1 (5.56%) NoSQL
2 1 (5.56%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 4 (22.22%) Jenkins
2 1 (5.56%) CircleCI
2 1 (5.56%) JIRA
2 1 (5.56%) SonarQube
2 1 (5.56%) Sonatype Nexus
2 1 (5.56%) Visual Studio Code
General
1 7 (38.89%) Social Skills
2 3 (16.67%) Banking
3 1 (5.56%) Analytical Skills
3 1 (5.56%) Finance
3 1 (5.56%) Inclusion and Diversity
3 1 (5.56%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 4 (22.22%) Identity and Access Management Engineer
1 4 (22.22%) Identity Management Engineer
2 3 (16.67%) Developer
2 3 (16.67%) Senior
3 2 (11.11%) .NET Developer
3 2 (11.11%) Architect
3 2 (11.11%) Azure Engineer
3 2 (11.11%) Cloud Engineer
3 2 (11.11%) Senior Cloud Engineer
3 2 (11.11%) Subject Matter Expert
4 1 (5.56%) Artificial Intelligence Architect
4 1 (5.56%) Artificial Intelligence Specialist
4 1 (5.56%) Azure Architect
4 1 (5.56%) C# .NET Developer
4 1 (5.56%) C# Developer
4 1 (5.56%) DevOps Engineer
4 1 (5.56%) Security Engineer
4 1 (5.56%) Security Manager
4 1 (5.56%) Senior .NET Developer
4 1 (5.56%) Senior C# Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 7 (38.89%) Spring
2 6 (33.33%) Hibernate
2 6 (33.33%) LDAP
2 6 (33.33%) OAuth
2 6 (33.33%) OpenID
2 6 (33.33%) SAML
3 2 (11.11%) .NET
3 2 (11.11%) Keycloak
4 1 (5.56%) ARM Templates
4 1 (5.56%) CrewAI
4 1 (5.56%) Kafka
4 1 (5.56%) LangGraph
4 1 (5.56%) Loki
4 1 (5.56%) RAML
4 1 (5.56%) RESTful
4 1 (5.56%) Semantic Kernel
4 1 (5.56%) Spring Boot
4 1 (5.56%) Swagger
4 1 (5.56%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 8 (44.44%) Enterprise Software
2 2 (11.11%) Cloud Native
3 1 (5.56%) AI Agents
3 1 (5.56%) Distributed Applications
3 1 (5.56%) Legacy Applications
3 1 (5.56%) Legacy Systems
3 1 (5.56%) Onboarding
3 1 (5.56%) Smart City
Operating Systems
1 2 (11.11%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 17 (94.44%) CI/CD
2 11 (61.11%) Containerisation
3 8 (44.44%) DevOps
3 8 (44.44%) RBAC
4 7 (38.89%) DevSecOps
5 5 (27.78%) Continuous Improvement
5 5 (27.78%) Infrastructure as Code
6 4 (22.22%) Agile
6 4 (22.22%) Identity Access Management
6 4 (22.22%) Microservices
6 4 (22.22%) Migration
7 3 (16.67%) AI
7 3 (16.67%) API Management
7 3 (16.67%) Data Engineering
7 3 (16.67%) Domain-Driven Design
7 3 (16.67%) GitOps
7 3 (16.67%) Problem-Solving
8 2 (11.11%) Observability
8 2 (11.11%) Roadmaps
8 2 (11.11%) Validation
Programming Languages
1 7 (38.89%) Java
2 3 (16.67%) Bash
2 3 (16.67%) Python
2 3 (16.67%) SQL
3 2 (11.11%) C#
3 2 (11.11%) PHP
4 1 (5.56%) PL/SQL
4 1 (5.56%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 3 (16.67%) Azure Certification
1 3 (16.67%) Security Cleared
2 2 (11.11%) SC Cleared
3 1 (5.56%) MCP
3 1 (5.56%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 6 (33.33%) GDPR
1 6 (33.33%) HIPAA
2 1 (5.56%) ISO 9001
2 1 (5.56%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 1 (5.56%) QA
System Software
1 11 (61.11%) Docker
Systems Management
1 7 (38.89%) Terraform
2 6 (33.33%) Tivoli Identity Manager
3 4 (22.22%) Prometheus
4 2 (11.11%) Ansible
4 2 (11.11%) Argo
4 2 (11.11%) Grafana
4 2 (11.11%) Istio
Vendors
1 8 (44.44%) Microsoft
2 6 (33.33%) IBM
3 5 (27.78%) Ping Identity
4 3 (16.67%) Red Hat
5 2 (11.11%) Databricks
5 2 (11.11%) Oracle
6 1 (5.56%) Checkmarx
6 1 (5.56%) Google