Kubernetes Contracts in the East of England

Kubernetes (k8s)
England > East of England

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the East of England 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 61 91 56
Rank change year-on-year +30 -35 +16
Contract jobs citing Kubernetes 21 21 68
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the East of England 2.24% 1.10% 3.29%
As % of the Systems Management category 19.81% 21.65% 23.53%
Number of daily rates quoted 15 7 54
10th Percentile £428 £385 £436
25th Percentile £462 £444 £503
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £550 £650
Median % change year-on-year -9.09% -15.38% +8.33%
75th Percentile £588 £625 £700
90th Percentile £608 £670 -
England median daily rate £575 £550 £620
% change year-on-year +4.55% -11.29% +1.64%

All Systems Management Skills
East of England

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 of England.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for systems management skills 106 97 289
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the East of England 11.30% 5.08% 13.99%
Number of daily rates quoted 74 58 201
10th Percentile £215 £188 £225
25th Percentile £338 £258 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £477 £473 £500
Median % change year-on-year +0.92% -5.50% +5.26%
75th Percentile £558 £575 £638
90th Percentile £600 £641 £700
England median daily rate £525 £525 £575
% change year-on-year - -8.70% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 16 22
10th Percentile £30.25 - £14.25
25th Percentile £36.25 - £14.56
Median hourly rate £47.00 £14.00 £18.78
Median % change year-on-year +235.71% -25.45% +29.52%
75th Percentile £58.25 £20.19 £65.75
90th Percentile £64.55 £44.16 £74.50
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 of England

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

Job vacancy trend for Kubernetes in the East of England

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Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the East of England

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

Daily rate trend for Kubernetes in the East of England

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Daily Rate Histogram in the East of England

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

Daily rate histogram for Kubernetes in the East of England

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Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the East of England

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Kubernetes in the East of England.

Hourly rate trend for Kubernetes in the East of England

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Contract Job Locations in the East of England

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 of England 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
Hertfordshire +35 11 £495 -20.80% 16
Cambridgeshire +6 4 £550 +4.76% 29
Suffolk -6 3 £438 -30.00% 1
Essex +10 2 £534 +42.33% 20
Bedfordshire +1 1 £600 - 7
Kubernetes
England

