Kubernetes Contract Job Trends in East Sussex

Kubernetes (k8s)
South East > East Sussex

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in East Sussex requiring Kubernetes skills. It covers vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 19 September 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
19 Sep 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 16 16 18
Rank change year-on-year 0 +2 +2
Contract jobs citing Kubernetes 2 3 2
As % of all contract jobs advertised in East Sussex 1.74% 4.35% 1.85%
As % of the Systems Management category 18.18% 75.00% 18.18%
Number of daily rates quoted 1 2 1
10th Percentile - £454 -
25th Percentile £438 £455 -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £460 £700
Median % change year-on-year -2.17% -34.29% -
75th Percentile £463 £465 -
90th Percentile - £467 -
South East median daily rate £500 £525 £600
% change year-on-year -4.76% -12.50% +9.09%

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 11 4 11
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in East Sussex 9.57% 5.80% 10.19%
Number of daily rates quoted 10 3 8
10th Percentile £183 £421 £509
25th Percentile £209 £433 £513
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £298 £455 £525
Median % change year-on-year -34.62% -13.33% +5.00%
75th Percentile £432 £463 £578
90th Percentile £488 £466 £674
South East median daily rate £500 £503 £550
% change year-on-year -0.50% -8.64% +10.00%

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
Daily Rate Trend in East Sussex

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

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in East Sussex citing Kubernetes

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 19 September 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 +6 2 £450 - 4
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%) AWS DevOps
1 2 (100.00%) AWS DevOps Engineer
1 2 (100.00%) AWS Engineer
1 2 (100.00%) DevOps 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
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
2 1 (50.00%) Site Reliability Engineering
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