Kubernetes Contracts in East Sussex

Kubernetes (k8s)
South East > East Sussex

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in East Sussex 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 18 16 13
Rank change year-on-year -2 -3 +23
Contract jobs citing Kubernetes 2 2 11
As % of all contract jobs advertised in East Sussex 1.75% 2.35% 9.17%
As % of the Systems Management category 16.67% 11.76% 61.11%
Number of daily rates quoted 1 1 8
10th Percentile - - £535
25th Percentile £463 £625 £681
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £650 £790
Median % change year-on-year -26.92% -17.72% +37.39%
75th Percentile £488 £675 £831
90th Percentile - - £850
South East median daily rate £550 £575 £578
% change year-on-year -4.35% -0.43% +0.43%

All Systems Management Skills
East Sussex

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 East Sussex.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for systems management skills 12 17 18
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in East Sussex 10.53% 20.00% 15.00%
Number of daily rates quoted 11 16 13
10th Percentile £263 £413 £166
25th Percentile £441 £475 £325
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £503 £650
Median % change year-on-year -5.47% -22.69% +10.64%
75th Percentile £538 £556 £820
90th Percentile £575 £603 £845
South East median daily rate £501 £475 £543
% change year-on-year +5.37% -12.52% +8.60%

Kubernetes
Job Vacancy Trend in East Sussex

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

Job vacancy trend for Kubernetes in East Sussex

Kubernetes
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in East Sussex

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

Daily rate trend for Kubernetes in East Sussex

Kubernetes
Contract Job Locations in East Sussex

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 Sussex 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
Brighton -2 2 £475 - 29
Kubernetes
South East

Kubernetes
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in East Sussex 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:

Cloud Services
1 2 (100.00%) AWS
2 1 (50.00%) Akamai
2 1 (50.00%) Amazon CloudWatch
2 1 (50.00%) Amazon EKS
2 1 (50.00%) Amazon ELB
2 1 (50.00%) Datadog
2 1 (50.00%) GitHub
2 1 (50.00%) GitHub Actions
2 1 (50.00%) Route 53
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (50.00%) Amazon RDS
Development Applications
1 1 (50.00%) Jenkins
General
1 1 (50.00%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 2 (100.00%) DevOps Engineer
2 1 (50.00%) AWS DevOps
2 1 (50.00%) AWS DevOps Engineer
2 1 (50.00%) AWS Engineer
2 1 (50.00%) Site Reliability Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (50.00%) .NET
1 1 (50.00%) Node.js
Miscellaneous
1 1 (50.00%) Public Cloud
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (100.00%) Containerisation
1 2 (100.00%) DevOps
1 2 (100.00%) Infrastructure as Code
1 2 (100.00%) Site Reliability Engineering
2 1 (50.00%) Change Management
2 1 (50.00%) CI/CD
2 1 (50.00%) Cloud Security
2 1 (50.00%) Incident Management
2 1 (50.00%) Load Balancing
2 1 (50.00%) Migration
2 1 (50.00%) Observability
2 1 (50.00%) Performance Optimisation
2 1 (50.00%) Platform Engineering
2 1 (50.00%) Problem Management
Programming Languages
1 1 (50.00%) Bash
1 1 (50.00%) PowerShell
1 1 (50.00%) Python
System Software
1 1 (50.00%) Docker
Systems Management
1 2 (100.00%) Terraform