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 July 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 Jul 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 66 78 53
Rank change year-on-year +12 -25 +4
Contract jobs citing Kubernetes 23 34 74
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the East of England 2.11% 1.77% 3.73%
As % of the Systems Management category 15.44% 31.48% 27.31%
Number of daily rates quoted 17 15 56
10th Percentile £440 £408 £425
25th Percentile £458 £494 £520
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £490 £563 £600
Median % change year-on-year -12.89% -6.25% -
75th Percentile £575 £613 £700
90th Percentile £605 £680 -
England median daily rate £550 £557 £620
% change year-on-year -1.17% -10.24% -0.80%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 6
10th Percentile - - £69.38
25th Percentile - - £71.25
Median hourly rate - - £72.50
75th Percentile - - £73.75
90th Percentile - - £74.38
England median hourly rate £79.50 £67.25 £73.00
% change year-on-year +18.22% -7.88% +5.70%

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 149 108 271
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the East of England 13.68% 5.61% 13.65%
Number of daily rates quoted 103 75 189
10th Percentile £226 £199 £270
25th Percentile £410 £359 £410
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £550 £500
Median % change year-on-year -9.09% +10.00% +5.26%
75th Percentile £575 £575 £631
90th Percentile £600 £625 £700
England median daily rate £513 £525 £575
% change year-on-year -2.38% -8.70% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 5 11
10th Percentile £43.21 - -
25th Percentile £45.84 £14.00 £14.25
Median hourly rate £50.23 £17.00 £70.00
Median % change year-on-year +195.44% -75.71% +351.61%
75th Percentile £54.61 £40.00 £73.75
90th Percentile £57.25 £44.80 -
England median hourly rate £48.50 £31.25 £55.00
% change year-on-year +55.20% -43.18% +150.00%

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

Kubernetes
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

Kubernetes
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 July 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Kubernetes in the East of England