Kubernetes
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the East of England 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 (9.52%) Confluence
2 1 (4.76%) Apache
2 1 (4.76%) Apache Airflow
Cloud Services
1 8 (38.10%) AWS
2 5 (23.81%) Azure
3 4 (19.05%) GCP
4 2 (9.52%) GitHub
5 1 (4.76%) Amazon EC2
5 1 (4.76%) Amazon ELB
5 1 (4.76%) Amazon S3
5 1 (4.76%) Entra ID
5 1 (4.76%) Microsoft 365
Communications & Networking
1 7 (33.33%) Wireless
2 2 (9.52%) 3GPP
2 2 (9.52%) 4G
2 2 (9.52%) 5G
2 2 (9.52%) Firewall
3 1 (4.76%) BGP
3 1 (4.76%) Cisco ASA
3 1 (4.76%) Cisco Nexus
3 1 (4.76%) DNS
3 1 (4.76%) LAN
3 1 (4.76%) Network Security
3 1 (4.76%) OSPF
3 1 (4.76%) SD-WAN
3 1 (4.76%) VPN
3 1 (4.76%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (14.29%) Elasticsearch
2 2 (9.52%) Amazon RDS
3 1 (4.76%) Amazon Aurora
3 1 (4.76%) Flink
3 1 (4.76%) MySQL
3 1 (4.76%) PostgreSQL
Development Applications
1 4 (19.05%) GitLab
2 3 (14.29%) Jenkins
3 2 (9.52%) JIRA
4 1 (4.76%) Selenium
4 1 (4.76%) Sonatype Nexus
4 1 (4.76%) WebDriver
General
1 4 (19.05%) Telecoms
2 1 (4.76%) Finance
2 1 (4.76%) Legal
Job Titles
1 9 (42.86%) Developer
2 4 (19.05%) Backend Developer
2 4 (19.05%) DevOps Engineer
2 4 (19.05%) Software Developer
3 2 (9.52%) Architect
3 2 (9.52%) Linux Engineer
4 1 (4.76%) Administrator
4 1 (4.76%) Applications Developer
4 1 (4.76%) AWS Engineer
4 1 (4.76%) C# Developer
4 1 (4.76%) Cloud Developer
4 1 (4.76%) Java Developer
4 1 (4.76%) Java Engineer
4 1 (4.76%) Linux Developer
4 1 (4.76%) Programmer
4 1 (4.76%) QA Automation Engineer
4 1 (4.76%) QA Engineer
4 1 (4.76%) Senior DevOps Engineer
4 1 (4.76%) Solutions Architect
4 1 (4.76%) Telecoms Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 7 (33.33%) REST
2 3 (14.29%) Kafka
2 3 (14.29%) RESTful
3 2 (9.52%) OpenAPI
3 2 (9.52%) Swagger
4 1 (4.76%) Apache NiFi
4 1 (4.76%) Elastic Stack
4 1 (4.76%) Keycloak
4 1 (4.76%) Spring
4 1 (4.76%) Spring Boot
Miscellaneous
1 2 (9.52%) Distributed Systems
2 1 (4.76%) Cloud Native
2 1 (4.76%) Data Centre
2 1 (4.76%) Distributed Applications
2 1 (4.76%) FMCG
2 1 (4.76%) Hybrid Cloud
2 1 (4.76%) Private Cloud
Operating Systems
1 9 (42.86%) Linux
2 1 (4.76%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
2 1 (4.76%) Windows
2 1 (4.76%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 13 (61.90%) Containerisation
2 8 (38.10%) CI/CD
2 8 (38.10%) DevOps
3 5 (23.81%) Microservices
3 5 (23.81%) TDD
4 4 (19.05%) OO
4 4 (19.05%) Problem-Solving
4 4 (19.05%) Test Automation
5 3 (14.29%) Configuration Management
5 3 (14.29%) Continuous Improvement
5 3 (14.29%) Migration
6 2 (9.52%) Agile
6 2 (9.52%) Analytics
6 2 (9.52%) API Development
6 2 (9.52%) Cloud Security
6 2 (9.52%) Computer Science
6 2 (9.52%) Infrastructure as Code
6 2 (9.52%) Multithreading
7 1 (4.76%) GitOps
7 1 (4.76%) Observability
Programming Languages
1 12 (57.14%) Python
2 10 (47.62%) Java
3 4 (19.05%) C#
3 4 (19.05%) C++
3 4 (19.05%) Go
4 2 (9.52%) Bash
Qualifications
1 3 (14.29%) Degree
1 3 (14.29%) Security Cleared
2 2 (9.52%) Computer Science Degree
2 2 (9.52%) DV Cleared
3 1 (4.76%) Master's Degree
3 1 (4.76%) Microsoft Certification
3 1 (4.76%) SC Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (9.52%) QA
2 1 (4.76%) NIST
System Software
1 16 (76.19%) Docker
2 2 (9.52%) Active Directory
2 2 (9.52%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 5 (23.81%) Ansible
1 5 (23.81%) Terraform
2 3 (14.29%) Prometheus
3 2 (9.52%) logstash
4 1 (4.76%) Consul
4 1 (4.76%) Grafana
4 1 (4.76%) Puppet
4 1 (4.76%) Red Hat Satellite
Vendors
1 3 (14.29%) VMware
2 2 (9.52%) Google
2 2 (9.52%) Red Hat
3 1 (4.76%) Cisco
3 1 (4.76%) F5
3 1 (4.76%) Microsoft
3 1 (4.76%) NetApp
3 1 (4.76%) Palo Alto
3 1 (4.76%) Splunk