Kubernetes
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

Kubernetes
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 July 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 +26 13 £495 -13.91% 119
Cambridgeshire +6 5 £550 +7.32% 115
Essex +13 3 £466 +24.33% 94
Bedfordshire -7 2 £541 -3.78% 62
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 (8.70%) Apache
1 2 (8.70%) Confluence
1 2 (8.70%) IBM Domino
2 1 (4.35%) Adobe Experience Manager
2 1 (4.35%) Apache Airflow
2 1 (4.35%) CMS
2 1 (4.35%) Headless CMS
2 1 (4.35%) Tomcat
Cloud Services
1 8 (34.78%) AWS
2 5 (21.74%) Azure
3 4 (17.39%) GCP
4 2 (8.70%) GitHub
5 1 (4.35%) Anthropic Claude
5 1 (4.35%) ChatGPT
5 1 (4.35%) Cloud Computing
5 1 (4.35%) IBM Cloud
5 1 (4.35%) OCI
Communications & Networking
1 7 (30.43%) Wireless
2 4 (17.39%) Firewall
3 2 (8.70%) 3GPP
3 2 (8.70%) 4G
3 2 (8.70%) 5G
3 2 (8.70%) Network Security
3 2 (8.70%) VPN
4 1 (4.35%) BGP
4 1 (4.35%) Cisco ASA
4 1 (4.35%) Cisco Nexus
4 1 (4.35%) LAN
4 1 (4.35%) OSPF
4 1 (4.35%) SD-WAN
4 1 (4.35%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (8.70%) MySQL
2 1 (4.35%) Amazon Aurora
2 1 (4.35%) Amazon RDS
2 1 (4.35%) Big Data
2 1 (4.35%) Elasticsearch
2 1 (4.35%) Flink
2 1 (4.35%) PostgreSQL
Development Applications
1 3 (13.04%) GitLab
1 3 (13.04%) Jenkins
2 2 (8.70%) JIRA
3 1 (4.35%) Git
3 1 (4.35%) Selenium
3 1 (4.35%) Sonatype Nexus
3 1 (4.35%) WebDriver
General
1 4 (17.39%) Telecoms
2 3 (13.04%) Social Skills
3 1 (4.35%) Finance
3 1 (4.35%) Legal
3 1 (4.35%) Marketing
Job Titles
1 7 (30.43%) Developer
2 4 (17.39%) Backend Developer
2 4 (17.39%) DevOps Engineer
3 3 (13.04%) Lead
4 2 (8.70%) Architect
4 2 (8.70%) Software Developer
4 2 (8.70%) Technical Leader
5 1 (4.35%) Administrator
5 1 (4.35%) Applications Developer
5 1 (4.35%) C# Developer
5 1 (4.35%) Design Engineer
5 1 (4.35%) Java Developer
5 1 (4.35%) Linux Developer
5 1 (4.35%) Linux Engineer
5 1 (4.35%) Programmer
5 1 (4.35%) QA Engineer
5 1 (4.35%) Security Engineer
5 1 (4.35%) Solutions Architect
5 1 (4.35%) Systems Administrator
5 1 (4.35%) Telecoms Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 7 (30.43%) REST
2 3 (13.04%) RESTful
3 2 (8.70%) OpenAPI
3 2 (8.70%) Swagger
4 1 (4.35%) .NET
4 1 (4.35%) .NET Framework
4 1 (4.35%) Apache NiFi
4 1 (4.35%) JSR 170
4 1 (4.35%) Kafka
4 1 (4.35%) Keycloak
4 1 (4.35%) Next.js
4 1 (4.35%) OSGi
4 1 (4.35%) React
4 1 (4.35%) Spring
4 1 (4.35%) Spring Boot
Miscellaneous
1 2 (8.70%) Cloud Native
2 1 (4.35%) Data Centre
2 1 (4.35%) Distributed Applications
2 1 (4.35%) Hybrid Cloud
2 1 (4.35%) Onboarding
2 1 (4.35%) Private Cloud
2 1 (4.35%) YubiKey
Operating Systems
1 11 (47.83%) Linux
2 2 (8.70%) VMS
3 1 (4.35%) CentOS
3 1 (4.35%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 15 (65.22%) Containerisation
2 8 (34.78%) DevOps
3 7 (30.43%) CI/CD
4 5 (21.74%) TDD
5 4 (17.39%) Agile
5 4 (17.39%) OO
5 4 (17.39%) Test Automation
6 3 (13.04%) Analytics
6 3 (13.04%) Microservices
6 3 (13.04%) Migration
6 3 (13.04%) Problem-Solving
7 2 (8.70%) Artificial Intelligence
7 2 (8.70%) Cloud Security
7 2 (8.70%) Configuration Management
7 2 (8.70%) DevSecOps
7 2 (8.70%) High Availability
7 2 (8.70%) Infrastructure as Code
7 2 (8.70%) Storage Management
7 2 (8.70%) Task Automation
7 2 (8.70%) Technical Leadership
Programming Languages
1 12 (52.17%) Python
2 9 (39.13%) Java
3 5 (21.74%) C#
4 4 (17.39%) C++
5 2 (8.70%) Bash
5 2 (8.70%) Go
5 2 (8.70%) R
6 1 (4.35%) PowerShell
6 1 (4.35%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 4 (17.39%) Security Cleared
2 3 (13.04%) DV Cleared
3 1 (4.35%) SANS
3 1 (4.35%) SC Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (8.70%) NIST
1 2 (8.70%) QA
2 1 (4.35%) GDPR
2 1 (4.35%) HIPAA
System Software
1 17 (73.91%) Docker
2 1 (4.35%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 7 (30.43%) Terraform
2 4 (17.39%) Ansible
3 2 (8.70%) Puppet
4 1 (4.35%) Consul
4 1 (4.35%) Grafana
4 1 (4.35%) Progress Chef
4 1 (4.35%) Prometheus
4 1 (4.35%) Salt
Vendors
1 2 (8.70%) Databricks
1 2 (8.70%) VMware
2 1 (4.35%) Adobe
2 1 (4.35%) Cisco
2 1 (4.35%) Clearswift
2 1 (4.35%) F5
2 1 (4.35%) IBM
2 1 (4.35%) NetApp
2 1 (4.35%) OpenAI
2 1 (4.35%) Oracle
2 1 (4.35%) Palo Alto
2 1 (4.35%) Red Hat
2 1 (4.35%) Splunk
2 1 (4.35%) Vertica
2 1 (4.35%) Zscaler